Previously on Gate thus the Philippine-America Expedition Force Fought there! (Narrated by Mad Gun)
*Manila Medieval Massacre*
Thomas: I got rejected from a job interview that's my superhero origin...
Random Citizen: Oh no terrorists are attacking!
Terrorist/Imperial Soldier: We are here to destroy America! For ISIS!
Random Citizen: Wrong country sh*t for brains!
Thomas: Why? Why is this happening? Is it punishment for all the sins we committed? The sins we have forgotten? Or is this a catalyst of change? Change we desperately need?
Ricardo Dalisay: Hey! We don't have time to be Emo! Keep shooting you fool! Aim at the terrorists!
*One show of FREEDOM later*
Terrorist/Imperial Soldiers: Ahh! The power of freedom its too strong!
*Meanwhile at the congress*
Philippine President: (Bad words)
American President: I say we build a giant wall to stop this immigrants from entering our world...
North Korea: Nuke America!
Philippine President: (A lot more Bad Words)
American President: Hmm... That could work Mr. Philippine President we could send an expedition force through the Gate then have them explore the Unknown World and after they have shown what FREEDOM looks like from these savages we reconsider our options. Also America do get 68% of any minerals we can get from the Unknown regions right?
Philippine President: (A lot more more Bad Words)
North Korea: No America!
American President: Why the F_cK is North Korea here?!
North Korea: Boo America!
*Battle at Alnus Hill*
Mad Gun: Let's show this terrorists the power of justice, liberty and freedom!
PAEF Soldier #1: My gun fires 487 freedoms for minute!
PAEF Soldier #2: My tanks blast shells of pure justice!
PAEF Soldier #3: My liberty can shot at 500 meters!
Thomas: Why? Why do we fight? Or rather they are enemies so eager to fight us? Do they think of us as invaders? Warmongers? Did we become the same monsters we fear? The same monsters we hate? Are we the villains in the story? Are we the terrorist?
Mad Gun: You! Shinji Ikari get into the Robot- I mean got into the battlefield and stop being such an emotional and complicated anime character and use your FREEDOM!
Date: October 5, 20XX
I never expected that it will come to this. My heart beats as it will burst. I can only hope that this torture will end. The warrior bunnies I clearly underestimated them.
"I never felt my pants to tight before!" I literally screamed mentally to myself. Cursing the big bulge in my pants hidden thanks to the rifle I held in my arm.
I promised them that we will give them a home, food and thankfully decent clothes but I curse my luck and Mad Gun to escort them here in our base. But why does it have to be me to teach them out the undies of women?! Then I remembered there have none came so far.
"Incredible such softness, such durability and such flexibility, no wonder you wants us to wear this Sir Thomas these panties you call are like pants for women..." I can't believe this... I can't believe it even more I'm the one teaching them.
"I'm going try them now!" A warrior bunny then begun to strip her clothes. Knowing if I stay any longer my sanity and my poor stick will be can't handle further I decided to leave them now or risk them bearing bent.
"Remember they are underwear for a reason now please excuse me I need to go to back to my tent."
"Wait Sir Thomas we don't know how to wear these bra you call them." I simply ignored their call walking hastily to my tent and hiding the embarrassment that are causing me discomfort. Looking down as I feel the safety and privacy of the insides of my tent I look down giving a clear statement of what I have discovered.
"Well at least I'm sure now I'm not gay."
The warrior bunnies are happy that finally in their travels that they meet acquaintances that both treated them equally and showed both respect and compassion for them.
Its just a big shame that the some men here in Alnus Base had different ways of showing it... Today I saw PAEF soldier invited a warrior bunny inside his tent for some reason I do want to know. Tyuule reassured me that as long as we don't force them into whatever lewd fantasies we have in our minds the PAEF can do whatever they want with them... Her statement got me extremely worried sometimes women let oppressive men have their way with them in exchange for food and shelter, no matter what the man wants... Anyhow the warrior bunnies became fond of our equipment, vehicles and mostly us. I saw Tyuule asking many questions about our tanks and military vehicles... To her surprise and amazement she found out that it only took five Type 75 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer, three Special Terrain Type 74 and seven M2HB Browning to defeat the combined forces of the Allied Army... Well that and hundreds of tanks shells and thousands of bullets.
