The Longest Plan
The Streets of Berun were packed full, the day was after all, one that marked Germania's greatest feat, under the still ruling Sankt Kaiserin, the day the world came into being ruled by Germania's Hero, Leader, and now the closest to a living God. Earth was now entirely governed by one ruling body, and the head of said body was very much said Sankt Kaiserin, packed streets, stalls selling all kinds of foods, trinkets, or games you would see in any typical street event stall, the mood in the Capital of Earth and everywhere that wasn't where former Republic of Francois or Kingdom of Albion once resided was the same.
The quietest place in such City was the grounds the residence of their great leader existed. In there, one solitary lit window could be seen, and in that very room said window belonged to, a person was sitting, slumped, head in the desk, and clearly not sharing the superbly festive mood the whole world was having.
"Why…. Why…."
Female voice, one a handful of Mages would feel instinctive fear from, but most would just fight to even listen to, no matter if she spoke gibberish. The golden blonde locks of hair, receiving the warm light of the desk lamp, could almost make someone mistake them for golden threads of silk.
"HOW DID THINGS COME TO THIS?"
That person lifted her head, letting such howl of anguish out, to no one's ears, the Sparkling blue eyes, that face some once described as that of a doll, now would be best compared to that of a Goddess, not to say of her body, at 1,70m tall, with average but balanced curves where they should be, and a faint but easy to see in the dimly lit room shine on her skin.
Taking a deep breath, she fixed her posture in the chair, gently got her hair back to a more presentable shape, then let a very unbecoming sigh before downing her latest bottle of the strongest Spirit, imported from a Sybryan Distiller.
"Get a seat in the Diet Tanya, it would be just a paycheck smooching job I said, you would NEVER get into ever so higher positions of power I said….. I hate past me."
Yes, the person in the room looking to be the most Miserable person on Earth was the Sankt Kaiserin, Tanya von Degurechaff, quite a change from her younger adult years, from a woman that would be carded even in her Forties of age, to the closest to a living example of Godly perfection in physique.
"For fucks sake, First that crazed Schugel gives me in his dying breath that absurd concotion, then the world keeps deciding to get crazier and Crazier, and such stormy Global landscape somehow earns OZEV, under my lead, MORE AND MORE Members….. And now I have to manage both a ONE WORLD ORDER and a damned be CULT of worship of me….. fuck you, Schugel and Being X."
Opening a new bottle, this time a Francois Spirit, she takes a Beer mug, a vintage from that beer hall the GWP used for their speeches way back then and fills it to the brim before downing the contents in one go.
"I can tolerate this body, becoming Immortal and stuck at a Biological mid 20s…. but fuck Schugel's serum making me an EVEN STRONGER MAGE and IMMUNE to poisons, including Alcohol."
As she rants, memories come, all about how things came to this.
"I just have to wonder how the Frogs, Albion and the Ispagnian forces manage to trip so hard on Aegyptus to lose the Suez Canal for good….. their sole hit was that lucky hit that got Nasser for good…. Just when I decided to amp support to the Aegyptian resistance forces…."
Framed in an armored and Bulletproof casing slated to be proofed even against Germanian Mages Artillery spells used in an Anti-Tank 20mm Rifle, an Ankh made in Gold, a gift from Nasser a week before that atrocious mass bombing strike, next to it, a medal, a Nordic swastica styled medal from Legadonia.
"As the mess in Aegyptus, the Middle East and Republic was going, the Rus, backed by that madman Li Lisan and sympatizers, kicked AGAIN at the Nordic region's doors…. And just wonderful they deployed that damn Ekranoplane or whatever it was called to do a Nordic Revolving Door 2.0: Osfjord Boogaloo, forcing me to get OZEV to intervene there… at least I shot more commies… was nice bombarding those CSR mages into dust."
She gently flips the pages of a book where Journal excerpts that she liked had been preserved, with several physical and digital copies for safety, one in particular has her using Tactical Class super spells with the Elenium Type 106 K custom in the Photos.
"That the aftermath had the entire Nordic Council sending in requests to become OZEV members was just the tip of this awful iceberg. Right away, Kieva, Caucasus and even the Magna rumelia and neighbohors region as a whole sent in requests…"
Another Journal page has a photo of Ildoan, Dacian and Germanian Troops in Kieva, building fortifications, with another showing Dacian and Pullskan troops cooperating in Europa's doorway into the Middle East to repel CSR backed Qajarian forces, that somehow had trampled most of the Turkmenish forces, if you discount how they were worse than the Ispagnians in Weaponry, with fucking TRAPDOOR SINGLE SHOT RIFLES as their infantry service guns and no Machineguns whatsoever, which was the very spotlight of the journal next page.
