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Author's infos Gender: Male Age: 53 Location: Las Vegas, Nv |
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| Introduction: Long live Emperor Albert | ||
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I glanced at Sergeant Tao and Senior Sergeant Davis beside the door as I tapped and opened it. Albert looked up from tickling the baby while Molly only wiggled her fingers as she focused on the chest board in front of her. I closed the door and crossed the room to reach down and move a piece on the board. She glared at me, “Wait your turn.” I grinned and looked at Albert, “Your father has requested you and Molly have lunch with him and your mother.” Albert looked up, “Did he apologize to Molly?” I shook my head, “Albert, you know I stay out of your arguments.” He shrugged and looked at Molly, “Do you feel like having lunch with him?” Molly moved a rook and turned to smile at Albert, “I wouldn’t mind. Of course I have a sparing match with Senior Sergeant Henry so…” Albert grinned as I snorted and reached down to move a bishop, “Check.” Molly glared as Albert laughed. I shrugged, “Off the record, I think he wants the chance to make up.” Albert looked thoughtful, “It was his own fault. I did warn him not to try to order Molly around.” I looked at the door as it chimed. I took two steps to be between Albert and the door, “Open.” Top Sergeant Constance stepped into the room, “The Colonel would like to see you Lieutenant.” I smiled, “More paperwork Top?” He grinned, “Not this time. It seems the Emperor decided to endorse the Colonel’s recommendation to promote your sorry butt.” I grinned, “You weren’t saying that last week when we had our match.” He snorted as he continued into the room, “That only proves the only good officers started off as enlisted men.” Molly cleared her throat and Albert grinned, “Men?” Top laughed, “Okay… person.” I laughed and headed towards the door. I walked into Dragon command and smiled to see Senior Sergeant Samson with a small crowd around him. He was blindfolded and had an assault rifle disassembled on the table in front of him. I knocked on the Colonel’s door and pushed it open. Colonel Beal turned from talking to Captain Harris and Captain Johns, “Lieutenant Drake, Emperor Tenison has approved your promotion to Captain.” I stopped in front of him, “It would have made things simpler to just fill Crimson company sir or reassign me to another company.” He snorted, “Tell that to the Emperor. He wants you, Senior Sergeant Henry and Top Sergeant Choi to be examples. That was why he had Albert talk you into accepting the commission and why he started Amber Company instead of just filling Crimson.” I shrugged as both the Captains grinned and the Colonel tossed a pairs of Captain’s bars. “Speaking of the Emperor, he is being secretive about something. Captain Perry is thinking he might be about to step down.” I looked at the Colonel and he nodded, “We’ve brought people over from Silver to finish filling Gold. Silver’s Raptor Company is down to just a skeleton so their filling slowly. You know how hard it is for anyone to get through the training, let alone the security checks.” He sighed, “Captain Paul has requested retirement. I am moving things around, but if the Emperor steps down, you will take over Gold Company.” I nodded and he shook his head, “You will also still be listed as the Company commander of Crimson and that isn’t going to change no matter what rank you hold.” I shook my head and he grinned, “Do you know what creating three quarters in each Dragon country is doing to Dragon Security?” I grinned, “Like Choi, Henry or me are going to take a trip to far off systems just to sleep in them.” I looked at the Colonel, “Have we gotten anymore information about the data net breach last week?” He shook his head, “Whatever they were after it wasn’t the schedules.” I nodded and turned towards the door, “I’ll be with Albert, he has a meeting later for the Baron’s armed forces council and then wanted to meet with Admiral Adams and General Harold.” I stopped outside the door to remove my first lieutenant bars and put the captain’s bars on. I glanced at Senior Sergeant Sampson, “Tinker? Did you have a chance to look over Albert’s car?” He looked up from scraping in the credit chits, “Yeah, someone was messing with the fuel feed.” I waved and started back to the heir’s wing. I had just passed through the security arch when the servant in the hall ahead of me drew my attention. I suddenly had a bad feeling and let my right hand drop to the butt of the Mark V I wore, “Hold it!” The servant kept walking and I saw him shift in a manner that screamed ‘weapon!’ I started to pull my pistol, “I said stop!” Suddenly he was spinning and bringing a mini caltrop up. I shifted, turned and back stepped as my arm extended and I fired. The caltrop spat down the hall where I had been standing as the servant’s head snapped back. I saw what looked like wires at the base of his throat and spun to duck into a doorway as I opened the emergency all frequency comm. “Dragon threat! Secure all primaries now!” The hallway where the servant had been, exploded in shock, fire and heat. I shook myself and started running toward the heir’s suite around next the corner, “Check all servants!” I came around the corner as Senior Sergeant Davis was reaching for the door, “A servant is in with Albert!” I didn’t waste my breath cussing as I came through the door right behind him. The servant was at the table with Albert who was holding Samuel. Top Sergeant Constance was pulling his pistol and the servant was reaching towards his body. Senior Sergeant Davis fired twice knocking the servant sideways. Top Sergeant Constance grabbed Albert and yanked him up and threw him towards us as he spun and dove on the servant. Senior Sergeant Davis pulled him past us but I pushed him down and covered him and the baby with my body. The room exploded, tossing the sergeant into the wall beside the door. I looked around and uncovered Albert and the baby. The baby was crying and even though my ears were still ringing I heard the comm. demanding a situation report. I keyed the comm. as I pulled Albert to his feet, “This is Crimson Primary, one Dragon down and one Dragon needs medical in the heir’s suite. The primary is green and Crimson Dragon is moving to the Dragon salle.” Albert was cussing as I pulled him after me. Senior Sergeant Davis was groaning and I could see he had broken both legs and possible his right arm. Sergeant Tao was halfway in the door trying to scan the hall and watch us. I pushed Albert and the baby to Tao, “Take the back way and don’t stop for anyone.” I kept my left hand on Albert’s shoulder as Tao led the way to a small door down the hall. We went down and then along a narrow hallway before Tao glanced back and opened another door. The wide hallway we stepped into had two Dragons guarding a door a few steps away. As we started across, a movement in the corner of my eye had me yanking Albert behind me as I brought my pistol up. I grunted with the impact of several light rail bullets as I fired into the man that had stepped into the hall. The pain of broken ribs had me kneeling, “Get him into the salle!” The assassin had been hit by my bullets as well as the bullets from the two door guards, luckily he didn’t explode. Tao grabbed Albert and the guards moved to cover them as they rushed into the salle. I checked myself, my body screen had kept the bullets from penetrating and limited the force of the impact. As I stood, I heard Senior Sergeant Henry reporting Albert safe with Molly. I winced and carefully moved towards the door, “Gold Dragon command this is Crimson Dragon. We need a sweep of the entire palace. The hall sensors are to be considered suspect and are not to be trusted. Deploy the portable explosive scanners and treat all servants as possible hostiles.” “Dragons this is Black Dragon. We have locked down the palace and Bronze is starting their sweep now. Gold Dragon primary is green and secure. Crimson Dragon primary is now green and secure. You are to hold position until Bronze reaches you. Amber is preparing to move all primaries to the alternate and has secured the vault.” I opened the door to see a dozen Dragons between Albert and the door. Molly was holding Samuel and Albert was in front of them. I was thinking about the data net breach and Tinker’s word about someone messing with the fuel feed. I opened the comm. “This is Crimson Dragon, all back up vehicles are to be checked for explosives. Someone tampered with Crimson Dragon primaries vehicle.” I moved to Albert and he looked at my chest. I glanced down to see the rips in my uniform. I nodded, “Broken ribs are better than dead. If we have to run you don’t wait for me.” I could see Molly’s grim look as I turned to Senior Sergeant Henry, “You take over on primary and let Sergeant Tao take Molly and Samuel. Have one of the others back them up on close support and everyone else takes position as blockers.” He nodded and grinned, “At least this time it isn’t just us.” “Crimson Dragon this is Amber Dragon. You were right, the back ups are compromised. We are putting Dragon Nest into operation.” I looked at Henry and