Still we the PAEF must be certain that we can trust the warrior bunnies and make sure they are not spies of the enemy, however what may. Luckily with our modern technology and the use of polygraph tests we became certain that Tyuule and her warrior bunnies are in our side and upon seeing their incredible speed and fighting capabilities I prefer it that way...
Tyuule seem to be fascinated to me most she always call me Sir or Knight but I always assure her that calling me by my name Thomas is fine. Its strange really why does I'm the only one she calls that way...
Speaking of the Bunny Queen I interrogated her personally the moment we brought her along with the rest of her warrior bunnies... Her tale... the tale of her people had brought me and many of us PAEF soldiers to tears...
Tyuule said to us that many years before we came here to the Unknown Region, the Empire ruled the majority of the lands here in this world... The Empire is ruled by a long line of Emperors with Emperor Molt being the current Emperor. She also told us that the Empire had occupied the land by invading and crushing rival lands and government with wars, bullying vassal states and by enslaving many of the humanoid tribes in the Unknown Region... Tyuule told us about her clan, the Warrior Bunnies. They are as how the Empire and many other kind see them as a vile clan who's debauchery is well know... For most part it may have bits of truth. But when she told us about the how the Empire invaded her lands did she let her tears fell... It was 3 year before we the PAEF came that the Empire launched a vicious and bloody war against them with the sole intention of collecting slaves for the Empire's slave labor... The warrior bunnies fought with all their might but despite having superior skills and speed they have no match with the Empire's overwhelming numbers... The war caused many deaths on both sides but only the Empire have the means to replace any soldiers that got killed... Then when the time is grimmer than ever Prince Zorzal the oldest son of Emperor Molt announced a truce that will end the war... Knowing that if they continue the war against an enemy whose numbers are so massive will only lead to defeat or worse genocide Tyuule agreed... And it was the beginning of the end for them... The moment Tyuule and her sisters came to Sadera, the Empire's capital city, they got ambushed by thousands of Imperial soldiers her sisters sacrificed themselves for her to escape and warn the rest of her tribes of the monster prince's treachery... She ran and ran for days with hope that she can reach her tribes... But she was too late for the Empire had already attacked her tribe while she is away... To her horror the Empire had attacked the rest of her tribe killing the majority of her clan and enslaving the rest... Tyuule was able to save at only five warrior bunnies during her travels... There she and the remnants of her army had ventured to many cities trying to liberate the enslaved members of her clan... Unfortunately almost all of them ended up in Sadera, as Zorzal's and many nobles's personal sex slave... The rest is put to hard labor in Telta, the second largest city of the Empire, to mine minerals until they die of exhaustion... Saving them was second to impossible for the reason Sadera is heavily fortified with thousands of soldiers in every corner and Telta is no different... Tyuule said to us the Empire cares nothing for their citizens and soldiers, upon seeing thousands of enemies rush to the barrels of our guns I'm not surprise on Tyuule's view on the Empire... Tyuule and those who she did save lived as vagabonds in the Empire's land sometimes she steals and kills just for them to survive, in worst cases they sell their body for 'services' all for the reason not to die from starvation... Then they heard an invincible army in the hills of Alnus who managed to kills thousands of Imperial soldiers and Nobles alike within a few days... At first they plan to simply loot the corpes of the allied army after all the Nobles and Kings do always carry gold but they underestimated the power and surveillance of the PAEF thus we all end up in this predicament.
I can see in Tyuule's eyes beyond her tears and sadness are a great ray of hope and strength and it was all because of us... It's all thanks to us... We are the force, in her words, that will burn the Empire to the ground and liberate the oppress people of the Unknown Region...
The person I rescued during the night attack finally woke up. The doctors that healed him had removed all the shrapnel making his recovery assured. But now he must answer our questions. Mad Gun volunteered to interrogate the prisoner personally and from what I heard from the PAEF Americans soldiers that Mad Gun is the best one they got when it comes to forcing a terrorist and terrorist alike to talk. Usually relying on inhumane torture methods to spill all their secrets... I do pray it does not comes to that.
The doctors insist that we came to talk to him immediately despite the worry of the doctors against their wishes the injured soldier said that he can't take the suspense of waiting and guessing what we had in mind for him...
There I came with Mad Gun, I do believe he is good guy but he does have a bad habit of taking things to the extreme... We entered the tent where the prisoner is brought there I can see his stoic expression looking at us like the eyes of a hawk.
