Reverse guns

It was already past midnight. In fact, way past midnight, around 4 a.m.
The boy was playing with one of those plastic toys you get in cereal boxes. Though most of them suck to no end, sometimes we are given these marvelous toys that can entertain us for hours, though their operation is beyond simple. Perhaps that explains why most people wouldn't even be entertained by any of them.
The toy consisted of two parts. An orange projectile with a rocket shape and a... base for it. The base was basically a stick you inserted in a hole inside the rocket, the spring inside the hole would then allow the rocket to fly away once you triggered the stick. It's strange how dumbly simple mechanics get complicated when explained by some people. Ain't it?
The boy was there, challenging himself, he should catch the rocket shot at his hand. Most of the times he failed as it was quite fast. One of those amazing things you get to do once you get into dawn and you shouldn't be awake but you can't sleep.
He used around 15 minutes doing it. Until he got bored and stopped playing with it. He stood there, holding the toy by the projectile part. And, due to some strange force that happens to operate during these strange times, the toy got triggered. The base for the rocket was sent flying away. Perhaps faster and farther than the projectile went in the original functioning of the toy. He stood there, trying to understand what had just happened, he didn't trigger the base, he barely touched it.


I swear man, he threw the damn rocket launcher at us!
Cut the crap!
We were ready to shoot once we saw he was putting the inside it, but then it came flying upon us without any sound of burst. Some even say they saw the rocket stopped there in the air as the weapon itself flew upon us!
Soldier, you need some rest.