This is a reimagining of Gate: Thus the JSDF fought there just with different locations, characters and an overall effect on the main story. This is Gate: Rebirth of an empire.

Chapter 3 – The New Guard

July 14th 2022

The day the new electoral party entered the houses of parliament was met with uproar from the old guard and praise from the general public. The new prime minister was a man called Oscar Field, an ex-army NCO, just past middle age, he was still younger than most of the members of parliament that wasn't in his party.

His first hour in parliament was televised as the PM promised it; this footage was broadcasted across the country with tens of millions of people watching. Storming in to the main hall where all the seats of parliament occupy and some standing, leaving most of the ministers slightly shocked. It wasn't long after he burst in that he started to speak;

"Our country is not on the edge of the abyss, we have entered it! We are in a free fall towards our deaths and the death of this country, a country that stood proud and unconquered for almost a thousand years, now it's our fault that we have broken that legacy".

"There was a saying that Britons never will be slaves and you, my esteemed colleagues have shown that we can be slaves, we can be invaded and we can be destroyed, we were a fucking empire and you corrupted every essence of what was left of it, destroyed our unity and wasted uncountable amount of our civilians"

The Prime minister started to get heated, as this was coming from his heart, watching the thing he loves become crippled and ill, almost to a point that it should be cut away to stop the spread of infection to the rest of the world. Oscar Fields called for someone and a large number of police entered the room.

"My esteemed colleagues, you that resisted the vote to send in our armed forces to protect our people are now under arrest for treason against are glorious queen, this is my first decree as prime minister, no longer are we aloud to let the people down in this country or the people of this world. We were once a proud nation that its people despised, now were a nation that despises its people. When he finished that sentence he sat back down in his seat to silence, but it had the effect on the people of the nation that he wanted, it wasn't long before the police came to arrest people.

None of the members of parliament escaped imprisonment and were all put on trial for multiply accounts of offensives against the people, which left a power gap in the houses of parliament, which was surprisingly filled with young politicians whom had watch the a growing county dissolve in to nothing. In one way or another all the new guard agreed with what the prime minster wanted this new country to be, either it be from the from the mass employment of the people in to government backed jobs in industry, computing and export, but also in the military, police and Funding a new NHS. There was also the legalising of most drugs to fund projects, while wiping of debt for a large portion of the British public, because of these actions a large amount of convicted men and women where set free, which created more cogs in the system.

Due to the biggest change to the country was the legislation to bring free education to everyone, with a large focus on help to the profession which is best suited to them. Large amounts of builders, doctors, nurses, policemen, scientist, solders and government workers soon appeared coming from all walks of life, even a large number of convicts and junkies slowly reforming when finding their footing.

The PM Oscar Fields had made a lot of friends in the general public, but had made many enemies, from the ex-ministers to a small number of the populous which believed that he was turning the country in to a fascist like state; the largest group was the Anglo Freedom League or the AFL.

The AFL railed around like minded members that said the government and councils relegated the population while the higher up's where profiting from their suffering. Due to the new regulations regarding the conscription of the general public, in which they were drafted to all sectors, to the legislation of drugs, which was to subjugate and the release of convicts to harass the populous, it was all a ruse to create a dictatorship run by the Phoenix party. The real reason the Phoenix party did so well was because the people need something to believe in.

They started off as most dissident's do, protests that turned in to riots, which in some cases resulted in deaths, this caused PM Oscar many troubles which at this point had resulted in a few members of his party had been letter bombed, three deaths had resulted in this.

November 10th 2022

Inside a detention centre near East Knoyle, Anderson thought about the situations she had gotten herself in, locked away in the middle of nowhere, left to rot. Her days had been spend in isolation, unknown to the outside world and it to her, she had managed to count the days she had been locked it here, it had been three hundred and four days.

Almost for the entire year she had been locked in her, she never gave up her physical routine, which had managed to save her mental state, training herself to keep occupied. The last three month her food had been amplified luckily to help increase her strength and fitness.