"Hello King Sh*t Face my name is Mad Gun and that is Phil... We'll we have tons of things to do so lets sh*t on the pleasantries and get right on to it... You see we the PAEF wants to know this evil Empire's operations."
I see the man I saved face unchanging, expression makes it clear he does not want to talk.
"I am King Duran of Elbe I am sent here along with the Empire's vassal states to push the invaders back."
"I did not asked your name, what I want to know what else you have planned. And if not I have Bad Boy here to make you talk."
My heart raced fiercely the moment I saw Mad Gun lifted a car battery which have to wires connected to it beneath the table. The car battery is stained with dried blood which I theorize came from being used for interrogation long before.
"This is what we call Bad Boy it will shock you primates with a force of lightning,and I'm sure you dont want lightning hitting your crotch." I involuntarily held my crotch after Mad Gun finished his sentence... It seems the person most scared in the room is me.
King Duran took a deep breath followed by his eyes closing. He opened them a moment sooner looking at us directly... I could see it the determination, the fierce courage that can not be swayed.
"You may beat me, you may humiliate me and you may torture me with your magic... But you'll never make me betray my allies." I could see it as King Duran speak such words.
"Let's see how brave you are after I roast your eggs old man."
"Luckily for you I no longer considers the Empire as my ally... You see I can see it now, the Empire sent us here knowing how powerful you are... That devious Molt sent us here knowing we will die just so he can be sure none of us will be strong enough to rebel against his rule..."
"This Emperor, he send you here to die just to make sure you will not take over?" As much as impractical and immoral this speculation, my knowledge courtesy of Tyuule assured on what King Duran said...
Such a wasteful and faulty ploy yet if you consider the Unknown Region's way of life; kill, conquer, enslave and violate, it all makes sense...
The Empire send these poor souls to die by our hands all just to quell any possible rebellion... All those life lost because of that... Because of them
"It's clear isn't? If that blasted Emperor wanted to help us he would have send any available soldiers he had from Sadera to Telta from Italica to Marais so he can make an army of 85,000 men that and along with us a 100,000 legion of men and beast to annihilate you but instead Molt had us and us alone to throw ourselves into your magic..."
"He had that many men?" The idea never crossed my mind before.
"The Emperor already had lost 60% of his current military force by foolishly sending them through the gate and as you see none of them returned." My thought of the Manila Medieval Massacre filed my mind...
"Guess I don't need this Bad Boy, shame if you refuses to cooperate I would have used the Titanium Nutcracker." I did not like the sound of that...
For most part King Duran told us everything he knows... From him we learned that Italica is the Empire's trade capital if we conquered it we can literally starve the Empire by cutting 30% of its food and folage, he also told us the routes to get to Sadera where the Empire's capital is but most of all he told us thay the true enemy is the Empire... I may not have the rights to judge him or his words but as he told us his tale and aid us so eagerly... I can say he hates the Empire right from the beginning... How can such government work like this? How can it continue to exist like this? Again my questions will have to wait we still have many more duties to do and gathering information is the first priority...
Date: October 9, 20XX
Location: Alnus Base
Time for the hardest part of being PAEF to commence and that is to explore the unknown region. Scouting this mysterious and dangerous land is gonna be a difficult. For all we know there could be feral giants, viscous monsters, swarms of monstrous beast waiting just to attack us any moment after we leave the safety of our base in Alnus and what did you know Tyuule confirmed my suspicion of the monster that do exist here in the Unknown Region. Luckily minotours can only be found at the eastern part of the Unknown region near Arrun, while Orges and the black dog are located at the northern part of the Empire namely Telta. Tyuule described ogres are viscous giant humanoids who are the size of 5 men and had enormous strength equivalent to 50 men, just thinking of the said behemoth frightens me. Luckily for us ogres are slow as sh*t and dumb as f ck. Next on the list is a minotours a half man half bull giant which is almost as big but twice as strong and three times faster compared to an ogre... These minotours had a reputation to rip their victim's clothes off before eating them and raping any women unfortunate enough to be caught by one... Then there's the black dog, a dog like creature who is as big as a tiger... These animals attack in swarms that of a hundred and are known in the Northern Lands to decimate unguarded villages...
