A/N: Okay, I'm back after a long break and have decided that I have taken too long, I will now push for the Albion invasion to be either two or three chapters after this one, meaning it may hopefully be achieved in this inspiration session. Also, I kinda wonder what it would be like if the noble's fate was left to the commoners, they would likely get beheaded or something similar right? There is something I would like to ask all of you at the end so please stick around but for now let's move on to the reviews.
ATP: Sorry, my review was changed by someone.
pet vampires are living on her sweat, others could too.
Karen imprisoned? if so, than her pet vampires are already in USA custody.
kill vampire girl, because she believed that vampires must kill humans.
had P.6A tiger and others kind of weapon.
is Tiffania sister, she become Fouquet to get money for her and 10 or so orphaned
children - which parents was murdered alongside her father and Tiff mother.
is also rightfully Saxe-gotha princess - so send her as spy to Albion, she get her
family/she is good noble - children of her father servants are family to her/ and USA get info.
Sorry, changed again
is rightful heir to Saxe-Gotha in Albion, she has her half-sister Tiff and orphaned
children her as USA agent there, and Mathilda get her family, USA get info.
Mathilda father and his servants was butchered by Albion royalty - so Mathilda has no reason
to love is old-fashioned noble herself, that is why he treat children of her father
servants as family - because for her father, servants was family - that is why they died.
Mathilda is heir to big albion estate,Tiff sister and hate it for infiltration.
Karen has 2 pet vampires, use them to contact others./live on sweat or die/
Changed hate nobles, so you could use her for infiltration.
And she care about father servants children, because her father cared about his servants.
Okay, let me see if I can decipher this…
Interpretation and Response:
Karin's pet vampires are living on her sweat, others could too.
I will keep the sweat part in mind when I finally move onto the Vampiria arc.
Is Karen imprisoned? if so, then her pet vampires are already in USA custody.
Where were her pets though?
She didn't kill vampire girl, because she believed that vampires must kill humans.
So it was like out of pity that Karin spared them and gave them a chance?
Romania had P.6A tiger and other kinds of weapon.
Alright, though did they have anything that would be really dangerous? Like along the lines of the nuclear sub?
Mathilda is Tiffania's sister, she became Fouquet to get money for her sister and 10 or so orphaned children - which parents was murdered alongside her father and Tiff mother.
Didn't know the orphans were linked to her parents, thanks!
She is also rightfully the Saxe-gotha princess - so send her as spy to Albion, she gets her family/she is good noble - children of her father servants are family to her/ and USA get info.
Not too sure about the spying part, will likely let her have her happy ending to be honest.
Mathilda father and his servants was butchered by Albion royalty - so Mathilda has no reason to love them and is an old-fashioned noble herself, that is why she treats children of her father servants as family - because for her father, servants were family - that is why they died.
Now I'm a little confused, are they blood sisters or sworn sisters? If the former then which parent or relative do they share?
Mathilda is heir to big albion estate, Tiff sister and her hate nobles so you can use them for infiltration.
An estate huh? Well I think that's going to be demolished later on but I do wonder what to do with Tiffania...
Karin has 2 pet vampires, use them to contact others, threaten them to live on sweat or die.
This is likely where I'll use infiltration, though suspicion will definitely be a huge issue for them to tackle.
Forgive me if I get any of this wrong but the help you give is really appreciated, I only wish that your reviews wouldn't be so unfortunately altered.
matrience: thanks for the chapter
Your welcome, again.
The Keeper of Worlds: So far the only view I've agreed with is killing the mass murderers, rapists, and etc. Harime is Erimah, creepy factor is found. The issues being reviewed with children is definitely an agreeable nightmare. Still think it would be interesting to see how a civil rights debate NOT funded or organized by a government official would view both what was there and what the government did to them.
Well at least we agree on something lol. To be fair, at least in my head, what US is doing now is more tame compared to similar events in the past. Nobles in the past after a coup were tortured and beheaded. Here they get a second chance, albeit under strict conditions, but they do get a chance to live at least. Removal of their magic is also not entirely bad, of course the commoners could take this opportunity to beat them up now that they are weak but at least they won't be ganged up on purely for their magic.
