So, Fire Ant, Silver Ant & Soldier Ant are representing The Colony at this year's King of Trios tournament. I've seen all the comments online talking this up. Why? Because they're the "original" Colony?!?! You know what, I'm tired of holding my tongue as if there isn't a problem with all of this! How disrespectful is that? If my memory serves me correctly, Worker Ant was a part of the "original" Colony. You know, the same Worker Ant that I now honor, by taking up his mantle and continuing his legacy. Did everyone forget him? I mean this is the same man whose career came to an abrupt end due to injury.
...my career was almost cut short due to injury.
The date was October 9, 2015 in Manhattan. That night, instead of going home to my family, I was forced to go to the New York Presbyterian Hospital because of Soldier Ant. Injured by someone I'd reached out to time and time again. Sidelined for two months, reduced to lying in bed and a grueling routine of physical therapy. Maybe I could have let that go. During that time, my own son suffered an arm injury. I couldn't even accompany him in the scramble to the emergency room, stuck in the bed that Soldier Ant put me in. That's the part I've never been able to forgive.
It's time that I get everything off my chest!!
Green Ant didn't want to honor Worker Ant, so the mantle came to me. I took the cause of The Colony and made it my own. Even doing everything I could to help someone I barely knew at all. Soldier, while you were taking orders from Jakob Hammermeier of all people, I was the faithful soldier in your place. And what did that get me?
-WA