Battle Born Vagabond Prequel

Chapter 31: Basic Training: Marie: June 30, 4997

My last few weeks have been absolutely horrible. After the invasion from Colorado, daddy has been treating me diffident. It started with a speech, "ok Marie. You think you are an adult. You think you are the big bad bitch apparently because you proudly disobey orders. Lets see you smile now! That's nothing to be proud of and you will be serving retribution to your people for your decision to be a bad girl. But here's the flip side of this-" I speak up to him being mean, "what about the other three girls who took mech? " He continues unphased by what I said, "you weren't born a saint you are a Battle Born Vagabond. So hands behind your back! Shoulders straight! Feet shoulder width apart! Good. This is called parade rest; this is how you will address me until I decide otherwise. Since you mentioned it, the other girls, would you rather have their punishment it's three weeks later and that room where the children passed still isn't clean and after dinner every day they need to ask forgiveness from the mother of the children that their disobeying orders killed and they must bring food to each of those 32 mothers. This is not a fucking game Marie! This isn't a choose your own adventure book where you can go back and change what you did. The swipe of a pen, the swipe of a sword, you can take neither of those back. Tell me that assisting in the theft and the unauthorized use of a mech is something you can take back when it lead to the death of an entire generation of children. Your first crime is fucking Genocide. Tell me you can take that back, I dare you! I have failed as a father up-to this point in time. I'm going to smack you if I don't move along." He gets very close to my face, "Those children got scared and killed 80% of the people in that room because there didn't know their powers, their physical strength or how to control either one of those. This is war! Somewhere along the lines you became a vigilante, those three were also vigilantes, you really want that? You want to look up-to them? You want to have your actions kills children? I am starting you on a special basic training starting in the morning. I was going to have you start when you were 18 but you have become a princess in need of discipline. You are dismissed, go play. Leave my sight before I change my mind." The next day began my training in front of my mom my dad cut half my hair off using a metal blade the machine shop, he had me be really still and got my hair away from my head and took two uneven chops at my hair. Then I was stripped naked of my nice dress that I took almost a week to make by hand. I enjoy making pretty dresses, it's fun even though making a pattern can be hard and given a tan cloth dress, I think my dad made it himself last night out of a supply sack. He started my run at 0500 before the sun was even up. Every 160 steps because he had us run at the same time left leg at the same time and right leg at the same time he had me do exercise sometimes I knew the exercise usually he had to show me. Afterward, he took me to the gym and I looked at the clock it was 0940. "daddy when do I get to eat? "My dad rudely and bluntly says, "you don't. You take and eat what you can when you can but don't get caught." My dad had me do 6 circuits as he called it and each machine I had to do 200 before changing machines. Every 20 I was raising the weights by 3 kilograms I'm only 21 kilograms these weights got very heavy very fast. I finally got to look at the clock again 1327. Very excited he says, "okay honey let's run to the outside. " I tell him, "I wanna teleport it's easier, where outside are we going?" He just looks down at me, "someday you'll understand, for now, let's go. " My legs didn't want to support me I was struggling so hard to get up eventually my dad picked me up. "Let's go Ms. Big bad bitch" after me struggling so hard to continue to move my legs. We finally get outside to an opening with a few trees around I see Flynn in a field North of the base, "he will be your fight trainer. He's not great at it but he will get you started"I accidently fall against his waist barely able to stand, "Flynn I'm hungry"Flynn makes a hard look at my father who is walking away. He says to me, "you rest honey" My legs collapse under me, I'm folded over very uncomfortable and partially upside down I just nod my head into my shoulder and groan. I don't hear what Flynn says but I hear my dad shouting back, "How dare you! I don't tell you how often you should fuck your S.A. I don't tell you what positions to fuck her in. Never told you what holes to fuck her in either, but I think you figured out the right one. I don't say when to shit when to sleep! Where do you think you have the balls to tell me I need to take it easy with my daughter? She helped commit genocide, only afew days ago! Did you forget? I'm trying to make her into a better woman than she is, she is a horrible person right now and I'm guiding her to be good. You are telling me how to raise my family as if you are a grandfather who raised eight kids, go fuck yourself." "Dorian. Open your eyes. Do you see that? Less than 20 feet from us. She is too tired to stand, sit or lay down, she managed to combine the three together. That does not look comfortable at all. Another thing, why are you not letting her eat? Even Bōkun allows slaves to eat! Maybe being a shitty father runs in the family, hands off or abusive, no inbetween. Maybe you should abandon Marie like your daddy abandoned you." My dad rears back and does a roundhouse kick that sends Flynn past me and he digs his metal fist into the ground to slow himself down. "you're not the only one who has super strength, come at me, bro." Flynn looks at me, "Marie honey teleport to that tree, please. " I teleport when I see daddy running to Flynn and the fist of Flynn was about to connect with my dad. I didn't see what else happened. I just lost conciousness.My dad wakes me up and helps me sit up and eat soup by a very small fire outside. I roll over to face him nervous to talk, "why are we outside daddy? " Calmly he states, "this is a part of training honey. Now eat, please, you overexerted yourself but that's the good thing about muscles the more you use them the stronger you get. I'll be doing the training with you every day until you can complete all 9 portions without too much trouble. That was day one, I want this training to go on for 100 weeks." I begin letting my soup warm up next to the fire because I can taste that its cool from one sip, "will I ever do more than physical exercise? Today was bad."He gives me his bowl I see the steam before I see his face, "exercise for 3 days followed by weapons, mech or vehicle training for one, that's how this will work best. I will not allow you to be a spoiled brat. I have to fix this failure of disciplining you, I do not know if you realize I'm training my replacement. You see the struggle I'm having taking my rightful place on the thrown now, well, I want you to do better than me. I am literally training my usurper of the throne. I love you honey but I see no reason to make it easy on you. Those men will eat you alive and not in a good way." I'm confused, "there's a good way to eat someone?" His face turns bright red, "Ummm, Ummm. Ask your mother."That was three weeks ago it's still very hard but I'm getting a lot better with the physical part of training. Weapons are getting a little easier because I'm withstanding the recoil. But the repair of vehicles as required by my trainer before I dive one that is still beyond me. Every day in training I understand my father more and more and I know he is not just an angry guy he is wise and fair but kind is something he can't afford to be. Kindness is weakness leaving the body. But at the same time, I want to be just like my dad. I understand he lost his temper and he loves me.