Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm Back!
I do apologize for taking so long I've been trying to upload for so long but I've been kinda busy doing other things I've been working a lot more than I used to, but hey better late than never. I do promise to make more updates better than this one. I tried to make a double feature but I had issues, so I'm taking my time writing the story and figuring out the plot structure.
Anyways lets get to the chapter.
1 Week Later
Founding Nations Outskirts
50 Miles from the Border of Rosenblum
100 miles from Camp
04:32
Sylvia and Ichiro along with four other Rangers one with an M4A1 with an M320 grenade launcher named PVT Mitchell Rameriez, the other with an M249 SAW was Sergeant Samuel Dunn, and two more with M4A1 with a Foregrip and Red Dot Sight named SPC Jonathan Allen, and the other Armed with an M16A4 with Holographic sight and Angled Grip is named Corporal Michael Orr.
They were surveying the village that was 10 miles away from them and they were watching a certain building they were interested in, they each took turns keeping an eye out on the village they were in the forest covered in foliage with a humvee 1,000 meters from their position. "Hey, Sylvia." Ichiro said getting the attention of Sylvia. "Yeah, what's up?" Ichiro then asked. "You ever wonder why we are here?" in an annoyed way.
"You know why we are here, we need to survey every village in this country, and see if the civilian population over there can provide us support." Sylvia said to the annoyed Ichiro while looking through her sniper scope. They had been observing every small town for about a week and in each one they encountered they had two things in common. Number 1 The inhabitants use things with their hands called 'Mana', Number 2 they detain little girls that destroy the mana fields whenever they touch them even the babies that destroyed it were detained.
Ichiro just rolled his eyes out of annoyance. "Look we know that these people don't care about people like us, and you saw what they did to those girls that even broke one of those mana screens they get detained by the police real quick." He said while eating a first-strike bar he got from his MRE.
Sylvia rolled her eyes and turned to Ichiro. "First of all, there could be good people out there that don't detain others due to their differences, second of all I know you are upset about how they mistreat the little kids but we cannot interfere, and lastly are you seriously eating a first-strike bar?" Sylvia said with a disgusting look. Then she noticed both of the Rangers that accompanied them walked up to listen to the conversation
Ichiro just looked at her response. "Ugh whatever, look this village has a very suspicious building here called 'Norma Management Board' and my theory is that this building is keeping those innocent girls that were captured when we first got here." Sylvia responded.
"So what's the move are we gonna storm the building just the two of us?" Mitchell asked her excitedly joining in the conversation. "Exactly we can't just sit here and do nothing, we got to do something about this." Jonathan responded
"No Mitchell, Jonathan, we are not gonna do that. We are just observing nothing more, you heard the Captain's orders we cannot intervene even if we wanted to save those innocent girls we don't have the firepower to do so, will do more damage than good." Sylvia responded.
"I agree we have to maintain distance, until we can establish contact with the missing battalion we will have to keep our distance." Samuel said agreeing with Sylvia while eating his MRE. They just sighed in defeat. "Look guys I know how much you all want to help but we can't risk it what if we get caught they could torture us or worse kill us we have to find allies or 'sane' people that can help us then we make contact so we have to keep our distance for now." Samuel said with a reassuring tone. The soldiers just shook their heads
Unbeknownst to them they were being watched from a distance but a couple of unknown figures dressed in black with blue stripes on their clothes both were wearing masks and both had blue hair one short and the other long hair. "What do you make, Luke." Said the female adjusting her Bow and Arrows. "It's those 2 again only this time they brought 2 more soldiers, one with a rifle and the other equipped with a Machine Gun." Luke responded when he kept looking through the binoculars and then passed them to the lady.
"Wait, where are they? Oh wait never mind I see them, holy crap the camouflage they're wearing makes them blend in through the vegetation pretty well even when they are moving I can barely see them, perhaps we should borrow that design for our uniforms." Luke just looked at her. "If we do that we are disrespecting our Knight ancestry Leia and you know it." He stated with pride.
"Sometimes your pride can go a little overboard." Leia said in a teasing way, with Luke rolling his eyes out of annoyance. "Look I get it I'm mad at what happened at Haven and with the traitor that caused it but will get through this together." Lucas looked at the ground knowing what she meant if they had done a proper inspection of the new guy then no innocent blood should have been spelled on that day.
Leia noticed his brother's guilt and decided to change the subject. "Well anyways, the soldiers up there, should we try to establish contact?" Leia asked in curiosity. Luke sighed at her sister's idea. "Negative Leia, we have a different objective to accomplish, remember we gotta stop a convoy from delivering Norma sympathizers to the execution chamber.
Leia just sighed out of her brother's focus on the objective. 'I don't blame him... He doesn't trust anyone right now but from the reports that MYROM and our other Agents have been relaying they appear to not be Ancient Humans like us, with pre-mana vehicles and they look less advanced than they are but looked like professionals.' She thought to herself she believed that they needed more allies for their cause and provided them more support.
"We need more people for our cause and the more they are oblivious the more they will be in danger, you heard the reports from our spies they are like us." Leia stated while facing her brother. Luke sighed at her statement but then said. "We can't do that Leia and you know it, we can't trust them just because of the reports, Besides you heard Laswell's orders we do not establish any contact until further notice."
Leia just sighed but then asked. "Well if we do our ambush, and they participate alongside us. What then?" Luke then turned to her and said. "Then we establish contact, but like I said we maintain our distance, got it?" Lucia nodded in response. Lucas then walked away and began to plan out the ambush for their soldiers, Lucia then walked toward her brother, but looked back at the Rangers 'Hopefully they can help us... Maybe 'MYROM' statement on these soldiers could be vital assets to us in the future?' Lucia thought to herself. They then began their attack strategy.
Kabul, Afghanistan
August 26, 2021
Kabul Airport
Daniel was getting out of the Humvee to meet up with a couple of Marines at the airport to keep an eye out during the evacuation after the U.S. and coalition forces decided to leave Afghanistan. He saw a couple of Marines and he greeted some of them, When he noticed the Marine First Sergeant he reported for duty. "First Sargent Ramirez, I've temporarily been assigned to your unit."
