Chapter 1
"Okay everyone I called this meeting to talk about Gold Heart." I say.
"She has been getting out of hand lately ma'am." Says Saria, one of my generals.
"She's killed three of our squads on our own turf!" Someone else in the room yells.
I sit up in my chair before answering. "That's why I called this meeting so we can decide what to do about it. She's broke our truce and declared war on us yet again."
"What pissed her off this time?" A captain asks.
I run a hand through my hair. "I've declined her offer again." I look up at everyone in the room while continuing. "Most of you would think that it's selfish but I know her more than you think. Even though she's my daughter. She wants us to mate and produce another CPU, and when that CPU is created she will kill me and raise the child as she likes." And that wouldn't go over well in the long run.
"Can't we blow her island out of the sky like the last two?" Saria asks.
I shake my head putting, my elbows on the table with my hands put together. "I don't think so. We had Gold Heart's help in killing Gray and Violet Heart. We don't have the firepower to do it on our own at the moment." I say before grabbing and shuffling through the papers.
"What do you suppose we do then?" Someone asks.
I sigh deeply. This is becoming more and more stressful. "We need to distract them long enough to build that weapon Jessy designed." I say, motioning to where she was standing in the back of the room. I motion for her to come forward. "Since this is your specialty can you come forward and tell everyone what it does?" Jessy is our top scientist but she gets really shy when speaking to crowds.
She nervously takes a few steps forward while saying."We've been working on a biobomb. One that's meant to turn everything living into ash within a certain radius."
"That would mean that it would harm civilians." Someone in the back says.
"Have we truly come to this. Harming innocent lives to reach our goals?" Says the captain. More voices rang out from the crowd and I whistle to quiet them.
"Sadly yes. This war has gone on for long enough. 214 years to be exact, and Sam and I have been through every second of it. Hell, within the last thirteen thousand years I've been here we've only had about two thousand years of peace. I'm sorry everyone, but a couple thousand lives seem more reasonable than hundreds of thousands if this continues on." I say finishing my rant with a sad tone.
I've seen too many things and my people die to this bullshit. I never wanted to participate. I just wanted them to just destroy each other but I knew the last person would turn their attention on us. So I got our army ready and we only acted on defense for years before we were forced to switch tactics. We may be behind on the quantity of our weapons but ours have always been the strongest. Everyone besides Samantha and I have only known war for generations. Not the joy and peace we had. I don't care what we have to do to win anymore. I just want this to be over with.
Sam pats my back and I untense. I didn't realize I was. "Zoey is right, at the beginning we had 13.3 million people, now we barely have over a hundred thousand, they outnumber us now seven to one. If this keeps up we will all die, We need to finish this when we can." I smile at her in thanks.
The doors then bash open and a soldier runs in. "Ma'am, Gold Heart's attacking! She's using her drones but they have these devices on the bottom of them."
"She's been talking about a project". I mumble before getting up and sprinting out of the room, down the halls, and out the front doors while pushing past people on the way.
When I get out of the main doors I see hundreds of drone's surrounding our island. Except they weren't aiming at anything besides themselves. Only one of them was a different color and there were rays of different colors were spreading between each one and connecting with the other drones.
"She's completed it". I say in disbelief. She's been trying to make a force field for years, and she's going to trap us in it.
I point at a nearby soldier. "Tell them to fire the T53's at the silver one NOW!" The shield has almost surrounded us by now. I would order it over the radio myself but my radio broke last mission and I haven't replaced it. He grabs his radio and starts yelling commands.
Within seconds a dozen artillery cannons fire and hit their marks. I snatch his binoculars and look at the direction of the silver drone, but it only had a crack on it! "Again!" The cannons fire again. When the dust clears revealing further damage, but it was still functional. "One more time!" Everything then turns pitch black and all my strength abandons me. A single boom and a flash lit the place up. The artillery round hits the drone, finally destroying it, letting some light return. I fall to my knees and look up to see the moon. Wasn't the sun just up? The darkness starts to eat at the edge of my vision and I fall forward into unconsciousness.
-Time Skip-
I wake up to Sam shaking me. "What happened?" I ask looking up at her.
She helps me up while she answers. "I don't know. As soon as the shield was completed everyone's energy left them and went unconscious. All the other drones then fell out of the sky."
I look around seeing some of the older buildings have collapsed and several drones lie inert on the ground.
I open my mouth to yell a command but Sam stopped me. "Don't worry. Every available hand is helping the trapped and clearing the debris already."
I transform into my HDD form and run around for the next few hours helping lift items due to all the batteries, and plants shut down. After I get done moving a metal I-beam a Private runs up to me. "Ma'am you need to see this".
"See what?" I ask with agitation creeping in my voice.
"There are two other landmasses that are near us" Two? There should only be one. I quickly fly up and land on a taller building while taking the binoculars out of my inventory. I hold them up to my eyes and look around. Holy shit. He wasn't lying. How the hell are their two other landmasses, that are surrounded by water, when there should only be one?
Written by:Project Omega
Edited by: XYZDreadnought
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