Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 5: Fast Lesson: Corporal Flynn: Feb 20, 4995

I sit in the chair next to the new Reaux and reminisce on this video that I only saw 4 short years ago.

"Hello fellow peons the year is 2712, or a little later depending on when this class is, you are under the care of Michael Moore, a sweet and loving leader, as long as you do not approve of our government and all the bad they have done trying to fix our debt of 12 x 10^27 effectively doubling it in 10 years.

No more of this under him, we are safe and we are all equal men instead of rich or dead, as decided by where we grow up by the time we turn 18, based on our personalities and individual intelligence. You are in no danger here, everyone loves each other and you might be scared and confused. I want you to take 30 seconds to release and hug your neighbor and talk to him.

OK, with that we are an organization that has 1.2 million people we need everyone to work. You have to learn until you are 18 and we figure out what you are good at through time and tests as you know you just got through this. You do that job and gain experience through combat or doing your job very well and therefore rank. After 20 years of work, you are retired until you are 50 years old. On your 60th birthday, you are given a party in your honor and executed with honors. Please report in the door to your left, that has been lit up, and get a job that will help everyone, there is no money here, you work the colony and the colony works for you or you are completely eliminated as an asset through execution or banishment."

All of a sudden, I saw the amber lights flashing and a buzzer going off. I pulled the newest recruit he was very scared and confused. I just kept dragging him and dragging him, following the set of orange arrows pointing to the nearest shelter. 2 guards intercepted us, picking both of us up by the neck. The one in my face goes "you are relieved as his temporary battle buddy Flynn, he has been recruited to deal with something, that based off what's going on is too late, but he still needs to deal with it." "I'm his permeate battle buddy! why can't you believe me? You don't' outrank Master Chief Warren Officer." "Well looks like you get to mech up as well shit head" "He hasn't been cleared for that, he has brain damage and is having to relearn everything" "This is not a fucking debate Flynn! He is going to learn quickly or you both are in deep shit. You got me?" "Yes, Chief Sargent!" They put both of us down and now we are following them. I can see the amazement and confusion in Reaux's eyes.

We get to the mech bay, about 60 floors down, and I start to feel the problem. We call it the "Small town throw down" and Chief Sargent says to me "It was just a scheduled grudge match to entertain, to begin with. It got out of control because we found out that they really did have problems in the real world. These are guys, whose job it is to fight with mech, but they don't have mech with weapons or jets on. That's where you two come in. You have to disable their mech and subdue them. After their mech are down, the SWAT team will be able to help you. That's a ring for only three mech, so you have to be careful with 4 being on the floor, stabilization issues. We are giving you simple rifles and a sword seeing as they are unarmed there shouldn't be much of a problem."

Doors open and we are in the training mech installation bay. Reaux is still confused looking at everything in sight I swear he must have been retarded or really had never seen anything like this before.

"Why are we here and not the one with the good mech?"

"We were giving the newbies a demonstration on how good the training mech even could be and things went wrong. Now, how much help does your retarded friend need? He is trying to wear a shoe as a helmet and a glove as, oh god he is an idiot."

"I told you he had brain damage and wasn't cleared for this. I don't recommend he goes out on the floor."

"Not my orders, not my problem, we hold him down, and put him in the suit for mech"

I continue to put on my suit and he is no match what so ever for the 2 guards shoving the stuff on him. And I go to the armory and pick up a sword and a rifle. I see out the corner of my eye the mech doing the same thing on a 13-meter scale, but slower than me. I'm much stronger than Reaux. He is struggling to even get up from the ground, where the guards left him. He finally gets up and his suit glows green and so does his mech, he doesn't know how to turn it on and off, at will, like he is supposed to. I know the feeling of being connected like you are suddenly carrying much more weight, it will bring you to a knee if you're not ready. He's not ready or strong enough, he just collapses to the ground and so does his mech. I tell the guards, send me up, he will catch up later. I turn off my suit and walk up to the platform to take me up to the chest of my mech. And take a knee ready to turn my suit on again and enter the field as you are supposed to on a knee voluntarily. I also switch to the only radio station where there was more than static. The 2 guys fighting were talking rudely to each other.