Chapter 18 – Ich bin ein Frankfurter
As if fate determined it, all the gods, besides the ones from Fuso, must have been watching over them, and no Neuroi was even in sight for the whole flight. Toshiro saw the 506th A-Unit coursing over the new base.
"Rosalie, thanks for everything, you can go back home," Toshiro said after firing up his transponder.
"T'was a pleasure, Toshiro," she responded. "See you some other day!"
The 506th flew away, waving their hands towards the 501st, who returned the greetings and them, letting the plane land. After everyone landed themselves, they stowed away their handheld weaponry and the Strikers in the Launch Units provided beforehand.
"This hangar is soooooooooooo biiiiiiig!" Shirley shouted. "You could easily fit a B-29 here!"
"And that Ju 290 on top of it…" Trude mumbled.
"Look what I found," Toshiro said while waving a big envelope over his head.
"Wuzzat?" Francesca asked.
"It's labeled Rhein-Main Air Base plan – Top Secret. Well, that's pretty self-explanatory… Now, everyone help unload the stuff and let's go on an organized tour around our new home. That means that nobody will wander off until I say so. Is that understood, Erica?" Toshiro looked at Erica, who was already halfway to the exit.
"Heheh… Caught red handed…" She laughed dryly and returned to the rest.
The girls and Toshiro preemptively just dumped everything in the middle of the hangar. Toshiro opened the envelope and studied the contents a bit.
"Okay now ladies, the tour of the base will now begin. As you can see, there are four doors in total here. One leads to the connector, connecting the hangar with the main building. The other one is the main hangar door. It's open now, but we should close it fully or only leave a small clearance, especially if we stay here for the winter, and it will be snowing heavily. Look to the back of the hangar. There are two concrete ramps and two pairs of sliding doors. The one on the left is the garage, and the one on the right is the storage. First, we'll cater to Shirley, and visit the garage."
"Yahoo!" Shirley cheered loudly.
They went on to the door and Toshiro with Trude opened the big double door. After flicking the light switch from on the outside, they saw an Opel Blitz LKW and a Kübelwagen. Besides that, there were spare Striker parts everywhere, ordered in a neat fashion and in their original packaging. Also, the walls were covered with shiny tools.
Shirley dropped on her knees, raised her hands and face towards the roof, and shouted, "Praise the Lord!"
A few honest giggles sounded across the room and Minna said, "But don't go around checking everything, Shirley. You'll have the rest of the day after we take the tour."
Shirley nodded fervently and shouted, "Then let's get it over with!"
"Such enthusiasm…" Minna sighed.
After closing the door, the group proceeded to the one next door. When they peeked inside, they saw ammunition, firewood, and gasoline piling up to the roof. Amongst that, they saw spare weaponry.
"Remind me to kill anyone who approaches this room with an open flame," Trude said with a cold voice.
"I agree," Toshiro said and hastily closed the door. "Now, let's go to the main building."
Toshiro led his tour group through the rather long, and rather well lit, connector, and they ended up in the main building first floor corridor. The walls were painted in a sterile white color.
"My… Somebody wasn't very inventive…" Perrine mumbled.
"It's supposed to work," Trude said. "Say, what's behind that door?" Trude pointed out the first door to the right.
"That's the john," Toshiro answered.
Perrine and Lynne both tilted their heads.
"The toilet," Minna explained. "Do we need a tour around the toilet?"
The girls shook their heads.
"Then the next door is the bath, and judging by the size on the plan, it's fucking humongous," Toshiro explained.
A murmur of admiration attacked his ears and the girls stormed the room. All, except for Minna, Mio and Trude.
"Would you look at that…? The levelheaded part of the unit is still level?" Toshiro asked with a smirk.
"It's just a bath…" Trude sighed. "It has the function of a bath, even if its gold plated and diamond incrusted… Ah, shit! I wanna see too!" Trude shouted and ran off.