But we are not out of the fire yet Tyuule said to us that if we are incredibly unlucky we might encounter a fully grown fire dragon... This fire dragon is different from what the wyverns we been shooting all this time. A fire dragon is 5 times bigger and breaths fire what's worse is that no known weapon or magic that can damage the said beast, well no known medieval weapon I suppose...
I am very grateful for Tyuule's assistance yet all she ask is from us is that we liberate the warrior bunnies from the Empire's clutches and for the Empire to burn... I can only assure her of the first one...
With that in mind a scout team is on order unfortunately we the PAEF is lacking when it comes to manpower so we can only have three to five groups of PAEF soldiers to scout the lands and gather information... Taking what Tyuule said to us into consideration many of my comrades had chosen manual labor and supervising of our fortification and full establishment of our base... Can't blame them having an airfield will surely help us immensely...
Our superiors asked for a team of volunteers to participate our mission is to gather information around the Alnus base and also find the 20,000 medieval soldiers who managed to flee from the Battle of Alnus Hill which thanks to our sky drone surveillance had estimated who flee far away and if our suspicions are true then they are heading to Italica...
King Duran said Italica is the Empire's trade capital so why in the world would they go or retreat there... Could they be regrouping to attack us again? Maybe... But one thing is certain I volunteered myself to join and would you believe it Mad Gun and Tyuule later joined me... Also if all thing go as planned we can pressure this empire into submission.
Our drones had a limit to survey the two kilometer radius around Alnus which means we have to explore the rest of the Unknown Region personally. Conveniently for us our superiors had allowed us to use a US High mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle or HMMWV for short. This military grade ride had a payload capacity of 1500 kilograms and can carry up to nine men. Along with the ride we are authorized to carry along two Howa Type 64 with 10 magazines filled with 7.62 X 51mm Nato rounds complete with an iron telescopic sights, a 3 loaded pistols with spare rounds and a loaded Panzerfaust with 2 spare 110mm cartilage warhead just in case we run into any monsters that Tyuule told us about...
Intelligence and information sure are very valuable in our mission so I tried to remember all the things Tyuule told me about. Good thing that our mission is to locate the remnants of the Allied Army whom we fought during the Battle of Alnus Hill and not fight them we have to stay sharp to last even a day here...
Mad Gun took the wheel as my eyes slowly drift away from our base into the great fields there I feel a combined mix of anxiety and fear. But beneath all that I feel a another emotion...hope... hope for peace...
Remembering what Tyuule told us as we leave the safety of our base that there it would be most like for the remnants of the vassal army to either go back to their respective lands or retreat to Italica to rebuild their forces. If what Tyuule said is right then that's our destination but we can't just explore carelessly either we have to plan out our trip and luckily for us Tyuule from her and her warrior bunnies days of being a vagabonds had deduced the routes taken by many merchants. As her words describe it having some seductive hips and losse lips can work wonders, whatever that means... We have two options either we ride the route to the village of Coda then ride the road to Italica and be in the open eyes of villagers in the land of the Empire or ride through the forest of Koan away from any possible scouts or spies of the enemy. Tyuule suggests the forest of Koan there she spoke of a large tribe of elves living together shaping the forest into a settlement for many like their kind to live in. Still like always its never easy, Tyuule also told us that the elves had a deep seated hatred for humans because the Arran incident... The Arran incident happened a hundred or more years ago where little to no known details is said as only the elves knows of the history while the one's responsible for it mysterious like died... Till then no information is spoke of the said tragedy since the elves are very elusive beings and rarely communicate with humans... The Arran Incident I have a gut feeling that its something so horrible no being had the heart to tell it...
Date: October 10, 20XX
Location: Koan Forest
The forest of Koan is suprisingly easy to traverse to. The forest floor itself is flat enough to travel and the trees are far apart enough for our vehicle to fit through... I wonder is this made so humans can easily travel to or is this a trap to lure us in the open for ambush? Whatever reason we can't leave the HMMWV like this nor can we walk on foot to Italica or even back to base taking this route is the one we forest seems quiet for a land filled with trees and wildlife but any animals we came across quickly flee at the sight of our HMMWV...
A shimmering glow caught my attention as we ride through the jungle. I volunteered to inspect the said glow and exited the vehicle Tyuule is close to me as I came close to the source. There I saw an imperial armor scattered in a site and by the looks of it the said armor is riddled it holes made by arrows fired in a high velocity. To do so needs a high grade bow or a being who can pull the string in such strength. Knowing the primitive weapons of the Unknown Region I suspect the latter.
