Chapter 25
Answers
I got up and walked over to the central command post. I sat down in a chair within a group of chairs surrounding a table. This was where the leaders held meetings for battle plans.
Tetsuko walked in and sat next to me.
"I have to go soon," I told her.
"I know where you must go, Dragon," she looked into my eyes, "But I can't let you, it's too dangerous. There's over a hundred Evalangions and five or more times as many soldiers in that building, it's suicide!"
"I know thats what it looks like, but it's not."
"I can't let you go alone then."
"I can't let you go with me. I can't-"
"Listen Dragon, this isn't just your war, it's mine, it's
Hawk's, it's K'arr's, it's Zak's, it's all of ours."
"I understand," I got closer to her, "I can take you and a few others, but I can't risk too many lives," Our faces got closer.
"I don't want to lose you, Dragon," her lips were inches from mine.
"You won't" I whispered as our lips met.
Just then K'arr and a few other leaders, including one I didn't recognize, walked in. We stopped kissing before we even started. They walked in and sat down, they let us stay however.
"General," K'arr said to the new man, "This is him," he moved his hand in my direction.
I stood up, "Dragon, it is an honor to meet you," I shook his hand and nodded.
"And you are?"
"Deromouv, General Deromouv," I looked at him questioningly, that name sounded Russian.
It was if he could read my mind, "Yes, my name sounds Russian, I'm from Siberia," I nodded.
We all sat down and K'arr began speaking, "General, we have one soldier behind enemy lines. We have lost contact with him but he has succesfully setup audio and video equipment. Their reinforcements have not yet come."
"Fortunately ours have," said another man. K'arr nodded.
"We sent a small squad on a recon mission. They ran into a few small skirmishes but it seems the main enemy force chooses to remain hidden."
As they continued talking, I began to get into a tactical mode. I realized the flaws in the enemies plans even before the officers began their top secret plans.
"I believe our best bet is to bring all our spies back here and prepare for a large onslaught," said the General.
"Sir if I may speak," I said. He nodded, "Our forces will not be ready before the enemy reinforcements arrive."
"Go on, Dragon," said K'arr.
"I believe we should take all readily available soldiers and send them behind enemy lines immediately. Their we shall crush their current force. Then we can set traps and ambush their reinforcements."
"There's one flaw in your plan, Dragon," said the General.
"That is?"
"Their forces would crush us before their reinforcements arrived..."
"Actually sir, they are hiding their true numbers."
"They have more?"
"On the contrary. Do you remember the story of George Rogers Clark and how he captured the fort at Kaskaskia without firing a shot? He had all his men carry a flag so it looked like they had more men?"
"Yes and?"
"Give each man a heavy machine gun..."
"And it looks like their are more men...I see where you're going with this."
"There's only one thing, they have more men than those at the machine guns, but how many we cannot be sure."
"It's settled then," said K'arr, "We leave in one hour. Have every available man and woman meet at the sewer tunnel entrance, have a full scale alert set. Everyone else prepare to fire everything they got. I want one man and only one man arm every avaiable vehicle gun and machine gun. Everyone else will be a foot soldier. Go NOW!"
We all ran out of the tent. Tetusko and I went over to our new reinforcements. In the back of the APCs were weapons. I took a pair of mini-uzis, a pair of berettas, and a M- 16.
Tetusko took a M-1 also and a pair of Tec 9s. We locked, loaded, and holstered our weapons. We ran over to the sewer entrance with the rest of our allies.
"Today men, we will turn the tide of battle. No longer will we cower in fear at the sight of a neo-Russian army. They are weak and they are cowards. They hid their numbers. They try to strike fear in are hearts. But now! now we will not be afraid. Join me and we shall destroy these heartless bastards. Or turn and run away. But I warn you, if you run they will come after you. Let us not become them but destroy them!"
Cheers, shouts, and whistles came out from the crowd. We were 200 strong. We decided to leave all the vehicles behind to give us cover fire. I held up my M-16 and everyone else held up their primary weapon.
I nodded to K'arr. He nodded back. We decided not to split up into groups but to flood out in mobs. I agreed with this decision. We will be like berserkers of the middle ages.
I estimated their numbers to be just over 100. But like I said earlier, we cannot be sure. The first of us took off through the tunnel and soon everyone else followed. We came out firing and took the enemy completely by surprise.
