Chapter 4: The Young And The Old To The Front.
As a day passes after Michael and his men along with the tanker arrived in Gallia base. The Imperial Army manage to blitzkrieg their way deep into Gallia territory capturing towns and cities that are Fouzen to fuel their machine and Vasel the only city with a massive iron drawbridge for their tank to across the river to continue their advance to the capital city of Randgriz. While at the south of Gallia, The Atlantic Federation capture Fort Krest in their undergoing Operation Northern Cross days before the Imperial Alliance invade the Principality of Gallia in an attempt to end the war by capturing the Imperial capital, Schwartzgrad.
Fort Amatriain, 105/6 Tent.
In the morning, inside the tent were US soldiers packing up their stuff at their bed while Michael walks around observing his men packing up their stuff before leaving the tent and wait outside.
"Alright people, after you finished packing up. Wait outside the camp." Ordered Michael while walking past his men packing up their stuff.
"Yes sir." "Roger."
After passing by a few of his men, he approaches Markus who is currently sitting on the bed looking inside his backpack and ask is Eyjafjalla awake or not so he can ask some questions before heading out.
"Hey Doc, is she awake?"
Markus looks up at him and answers "No sir, she's still asleep because when I go check on her last night she got a high fever which most likely the wound causes it. So she's ain't gonna wake up at this time."
Michael then worried about her after hearing what he said and ask "Shit, is she going to be okay?"
"Don't worry, she's going to be fine. I already gave her medicine."
"Ah good." Michael said in relief "I was going to ask her some question before heading out, but since she's not awake I guess I'll have to wait when we return back here for something."
"That would never happen I guess because you'll likely be stuck at the frontline. How about this I'll help you ask." Markus offers.
"Nah no needed, its better to ask her myself." Michael declined as he walks away from him.
"Alright." Markus reply as he returns back looking inside his backpack.
Michael walks to his bed and grabs his M4A1 laying on the bed he slept on and put the strap on to him before exiting the tent to meet his soldier's whos already finished packing up and waiting outside tent. After he exits the tent, Michael saw his men waiting outside the tent in 3 rank formation and while his men are waiting outside they got stared at a lot by Gallian soldiers passing by but they ignore it.
"Is everyone I called out yesterday here?" He asks as he walks to the front of the group and faces them.
"Yes sir." "Yeah." "Yep." They reply.
"Good, let's move out," Michael orders as he begins to lead the way but suddenly he realizes he doesn't know where the assembly point is. But luckily as he turns around he saw someone running towards him waving its hand and he was able to quickly recognize who is it because of the red scarf above the head.'Oh, it's Alicia. guess she's here to lead us to the grouping point.'
Alicia slows down and stops in front of Michael "Good Morning Michael" she greeted him with a salute
"Good Morning to you too Alicia." Michael greets and salutes back "I'm guessing you're here to lead us to the assembly point?"
"Eh...no, I'm leading you to a hanger where Welkin and your tankers are." Alicia corrected him.
Michael raises his eyes brows and asks her"Hm? I thought we are moving out this morning?".
"Well about that..." she put her hand back of her head before continuing "the transport trucks those were going to take us to the frontline is currently undergoing maintenance because its engine won't start for some reason." Alicia answers.
"Oh, I see..." Michael acknowledges it. 'guess we'll have to wait for the maintenance to be finish then.'
"Is every one of your men ready?"Alicia asks just in case as he looks behind Michael seeing his men dresses in full gear like some sort of special force.
"Yup they are ready." Michael answer. "Lead the way, Alicia."
"Yes Sir." She replies.
Alicia turns around then begins to lead Michael and his men following behind her to the Hanger. While they are on their way to the Hanger, more Gallian soldiers stare at them as they pass by because of their unique tan uniform and gears including the US flag patch at the uniform shoulders walking in group causing some of the Gallian soldiers to doubt these soldiers passing by.
'The sooner we leave this place, the better. I don't want the Gallian high command take notice of unknown soldiers in tan uniform gear in their base.'Michael said inside his thought as he leads his men by follows Alicia behind.
United States, Washington D.C, White House.
Aaron Wilson 46th President of the United States is currently on-call while sitting on his chair in his office after returning from the UN General Assembly.
"Any news from the Pentagon?"he asks through the phone.
"I'm afraid not, Mr. President."a male voice answers.
"Christ...what do you think happened?"he closes his eyes as he asks again.
"We have no id- hang on we got something from the Pentagon."
Aaron's eyes quickly open and stand up from his chair upon hearing that."What did they say?"
After a short pause, the man in the phone answers "They said it could be related to the disappearance of the CCP Secret Prototype."
Aaron then knows what it is because William told him about it before during a coffee chat a long time ago. "The giant drone carrier Red-1, was it?"
The man on the phone sounds surprised after hearing it "Um...ah hell must be William told you about it. And yes, it is."
Aaron sits down back on his chair and moves his empty hand under his chin and said"Hmm...but the problem is how? And Why it happen today rather than weeks ago or months ago?"
"No idea sir, but at least we have a clue to something rather than nothing."
