Chapter 24: Unleashed: Master Chief Warrant Officer Quisling: April 09, 4997

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I got woken up by Bōkun walking me up in the middle of the night.  "You are needed immediately." 


"For what my loving czar, that lets me sleep in."

"Don't play cute. D just had a major psychotic episode."

"How bad could it possibly be? We have him sleeping in the jail cells and allowing him to leave during the day so he can slowly adjust to life again."

"Umm Judas, it's 3 am and I like to sleep in. It's bad."

"Hand me my pants at the end of the bed, please. Under these sheets I'm naked."

He hands me my pants and I put them on without taking off my sheets. He tells me, "Uniform is full battle rattle for physical rounds minus grenades."

"Now you got my full attention Bōkun. Should I wake the roommate?" As I start putting on my battle uniform I haven't put it on in 4 years.

"No, I'm trying to keep this a secret. Our weapons have already been delivered to the prison."

"The fuck did your boy do Bōkun."

"There's already a coroner there. The guards felt it was necessary to wake me. And I agreed with them."
I finish putting on my uniform to include heat vision helmet. And I grab my keys and let Bōkun out. Then we are running down the hall and he just teleports us to the end of the story to the elevator and before I know it we see his manor.
He teleports me inside. Then down in his elevator. As we go down I start to hear screaming and grunting.

We are greeted by one out four of the guards. "Are you two sure you want to go in there?"
Bōkun goes, "I have to he is my son."

He hands him a short rifle and me a fully automatic rifle and then he has a semiautomatic pistol. And I'm just thinking, "what is wrong with him?"  I hear the screaming of two men and then giving directions to each other. As I'm getting closer I can feel the rumble of struggle. It must be one hell of a physical fight. We have shoulder ropes providing routes for us to follow in the dark slightly illuminating the hallway. Liquid appears to be flowing. Lights turn on suddenly and I take my helmet off because it's too bright. The walls are slathered in running blood. Some of the lights ahead are flickering.  In the distance, I hear "I got him!"

Then someone else comes running past us "I'm getting the box!"

There's more screaming and I see a man fly and hit a wall at the corridor ahead of us and the man goes through the wall of a man recently broken by the prison. Bōkun goes into that cell "for your safety I'm putting you in another cell!" And teleports with the man and then without.
I finally get to where Drent is and he is covered in blood from head to torso and fighting the last remaining soldier over there. The body parts around the two cells make it apparent that he was splitting people into pieces.

Before I know it Drent is running at me full speed with a grin as he says, "Toy new a, cool oh!"
From behind me a shot that deafens me and makes me lose my right ear. Sends Drent flying and crashing into a wall. Bōkun saying something at me but indicating that I should shoot Drent. I put the gun up and point it at him. Getting so nervous I'm sweating as I get closer to firing at a boy I knew since he was only 3 days in the uterus. Since he was only 24 cells. Drent is coming closer and closer to me he leaped from the wall. I finally fire and before it gets to him he is surrounded by a blue wall all round him. Several ripples go across the length, width, and height of a wall. Bōkun puts a hand on my shoulder and says something I can't understand past the ringing. 

I finally get to have a moment for adrenaline to stop flowing. To process my surroundings. The usually gray walls are red and black. The chunks of humans are of still living humans.
The worst part is that the wounds are still bleeding and most gave been bitten into. I instantly throw up. I start to try to go to one of the guys to start treating the wounds and I start to throw up again and vomiting ensues again. Bōkun tries to talk to me again. And I just stare at him not making any action. He pulls out a small notebook and a pen. "You can't hear me can you?"

I take his pen from him and write. "Nope temporarily deaf." 


Then he writes "go get fresh air, now I remember why you are at the GOC you can't handle violent scenes afterward."

I write one more quit, "That and I enjoy the embrace of another man. Just makes me feel so, safe and comfortable."

He writes again, "Don't care, go treat your ears. While we clean up you obviously can't be here. Check back in with me when you're done"
I return a few hours later ear sewn back on and the ringing is gone thanks to a type of hearing aid that puts the opposite frequency back in my ear canceling out the tinnitus.