A few minutes later all of our vehicles began firing. We were crushing them. I remembered Zak and took off by myself. Tetsuko was lost in the fury of battle.
I picked off a few soldiers here and there on my way. I was still weary of battle and weakened by my wounds. I did, however, find the time to meditate and I regained most of my chi. I crouched down and scurried from ruin to ruin until I made it to the ruined door Zak and I hid behind.
I jumped to the ground and army crawled toward where I thought he'd be. Eventually snipers found me but I picked them off before they could fire a shot, or two in some cases. I got up and ran the rest of the way. After a few minutes of running I tripped over something. I rolled on the ground and laid there. I turned over and crawled to see what I tripped on. It was a leg.
I looked over to see who it belonged to.
"Zak!" He shook his head and opened his eyes.
"Dragon, get," he coughed, "Get out of here, now!"
Too late. I was hit in the head from behind. I rolled over in the direction of the force of the hit. I stood up.
"Hello Dragon," It was an Evalangion.
I didn't answer him, I simply picked up my M-16 and switched on the laser sight. I aimed it and the laser point was on his chest, above his heart. He simply pretended to dust it off.
"I hate it to end this way, Dragon. I was hoping to kill you myself."
A light flipped on. To the way back of the enemy lines, which is where I was now, was a large force, nothing like the one described in the reports built by our intelligence.
"But how?" I asked him.
"It's simple," I glared at him. He withdrew a simple beretta from the holster inside his jacket. All the Evalangion wore business suits. They weren't extremely muscular. They were average built, but damn they were strong, "I can read your mind, Dragon, I know everything about you, inside and out."
He shot at my face. I was going to lean back to dodge it, I felt a tremendous pain at the back of my head. I fell forward into an abyss.
Chapter 26 Dreams
I woke up. I was lying on the shore of the lake on a towel. I had my hands behind my head and I was gazing up at the clouds. Such simplicity is bliss, I thought.
I looked over, it was Andrew.
"ANDREW!" I snarled at him, but then I remembered he wasn't the clone,"Andrew..." I said gently. I must have woken him because he was startled, "Sorry, didn't mean to wake you..."
"Oh, it's ok, I wasn't sleeping, I was just daydreaming, thats all."
"Oh, alrighty then, heh," He just smiled at me.
"Dragon," he said as he rolled to face me and put his head in his hand.
"Yea?"
"Nothing..." he said as he rolled on his back to look up at the sky again.
I just laughed. I sighed.
I heard the splinter of wood. I looked up, a tree was about to fall. I went to pick Andrew up but in vain.
The tree crashed onto me and I fell into darkness.
I woke up in what seemed minutes later. I was in my bedroom. I sat up. An Evalangion was there.
"You!"
"Hello, Mr. Enders."
"What's going on...?" I now knew what was going on.
I stood up and glared at him.
"STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!" I yelled at him. He simply grinned.
"It took you that long to figure it out, Mr. Enders?"
"My name," I said angrily, "IS DRAGON!"
I charged all of my chi and more. I felt the energy of the earth surround me and give me incredible strength. I yelled a kiai.
The room and everything around me exploded. After it cleared I looked around. I was in that white room again. I didn't waste any time. I walked over to the wall and punched it. It flew off the hinges and crashed into the wall across the hall. I walked out.
"Hello, Mr.-"
I didn't let him finish. I threw a powerful kick to his abdomen and he flew into all the Evalangions behind him. They flew backwards, down the hall and ran into a wall. But that wall didn't stop them, they kept flying backwards until they were out of sight.
I turned around. I charged the chi in my fist. I sent a hook to the side of the Evalangion's head. He flew into the wall and kept crashing throught the ones behind it.
I got into a sprinter's stance. I closed my eyes and breathed deeply. I ran, faster than sound, through the group, they flew in every direction as I ran into them. I ran down the hall and into the next one. This was one big maze. After a few minutes I stopped.
As I looked up I heard a voice shout, "NO!" I pointed my fists at the ceiling, bent my knees, and jumped through the ceiling. I landed on the next level floor and looked around.
I was in some laboratory. I walked over to a strange looking table. Only it wasn't a table, it was some sort of casket. It contained a body that was frozen. I looked at the face and gasped. It was...it was...