"Ah Staff Sargent Espinoza, glad you could be of service, I need you to keep an eye out on those refugees that are coming in you be paired up with Bravo team think you can handle a couple of Marines, Ranger?" A Marine Sergeant said to Daniel. "Understood!" Daniel responded.
Daniel then headed over to the Bravo team to help out with the Afghanistan evacuation at the Kabul Airport he knew some of the Marines that he was with checking the evacuees trying to leave.
He looked around to see that this whole evacuation was a total mess, people were pushing against each other, parents holding their kids over their shoulders, and every U.S. Military member including a couple of coalition fighters monitoring the crowd of people trying to get to the airport. "How the hell did this happen?" He asked out loud.
"Shit, you're telling me." He turned around to see a Marine holding two bottles of water. "Oh hey, Ryan long time no see." Daniel and Ryan did hand claps and back pats. "It's good to see you too man, Haven't seen you since that village raid 5 weeks ago."
Yeah, it's been a while, Wait you said 'your telling me' Did something worse happen in your branch?"
"Bro listen, man, I've heard reports that the Taliban have taken over our abandoned Marine bases already and claimed our stockpile of weapons, armor, and vehicles that we left for the Afghan Army that we trained." Ryan said. Daniel just shook his head out of disappointment.
Daniel and Ryan knew each other growing up in the same neighborhood together they went to the same school from Pre-K to High School. They enlisted in the military but at different branches and yet they still kept in contact with each other.
"I just don't get it why did the Afghan army that we trained for 20 years, all of a sudden just decide to give up and quit, bunch of pussies that's what they are!" Daniel said out of anger. Ryan then patted his back and replied "I'm sure they have their reason but you are right about that all that time and money wasted, besides they have to have known that we weren't gonna stay here forever you know surely they would've learned that beforehand.
Daniel still had his angry look, 'I swear nobody has the fighting spirit anymore nowadays, but I do I've wanted to drive these terrorists down since they've been ruining my life since I was born.' He thought to himself while looking at the crowd of people.
"Hey listen, I know it looks like shit but at least we're going home. I can't wait to see my baby after this." Ryan said with happiness.
Daniel then looked up turned to his friend and smiled. "Oh, I forgot, your daughter was just born two days ago right, Congratulations buddy." Daniel said while patting Ryan's back.
"Oh thanks, Daniel. Hey, I was thinking maybe when we get back to the States you can be my baby girl's godfather?" He asked Daniel. Daniel then replied. "I'd be honored to be your daughter's godfather." Daniel smiled at Ryan. Civilians then began to overpack "Well it looks like the civies are overpacking, I better control the situation ill be right back." Ryan then went over to the crowd to control it but Unbeknownst to them there was a shady man that was among the crowd strapped with an Explosive vest.
Then an explosion went off knocking down everybody near the blast radius. Everything went black then 'ringing' noises began to play in Daniel's ear he was slowly making a shellshock sound. Daniel shook his head still reeling in then his vision slowly began to come back to him.
He then saw a bunch of people dead, men women, and children were the victims and he saw a couple of US armed forces dead as well, including his friend with his face half burnt.
Arzenal
Army Ranger Bunkers
05:00
Daniel woke up and was huffing and puffing from the nightmare he'd had and had been recurring since that day. He grabbed his chest and began crying a bit. After he returned home from Afghanistan, Ryan's wife blamed him for her husband's death and refused to let him be her daughter's Godfather.
'I don't blame her, I promised her I'd keep an eye on him and I failed her. I wonder what would happen if Ryan and I switched places I bet Ryan would have the happiest life and spend time with his wife and daughter.' Daniel thought to himself.
He looked around to see that his comrades were looking at him, but luckily they didn't see him having a bad dream because they were still waking up from their bed so early in the morning, and even though it had been a week and they had already adapted to their living situation though they are still reeling from the whole ordeal that they were stuck in the future, and there was possibly no way to go back to their own time.
'I was hoping this was still a bad dream as well but here we are a week later still stuck here.' he thought to himself still feeling guilty. He looked to his left and saw Renji sitting and crying with Robert and Kimberly trying to comfort him.
Daniel was looking at his men feeling bad for them, he then felt something licking his hand, he saw Luna with a sad look and whining, Daniel smiled and said. "It's okay girl will find a way back home." While patting her head. Everyone began to get dressed for morning physical training.
It has been a week since we arrived at Arzenal and it has been very interesting, to say the least, Even though it has been a week since our arrival we were greeted with open arms by most of the 'Norma' that were stationed at 'Arzenal' there were some that were suspicious of us but we eventually earned their trust for the most part, there have been a lot of girls taking pictures of us whenever we do our assigned jobs, working maintenance on our vehicles and relaxing, and they often approach us whenever they are given a chance and currently..."
"Come on, keep up the pace ladies and gentlemen." Lieutenant Jones ordered his men. Each soldier and airman was keeping pace, they saw a bunch of Norma training in the morning they would glance over us from time to time, and we would always see first squadron training as well. They tried to keep up with us whenever we did our runs in the morning, it was like a competition but mostly for Red Head named Hilda who tried to convince Salia to make the run go faster, but to no avail.
In the end, the Rangers and Airmen finished 2 minutes and 40 seconds before the first squad of Arzenal finished. Ersha Rosalie and Chris were huffing, Salia was breathing calmly, Hilda was looking angry at the outsiders, and Vivian didn't even look tired. Ange was just breathing normally.
Cafeteria
07:30
After morning PT Daniel and the rest of the squad were getting their food from the lunch ladies they didn't know what they were getting but it was better than nothing they witnessed the 1st Squadron minus Ange who was missing in each group.
Ersha, Vivian, and Naomi gave the Rangers a greeting, Salia just gave waves at them still nervous around them and Rosalia gave them a cat meow, Chris was still nervous around them, but Hilda still gave them the death glare at the men. Daniel's first thought was that she hated new people but she didn't give the looks to his female squadmates so, in conclusion, she is sexist but there has to be a reason for hating men you can't just hate people for no reason.
