The Beginning of An End
With the destruction of the capital city, Reichland had been
effectively decapitated. It now lacked a central government,
economic hub, and law, along with these tenets of Reichland soceity
went the revelance of the monarchy. Reichland had been effectively
split into two factions, one still holding loyal to the monarchy,
and the other which wanted the monarchy abolished and its members
dead for bringing such disaster to Reichland. The rebel faction,
led by former Reichen Brigadier Katukov, outnumbered those still
loyal to the monarchy within two days of the destruction of
Reichland, with more and more of the original Reichen army and
populace defecting to his cause. The royal family was in grave
danger.
And the wound of betrayal would run deep, an informant loyal to
Katukov had infiltrated the deepest ranks of the Reichen monarchy,
and given the location of Emperor Andreas' fallout bunker to the
rebel leader. Rebel troops attacked and breached the perimeter one
hour later, with much of the hopelessly outnumbered elite Royal
Guard killed or defected. The rebels took no prisoners. Storming
the bunker, they captured the Emperor's wife, Sharon, and daughter,
Tammy. As luck would have it, Andreas was meeting with his top
officals in another location at the time. Upon hearing the news of
the impending fall of Reichland to rebel hands, and the capture of
Andrea's family, they decieved the emperor into flying for the
safety of Prussia, telling him that they had been transported there
as well. It wasn't until he watched XNN later that day did he
discover the news.
Xing Shianan spy satellites, orbiting high above the chaos,
recorded the lynch scene playing out in the streets below. Brutally
kicked and shoved as they were led by Rebel troops through the
burnt out streets of FredericksBurg, the enraged civillian mob of
FredericksBurg pelted Sharon and Tammy with rubbish and spat on
them as they were led down the streets to the burnt out city square
which was the epicenter of the blast. There, four rebel tanks
waited, arranged in a square and pointing out away from one
another..
Katukov stood on one of them, shouting the the surging masses,
which once supported the emperor, now supported him. He moved the
brutalized, bleeding Reichen royality to the center as the masses
rained riot missiles down on them. Katukov stilled the masses as he
rose his rifle.
"Listen people!" He shouted. "Today is a glorious day for us! Now
the fate of Reichland is truly in our hands. Today here stands two
of those people who had once held our lives in their very hands,
sending our children off the die for useless causes."
The mob roared at that statement, a few more riot missiles rained
down on Sharon and Tammy.
"No more of this! This is the dawn of the new socialist order!
There will be peace and bread for every man, in accordance to his
needs! No more shall we suffer for the selfishness of a few while
they contuine to pad their pockets and homes! Taking what's ours
for their own uses!"
"No more of this! Today in with the new, and out with the old!" He
motioned as the crowd roared. Rebel troops yanked Sharon away from
Tammy, she screamed and resisted, only to recieve a brutal stroke
from a rifle that split her nose. As they dragged the mother away,
anothe rebel trooper swung his rifle at the back of Tammy's left
knee joint, breaking the thing and forcing her to her knees. She
screamed in pain as the crowd roared.
He pointed his G36 rifle at the girl, and cut loose with a rattling
burst from it. The girl's forhead seemed to deform like plastic and
then expode outwards in a shower of blood, brain and bone. The body
vibrated violently as more gouts of blood splattered out from
bullet hits all over it in long stringy blobs. The body slumped
over backwards obscenely, still stuck in the kneeling position as
rebel soldiers started to pour more automatic fire into it, jerking
it violently until what was once a girl resembled more like a
thick, red, bleeding piece of cloth rag on the ground. Dragging the
body by the neck like a dead lamb, a rebel tossed it into the
crowd, which fought for it.
Katukov nodded, and they brought the mother forward back to the
center of the formation of tanks. Groggy and dimy aware that her
daughter was now dead, she did not resist as they chained each of
her limbs to each of the tanks.
"In with the new, out with the old!" Katukov shouted.
The tanks surged forward, Sharon's body did not resist as the
chains went tight. With a shake of dust off the chains as the
tension went slack, all of Sharon's limbs were ripped loose from
her torso, exposing bone and long strings of severed connective
tissue that dragged along a red trail on the ground as they were
dragged by the tanks. In the center, Sharon's torso twitched
grostuquely, bleeding profusely from all the ragged holes that were
once the joints where her limbs had met her torso. The head jerked
up and down, as if trying to see beyond the chest to where the
missing limbs had gone, still obvious that she was still quite
aware and alive, and trying to move, to get up despite missing all
her limbs. As the blood drained out from the four massive wounds
ripped in the body, the twitching grew less frantic, the squirming
slower. With a final shudder, the head dropped and lay out sideways
on the ground, the mouth wide open like a landed finsh trying to
gulp in air. The chest rose and fell sparodically for a few more
times, before it was all still.
The rebels tossed the mutilated body into the crowd.
"In with the new, out with the old!"
Xing Shiana, 30 minutes later.
"My goodness..." The intelligence officer whispered as he viewed
the satellite feed they had just recieved. The rest of the staff in
the room was silent, huddled around the monitor.
An intelligence agent broke the silence as he burst into the room,
slamming the door open, clutching a piece of paper crumpled in his
hastly rush from his department to theirs.
"We have confirmation from field agents." He said breathlessly.
"The DNA profiles from the bodies match. Sharon and Timmy Kaiser
have been murdered."
"Report this to Head, now."