Dorian is talking with Chief, "We do not need to bother to rest really, it’s well into the day and we don’t have a lot of time do everything. We have 6 months to amass an army. Equal to or more powerful than the Illinois army. Or at least this base. All men and Dorian’s woman all meet in the town center. While some other women go out foraging for water and berries while others look for meat by hunting other animals. And the meeting begins about everything. 

I begin with what I talked to Wyoming about, none of them even knew there were other lands, and other nations other than what is here I just think to myself that this world must be so small to these people. But I continued on to say that there will be airships directly overhead with heavy weaponry, mechanized unit sets and shortly after there will be an airship with 100s of villagers. And there is fresh water only about 100km from where they were to the west. 4 villagers left that way immediately to confirm what I said. But I know the Mississippi Lake is there, 4km wide and goes from the middle of Cananadia Land all the way to the northern edge of Texas. But that this settlement would be an excellent H.O.B. (hidden operations base) since there’s already so much dug out like ancient day ants, not these individual ants that hunt in groups of 5 to 10. I allow this mission that we will need to train for to do proficiently segue into the war briefing. "

A short time later a village meeting and Dorian is talking again, "Greetings men, and Tara and any little girl hiding over there!"

Marie pops next to her daddy hugging her, "how did you know?"

"you’re my little girl, I know everything about you, except for the extent of your powers, you don’t even know that yet." 

"ok, daddy."

He refocuses his attention on the group of men. "Alright, well she has powers, raise your hands if you have powers." He waits for the hands to go up, they go up slowly like everyone is nervous about it. "35, 36, 37. That’s not bad at all. And I will not forget the one who defends us at night. Even though he is blind he can feel everything for kilometers. I don’t know if I will use him though due to him always being so tired and the light sensitivity he has. So you know, me and Flynn don’t have powers, we don’t. But I have the strength of at least 100 of us thanks to the technology up there and so does Flynn and he is considered weak by everyone up there, I will train you to use your powers better. Flynn there, yes you can stop keeping him trapped under your feet. Seriously, stop it. Flynn has finished basic training and can tell you strategies against heavy weaponry. He will be training you in a makeshift basic training whether you have powers or not I’ll be his number two as he does." 

I hear a feel the ground shakes the earth above and below us, something big is nearby. The villagers go back into their dens, Dorian and I take cover on the ground level above. I start to feel rapid movement; I figure out what it is coming this way. And I see a large mech coming out from the east, from the city. In a single leaping bound it ends up demolishing a building near the north of what we consider town. And walking to the direct middle of the above-ground town.

Dorian looks like he could not be any indignant, even with his testosterone terrors happening fairly frequently, I never see him get more than mouthy. He wanted to kill the destroyer of his home-town. He stands up, "mother fucker!" The mech picks up the rifle it had and puts the muzzle of it to Dorian’s head and upper torso. Dorian doesn’t wait at all. He leaps up and the rifle emits a large amount of energy and my cover gets blown up and I get thrown at a rock making a dent in it. I get back up quickly after I collapse to a knee on the ground for a while to catch my breath and watch Dorian go from under the foot of the mech to escaping the foot throwing it off of him with relative ease and leap up ripping a hole through the crotch of the mech that we all enter through. And I see another soldier fly out of the same hole. Dorian comes back out with the framework weaponry that the mech would have been capable of using for the destruction mission all of it is bent and useless. The soldier runs to Dorian and swings on him, and it connects. Dorian gets a crooked smile and in a flash of insanity with a voice sounding happy, he says verbally "my turn again. This is fun, isn’t It." The pilot of the mech begins to cry.  "You came here looking for a fight, you found one, prepare to die." 

The pilot begins to run. But gets caught immediately by Dorian. "Oh shit."

Dorian cackles as he holds his hands behind his back and punches him super hard on the underside on the bottom of the skull. The body falls down lifeless and the mech follows taking out several buildings on the way down. "Hello soldier, what is your name?" 

The soldier tries to move but is paralyzed from the neck down. "Please, please don’t kill me."

I try to stop Dorian physically pushing him back. "He has had enough! I went to Basic training with him. He became a mechanized unit and aerial unit mechanic after basic training. If only for me, let him live." 

Dorian picks me up by my collar and throws me clear across the street with one hand. I try to run back to where he was and I can only watch as Dorian does what he wants with this lone soldier. I’m still running though and when I get 3 meters away Dorian looks to me with a very resentful glare I know now he definitely does not have laser vision, but oh man if looks could kill. "Flynn, you can’t give me orders anymore. The rules have changed. If you take one more step to me I’m definitely going to kill him. You want me to let him live. I’m going to talk to him. Take 5 steps backward and sit. Do it!"

I take the 5 steps and starts getting down as he wants me to take and he takes his eyes off me and picks up the soldier holding his head like you would a newborn after pressing his hip so the mech is no longer green and therefore no longer taking commands. 

"What is your name soldier?"

"Malone." 

"Try again, what is your first name? Not your family name."