Ange arrived later for some reason and ever since my men and I came to Arzenal, she would sit next to us whenever we ate we didn't know why but from what we could tell there was bad blood between her and her squadmates some of my men tried to talk to her but she never responded to us or acknowledged our presence she just sat there minding her business.
"Hey, Daniel." Daniel looked in that direction and saw Naomi standing in front of him "Hi Naomi." Daniel replied with a smile and she sat down in front of him. "I swear you and your buddy's pace are crazy especially since I couldn't since I'm still in recovery.
"I can't wait to see you fly again, Naomi you gonna be flying today?" Daniel asked out of curiosity. Naomi then replied. "Oh yeah, no not yet in a couple of days though, I'll be up and about flying with the others, though I'll have to pay back the debt that I have currently."
"You know if you need any help with your debt I can chip in." Daniel said while eating his food. The rest of the Rangers on the table were watching their conversation between the two like something from a sitcom. "I appreciate it Danny but I'll take care of it myself." Naomi said while twirling her hair a bit while blushing.
'Ever since we first met we have been hanging out, Target practice, Weapons cleaning, playing the arcade, and eating together, there were a bunch of Arzenal girls that would glance at us, and get jealous of Naomi. My men and a lot of people say that we were dating but I'm sure, we were just friends nothing more.' Daniel thought to himself.
Hilda on the other side of the table was just staring at the interactions between Naomi and Daniel. "I just don't understand what Naomi sees in that man." Hilda said while rolling her eyes out of annoyance at the sight. Rosalie next to her just looked at her. "Well to be fair they seem really good friends and the Rangers and Airmen seem to sympathize with how we live." She said while chewing her food. "Wait you care about the outsiders too?" Hilda asked turning to Rosalie about
'I'm kinda jealous, I wish I had the confidence to talk to them casually, especially Daniel, Naomi is so lucky.' Salia thought to herself. Chris looked over to the table where Naomi was sitting she saw Joseph Ryan walking to the Ranger's table Joesph noticed her and waved at her, Chris turned away and began to blush at the sight, Rosalie smiled and waved, Joesph waved back and sat down.
Namoi and Daniel were laughing a bit at a joke she told them, and then Naomi stopped laughing and tugged his shirt, bringing Daniel to her attention. "Listen do you want to hit the Arcades later after we finish eating?" Naomi asked with a smile. Daniel looked at her with a smile but had a realization he had to help Jasmine with the Mall today.
"Sure I would love to, but I have to work at Jasmine Mall, so maybe after my shift, it ends at 17:00." Daniel replied while smiling a bit. "Sure it's a date." Naomi shouted but soon covered her mouth and blushed a bit after saying that Daniel blushed a little. This caused some of his men to go. "Ooooohhhhh!" Daniel just looked at them and blushed even more. Both then laugh it out of embarrassment.
"Pop quiz? Do you think Naomi and Daniel will ever kiss?" Vivian said while making smooching noises. "Now now Vivian it's not nice to be poking around someone's love life, though I am curious myself?"
Hilda just kept on looking at them and then got up. 'I can't take this anymore.' Hilda thought to herself, she then got up from her seat. 'I'm not gonna let some man get Naomi when I'm around none of these outsiders belong here.' She then walked towards the table
"Naomi, why are you talking to this man, you two are on good terms but please what do you see in a man?" Hilda said with an annoyed voice which ruined the mood for everyone at the table some of the Rangers and Airmen looked at Hilda with disgust while some of them just straight up ignored her rant.
"Oh Lord clear the table I think she's gonna start her sexist rant." Nathan sarcastically said while moving his plate away from the situation Hilda just stared at him for his remark. Naomi turned to face Hilda "What is it now Hilda? Are you trying to cause problems with the Rangers and Airmen again you have been doing it ever since they arrived" Naomi said with annoyance.
"I'm just making sure that this pervert won't do anything bad to you in the future." Daniel just looked at Hilda with a glare. "Don't look at me creep." She said with anger. Daniel wanted to ice her ever since she's been harassing his people but he kept it to himself because he'd be no different than her.
"Hilda why do you hate the Rangers and Airman they are in the same position as us, this is like the 10th time in a row now, they aren't like that at all Hilda, and you seen them they treat us with respect." Ersha told Hilda while walking towards the table along with Vivian who was high-fiving a couple of the soldiers.
"Yeah, they are my new best friends as well!" Vivian yelled in excitement while patting Joseph's back with Joesph high-fiving her.
"Hilda that's enough will you leave them alone they didn't do anything wrong." Hilda turned and was met by Salia. "Uh, whatever but if you get raped by this man then don't go crawling to me." Hilda said while returning to her table. "I do apologize for Hilda's assumption again, I'm still trying to get everyone under control." She said while looking at Ange who just ignored her. Then Ange walked off with her empty tray.
Meanwhile
Founding Nations Outskirts
200 Miles from the Misrugi Border
12:00
It's been a week since we arrived and we barely established any contact with the rest of the Ranger battalion and our Air Force pilots, but I hope we will find them, and that they are okay. Meanwhile, through our surveillance, we have established that we have arrived in the future more specifically the year 2744 to be exact, and that we are in the dab middle of 2 neighboring Nations "The Misirugi Empire and The Rosenblum Kingdom" At first we were gonna establish contact with the local residents but from the reports Sylvia and Ichiro have gathered that there was an organization called the 'Norma Management Board' they capture and detain little girls who destroy there 'Mana Barriers' and to top it off they beat or kill anybody who doesn't hand over the child, and with that, we decided to remain hidden. My men and I were shocked by this sudden revelation and were currently running low on food and water but we shall prevail through this hour of shock and find our way back home no matter what. - Captain Matthew Davis.
After writing his log he stepped out of his tent to see his Troops were maintaining their Equipment. The vehicles they had, were all put in an abandoned warehouse that they found and nobody seemed to have entered the building they found.
