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An advertisement blared through the television speakers before transitioning to a program. This time, the kid, usually indifferent, found himself captivated. His eyes widened as he stood up, a departure from his usual drowsiness.
"The enemy is on our borders, near our waters, and roaming in the sky of our great country, but fear not for one man, who puts fear back into the heart of the enemy, will save us all." A short slide played before cutting to an interviewer who faced the camera, "This is a trying time for our nation; our neighbors who once stood loyally by our side abandoned us. A state that we trusted for so long left for the enemy. And with everyone not being on our side, we have weakened. But thanks to one man, who I and we can thank for being able to live in this great country, I want to introduce a man who needs no introduction; he has received the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, and Medal of Honor, Gabriel Jones."
The interviewer began to turn towards Gabriel, but abruptly, the television was turned off, and the kid stood up, perplexed, before turning to the back.
"Teddy, isn't this like the fifth time you have watched that interview? Come on, we can meet him afterward," the kid's father said.
"Dad, you have said that many times... Every time I try to meet him, he has to go on some mission... Remember that time when I waited for hours?" The child complained.
The man nodded, "You know how it is, son, he is busy." He walked past the couch before kneeling to match his son's height, "I promise you that you will be able to meet him today, okay? And, if for some reason he is not there, I promise I'll get you that airsoft you always wanted."
"You promise?"
Nodding, "I promise." The man carried the child and hugged him before the door opened in a rush.
"Mr. President." The man came out of the door and called.
President William Davis, the 72nd President of the United States of America, placed his son back down before fixing his tie, "What's the problem?"
"It's General Jackson, Sir. He says that it is an emergency; he says it might-" Before he could finish his sentence, the President raised his arm before pointing to his child.
"We'll talk in the office."
"Understood, sir."
The President turned back to his son, "Teddy, you get ready, all right? You follow Finn afterward."
"Yep." He replied before running back to his room.
Making sure that his son was in the room, he turned back to his bodyguard, "Tell me the details while we walk."
The bodyguard nodded before the two of them started walking out of the living area to a busier part of the White House. "The General seems a bit messy nowadays; many of his men don't even know if his decision makes any sense. If he didn't have Gabriel in his team, all of his missions would have probably been a failure."
"And what about the things that he is about to tell me?"
"The only thing that he told us was that we should give up on trying to reclaim California."
The President shook his head, "He already knows my answer to that one. If anyone thinks that I am dumb enough to let go of the resources that we have invested in that state, they're damn wrong. I'm not letting any of those Iron Empire or Hong Party bastards get any of it."
As they reached the Oval Office, the President turned to the bodyguard, "Finn, you go back to Teddy. Make sure he gets ready, all right?"
"Yes, sir."
William then turned to the two bodyguards guarding the Oval Office, "Mr. President, General Jackson is inside."
He nodded, "Both of you, follow me inside, don't say anything."
Both of them nodded before walking into the Oval Office, where the General was seated on the sofa reading the magazine, but as the President walked into the office, he threw the magazine under the table before standing up, "Mr. President, I bring news."
"What kind, the good or the bad?" Pres. William Davis asked.
"Both. We succeeded in capturing Florida." The General.
"So that's the good news; what about the bad news?"
The General sighed, "The bad news is that we have failed to recapture California; we have suffered severe casualties and lost many of our technologies there."
The President shook his head, "General, only a month ago you said that the enemy has sent only 10% of their troops and their tech to secure California compared to the 30% that they sent to invade Florida. You even told me that you were a hundred percent confident you could reclaim California!" he shouted. "Tell me, General, what did you do this time to mess this up badly, huh?"
"We had Gabriel Jones in Florida; we didn't have him in California."
The President turned back to the General, "What did you say?"
The General looked down before repeating what he said, "We didn't have Gabriel Jones in California."
The President covered his face with his palm, "Why not…"
"We attacked Florida and California at the same time to surprise them."
Shaking his head, "Why? We discussed this, Jackson. With the other Generals! That we would include Project Agent Gabriel Jones into every fight." He pointed to a patriotic poster that had the face of Gabriel Jones posing in it.
"I wanted to catch them by surprise, Mr. President. Besides, I cannot risk our best man being tired and killed in battle."
The President turned back; he couldn't believe that the General would talk back to him like this. "Why not?"
"It's not in my plan, Sir. If we let them take California, we could make them feel comfortable, and we can attack them at that time."
"It seems your age has caught up with you, General; you're following my orders now to a tee; I'm taking my place as the Commander in Chief; do as I say, or else."
Biting onto his teeth, General Jackson. "Yes sir…" He stood up before leaving the room.
President William shook his head before sitting back down on his sofa, taking a deep breath, and looking back behind him where his two bodyguards were, "You can go back to your positions…"
"Thank you, Mr. President."
