Blood Ties
Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:01 pm
Perigord - 1922
From the main balcony of the Lockheed dirigible skyliner William H Fox concluded expressing his wishes to the tall powerfully built man stood beside him.
Unlike his minions and employees, he treated this one with measured respect, this one was an Alpha like him, a pack leader, the man nodded and marched away.
Fox turned “Baron”, The man stopped
“No mercy” in reply he merely nodded and resumed marching.
Five minutes later a Red triple wing Fokker D disengaged from the aeroplane pylons and dropped into the sky below, a signal having roused four biplanes of the same squadron from their nearby airfield.
***
Hope Road Boundary County, Idaho – 7.41am
Despite Sonny’s dire warning of the trip being all dirt road, Hope Road was a decent piece of road, the Aston gripped the road which was useful considering it was peppered with wreckage.
The big man swerved, frantically spun the wheel to correct and pitched the car right to avoid the next chunk of twisted metal.
“THIS CAN’T ALL BE RACING CARS” shouted Hoste
“THINK IT IS, NOT ALL FROM THIS RACE” Sonny shouted back “THINK THEY LEAVE THEM HERE!”
Sonny’s logic made a lot of sense, small arms fire bounced off adjacent wreckage, he’d forgotten the other racers.
Hoste’s attention however was drawn to a deep drone, his neck crunched as the car veered once again across the road, he searched around from the noise until his vision was drawn upwards.
“Shit” he watched as a ominous red fighter plane levelled out, behind it flew four other fighters
“That can’t be good” he muttered “WE’VE GOT A PROBLEM” he roared at Sonny, just as canon rounds tore up the road ahead of them.
Boundary County Airspace - Idaho.Current Affairs: North American is balkanised into five Nations, leaving a neutral contested territory running from Northern Idaho down to Texas.
Monte Carlo style racers now conduct Life or death road races within the territory.
Divergence Point: Napoleons forces are innoculated against Yellow Fever and destroy the Haitian Slave rebellion in 1802.
French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord persuades Napoleon to reject Thomas Jefferson’s request for the Louisiana Purchase and reinforces his American Colony with newly freed slave soldiers.
The Westward Expansion is halted leading Joshua Norton to successfully establish the Bear Flag Empire on the West Coast and a North America divided amongst Nations.
From the main balcony of the Lockheed dirigible skyliner William H Fox concluded expressing his wishes to the tall powerfully built man stood beside him.
Unlike his minions and employees, he treated this one with measured respect, this one was an Alpha like him, a pack leader, the man nodded and marched away.
Fox turned “Baron”, The man stopped
“No mercy” in reply he merely nodded and resumed marching.
Five minutes later a Red triple wing Fokker D disengaged from the aeroplane pylons and dropped into the sky below, a signal having roused four biplanes of the same squadron from their nearby airfield.
***
Hope Road Boundary County, Idaho – 7.41am
Despite Sonny’s dire warning of the trip being all dirt road, Hope Road was a decent piece of road, the Aston gripped the road which was useful considering it was peppered with wreckage.
The big man swerved, frantically spun the wheel to correct and pitched the car right to avoid the next chunk of twisted metal.
“THIS CAN’T ALL BE RACING CARS” shouted Hoste
“THINK IT IS, NOT ALL FROM THIS RACE” Sonny shouted back “THINK THEY LEAVE THEM HERE!”
Sonny’s logic made a lot of sense, small arms fire bounced off adjacent wreckage, he’d forgotten the other racers.
Hoste’s attention however was drawn to a deep drone, his neck crunched as the car veered once again across the road, he searched around from the noise until his vision was drawn upwards.
“Shit” he watched as a ominous red fighter plane levelled out, behind it flew four other fighters
“That can’t be good” he muttered “WE’VE GOT A PROBLEM” he roared at Sonny, just as canon rounds tore up the road ahead of them.