Here is the next chapter. Hope you enjoy. Though this is shorter I promise a longer chapter for the next one
LD: (all with me) titan AE doesn't belong to me
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"My men can also help train your infantry your artillery and your navy, heck, I realize now I have more men than I need." Korso said laughing. Cale also laughed while replying.
"That would be appreciated." Korso just nodded.
It had been a week since Korso and his men arrived to New Earth. The Planet's government had refused to hold a meeting to discuss what to do with them until then. In that week, Cale, Bob, Akima and Nanami had been explaining to Korso that while they do have plenty of volunteers to join the army they didn't have the infrastructures to train them. There were a lot of former soldiers on New Earth but only a few had enrolled in the new army. They had some instructors of the voluntary corps help them but because of the renovation of the corps most of them couldn't take that amount of work. On the other hand on Korso's crew there were a lot of former military officers and soldiers from different branches of different armies across the galaxy.
Cale wanted to begin the training of the many volunteers, 10000 for now that enrolled themselves in the army, but there was a problem, the bureaucracy was slow and the government even more so. Besides Cale had a really bad feeling after the asteroid incident and wanted to discuss the possibility of purchasing or developing an early warning system and the necessity of purchasing ground to space missiles. But all that should be discussed with the government that morning. There was also the issue with Mr. Wong, while neither of them except Lin knew many things about him Cale was sure the politician could not be trusted and the fact that he has hired a mercenary fleet without the knowledge of the rest of government on reinforced the idea even though he had reunited them with Korso.
Akima joined the conversation. "So how are we going to convince the parliament to let Korso help and become part of our army while also avoiding Mr. Wong's plan to gain power over the army?" The other five pairs of eyes looked at her and then at each other.
"She is right. It is too late to disguise his plot as a kind of coup d'etat." Nanami agreed. "And basing themselves on the facts of the past week, Mr. Wong could use this increase in our power to convince the council to give him some type of control over the army." Everyone shivered. The only subordinate of Mr. Wong they had met was Lin and while their meetings had only been professional they had barely talked to her and when she did talk she was pretty much cold and professional it hadn't escaped to them that she had a certain sad air to her.
"As long as we arrive there, there will still be a debate and we are just as good as he is when it comes to that." Cale said.
"You mean Nanami is as good as he is. Don't you?" Bob intervened and everyone laughed.
"It will all work out somehow" Cale finally said and everyone nodded smiling. "Besides Stith will be there, and when she is everyone in the government agrees more easily."
"Yeah. Though she might be a little pissed with us for making he spend the last day of her vacation in the government building." Akima said chuckling.
"Where does she go tomorrow?" Asked Kate.
"She goes to the territories of the Mantrin confederacy to negotiate an alliance between them and New Earth." Akima explained. Everyone nodded, it was a clever but risky move. They spent the rest of the morning until midday debating their plan for the reunion today.
Three cars arrived to take them to the government building, a few motorbikes from the volunteer corps arrived as well as escort. The travel duration was shorter due to the lack of traffic that day so they arrived in a mere half an hour, but they weren't in the government building.
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Mr. Wong stood in his office working on some projects for the government. He wasn't in a good mood. When the pirate fleet arrived, he thought Korso would contact him but he hadn't and Lin had informed him of how close he was with Cale. He felt used and he didn't like it one bit. The arrival of the fleet was supposed to be his best chance to gain some control over the army and by natural consequence gain more power within the government, that way he could conduct his criminal activities without having to worry about anything. There was a knock on his door and Lin, dressed with the police blue uniform of the volunteer security force entered the room.
"So" said Mr. Wong said. "You have come after all. I thought you would be too scared to come. You have plenty of reasons to be scared, you have failed me and those who fail me are worthless to me."
"I've had no time to take the plan into action, there was the issue of the asteroid and after that they have meeting with leaders of your mercenary fleet at their home, I haven't seen them for the last few days." She excused herself.
"So that's your excuse? Maybe then, the service will not have time to feed your siblings" he replied with a cruel smirk.
"Wait! Father, I'll do my best, please give me another chance." She pleaded.
"Get out of my sight and come to my house later. I'll have a job for you then, one that you won't screw up if you want your siblings to be safe." He caressed her face in a very lusty fashion and she could not hold a shiver, she nodded and went out of the room.
He left the room 20 minutes later, he had an army to take control of.
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A little cliffhanger here won't do you any bad, sorry for the late update but I had some university work to do I'll try to be quicker about the next few chapters which I have already started, but if by any chance I'm not that quick, please forgive me.