"Heheh…" Toshiro laughed. "So the three of us will take a look in a civilized manner?"
"Yup," Mio said.
"What she said," Minna pointed at Mio.
They entered the room to a small antechamber, in which a cloth separating it from the rest of the bath donned with an onsen symbol was hanging. Moving the cloth, the three saw showers around both sides of a smaller room which was opening up to the bath itself. The bath was indeed humongous, being bigger that the bath in Britannia. A big figure of Poseidon, wielding his trusty Trident, was situated in the north part of the bath. The figure had a pot, from which water was freely flowing into the bath itself. The whole room was in ancient Romagnan style, with Doric columns and white alabaster everywhere.
"Holy fuck…" Mio said out of breath.
"Ditto…" Toshiro followed up in similar fashion.
"Uhuh…" Minna mumbled while unconsciously nodding her head.
The rest of the girls were just walking around mesmerized, looking at all the splendor and pomp of the place.
Toshiro shook his head violently and cleared his throat.
"Ladies, let's continue our tour, okay? Come on, everyone."
"Toshiro, I want to take a bath ASAP!" Yoshika said.
"Me too!" Francesca joined in.
"Yeah, yeah. AFTER the tour."
After the girls gathered, Toshiro let them to the room adjacent to the bath. A big, oaken double door with golden handles was guarding the inside of the room, but Toshiro opened it with confidence.
Both his and Minna's eyes glittered once they saw the content of the room.
Two enormous desks with ebony-granite desks, just like the one Toshiro had in Romagna were in the far side of the room enormous room with a titanic aquarium in the back, which was filled with many species of tropical fish. Bookshelves and filing cabinets were filling up the space on the sides, and there was a coffee table between two sofas in the middle, all atop a big, red, square rug.
"Fishies!" Francesca squealed and ran to the aquarium, gluing her face to it.
"We must have ascended into heaven…" Minna mumbled. "Toshiro… Did you by chance see an old man with a keychain before we crossed the Pearly Gates?"
"Heheh… Nah, we're pretty much alive. Yet. My, my… It's the best office I've been into, except for my Uncles…"
Trude approached the row of filing cabinets and started looking at them carefully.
"Hmmmm… I kind of wanted my own room but… This will have to do it seems…" Trude sighed.
"Oh come on, Trudy… Now we can at least have coffee and sit on a nice, comfy sofa while processing papers. And I can do archive work and the current stuff at the same time."
"Hmm… If you look at it that way…" Trude scratched her chin. "I suppose you're right, Toshiro. Not bad at all."
"Hey, girls, I hope you'll visit me more often in the office, now that we have a more… civilized environment."
"It's almost like a palace in Versailles…" Perrine said in admiration.
"Hey, I'm the heir to a whole empire, hahaha!" Toshiro laughed heartily. "Now, let's continue to the probably most important room here."
The group moved on through the well-lit corridor and encountered a big double door.
"Okay, the raw data here probably doesn't do justice to the room, but how should I know, I didn't get a look inside the building… So… Opening now…" He said and opened the door wide.
And even he had to drop his jaw to the floor when he saw the social room.
To the left, he saw a fully equipped kitchen annex. In the middle of the room, a long table, probably made out of some exotic wood type was standing surrounded by fourteen chairs. Behind them, on the north side of the room, there was a fireplace and a plethora of sofas and puffy chairs. On the north-east corner were the stairs to the second floor and under it a door. On top of it, a chandelier was propped from the high roof of the room, reeking of money thanks to the fact it was made out of gold and crystals.
"Damn," was the only thing Toshiro could say.
He only heard unintelligible murmurs in response.
"Is this really our base, sir?" Shizuka asked as the first.
"Well… I guess so… But it really starts looking like a palace in Versailles… I almost feel guilty for having such a base built for us… So much money wasted…"
"Indeed, they could have held back a tad…" Minna said. "But would you like to sleep in a tent in some provisional base instead?"
