Book 2: Preventing Londinium

The New Militia

As Sarah and I exit through the front door of my apartment, we see at least 9-10 cars all piled up on top of one another. A woman armed with 3 kunai steps out from behind the wreckage and informs the entire crowd of who she is. "My name is General Sosia, and I am the 2nd in command of the New Militia. Now, you may all be wondering who the New Militia are. We are the new and improved superiors to CyberCorps. And just like they did, we are going to conquer London and rule over you all!" General Sosia exclaimed to us all. However, I'm not going to allow this.

I walk up to her and begin to belittle her. "So, General...Sosia, was it? Do you think that you have the right to just expect us to listen to you? And if you're just like CyberCorps then, just like last time, I'll stop you and free London from your grasp." I inform her, as the crowd cheers the words "Griffin! Griffin! Griffin!" repeatedly. General Sosia, however, stays stoic, and asks me how long it took CyberCorps to build the CyberWall. I reply by simply saying "6 months, why?". The General looks at me, tells me "Well it's only going to take us 6 seconds!" and presses a button on her sleeve. The next thing anyone knows, an enormous wall appears roughly 3500 feet above all of the edges of London. General Sosia laughs at me, but I shove her away and press a one-time-use button on my prosthetic arm that makes every screen and camera in London broadcast my face and voice.

"People of London!" I yell, "As you may have spotted, a humongous wall has appeared above our city, and will very soon trap us in place, exactly like the CyberWall did all those years ago. But this time, we can stop it. To anyone with a droid or Mech Suit, and to those who work in Construction Droid factories, I'm going to need hundreds if not thousands of droids on every side of this city, and we're going to have to hold up this wall until everyone is out!". As soon as I told everyone our situation, I sprint towards the edge of the city, and see droids are running alongside/ around me, and that some of them are already there. As I get there, I hear at least 12 enemies yell out the word "NOW!". I hear wires snapping, and see the Wall quickly falling downwards towards us. Miraculously, thanks to the help of around 5000-6000 droids, and my upgraded prosthetic arm, we are able to catch the wall and hold it above our heads at an arm's length. Unfortunately, our victory doesn't last long, because we see approximately 20,000 soldiers arrive on the outside of the wall and pull out miniguns. Each soldier has a symbol on it, with the name "New Militia" under the symbols. "ATTENTION TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE HOLDING UP THE WALL!" multiple guards on each side of the wall call out to us, "IF YOU DO NOT RELEASE THE WALL OR RETURN TO LONDON IN THE NEXT TEN SECONDS, THEN WE WILL OPEN FIRE!!!". I know that they are telling the truth, but I stay standing with my temporary Droid Army. The guards count down to zero, and the soldiers begin firing. Right as the bullets are near me, Sarah suddenly comes up and pulls me back into London. I look down and unfortunately see that there is a gunshot wound through my stomach. I stand up, dizzy, and rush to once again help the droids to hold up the wall. But as I get there, the remaining Droids collapse due to the sustained damage and the wall slams to the floor in front of me. I turn around and go to walk over to General Sosia, but I am struck over the head with a rifle by a soldier. I am then picked up and slammed through the top of a car by an enemy droid. I fall off of the side of the car and try to stand up and fight back, but my injuries are catching up to me, and I collapse unconscious.

I wake up a few hours later in pitch black darkness. I hear the sound of a truck around me, but I don't know where I am being taken. And to make matters worse, I don't know if Sarah is safe with Jake after mine and his fight earlier. I see the back of the truck open and I immediately dive at the one who opened the door. As I pin them down, another soldier quickly runs over and kicks me to the floor, pulling my prosthetic arm off and removing my fake eye. I am quickly restrained and have a bag put over my head. I am dragged into a room and shoved in. A robotic hand then appears from the wall and removes all of my binds.

I appear to be in a fully white room, with a white outfit on, and with no tools. I face away from the camera and attempt to unsheathe my Concealer Ring's blade, but a voice suddenly comes through a speaker, informing me that they have removed all of my tools, and that this is my home from now on. A white tray with only white rice on it is slid into the room underneath the door, and the voice tells me "You're going to LOVE staying here, Mr. Elshire".