He looked around the OP (observation post aka fixed positions) they set up a bunch of 5ft defensive fighting positions covered in shrubbery wide enough for 2 people to get in position with some having people in them. 'Reminds me of basic back at Benning, still wondering why they changed the name, sure General Hal Moore was a hero but still.' He thought to himself.
Davis Walked over to his Radiomen to make sure there was any progress in making contact with the other Battalion. "Jonas, Wayne any luck on trying to communicate with the missing company and our Air Force pilots." He asked startling them then they gained their composure and went to attention.
"At ease men, now tell me what's the status of making contact with our missing battalion and our Air Force?" Jonas and Wayne then looked at each other to see who would answer first. "Well, sir we are still unable to make any contact with the rest of the battalion and our Air Force pilots we don't know if they are in the same vicinity as us or if they are across the globe, and if it's the latter then we will have to get a stronger signal to communicate with them.' Jonas stated.
Davis just sighed at the statement they made. "Well keep trying, if they are across the globe then they will get a strong signal from somewhere but for now I believe you two deserve a break so go take one." Davis suggested making Jonas and Wayne happy but hid it to keep their military bearing intact, Davis saluted the two of them and they both saluted back to their Captain.
He then got on the radio. "Captain Garret what is the status of the abandoned warehouse position anything so far." He let go of the radio to hear the response. "It's going good the tank crew, helicopter pilots and I have been keeping the vehicles under maintenance
Unbeknownst to the Rangers the same girl in a hoodie and tactical gear named 'MYROM' was watching from the distance this time armed with an MTAR-42 with a Holographic sight and Silencer attachment, she was still looking through her binoculars. 'Just how long do I need to keep on watching them?'. Then the radio came open and Laswell said. "MYROM how's it looking over there?" MYROM got on her radio to respond. "Yes Laswell this is Agent MYROM, and it's the same thing as yesterday nothing has changed."
Laswell then sighed. "You sound upset MYROM tell me your opinion." MYROM hesitated at first but then she grabbed her radio out of frustration. "Listen Laswell I think I should establish contact with the Soldiers, if we just..." but Laswell cut her off. "Negative agent MYROM you heard my orders." MYROM then retorted. "Laswell if we don't make contact with the outsiders we may make things worse for them, and for us." MYROM stated with a little venom in her voice.
MYROM wants to end this secrecy and help the outsiders in a way that they can help them fight this brutal war of discrimination. Laswell sighed. "Look if something happens then you will be there to help them, we trained you to handle situations where you wanted to contribute more so don't get upset about how we run things you will understand when I send you to do more missions."
"Yes ma'am I did want to contribute more, so I'll do what you tell me." MYROM responded ending the call. 'One day will make contact.' she thought to herself. She continued to observe the campsite. 'I sure hope she knows what shes doing?' She asked herself.
Meanwhile, on a mountaintop 1000 meters from MYROM and The Ranger's position, a couple of soldiers dressed in black were watching the campsite where the outsiders were camping out they maintained a low profile. "They have been here for a week it appears they have dug in and are not planning on moving." one soldier whispered. The other soldier nodded in his response. He then got on his Mana communicator and contacted his Boss. "Sir we have found their camp what are your orders?" The soldier asked.
"Keep monitoring them we will make 'Contact' if they do something, whatever you do don't move in Ill be sending in more troops to your location." Zekhaev said with a grin. "Understood boss." then ended the call and the two soldiers continued to observe the outsider's campsite.
Arzenal Mall
13:23
Even though we were 'Refugees' from the past, we still had to be obliged by the conditions of living here. Rule 1: we had to work at the mall to earn money to eat sleep and buy our clothes. Rule 2: we had to help around Arzenal's personnel with their daily lives, medical assistance, weapons training, para mail/vehicle maintenance, cafeteria serving, and search and rescue/ security jobs that Commander Jill and Inspector Emma Bronson assigned us to. Those were the rules that we had to obey for us to stay here. As for myself...
Insert "Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River"
Jasmine was looking at the customers who were piling in her armory section but they weren't looking at the weapons. Daniel was showing the recruits the new pistol that just came in today but in reality, they were checking Daniel out and petting Luna more girls came into the mall to check the Army Rangers selling items like clothes, jewelry, books, guns, ammo, and other things.
After showcasing the pistol Daniel put it down and grabbed an Assault Rifle and an instruction Manuel in the other. "As you can see this is the new AK-147, it fires the 5.45x39 cartridge with 3 types of fire, Semiautomatic, Burst, and Full Auto. It says that if fired in a burst it can shoot faster than you do full-auto you just gotta have a good trigger finger." The girls were just in awe of not the gun but Daniel's presence.
Across the Mall were Renji Watanabe, Kyle Lynch, Nathan Garcia, and Trish Lee Park handling Clothes, Accessories, and other things Norma would enjoy having. "Guys I know it's been a week but I still can't believe we went from badass Army Rangers to selling products in a Mall?" Stated Renji, he was mad about the situation they were currently in. "Hey you know what they say 'Freedom isn't always free' We were told that Renji." Trish told Renji
"Look all I'm saying is that we should find the rest of the missing battalion and my brother." Renji said a little sad. "Well find them we just gotta fix our radios and will pinpoint their location and figure out how to get back home." Nathan said with confidence. Kyle just shook his head. "Still, why are we selling items to girls who will buy nothing but contraceptives to fornicate us its embarrassing, and every time we sell one, the Norma girls give us a wink they purchase one."
"Well I hope you guys keep it in your pants i would be very disappointed if one of you got caught doing the nasty." Trish Said while looking at Nathan specifically. Nathan was about to say something but then. "Hey guys!" Said a familiar voice of a little redhead. "Oh hey, Vivian!" They all shouted.
Vivian then walked into the armory in a hurry with a sucker in her mouth and a knapsack full of cash slung over her shoulder. "Whoa, they have a new one!" she cheered she then saw Daniel and waved at him he returned the gesture. She then ran straight to a new model boomerang weapon her Razor was equipped with. "Yo Granny! How much is this?"
