A cold wind blow on the lowean taiga, a cargo train is passing by with supplies

At the same moment someone is observing them with a binocular

"Target in range, get ready." A man say to his squad


EAST OF LOWEE

TAIGA

23 JUNE

20H00


The squad with him get ready to intervene on the railway where the train is gonna pass

"Linda? Did finished to place the explosives?"

Linda at the same time put the last dynamite on the railway and hide them with a pile leaves

"Yeah!"

She run away far enough form the tracks and hides in some bushes with a detonator and observe

The train roll and get closer

"Not now." Linda thinks

The train gets closer

"Not now."

The train is now very close form theme

"Now!"

CLICK

She presses the detonator

"Uh? that's unusual that these leaves fallen precisely here-" The driver get suddenly interrupted

BOOM

The rails explodes, the train derails and stops, Linda have a huge smile looking at the explosion :D

The Train driver and the crewman get out and seem dizzy

The squad quickly appears and encircle them while pointing them with assault rifles

"Hands up! Your cargo is now to the MOD!" The squad leader says to the train crew

At the same time another squad is moving the crates contenting all sorts of supplies useful for war like: ammunition, grenades, guns and quite everything you can imagine to trucks, Linda goes to help to load

them

"We are finished!" Linda says

"Okay lets go!" The leader responds

The two squads get into the trucks and abandon the train crew in place

"Great job everyone! That will help for the guerrilla." The leader says

"I like when things explodes." Linda says

"Aren't you are a little too young to use these?" a trooper comments

"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Linda responds

"Oh oh oh no you are excellent at doing this" The same trooper says

The trucks leaves and after a moment of traveling they reach the encampment

As after the end of each missions like these which mainly implies sabotage, Linda hop off and goes to see the commander

"Uran, I completed the task and we got dem supplies." She says

The commander look at her, he's a relatively short guy with a pair of green eyes with unusual pupils: one is normal but the right one is in form a nuclear symbol, and also wearing a green bandana around his neck over his uniform

"Good but that's an uncountable number of time I told you to stop talking like that, but you can get some rest." Uran responds and looks back at his plans and other files

"Can you explain me the reasons of this war? I mean I was sent by the ASIC there and you also but Magic didn't told me the details" Linda asks

Uran looks at her in a surprised tone but a good surprise to be sure

"Its quite simple. You know that I'm a changer right?" Uran says

"Yeah." Linda responds

"Well sit down, its due to a very long persecution of changers done by Lowee to get rid of us, we are simply fighting to have the right to exist in Lowee instead having to flee and now we have the chance to be the master of our destiny or at least have better rights. That's why I have been sent here, and to take control of a part of the MOD army, even if right now its more a guerrilla in the forest than anything else."

"K now I get it, if you look for me I'm in the quarters." Linda says as she leaves the room

Uran plan his next moves with other changers officers, he knows it that Lowee army morale are getting lower as every days past due to the constant harassment of their troops done by the changer guerrillas fighters and soon enough they can begin their offensive


[Meanwhile, in another place in the forest.]

A squad of lowean soldier are progressing trough the cold taiga, the cold wind carres their faces but its quite usual for them, there is the sound of owls that can get heard

"There is reports of enemy's in that forest and we must be pretty close of them by now, so stay alert." The sergeant says to his troops while cautiously walking, he checks if there is traps

"By the way guys you heard about the rumor, that there is a monster in the forest helping the Modders?" A woman says while looking around

"Meh its just some rumors to scare us." A man says while also looking around

"Ah~ Ah~ TCHA!" Another soldier sneezes

"Goddess bless you." A voice coming form a bush says

"Thanks you, Honoda." The soldier who sneezed responds back to his brother in arm

"Wait, that wasn't me." A soldier responds

The taiga get suddenly silences it self

BANG BANG BANG BANG

An assault rifle firing get quickly heard and hit one of the squad mates in the arm and another one in the leg

"OH FUCK!" one of the wounded lowean soldier yells in a mix of pain and panic

BANG BANG BANG BANG PEW BANG

The squad start to retaliate but they don't know where exactly their enemies are

BANG

A bullet hit another lowean trooper but kill her instantly by being shot at the heart

"NATSUKI!" A soldier yells

"SHIT, CALL FOR THE ARTILLERY!" The sergeant yells to the soldier carrying a radio

The radio man quickly deploy his radio and start using it

"We need artillery on our posit-!" The radio man say but get catch by a very long tongue "AHHHH!"

