Around a month after while not a lot of thing happened…
PLANEPTUNE
THE NEPSTATION STUDIO
12 JUNE
17H00
Famitsu is sitting on an arm chair
"Nepstation! Today we got a special guest, an leanboxian inventor, Bethesda himself!" Famistsu says
Bethesda is also sitting on an arm chair, on the opposite side of famitsu
"Thanks for the invitation, and by the way I am not really an leanboxian." Bethesda says
"Oh, and form which place are you?"
"Its off-map place called the PC continent."
"So Bethesda, why are you at Planeptune exactly?"
"Its quite complicated actually, I can't tell a lot about but I nearly got killed by guys form the ASIC's, to hide the fact that I was alive to them, Leanbox and Planeptune had a deal, and they a bit forcefully bring me to Planeptune while I was in the coma and then they told me to help them to work against the syndicate, which I of course accepted anyway."
"And why exactly?"
"One I don't like the ASIC and two is for a personal reason."
"Your help was quite beneficial to Planeptune as we seen in the war with your invention, particularly the Vertidragon you made."
"Yeah, its quite a unique vehicle that can do a lot for things."
"We also heard that you directly went to fight the ASIC during the conflict, can you tell us why you risked your life for a country that you are not even citizen of?"
"Did I said I didn't like the ASIC?"
"I see, so what's your next projects?"
"I cant tell about these since its related to the military and the guild." Bethesda responds
"What do you think of the nation by the way?"
"I like it, even if don't understand why there isn't a lot of people who wear trousers." Bethesda says
"You planed to moving in maybe?"
"Not sure about that tough."
"So to close the interview, When are you going to leave?"
"When I am going to be finished with those syndies."
"Finished?"
"I mean when they will be eradicated form the gamindustri of course."
"Okay, thanks for accepting this interview this is everything I got to ask, goodbye."
"Goodbye."
Bethesda and Famitsu gets up, Bethesda proceed to go see IF who is waiting on the side, resting herself on a wall waiting in the room and at the same time
"We can go IF." Bethesda says
"it was shorter than I expected." IF comments
"I didn't have a lot to say anyway."
"Of course you didn't there is a lot of thing that you are not really allowed to say."
They both start to head out of the building
"By the way, what are you working?" IF asks
"On a syringe that heal almost instantly people." Bethesda says
"And how it progress?"
"Slowly, its complicated at the theoretical level."
"How it works?"
"Its confidential. I am also participating to a propaganda short."
"I propaganda short?"
"You will see it."
They arrive outside, IF starts her bike and Bethesda sits behind
"You know how to pilot something like that?" IF says
"No, I never had time to get a driver license for bike or quite anything." Bethesda responds
While IF drive the bike Bethesda looks at the buildings, they are all repaired
"He did a great job at repairing the city." Bethesda says
"Mojang?" IF asks
"Yeah."
"I remember that at the start of the war with the ASIC you told me you had problems with him in the past, what exactly?"
"Its quite stupid actually." Bethesda says while laughing a bit
"um um." IF hums
"Its when we were kids it was about a the name of something, scrolls I think. It ended in a violent fight it finished by me giving up because I realized that it was dumb."
IF chuckles
"Yeah I see."
The two arrives to repaired building where Bethesda lives, Bethesda hop off the bike
"Well see you tomorrow." Bethesda says
"See ya." IF says
He enter the building as IF roll away
He's get inside of his apartment and start his routine
"It feel empty since I moved back here." He thinks
[Meanwhile]
A man is observing the building in an alley
BRRRRR
His phone start ringing
"Hello?" He answer
"How its advancing?" Someone say
"I am still spying on him, its gonna be hard to capture him right now since he's getting escorted by a guild agent, I think I have no idea who's that girl is."
"That was 2 weeks that you are spying him, its gotta be about time to get him."
"I think I will need reinforcements, i will need profesionals."
"Okay then but don't get caught."
PLANEPTUNE
BASILICOM
14H00
20 JUNE
"Lady Histoire?" An operative says
"Yes?" Histoire responds
"We succeeded to our mission to infiltrate the ASIC and we managed to get the inteligence."
The operative hand over the intelligence to Histoire, she quickly look at it
"Good, you may leave now."
