Shiziku Kastume made it a point to visit Lord Aono at least once a day. One of the job she had was delivering messages between areas. She just made sure that she also visited Lord Aono to inform him what was happening. It didn't take long for humans to get used to the sight of one of the Succubi girls flying by. Many people would gather on their known routes just to watch them in flight.
Tsukune noted that when Shiziku came to give him news, she sat close, touching him if possible. Upon one visit, he swore she was trying to sit in his lap. By her manner, the blush on her cheeks and the liquid shine in her eyes, Tsukubne had a very good idea she was seeing him as her Destined One.
Tsukune decided to pull her into his lap. she landed in place with a squeak, then gazed at him, blushing deeply. "M'Lord," she whispered.
"Shiziku, do you know who your Destined one is?" he asked.
She nodded.
"So, who is it?" he prodded.
Meekly, Shiziku laid a hand gently on his chest. "I … I need you, M'Lord … Please?"
Wrapping his arms around her, Tsukune said, "I would be proud to be your Destined One."
He was immediately locked in a deep kiss as she wrapped her arms tight around him. Breaking the kiss to hug him tighter, she kicked her legs and cried, "I'm sooo happy!"
There was one nice thing about Succubi. They were all sex maniacs. Tsukune admitted to himself that he missed that. Maybe he needed Shiziku as much as she needed him.
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The radar at Kamakura was working, but now with a human staff. Seeing the blips approaching, and the identifying signals, the controller got on the radio. "Chicago flight A-32, this is Kamakura Control. State your intentions and passengers."
"Kamakura Control, This is Captain Thomas of the Chicago PD. We are arriving to restore order and return Kamakura to proper controls. Do not resist us for your own safety. We request priority landing privileges."
The control tower talked to Tsukune. Tsukune gave the control tower the reply and he got yokai ready.
"Chicago fight A-32, turn to course 170, follow the marker beacons in to runway 165. You will land and be refueled so you may return to Chicago. Be advised, you do not have permission to enter Kamakura. Anyone who exits will be detained."
"A-32 acknowledged."
Tsukune went down the airport landing pad to greet the plane with 50 guards behind him in a line. On the roof, Shiziku and a dozen of her sisters waited in the darkness.
The plane landed and taxied over to the terminal. Once it was stopped, the succubi flew over to land on the top. The refueling truck came. The rear ramp on the plane opened to disgorged thirty armed guards wearing armor. They line up facing Tsukune and the Kamakura guard.
One man stepped forward and announced, "I am Captain Thomas of the Chicago Police Department. By order of the computer council of Chicago, we have come to restore order to Kamakura. To resist us is to be arrested and charged with treason."
Tsukune announced, "Captain, Chicago no longer had jurisdiction here. Save yourself embarrassment and return to your plane. You will be leaving as soon as it is refueled."
"I will give you all one chance to put your arms down and surrender!" Captain Thomas commanded.
Tsukune only clapped his hands once. The succubi watching from atop the plane flew down in front of the Chicago men. With their sweet voices, they charmed the men, and had them put their guns down and remove their armor and clothes down to their underwear, then march back onto the plane. The plane was finished refueling.
The Kamakura guard collected the weapons and armor, some workers collected up all the dropped clothing. The plane was given clearance and took off back for Chicago.
The guard force was happy for the additional uniforms and weapons. Without the computers, the guard force had many more areas to patrol and a few more problems to deal with. The had more recruits and now could outfit them.
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In her royal apartments on her dreadnought, Princess Ardolla grinned at the messenger who brought her the news. "The force Huer sent to subdue the Kamakura rebellion returned weaponless and naked?" she asked.
"They had briefs on, but their weapons, armor and clothing had been taken away from them, Princess." the man explained. "According to our man on the ground, Buck Rogers had warned against sending the force. He is also connected to this Kathy Chang. The name of Aono has also been associated with these rebels. From what we know, Kamakura is now completely separate from New Chicago."
"So these rebels had mercy on the men from Chicago," Adrolla said in a musing tone.
General Cain stepped up and said, "Princess, sending Chicago's fighting men back naked and unhurt was not an act of mercy. It was the worst insult a warrior, or their leaders can receive. Instead of killing or wounding them, those rebels showed New Chicago that their forces are not even worth fighting. That the human forces in New Chicago are so far below them, that the rebels refuse to take them seriously. It is a hard slap in the face to Huer and the entire Earth defense force."
Her face brightening into a smile, Ardolla said, "We must offer these rebels our assistance. Have they made another entry into the Earth's defense field?"
"Not that we have detected, Princess," Cain said. "At the moment, it appears the rebel forces are building something on the ground. Their area is active, but due to the clouding affect of the energy shied, our optical scanners cannot decipher exactly what they are doing."