"ME!" I took one step back. But wait, I wasn't dead. I looked at the machine my container was hooked up to. I looked at the screen on it. It showed me, the me that was standing.
"But-" I cut myself off. The me standing wasn't the real me. I'm dreaming or sort of. They're manipulating my mind. They make me dream this stuff. This isn't real.
"This isn't real!" I shouted.
"Yes.." I heard the voice again, "It is."
I looked around, no one.
"You are dreaming, yes," The voice came from behind me, "But your mind, makes this real," he said as I turned to face him. He was an older man dressed in white. he had a white goatee with a short beard and wore a white hood over his head. The hood was connected to a white cloak which semi-covered his white jumpsuit.
"The nameless one..."
"Oh please, Dragon. Spare me that insentive. I am known as the nameless one by you, but by the Entities and the neo- Russians, I am known as...Shoju."
"Shoju?"
"Yes that is my real name."
I looked at him, "You see Dragon, we are on the Entities planet. I am a neo-Russian. But we are not in the year you think we are in. It is 4033. Using this dream system, I've developed, we have taken the Entities planet six times already.
Their have been 6 chosen ones previously. You see the destiny of the chosen one is this, he simply enters the core of our mainframe and destroy it. He then choses 18 people; 6 men, 12 women; to repopulate this planet."
"Don't you see Dragon. We used the Entities time travel to put every man, woman, and child's mind into our computer. We control and manipulate all of you."
"There is, however, a problem with this."
"Choice."
"Exactly. Choice is what stopped us from creating a Utopia for you people. We imprisoned your minds and created a world much like it would be over two thousand years ago."
"Choice is what gives us the advantage over you."
"No, choice is what gives us the advantage over you, Dragon."
I glared at him.
"There are two doors out, Dragon. You can reenter your body, and continue the fruitless battle against my neo- Russians, whom I favor. And try to save the last Entity. Or you can enter this door," he motioned to the one behind him, "And destroy our computers and repopulate the planet, you will be the 7th."
"I hope, for your sake, we won't meet again," I said as I walked toward my body.
"We won't."
I jumped into my body, and woke up to the sounds of battle.
I got up and walked over to the central command post. I sat down in a chair within a group of chairs surrounding a table. This was where the leaders held meetings for battle plans.
Tetsuko walked in and sat next to me.
"I have to go soon," I told her.
"I know where you must go, Dragon," she looked into my eyes, "But I can't let you, it's too dangerous. There's over a hundred Evalangions and five or more times as many soldiers in that building, it's suicide!"
"I know thats what it looks like, but it's not."
"I can't let you go alone then."
"I can't let you go with me. I can't-"
"Listen Dragon, this isn't just your war, it's mine, it's
Hawk's, it's K'arr's, it's Zak's, it's all of ours."
"I understand," I got closer to her, "I can take you and a few others, but I can't risk too many lives," Our faces got closer.
"I don't want to lose you, Dragon," her lips were inches from mine.
"You won't" I whispered as our lips met.
Just then K'arr and a few other leaders, including one I didn't recognize, walked in. We stopped kissing before we even started. They walked in and sat down, they let us stay however.
"General," K'arr said to the new man, "This is him," he moved his hand in my direction.
I stood up, "Dragon, it is an honor to meet you," I shook his hand and nodded.
"And you are?"
"Deromouv, General Deromouv," I looked at him questioningly, that name sounded Russian.
It was if he could read my mind, "Yes, my name sounds Russian, I'm from Siberia," I nodded.
We all sat down and K'arr began speaking, "General, we have one soldier behind enemy lines. We have lost contact with him but he has succesfully setup audio and video equipment. Their reinforcements have not yet come."
"Fortunately ours have," said another man. K'arr nodded.
"We sent a small squad on a recon mission. They ran into a few small skirmishes but it seems the main enemy force chooses to remain hidden."
As they continued talking, I began to get into a tactical mode. I realized the flaws in the enemies plans even before the officers began their top secret plans.
"I believe our best bet is to bring all our spies back here and prepare for a large onslaught," said the General.
"Sir if I may speak," I said. He nodded, "Our forces will not be ready before the enemy reinforcements arrive."
"Go on, Dragon," said K'arr.
