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1134 Chapter 119- The Colonel – Enemies Everywhere (VOLUME 6) N(o)vᴇl(F)ire.net

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The Colonel

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I had spent most of the day pacing through those damned underground corridors. Those caves that were so convenient for me and my men to use. I didn’t need to worry about anyone asking about why there were so many people milling about as I amassed more of an army. I needed to have an army, as big of one as I possibly could. I couldn’t wage war against the monsters if I didn’t have an army.

The next stage in my place was to go into effect today. I was supposed to be making a sizable dent into the community of species traitors that were attending that damned convention. Those people, those sorry excuses for human beings, they were actually celebrating those beasts that wanted to walk among us. They wanted to worship them and welcome them to be themselves in the light.

Those people, those traitors, thought that there was nothing wrong with someone walking around with furry faces or vampire fangs. They wanted them to have tails and to look like those stupid cosplayers that were ruining society. Those worthless drags on society. They all needed to die. Each and every one of them. The monsters and everyone that supported them were already dead, they just didn’t know it yet.

Actually, they were marked for death. They would soon get what was coming to them. They were going to die at either my hands or one of my loyal followers. Yes, my followers, my army of monster hunters. They were so devoted to me. They did everything that I told them to.

They understood the truth that I gave to them weekly. They listened to all my words so enraptured by what I had to say and how true it all was. And they never questioned a single one of my orders. It was good to be king. And one day, it wouldn’t just be pretend. I would become the king of the world. I would rise to the top after I eradicated all of those things from the planet.

For right now though, there was a lot that I needed to focus on. I was more focused on the news that was going to be coming from the stadium soon. I had sent a lot of my more disposal disciples to eliminate those monster loving morons. They all had more powerful bombs than we had been using before. This was supposed to be the first true declaration to the world. I needed them to know that we were serious.

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When they all detonated those bombs at the same time, the entire stadium would come down. Everyone there would perish either in the initial attack or the aftermath of it all. No one would make it out of there alive, not even the men that I had sent there. That was fine with me though, they weren’t good for much else than fodder to be used at my discretion.

The only problem at the moment was that the bombs should have gone off by now. The news should have been busily reporting about the attack on those humans. They would know that it was related to the monsters and that it was their fault. They would blame the monsters and turn the community against them. I just knew that they would. It was how I had planned it to happen after all.

When too much time had passed, my second in command tried to console me. I wanted to smack him the moment that he opened his mouth.

“Perhaps the story will break on the evening news. There is no need to wor-.” At that moment there was a news bulletin that came over the station that the TV was on.

“Finally!” I felt a surge of excitement as I rushed toward the TV. “How many were killed? How successful were those idiots?”

I was watching with evident glee when the news station started to report on the tragedy. Only my glee turned quickly to rage. There had been only one bomb that had gone off. And not a single monster lover was hurt. One monster was slightly hurt in the explosion, but that was it. He was already on the mend according to the news.

The moment that the news was done reporting on the events at the stadium, I felt like I was being pulled under the water. Only there was no water. Something was sucking me in. Something that felt so much more powerful than I was. Something that was pleasant and comforting for me.

I had only blinked my eyes, that was all, but something had happened during that blink. The room that functioned as my office was destroyed. All of the computer equipment, the maps, every file, anything and everything in my office was destroyed completely. What the hell had happened? And why had so much time passed in just one blink? I swear the clock was reading almost three hours later.

At that moment, someone came running into the room. He was breathing heavily and panicking. I recognized him immediately. Vampion, one of the stupid brain dead minions that I had sent to the stadium. That wasn’t his real name, it was his code name. I didn’t even remember his real name anymore, not that it mattered.

“Sir! Those monsters knew we would be there. They were waiting for us.” The words barely registered in my mind. I knew that I should pay attention to what he was saying, but I was too focused on the fact that he had come back alive.

“YOU, IDIOT!” I screamed at him without even realizing that I was moving. “You insignificant little pissant! How dare you fail me like that?!”

“B..b..but Colonel, it was a -.” Whatever the man was about to say was a mystery to me. The next thing that I knew, he was laying on the floor with a hole in his head. When had that happened? How had that happened? And why was the gun in my hand? Oh, well. I had to tell the others something at the same time.

“Do you all see that? If anyone defies me, if anyone fails me, that is what will happen to you. I expect perfection from all of you, and I will have it. Is that understood?” Someone had shot the man dead because of his horrendous fuck up. Good, he deserved to die.

I knew that I needed to tell the world about what had happened. That it was the monsters that were responsible for the attack. And that they were the ones that had killed Vampion. He wasn’t killed by one of my men. No, that wasn’t it. He was murdered and sent back here. He had to have been dead when he got here. They just reanimated his corpse or something. Yeah, that was it.

I called up a good friend of mine, another man that believed the same things as I did. That all those monsters needed to be wiped off the face of the Earth. They didn’t deserve to live here with us. They were ruining our planet. Global Warming was probably their fault as well. Everything wrong with the Earth was their fault. I was sure of that.

I didn’t even remember giving my speech to the camera. I just remember the congratulations that Packard was heaping on me for having delivered such an enthusiastic and passionate speech. I knew one thing though. I had to get to the office. I had to get back there and get an arrest warrant. Trinity Gray was a murderer. She needed to be taken into custody as soon as possible. I needed to get to Denver. There was no time to waste. I had to move.

I was out of my office without having any memory of actually leaving it. I was racing through the corridors of the tunnels with other DOE members chasing after me.

