“Major Victor Rahl Drakkar, due to your bravery and valor in the last mission, by the authority and power bestowed upon me by the President United States of America. I General Thad Hammett, hereby grants you furlough. At 0600 hours a vehicle will escort you to the nearby base and once there, you will be VTOL out of Iraq, over and out soldier.”
“Sir yes sir”
I saluted the man whom I’ve only seen twice in my 18 years of service in the military and walked out of the tent making my way to my own to pack and ready to move out, on my way I am saluted by some of my subordinates and other I do not know, I could not stop thinking, ‘man I hate this shit hole’. Trust me I am not complaining. But still, sometimes I wonder how the hell I ended up here, in this sand filled country. I mean yes I did sign up for the military, and yes it was voluntary, and yes I could’ve quit at any point in time. But you see I am not the quitting type, and coupled with my shitty upbringing I was truly desperate to get as far away from home as I possible could.
You’re probably thinking “oh c’mon it’s not that bad” or “you’re exaggerating things”
But trust on this my friend I am not and here is why
My father was an alcoholic and when he came home after his binges, well his favorite hobby was to beat me with and everything in sight. My mother, well, she cared more about her crack pipe then being a mother and she would encourage him to hit harder. My older brother who is 6 years older than me was also an asshole, he basically did everything in his power to torture and bully me from early childhood, as if what my dad did or would do wasn’t enough. I guess he was just happy that someone else was here to take the beatings instead of him.
But you know I endured it silently using it as fuel to be somebody in life. And I did everything in my power to be so, I excelled at everything I did, I was hungry, focused, and driven I played many sports such as football, basketball, lacrosse, wrestling, volleyball, soccer. And practiced many martial arts including Taekwondo, MMA, boxing, Muay Thai, Jujitsu, Karate, Aikido, Krav Maga, and judo all while working odd job at odd hours and attending high school. And the reason was simple I didn’t want to be home and at time I would sleep at the gyms after closing on the mats.
Academically speaking I also excelled and I do not want to brag but I was an A student and graduated with a 4.0 GPA I was also involved in clubs such as chest, debate, and literature. I did all of this to be free of my nightmares at home and it worked well.
While I was in thought I realized I was already in front of my tent I entered and immediately began packing strictly speaking there wasn’t much really and almost all of my belongings were already in my chest locker.
After packing the remnants of my personal items I sat on my Rack and reminiscing about the past and my hobbies.
I was thinking about the day everything as we knew it changed, the day everything became the way it is. It all started in year 2016 I was only 15 at the time. And the one of the worst if not the worst president of all times was elected, his name “Donald Trump” he was elected as the 45th president of the United states of America and from the get go you knew there was trouble on the horizon, I mean even his election was riddled with shady and weird events. The was being slaughtered left and right by Lady Hilary Clinton in the polls in the votes I mean it was a landslide but weird enough he won by 2 points
And when they demanded a recount they said “oh we lost the ballots”
I mean c’mon it isn’t the first time that happened. You might remember “Bush” maybe.
Well any who after being elected the economy had a sudden increase and it all looked good and solid new jobs new companies popped up and the big craze showed up VMMORPG
Gaming companies such as Microsoft and Sony came out with virtual technology and like a wildfire it spread like crazy and I even saved some money and got myself a set for myself and when I bought it I was rewarded with a free game called “Gods Furry”.
It was a good game in my opinion it was your basic wester magic, and eastern martial arts genre with cultivation and the likes with two continent a western one with mages, and an eastern one with cultivators like the chinese novels.
The goal was to reach the apex of one land and conquer it before starting over with a different character and do it all over again in the other continent.
I played this game like there was no tomorrow I remember asking one of my trainers if I could use the basement of the gym to play and to my delight he allowed and since then I live in that basement I moved the few possessions I had and a blow up bed and made it my home
I remember beating the game and became a Game master to my surprise I found out that the game wasn’t popular and barely a few hundreds of people played it worldwide.
Before the company closed down they sent a gif to all their high ranking players and it was a ring with a blue gem imbedded into it. It’s called the “ring of OZ” it allows you to move all your data without ever losing it and when activated it gives you a hologram video and tour of all your achievements and all of your saved items and all of your awards.
There was also a feature that allowed you to touch and open all of your skills books and martial arts styles and cultivation techniques.
I was sad and ecstatic at the same time, after doing so the company was shut down and never again did they released this game.