"Nah… That would be brutal… Say… Is it really warm in here?"
"Yes, it is," Lynne said. "Are those radiators on the walls?" She pointed at the cast iron radiators
Toshiro pondered a bit and said, "Ah! While I skimmed through the papers, I saw that the base has geothermal heating. The control room is in a soundproof room, accessible from the door under the stairs. But the radiators should be adjustable with some kind of handle beside them."
"Yup!" Francesca cheered from beside one of the radiators. "There a turnie thingie on the pipe going into the radiator."
"Thanks for the info, Frannie."
"Heehee…" Francesca grinned happily. "This means we won't freeze our bums off in winter!"
Most of the girls shuddered suddenly.
"Hmm?" Toshiro tilted his head.
"Bro, you were in Britannia in the summer, but most of us were there for a winter or two… You didn't notice any radiators in the castle, right?"
"Yeah, none."
"So you can imagine what it looked like…"
"Hmmm… Let me see… The only way to keep warm was to wear warm clothes 24/7 and EVENTUALLY sit before the fireplace."
The girls nodded.
"Well, that must have sucked. By the way, behind the kitchen annex is the pantry, and the second door is the broom closet. We'll get to that later; now let's look at the bedrooms, heheh…"
"Finally!" Erica cheered.
Trude planted her fist on top of Erica's head and shouted, "I solemnly wear, that if you start making a mess like before, I will personally call the OKW to boot you!"
"Oooooooow, Trudy! Toshiro, tell your stupid cousin not to hit me!"
"Stop hitting Erica, Trudy. She's smart enough to understand words, not actions."
"I doubt, because mostly she behaves like she's a few bulbs short of a chandelier… Then make her tidier!"
"Erica…" Toshiro looked at Erica with a cold stare.
"Yeah, yeah… I promise I won't mess up the room too badly…"
"There, Trudy, she said it. Before thirteen witnesses. Satisfied?"
"Yup. Let's continue with the tour," Trude said proudly.
"Now that's something I wanted to hear. Let's go. And the first one to say "dibs" will be kicked in the ass."
They went up the stairs to the second floor and through the open doorway. Toshiro pulled out the plan of this floor and propped it up on the wall with his hand.
"Look, ladies. The wall in front of me is the southern wall of my bedroom, which I will of course share with Yoshika. According to the notes, it's soundproof, but I would like either Mio or Minna as our neighbors."
"Why us?" Mio asked.
"You never know if it's soundproof enough, heheh…"
"Damn perv…" Mio mumbled.
"Okay, I'll accept," Minna said.
"I knew you would be the reasonable one, heheh… Anyway, the two rooms across our two are the guest bedroom and the infirmary. The rest of the bedrooms are further down the corridor, past the junction. There are six in total, so Mio will get one for herself, and there will be five shared bedrooms, just like back in Sint-Truiden. I guess nobody will be protesting, right?"
"I guess I'm stuck with Trudy until Kingdom Come…" Erica sighed.
"Any MEANINGFUL input?" Toshiro said with a sly grin.
"Can we look into your room?" Shirley asked.
"Not exactly meaningful but… Yeah, I guess you all should take a look, not to eye everything if you somehow find yourselves there…"
Toshiro opened the door and saw an almost exact copy of his room in Romagna, only the placement of the furniture was different.
"I think I saw this somewhere…" Francesca mumbled.
"Romagna, Franny, Romagna…"
"Ah, yes! It looks exactly like the room you had in Romagna!"
"Yup. But I already see one difference."
"Hm?"
"The tap on the bath is different, and it now has two pipes going to it. So by simple deduction, I can say I now have my own bath with my own hot water, which I don't have to heat up with magic, hahaha!"
"Damn you…" Minna mumbled. "I would kill for my private tub… And I guess the other bedrooms aren't exactly this luxurious?"
"Dunno, let's check out."
