The day after, Bethesda went to the military base to meet the marshal again, he messaged Bethesda because he had some doubts about something


PLANEPTUNE

MILLITARY BASE

8 MAY

10H00


Bethesda opens the door of the marshal room

"Hello marshal You wanted to see me?" Bethesda says

"Hello Bethesda, take a seat." The marshal say

"Sorry but by the way, i forgot your name." Bethesda says

"Relic" he says his name "Anyway its about the vertidragons, did the fact that you made them in hurry made them weaker?" Relic says

"That's possible, there is probably some defaults." Bethesda says

"And also the workshop that was supposed to make them, they went on a strike like the rest of Planeptune city?" Relic asks

"Yes, but there was still some people working." Bethesda says

"Can you tell me how exactly you made them?" Relic says

Bethesda remember what he did

"...I can't say it." Bethesda says

"Come on, say it, I won't do anything anyway, I just want to know." Relic says

"I'm not allowed, ask to Histoire she might say it to you." Bethesda says

"I will ask her then, but make sure to verify if there is no defaults in your next inventions, it might cause problems. The vertidragons are gonna send back to a bigger factory to upgrade them and remove the problems. But also they managed to shot down one of ours vertidragons during the airlift, we sent a recon to find the crashed vehicle but we found nothing, so we think that the ASIC managed to get it before us. But also we knew that the tail was destroyed, well at least its what the crew who survived the crash said." Relic explains

"Anything else you wanted to say to me?" Bethesda asks

"Well, you see the mountain range? Its a very hard place to attack." Relic says

"Yeah, I know that." Bethesda says

"If we have to take it back it will be very hard to send tanks to attack and we have to send the mountain infantry, but it wee got information that the ASIC are fortifying it and it will be a hell to take it back. At the end of the war there was a part of the mountain division that attacked the mountain but most of them never came back, including DICE, the captain of division who just vanished" Relic explains

"I see." Bethesda says

"So, I need you to create something to heavily attack their position." Relic says

"We started to make the prototype of a mini-nuke launcher."

"Yes know a bout the Fatman." Relic says

"No its the Little Boy." Bethesda says

"Uh? I thought the name was the Fatman." Relic says

"Well the author as the habit to alter names of things he don't have the right to use, but well the Fatman is named after a nuclear bomb used on japan on ww2, so same for the Little Boy so the reference is still correct." Bethesda explains, breaking the 4th wall

Relic get confused, his face tells it

"What are you talking about? What is a world war 2?" Relic asks

"Oh, sorry i broke the fourth wall." Bethesda says

Bethesda winks

Relic looks around trying to see where he is winking to

"Anyways, I think its not a really suitable weapon for fighting." Relic says

"Why? It got a very high destructive power!" Bethesda questions

"That's one of the problems, you imagine if we fire it on accident on allied troops?" Relic explains

"Oh I see." Bethesda says

"That's why I want you to make another thing." Relic says

"I will try to find an idea." Bethesda says

"Fine, take your time but don't make defaults." Relic finishes

Bethesda leaves the room and head out of the base to go to the basilicom. He thinks about what he could do next

He walk in the streets

"Its really him? I thought he was dead." A random guy say

"Its a fake! Can't you see? Its just an idiot pretending to be him to get attention." Another random guy say

Bethesda get irritated

"I will shove my revolver in your asshole and you will see if I'm a fake!" Bethesda say

The two dudes looks in confusion while Bethesda continue walking in the streets. Since he wasn't confirmed to be officially still alive, there is still a lot of people who don't believe what they see when they see when they see him

He's taking a day off to think before going back to invent things, so he continues walking for while and at the same time looks at the buildings: a lot of them repaired now

"Mister Bethesda!" A girly voice says coming form the left side

Bethesda turns his head and see a small blonde girl coming towards him with a robot

"Can I have an autograph? On my robot." The girl say

"Sure." Bethesda replies

Bethesda search a pen from his lab coat, and he struggle to find it

"Sorry but forgot in which pocket I put my pen. By the way what your robot do?"

"Not a lot for now, but im gonna make it shot laser by the eyes."

"Neat."

