Safeguard by John A. Daly

Author:John A. Daly [John A. Daly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BQB Publishing
Published: 2019-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Mitchell had been reluctant at first to reveal the group’s origins, but some poking and prodding, along with Sean’s reciting of the prophecy as it had been told to him by Kishiyama, soon opened him up like a spigot. The fact that the leader had already made Sean privy to the group’s justification for being there seemed to leave little reason in Mitchell’s mind for continued discretion. It was as if the revelation had lifted a burden from his conscience, and he was now free—and even eager—to get his side of the story out.

As Sean had suspected from the license plate on the bus, the group was from Texas. Fort Davis, Texas, to be exact—a small, isolated town about three hours southeast of El Paso. Most of the group had grown up in the nearby hills and had known each other since childhood. And judging by Mitchell’s side ramblings about the US government and 9/11, it was clear that conspiracy theories and anti-establishment sentiment were tightly engrained in their culture.

The group had subscribed to end-of-the-world scenarios for some time, the community seemingly conditioned by town elders. Mitchell viewed them as mentors and talked about them endearingly—especially an old school teacher named Gus, who had false teeth and walked with a cane. Mitchell looked up to him like a grandfather until he’d passed on. It wasn’t until the Internet became more accessible that they’d learned that they weren’t alone in their beliefs—not by a longshot.

According to Mitchell, Kishiyama’s presentation of Nancy Lieder’s doomsday doctrine was pretty accurate. What Kishiyama had failed to mention, however, was that the Wisconsinite’s prophecy had supposedly been relayed to her directly by aliens—as in, extraterrestrials—who referred to themselves as Zetas. Sean had to bite his tongue as Mitchell laid out the intergalactic communicative relationship, deciding that it was more productive to gain as much information as possible than to further berate Mitchell over his delusion.

It was Kishiyama’s involvement with the group that was of particular interest to Sean, being that he had gone from being an outsider to the leader of the pack within the span of eight months. Mitchell said that they had met Kishiyama over the Internet. After weeks of messaging back and forth and a long phone conversation, Kishiyama drove out to Fort Davis to meet them. He’d brought Gregory with him.

“He got it,” said Mitchell. “He understood, and agreed that a missile silo made the most sense. He told us why this one here would give us the best chance—you know, of survivin’. He’d thought of everything, had maps and blueprints. And with Gregory being ex-military, he was able to get us weapons and help train us on ’em.”

“Wait,” Sean said, leaning forward from his seat on a couple of boxes. “Gregory was in the military?”

“Yeah, he doesn’t talk about it much. The government screwed him over somehow. That’s what they do, after all. Anyways, he and Kishiyama had it all figured out. Without ’em, we’d have been lost. We owe ’em our lives.

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