"Badd!" Magic says while entering the workshop
"Y-yes?" Badd responds, scarred as usual
"You are going to make a machine to transform bodies into robots!" Magic orders to Badd
"I'm not sure I can do it!" Badd says
"DO IT OR DIE!" Magic threatens
"O-okay!" Badd responds
Badd start to work on how to make that thing, but he also realize that its maybe his only way to get out and escape the ASIC alive
THE NEXT DAY
PLANEPTUNE
BASILICOM
18 APRIL
9H10
"So, that's mean the ASIC knows about your survival?" Histoire says
"Well, yes otherwise I wouldn't have encountered that guy again." Bethesda says
"But the problem is to know how he managed to recognize you."
"I remember that he talked about some rat spy's in Planeptune and I also remember that the moment that when we went to kill dogoos with IF and Compa, the dragon that attacked us by surprise, blasted my helmet away."
"Oh, I get it, so the rat recognized you when you lost the helmet and he knew about the disguise when you put it back, it make a plausible explanation."
"Well, I should have worried about that rat then.
Someone enters in the room and interrupt the talk
"Lady histoire! the ASIC army have been spotted near the city and they started to move toward us!
"So it begins, do our troops are positioned?"
"Yes, they are already at their defense post!"
"Okay give the order to evacuate the civilians to the shelters and other safe areas!"
The staff exit the room in hurry
"So the battle is gonna start?"
"Yes, soon enough"
"What do I do?"
"We need a lot of people to defend the city, go see IF she is leading a platoon of soldiers
"Okay I will be here." Bethesda says while he start to leave
"Good luck." Histoire says
Bethesda put back his helmet on and leaves he use the elevator to go down to the guild, even if its not recommended in these kinds of situations
On the way down he hears a loud howling sound of a siren and a speech
"Citizens of Planeptune, the city is about to get attacked! All the non combatant have to go to the nearest shelter or others area safe form fighting, Militias or other combatants must join the front lines! This is NOT a drill!" the voice says form the speakers in the city
"Well, here we go" he thinks
AT THE SAME MOMENT
CLOSE OF PLANEPTUNE
PLAINS
9H30
The commander Uran looks at the city form afar with binoculars and see jets taking off, probably to bomb his position or to bomb the supply lines to annoy them again
Since the start of the war, Planes didn't stop bombing them, it caused considerable damage and forced the army to slow down due of supply lines getting bombed
The ASIC have nearly not air force, they do have robots that can fly like the R-4's but they couldn't deploy a lot of them and when they do, they are nearly immediately destroyed by the Planeptune incredibly Advanced Multi-role jets that are not match for them, and the heavy tanks can target them but can't really do anything outside of dissuading them to approach, on the 200 planes that attacked them during the conflict, they only shot down 4
He grab his radio
"Recon group, what's the situation?" He ask
"The Planeptune army are entrenching themselves." The leader of the recon group responds
"Okay continue observing their movements."
"Yes sir."