"There's been a fight here...if what I think is true these ssholes are deserters of the Vassal Army after discovering how powerful the PAEF are they choose to become bandits and maruaders instead pillaging villages with the intent of robbing and killing the men and violating the women." Tyuule said as she kicked the skeletal remains of a soldier
"If that's true why are they in the forest? Should they attacking in the road or towns not in a forest?"
"No the other villages might have been attacked already so the only settlement left here is the one created by the elves and seeing how the number of arrows that littered the place we can clearly say that the elves doesn't like trespassers in their property."
"The more reason for us to move."
And move we shall, after that investigation we found out that there are more bandits camps here in the forest with five in total and dozens of human corpses scattered around their weapons untouched while their armor pierced by multiple arrows.
Then we saw smoke. If the saying is correct that if there are smoke there's fire we must investigate the cause of it. Tyuule warned us that it could either be dreaded fire dragon, the elf settlement, a bandit camp or the remnants of the enemies from the battle of Alnus Hill. What we may discover from our search we do hope we can take it. Driving silently we got near enough to spy on the source of the smoke, there using our binoculars we see a large camp of what I estimate to be one hundred fifty of the remnants vassal army. Its still too small for the main force or they could be just a small part of the vassal army who went separate ways. Either way we have to do something about them. Should we face them? Call for reinforcements? Or leave them be? I pondered as the options we have.
"Let me go!" My thoughts are put to a halt as we heard a scream coming from the camp. There I saw a female elf carried in chains by five vassal soldiers into a tree. The elf was almost had a appearance of a teenager dressed in a leaf battle attire and filled with bruises in her body and as I see the sickening smiles of the soldiers I already know what devilish actions they gonna do to her.
And no way we gonna let that happen... No way... There the bandits tied the female elf to a tree using a long rope to bind her to it. I could hear their sickening laughter from the distance.
With haste my hands grabbed Howa Type 64 turning off the safety mechanism within the gun. Mad Gun grabbed a loaded Panzerfaust aiming at the center tent of the camp. Our captain Mad Gun looked at me with a stern impression and rage filled eyes but his hate comes from the enemy and we know it so.
"We can't let these ssholes have their dirty sticks poking that poor women! We the bringer of justice! We the PAEF will stop them understood Phil?"
"Sir yes sir."
"Good this is the plan I will shoot a payload of pure justice from this Panzerfaust hitting the center of the camp away from the civilian elf creating a diversion while you Phil came guns blazing and draw their attention to me as I ready my assault rifle and we bring them down and lastly you Queeny Bunny will go around the camp and rescue the hostage. Any questions?"
"No sir."
"Good let's show these terrorists what justice looks likes!"
There I positioned myself near the front of the camp using the lush green bushes as cover, there I can see five soldiers with no armor guard the entrance. Now I wait ready for the explosion then the rescue.
"Eat this you punks!"
My ears stung as Captain Mad Gun let out a battle cry of pure fury then aiming the Panzerfaust directly at the enemy. Within a second later the battle cry is quickly followed by a gush of sound very similar to a gush of an airplane taking off and with another moment a powerful blast of explosion that can be heard from the entire forest followed after.
The bandit camp quickly fell into chaos as the disorganised medieval men either run away from the flaming tent while others grab a wooden pail and splash water to the fire.
The guards turned their backs at me to see the damage our explosive distraction caused and it was all the time I need.
I let out a hail of bullets at the bandits dozens quickly drop dead at the rapid fire of my gun. Soldiers soon regain their composure and grabbed any weapons they can find rushing to my location. Turning tails my feet carry me to Mad Gun where I can see he brought out a rifle.
"Face freedom!"
Another barrage of gun fire rain. This time within minutes the hundred of soldiers quickly became only a dozen with the rest fleeing from our modern might. Some soldiers intelligent enough used the trees as shields to block our bullets but it was all for nothing as our 7.62 X 51mm NATO rounds can pierce the trunks of the trees quite easily.
Both me and Mad Gun smiled after the battle. We won again but looking at the carnage I ponder for how long.
"Such! Such power!" The elf spoke her voice cracked as she comprehend what took place. Looking at us I see Tyuule already freed her from the chains that bind her. She slowly stepped in front eying us with a curious intent.