From a technological standpoint America also did some good, by removing magic from the equation, science in Halk can finally advance faster than what it was at. Sure they gained infinite power out of it but that power will be used in Halk first as a test to see if the stones are stable when overworked outside of lab conditions. Fire stones did become mini nukes when detonated after all so these Fire Rubies could do the same.
Of course, if they knew the truth regarding the money being pulled out from under them it might change some opinions, but ultimately, majority of them were suffering under noble rule all their lives and would have gladly given everything they owned, because it wasn't much to begin with in their terms, to get some form of revenge for all they'd been wronged for.
Also remember to keep in mind that lethal force is only allowed when American lives or the lives of prime targets are threatened, otherwise the soldiers are only cleared to use their tranquilizer weaponry, wouldn't do to kill the commoners they were trying to liberate just because of the nobles forcing them would it?
We could have a mini one at the end of the story if you want, I don't really have much on my hands currently, can't say much about the future though, but I should have time for a little back and forth questioning once it's all over. I think I'll have Emirah do some interrogations just for fun, would be fun to see someone crack from the pressure of her ever present smile and closed eyes.
Pinkpower: " Mr. Putin " did not appear in my previous comment. And, btw, what do you think about adding something like a Skulls Unit from MGSV, but not only with biological weapons but also magic?
Come now, we've been through this, I don't want any super soldiers or something, that just opens a huge can of worms regarding how nobles are simply replaced with stronger American super soldiers rather than the American commoner army with technology. Like I get that they used technology to make super soldiers but the Halkeginians might not understand that.
Putin? You want me to be putin' Mr Putin into the story? I mean, I could squeeze him in Germania or something somehow but what purpose would he serve there? A noble, an activist, a royal or just something else entirely like Russia appears in Halk?
James Ryan: Is there gonna be like a Puppet Government in like Tristain?
I suppose, though there will be complications since the people will be uneasy with the leadership changing so often.
TheManWhoWatches: I wouldn't say picky. I'm just surprised the boss, if it's the robot, has come so early.
It's not definitely the boss, that was just an Omake, as in non-canon to the story. It might end up being the boss unless I find something bigger and badder though, I like big robots and mechas but few have actually suggested any I didn't already think of.
Touhou is Life: While still on the subject of robots, Jaegers from Pacific Rim (great movie btw) such as Gypsy Danger can be used a giant nuclear bomb. Not only that, every Jaeger can hit with force equivalent to a tactical ordnance. Although if you want to stick to realism, scale the Jaegers down and take away their plasma guns and replace it with, I dunno, machine guns.
Ooo, big robots, seems nice, gonna need to actually find out more though. I will add that to the list for now but I like the idea of super powerful America so I'll just think up some bullshit and leave the plasma guns as they are, maybe upgrade them even.
Dur'id the Druid: Wow. You know, I'm American. But even I could smell the stench of stereotyping in this chapter. The 'America' in this story is the America of Fallout that won the nuclear war by destroying all other countries. Little relation to the actual America other than it trying to call itself that.
Well, that's kinda the point, this story is a crack, a joke if you will, it isn't meant to be accurate and super serious… I can get that you are sorta offended by it but I in no way intended to jab at anyone with this, just wanted to write something semi-original in this category since the idea was plaguing my idea ever since I watched Gate. Once again I apologize but do at least sympathize a little with the President, he was elected in a time of strife and is tasked with fixing everything, people get desperate when backed in corners.
Curious Spaniard: Este es un buen fanfiction . Realmente me gustaría ver más, No es que yo estoy forzando a escribir mucho más rápido , sino simplemente ( intentar ) para motivarte. Sí , hablo Inglés , sólo soy un sádico de ver a traducir esto al Traductor de Google . Muahahaha !
After Google Translate: This is a good fanfiction . I would really like to see more, not that I am forced to write much faster, but just ( try ) to motivate you. Yes, I speak English , I'm just a sadist seeing translate this into Google Translate . Muahahaha !
Good motivation, evil sadist.
After Google Translate: Buena motivación, sádico mal.
Este es un buen fanfiction . -Realmente me gustaría ver más, No es que yo estoy forzando a escribir mucho más rápido , sino simplemente ( intentar ) para motivarte. Sí , hablo Inglés , sólo soy un sádico de ver a traducir esto al Traductor de Google . Muahahaha !