“Colonel? Colonel, what is happening?” They were hounding me and pestering me about what was going on. “Colonel?”

“Traitors!” I screamed at them and the next thing that I knew, one of them was sitting against the wall with blood pouring out of his shoulder. He had been shot, just like Vampion. That witch, Trinity Gray, she was still injuring my people from where she was.

I stuffed my gun back in its holster, not even remembering when I had pulled it out again. I needed to hurry, before that wicked witch killed anymore of my men. I needed to get to the office.

“Hmm.” I said to myself as I pulled the door to my Jeep shut. “I should have taken Dolan with me.” I shook my head as I pulled away from the house that hid the entrance. “Oh well. He can meet me there. He will know where I am going.”

I drove to an airfield that had a helicopter waiting for me. This was the pilot that had taken us where we had needed to go. He was the reason that my minions had made it into the stadium in the first place. Now he was taking me to Denver, to the helipad that was on top of the NSA building.

I don’t even remember the ride to the city. I just knew that when I got out of the chopper on top of the building, the pilot looked relieved to see me go. What was wrong? Was he worried that I was going to be assassinated in his bird? He had nothing to worry about. That monster bitch, Trinity Gray, was not able to get to me. I was invincible. Nothing and no one could take me down. And I would soon prove that to all of them.

“Stick around.” I eyed the pilot. I didn’t want his fear making him leave too soon. “I will be back after I get an arrest warrant.”

“Y..y..yeah, s..s..sure thing.” He nodded apprehensively. Damn that dirty monstrous witch bitch, Trinity Gray, she was scaring my pilot.

Now, just to make it down to my desk and get the proper documents. I could rouse a judge from bed over the phone and fax him the paperwork that I needed. I had men in my pocket too, that shape shifting slut bag, Trinity Gray, wasn’t the only person that was able to get approval from high powered people. I would have her arrested before the night was over. She would see. She would never get the drop on someone like me. I was smarter than she was, and I didn’t resort to dirty little tricks like magical shootings. I was an honest man that faced my problems head on.

From helicopter to stairs, down one floor from the roof to the elevator, into the elevator and down to the floor that housed my office. This was all done in what seemed like the blink of an eye. I didn’t even remember walking down a single step. I just sort of appeared in the office and was facing the familiar room.

“Ahh, it’s good to be back in here.” I sighed in relief. “Now, let’s get that paperwork going.”

“Orson?” I heard a voice that I had not been expecting. The office should have been deserted. The agents that were working on important assignments were mostly in the field. There should be no one here, but he was here. And so was another asshole that was behind him.

“Hello, Director.” I smiled at the man in the lead. Behind him was that rat nosed ass kisser, Dayton Long. He was the only one that wanted to have me stop my investigation into Trinity Gray and Reece Gray. He was probably a traitor and supported them.

“What are you doing here?” Glick asked me as he thought that he could lord authority over me. I had to pretend that he was superior to me, for the time being. Soon though, I would be the king of the world, and he would be just another minion of mine. He would have to do everything that I told him to, or perish as a consequence.

“What else would I be doing here? I am working. I found evidence that Trinity Gray, that monst-, the leader of the nonhumans murdered a man earlier. And she tried to kill another as well. She used her magic to kill the man from afar.”

“Orson.” Glick edged closer toward me, Long going around me like he was trying to corner me.

“What?” I gave them as calm of a smile as I could. I was innocent, there was nothing for them to hold over me.

“Why did you do it, Orson? Why did you create the DOE? What possessed you to bomb those places and attempt to kill all those people?” A darkness filled my field of vision again, but this time I remained aware of what happened when things went dark. I let my true self out, and that part of me was in control.

“Why? Those fucking monsters deserve to die. And anyone that supports them as well.” I spat the words at them like they were poison in my mouth.

“You need to come with me, Orson.” Glick took a step toward me. “We will talk this out.”

“Fuck you!” I screamed. “You will not stop me or my mission.”

I was running toward the elevator. I needed to get back to the roof. Already I was calling the pilot, telling him to get the thing running again. I needed to get out of here right away. The monsters were here as well. They had infiltrated the office. They were after me.

When I made it to the roof, the chopper was already producing enough wind to almost push me away. I ran as hard as I could and leapt in through the open door as the asshole, Long, came crashing onto the roof. How had he caught up to me so quickly? That bastard.

“Fly!” I roared at the pilot. “Get me back to the hideout.”

As he flew away from the building, I called Dolan, my second in command. I needed to tell them that I was on my way back, and that the NSA had been corrupted.

“Colonel?” He answered almost immediately. “What is going on?”

“They got into the office. The NSA has fallen. We need to gather our supplies and advance our plans as soon as we can.”

“They took over the NSA? What about the other agents? What happened to-.” There was a loud explosion on the other end of the call and Dolan started to scream in pain. “AHH!” More sounds of distress and chaos erupted.

“Dolan?” I called him in a panic. “What is happening?”

“They are attacking the tunnels. We need to get the army out. We need to make them leave.”

“I will send them a notice. They can head to the caves in the mountain for the time being.”

“I will guide them. I will not let you do-.” He was cut off midsentence.

“Dolan?” I called for him but got no answer. “DOLAN!?” I called him again and again, but there were just the sounds of scuffles and chaos. Dolan was gone. “Shit!” I ended the call and sent word to the DOE to head to the mountains. They needed to hurry. They would need to run for a long time, but they would get there eventually. They were my soldiers, and I needed as many of them as I could get. We needed to prepare for battle. We would make our move soon.