Reinforcements, birth of a Union

[MJBuddy]

�God, I thought joining a college kept you out of the draft?� he moaned to his friend. He was 20 now, with short, black spiked-back hair. He wore his suit, a mere agile suit as these new recruits weren�t given much because the government felt that they weren�t worth the investment.

�Well, ****, when you see those alien bastards at your front door, you want to be prepared, don�t you?� His friend Tom Burnton spit back to him. Unlike him, Tom registered for the army. Somehow they ended up in the same squad.

The threat had come from no where it seemed. These strange people showed up one day, telling the world of the peace they planned to bring to the planet. Soon after the world collapsed as these people from another world broke into the missile silos of the government and sent them into the cities of the world. The current World Power, the Terran Republic caught the power behind these attacks: an Infiltration Suit. Soon both powers were mass producing mostly the same weaponry. The human powers outnumbered the aliens by the thousands; however, the aliens had the power of mind control�more of a hypnosis. By the time the alien threat was terminated, 1/3 of the human population had been taken over, and preceded with the attack the aliens had started. These people called themselves the Vanu Sonverty.

**** knew nothing of either side of the war on a technical standpoint; he lived in the once great town known as Hanish on the continent of Ishundar. The city was destroyed by the missiles during the Vanu invasion. However, the bases were all that survived all of the attacks, their phalanx turrets could gun down the turrets easily. However, once the Vanu figured out this ability the generators in all of the Interlink Facilities on the planet were blown and the bases were rendered defenseless.

�Ouch!� A Crash rang out. The Deliverer was traveling as fast as they could, but the squad was still nervous. This was their first base assault as a squad. Hell, **** didn�t even know his teammate�s names. He simply nodded when he was told he would cover the spawning tubes with MJ. The process of re-spawning once you were killed in battle was relatively knew, giving way to the end of murder, as it was pointless. It was just a lot of pain then revenge.

The deliverer stopped. They quickly disbanded, the four passengers with Chain guns first, then two the cloakers followed by the six grunts. The cloakers took off and hacked the back door as two grenades fell off the wall and landed right on the guy standing next to ****. The team scattered as the man dropped in pain. They were both plasma grenades and the victim was rolling on the ground in pain.

�Re-spawn back at the sanc, you�re done for the day� the squad leader rang out. He seemed to be a good leader. His name was Gettys. He was one of the highest ranked leaders on the planet and such was given the ability to call in orbital strikes and coordinate attacks with everyone in the world by the Terran Republic.

They were already down to nine and they had barely gotten to the base. No big deal though, just as long as they secured re-spawn and hacked the base. They had reaver support coming in soon and would clear the outside and run the Vanu into their ready guns on the inside.

They turned a corner and eliminated 2 Vanu who were healing and repairing each other. MJ took off and signaled **** to come with him. They had to secure the respawn quick to stop those two from coming back for them.

It was simple really. The lights changed colors and they eliminated the few people who actually tried to re-spawn, barely armed at that. There was no real threat. MJ turned to me with a knowing glance.

�Drafted, eh?� He looked really sure of himself, somewhat like a businessman.

�Yeah, so much for being free.�

�Well, there is a way to gain freedom, just like we originally got it.� MJ�s grin got even wider now.

�Like what? Rise up against the Terrans?�

�Well, yes. Me and a few others believe highly in freedom, and we are willing to do anything to get it.�

�So how many are a few others? What? Got two drinking buddies you�ve talked with?�

�Actually, a good number, over five hundred people we�ve talked to have agreed to go along, and the ones who haven�t have been taken care of. Let�s just say they never re-spawned.�

�No need to threaten. I was forced into the Terrans, but I�ll fight for freedom.�

�Good, because the war will get more interesting soon. We have improved on the Terran technology and created a few goodies of our own.� MJ walked to his locker and pulled out a rocket launcher-type weapon and a large shotgun. �Meet the Pheonix and the Jackhammer. The two new faces of war�

�Well, what�s this face of war called, exactly?

�We refer to ourselves as the New Conglomerate. And we fight for those who can�t and are forced to. We will gain Freedom Through Force and eliminate both the mind controlling aliens and the power hungry Terrans.