The operative leaves the room, Histoire read the intelligence
It was about some of the ASIC operations but there is the part that interrest Histoire:
"The lend lease plan and volunteers program to the MOD is quite successful, the material allowed them to hold their positions easier against the lowee armed forces, the logistic sabotage done by ours agents is also quite effective most of time. Even with the success of the MOD, they shall never fully take control of Lowee, the other nations are never going to accept that, so the objective is to make them sign a cease fire at our advantage and we get a potential ally in the region" Is written on a part of the Intel.
Histoire thinks about what she just read
[At the same moment]
Bethesda work as usual in the lab, this time he's studying that healing agents and stimulants at permit a greater the recovery rate to damages if combined like the one used in planetpune hospital, the problem that is the machines that use this Principe are quite big and expansive to make them work and even if it reduce the time that someone have to stay at a hospital form something like half, its still a way to slow to be used on a battlefield, and taking damages again cancel the cycle. The idea is to miniaturize them in a small object to activate it in a one time usage and also boost it to instead to reduce it by half is to reduce it by 90% to make it almost instantaneous, yeah its going to be pretty hard to make something like that functional, but not impossible, especially for Bethesda
He think that it would be possible to compressing the agents to make them go in a small container like a syringe, but he have no idea if doing that may alter the functioning of agents and a special syringe will be needed to be built
So that mean that a special machine to compress the agents and put them in to the special syringes will be needed, two inventions in one
He takes notes of everything and start making the blueprints of the syringe and the agents compressor
"Bethesda?" A basilicom staff says
"Yes?" Bethesda responds
"Lady Histoire want to see you."
Bethesda gets up of his chair and head outside of his office
Bethesda reach the room where Histoire is and see her
"You called?" Bethesda says
Histoire turns up to Bethesda
"Hello Bethesda and yes, for various reasons actually, I hope I was not interrupting you while you was working" The tome says
"You did but that's okay."
"So first, about the film, its finished?"
"We finished it a few days ago, you want to see it? I got it on this USB drive" Bethesda shows the USB drive
"Sure, use the console."
Bethesda go the console and put the USB and trough the menu he select the video.
The film open up with a board written on it:
"How to spot a syndicalist"
"This is an informative film made by the Planeptune guild"
It then show some people in a pub doing usual things
"In recognizing a syndicalist, the physical appearance counts for nothing." A voice over says
The man sitting on a bar stool talk to the man
"If he openly declare himself to be a syndicalist, we take his word for it."
It follows by showing someone reading some articles on his phone
"If a person consistently reads and advocates the views expressed in a syndicalist publication, he may be a syndicalist."
And then someone seems giving tracts to other people, and another one carrying near her a banner with written on it: "DOWN WITH THE GODDESSES"
"If a person supports organizations which reflects syndicalist teachings like piracy or organization labeled syndicalist by the guild like the ASIC, she's may be a syndicalist."
After, a woman seem to give a speech to a small crowd
"If a person defends the actions of syndicalists while at the same time constantly attacking the policies of the nations, she may be a syndicalists
And it combine the four types of actions in one separated panels
"If a person does all these things in a period of time, They must be a syndicalist."
"But there is other's syndicalist who doesn't show their real faces... or work more silently."
The video then switch to people of all ages parading with anti-syndicalists banners and others with mainly Planeptune flags but also some form lowee, Lastation and Leanbox
"Mayday, bring a wave of anti-syndicalist sentiment as one hundred thousand marched down Erethisan city. Everyone form veterans to youngsters form every countries reveals their inborn dislike of syndicalism. A united answer to who is menacing Gamindustri!"
The video switches to a ASIC officer enters a house with two soldiers, while a family having a their average breakfast
"you check the living room and you check the kitchen I will check up stairs." The officer says to the two soldiers who immediately start moving
The father goes see the officer to stop him
"Hey!" The father say
"What is it?" The officer responds
"Where you think you are going?"
"We have no time for explanations, already we are 15 minutes behind schedule."
"I don't care who sent you, why you're not going to take another step until I see your warrant."
"Warrant? We need no warrants, as a member of the young syndicalists, your daughter volunteered herself for industrial work and is to be transported immediately, the truck is waiting outside."
"You say my daughter volunteered?"
"Exactly, here her signature." The officer proceeds to show him a paper
"Signature on that piece of paper is false, my daughter would never leave for some-"
"Troopers!" the officer says and the two soldiers comes back to him
"You have no right to be here, I will give you 10 seconds to leave."
"Dad." The daughter says
The daughter is coming down the stairs
"Its true, I volunteered myself for work."
