Remember when Ruby said that life in the army was beautiful? Yeah, scratch that, it wasn't. It was gross, horrible and he hated it. What happened, may you ask? This stupid hellish, naval base happened. They arrived yesterday, at Fort Olivine, and the first thing they got meet with was yelling. Who was yelling, may you wonder? A tall, ugly( in Ruby's opinion), and crazy man with a weird army bandana, dark skin and ugly beard. Nobody was saying anything as this weird Lieutenant Commander(it showed on his badge) kept yelling at them like there was no tomorrow.
Until Silver's extremely short patience ran dry and he promptly shut the guy up and marched towards Rear Admiral Drake Easton's office, followed by Colonel Roxanne Angoza and 6(no name, unimportant) colonels/ lieutenant colonels. And while the very angry redhead, spoke to the Rear Admiral, Commander Phoebe Eliades came down to meet and show, the low ranking officers, where they will be sleeping. She also scolded the crazy man( who they learned was named Archie Danuvius) like a 5 year old, before the man left pouting.
"Alright!" said Phoebe once they reached the barracks. "These will be your quarters until you get sent on a mission or your team transfers to a different base. OB-1 through 44 are women's barracks and OB-45 through 96 are men's barracks. You have until 6pm to find your barrack, bunk mate and accommodate. At 6pm, down in the mess hall, the Rear Admiral will explain more things about your job in the base. Got that?"
"Sir yes sir" said the soldiers.
"Good. In front of the gates to the barracks are 2 panels with lists of your names and your barrack number. You go, find your name, check your barrack number, and head towards it. Dismissed."
And so, Ruby did a 180, got his tiny bag(you don't get to keep many things while in the army, don't want to lose them while transfering bases) and walked towards the panels. His barracks was OB-66, oh the irony. Maybe the base really came from hell. Ok, so it was 3pm, which meant he had 3 hours to set up. He made his way towards the barrack and saw 1 other guy in front of it. He had unruly sky blue hair and a pair of dumb goggles that reminded him of Gold, dark skin and friendly looking eyes.
"Hi there! Name's Brawly, Brawly Mozuru. I'm an Officer Cadet from Fort Petalburg. Nice to meet you." said the officer, before extending his hand.
Ruby grimaced at the name of his father's fort but he shook Brawly's hand nonetheless. "Hello. I'm Corporal Ruby Mikoto, from Fort Viridian."
"Mikoto? Oh you're Brigadier General Norman Mikoto's son, he did say you were in the army." said Brawly.
"Heh, yea-"
"Man he was really pissed off when you refused to transfer there. You should have seen his face, man. Me and Whitney got a kick out of it."
Ruby raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"Oh, well it's just that he was really pissing us off with how great his son is and other bullshit about greatness and stuff. Don't get me wrong, the man's a great general, but it gets annoying when, for 3 month straight, the only thing he's talking about is his son. And in the end, you didn't even transfer, you stayed at Viridian and -pff- sorry I remembered his face, and he had to suck it."
Ruby was pleasantly surprised, most of the time, when people find out about his father, they go on a long discourse about how great it was that his father was a general and the honor and blah blah blah he never cared. But here was this guy, telling him his father can suck it. Huh, maybe they can be friends.
Eventually he met his 2 other roommates, a Second Lieutenant named Aaron Mapoli and a mountain of a guy, dear god way too tall, fucking asshole of a man named Matt Matthew(yeah, real original name, i know), who was apparently Archie's bff, who would've guessed. And he was also a Lieutenant, damn bitch.
(A\N: Archie and Matt have Navies' ranks which have different names. I'll leave a note at the end of the chapter for the equivalent ranks)
All in all, if you ignore Matt, his roommates were pretty decent. Brawly was a pretty fun guy and Aaron, while a little weird, was really nice. Everything seemed to be going nice until they had to decide the beds. Aaron, being smart, suggested that Matt sleeps on the bottom bunk since he's so massive. But noo, he wanted the top bunk, like an idiot. And when they told him no, he fucking threw a tantrum. Like the huge motherfucking toddler he is.
They tried listing pros and cons, time efficiency, anything really, but no. Matt wanted the top bed and nothing was changing his mind. And so, he got the top bed with Ruby being the unlucky one, under him, meaning that every night from now on he will have to sleep with the top bunk's mattress 6cm away from his face, since it couldn't sustain the guy's weight.
(A\N: 6cm = 2.36in)
And to end it this day more terribly, orientation was hell. When transfering to a new base, soldiers go through 1 day of basic drills to get used to the terrain. Meaning that he, alongside all the new transfers had to run, jump and climb over things in muddy water, wet terrain and heavy rain. Because, of course, it always rains here.