He then took a look at his watch, noting the time, and taking out his phone and dialing a number; as he placed it on his ears, he didn't have to wait long for it to be answered, "Mr. President."
"Gabriel, you can't be late today, you got that? You have to be on time today. There is something that we have to discuss."
(Author's Note: This story is not meant to offend anyone, or paint anyone in a good or bad light. I am not an American, if you are asking. My only intention is to entertain you) The President stood in the middle of the podium, with lights from countless cameras flashing and recording this event; there were leaders, even soldiers from all around the world, seated in this event, "This once peaceful country, now devolved into a messy, unstable nation, the enemy has not stopped, they have not wavered, and peace, well, there can never be peace with the enemy knocking on our door. And even in this trying time, it is important that we give our respects, our praises, our admiration to the man and woman who died and served our country valiantly."He stepped out of the podium, ready to place medals around the necks of the soldiers.One by one, the soldiers stepped forward, receiving their medals. However, the majority of the medals were given to the wives and children of the soldiers, for most
“I already told you that you do not need to talk back to the reporters, I will deal with them, you don't have to worry.” The President said.“That's exactly why I did that. It's best you don't get involved with media matters, sir. They’ll paint you in a bad picture.” Gabriel replied. “I know, let's not talk about that stuff anymore. I want to thank you again for reclaiming Florida for us. Tell me what you want, and if I can do that, I will give you what you desire.” Gabriel sat silent, “I was about to tell you this President, but this is the perfect time for me to request this, I would like for you to approve my retirement.” The President looked shocked, he wasn't expecting this request, “I uhm, is there a reason why you would want a retirement?”“The pay is good sir, I'm treated very well among the military, but I am tired. For the past decade, I have fought very hard, I haven't gotten proper sleep or rest, and I would like to retire.”The President sighed, “Sigh, Gabriel, you kno
Gabriel’s eyes widened, “Then this is an emergency, I have to tell the President that the information has been leaked. If what you said was right, then it means that I have to take California back, today.” He said before he turned back. “You don't have to find the person that leaked the information, I gave it to them. Well, I am about to give it to them.” He said, raising a USB flash drive.Jones turned back as he saw the USB flash drive, it was not a copy, it was the original that the President kept, and only the President knew the password. He shook his head, “You scumbag, you can't access it, only the President knows the password to decrypt it.” “You’re wrong, the Russian has a supercomputer, you see, and with it, in a few months, this flash drive will be decrypted.” “Why? Why side with them? Why side with the enemy.” Jones tightened his fist. “For true peace, Agent Jones, for true peace. They will win, and when they do, America will be truly free. I'm doing this for America.”
Jones, instead of trying to stand up, let his body weight and physics take their course, letting his body fall onto Ruiwei's legs. Ruiwei prepared to deliver a barrage of punches toward Gabriel’s head, however, Jones used his hand and pulled the popliteal fossa, causing the enemy to tumble to the ground, and allowed him to stand up.But as he did, Ruilong and Ruixin delivered a punch to him at the same time, one punch to his face and another to his stomach. He was pushed back considerably by this attack but maintained his balance. Ruilong swiftly swooped his legs, causing him to fall on his back, and before he could do anything, Ruixin jumped and with the heels of the shoe, stomped onto Gabriel’s stomach. He grunted before holding onto the heels of Ruixin, pushing it so he could get up and throwing Ruixin towards Ruilong, but this time, Ruilong was able to catch his comrade.This wide gap of time allowed Ruiwei to get on his feet, although looked hurt, he was ready to fight. Gabr
His suit, although didn't look like armor, was one nevertheless. It was made with kevlar clothing and titanium plating, and although it wouldn't protect him from higher caliber bullets, it would do fine against the lighter ones. Phoo! The door broke open, with the pieces of the drawer and table flying everywhere. “Come out, don't waste our time. We don't want this to go on as much as you.” Xiong Lei said in Mandarin as they looked around before they were met with a barrage of bullets to their helmets. None of them pierced through or were able to hurt them. But the sound and the vibrations that were caused by it were enough to cause confusion. “We gave you a chance!” Nikolai shouted, before taking out a grenade launcher. However, before he could fire a grenade out of the equipment, Xiong Lei stopped him. “What!?”“You don't want to destroy the information.” He said before they felt something pushed them and ran past them. “It's Gabriel, he ran out!” Nikolai rushed out of the baseme
