They made it back to Heaven after being gone for over a Month, without any problems,
Micheal had wanted to leave the New Colony with a wagon, but It was now needed
for the new livestock, with two wagons full of jerked and cured meat, twenty
buffalo calves and six pigs. They arrived at Heaven's door and took one wagon
inside. The other wagon they distributed to the people waiting anxiously. Michael the next day went to the top of Heaven
and looked at all the progress. Hundreds of acres had been cleared and planted,
their community around the Bunker was thriving, a lot of gardens, and he could
see Sandra tending to her new pets. Hundreds of new houses being built, some of
the more industrious had started using stone to build their homes. He had held
a lot of the equipment in the basements back, only releasing what he thought
necessary for time being, especially guns and ammo. Right now they did not have
a way to reproduce bullets, but he had his soldiers collect and return the
brass casings just in case.
In the months that followed he toured the Eden Colonies, they seem to be thriving
as well, he thought about bringing them to Heaven but trusted in GOD's plan for
them. The only thing that gave him concern was the Vestige groups, he knew that
not all the rouge bunker personnel had been destroyed during the battle, and
they had for the most part they had moved far to the South, far away from the
range of his normal surveillance. In
preparation for the next conflict, he expanded his training to all Heavens
population, including the use of archery.
It had been almost a year now, since he and GOD had spoken. He had reached out to GOD, several times even
while traveling west. They were in full winter at the moment but continued
commerce with Mathew and Jhon's community had filled their storage with meat
and fish, and in return they shipped corn and flour to them. He made a decision
to fly to the highest mountain south before the batteries in the Aircraft completely
degraded. Sandra begged him to take her, or at least a Squad of soldiers for protection,
but he firmly denied her request, his reason was that he could travel further and faster alone.