Chapter Three: The Beholder
Harry's POV
He stopped at the bottom of the ramp, the blindness fading quickly showing what looked like a virtual utopia. The Tall Towers of white and sometimes grey metallic buildings in the distance setting a pure backdrop of wealth and safety. The free green fields and rolling forests edging along what seemed like the widest highway ever constructed. He glanced over towards the city itself, the tallest building being the most noticeable, it had four large swooping pillars leading to a massive several mile wide discs of hovering building with grass and roads laid on top.
The center was where the Tower laid, it being supported up by the four massive pillars, of steel, it seemed similar to the Eiffel tower scaled up massively with a ring around the lower supports. everything covered with smooth white metal covering, the central tower reaching straight up and at the top a massive several story circular "observation deck" styled top. It gleamed against the light of the sun and the massive artificial rivers along the ring was visible from the fairly decent distance this landing port was at. He saw something move between the towers of the city and blinked in surprise.
It was a massive four tracked vehicle the cannons on it showing power as it rolled down the same highway he had taken notice of before. "Sir," Franklin said quickly. "Sorry, just surprised by that thing." He said pointing getting a small nod. "The Mobile Command and Battle Fortress is a fairly intimidating thing to see, but you cant find a much better patrolling vehicle to cover fairly large continents in a short period of time." Franklin explained moving him down off the raised platform and into a grey hallway.
The dull metallic color did well at not reflecting light very much and he was moved with three armed men in front and three in the back, with Franklin to his right. "So that tower?" He asked quietly. "That is where you are being taken, its pretty much the centralized governments' location." Franklin explained making him nod slightly. "How big is the tower itself. "The central tower? or from the Supports in?" Franklin asked with a raised eyebrow. "All of it, the ring from the supports." He said getting a small nod. "From the supports, you have a thirty by thirty-mile area." Franklin explained making him stop.
"What?" He asked getting a small blink of surprise. "Yeah, The ring is about eighteen-mile radius, with a four-mile distance from the outer edge to the center edge," Franklin explained making him nod dumbly. "I'm more surprised you didn't connect to the network and just look it up." Franklin said amused making him continue walking and frown. "Kind of hard to remember to do that when you come out of a science ship to see a virtual utopia." He commented in deadpan. He stopped quickly to keep from running into his escorts.
"Lieutenant, Well done, the Service will take him from here." Two men in similar suits said getting a small nod from Franklin. "Just the two of you?" He asked getting stares for a second. "The rest of the escort detail is waiting in the closed of parking level, it is just through those doors if you'll come with us, sir." The one on the left explained turning towards the door. He nodded slowly and followed out into a fairly well lite cement like parking structure. He stared at the Black slick and heavy looking in front and behind it were two copies of the exact same one, behind the rear one was a large military vehicle with what looking like a computer server in the back, behind that were three military vehicles with mounted guns.
In the front was a military vehicle like that last four but with a slight extension and what looked like a small force of armed soldiers. In front of that vehicle was another three armed military vehicles. "You don't skip out of protection do you?" He asked sarcastically. He saw the two glance over before a simultaneous shake of the head. He entered the middle limo and sat back as the left suit entered the back with him and the other entered the front. "Begin Transport." The suit with him ordered. He didn't even feel the car start moving but he looked out the window to see them already on the massive highway. He saw two shadows over the ground moving and looked up seeing two fighter jet like planes moving slowly overhead.
"You know when I thought of transport to the center I was expecting more of like one car." He said seeing the face of his suit twice. "There was a command to make sure your transport went safely, many lower ranking commanders were begging for the position of escort. General Gerardo Romero gave the command to one of his captains, the troops providing escort are some of the best trained special operations, in rural combat, soldiers that we could provide." The Suit said making him nod slowly. "So what will I be doing once we reach the tower?" He asked getting a small sigh.
