whites pov We were driving.
In the Cadillac for what felt like an hour in silence.Then max spoke up and said so what if you got us mixed up into I replied tony wants us to take out a rouge warewolf pack that's messing with his Moonshine operation. He said, "I was one of the ones that specifically needed to be there.I don't know why maybe there's something that he's not telling us. Max replied.Yeah, "he's always hiding something." I get the gist that whatever it is, he didn't want to say out loud.
Maybe it's something that we're looking for, and there may have been prying years trying to get ahead of us on whatever it is that he's trying to give us. I mean for crying out loud. He had a key and wanted to go to do this job for it. So I believe it's something related to that.
Max responded, "Whatever it is." I've heard about this pack. They're ruthless, and they all need to go. You're fine with killing your own kind.
He turned to me and said.
My family turned their backs on me a long time ago, and I don't care what happens to them.
I live a better life here. Sure. I risk my life daily, but I am free. The only person that I answer to is Elizabeth. Just like Tim, only answers to Walter. So what's the game plan Max said? I said we're gonna try to go in stealthy. If that's not gonna work, we're gonna rain grenades over the top of it. He said, "So it's either quiet or blow it all to hell." I responded. Yeah, that's most likely the way we're gonna have to do it, he?
Sighed.
So what you're saying is? You really don't have a plan, do you?I learned a long time ago.If you make a plan , it'll bite you in the ass sometimes you have To make it up as you go along, you learn that from Walter.
I said yes, I did. Walter always says make the plan. Execute the plan, and expect the plan to go off the rails improvise. I just have to know something before we go into this.Max said, "How the hell did you get mixed up and all of this?I know how I did, but how did you?
I looked at him and said Do you know what happens when you collapse a rift He said yes, you seal it forever.No one could ever open that one ever again That's the most of it, but do you know what actually happens in the process of the said no I do not. He said. Well, what happens is when you close the doorway? You leave a piece of you behind no matter what? Even if you're just standing next to it when it collapses, a piece of you will always be left on the other side. You can collect that piece by killing it or it killing you, and it will return to the whole butt. But that peace is always going to be different. It is always going to be changed. It's going to have different experiences from the whole.
In this circumstance, you have 2 choices. Either kill it and return it to the whole or learn to work with it. As you can see, Walter and I decided to go with the latter to get more done this way, but it is taxing. He replied, "Holy shit So you're telling me you and him are the same person in effect." Yes, I replied, but we are different.
I told him sometime. Sometimes, it's better to just return it to the hole. Otherwise.
You can get an extreme case of T. D. S. That shit will fuck you up.
He then asked me. What was the worst you've seen?
I said I watched a guy literally burst into molecules. Blood gut gore. Everything just mystified on the floor. We had to hose that dude out of the room. It was, it was something I'm never gonna forget and don't forget the smell, man. We wretched all of us that were there that day. We're vomiting for a good 5 to 10 minutes. It was disguessing something. I do not recommend you do it. Which is why we have the meds.
It stops you from trying to be in 2 places at once. essentially, what happened? Is what happened during the Philadelphia experiment? You mean that ship that they tried to put a cloaking device around, and it reappeared in several different places at once. Yeah, that's it. I replied, and he said their molecules got intwind to the point their guys embedded in the middle.
I replied yeah.
So then, what is TDS? He asked me.
I said it's when you're trying to be in 2 different universes at the same time and different time periods as well. In a nutshell, what happens? Is your not? Molecules are trying to be in different places at once. And what is left is a bloody misty mess. Crimney, he said. I do not want to go that way. When it's my time. no one does. The screams are horrific. I replied, and he then asked me. Has anyone else tried? What you and Walter are doing. I replied no. Not that I know of, but then again, we're not really sure because we haven't gone that far forward in time. We've only ever gone back. And return to the present.
Walter says knowing the future will be problematic. He believes our job is to make sure the timeline keeps going. He also believes that it's our job to stop people who think they can make a better world by changing the past. We've seen what happens when we attempt to do that. We actually tried to the first 4 or 5 times we did just say it didn't end well.
Why do you think that guy?
In 1914, he stepped out of the bar and saw Franz Ferdinand in his car. That was just us correcting the timelime to get us back to where we are now.