He change the frequency of the radio
"I want the Mechanized and motorized divisions to encircle the city, the infantry follow them, the artillery is going to start firing on the city while the armored brigade are going to charge to distract the enemy, but before starting to attack, send a message to encourage the citizen to flee toward our camp so we can get information on the defense" Uran orders at the subordinates
"Orders well received" they all says
EVEN CLOSER TO THE CITY
"Soldiers!" The captain of the armored division says to get attention of his soldiers
"We are going to attack the city very soon! Expect a heavy resistance form the enemy, a lot may die but its a sacrifice we are all willing to make, FOR ARFOIRE!" he says at his soldiers
"FOR ARFOIRE!" They all cheers
MEANWHILE, BACK TO THE CITY
After going down the tower Bethesda just to the guild hall, he quickly notice IF going to exit with her platoon
Bethesda try to catch her
"IF!" He yells
She hear him
"Oh, hello again, I don't have time right now" IF says as she running outside
Bethesda follows her
"Its histoire! She told me to come with you!" Bethesda says
"She allowed you? To come fighting?" IF asks
"Yes, she said I had to come helping." Bethesda says
The platoon go to the east of the city, they expect the first attack to start here
And they arrives after a dozen of minutes
"Everyone take positions!" IF says
They go take cover behind sand bags, Bethesda get an MG-4 and deploy it on a sand bag
"Wait, where did you get that?" Ask IF
"I don't know." He responds
IF don't try to elaborate further
She quickly look at her phone
10H00
"Citizens of Planeptune, we don't have any attention to hurt you! Go to our encampment at the east side of the city, you will be welcomed with food and shelters, otherwise you might be killed by accident: artillery don't know how to make the difference between a civilian and a soldier!" A voice says coming form the east
"What was that?" one of the troopers asks
"Its probably a speech to convince the people to join them." IF responds
There is a small moment of silence but distant shooting can be heard, and its not small arms
"Hey!" A trooper yells while running at their position
A whistling sound get heard
"You are late come on! Get here!" IF says
"Its not fair, someone stole my rifl-"
BOOM
"OH FUCK, HE'S DEAD!" One of the troopers says while seeing his poor brother in arm getting blown up
"GET INSIDE THE BUILDING!" IF yells
Everyone run inside of the nearest building while even more whistling get heard and even more explosions storm the city
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
The loud sound continues for a few moments
and then it stops, but everyone knew what's going to happen next
THE BATTLE OF PLANEPTUNE
Everyone run back to the sand bags
They get their weapons ready to fire
Bethesda have a few sweat drops, he realize that its nothing like dragon hunting but adrenaline run in his blood like every time he go to fight
IF tough tries to keep her calm and look badass as possible, it would suck if they see their leader freaking out
Here they comes, Robot Tanks walkers, infantry, Bits and an R-4, coming form the plains and rushing at them
"FIRE!" Yells IF
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
Soldiers fires with their various weapons: Assault rifles, Rail guns, plasma rifle, etc,
IF shoot with her handgun
BRRRRRTTTTTTT
Bethesda shoot with the MG-4 to suppress the infantry
The syndicalists soldiers falls like dominoes, others get on the ground to attempt to evade the gunfire
"Aw fuck my knee!" yells one of the syndicalists soldiers receiving a bullet in the knee
The retaliation don't make itself wait: The tanks start to fire at them
PHEW PHEW
The platoon take cover to shield themselves form the energy cannons of the tanks
"We need air support over here!" IF says to the radio
"Roger, coming of a strafing run"
A few seconds later, an aircraft come on their left side, strafing with his auto cannon the one of the tanks and the R-4…
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
BOOM BOOM
...And destroying two of them and injuring the nearby ASIC troopers who got either hit by the debris or by the explosions, but since the debris flew every where it injured also the troops and IF who ripped her cheek, the R-4 managed to somehow dodge the shells
IF despite her cheek who got ripped continues to fight, its hurt but not enough to really put her out of action
Bits take the lead and charges while the other tank and the R-4 continue firing
One of the soldiers take down the other tank with a rocket launcher, this allow Bethesda, IF and the other troops to restart firing
Bethesda take down 1bits 2bits 4bits 8bits 16Bits 32Bits 64Bits! How many there is of them?!
The R-4 take Bethesda as a target and shoot a beam
PHEW
it was so fast and Bethesda was so focused that he couldn't do anything and notice it at the last moment, the beam hit Bethesda left arm, he quickly get down and drop his gun
"ARRGH!" Bethesda yells in pain while the others continue fighting
He look at his arm, it destroyed the sleeve of his lab coat and burned his arm
"Hey!" one of the soldiers says and he throw a bandage roll
Bethesda catches the roll and bandage his burned arm while the battle is still ongoing, he can tell by hearing the gun fire
"Thanks" he says to the soldier
While Bethesda is bandaging himself, IF took the machine gun and kept firing at them, but she quickly see what the biggest threat is
"Focus on the R-4!" Orders IF while starting to fire on it
Bethesda finishes bandaging his arm and quickly grab his revolver to help attacking the R-4
Her and her troops fire on the R-4 and manage to shoot it down after a few minutes, making it crash on a tank, destroying both of them
One of the ASIC trooper take cover to receive transmission
"The encirclement is finished, you guys can fallback." The commander says
"Roger!" He responds
"Comrades, retreat!" He tells to his troops
The Syndicalist troops start to fallback, at least the ones who could still move
after a few minutes the sounds of guns finally stops, the ASIC army retreated, every soldiers of the platoon survived but everyone got some kind of injury at various degrees (except the unlucky man a the start.)