Princess Adrolla saw an opportunity here. "I don't care what it takes. Get one of our people to those rebels. Let them know they have our full support and assistance as we are able."
"Right away, Princess," Cain said with a bow.
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Tsukune monitored their progress. The city of New Kamakura was back in operation, and two other above ground cities were going up. The news showed the living conditions down in the tunnel and caves. People in the city were eager to do what they could to help those who were struggling. Instead of just doing as the computers told them as they had been doing, the city people were learning and taking initiative.
Kokoa was well known now for her efforts. A 'Shuzen' cult had even formed to assist Kokoa with her needs. Basically, several young men agreed to be her male harem that took care of her quarters and acted as her blood bank. Tsukune and Moka also got their share of idol worshipers. Tsukune didn't let these people get to his head, and Moka made sure Kokoa didn't either.
One thing that was irritating Tsukune was the fact that New Chicago wouldn't even talk to them. Other than sending a plane full of men to try and retake control, New Chicago ignored Japan. Several times, Tsukune sent radio messages to try to open a discussion. Not one was answered. The planes in Kamakura only had one other airport to land at. There was a landing field about where Kyoto used to be. It was only a straight section of old highway, but light planes and VTOL craft could land and take off there. That made New Kyoto the prime place for building another above ground city. Kokoa also had several thousand people there who needed assistance.
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Returning to their castle, Moka visited a place that had been not been visited since Toujo Ruby died. After Ruby's funeral pyre, her rooms were cleaned, everything put in place, then the doors were shut and locked. Out of respect for the powerful witch, no one had entered what many saw as a sacred place.
Standing before the oak door that the red paint on it had faded away on, the straps of iron brown with rust, Moka inserted the skeleton key. The lock turned hard. Moka had to with it back and forth to get the internals to move, With a soft grinding sound, she coaxed the lock to open. Carefully, she pushed the door open with a squeak of hinges.
Opening the door just enough to slip in, Moka entered the dark room. "Please excuse my intrusion," she said to the room where Ruby had performed her magic. Everything was covered on a layer of dust. To the left, the table bore spell books on the sides, candles at the front corners. Ruby's wand lay on the center of the table. Ruby's wooden chair was behind the table. Behind that, the shelves containing nearly piled scrolls and jars of dried our spell components stood against the way. Things here were left as Ruby had instructed Moka in her last wishes.
"Flammar." Moka intoned.
The candles on the table burst into flame, as did the ones in the tarnished silver sconces on the walls, lighting the room.
Moka turned to the urn on the floor that sat in the middle of the six foot diameter magic circle. Inside that urn were Ruby's ashes. Moka knelt by the urn and removed the cap, laying it beside the Urn. Moka then used a fingernail to slit her wrist and let her blood drip down unto the urn.
"Ruby, my friend, we have dire need," Moka said firmly. "Tsukune needs you. Everyone needs you."
When smoke began to flow up out of the urn to creep down the sides of the urn, Moka stood. Sealing her wound with a lick, Moka went over to the table and picked up Ruby's wand. The smoke now billowing out of the urn spread to cover the Magic circle, but did not go beyond. Slowly, it became thicker and rose up, contained within the magic circle. Moka laid the wand in the thickening smoke.
"Ruby, I call on you to return to us. Our need is dire," Moka intoned.
The smoke with the circle was now a foot deep, obscuring the floor. Instead of a dull gray, it glowed with a red light. In the center, a dark form rose up. Ruby, as she looked in her prime, with her dark hair and waist length pigtails and wearing her black leather bustier and long wool skirt, her wand in hand, rose to stand. As she rose up, the smoke dissipated. Her dark eyes opened. She hast Moka a gentle smile.
"Hello, Moka. It as been a long time," Ruby said.
Moka bowed. "It has, our court witch. I would not have disturbed you, except we have dire need."
Ruby drifted forward she tipped her head slightly. "The world has changed, and not for the better. There is a taint to the air and the land."
"Yes, and the people suffer."
Drifting over to Moka, Ruby clasped her hand. "Take heart, dear one. We shall make it right again."
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Buck and Wilma were once again in Dr. Huer's Office. Dr. Huer wore a worried look. Standing behind his desk, he said, "Thank you for coming. The situation in Japan is becoming worse. One of the atmosphere control stations has stopped operating. Investigating the cause, it has been found that the power cells for that station are no longer present."
"Someone stole your generator?" Buck asked.
"The thermal power cells are in place," Huer said, sounding frustrated, "But the power is being re-routed. An overfly shows another city is being built, the power is being rerouted there. This could throw the entire atmospheric temperature control system out of balance."
Dr. Theopolis stated, "Without that station, the air currents from farther north will move more to the south and New Chicago may experience colder temperatures, even below the freezing point of water. This is a very serious situation."
