Appalachian Mountain Brigade

 (I have been writing a lot of stuff but not putting it out. If you enjoy this I will keep it going)

The story of the Appalachian Mountain Brigade truly the story of the three brigades. More accurately the Mannerbund, Appalachian Mountain and Dixie Brigades is fundamentally the story of the end of Gilead as we know it. 

Shortly after the days of the coup in 2029 Gilead authorities began seizing lands across the south and especially in Appalachia to build new camps and facilities. Many farmers angrily rebelled forming around 3 organizations which function like gangs or terrorist organizations. 

The Mannerbund formed around Thomas Rousseau an old Gilead coup leader who unlike many of the elites ruled from the streets and disaffected single men though after a falling out with the new government over Rousseau’s strong push for that resulted in Rousseau’s near assassination and the razing of multiple large boxing gyms in the Midwest which acted as his base of power. The government as they accused him of immodesty chased him into the heart of 2 more growing organizations forming in the dense mountains. 

The Appalachian Mountain Troop was a loose organization of a wide variety of groups that formed around a collective opposition to eminent domain one of the few things the new government kept around from the old. They began as a small almost terrorist organization but after a young man came racing up the mountains from the north with a terrified band of men they became a true rebel organization originally centered around Kentucky but quickly growing with the addition of a new organization forming in Biloxi.

The Dixie Mafia had already supported the early Baptist led rebellion of southern states though after that was quickly crushed partially because of the Baptists being slow to work with the powerful decentralized Dixie Mafia. So when word was sent of a second rebellion in the hills of the Appalachia with real defections from Gilead most Dixie Mafias were slow to believe it though when Rousseau came down the other side of the mountain this time as a diplomat most began to believe. 

[INTERLUDE]

“You cannot predict fate. I and probably most of you would have assumed we would have met here fighting the war for our race. In some ways we are. Fires are rising all across America and I believe it may be a cleansing fi-“ “Bullsh*t” cried a man in the back who quickly stood up revealing himself to be James Mason a gasp ripped through the room. He was one of Gilead’s most wanted men feared even among rebels. Unlike Mayday in the north or the remnants of  the government and Mormon rebels in the west Mason and his small band of rebels refused to take captives, not even handmaids . Thomas Rousseau smiled and hopped off the little stage in the Nashville ballroom one of the few that still existed. 

“Ah Mr. Mason thanks for your perspective. You know I saw that book you wrote before the war uh Siege it was great we need a perspective like yours in the Appalachian Mountain Brigades”. Rousseau held out his hand, Mason frowned at him took a moment and shook his hand.  

[BACK TO IT]

The Appalachian Mountain Brigade and it’s 3 new allied troops raged into the Tennessee Valley as Rousseau blitzed out to the edge of the Boston Mountains finding defecting mayors all along the way much to the surprise of the other parts of the troop who cut out a solid chunk of the Kentucky Tennessee border for themselves as Rousseau and most of the Mannerbund hid in Union City whose mayor was loyal to the brigades until it was safe to return to their new territories. Meanwhile the Dixie Brigades jumped into action slicing off small towns and acres of land all across the South. 

After some further limited wins the Appalachian Mountain Brigade met in their temporary capital of Glasgow Kentucky and appointed a civilian government. Many crazy and narcissistic men from across Gilead even some local leaders made the trek none of them truly had a chance and were conscripted into the rebellion whether they made that choice or not. Justin Jones a soldier in the old republic and a recruiter for some Appalachian Mountain Brigades was chosen. A young man with a variety of strange rumors about him most agreed he seemed like a challenger to Rousseau in the future. 

[INTERLUDE]

(Broadcast heard on Hijacked radio waves in Gainesville Florida)

*crackling*

*muffled gun shots*

“Before you is the voice of  Commander Brandon Russell. I and 15 thousand of my men have arrived to just outside of Gainesville Florida, if this city is not surrendered to me and my brothers we will enter the city and that would not be a positive outcome for the city of Gainesville. 

Even if our demands which we have outlined in a letter we have sent to your leaders are all fulfilled we will still send to death mercilessly and without compassion men, women and children who support the enemy Gilead” 

[BACK TO IT]

Once word of the massacre at Gainesville reached the 3 brigades public opinions of the Atomwaffen brigade quickly soured though privately Justin Jones Thomas Rousseau who got out of Union City and raced through heavy shelling to make it back to Glasgow to much fanfare. The leaders of the Dixie Brigade who the two others barely knew they had heard there was some kind of committee that formed and refused to reveal itself. For now no questions were asked because the missiles and Gilead troops continued to be sabotaged and supplies continued coming in from somewhere. But anyway the two privately agreed the butchery of the Atomwaffen was unacceptable but also the only thing keeping them from the full might of the Gilead Army. There was a large air garrison built over the leveled long ago Florida Keys that James Mason and his many boys were single handedly holding back.