-The Insane One
After Google Translate: This is a good fanfiction . I would really like to see more, not that I am forced to write much faster, but just ( try ) to motivate you. Yes, I speak English , I'm just a sadist seeing translate this into Google Translate . Muahahaha !
-The Insane One
That copy paste of evil though…
After Google Translate: Esa goma de la copia del mal, aunque …
TranslatorVerII: Huh, I took the Responsibility to translate "Curious Spaniard"s Review for you (Due to me having NOTHING to do All day):
This is a good fanfiction . I would really like to see more, not that I am forced to write much faster, but just ( try ) to motivate you. Yes, I speak English , I'm just a sadist seeing translate this into Google Translate . Muahahaha !
Lel, his message made me laugh a couple of times tho. Well, cya later incase there is another one who says something in another language and I don't have anything to do.
You don't have to do that, though I do read it faster that way, thanks for the help. Also yes, it was rather comical of a review.
icelord: ok I just finished
first most of your info on how bad America or really any nation now days would kick there ass is right on they would not stand a chance
That being said some of what you're doing would not fly 2 foot in a strong wind or even a magical wind
so you do realize human experimentation which is exactly what you had them doing to EVERY noble would not fly if even one person involved talked to anyone everyone from the janitor to the president involved in this whole program would likely face a death sentence that kind of thing is VERY bad
I do think you might get away with a few of the people "disappearing" say 1 of each element so they could get things started then use them to produce more and more as you said they were doing ... All you would need to do would be cover up where the gems came from and just say the scientists found out how to replicate their powers/magic.
Shh, don't let the press find out, tell them we got it as a byproduct of wanting to make all nobles and commoners equal.
king Quinn the Last Heir: I'm drawn to this… I hope you can make a battle scene between Albani and the U.S I love it and hope to see more soon please keep it up
There will be at least one, you can be sure of that, however I can't guarantee the length will be particularly long since let's be real here, Albion doesn't stand a chance.
Wardes and Agnes arrived at the port of Albion at last and quietly slipped off the ship and onto the floating island. From there, Wardes explained the next part of the plan to her in an inn while they rested.
"Alright, the next part of the plan will be to head south to the town of Birmingham and meet up with our contact where he will bring us to Londinium to see Reconquista's leader."
"So we're just gonna walk up to the guy?"
"Fear not, my spy is high in the ranks and so has enough power to arrange a meeting for us easily."
"Hmm, I feel like you're intentionally leaving out something Wardes…"
"Of course, you never know when you could get captured by Reconquista and end up being tortured by information, the less you know, the better."
"Hmph, well I suppose at this point I'm just your escort then aren't I?"
"Perhaps, but I still see you as an ally for now."
"I'll play along now Wardes but the moment you do something suspicious, I'm going to take you down."
"Sure sure, just be prepared then, for remember, I am a triangle class mage, Wardes the Lightning. And that's not the only trick up my sleeve…"
"So I assume we'll head out at dawn?"
"No, we'll rest here for an hour then head out in the dead of the night to avoid detection."
"What if we get lost?"
"Fear not, I am able to use my wind magic to sense our surroundings and use it to guide us."
"So basically I'll be blind while you see everything?"
"Now now, don't put it like that."
"If you weren't my one way to save the Princess I would have left on my own by now."
"Hah, just don't get too suspicious of me, we still have to trust each other for a while if we are to reach Reconquista's leader."
"I'm going to get a drink down at the bar and see if there's anything I can learn then."
"Very well, I'll just enjoy some food in my room then, posing as a rich merchant should be more than sufficient to convince them to send it personally."
"And a great way to get us mugged…"
"Fret not Agnes, no mugger can take me."
"Yea and then our cover will be blown, no thanks, I'll act as your guard instead."
"Ah, much appreciated."
"Call me if you need me."
With that, Agnes left to relax and stretch a little in the pub below while a conniving Wardes delivered final instructions to his liaison for tonight. Once the hour passed, a filled Wardes and quenched Agnes left the building and to head towards the city of Londinium. The trip was luckily uneventful but as the duo reached the stables, a shadowy figure crept up behind Agnes with a drugged cloth while she was retrieving a horse supposedly prepared for her.
