The next day on and near Death’s Gate

I love a good fight and I love to win a fight. The fight we are in satisfies both those needs. For as I look at the enemy and I can see many heads are unconnected to decapitated bodies, blood oozing down the terrain, bathing the entire island in a shade of red that you cannot achieve any other way. I see men lying there in a position that you know can never happen while living. You see them fallen over in a puddle of blood, looking like an asleep child who has wet his bed and is lying in a puddle of his pee (only with blood) to awake any minute, but they don’t wake up for this sleep is eternal and no matter how hard you try they will stay in that same position forever. You can see blood red ocean water that you know even in a drought to last all time you would not drink. The weird part of all of this is that you enjoy it you feel like this is comeuppance to evil men you never met shooting at me and my comrades from afar, and it makes you cling to the leader of your country, another man you have never met, the reason you are fighting. You start to love this man. I find time to write this behind a tank, out of ammo, in the middle of the night and with night vision goggles on. Ajax and Minus are here for Lacedaemon but it appears that John has decided to save the heroes of Johnia until completely necessary. Meanwhile Minus is using his mad skizills to boat circles around the Johnians who had been in militarys all over the world before being kicked out for disorderly conduct (well most of them anyway). Ajax is using his brute strength to overturn tanks and even planes. He defeats many men, pretty much annihilating John’s army of criminals and thieves. I do feel sorry that my army partially consists of poor innocent children who my dear beloved Edward graciously forced into service. I love putting the Johnians in their place.

The fight in the water

Here we are in death’s gate, on our own turf losing. This is death’s gate. We have mines in the water and on land. How could they avoid hitting our traps for so long? There is only one way, they have a spy within the Johnian government trying to destroy us from the inside. Could it be Mars? He somehow heads the military and has produced some pretty risky, pretty interesting plans. He right now is under a lot of pressure, maybe enough to make him crack. That would not really explain why our heroes are not fighting. It could be a member of congress who does not trust the current leadership on Janus. Back to the battle, no one is shooting currently, an armistice that has been going on for ten minutes because of a passing hurricane but finally we have reached the eye. Here we can safely weather the storm but we must keep moving. Thankfully John had built all his building to seismic standards with fallout, hurricane and tornado shelters. We are unlucky here in Johnia. John had done the same thing with his boats. He took the money that he originally had, a still huge amount, and bought himself all kinds of metals. He used silver, gold, wolfram, titanium, platinum, bronze, and any metal you can think of. He put them together and made an almost indestructible dense alloy to make his ships with. He then made this force field to put on the lead ship of the admiral. I am the captain of his boat. You see he made a small pocket dimension and let it go out from around the boat. Anything shot here just goes through the pocket dimension and out the other side not hitting us. The pocket dimension also hides us, because we’re in reality and there is a dimension hiding us. It also allows for us to go through waters intangible but our shot to become tangible. John only put this on my ship because he knew his army was partly corrupt. He knew that if all his boats had force field one of his less trustworthy men would have sold him out. This ship has only the elites, only those who John knows would never betray him. Wow! I’ve never seen this happen before, a tornado is chasing on land and two hurricanes out to sea, one from each direction. John built his ship knowing that there would be some rough times on the high seas. He knew that a hurricane feeds off warm moist water and air so he included a function that turns his ships to ice cubes on the outside but be warm on them inside. All the ships could sometimes freeze together as one ice cube. I am always on the outside of the ship when it freezes so that I can steer the ship and make sure all goes well. Then I saw a movement, it was a ninja. He looked at me and showed a grin, for this was a lifelong friend of mine. He set fire to the ships of the other fleet, leading the hurricane toward them. Also he set fire to our trenches then said fire to the other side. It soon became a wild fire only going toward Lacedaemon’s army because the fuel on our side had already been burned so the fire could not burn us up. Even with what had just occurred our chances of survival were slim. The opposing army had built a death ray. You see one of the scientists had been asked to invent a device to find us even while our force fields made us intangible but he said he could only invent a death ray. For this reason only a few ships and men were still amongst the living. I look up to see it, the sunlight illuminating the dark landscape and many corpses left over from the day before. That’s it, the corrupt man in our government is. Just then upon a ridge on Death’s Gate a man showed up. The dawn showed that the man was none other than… John Golden.                    

The fall of Johnia

There he was, John Andrew Golden, JAG back from the dead, atop Death’s gate’s volcano named Fibonacci. It, along with the recent earthquake named Arabic peoples replaced a volcano that was once there, yesterday named roman numerals. John now says,” Friends, Johnians, countrymen lend me your ears. The time to take Johnia, our nation back, back from the revolutionaries trying to take down the city of Constantinople, back from Lacedaemon who threatens to invade, back from the corruption in our government and most importantly back from fear is now. I know that our chances so far are slim and that it is almost impossible currently but I’ve got some friends who can fix that, say hello to them”, He stepped away and showed his army of book and movie characters. “Now, let’s teach them that when you mess with the buffalo you get the horns.”

