Life is a constant for us
slaves. We work all day with very little rest. Most of us were taken from far
away planets by the Lutheran empire. These heretics are not Christian at all as
if a heretic could be called a Christian at all. They try to act charitably by
allowing us more food and water if we attend their masses and learn from their
teachers. It’s just them trying to indoctrinate us. I don’t know one person who
has been able to keep the luxuries they promise without becoming heretics and
turning their back on God and His Church. It’s better to have Sunday and daily
masses in our small makeshift churches anyway. At least they’re legitimate masses.
They try to give us their
tainted version of Sacred Scriptures, but we just toss them aside. To make us
read their Scriptures, they took my wife and attempted to make her read it to everyone.
She refused multiple times and had her eyes taken out as a result. Her role was
to help motivate the slaves and she still does to an extent. Some see her action
as true bravery while others are afraid. The heretics tried talking me into giving
her up to them for their sick purposes because she’s a burden to take care of.
I told them that I don’t care how much of a burden she is. She’s my wife and
God gave me the duty to take care of her. They were impressed by my
determination as a husband and as a servant of God and let me be with the offer
still up if I ever change my mind. These heretics are sick just like the
founder of their religion. I pray day and night that they change their ways.
The primary duty that slaves, like I do, is to repair and keep the
conditioning of the tower we live under. It allows them to communicate with their
allies on other planets and galaxies. It’s likely that if the Church attacks
this planet then this would be one of their first targets. We’ve been planning
this when we can to help the invading forces since the heretics have several
traps ready for them. Day and night we work to stay faithful to God and it
looks like our faith is paying off.
We see an invading force of the Church above us as their ships enter
the atmosphere. A battle is waged above with ships fighting in aerial combat
with other ships coming down to the surface. We start cheering out and praying
for the Church’s victory. One of the ships lands near our location and starts
deploying their troops. The Knights of the Sacred Blood of Christ, the Church’s
main are here to save us. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to know about the minefield between them and the tower. We try to scream out to tell them, but they don’t
seem to hear us. A couple of my friends run out into the field while yelling
and waving at them to turn back. They get blown up in the minefield trying to
save the soldiers. At least their sacrifice is worth it as the soldiers back
up. They look like they’re calling in something probably to get rid of the minefield.
I’d say we are on the verge of being saved, but the minefield isn’t
the only obstacle the soldiers have to worry about. With the minefield
discovered, the tower activates its automated turrets and heretics start coming
out to defend it. Their forces are going to be chewed up at this rate and it doesn’t
look like they’re going to be getting reinforcements anytime soon because of
how intense the battle in the air is and how many ships are getting shot out of
the sky. Some of us are joining the knights in battle and fighting the heretics
with makeshift guns, but I know what we should really do. I enter the tower via
a maintenance hatch that goes all throughout the tower. This series of cramped
tunnels should lead me to the wires I need to cut to severely damage if not
destroy it.
With my tools, I cut all of the major wires in the tower that starts making
havoc on the systems. As I go through the vents, I see the destruction my
handiwork has done. I then see some of the slaves through the holes in the
vents ambush the heretics from the maintenance hatches. Among them, I see…oh no.
What’s my wife doing here with them? How could they allow her to come with
them? She’s behind them so I guess she snuck in, but why did she follow them?
To protect her, I cut off doors and auto-turrets to push her in a safe
direction. This should be the way out-oh no! She’s come across soldiers. I
thought they would’ve all been deployed by now because of how many there are outside.
They point their guns at her and say, “Freeze, slave! What are you
doing here?”
“I’m doing God’s will,” she says as if she’s a blind Monk of
Mortification.
“I said freeze.”
What’s she…no! They shot her. What did she mean by-Oh. The area
around them blows up. She really did do God's will. This tower is starting to break apart, but it’s still active.
I doubt I’ll get out of here alive. I’ll follow the same brave paths as my wife
and my friends. I cut the final few wires as I hear the explosions in the tower.
Pray for me, everyone. I hope this was the right thing to do. I sacrifice my life
for God, the Church, and everyone I love in my best and last attempt to follow the
example of Our Lord Jesus.
The End
