Hey guys! The Oblivion Overlord here!
Sorry for taking so long, but again life is being a bitch, I hardly have any time for writing fanfics lately. But now, aside from my studies, we won't be going out as much, which means I can stay inside and work on the next chapters! Yay.~ \( o^o)/ So you can expect the next chapter of a random fanfic to come out soon in the future, probably this month.
Anyway, as I planned this story at the start, this will be sort of slow. Cause most of the time, I'm gonna have H.I.R.A.G.A build up his forces for Louise's use. So, the start of this chapter will be just an hour or two after the 'revelation' so you won't be confused much.
Also, a feature of the Magna Prospector I forgot to mention was that it is the only building that is not that restricted on rough terrain. But that doesn't mean it can be built upside down, no. That's just… yeah you can get the picture. One last thing is that parts of this story will be in a perspective of a 'game' just so you all know, and that all constructing of buildings will have a building animation around them that is identical to how the Supreme Commander 2 Cybran build their base.
Anyway, with these out of the way, here's the next chapter! Enjoy! :D
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the buildings and idea.
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Chapter 2 – The Acquisitions
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A certain blue haired girl was just sitting on a chair in a separate room near the elevator-thing, still lost in thought because of those words. She never thought that she'd love those mere words alone, but a part of her was still skeptical because this… Creature? Building? Whatever this thing is, it appears that it's primary purpose is for war. Lost in her doubt she didn't notice a small access door open and a familiar mouse droid rolled out and started beeping softly while moving in circles around her legs, drawing her attention. 'C-cute.' The silent mage smiled and got down and placed a hand on it, she heard it beep again, making her pat the smooth surface of what she thinks is the head of the small box.
It rolled around her one more time before heading to what seems like an hourglass, just without the glass, stopping every few moments to 'look' at her, as if requesting her to follow. Tabitha tilted her head a bit but ultimately followed the small droid until she reached in front of the strange object. She saw the clear glass on the top and bottom light up in a blue shine similar to before when the particles solidified into both Hiraga's Orb, and… Louise? She leaned forward and squinted her eyes to check if what she was seeing is real, Louise was doing something similar and trying to check if she could touch her.
But they were interrupted by the pulse of the Orb. "Greetings miss Tabitha, Louise informs me that even though she is knowledgeable of 'magic' of this world. You can prove to share more information regarding the various plant life and their properties." His statement received a nod from her, she looked at Louise who looked a bit miffed that she didn't know what she knew, she hid a small smile behind her book and turned back to the Orb. Hiraga continued talking once more. "If you can, I'd like you to give me a full list of different plants and each of their properties, this will be very important as for me to heal your maternal figure, I need to create Kolto, or Bacta, but… I am not familiar with the flora of this land, therefore I can't recreate any of those. It is imperative that I have this list so I may try to create a substance similar to the aforementioned medical sources." His response was a slightly faster nod of her head, as she would even travel all of Halkegenia to document every single kind of flora if that contributed to saving her mother.
She and Louise saw the Orb shift a bit, as if it was trying to portray nervousness. Louise finally had enough of the shifting and asked. "Why are you shifting so much? I haven't seen you act like this?" Hiraga's Orb stopped shifting and created a single orb as if to act like an eye, and it locked onto Louise. "I wish for you to go back into 'Battlefield Control' so we may begin the construction of our base of operations." He stated it blunt and straightforward. Louise blinked a few times before it was her turn to look nervous.
"Look! You may have taught me the different buildings, but you can't expect me to make a base as easy as pie do you?" She asked, to which he replied with a smartass comment. "Well, pie is a bit difficult for a complete beginner to try to bake." His response received a deadpanned and annoyed stare at him given by the holographic Louise. She was about to say something else when Tabitha saw two arms push Louise aside, making her disappear. "Nyah?!" "Out of my way Louise! You should have told me you were talking to Tabitha!" "You mammal monster! Get out of here! We were in the middle of an important conversation?!" The blue haired girl saw Louise and Kirche butt heads together, that is until she decided to intervene. "Where is professor Colbert?" She was answered by Hiraga himself. "The Flame Snake is currently in the command center, looking upon the holo-map of the surrounding area, under watch by several of my cameras. He told me that he had to establish a perimeter to make sure the base doesn't expand too much. I would have argued with him, but Mistress Louise informed me that she still needed to learn before controlling a large army, therefore I agreed, but not before stating that if the base is to expand, I will ignore the perimeter set, but I'll ignore constructing too close to the academy." Louise shoved Zerbst away and nodded to his words. "Besides, I don't even know if going to sleep will allow me to go back into that place, even then. If I can only access it by going to sleep, then it will be extremely inconvenient." The Orb seemed to pulsate in agreement.
