The rest of the syndicalists troops walks in the mountain range in middle of the afternoon
They are visibly very exhausted
"Come on, its no time to get exhausted! We are near of the meeting point!" the captain of the company say her troops
The captain stay strong, even if she seen many of her troops vanishing due to the encirclement of the darkness 60 by the 2nd planeptune armored division, they still managed to flee with remaining of her soldiers but didn't know any of what happened to the other that couldn't flee it
Jet's attacked them multiple time, but they finally managed to get a few MANPADS form destroyed trucks so they can manage to fight back against these things
Their march finally ends, as they see other company's and then join them
Shortly after the Colonel come to see the captain
They exchange a salute
"Wasn't there is supposed to have more people to your company?" The colonel say to the captain
"Yes, but we lost a good bunch of them during the encirclement" The captain responds
"How many?" The colonel asks
"at the start we were 128 and now we are around 64." The captain says
"Okay, I see, you can dismiss now, it will be easy to defend the mountain compared to a plain and the troops also started to fortify it before we advanced to planeptune city."
The captain nod and she and her troops goes to rest, for now
PLANEPTUNE
MILLITARY BASE
16H40
Relic is in his office as usual, planing battles and givings orders to the army
KNOCK KNOCK
Someone knocks at the door
"Come in." Relic says
An officer enters
"Marshal, we got the battle report form the darkness 60." She says
"Drop them on my desk." he says
The officer put down the documents on the desk and leaves
After a few moments, relic grab the documents and start reading the report
"The encirclement succeed, few troops managed to go escape tough but most of their troops got either killed or captured, tough it seemed that their attention was to gain time to evacuate their remaining troops to the mountain range and according to the scouting reports in that area, they seemed to have succeed to drawback most of their troops, it also seem that the mountain range got fortified." The officer say
"But we still managed to capture the stronghold but with heavy casualties, none of the defender surrendered beside the fact that they were getting overwhelmed, inside and around the fort there was approximately 5.400 defenders and our army attacked with 9.500 soldiers, as said previously all the defender died but we got 971 dead and 2.700 wounded and i think the numbers are a reference to the number of a video game console that got sold, but i frogot which one." The officer finishes
Relic thinks that it would have been better to siege or bomb to oblivion the stronghold to avoid casualties, but he know that they don't had time anyway and they must save ammo for taking back the mountain range and eventually assault the gamindustri graveyard
He looks at the map again, he got reports that all the troops are next to the mountain range but he can't order them to attack now since they risk having huge casualties in planeptune side: attacking a mountain is a way harder than just in plains. that make him understand why they draw back the troops.
Relic phone start to ring, he pick it up and see that its Histoire
"Hello?" Relic says
"Hello relic, meet me at the basilicom, its important." Histoire says
"I'm coming." Relic responds
he exit the room and head to the basilicom
PLANEPTUNE
BASILICOM
17H10
"Greetings." Histoire says
"You wanted to see me lady Histoire?" Relic asks
"Yes, I know what happened 3 hours ago, about the situation of the war no need to tell me. So I wanted to tell you to not attack the mountain range in first place." Histoire says
"Okay, I didn't wanted to attack it now anyway, I already know why." Relic says
"We also received a message form one of the ASIC leader."
