Battle Earth VII

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Author: Nick S. Thomas
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of his teeth. In response, one drew a shock baton and drove it into his stomach. His went limp and dropped to his knees.
    “Not so funny now, is it?” the cop shouted in his ear.

    * * *

    The night seemed to have gone on forever as Taylor sat on a hard bench in a prison cell. After what he’d been through in military detention, it didn’t seem so bad. Jafar sat in a cell opposite him. He was willing to bet good money that his alien friend would be capable of prising the bars apart with his bare hands, but he had done as ordered and gone along with it. Hours had passed without a word between the two of them when Jafar finally spoke out.
    “Yesterday you tried to get out of a fight any way possible, and yet in the night, you sought one, why?”
    It gave Taylor pause for thought.
    “You say you don’t want to fight anymore, but then enjoy it when the time comes.”
    “A good honest bar brawl is the end to a good evening. Fighting a war is something I would wish on no man.”
    He wasn’t sure he necessarily believed that whole-heartedly, but it seemed like the best way of explaining it.
    “But you were asked to fight a war, just one Mech. An unarmed Mech. How is that different to what we just did?”
    He didn’t have an answer. Somehow in his head it made sense, and he had enjoyed every minute of the brawl, and hated the Mech fight and the reasons for it.
    “Your people only seem to like and respect you when there is a war and when you are fighting it, and yet you wish for peace?”
    The questions were getting more trying and piercing Taylor’s thoughts.
    Yes, maybe I do pray for another war.
    A door opened at the far end of the corridor dividing their two cells, and they could hear three pairs of footsteps approaching. Neither of them got up to greet their visitors. Two cops and Weaver came into view. Weaver was shaking his head in disgust and disapproval.
    “You’re a maniac who should be locked away in times of peace for the good of society. But someone, somewhere thinks you have a part to play. You’re a relic, Taylor, one that will be paraded around until nobody longer cares and then thrown aside. I can just see your life ten years from now. Sitting in a trailer park somewhere, alone and drinking yourself to death. Replaying the glory days in your head while nobody gives a shit anymore.”
    Taylor wanted nothing more than to reach through the bars of the cell and throttle the detestable creature. He only restrained himself because the only thing he wanted more was to get out of the cell.
    “And a good morning to you,” he replied sarcastically.
    Weaver shook his head. He was clearly trying to get a rise out of Mitch and give them all an excuse to keep him behind bars, but he wasn’t biting.
    “Let him out.”
    “Bail ain’t even been paid,” protested one of he officers, “This guy wrecked a whole bar and half the patrons in it.”
    “I think that’s exaggerating. He’s one man, not an army. Now, you know who I work for. Let him out before I have to start making calls you don’t want me to make. And let that thing out while you’re at it,” Weaver said, waving towards Jafar.
    The cop reluctantly swiped his security card through the cell access point, and the door slid open.
    “There’s a first time for everything,” said Taylor.
    “How so?” Weaver asked.
    “I’m happy to see you,” he sneered.
    “All right, let’s go.”
    The two of them followed Weaver out of the cellblock to the front of the station where they heard cheering coming from the front desk. They got to the atrium to see two police officers watching a video of his fight with the Mech the previous day. It had clearly been filmed by one of the audience. He could see the crowd come into view on the edges.
    “That you?” asked one of them.
    “Fucking epic,” added one of the others.
    “Yes,” added Weaver. “That little stunt of ours has caused quite a stir since it has gone viral; five million views in less than a
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