Daniel laughed at Vivian calling Jazmine 'Granny'. "It's Big Sister dammit!" Jasmine huffed. She and Vulcan came over and gazed up at the item Vivian was drooling over. "The new super-chrome-steel boomerang? Eighteen million cash." All around them, Arzenal residents and the Outsiders stopped what they were doing and stared in shock. 'Vivians not seriously gonna pay that much right?' Renji thought when he heard that.
"I'll take it!" She exclaimed shocking everyone. She then dropped the bag of money and Jasmine did a quick count while Vulcan gave the bag a sniff. "Pleasure doing business with you, I'll make sure the armorers get it installed right away." Jasmine said with pride. Suddenly Vulcan and Luna began to bark Jasmine, Vivian, and Daniel turned to see what they were barking at.
What they saw was Naomi dragging a half-naked Ange behind her, with the latter struggling to let go of her grip, Daniel put the gun down and walked towards Naomi. "Whoa, sexy." Vivian said, looking up and down at the state of Ange's clothes. "Very funny Vivian." Naomi said jokingly. "Jasmine I need Ange to get new clothes ASAP please." Ange just rolled her eyes and finally got out of Naomi's grip.
"You didn't have to drag me I would've gone myself!" Ange protested with Naomi looking at her. "Oh, Really though?" Ange just rolled her eyes. Naomi just sighed. "You have any uniforms right Jasmine?"
"Sweetie I have everything from lingerie to rail cannons in this place." Jasmine pulled out a fresh uniform set from a stack near other essentials for pilots, tossing it to Ange. "This way to the changing rooms." As soon as Ange went to change into the new uniform, Naomi stood outside the stall with Jasmine, Daniel, Renji, and Kyle walked over to Naomi and Jasmine.
"Hey, we saw Ange's clothing shredded what happened." Kyle asked. Naomi walked toward the three and said. "Rosalie and Chris caused it." Renji looked unamused by the reveal. "They messed with Ange again?" Renji asked.
Ange got out of the changing room and was cornered by Vivian and Jasmine with Ange being unamused. "Well, I am proud that Ange has some people that she can trust, you, Ersha, and Vivian are very persistent." Renji stated. Naomi smiled and said. "Well somebody's gotta accept her." She then turned to Daniel. "Oh yeah, Daniel we're gonna have to reschedule our arcade time together." Daniel looked at Naomi with a confused look. "Why what's wrong?" He asked. "Salia has a meeting for 1st squad and she wants you and Richards to accompany you to our meeting Salia has arranged for us to go to." Naomi stated.
Kyle and Renji turned to each other. "I wonder why Sarge has to go?" Renji asked. "I might know why." Kyle replied with an annoyed look knowing what had happened with the misfired pranks that Rosalie and Chris had done.
15:29
Salia wasted no time in calling Chris and Rosalie to the briefing room, both were kneeling on the floor in front of Salia like a pair of out-of-control kids. Ersha and Vivian were there as well sitting next to Naomi. 'I wonder where Hilda is?'. Naomi felt her shoulder being poked at. "Hey Naomi." she turned to face Daniel and Richards sitting next to Naomi. "Do you know why me and Daniel had to come along?" Richards asked. "I might have a feeling." Naomi said while thinking it had to involve Hilda.
Salia sighed out of disappointment. "I've been dismissing it as just blowing off steam because I know you're upset." Salia scolded both Chris and Rosalie. "However this is getting out of hand and it needs to stop."
Rosalie clicked her tongue. "Doesn't it bother you?!" Rosalie shouted, looking at Ersha, Vivian, and Naomi. "She killed our captain and two recruits, and she doesn't care at all!"
"I know." Ersha said. "But she bought all their graves and returned to the battlefield. She's already atoned for it." Naomi nodded. "I agree, you guys have been causing more trouble for the people who didn't deserve it."
"I know but it's just not enough." Rosalie countered then the door opened in came Hilda. "Of course, it's not enough." Hilda said as she entered. "Maybe a good girl like you could, but the rest of us no way." Hilda then turned towards Richards and Daniel. "Why are they even doing here? I thought this was a 1st squadron problem."
"I brought Daniel and Richards here because some of their people including them have suffered from Rosalie and Chris's attempt of 'Vengence' against Ange." Salia stated. "Ugh fine, whatever." Hilda said out of annoyance, she then went to
"He's right, Hilda" Salia said. "I'm not saying you have to like Ange or forgive her. However this squad needs to get in order, Naomi is gonna be in the skies with us tomorrow we can't risk her getting into a coma again or worse, and like or not, Ange is a part of our squad." Salia said impatiently.
"You know what I think, I believe the commander has lost her mind." She said while walking towards Salia. "You'd think the burn princess deserved a worse punishment than piloting that piece of junk." Hilda looked at Salia and smirked. "Or... maybe she's planning on sleeping with her. How naughty." Salia began to tense. "When looking at it that way I can see why she prefers her over you Captain. It takes a lot to get on her good side. Maybe she's better in bed than you are. Or do you prefer to have the men here put their junk in you."
Salia began to blush angrily. "Respect your Captain!" Salia yelled, drawing her knife at Hilda. "Make me!" Hilda responded by drawing her gun, making everyone else stare in shock at how bad the situation was getting.
"Okay everyone let's just all calm." Daniel suggested but Hilda then aimed her gun at Daniel but before she pointed at him, Richard pulled out his gun before she aimed it at Daniel. "Hilda don't do it, we're all in the same situation right now." Naomi said while shielding Daniel from her, Hilda scoffed at her statement. "Yeah right like they would know what was going through, they didn't fight any DRAGONS or be taken away by your family like us." Hilda said with confidence.
Daniel sighed in defeat at her statement. "You're right I wouldn't know, we never fought dragons in our time, but we fought other human beings and lost good people in those battles we fought, both men and women that we lost in battle." He said with a serious face. Getting the attention of everyone, Hilda lowered her gun a bit.
"Listen, Hilda, Harassing Ange isn't gonna solve anything or bring anyone back from the dead." Richard then started talking which made Hilda point her gun at Richard. Richard then put his gun back in his Holster Raised his hands and sighed. "You know about a year ago in our timeline I lost a couple of my best friends back in a country called Iraq, by a rocket attack the guy who was on OP was sleeping. I was fucked up for six months." Everyone looked at Richard including Hilda when he was telling his story. "I thought about killing him, my buddies and I talked about it. I still felt how he failed all of us."