"The Upper Command wants a sit down, currently the Governor for Earth and three other systems will be having a video meeting with you within two hours, After that you will be given a few days to get comfortable before we inform you of sensative information and the current state of how everything is at the moment across our territory." The Suit said making him nod slowly before sighing. "So what's your name?" He asked getting a raised eyebrow. "Timothy, although at the moment Sir id rather if we keep our professional attitude up if possible." Timothy said making him nod and shift slightly.
'Well, that was awkward.' He thought before relaxing back only to see the car darken and he looked up out the window. The massive Mobile Fortress was passing over his car and he blinks in surprise before feeling a slight headache come on. "When you said Upper Command, I assume you mean Army and Navy?" He asked getting a small nod. "Navy and Army are currently fighting each other over who will be the first grouping of top brass to meet with you, with your current position the command structure has literally been put on hold, they want to know what their orders are as soon as possible in order to make sure things dont fall apart." Timothy explained making him nod.
He leaned back and closed his eyes. He felt tried looking into his head to see if he could enter the network and felt a cold feeling flow through his body from the neural link and could feel information at the edges of his mind. He skirted back from it a bit nervous about the possible dangers of just diving into the pool and touched pulled at a bit the streams of information and snapped up as it flowed through his head. He nodded slightly before pulling himself out of it. While it was interesting that the way to do it could be similar to Occlumency training, it wasn't all that important.
"Sir, we've arrived" Timothy explained standing outside the door waiting for him. He nodded slightly and stepped out happy for the hat as it blocked a bit of the sun. He looked at the large tower and immediately stopped his gaze as it took in the lines of Uniformed people. "You told me this was going to be quiet." He said getting a small snort. "I was told it would be, yet you seem to be handling it well." Timothy said as he walked him past all the uniforms. "Right because I can really show any other reaction than this?" He asked sarcastically getting a small nod.
"As you can see this is one of the most secure buildings on this planet." Timothy said showing the multitude of scanning technology and defensive protections. He sighed as he was ushered through quickly and felt like a rock sitting in the Lift doing nothing while Timothy pressed the button for one of the top floors. "So, how fast is this lift?" He asked getting a small raised eyebrow. "The Elevator? It's one of the fastest models developed with current Technology, we should reach the top within the next two seconds." Timothy said making him blink as the doors opened nearly a second later.
"Why didn't I feel that? The trip had to have been several hundred Stories." He said getting a small sigh. "Inertial fields projected in the elevator cancel out a majority of the G-forces experienced by the acceleration and deceleration." Timoty explained making him nod before turning his head to see a shorter woman just in front of him smiling softly. He flinched for a second in surprise before relaxing quickly after. "This is Miyuri, she is your personal secretary, any appointments you need to keep she will keep track of as well as anything having to do with your public and private appearance that is necessary for her to have a hand in." Timothy explained making him nod slowly.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Sir. If you will follow me, we can begin setting up your outfit for your appointment with the Governors. I have a few ideas in mind." Miyuri said pulling an about-face and moving quickly towards two wooden doors. He stumbled in catching up before following closely behind the woman. "You have quite a wardrobe provided, but we will need something that both fits you as well as shows your position." Miyuri explained going over a few suits inside the gigantic closet. He sweated slightly at the small smile on her face, it almost didn't seem natural for someone to be so silently excited about basically playing dress up.
He edged away slowly only to be held in place as a suit was laid over his outstretched arms. "The bathroom is just behind you, once you finish changing I will go over a general plan of what will be addressed during the meeting, however taking into consideration that some questions we havent accounted for will come up you will need to keep on your toes." Miyuri explained making him nod slowly before moving off to the bathroom. He breathed a small sigh of relief, he half expected everything to just be tossed on him in seconds.
He felt a rush of information and relaxed, the general plan they had put in place allowed him to quickly yet slowly ease into the position, over a few days. "Well, at least this is better than my prior situation. Right?" He asked himself looking into the mirror absently doing the tie. He leaned against the marble counter and stared into the mirror. 'How did things become so messed up, this isn't something I can just ignore, it is almost like being in a new world, and while the implants help keep me from freaking out, its just always there, in my mind.' He thought rubbing his eyes.