Sergei Nikolai rushed him with a punch, but now, with the armor, Gabriel held onto the fist easily, before punching him back. Xiong Lei then blasted him with a barrage of grenade attacks before coming in and trying to attack him with a kick, but the only damage that was done was a scratch on the armor. Before Gabriel could deliver a punch back, Xiong Lei jumped back. “You can keep the USB! You think we would risk this much for some Nukes, we have many too!” He laughed. Gabriel tried guessing, “You’re trying to reclaim Florida?!” Xiong Lei shook his head before pointing up. The colonel shouted as he tried running towards him, “Move out of the way!!!” But as Gabriel looked up, he could see light from the sky as a blue beam forcibly pushed him to the ground. . ‘Gravity field. Shoot!’ He thought as he struggled to get up from the floor. “Why would we try to steal anything from this country, when you are here to ruin anything anyways? Might as well get rid of the problem.” Gabriel
He took off his formal suit and started putting on his military camo attire, it was much more comfortable and cleaner than the suit that he had now.“I can't just leave this here.” He whispered to himself as he stared at the armor which he left on the ground. No one would ignore a shiny piece of heavy armor here. And if left there, it would definitely go missing. He looked around and found a rotten log with the middle of it empty, so he broke it in half and started using it as a shovel, digging the ground till the sky darkened, leaving his armor and most of his heavy weaponry in the ground before covering it with dirt. Seeing that the sky was dark he took out a lighter and started a fire near the fireplace that he just constructed. #Meanwhile, at the village near South Dundee, many of the armed men were out guarding on top of the walls of the village, keeping out for the creatures that loomed in the forest nearby. Inside of the village square, the other half of the armed men sta
His heart rate spiked up, causing him to look around, this was what he normally does when he needs problems fixed, it helped him a lot in the past and enabled him to think of a solution.But the weapon that the enemy had used against him was like nothing that he had ever seen before. “They were able to teleport me and everything under the beam…” He whispered, trying to remember any memory that might give him a clue of who created this weapon and how he could reverse the effects and go back. “Do they even know that I am still alive?” But as he tried thinking of a solution, his stomach growled, disturbing his concentration. Despite eating the biscuit that has fulfilled his nutritional needs, it has failed to fill his hunger, which caused him to look around.His eyes stopped as he looked at the bear, he didn't even have to think about it, his instinct took out his knife and started cutting open the bear, removing the meat from the skin before placing it above the fire for it to cook.
The clouds started covering the light shining from the sun, and the village darkened. Bjorl looked up and shook his head, “I can't help with you that.” He said before walking towards the store. Gabriel was taken aback by this, “Hold on, this is a blacksmith, anyone would expect you to be able to craft a bow.” “As I said, if you want that, you came to the wrong place, you can get help with the spears and swords, but not that.” He kept walking towards the store. Gabriel held onto the Blacksmith’s shoulder before pointing at the store’s logo, which included a bow, “Next time, dont put anything you won't be able to craft on your store’s insignia.” The Blacksmith, stared at the insignia while his lips quivered. He didn't reply to the village’s new defender and entered his store. “Can you believe this guy?” Gabriel turned to Moel and the Captain. “Tell me there is another blacksmith here?” The Captain looked equally as confused, “No there isn't.” “Thats great…” He replied sarca
“Aren’t spears better than the sword in this situation?” The Captain questioned. “I did. But it doesn’t mean that there is no space for a swordsman, especially someone as skilled as you. While everybody does the spearing you will be doing the slashing, putting extra damage on those bears as fast as you can. And when you need to, hide behind those who have spears to regain your energy.” The Captain nodded, “I see wisdom in that… Well, will you start training the guards?” Gabriel shook his head as he pointed at the other guards, “They will be training, as for you and me, we will be looking for some archers. Do you know any?” “I do, most of them are dead from the recent fight against that red bear. They were very skilled.” Talnuc commented. “I know how to use the weapon, but I am not skilled in any way.” “That’s good enough, I have an idea. We have the villagers who will not be doing anything. They can stay at a safe distance and shoot arrows towards the creature while we do the
“Well, they might be a bit rusted sure. But in this case, and against the enemy that we are about to face, these weapons will suit all of you better.” Gabriel replied. “You know that’s bull-” “It's not if I can prove it to you,” Gabriel interjected sternly and turned toward the small crowd of guards. “I need one man to pick up this weapon for demonstration.” “I’ll do it,” Norvin said, still confused about how a bunch of rusty old spears would be able to help him in this situation. He held his breath as he lifted the weapon, expecting it to be heavy, but the weapon came off the ground easily. “It's lighter than I expected.” He whispered. It was lighter than the longsword that he was used to but not by much The Captain got closer to Gabriel, his head shaking, “I don’t know what you're trying to do, but unless you prove to these men, that spears are capable of killing those red bears. They won't follow your orders.” Gabriel smiled, “Don’t worry, they’ll trust me.” He said before