Buck chuckled. "Snow in Chicago, who would have ever guessed," he said with a smirk.
"Buck, this is serious, the climate is in danger," Dr. Theopolis stated.
Buck shook his head. "I know this was before your time, but Chicago used to get dumped on every year. Single storms of two or three feet of snow was not uncommon in the wintertime. It's not the climate that is in danger, it's your control of the climate that's in danger. Every year, winter came, we dealt with it. It got cold all right, very cold with lots of wind and snow. In the spring it warmed up."
"Temperatures below the freezing point of water are not healthy for humans," Dr. Theopolis stated.
"We had our own countermeasures. They were called 'winter coats'. Ice skating was fun, so was watching Hockey, a game played on ice. Just because the weather gets cold is not the end of the world." Buck countered.
"Cold is not ideal. That atmosphere control station must be returned to service," Dr. Theopolis stated.
"So you're going to make another power plant?" Buck asked.
"We need to restore the power flow back to normal," Dr. Theopolis stated. "Colonel Deering will provide air cover with her fighters while a service crew reroutes power back to the atmospheric control station. Once that is done, a guard will be posted to prevent any further interference."
"Bad idea," Buck told him. "You go shooting at those people, you do realize they will retaliate. Things like this start wars."
"That is our Atmosphere control station," Dr. Theopolis stated.
"On their land," Buck countered. "I though we had already established it was a bad idea to fight the Aonos, or don't you remember our police force coming back naked?"
"This rebellion must be shown that we are superior. Our way is superior," Dr. Theopolis replied. "Dr. Huer, assemble the required teams to restore power to than atmosphere control station."
"I will see to it," Dr. Huer replied. "Wilma, we will need four fighters to escort the repair crews."
"Yes, Sir," Wilma said obediently.
"Doc, don't do it," Buck warned.
Dr. Huer cast Buck a sad gaze and said, "You don't have to go, but we do need that station back in operation."
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The city of New Hawaii on the Big Island was a support city for New Chicago, processing volcanic activity for power. Wireless electricity was transmitted from the large thermal power plants, and was one of the defense grid's main power suppliers, as well as supplying power to many of the atmospheric control stations. Being mid-pacific, it was also a transportation hub and had a large air and space port for transport ships. They were also a major food producer, with two islands dedicated to growing produce.
Tsukune had gathered information on New Hawaii. One of the things that was needed was enough food. Redistribution was helping, but until the new farms were producing, there wasn't enough.
Meeting with Ruby, Tsukune got a big reunion hug from the witch. Moka chose to ignore the long kiss they shared. After all, this was Ruby so it was fine.
Ruby scried out the Hawaiian islands and picked one of the smaller islands that was already covered with farms. Noting ripe fields, she conjured a flight of crows and sent them through a portal to pick see bearing fruit and vegetables. Bulk wise, the crows only brought a few bushel baskets. They were enough to seed the new fields in Kyoto. A wave of her wand and the seeds grew into plants ready to harvest. This gave Japan more food and an greater variety as well. They now had pineapples.
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While Ruby worked to solve the food shortage, Kokoa found the lights went out and power died in the warehouse she was visiting in Kyoto.
"Hey! Who turned the lights out?" Kokoa asked, irritated.
"We have no power coming in," a man called back. "The electricians are working on it."
A succubus flew in from outside. "Kokoa, you in here?"
"Yeah, what's gong on?"
"Before the radar died, the operator saw a bunch of blips go to that power generation station we're tapping. We think they're stealing their power back."
"SO not happening!" Kokoa growled. "Get all the yokai together, and our electricians. Get me Tsukune on the radio. We're going to teach them a lesson!"
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Wilma's task force landed at the Atmosphere control station pad with no interference. She kept one fighter in the air for a CAP patrol, everyone else landed. Going in she had the men present arrested and gathered into holding while her electricians reroute power to where it was suppose to go. Walking over to Buck, who was watching outside, she said, "I asked Dr. Huer about our prisoners, he said of bring them."
"Why?"
"They will be charged with treason then banned to the wastelands," Wilma told him.
"Wilma," Buck said evenly, "I strongly recommend you let them go."
"Buck, these people need to be taught a lesson," Wilma said firmly.
"It's us that will be taught a lesson," Buck told her. "You do remember going to that castle, don't you? Don't you think the Aono's will be a little upset about hauling their men off for treason? We also just turned one of their cities dark. I'm sure they will not be happy about that. The Aono's are vampires, and they have a low level of humor."
"Buck, we can't let them do as they want. This station was put in place by the Computer leaders. It belongs to New Chicago."
Rubbing the bridge of his nose, Buck let out a huff and said, "Wilma … computers don't rule here any more. The Aonos do. We should finish up and get out of here before they arrive. That is, unless you want your ass kicked again."
