 HIS OWN BLOOD!
This Time Is For The Son He
Never Knew
Introduction
This is a story based on the legendary elite soldier
John Raven, who after giving years of his life to doing
what he does best, has now endeavoured to settle down
into, dare I say, civilian life.
Although John is enjoying civilian life with his family
and new found friends, some aspects from the times when
he was at war always remained: leaving him in the frame
of mind that he still could not trust anybody.
Colonel Lewis
who was always a good friend and father figure to John Raven is in
the process of training some of the finest soldiers around to make
them become elite soldiers and much respected members of the Green
Berets. Colonel Lewis has ill health, but a quitter he is not! He is
the sort of person that if he begins a task, then it must be
completed. However, the Colonel himself knew that his health was
beginning to get the better of him and so made his superiors promise
that if this task became too much for him then he would only want
one man to take the reigns over from him. This was John Raven. The
Colonel’s superiors were not too impressed with him being out of
military action for years now. What they didn’t know was Raven
always kept himself fit, so if the unexpected occurred he would be
able to deliver.
Sadly Colonel
Lewis died of a heart attack leaving his superiors to find Raven.
Not only did they have to give him the bad news that his best friend
had died, they also had to offer him the position of taking over the
task of training the Unit called Invincible. Tactics had to be used
because the legendary soldier was in a vulnerable state of mind.
With already
having to absorb the sad news that Colonel Lewis had left this
world, he also had to consider the past when confronted by these two
people who came to visit him. One of the Officers, Debbie Weller, is
a Captain now and has climbed through the ranks on her own merit.
When John and
Debbie were both a lot younger these two people were an item, but
because of work pressures on both sides they inevitably broke up and
both went their separate ways. Raven went onto fight in Vietnam only
to return and have a private war against the police. He fought for
his Country and brought back American P.O.W’s and even helped his
best friend, Colonel Lewis, when he was captured in Afghanistan by
the Russian soldiers.
Debbie Weller
had been promoted through the ranks to Captain, where she won the
respect of the male soldiers. However, through all these years she
carried a dark secret. She had a son called John Weller; the father,
John Raven, doesn’t know that he exists.
John Weller, a
fine soldier, has made the status of becoming an elite soldier,
unknown to him just like his father. However, John Weller is a bit
of a “Jack the Lad” and seems to try his superior’s patience on more
than one occasion. This results in Colonel Lewis having to seriously
give Weller junior a severe talking to or he would be kicked out of
the force. The trouble with Weller junior is he only did things to
keep his mother, Captain Weller happy. He wasn’t really committed
himself. Captain Weller’s problem is that through her son she can
see her long lost love, John J Raven.
Whilst John had
time to reflect about his time spent with the late Colonel Lewis, he
also had to consider whether or not to fill his position, completing
the task that the Colonel had begun. He would question himself
whether or not he could do it. He already knew that he was a full
blown combat soldier, a fighting machine like no other, so to become
the master teaching the pupil was something that was going to be
different for him. For the sake of his long lost friend he decided
to accept the challenge.
When Raven
meets the Unit Invincible for the first time Captain Weller stares
in anticipation and anxiety as she is driven away. Slowly, he made
his way closer to his son, John Weller, for the first time. The only
thing is he still doesn’t know the true identity of his son,
although Captain Weller wanted to tell him, she couldn’t bring
herself to do it. Inside she had achieved a personal goal: seeing
father and son together for the first time. Even though it was from
a distance it brought a tear to her eye.
Whilst the
intense training had been in process, hostile activities had been
going on in the Middle East where Iraq wanted to invade Kuwait and
take all of its wealth. Threats that turned out to promises were
made to the Americans, creating bad relations between the Western
world and Iraq and its ally Russia.
With the crisis
becoming very serious, this made both the Secretary of State and the
British Foreign Secretary visit Iraq to try and resolve this hostile
situation with hopefully a peaceful solution. The Russians and
Iraqi’s had different ideas because they had decided to keep these
important people captive and concentrate on their own initial plan,
which was to conquer Kuwait. If they couldn’t, then it would be
annihilated.
When General
Luchinski hears that Raven is on the scene it becomes a personal
vendetta for him. He cannot forgive Raven for what he did to his
dearly loved uncle, Colonel Porborski, when they fought in
Afghanistan.
Unit Invincible
had completed the training and had been instructed to go on a
mission: first, to capture both the Iraqi President and Russian
General, and second to kill them if need be. They had become too
much of a risk for the rest of the world to accept. Rescuing the
heads of State didn’t come into the equation which annoyed John.
With this he
told his superiors that he too was going on the mission. They
blatantly told him that he could go to Kuwait and monitor Unit
Invincible progress, but that is as much action as he will get to
see. The Colonel was not happy with him disobeying a direct order
and told him never to do it again.
Reluctantly,
John accepted the situation and felt proud of his team has he walked
out with them to begin their mission. Watching the progress of the
mission felt strange for him since he would always be on the watch
for anything peculiar happening. To his astonishment he uncovered
espionage activities. He found that Unit Invincible had been sold
out and caught by the Iraqi’s and Russians who were waiting for them
in a helicopter.
Not too pleased
by the events Raven was wondering what to do after such a betrayal.
Captain Weller had also become a desperate mother, knowing that her
son had been captured. Not sure whether he was going to be tortured
or killed, she decided to tell Raven about their son. His morale had
already become low, now it was to become even lower when he was
finally going to find out the truth. The truth that would make this
legendary soldier have to come back into combat once more, where
this time is for the son he never knew existed.
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