Let me just say you get a hell of a lot worse when you start fucking with the timeline. So far, I can tell this is our best course of action, but we never really know. There are rules we have to follow like you. Can't tell people to go get medical, checked or certain things, but if we have the knowledge and we go back in time and start buying a hell of a lot of stocks and become filthy, fucking rich. for some odd reason, Walter says, "That's fine." Max then turned to me with a smile across his face and said yeah Thank God for that.I have enough money to buy the u.S debt and still have enough left over to bomb the place to hell and build it over again in my image. I have 846 quadrillion. Dollars spread across 7 different names. But it's all there.
I just shook my head. I can't be a hypocrite without saying I've got the same.
We have the money that can bankrupt nations with a stroke of a pen. Yet all we do with it is buy really old ass cars and fighter jets.
Most of us do this job we do because we love
It and because it's fucking fun. I said to Max. Are you sure your family actually abandoned you? Well, most of them did he said," eccept my dad? He just said to me on the day we walked out.
Take care and have fun with a knowing. Look in if he knew what we were gonna be doing. He also said I remember my grandparents talking about how before my dad took over Our family was in dire, Strait's like almost on The Verge of selling the family assets, just to a Payday an electric bill. My dad disappeared for 2 months.
Came back stronger, faster smarter. With a lot of fucking money like really a lot of money.
And fixed up the place. He never said where he got it. He just said I made a few small investments, and they paid out while chuckling. My grandfather tried to alpha order the information out of him. He looked him in the eye and said, "You're not my master." You can't do that. My grandfather got angry at him at that point in time.
And tried to force him to the floor with lightning quick precision. He grabbed him, punching him and pinned on the floor knee behind his neck, saying, "I am a hell of a lot stronger and lethaler than you are." I have learned from the best. You merely learned from someone who wasn't trying to kill you.
I learned from people who brought me to the point near the point of death just to teach me a small lesson. You have nothing on them. He then said my dad challenged my grandfather for the position of alpha right then and there.
It was no contest he won in seconds. And then there was a different conversation. I overheard between him and a man. The man walked into the office and said attack dog of the Ace of Spades. How have you been? He just smiled and said I'm bored as fuck. I haven't been shot at in months." He just nodded and said yeah what happens when you were retired. I overheard.
All of this before the door got closed. 1 day while I was in training and had some free time, I went through some of the old records in the library and found that same designation
Under the 407th warith writers, vanished vipers sqad. He turned and looked out the window and said, "i'm gonna have to ask my brother about it." Alright, I said let's get back onto the topic of the mission.We're nearing the destinatso do you have any suggestions about how we do this, he said you gotta can of cover spray in the back.I grinned and said yes I do you he said good I'm gonna use that to scope.The place come back and then we'll have a game plan. It was near dark when we finally arrived. I pulled over to the side of the road and said it doesn't look like much, but then again, a moonshine operation is never visible. I turned to him and said, "Make sure you strip off." Because I don't have another change of clothes in here for you. He just nodded. Alright, I'll be back in 15. Have the guns ready for us. When I get back. I nodded and said, "Yeah, what rounds are we using on these creatures?
He looked at me and said Mercury tipped Galena.
I nodded and said, "Will do."
We're gonna use AR15's on this. I know it's not exactly time period correct, but we need something we're familiar with. And?
We are experts in.
He said, "Yeah, I prefer a tactical rifle.I'm used to alright.We'll have it ready when you get back. That sounds good. He said. He then shifted and slunk off into the night. I opened up the trunk. Grab the 2 rifles, a couple of ammo cans loaded with magazines marked with the right designation of round loaded up the rest. Put the magazine in the guns and racked them. Ruel, one of our organizatiand unloaded Unracked gun is just a hunk of metal. Rule 2 is to treat all guns as if they are loaded. Rule 3 shoot, first, ask questions later.
Rule 4, if they're close enough to identify you. You have to kill him because you do not wanna leave witnesses. Rule 5, trust your gut. Your gut will never steer you wrong. Rule 6 is to have a backup for your backup.Because you never know when your gun is gonna fail. Rule 7: Never leave your firearm with someone one.You wouldn't trust your life with. Rule 8: Take your time when shooting. You're only gonna get one chance. One good shot is better than 2 that missed. Rule 9: Never betray the trust of anyone who has earned your loyalty unless they violate yours. Rule 10: Never trust anyone who has already betrayed your loyalty.They have already shown their true colors. Rule 11 is never going to battle with an untested weapon. If anyone asks why the rules are the way they are.We tell them because they're all written in blood. The rules were on laminated sheet of paper taped to the inside top of the ammo cans. Once I had everything ready, it was just a waiting game. Till Max returned.