"Mmmph!"
She struggled, anyone would, though the drug was strong, she could only move with so much force without a flow of oxygen. Her kicks were weakened and her arms were locked by the assailant, unable to free herself, she reached out towards the exit in an attempt to reach Wardes. The nobleman appeared, though not to her rescue, her final memory was of his smirk while she was subdued.
"Phew, I know you said she was a feisty one but that took a while…"
"She is one of the Princess' most trusted guard for a reason."
"Aye, well I'll take care of her now, you hurry to Cromwell with your report."
"Much appreciated, she really was getting way too suspicious and I couldn't risk it any longer once she exhausted her usefulness."
The traitorous Wardes left behind his companion and ventured to the castle to meet his lord.
"Cromwell…"
Seated atop his throne was the man in question, a ring of power situated on his finger while a kneeling Wardes with his head lowered was on the carpet.
"What is so urgent that you must tell me personally instead of through the usual messenger Wardes?"
"It is terrible my lord, Tristain had fallen…"
Silence reigned for a few moments as Cromwell was deep in thought.
"So the rumors are true…"
"Yes."
"And so? Who or what caused this?"
"It was the work of a faction calling themselves the Americans, I myself do not know much about them but they managed to secure the entire nation in less than an afternoon."
"Ridiculous!"
"I do not jest my lord, were it not for my quick wit and awareness, I would have been captured and rendered unable to report to you at all."
"Then what of the royal family? Do you know anything about their fates?"
"I do not, however, they are likely captured like the rest of the nobles."
"You say that the nobles are all imprisoned?"
"Yes my lord, I know not how but their influence managed to reach the port right as I was about to depart and many of the nobles were seen being apprehended."
"So this force is against nobles? Most peculiar…"
"They also seem to possess incredible weapons, the decision to leave the castle was made soon after they brought forth one of these machines."
"Machines? You mean golems?"
"No my lordship, their creations were beyond simple golems, the mechanical construct wields repeating muskets on both of its wings."
"You meant it flew?!"
"Indeed, it brought the invaders straight to the castle and brought them out after their mission with its weapons as cover."
"Do they have more?"
"I do not know, only one was shown and I fear it has yet to reveal its full potential since they were infiltrating with the intention of negotiations."
"Bah, I doubt they have more than one, if they truly wished to win the country over then a single ship would not be enough, meaning that is their only one! Forgo the attack on the remaining loyalists, we shall postpone their demise, for now we must attack while the enemy is still trying to secure its position in Tristain!"
"I shall inform the Generals at once my lord!"
"Go Wardes, join the invasion and bring me the head of their leader!"
"Of course, we shall take them by surprise with our supreme fleet!"
"I'll have a wind dragon prepared for you at the roost, most likely your old one had to be left behind yes?"
"Thank you lord Cromwell!"
With that, Wardes stepped out after a bow and headed to his chambers for some well deserved rest, postponing the task to a more reasonable time when the Generals he was supposed to inform were actually awake enough to consider a serious battle plan. Everything had gone along to plan though, in the chaos of the war, Wardes would locate the holding cells of the nobles and free all of them himself, naming himself the savior of Tristain while using the influence gained to aid Reconquista.
'Maybe I'll even be able to find Louise, she might have survived the initial attack on the academy and with my rescue, no doubt she will be swooned and wish to marry me on the spot!'
The next day, plans were made and resources were reallocated to accommodate for the invasion of Tristain. Most of the Generals criticized in private the tactical flaws of ignoring the loyalists completely and switching their focus but none spoke up directly to Cromwell fearing that any slight against him would jeopardize their positions in the future.
General Hoffman sat in his specially prepared office and looked through the military reports. After final checks last afternoon, the entire country was verified to be completely consolidated into the capital and Americo which were slowly joining into one. Prospector teams would be sent into the remains of the villages and noble manors to take anything valuable back to headquarters for processing and he would need to assign some of his men as guards.
'I'm really splittin' my men thin, gonna need to request more to be cleared from the President or I'll need to reduce border patrols for the next assignment…'
Taking an hour to file the request, Hoffman laid back into his chair. While he never liked working in an office environment, he was thankful for the quality of the furnishings provided, allowed him to unwind a little after tedious office work. He rubbed his eyes, strained from drafting the paper. He sent the document to the President, including in his message that he would require more men to carry out any more additional operations so as to put any plans for new ones on hold.
