Mending a Broken Bridge: J.L. visits Irondin (closed)
J.L. picked up the phone and dialed Marshal Shaun Churchman's private number.
"Um... yes? can I help you?"
"I see, what is it that you need?"
"We need to talk. About Moua, about Lee...about everything."
"ya we do" Churchman Said
"We need to talk in person, actually. When and where?"
"hmmmm" Church thoght hard about this "how about the Irondin Parlemant Building?"
"Well the sooner the better" Church said.
"Excellent. I'll be there."
"all be wating" Church said and hungup
J.L.'s private chopper was en route to the Parliament Building of Irondin. Several hours later, he arrived.
Many Communist and Pro-Irondinians were protesting JL being in Irondin
"Remove the SOB!!"
"Keep that shitfuck's hands off of Irondin"
Many rottan foods were also tossed.
J.L. seethed with rage. If those were my citizens, I'd have them castrated! Shaking his head, he walked into the building.
Church was standing in the doorway
"Hi man, you better get in here, they are bring out the blue Cheese!" Church Said
J.L. stepped inside. "Rowdy bastards. Church, you actually let these hooligans run wild like this?"
"they would not be like this, if your peaple did not pull that shit, oh ya by the way you will not find many friends in here, the communists took power yesterday." Church said with a shake of his head.
"What!?" J.L. screeched, so loudly that the windows stressed and almost cracked. Hissing through his teeth, his eyes bulging profusely, he snarled: "How...could you...let this...happen!?"
"ME ME? Oh no no no, it was your peaple who let the communists take power, they had no seats before this election, then your "Enlitend peaple" desided that terrorism was a great idea to make friends and make Communism less apeaile, dont you put your Damaged goods at my Feet!" Church Yelled
"Shaun, if you were the manager of a four-star hotel, and your customers 'voted' in favor of having cockroaches infest the place, would you sit by and abide by their decision? No, you'd remove the cockroaches. Sometimes, my friend, people are too stupid to know what's good for them. That's why people like us have to decide for them," J.L. explained.
"yes but I dont think a hotel ever had someone come in and shoot peaple and then try to pin it on Cockroaches!" Church Replied
"True, but the principle remains the same," J.L. said patiently. "You cannot delegate such a crucial function as governing a nation to the masses that are ignorant. Only a strong-spined autocrat can provide what's best for everyone."
"Yes like Hitler, Stailn, Mugaba or any number of "strong-spined autocrat" I can name off?" Church Said
"They were communist thugs and bully-boys," J.L. said. "I'm different. I'm a benevolent tyrant, or, to be more accurate, an enlightened despot. I rule by law, not by gangsterism."
"Look can name off many things you have done that were less then "enlightened" but I think we have much more importint things to do" Church Said
"Well, if you want your nation grinded into oblivion by economic stagnation, pervasive crime, and all-around gangsterism, then by all means, allow the Marxist-Leninist cockroaches to infest your government," J.L. said. "When they establish a totalitarian one-party state utterly devoid of liberty, don't say you weren't warned."
"Somebody shoot me in the motherfucken head" Church said with a Sigh
"Look, Shaun, have you ever lived under communism?" J.L. said, a hint of irritation creeping into his voice. His voice wracked with emotion, J.L. said, "I have. Hell, those fucking monsters killed my father. They brought unspeakable suffering to RB. If I hadn't staged my coup..." Wiping the tears from his eyes, J.L. left his sentence unfinished.
"You know DAMN WELL I have" Church Said with anger.
"Then you know what these beasts are like. They can't be reformed, toned down, softened, or educated. They are savage animals, and the only treatment that can be meted out for such savages is death!" J.L. said.
"Look dont worry, if any of them tries something, there will be a problem for them" Church said
"That's a relief. Oh, and you'll be happy to know," J.L. said, "that Moua and Lee were found guilty today. They've been replaced."
"Oh thats good!, lets hope you got some less arragent peaple in those spots now" Church said
"Don't worry. My new Foreign Minister, Diana, is considered far more moderate. And as for Alfredo? Well...he's not an adult yet, so I told him 'do your job well, or no allowance.'" J.L. chuckled.
"hehe sounds good, so now the problem is RBs Rep in Irondin" Church said
J.L. sighed. "That's true."
"also the new government will not make it easy, but all the other parties will suport you." Church Said
J.L. smiled. "That's good."
"lets go to my office" Church Said "you dont wana be around the Communist back benchers, some of them are how you say "Less then Civilzed?""
"Sure thing," J.L. said, and followed Church there.
The office was on the top floor and took some time geting there.
"ah want a drink?" Asked Church
"Yes, please. Root beer, if you have it."
Church tossed him a root beer from his mini-frige and grabed himself a pepsi
"so what shude we do?"
"Anything," J.L. said. "Anything at all. Reparations?"
