Nomad - The Imperfect Commander

Two Commanders

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Shortly after accepting Anderson's deal, Nomad would head to the receiving and collected all of the gear that was taken from him, except for one thing. "Hey, you don't have a camera there do you?" The clerk behind the desk would check the list of items before getting up and searches the shelves for a bit before grabbing Nomads camera and hands it back to him. "Very sorry for not having it ready, the other clerk must've misplaced it" Nomad would then wave his hand and say "It's not a big deal, just didn't want to lose it is all, have a nice day darling" Nomad says before waving goodbye. the slightly blushing clerk would wave back before going back to what she was doing before hand. Once the trio would exit the rehabilitation center. Anderson would turn to Nomad and say "do you mind excusing me and Poli real quick?" Nomad would simply nod and wave his hand as he would then walk over to a nearby bench and places his bag onto it, he would then go through it to make sure that he surely had everything before they would head over to the outpost, if that was happening today. While Nomad was checking everything, there would be some people who would stop and look at Nomad, he wouldn't notice the small until he would check to see if Anderson and Poli had walked up to him, however, a group of three women would come up to Nomad and ask.

"Are you the guy they found on the surface?" Nomad would stare at the women who would all have a bit of excitement in their eyes before Nomad would nod "Yeah I am, how did you know who I was?" he asked clearly confused on how his existence had already seemingly spread through this area of the ark. But before he could dwell on it, one of the women would show Nomad a video of the drone footage that he had spotted hours ago when he was outside of the ark's front door, then he another video would play right after of when he was on another planet. Nomad would carefully hold onto the woman's phone and watched the leaked footage, he was all too familiar with that place. Operation Midnight Glare was a complete shit show, the detachment he was apart of had to come in as a second wave just so they could keep the foot hold that his company had established and even then, it was still hell Nomad and his detachment had to go through just to keep it. The longer he looked the angrier and more upset he had looked, the woman who Nomad had taken the phone from would try to take it back but Nomad would look at the video for a couple seconds more before his eyes would get a bit watery. After having seen enough, he would give the woman's phone back "Excuse me real quick" Nomad said in a kind of distressed and tearful tone, he would walk around a corner and knelt down as he would basically bawl his eyes out until a smaller familiar figure would kneel down next to Nomad and put a hand on one of his shoulders.

"Hey, are you ok?" Poli said in a low yet concerned voice as Nomad would bawl for a bit more before he quickly gained his composure back and wiping his eyes of remaining tears "Y.. yeah, I'm ok, just.... old memories I don't like to look back on" Nomad said before another pair of footsteps would accompany the two "We were just talking about that, seems like there was some footage on your camera was leaked, most likely by someone in the rehabilitation center." Anderson said as he would be a bit frustrated at just how fast the leaks were too. Eventually Nomad would regain some more composure before putting on his Ray Bands again so he could hide the fact that he had been bawling his eyes out. Nomad would clear his through before looking over at Anderson and asks "Guess you guys have a information leaking problem?" Anderson wouldn't answer with words, but would give a certain look that basically confirmed what suspicion Nomad had. Nomad would simply nod "I don't mind the footage being out there, hell, it probably reinforces what I've told Poli and you and that fact that I can definitely lead Nikkes" Nomad explains, Anderson would simply nod "Yes, it seems so" With that little conversation said, the three would move back to the bench so Nomad could grab his bag before Anderson would check his watch. "I'm gonna have to head back to the office, I have a meeting regarding the recent leaks, but before I go, here are somethings I wanted to give you before I forgot" Anderson would reach into one of his inner jacket pocket and hand me a government ID and then a phone "These are courtesy of the central government and don't worry, the phone doesn't have a tracking device or a listening device in it, but the rest Poli can explain since she will be joining you from here on out"