Hoffman carried on with more cases that needed his attention. One such problem was to induct into his men the various procedures they needed to follow regarding various situations. The protocols would be taught to them through a workshop they had to attend but the problem arose when they were in the field but forgot, a good solution to the problem would obviously be to give a soft copy to the techie of every squad but there were very real security issues with that.
To circumvent this, he had requested for a special data chip with a check in and out system to be used, that way the information would all be accounted for and the possibility for outside leakage would be reduced. The only complication was that such a measure would take time to fully implement and the techies would then need to be briefed on the new procedure, intel leaks were not to be tolerated regarding Halk and anyone responsible would be charged in the underground court by the President himself.
The reason for this was actually rather early into the occupation. One of the queen's musketeers had refused to surrender and accused the others as traitors for putting down their arms so easily. Unsure of the proper conventions, the soldiers tried to reason with her peacefully and failed, resulting in one of them getting fractured ribs from the musket impact. Shaking off the thought for now and counting it as resolved on his side, Hoffman turned to the next piece of paperwork, looking through the list of his last reassignable teams.
Each team consisted of five people, a techie who would deal with technology and communications, two non-lethal soldiers, a speaker and lethal soldier who carried a tranquilizer pistol and live fire assault rifle, enabling him to still be combat ready in a firefight not cleared for deadly force against locals. Of course, there were divisions with a member with a different loadout for special missions but those were currently busy with their own tasks.
Of the three teams he could reassign, there was one in the city peacekeeping which could be moved for now until the town gets larger, another was from the scouts which would now be used to mark out danger zones like goblin villages since their original mission of locating settlements has been completed so taking out one squad shouldn't be too detrimental.
The third was from border patrols but the main issue was in how pointless they were currently, beyond the occasional caravan or runaway commoner, there weren't any real threats so a squad or two missing would be fine. However, to lose any land they just claimed would completely piss off the President because in all the current reports, the power of the nobles was said to be ridiculously low and that they could not feasibly hope to actually stand a chance in a conflict of any scale.
An unnoticed takeover now would throw the situation into chaos so border patrols had to be tight as he didn't have the men to spare to retake any land lost. Hiding the problem wouldn't help either as the Men In Black would no doubt discover it eventually and report it to the President, making the situation even worse.
With that all said, the safest option was undoubtedly to reassign two scout teams, slashing their manpower by a third. With two teams, he could afford to approve two Prospector expeditions at once. He would let the officials handle the specifics like the route and supplies to bring but he did remember that orders said to not allow a single American life be lost or else a full scale retaliation would be launched, the blame of any further deaths falling onto the General to take.
Missiles wouldn't be authorized by unless their foothold was being challenged so an attack was the only way to fight, the higher ups didn't want any civilian casualties beyond any necessary and the science guys wanted the nobles for their power, convincing the General by agreeing to bypass some safety protocols and slip some experimental weapons to him on the grounds of field testing if requested.
It wasn't technically a bribe, just an agreement in exchange for unofficially extending orders of absolute non-lethality to all mages instead of just important targets like royalty. Of course, these were unofficial changes and so in dire situations, original orders took precedence to save American lives or the lives of designated nobles. Hoffman sent out the file and the expeditions were scheduled to begin tomorrow.
With only two teams to work with, the mappers set the routes in opposite directions with each of the journeys covering five settlements. Each team had an army truck allocated to transport goods and for their travel. With two batches of people in each, space was limited so only five areas could be fully stripped before they had to return with their loot for it to be offloaded and processed.
The estimated time for each mission was two to three days depending on the amount of valuables remaining since some of the fortune was taken by the commoners when they left. This would make it so that it would take around four more pairs of expeditions before everywhere was accounted for, requiring five to ten days in total to clear the island's settlements for renovation when required.
The reason for this was that while the city's resources would last it for some time, eventually, people would need to be sent back to work on farming lest the city starved. Metal was also an issue as large scale transmutation technology was still in the works and so mining the raw ore and processing it was still necessary. Of course, the ore would be shipped to America for processing rather than allow it to be smelted in the inefficient old ways used in Halk.