"I heard of an invincible army from the other side of the Gate in Alnus, whose magic is far superior from any seen before and whose might had annihilated the vassal army within days."
"That's us ma'am."
"So to be swift lets make this quick I am Mad Gun, this one is Phil and the warrior bunny is Tyuule."
"I am Sylva daughter of the Elf Elder so what are you gonna do to me? Are you gonna torture me to know the location of our elf village? Or are you gonna turn me into a slave and violate me like the Empire does it its women?" Tears quickly formed from her green emerald eyes. Tyuule said to us that the Empire started the concept that the victor will always decide the fate of the loser. And upon seeing this concept my stomach twisted in disgust. The same concept the Empire lived off for years.
"We are nothing like the Empire. We are the PAEF, an expedition force to bring the Empire to justice."
I brought out a tissue from my bag slowly wiping her tears dry. Her eyes looked to me once again this time I am sure her fear of us is starting to diminish.
"We find the concept of slavery, violence and rape revolting, so please miss we give you our word that we mean no harm."
What she did next surprised me she took her left had and placed it on my chest there a warm green glow came from her palm giving me a warm feeling.
"Hey hands off!" Tyuule push the elf away from me her actions surprised us all.
"Sorry for scaring your friend here, I was checking if you are telling the truth and my magic told me you are."
"You used magic to know if I'm telling the truth?" Amazed was I as my hands involuntarily shook.
"Nigga women in my hood better not learn that voodoo woodoo stuff or divorce in America gonna rocket sky high."
"So your the invincible army everyone is talking about? Never thought your kind of humans who have an imaginable power would be so noble and just..."
"We do what is right..."
"For truth, justice and the American way!"
Sylva's eyes drafted to me then to Mad Gun focusing on us.
"May I ask what do you plan to do now?"
"We are going to Italica the Empire's trade capital and bring them to justice."
The elf simply turned around facing the dead bodies of the bandits.
"It may be the best time for an invasion but the worst time to travel as you see after the defeat of the vassal army those who fled had deserted had turned into criminals such as these, criminals who pillage and violate the innocent beings here in our land."
"Let me guess they have already pillaged nearly all the villages in Coda and others near Alnus that they now plan to raid the Elf village?"
"Yes your are right warrior bunny, funny is it not the Empire who had been victorious in all its war made the concept of strength, the idea that those who are strong will rule the weak, that the defeated will follow the strong now that they are losing to a far superior force the same concept they made have been causing chaos and discord from the inside out."
"Ironic... Their own misleading, narcissistic view and arrogance now are coming to bite their behinds and they have their own selves to blame."
"If your planning to travel please do so huge numbers as you can see no one is safe, with the those who are still bounded by honor have all died while the cowards and vile now roam the land."
Tyuule then let out a sinister laugh, a laugh that sends chills to my spine.
"See they are destroying themselves, the very same empire falling into disharmony by their own lust of battle and all the you the other worlders had to do is put a huge dent in their numbers then they will betray the very same fool who send them to die in the first place."
I could see her glee as the mere thought of the Empire's destruction by it's own twisted ideas are the karmanic justice she longed for all this time and upon remembering her experiences with the Empire she have every right to be so.
"I say let them kill each other, let their own stupidity and blood stain the walls of Sadera, let them fight till the Empire is weakened then you and your invincible army Sir Thomas will burn the demented Empire to it's knees and abolish the monarchy who is responsible for all our suffering and so the lands will see you as our new noble leaders!"
Closing my eyes I begin to wonder. Tyuule do have a point letting the enemy into self destruction then attacking them when they at their weakest may save us from any military casualty, also we can be assured of our success. Yet...yet its not right.
"No..." I said
"What?! Sir Thomas please reconsider let these monsters kill themselves all you need to do is had the bandits sieze Italica, let Empire starve and then ready your army for a massive invasion!"
Mad Gun stepped in front of Tyuule. I am sure Mad Gun is trying his best to contain his anger.
"Look here missy! We the PAEF is not an invasion force, we are a expedition force of justice and we all do know what the Empire did to your tribe but remember this lady... we will never let the innocents suffer if let these bandits run amok the one who will suffer the most are the peasants and commoners not the royalties."
There I intervened putting my hand into Tyuule's shoulder I let the two sides anger cool off before speaking once again.
"Mad Gun is right the one who suffers the most are the citizens of the Empire, for now we do what we must and destroy the remnants..."
