Battle Born Vagabond

Chapter 3: Delivery : Hero Bacon: November 20, 5005

It's a 100% formation I'm at the head of my formation with a platoon of platoon leaders behind me, the guys who protected our queen in a separate formation to the side and around 20 other formations. To the south of her manor.

Queen Marie addresses us all from her balcony so she has the high ground and can see everyone. "Okay, men and women I will try to make this quick. First of all the librarians, I would like to use this time to request all the information you have on a Mr. Dane Glysac. Librarians and information persons are dismissed, leave quietly, don't upstage me. Secondly give this formation over there a round of applause" We all clap for them including the people leaving clap as well, and it dies down when she stops and begins talking again, "their training showed today, it was stunning. Not once did I have to give them an order, they did what was required, and I love it. Thank you so much, especially the person who lifted me above the line of fire, that was a display of my power as a leader and showed that I'm not just the face of the IA I'm their respected leader. Thank you so much."

Her boyfriend shouts out from the crowd heckling her, "that's not all she loves! She loves not having power too. Can't wait for after hours. HEY-YOOOO!"

She calls him out in front of everybody hand now on her hip, "PFC Frank, we will be talking later, I'm getting a little tired of your shit." Then She goes back to addressing everyone. "For the vigil later I want the 21 to come out of that formation right there. Ok, so Dane told me that a sick slave was going to be delivered here. I want a decent sized team to be here for them, men and women equal number. I don't know if this slave will be male or female. I also want a bomb squad team to be at the ready. Just in case he lied to me. Hero Bacon."

She looks directly at me. "Yes. What would you like my queen?"

"Eww too formal. Anyways. I was hoping you could choose one soldier to be with you as backup protection for the doctors. I want you both to be unarmed, but you are the combatives trainer so you know who would work best to work with you."

He says in a very exact matter without a thought, "I want your boyfriend, PFC Frank."

I look at him puzzled, "I think that is stupid, but I will choose to go ahead and trust your judgment." She addresses everyone again, "Everyone who has missions today is dismissed for their mission. Everyone else, there's a few more hours to your workday."

Someone in the crowd shouts, "there's something incoming in the sky."

"Medical personel and bomb squad take cover in the mansion. Everyone else remove yourself from here. MOVE. MOVE. MOVE."

Everyone dispersed and is silent except for a few pop shots at the object and hidden best they can on the plane. The giant bird comes into view making sounds I never heard before, the very fast flapping of its small wings. And comes to the courtyard and throws a burlap sack on the ground very hard and flies in the direction it came.

Some tense moments pass. Another hero shouts, "bomb squad, why are you not approaching it?"

A rep from the bombsquad shouts back,"New woman here can see through things, she will tell us what it is, and we will leave if it's not our problem."

That hero responds back, "Very well Alto Nikki."

The new girl says, "shut up I'm using a form of echolocation, and you made me see it as a solid kilometer tall object 3 meters in front of me." Everyone is quiet again as she tries again. "Inside the sack is something naked, male; with mutilated genitals, not human has some differences, maybe a mutant, and a hard leather book."

The bomb squad leader looks at Marie. Marie replies to the look, "Bomb squad dismissed." They walk away swiftly.

Marie, Frank and I all go in low and fast towards the object. Weapons pointed right towards the object as all three of us cut in a semicircle laterally clockwise towards the object. I cock the hammer on my pistol back as we get closer just in case of an ambush. I stop and tap Frank which tells him to continue. I am 5 meters from them with a good vantage point to where the opening is.

I watch as Frank is 2 meters from the bag and he taps Marie's shoulder. She goes to the bag and starts lifting it slowly. I watch her face change from behind. And it's revealed to be a very unhealthy Malamute. Frank immediately chimes in out of fear, "Watch out Marie. I'm going to get rid of the enemy for you."

She largely ignores him as she starts to inspect the malamute closer getting in the direct firing path of frank.

I shout out, "I'm getting closer." She responds to me with a thumbs up without looking at me or Frank. I walk up to Frank. I put my gun away and on safe deliberately showing Frank every action in hopes he gets the hint.

He talks to Marie again in a pleading tone, "Marie honey, please get out of my line of fire so I can do my job!"

She stands straight up still in his line of fire in a commanding tone, "Frank, I do not appreciate how you are talking to me, and right now I'm pulling rank and commanding you to put your weapon on safe and in its holster."

He pleads and bargains, "Queen Marie please don't make me shoot around you to make me do my job! It is a Virginian. It's a Malamute! We are at war with them and its in the law book that if we see one we are supposed to shoot on sight, now move aside! I won't ask again!" He pulls the hammer back on his revolver to put a round in the chamber.

Marie slowly walks to him, "It also says in the rulebook that highest rank is the command you go with, so now I want you to give your pistol to Bacon. Because I feel like you are going to shoot me! I feel your judgment at this moment in time is less than stellar. However because you are special to me on a personal level I want to give you the benefit of a doubt."

He begins to speak again, "No-"

Marie teleports to being directly in front of Frank and pushes his arms up quickly, and the gun discharges as its going up. Marie kicks him in the nuts, and he drops his weapon, and she sweep-kicks him to the ground and teleports the gun from the ground to her hand and says, "You have committed the crimes of attempted murder of a soldier, disobeying the direct order of a superior and attempted regicide. I sentence you to death!" And without a second thought, she shoots him twice in the head. She looks at me and excitedly exclaims, "I feel so alive without him! MMMMM the adrenaline. I feel great! You wanna get with me?" As she blinks her eyes rapidly at me and plays with her hair being obvious about her flirting.

Even though I am turned on by the display of power I politely decline the offer, "Ummm, Queen, with all due respect after watching you execute him that sounds absolutely terrifying, and I'm going to go ahead and say no right now some other time maybe?"

She pulls down her pants just past her butt, "that's up to you, but you're missing all of this," and slaps it and giggles playfully. "Anytime you want it just hit me up, squeeze my butt and claim it, its all yours."

I deflect the attention a little more directly, "I am almost 15 years older than you how about I recommend a suitor to you. Besides, you don't fill out paperwork, I do, so I'm going to do that after I get a quick bite to eat."

She gets offended, "I will choose who I date, not you! Your history for choosing lovers is not great. You always go back to the same one all the time because no one else wants to deal with you. But anyways, don't you ever suggest to me who to date again! I make my own decisions. Unless you are choosing to be my suitor. Oh those muscles, I would love those wrapped around me all night. If you hold me at night I will wiggle my butt into your crotch nightly." Marie teleports a few medics to the malamute adolescent and says to them "you four have now been assigned to this malamute, how you distribute the work between you four is up to you. That soldier over there is a different issue. That's Bacon's responsibility so don't call a coroner for him. Bacon you are dismissed, I have other things to do." And she teleports away.