"So we won?" one of the troopers says
"No, its only starting" IF says
"But why? We managed to push them back!" The trooper say
"That's the problem, the city got encircled, this attack was just a distraction." Bethesda says knowing what would happen next
"Oh."
"I am actually quite surprised they didn't try to bomb us more with artillery shells" Bethesda says
"Don't worry about this, the air force got it." IF responds
DURING THE BATTLE
"The artillery barrage ended, reload and prepare another one!" An ASIC artillery captain says
The troops start to reload the howitzers and mortars, while he look at the city damaged buildings and a distant sound of a jet engine get heard but they don't pay attention to it
"Ready!"
"FIR-"
BOOM BOOM BOOM
A quick series of bombs explode their positions
"Syndicalists artillery destroyed" The jet pilot says while flying over
BETHESDA TOTALLY IMAGINED THIS SCENE
"I see." Bethesda
IF receive a call
"Yes?"
"Okay."
IF end her call
"Well, y'all get some rest, others troops are going to take our place" IF says
Everyone starts to go in their own directions
"Not you, you are coming with me." IF says pointing to Bethesda
IF go toward the Basilicom, Bethesda follows her
As this happen, they both look at city, a lot of building got either damaged or even some got destroyed
They can also see the Tower form afar who also look badly damaged
"your wounds are very bad as I see" IF says noticing Bethesda burned arm
""As I see" no shit, I wonder how you knew that." Bethesda responds sarcastically
"Don't worry we will go see Compa after that." IF says
"I would have did it myself anyway." Bethesda says
They continue walking toward the Basilicom, they see citizens getting out of shelters and also see war prisoners
As Bethesda see the prisoners, he wonder why the Lowee conventions are a thing but he prefer to not talk about it, but he knows that if he would have to choose the fate of the prisoners it would be more like the Lowee suggestions...
"Why we are going to Basilicom?" Bethesda ask
"Histoire wants to see us." IF responds
"She already saw me this morning anyway" Bethesda says
"And why?" IF ask
"It was about the man who attacked me yesterday" Bethesda explains
"So, you just discussed about it?" IF says
"Yeah, but we got interrupted by you know what." Bethesda says
"Too bad you aren't going anywhere." IF says while smiling a little
"Or is you like to spend time with me?" Bethesda says
"No of course no!" IF responds
"Huh, you transformed into a tsundere!" Bethesda says while chuckling
"Its not like I like you or anything!" IF says while blushing of embarrassment
"Yeah, its totally a stereotypical tsundere sentence!" Bethesda laughs
"Jeez, and you transformed into Neptune!" IF says
Both of them laugh a moment
"By the way, what hour this is?" Ask Bethesda
"Its 12:20." IF responds
"Wait we fought for that long?" Bethesda realize the time between the start and the end of the battle
"Oh you know its those kind of situation where the time flies faster than usual." IF says
They both get to the basilicom and get to the elevator
"By the way you didn't told me about the PC continent?" IF says
"Oh I forgot about telling you." Bethesda says
"Tell me more about it." IF ask wondering about the continent
"Well, I don't remember a lot form my days in the PC continent, since I left when I was in my early teen because my dad got a contract at Leanbox, its quite like the rest of gamindustri the biggest difference is being the fact that people are more physically more different."
"I noticed that you are a way taller than everyone, what's your exact size actually?"
"1m78,"
"There is not a lot of difference between an Leanboxian and a someone form the PC continent actually"
"Why?"
"Its because nearly everyone form Leanbox originated form the PC continent."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Its very long ago not sure when exactly but its a story that tell that Leanbox got created by settlers and explorers form the PC continent."
"That's some heavy lore you are explaining!"
"Gotta do some world building."