The tongue carry the man he slam it on a tree making him go unconscious, and then the monster reveal it self

"It was not a rumors!" A even more scarred soldier yells in terror

"Ugh, thats disgusting she told me that I will have the occasion to licks young maiden and instead I have to lick that adult man!" The monster says in a hugely disappointed tone

"FUCK! Go back, go back!" The sergeant yells

The Lowean soldiers runs away

[The day after.]


LOWEE

BASILICOM

24 JUNE

18H30


IF and Bethesda arrives in front of the basilicom, IF park the bike and they both get off and start walking to the building

"That was a long trip and its quite cold here and there is snow, that's weird we are in may, but that's probably natural" Bethesda says "I wonder if it was really necessary to make a huge detour and if instead we could have go trough directly at the mountain range." He continues

"Of course, we had to make a huge detour trough the canyon due to the ASIC occupying the mountain range." IF responds

"Oh yeah that's true, oh and just before we started the trip, did you interrogated the fakers who survived to the fall of their van?"

"You should have told me earlier, but yes and I managed to make them speak."

"What you did exactly?"

"I can't tell you."

Bethesda smirks at the thought of what she must have done

"Yeah." Bethesda says

They enters in and soon after, what appear to be a maid with brown eyes and a blond hair comes to meet them

"Greetings, you two must be the two agent form the planeptune guild, the oracle told me that you will arrive today, follow me please."

The two makers proceeds to follow the maid to a room

"Take a seat, she will arrive soon enough." The maid says and she wait a few minutes "Hang on, I will go for her." She then say and leaves the room leaving Bethesda and IF alone

A silent minute ensue and then

"So… IF, I was wondering, does that bother you having to escort me to the point that being far form Planeptune?" Bethesda asks

"Oh not that much, its a mission given by Histoire so I'm always motivated and you are one of my friends so its not really a problem and I would rather have to escort you than having to infiltrate a camp of cannibals soldiers." IF explains

"Cannibal soldiers?"

"Oh! Just making an example." IF replies with a small surprised expression, trying to pretend it is an example even if its not

"Well I'm glad having you has a friend." Bethesda says and sighs "But alas friendships are just temporary, at least with me."

"What do you mean? Why it would be temporary?"

"Well, when everything is going to be finished and I will return to Leanbox and by the way probably take back my father institute, after that I have the fear that things will get difficult."

"I don't get it."

"Nah drop it, let's just enjoy the moment."

IF wonder what Bethesda tried to said by that but nothing come to her mind expect confusion

A woman with a long hair blue as the sky with some kind of red graduate hat and a robe also red and under it a white skirt, enters in the room

"Sorry for having to make you two wait, but these two kids are quite dificult to deal with since their sister went missing. Welcome to Lowee basilicom, I'm Mina Nishizawa, oracle of Lowee." the oracle introduce herself


MINA NISHIZAWA

THE ORACLE OF LOWEE


"We are the two agents form the guild, I'm Bethesda form the R&D division... for now. And this girl is-"

"IF, agent also form the guild, intelligence division, I'm escorting him" IF cut off Bethesda

"The Planeptune guild contacted me about your coming, so you two know what you have to do?" Mina says

"Yes, no need to do exposition." Bethesda says

"Then let's get to the point, you two will go to the front in base and you will do your task, you will meet the Marshal here." Mina explains

"Who exactly?" IF asks

"Her name is Intelligent Systems, she's the marshal and commanding the troops, currently the MOD is entrenched in the taiga, but the army expect that there will be uprising in other regions. You have other questions?"

