Finn followed Water Princess, who was leading him into the command room, which was empty, the generals and admirals were in the field, overseeing the operations. "Finn, tell me. How did you break the Fire Line?"
"What is the Fire Line?"
"We dubbed the defense that Fire Kingdom had prepared for its castle the Fire Line, tell me, how did you exactly break it with your craft? Pilots who have attempted to break the line usually get their plane destroyed, how come you are so special?"
"Perhaps… I have something in me that makes me good at flying planes."
"I received the data from the ground, you piloted it using the AI? How? What made the AI special that day?"
"Maybe, it's because of the fact that your pilots don't even dare to break the line in the first place with AI, usually flying manually."
"Perhaps the AI is better than what we can fly, interesting. We shall be testing this with our simulator. For now, you are dismissed. It is getting dark, please get some rest. And please, do not wander off using the equipment. Those are not toys, they weapons of war." Water Princess bowed formally, as any monarch does, before standing there, expecting Finn to leave.
"See you soon." Finn nodded, before turning around to leave the command center.
"Rise and shine soldier! We got a war to fight!" Water S. Patton blared throughout the kingdom.
"Sorry fellow subjects, it seems that Water S. Patton is using the kingdom-wide system to broadcast what he claims will boost moral."
"But it does work!"
"Guards get him out of the room!"
"I can get myself out of the room, thank you very much."
Beep! Signifying that the broadcast has ended. Finn laughed, realized what just had happened. He picked himself out of bed and got to work. He got out of his room and headed into the command center, where Water Princess was studying the battlefield. "Mr. Mertens! I see that you are awake. If you hadn't heard it yet, you should know that we have seized Fire Kingdom's air base. A huge development for all of us!"
"Radical!" Finn remarked, smiling.
"Remember out talk about the Fire Line?"
"Yeah? What about it?"
"We tested it in a simulation. Results were not what was expected. It failed to break the line, utterly."
"What happened?"
"In the first five seconds, the plane was already torn to pieces by a missile."
"Guess I was lucky."
"Yes, you are very lucky."
"Princess? May I ask you something?"
"Ask away!:
"Can I take a plane for a spin?"
"You're interested in piloting? I advise that should visit our three academics, the military academy, the naval academy, and the aerial academy."
"Thank you, princess."
"Don't need to be so formal. You have helped me a great deal. Call me WP, a short form of Water Princess." Water Princess replied, winking at him.
"Did she just winked at me? Nah, it's my eyes." Finn thought, turning around, planning to visit the academies of Water Kingdom.
"Ah! Son! So glad to see you at our military academy, as you can see, we don't only use education, we teach them to use the finest technology Water Kingdom possess." Water S. Patton welcomed him to the military academy.
"Nice message by the way!" A soldier pointed out, and the rest of the soldiers sniggled.
Water S. Patton was about to react, but he stayed his hand. "Anyway, since you're here, I got the perfect training for you. Let's have some fun busting up tanks!"
Water S. Patton led Finn and some soldiers onto a helicopter, which took off. The dust took off as the rotors blew the sand off the ground. "So, are we flying to a simulated battleground?"
"I reveal no secrets." Boom! Sounds of an artillery fire are heard.
"Sir, please tell me this is all a simulation. The sounds are fake!"
"No, of course not. Why are all of you a real spoilsport, we're going in the real deal of course. First, we gotta take out that plane, son, shall you do the honors?"
"With pleasure sir!" Finn moved forward, sitting in the co-pilot's seat, where all the buttons to control the weaponry were.
"I shall not tell you how to use the weaponry, you have used it once. I shall not spoil your fun." Finn waited for the software to aim at the plane, and when the crosshairs touched each other, he fired, missiles from the helicopter were launched and were heading straight for the plane. It tore the plane apart, as the pilot was caught off guard.
"This plane is a military helicopter disguised as a civilian helicopter, they will never see this coming."
"You! Soldier, man the helicopter's weaponry. Let son here have some fun with the big guns."
"Yes, sir!" The Water Soldier headed forward to man the weaponry supporting the assault that Water Kingdom was leading.
"Ok son, see this machine gun by the side of the helicopter, I want you to use one of these, and don't worry about falling off the plane. There is a seat, just installed, because of some complaints of safety violations." Water S. Patton glanced at the Water Soldiers, giving him a smile.
Finn walked over to where the machine gun was situated. A scene that looked like hell bestows upon him. The ground had holes, everywhere he see, he sees holes created by the numerous shelling made by both kingdoms, and it is still going on. Tanks, lying in the ground, some destroyed, some bogged down. The ones destroyed had smoke still coming from it, some of them were even on fire, recently destroyed. Dead bodies scatter the field, one can easily see which side the bodies belong to, by seeing the splatter of blue and red color all over the ground, like a toddler playing with red and blue paint. It almost became Trench Warfare, until the Water Kingdom brought the cavalry. More tanks storm the battlefield, blasting volleys of water at the Fire Kingdom's soldiers huddling in the trenches, mouth agape, seeing the iron monsters decimating their forces.