"You got some family at Leanbox or PC contient?" IF ask
"I had a father." Bethesda says
"What happened to him?" IF ask
"…i don't want to talk about it." Bethesda says
"I understand." IF says
"Did you got parents?" Bethesda says
"Oh, I don't remember I just know that I was an orphan far as I can remember."
"We got a lot of things in common at final." Bethesda says
"Yeah." IF says
They get out of the elevator and histoire greet them
"greetings IF, hello again Bethesda." Histoire says
"You wanted to see us lady Histoire?" IF says
"Yes, we have to talk about what happened yesterday." Histoire says
They talk about what happened but showing this part of the discussion would be repeating myself
"So, they know you're still alive." Histoire says to Bethesda
"I think trying to hide your presence is quite useless now, whatever we do they know I am here." IF says
"Well, that's right, but the problem is that I am declared dead to the public so what do we do?"
"We should stop trying to hide you, tough you are not authorized to get out of the city without permission." Histoire says
Bethesda look at his helmet
"Looks like I no longer need that." Bethesda says
"You won't longer have to hide your identity, but let's not confirm you are really alive for now." Histoire says
Someone else enters the room
"Iffy! Beth!" she says happily
IF and Bethesda turn towards her, its Compa running at them with tears in her eyes and she can't hold herself to hug them
"I was so worried!" Compa says while hugging IF and Bethesda
"Compa, I like your affection but you are destroying my arm!" Bethesda says
Compa immediately stops and notice Bethesda arm enveloped in bandages she also see IF cut cheek
"What they did to your arm?"
"Got hit by an energy beam and it got burned."
Compa quickly check her purse
"Hey IF when you said that we are going to see compa after I didn't imagined she will come to us" Bethesda whispers to IF
"I didn't neither knew she would know where we was" IF whispers back to Bethesda
Compa get medical tools out of her purse
"I am going disinfect and to apply lotion to your arm" She says while removing the bandages
She does as she says on Bethesda arm, he try to hide the pain, not without difficulty at the same moment IF and Histoire talks about the result of the battle
After a few moments she bandage back the arm and give pain killer to Bethesda
"Don't remove the bandage, until the end of the month." Compa says to Bethesda
"Okay." Bethesda responds
"Iffy! Come over here!" Compa calls IF
"Yes?" IF responds
Compa disaffect IF cheek and put a band aid on it
"By the way, lady Histoire when the reinforcement will arrives?" Bethesda ask to Histoire
"In a few days." Histoire says
"Well look like the siege won't last very long." Bethesda says
After minutes of talking the three makers goes out and see everyone restarted their usual business but with military troops quite everywhere
Bethesda decide to only put his helmet during battles
"So you are not putting your helmet?" Compa ask to Bethesda
"No its pointless now, whatever I do they will know I am alive." Bethesda says
They go in the streets, some people look at Bethesda and wonder if they are not allucinating
The makers go see how many building got damaged
Well there is a lot actually
But they also notice that Bethesda and IF apartments got hit
"Don't worry, you both can go sleep at my house!" Compa says
"Thanks, I wonder how we would do otherwis-"
PLANEPTUNE
COMPA APARTMENT
0H10
19 APRIL
Bethesda is on laying on the couch in the living room yet not sleeping for a reason...
ZZZZZZZZZZZ
Even tough he's not on the same room he can clearly hears Compa loud snoring and wonder how IF do to tolerate this
"Fuck."
GOD DAMMIT, MORE I MAKE CHAPTERS AND AND WHEN I THINK IT CAN'T BE EVEN LONGER I MAKE SOMETHING EVEN LONGER!
WELL ANYWAY I DID A LOT DURING THIS WEEK SO I THINK NEXT WEEK I WON'T MAKE CHAPTERS AT ALL SINCE I'M GOING TO BE BUSY… I THINK
OH AND ABOUT URAN, ITS NOT A RANDOM OC I MADE FOR NO REASONS, I CAN GIVE A HINT ON WHAT ITS INSPIRED, ITS ABOUT AN FAMOUS FANGAME THAT GOT CANCELED BY NINTENDO ITSELF AND THE DIMINUTIVE OF URANIUM
I HOPE Y'ALL ENJOYED THIS CHAPTER, AND SEE YA LATER!