"Then the Asian fiasco comes striking, Akitsushima held the door bravely, but needed our Asian Fleet's help when the US chickened out of countering the CSR mage subs outside Hawaii, Shu ended assassinated in that whole warzone, but Formosa ended liking the Germanic style of leadership more when I passed there on my way for a visit to the Emperor…. And they did join…"
The Katana she had been gifted way before the second great war was there on top a Dresser in an Akitsushiman wooden stand for it, in the way right behind it, a Naginata she got gifted during said visit, the Akitsushiman Journal she was flipping through had a Photo of her cleaving two CSR and a Francois Mage in two halves with said weapon.
"As if things couldn't grow any worse, Afghanistan exploded, rebellions lit like a christmas tree there, crippling the CSR's Railways, then South Bharat abuse said fact to kick their Northern nemesis back into the Mongolian Mountains or Burma, where they got eaten alive by the Budhist Extremists there… in fact the troops that did such job were all once part of the Volunter forces I ended rising into shape…."
She keeps flipping more pages of that book, remembering more and more events….
"Malagasy joining, the Arabic nations, Brasillian and Granada…. The US and Kanata…. One by one things got nations to join OZEV…. All caused solely by anyone but me and OZEV, who stood doing our own things…."
Time goes by, as she remembers just how things went, one by one, Continent by Continent…. She finally gets snapped out of the rambling by a knock on the door.
"Come in."
Her senses already told who it was, but she behaved as if she didn't, for reasons.
"Mother."
"Adie? Something the matter?"
"Yes, mom. Come on, let's get some fresh air."
Tanya frowns.
"Adie, you know I'm not a party person."
"That's a lie and we both know, my source is Aunt Anya and all the things her Grandmother spoke of you."
"You know that Elya was…. a bit biased about me."
Yet it was no use, Adelaide Degurechaff grabbed Tanya's hand and dragged her, which of course was the Sankt Kaiserin not resisting, she was unfortunate to have a rather soft spot for her daughter, and no one, even Being X, would know who if anyone was the father, especially given Adelaide was born years after Visha's death.
"Mother, just because you are embarrassed about today being a date about you, doesn't mean you should lock yourself in that room, last year when I was doing my job as Chancellor during this period, I returned to reports of you having locked yourself in the Closet."
"Your point being?"
"You never come out that room by yourself not depressed, a societal anxiety mess or the next incarnation of the Bloody Valkyrie, I am telling you to GET A DAMN HOBBY OR LIFE."
"Sure, sure, is Space exploration still stuck? Maybe I will go take a walk in the Moon or even Mars…"
"The Pixie 13 vessel carrying the drone to Mars seems to have self destructed, but the Viktorya 2 manned trip to the Moon has returned, and they found something interesting."
She stops for a moment, taking out a Case from he Hyperspace inventory, a spell only she and her mother somehow could use, Tanya takes it and opens. Inside, what looks like a slightly oversized Orb for a Computation Orb of old.
"A Jumbo orb?"
"Dunno, Arthur Schugel analyzed it and admitted he knew shit about it."
Tanya touches it, suddenly it lights up into a powerful shine for a few seconds, before returning back to normal. Both shrug the incident, leaving it for the next workday.
"Mom."
Eating Diner in the Open Garden of the house, under candlelight no less, Adelaide speaks.
"Yes, Adie?"
"How much of all that was just accident and how much had SOME planning?"
Tanya stops eating for a while, pondering the question.
"Honestly, nothing the first three fifths was planned or even considered, almost all past the Death of Shu however I did plan and act for that."
"Why?"
She shrugs.
"I got fed up with all the shit everyone was causing me and OZEV. If they want to blame all their misery on me having such grand plans, so be it. Or so I had decided back then."
Adelaide suppresses a laugh.
"To Think you became a Living Goddess and Ruler of Earth mostly on accidents…. How many would be rolling in their graves?"
"I would probably not have to worry about the Energy department if that's the case, if the Good late Secretary General Lergen who understood me so much is proof, all those Frogs and Albish idiots would solve our Energy issues in one go."
[In the Lergen's Memorial Turbine, its output rose by 16.5 MWh].
Once diner was over and they got the dishes washed, they talked over a glass of Wine from Platia and a Mug of Brasillia selected Coffee grains, it was just past midnight when they went to sleep.
It was barely Six in the morning when both were woken up by BND's director Anya Muler, who brought reports about a weird gigantic structure embedded in the Moon becoming active, three hours later, a human looking thing had landed in Berun, whatever happened afterwards was kept top secret between the Sankt Kaiserin, Chancellor Adelaide, and BND director Anya.