Chris and Rosalie just looked at Richard with shocked looks, Ersha just covered her mouth in shock, Naomi just held Daniel's hand for comfort knowing that he lost people too, Salia just looked down with regret, and Hilda was just surprised by his confession. The Norma were known to kill DRAGONS like professionals but they had never been shot at by an enemy opponent before. "So I know what you and the others are going through but killing her will not bring her back."
Chris and Rosalie just bit their lips out of frustration, Hilda then put her gun back in her Holster and walked off. "Yeah whatever, Rosalie Chris come on let's go." Both Norma then got up and followed Hilda through the door. As soon as they left Salia just sighed and approached both Daniel and Richards Thank you both for coming." she then bowed her head to both of them.
"Hey no problem, we're glad to help out in a way, but I'm afraid she will plan on doing something." Salia sighed then rose to face them. She began to blush a bit when they got close to her, and then Richards pulled out a coaching book for Salia to have. "Here I found this today at the mall it might help you out leading your squad, but if you need some tips and tricks from us I will be happy to help." Richards said with a smile making Salia blush. "Th-Thank you." She said and started to walk away.
"I might as well head back to the children I know Robert has been keeping an eye on them so I'll see you around." Ersha then walked out. "That could've gotten better." Daniel said while scratching his head. "You said it and it looks like Naomi is crushing on Richards." Naomi replied with Daniel shaking his head in Response. "There are some signs of new relationships happening among my men and with the Arzenal personnel so it's possible?" Then Naomi came close to Daniel and whispered in his ear. "How would you feel if we started a relationship right now just the two of us?" Naomi whispered making Daniel blush. Naomi started to giggle and grabbed Daniels arm and pulled him out of the room. "Come on we still have arcades to play." She said while dragging him back to Arzenal Mall.
After the meeting, Hilda led Rosalie and Chris through the hallway, and they both wondered what was going on with her especially snapping at Daniel and Richard in particular. Ever since the outsiders arrived she has been mean and trying to get arise out of them, most of them were men but from what they witnessed this whole week they seemed to treat Norma equally just as they saw the interactions Ersha liked the assistance from the Airmen and Army men with the school kids.
To top it off they have seen combat sure the Norma have fought the DRAGONS since birth but to be in combat against other humans means that they are experienced in their own way but Zola was their everything.
"Don't you two know not to start something you can't finish?" Hilda lectured with a backward glance.
"If you were watching us from the side throughout the week you could've helped us." Rosalie replied, with Chris nodding. Hilda just smirked and held up a key in her hand.
"Yeah well, I have my own plans."
"Wait... is that..?" Chris murmured. Then, a couple of seconds later, they found themselves at the place they had spent more time in than their dorms. It was Zola's quarters just as it was ever since she was KIA. The memories they had spent with their captain started to flow through from the king-sized bed to the luxurious hot tube. Bottles of wine on the mahogany cabinet next to a velvet sofa set against the wall, and a huge golden chandelier hanging up on the ceiling.
"It's been a while since we have been here." Rosalie commented. They approached a pinboard on the wall with a bunch of pictures, with one being Zola with her arms hung around the three of them. Chris began to cry. "Captain." Chris sniffled as she looked at the picture of them. "I'm so sorry, we tried to get revenge but we couldn't."
"Quit crying, Chris." Hilda ordered as she sat on the bed. "Just leave everything to me from now on. After all, everything Zola left behind belongs to me now." Rosalie and Chris looked at each other in shock then Hilda approached Rosalie. Before the orange-haired haired could respond, Hilda cupped her face and kissed her. Rosalie's eyes widened in response for a moment before she gave in and leaned into it.
"Hilda." Chris gasped.
"It's okay, I bought everything." Hilda continued as she stepped to Chris and cupped her chin. "Everything that Zola owned is now mine. Understand?"
"Y-Yes." Chris blushed. Thus the three had entered a night of bliss.
5 Hours Later
Daniel was pissed off at Ange on how she treated Vivian she was trying to get her to be her friend. He wanted to interfere but if he did it would have made things more complicated. He then felt someone holding onto his arm he turned to see it was Naomi was the culprit. "Well, that was something, first with the team meeting and then with what Ange did with Vivian I don't know what is going on." Naomi smiled with her eyes closed.
"Honestly I don't know what is with Ange, I get it, from what I heard from Ange, and Salia something FUBAR happened to her what she went through, and the others in fact but if she keeps acting like this then it will get just worst." Daniel admitted to Naomi. "I'm sure Ange will come along she just needs a little push, in a good way. For me, hazing only leads to more suffering if you gotta set an example of that person then you have to show them how important it is to be part of something greater." Naomi stated.
Daniel nodded his head in agreement. They continued to walk until they walked outside, Naomi looked at Daniel with a worried look. "Hey I saw you looking depressed when Richards talked about his time in 'Iraq' Was it, the same way any of your friends mentioned Afghanistan whenever they talk about it, you always look like you've seen a ghost." Naomi asked in a serious tone. Daniel just looked at the sunset. "It wasn't bad but it wasn't great either." he lied with a convincing look.
However, Naomi frowned a bit, like Vivian who can smell things a mile away, Naomi can tell when someone is lying. "Danny I may not be smart but I'm not stupid I know when someone is lying so please don't lie to me, I'm right here to help you out I won't judge." Daniel then stopped walking and turned to Naomi with a serious look. "I had a best friend named Ryan we knew each other since we were Five, after Highschool we enlisted in the Military. I joined the Army while he joined the Marines, and we occasionally met at the PX shop in Afghanistan and a couple of times in Iraq he was about to see his newborn daughter." He said while smiling.