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By the second year into his term all hell broke loose a major meltdown of the economy tanked the value of the Dollard and we entered a recession worse than the Great Depression and even worse than the one from the Bush administration. A terrorist attack destroyed the statue of liberty in New York and another razed Mount Rushmore. Pretty soon chaos was everywhere and people who supported Trump turned against him and his so called racist views and policies.
They blamed him for everything and with that demanded his resignation, didn’t take long for him to be forcefully removed from power.
Two days after his resignation he was assassinated at his luxurious tower the shooter placed a bullet in between his eyebrows.
Afterwards, a douchebag by the name of Ted Cruz stepped in to lead this country on his inauguration he vowed payback and revenge. Pretty soon he reinstated the draft and just like that war started.
Our “enemies” were the terrorist organization “ISIS” and “Boko haram” I wasn’t drafted but I volunteered nonetheless, and man what a stupid mistake that was.
After basic training, I was shipped out to Africa. There I quickly rose through the ranks for merit and valor. To this day, I own the longest kill shot with an m16 and the highest confirmed kill count at 602 kills I think that’s also the world record too.
Because of my high aptitude I was called back state side to take the Ranger assessment test and to attend Ranger school quite frankly I wasn’t to hype about that I mean really I’m here rubbing shoulders with these guys while my men are out in God knows where getting shredded every day I log on and look at the casualty list and every day I recognize a name. The name of one the men I served with or I commanded.
The death toll for this war far surpassed the number we had for the Vietnam and Afghanistan/Iraq by a total of 10% and still we were being sent in different countries and fighting in different fronts
Africa
Iraq
Syria
Jordan
Afghanistan
After six years of fighting a treaty was reached and finally peace appeared Isis waved the white flag and only took Syria as their home and withdrew from all the other countries as for their ally Boko haram they were thoroughly annihilated.
A new president was elected. His name was Ben Carson. He was a mild mannered man and mainly focused on repairing the world considering his predecessor tore it to shreds it was peaceful good and the world heaved a sigh of relief. Or so we thought on his last year as president a new terrorist organization came about they were known as “the sons of the Harpy” they used chemical agent and biological warfare on every front against all countries and here we are war once again and once again a coalition was made Isis, al Qaeda, Hamas and the Israel army banded together, Iran and Iraq formed the Persian alliance, Jordan Egypt and Yemen formed their own alliance in order to fight.
In Europe all the members of the EU allied with the Russia and they went to war against an enemy that has no borders and no home country.
And the Americas it was the same all the countries banded together under a new flag The United Nations of America.
After that i was conscripted into a newly formed special unit called the 54th Special Force Detachment aka "The Hell Raiders" our home base was a small island dead smck in the middle of the burmuda triangle.
It didn't matter which country in the americas you were from or which unit you belonged to, if you passed the screening and the assessment test you would be given all the latest and high tech gadgets and tools.
Later on after completing the training faze you would be infuzed with a Direct Neural Interface or DNI for short. In layman's term it is a special combat A.I chip inbedded in your brain.
It allowed us to scan the battlefield advantageously by seeing information about the enemies their location, distance, type and if they are about to shoot, killzones, deployed grenades and warnings of comrads needing help.
It also allowed us to process, store and analyze infromation at break neck speeds, and give us the appropriate action in situations.
Other fuctions such as night vision, x-ray visions and so forth. After the surgery we were all ordered to link up to the private server of the military and synch all informations and data on it.
Which was painful to say the least, everything from electronics engeneering, medical surgery, dna and gene therapy and alteration was directly download and transfered in our brain, we became genius savants, we knew everything about everything.
We became killing machines, cold blooded and fearless, almost as if we were macines and not humans.
Thinking about all of this brings some bad memories and also has made me realized that I am sick and tired of this world I wish I could just wake up in a different world and forge a path for myself under my own power and ideals not fight for some schmuck that sits behind a big desk and just give out orders.
As the night fades so does my consciousness I fell into a brief sleep before I had to wake up and report to my assigned area.
I woke to the sound of screaming and loud explosions I quickly hop out of my rack and put my gears on and right before I head out I slip on my good luck charm the ring of OZ.
Right after I walk outside and ask for an assessment of the situation
“BOOM”
Blackness I felt like I was hit by a wrecking ball and thrown back at least 100 feet back and I laid there in pain, my ears ringing and bleeding like a dying pig.
How Ironic I was supposed to be flying home today...