Chapter 18: No Good Insanity

John

3 days had passed since I had gotten home and things were getting worse faster than they were getting better, I continued trying to keep myself busy in order to not completely lose it, but it wasn’t working. I kept seeing and hearing things multiple times a day, going into full insanity trips where I would get locked in a kind of mental prison where all I could see as my worst memories getting relived over and over again, I refused to tell my parents as they would just send me to a place that wouldn’t help my situation and only make it worse, I was just hoping for my own sake that it would pass.

I sat at my dining room table having a bite to eat when I heard a knock on my door, I got up to check It in order to make sure I wasn’t just hearing things, I answered the door to see a familiar face “Jack!?” I exclaimed he stood there with a dopey smile “how you doing John?” I told him the truth as there was no point in hiding it from him “Not good at all man, I’m actually going insane, like and not in the casual way, I mean legitimately, I have been seeing and hearing shit from nearly the moment I got back.” Jack looked at me in worry “Well you’re going to have to pull it together because we have a skits as fuck mission to attend too.” I looked at him with a ‘are you kidding’ kind of face “we really doing this man?” I asked him, he nodded “It is too important not to, we have to leave and get the others and when I mean others, I mean Benton, Jade and Daniel.” I had no idea what this mission was, but I was just going to roll with it, I let my parents know I was dipping for a bit before leaving.

“So, what’s this skits mission were going on?” I finally thought it was time to ask. “were going to kill the commander.” He stated bluntly. “Wait, how?” he turned to me “The enemy of our enemy is our friend Johnathan.” He then turned back and continued until we collected Benton. Benton being him instantly joined the group, Jack turned to us “You boys ready for a flight?”

Hours had passed and we finally made it to where we were going Jack never really told us where we were going, but I trusted him enough in order to follow him. We landed and were greeted by Jade and Daniel along with 4 enemy guards, I freaked out “what the fuck is this set up shit!” I then jumped for one of the guards guns, I ripped it out of his hands grabbed him and held him at gunpoint, Jack intervened “There on our side John!” my brain tripped a bit “These motherfuckers raided our school killed a large number of us and you lead us into there territory!” as Jack as about to respond a middle age man walked up “Release man at once! We have a lot of explaining to do but it’s all in due time, I assume you’re the infamous John?” I kept my gun drawn “How would you know that?” he then responded calmly “You’re the one who is stupid courageous and has a sense of leadership about you. You didn’t notice but when you went my guard your friends went to do the same but failed.” I then looked over to see the guards on edge pointing their weapons lightly at the others. I let the guard go and threw the weapon. “Better start explaining then!” the other guards went back on low alert, “okay good follow me to my office, guards don’t follow, stay at your posts.”

We followed the man into his office, I still hadn’t let my guard down and I was still ready for anything, we all took a seat as he began to rundown what was happening. “As you lot already know our two sides have not broke down into a war for well over a decade, but that could change extraordinarily fast as it already has and its all because of one man. He goes by Jenkins, never had a real name and he has been an inside agent for us his entire life. The reason he has gone hellbent of destroying the fragile peace between us is due to me. I got into power after the last leader was murdered, I stepped in and stopped the war. Signing a peace treaty and other than Jenkins, and the other men to pick Jack up, have never sent a man to your land.” We all took it in, we were all familiar with the story so it was believable but there was one thing I wanted to know. “Why did you send the Commander?” the man looked at me with informative intent, I knew what he was about to say was the truth. “I needed to know if your army was planning another attack, I knew they were training but I didn’t know what for, I had to be safe. Your government hasn’t always been so nice to us even after peace negotiations finished.” I studied the room, and everyone seemed to be on the same page, Benton then spoke up. “So, what do you need from us?” he then smiled “People who would stop at nothing to kill the commander, and by judgment, you guys are the ones to do that.” I stood up swiftly and extended my hand fast and for the first time I saw the Man break his non scared look at as he jolted slightly at my swift movements. “If partnering with you means the commander dies, count me in, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right?” he shook my hand embracing the new partnership that had come about. “What is the first order of business?” Benton asked from the background, the man was swift in his response. “I know where he is, you will hit his hideout and eliminate him. Then after that its tearing down his army.” I stood shocked “So your saying you know where that fuck is?” he nodded and slid me a map, his location is mapped out on there with all the entry points, my forces will also be helping you during the raid.” I nodded and left the building swiftly with my friends no other words were said.