Naomi smiled a bit but she heard the words 'had' and 'was' meaning that something happened to his friend. "Wait something happened to him?" Naomi asked in concern. "We were ordered to leave Afghanistan by our commander and chief, as soon as the order was given the people we fought took over the country in a matter of seconds it was chaos I'll save you the details, the civilians of the country overcrowded the airports, I was assigned to one of the Airports I saw my friend Ryan again and we talked had a good time but we heard a bunch of commotion from the crowded civilians, Ryan went to go check it out but little did we know there was a suicide bomber among the crowd." He said while looking at the sky.
Naomi was just in shock by his story she never fought other humans but 'Suicide bombers' sounded scary. "When the bomb went off 169 civilians were killed and 13 members of the US military were killed my friend was part of the causalities." He began to cry. "It was all my fault." Daniel felt Naomi's arm wrapped around him he never felt warm and comfortable in a while and it was something he was missing. Naomi then grabbed his hand and walked him to his barracks
"It's not your fault you can't always predict what will happen, trust me I know what it's like to lose friends in battle too, I have friends that i can talk to and help me with the loss, and if you ever want to talk about it you know where to find me."
As they reached the barracks Daniel felt a little relieved about Sharing his experience to someone he trusted. "Thank you for listening to Naomi I appreciate it." he said. "Don't mention it" Naomi replied.
"Well I guess it's time for you to go back, I'll see you tomorrow in the Sky just promise you will be safe." Naomi then grabbed Daniel and kissed him on the cheek. Daniel started blushing and Naomi started to run away and turned back to face Daniel. "Oh I will be I see you tomorrow! " She yelled while continuing to run to her room.
Daniel rubbed his cheek that Naomi kissed and began to blush, meanwhile, Naomi was smiling and blushing at what she just did.
After the night of bliss, both Rosalie and Chris were sleeping in each other's arms meanwhile Hilda was awake looking to the barred window and looked out over the moonlit water, the cold night air raising goosebumps across her naked bare skin. Hilda thought if she were in a dominant position she might get more of a satisfaction, but she had received a sense of emptiness.
In her hand, Hilda looked at the prosthetic eye. When they had taken Zola's body away for her burial, the eye had been left behind, and Hilda grabbed it before it could be collected it before it could be disposed of. She had some good memories of her she may have been perverted but she kept an eye on her and the others, and now she is gone, by that selfish bitch.
"You know, there was a time I think I loved you, Zola." Balling her hand, she pitched the fake eye out the window, and it disappeared under the waves with a soft splash. It was time to get to work.
Everyone was getting in formation the Norma Engineers, US Rangers specialized in Engineering, US Army helicopter pilots, and the Air Force pilots that were on maintenance they were just minding their business and talking about their day. "So you starting to get used to fixing Paramails?" David asked Richter. "Yeah, I'm starting to get the hang of this, especially being trained by the resident's maintenance crew." He replied by looking at one of the maintenance crewmembers looking at them when they both noticed they smiled and waved at her which in turn made her blush and turn around.
They both chucked a bit. "I hope you two aren't planning on hooking up with them." whispered a voice next to them they turned to see Kaz, and Sophia looking at them suspiciously. "Oh like we be doing that. We're not savages." David stated while putting his hand on his hip.
"Company attention!" everyone then stopped talking and got to attention the voice belonged to Captain Sullivan Parker who was standing in front of everyone and next to him left and right was 1st Lieutenant Randy Jones and Mei the Norma Maintenance Foreman. Checking her watch, Mei rubbed her shoulders as another day ended. "Listen up everyone, We are done for today. Dismissed!"
"Yes Ma'am!" Everyone shouted. "Again thank you Captain Sullivan, and Lieutenant Jones for your assistance, with your help, we were able to make our quota tripled." Jones turned to Mei and replied. "Don't mention it Mei, we're just returning the favor for your hospitality, though I wish some of your workers would stop flirting with some of our men."
"Well it can't be helped you are the first outsiders to arrive at Arzenal in awhile." Mei stated. Captain Sullivan and Lieutenant Jones heard the word 'awhile' they were gonna ask but they decided not to go any further due to her being affiliated with Jill and during the week of being here they knew Jill was secretive.
"Well anyway will see you tomorrow morning." Sullivan said while walking away from the hanger with Jones following him. "Have a good night kid." Jones added while waving his hand.
Once everyone left Mei looked back at Vilkiss and looked at the US military vehicles, she thought about the new allies she made during the past week. Mei smiled and then thought about her sister. "Don't worry big sis, your death won't be in vain." She vowed. Then she turned off the lights, and as soon as Mei left around the corner, she was unaware of a figure with twin tails that was watching out of sight. As soon as the coast was clear, Hilda smirked as she approached Vilkiss, she reached into the black bag that she brought with her. 'Let's see you get yourself out of this one Burn Princess."
Meanwhile
50 miles from the Rosenblum Kingdom
US Army Rangers' Hiding Spot
22:43
Ichiro was now surveying the village giving Sylvia a break from surveying both Mitchell and Richards were sleeping. 'I hope I get to see some action.' Ichiro thought to himself. He then saw 6 vehicles driving up the road from his left two of them being a truck in the middle of the 4 cars. 'They just exited out of the building, I wonder where those transport vehicles are going?' Ichiro thought to himself.
Ichiro just kept an eye on the vehicles through the scope then he saw a kid with blue hair wearing a black mask with a katana and holding an RPG aiming down the road, next to him was another figure with long hair making sure the RPG was loaded. Ichiro then turned to his buddies and whispered. "Hey guys take a look at this." then Sylvia began to wake up Mitchell, Jonathan, Micahel, and Samuel.
He focuses on the boy and then notices more troops dressed in black coming out of the woodline. 'It looks like an ambush is about to happen.' he thought as soon as the vehicles got closer, the boy shot the RPG and hit the second vehicle in front causing the other vehicles to stop the troops from the forest began to fire their weapons at the first vehicle killing the passengers with one of them getting an arrow in the head. The doors of other two vehicles in the back began to open the doors and they were armed with futuristic bullpup assault rifles and wearing heavy armor dressed in dark black and glowing orange eye gas masks they outnumbered the ambushers 5 to 1.