The president spins the chair around and looks out the window wondering what happens to everyone in the base "Wonder what happens to everyone station in the base"
"I'm sure they will be fine with that old man in charge."
"I suppose so, he has been through so much," Aaron said through the phone as he continues looking out the window. "From the Korean war to China War including intervention and civil war." he remembers reading a file about him. "how the hell did he manage to take part in many of them?"
"Don't ask, you probably won't get a clear answer from that clumsy old man."
Valkyria High Command Office Building, US Commander Office.
"Achoo!" William sneezes as she was reading a report about base supplies in her chair while other's reports were in a stack on her desk waiting to be read 'Someone is talking behind my back...' She said inside her thought as she places down the report she was reading on her desk then adjust her hat back in the proper position because of her sneeze 'Guess it's because of the news of me turn into a girl spread like a wildfire in the base.'
William turns her chair around faces the window then looks out the window. 'Why did I turn into a girl?' She wonders as she continues looking outside the window 'Is it...the dream?' She remembers back she was in some sort of medieval place with burning houses around and a girl she saved from being chopped at the chopping block 'Or was it the things I touched?' She remembers again the crate with blue beautiful armor glowing in the blue flame she touches 'Could the armor related to the girl I saved?' she wonders more before looking at the good old analog clock hanging on the wall in her office with its face showing it's 10:21 AM right now.
After she looked at the clock for a second as her brain memory suddenly surfaces with something important 'Oh, right I almost forgot I need to head to the hospital for another checkup today.' she remembers Shikaze told her to come back to the hospital yesterday for another check-up. 'Looks like I need to get going or the doctor gonna went full scolding mode at me even I'm a field marshal...'
William gets off the chair and makes her to the door to exit her office but as she made it halfway from the door she stopped then turn her head to the right and looks at the big group photo hang on the wall above the clock, the photo shows her in male sitting in a chair in the middle while her men around her doing some poses with a smile on their faces. She sighed after looking at it for a while before continuing her way to the door to exit her office but as she reaches for the doorknob.
"*Gasp*" she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest where her heart is and hard to breathe 'What... what's happening?' she moves her other hand to where her heart is as she struggles to breathe.
After a few moments pass, the pain in her chest is gone and she's able to breathe easily again.
'What the hell was that just now? Fuck...I should go check-up and tell doctor Shikaze about this' William then quickly reach for the doorknob and pull open the door, but as she opens the door she was greeted by a Spetsnaz standing at the door with a file in his hand.
"сэр(Sir)."The Spetsnaz salute.
William salutes back in curious whats Spetsnaz doing at the door and asks "What brings you here?"
The Spetsnaz soldier lowers his salute and answers her question "The love scolding doctor sent me here to tell you to head to the hospital for a check-up."
"Oh, I see. I'm currently on my way for the check-up actually but hey thanks for coming here and tell me" She thanked
"нет(no) problem сэр(sir)." said the Spetsnaz as he salutes again before walks away.
'I should get going I don't want to listen to Shikaze scolding me like a child." William thought to herself as she continues her way but as she reaches the staircase she realizes something and stopped there for a moment. 'Oh wait, I am a child because Shikaze told me my body is the age of 7 years old girl.' she facepalmed for a moment before walking down the stair.
As she was walking down the stair she was callout by someone behind her.
"ウィリア～さん!(William-san)" a cheerful tone Japanese female voice calls out William.
William stopped at the stair landings and looks down the left stair to see who calls her. "Hm? Oh, Lieutenant Yua, the famous JSD helicopter pilot who also a famous idol in the base."
"ねええ~ (Heey)stop calling me like that." Yua a pilot of AH-64 Apache feels embarrassed as she walks up the stair to William.
William then smiles "But when you sing in front of everyone or sing while piloting the chopper, you don't."
"That's different than right now and singing!"The idol discard it as she stops next to her
"Yeah yeah sure, miss idol pilot." the field marshal said before asking "Anyway do you need something from me? Or you just wanted to see me what I looked like in a girl after you heard the news of 'US Field marshal turn into a girl'?"
"はい(Yes), I just want to see what you look like in a girl then head to my commander's office."Yua lowers herself a bit due to William's current height and examines her."Hmm...do you feel uncomfortable?" she asks her.
"Well...if you turn into a boy, How would you feel?"William asks her in reverse without answering her.
Yua put her hand under her chin and think for a moment before answering her "Hmm わからない(i don't know) , because I didn't experience turn into a boy."
"Eh fair enough, but hey the new uniform and hat for my new body are suitable even I have turn into a girl."William said
"ああなるほど(Oh I see)...you do look suitable in an army uniform" she agrees"and stunning because of your unique hair right now." she added.
William grabs some of her own long hair a pull to the front and looks at the hair "Sort of, but I wonder why not the normal color ones like black or brown." she said before letting it go "Anyways I need to go to the hospital for a check-up, see you around miss idol pilot." she farewell as she walks down the stair to be on her way to the hospital.
"Ok~ じゃあね(See ya)." Yua replies back and walks up the stair to her commander's office.
