Unseen War

Chapter Five



Cord was walking towards his personal office, which was on top of the compound. He arrived at the small lift that would take him to his office. He stepped on, and his boots made a small metallic clank. The computer came online with its female voice. "Destination please?"

Cord brought his hand up to his forehead and wiped off the sweat that had accumulated during the interrogation. "My personal office." The computer had a voice resignation system for the colonel only. So when his voice was recognized his personal computer adjutant would come online.

A small panel opened and a light popped on. Slowly a hologram appeared, and showed the face of his adjutant. "Hello Colonel Cord, you have three new messages. I will list them now." A small amount of text appeared in hologram form just below the adjutants face. The computer continued to read them off. "Your first message is from Captain Kiefer, the next message is from Civilian Austin Cook and William Wyatt, and the last message is from Commander Raynor."

Cord jumped at the name of his commander, and at that time the elevator had reached his office. "Computer play Commander Raynors Message on my view screen." John walked towards his black leather seat quickly, before the message began to play. The picture of commander Raynor popped up onto the screen with him looking off to the side giving the last part of an order. He turned his back to looking back into the recorder. "Well Colonel I see you have amassed a nice base of operations, and you seem to be doing very well. However we have been noticing an increase in dominion activity on the planet and in space. So just as a caution were going to send you the 3rd Tank division and the 4th Artillery Force. We might as well also send you the 6th Infantry division and have all your men's weapons upgraded. That should hold you over easily for now. So you now have nearly five hundred men under your command. Now I will tell you the truth of your mission."

The Picture blinked out and was replaced by a picture of the planet. Raynors voice came back and a small picture of him appeared in the corner of the screen. "The real reason we sent you here was because Raynors Raiders is now going to become a real military power. Our numbers are now standing at three million in the fleet. We need a home base, and that is what we hope for Braxis to be. I already know of the fall of their government, and how the dominion looks to be preparing to attack the capitol city of the planet. That is why I have given you these extra men, and all you must do is protect the city for at least two weeks. In that time I will have arrived with the rest of the fleet, and we will have our first planet. Our strike against the dominion starts here Commander. may god be with you; Raynor over and out." The screen flickered off and Cord was left in the room full of darkness.

Cord looked at the screen and realized what Raynor had just said. He had just been promoted to Commander, and that was the highest rank in Raynors military, next to Raynor himself. "Oh my god," he said slowly. Computer play the Captains message."

A picture of Scott came up on the screen. "Hey Colonel we just struck up a deal with the local militias here in the city. Since we last talked, and I learned about the invasion of the city, another 200 locals have come to the call here in the city. That means that we have nearly 350 local militiamen here in the city. We put them all through a small training course to test their abilities and they seemed to do fairly well. We also found out that Mr. Cook is an ex-mercenary and he has called in about 50 of his old buddy's, and some of the men are game hunters so we gave them some sniper rifles. Of course you already know that I pushed ahead all the men's training, and Ill try to have them all ready to go in 3 weeks. Mr. Wyatt has already produced all the weapons we will need and he has gotten us quite a store of ammo. He is making extras for anyone who comes to us during the invasion for a gun to try and help us."

"Mr. Cook also said that he would contact you about the abandoned defense's of the city. Well Im off to help out with the training and stuff so later boss." The screen flickered and Scott's face disappeared. John opened Mr. Cooks letter, which was just text and him introducing himself.

John got up and a ping came from the elevator door. Suddenly a voice come on asking for permission to enter the room. John granted permission and the doors opened. A young private walked into the room and saluted John. He returned the salute, and had a seat at his desk. "What is it private?"

"Sir I have bad news to report. It's the general, he is dead."

"What! What happened?"

"He took a injection of poison that was hidden inside his ring."

"Well at least we got what we needed out of him. Private inform the squadron commanders to have there men ready to move out, and tell Sergeant Hanes that we are about to move locations of our main forces and he will be in charge of the base with a skeleton crew. Also tell communications to contact fleet and give them the coordinates of New London. That's where were going." The Private gave a salute and ran off to do his duties.

Commander Cord slowly walked towards the large window that curved around half the room. John looked out onto the base and saw the private starting to tell the commanders what to do. "So the unseen war has become a reality, damn."