The Virginia Defense Force detachment in Lynchburg had been watching the situation in Lexington go wildly out of control all day, but Richmond ordered them to remain in place. They were the closest VDF detachment, and they mobilized despite those orders when the killing started. The VDF linked up with Lexington’s surviving police department and moved to intercept the Federal and Commonwealth convoy holding the mayor. They caught the convoy in the Rockfish Gap, shortly after the relief column out of Richmond made rendezvous. The Lexington police demanded the release of their mayor, and when the Feds refused, the VDF moved to execute the mayor’s release. The Feds opened fire, the Commonwealth officers joined in, and the Virginia Defense Force returned fire. The long and bloody engagement stretched long into the night.
This weekend, I went to the first convention I’ve been to since the government lockdowns blew civilization up and flushed it right down the toilet. I didn’t go last fall, because I didn’t want to bring anything back home to mom. She has her vaccine now, so I felt a lot safer going out of town and back. So I got to get together with three hundred of my closest friends that I haven’t seen in a couple years. Where we got together to celebrate Transformers. The toys. Not the big power thingies. We play games (though not as many this year as those that came before), we buy and sell toys, and we talk with each other. It’s a fun time had by all. I’m glad I went. And maybe, if you like Transformers, I’ll meet you there next year.
The Federal and Commonwealth law enforcement officers left Lexington, Virginia in flames behind them, and began their long trek back out of the Shenandoah Valley with the mayor and his family in custody. Unfortunately for them, footage of the Lexington Day Massacre had leaked out through the jamming, and the other Virginians out there were not happy with them. What followed was fifty miles of pure hell. Random car wrecks and tree-falls slowed them, and hillbilly hunters took potshots from what seemed like every tree and hill. Sometimes far more powerful sniper rifles would blow clear through their armored vehicles, and anything that happened to be in the path of fire inside. A relief column from Richmond linked up with the dispirited and bleeding convoy, but the random sniper fire continued. Then the Virginia Defense Force arrived to clarify the situation.
The Lexington Day Massacre is what modern citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia call the day that everything changed. It was not the day they won. They lost, in fact, depending on how you measure victories and losses. It was the day Lexington, Virginia began to fight back with the only currency that tyrants understand. The Fed that killed two elderly protesters sparked a gunfight between the Feds and Rooftop Virginians that claimed the lives of fifteen Federal and Commonwealth officers, twenty-nine citizens of Lexington, and the police chief and half his department. The Feds eventually evacuated the city, though only after they set fire to the majority of the downtown buildings, destroyed the local police and fire stations, and arrested the mayor and his family for taking part in the protest. It was the wrong move for them to make.
The Commonwealth of Virginia changed forever when the eastern counties helped Washington D.C. arrest the former Vice President and his family. The change could not be reversed after the former Second Lady disappeared and the Lexington Gazette fought all attempts to silence it to get the word out. Lexington, Virginia was soon the center of public protests against those actions. And it was in Lexington that the smoldering conflict between east and west exploded into a conflict none of them could take back. The Federal and Commonwealth governments sent law enforcement officers with orders to silence the protests. They used jammers to cut off network access, and then moved in to arrest the protesters. The protesters did not cooperate, and one of the Feds used lethal force to subdue an elderly couple. The other protesters did not take well to that.
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