As William arrive at the ground floor, she was greeted by bypass staff who work here and soldiers who station here.
'"Morning sir." "Good Morning." "M..morning ma- sir."
"Morning."William greeted back the staff who greet her including salute at the soldiers.
As William exits the building she enters a civilian taxi waiting for someone who wants a ride to somewhere within the base. After she enters the taxi back seat as she was greeted by the taxi driver.
"Morning William." the male taxi driver greet.
"Morning" William greets back "Guess the news spread really fast to you people huh?"
"Yup," the taxi driver nodded "I'm surprised that you aren't locked up like some sort of alien."
William then laughs a bit "Hahaha, Well because I'm not an alien, Just an old field marshal turn into a girl"
The taxi driver laughs along with her before asking where she wants to go"Anyway, where you want to go?"
"Valkyria Hospital."She answer
"Right on."The driver turns off the ' Taxi Available' light and begins driving to the hospital.
Fort Amatriain, Tank Hanger.
After a long walk, Michael along with his men arrives outside the Tank Hanger with Alicia leading the way.
Michael whistle as the hanger size was similar to the ones back in their base.
"Quite a big hanger this base had." He said as he looks at the hanger while following Alicia.
"Yup." Alicia agrees "Most of our tanks are store in the hangers." she said as she enters the hanger "Your tanker friends and Welkin are inside, come on."
Michael enters the hanger followed by his men and what they see is dozen of the light tanks parked next to each other which Michael and his fellow men think because of the size and their armament.
'Most of their tank is just a bunch of light tanks...don't they have medium tanks or heavy tanks or tanks look like the Edelweiss?' he thought inside his mind as he looks around only to see more light tanks.
Later he heard some conversation from his men behind him."Christ? Do they only have light tanks?" "Seems so, looks like this country didn't pay much attention to medium or heavy tank."
Michael looks ahead of Alicia and saw Welkin along with his little sister Isara who is inspecting the Abrams turret while talking with Carl. As the group gets near the Abrams, Alicia calls out Welkin looking at her sister inspecting the Abrams.
"Hey Welkin!" She calls out Welkin "I have brought them here."
Welkin turns around and sees who calls him out "Oh, Alicia." he sees Alicia and behind her is Michael following behind her with his men. "good work bringing them here." he said as he walks away from Carl and Isara talking which each other.
Michael turns and faces his men then said "You boys go and stick around near the tank."
"Yes sir." "Got it."
Michael men walk off toward the Abrams while he keeps following Alicia walking towards Welkin and stops in front of him.
"Yup, luckily we don't get into trouble while we are on our way here." said Alicia.
"So Welkin, how long are we gonna wait?" Michael ask.
Welkin shakes his head "No idea, but all we can do now is wait."
"Hey Michael, are you not going to bring us along and take all the fun by yourself with your men?"Carl still has his tank helmet asks while Isara is still inspecting the turret.
"Sorry Carl, it's gonna rise a lot of attention if we bring ur tanks along."Michael answers.
"Bruh, come on." Carl annoyed by his answer "At least bring one with you dude."
The American Lieutenant then sighs "Fine fine, but not you."
"Fine by me, because I need to stay and watch over my rest of the tanks including my men."Carl said as he turns and talks with Isara again.
Michael faces Welkin and asks "What did you guys talk about anyway while we are on our way here?"
"We were talking about your tanks, M1A2 Abrams, and other versions of it." Welkin answers as he looks at the Abrams behind him "Such a powerful tank your military has."
"Sure we do,"Michael agreed as he looking at Isara enters the tank through the commander hatch with Carl's help "I see that she's is very interested in tanks."
"Oh, you mean my little sister, Is?"Welkin questions.
"Yeah," Michael faces back at Welkin "also Welkin. Why your entire country tank arsenal is consist of light tanks?"
"Hm? I have no idea actually. But I heard from Is said that most of the light tanks are part of the defensive force rather than offensive because of its highly mobile and suitable for our country topography."Welkin answers.
Michael put his hand under his chin "Hm...but they should at least produce some medium and heavy tank, light tanks ain't gonna survive for long. Not to mention a 1 on 1 would be a suicide." he said as he watches Alicia slowly climb out of the commander hatch with Carl help again.
"Well...if only the military council listened to Is father."Welkin said while watching her sister climb out of the tank
"Huh? Her father?" the American lieutenant looks back at Welkin and asks in confusion.
"Her father is the one who creates the Edelweiss," Welkin answers "After the EW1 ended, He tries to convince the council that the country needed a more offensive vehicle like the Edelweiss he created rather than relying on light tanks, but sadly most of them favor in heavy defensive tactics."
"Guess most of your military council people are a bunch of idiots who never listens or old guards who still lag behind of the first world war rather than advancing,"Michael said as he looks back seeing Isara walk on the hull to the tank engine with Carl beside her telling her what she's seeing right now.
Welkin laugh sheepily "Ah..haha, maybe."
Michael turns back again and asks Welkin about the squad his commanding "So, how's your first meeting with ur squad members?"
