Back on the carrier, Talas sat in a chair as the rest of the knight commanders verbally targeting each other, blaming one another for mistakes that have happened. At the head of the table was the king's left hand. His head was in his right hand and tightly in his left was a wooden gavel. The gavel snapped in half after he smashed it down.
"Enough" there was a cold chill to his voice and a sinister look in the man's eyes.
"To be honest, I don't want to be here...but the king insist that this happens so lets begin"
The commanders fell into silence as he spoke, knowing that the Kings left hand was a very ill-tempered man they didn't disobey.
"Firstly" the man spoke again, the same chill came. "Section 9's Golden Streak Knights we're issued with a TSA as you are all well aware of."
No one replied.
"Well as you can see, we still have them here so that order was withdrawn and I know not even the king can recall such an order...but the emperor can and she did so Section 9 survived a blood bath. Now onto the main reason why King Vexton called this meeting"
He looked at Talas and gestured to him to speak.
"The Resistance."
Talas spoke just as cold as the king's left hand. He pulled up an image of the scanned symbol along with every file and folder the king R&I had.
"As you can see, The resistance has appeared in my section. They've also appeared in sections 5, 7 and mostly in 9" He gave a cold stare to the GSK knight commander. "As Dykens are more known to operate in my section and also section 2, they have been a large amount of activity in section 9"
The glare grew colder, now everyone was looking at the knight commander of section 9.
"I...I...umm I don't know why, my reports are truthful and detailed" The commander was shaky. Talas ignored the obvious discomfort of the knight commander and continued. Talas pulled up his report of the night on the built in screens.
"Your reports are not important, just my one of tonight. All is detailed, the Barterian had a range of hosts, we manage to capture 5 of 6. One birthed before my squad got there. The Snake was difficult to contain but it was done, I sent Gear to join the other two members of my squad and I continued on. Upon arriving at the Dyken pub, I entered and apprehended the host girl and left..."
" Commander Talas, it says here from your AI, that you took out 30 Dyken resistance members without questioning at least one of them?...that's a bit shameful on your behalf and I have to admitted 30 armed men in one swift movement, that must have damaged your body"
The knight commander of the WSSK spoke with a playful voice but hidden behind it that only Talas heard was the mocking of a foolish move. Talas stared at him as if he wanted to rip the commander's head off and use it as a trinket.
"Well, you try questioning 30 enraged armed Dyken's with a little girl that needed to get those fucking snakes out of her. Now as I was saying, I grabbed my two nearest me and called the transport, I continued my patrol when the symbol appeared. Commanders, if I faced off against 30 Resistance members, how many more are there in my section? How many in the other known sections? How many in all of the sections? We need to initiate protocol: Apollo Gambet Alpha. It must be done"
Protocol: Apollo Gambet Alpha allows every knight to actively search, apprehend and kill whoever they see as a threat to the stability of New Unionary. In this case, they where allowed to actively search for the Resistance. Talas stared at the left hand as he analysed the report
"Control, Initiate city wide lockdown. Effective in one hour. Initiate protocol: BlackStone. Effective one hour. Initiate protocol: Apollo Gambet Alpha. Effective immediately. Activation code; 1, 20, 3, 40, 5, 60, 1,97C. Verification: Armarden Hiruzen, King's left Hand"
Armarden stood and left the room, the rest of the commander's followed, Talas gathered his intel and went to the Crimson training facility where the whole Crimson Knight division was waiting along with those who are looking to be put forward for the knighthood test. The knights looked relaxed and joyful, Talas knew what to expect, he didn't bother put on a smile. Talas entered to training facility and stood waiting for the knights and trainees to acknowledge his presence. One hour later, Talas starting getting his acknowledgement and soon after one group stood to attention, the rest swiftly followed. Talas stared coldly at each and everyone of them.
"What the fuck do you think this is!?"
His voice was filled with anger and disappointment.
"Did I call you here so you can lounge around and socialise? I don't think so!. You do not have the slightest clue why I gave the recall order do you? You really think I cut you pathetic jesters a little slack? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR GODDAMN FUCKING MIND! Brothers, it's that time...the one I feared."
Everyone stared at him, they all looked emotionless and still. They knew exactly what Talas was talking about.
"Judging by your faces, reality has sunk in, The resistance is on the move and I don't want them with the upper hand when it comes to all out combat, You know your weaknesses and strengths, Go and train till you can't even lift a feather."
Every single body in the room disbursed and begun their extremely high intensity training. Talas looked on at all of them. 'No time to lose, no time to waste' he thought to himself. He went straight to those who needed swordplay training. He knew he had to really push them harder than ever before, this would be a real test to see if any of them, knight or trainee are really worthy of being in their current position.
"No time to lose" Talas mumbled.
YOU ARE READING
Crimson Knights
RandomThis story follows the Great Talas Crookshaft as he and his Knights defend their city of New Unionary from their foe, The Resistance.