"What are you waiting, son? Just press the trigger."
Finn pulled the trigger, spraying the battlefield with a barrage of machine gun fire, the fire taking out the numerous stragglers of Fire Kingdom soldiers retreating, letting the iron beasts successfully complete their mission. It did help that the helicopter was swooping near the ground, allowing him to aim more accurately. Finn felt shaken by the gun's recoil, he felt alive. The sound of the gun blasting out bullets like there is no tomorrow just felt great.
"Ok son, we seized the territory, time to head back to base." Water S. Patton instructed the pilot, the pilot swerving the helicopter, flying back to the air base. Finn got out of the machine gun seat and head back to his seat, walking clumsily, badly shaken by the machine gun. "That happens to every first-time users, good thing you did not vomit. You know, once time, one of the soldiers vomited after using Big Old Bessie here. And his vomit spilled over to a Fire Kingdom soldier. The soldier got extinguished!" Everyone laughed, by his remark, because it is true.
"Patton! I thought we agreed that you should ask for my permission first before taking him off to risky missions!" Water Princess demanded.
"Princess, old blood and guts knows that son here would enjoy it! And he did!"
"Finn? Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Finn remarked.
"See I told you, princess. Men always love the sound of war!"
"Well, sir. I have to say goodbye, I'm going to visit the naval academy."
"Well son, the principal is Ernest Water. Say hi to him for me." Water S. Patton nodded and Finn walked to the naval academy.
"Ah! You must be Finn Mertens. Water S. Patton has alerted me to your presence. My name is Ernest Water, this fine academy's principal, and not to boast, a very good admiral. We kicked back Fire Kingdom's ass. That was the good days."
"Yes, admiral."
"Water S. Patton has told me everything. He told me you like flying planes. So this idea came to my mind, why not come aboard an aircraft carrier? Not just any old aircraft carrier, it's the WSS Enterprise."
"Thank you, admiral." Finn bowed, escorted by some sailors out of the admiral office, to be brought to the WSS Enterprise.
"Mr. Mertens. We have been expecting your presence. Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Admiral W Chester. Welcome to the Big E."
"Thank you, admiral, show me to my quarters and I shall get to work." Finn bowed and entered the ship with the other sailors.
"Ok crew, this is W Chester, and we are setting sail to Fire Kingdom's capital. Let's teach those bastards a lesson!" Chester broadcasted throughout the carrier, and the Big E set sailed.
Finn walked to the canteen, where lunch was served. As he walked in the canteen, he received stares from the sailors, he knew it, looking at their eyes. They were discriminating him, and they wanted to test him. He stood in the queue and one sailor purposely cut the queue. "Hey, what gives?"
"Sailors first. You're nobody."
"Hey, dude, that is uncool, get out of the line dude."
"What did you say? Well, shut up you runt. It's either you use your fists to talk to me or shut the fuck up!"
Finn stayed his hand, knowing that the sailor was bringing him into a confrontation. "Yes, that's a good little runt." The sailor mocked him, inciting more sailors to cut the queue as well, leaving Finn unable to do anything.
"Move along you runt." The sailors demanded, joining the queue, leaving Finn last in line.
After grabbing his grub, he tried to find a place to sit, but most of the seats were occupied. There was an empty table, he sat there and ate there all alone. Discriminated and bullied by the Water Sailors, he felt an injustice. At the moment, he knew that Water S. Patton protected him in the military academy, but here, he would be exposed to the elements. One thing ran through his mind," I need a gun."
He entered his room, a room filled with bunk beds. It was the pilots' dormitory. "New guy? Here, let me show you around." A Water Pilot offered. "Now you see new guy, the pilots are divided into mainly three groups. You see, over there, are the pilots that pilots planes that drops bombs. They are the one books over there, dropping bombs accurately is hard you see. And over there, are the pilots which are playing cards. They are the one flying the fighters, the big risk takers, they risk being shot down, but the rewards of being an Ace is cool. Just shoot down five planes and you're set. And over there, the group there, watching television, is the rescue pilots. They fly both planes and helicopters that rescue soldiers or rescue civilians in an emergency. That's why they are watching television, to be notified immediately what is going on so they can prepare to run to their stations. And the last group, are the ones who don't fly planes, fly planes that are a combination of a bomber and a fighter, or handle the anti-aircraft guns. One must be a pilot to pilot the anti-aircraft guns, which is how professional our armed forces have become. So new guy, I presume they got no plane for you at, so why not join us over at the fourth group? It is the best out of the other three. We combined all the elements of the other three groups in the fourth group."
Note: Water Princess and Finn would be a cute couple, I have to admit. Now, go to Wikia and see how Water Princess truly looks like. (I'm talking about the Water Princess from the comics) Pair them together, and it would be really cute. So yeah, the relationship is slowly developing, maybe it will develop into nothing. You guys all know I'm not a very romantic person myself, maybe harem, maybe none at all. Who knows?