Chapter 6 – Pierce Attacks!
Back on the island, Pierce is readying his first strike.
"Are all 20 targets locked?" he asks.
"Yes, sir."
"Then, FIRE!!"
Sam watches the twenty monitors in horror with Pierce as 20 laser beams descend from orbit, hitting military bases, ports, and strategic energy sources. Pierce is ecstatic!
"EXCELLENT! Now, ready the next targets! It is time for me to make my demands known!"
As he gets up to leave, Piece kisses Sam on the lips. She shows no emotion. In anger, Pierce says to her "Seeing your going to be spending the rest of your life with me, you might as well grow to enjoy it!", he snaps.
"I agreed to be your Queen, and not oppose you, stop you, or help anyone else oppose or stop you. I did not agree to give you my heart, Pierce! That, you'll never get!"
"We'll discuss this further, after my broadcast!" Pierce says angrily, as he disgustingly pushes Sam's chin aside with his finger.
Pierce leaves his throne room and heads to his communication center. Unbeknownst to him, Sam follows, making very sure that she remains out of sight.
Pierce walk over to a throne in front of three cameras. At his signal, a switch is thrown that hijacks all television and radio signals worldwide. He begins his broadcast.
"People of the world!" he begins. His speech is automatically translated electronically into every language of the earth that has radio or television capabilities – the proper language to the proper country.
"You have just witnessed my power! I have attacked, in the span of one minute 20 targets, completely destroying them! My pods have been pre-programmed to strike 20 more targets tomorrow, unless you surrender to me and recognize me as king!
"I will monitor your official government transmissions over the next 24 hours for your response!
"Let me add, should anyone try to destroy my pods in that time, I will train them on the offenders and wipe out their capitols and major military installations! You have been warned!!"
With that, Pierce ends his broadcast. Sam quickly returns to the throne room, and takes her seat, acting like nothing has happened.
Pierce talks to the technicians.
"Did we transmit to everyone?"
"Yes, sir! All countries received the ultimatum!"
"Good! Good!! Now we wait!"
Pierce goes back to the throne room. He has to find some way to break Sam's will, so she will surrender her heart to him too. She's not much of a queen, if he can't capture her heart! She is cold, like a marble statue.
Maybe that's it! He has to prove to Sam how much he loves her! He'll commission a painting of her by a renowned artist! That should melt her icy heart. Or something!
The leaders of the world were caught off-guard by Pierce's attack. But the two biggest superpowers, Russia and the USA were able to pinpoint where his pods are located. They were also able to pinpoint the location of the transmitter for the highjacking of the airwaves. What they don't know is that Pierce is no fool. His transmitter is located on an island in the ATLANTIC ocean. Should they attack it, they would expose themselves to his fury. And he still retained transmitting capabilities from his home island.
WOOHP was also able to pinpoint the transmitter and the location of the pods. A plan is formulated.