4 – Lonliness of the Long-Distance Android

>> TWELVE – progress

“Independence You are advised clear zone is one minute east. Move! NOW! Extraction provided…

“Fire commences….Radio contact Terminated….
“Even if it Kills Me” we proclaim, boldly. Without ever knowing what it takes to kill. I killed a man once.

[pause]
Or several men

[pause]

while I was in the Armed Services.
Several… I dunno… Anything mor’n many is several… Right??
Musta been like that…

Just like that…

Was dawn of the day…

 
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Many… I killed several…
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I think
Cos the way it was done there’s no way it coulda bin a few. Could it now…?

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When I realized that they were seeking my life…
to prolong their own. You know? Us ‘n them…?
That kinda thing.

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I don’t remember… ‘ve you got a smoke?

I recognized their pain and agony.  Thanks. A light? It looked much like my own… It is ALLL so clear now…

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Thanks… like it was only yesterday… you know! Still fresh…

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What day is it… D’you know….

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No I mean “really” Dju know wotdayitis? Mano?

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Dju got no fukkenidea… Right?

Ts’a Last Day…

  “Please remember Lieutenant, you are still Under Oath…”
  
  “It’s not a lie… I have peekchurs… Jus lakh yores. Gun camera Peekchurs. Wanna see ‘em?”

I show my pictures… they can match my story…. I will be Captain before you learn to wipe your arse… Dick head!

[pause]
‘Ts Great. Kin I tell you a story? Wanna hear a story? Dju gonna love this…
  “Lieutenant, you are reminded that this is a recorded conversation. You are still Under Oath…”

  I LAY out gun camera pictures : Series 2…. Whisper “Dju don hav dese pikchurs? Do You?

This is Tete. Remember Tete? It’s not there any more… cos we took it out. What peekchurs do dju have, mano?

Lets do “Dangerman!”
We have all of this rhetoric about “Us” and “Them”. {my Irish lass}

But now we are out here in a place our mothers never eveN dreamed while she was in the throes of passion. Making love and getting fucked and she felt like heaven and all eternity and she never dreamed in all that passion love and wishing that her son would be out here with a gun in his hands looking for your sons to fill my life so that I may live to honor my mother and the man who lays his life down beneath her feet.

But we forgot that part. Conveniently…

    Because we are armed. Prowling around here with night vision turned to 
    max. Feeling all strong and powerful because we are part of the Moral
   Majority. Are we not? Are we not right? The very Moral Majority? Are we
   not moral? Creeping about with stealth. Are we not just? And justified in
   our quest that We WILL Lay Down The Law or we WILL lay you down if you 
   transgress the Law since The Bible. Forever and ever are men. Living.    
    Died. Dead. So we are out here doing our Just Law.

Seeking a target…

There!

Just
quietly…
line it up…aaaand…slowly….

no hurry…

squ…eeeee. Za!

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Android… the country side is so beautiful, so wide as her legs and clear as her eyes. I wish only to share this with her… Show her this… Sister. Go for a little picnic… a cold chicken, a pine apple, fresh bread… fresh basil, olive oil… for her skin… afterward…

All of the next moments are operational for the space of about a minute or a coupl’a seconds more… only… no more

Next…Drrt!… Drrt!…                                   Drrt!… Drrt!                       Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt!!!

“Proximity Alert” is flashing away at the comm…inbound projectiles 0.762 all about.

“Target acquired”
Beep
“Locking…”
Aim…. Fire…. Budda budda budda …  budda
”Target neutralized”
beep

Next…
    ….seeking….seeking… seeking
    Net Convexity Detector set to “wide scan”…

Next…
    Proximity Alert profiles high contrast oblation – Temperature 1500ºC -   
    inbound missile
    heat bloom at 10metres,  45 deg left
    Brite Lite Sugar Puff “Duff”::

Next
   high contrast oblation – Temperature 1500ºC inbound missile
   heat bloom at 15m 10 deg right.
   They’re Gotta be guessing, yes?

Movement?
    Positive…
    Tracking beacon plays WARNING: “ in coming. Evasive action… 
    incomingevasiveaction… incomingevasiveaction”
WARNING
     beep
     Hesitate – 1/50 sec…
     Move to shadow – 1/50 sec
WARNING:

Next…
Register high contrast oblation again…fading to normal
FUKKIT wots normal out HERE?
Movement is positive in-bound.
Heat contrast is moving…
WARNING
“Come to me mama. Come to me” –

Movement Positive WARNING

Tracking beacon plays “positive target active”:

   WARNING
   Warning. Warning. Warning. Warning.
   “Threat ident positive…
   Targets in Motion. WARNING”
   I waitin fo yo mutha fuckah!
   I got a whole wo-o-o-o-r-r-l-d a pain to share wit ya
   Targets in Motion. WARNING”.

