Fight for freedom
Chapter 4: Should we stay or should we go?
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon.
Adam wakes up and wonders around the streets of Juuban looking for his men, when he finds them all they sit in the park. "Adam, what's this all about?" one of them asked.
"I need to know will we stay or cut north and fight." Adam replied.
"Why should we stay and fight for some people we don't even know?"
"I know them and fought beside them during the Serenity war, look they'll sweep through Juuban and cut north. If we stay and fight we could stop them." Adam said making his men look at each other.
"Sounds like they've organised a nice fight for us."
"You lot don't have to stay, but I'm staying." Adam replied, as his men look at each other "those walls won't withstand a direct attack, if we do stay we'll have to reinforce those walls."
"All those in favour of staying say aye." Smitty said
"AYE!" everyone shouted before Adam stood up "we head back in an hour, get to know the area." He added before they leave and Adam shows them around Juuban before they go to the school. Mirai Hotaru stands on the north wall on the gates when she sees Adam and his men approaching.
"Trista, you should see this!" she shouted making everyone run to the north wall to see what's going on.
"We need people like these." Trista said before she gets someone to open the gates and Adam and his men walk in to find Trista waiting in the compound.
"We'll fight." Adam said before he takes his men to the palisade where they drop their kit "okay you guy's work detail starts now. You all know where the stuff is." He finished before they head off to the lorries and start to unload them taking stuff to strengthen the walls and mortars are set up in the compound along with other various weapons set up on the walls when the senshi walk onto the scene.
"What's going on?" Hotaru asked Trista.
"Some people have come to help us."
"Who?" Ami asked curiously.
"He's over on the west wall, the one with short white hair." Trista replied and the senshi walk over to the west wall where Adam's helping to move a field gun up a ramp they had quickly put together.
"Left a bit… got it!" Adam shouted as they place the field gun into position.
"I know that voice." Mina said.
"Adam?" Hotaru said a little loudly "sorry, I'm kinda busy at the moment… SHIT!" he replied as the field gun fell back down making Adam and some others grab the barrel as some more of his men push the field gun up the ramp and Smitty wedges something under the wheels, Adam walks away and goes to the north wall to where Mirai Hotaru stood.
"You wanted something?" Adam asked.
"Not me, over by the west wall." Mirai Hotaru replied as Adam walks away and goes back to the west wall and passes the senshi and goes back up the ramp "hey, who're the girls?"
"What girls?" Adam replied.
"The ones behind you." Smitty said making Adam turn round and looks at the senshi.
"Mom?"
"Oh my god, Adam what happened?" Mina asked as Adam made his way down the ramp "three years ago at the battle of Hiroshima, artillery round went off behind me spent half a year in a field hospital on the front lines. Tuned my hair white with the shock and the scars on my face happened a few months later." He replied before he goes to one of the trucks and starts to unload boxes of ammunition and machine guns before people started to take them away and places them at various points.
"So, what's with the fifty calibre?" Amara asked.
"This is nothing compared to what's in one of the trucks."
"What's that then?"
"An anti aircraft gun." Adam replied as he goes over to the truck it's in and opens the back as some others come over to help get it out and they place it in front of the palisade facing the gate and stacking the ammunition for it behind the large gun.
"Get some rest." Adam said to his lot and they leave to find places bed down, Adam goes to find his friends that he had fought beside during the Serenity war.
"It's been four years." Reiko said.
"I know, I couldn't write to you lot because of our situation."
"We understand." Amelia replied as Adam sat down.
"Do we fuck!"
"When the mercenary war begun there was almost a million of us, but the first battle of the mercenary was the battle of Nagasaki, a lot died on both sides." Adam replied.
"Shame you weren't one…" Reiko said quietly.
"I've had enough of your shit, look I'm sorry I wasn't around for four years. I'm a soldier." He said before he stands up and walks away before he stops, "maybe I mad a mistake by coming back, I may pull my men out at daybreak." He finished before continuing on walking away and everyone looks at Reiko.
"Way to fucking go Reiko."
"He's changed a lot." Amelia replied.