Bethesda remove his lab coat and start to shake it and a pen fall on the sidewalk, he bend down to pick up

BANG

A bullet fly over Bethesda on the side, The people run away and some scream as their calm morning get interrupted by a shooting

Bethesda quickly run and get in an alley and peek, among the people there is a woman running away in the opposite direction and with a gun in her hand, no doubts it must be her who tried to shot him

"That bitch won't get anywhere" Bethesda thinks

"I missed my shot! I must get outta here!" The assassin yell at her phone

"OK make it to the meeting point so you can get out." The person at the phone says

BANG

A bullet pierce the woman skull coming form behind her, she instantly fall on the ground, dead

Bethesda blow on his gun while maintaining a calm expression, he walk toward the corpse and notice that her phone got broken

"What the hell happened here! Heard gun shots!" Someone says

Bethesda turns back and see's Mojang running down with a bow in his hands

Mojang look at the corpse

"What a mess! You did that?" Mojang says

"Before you ask. She attempted to kill me." Bethesda responds

"That's overkill, you could have tried to disarm her instead." Mojang says

"Like if I was going to be soft with those assholes assassins."

Bethesda proceeds to loot the woman, he see's that they got ASIC member cards or some shit, he also doesn't forget to take their wallet

"She was sent by the ASIC so I can't care less. By the way you finished to repair the city?"

"I was about to see you to tell, that most of the apartments got repaired."

"Good. I can finally stop sleeping with her."

"With who? Your girlfriend?"

"No, just a friend who wanted to help with the problem."

Bethesda grab his phone and start to call someone

"Well anyway I'm returning to work."

"What you are gonna do after finishing to repair the city?"

"Oh, I will just continue traveling until someone contact me if they need an architect or gonna look at other nations if they quests about building. I think I'm gonna head for Lastation since my girlfriend is there. Why that interest you?"

"I was just wondering."

Mojang walks away

[At the same moment]


PLANEPTUNE

BASILICOM


Histoire and IF are both having a talk

"I hope you three didn't get hurt." Histoire says

"We did get injured, but nothing fatal" IF says

"Oh, its a good thing then. Also we have another problem now, after the end of the war we lost a lot of our shares."

"How many?"

"We was at 70%, we are now at 53%. We don't have information for the other nations."

"So it dropped that bad? But how?"

"It could be due to the damage material damage they done. also the ASIC strangely only lost 5% making them at 40%, that's weird since the massive lost they suffered."

"Maybe is due to us accepting the cease fire beside we could have pushed farther, why did you do that?"

"They fortified the mountain range, if we pushed trough we would have huge casualties and shares would be even lower."

"So that's why. By the way lady Histoire. I wanted to ask something."

"What is it?"

"Bethesda told me that the MOD is probably supported by the ASIC, should we worry about that?"

"About the insurrection at Lowee? I don't think they are a problem to us in particuli-"

Histoire suddenly stops talking

IF looks around in confusion and then looks back at Histoire

"Lady Histoire?" IF asks

Histoire starts vibrating and stuttering

"Ababababababa-"

"You are okay?!"

"abababImabababfineabitssababajustababab-"

IF don't know what to do so she just grab Histoire in a mix of embarrassment and confusion

"Hello? Hello? Lady Histoire?" A familiar voice talks

IF recognize who this is

"Bethesda? I was talking with Histoire and you cut us off! Its better be important!" IF says

"IF? oh sorry for interrupting, but I think the ASIC are sending agents to try to infiltrate us and also kill me I can tell it because I just encountered one of them."

"I see, can you interrogate them?" IF asks

Bethesda look at the corpse again

"That won't be possible." Bethesda responds

"Uh? Why?"

"Well, she tried to shot me."

"You killed them?"

"..."

IF sighs

"You should stop killing random characters, they might have valuable information."

"They were just some random assasin"

"How you can tell?"

"She tried to shot me and she tried to run away."

"Next time try to just arrest them."

"I can't promise that."

Bethesda end the call

IF let go Histoire

"That was awkward. But anyway, so I was saying that the MOD are not really menace for Planeptune as we know form them or at least is what they claim." Histoire says

"Well he thinks that they might be supported by the ASIC, so it mean nothing good if they install a friendly government in Lowee."

"Oh, I see, well we have to investigate that further before trying to do something. I will send agents, i think it will take 3 weeks. We will have to do also counter-espionage since Bethesda just reported that there is agents inside of the city now, by the way watch over him in case. Do you have anything to say?" Histoire say

"No, that's everything I had to say." IF say

"Okay then, goodbye IF." Histoire say

"Goodbye." IF finishes the talk

After talking, IF goes outside, she did what she had to do for today.


PLANEPTUNE

A PARK

12H00


Bethesda is right now sitting on a bench in a park, eating a sandwich, and in middle of a pensive state

"Hello again!" A sweet voice says

Bethesda looks and see Compa

"Hello Compa." Bethesda responds

"Mind if sit with you?" Compa says

"No." Bethesda allow Compa to sit down with him

Compa sit down near Bethesda on the bench

"By the way, you are not supposed to be at the hospital?" Bethesda asks

"Oh no, I am just a nurse in training. And the nursing school gave me a one week break."

