Daniel Carrasquillo
Chapter 12: Happy Birthday Bōkun: Flynn: July 11, 4996
Today begins how every birthday of the warden. Everyone out in force at 0900 to sing the nation’s anthem.
"We are children, of the nation
We will fight, to the death
We will fight, for today
We will fight, for our nation
To the east
To the west
To the north
To the south
The tears run down every day
Because we are free
Because we are, Illinois Nation
We fight, we fight, we fight
We don’t suffer
We don’t break
We don’t tire
We just get nightly wasted
We surrender to no one
We don’t give up, once we start
See it through
To the end, from the beginning
A new day screams like the sirens
Because years ago we
Became free
Because we are, Illinois Nation
Chasing the shadows
Don’t run away
Attack our fears
Running- down, the unknown
The tears run down every day
Because we are free
Because we are the Illinois Nation"
Then our creed
"Into the night
Lit by day
Living dependent on each other
Intending on surviving
Never quitting
On order of the warden
Island nation inside a continent ruined by destruction
Sacrificing ourselves is no less than our honor.
We are the Illinois Army"
After we’re done we patiently wait outside his mansion. He doesn’t wait very long he comes outside wearing an exquisite bright blue with purple blotches suit. "That was wonderful guys. This year the prisoners will have a new set of voices to listen to 40/7. Hey guys, come I ton, don’t give me that look; I want them to sleep peacefully. I turn it off when I want them to sleep. Anyways. It’s my birthday. And I give to you today. It’s gonna be a skeleton crew today. 1/4 of you, it’s your birthday too; it’s a day off for you today. 1/4 of you, it might as well be your birthday it’s time for you to raid the women’s mansion, just remember no one is permitted in the south wing at all. Those are girls, too young for any breeding. I don’t care if you go after the WOMEN in the North Wing the ones that are raising children before they go to the south wing or to the academy to be raised by our retired veterans if they are a boy. No raiding the houses or cabins of the retired men and women. But why am I reminding you? Everyone knows this already. Oh, and starting today I’m changing something about the process. You can’t just breed and leave anymore. 2 hours before breeding and 2 hours after we lock you in there so you can actually get to know the women you’re breeding with; I’d rather go to the ancient practice of knowing the women you sleep with. If I remember my history correctly they call the process "courting" and there’s another process of luring them peacefully called "snogging", it’s a sensual slow caressing of the lips. It’s awkward but the women seem to like it. I tested this myself yesterday with 3 different women; it’s different because with them being able to say no they might. Especially with how rough you guys are when you burst through the door with no regard. I think the women should have more choice not just be there for breeding. In the great hall, if I tap you on the shoulder before you actually go in there, you will be helping test this on the mass scale I want things for them to be more humane and when I revealed this to the women they were scared. I chose 200 women to not be in this experiment today. They will be acted upon by whom I choose and this way the numbers stay up." Someone in rank raises their hand. And Bōkun walks up to him politely. "Yes, you have a questions, young soldier."
"I have two sir. Why do we need to care if it’s a humane practice or not? We keep our numbers in this society by being rough and not allowing them the choice. It’s their duty to serve you in any way they can and in this case by letting us fuck them then we leave."
"And what is your second question?"
"What if we don’t have either of those scenarios apply to us, that’s like half of us that we don’t get something good today"
"Then you get 10 liters of vodka then go to work, oh and speaking of work, for that disrespectful question you’re coming with me today. That disrespect towards the women is why I want to change it, give it 10 days your attitude and respect will change. You want to see "an honor to serve me, I’ll show you what that means but in the male form, see how you like it. Come with me. Come on Schmook, let’s go, and take my hand." The young soldier takes off running; he knows what’s going to happen if does go with Bōkun. 7 men take off after him. And Bōkun goes "Everyone stand down. He’s mine." He doesn’t jump into action like everyone does when they want to go fast. He’s using short teleport jumps to always be ahead of that second-year soldier who is in full gear ready for patrol today looks like its 240kg of gear but still, this soldier is not slow by any means. Finally, he catches the soldier by the neck. And says to the soldier next to him at the time, me "hehehe I got bored" then he clears his throat "Reaux!"
Reaux runs up to him; he’s changed so much in just about every way in public but in private he cries, he misses Tara and Marie he regrets what he did to his mom and dad. I think he has fully assimilated into being into the Illinois Military. He has got this wonderful persona that is so close to the old Reaux, I can’t help but think they look so much alike.
Reaux says "Sir you called sir!"
"Why the fuck are you calling me sir now? I’m your father for fuck sake!"
"Sign of respect"
"Anyways, here’s a scenario for the next Warden. A prisoner tries to escape. After you catch him, what do you do?"
"Do you want me to tell you or do it?"
"Do it, you know me better than that son."
"Yes, father." Then he walks into the crowd and looks for a soldier in a patrol uniform. He finds one, "I’m borrowing this."