"Too late."
Wilma and Buck turned to see Kokoa standing with her hands on her hips, several other young women behind her.
Kokoa pointed to one side, "Momo, go collect the men they brought. Feel free to be creative if they resist. Inari, get our guys back to work."
Wilma whipped out her blaster. Before she could even point it, Kokoa grabbed it then grabbed the back of Wilma's uniform and tossed her against the wall. Wilma hit the wall and fell limp. "Don't move," she told Buck, then raced off.
Buck walked over to Wilma and checked her pulse, she was breathing also. "Are you going to have a headache when you wake up.
It didn't take long for power to restored to the city. With the electricians from New Chicago being Charmed, they helped restore power. The New Chicago guard force and pilots were also Charmed and gathered into the hanger. Wilma came around to find them all standing in a group, a pair of winged blue headed women bracketing the doorway.
"What happened?" she asked with a wince and rubbed her head.
Buck cleared his throat and said, "Well after you tried to draw on Kokoa, she threw you against the wall, then disarmed and collected up our people here. Right now we're being held in this room and power has been restored to the city. By the way, the CAP fighter landed, she's over there."
Wilma looked over to see the pilot on the floor unconscious.
Kokoa walked in, followed by Tsukune. "This is them," she said. "Dungeon?"
Tsukune eyed the group. "Which of you is the leader?" he asked evenly.
"I am," Wilma said sternly. "You are interfering with official business and stealing power from the Earth Defense Directorate. You will release us or you will be charged with treason!"
Tsukune cast her a brief smile. "Do what you feel is necessary. One thing you will not do, is disrupt what we do here in Japan. This is our country, not yours. I do believe this is the second time you have come to where you are not wanted." Walking closer, he added, "Once, can be forgiven as ignorance. Twice cannot. You will be punished. If you return again, the punishment will be more severe."
"You have no right to do anything!" Wilma blasted at him. "You touch any one of us and you will be charged with assault!"
"Wilma, you're not helping yourself," Buck sang.
Tsukune moved in a blur, spun Wilma around, ripped the back of her pants open, knelt down, put her across his knee and pinned her in place. He then spanked her in hard slaps. Wilma screamed, cried and failed, trying to get free.
Buck bit his lip as he watched Wilma's ass wiggle and turn red from the beating. The other watching looked on in shock and a bit of fear.
"Please STOOOOOP!" Wilma wailed at the top of her lungs.
A couple more slaps to make both cheeks the same dark red tone, then Tsukune dumped her onto the floor. "Kokoa, put her on their transport!" Tsukune turned to Buck as Kokoa took the sobbing Wilma away.
Buck held his hands up in surrender. "I was against coming here from the beginning."
"Yes, Kokoa told me that," Tsukune agreed. "You will carry back a message to those computers in Chicago. Nothing here is theirs any longer. If there are any further attempts to disrupt what my people do, there will be much more severe consequences that corporal punishment. I have tried to be civil, they turn a deaf ear and still seek to control us. That will not be allowed. You will all leave on your transport."
Buck asked, "What about the fighters we brought?"
"You will all leave on your transport," Tsukune stated.
Wilma crawled into a seat and pulled her ripped pants up over her burning ass. She wanted to sit down and found it too painful. Tears in her eyes, she was forced to stand, even though it was sore to do so. She noted their men being escorted back on. The electricians didn't want to leave, they pleaded to stay to be beside Momo, going so far as dropping to their knees in their please to stay. She also noticed the other pilots were in the transport too. She cast a watery, questioning gaze at Buck.
Buck shrugged. "Mr. Aono said the fighters are staying here. Only the transport is allowed to leave."
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Princess Ardolla was giddy with the latest news from Earth. "This Aono is treating the Earth Defense Directorate like they were children? He really sent Colonel Deering back to New Chicago after spanking her bare ass?"
"He did," General Cain said, also enjoying the news. "Again, he does not take them seriously as an enemy. Only an annoyance. I have also gotten news that our man will be taking part on a mission to slip into the Japan area where this Aono is. His orders are to assist Aono and assured him that the Draconian Empire is his friend. If we can make a pact with Aono, it would be very helpful if you would entertain an audience with him, Princess."
"I would be happy to. I want to meet this man," she said, then asked, " Is there any word on how Aono and Captain Rogers react?"
"From way I know, Captain Rogers has talked to him a couple times. He even brought Aono's message back from Japan and insisted that Huer and his computers listen to Aono and stop trying to control things in Japan."
Princess Ardolla smiled broadly. If they could get an alliance with this Aono, not only might she he able to secure Earth as part of the Empire, but also get Captain Rogers assigned as her Earth emissary. Things were looking up due to this Aono.