I return to the prison and the guards do not let me in. " This note is for you MCWO"

I read the note, "we are cleaning and repairing the cells, you don't need to be here. Borrow my black on blue suit, then go borrow two soldiers who are light infantry above rank corporal, highest rank you can get ahold of I know savior Genesis keeps them moving. Their uniform is full battle rattle, flash bang grenades and fully automatic shotguns. Afterwards you are interrogating Drent, and they are your body guards. Go."

I give Bōkun's order to Savior Genesis. He asks, "so what's wrong? And lying to me and I will give you some warriors who will panic. When something goes wrong." Before I can speak he looks up at me again from the orders, "I just realized, you're a doctor, why on earth do you need bodyguards. You aren't even a prison doctor everyone you deal with is a friendly."
"I know this will turn into scuttlebutt. However, something is very wrong with Drent."
"I didn't even know Drent was still alive he was under my command. And kept coming to me for every mission. Sometimes I would just leave a mission under his door otherwise he would be underfoot all day looking for a mission. Most people will ask for a mission about once a week and do their secondary career or work out the other days. What is such a danger-loving man doing? Sit, sit please take a seat, this don't have to be formal."
"He is ripping people apart and eating them. At about 4 am he ate a war prisoner, a guard, and a coroner. He also tried to eat me, but Bōkun shot him in the chest and shot my right ear off."
"Gimme your facebot, I don't believe that he is that violent with people he knows "
He digs through the video from earlier. And he sees why Bōkun shot him. "Alright. Drent is fucking insane. Only Sergeant Bacon wanted a mission today so I will be your number one. What does the points look like Bacon also has a secondary of a viewer he likes points, last year he was a warrior. 4 ranks in one year remind me of Drent without breaking every rule possible."
"Bōkun didn't tell me how many points"
"Alright let's go."
I get down to the interrogation rooms. A blue hue streams down the halls the whole time. When I see this I tell them, "weapons hot but not at the ready I think would be best."
We three walk in and Drent starts slamming his head against the blue wall turning it purple each time. A loud zapping sound each time.
"Drent. Drent. Hey man. Can you tell me what's up?"
"You fuck!" He starts punching it and the walls are turning white. "SOUL YOUR THEN YOU DEVOUR WILL I!
Bacon picks up his rifle and fires rapidly.
Genesis yells at him. "Ceasefire! Until he gets out we can't shoot him. If I wanted you to waste rounds I would have sent you to the range."
I say to Drent, "you ate three people today. Were you hungry buddy?"
"Steal to soul easy an such have men some."
"Why are you speaking backward?"
His eyes and voice change, "what's going on? I don't understand." His eyes and voice change back, "Stubborn is fucker mother."
"Who are you?"
"Others many, many along war of neurosis, emotion vehement. Fight of fright, warrior another of spirit. Names many as known been have I years of thousands across."
"What do you like being called? It's too early for this shit."
"Shock Shell."
"Ok shell shock. What's going on? What made you suddenly appear and take over Drent here?"
"Stronger growing been have I. Trigger the pull to going was he realized she when cried who girl a, kill first his since. Sudden been not has this."
"How did you take over?"
"You thank. Body new my repaired you. Body the repairing and decay to body the allowing between battle a was it. It allow not did I. Die to wanted he. Shot got he after mine was live to will his."
"So is Drent not alive."
"Mine is he now captive his was I."
His eyes and voice change again, "kill me damn it. He will kill us all!" He throws himself against the wall and the eyes change back. "Up shut to him told I."
"Are you here to make peace."
"Be to used states United the like weapons bigger through peace desire I but. It love! War by strengthened I'm."
"Are you Drent or something else?"
"Drent am I."
I wrap up my report suspecting that he has schizophrenia and split personalities with a dangerous one as the one in charge.
"I will need your cooperation we need to make sure you are who and what you say you are. And for now you will still be in there until it is time for your tests."
"morning the in the since eaten haven't I hungry I'm. Fine that's."
I walk away, "we are done here."
On the way out the young Sergeant says, "please savior don't make me see him again, there's something too dark about all that.

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