Betrayal

Erich stepped onto the Holo-Pad in his office; after making sure the line was secure and the VI was off he made the call.

Call:--

European North American Alliance Command ship-GN-Vergeltung

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Accepted—

Erich watched quietly as an orange grid scanned him while at the same time a holographic image of a man appeared in front of him, He had on a German Naval Field Marshall uniform, his face was blocked out by a bright light behind him.

“Zufreur, I wasn’t expecting to hear from you so soon—what is it?”

“Field Marshall Kesserling, you told me to contact you if anything important or relevant came out during my travels, anything pertaining to the Krieg’s or the war.”

The Field Marshall paused for a moment before nodding “Yes, what is it?”

“I have two survivors of Operation Olympic Mons on board this station with me. One is an Armitage unit, the other is a child A.I. that’s evolved—it survived the Origin facility.”

The Field Marshall rubbed his hand against his mouth thinking for a few minutes “This, This is bad for both you and I, and even Germany. If the UBC Catches word that we didn’t exterminate each and every last self-aware artificial—It’s bad enough they blame us for those strings of Terrorists cells that took out a few of their board members children, but for them to find out we missed some of our targets.” The Field Marshall paused then looked off towards his right “Erich, You know what you must do.”

Erich frowned shaking his head “W—with all due respect sir, I’m not going to kill them—I’m no longer a Kri-“

The Field Marshall cut him off yelling “ZUFREUR, DID YOU FORGET THE VOW YOU TOOK?! IT IS YOUR DUTY to stop this, and stop them—YOU TOOK AN OATH TO PROTECT GERMANY AT ALL COSTS, YOU MAY BE RETIRED ON PAPER BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW YOUR ASS STILL BELONGS TO ME!”

Erich looked down in a defeated way, he was right. “Yes sir.”

“Erich.” The Field Marshall began. “I want you to observe for now, You can’t hope to take on two fully evolved class V’s, for now do what you’ve been doing but keep tabs on them—and I want a file, on both of them by tomorrow night.”