"Ah shit it's Embryos Mercenaries!" one of the Norma ambushers shouted. 'Did they know we were gonna attack?' but before he could figure a counter-attack each ambusher got shot down one by one. "Everyone fall back to your ambush position!" Shouted Luke as he headshoted an enemy and everyone ran to their positions taking cover from enemy fire. "They knew we would ambush those bastards!" Leia shouted in anger.
Ichiro, Sylvia, Mitchell, Jonathan, Michael, and Samuel were just watching from the distance, they were just watching the ambush fall apart. "What do we do?" Richards asked prepping his M249 SAW. Sylvia didn't know what to say she was in shock at how fast the ambushers went from the offensive to the defensive, Ichiro just watched the battle keep going.
"I got an idea." Mitchell said getting the attention of the others. "Why not we go down there and help them out, and after that, we ask questions, you know gather more intel?" Mitchell suggested. Ichiro thought about it. "Well, our orders are to gather more intel, and to find allies that could help us, so yeah let's do it."
Sylvia then intervened by saying. "What, no what about our orders what about not intervening? These soldiers that we will be helping could be dangerous." Ichiro just looked at her and said. "I'm tired of just watching and doing nothing they need help, Captain Davis doesn't need to know, besides this will only take a minute." Sylvia just looked at him in defeat. "Ok, what's the plan?" Sylvia asked waiting for orders.
"Mitchell, Samuels, Jonathan, and Michael will go down there and help the ambushers out with machine gun fire, rifle fire, and grenade launcher support, Sylvia you and I will provide sniper cover for our boys, we stay low and once the close is clear we will go down get answers and dip everyone got that?" He asked. Everyone nodded in response. "Alright then let's get to it." Ichiro said with excitement.
The men dressed in black military uniforms were still sustaining fire at the ambushers one of them was their Sargent then pulled up his mana to contact his boss. "Captain Zahkaev we have intercepted the ambushers and we are about to exterminate the vermin scum." he said with confidence. "Good work I knew they would want revenge when we burnt their hideout and the 'rodents' living in that area, kill them all, show no mercy!" Said their leader in the mana comms.
Both Sylvia and Ichiro grabbed their rifles equipped with silencers and night vision scopes, Mitchell, Jonathan, Michael, and Samuel then got as close as possible but undetectable and were in a cover and concealed position so they wouldn't be in the open. "Well, you ready to kill again?" Samuel whispered to Mitchell while adjusting his SAW. Mitchell turned his head to Samuel and replied. "I'm ready to free this world, it's our job." Readying his M320 grenade launcher.
Meanwhile, The Ambushers were taking cover from the attackers they were outnumbered 3 to 1, Lucia reloaded her rifle taking cover behind the destroyed car with her brother from left and right some Ancient Human and Norma fighters went down. "What do we do now?" One of the Norma soldiers asked Lucas but before he could give out an order one of the Mana soldiers snuck around and got close to the Ambushers he then aimed his rifle at Luke's head but before he could pull the trigger a bullet went right through his head and he fell to the ground making a thud noise alerting everyone.
"Who killed him?" Leia asked while looking at her squadmates to see if they had done it, but they shook their heads no. "I know who did it." He then heard gunfire from the woods and saw the outsiders firing at Zekhaev's men. "My God, They decided to get involved." Luke said.
Once again my fellow viewers another day another chapter. We'll there we go let's do a quick recap and rundown of this chapter.
Hilda is still sexist as usual but I can't blame her after all we all know what she has been through, and she's causing a bit of trouble for Ange will she cause trouble will she do the same to the outsiders who knows? Naomi and Daniels's relationship seems to be progressing a little.
I know I made a time skip I just wanted to make a new chapter ASAP, although I may add a new chapter later to show the Rangers and Airforce way of life at Arzenal and how they have been living. Hey, at least we get to see a little bit of Daniel's past, which was not nice.
Now let's talk about the Big Elephant in the room, you may have seen the new characters Luke and Leia in this chapter and you probably have seen some resemblance to Lucas and Lucia from Glitch in the System, and you may be asking 'What on earth is going on?' well to put it in simplistic terms those are 'variants' of those same characters in that story, they are just different from Raggys story (I was watching the Loki tv series and the MCU use of variants so it gave me that idea to use variants of fanfic characters in my fanfic story) I might add more characters from other fanfics to the story for cameo appearances but who knows?
Also, the inspiration for the new faction aka Embryos Mercs is based on the Killzone Video game antagonists the Helghast very tough and annoying bullet sponges, man that enemy faction was frustrating to handle. Hope you guys watched a couple of weapon callouts based on real life.
I have an announcement, I asked Raggylad98 to make me a new cover art for my story, and he did a great job on the artwork i plan on uploading it as the new cover art for this story, and he will be uploading it on his Deviant Art page so do look at his work, I will also upload some stuff on my Deviant page as well (I'm not an artist but i will post things related to my Fanfic just to keep the ball rolling) my Profile on DeviantArt is Alien4854.
BTW if you see The artwork it was inspired by the comic book cover 'Marvel 1985 Issue #4' Just google it or follow the link in the comment section of the deviant post to see the inspiration. I do recommend reading his story 'Glitch in the System', It's a very well-written story his story and many other Cross Ange Fanfics got me wanting to write my own Cross Ange fanfic and I am proud of being part of the Cross Ange Multiverse.
Anyway that's all I have to say and I'll see you in the next update.
Luke / Age - 23 (Voiced by Ian Sinclair)
Leia / Age - 23 (Voiced by Celeste Perez)
Samuel Dunn / Sergeant / Age - 23 / Eye Color: Green / Hair Color: Light Brown Hair / African American (Voiced by Bruce Johnson)
Mitchell Rameriez / Private / Age - 19 / Eye Color: Black / Hair Color: Dark Brown Hair /Mexican American (Antony Del Rio)
Michael Orr / Corporal / Age - 21 / Eye Color: Brown / Hair Color: Black / Caucasian (Voiced by Timothy Olyphant)
Jonathan Allen / Specialist / Age - 20 / Eye Color: Grey / Hair Color: Blonde / Caucasian (Voiced by David Menkin)