The Gallian lieutenant put his hand on the back of his neck "Well...about that..." he said, "Apparently I thought I was commanding a squad but in reality, I was commanding a platoon."
"Ah, so you are commanding a platoon not a squad." Michael understands "Guess you are in the same commanding boat as me."
As the two lieutenant chatting with each other, Alicia who has been standing near them decided it's best to leave those two alone having a good conversation as she walks away to talk with some of the Squad 7 members to get to know more about them. While at the Abrams, Carl jumps down from the tank as well as Isara jumping down next to Carl after finishes inspecting the Abrams.
"So, what do you think about our Abrams?" Carl asked as he wonders what does she think about the 100 years ahead of tanks tech and its looks.
"I think it's amazing. Its armor and armament are far different than the Edelweiss." she answers in an amazed tone.
The tank commander laughs a bit "She sure does." he agrees as he places his hand on the Abrams "Tell you what. your mind gonna be blown with tank knowledge when I introduce you to other tanks from different countries."
"Oh really? I'm would love to know the other tanks that are 100 years ahead of our time and from another world."she said with a smile on her face.
Carl was then surprised about this girl's response because she's far way different than the ones back in the base.
'Dayum, I bet she's gonna be welcomed by a lot of the tanker once I introduce her to them' Carl said inside his thought 'Well if only the base also got transported to this world too.'
"Follow me I'll introduce you to my crews." Carl gesture at Isara to follow him as he walks away from the tank.
"Okay."she agrees and follows behind him
Carl and Isara walk away from the tank to a support pillar beam where his crews are playing cards with each other next to it. Back at Michael and Welkin, they are now talking about the incident back at the forest where they stopped to investigate the light source.
"So Michael I have been wondering, what did you and your men find back at the forest?"ask Welkin as he wonders yesterday why Michael didn't tell him anything when he returns back to the tank.
Michael looks around his surrounding for a second to make sure no one is close enough to hear their conversation before answering Welkin.
"We found a heavy wounded girl."Michael answers "and she has horns on her head."
Welkin stumbles back a step after hearing what Michael said"H-horns?"
Michael nodded "Yes, and...she's from another world. Like us but different time."
"W-wow...did you tell Captain Eleanor about-"
"No, and I will not tell anyone whos except you Welkin." the American lieutenant cuts him
Welkin puts his hand behind his head in confuse "Huh? Why?"
Michael crossed his arms "If I tell her or some other people, some people might want to get their hands on her to do an experiment on her or god knows what they want to do with her." he answers in a serious tone as he knows what will happen to things comes from another world like have its body cut open for research or turning it into a weapon like in most of the alien movie.
"I...I see"Welkin said in understanding "So it's like frog dissection?"
Michael rise his eyebrows as he hears what Welkin said "Eh...yeah like that." He agrees with his strange question "As long we don't tell anyone, she is safe from others."
Welkin then asks "What about your soldiers?"
"I'm sure they won't tell a single thing about her to anyone or even their ones they know" Michael turn his head and looks at his men doing their own things or talking with each other "I'm pretty sure most of them has the same thought as me." He turns his head back.
As Welkin wanted to ask the American lieutenant more, he was interrupted by someone's calls and Michael's name.
"Lieutenant Welkin! Lieutenant Michael!"
Welkin and Michael turn toward the source and see a Gallian in mechanic clothing standing at a distance waving his hand at them.
"The transports are ready to go! Get your squad and tank over there." The mechanic shouted before walking away to alert the others too.
"Well, that was bad timing." Welkin shows a face of disappointment "I was going to ask you more but guess it will have to wait until we arrive at the destination."
Michael puts his hand on Welkin's right shoulder and tells him not to worry "Don't worry young man there's always a chance you can ask me more. It's not like you don't have any more chance to ask forever."
"Yeah your right," Welkin agrees with what Michael tells him "I need to go gather my men and lead them to the transport. See you at the destination." He waves off to Michael as he walks away to gather his men and calls out Isara they are moving out. "Is! We are moving out, get the Edelweiss ready!"
Isara was chatting with the crews Carl introduces to her when she was called out by Welkin they are moving out.
"Sorry, guys I have to go." Isara apology as she is needed to go.
"Oh, no need to be sorry. Duty comes first, chats can always wait." Carl tells Isara no need to apologize.
Isara quickly rushes to the Edelweiss to start the tank as the American tank crews watch her run to her tank.
"Man, wish there are more ladies like her back in our base." The Loader said while taking off his tank helmet and place it on the crate.
"I agree with you dude if there is one like her back in our base. I would smash." The Driver agreed while holding cards.
"Hey didn't u already have a girlfriend?" The Gunner asks him as he places down a Spades 7.
"Yes, I'm just saying." He replies before placing down dozen of cards "Full mother fucking house."
While the tank crews are playing cards with each other, Carl was approached by Michael.
"So, who did you choose to come along with us?" Asked the lieutenant.
"Well I choose the guys who recently graduated from tank school." he answers.
"Wait…Why did you choose them?" Michael asks in confused "Why not the experienced ones?"