"What its about?" Relic asks
"The ASIC propose a cease fire, they keep the mountain range tough." Histoire explains
"I think we don't have really other choice but to accept it, since it will be a pain to take back the mountain." Relic says
"We will take it back someday, don't worry. I will take off the rest now" Histoire responds
GAMINDUSTRI GRAVEYARD
18H00
A syndicalist officer run in a hallway in hurry and open a door
"Lady magic! We got great news!" She says
Magic looks to the officer
"Who allowed you to enter without knocking?" Magic says
"They accepted the cease fire!" The officer says
"Oh, you should have said it earlier. Dismiss." Magic responds
At the same time Magic was looking at the results of the war, even if they at least managed to keep the western mountain range, its still a disaster to her eyes, the ASIC lost a way too many troops, they failed to capture Planeptune city even if they had a huge numerical advantage and the nations will probably use that to show the syndicate that they weak, and that's make her realize one thing: that the ASIC is not ready for a direct war
She decide to change strategy for the moment, they will return to the methods they used before the war, but a way more aggressive to get the shares quicker
She knows that now the northern mountain range controlled formerly by Lowee got invaded by her troops, it was perfect time since Lowee is under a civil war, but this time, they don't go further than the mountain range
Magic plan on getting the Eastern mountain range controlled by Lastation to finally secure their positions, but the question is how? Lastation have a stronger military than Planeptune and Lowee but still behind Leanbox, agent there says that they are still recovering form the terrorist attack done before the start of the war with Planeptune
She thinks and she get an idea
PLANEPTUNE
COMPA APARTMENT
7 MAY
18H00
The day after. After getting their injuries properly healed, Bethesda, IF and Commpa went back to the apartment
"That was very scary. I hope it won't happen again." Compa says
IF chuckle
"At least, you know what a battlefield looks like now." IF says
"I must admit that you are pretty brave tough and you were quite helpful during the battle." Bethesda says
""Quite helpful?" I literally saved the two of you!" Compa says
"Pretty sure we would be fine anyway, they were other combat medics in the platoon to heal us up." IF says
"She quite saved me, when I went up to fight guards." Bethesda says
"What happened? I was busy on the other side to look." IF asks
"I nearly got killed by a guard with a shotgun, Compa stabbed him before he had time to do it." Bethesda explains what happened
"Oh, that would have sucked if we lost you during battle." IF says
"Yeah, we would be probably all would be dead." Bethesda says
"I would have done fine if Compa didn't decided to rush in." IF says
"I just wanted to help." Compa says
"At this point you caused an even bigger problem by doing that." IF says
"Sorry." Compa says
"You girls should be more coordinated to avoid these kind of situation." Bethesda says
IF get away to turn on the TV
"There is something that it don't get, why you are stronger than me?" Compa asks
"I got back the L.A.T.S but I renamed it B.A.T.S by the way. Do I need to remind you that I used to solo kills dragon with that?" Bethesda explains
"Oh, you got back your OP skill! But why you renamed it and more especially, why after an animal?" Compa says
"Well, the microchip was originally created for the leanboxian army before my dad vanished, I decided to rename replace the Leanbox by Bethesda since now its fully mine." Bethesda explains
"Actually, since when you got the chip? I mean the first time?" Compa says
"My dad injected it when I was still a kid and it hurt a lot, but that's not important, its just a small price to pay for a OP power." Bethesda says
"It still can be countered by someone who have more than 2 brain cells tough." IF comments
"Yeah, the fact that EMP and other jammers can disable it sucks, but I will try to upgrade it to be fully impossible to counter, not sure when tho." Bethesda responds
Their talks end since they have nothing to talk about for the moment and they proceed to listen to the news
"Today, an official cease fire as been signed between the ASIC and Planeptune, ending the conflict which resulted in the occupation of the mountain range including the mount segami by the syndicalist forces, but with no very heavy causalities in their side: arcording to planetpune the ASIC started with 700,000 troops but ended the war with only 510,000 which mean they lost 190.000 men and women against only 250,000 planeptune troops who only lost 10,000 in total, not including civilians death who are abysmal you can find more details about the war on the official planeptune internet site or on Nepedia. The reasons why Planeptune accepted it are quite obscure, but it was to avoid making even more victims in their side while taking back the mountain range, there is also rumors about a potential lack of fuel. That was Famitsu for the evening news." The journalist talk about the news
"So, its over?" Compa asks
"I doubt that the ASIC will stop here." IF says
"Of course, they realized that they we're not prepared for the war so they will try other things to get their goal. So no, everything is very far form ending." Bethesda says
"Well, we can at least celebrate that the war is over." Compa says
"Victory at least." Bethesda says
