Life On Helghan
Right I'd like to apologise for the previous chapter again, it was a bit of a rush job because I've been having trouble connecting the narrative of KZ2 to my own writing so the next chapters should be readable since it's custom work.
Chapter 10.
We landed at the palace and the colonel led us to the throne room, inside we could see the Autarch sat talking to someone, seeing us enter he came down the stairs.
"Colonel Radec how are you?"
"I'm well chairman, in fact I've got some very good news for the Autarch."
The Autarch came down to us.
"Colonel how goes your search for the nuclear codes?"
"I have them here sir."
"Excellent, before we carry on, chairman if you could tell them?"
He came up to the captain and me,
"I am Chairman Jorhan Brimve Stahl, CEO of the Stahl Arms weapon manufacturer and as of now you're both released from duty as Colonel Radec's personal bodyguard to become members of my private army, from now on you will answer directly to me, all missions and orders you recieve will be of benefit to me and in turn the Autarch."
The Autarch spoke.
"Now colonel you must go to the bomb and prime it for detonation in the middle of Visari Square, then it will be a simple case for our men to purge the remaining ISA forces in and around Pyhrrus, so after priming the bomb you'll return to the palace to return to duty as my personal bodyguard, for appearance purposes mainly since the ISA will never break into the palace but I very much doubt the men will require your leadership and I know you prefer to be doing something."
"As you wish my Autarch."
"Well gentlemen, it's been interesting but I've gotta get back to my running my company so if you'll excuse me."
We followed Stahl out to the landing pad and onto a dropship, it was a long flight but the chairman was nothing like Colonel Radec and preferred to talk.
"Gentlemen I've heard good things about you from the Autarch and various sources, I've heard you're among the best Radec's army has to offer, or rather HAD, I can use men with your talents very effectively, you've both been observed as good listeners, so I'm wondering what your opinion on Visari is, but if it's blind devotion I don't want to hear it, you might think this sounds crazy since it's most likely this bomb will ensure our victory and it was his plan, and while I am completely loyal to our Autarch I think he's underestimated the ISA's resourcefulness, he always was up his own arse about this stuff and never listened to anyone advising him about military courses of action, if that fat idiot was in charge of our military we'd have lost this war before it even began, Radec is the one who really runs the show and he knows this bomb won't be the end of it, Visari may have a voice but his ability to accurately plan an attack is quite far down the pan, so here I sit trying to achieve the same goal of victory but using different methods, my men are all trained in every aspect of combat, I've got scientists who've received Capture Trooper training, infantry units who can use experimental weaponry on the fly and toilets so clean you'll find it difficult to avoid falling in when you're crapping. But enough of that, you two are to be sent away for Capture Trooper training and to return as my personal enforcers."
We were both taken aback by this, the captain had told me a bit about Capture Troopers and how long the training takes.
"But sir the training takes time, by time we finish the war will most likely be over and you won't need enforcers or soldiers."
"Yes most likely be over, but there's still a chance it won't be Lente, and if I know the ISA's tenacity the chances that it won't be over are higher than you think, anyway we're conducting an experiment on the Capture Trooper training regimen, I'll tell you more when we reach the Deep South Facility."
The chairman sat back in his seat and stayed silent, it took a few hours of boredom before we finally reached the Stahl Arms Deep South weapons depot, after landing the chairman told us to follow him to the labs, the depot was pretty big, I could see out onto the icy landscape from almost every hallway we went through.
We arrived at the lab and the chairman took us to the practice range, we could see soldiers firing at static targets mainly but what caught our eye were two Capture Troopers engaged in training, they were sparring, one of them took a slash at the other with his blade who dodged it, they were fighting for a few minutes until one got the upper hand and grabbed the other one from behind and promptly snapped his neck, I was shocked and the chairman seemed surprised too he went up to the Trooper.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing man! Why did you kill him? All that money wasted on his training, tell me why the fuck did you deem it necessary to break his goddamn neck!"
"Stalemate or death sir."
"WHAT! What are you talking abou...you know what? Fuck it I don't have time for this, someone shoot this idiot."
He walked away from the Trooper who after Stahl's back was turned attempted to attack him, the captain and I raised our rifles and opened up, he took a lot of rounds before he went down, that white armor was pretty damn tough, Stahl turned and spat on his corpse.
"Ptoo, fucking idiot. Well I had intended to explain to you the experiment's goals while observing those two but that's out the window now, follow me, and can somebody clean up this mess?"
The chairman led us to room which I had no idea was for, there were slabs with open corpses on them.
"This gentlemen is the aptly named dissection room, we use this room to pick brains, bodies and bollocks to find out more about our soldiers' abilities, no real need to dissect humans since they're weaker than us, anyway my men have been checking up on what makes your average Capture Trooper tick, how he's so agile and how to adapt body muscle to make him even more agile, and of course there's the mental conditioning, he has to be prepared to charge headlong at an enemy and take him down before a bullet gets through his armor, this is difficult for some soldiers, those who show promise but haven't got the guts for it are...re-educated, those who have are simply given the physical and mental training they require, and these new experiments are aiming to cut down on the required length of time a Capture Trooper trains for, using hypnotherapy, yeah hypnotherapy and artificial muscle stimulants combined with bionic implants we could cut training time down from just under a year to six months, anyway now you both know the details you're both to be sent for Capture Trooper training immediately. Any questions?"
We both understood perfectly so said nothing.
"Excellent gentlemen, if you'll follow me to a dropship waiting to take you both to the training camp I'll see you both in six months."
We followed him out to the landing pad and boarded the dropship and boarded for the first time with no idea where we were going.
End of chapter 10.
You've probably already figured it out and yes I am gonna jump ahead six months, I have no idea what training Capture Troopers receive so don't wanna risk writing about it, not sure where chapter 11 will actually begin just yet but it'll start somewhere obviously lol I'll have to have a think, but anyway please leave me a review and thanks for sticking with me this far.