"no... the last thing the peaple want in more RB money in irondin, im afrade with you here they might just up and riot!" Church said
J.L. sighed. "Church, I really want reconciliation between Roach-Busterians and Irondinians. Operation Mongoose and the atrocities it perpetrated were committed in the name of Roach-Busters. Therefore, it would only be fitting if restoration and healing were brought forth in the name of Roach-Busters. I will bear any burden, pay any price, to atone for the sins of Moua and Lee. Doctors, construction workers, money...you name it. Please. I wish to help."
"Look im happy right now, I know the Guilty party is punished (more then JL thoght) Church thoght to himself "But like you just said, the peaple can be unresnable sometimes, its going to take facetime to fix this. pure and simple" Church said.
"I understand," J.L. said.
"We might wana start in those areas that are still RB friendly, some cities and the north Ice islands tended to stay pro-RB, its the south that turned red in this election." Church said.
"What should happen in the meantime?" J.L. asked.
"head north, I can see some communist MP Ralling anti-RB protesters down at the doors, we will take the helicopter" Church Said.
Church led JL up the final flight of stares to the Helipad where Church's privte helicopter is
"Lets go!" Church said
J.L. whistled. "Damn fine chopper there, Church. Who made it?''
"Its a modifed Choonok Heli"
When they got in it looked like a 5 star hotel.
J.L. entered. "HOLY FUCKING MACKEREL!"
"its my home, so I think it needs to look good, dont you think?" Said Church
"I'll say!" Grinning, J.L. entered the chopper. Hell, this almost rivals my palace, he thought. Almost.
"It will take 4 hours to get there, wana do something?" Church asked
"Hmmm not many, just the PC and Super NES" Church said "I spent all my money on this baby"
"SNES? Hell yeah!" J.L. grinned broadly. "One of my favorite systems! What games do you have?"
Church opened a full sized closite and revealed his game colection some where in the Thouwsens
"take your pick"
J.L. nearly urinated and defecated in his pants. His eyes shimmered with tears. "I...I think I died and went to heaven," he said, gazing in wide-eyed wonder at the vast assortment of games. "I...you choose."
"hmmm... lets play.... earthbound! ever hear of it?" Church asked.
J.L. smiled warmly. "Nope. Almost wanted to, though. Now I have my chance." He gestured toward the SNES. "Let's play."
"ok lets auternate on battles ok?" Church sugested
after an hour of playing
"Hmm whats that" said the pilot.
"It looks like a... oh crap!" said the co-pilot as he saw what it was, a Hellfire and it was about to unleash hellfire on the heli.
The missles fired, lucky the heli had radar confusers on it and as such the missles missed.
"What the hell?!" Church yelled as he got up from his couch
"we are under attack" The pilot replied
"Fuck" said church as he went to a secret compartment and opened up the secrit arms hidden there he grabed 2 stinger launchers and passed one to JL
"you know how to work one of these" Church asked.
J.L. hoisted up one of the Stingers, balanced it, steadied his arm, took aim, and fired. He missed the attacking Hellfire only narrowly. Almost hit it, he thought. Almost. But, as his grandmother was fond of saying, "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." The Stinger was neither. Undaunted, the Hellfire continued to approach, traversing the flames like a swam through water.
Church puched out on of the windows of the heli and aimed his stinger and took the time to lock on, however his missle was intersepted when the hellfire fired its next round at the hell
"god damn" said church.
J.L. cursed under his breath, averted his eyes as the ensuing explosion flared brilliantly. The impact of the two missiles colliding caused the helicopter to shake briefly but tumultuously. J.L. stumbled slightly, the Stinger balancing precariously. He took aim, but he was unsteady, his nerves were badly shot. His second shot missed (almost literally) by a mile.
Church was geting very angry at this, but knew to keep his head, he was deling with a stinger.
he went into an almost zen like state and when fired he got the missle down into the acural SAM of the tank and it blew from the inside out.
"whhhhh.... you ok" Asked church
J.L. was transfixed by the sight of the Hellfire, now in thousands of pieces, moldering away, consumed by thick flames. He waited for his heartbeat to resume normalcy and replied, "Y-Yeah, I'm fine. You?"
"Pissed the fuck off, what the hell? was that a stolen Hellfire fireing at us"
"uh boss, bad news, we are now enemies of the state acording to the new communist high command"
church did not say anthing but was about the squese the triger of the Stinger he was holding.
"Shit," J.L. muttered. On the horizon, he saw hostile forces, both ground-based and aerial, fast approaching. "We'd better get the fuck out of here, Church."
"hmmm, lets get to Industria, there not many forces there and thats was anti-communist in the election." church sugested
"Sure thing, but I think leaving the country altogether would be safer," J.L. said.
"I am not abading my land for a secaend time." Church said
"I know how you feel," J.L. said. "If you're a soldier, it's better to stand and die fighting, than to run away and live to be a coward."
"Lets get to indusria, we can find out what happend from there" Church said
"Excellent. Let's go."
The helicopter changed direction, and flew off.
"Fucken hell, I dont belave this crap" Church said.
J.L. smiled. "Why so glum? In case you don't remember, I have several military bases in Irondin. All I have to do is give the word, and you'll be on top again in no time at all."
