Chapter 11: We Are Going To War

“Men and women, today we make history. Today we raid a military base. We will start with team 1, myself and Alpha squad. We’ll move in and eliminate any and all hostile forces. Then team 2 will move in and find anything useful to build up our army. Once all is done, both teams will join together to get everything loaded. We hope to have no hostile forces, but you never know. I have faith in all of us. NOW LET'S MOVE OUT!”

Nate and his team were the first ones to start moving. Nate was so fast his team almost couldn’t keep up with him, he had to slow down. There’s one man on Nate’s team that he has been working with named Andrew Thompson. He is a dark skinned man with a clean, classic hairstyle. Nate wonders how he keeps his hair so nice. His own hair was very long, like Anakin Skywalker pretty messy.. Nate stops thinking of his hair and continues moving.

Nate didn’t realize how fast they were going as they were approaching the base.

“Andrew, take your men to the right side, I will go left.”

“Yes, lord Ward.”

Nate’s team broke off from him, now he didn’t need to hold back. He ran at his full speed, covering the rest of the distance in a matter of seconds. He arrived at the entrance of the base and took a quick deep breath, getting into a running position and taking off. With Nate’s dexterity and perception being at the same level, Nate was able to clear his side of the base with speed and precision. It took him about 4 minutes at his top speed.

Nate met with his team.

“Lord Ward, nothing was found.”

“Good. Have your men spread out, wait and defend until the others get here.”

“Right away, Lord Ward.”

It took 40 minutes for the rest of the teams to make it to the base. They wasted no time and started clearing out the base. Nate walked into one of the first buildings to find his men looking through uniforms. Nate looked at the camo and thought of his dad. He served in the military and this was the uniform he wore. Nate was proud to put his men in a uniform that a good man once wore.

Nate had all his men and women put on a uniform. He was very proud of them, and tomorrow they will fight their own kind. Nate continues to watch them, he was going to let his guard down but something was wrong. He could feel something in the back of his head. He looked around and then stopped on Andrew. He didn’t understand and then something appeared out of nowhere, a scorpion, stabbing Andrew in the chest.

“NOOO!” Yelled Nate.

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Nate was just out of reach of Andrew. When he got there, Nate cut off the tail of the scorpion and then stabbed it in the head. Nate looked up, letting go of the sword, and dropped to Andrew.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t get to you in time,” Nate said with hurt in his voice.

“Lord War..” Andrew stuttered in pain.

“It’s ok, I’m right here Andrew,” said Nate.

Autumn came quickly to see what happened.

“What happened to him? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!” yelled Autumn.

“Lord Ward, don’t stop fighting.. I believe in you.. I believe in this kingdom, so please don’t let this stupid death be for nothing,” stuttered Andrew,

“You can help him, right Nate?” Autumn asked.

“I can’t, I don’t have the power to help him..”

“My lord, please find my brother.. tell him what happened, please.. for me.”

Those were his last words to Nate. He went to find a sheet to wrap Andrew in and picked up his body.

“We’ll make sure everything is packed up and everyone is safe. I am going to take Andrew back home.”

Nate began to walk and he didn’t miss a step. He walked perfectly to show respect to the man in his arms. When he got to the house, Nate started digging a hole. He laid down the body and began to cover it.

“My lord death, this man gave his life to you and to me. I pray that you give him the best afterlife you can.”

Nate stood there for a bit. He could feel a certain warmth encasing him. Nate didn’t need to see him, but he knew death was with him, and that Andrew was on his way to see his parents again.

Nate was walking away from the grave when he heard a car engine. How, a car engine? Nate thought back to the time he tried to start his car and it didn’t work, so how is Westcut coming up the driveway in a humvee? Not just 1, but 5 of them, plus 3 transportation vehicles.

Westcut pulled up and stepped out of the vehicle.

“Lord Ward, they would like to know where he is,” said Westcut.

“Of course.”

Nate leads his people to Andrew's grave.

“The god death has already taken him. He will be happy.”

Nate walked away to let Andrew’s brothers and sisters be with him. He found himself in the driveway looking at the military vehicles he now owns.

“It wasn’t hard to get them working,” said Westcut.

“I don’t care about that,” said Nate with anger in his voice.

“Lord Ward, it came out of nowhere and just one of them.. that was a planned attack. I will spend the rest of the day and night tracking where it came from.”

“Good, because whoever sent that thing will die by my hand,” said Nate.

“I think I already have a working theory. Maybe the raiders. Maybe they had something to do with it.. maybe they are more powerful than we thought,” said Westcut.

“Well, good thing we planned on paying them a visit. Tomorrow, tell Will and Autumn to get the men ready. We are going to war.”