Okay, so here we go again. Also good news, I just made the final payment on my student loans. So its all over! Sadly, I couldn't really think of much to put in this chapter. Mostly because I've been busy getting ready to move out of the barracks because I'm ETSing out of the army.

Its funny to think that I started the original out of place back when I was in college. And now here we are, years later and I'm ready to finish my contract and move on to other things. So I'm pretty happy. Sure I'm kind of disappointed that Biden won the election, but life moves on. And either way, I'm going to keep making my own life better.

Besides, I'm moving to Alaska in roughly six months, I won't have to deal with shithole Illinois anymore, how can I be depressed? As far as I'm concerned, I'm winning in life.

Now lets see another update. For those of you who personally message me, I don't mind at all. But pleeaassseee don't ask questions about the stories plot, because I don't like to give away plot details, its more fun if you just go with the flow.

Winter was watching as Jem was showing Nala how to shoot. She was honestly surprised, she was expecting Jem to get the biggest gun he could find for her to shoot, but he was actually being reasonable. And he was starting Nala off small with a bolt action .22 rifle. Surprisingly Jem wasn't as much of a caricature of Americans that she thought. Granted he still idolized Mat Best, but seems like even he had his limits. Well that, and not nearly enough money to own as many guns yet.

"Okay, now remember Nala, firm grip, make sure its in your shoulder, remember, don't jerk the trigger, just do a nice steady squeeze, thats how you get smooth shots in and improve your shot groups." Jem said as he was currently having Nala go through the basic fundamentals.

"Mister Jem, this thing is too easy, can we try something bigger?" Nala said already getting bored of the .22

Jem could only smile in pride at that.

"Look, if you can get your grouping to the size of the quarter, we'll go up to 5.56." With that motivation in mind, Nala made sure to practice so she would be able to get that done no problem.

Winter had to admit, it was actually kind of cute. Seeing a tatted up bald, bearded guy teach a little girl how to shoot. It really was like Pixie and Brutus in human and faunus form. The only difference was Jem had both of his eyes and wasn't nearly as disgruntled. But that just may be because this was real life and not an internet comic.

"Dang it!" Nala said as her shot group were too wide.

"Almost, try again." Jem said as he let Nala lound her rounds again.

This was only a bolt action, so it wasn't necessarily complicated to learn. And once again, this was the same rifle he learned to shoot on, and even though bolt action was kind of annoying when it was only one round at a time, it was fun as hell to pull the bolt back and slam it forward. That being said, Jem was kind of proud that Nala was picking this up pretty easily. Granted he already had all his weapons zeroed, so there was no way she could miss as long as he taught her the basic fundamentals.

Granted it was a bit funny he was talking about steady shooting when most of his time in the army, he was just like 'Bullets bullets bullets everywhere!' He smiled as he remembered that the only good part about being a machine gunner was that he got to shoot a shit ton. Worst part about being a machine gunner was having to clean that shit though.

Jem breathed out a sigh of nostalgia. He was legit fucking pissed, not because of anything going on, but because he was missing the army. At least when he was in, he didn't have to worry about having to get sexually harassed by a bunch of obese women in the gym sauna when he was trying to fix something in there. And he never had to worry about crazy shit like women falling out of the sky. Hell, he was damn sure he never had to worry about a furry trying to tie him to a bed and have her way with him. And he had seen a lot of crazy shit while he was in.

"Can't believe I miss that shit..." He said as he was really wishing he could be back with his buddies right now.

"Can't believe we miss this shit its true, worst days never felt so riiggght, now I'm stuck in a suit and tie." Speak of the devil.

Winter had hit random on spotify and had managed to actually start playing 'Can't believe we miss this shit.'

"Oh no no no no, I will not fall into that prior service recruiter trap!" Jem knew this was how they got his buddies back in.

You miss the good times you had with your buddies that you got blinded to the bullshit. And then you realize you hate civilian life so much that you end up reenlisting, and next thing you know, one week in you remember why you got out. Well not him! He wasn't going to fall for it! Especially since knowing his luck he would be stuck at someplace like Fort Drum with big hopes of deploying, only to be sent to the one unit that hasn't deployed in years.

He only thought that because that happened to him when he went to Campbell, he was pissed. Seriously, it was bullshit, he was absolutely sure he was going to be deployed, only to go three years with only getting teased with deployments, never before had there been a testicle as blue as his.

"...Oh well, Davis got out and became a cop and got shot at more than on any of his deployments, maybe I'll get to experience it when I get to Alaska." Jem said hoping to see some action at least.

Jem wouldn't consider himself an adrenaline junkie...well okay maybe slightly.

"How about now?" Nala said as she held up a quarter sized shot group.

"Huh, you did better than I expected." Jem was expecting her to take slightly longer.

"Okay, here we go." He said pulling out his AR.

"If you do well in this, I'll break out my Scar." Nala got super excited to hear that.

Hey, proper motivation lads, it works.

Give or take a few more months, he would have Nala shooting better than most active duty guys and starting her own militia. Okay that last one was a definite no, but the thought was cute. He imagined a little Nala leading an ambush on a bunch of chinese soldiers if they ever invaded the US red dawn style. You know, now that he thought about it, it was weird that the remake had them fighting North Korea instead of China. I mean shit, North Korea sucks enough ass as is, how the hell could they ever invade the US? Plus Jem disliked China more, so it played into the red dawn fantasy he had going on in his head.

Well, that and the red dawn remake sucked ass anyways, don't you disrespect Swazye by thinking it was better.

"Whose this target?" Nala asked looking at what appeared to be a chinese mans head on the body of Winnie the pooh.

"Oh Xinnie the pooh." Jem said as he got out a shotgun.

"Don't you mean Winnie the pooh?"

"Nope, Winnie the pooh is cool, Xinnie the pooh is an asshole." He said setting up the target.

"Oookkkaayyy." Nala thought it was a bit weird, then again, she didn't understand the source material.

Either way, Jem was going to have a field day teaching her how to shoot all the guns they had.

Back on Remnant

"You got to be joking..." Ironwood said as he read the report.

He had FUCKING called that the little girl was going to be an issue when they built the underground research facility like some rip off umbrella corporation, and now she had not only managed to find the entrance, run away from security, but she had also managed to somehow activate the dust they had, and send herself who knows where. To make matters worse, the resulting explosion and teleportation had managed to get rid of ALL the samples they had made. And it took them forever just to get that! Granted, at least they knew it worked now, but it took them a month to manufacture that, and even longer to get all the materials! So who knows how delayed they would be.

"I don't know why, but I suddenly have the urge to punish my men for the actions of one dickhead." Ironwood had no idea WHY he felt that way. But something told him the E4 mafia was to blame for this.

Either way, he sat back and took a sip of whiskey. This shit was getting super fucking stupid really fast. He didn't understand why. Before this whole mess everything was running just fine. But now ever since they found out about the teleportation dust, everything was like a cartoon. And he didn't like it!