"They needed a real firefight experience, Michael." Answer the tank commander "They might be freshly trained tankers but they got the confidence."
Michael stares at Carl for a second before shaking his head left and right whether his choice is right or not.
"Alright, I'll trust you." He trusts his action. "Tell them to get ready," he tells him as he walks away to gather his men and move out "oh and you better tell them not to underestimate the enemy in this new world. Because we don't know what we would face."
"Yeah I know," Carl waves off as he pulls the microphone from the left side of the helmet to his mouth to tell the tanker he chooses to get ready. "Gant, get your boys and your girl start-up, your moving out."
"Eyja! The building is going to collapse soon! Come on!" a female voice can be heard shouting.
"Keep holding my hand!"
"Eyjaaa…!"
Eyjafjalla opens her eyes instantly only to find herself laying on the bed covered in a blanket and feel something cold on her forehead while her entire body in the heat.
'I…I remember I was falling, and I somehow ended in the forest….'
She slowly rise her body from the bed and looks around as she places her own hand on her forehead to touch the thing on her forehead. After she touches it, it was like a cloth with something inside its cold.
"You should keep laying on the bed, ma'am."
Eyjafjalla quickly puts her hands down and looks at who is it.
It was the medic Markus, holding a bed tray with a bowl of oatmeal already had a spoon with milk and added with some berries for more taste including a glasses of water.
"Here's your breakfast I prepare for you." Said Markus as he puts down the tray on the bed above her legs. "And careful it's hot."
Eyjafjalla looks into the oatmeal on the tray and smells it 'Smells…good.' She picks up a tablespoon of oatmeal and blows on it to cool it down a bit before eating it slowly.
While she was eating, Markus couldn't help but ask her what she is.
"I couldn't help but wonder," said Markus as he takes the plastic chair and sits next to the bed "Can you tell me more about yourself?"
Eyjafjalla stops eating and looks at him in confused "T...tell you about myself?"
"Yeah, like where you're from and what are you. Like that."
She puts down the spoon back in the bowl before telling him "I'm…from Leithanien, and I'm a Caprinae."
The Marine medic pulls out a notepad from his pocket and a pen then writes down what she just tell him "Leithanien…..Caprinae…" before asking her more questions. "How old are you?"
"I'm 17…"
Markus stops for a moment and looks at her before writing it down on his notepad "1 year away from becoming an adult huh?" after he wrote down her age he then asks the next question. "What is this…Caster Operator and Rhodes Island?"
"Rhodes Island is a registered drug R&D company it's also a Humanitarian NGO Pharmaceutical corporation and has a dedicated paramilitary force." She explains.
Markus was surprised what he heard ' An R&D company that is also a Humanitarian NGO Pharmaceutical with a paramilitary force…?' quickly write them down before repeating the question she didn't answer "What about Caster Operator?"
Eyjafjalla hesitates before answering him "Caster Operator is operators who can use Arts."
Once he heard the word 'Arts' he confused by it "Arts? What's that?".
After he asks, Eyjaf slowly lifts her other hand and cast a tiny fire like a candle on her palm to show him, this shocked the medic for a bit.
"Holy shit..." cursed Markus as he saw fire on her hand.
"There's no Arts in your world…sir?" She asks in curiosity as she puts down her hand after hearing what Markus said.
He shakes his head and answers "N...no ma'am, Thanks for showing me.." he thanked before writing down (Able to use Arts = Magic) 'The boys are not going to believe this...'
After Markus finishes writing down, he put his notepad back into his pocket and his pen. "Since I asked you questions, you can ask me back."
"Oh, um."She thinks up a question inside her thought "What…is your world like?" She asks as she picks up a spoonful of oatmeal and eats it.
Eyjafjalla wonders what's their world is like as her world 'Terra' is always full of chaos and destruction because of Catastrophes including mass disease known as Oripathy caused by the crystalline substance known as Originium left behind at the site of Catastrophes, Thus also a mass of civil unrest caused by The Reunion Movement who seek to end all form of discrimination and oppression from the non-infected by using methods such as riots, sabotage, and even acts of terror.
Even though she is also Infected but there's no means to use violence which she hates to see because it won't calm tension down but only adding more fuel into the fire.
"My world? Hmmm…" Markus puts his hand under his chin for a second "Well I'm not good at explaining my world…but I'll try." He fake cough before begin answering her "My world is called 'Earth' with a population of about 7.800 billion and 195 countries in the world."
'7.800billion population and 195 countries?!' the number shocked Eyjafjalla
"And we have very modern technologies that changed the world like facial recognition, artificial intelligence, drones, 3d printing, virtual reality, robots, and hell we even have cars that run on electrics which don't produce smoke."
'Sounds…similar to our technology back in Terra…' she eats another spoonful of oatmeal
"We got big cities in every popular place and…uh…" as he put his hand behind his neck while thinking what to say inside his thought "Ah shit, I don't know what to put anymore…"
While he is thinking inside his mind, someone called him from the next tent.
"Hey, doc! Get over here! There's an idiot who manages to cut his finger while sharping his knife. And it's big enough to for the blood to come out like a river."