then at Albert and Molly, “It looks like your lunch will be rations in the vault.” Albert shrugged, “At least you replaced those old ones with first class ones.” There was a knock on the door and suddenly everyone was pointing a weapon at it. “Bronze is here!” I nodded and moved forward to open the door while standing to the side. Twenty Dragons were standing on each side and nodded to me. I nodded to Senior Sergeant Peters and gestured to Henry, “Let’s go.” A group of ten Dragons led the way while another ten followed and Henry and the other Dragons surrounded Albert and Molly. We passed through the solid ten meter thick screw doors and the crowd of Dragons that protected it. In the common room of the vault the Dragons stopped and withdrew leaving me, Henry and Sergeant Tao. Emperor Tenison was sitting with his wife Angelina. They stood up as we came in and after the other Dragons left, I gestured to Tao and Henry and they took up positions against the wall. I nodded to the Emperor, “If you will excuse me sir, I need to see the medic and then check security.” He was looking at my chest, “You were shot again?” I gestured in a throw away manner, “The force screen helped but even it can’t bleed all the force. I think I just broke or cracked a couple of ribs.” He looked at me and then nodded, “Thank you Jason.” I nodded to Albert, “If anything happens you don’t move without Henry.” He nodded and led Molly towards his father and mother. I walked to a door that would have been hard to find unless you knew it was there. As I walked into the other room Colonel Beal looked up and froze before gesturing to a civilian relaxing in a cushioned chair. Captain Paul stood and tucked his arm into a sling, “Doesn’t look like I retired soon enough.” I grinned and sat on the stood he had vacated and the doctor leaned forward as I struggled out of my shirt and upper body screen. I tried to ignore the pain as the doctor tapped my ribs and then turned to pick up a small medical scanner. He grunted as he looked at it, “You’re lucky. One broken, one cracked and two fractured.” He looked up, “I suppose you won’t accept pain meds?” I shook my head and he nodded before beginning to tape my ribs. When he finished, I carefully pulled my upper body screen back on and then my torn shirt. I had to undo my gun belt to straighten the shirt and then I stood and walked across to Colonel Beal and Captain Paul. The Colonel looked at me, “We are filtering every servant and guest out through scanners. Lieutenant Balistia has shut the palace data net down and we have a couple of techs going through it. As of right now, sixty percent of the palace has been cleared.” I nodded, “Any scan data on who planted the explosions in the back up vehicles?” He shook his head, “Someone used a jammer to override our scan and detection protocols.” I thought about it and then grinned, “Have you tried looking at Tinker’s scans?” He looked at me and Captain Paul snorted, “What does Tinker’s scan have to do with anything?” I smiled, “He set it up off the grid to catch whoever it was that was tampering with his modified hover car.” They looked at each other and I opened a comm., “Amber Dragon this is Crimson Dragon.” “Go Crimson.” “I have a top priority mission.” “What do you need?” I looked at the Colonel and Captain, “Gold Dragon and Dragon Leader need the Tinker to retrieve his scan data from the reserve vehicle park. Consider this a Dragon’s Tear.” “Copy.” I closed the comm. and looked at the Colonel as I got a bad feeling, “Something stinks. I can see the data net breach causing the explosive scans from not sounding but someone let them in with weapons. Send Huntress to watch the vehicle park and the scan.” He looked at Captain Paul as I turned towards the door. I stepped into the room that seemed tense. Everyone except Henry and Tao were around a table looking at little Samuel. I moved towards the far door and nodded to Senior Sergeant Jones on the other side, “I need a portable explosive scanner and the vault jammers need to be checked. In the mean time, deploy a portable and treat all backups as suspect.” She raised her eyebrow, “The only one with access to the vault is Dragons.” I just looked at her and she nodded, “Understood sir.” She turned to another sergeant as he held out a small scan device. I took the scanner and headed back into the vault. I gestured to Henry and Tao as I walked towards the table. Everyone looked up as I approached. I held a hand up and started a slow walk around the table. I made it as far as the duplicate cushion chair for the Emperor. The small scan display flashed red in warning and I