"Andrew" 

"Hi Andrew, my name is Dorian Reaux. I’m the 2nd heir to the throne until I was 5 years old. Then I was cast aside, exiled, to this desolate land that lay before you in ruins! My father, Warden Reaux thought I would be killed when he catapulted me from 800 stories above the earth. About a year ago I came back, and he cast me away, again! And worse now, he has decided to go to war against me and those who have become my family. You are the first soldier here in what is coming for this war. I think I deserve the throne more than my brother that I killed he got to be pampered and worked hard, for fun, in that same instance I also killed my mother and my father that raised me since I was 5 years old, as I returned to see the army I should be in charge of, the army you hold allegiance to. And now I hold your life in my hands. I hold no allegiance to you, but now you hold your allegiance to me if only for a few minutes. Do I deserve to be angry? What do you think I should do about all this?" There’s a long pause as he waits for Andrew to respond. Andrew doesn’t respond he just begins to cry. "Do you think I’m going to kill you? From what I’ve heard I’m more brutal than my brother. Don’t just cry at me, answer me, Andrew!"

"You would have killed me already. I hope." 

"Oh good, you do have a brain in there."

"What do you think I should do in response to this? Do you think I deserve to be angry, livid, a little-pissed off?" 

"I don’t know, please don’t hurt me anymore."

"Do you think I deserve to be pissed off? Yes, or No, answer me or I drop you and you die!" 

"Life here has made you stronger."

"No technology made me stronger, your technology. We fucking live underground, under rubble we hunt animals for food, we forage for edible foliage and edible molds for our nutrition. Our hospital was underground your mech is in a crater because you landed on top of where we had our hospital. I guarantee you killed at least 20 people, asshole! I disabled you to talk to you not to kill you." 

"What message do you want me to go back with?"

"Who said you’re going back? Who lied to you? Are you hearing voices? You are going to repair our hospital that you destroyed and you will be our blacksmith from now on making weapons." 

"So am I a prisoner of war?"

"No, you are a slave of war. And when it’s voluntary we will welcome you as a soldier for our side"

"And how am I supposed to do all these things you told me to do, I can’t do more than talk and blink. I can’t fucking move you dick." 

"I literally hold your life in my hands and you think now is the time to insult me? Anyways, I took basic training very seriously. Especially hand to hand combat, which was so much fun. I picked up a move that I used to disable you by separating your C4 from your C5 and C3 vertebrae. You will be sore afterward for a very long time and your recovery will be about four weeks for your quick recovery. Or I can just pull your C4 out and you will die a very painful death. Is the Illinois military worth your life? Or are you okay with doing something better with your life? Are you up for changing your life? Or would you rather I end it?"

"As long as I don’t have to fire a single shot at them." 

"You might have a wife by then, this is your new life. Welcome to the real Chicago or as it used to be called Chiraq. By the way, we might be moving closer to water soon. You will be walking by then not well, but you will be walking."

"What about tools?" 

"Your mech will be cannibalized. For parts to make tools."

"Then what will I be making weapons out of." 

"Flynn made the flight plan for a future mission where we will be taking down an airship 4 active mech, many mech suits, women and other vital supplies for us."

"I’m in so much pain may I please get it realigned." 

"Call your facebot. That’s an order Private First Class Malone. Flynn was a Corporal with 8265 points, how many do you have?"

"7956 and this mission was worth 250 points if I didn’t disobey rules." 

"Call your bot. I’m going to give my message to Czar then "

He shouts out "BOT NUMBER 332-40-3878 CENTER 1.5 METERS ABOVE." The Bot rushes past me not caring that I was in the way and knocks me down from the back. 

"Tara, Marie get here! Flynn come here." 

"Tara hold him just like I am."

She adjusts and he bursts out in pain. 

Thoughts here are sometimes loud because I can hear her saying "I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry."

Marie, sit in front of him and look at the bot. That thing that is just floating." 

She just thinks "okay daddy" she sits in front of to the left side with both her legs to her right leaning on her left arm.

"Flynn stand next to me at ease." then I do that and he begins to talk again. "Dear Warden Reaux, father. This is your son Dorian. Not even 12 hours after you have told me that you will wait 6 months before descending upon us. You send a single mech to my town. Well, this is him. PFC Andrew Malone, he accepted the mission to get points to become a Corporal. Well after this video we will be killing him, he is alive for now but I have disabled him by removing his C4 vertebrae. These are the faces of my family, we are your enemy, we are legion we do not forgive we do not make mistakes and we do not give mercy and you will wait 6 months like you promised before attacking again, this will be the result of any soldier you send.", He puts his hand on his daughter, this is your granddaughter, my daughter Marie Reaux." Then he puts his hand on Tara, "this is my SA Tara Reaux, one hell of a fireball and I love her with all my heart. She is my best friend and lover." Then he puts his hand on me "This was Corporal Larry Flynn, he has become a brother to me since he was my battle buddy. But now he is my brother. Since I killed my real brother, oh well. Have a good day dad. Good luck with your war, we are prepared we know the enemy from the inside. How well do you know us? Oh and I’m going to keep this mech." He picks up the bot and makes his leaps to look at the mech destroyed and mangled. Then he comes back to the group. "Bot 332-40-3878 dismissed for debriefing" 
And the bot flies at full speed back to the base which I once called my home.

Next Chapter: Chapter 16: New World: Malone: July 12, 4996