They entered the room, which was supposed to be Minna's.
"Not bad…" Minna said. "One star hotel or a very good motel… A cozy room, but not too small. And the bed looks comfortable. There's a nightstand with a light, and a light bulb under the ceiling… And a big radiator under the window… Oh, and the window is big enough to get in some light before the sun goes down. I like it, what about you, girls?"
"Looks okay," Mio said.
"Ditto," Trude said.
"Nothing to complain I guess," Shirley said.
"Top bunk and I won't say a bad word!" Francesca cheered.
"Me too!" Erica followed.
"Nothing like my room in Britannia or Romagna… But it's warm…" Perrine mumbled.
"And cozy, heheh…" Eila said.
"Heehee…" Sanya giggled.
"If my sensei says it's good, then I concur," Shizuka said.
"The room standard is nice," Heidi said timidly.
"Mhm…" Lynne followed.
"And I should just shut up, since I'm the privileged one, heehee…" Yoshika giggled.
"Okay then! You'll pick your rooms afterwards. Now, the two last rooms on this floor which should be seen by everyone today, then I'll let you go."
They went down the corridor, and Toshiro asked, "Left or right?"
"Lrelerrhglfht," Toshiro heard.
Toshiro made a grumpy look and said, "Hands… Left for left, right for right."
Since a tie was out of question, right won 7:6. Toshiro opened the door, and this time both Mio, Minna, Trude and him were stunned.
They wound up in an actual war room, with a big tabletop map, an enormous radar screen, and so much radio equipment that one could set up a call center.
"They probably want us to be the eyes and ears of the Allied Forces…" Toshiro mumbled.
"Given the amount of antennas and that enormous radar dish on the roof? One might say that we will be…" Mio said.
Toshiro and Shirley approached the enormous radio aggregate.
"100 kW.S.E.a… Leefuuruur… C. Lorenz A.G…. Toshiro, wuzzat Kraut mumbo jumbo mean?"
Toshiro looked at the plate that Shirley tried to read and said, "It means that this is a hundred kilowatt transmitter-receiver aggregate, delivered by C. Lorenz A.G. The proper pronunciation is lee-fe-rer by the way. Wait a second… A hundred kilowatt transmitter?! Shit… We're made…"
"Hundred kilowatt?! Dayum! We could send a transmission to the South Pole with ease!"
"Heheh… Okay, last room!"
They went to the room opposite of the war room. It was an enormous, classroom like place, with a big blackboard on the wall opposite to the exit, benches, tables etc.
"This is probably the briefing room, right?" Yoshika asked.
"Looks like it," Toshiro answered. "I wonder why they bothered, since I give most of the briefings at meal times…"
"They don't know that," Minna said. "Well, I saw enough. Toshiro, we should organize our papers now."
"Yeah, that would be important right now… Can't have that stack lying in the hangar… I'll go to the office, Trude will get the papers, Minna can follow me and the rest… Dismissed!"
The girls cheered and dispersed immediately.
"Oh, Toshiro!" Yoshika shouted.
"Hmm?"
"Ah, maybe not…" She said and ran off.
Weird…
Toshiro and Minna ended up in the office. He saw a lockbox on the wall with two keys sticking out of the lock. He opened it, and saw a plethora of keys, all doubled, hanging under labels.
"This must be the main key box, Toshiro," Minna said. "There were two keys, right?"
"Yup. I guess you, as the deputy commander, want one two?"
"Precise and to the point, heehee…"
Toshiro slipped off the second key from its ring and gave it to Minna.
"Keep it safe," he said. "I wonder how many doors I should actually lock…"
"Lock the room with the radiator controls, so nobody can mess up anything, and the guest room."
"Very good idea, Minna. Now, let's wait for Trude and inaugurate our stay here with some good old office work, heheh…"
"Heehee… We have to break those chairs in… Oh, wait a second…"
"What is it?"