Next…
“Target acquisition – nominal to profile. Threat Imminent”
Requisition Target?
“Hostile? Friendly?

Hostile? Friendly? Hostile? Friendly? hostilefriendlyhostilefriendly?
Beep
  Threat Imminent. Tracking”

WARNING
    Next…
No response. Unknown…
Beep
  Threat Imminent. Tracking LOCKED
WARNING
    Next…
Tracking second inbound…horns of a dilemma? Not me Jack. Time to check out.

Requisition Target?
beep

“Hostile?

??
 
Friendly?”
beep

Nominal profile reads: “Unknown. Targets in Motion. WARNING.
Targets in Motion. WARNING”
Beep
 Threat Imminent”

Next
Lock target… select munition… acquire solution… commence active ranging…
  “Active ranging LIVE!”

WARNING: WARNING: WARNING: WARNING:

   Ranging to lock – Stand by
“Locking…selectarmament… selectarmament… select… select…”

Next…Check: Self Status:
“Mobile?”
Yes.
“Armed?”
Yes.
Switch safety to “off-position?”
Yes.
“Down Range Acquisition Active?.”
Yes.
“Have Lock on Targets?”
Yes

  Targeting… stand by…
  Range is acquired…Ranging active… Targets in Motion
  Prepare armament?

Yes

… ready armament. Requesting first target… ranging IS active?
Beep  Contact Threat”
Target two In Line… Ranging…”

Arming Selection Active. Please select… Please select… Please select… Please select… Please select…
ranging IS active… Two on line… Three is acquired… range to THREE… locked THREE targets…
Beep beep beep

Next…
Select:
Explosive tipped,
Caseless,
Armour piercing,
Round one…???
Yes
beep

Arming…. Explosivetippedcaselessarmourpiercingroundone…

Next…
Load Ready?
Yes
beep

Zero to target?
locked…
Active sighting locked?…
active sighting locked… …ranging IS active…Zero to Targets One and Two track on Three ranging

Should Do The Trick – Dick
Track… Active sighting…

Switching to LIVE…
Draw bead…
Active tracking is zero…
beep
   Tracking LIVE
Draw bead…
Active tracking ZERO beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeep

      *Klikk *

Next…
HEAT BLOOM Temperature – 5200ºC at 21#  at 140 meters..
Vhoooop!
Fukkyahhh! Ciao!
Target one is Nil… Target two is Nil…. WARNING Target three in motion

All vision fades to white….normalizing …how’s THIS for fukken normal?
    Responding rapid fire from down range.
    Fukkit – duck for cover

Next…
Evasive action…incomingevasiveaction…incomingevasiveaction…
beep
    Audio pick-up records three bursts of ten rounds incoming..?….
    0.762 high velocity projectiles, wide spray. Whistle over and around
    Dust flies about me

Next.
   Arming to last LOCKED?
Yes…

Armed. Ready…?
Yes…
Ranging?… acquired. Lock to “Hot Target”
ranging active… Active Tracking…
….Switching to LIVE Three target in line…
Warning! Multiple targets….
beep

LOCK. On three.

Multiple targets in motion

Next…
Ranging armament “Target Still Hot” confirm?
FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE DON WAIT FUKKEN FIRE
Live fire…..

Loose off one more SkyBolt, round two…*kklikk * Vhooopround three…*kklikk *Vhoooph!
Four!   Sshhhhh Vhoooop!
Next…
HEAT BLOOMS three cluster… Temperature – 5200ºC at 12#  at 130 meters

Fry an Die…

All vision fades to white….normalizing
More rapid fire return I must live I must live I must live I must I must must must

Next.
“Lock ‘n load fly boy…
Multiple Targets active…
Engage …
Time To Die
Weapon Select Active…” #1 Zulu Grenade same track … launching last position… plus anticipated direction #2 Zulu Grenade – same track… launching
HEAT BLOOM Temperature – 3000ºC at 2#  at 130 meters  again at 3#  at 80 meters
Back and front. Box em in… Target Three is Nil…
Multiple Targets Ranging select Target One ….Targets in motion…
Ranging…target Two Confirmed locked
Ranging Target three
high impact explosive set for aerial burst… #3 Zulu Grenade away

   “To the everlasting Glory…

Arming?
Ready…please select…

Pan and Lock: Weapon Select Active.
Targets hot…
#4 Zulu… launch at next anticipated position
Aerial burst
Weapon Select Active.
Target Zone declared multiple targets hot…
Prep #5 SkyBolt
HEAT BLOOM Temperature – 5200ºC at 1#  at 30 meters…air-burst at 1 metre.
Target density is 50%
Fry the fuckers

