Frozen: Nova Cults
Brian Hu
Chapter 1
Illuminati HQ, Unknown Location
Duke William Merkel of Germany strode into the situation room as his cultists moved about on their tasks.
'Status report!', he ordered anxiously.
'We've lost contact with General Daniel Baxter, his fighter command and the Nova they were escorting in their assault on Genetics Australia', Lt Lilith reported as she analysed the damage wrought upon her glorious Illuminati by Chevalier, 'They were wiped out when the New ANZAC Regiment called in an orbital strike on their positions'.
'Damn you, Colonel Hu!', William cursed under his breath, his little elitist brain unable to comprehend the fact that one of the best fighter units of his faithful and the angel sent by God to cleanse the world of sin has just been destroyed by a mere Colonel, a Colonel who is an Asperger no less, 'What is our status on the enemy commandos in Oslo'?
'The enemy commandos are headed towards the Stortinget building the League of Transcendence are using as their compound in Norway, killing any faithful they have encountered', reported Lt Bieber. 'Sir, should we send reinforcements to help defend the compound?', he asked.
'Yes and no', William replied, 'We won't be helping the League of Transcendence but we will be setting a trap for them Chevs'. 'In the meantime, I want visuals on the enemy commandos immediately,' he continued.
'Yes, sir!', Bieber saluted, 'Bringing it up now'.
A live satellite video surveillance feed on the Chevalier commandos was quickly brought up on screen. There are a four of them, wreaking havoc on the loyal worshippers of the Novas. The live feed, filmed from orbit as the enemy commandos are prudent enough to ensure any surveillance UAVs and automated security towers they encountered along the way are destroyed, was testimony for the rapid advancement of military satellite technology. As the satellite camera zoomed in more closely on the commandos, Merkel's face twisted into a smile of contempt as he recognised their leader.
'I see you now', he sneered, 'Commander Westergaard'!
Oslo, Norway
'Tango down', Thomas 'Sharp Eye' McKeen said softly after the chief petty officer shot a cultist sentry with his Accuracy International AX308 sniper rifle, taking her head off.
'Let's move in and secure the front entrance', Commander Hans 'Westergaard' Monpezat ordered, 'Velvet, set the freezing charge'!
'Setting the freezing charge, aye!', Lieutenant Commander Jessica 'Velvet' Humby acknowledged as she planted a Terma Mk 6 Portable Scalar Energy Emitter Device in front of the blast door recently installed by the League in an effort to reinforce their front entrance, set the device to 'Freezing', and activated the fuse.
The 'freezing charge' gave out a massive pulse which immobilised within a kilometre radius, any objects and living organisms not protected by specially designed exoskeletons for two minutes. Time enough for Hans to breach the front entrance with a single exo-suit assisted power kick and for his fireteam to storm the corridors beyond. Petty Officer Sarah Wilson fired her DefendTex 3GL Under-Barrel Grenade Launcher into a frozen cluster of armed cultists that were not knocked over like skittles when the blast door hit them, incinerating them in a barrage of 40 mm grenades. Jessica flew up using her jump pack built into her exo-suit, and launched a devastating attack on the surviving cultists, ground pounding them into a pulp. Hans sprinted forth, running his monomolecular sword through a cultist's neck, decapitating him. He gunned down another cultist offhandedly with his Alliance Ordnance PDW-3 personal defence weapon. Sheathing his sword, he and his fireteam proceeded to the prime minister's office where Chevalier Intelligence suggested the cult leader were holding his hostages, all government officials who were opposed to the takeover of the Stortinget by the Nova aligned political parties. While ultimately they found no hostages, the Vikings did found the cult leader, Reverend Icke, cowering under the prime minister's desk, after they gunned down his guards there.
'Don't shoot!', he shouted.
Grabbing him by the nape of his neck, Hans smashed the cultist's face against the desk, and pressed his gun menacingly on his head.
'Where are the hostages?', he calmly demanded, 'Speak now and I'll make your death quick and painless'.
'Over my dead body!', the cult leader spat.
Before Hans could do anything, a massive bomber swooped down at Mach 5 speed and levelled the compound. The cult leader and his remaining cultists scattered throughout the compound were all obliterated in the blast. Dazed, Hans and his fireteam slowly and painfully crawled out from beneath the wreckage, their exo-suits having absorbed the shock-wave of the explosion, just as two heavily armoured troop transports bearing Illuminati insignias circled overhead like vultures. They stumbled into cover as they were strafed.
'Ugh!' Sarah groaned, 'Led right into a Globalist trap again'!
'Either that, or Chevalier Intelligence has mislead us', Jessica gritted, 'So much for "The computers are your friends"! Eh'?
'Whoever's responsible are going to pay dearly for this!', Thomas vowed.
'No time for chatter', Hans warned, 'More enemy troops are en-route'.
The Illuminati transports disgorged their complement of one hundred and fifteen organic and robotic infantry, fifty stories above ground level. The cultists did not bother to land their aircraft or use zip-lines to disembark, relying solely on their exo-suits to cushion their fall. They had the Vikings surrounded. Unlike the frame-like exo-suits utilised by the Chevalier Special Forces, their dark coloured powered armours alongside their visor-less helmets fully enclosed their bodies. The Illuminati soldiers levelled their rifles at their now gravely wounded enemies as their commanding officer, Cpt Ciccone, stepped forth in front of them.
'Send them to hell!', she ordered.
Codex: Nova Cults
Nova cults are various illicit organisations dedicated to the worship of the inter-dimensional Novas. They ranged from secretive university clubs through to pseudo-Scientologist congregations all the way to massive war machines spanning the entire globe. One demand they all have in common is for Chevalier to be dissolved and their members executed for 'high crimes against the holy warriors of God'. Their penchant for worshipping deities seeking world destruction and using violence to further their cause has led to Chevalier and their allied nations taking actions to crush them wherever they stand with overwhelming force. Unable to gain a permanent foothold on broadcasting (radio, TV, etc) or the internet via the legitimate 'Surface Web' connection thanks to Chevalier's ruthless internet censorship and signal jamming, Nova cults often rely to either off-line media distribution including printed publication works (books, newspapers, magazines, etc.), optical discs or the 'Deep Web' internet connections to further their propaganda.
Codex: League of Transcendence
The League of Transcendence appears to an example of a typical local Nova cult. Armed with any weapons and equipments they could salvage from the field and/or purchase from the black market, they staged terror attacks and kidnappings against Chevalier and those who support them. In addition to salvaged weapons, the League claimed to have magical powers granted to them by the Novas, but so far their magic were only being used in certain cult rituals and ceremonies for unknown purposes. Recently, the League of Transcendence has been growing in popularity amongst New Age conspiracy theorists in the cyber-sphere despite Chevalier efforts to clamp down on Nova cults' internet activities.
Glossary
Chev: A military jargon used by Nova cults, especially the Illuminati, to describe members of Chevalier.
Globalist: A military jargon used by Chevalier to describe members of the Illuminati.
Author Notes:
I once stumbled upon an article about confusing the Disney movie 'Frozen' and the 'Freezing' anime since the former is the past tense of the latter, so I decided to try and make a crossover of the two stories. I'm depicting Prince Hans as a protagonist in this story after an inspiration from another article portraying an alternate ending if Hans does not go through the villainy that would seemed to be silly and forced through. Also, this is my first attempt at fan-fiction. Please enjoy and review.