why me

18

"Are you ready to set out" Alan asks me

I was looking over the report from roge on Megan's condition. His report was short and to the point: all is well is read like. I nodded and set down my tablet. The picture of Megan still lit up on the screen.

"That's a pretty little mate." Alan says peering over at my tablet.

I growl, the low clicking noise instinctually coming from my throat.

"Wow there. Didn't mean anything by it." Alan's hands go up in surrender. "Gotta protect that mate of yours or you'll be a lonely bastard for the rest of your life." He teases. The tension in the room dissipating from his surrender.

"Sorry man, instinct." I say running a hand through my hair.

"Look I get it a mech man's top priority is always his mates safety." Alan said

"Yes I'm ready to go now. Let's go show these crowds who they don't want to mess with." I say

We had to put off our show of force for a few more days due to the bulk of the rebels going into hiding once word got around that elite forces were coming to wipe them out. I was going to pumbled the fool who chatted to the suvilians. My second team did a fine job of gathering information even with them spooked. They were already out there taking down the key members one at a time.

"Time to mist some mistfits." Alan joked.

"You know I hate that joke." I say

"And that's why I keep saying it" Alan teases with a smile. I grumbled but ignore him as I start heading toward the jeeps.

The angry riots had formed again. They were attacking the soldier one at time. Gun shots going off everywhere in the distance. Some even made it back to the fence. I stood at the look out barrier behind the fence watching them in silence, Alan beside me as well as a few other of my team members. I held an intercom in one hand preparing my speech mentally before I uttered a word.

"Rebels!" I called the crowd went still as eyes began to peer at me. "Attacks had been made on supplies, soldiers wounded, and attack riffles stolen. We will tolerate your insulance no longer." I raise a hand. "Anyone still in the crowd in thirty minutes will be killed. Anyone attacking with the rebel forces will be killed. Turn in your weapons now if you wish to be spared." I call out. Just then there were shots heard coming from within the crowd.

"Go to he'll" one member of the crowd yelled. One of my soldiers moved closer to me, ready to move in the way if gun shots were fired towards us. There was no need I had a barrier.

"My patience is running thin." I say over the intercom. "Five minutes"

The crowd does the opposite of disperse, the members jumping at the soldier now, bodies pushing the others out of the way to get at my men.

"There not dispersing" Alan leans over a says to me.

"It appears that way." I conclude.

"On your command" Another soldier speaks.

"I said I'd give them five minutes and I will" I say

We wait patiently. A couple of the rebels with guns showing themselves through the crowd finally. One shot his riffle straight at me, the beam bouncing off my barrier harmlessly. I smile to myself.

"It's been five minutes." I say and raise my hand and motion for my soldier to jump down into the crowd. They land with a loud thump, jumping to over the fence and to the side of the crowd. One of my soldiers landed on a suvilian killing him instantly.

"You have been warned." I say over the intercom. I feel the power raise in me and I raise a hand, instantaniously hundred in the crowd go up in dust. The crowd goes silent as they waych there fellow men blow off into the wind, a cloud of smoke forming. My men on on the scene slicing away the others like weeds in a field.

I jump off to the other side of the fence. My mana drained but my body still full of energy i pounce. I pull out my sword orb and it quickly liquidfies into my blade. 'This isn't the fight I wanted' I think to myself as I start to cull the heard. 'I want a challenge', my blade sinking into the skull of one of the attackers coming at me. I turn around and mist another running towards me in the distance with a knife, the blade harmlessly falling to the ground. Another lunges for me with his teeth bared and my blade finds his soft underbelly.

I can see my fellow men fighting in the distance, the numbers in the crowd greatly decreased by my show of power. The next thing I notice with my senses is footsteps rushing towards us from the distance. 'Reinforcments from the rebels' I think to myself.

"Be ready" I call out as I continue to slice away attackers. I hear a few grunt in the distance from my men as we continue to battle.

A hundred or so rebels show themselves as they charge for us riffles in hand. Shots go off and they run out and form a line. Some of my soldiers start to mist them in numbers. I run out ahead, taking down a few stragglers that try to slow me down on the way, my blade making quick work of them. I quickly make it too the rebels. A stream of shots go off toward me from two of the rebels I set my sight on, a few of the beams bounced off and hit the rebels instead. My blade found perch in one of there necks quickly, and I swung around to loge it in the others.

My other soldiers were already on the scene slicing and spinning, the dance of battle clear for the rebels to see. I few of them started running at that pont, them quickly losing their nerve. I give chase, tripping him with one of my legs, he fell to the ground and I stomped on his head, his skull breaking and fracturing beneath my boot. The others took advantage and speed up at my distraction.

"Alan get the last ones." I call on our com system.

"On it" He answers back, already running into the block of houses, a few of my other soldiers following him. I look around at the devastation we created in silence. There was silence all around when there had been a crowd of chaos just moments ago. Streams of dead bodies littered the floor. The stinch of blood filled my nostril. The queen was right the was no glory to be had here with these small helpless creatures. I craved a real battle.

The commander walks up to me "my prince" he greated "let me take you back to the bunker."

"I will go now" I say.