Kirche tired of being ignored wrapped her arm around Louise and joined her cheek with Louise's, not only to annoy her, but to also be seen by Tabitha. "Hi Tabitha!~ I thought you'd like to know that I found a small library here, though some shelves are missing books. The rest are filled with different interesting things." Tabitha nodded and saw Louise turned various different shades of red, whether it is in anger, embarrassment, or both she didn't know.
Hiraga pulsated once more. "Mistress, Colbert has finished setting the initial perimeter, it is time to start building." Louise looked nervous but sighed. "Fine… What's the worse that could happen?" She groused.
- A few minutes later -
The three students and one professor were in a room, a barracks but for a few people only because droids don't need the comforts of life. Maybe an oil bath or repairs, but other than that, nothing really. Louise sat on the bed and looked at the floating Orb that finished manifesting right at the middle of the room. "So… How do I do this? I'm not even sleepy?" She asked, Hiraga didn't respond because he himself don't know how but Colbert had something to say. "Miss Valliere, if you'd allow me. I can cast a spell that will force you to sleep? If that can work then you will be able to access this… 'Battlefield Control' so to speak." He finished with a slightly nervous glance at the Orb because he felt Hiraga's 'eye' turn to him when he spoke.
The two other girls sat on chairs and watched Louise shrug her shoulders. "If that is alright with you professor. I guess..." Her nonchalant response made Hiraga turn his 'eye' towards her in a snap. "Mistress. I would advice against trusting easily, and to not do anything that would be detrimental to your health." His words struck a cord within Colbert. "Excuse me. But I would NEVER harm a student of mine voluntarily." As he finished, Hiraga's 'eye' snapped to him in a swift movement.
"Key word would be being VOLUNTARILY. What would happen if you were controlled by an external force to attack the Mistress?" Colbert twitched, but thankfully for him Louise intervened. "HIRAGA! I know you are looking out for me. But professor Colbert is right, he would never harm a student. Besides, he is helping me with this. So stand down." Her words got Hiraga's attention again, he looked at her, then back at the professor, and back at her one last time before the orb bounced. "Acknowledged…" His response brought a smile from Louise, before she turned to Colbert. "I'm ready when you are professor." Colbert nodded. Louise laid down on the bed on her back and stared at the ceiling. "You may experience a slight sight problem when you wake up, but it should disappear quickly." Louise nodded and watched as Colbert chanted and threw a sunny yellow orb at her and she knew nothing. The rest of them watched anxiously at her body and waited.
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Blinking slightly, Louise looked around and saw the sky. She remembered this setting, quickly looking down. Yep, there's Hiraga. Looking around for that thing she saw the bars with different symbols, Louise believes that this is the 'Battlefield Control'. She was still confused but she heard a very welcome voice. "Mistress. Can you hear me?" She immediately responded. "Hiraga! Oh thank the Founder you're here. Can you teach me how to do this?" She asked with hope obvious in her voice.
She felt her familiar give a nonexistent nod. "Very well. First thing we need to do is build an Energy Reactor. This will generate Energy Units for us to sustain our base with. Press the Building Icon." Louise listened with rapt attention and pressed the house icon. The full list of buildings appeared, with the only available building being the Reactor. "All you have to do now, is press the building icon, and place it in the perimeter. Note that this is a very important structure aside from the Prospector and Refinery, and thus should be placed in an easily defended position. But it is your choice." She pressed the icon and a hologram of the building phased in front of her. She looked nervous before she grabbed it gently and looked around. After looking around, Louise found a natural rock formation that has a large clearing inside, she hovered the building in that area and saw that the clearing could fit ten of these buildings, and that is if it's 'hugging' the wall.