He felt tired, it was odd, his body felt fine, more energy than what he could possibly need, but he felt tired in his mind, a small part of him just wanted to sit down and relax. "Sir, Everything may seem like a lot right now, but we all are here to help you, you arent just a leader, your our commander, as much as we will teach you to rule, we will also help in teaching you anything else you may need to know. You aren't alone, we are here no matter what changes to the galaxy." Miyuri called softly through the door. He relaxed slightly letting the troubles go for a second before they threatened to overwhelm him.
He opened the door seeing the soft smile from Miyuri and looked in confusion as she blushed lightly a second before the same small smile took back over. "Well don't you certainly look all the parts a leader. Before we sit you down for the meeting we will be going over a few of the smaller ordinances we will need you to look over, these have been in place for a while but we need you to see whats being suggested and use the meeting time as well as the next few days to think over your choice before we put any choice through." Miyuri explained making him nod slowly as he was lead to a small stairwell and up it.
His eyes looked over the massive room, the large desk and chair provided. "This is both your office and study." Miyuri explained making him run his hand over the desk for a second. "So what makes these decisions so important?" He asked getting a small sigh as the woman sat down and gestured to his chair. He sat quickly and looked over wearily. "These choices have a major impact on our holdings as well as our current presence on the galactic scale. These choices have a massive impact on our decisions for the foreseeable future, so we need your authorization either way." Miyuri explained making him lean back slightly and sigh.
"I'm sixteen and these decisions hold the fate of this empire at stake, and your handing that control to me?" He asked feeling a massive headache come on. "It's how we've made ourselves, besides we've looked over your file, you arent one to just throw people away, nor are you one to make us do anything you wouldnt let alone put us in a position you wouldnt sooner go in." Miyuri said making him rub his face in annoyance. "You all are riding a lot of hopes on who I am as a person." He said getting a small smile.
"At the end of the day, almost everything anyone does is based on some level of faith." Miyuri said making him smile lightly at that thought. "Alright, since you all are counting on me, looks like ill just have to do my best, and accept any consequences as they come." He said turning to look out the window in mild awe. The view was beautiful. The light of the sun over the massive nearly endless city. This place of beauty is what he had control over and even as accepting as he was over it a sense of nervousness came over him.
A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, at least by what I hope to normally put out, on top of this chapter I will be releasing the fourth as well since this one was so short, I couldnt fit to much in without it feeling overdone with detail so I had to just cut it where it was since this chapter and the fourth while on the same day have a slight difference in whats going on, and what is being focused on. at around chapter 15 I will be bringing forwards the details of the poll I want all the readers who find themselves well invested in this story to participate on. The poll will be left up for ten chapters so everyone will have ample time to make their choices. On top of that a following poll for a seperate idea, although having to do with this story will make an appearance for the same amount of chapters. 10. this seperate idea will follow an alternate structure from the first one. it will be much like the Tarchell stories in the Stargate SG1 and Harry Potter cross, there will be a divergence and each new story will follow its own unique path.
I want you to know on chapter fifteen a large A/N will make an appearance this will have all the pertinent information available some information will be withheld for the actual poll since it wont be necessary to include in chapter. On top of that, I will be giving a specific request at that point for you in order to assist in my writing process, I am not asking for a Beta or anything although if one would like to offer their services I wouldnt be opposed. I plan on making this story at minimum 60 chapters, I'm hoping for more but I am kind of letting the story take me where it wants to go. I will attempt to make chapters 5000 words or more, if possible, this will be more likely as chapters with conflict and interaction on a larger scale become written. so expect more to come, much more.
If anyone can guess either what my plan later is i commend you and would really like to see what you think will happen, you are free to PM me with your assumptions, I reserve the right to confirm or deny it as well as deny comment however if I do confirm it to anyone please do not spoil it as I do wish to keep some suspense and surprises for everyone reading.