The soldier goes "No. As stated in the rules once we are assigned weaponry for patrol they are our weapons and we are not permitted to give them to anyone for any reason."
Reaux punches him in the face, "I wasn’t asking. Your nation needs your rifle for a second. You don’t say no, another outburst and you share this man’s fate." And punches him in the throat and the bruising is almost instant with his going to his knees and gasping for air. "You still have to go on your patrol today, R-Robin". Reaux then walks up to the soldier that tried to escape.
"Dad, can you hold him at arm’s length?"
"It’s been a while since I’ve tried" And he lifts him up and his arm is extending out straight in front centimeters off the ground. "I can but not for long, take the shot"
"Two shots father." I see the smile on Bōkun face; he knows what is going to be done obviously. Reaux finishes waiting for the rifle to charge but he puts it on a 1 decimeter gauge instead of the normal 10 millimeters or 9 centimes gauge.
"I’m excited to see how this works out, I’m so proud of you son." The rifle clicks and he fires aimed at the ankle and foot of the soldier. And the White beam extends out past his foot and leg putting a hole in the ground. And just like a flash, his foot is gone.
The soldier is screaming in pain but he’s not bleeding, the foot was vaporized and cauterized with the extreme heat. And he’s waiting for the rifle to charge up again. It’s ready and he fires at the other foot and just like that it’s gone.
Reaux looks up at his dad pleased with himself "he still goes to jail, he still works on the farm, he gets no mercy he gets no special treatment." Then he walks to the soldier he took the rifle from. "Your nation is finished with your rifle, here is my charger for the rifle since I took about 20% of the power of yours I’m taking what was yours, mine is fully charged. I was hoping to go to the range today, that’s why I have it on me."
The soldier says, "We are expecting heavy insect and bird prescience today, may I have both?"
Bōkun interjects, "I’m going to go ahead and say that before you leave everyone can get 2 extra chargers for their rifles from the armory, as long as in their place as collateral you leave the vodka I’m going to give you. And bring it to my attention if someone in the armory steals it. I don’t deal with theft well but also believe that someone shouldn’t be drinking on missions like this fucktard here" and motions to Reaux.
He walks back in front. "Any more questions?"
"Bōkun. I have one."
"Very well, then he walks to him. What is it, and please don’t have it be defying Me."
"Because it is your birthday, I was elected by the night crew, your janitors, night guards; CQ guys anyone who isn’t dipteral because of their job. As a whole, I need to know if we have the day off or what."
"Oh my, I’ll admit that I forget about you guys. I’m so sorry. When I figure out those answers I will come get you and you directly. I know you’re in the dorms for the night crew. What room number are you in?"
"West 451"
"Very well, go to bed. I’ll give you some time to sleep anyways. You are dismissed." The soldier starts running quickly and Bōkun teleports right in front of him picking him up by the throat. "Walk. You are upstaging me." He puts him down as he walks back up he shouts so everyone can hear him. "Okay, is there any other questions? Any at all? Last chance. Anyone?" He teleports himself in front of us. "I’ll be passing out the vodka personally at 2800; I got things to do still even though it’s my birthday. Be in formation if you accept my gift to you and I’ll be there shortly. If you collect for multiple people, have it in writing so I can have proper count. Dismissed!"
I walk to my duty station; as a channel’s monitor, I have my own office. I basically do whatever I want as long as I leave my headphones on, I have it cycling through the stations 10 seconds for each frequency set. And every 100 it checks a random frequency not used by nations. I hate when I randomly hit the frequencies of water, air and the earth itself. Those are so annoying it hurts my ears. Recently I put up a sign on my door and locked it from the door. I’m doing the behind the scenes for the war that myself and Dorian ("Reaux") are in charge of yes he still remembers it’s a part of what he does every Sunday when he doesn’t have training or anytime the library is closed, we plan everything. Every 2 weeks since he has been in basic training I’ve been sending a message using the bot to Marie and Tara.
I have so many people ready for prepping his people and us. I know the garbage man that catapults, a guy who does inventory for the armory, some tailor’s, mech mechanics, one of the prison guards, cooks, I got access to the audio frequencies, I know someone who watches the security cameras. I think I’m doing well. Often time’s different nations’ will just send out sounds to alert whoever wants to talk. It comes up on our screens as a disturbance and we have to go investigate. And if it’s not official we just chat for our own entertainment, we got nothing better to do. We talk nation history and we try to piece together the history that was lost through the creation of the United States of America Concentration Camps commonly referred to as "USACs" I personally talk with Nate of the Wyoming 96.3 frequency we make frequent trades with them: women, booze, mech, mech parts, ammo, and food. They have the most diverse family tree almost no one is related to each other like 2nd or 3rd cousins, they separate family almost immediately so that its almost no chance of interbreeding.
