Final Chaos by Mark Goode

Author:Mark Goode
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2020-10-31T16:08:25+00:00

Chapter 12

“Fractitious”

“General, I think you should look at this.” The message from the field intelligence office lit up the communicator sitting on the bedside table.

General Pinz sat up and leaned his back against the shelter’s wall. “Go ahead,” he said into the communicator.

The voice continued squawking from the little electronic device he held in his lap. “There is something strange going on in Fort Collins. Apparently, there is a report of multiple abandoned vehicles at a brewery in the north part of town. With the help of the motor vehicle registration department, we have assembled a list of vehicle owners. There are a lot of very prominent business and community leaders on the list. Furthermore, all of them are missing and have failed to report to work. Security cameras showed the usual parade of visitors in and out of the brewpub. However, on the north side of the property there appeared to be a van that was loading passengers approximately every 30 minutes. Residents a few miles away reported seeing a similar van making frequent trips out to the eastern plains. When we investigated, we found numerous wind turbines and radio transmission towers. The van was located near a service building housing radio transmission equipment. There was one room resembling a studio containing what looked like a medical imaging device. An old MRI machine perhaps. We are still investigating.”

According to my grandfather, there existed a secret place inside the mountains. The AQNS were adept at building tunnels and excavating the earth. Deep within the same mountain that houses the Thomas Alva tunnel the AQNS had constructed a city. Few had ever visited Command Central deep in the earth, protected by layers of security, including armed personnel, sophisticated electronics, and geologic defenses.

A special council meeting had been called, and Jack Jennings, my grandfather, had been summoned to testify.

These meetings had become commonplace over the years. The field commanders would file their reports regarding the situation at the front line of the battle, including casualty statistics, operations, manpower, and finances. Not unlike a meeting in a corporate boardroom; however, the business at hand was a war over water.

The reports showed that the war was a virtual stalemate. There was a one-mile zone between the two factions, designated as the Kill Zone, where no one would venture. This area was a modern-day booby trap outfitted with high-energy lasers that automatically destroyed anything that moved.

The Federalists had successfully closed access into Grand Valley from the south. The northern and western access routes remained open for the AQNS to use. However, the government viewed the western access route as a strategic target; capturing its control could represent a turning point in the conflict.

Major Jack Jennings, testifying at the council meeting, described his conversations with his friend from law school Arnold Bitworth. “I would like to inform the council that I have credible evidence of an impending major government offensive,” he said. He went on to explain the situation and presented the evidence that the government had reached a decision to push the conflict to conclusion.

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