At 10pm they were finally allowed to eat dinner, 2h after the dinner bell. He took a metal tray, got his shitty food from the fort's cook( an Officer Cadet named Shelly Winston) and slumped in his seat next to Sapphire. Next to them stood the rest of team 20. Sapphire was chatting with Diamond, while Platina spoke with Silver about the infirmary.
After eating everyone went to their barracks, Ruby found Aaron and Brawly playing poker alone in the room. He climbed his bed to sleep while the other two continued to play.
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Day 2 at Fort Olivine and Silver was livid. No it wasn't the shitty orientation that annoyed him, or the constant rain and mud of the fort. It wasn't his bunkmate either( Arceus bless him, Jeremy was an angel compared to any of his old bunkmates) nor the fact that every day they ate fish for food. No, what was pissing him off was Lieutenant Commander Archie Danuvius. Who sadly, he was stuck with. The man was the definition of infuriating. The man was loud, rude and didn't listen to orders, even though he was the senior officer, simply because he was an "outsider" and didn't know how to drive a boat.
What.
The.
FUUUUU-
BULLSHIT. This was complete bullshit and Silver was so done with it. He wasn't about lose a war just because some stupid, know it all, was pretending to know land tactics better than him. Which brings him where he is right now, at 4pm, speaking with the Rear Admiral about Lieutenant Commander Danuvius' insubordination, while the man in question was sputtering excuses and cheap apologies to an equally done Drake. From what he understands this wasn't the first time Archie's ego got in the way of work, and Drake was beyond done with this shit. So he tiredly switched Archie with Phoebe, moved the Lieutenant Commander one rank down due to insubordination, for the second time too, and got it over with. Silver couldn't help but smirk as he watched Archie angrily storm out of the office.
After the whole ordeal was over with, Silver and Phoebe went to strategizing alongside Roxanne, Jeremy and the rest of the no name, unimportant colonels/ lieutenant colonels.
"I suggest we put towers snipers around the islands, and smaller boats to guard them." said Roxanne.
"That might work, we can use spying ships since they are smaller and hide supplies in the cave." said Phoebe.
"We should also make smaller makeshift bases on each island" said Jeremy.
"We also need to put 2 sniper towers in the center of the base, one near the mess hall and 1 near the barracks. The training ground already has one anyways." said Silver. "Some hand to hand specialists near the gates would be nice too..."
"We also need troops near the deposits, if the enemy takes our supplies, its game over." said a no name lieutenant colonel.
"We need to be cautious, if we don't proceed carefully we might die." said another no name colonel. Silver had to resist the urge to roll his eyes, no shit smartass, that's why were strategizing.
"Should we also sent troops to Cianwood City?" asked no name lieutenant colonel number 2.
"No, Lumiose didn't give us permission to take over the city and were not about to spread panic prematurely." said Phoebe.
"Alright then, for now let's schedule the rotations for the hand to hand troops and the snipers." said Roxanne.
Now that was the easy part, they only needed to pick soldiers in a way that doesn't leave someone alone in a barrack at night. For example if a barack had 3 snipers then all 3 of them are on different day at different hours, same for the other division. After they finished the schedules they went to Drake so he can approve and then told the soldiers during diner, this time served at 8pm. Sapphire was gonna flip when she realizes she's moving to the makishift bases.
...
Silver was right, Sapphire did flip when she found out. Not because she didn't want to be there, no no, she was really happy with it actually. No no, she flipped because going there means she can get back her old released pokemon, Walo. She released it a while after he evolved from a Wailmer, saying she will get him back if she needs his help and boy does she need his help.
So now with this half-transfer she can finally get him back, she can't wait. She spend the rest of the evening talking Platina and Ruby's ears off about how exited she was to see her old pokemon again.
"You sure seem fond of your old pokemon, Sapphire." said Platina.
"Well yeah, I've had Walo since I was 12, it was a gift from pops. But in tha end I had to release him, since a small apartment in Rustboro City isn't tha best place to keep a Wailord. So when me and pops took a trip here, I went to tha port and released him. Told Walo I'll call him if I need him." said Sapphire.
"And now you're finally gonna see him again." said Ruby.
"Damn straight."
(A\N: Ok, so here are the rest of the ranks:
Lieutenant Commander = Major
Rear Admiral = Major General
Commander = Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant = Captain
Officer Cadet = Officer Cadet( this one actually has the same name, wow))