Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 15: The subtle art of induction in war: civilian Flynn: July 12, 4996

 Dorian is talking with Chief, "We do not need to bother to rest really, it's well into the day and we don't have a lot of time do everything. We have 6 months to amass an army. Equal to or more powerful than the Illinois army. Or at least this base. All men and Dorian's woman all meet in the town center. While some other women go out foraging for water and berries while others look for meat by hunting other animals. And the meeting begins about everything. 

I begin with what I talked to Wyoming about, none of them even knew there were other lands, and other nations other than what is here I just think to myself that this world must be so small to these people. But I continued on to say that there will be airships directly overhead with heavy weaponry, mechanized unit sets and shortly after there will be an airship with 100s of villagers. And there is fresh water only about 100km from where they were to the west. 4 villagers left that way immediately to confirm what I said. But I know the Mississippi Lake is there, 4km wide and goes from the middle of Cananadia Land all the way to the northern edge of Texas. But that this settlement would be an excellent H.O.B. (hidden operations base) since there's already so much dug out like ancient day ants, not these individual ants that hunt in groups of 5 to 10. I allow this mission that we will need to train for to do proficiently segue into the war briefing. "

A short time later a village meeting and Dorian is talking again, "Greetings men, and Tara and any little girl hiding over there!"

Marie pops next to her daddy hugging her, "how did you know?"

"you're my little girl, I know everything about you, except for the extent of your powers, you don't even know that yet."

"ok, daddy."

He refocuses his attention on the group of men. "Alright, well she has powers, raise your hands if you have powers." He waits for the hands to go up, they go up slowly like everyone is nervous about it. "35, 36, 37. That's not bad at all. And I will not forget the one who defends us at night. Even though he is blind he can feel everything for kilometers. I don't know if I will use him though due to him always being so tired and the light sensitivity he has. So you know, me and Flynn don't have powers, we don't. But I have the strength of at least 100 of us thanks to the technology up there and so does Flynn and he is considered weak by everyone up there, I will train you to use your powers better. Flynn there, yes you can stop keeping him trapped under your feet. Seriously, stop it. Flynn has finished basic training and can tell you strategies against heavy weaponry. He will be training you in a makeshift basic training whether you have powers or not I'll be his number two as he does."

I hear a feel the ground shakes the earth above and below us, something big is nearby. The villagers go back into their dens, Dorian and I take cover on the ground level above. I start to feel rapid movement; I figure out what it is coming this way. And I see a large mech coming out from the east, from the city. In a single leaping bound it ends up demolishing a building near the north of what we consider town. And walking to the direct middle of the above-ground town.

Dorian looks like he could not be any indignant, even with his testosterone terrors happening fairly frequently, I never see him get more than mouthy. He wanted to kill the destroyer of his home-town. He stands up, "mother fucker!" The mech picks up the rifle it had and puts the muzzle of it to Dorian's head and upper torso. Dorian doesn't wait at all. He leaps up and the rifle emits a large amount of energy and my cover gets blown up and I get thrown at a rock making a dent in it. I get back up quickly after I collapse to a knee on the ground for a while to catch my breath and watch Dorian go from under the foot of the mech to escaping the foot throwing it off of him with relative ease and leap up ripping a hole through the crotch of the mech that we all enter through. And I see another soldier fly out of the same hole. Dorian comes back out with the framework weaponry that the mech would have been capable of using for the destruction mission all of it is bent and useless. The soldier runs to Dorian and swings on him, and it connects. Dorian gets a crooked smile and in a flash of insanity with a voice sounding happy, he says verbally "my turn again. This is fun, isn't It." The pilot of the mech begins to cry.  "You came here looking for a fight, you found one, prepare to die."