"But why?"
"they convinced me to free myself of the lingering greedy influence of my family life. I'm ready to go"
The daughter says as she goes at the door
The dad tries to start moving toward but the officer immediately stand in front of him to prevent this
"Don't intervene, its for my own good." The daughter says before getting outside
"Your reactionary behavior is going to be reported to the authorities." The officer says to the dad
The daughter, the officer and the two soldiers moves out of the house while the dad stays in mixed feelings
Its cuts to Bethesda walking and resting his arm on a sandbag
"Horrifying isn't it? But think about what you can do to prevent this. Its up to you prevent this future, that's why with the previous shown tips, you can spot syndicalist. But what to do then? You can report them to the authorities, either if they are guild or police and even the military. So this is everything we had to say and now its your turn to save Gamindustri." Bethesda says to close the film
Bethesda then strike his pose and the screen fades to the credits of people who worked on the film
The movie get paused
"So, what do you think?" Bethesda asks
"Good enough." Histoire responds "But there is an another reason why I called you."
Bethesda nods
"It was to warn you, that you was right about the war at Lowee." Histoire says
"Okay."
"I think we will send help to Lowee, all kind. We can't let a nation being cut in half with a government friendly to the ASIC, so prepare to be sent there with IF."
"By the way, why IF have to escort me again? You know hard I am to take down."
"You can survive to a sniper bullet in the head?"
"Yeah, probably not."
ROOOAAARRRR
Bethesda pick up his phone and see that there is a message form IF, while Histoire got a little surprised by the loud dragon sound
"Its that your phone ringtone?"
"Yes. Sorry I should had it turned down"
Bethesda read the message
"Hey, you forgot to give me back my phone charger yesterday." IF messaged
"I'm going to give it back this evening." Bethesda text back
IF a few seconds later, text back
"You better be."
Bethesda is not sure if he should take it as a menace
Bethesda looks back at Histoire
"What I will do at Lowee?"
"You will serve as an intermediary, you will be on the field and use the Planeptune prototypes on the battlefield and takes notes, you should be relatively safe, you will go in 3 days. You got other questions?"
"No."
"I will let you got back to work then. If you have suddenly others questions don't hesitate to ask."
Bethesda then returns to the lab
[Hours of works later]
"Boy I'm tired." Bethesda says as he is exiting the basilicom
He waits for IF who shows up shortly after
"Hello again." Bethesda says waving at her
IF smiles
"Let's go." IF says
"By the way, Histoire said to me that we are goin-"
"Yeah I know that."
"She told you before me?"
"Of course."
They go to her bike and she rides trough the city to where Bethesda lives
At the same moment someone is observing them
"They are heading to where the inventor lives." A woman says to her phone
"Roger." Someone responds
IF bike stops in front of the building, Bethesda hop off and they waves at each others, Bethesda goes to his apartment and suddenly remember something
He take his phone and start calling IF
"Yeah, about the charger."
"Oh right im getting back to your apartment, wait a bit."
Bethesda take the charger
DING DONG
Someone rings
"Uh? Already, by the way her buildings is not very far
Bethesda goes at the door and opens it, its not IF but some suspicious group of peoplein suits and sunglasses!
"You are coming with us." The leader says
"Who are you?" Bethesda
"We are form the guild, its for an urgent business. Follow us."
"Can I see your cards?"
They show theirs cards and they seem legit
Bethesda decide to put the charger in is lab coat, near of a pocket with his revolver and he keep the hand on the said revolver, in case…
Then they head outside
[Meanwhile]
IF rolls in front of the apartment and see the band with Bethesda heading to a van, She hops of her bike
"Hey! what's going on there?"