Bethesda thinks again about what he did to get the vertidragons faster which that allowed to win the war faster, he also wonder what happened to the survivors and also what would have happened if he didn't
"What are you thinking about?" IF says
"Nothing." Bethesda responds
"And there nothing to celebrate about, its just a cease fire there is no victory." IF says
"Its isn't over?" Compas says
"The military conflict is over but not the crisis." IF explains
Compa get disapointed
"Awwww." Compa says
"By the way, I wonder if the ASIC is supporting the changers insurrection in lowee." Bethesda says
"They probably support it, I should talk to that to lady Histoire about that." IF replies
"That's funny, why you two talk like that was important? Its just an insurection." Compa says
"Of course that important! You think that the ASIC would support the MOD just for no reason? They are probably preparing something at Lowee and by supporting them they probably want to install a friendly government." IF explains
"For the Syndicate?" Compa asks
"Obviously." Bethesda says
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
An alarm sound get quickly heard by the makers
"What's that sound?" Bethesda says
"AHHHH, THE MEATLOAF!" Compa yells
Compa proceed to run to the kitchen
LASTATION
BASILICOM
19H00-20H00
Its quite a calm evening in Lastation, as usual a Grey haired girl just finished her paper work, She have a lot to do since the goddess got captured, but she have some help form her sister so its a little tolerable
"Lady Kei?" An Basilicom staff says as he come in
"Yes?" Kei responds
"The ASIC are trying to contact us." The staff say
"Uh? What they want?" Kei asks
"We don't know why exactly." The staff responds
"Okay turn on the screen." Kei says
The staff turn on the big screen, at the same time, a black haired girl comes inside
"What's going on?" She says
"Don't worry Uni, its just a talk." Kei responds
"Oh, Then I'm just going to stay here." Uni says and stay in a corner
A menacing, tall, pink haired woman wearing a rather revealing outfit and with an eye patch, appears
"Greetings, let me introduce myself, I am the leader of the ASIC and the one who defeated your goddess: Magic." Magic introduce herself
"What do you want?" Kei says
"I want one thing, your mountain range." Magic annonce her demmand
"I don't trade with terrorists." Kei says
"Oh, really? Tough have an offer that you can't refuse." Magic says
"Enough said, turn off the screen." Kei say
The staff get the controller to trun off the screen
Uni gasp in shock
"Kei, look!"
She look back at the screen
Black Heart is tangled in some kind of wires, she is in bad condition
"You will free her if we accept the offer?" Uni says
"Uni, let me take care of this."
"Oh no, we will just leave her alive."
"That's far too low."
Magic raise her scythe and put the blade under Black Heart neck
Uni try to hide her fear but the fact that she start to shiver while Kei keep her cool
"Too bad, I tough it will be a good offer, so bad she have to go now." Magic says with a smile
"You think that we will cede just by just some blackmail?" Kei says keeping her calm
Magic start to slowly move her scythe, Kei and Uni watches, a drop of blood run down her neck
Uni start to sobs, and Kei grit her teeth
"Please make her stop." Uni whispers
"Fine! the mountain range is yours." Kei breakdowns to Magic
"Good thing that we can make deals. You have 48 hours to remove the troops in the mountains, other wise you know what will happen to her." Magic says
The screen goes black, Kei turn off the screen and sighs
She look back and see that Uni is gone, well at least Noire is safe for now Kei thinks
"Hang on Noire, hang on..." Kei thinks
Uni ran back to her room, jump on her bed and then starts crying
"Fucking goddesses! its all their fault if Noire is in that situation." She mourns
MEANWHILE AT THE GAMINDUSTRI GRAVEYARD
Magic chuckle
"You did a nice job Linda with that camera." Magic says
"You think? Thanks you! but also why we don't kill the goddesses now?" The underling responds
"If we do it, it will be harder to steal their shares and also it might throw us in to a total war against the 4 nations." Magic explains
Linda nods
"By the way you will be sent to do some tasks at Lowee to help the MOD." Magic says
"What I will have to do?" The underling asks
"You will know once you will be there." Magic says
Magic approach Black Heart and put her hand on her jaw and make he look at her
"You can thank your oracle for expanding your lifetime." Magic says
"If you think, you will go out with that, then you are kidding yourself!" The tangled goddess says
The Criminal of the Free World laughed to that and let go Black Heart
"You are wrong, because time is on my side." Magic responds
She start leaving looking quickly at the other goddesses: White Heart, Green Heart, Purple heart and Purple Sister
She leave with the underling, satisfied.
NOTHING IS OVER YET
An Inventor tales part1 Vol2: War
THE END
WELL HERE THE END OF THE 2ND VOLUME, I MYSELF THINK THE QUALITY OF THIS ONE IS QUITE RANDOM LIKE THE FIRST ONE (ESPECIALLY THE CHAPTER 2 THAT I RUSHED AND I MIGHT REWRITE, NOT SURE WHEN)
BUT I AM STILL TRYING THINGS, SOMETIME IT WORK SOMETIME IT DON'T
I AM GOING TO TAKE A BREAK ON WRITING AND I WILL RESTART IN THE MONTH (OR YEAR IDK) SINCE HAVE THINGS TO TAKE CARE OFF AND IT WILL ALLOW ME TO THINK ON THE NEXT VOLUME AND ALSO START TO MERGE SOME EARLY CHAPTERS
THANKS FOR READING AND SEE YA LATER!