"Why there is an uprising in first place?" Bethesda asks

"That's a bit complicated, well its that there is since a quite long moment that the changers are illegally modifying our creations so we had to stop them by using blackmailing them and in some case..."

"But why its illegal in Lowee to modify creations?"

"Its our propriety, our belongings, they are quite like thieves."

"I get it, I'm out of questions"

"Well you two can go now, here the coordinate of the base."

Mina show them the coordinate of the base near the taiga

"Okay thanks for the explanation, goodbye." IF says

"Goodbye." Bethesda says

Bethesda and IF leave the basilicom and go back the bike and mount it

IF insert the coordinate on one of her phone, who have an GPS option of course and she starts up the bike and get rolling

They go trough the tunnel in the mountain at the exit of the city and reach the taiga and strangely there is no longer snow


EAST OF LOWEE

LOWEE TAIGA BASE

19H00


The marshal is looking at the plan trying to figure out what the MOD is up to, recent battle reports says that there is constant harassment of the troops by ambushes and recent bombing on the forest at the enemies positions seemed ineffective due to the trees, but it shouldn't be that ineffective, there must be something but what?

"Marshal! one of our supplies trains got attacked and stolen by the enemy." An officer says

"Again?! that's it, make sure now that every train are protected by soldiers." The marshal responds

"And also, the Planeptune agents just arrived."

"Tell them to come in."

[Later.]

Bethesda and IF enters the room, The marshal waited for them, she's a is relatively tall for a lowean and wear a fancy officer uniform but there is something that stands out is a symbol that seem to be some kind of triangle, she also have red eyes and a dark blue hair

"Hello, I suppose that you must be the inventor." The marshal says while looking at Bethesda "And you… sorry i don't know." She continues looking at IF

"I'm his bodyguard… sort of." IF says

"That's funny I thought you didn't need one." The marshal says looking back at Bethesda

"Its the oracle of Planeptune who decided that." Bethesda responds

"Oh then, let me introduce myself, I'm-"

"Marshal Intelligent systems?" IF says

"I didn't said that any of you could cut my me off, the next time you cut me, its me that will cut you." Intelligent system says taking a sudden even more

serious tone "But that is correct!"


INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

MARSHAL OF LOWEE


"Well anyway, I'm Bethesda." Bethesda says

"IF." IF says

"We have some stuff form Planeptune that we got recently, you know what you have to do. You start tomorrow. Don't worry by the way, it wasn't necessary to bring your bodyguard with you since you will be constantly with soldiers." Intelligent says

IF get a bit irritated

"If you got complaints about my presence, go throw a tantrum to the Planeptune oracle."

After that meeting, Intelligent systems make them visit the base, with the night coming they finishes by their own rooms

"I have to leave the two of you, i got something else to do. See you tomorow." Intelligent give them the keys of the room and leave

They move in and looks around, there is two separate beds and a bathroom and a separate WC

"They couldn't give us separate room for us?" IF says

"Well, no visibly. they probably just planed that i would come alone" Bethesda responds

IF jumps on the on the bed

"Well at least i can sleep because driving for 1 day straight."

"Not totally, we slept in a motel in middle of the travel."

"Yeah, but now how we do to changes ourselves?"

"Use the bathroom."

"Yeah, yeah."

After the that moment, Bethesda go to wash and undress himself, just wearing underpants

"I'm done IF, you can go" Bethesda says as he exit the bathroom

IF stops looking at her phone and look at Bethesda, He don't have the body of an bodybuilder but only by looking at his body, she can tell that he in fact was in the military. A huge blush appears on her face

"You finished looking at my body?" Bethesda says

IF imediatly goes to the bathroom at her turn and does same but she exit with just wearing her shorts and the tanktop she usually wears

"I see you want to sleep confortably." Bethesda remarks with a bit of sacarsm

"Ah shut up! You really expected me to sleep next to you with my underwears? no way bro." IF responds

Bethesda smirks