They stop, Bethesda attempt to walk out but get stopped by one of the agents which causes him to sigh
"Those guild agents told me to follow them." Bethesda says
"Uh?" IF find that strange
"Circulate there is nothing to see here." The leader of the agent says
"You are form the guild? Okay then show me your cards!" IF asks
The agents show their cards while trying to keep a straight face
IF looks at the cards, she can tell if its fake of not
"Those cards fake!" She says
Some girl agent breaks up and draws a gun
Bethesda see's it
"IF, watch out!" Bethesda yells
Bethesda draws his revolver even faster and punch the girl with it, making her falls unconscious before she had time to fire it he then turns back to activate the B.A.T.S on the man behind him but the fake agent behind Bethesda punch his neck with the slice of his hand causing him to also go unconscious
IF get her quatars with magic and dash toward the guy who stunned Bethesda, she stabs the faker but he manage to dodge her attacks
The faker then high kick IF causing her to recoils
IF looks and see's that there is two fake agents dragging Bethesda and the unconscious agent into the van, she can't use the demonic inferno since she risk making collateral damages, so she gets her gun and aim at them but the faker run up to her, with a bass knuckle, IF dodge the attack block the leg with one of her quatar of the faker going at her just after finishing his attack
But he doesn't notice the gun of IF pointing at his torso
BANG
He falls on the ground with blood leaking out of his body
"They took out Kenny! One of the fake agent say
"You bastard! Let's get out of there!" The other one responds
The van rolls off at full speed ahead, IF waste no time, she jumps on her bike and chase them trough the street
IF get her phone while she's following the van
"Its IF! some guys managed to abduct Bethesda in a black van! I'm sending the matriculation!" IF says to the guild communications
"They managed to get him? Hold three minutes!" Histoire responds quickly
[Meanwhile]
In the air base, there is a squad of the special forces running to a vertidragon and get inside, shortly after it takes off
[Inside the van]
He driver look at his mirror and see's that there still that girl chasing them on her bike, and she gets closer and aim with her pistol
BANG BANG BANG
She shots threes time, aiming at the tires but missing them
"She's trying to destroy the wheels, don't let her!" The pilot says to the persons behind
One of the fake agents get his shotgun ready, another one opens the doors giving out the view of the highway
IF see's the guy pointing a shotgun at her so she immediately get out of the field of vision
BANG
The fake agent shots but misses
IF got on the side of the van
BANG BANG
And tries shooting the wheels form the side
The van suddenly turns to slam IF bike
VRRRROOOOMMM
IF accelerate and get in the front of the van, the van destroy the concrete barrier and falls of the highway
The agent with the shotgun and the guy who opened the door falls out of the van, Bethesda who was attached stayed inside, the other unconscious agent stayed inside somehow, the driver screams in terror
CRASH
The van hit the ground, the fall was only an instant long
IF stops her bike and look at the ground, she see the two body of the fake agents, but she get stressed, IF jumps down and stab the pillar behind her to slow down her fall, she lands in behind the destroyed van, she see Besthesda who look fine beside the fact that he's unconscious, so she is reassured, IF drag Bethesda out of the wreck
"I took them out but I will need people to take care of the incapacitated."
"Don't worry we sent a squad they should be here shortly
Shortly after a vertidragon lands, with the special forces getting out and capturing the two only agents who survived
Bethesda wake up, he see IF looking at him they both smile at each others seeing that they are fine, he looks around and see the two agents behind put inside the tilt-rotor
Bethesda gets up
"What happened, after I got knocked out?" Bethesda asks
"A pursuit. Looks like you can't make the difference between a fake and a real guild card." IF says
"Yeah."
"You are hurt?"
"No I'm relatively fine, and you?"
"Same."
A small awkward silence ensues between the two makers, including at the end both of them blushing a little
"Oh yeah and here your charger." Bethesda says as he hand over the phone charger
"Here is it!" IF says in a happy tone
"You would have been pissed if your phone got discharged because of that!" Bethesda says while laughing
"Oh I always carry more than one phone in case."
They go back to her bike and get to their respective homes after that event
GAMINDUSTRI GRAVEYARD
19H14
Someone enters a room
"Lady Magic?" a guy says
"Yes? Magic responds
"We got reports saying that two of the agents that got sent to abduct Bethesda got captured the two others are dead, only one is still okay."
"Fuck."
"Should we send more agents?"
"No. let's not do it until we got the perfect occasion to do it and better tech to help us."
The messager nods and move out of the room
Magic knows that capturing Bethesda is going to be a way harder than she expected, so her only option is to wait for a opening.
And yes! The B.A.T.S is not instant activation! tough it still activate really fast (around 0.37 seconds) so another way to counter it its to take him out in that abysimal window of time, so the ennemy must be REALLY quick
I also warning that its the last volume before the timeskip to rebirth2 (or at least this alternate dimension equivalent), i got the rest of the volume planed (also quite the rest of the fanfic) somewhere in my head and i think imma note it in case
And the propoganda movie may or may not be a alusion to a 50s anti-comunist short but well Fallout pre-war takes place in america where is stuck in the 50s-60s so... well no that explaination is lamemtable