With a nod and a smile, Louise 'ordered' the construction of one right next to the entrance. She watched with a transfixed gaze at how the building was constructed. "I had no idea that this is how you could build your base..." Louise muttered in awe. "I am battlefield efficient mistress. One of the most important factors, is Time. The faster we can build and produce forces, the higher chances we have of success in war efforts." Hiraga stated in response.
- With the others -
Colbert and the others can't help but be a bit worried because they don't know how long it would take for her to finish, but luckily. Hiraga helped with that. "Mistress has begun construction, and started queuing up the last reactor. I will show you." The disembodied voice of Hiraga stated with a monotone with a bit of underlying excitement.
A holo-video screen phased in front of them showed a view from a camera up on the command center showing the 'construction' of the first reactor, it looked about half finished already! "ETA: 1 hour remaining." His voice intoned. They watched transfixed as hours ran by, the base now had two reactors in that natural clearing with a wall of rock, a prospector at the base of the mountain, and a refinery just a little away from that. Though the three legged harvester kind of creeped Kirche out a bit when it was finished.
- Back with Louise -
Scrunching up her face cutely, she looked for a good spot to order the construction of the Droid Infantry Foundry. "Mistress, I have a suggestion." Louise let go of her breath she didn't know she was holding. Silently thanking his interference. "Yes? What is it?" "I recommend setting areas for dedicated facilities in the future." Louise tilted her head cutely. "Wha?" "You may need only one Droid Infantry Foundry to produce units, but for a good army output, you will need several. It is up to you to place as many as you want, but bear in mind that you will need EU to sustain the buildings, and LM to keep creating new units." Hiraga's explanation shook her young mind.
She forget sometimes, she has her own personal army. One that can probably out match any other army across Halkegenia by a long shot. Heeding his advice, she ordered the 'construction' of the first Droid Infantry Foundry in a field a few meters from the Power Sector. "Once the building has been completed, I suggest amassing a considerable amount of LM to create another supply line. You will need more LM and EU the larger our base becomes." Louise wiped her forehead of nonexistent sweat and looked at the small starting base she now controlled.
She sometimes think that she didn't deserve it since she didn't help build it. "Do not think like that mistress. Your orders help brought this base up. Without you, this base would not have ever existed. Your orders are our lifeblood. You command, we follow." He tried to console her, Hiraga was not programmed with this so, in the words of an intergalactic meme. He's gonna wing it. (1)
Louise looked down shyly and seemed to accept his words when Hiraga spoke again. "Mistress, I believe it is time for you to wake up, your allies seem extremely worried now." Louise nodded her head and closed her eyes, waiting for the drowsy feeling of waking up.
- Few hours later -
The four person entourage followed the mouse droid to an unknown destination in Hiraga. Looking quite a bit annoyed, Louise looked up while still walking. "Hiraga! Will you tell us where we are going?!" They heard a hum and several whines, as if Hiraga was chuckling. "What took you so long to ask?" He said with a smartass tone.
The pink haired girl puffed her cheeks cutely with an angry blush on her face. "You mean to tell me that you could have told us where we were going in the first place?!" Hiraga even had the gall to reply. "Eeyup." Louise went a little ballistic while under the amused gazes of the other three.
Finally, after a few minutes, she calmed down and sighed before dully staring at the mouse droid that was leading them. It did a beep and moved back and forth. "So. Will you tell us where are we going?" Her thrice damned familiar responded. "You are to be led to the inner sanctum, the more heavily defended version of the command center. Since you three are allies of mistress, despite my silent complaints, you are the only few that can enter the Inner Sanctum." He said.
Walking down the hallway to a door the size of the entrance, once right in front of it. The door opened up to reveal several more doors that also opened up with a hiss. Kirche whistled a long bit. "Wow, those are a lot of doors." The rest of them just nodded in surprise. "But of course, it should be heavily defended." Hiraga added with what seem to sound like a huff at the end of his sentence.