"But...but you'll destroy the Empire right?"
"We will bring them to justice that is what's certain."
Looking away I saw Tyuule walking towards our vehicle for some reasons she seems upset with what I told her.
"We will bring them to justice that is what's certain."
Again my own words echo in my mind. Maybe justice isn't enough to satisfy the burning fire in her heart, if so I do fear what lengths she will go.
"So Thomas? Mad Gun? What odd names you have but I guess that comes from you belonging to another dimension?"
"Well look miss 'I'm so smart I have undies made of leaves' may we screw any more pleasantries and get to work?" Mad Gun is right we need to go to Italica and we need to go now
"Italica? If your so eager to battle then just travel north from here there is a bride made of stone keep going north and you'll be in Italica soil in less than a week."
"I promise you ma'am we will be there in a day..." My words surprised the elf as her eyes widen in disbelief.
Turning back to our vehicle I can only see Tyuule looking at the distant I can only imagine how disappointed she is... She finally found the seemly perfect ally for revenge and now she found out we prefer to make peace with this Empire, no matter how odd it sounds to them we will continue what we aim for and that's peace.
I was half way to the vehicle when the elf called my name.
"Sir Thomas wait! I am still indebted to you and your army how can this elf help repay the honor and kindness you showed me."
Honor...such a deep word. But here we have little concern for it. We the PAEF prefer peace and justice. My response came as loud and straight as my rifle. As powerful and hot as our guns maybe even more.
"We the PAEF have little care for honor, what we do want is peace and liberty. If this Empire had caused such chaos directly or indirectly we will fix it, but if you really what to repay us."
"What must I do?"
"Tell your fellow elves of us! Tell them that as long as debauchery and injustice we will crush it, spread the words that we will bring peace to this land and most of all! Them of the PAEF!"
Then we drive off to Italica speeding pass to the shock face of the elf that we saved and now we steel our selves to what awaits us in the trade capital of the Empire which is Italica.
"I like the way you talk about us Phil you really know how to ignite the burning justice in these primates hearts." Mad Gun smiled at us possibly happy from our first contact and conversation with a living elf.
"We have to spread and maintain a positive image if are the PAEF and if the people here see us as invaders the empire can easily fool them into becoming cannon fodder and blindly attacking us out of false rage."
"Good thinking Phil, good thinking your words are a bit cliche but yeah we need to be the hero of the Unknown lands..."
Leaving the forest of Koan we speed through the road continuing to the path present to us. There we saw many burned villages in the way. Houses burned into ruins, corpses disfigured in the worst ways possible and the land stained with a crimson stain of sin.
Closing my eyes I can only pray for mercy to come to these innocent souls. Such carnage done by the same soldiers of the Unknown Region.
Our radio rung signaling us for a update in Alnus. Mad Gun answered the radio telling them what happened in the forest of Koan, I bet our superiors will be angry for engaging the enemy but I bet they will understand after they heard of the reason why.
"Bad news Phil they are pissed we go out gun blazing on those bandits in the forest they say if we did any more unauthorised assaults we will be Court Martial."
"Any good news?"
"The airfield in Alnus is 20% finished and five helicopters have already stationed in Alnus ready for any possible deployment."
That's good if the rumors are true the PAEF is authorized to use cobra helicopters in the fight and if those flying machines are as powerful as the movies make them then our fire power just increased exponentially. We then got back to the road hoping we make it in one piece. If more bandits do a3waits us we gonna needs all the luck we can get.
"Italica... whatever awaits us there?"
Review shout:
Perseus12: Bravo nice speech there dude!
SnitchPogi: Many thanks for the information and I'll be listening for future suggestions and comments about my story so I can fix them. Luckily I have fixed the first chapter about Thomas's father.
UNSC Know Your Place: The next chapter is about the Bandit Attack on Italica and yes the meeting of Pina and our modern politicians and let's just say we know how impulsive and passionate our Philippine President is...
T98Kombat: Well yes I'm trying to make my own version of Gate but instead of focusing on the harem and battles I prefer to focus on the past history and atrocities of the Empire and what their delusional and false pride will damage them further.
And lastly I would like to say thank you to all who gave me their reviews and read my story plus I would want to give a big thank you for fimfiction author Ekhidna for giving me many good ideas for my story. Peace guys!