Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 1: Staff Sergeant Drent Reaux; Ramblings: Feb, 13 4995

Hello, to all peasants or slaves, who get to see the video on my facebot and who are studying to see how I usurp my father from inside his organization, and any soldiers, who are following the orders of the bimonthly watching of all on-duty conversations and any time on the field. As you know, I just reached my 3rd year in the army. I was born into royalty but my dad kept telling me, from when I was young, "...to have my blessing to take the throne you need to gain rank in my army." I'm doing well, so far, Rank 6 out of 20 in a matter of 3 years out of 20.

I can't wait for twenty days from now. It will be that great times of the year again, where every 3 months, a fourth of the soldiers get to mate with any woman he wants in the residential areas. It's chaotic because the women do not agree to this, usually, women often work together, to try and protect each other, while some women just accept it, others fight you off, and some hide. Men wait all year for this; I'm son of the Czar, so I get to do it every three months. I'm taking every class I can to gain rank faster and tomorrow I'm going on a mission to get more points toward the next rank.

It's nothing big, just going to the first level of the city, down from the 4th level where we stay. I have never seen the earth itself so close to home, only the desert, and I probably never will never see the Earth so close to home.

Well, I'm rambling again, I got to go to the gym for a really quick 4 hours, it's not long on a 48-hour day, then I'll go to bed ready and alert for my mission at oh-nine-hundred.

Yeah as you can see it's oh six hundred hours and I'm getting ready I like to take my time to make sure I have everything then just hang out at the formation pad and let the people involved in the mission form around me.

I'm doing my thing getting my bulletproof vest, helmet, and extra clothes ready. Also, I already got my 8 liters of water. And because it's a 1-day mission I'm packing a liter of my favorite vodka (fuketall) as a victory drink for later.

Several hours later, the mission has changed because we sent out pulses to the ground level and it has detected movement with rhythms under 90 kilograms and personally I have seen nothing. I'm just doing some jumping around an easy pace of around 150 meters per jump. I've left my team behind, by about a kilometer and a half, and I'm going at such a slow pace because, the greenhouse gases trapped on this level of the earth, has turned the air really hazy and most of the sun is blocked, so it looks like 3600 hours during the summer from being so thick and according to my temperature gauge its 32.2 degrees Celsius even though it's February, I personally much prefer the coolness of the year to be around 22.75 Celsius.

I'm in an area completely unexplored before and one of the ancient signs says the corner of Lawrence and Milwaukee. Legend has it that 1000s of years ago tons of metal and plastic was controlled by humans to make them travel on the elevated ground. I don't see that from what I've seen I just see gigantic porous gray rock going up like 9 to 12 meters, going over about 30 meters, and nothing connected to those posts, each goes up about 4.5 meters, but they occur every third of a kilometer or so. It's very odd that this just sticks out of the ground like that, similar to small caves, that just repeat themselves in exact patterns. I wonder why they couldn't just use their jumping ability or their leg strength to get around.

I go under one of these caves, to see what it's all about, it's just dark, I don't see much even with a flashlight. Out of nowhere, there's smoke everywhere and I can't breathe. Everything tightens, as I just wheeze, as I feel hits to my body and my body getting lighter. My red beam goes off automatically, meaning I need help or I'm going to die.