Albish Island, formely the lands of the Kingdom of Albion, in a basement in a building located at downing 10 street
The little that remained of those who swore to resist the tyrannical rule of the accursed Devil, had called for an emergency meeting, Francois, Albish, Ispagnian, even the Chinese and American had people part of the Resistance, a generic name to avoid infighting due to such diverse background of members. On the worn but clearly of quality desk used for the meeting, a Printed copy of an Online Journal, the photo was printed on another paper, enlarged so the details can be seen with clarity.
"KNEW IT, that damned Devil isn't satisfied having Earth only!"
Charles du Cul, former member of both SCE and later Le Main Bleue, now the one responsible for keeping the Francois cells in order, his fists threaten to slam at the desk, but he controls himself if barely, many of the dents in that desk were his doing after all, and good Desks or tables for such an organization were hard to come by, just like ammo and resources as a whole.
"Have to give her credit where's due, her plans are as devious and complex like no other genius."
The Albish representative was Taping at the paper with the news article, the heading said all, "Civilization or Versia in Mars opens talks with the Sankt kaiserin". The Photo in the other paper showed Tanya, Adelaide and a mysterious human looking woman, with long blonde hair tied in a bun, dressed in a weird kind of maid dress with a head ribbon that gave the looks of rabbit ears.
"KNEW IT! THE KAISERIN IS AN ALIEN INFILTRATOR!"
'SHUT THE FUCK UP JIMMY, no one cares or wants to listen more of your ever increasingly insane theories against her, go see if James S. T. Udent needs help with the surveilance system."
As Jimmy leaves in a sad manner, Former Colonel Campbell refocus.
"If anything, things just became worse, now even civilizations outside Earth or even the Solar System will fall prey to her. If she can charm the remains of a super advanced Civilization, what of those with still living sentient beings?"
Nods all along.
"That Witch has ensnared the Chinese with her damning promises, while the CSR rulers clearly failed, the fate of the people with Xing's blood must stay in Xing's people's hands, not a foreigner!"
'Agreed, we all here want our Nations ruled by those from OUR lands. But what we do? Attacking either the Kaiserin or that Versian representative would be suicidal and useless…"
At that, one person enters the talks, coming in late.
"If a direct attack isn't possible, why not make clear things aren't as safe or stable as she would surely want to show to her guest? Enough chaos and terrorism in one go could do the job, and casualties would be minimized despite the method."
Tom Sioux, while only from a third-degree cousin to Anson Sioux, he still bore a deep hatred for the Devil who ended the main Sioux family, but wasn't blessed with superb Magic, hence his style of doing things with excessive amounts of explosives, hostages and outright terrorism that made even many of the already deranged Francois SCE and Le Main Bleue shiver in fear at how extreme he went to achieve the Resistance's goals.
"And give her more fuel to make us the Villains? As if having former SCE war criminals, CSR psycho mages and even that weirdo Bharatian guy who called himself the Evil Ghandi isn't enough."
The American and Albish representatives opposed the idea, one was that their public image was poor exactly because of the Legadonian himself, the other was very much that they suspected he would use Dirty bombs or outright Nuclear warheads in said Terrorist act if they greenlit the idea.
The talk went for a few hours, ending in an Impasse, most knew that the Sioux guy would do what he proposed no matter what, so they all just quietly made notes to notify their agents to NOT help him whatsoever in any way, shape, or form.
Berun, Tanya's home
'Of all things, that damn orb HAD to be some kind of unique device, huh?' Tanya sighs at the thought, behind her, the Versian followed.
"Something the matter, Mother?"
That made Tanya flinch, but she keeps herself under control.
"No, Nothing."
'And now an Autonomous superadvanced Robot and all technology buried in Mars is under my control….. I just KNOW everyone will think this is yet another step in my Quadrillion years Plan.'
The Versian Robot in question was the human looking figure following Taya closely, while she had a human appearance to a close T, a few discrepancies still showed, such as her 2.4m of height or abnormally excessive flexibility even in areas such as the feet or head, the image of her turning the head over 105 degrees to face Tanya haunted the memories of the Kaiserin and her daughter.
"And I thought just Earth was all I would end with…"
Without realizing, she spoke such a thing, which the Versian Robot surely heard loud and clear….
"Mother."
"Y-yes, Allusia?"
'Is she happy? That ribbon on her head is an accessory, right? so why are those bunny ear sized flaps acting like that? Did she like the accidental name?'
"Do you hope for humanity to expand past just this planet?"
'Hm, yes, of course…."
"Then…. How long you expect that expansion to exceed this solar system?"
'How curious, is she hoping us to expand like her mother civilization or even exceed it? As if, hopefully by then I would be having a comfy time just enjoying my life….'
"Dunno, hopefully that happens within a Millenia…. And who knows… maybe Ten thousand years would be enough for the whole Galaxy…. But that's just a daydream."
Unknowingly to Tanya, her comments would haunt her dearly in the future….