Battle Born Vagabond

Chapter 16: Crowd Control: #12: March 1, 5007

The drugs wear off. "The smile of insanity then panic. My heart goes faster! I can't breathe! I can only recover what was never lost! My heart has been chiseled from stone. I'M NOT INNOCENT! Who knows what could have been? My hysteria, chaos reigns. I am a world of hate. My peace awaits in the afterlife. Heaven, sin, I WANNA PLAY!!! They will tell you I'm insane! I've never taken it too far! My actions will keep you guessing like, HOLY BALLS! I thought you said I didn't warn you? Who lied to you?"

Number five speaks to me confused and concerned, "Hey man, who are you talking to? Are you okay? Something is not right here." As he pokes my head pretty hard.

I retort, "You didn't hear anything #5."

He speaks to me reminiscing, "I was your age when I started the #12 spot, maybe a little younger. I remember the remorse, depression, and anxiety. What is your medicine?"

I respond exactly, "Cannabis, I don't know what the other stuff does."

He gets a smirk, "That has many benefits but not enough. Come with me I'll teach you and over the next few weeks find a combination that works for you. Let's start with opium and a minimal amount of mushrooms. You have some problems, let me help you."

We get loaded together, and over the radio, we get the 2-hour warning and that Dane wants a meeting about the big event, so we start going to the holofield for the meeting. I hear "4 rows! 4 rows" I run to the back row. "1,5,9 first row. 2,6,10 second row. 3, 7, 11 third row. 4,8,12 fourth row." I run to the front of the squad. Dane waits for us. "Raise your hand if you heard about the big event? " I raise my hand and so do some others. "Numbers 1- 4 no fucking spoilers! You participated! Ok good to see all my disciples knew about it. For those who don't know, I took the liberty of raising the stakes for Andrew and Larry. Before I forget, give #9 a round of applause."Everyone gives a round of applause, and he bows accepting it. "Number 9 intertwined a time released brain control device that I made into his explosion and implosion bombs. We had to use both of them for different causes and different effects. Come on, one more round of applause his work was amazing even though it took a continuous 75 hours of work except for that time he collapsed for an hour and we had to wake him with cocaine. I helped him, let that marinate, I helped him, it was amazing!"

The applause starts up again, and he says to Dane, "it was an honor to have the challenge! Thank you, Dane, for helping me."

It goes on again, and Dane says, "that's enough guys. Today men and women will be separated; thank you probies for your construction work. North, South, East, West. They will be in these areas depending on who they bet on to win. And if they lose, they will die. Everyone before me will be crowd control. There will be about 10 thousand in this room at a time. And we have only 131 people. I am performing my usual display of power to begin. So no one is to have the center stage but me. I already put weapons under their seats. The danger is high, but any opposition is to be dealt with lethally. I don't want to hear #5 got shot because #1's team didn't deal with someone who went berserk fast enough. Any questions? " Number 10 raises his hand,"Yes, #10."

He asks loud enough for us all to hear, "Who's making our teams? "

Dane smiles with his response, "You are. Every disciple will be in control of a team, and I want each team to compliment each other's powers. #9 is good for helping the injured like we have realized #3 clumsy and an easy target is but #4 can prevent people and projectiles from getting to him that is the kind of teamwork I want, but I don't have time to find out everyone's powers, you will figure that out yourself in the next 45 minutes. After that I want you to eat and do some amphetamines and accelerants because I want you to be hyper vigilante. We are putting marijuana vapor in the air during the showing for your safety to calm everyone down. Any other questions?" He waits a few seconds, "I'm going to take a nap everyone has their orders and the prisoners doors will open timed and will only be able to go here. Everyone will come up on my command from the mech locker room below."

The hour fly by I have my team, and I'm waiting for him to tell us to come up. We hear the roar of 10,000s of bullets hitting the ground above. And we all crack up hysterically I almost pissed my pants at his response "whoever shot me in the dick, with your entire clip! Fuck you. You are an asshole. Ahhh, holy dick, I'm not going to walk right for a week." Shortly after we are getting the order, "okay ladies. It's Showtime. We are on the lift, and the sky opens up I see the enormous holoroom again. We are almost up, and I thought I heard the bang of another round. Number 4 stops bullets inches from my head. 

I hear number nine from the crowd "hey four did you catch the bullet?"

Number four responds back "cock sucking mother docking donkey punch tits!"

Dane says, "4 you wanna try that again? we can't understand your Torrets, try again."

I announce, "it's inches from my face."

Number nine says "well choose a probie to waste him for you. Let's get this going" I point 3 people down from myself to the man we nicknamed "Johnny" and he goes to a knee with a finger in the shape of a gun aims very carefully. People get out of his way breaking formation because they know better. I hear a pop from his thumb when he bends it smoke comes from his finger, and you can see his arm recoil the soldiers head explode, and shrapnel of the soldier's skull goes inside the soldiers around him even with no visible projectile. We all separate and go to our assigned areas, and we get ready for the movie to start.