It was midday when the door to her room was opened and a man walked in to face her while she was in the middle of a session of push-ups. "Well your keeping yourself busy young lady" Oscar Fields said to her, "Yes sir" she replied confusingly, bewildered by this man just showing up while raising herself up and looking him in the eye. Oscar fields placed down the chair he was holding and sat on it "Sergeant Anderson, It's nice to meet you, I'm Oscar Fields and you might be might inquisitive about my being here", She stared in to the eyes of this man and said "Nice to meet you to and yeah i am quite bloody inquisitive since they told me I'm going to be court martialed and that was two fucking months ago" Fields was taken aback from what she said "well Sergeant I don't know anything about a court martial, but I do know about your action against the Imperial army and this is what has led me here" he relaxed some more and slumped in the chair "look Anderson shits about to hit the fan and I need your help, the last few months things have been improving, but some people don't believe in the way it's going while the Imperial army is knocking in the door pretty hard". Anderson took in the little information delivered to her and processed it, wanting to know of the situation as much as she could, it wasn't enough though.

It took a while to explain their current situation to Anderson without leaving out as much he physically could, but she took it all in, and had learnt that there had been a new prime minister, a couple of terrorist attacks, a large thrust from the Imperial army, but to counter this the country had reformed to become more militaristic state, which worried her, but to her surprise it was doing the world of good to the national populous. Even with all the bad info she had been giving there was a part of her that thought that they could still do this, major reforms had turned the recession around to the point where the Pound Sterling hadn't stop rising in almost a month, making it one of the world strongest currency's with only China and the United Arab Emirates dominating the global market.

Anderson was amazed at the amount of people that had join the armed forces, which were being deployed to help all walks of life, with the medics being sent to help the NHS and to train new doctors and nurses to the engineers repairing the infrastructure. It was a joint venture between the public sector and the private sector. Anderson was confused and amazed at what had happened while she was incarcerated.

Oscar Fields waited until she had composed herself before he explained the true reason he was here, with all the benefits of this new land there were still problems, and that was where she came in. He explained to her the problems facing him which was the AFL, which at this point could be considered more dangerous than the Imperial army. To her shock she found out a group of AFL had assaulted a small armoury, gaining a few hundred small arms which in the last few months had spread out in to the lower fringes of the group.

"So Anderson what I'm asking is that you and a team, of you selection, work in conjunction with elements of the other branches of military. The last thing this country needs is two invading forces and as both are using lethal arms against the general population, which like me would rather just get on with our lives and deal with the natural hardships of life" Oscar Fields pleaded with her, she was stunned. "Sir i don't know what to say, I got left in here a long time, which pisses me off, cause me and the fella's where just trying to do the right thing while you fucks were lickings each other arses" Anderson blurted out, slightly in anger and slightly in exhaustion.

Fields Stood up, picked up the chair and went to leave before looking her in the eyes "Anderson, you making it look like im asking you but this isn't a yes or no question, this is a get off your arse and get some bloody work done". Anderson sat their shocked, she didn't think he was going to be this informal but couldn't say no at this point. Knowing about possible dictators the last thing you wanted to do was say no. "Come with me then" Fields said.

The midday sun felt nice on her face, it was the first time in months she had seen the sun, let alone be outside, her confinement and training made it hard not to run at the first sign of freedom, but she resisted at that, it was surprisingly there wasn't anyone else about. After a couple of steps of enjoying the sunshine she saw a car coming towards her, the road the chain link fences between it looked a lot better than it did when she came in here. The car stopped just before her and Fields, he walked over and held the door open for her, she got in. nothing had been said since they left her cell, the adrenaline in her system raised hell with her nerves, she felt like she might regret what was coming up. The car left as soon as they both got in.