"Uh? You didn't told me that before." Bethesda say with a little of confusion

"You are sure?" Compa ask, unsure of what she told to Bethesda months earlier

"At least it wasn't shown in the fanfic before so I suppose. But you are literally the first person I saw when I woke form coma and you was a nurse at the hospital, care to explain me?" Bethesda demands explanations

"I'm still a student at the nursing school but I have quite a part time job at the hospital." Compa explains

"So like a sandwich course?" Bethesda says

"Sort of." Compa responds

Bethesda finish to eat of his sandwich, and resuming his pensive state

"What are you thinking about?" Compa asks

"The thing is that earlier in the day, some assassin attempted to kill me." Bethesda says

"Oh, and what happened to the assassin?" Compa says

"I killed her. I think its not the first time they will try, they will probably not give up that easily." Bethesda says

"Does that mean that Iffy will have to escort you again?" Compa says

"Maybe, maybe. I was also thinking that there still a lot of people who still don't believe I'm alive." Bethesda responds

"Uhm, as iffy explained to you: you have been officially declared you deceased to hide you form the ASIC but it they somehow knew that you are alive so Histy decided that its not longer necessary to hide your identity." Compa says

"Yeah I already knew that no need to do a reminder, since they didn't confirmed that I'm alive, so it come to this problem. Maybe I should ask Histoire." Bethesda says

"I think that you should. But first wanna walk to think about other things?" Compa says while

"Sure thing." Bethesda

Compa and Bethesda get up and proceed to walk around the park, its quite a big park, most of their walk is only ambiances by the chirping of the bird, the wind caressing the trees and the kids playing around

"Look a squirrel." Compa says

"Yeah, that's a squirrel." Bethesda responds

The squirrel look at them and run away and climb on a tree

"By the way, what kind of inventions made you known?" Compa asks

"Mainly weapons. But I also invented the fusions cells." Bethesda says

"What it does?" Compa asks

"Well you see that battery don't store power but generate it?" Bethesda says

"No, I didn't know that." Compa says

"Now you know, the fusions cores is quite like a mini nuclear plant." Bethesda says

"Its dangerous?" Compa says

"It is not really that dangerous but its quite heavy and expensive to make, not like fission one who got used before I could make a working one and it could explode and spread radiations." Bethesda explains

"Oh, okay" Compa says

"There is also the marshal that asked me to make something to prevent huge lost if we go back at war and we have to attack the mountain range, but I don't have a lot of idea."

Compa thinks

"Maybe some kind of medicine to prevent dying?" Compa says

Bethesda slam is fist on his open other hand

"That's it! Thanks for the idea."

"Oh no problem, I suppose."

They continue walking for a moment, until encountering IF

"Hey." IF says

"Hi Iffy" Compa say

"Hi IF" Bethesda says

"I tried to call you a lot of time, why you didn't respond?" IF says to Bethesda

"I didn't heard anything." Bethesda says and think a small moment "Wait." he get his phone and notice that it was out of battery "i forgot to recharge it" Bethesda says

"Oh, that's why." IF say "Well let's get back to the apartment."

"Wait what hour this is?"

IF look at her phone

"16H00" She say

"I spent 4 hours here?"

"Its a big park." Compa say

Bethesda looks around and find a sign with the whole map of the park

"Uh." Bethesda make a sound

[Meanwhile…]


GAMINDUSTRI GRAVEYARD

?H?


At the workshop, Mister Badd look at the wreck of the flying machine trying to understand how it works

"Is there is a way to repair it?" Badd asks

"We can but it will take a moment." A technician say

"Fine, if you need me I will be working on the other machine." Badd says, while starting to get out

Badd head to another area of the workshop and eventually get intercepted by Magic

"Where you going?" Magic asks

"I-I am just going to work on the other machine." Badd stutter a little

"Fine. By the way how its progressing?" Magic asks

"About the flying machine we are still trying to understand how it works and about the other machine its under work." Badd explains

"I sent someone to kill the guy who killed your son by the way." Magic says

"And did he died?" Badd asks

"She got killed, but we are sending someone more skilled." Magic says

Badd thinks about it

"Excuse me but, if instead we capture him and force him to work for us? I mean if he made the flying machines it will be more advantageous?" Badd explains his plan

"Good idea, I'm gonna call the assassin to change the order." Magic says


COMPA APARTMENT

17H20


After getting back to the apartment, Bethesda is charging his phone and look at his mails on it, One in particular attract his attention

"Hello Bethesda, I would like to interview you for the television about your role and place at Planeptune and plenty of others things. Please respond to this mail quick as possible -Famitsu"

He doesn't responds to the message now and go join the girls

"What you two are doing?" Bethesda asks

"Just talking about stuff." IF says

"About the past things that happened actually." Compa says

"Its true that there is a lot of unanswered question."