"I believe we should take all readily available soldiers and send them behind enemy lines immediately. Their we shall crush their current force. Then we can set traps and ambush their reinforcements."
"There's one flaw in your plan, Dragon," said the General.
"That is?"
"Their forces would crush us before their reinforcements arrived..."
"Actually sir, they are hiding their true numbers."
"They have more?"
"On the contrary. Do you remember the story of George Rogers Clark and how he captured the fort at Kaskaskia without firing a shot? He had all his men carry a flag so it looked like they had more men?"
"Yes and?"
"Give each man a heavy machine gun..."
"And it looks like their are more men...I see where you're going with this."
"There's only one thing, they have more men than those at the machine guns, but how many we cannot be sure."
"It's settled then," said K'arr, "We leave in one hour. Have every available man and woman meet at the sewer tunnel entrance, have a full scale alert set. Everyone else prepare to fire everything they got. I want one man and only one man arm every avaiable vehicle gun and machine gun. Everyone else will be a foot soldier. Go NOW!"
We all ran out of the tent. Tetusko and I went over to our new reinforcements. In the back of the APCs were weapons. I took a pair of mini-uzis, a pair of berettas, and a M- 16.
Tetusko took a M-1 also and a pair of Tec 9s. We locked, loaded, and holstered our weapons. We ran over to the sewer entrance with the rest of our allies.
"Today men, we will turn the tide of battle. No longer will we cower in fear at the sight of a neo-Russian army. They are weak and they are cowards. They hid their numbers. They try to strike fear in are hearts. But now! now we will not be afraid. Join me and we shall destroy these heartless bastards. Or turn and run away. But I warn you, if you run they will come after you. Let us not become them but destroy them!"
Cheers, shouts, and whistles came out from the crowd. We were 200 strong. We decided to leave all the vehicles behind to give us cover fire. I held up my M-16 and everyone else held up their primary weapon.
I nodded to K'arr. He nodded back. We decided not to split up into groups but to flood out in mobs. I agreed with this decision. We will be like berserkers of the middle ages.
I estimated their numbers to be just over 100. But like I said earlier, we cannot be sure. The first of us took off through the tunnel and soon everyone else followed. We came out firing and took the enemy completely by surprise.
A few minutes later all of our vehicles began firing. We were crushing them. I remembered Zak and took off by myself. Tetsuko was lost in the fury of battle.
I picked off a few soldiers here and there on my way. I was still weary of battle and weakened by my wounds. I did, however, find the time to meditate and I regained most of my chi. I crouched down and scurried from ruin to ruin until I made it to the ruined door Zak and I hid behind.
I jumped to the ground and army crawled toward where I thought he'd be. Eventually snipers found me but I picked them off before they could fire a shot, or two in some cases. I got up and ran the rest of the way. After a few minutes of running I tripped over something. I rolled on the ground and laid there. I turned over and crawled to see what I tripped on. It was a leg.
I looked over to see who it belonged to.
"Zak!" He shook his head and opened his eyes.
"Dragon, get," he coughed, "Get out of here, now!"
Too late. I was hit in the head from behind. I rolled over in the direction of the force of the hit. I stood up.
"Hello Dragon," It was an Evalangion.
I didn't answer him, I simply picked up my M-16 and switched on the laser sight. I aimed it and the laser point was on his chest, above his heart. He simply pretended to dust it off.
"I hate it to end this way, Dragon. I was hoping to kill you myself."
A light flipped on. To the way back of the enemy lines, which is where I was now, was a large force, nothing like the one described in the reports built by our intelligence.
"But how?" I asked him.
"It's simple," I glared at him. He withdrew a simple beretta from the holster inside his jacket. All the Evalangion wore business suits. They weren't extremely muscular. They were average built, but damn they were strong, "I can read your mind, Dragon, I know everything about you, inside and out."
He shot at my face. I was going to lean back to dodge it, I felt a tremendous pain at the back of my head. I fell forward into an abyss.
Chapter 26 Dreams
I woke up. I was lying on the shore of the lake on a towel. I had my hands behind my head and I was gazing up at the clouds. Such simplicity is bliss, I thought.
I looked over, it was Andrew.
"ANDREW!" I snarled at him, but then I remembered he wasn't the clone,"Andrew..." I said gently. I must have woken him because he was startled, "Sorry, didn't mean to wake you..."