grabbed the Emperor. Henry and Tao were moving at the same time and started moving everyone away from the table and towards the Dragon command room. I glanced back at Henry, “Do not broadcast anything.” I pulled a quiet white faced emperor into the command room and the Colonel turned as Henry and Tao pulled everyone else in behind us. I gestured to the chairs along the back wall and pulled my pistol, “The Vault is compromised.” They both looked back towards the door before the Colonel’s comm. whispered to life. He nodded and his eyes narrowed, “Bring him in.” He looked at me, “Captain Perry was trying to destroy the scan.” I thought about it and nodded, “We need to truth scan everyone including Dragons.” He nodded and I positioned Tao and Henry. I looked into his eyes, “Right now I assume command of the Dragon until you have been scanned. By Dragon’s Honor.” He smiled and bowed slightly before opening his comm, “Attention all Dragons. Crimson Dragon has claimed Dragon’s Honor. You will report to him.” I nodded and opened my comm. “All Dragons this is Crimson Dragon. You will hold positions until relieved. Tinker, Huntress, Shade, Dancer, come to command and bring a truth scan. Huntress bring your prey in.” I opened the command net and switched channels, “Silver Dragon this is Crimson Dragon.” “I’ve been listening Jason.” I smiled, “We have a breach in Gold, the vault as been compromised. Huntress caught Captain Perry trying to destroy a scan. Secure the outer perimeter and send Sergeant Alex to Dragon command.” “Let me know when things calm down.” I closed the comm. and looked at the Emperor, “Sir, I have assumed command of your guards until I can be sure you will be safe. The only people allowed in the vault are Dragons and the scan picked up explosives in your chair. A truth scan will clear each and every Dragon.” He nodded, “How long before you know who else is involved?” I shrugged, “My job right now is to keep you and your family safe.” The door opened slowly and I turned and brought my pistol up. Tinker poked his head around the door, “Jason?” I waved and he came in followed by a tall pale looking man and a stunning beautiful woman. Behind them was a lethal brunette who pushed a bound Captain Perry in with a mono knife against his throat. I nodded to Tinker, “hook the CO up.” It took less then ten minutes to clear everyone in the room except Captain Perry. I opened my comm. on all channels, “This is Crimson Dragon. The vault is compromised. At least one explosive has been found. Dragon Leader is back is in command.” I looked at the Colonel and he nodded before starting to issue commands. After three days of investigations and truth scans as well as changing all palace scanners to stand alones the Emperor announced he was stepping down and Albert became the new Emperor. Overnight my workload quadrupled. I had kept Huntress, Dancer and Shade investigating what had happened though. Captain Perry had been programmed which meant someone was still out there. I had Tinker take over checking every piece of equipment we used or thought we might use. The day of Albert’s confirmation before the baron’s court and the high lord’s council, I had the entire Gold Company out. I even wore two body screens and made both Albert and Molly do the same. Little Samuel had both Bronze and Amber protecting him while he stayed with Empress Angelina. Black Company was on perimeter security and the complete Silver Dragon Regiment knelt while Albert began his oath. I had been feeling edgy all morning and it only got worse when we moved to stand before the gathered nobles. I was supposed to be several steps away but because of how I felt, that wasn’t what I did. Albert was accepting the nobles oaths of allegiance as I was scanning the area. I felt the moment and lurched to throw myself in front of Albert. There were yells and screams as I was hit in the chest by a large rail bullet that felt like a Mag train. Henry and Tinker yanked both Albert and Molly down as Tao did the same thing to Emperor Tenison. There was no way I was getting up and I was already tasting blood. I heard Henry and Tao as well as the dozen Dragons that were suddenly shielding them. There were shots and a couple of explosions before they were rushed away. In the confusion Dancer knelt beside me, “hold on Jason.” She applied a med scanner to my throat as two other Dragons appeared, “Their away and safe.” I relaxed and croaked, “Get me out of here.” I was lifted and carried towards a waiting hover car. That night I carefully walked into Albert’s new residence with Colonel Beal’s report of the attack. He glanced up from