Finally the final door opened to reveal a room nearly three times the size of the command center on top. There were three other doors but they ignored it in favor of seeing the large table with a holographic map of the entire surrounding land and even beyond the set perimeter. Louise however locked eyes with what seemed to be a console on a huge chair that was blinking. Looking around the only other one that was looking was Tabitha, the two short girls locked eyes and nodded before they started walking to the terminal, while Kirche and Colbert were looking at the 3D representation.
The two girls then reached the chair and were sort of put off by the fact the chair was big enough for the two of them to sit on and still be comfortable. Louise and Tabitha looked at each other and the silent staff wielder motioned with her head that she should sit on it since this is probably the leader's chair. Louise bit her lip and hopped onto the chair and immediately leaned back with a soft moan, surprising Tabitha. "It's like I'm sitting on a cloud.~" The pink haired girl muttered in bliss as she sank further into the seat a bit.
Now curious Tabitha came closer and touched the cushion with her finger, feeling the soft cottony feeling instead of a normal chair. Looking up she met Louise's gaze, she motioned with her staff. "May I try?" Tabitha said and was inwardly glad Louise nodded yes. She hopped on and closed her eyes and sighed with contentment. "I should ask Louise if we could replace the beds in our dormitories with this later." The two girls were just sitting on the chair of absolute softness when Hiraga made himself known. "You two enjoying yourselves?" The said two jolted awake and sat perfectly.
Louise coughed into her hand and looked at the orb in front of them. "So… what is this thing?" She asked and was met with an immediate answer. "That is a console. Here let me lower it for you." Just as he said that, the console that was a bit higher than them, started to lower and got in front of them right about the level of their torso. "I had to refit this room while you were in battlefield control. That way when you are in base, you won't have to go to sleep and you can just order the construction of the base and assembling of our army here in this room. The hologram in the middle of the room will be your holomap. It will be difficult to increase the range of the holomap but we are safe for the time being. As of now, this console will help you get a reading of our current resources, our units, buildings, and any information of the aforementioned topics. The console and the Battle Map have a password, as extra protection, the password should be on the console now." He said, the two girls looked at it and saw the console screen have one word. "DRN01" (2)
The pink haired girl scrunched up her face and looked at the floating orb. "But that would be inconvenient, because I pretty much still have to go here to get an accurate reading for myself." She could practically smell annoyance when the orb pulsed. "Have you forgotten that I could speak with you directly through your head?" Hiraga said with sarcasm and annoyance present in his voice. Louise blushed a bit because she pretty much did forget.
Tabitha looked at Louise, then at Hiraga. "Can Louise relay orders to you and you can build the base and create soldiers on your own?" They heard him hum and the orb pulsed. "That is possible, we may try it in the future. But now, mistress. It is time for me to instruct you about the various infantry you currently have in your disposal." Hiraga now taught Louise mostly, but the other three were listening in, Kirche for curiosity sake, while Tabitha and Colbert so they could provide their own tactical prowess to help Louise.
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I am Line Break
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They all arrived back at the academy, but not before Louise ordered the assembly of a single B1 Battle Droid Squad. Once they arrived back at the academy, Colbert quickly left because of his duties as a professor, while the three girls left for where Kirche and Tabitha's familiars were, they just arrived to see Guiche get slapped twice by Montmorency and Katie. Kirche and Louise snickered, while Tabitha's lips quirked up a bit at the edges.
However, what Guiche did next wiped the amused looks off their faces. He stood up and back handed a random maid with black hair reaching above her shoulder and started to go into a tirade about her being the one who broke the hearts of two young women. Louise looked sour and started walking slowly towards the scene, grabbing the attention of Kirche and Tabitha, who decided to follow her.