A week had passed since the salvaging operations began and they had been completed, summarized reports flowed into the President's office pertaining to the results. They had gathered about five hundred kilos of valuables which would be sorted and evaluated before a final report could be given but at a glance, the cache was estimated to have a net worth of a couple trillion dollars.
'With this we've milked Tristain of all its easily cashable resources, now we actually have to work for anything else. I guess we have to tech up any mines in the area and extract the metals within if we want more…'
With that, the President stamped the seal of approval on the document he had been working on regarding mining and set it aside for his secretary later. He then picked up the next document and it was apparently a delayed message from General Hoffman, his men were apparently stretched drastically thin to the point of a security breach and requested reinforcements in bulk.
He had always been aware of the problems faced when allowing a large military force into Halk but it seemed like he had to make a decision here or real issues would arise. He messaged his temples at the dilemma, on one hand a larger military force was a near necessity if he intended to continue the occupation but the issues of securing trustable people was real.
All soldiers allowed into Halk had sworn an oath of absolute secrecy, agreeing to be detained indefinitely or executed if they spread, or were suspected of aiding in the spreading of any and all information on Halk. Few were willing to do so even with the large sum of money offered in return as the pledge also denied them any days off back in the real world and any outside contact would be cut off, no risks were to be taken.
The President was faced with quite the conundrum, there had to be a way for this to work easier, surely there was… Knowing it was long overdue that he resolve it, the man in charge put forth his full effort to come up with a solution, looking out the reinforced glass windows as he pondered a possible consensus.
After a while, a few ideas entered his mind which seemed feasible, he made a note of them in his mind and moved on to other matters, which was the issue of noble infants. The science team had suggested for them to be put up for adoption but warned of possible outcomes. Since the child was noble in blood, he likely possessed magic which the machine could not leach below four years of age.
The average person had infantile amnesia up to around four years of age so they wouldn't remember their parents very clearly but if they had no idea whatsoever, then their foster parents had to eventually tell the child, at which point he may suffer from shock because of being lied to his entire life and having the blood of the oppressors flowing through him.
On the other hand, the parents might secretly abuse the child for his noble heritage so selecting the adoptive family properly was important as well. They might treat him as an outcast along with other commoners which could possibly escalate exponentially assuming the child survives long enough. No one wants an underground noble fight club in the city, it would cause more problems than it would solve.
The other possible option which the ex-nobles themselves requested was for their children to be put into a childcare until their rehab was completed. Though then the issue came up of what to do with the children of those who have already been executed like Mott, the only sensible option then would be for them to be put up for adoption but then the question was who could adopt them? It was a sensitive and complicated issue that would be controversial regardless of which option was chosen.
He would need to discuss this with a moral ethics expert in the future but for now the President decided to hold on to the children in the temporary nursery of Area 52. Relaying the instructions to his staff to schedule such a meeting and the matters regarding what to do with the infants, the President checked the time incidentally as he leaned back into his seat and saw that he had worked for much longer than he usually did. With a crack of his strained neck, he saw fit to relax for a bit.
'I didn't think this would generate so much paperwork, I wish I could divide up the jobs more but the less that know about Halk, the better, it makes an emergency cut off of the portal and purging of all involved personnel easier… Of course, such a course of action will only be carried out when there is a security leak so as long as that doesn't happen then all will be well, I only hope I can tidy up Halk within my term lest the next leader messes things up…'
A/N: Do you all actually enjoy reading the parts about what's going on behind the scenes, within the city and administration by the side characters? I mostly write it to show progress and how far into the consolidation of power they are but if you guys want me to just cut it out, skip the politics and go straight to invading Halkeginia, that is possible, just that it might be over in like four to six chapters, seven maximum, then I'll just have to move on to the other continents or cover other races.
I'm quite sure at some point I will use time skips in between nations since I expect it isn't very fun to just read the same thing happening over and over again, with just a change to Germania or Gallia instead of Tristain. So far the pacing can be said to be rather slow though, ten chapters and then the invasion of Albion finally takes shape, though I'm sure it'll speed up once the ball gets rolling, after all, there's only so much filler I can squeeze into the story before I am out of ideas and am forced to move to the main plot.
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