I send a message to Tara; she has chosen to make herself in charge of the resistance on their side. It’s very interesting to try to deal with them because they never speak a word and they don’t know anything I write so I’m assuming they don’t know how to read or at least they don’t recognize English as a written language. Just count on their fingers for what questions I asked, then she nods her head in response and it can only be yes or no questions or specific questions about numbers from 0-10.
"Okay, Tara, Chief, anyone else being showed this. Here’s the plan so far.
1. Release our prisoners who were formally in our Army but are now in prison to you. They do not like how they are being treated at all. And have a blood lust for the Czar. We also recently got Texans and soldiers from Wyoming I’m willing to bet that they would be happy to train you guys, and girls, to be soldiers to know how to operate the weapons. Can give you directions on how to reach any objective. I’m giving them choices to be discussed when they get to you on exactly what plan to execute. They are in the dark all day, all night; they don’t have anything better to do than to think of ways to destroy this empire from the outside in. One by chance that ended up there today was a tailor.
2. Have tailor’s make uniforms for you. And the tailors I’m going to send to you, he has no legs anymore. Treat him nice even though he is mean. The one I’ll be sending to you; he will make alterations so that it fits the men perfectly. No one will notice more male soldiers. But I know this will sound really bad but women would pretty much not do well here when they escape from the mansion they are in or do more than their garden or go out with their husband when they are retired they are raped and sent back to where they belong. It’s not safe for you to be here as a soldier or naked. So the tailor’s will be making some extra women’s uniform for the women. No one will notice more women in the mansion. This will be used however, you want Rally soldiers or wait for any kind of sign so you can join the fight. The prisoners I’m sending to you will be making the exact plan.
3. When a plan is in place and people are trained at least a little bit I’ll work on getting weapons to you using the inventory guy from the armory. His name is Dave, he is definitely on my side he hates it here so much and thinks things need to change. He has warned me though that treason is the worst thing he can do in his position, even planning this out in my position is treason. It’s a huge secret here shared between maybe 20 men here. I will raise it to 30 and send 10 to you.
And the rest will be up to the soldiers I’m sending. Just a little extra note, the guys watching the cameras when you’re getting in here will find some way to get everyone turn away and all attention off you. I’ll think of something.
Tara, Dorian says kiss his little girl for him. And he has something to give you when you when you two are alone. He told me you would know what that meant. He’s a funny guy. Last Sunday we got drunk and went streaking. We raced from one side of the barracks to the end of the level and back. I used the stairs falling down them pretty good. He just went through the 30th story wall. When I realized he did that, I went back up to check through the window he created. He was fine. And because of me stopping to check on him, I lost the race. I’m faster than him but because of his refusal to go around things he went through several buildings or use stairs just jumping straight up then climbing the bricks, it was very impressive honestly, he won that race by at least 2 kilometers. Guards took away all of his Fuketall, he wasn’t too happy about that. But looking back all I can do is laugh at his punishment. He is a horrible carpenter as they found out later that day. So next mission out of the nation that we have, he’s going drunk if it’s to fuck some shit up or just to get him away if it’s a trade mission. Oh, I gotta go Wyoming is calling." I terminate recording on the facebot.
"Flynn! Buddy, how’s it going?"
"It’s going, hey is this just to chat or are you actually needing to tell me something."
"Yeah, our transport is down for a while, it got shot out of the sky by natives about a week ago after we transported bombs to their cities and farms. There’s so many of them refusing to join us, they want to stay independent. That mission became a disaster, we lost something like 200 soldiers and 4 mech when we were defending the wreckage and trying to pull that thing back up to our nation capital. There’s so many of them, I’ve had the pleasure of watching some of the videos from facebot. That easy mission turned out to be not so easy after all, I mean there was some bombs that didn’t explode, so now they have that they took out almost all of our soldiers that were defending it they actually have some decent armor and then there was their large-"
"I’m going to need you get to the point. This is being recorded."
"In our 3-month trade agreement in addition to the liquor we make and give you in addition to the grain, wheat and rice and the uniforms we sent to be repaired we will be needing some transport parts to repair the broken one we got and what does this part say? Oh, we will be sending you all the women we captured from their cities and farms, 150 women for your gene pool. We only got 10k people up here and last I knew you guys had 200k, so adding 150 women is a lot of extra food for us but not you. And you know when we need more people we just ask."
"This would be considered a mission, you were recorded and we have to go about 1000 km or more so it’s a special mission. Let me get started on the paperwork and get ready for the briefing of how the mission would look and bring it to my superiors. If not tomorrow, I’ll have your answer ready the next day."
Oh, I almost forgot Reaux wanted me to add video from his facebot to this message I’m sending to Tara. I think she will like it. I start the downloading process and I watch it at the same time. I think he loves her and would give his life for her.
It’s just a simple video of him standing in front of the window we have in our room, "I’ll follow you into the dark. We have to see everything through. The time for sleep is not now. There’s nothing to cry about. We’ll hold each other again. And if you die before then. You won’t be alone; your enemy is next. Or I will be next. Then I will hold you until the end of days."