Markus turns around and responds back "Tell him to use a cloth to press on the wound to slow down the bleeding. I'll be right there soon." Then turns back at Eyjafjalla "You should continue eating, I need to check on the boys." He said to her before standing up and hurries off.
As Eyjafjalla was about to say something he was already gone.
'…should I tell him about the Oripathy and I was the infected with loss of sight and hearing...?' She said to herself inside her thoughts while eating. 'There's no Oripathy in this and his world also the only infected is me, but I still have to tell him about it so he can be careful when treating me.'
As minutes pass, Markus returns just as she emptied the bowl.
"Alright am back, looks like you finished it." He said while standing near the bed and saw the bowl is now empty. "Let me take the table away"
The medic takes away the table and walks away to place it somewhere before returning and sit back down on the chair. Afterward, Eyjafjalla first tells him she needs to tell him something important.
"Sir...I need to tell you something important." She said
Markus looks at her in curious before agreed to listen to what she about to say "Sure, I'm all ears."
Eyjafjalla first takes a deep breath before begin telling him everything about the Oripathy and she was one of the infected.
Valkyria Hospital 2, Exam Room 54.
Inside the Exam Room, William is laying on the examination chair with her clothes unbutton while doctor Shikaze currently using an echocardiogram to check her heart condition by placing a hand-held wand including three electrodes patches stick on her chest while looking at the monitor.
"Your heart looks normal by looking at the monitor and the result coming out from it." The doctor said as she kept looking at the monitor.
"Are you sure? Because I experience damn chest pain before arriving here." William said.
Shikaze continues looking at the monitor for a minute before placing away the hand-held wand back on the machine "はい,(yes) I'm sure of it William. I have 10 years of experience being a doctor." She replies as she walks to the desk "You can button up your uniform now and come off now."
William button back her uniform before standing up from the examination chair and grab the officer hat she placed on the table back on her head.
"So how's my new body result, Doctor Shikaze?" She looks at Shikaze sits down at the desk then flipping the paper clipboard and writing things down.
"ちょっと待って下さい (just a moment please)."She answers as she stops writing and switch to the keyboard typing stuff into the PC.
William sits down on the chair in front of the desk to wait for her while looks around the room in boredom since she can't bring her phone into the Exam room.
'Wonder when the signals will be back online…so I can contact Aaron and my daughter about what happen to me.'
"Interesting…" said Shikaze which caught William's attention.
"What is it so interesting?" The commander asks as she turns and looks at her.
"Looking at the result…." Answers Shikaze looking at the PC monitor "Your body result is 100% same as yesterday, not a single sign of small illness or anything wrong but…"
"But?"
"Your blood result is somewhat surprising for me and my colleague…"
"Huh? What's so surprising about my blood?" William ask in curious about her blood
"Your blood doesn't match anything type," She answers "it's not A, B, AB, and either O"
"…..shit."
If her blood doesn't match anything type of it, does it mean she's not a human anymore but an alien? Creature? Or maybe another life form?
"心配しないで(Don't worry), the CIA, GRU, MI6, CIRO and other agency haven't stepped up on my doorstep yet." The doctor turns away from the monitor and looks at William.
"No, I'm not worrying about the agencies, I'm more worry about what am I."
"リラックス(Relax) your body has everything organ that human needs meaning your still a human, it's just different blood." Shikaze tells her not to worry so much "I and my colleague will look into your blood to find out what kind of blood is in your blood vines." she said as she turns back looking at the monitor and typing keys.
"Well maybe your right I guess," Said William before standing up and ask Shikaze is she allowed to leave "Am I allow to leave right now?"
"はい(yes) If there's something that came up during our research, I will contact you immediately."
"Alright, Thanks Doctor Shikaze." William thanked her before walks to the door and exit the Exam Room.
Once William steps out of the room, noises of rattling trolleys, ringing phones, walking's and conversation enter her ears.
'Hospital never gets old with these noises...' he said inside his thought while closes the door behind her and make her way to the elevator. 'Wonder what time is it right now.' She held up her left hand and look at the watch it shows 12:21 pm. 'Already pass 2 hours…'
Once William arrives in front of the elevator door she presses the down button at the panel and waits for the elevator to arrive at the level she currently on. While she was waiting for the elevator, she pulls out her phone to check is the signal is back or not so she can call her daughter but sadly there's still no signal.
'What took those engineers so long?' she wonders before putting her phone back into her pocket then up to look at the elevator indicator showing '^ G'.
"You old man turn into a small girl eh?" A male voice said behind her.
William turns around to see a man dresses in a dark suit with a familiar face behind her. "Oh, Hello Nick Mason." She greets him.
Nick Mason, a top CIA agent works for William providing intelligence and protection assigned by the president.
"Not bad for an agent like you manage to track me down easily even when I turn into a girl."
"Ah it's nothing, that's what we agents do," Nick said as he walks to her and stands beside her.