I thought that he was a little mixed up but then I realized that he meant the buffalo horns attack developed by Shaka Zulu, leader of the African Zulu tribe.  After a few minutes Nike and Ares finally realized that he had invoked the attack but it was too late, for John had already made his circle around the army and was closing in. Now, Nike decided to try the antigravitational thingy. No luck, for John had all the army men’s boots were steel toed and at any time he could turn their electromagnetic nature magnetic and there was metal paving on Death’s Gate so no dice. Then Ares tried to turn his army invisible. This was a bad plan for two reasons, first they were in the area of a complete circle made by the Johnian army that they could not get out of, second John gave all of his commandos sunglasses. These could go to infer-red, gamma, heat signatures, sonar, x-rays, microwaves, ultraviolet waves radio waves, visible light and all other methods of detecting invisible peoples. Now the army of Lacedaemon surrendered for even with a low man count John was able to defeat huge armies and defend against armies with huge weapons and/or ridiculously high man counts. When given the plea of surrender John answered,” Ares, Nike, tell me, who was it who just attacked Johnia? If given a plea from my army after my marching in to his territory would Cullen who has risen from the dead and is fighting at Mecca with the secret police think twice before annihilating the army of Johnia? No, he would not. Then why do you expect me to allow you to live? Now to prove I am and always was a better man than Cullen I will give you 5358359254990966640871840 seconds to get away but this volcano has a special sequence and says that that is only two minutes. So run but be warned when time Is up we will come after you with our fastest zeppelin and tank”

John had Chimalpopoca, an archer, RC a metal slab to go under the tank, make the tank hover and eliminate friction. John then got many iron clouds ready. After two minutes was up John hunted those on land that the tornado did not destroy down with tanks. Then at sea he hunted down ships by crashing an iron cloud with a rocket attached to it into it. When all was said and done the once huge and majestic army of Nike and Ares had been reduced to five, Nike, Ares, Ajax, Minus and a soldier named Mnguni. John took the former, latter, third and second to last prisoners but sent the final man to the Lacedaemon leadership with this message, John Golden has defeated the army and has taken your heroes and generals hostage, If you ever would like to see them again go to the wall and graffiti a compromise for this war, John will then amend your compromise until you are both happy. John defeated your army one time Cullen, don’t make him have to do it again or next time the hostage will be you and he won’t be as willing to compromise, have a nice day. Typical John, he changed moods on a dime to strike fear into the hearts of enemies but Cullen is of a different class completely. John and him are very evenly matched except Cullen is older and has an even larger army but John is young, courageous, inginuic, smart and a great general. Alone he could take down many armies but his power knows limits and boundaries, for he is only one man against millions. Now, we head to see what the mighty Hercules has done with the revolutionaries of Johnia. Here we are “Ah Mr. Golden, how fortunate it is of me to have the pleasure of seeing you again. As you can imagine, I’m a double agent. How I played your brother Nhoj for a fool, ‘Oh John is dead this is terrible news’ when I already knew that you had survived, even before you showed yourself to us and tried to raise moral as champion. I knew even before you became the protectorate of Muslims at Mecca. How sad that such an empire would fall. You could have been such an ally to us at Lacedaemon, you, Jared, Daedalus, Bobo, Eva, Bella and that second in command robot maker. Now tell me John did you know that Carlo Rhalphie was corrupt, did you know that the man who had served alongside you at equal power, just never used his power was my greatest ally in Johnia?”

“Did you know that Carlo already has been killed by our senate because he felt like making himself and Edward Cullen deities? Yeah, they invited him to Death’s gate and well Menelaus brought out a knife, stabbed him, the other senaters joined in and soon there were 35 wounds and  you know the rest. Then the government was moot and turned to anarchy but the mafia led by the Carmine- Guido duo forced a coop and have now handed over power to me.”

“I don’t care, Johnia is Switzerland during WWII, Johnia is Cuba in the twenty-first century, Johnia is Russia before the Bolshevik revolution, Johnia is Iran during the Iraqi United states war, Johnia is Vatican City, Johnia is French Guiana before being released from French control, Johnia is South Africa during apartheid, Johnia is outdated, a relic of the past. Because you are outdated I think I’ll give you a little push in the direction of communism. I feel that that push is just what you need to stop this ludicrous government type called federal republic and begin the glorious savior come down from heaven, back from the grave called communism.”

“You think, you feel, you use words like I and yet you still are the leader of a government. You let your emotions get the better of you and that Menelaus that is why you are just a pawn trying to play a game of chess that is between me and Cullen, that is why your army keeps losing battles and that my nemesis named Menelaus is why you never will rule Johnia. Until you learn to control your emotions you will just be a small insignificant dot on a map will three hundred other ones surrounding it. Become my apprentice and I will teach you to control your emotions. I will make you great. Come with me and I promise that soon you will be infinitely more powerful than Cullen but this power won’t be abused, this power will be great, this power will make you the most powerful man ever to live but most of all, this power will be controlled. What do you say?”

After a moment of silence he answered “You are so naïve. You think you can just get me to give you my loyalties, that you can just get this war to leave. Before I threw them in prison Megera and Hercules said the same thing but fine I say attack.”

The battle was long and great but in the end John was captured and Johnia fell.