Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 30: fog of war: Dorian: May 23, 4997

A few weeks ago I had a bunch of the women build me a 2nd home between the top observation deck and the radar instruments room. This way I can keep an eye on what was going on. They finished it in 3 nights and I had some minor fixes for them but it's all good now.
I wake up around 0620 something doesn't feel right. I have the gut feeling that something is wrong. I go to the observation deck and look around for a while. 1000s if women are already running around starting their day starting their duties, from what I can tell they look happy.
Because I can't shake that feeling of something bad about to happen. I go to the radar room and I'm the first one in there and I start to do reviews. I see something strange in the North camera. Circles almost matching the color of the sky blooming out of nowhere and traveling north east at 0609. I look at the clock it's 0632. I continue to look around and study the blooms finally I see something, about 3 meters under the bloom it's a person.
I begin to think that maybe Colorado knows where we are. A door that isn't visible to the outside is indicating that it's opening. I sound the invasion alarm because a small force has found us.

Over the intercom I say, "we have officially been discovered. All men and women with weapons knowledge to the weapons locker immediately. All children are too hide in the spots assigned to individuals until found.

All workers stop what you are doing and defend us with hand tools until we can get everyone armed properly.
I will be telling everyone where they are when I find them, help up here is needed as well. Let's go people. Let's go. Let's go. "I jog to the camera room carrying the mic with me. "Can't see them they are going fast and leaving behind them nothing but where they are and where they are going is caked with smoke I can't see them. They are coming from the north hangar and headed to the main living cords, people let's be at arms! "

Over my radio, "Dorian we are sending out shock shield units first with light Spears. We are about half way giving out pistols next is rifles then the rest at random. Stop putting everyone in a panic, I don't care that I stepped down and gave you control you need to be a leader by example not fear like your father."
"Yes chief"
"you know I'm not chief anymore, you know to call me by the name given by my father "Cerberus " now how many should I send away to the external weapons and should they be on what sides? "

"Yes Cerberus! Send 10 to each side, N, S, E, W and 2 each to the other 4 directions NW, SW, NE, NW. Half on energy and half physical. Whoa! I'm looking at the cameras; your shield soldiers are currently engaging them. They are stacked on top of each other trying to hold them back and losing. Go they need your grizzly skills of being ungodly strong and almost 3 meters tall and maybe weighing almost 275kg will slow them down. They need you Cerberus it doesn't matter that the shields linked together with the wall and floor they are ripping the floor trying to stay in one spot. Go!"

"I'm not leaving my post!"

"Trade with someone! Or split like you do."
"there's limitations to that all 3 of me have to have the same objective at least."

"Throw weapons out the fucking window I don't give a shit right now! The eight people must be dealt with harshly so they do not tell their superior, they obviously sent a recon unit."
I watch weapons start flying out and people just running back with them when they stop I see him disappear in one screen and reappear in another. "you never told me you can teleport!"
"we will talk to my powers you don't know honey later. And why I can do that, for now you need to instruct without panic. "
I switch back to the mic, "anyone without a weapon please report to external weapons and internal security settings. "
I watch as everyone is running to their new locations and some rogue person commandeered a mech and seemed to appear out of nowhere. I switch my settings and look for an online mech. "who disobeyed a direct order?"
"Hi honey! "
"Tara what? How? "
"come on Hun don't play stupid, we have a daughter that can teleport up to a kilometer at a time. I took her out of her spot and had her help me get in this and figure it out and she is on the artillery backpack Manning the machine gun and mortar. "
"hi daddy! "
"ok. Ok. I can't believe you did this. But you did. So let's use you. Get to corridor hangar 2 s3 and be closer to s2."
"I can do that daddy just it will be in 2 jumps "
"I don't care I need you to surprise them!"
I watch them go from hangar 1 to hanger 2. Then when they start getting to section 2 they get immediately fired upon with physical about gun round and get pounded into the wall. Over the com to the internal security systems, "that mech is a friendly cease fire!"
On the screen the mech stumbles a few steps alerting the intruders. 2 head to the mech with my wife and daughter. The sword swipes look sloppy and she tries to defend themselves from Kevlar rods. The machine gun work looks on point following the movements exact.
The mech accidentally slams their right leg on one of their warriors during the scuffle. The other soldier is so surprised that he stops bouncing around and gets caught. The mech squeezing the life out of him. He releases a shock into the mech forcing it to be partially disabled.
The mech one legged turns around and the machine gun fires are him 3 bullets plow into his shoulder and one in the leg. He is no longer moving.
3 more mini mech get taken and they report to me, "we saw an opportunity to help I'm sorry we couldn't just sit there and do nothing just watching the children. "
"who's we and then who's defending their hiding spots?"
"Danielle. Fidem and Bailey. Michelle is protecting them."
"Michelle is the least stable person I ever fucking met. I wouldn't put her in charge of giving out spoons during chow and you put her in charge of 40 people who are small scared and don't know if they have powers yet this can trigger their powers in violent ways? What the fuck is wrong with you three?!"