"I suppose you got something to tell me if you come all the way to the hospital to find me?" William ask as she looks back at the elevator indicator now showing 'v LG'
"Yup, CIRO is currently interrogating someone interesting and they invited me and other agencies. So I would like you to come with me to take a look at the person if you don't mind" He said before pulling out a cigarette box from his pocket.
"I don't mind." Said William as she noticed the cigarette box he pull out from his pocket "Still having that candy cigarette huh?"
"Yeah, it may be childish but hey, it's better than a real cigarette that can do harm to your body." said Nick before opening and move his hand holding the box to William "Want one?" he asked.
"Sure," William accepts and pulls one candy cigarette from the box.
Nick takes one for himself before putting it back into his pocket and puts the candy in his mouth. After that, the elevator arrived at the floor they are on with a female voice announcer
"Level 2"
"So, what's so interesting about the person CIRO interrogating?" She asks before putting the candy on her mouth.
"No idea, but I'm pretty sure it's someone very important because the CIRO even calls in GRU, BND, GDSE, and MI6 too."
"Wow, must be a hell of a party at CIRO office building."
The elevator door opened and inside the elevator it was empty, The Field Marshal and the CIA agent enters the elevator together afterward the agent press the button at the panel to close the elevator door so the elevator can begin to go down.
Gensokyo, Forest of Magic.
The sun shines over the forest, a place of true nature clouded by strange rumors and weird happenstance. Where horrible misfortune that will surely happen to anyone who trespassing into the forest without thinking twice, but it's a place for people who don't like to be disturbed and that is for the Black Magician Marisa Kirisame and the Puppeteer Alice Margotroid.
Marisa Kirisame House.
Inside the house of the Black Magician, Marisa is in her room at her messy desk inspecting a book she borrows (stole) from Patchouli Knowledge a Scarlet Devil Mansion librarian which in return she was chased off again by Sakuya Izayoi the Mansion chief maid with her throwing knives.
The book she borrows (stole) was quite interesting because it was a medieval book cover with a sticky paper written 'Warning, Do not open.'
"面白い(Interesting)…" Marisa said to herself "ねえ、それは私を止めるつもりはない(Heh, it's not going to stop me)." Before she was going to opens the book to look into it she hears someone is knocking on the outer door of her house causing her to put down the book.
"マリサ、それは私アリスです(Marisa, it's me, Alice)."
"来る、アリス(Coming, Alice)" Marisa stands up and runs out of her room then down the stair to the door.
She opens the door and greets her neighboring friend Alice with her Shanghai doll floating next to her holding a basket.
" こんにちは アリス( Hello Alice)." Marisa greets her.
"こんにちはマリサ、今夜ヒューマンビレッジに行きたいですか？(Hello Marisa, Want to go to the Human Village tonight?)" Alice asks.
"え？どうして？彼らはお祭りを主催していますか？ (Eh? Why? Are they hosting a festival?)" Marisa asks in curious.
"はい、彼らは素晴らしいフェスティバルを主催しています。彼らは誰もが大歓迎だとさえ言った.(Yes, they are hosting a Great Festival. They even said everyone is welcome." Alice answers then ask is she coming or not "そう？あなたが来るかどうか？(So? your coming or not?)"
The black magician smiled and answers "もちろん、一緒に行きます！大祭は私も含めて誰にとっても珍しいものです。(Of course, I will come along! Great Festival is rare for everyone including me."
The puppeteer nodded "さて、今夜は博麗霊夢に会い、霊夢に会ってからヒューマンビレッジに行きます。(Very well, we'll meet up at Hakurei Shrine tonight to meet Reimu before going to Human Village.)"Said the puppeteer before turning away and fly away along with her Shanghai doll back to her house.
Marisa watches as her friend flies away before closing the door and run back up the stair back into her room to resume checking on the book she borrows (stole).
'それでは、本の中身を見てみましょう。(Now, let's see what's inside the book.)' Marisa sits on the chair as she grab the book she places on the desk and didn't hesitate to open it.
After she opens it, the book blinded her eyes with a bright flash causing her to drop the book onto the floor.
'私の目！(My eyes!)' She drops the books to rubs her eyes and shakes her head because of the bright flash. '何だって(What was that?!)' while still recovering from the flash, she suddenly feels dizzy and nausea 'パチョリは私が借りた場合に備えて、この本に罠魔法をかけましたか？！(Did Patchouli cast a trap magic on this book just in case I borrow it?!)'.
She quickly loses control of her balance and falls on the floor from her chair knocking her unconscious while the book she opened is right next to her begin flipping pages by its own before glowing in blue. The book slowly float in mid-air and aim at Marisa laying on the floor unconscious shooting out a blue laser at her which causes her to glow in blue before disappearing in the blink of the eye leaving a trace of a black mark where she was, afterword's, the book closes by itself before drops on the floor like any other normal books.
Outskirt of Vasel, Gallian Camp.
Inside Briefing Tent.
"What's the plan ma'am?" asks Michael looking over the photos and map of the city on the table with plans drawn over it.
Upon Michael and his men arrived, he was called to the briefing camp where Captain Varrot is waiting for him to brief the mission privately due to his appearance may giving out a lot of suspicion for other commanders if he attends with them.
