56 Middle Finger (1/2)

”Thank you for helping us out” the US president gave a slight bow before he sat down at the chair opposite of Leo.

Currently, Leo and the president are talking in the oval office and they are around them are their own guards looking warily at each group. Alex and David are standing just over a meter away behind him and behind the president are the upper echelons of their group along with seven soldiers holding old rifles and surprisingly the arrogant general earlier is in attendance, who is greedily looking at the Zijiang m99 at Alex's hands.

”How about we talk about business Mr. President?” Leo smiled as picked up the cup of coffee from the table and looked at the president.

*****

Outside the Oval Office.

Austin and Caleb is standing side by side as their eyes wandered around, looking at the busy people, running around, fixing the damages caused by the earlier combat.

”This people are so pitiful” Austin muttered, looking at the ragged looks of the civilians here.

”Oh? It seems you like to help them?” Caleb said looking at him with interest.

”Don't look at me like that, not like I could even help them” Austin chuckled when he noticed the he was giving him, like Caleb was waiting for him to do something stupid.

While Austin and Caleb is having a conversation, a soldier around mid forties with a mustache and a beard is staring at Austin with squinting eyes while muttering ”Is that Austin?”

Because of wanting to confirm it if it's really the person he's thinking of, he walked over and said ”Austin?”

Austin looked back and when he saw the person calling out to him, he was shocked for a bit before smiling widely and said with a laugh ”Sir! You're still alive and kicking!”

”It's really is you brat!” the man said as he clasped Austin's shoulders and then noticed the M4 carbine on his hand with surprised before his expression returned to normal immediately.

Austin noticed but just smiled to himself as he already realized that his group are the only people holding modern firearms while his former american brothers are only equipped with 'relics'.

”This is really a surprise! Where have you been all this time?”

”The boss saved me and my family and I've been following him till now”

”Your boss~?”

”Yeah, he's the man inside talking to the president”

”What? The guy who killed Ol' Biggie and was wearing some kind of a futuristic armor?”

”Care to introduce him to me?” Caleb suddenly butted in their conversation.

”Oh! Right! This is Major Armstrong, my former commanding officer and this is Caleb, a former british knight and now, currently one of the commanding officer in the group” Austin introduced both of them to each other.

”You were knight before?” Major Armstrong asked as he looked at Caleb, full of interest of why a former knight is following someone, not of the royal family.

”Yes, until the boss save from my death” Caleb just smiled and didn't give too much information.

Major Armstrong just nodded and then looked at Austin before he whispered beside his ear and said ”Can we talk alone?”

Austin glanced at Caleb, who gave him a slight nod and then replied ”Sure”

Austin and Major Armstrong went to the side and started to discuss something.

Caleb gave a look at their direction and muttered ”Old fool” before he ignored and started vigilantly looking around with a hand at the katana strapped at his waist and a HK416 on his back. The katana on him is what Zabu forged for him before their departure to the US.

”Can you tell me anything about the Armor he was using before and why are you guys able to use modern firearms?” Armstrong said to Austin in a low voice.

”I really can't tell you anything about boss because I even don't where it came from and about us being able to us modern firearms? Well, you will probably know about it later” Austin just gave a simple answer as he really didn't anything regarding about it.

”Come on, stop messing with me” Armstrong said smiling but he said it with a commanding tone in his voice.

Austin just smiled and didn't really care about it. After all, he is now far stronger and he knows to himself that he can even defeat an entire squad of special forces.

”Even if I know something, I still won't tell you” Austin chuckled as he looked at him eye to eye.

”You bastard, I can ignore about you going rogue and abandoning your post but withholding crucial information is unacceptable, I can get you court martialed for treason” Armstrong said with anger and threatened him.

Hearing him yapping about getting court martialed made him laughed and he snorted ”I would have been afraid if America was still before all this but now, I don't even care anymore because the moment that I left this country, I'm no longer a US citizen but a citizen of the Earth Federation”

”US now only exist in name, you can't even call this place a sovereign state anymore with only a few hundred meters of land under it” Austin was laughing as he left the angry old man behind and went back to Caleb.

”Traitorous Bastard, I'll kill you one day”

”Not before I kill you first by then old man” the moment he said those words, he heard Austin's laughing voice.

He was first surprised that he was still able to hear him when he was already a few meters away from him but then snorted and went to his own men with a belly full of anger.