Battle Born Vagabond

Chapter 12: Micheal "#12" Barrett: Jan 30, 5006

I feel myself slowly sinking into the ground like it's a plasma. Suddenly I'm surrounded by these large human shaped shadows they're circling like vultures they are screeching at me causing the color to disappear from me and my sight.

The pain of my mental anguish is going away as I become one of these shadows from the bottom of my body is disappearing. I can't fight it forever as I'm flying in a sea of them trapped by the plasma. People think I'm crazy, but they don't see how I feel.

I leave the ground, and things do not feel okay. This sickness it's taking over they are watching I can feel them holding me. I'm getting colder. My skin becomes black and Smokey as I become lighter than air. My body is just like them, but I am resisting I do not want to hear what the voices in my head tell me, They begin to whisper like a snake in my ear, "Loser," "You are no one, we want you anyways."

One cuts my face by gliding past me, and my blood drips down and falls into the plasma abyss after flowing down my chin."We will love you forever", "Everyone is a common enemy," "No honor amongst outsiders."

The blood rushing from the cut turns gray as I feel faint speeding up instead of slowing down, "Nothing is okay," "We are here to help we will make everything okay, just give in. " The demons begin chanting in unison," one of us. One of us. One of us." As they get ever closer I rise out of the plasma ground and I'm in a sea of darkness as they create the abyss from the smoke screen of their tails. They continue circumnavigating me the transformation continues to go up my body everything I see is red and black instead of black and grey.

I start hearing voices from the outside indistinguishable from far away from me. I'm starting to move, but I'm partially paralyzed. My world begins to shake. My world starts to swing harder. And harder.

I come back to the real world sliding on the ground. Dane is standing over me almost exactly where I land, "Hey Probe, you awake yet?"

I panic a little, "Understood sir."

Dane calls me out, "Well, what do you suggest for our problem if you were paying attention. Anything. Anything at all, I want to see that we didn't make a mistake of promoting you to the newest disciple; after the last one lost his head. We chose you because you seemed to be ready but he wanted it more, we can still give it to him if you'd like."

Number five yells, "if he can't even pay attention during meetings, why is he even here? He's so young what the fuck is he even doing here for real. The fuck dude. Do you even have any powers or is your third helix broken?"

Dane responds, "5 calm down. 12 go ahead and show him what you can do. I'm understanding you two never worked together."

I stand up and focus my energy, and I start materializing energy through my hands, and it becomes bigger and bigger until its about 3 feet in diameter.

Number five says, "and what the fuck is that."

I respond, "I can focus my energy in 3 different colors that do different things, this is my blue energy ball, it's heavy for anyone and everything but me. I also have one of electricity and one of an implosion."

Five responds, "how does that make you dangerous enough to be with us?"I throw the ball at him, and I use my mind to open it up around him and squeeze him tightly. He starts dipping into the floor warping it, as the floor starts to collapse. And eventually, he falls through with a thud and does not bounce when he hits the floor. Brian says, "what is wrong with you?" He begins to start going through the floor below us. Gasping for air as I start to crush him harder than his blood can pump.

Dane, "12! that is enough! Let him up. Do not fucking kill him!" The blue energy snakes back into my arms, and he comes back up from the floor below.

When five comes back up, "what the fuck, it looks like they had to patch that shit before and they did it quickly and crudely, I wonder why."

Dane, "who the fuck knows. Anyways here's what we're going to do, 5 and 12 you two will stop fighting immediately. But beyond that issue 1, 3, 7 and 12. 1 and 12 together 3 and seven together. I want you all to go to the next nearest bases of Illinois and send a message."

Number 1 immediately says, "What's the message?"

Dane smiles and in a rhythm states, "Baby we can party or baby we can parley."

Number one clarifies, "What do you want us to take?"

Dane thinks aloud, "A mech, a glider and everyone involved are to be armed with a melee weapon, a pistol, and a rifle. Actually, on second thought We have a fucking base with a shit ton of stuff here. Take whatever the fuck you want. I just want them ALIVE. I cannot stress that enough."

Six asks, "And what about the rest of us?"

Dane responds promptly, "I'll be going with you for this, but we will be going room by room to figure out who is a cook or a farmer, we need to be able to feed these 40,000 people."

Number one admits, "We did not think this through did we?"

Dane admits, "I thought Marie was going to be here and actually control her men better to make this a bigger fight. I thought I was going to lose men, to be honest. I think only number four was shot, but he's not dead he's just in medical being treated by number nine right now. And even so, he shot himself putting his gun away, he forgot to put it on safe."

Number two is surprised, "So this was a suicide mission!?"

Dane stands upto him, "But I was leading by two whole floors so I was taking the brunt of the punishment, so I don't want to hear shit from any of you! We good? we good? Anyone else?" No one moves or says anything. "You have your orders lets go!"