No Fear

Paul Pov:

Red Leader has been in his office for the past four days, this worries me since after a war he always wants a rematch, but he refuses to come out and is missing a lot of paper work, also the army is in a panic because everyone needs his permission to do certain things.

"Do you know why he's locking himself in his room?" Patryk asks me.

"No fucking idea, after the private fight with Blue Leader he just immediately went into his room when we got back to base," I reply. "I'm kind of worried, even if I'm only working for him."

"Same here, even if he's a asshole sometimes, I feel a sort of pity for him," Patryk looks down and rubs his arm. "Hey Paul, I keep hearing rumors..."

"What kind of rumors?"

Patryk looks back up at me and says, "That some soldiers listened in on his screaming whenever he fails a war, and his screaming is just about making Blue Leader cower in fear, not kill him." I get a bit surprised from this, I've never heard this rumor before and I'm Red Leaders right hand man. "Is this true?"

"I have no idea, I never heard the rumor myself, but I also respect Red Leader enough to not intrude on his screaming," I shrug and slightly look away. "I am the one he trusts the most after all, I don't want to be caught then demoted."

"I can understand that," Patryk sits down on a chair and sighs, he changes the subject, "I was really stupid to actually take Red Leaders robot arm to clean it without permission, I probably deserved that demotion." Patryk wanted to be nice to Red Leader by cleaning his robot arm because it was covered in dust and dry mud, but since he did it without permission he got demoted to Secretary.

"Come on Patryk, you know you were just trying to be nice, Red Leader can just be a hot head and make serious choices over little things," Patryk looks at me.

"Yeah, I know, but I did break the "Permission rule" and Red Leader strives on that rule, I was kinda dumb doing that,"

"Okay, maybe a little dumb, if that's what you really want to hear, but sometimes nice things can be misjudged, so don't worry about it," Patryk smiles to this and just nods. "Good."

Tom Pov:

"What did you even do? He hasn't been back in four days!" Edd asks with a wonder filled smile.

"Oh Edd, I just shattered his heart is all," I say with a smile like it's a casual thing, Edd flinches in surprise from my answer.

"How did you even do that?"

"If I told everyone in base my answer then I'd probably be the least favorite leader from now on," I make it sound worse than it is, I'm sort of answering from Tords perspective, I don't know why, I just kinda want to.

"Well okay then,"

Suddenly Matt bursts into the room and says to us, "Guys the water supply is on fire again!"

"Oh my Cola Matt! The other dimension is going to kill us!" Edd says to Matt then turns to me. "Tom, how about you look after the offense Rebels for a while, their trainer is sick today and a lot more people have officially joined the Rebellion yesterday so there's going to be a lot of newbies." Edd runs out the door while calling out to me, "I trust you with this Tom!"

I only sigh in response as I grab my pistol and put it into my holster and my dagger into it's sheath, I then begin walking to the outside training ground.

Once I arrive at the training grounds, all I see is laziness. The older Rebels are training by doing slow pushups and the younger and less disciplined Rebels are just chatting in the corner of the training field, this is just sad.