Toshiro picked off one key, and showed it to Minna, "The master key. I'm taking this."
"Oh, unfair… Just don't try to visit me at night…" She said with a fake irritation.
"Hahahaha! Maybe with Yoshika…" He winked, causing Minna to smile mysteriously.
Trude came in after a few minutes, and they all started sorting the papers.
"Dinner's ready!" The PA panel in the room sounded clearly with Yoshika's voice.
"We should take a break…" Trude mumbled.
"We're halfway done, and the halfway mark is a good time to get some grub, haha! Come on, girls!"
They went to the common room, where he saw the girls sitting at the table. A catchy tune was playing from a radio standing on a nearby cupboard.
"Toshiro, sit here!" Yoshika waved him in to the place in the head of the table.
He went to the place that Yoshika pointed out and sat on the chair.
"Hmm… Surprisingly comfy… Oh, and the food looks divine!"
"The pantry is full to the roof!" Yoshika cheered. "We won't have to procure any supplies for a month!"
"Ah, so in three weeks I'll have to order a full resupply, heh… Okay, time to eat, works a goin' on…"
"Oh, can I help?" Yoshika asked.
"If you…"
"No, you can't, Miyafuji," Mio interrupted.
"But why?!" Yoshika protested.
"We need to find you a good spot for training in the nearby forest."
"Bawwww… But I wanted to help Toshiro…"
"No back talking," Mio said firmly.
"Okay…" Yoshika sighed.
During eating, Toshiro found out that all the girls now had their rooms picked out, and that there were no casualties.
"That was good…" Toshiro said. "Okay, I have an announcement. You will be given keys to your rooms. Two rooms will be off-limits from now on – the control room for the radiators and the guest room. If you want a key, just ask Minna or me for one. Oh, and just for formalities, I have a master key…"
"Then why bother with locking up…" Eila mumbled.
"Hey, I won't use that key until it's absolutely damn necessary. Besides, I could just kick the door in or slash it apart…"
"You do have a point…"
"Good that you understand. Okay, back to work for me, and if anyone wants a key, just come on."
Surprisingly, even Mio came along, and soon, the key box was half-empty. Toshiro continued his work until the sky turned orange, which given the month, was about 1700.
"Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay…" Toshiro said while yawning and stretching himself. "Time to call the boss man…"
"Keitel? Should I leave?"
"Nah, don't bother."
Toshiro did the usual rituals, and he soon heard the gruff voice in the receiver.
"Keitel."
"Hi, boss."
"Ah, the heir himself! So, I presume you're in the new and improved Rhein-Main Air Base right now?"
"Dead right, boss. It's amazing… Functionality wise, it's the best base I've been to yet."
"We didn't pinch a damn pfennig to build it, hah! I guess you want to know your mission parameters from now on, right?"
"Yes."
"For now, just cool down, and settle in. There will be a mission allotted to your unit soon, possibly this week."
"So nothing extraordinary for now, boss?"
"Nothing. Just do what you did in Sint-Truiden. But you can take the initiative if you want, you're free to act in our Vaterland."
"Thank you, boss."
"Have a good day. Aufwiedersehen."
"Aufwiedersehen."
"So?" Minna asked.
"Nihil novi sub solam, Minna. But we'll get a new mission soon."
"Ah, okay," she smiled.
"And I have the authority of taking initiative, whatever that means."
"That's good. It means we can explore our surroundings however we like."
"Good. Think I should call Ursula?"
"Sure! Maybe she'll have some news about the jets for us!"
"Haha, doing it now!"
Toshiro passed the usual procedure, and he heard Ursula's voice.
"Hallo?"
"Hi, Ursie."
"Oh shi… Uh, I mean… Hi, Toshiro."
"I guess you're not happy I'm calling, huh?"
"Heheh… Kind of…"
"Okay, just give me the bad news first."
"The bad news is that the EmNaK project is progressing very slowly."