"We've all changed, most of the people we knew are either dead or left." Mia replied, "Well, his damned pride…"
"Look, it's your damned pride that could cost us a lot of help." Mara said.
"My pride has nothing to do with this."
"Whatever." Mara replied before walking away "my sisters right, you centre yourself around your pride too much." Mia said.
"Like mother, like daughter." Serena said to Mina who giggled.
"I heard that!" Raye replied.
Outside the walls Adam sat by himself until he decides to go to the shrine and kneels in front of the crosses, "maybe I made a mistake by coming back, what should I do?" he asked hoping that someone would answer him, but fate was in a cruel mood today and the spirit of his deceased friend Ricky appeared.
"Stay."
"They didn't recognize me Ricky, maybe we should cut north during the night." Adam said still looking at the crosses.
"You do that and I'll haunt you for the rest of your natural life."
"Haven't you go a bar to haunt or something?" Adam asked as Ricky stood next to him, "that reminds me, the old gang are having a get together."
"I'm not dead… yet." Adam replied before Ricky disappeared and Adam goes inside the shrine.
Much later
The senshi and their children look for Adam in town not bothering with the shrine before they head back to the school and bed down for the night.
Next day
Adam heads back to the school and gather his men in the compound. "Do we stay or do we go?" he asked.
"There's no point in cutting north anymore, we got a rider last night, they're all dead up north."
"When did this happen?" Adam asked.
"Last night one survivor, the rider." Smitty replied.
"Where is he?"
"You mean she, getting some rest.
"They're gonna hit us on all four sides at once." Smitty said before the rider comes out and walks over to Adam.
"You in charge?" she asked.
"Yeah."
"My name's Yumiko." She replied.
"I'm Adam Aino, how many?"
"Two hundred and forty nine, excluding myself." Yumiko replied.
"Anything else we should know?" Smitty asked.
"Yeah, they were marching under the flag of Crystal Tokyo."
"Impossible, I was there at the battle of Tokyo." Adam replied as the senshi walk over "anything wrong?" Mina asked.
"There's someone I have to see." Adam said before he leaves and goes into town where Serenity is being guarded, after being searched he is escorted to Serenity's cell.
"Well, well. Adam what brings you here?" Serenity asked as Adam pulled out a revolver and pointed it at her head.
"Give me one god goddamned reason why I don't kill you."
"Because I know who is behind this." She replied.
"Your line is dead." He replied as he put his revolver away.
"Not as dead as you think."
"Your daughters dead and so is your husband. Only you survive."
Serenity sits down and looks at Adam "the war is over." He said.
"You are no longer the boy I fought against."
"Times change, two hundred and forty nine people were killed yesterday by soldiers under your banner." Adam said, "So, he is still alive."
"Who?"
"Who do you think it could be then?" Serenity replied before Adam left and runs back to the school and goes up to the roof with a pair of binoculars and looks at the surrounding areas around Juuban before he whistles to Mirai Hotaru making her look up at him as Adam starts making hand gestures.
"I can't see what he's saying?"
"Here, use this." Reiko said handing a scope over to Mirai Hotaru.
"What are you doing with a scope?"
"You know when we went our separate ways for a bit?" Reiko replied as Mirai Hotaru used the scope.
"Unknown troops heading this way from the north and south. Guessing enemy." With that said Reiko and Mirai Hotaru run to the north wall and look at the town.
"Is he sure?" Reiko asked as Mirai Hotaru started making hand gestures back and receives a message in reply.
"Yeah, he's sure, half a mile north and the south lot getting closer."
Adam leaves the roof and runs downstairs with his rifle, the others know there's something going on and grab their weapons and run to the walls taking their positions. Adam stands on the south wall with his friends from the Serenity war. On the west wall the field gun was loaded and ready to fire as the senshi stand in the compound looking confused.
"I don't see them." Mara said.
"Anyone needs me, I'll be at the west wall." He said before he leaves and runs over to the west wall and up the ramp.
"Hey Adam, what's up?" Smitty asked.
"Nothing, who's manning the field gun?"
"Me." Smitty replied as they wait for the action to begin.
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