"Wow Guiche, this is a new low, even for you. I mean it was you who two timed them in the first place." Louise said while crossing her arms on her chest. Everyone else laughed at that. "It's true Guiche!" "You can't bother denying it now!" Guiche looked a bit mad and constipated before looking at her and smirked. "As if they would resist me for long. In time, they will forgive and forget." The pink haired girl snorted. "Yeah, and start doing it again, which will lead to you getting smacked, again." That response made the crowd laugh again and made Guiche turn red in anger and without thinking pointed his rose at her. "You insolent zero, I challenge you to a duel! In the Vestri Court, tomorrow noon." He said with a flick of his wrist.
The pink haired girl looked at him like he was insane, before nodding. "Very well, tomorrow at noon then." Louise was about to turn around and help the maid up when the blond haired douche spoke up again. "Wait! Let's make this interesting, whoever wins. The loser will have to do the bidding of the winner." She slightly twitched at that and just gave a short curt nod. With his piece said, Guiche and the crowd around them dispersed.
Louise sighed and got down to help the maid up, who was looking at her like she was a goddess. "I thank you humbly lady Valliere. But you didn't have to-" Louise silenced her by holding up a hand. "None of that, a noble is supposed to protect the commoners, to do what he did, is despicable." The maid's gaze became warmer and she bowed again. Louise was about to tell her to stop again but Kirche had something to ask. "So, how are you going to beat him?" Silence reigned supreme in the clearing. "Mistress, if I may be so bold to suggest." She twitched, confusing the maid but signaling Kirche and Tabitha that Hiraga was talking to her.
"What is it?" Louise asked. "Bring in a small task force of droids. Comprising of several squads." He said, the pink haired girl contemplated his words and nodded inwardly to him. "Start queuing up the assembly of four more B1 Battle Droid Squads and then build three B2 Super Battle Droid Squads, after that prepare for them to march here tomorrow." Her order was met with an immediate response. "By your command mistress." His response sounded very pleased.
Louise stood up and turned around to face her two friends and gave a mischievous and borderline sadistic smile. "I think Guiche will get a rude wake up call tomorrow." She could already see her small task force marching and standing behind her, with Guiche shaking in his boots. Oh yes, tomorrow will be a very pleasant event to see.
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Chapter 2 – The Acquisitions End
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Yeeees! I'm finally done with chapter two, now I'm sorry I didn't bring in the ass kicking here, but I already have already done enough for this chapter.
Anyway, I'm sure you saw the numbers let me say this.
1: There is no doubt in my mind, if humans got into intergalactic net, then it is pretty much guaranteed that our glorious memes will follow. There is no stopping the memes, those who try should be ready for a glorious Meme War.
2: If you haven't figured it out, the DRN01 means Droids aRe Number 1
Now for the droids, I'm gonna stick with the fact that a single squad of B1 Battle Droids consist of 30 B1 Droids, that is already counting into account their new upgraded forms. As for the B2 Super Battle Droid squads, each squad consist of 15 B2 Droids. The formations of these two squads are always in rows of five droids, so 6 rows for the B1 Squads, and 3 rows for the B2 Squads.
As for their equipment, well. The B1's have their normal blasters, but they now have a single Dagger-Class vibroblade on their back. Now for the Vibroblades, I gave them classes, Dagger-Class will not even be able to cut through energy but they can at least take care of armor, especially light armor. Sword-Class will be able to parry energy attacks, the best one to delay a lightsaber blade. Warblade-Class are those vibroblades that can withstand prolonged lightsaber battles, and can cut as well as a lightsaber can.
B2 Battle Droids on the other hand, they are the Clone Wars version so they are huge, and they normally have their blasters on their wrists, but now they can flip out their arm and reconfigure it into an proton bomb blaster, but they can only fire one charge as they have to let it recharge, or else they'll just do a suicide attack by firing it again. They also have retractable Sword-Class vibroblades on each side of the blaster gauntlets, it's highly doubtful that they need it, but it can be useful combined with the B2 arm strength and new speed.
You know what? What was I thinking?! Making this a yuri on the side will make this story more unique! So I retract my earlier statement and say that Louise and Tabitha are a thing, but not until later on. They will be oath sisters first before going any farther so yeah. I was tired when I wrote my earlier statement and it was when after I read it myself I slapped myself for doing that.
Now with that out of the way, this is The Oblivion Overlord, signing out! Bye bye!