"oooo... about that... they got kicked out very resintly, and any left would proibly be arested or killed by now" Church said
"Shit!" J.L. swung his fist. "Friggin' hell!"
"did you have any on industria's island?" Church asked.
"Unfortunately, no," J.L. said.
"Hmmmm well then, we might have a problem, perhaps they will not cross the ice islands, there not fun to cross by foot or any ground, its worst then russia" Church said
J.L. smiled. "Not to worry. These mother fuckers are going to be sorry they were even born."
"thats good, its a good thing all the elite troops are up here." church said
J.L. nodded. "Yeah. Let's hope there aren't any hostiles up there..."
"Well only one way to find out" Church said as the heli reached the north island.
"True, but I hope we're packing plenty of firepower, just in case," J.L. said.
"We got the stingers, imp-2s, IRS-1s and IAR-1s
"Excellent. We should also call ahead and make sure they have a secure landing area for us."
"Sounds good"
the pilot radio to Industria, and found them to be extramy happy that the heli servived the attack and they the heli bay was open.
"Perfect," J.L. said, and he radioed the RB Navy 7th Fleet, with was stationed 200 nautical miles off the coast of the main Irondin island, for back-up.
after ten mins. the heil landed at the base and Church got off
"Ok just what the fuck happend?"
A GLOBAL agent told him
"Well you no dout saw that huge croud outside the parlement building right? well those were NOT protesters, they were subversives, after you left they attacked, the communist clamed you got killed and invoked the Roman Clase and took over, he in the north however rejected this because we knew from radar that you were still alive. The communists however have said that they have your body and "proof" that the subversives have got a copy of you as to explane why you are not dead."
"Well..." Church said
"Those fuckers," J.L. said. "At any rate, some of my naval forces are en route to Irondin now."
"Damn, Irondin is like a fortress, missle defence and heavy costal turrets everware. this sucks!" Church said.
"So much for taking the nation back before supper time," J.L. muttered.
"any attack is going ot have to go over the ice islands, thats there weak spot, damn it if I ever get my hands on Grant..." Church made a chokeing move with his hands.
"Hey!" J.L. said, a bit more sharply than he intended. "We don't know for sure if he was involved! He's actually not such a bad g-" He froze in mid-sentence, seized by a potent mix of astonishment and fear. Dear Lord, what's come over me? he thought, his eyes wide with horror, his brow doused in perspiration. Did I just...defend...a COMMUNIST!?
"well now..." Church did not continue, but just then grant himself just walked in. "Church! JL! your still alive!" he said.
"Grant! You're alive!" J.L. said, excitedly, then cleared his throat. "Hmph. Er, so you're alive. Are you one of them?"
"Hmmm well im basicly here at non-communist HQ, so ya boo!" he said to JL
"Church, its good to see you were not taken out" he said to church
"Grant, I see your not working with them, what happend" church said
"At any rate, you're lucky to be alive," J.L. said, keeping his tone neutral. "Oh, and don't try anything clever, in case you are one of the enemy. I'm well-equipped to separate your gray matter from your skull if you contemplate anything...sneaky."
"Sneaky? yes let me go an shoot churchman extra sneaky with ever one watching, damn fool" He said to JL.
"Well lets just say I have to be more careful nextime I unite communist parties, that shitfucker Jackson Valimisco led an upriseing and took over" Grant said
"Valimisco? My fuck! Church said, knowing that Valimisco's family fled to Irondin to escape communism.
J.L. rolled his eyes. "Communists led an uprising and took over? Gee, who'da thought?'
"JL makes a dumb comment, who would have thoght" Grant retorted
The Generalissimo felt a strong, almost irrepressible urge to deliver a blow to Grant's face. He restrained himself, snarling between his teeth.
"Most of the army is on his side, mostly greens. most of the old vets and elites defected and are heading north." Grant said
"I see." J.L. nodded. "Well, we have RB naval forces on their way, not that you care."
"Ohh looks like hes finaly geting the hint!" Grant said. "Church, we might wana move quickly, they are still weak and the loss of there skilled soliders has made the army ineffint!"
"Hmmm like the great purges... but what do we got? there are very little forces in the north island, mostly testers of irondin gear in extream conditions!" Church said
"If only your government hadn't booted out my forces," J.L. snapped at Grant, his voice livid with rage. "If it wasn't for you, these rebels would have been wiped out by now!"
"Ya I bet..." Grant said, clealy he did not think highly enufe of JL to make a snappy comeback
"Well I say we make the stand here, we need allies tho. Powerful ones" Church said
"The WACL will definitely help, since it's commies we're up against," J.L. said.
"Thats good, perhaps CAD can too, and with most of the elites comeing north that can help too" Church said
"I'm sure they will," J.L. said.
"Well first we need to strike set them off balince right away, air strikes, Missles for god sakes!" said Church
"Yes," J.L. said. "What do we have available?"
"Plenty, the time to stike, is now..." Church said with Focsed eyes