"By the way, Betty, Histoire told me to watch over you

"Yeah, that was unavoidable. I was wondering with Compa if we should make it official that i'm still alive to the world."

"The ASIC knows that you are still alive, yeah that could be something to be made."

"I also received a mail form a journalist, proposing to have an interview with me. I think a should accept since it would be a good way to explain why I am here to the people."

"That concern only you, but at this point but I will still have to escort you in case."

"Uhm I was wondering, if they managed to kill you Beth, do we would still have "won" the war?" Compa asks

"I have no idea Compa, but I sure hope that you would manged to push them back anyway."

"I just think it would have been harder. They couldn't took planeptune, we would have used conscription if it was that dire, even if the shares would have gone down even easier."

"I doubt that the people would have been prepared for war."

"But how they do at Leanbox? I heard its land of athletes." Compa asks

"There still conscription there, I can tell it because I was a conscript for 2 year."

IF have a sudden realization

"So you did a military service? that's explains how you manage to use machine guns and grenade launchers." IF says

"How it was?" Compa asks

Bethesda tries to remember


[4 years ago, at the start of Bethesda military service]

A staff sergeant walk trough with 1 lines of recruits standing straight in each side of the barracks while yelling things

"Let's be clear on one thing! I don't give a fuck of your origins, either if you are an Leanboxian native or an immigrant form the main continent, you are all equally a pile of horseshit to my eyes!" The staff sergeant yells as he walks

"Gngn I am the sergeant ball breaker Gngngn." A random recruit say

The sergeant looks behind him

"Who said that? Who the fuck said that?!" He yells

He start to head form where the sound come form

"Its one of your asshole who said it!" He yells as he walk menacingly in front of them "Its you little fucker?" he says to Bethesda

"No sir!" Bethesda says

"I am not a sir you moron!"

"Its not me sergeant!" Bethesda correct himself

"Its me, sergeant!" The recruit form earlier denounce himself

The seargent goes in front of the recruit

"Good, I like honest people, what's your name?" The sergeant say in a strangely calm way

"Paul!" The recruit says

POW

The sergeant proceed to punch Paul

"OOF." Paul yelp before falling on the ground

"You bitch ass motherfucker, I will remember your name you will suffer a way more than the others on the training field!" The sergeant yells once again at Paul

[End of the flashback]


"That was interesting." Bethesda says

"Okay. I was wondering did you got a family." Compa says

IF make a hand sign to Compa

"I had a father." Bethesda says

"What happened to him?" Compa asks

Bethesda sigh

"You don't get it that he don't want to talk about it?" IF whispers to compa

"But why tough?" Compa whispers back to IF

"Well, during the testing of a new machine, a first in gamindustri that allowed to travel trough dimensions it was like a portal and a huge laser projector thing if I remember correctly, someone told me to stand in front of the machine but shortly after the activation I heard my father yelling at me to immediately get out and I just stand here confused so he came and he pushed me out of the way, at the same time a laser beam went right trough him, there was screaming and then silence, he disappeared like if he never existed." Bethesda decides explain what happened

Both IF and Compa stares in silence and tries to come up with something to say

"..."

"...That's rough, buddy." IF says

Compa sighs

"My grandma is dead, I am not sure why exactly but it had something to do with monsters, but you literally got to see your dad dying." Compa says

"I have not idea if he's actually dead but he sure disappeared. I also had an adopted sister and she was like the biggest tomboy I ever known, but I never heard of her again, after the accident." Bethesda follows up

A moment of silence ensue shortly after

"Well its 19H00 let's go eat and play a little" Compa says

"Yeah sure." IF says

They all get up and go to the kitchen


An inventor tale part 1 Vol 3: Dragon soul


Well well well and here starts the 3rd volume, I wanted to finish it the week before but I had other things to do but I will try keeping at least 1 chapter per 2 weeks

It was also the occasion to start developing the past of Bethesda (and not only)

And yes I also stopped to spam caps for making notes and others thing even if its gonna stay for some things and also for making better titles, I stopped putting the volume name in the chapters, it will be at the start and end of each volumes