"Damn… No railgun for me soon it seems…"
"That's the case… And the jet transport plane is undergoing maintenance right now…"
"Ah crap…"
"BUT! There's good news!"
"My body is ready!"
"Heehee… The XF-2 is being manufactured right now, ETA end of the month!"
"Oh shit! Really?!"
"Yes, but only a limited batch for your units Karlslanders, so you'll get four. Ah, and Adolfine will get one too. But she called me yesterday, so she knows, heh…"
"Wonderful news!"
"While we're talking… Arbeitsgruppen C and D have come up with some new toys…"
"Oh, lemme hear…."
"Arbeitsgruppe D is finishing the development of the Fliegerstern prototype. It's a four barrel rocket launcher with blazing fast rockets, much more deadly and much faster than those of the Fliegerhammer."
"Ooooooooh… Sanya should be interested…"
"Right? We should have a prototype ready soon, maybe even this month."
"And what did the C group develop?"
"Just a little curiosity. They've built a serial-production ready Panzerkampfbeine VIB, equipped with a 105 magic-measure L/52 cannon."
"Explain slowly… I guess the Panzerkampfbeine is a miniaturized King Tiger, but I don't know what magic-measure is."
"Ah, yes… Land Strikers are a bit different… They can divert the power from the magic engines to actually amp the weaponry, or outright power it, replacing propellant filled shells. Magic measure is a unit of magic power needed to propel a projectile at optimal speed, coincidentally corresponding the caliber."
"And why can't flying Strikers do that?"
"Most of the power goes into the flight capability… Also, many Land Strikers have unique features. Do you know that the Liberian M-line Strikers have something called the Lonsan effect?"
"Nope."
"When a Land Striker like the M4 gets hit so hard that its defensive capabilities are overpowered, it pulls out every last bit of energy it can from its engines and self-destructs, protecting the user."
"That would be a bother in aerial Strikers…"
"Indeed… Not to mention that the Strikers usually combust while doing so, leaving the witches in almost no clothing, heehee…"
"Now THAT would be a bother, haha! Well, thanks for the lecture, Ursula. And for the good news."
"No problem, Toshiro. Say hi to my ignorance-feigning sister for me."
"Okay, I will. Bye!"
"Bye."
Toshiro put the receiver on the hook.
"Good news, Toshiro?"
"Yes, indeed. The XF-2 and an improved Fliegerhammer are to arrive by the end of the month."
"Wonderful news!" Minna clapped her hands together.
"Heh, sure is. Well, work done for today I guess. I'll go and move my luggage inside my room, if Yoshika wasn't so considerate to do so."
"You would have her lug that chest of yours all the way to the second floor? Monster…"
"Don't you lecture me… My ears are still red after Yoshika's tirade…"
"Heheh… I'll go on a walk myself."
Toshiro went to the hangar, and of course, his chest was standing there in the middle like a sore thumb. He also saw that the garage door was open, so he peeked inside.
"What's up, redhead?"
"Toshiro, I love this place! There's every tool I could need! Every part I could need! Everything!"
"Haha! Where's Franny by the way?"
"She's looking for a good nap spot, but my guess she's on a beam up in the hangar."
"Need help with anything?"
"Nah… I'll just spend the rest of the day here."
"Cool, I'm going to my room now."
"Yeah, yeah…" She waved him off.
Toshiro saw Francesca taking a nap on a beam far up under the roof. Only her favorite blanket was visible from down there. He took the chest and went to his room.
He opened the wardrobe, and put in his spare clothes inside. The only other clothing items he saw inside was Yoshika's miko suit.
Hmmm… I wonder where Yoshika is…
Toshiro went down and outside. He saw Mio and Yoshika coming from the small but dense forest to the south. Seeing him, Yoshika rushed to his side.
"So, found anything?" He asked.
"Yes! We have a perfect spot for training! The builders must have grubbed the forest especially for us!"