“Of the Infantry…

My sworn duty: to kill them and maintain the sovereignty of my country
Yeah! Like fukken hell. This is My arse.
Magazine clipped.
Set automatic… bear down… bead online…
Squeeze… aim into the chaos

“Shines the name…

Next…
#5 SkyBolt away…
    Warning: SkyBolt munition DEPLETED
` I drop
    Warning: SkyBolt munition DEPLETED
 My FN Launcher on the ground
    Warning: SkyBolt munition DEPLETED
Pull the SMG gun free of my webbing and
And the air is full of body fukken parts and charred meat smells… gotchaaaa
 Flick the safety
fukkaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 To “off” Replace magazine

Target density 15%. Targets in Motion Warning…
 
Next… I make the call to “head em out”
”Gennilme-e-e-en-n-n-n! Prepare to defend Your Se-e-e-e-e-lves”  my call goes out…

“F-a-a-a-a-l-l-l-l – I –i –i – n-n-n-n-n-n”…

  Check for the Browning in my holster as we move forward
 
 Lift the SMG to my waist – short bursts. Controlled… running… from the hip….

Next…
Chaos is Looseclickbang – chikka- clickbang -chikka  clickbang. Chikkay- you or me….you..or..me//////////////////////you….chik..ka..c..lik..>>>BANG
Daylight..fukyew azzhol
The Devil is loose in Georgia, and Johnny plays the cards…

Next…I call my Field Operator into beside me. He gives me the hand-set. I am calling radio op to bring us in. I hope… make it so… please… please make it so!
Inbound ships Airmobil and Puff the Magic Dragon… laying down suppressive fire all about…

I can hear the whisper of Angels
everywhere for One Thousand Yards.
Breath of angels… we have to be free
.
.
.

Angels like us.

Johnny rousen up your bow and

Play your fiddle hard

I Bet this fiddle of gold against your soul

Coming in high and wide,

“You have One Ef Zee… AirMobil… take it…”
Magic?
  Cos I’m the best that’s Ever Been

Next…
 “Need you to Smoke ‘em off at 244 197 – Burn em outta the forest”.

I live – you die……passion. Pass it on
Would you like to die?
OR
Do you want to live for ever?

I Am Still Alive…HhHhHhHhHh,,,HHHHhhh…ha!

The ships flash by low overhead. It is raining lead. And Fire

“The Mansions of the Lord”
Words by Randall Wallace

To fallen soldiers let us sing
where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
to the mansions of the Lord

No more bleeding no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
just divine embrace, eternal light
in the mansions of the Lord

Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard tho the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep the mansions of the Lord

We have Angels airborne… stay off comm… Stand By.. Watch yore heads

 Track on inbounds … zero path… Lock to Trace…. Trace One… Locking…
Air Cav is Go on Outer marker… You look pretty

Independence closing/// locked to Trace One…

Independence You are advised clear zone is one minute east. Move! NOW! Extraction provided…

Fire commences….Radio contact Terminated….
30 Years later

Next…
Hooray? For what?
That I married my shiny one

Sing:
The hills are alive with the sound of gunfire
the blast of min  n  n  e  s  s  trig- erred by trip wire

Next…
 “Gimme the keys…. I’ll drive”

“Why”?

“Because I can – do not ask again”……
To finger paint is not a sin
I put my middle finger in
your monthly blood is what I win
in MY house now let me spin
Python power straight from Monty 
Spread your head and spread the blanket
She’s too free and I’s the patient
Black and white a red and blue
Things that look good on you 
 
Knock on wood we all stay good
Cause we all live in Hollywood
With Dracula and Darla Hood
Unspoken words were understood

Up to my ass in alligators
Let’s get it on with the ‘gator haters
Did what you did – did what you said
What’s the point? Yo! What’s the spread 
And if I call for you to stay
Come hit the funk on your way
It’s way out there but I don’t care
Cause this is where I go
 It’s way out there but I don’t care
Cause this is what
I want to wear 

Feather light but you can’t move this
Farley is an angel and I can prove this 
Let’s Sleep weeping willow  
Can I get your hand to write on
just a piece of lead to bite on
What am I to fly my kite on
do you want to flash your light on
Take a look its on display – for you –
“Coming down? no not today

Did you meet your fortune teller?
Get it off with no propeller?
Do it up it’s always stellar
what a way to finally smell her
Pick it up it’s not to strong – for you.
Take a piece and pass it on

Fly away on my Zephyr
I feel it now, more then ever
And in this perfect weather
we’ll find a place together
Fly on my wing

Riddlin on liberator
Find a way to be a skater
Rev it up to levitator
Super mainly aviator
Take a look its on display – for you
Coming down no? not today
 
In the water where in the scent of my emotion
All the world will pass me by 
And in this perfect weather
We’ll find a place together 
We’re gonna live forever

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