Chapter 34: Flynn Jr. : November 19, 4997

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  My rear sensors go off indicating a vehicle behind me. I turn around and a mech is still recovering from a large leap. And over the mega phone, "Larry Ismael Flynn, you step out of that mech this instant! "
I quickly figure out my megaphone, "who the fuck are you to tell me what to do? "
He makes another huge leap in the air with his mech, "I didn't hear yes sir, you little shit." On the way down be spins around and spin kicks the front of my mech off. Then he reaches in and yanks my body out of the mech still wearing all the controls of my mech. "Bōkun these guys are the ones that took Colorado's equipment and one of their mobile bases. I have to make your next meal!"
"Very good hero, bring him to me." I'm trapped in the hands of a mech as he brings me to Bōkun, I had never seen him this close before. He looked puny even in full body armor
The mech talks again, "permission to leave my mech."
"only if you are going to stand next to me in case someone tries something."
The grip is released and I am on the ground trying to catch my breath.
Bōkun dusts me off and picks me up. The man stands next to him.
Bōkun pats him on the shoulder, "go ahead and introduce yourself. "
The man clears his throat, "Hello my name is Hero Larry Ismael Flynn, I'm your father and my jobs are mech trainer/sparring partner and combatives trainer/sparring partner. I am 4 months from retirement. And I have been training my replacement for about two years, Alto Bacon, I see potential in him. I think everyone does he's only been in three years and has jumped 11 ranks.
"Thanks hero. Now for what I have to say to your son."
"Whoa, whoa! So I'm not meeting my father until I am in my 20's, and he's giving me orders? What kind of shit is this? I have a one-month old son; I couldn't imagine one day without him. How could you do twenty years? "
Bōkun slaps me hard and my dad says, "I watched you grow up stupid. You just don't know it because it was only every couple months in a fleeting moment. I was there during every surgery for your titanium-calcite arm just beyond the door and during the final one I was given permission to scrub up and be in the same room but in a corner. And you can bet your life that after your viewer saw your videos that he gave them to me to watch. I watched your faux arm get ripped off during your very first mission and your twelfth mission! Don't you dare say I wasn't there! I was there more than 80% of the fathers I know most of them don't even know how many they have, I have three and apparently a grand-"
"Hero, hero, that is enough! Now Junior. I understand the struggle you have been having with Dorian. So I'm going to strike a deal with you. You take out Dorian or Drent-"
From Drent, "Ok. Now involved I'm?" And throws an object in his left hand as hard as he can towards Bōkun. Bōkun stands there as my dad tries to catch the object and misses. The object impales Bōkun through his armor and on other side a lot of blood as his heart, ribs and other bodily tissue come out an exit wound. And I realize the object thrown was a severed human arm with some fingers still attached to the hand. Bite marks all over the place.
Bōkun voids himself and falls over.
My dad takes me by the chest and throws me to the men under his control, "get him to safety, shit is about to pop off with this power vacuum and the two sons fighting to the death for the thrown. "
I'm picked up and bright to the security room to watch.
I watch as from the remaining mech the Andrew and Danielle walk out of their mech. Marie walks up still wearing her micro-mini mech.   

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