Libert Wall (Ch. 3)
Sep. 28th, 2011 04:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krowfaceJust like that, everything went from real bad to absolute fucked. It started off as another regular day. This time around, the only real difference was all of our cell phones and all of our net connections just stopped working.
That didn't stand out, not for a second. Looking back, we thought we got it figured out. That was the moment the game changed. Well, no. A lot of people said that for a while, and some people might even still believe it. But they don't either can't figure it out, or they don't want to figure it out. It wasn't the loss of contact, it was when the Compliancy model was activated.
That penultimate loss of freedom. Those little blinking lights. The smell of the first one that goes off. That's when the game changed.
We didn't know if it was a drill or not, but without warning an alert went out near the tail end of breakfast, all hands on deck. We locked and loaded as quick as our best times, and we all hit our positions on the wall.
I looked down from the wall and looked at David, as he was stationed operating one of the hybrid ATV scouts.
Weirdly, he looked up at the same time, and we caught each other. He smiled and winked at me, but I saw his face changing when he looked away. I could only imagine how dark my face must've looked at the moment. It felt as black as pitch. I'm sure he saw it.
Klaxxons, lights, the whole thing. All of the weird antennas and shutters extended on all of the towers. All of the garages opened and all of the vehicles poured out. Somewhere right in the middle of the day, after only a few minutes of warning, we were battle ready. We had no idea what was coming, but we knew it was big. All of the towers and troops as far as I could across the entire valley where standing active. If this was a drill, this was going to be one that would take hours to reset from, having to put all of the weapons and armour away.
Suddenly, from each of our collars, the towers, and our wrist units, first the seal of the US, then the presidential seal, and then the announcement in all of its flat hologram glory.
The President made the announcement. The grimmest of events in our country's history. I don't think a single man in that valley was breathing as he continued.
The President was very calm and collected. I think there might've even been a tear in his eye. I don't know, those images were pretty lossy. Oh but his voice, I will never forget how crystal clear his voice sounded.
He said what he needed to say, the video feed ended, and then The Panic hit.
We could practically hear the screams of outrage and doom coming from every city across the country.
I will give credit to the men of our battallion almost none of the men broke rank. I saw a few go into "at ease". I definately saw quite a few relax the grips on their tools and reach for their phones. None of them worked period. Dead bricks in our hands. A few men fell to their knees, but those men at least stayed very, very quiet.
At least at that point we knew right away, somehow, without any real logical explanation as to why we all knew at once, we all knew we had to be quiet.
That didn't stand out, not for a second. Looking back, we thought we got it figured out. That was the moment the game changed. Well, no. A lot of people said that for a while, and some people might even still believe it. But they don't either can't figure it out, or they don't want to figure it out. It wasn't the loss of contact, it was when the Compliancy model was activated.
That penultimate loss of freedom. Those little blinking lights. The smell of the first one that goes off. That's when the game changed.
We didn't know if it was a drill or not, but without warning an alert went out near the tail end of breakfast, all hands on deck. We locked and loaded as quick as our best times, and we all hit our positions on the wall.
I looked down from the wall and looked at David, as he was stationed operating one of the hybrid ATV scouts.
Weirdly, he looked up at the same time, and we caught each other. He smiled and winked at me, but I saw his face changing when he looked away. I could only imagine how dark my face must've looked at the moment. It felt as black as pitch. I'm sure he saw it.
Klaxxons, lights, the whole thing. All of the weird antennas and shutters extended on all of the towers. All of the garages opened and all of the vehicles poured out. Somewhere right in the middle of the day, after only a few minutes of warning, we were battle ready. We had no idea what was coming, but we knew it was big. All of the towers and troops as far as I could across the entire valley where standing active. If this was a drill, this was going to be one that would take hours to reset from, having to put all of the weapons and armour away.
Suddenly, from each of our collars, the towers, and our wrist units, first the seal of the US, then the presidential seal, and then the announcement in all of its flat hologram glory.
The President made the announcement. The grimmest of events in our country's history. I don't think a single man in that valley was breathing as he continued.
The President was very calm and collected. I think there might've even been a tear in his eye. I don't know, those images were pretty lossy. Oh but his voice, I will never forget how crystal clear his voice sounded.
He said what he needed to say, the video feed ended, and then The Panic hit.
We could practically hear the screams of outrage and doom coming from every city across the country.
I will give credit to the men of our battallion almost none of the men broke rank. I saw a few go into "at ease". I definately saw quite a few relax the grips on their tools and reach for their phones. None of them worked period. Dead bricks in our hands. A few men fell to their knees, but those men at least stayed very, very quiet.
At least at that point we knew right away, somehow, without any real logical explanation as to why we all knew at once, we all knew we had to be quiet.
