The Fall Guy

Two men stand atop a stone column rising five hundred meters above the sea. One of the men is bad but the other doesn't know this as the bad man is hiding his intentions. Both men are a step away from the edge and the bad man is talking about how this column attracts people from all over the world to take daring selfies at the edge and just last week one man from Italy fell to his death while filming a video for his highly popular YouTube channel. Is that so says the other man peering down at the frothy waves below too high to make out the rocks. Yes that is so says the bad man thinking now is the time and fast as a ninja he taps the other man on the chest pulling out a pen from his breast pocket and holding it up saying now it is your turn. His arm goes back and he points it like a dart and the other man realizing he has been betrayed says no please don't my grandmother gave me that pen as a graduation gift but the bad man laughs the way villains do in movies and tosses the pen into the sky but the other man reaches out and grabs it his feet on the edge and he drops down so his body is parallel with the sea and then springs back up like a punching bag holding the pen and grinning. He tosses the pen over his shoulder and says I was only kidding about the pen and I take it you know nothing about my channel. The bad man realizes this was all a set-up and that the black helicopter on the horizon isn't coming for him.