Chapter 14: Power of Revenge

John

I had made it to the Armory, Benton followed closely, I suspected it was more making sure I didn’t do anything stupid and I was okay rather than to help me end that rat cunts life. I armed up with a standard issue rifle and enough ammo to sink an army, I then grabbed a suit, slipping it on quickly and getting it set up for a situation that wasn’t the battle room, I did so and stormed out, Benton followed closely behind me. I exited the school and headed to the street where I was greeted by a bunch of the commander’s soldiers unloading gunfire onto us rapidly. I used my movement to get the high ground and take out all the troops on the street, Benton followed also taking out every target in his wake. I then spotted the commander entering an SUV that he was going to use to escape, I called out to Benton “You know how to hotwire and drive right?” he grinned at me “Of course I do cunt!” he then broke the window of a car with the butt of his gun and broke in, fraying the wires and starting the car, I clambered into the passenger seat, sitting the on the windowsill with my body outside the car. Benton acted fast, dumping the clutch and racing after him, we were gaining on him fast as he assumed, he got away, we drove up beside him and I began unloading shots into the car, but none managed to strike him “Get closer to his window!” I yelled down to Benton, who despite the circumstances was having the time of his life, he obliged my request, pulling us all the way up to his window. I then sunk bullets into his window, he then ducked behind the door avoiding all the shots somehow managing to stay on the road. I then reloaded, keeping my gun up but as I was about to chamber the first round the commander popped back up and shot three bullets into me, the combat suits were naturally armoured to the mass of the bullets did no damage, but one of the rounds made it through, busting the suit. the suit went unnaturally heavy due to the fact that it the suit actually weighed quite a bit and my 14 year old body wasn’t ready for it. I then lurched forwarded, sliding out of the car and before I hit the ground I managed to get some shots through the window and hit the commander, I couldn’t tell where but the commander in pain incidentally turned the car towards Benton taking them both out in a spectacular wreck, I also took quite the tumble, skidding across the tarmac and then grass before hitting an incline and catching some air, I then hit the ground and everything began to go black.

Benton

I had just been in what must have been one of the most skits crashes of all time, the car was totalled but I had somehow survived, I tried to open the door but I was busted, locked shut, nothing a good kick wouldn’t fix as I was able to kick the door down swiftly with a few good kicks, I slid out of the upside down car and got to my feet, I went to grab my gun but that like the car happened to be uselessly broken. I decided to make my way over to the commander’s car and I was greeted by and empty drivers seat, he must of either bailed before the smash, or escaped before I did. I then heard him behind be, I turned to greet him, he had a gun drawn on me “Isn’t this just great Benton, you know I didn’t want it to come to this point, I was just trying to win a war you know, you could have helped. But it’s too late for that now, it’s over, my forces are now on the way to raid the school and eradicate all of you, this time you won’t survive.” It then hit me, he organised the attack on the school. “It was you! Why in the hell did you want to attack the school!” he then chambered a round “To kill you and John!” he then pulled the trigger… The gun then just clicked, he was out of ammo “Well would you look at that!” I stated, “You have no gun and you have a bullet in you, your odds of winning here now are slim.” He lowered him gun, putting it in his jacket. “Guess were at a stalemate the-“ a gunshot echoed past me, hitting the commander in the knee, he fell to the ground. I then turned around to see John hit the floor his suit buggered, and him clearly injured. I then went to kick the commander in the head but just as I did it, he pulled out a remote and hit a button which disabled my suit, making me hit the floor almost immediately due to the weight. The commander then made a limp for it, escaping into a nearby forest.

Me and John were both essentially paralysed, glued to the floor with excessive weight, god knows how John managed to stand to hit the commander, but it’s good that he did it. We both then took off our suits, kicking off all of the excess weight and then leaving the suits there when we both made out way back to the school, John had a bullet near his collarbone and was now visibly weak. I helped him walk back all the way to the school. We greeted at the front entrance by our guards taking John into the med bay, the principal came up to me and took me too his office, we both sat across from each other yet again but under different circumstances. “I’m enrolling you both back into battle school, Emily did her job today and got you two back in, it was a hero’s act of her too, exposing that man for what he did. It’s too bad she isn’t here to witness him burn.” I was becoming filled with rage. “He got away sir, we can’t trial someone who has disappeared!” the principal remained the same “we know, however he is critically injured by your description, someone will pick up the trail and find him.” I remained respectful “His forces are on their way here, we will disappear in the panic whilst were evacuating, his forces will pick him up and he will go missing.” The principal was quite surprised “Wait are we being attacked again?” he obviously wasn’t ready for that news. “yes, and soon, we haven’t not got much time to leave, we need to go.” I then stood up and left leaving the principal to form a plan.

John

I laid in med bay after getting my gunshot would patched up, the bullet luckily didn’t even fully go into my body, I got ‘lucky’ by the seems of it. But the last week and a bit have been far from lucky, it didn’t matter though, what had happened had happened, and that was the terrible circumstance to live with, being on bedrest was kind of a curse as all I could think about was the death of someone who meant more to me than most, the only other thing I could think about was how brutal I was going to make the commanders death when I find him. It was a constant thought cycle that left me in agony. I needed something to distract me before I broke and destroyed the whole medical bay in anger, thankfully that distraction came right through the door, the principal walked in and addressed me. “The commanders forces are heading to the school as we speak, we need as many trained combatants as we can get, and you have had plenty of in field experience at this point. Are you able to fight?” I got to my feet, looking him straight in the eye “I have never been more able in my existence, let’s do this!”