"Oh, it's ok, I wasn't sleeping, I was just daydreaming, thats all."
"Oh, alrighty then, heh," He just smiled at me.
"Dragon," he said as he rolled to face me and put his head in his hand.
"Yea?"
"Nothing..." he said as he rolled on his back to look up at the sky again.
I just laughed. I sighed.
I heard the splinter of wood. I looked up, a tree was about to fall. I went to pick Andrew up but in vain.
The tree crashed onto me and I fell into darkness.
I woke up in what seemed minutes later. I was in my bedroom. I sat up. An Evalangion was there.
"You!"
"Hello, Mr. Enders."
"What's going on...?" I now knew what was going on.
I stood up and glared at him.
"STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!" I yelled at him. He simply grinned.
"It took you that long to figure it out, Mr. Enders?"
"My name," I said angrily, "IS DRAGON!"
I charged all of my chi and more. I felt the energy of the earth surround me and give me incredible strength. I yelled a kiai.
The room and everything around me exploded. After it cleared I looked around. I was in that white room again. I didn't waste any time. I walked over to the wall and punched it. It flew off the hinges and crashed into the wall across the hall. I walked out.
"Hello, Mr.-"
I didn't let him finish. I threw a powerful kick to his abdomen and he flew into all the Evalangions behind him. They flew backwards, down the hall and ran into a wall. But that wall didn't stop them, they kept flying backwards until they were out of sight.
I turned around. I charged the chi in my fist. I sent a hook to the side of the Evalangion's head. He flew into the wall and kept crashing throught the ones behind it.
I got into a sprinter's stance. I closed my eyes and breathed deeply. I ran, faster than sound, through the group, they flew in every direction as I ran into them. I ran down the hall and into the next one. This was one big maze. After a few minutes I stopped.
As I looked up I heard a voice shout, "NO!" I pointed my fists at the ceiling, bent my knees, and jumped through the ceiling. I landed on the next level floor and looked around.
I was in some laboratory. I walked over to a strange looking table. Only it wasn't a table, it was some sort of casket. It contained a body that was frozen. I looked at the face and gasped. It was...it was...
"ME!" I took one step back. But wait, I wasn't dead. I looked at the machine my container was hooked up to. I looked at the screen on it. It showed me, the me that was standing.
"But-" I cut myself off. The me standing wasn't the real me. I'm dreaming or sort of. They're manipulating my mind. They make me dream this stuff. This isn't real.
"This isn't real!" I shouted.
"Yes.." I heard the voice again, "It is."
I looked around, no one.
"You are dreaming, yes," The voice came from behind me, "But your mind, makes this real," he said as I turned to face him. He was an older man dressed in white. he had a white goatee with a short beard and wore a white hood over his head. The hood was connected to a white cloak which semi-covered his white jumpsuit.
"The nameless one..."
"Oh please, Dragon. Spare me that insentive. I am known as the nameless one by you, but by the Entities and the neo- Russians, I am known as...Shoju."
"Shoju?"
"Yes that is my real name."
I looked at him, "You see Dragon, we are on the Entities planet. I am a neo-Russian. But we are not in the year you think we are in. It is 4033. Using this dream system, I've developed, we have taken the Entities planet six times already.
Their have been 6 chosen ones previously. You see the destiny of the chosen one is this, he simply enters the core of our mainframe and destroy it. He then choses 18 people; 6 men, 12 women; to repopulate this planet."
"Don't you see Dragon. We used the Entities time travel to put every man, woman, and child's mind into our computer. We control and manipulate all of you."
"There is, however, a problem with this."
"Choice."
"Exactly. Choice is what stopped us from creating a Utopia for you people. We imprisoned your minds and created a world much like it would be over two thousand years ago."
"Choice is what gives us the advantage over you."
"No, choice is what gives us the advantage over you, Dragon."
I glared at him.
"There are two doors out, Dragon. You can reenter your body, and continue the fruitless battle against my neo- Russians, whom I favor. And try to save the last Entity. Or you can enter this door," he motioned to the one behind him, "And destroy our computers and repopulate the planet, you will be the 7th."
"I hope, for your sake, we won't meet again," I said as I walked toward my body.
"We won't."
I jumped into my body, and woke up to the sounds of battle.