Varrot being to explanation "At 1:30 pm, We begin by taking back the western bank to gain a foothold for reclaiming the bridge." She then points to the urban center "The Imperial force is deployed in a defensive formation around a camp within Vasel's urban center."
The US lieutenant nodded while listening and looking at where she's pointing.
"Here I have assign Squad 7 to this mission and split them into two team" she points the city "The city team will keep the Imperial force busy." She then point the riverside "The riverside team will strike the enemy from the side to occupy their camp."
"I see, a Backhand Blow tactic." Michael said before asking what kind of firepower are they going to face "What kind of fire power does the enemy have?"
Varrot adjust her glasses before answering him "Intelligence reports say they have tanks stationed on the city area there." She point at the city area.
"Tanks huh…" Michael said to himself as he keep looking the map "How about this ma'am, me and my men be the city team while the Squad 7 be the riverside team."
Varrot looks at him and curious about his option "Why is that Lieutenant Michael?"
"Well, since our weapons and tank are far superior than anyone else in this world." Michael explains "We can make the imperial think the main force is attacking from the city by hitting hard at them." He gesture "which we can try make their officer make a decision to move the some of their forces at the riverside to focus on the city." He explains more while gesturing "This will make the riverside team have an easy way to flank around them."
After listening to what he said, the Gallian captain closes her eyes with her hands on the tables making the decision inside her mind whether should she listen to the Lieutenant or not but at the same time he was right.
She opens her eyes and asks" Are you sure about this Lieutenant Michael?"
"Yes ma'am" Michael answers "me and my men are well-trained soldiers with experience of being in the firefight."
Varrot closes her eyes again before opening and agree to let Michael and his men be the city team while squad 7 be the riverside team "Very Well, you and your men will be the city team." She said before taking a paper and writing it down on it. "But you have to pass this paper to Lieutenant Welkin to let him know that he doesn't need to split it into two teams anymore." Handing over the paper to Michael.
"Yes ma'am," he takes the paper and asks where's the leader of the Squad 7 tent is "Ah by the way, where is Lieutenant Welkin tent at?"
"After you exit, turn to the right, and walk down the path until you saw a tent with his name" Varrot answers
"Ah thank you, ma'am." He thanked before making his way out of the tent to pass the paper to Welkin. 'Looks like our first battle in this new world is going to begin.' he said inside his thought as he exits the tent and went to Welkin tent to inform him about it.
CIRO Building, Special Interrogation Room 12, Observation Room.
The Field Marshal and the CIA agent enters the room and were greeted by a Russian agent who's a GRU relaxing against the wall next to the window inside the room while others in the group staring through the one-way window.
"Ah, the Amerikan agent is here." Said the GRU agent before seeing William behind Nick. "And I see you bring the Amerikan who turns into a small girl. Да?"
"Yup, since it's a big thing. Should bring him along into this party." reply Nick before looking for the CIRO agent who called them here but he was not in this room. "Where's the Jap boy who called us here?"
The BND agent breaks away from the group and answers his question "The japanische went to get something but he wird be back latter." He said before sitting down on a sofa.
Nick nodded before asking what kind of person is so important that the CIRO even call in the other agencies. "So what's the big shot CIRO interrogating?"
"You should see for yourself comrade." The Russian tilt his head at the window.
The two American looks at each other in curious before walks to the group and join next to them to look through the window to see who it is the CIRO currently interrogating. And to their surprise it was a girl about the age of 12-14 with short silver hair dresses in black & white uniform dress including black stockings currently sitting on one seat sofa and across the table is a Japanese officer sitting on a chair playing with a coin on the table.
"This girl…? Is the big shot?" asked Nick as he looks at the girl through the window.
"Apparently so, but maybe he will explain to us when he's back." Answers the MI6 agent looking through the window at her.
"Hmm….what do you think about it, Sir?" Nick turns to look at William.
The field marshal didn't answer him but kept looking at the girl as she feels something weird.
'Why my thought keeps telling me there's…something from her?' William said inside her thought.
"Sir?" Nick call her out again
William snap out it and looks at Nick "O-oh, what is it?"
"I was asking 'what do you think about it'." Nick repeat.
William looks back at the girl and answer "I don't know...but I keep feeling something weird."
Soon after, the door open with a CIRO agent enters with papers in his hand.
"Sorry for the wait, ごめんなさい(sorry)." The agent apologizes as he closes the door behind him with his other hand.
"No, worries lad." Said the MI6 agent as he turns away from the window and looks at him"So who is this little girl you lad interrogating? I can feel something dodgy here."
"Don't worry I will explain." Said the Japanese as he walks to the window. "This girl we are interrogating is called 'Aleksandra "Sanya" Vladimirovna Litvyak'."
After call out the girl's name, it mostly caught the Russian agent's attention.
"Russian? Shouldn't you CIRO pass her to us since she's Russian?" said the Russian in curious wondering why they didn't pass her to them
The Japanese nodded that he is correct "Yes, but there's more important than she's just Russian….this girl right here is from an anime."
End of Chapter 4.