Chap.22 "A Rude Awakening At 1:00 AM"

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At exactly 1:00 AM, I heard a bunch of loud explosions, these explosions were so powerful that it was rocking the train car like a damn ship in high seas. I got up from the bed and walked on out trying to figure out of what the hell is going on, while I walked almost half asleep, it was probably the most craziest situation that I may have ever been in on a train. I tried to get my balance as the car tossed me like a basketball but it was almost no use, when I got to the observation car, I saw a damn combine gunship literally tearing the shit out of the Forrest that was now engulfed in flames. These sons of bitches were trying to start another damn fucking war but however out of nowhere, f-16 fighters were on the scene and destroyed the bastard before its laser could blow the train to sky heaven. Ill admit that I am not a morning person but with this incident I immediately burst out in a rampage of a whole new world a ranting and cursing, I cursed so damn much that I was like a god damn sailor but eventually I calmed myself. Some waiter came by and I asked him to fix me a cup of coffee, he bowed before me and went down into of where the lounge was, he then came back with my coffee and left me alone.

As I sat on a chair with a table next to it, I brung along a laptop to see the damage of the train, the train took some damage but nothing serious though. I should've known that the bastards would try and intimidate me but they don't realize is that they are fucking with the wrong country by doing these schemes and trying to start shit. Everyone was wide awake and were trying to figure out of what in the hell just occurred, Kirkland sat with me and said that the back of the last car had been torched to almighty heaven and they had to uncouple the car and let it sit on the track. We were about four hours away from Charleston and we had to be ready for anything, I looked out the window and saw headcrabs eating a sunk. The train began to speed up and was literally highballing through these huge turns that was now on the border of West Virginia and Maryland, there were Antlions slugging it out with zombies and poison zombies which was a bit funny to watch. As everyone woke up and went to the observation car, most were in awe as they saw me just sitting in my morning robe watching the environment, it was almost dawn as most citizens sat down beside me and talked about their experiences with skirmishes. However, most were asking the question if I would be the emperor, I said that I preferred the stratocracy rather than reconstitute the government into a monarchy.

I also told them that if they really want me as emperor then they need to vote on it and if I do not receive a enough votes, the stratocracy will remain in place. MacArthur came and sat down right on my right side and began to talk about of what the people were talking about, I told him directly that I could see him becoming the emperor. Captain Vance came in with a final design sheet for the navy, this final sheet of designs was submitted but it originally came from the website DeviantArt. Heres a rendition of the sheet:

(As most would expect, these designs had the original Pennsylvania, New Mexico, New York, and Lexington Classes, I studied these and the fifth cruiser on the right in the middle between the Pennsylvania and New Mexico was interesting

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(As most would expect, these designs had the original Pennsylvania, New Mexico, New York, and Lexington Classes, I studied these and the fifth cruiser on the right in the middle between the Pennsylvania and New Mexico was interesting. This cruiser to be honest looked like a Pensacola Class Light Cruiser but a more well armored one and was armed with the same guns that the Omaha scout cruisers had. The modernized Tillman battleship to the left that sits under the Lexington would also be built, the armed SS Great Eastern would never be built due to of how it would be useless in a war against the technologically advance Combine forces. The Flightdeck battlecarrier as I called it that sits above the Lexington was given the name "Ozark" which was uncommon to name a ship after a mountain. The battleship that is located beneath the modernized Tillman looked like a Pennsylvania with more guns on it. After reviewing this it was time to look at the big one that is located at the top, the top monstrous battlewagon was indeed very impressive but at the same time just screamed with impracticalness and just outright fantasy but however with combine technology, we could only build around 2-3 of these battlewagons. I gave the monstrous battlewagon the name of "Leviathan".)

I comprised a list of the ships on the sheet so most will not get confused of which is which:

Leviathan-Class Mega Dreadnought

Ozark-Class Battlecarrier(The Flightdeck Battlecarrier)

United States-Class Battlecruiser(Modernized Lexington)

Arizona-Class Battleship(The Pennsylvania with most guns)

George Washington-Class Super Battleship(The Modernized Tillman)

Alliance-Class Dreadnought(The Original New York)

Thomas Jefferson-Class Battleship(The Original New Mexico)

Southern Cross-Class Dreadnought(The Original Pennsylvania)

After concluding the most these designs, the Leviathan-Class would have two sisterships the Megalodon and the Liopleurodon. The mega dreadnought had the same Gustav and Dora railway artillery guns for its main battery, the secondaries consisted of several 5"/38 caliber guns and 6"/53 caliber Mk 13 guns. Its anti aircraft armament was made up of an estimated of at least a hundred Oerlikon's, around fifty Chicago Piano 28mm machine cannons, and a few 3 inch flak cannons that were stationed on the cagemasts. Another interesting aspect of this battlewagon was that it also had paddle wheels which means that this thing is paddle powered, this paddle power idea was incase of an emergency or if the warship used up all of its fuel. This warships speed is to have a outstanding 42 knots which is what an mega dreadnought would've had, this is probably the most biggest project ever thought about but I was willing to build the most biggest Navy to defend Earth from the Combine. I knew that war would be on the horizon and I wanted peace with the Universal Union but unfortunately the bastards wanted to kill me and do even worse to the American people, I swore an oath of loyalty to the people, the constitution, and the nation, I will never let this great nation be invaded or destroyed.

I then got up from my seat and went back to the compartment to get my uniform on, when I was walking through the narrow hallways of the sleeping car, more flashbacks came poring through of the when I took the empire builder up to Washington. As the flashbacks increased, a sergeant came up to me and delivered news that my mom and father were executed during the occupation in downtown Salem Oregon, I just couldn't describe the immense shock of this news. I retraced my steps back to the observation car and sat down at the same seat and immediately began to bow my head with tears now rolling down my eyes as I wasn't there to save them from certain death, I broke down so hard that I couldn't even comprehend, Rotha came to hug me for which I released all of my emotions. I clenched and showed my teeth as the passengers just looked on with sadden expression, it all became total sadness and sorrowful attitude. Kirkland, Johnson, Starbanner, MacArthur, and others just came in and didn't expect me to be like this, I just wanted to see my parents faces in person wether it be the last time or not.

I never really mentioned much about my parents but in all honesty, my mom was a great woman while my dad was an insane guitar freak which I didn't really get into but this news was just completely debilitating. I decided to get some rest and went to sleep with Rotha in her compartment, when I got to her compartment, I sat down on her bed still being nowhere to even forgive myself for not being there to save them. But deep down, something began to just spark and soon a flame was becoming a reddish and blazing fire that was so passionate that it could've burst out of my inner self. Rotha had said that my eyes were so red that I was like a changed person, I just laid down and closed my eyes until we arrived in Charleston.

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