Well, actually, this was for a school project where we had to write a satire, and my group came up with the idea of dolphins taking over the world, and I just added on from there.

As for the article detail....I don't know. It sounds funny to me as well, but that could possibly be because the American English has evolved into grammatical mistakes galore and anything with more than 3 syllables is deemed too smart for the average person to understand. So we may be used to just hearing "a'' placed in front of everything. "A apple." "A orange." Nonetheless, that "an universal" caught my attention, too, and it may be one of those crazy ass exceptions to the rule.

Thanks for the input, and I was anticipating a post like that of Izz.

You would think that "short story" would have been the major hint that this was in fact, a short story.