The journey was quiet and peaceful, which let her enjoy it, but after a few minutes in to it she saw the wall which protected the country. It had been reinforced, from sand bags to when it first happened to a wooden wall when she went over it, now it was concrete, moveable blocks created an impenetrable wall. As the car went along she could see soldiers lined up upon the wall, from what she could see there must be tens of thousands guarding the wall, a significant increase since she was last here. With what she saw it made her wonder what else had changed and how big the armed forces had got.

It didn't take long before they reached their destination, a small unknown town. Her biggest shock was the amount of people just getting on with their lives so close to the wall, the last time she passed through a town this close it was almost deserted, now it was alive, bustling with pedestrians, soldiers and police entering shops and enjoying the company. It wasn't long before Anderson remembered how much she hated traffic.

After the stint in traffic they reached a small office block, with about 8 floors and a chain-link fence around it, she saw several people patrolling and two manning the gate, which let them through. They stopped outside and entered the building, Anderson and Fields passed through a checkpoint that was near the front doors then down a corridor, up a flight of stairs and finally coming to a door. The room was bland and empty, apart from a table and three chairs; a window was illuminating the room also showing the outside world. Fields motioned to one of the chairs before taking one himself.

Anderson was slightly disoriented from the new information and surroundings that had flood her compared to the many months spent in a cell, she enjoyed the simplicity of it, but also wanted to know what was going on and why there was another chair. "Right Anderson I've got a lot of shit to tell you and someone to meet, there's a lot to go through and it's hard to pick somewhere to start, plus in a minute I don't want to have to repeat myself" fields finish and picked up a couple of different sized folders from under the table, handing one to Anderson. The folder contained photos and documents relating to the Imperial army, showing different types of infantry that made up their army and their territory, there was one piece of paper the she didn't have time to look over before Fields spoke again.

Fields started to explain "so to start I'll tell you what we know about the Imperial army, as you know we've known their called the Imperial army from what our prisoners found out, which was leaked to the public. They are not a nationalist group or terrorists trying to instigate a revolution, not anarchist trying to create chaos and scarily not another country from our planet trying to show dominance" Fields finally breathed, but wasn't finished. "From our informants we've learnt that they are from a different world, believe it not, but this is some weird fucking wormhole stuff. The country they come from is called Falmart, a small classical nation that have connection it the Roman republic, or so we believe, from an unknown world. This nation entered our land at the Salisbury plains, strangely at Stonehenge, which predates the romans or so we thought, from Stonehenge they launched their assault on us. The Imperial army has taken over to much while our government refused to do nothing; this made the Imperial army plan, which we believe is to conquer the world, which at this point could be a real fuck thing".

Fields stopped before looking concerned after his little rant, Anderson clocked on quickly "if they take England they'd be on their own little fortress and the easiest way to defeat them would be a nuke, well at least in this current climate, unless you've sorted the world out to" she finished with a smirk.

Fields let out a sigh before continuing "thank god I don't have to explain that to. We have a very precarious situation and we need to rectify it, this is where you come in. I need you to lead a group of people against the AFL, while in unison with other teams to attack their strongholds and arms depots; once this is done I can focus our sleeping lion against the true enemy's". Anderson felt relieved, mostly in the fact someone was doing something and she thought that might be for the best. "Well sir I think that might be for the best and honestly I liked to get out and do something, I still have some questions, but I will accept if you truly let me pick my own team". Fields didn't take hesitation in his reply "we seem to be in the same place, neither can really say no", he laughed, "So yes I will let you select your own team apart from one man, I'm going to have you take him with you, this would be the perfect time introduce him ". Fields stood up and walked out, slightly shocking Anderson before she sat for a couple minutes in disbelief.

Fields walked in with another man, a lot younger than him, of average height and slim of build, slightly pale, gaunt and with what she considered to be long black hair. He walked over to Anderson and held out a hand, she shook his hand "nice to meet you Georgia, if you don't mind me calling you Georgia" looking slightly embarrassed, "Jack Bowman, nice to meet you, bit shocked why I'm here" he laughed. Anderson was caught off guard by this man being so awkward.

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