"What did you want from me earlier, hmmm?"
"Ah… I wanted to wander around the base with you, but then I remembered that the other girls are also an option, heehee…"
"You wanted to say, "You were probably going to be very busy, so I didn't want to bother you, dearest fiancé.""
"Haha! Don't put words in my mouth, heheh… Yes, I thought exactly that, I'm just toying with you."
"What's up, lovebirds?" Mio asked as she approached.
"Nothing," Toshiro said. "Everything okay on your side, Mio?"
"Fine and dandy. But I still haven't unpacked, so if you'll excuse me…"
"Go ahead," he said.
Mio went inside, and Yoshika said, "Come on, Toshiro, let's go for a walk. You love walks at dusk, right?"
"Sure I do, and you know it. Lead on."
They went on west to the meadows. Surprisingly, they found Minna, sitting on a big flat rock, gazing at the setting sun, barely visible right now.
"I hope you two didn't follow me, right?" She asked while not turning around.
"Bullshit…" Toshiro said.
"Come on; let's watch the sunset, Toshiro. All of us."
The three sat in a manner that Toshiro was in the middle of the two.
"I said ALL of us…"
Livy appeared at Toshiro's side and said, "How nice of you to remember about me, thank you."
"Yeah, I guess I should start getting accustomed to you…" Minna sighed deeply and continued, "Sunsets are so melancholic… Why don't we do it sometime soon, huh?"
"Now that's a mental shortcut you've made…" Toshiro said. "What say you, Yoshika?"
"Why not… But not today."
"You want to break in the bed on your own, huh?" Minna asked with a sly smile.
Yoshika only giggled slightly.
When the sun hid completely behind the horizon, they returned back to the base. Supper was made, and after it, Toshiro said, "The first night in a new home… Sleep tight, girls. Sanya, I hope you're up for a patrol?"
"Yes, Toshiro, I am."
"Oh? But I thought it was my turn today…" Heidi wondered.
"Ah, silly me…" Sanya said. "Of course it's your turn today. Toshiro, don't confuse us…"
"Sorry. So, Heidi… You know where the nearest hives are, so don't you dare to go farther than 50 kilometers in a 180 degrees radius from north to south through the east."
"Understood, Toshiro."
"I'll go set up a relay to my transponder so you can call upon me even if I'm sleeping. But remember that it has to be important."
"Okay, I'll remember."
"The rest of you, I wish good night."
"Good night, Toshiro!" The girls responded.
"Toshiro, don't keep me waiting," Yoshika said.
"Don't worry; it will only take a few minutes…"
Toshiro went up to the war room, and he set up said relay.
"Livy?"
"Yes, Master?" the blonde goddess asked as she appeared.
"You know, this is our first night in a new place, so…"
"You want to be alone with the Mistress, right?" Livy asked with a compassionate smile. "I understand this perfectly, Master. Don't worry about silly me, and have fun."
Toshiro approached her, and without her resisting, he kissed her long and passionately.
"That was compensation for tonight, okay?"
"Mmmm…" Livy said weakly. "Okay, Master… That will do…"
She disappeared, and Toshiro returned to his room, where he saw the naked Yoshika, lying on her side towards him, with only the moonlight highlighting her features in the darkness.
"Oh, who is that sexy damsel in the dark? May I teach you the art of love, fair maiden?"
"Yes, dear stranger! But be gentle, as I have had no experience yet with a man!"
The two chuckled briefly, and the first night in their new base started with a bang.
Little AN time...
The title is of course a reference to JFK's famous speech, and also a little tongue in cheek, since "Frankfurter" is a type of sausage. ;)
In our world, the base was made in 1936, but I guess since there was no imminent World War 2 to happen, it wasn't built in the SW universe.
The plan for the base is available in my profile.
I don't know if i got the power of the radio aggregate correctly, but at least Radiowerk Lorenz A.G is a real thing, and the designation was made following the historical ones.
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