“Sutherland!” Talnuc, the Captain of the Village Guards approached Sutherland, whose face had been dirty by the hours-long work of rebuilding the torn-down village wall alongside the other villagers. “Tomorrow…” Sutherland shook his head, wiping his face as he walked towards his house, “I’m tired, can’t you see?” “No, you have to do something about this, you can't imagine what the Chief did!” Talnuc stopped the Advisor. “Tomorrow,” Sutherland repeated. However there was nothing Sutherland could do when the Captain used his hands to stop him, Sutherland was just an advisor after all. “The Chief has declared a state of emergency!”Sutherland rolled his eyes, “Captain, look around you, does it not look like a state of emergency to you?”“Well let me finish, he declared the Guardian’s decree and gave the power of guardian to the new visitor.” Sutherland was immediately awake after hearing this, “Are you sure?”“I got the news from the Chief himself, I am not going to leave the fat
“Shagrat na lugburz!” The skinny creature commanded the newly grown red bears. The bears struggled to move around, only a few seconds ago they were newborn cubs, but now they were forced to grow up, and since they hadn't learned to walk, the balance of their body was weak. However, the almost humanoid short red bear raised his hand, his gesture almost looked like a puppeteer trying to control its puppets. And as soon as it did that, the emotion that was present in the cub's eyes were all gone and they started moving towards Gabriel with their mouth ready to chew on him. Gabriel raised both his hands to defend against them, but as one of the bears swung his hand at him, he could feel that the bears had nothing but bones. And the bones weren't hard at all. They were as soft as babies. “Guess we all make mistakes, huh,” Gabriel said before ripping the bear in half, almost like paper. The body was stretched too thin. And its weight was just slightly above the weight of a cub. The oth
Knock! Knock! Knock! “Who’s that!?” The village chief shouted. “It's me, Chief. You called?” Moel explained. The village chief quickly opened the door to his office. The eye bags under his eyes were deep, as the monk took a peek into the office, he could see that the village chief had been spending time working. “Come in!” he escorted the monk to sit. “Anything from the Empire or the Kingdom?” Moel asked, wondering if the Empire or the Kingdom had received their message of plea. They have been waiting for a response for a very long time, but to no avail. “Nothing, just as usual.” The Chief replied in disgust as he continued cutting open the letters. “They will only respond if we have anything that can help them. The only ‘help’ we are getting is some good wishes from the cities.” “Typical… Typical…” Moel shook his head before his eyes were caught on one of the letters on the Chief’s table. “What’s this?” The monk pointed at the letter. “That’s the letter from the Village of
Just beside the Village Temple of Rha, was a small house, its size more closely resembles a hut, ordained with religious symbols around it, similar to the ones at the temple. Moel opened the door and entered while Gabriel followed closely behind. “Mom?”Moel called out as he entered the house, searching in the living room. But he froze as he saw chunks of cut-up meat covered in large leaves on the ground. “What…” Gabriel recognized it, “It's the red bear meat, seems your mother made things more easier for me…” Moel sighed before walking towards his mother’s room, and as he opened it, he could see his mother holding the skin of the bear, now made into a garment. “Mom! Thats not mine…” He covered his face before facing Gabriel, “I’m sorry, I didn't know my mother would do this, I hope you weren't planning on using the bear’s skin.” “It's fine. I only brought it with me for the meat.” He said before turning to the pile of cut bear meat. The monk wiped off his forehead sweat before
“Move!” Norvin screamed, knowing that the bear was more than capable of crushing him. But Gabriel, confident in his strength, kept his knife in his scabbard, and stopped the attack with his two hands, clasping the bear's paws. For a second, he matched the strength of the grizzly bear, but let go of one of his hands to draw the knife out of the sheath before stabbing the bear in the throat, pulling it out, and manoeuvering to the back of the bear, stabbing the skull of the bear, crushing its brain in the process. Gabriel’s face was splattered with blood, but none of it was his; the other eight bears looked his way before running out of the wall. The village was safe again. The guards could hardly believe their eyes; a man with just a knife killed two bears while matching it in strength. Norvin turn to look at the other guards, “That's the man that killed the red bear.” “That explains it…” One of the guards huffed before dropping down to the ground to rest. The other villager
“I don’t know about you, but it has been a long day for me, so I will go to sleep first. We will talk tomorrow.” He said before handing Gabriel a soft cloth for him to sleep on. Gabriel just realized this, but the fight that took place in the General’s mansion had his body aching a lot. As he looked at the soft white cloth, his eyes started blinking slowly. He dropped the cloth on the floor, before taking out his suit and using it as a pillow. Although it was not soft as one, as he placed his head on it, he immediately fell asleep. # Gabriel continued eating his military ration biscuits and drinking his clean bottled water as the monk started cooking up stew in one of the rooms in the temple. “Want some?” The monk asked as he mixed in some vegetables into the stew.Seeing that the water that the monk used for the stew was not filtered properly, he declined, “I’ll pass.” “Your loss.” the monk shrugged before pouring himself some to eat, “So which country are you from anyways?”