reading a report with Samuel against his chest. Molly was talking with Angelina and Tenison. I glanced at Senior Sergeant Jones and Lieutenant Franks, the first section leader. Albert cleared his throat, “Should you be walking?” I sat down very carefully, “Probably not. One of the ribs punctured a lung but Doc has everything set now. I just received Colonel Beal’s debrief.” Everyone was quiet as I looked at Albert, “It looks like another programmed zombie was the trigger man. Huntress has a couple of leads she is following with Shade.” Albert started to slam his fist on the arm of his chair and remembered Samuel. He glared, “We can’t even find out why until we know the who.” I nodded, “And, there are going to be more attempts.” Albert looked around the room as Lieutenant Franks cleared his throat, “We can just stay here in the palace.” I shook my head, “We can’t…” Albert was shaking his head with me. I looked at Molly, “Molly and Samuel will be staying here though.” She growled and Tenison actually grinned, “Angelina and I can baby sit while she takes her frustrations out in the salle.” Jones groaned and everyone laughed. I sighed, “As of this morning, I have the security on full alert. Silver is handling all perimeter and advance checks. Amber is supporting Gold. Bronze and Black are maintaining inner palace security manually.” I looked at Albert, “We need to start filling Crimson.” He shook his head, “No. Father and I both agree on that.” I nodded, “Okay, then reactivate Ivory.” He blinked and then grinned, “That, we can do.” We talked a little before I left. The next afternoon I was standing to Albert’s right with Henry as his primary on the left. Albert was talking before several high nobles and rich merchants. I was watching the faces and had another bad feeling. Albert was wearing two body screens like yesterday. I was looking straight at Duke Winston as he glanced back with a satisfied look and turned to an alcove at the side of the hall. I followed his look, my pistol coming up on its own as a rich merchant extended a portable launcher. “WEAPON!” My Dragons were already moving Albert, but that launcher could kill him easily. My first shot went through the launcher and the second went through the merchants shoulder, “Take him alive!” As the crowd scrambled to get out of the way, I shot him through the upper chest on his other shoulder. I didn’t even bother trying to move since my ribs couldn’t take it. Several Dragons hit the merchant as they took him down hard. I listened to Henry coordinating Albert’s convoy back to the palace. Huntress stepped beside me, “Good catch.” I nodded and turned to face away from the crowd as I holstered my pistol, “I want you to check out Duke Winston. Have Shade help you.” She nodded and walked away as lieutenant Franks stopped beside me, “Programmed.” I nodded and turned to slowly walk off the stage, “I need to speak to Albert. Have Alex probe the merchant for anything he can get.” Franks looked towards the crowd of Dragons around the merchant, “We’ll get him to Dragon country as…” I shook my head, “Just get him into a room nearby and let Doc and Alex go to work. Secure it, we need to know what he can tell us and we need it now.” My ride back to the palace was quiet as I thought about the implication of Duke Winston. I was making my slow way to Albert’s rooms when Huntress called. When I walked into the residence I took one look at Henry, Tao and Top Sergeant Choi, “Leave. I need to speak privately with Albert.” They glanced at each other but I had already pulled my pistol and spun it butt forward. I pulled my mono knife and reversed it as well. When they were gone and it was just Albert and me, I walked to the mantle where he kept a small bottle of Rainbow Brandy. “It’s Duke Winston.” Albert hissed and walked over to stand beside me, “I can’t afford to accuse my cousin. He is powerful enough to tear the nobles in half and start a civil war.” I nodded, “I’ll take care of it.” I turned to walk out and Albert stopped me, “Be careful Jason.” I was silent as I found Tinker and slipped out of the Palace. The plans Tinker gave me were more than enough. I took pain blockers and slipped into Duke Winston’s estate through a little known servant’s door. I waited a long time in a hall closet and finally moved through the darkened manor. It took a couple of brief moments to bypass the bedroom alarms and then I walked to the bed. The gentle puff of gas from the bulb in my hand caused him to gasp and begin to spasm. I slipped out quietly and made my way out of the manor and the estate… |
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