Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 9: The Aim: First Sargent Major Burger: Feb 06, 4996

"Okay Kiddies, are you ready to have fun? I know I am!"

All of the twerps give a "Hooah!"

"Count off! I need to have 90 or less for safety. If you're above 90, just walk the fuck away, if you want my guidance, make someone I think would be unworthy. If there's a fight, you will be ejected by Mr. Five times muscle mass. He's become so aggressive in these 50 weeks from bitch to bull. I'm sure he will have no issues. "They start counting and going to a knee like they are supposed to. I see a match up that I like as they are continuing down the line. Reaux's friends that he made here all in my platoon here except for Moore. I get on my com link, "hey, I want Moore"

"That's a negative FSM, you haven't completed count nor have we"

"That's not what I'm saying, there's a Civilian named Moore, I want him located and put in here for my training."

"Will do FSM."

The twerps finish counting, "86! 87! 88! 89!"

"Stop right their kiddies, I'm trading whoever is number 90 for a particular private that I want, get up to my podium. The rest of you, Full rest, but be quiet" The private walks up to me, I'm happy with who I'm trading out. Then just calmly gets in parade rest. "Step back three steps, you're crowding me, then full rest like everyone else" Then I get on my intercom "Has Moore been located yet? I've done my count and I have one prepared for a trade if needed.

"This is Sargent Corporal Payne, I'm short by 9, send him my way, I'm all the way at the North end."

"This is Captain Townsend; I'm sending Moore to you, Burger!"

I turn to the private but also have my intercom on "Blue-Falcon" go to Payne's line, I want you to sprint there, you got 30 seconds for the 300-meter run, go."

I hear the counting over the radio. And suddenly "Time! 37 seconds!"

I say to Payne "he failed 100 pushups for failure and 100 burpees per extra second in a mech. That is a lawful order to be followed; you will make it work in the training, you have prepared for them. Burger out, my com will be off, because I will be participating in the training, if you need me use the headset in a mech, I will be at Frequency 9.2GHz as my emergency."

I turn my attention to the privates, I see Moore arriving. "Attention!"

They snap and I know they're all on me. "Ready for orders FSM!"

"Good, good, this is how this is going to work. I can only have 7 physical mech on there. I got ahold of the hologram arena for this. Reaux will have the same Mech that I had during one of my battles, he's always in the Library, I'm sure he's read up on the Mech as well, "The Hurricane". This was a battle where it was 1, me saving our Fortified Operations Base. They had taken out everything with an EMP while I was sneaking off to sleep with the locals. So, I was the only one with a working Mech. My mission was to defeat their General, I knew who he was; he was the only one just standing in the back watching in his mech. I had some issues, though; this was during a hurricane off the coast of what was Formally North Carolina. Reaux, did you have fun reading how since then Virginal has taken up 4 warring states and we are struggling with negotiations? Yeah, I was part of this part of Chicagoan history, my very 2nd mission of my 2nd year. Anyways, that part won't be simulated in here, we can't do water in there. They were 40, marching forward, to our base of 100 mech. They also had 10 tanks. The geography will almost be the same, rolling hills, sunset. But we can do 3 people at a time with mech for real training. I will be in a training mech to make it so I can put 6 of you on this field still, you 6 will be in mid-grades with real weapons and coms already set up to go to the vehicles. Every 15 minutes, I have that all mech will stop where they are as new drivers enter in. I have damage to Reaux's Mech set to 10% since he will be fighting with 89 of you and 1, me. That's right, here he is not your friend. He is the enemy and it's our job to destroy his mech. Chumura, Healy, Frailey, Papanaugh, York and Quesadilla get yourselves in the mech, I'm not telling anyone anything about the weapons. You figure it out; you're all smart enough to have survived so far. Besides, you should have been keeping up with your reading at least biweekly. Roll out!"

I watch as 90 privates except Reaux wait for the elevator. I follow Reaux. We make it down to the locker room. And I just tell him "Are you ready for a 90 on 1 fight?"

"No FSM"

"Neither was I. I base all my training off of stuff I actually had to deal with on the field. The other sergeants don't like it, and most of my platoons get killed, when I'm given complete control because I believe in eliminating the weak before they become a problem."

The other privates walk in and I hand them cards with their mech numbers on them. I get my gear on and I tell everyone "I need to make sure in the other room, that everyone is ready."

I walk in there and there is a Civilian waiting for me "we already did count and I have already established that all simulation tanks are ready. We are your training, your word, your order."

"Well that was easy, thank you. Make sure everyone knows that they are to stay off from roaming the radio frequencies. There is a live active mission in Wisconsin, Missouri, and Ohio and 6 on earth level itself. I will personally catapult anyone caught fucking up their missions. Don't believe me, try me." I walk back to the locker room. And everyone is standing by a Mech in parade rest. "Reaux, that's the wrong mech, this one is the one for you and taps the leg of the one he is to be in and he runs up."

We all turn our suits on and get loaded into our mech.

I get on the com for everyone "ok, everyone gets their part of the program loaded up now. The timer is going to allow us to go weapons hot in 10 minutes. If there's something wrong in the hollo-room that is as a whole, you tell me. Otherwise, call an IT guy. This is a mission and it must go on."

I get myself on top of a hill and my weapon of choice, a mech's sniper rifle ready in my inventory. Reaux has a 15-meter pole. The others have Pistols, rifles and it appears that Healy has a sword I can see it on his belt. I just get my sniper rifle out and put it together. From a distance of 25 km, I am aiming for Reaux as there are tanks littering the field and he is fighting off 6 of his friends. I load it up, cock it back and look through the sights waiting for the right moment. And I aim then fire center mass.