"But we-"
"No! Don't want to hear it! You already disobeyed my orders. Go outside with short rifles and get ready to fire on the enemy in the corridor or assist the external gunners. Go out the hangar and go west to find hangar 2." They will be headed out that way.

I watch in vain as the shields are being pushed back little by little. Units are firing into the 12cm by 12cm holes created by the shields at the overclocked soldiers. They are dodging the rounds with ease and taking the time to push the wall back trying to break through.

After torturous minutes passing I hear from the girls. "Dorian, go ahead and do what you are going to do we are like right there. "
Over the mic for the whole place, "ok defense plan, U.Z.C. part 2 commence outside defense hold fast at the ready"

I watch over the cameras the top two rows dip back and soldiers waiting behind them catch them then soldiers behind them leap on the shields wearing rubber sole boots surprising the soldiers that are not reacting fast enough.

I also see the original mech still trying to swipe at the enemy soldiers with a sword. The women running down the hallway full speed with their guns on semiautomatic.

Soldiers begin to retreat from sheer number. Only to meet the 3 mech in section 2. They try to make it past on the left and right and the mech swing their rifles prospectively hitting two of them and a third and fourth guy gets shot in the back as they are running by the middle mech. The six of them were no longer moving but it's obvious that at least the four on the ends survived.

Two other enemy soldiers make it out and are being shot at by many weapons but they make it past the ticket into the forest and West over the Mississippi.

We finally get a good look at the soldiers, I recognize that they are the elite ninja team from Colorado. Bred to be the strength of 6 super soldiers while only being 1meter tall.
I also look at the girls getting out of the mech. To find out the three were telling the truth then Tara comes out of the back pack. And Marie says over the comm, my door won't open.
I say over the mic find out how many enemies are dead and imprison the ones who survived, I want them stripped naked before thrown in their individual cells. And I need someone anyone to get a torch and open up mech 45-6784 the door won't open and my daughter is stuck inside." Switching to another comm link, "Michelle, how are the children?"
"umm, good, good, you should come see this. I know the other 3 have their comm links in their ear but I'd rather just show you than tell you. "
I go to the area where the children are she is just plastered in soot, char and some pink sticky goo. I go to the entrance and stick my head in and poke my head back out, then back in for a little longer, then back out then back in one more time for a while, then I get all the way out and right in her face, "HOLY BALLS!"

"well it could have been worse. "

I start to sing "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
You're wrong
You're wrong
Sing it with me, you're wrong. "

"I'm not that wrong!"
I say melodiously "you're wrong. "
"it could have been worse your daughter could have been there. "
"tell me Michelle, how many children were alive in there? "
"54!"
"and how many are there now? "
"6"
"where is my daughter? "
"I, I don't know but-"
"hold up. How many of these kids did you count twice? We only had 36 children. Oh God I hope they got lost or killed in battle, that shit there. That shit's horrible. Good job not causing a catastrophic disaster."
"I didn't-"
"if you say another word beyond yes sir or yes Dorian I swear to God I will have you strangled by the one you love and not just during sex in public when he is trying to give a presentation. I'm walking away now. Not another fucking word! "
"But I-I didn't-"
I start to sing as I walk back to the control room see if Colorado calls me
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
You're wrong
You're wrong
Sing it with me, you're wrong. "
As I'm walking away I hear the 3 girls screaming from the horror and almost in unison "HOLY DICK! "then they start to cry and I don't blame them.