Title: Warnings
Author: Sofipitch
Series: manga/brotherhood
Word Count: 250
Rating: Gish?
Characters: Martel
Summary:The military wasn't funding them.
Warnings: none
A/N: Just incase anyone doesn't remember, Martel was injured a bombing incident which led her to the laboratories where she was experimented on. Also, if there is anything that isn't correct in this, please let me know. I'm no military expert but I don't want to use that as an excuse and go around making mistakes.
They had known of the possibility of bombs ahead of time. In fact, the entire mission had been planned around it. She and the Major General had planned a route to avoid all possible places that might contain bombs. Based on past accidents and discoveries, they were able to map a route that ran right through some slums that were surprisingly close to the fort they planned on subjugating. From past interacting with the Aerugonian military, they knew that Aerugo would never endanger the lives of common citizens on the battlefield front.
Why there would be a base very practically next to the fort was beyond them. Their base didn't have the funding to hire spies and other tools to collect that information because all money was going to help the Ishvalan Civil War and the boarder war with Drachma. Very little money went to help their cause on the Aerugonian battle front. It was much harder to keep tabs on their enemy due to this, but Martel believed this disadvantage would only fortify her troops effort in battle.
"Captain," Martel turned around to face the soldier addressing her. "We are approaching the village. Do we have permission to proceed?"
She nodded. "Permission granted. Continue on," she dismissed him.
They continued on into the village with thoughts of victory and winning the upcoming battle. The words "war hero" echoed in all the young soldiers minds. If only they had known beforehand that the slums they were entering had been evacuated just the day before.