A New Empire War And Peace
Chapter 46
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI stood within the central cockpit for the L-90 Thunderclap Anti-gravity Aircraft Carrier, aside from the Starships in current use, this was one of the largest flying craft my Empire had at its disposal. As for why I didn't just bombard the fuckers from orbit, it was because I actually wanted to prevent the death of as many cats as possible, I know thats not their species name, but I'm gonna just start callin em cats for now, or nekos, don't like it? To bad. Suck it up Buttercup.
Regardless, this cockpit was massive, miles in diamiter and made of 40 foot thick enchanted crystal enhanced with thin energy shields, the whole craft had energy shields, and could house thousands WR-3F Fortress Anti-Gravity Troop carriers, but I didn't actually have more than about, 795 of them, and a few thousand X-C6 Scourge Automated Fighter craft, which I actually did have a few thousand lying around waiting to be used. The robots I'd be sending in as ground troops, would be special ones, while looking like normal sentry bots, these had specialized sensors within their chassis to detect changelings and other species, so it would only actually shoot changelings with automatic railgun rounds, while the cats would be shot with either electric stun weapons, or flat out sprayed with knockout gas.
Winter Gust saluted me, seeing as she was the head captain of the Empire's Might, which is what the antigrav carrier was called, and went back to the main controls, which had several android and organic pilots as well, seeing to Point Defense Weapon systems, mostly automatic 50 caliber railguns and supersonic missile systems. It DID have other defense weapons of course, but it shouldn't need them for this short trip, as such the carrier took off smooth as butter, and once the artificial gravity generators where active, we shot off instantly at Mach 10. As an explanation, the artificial gravity generators are what prevented pilots of my starships and fightercraft from.... splattering, like an egg, inside their cockpits, the same applied to passengers.
Within 15 minutes we arrived at a city....well, what had once been a city, it had been destroyed by an arcane bomb, buildings melted into slag, others completely vaporized into dust and ruble, while factories burned, spewing black smog into the air due to being in fire and half destroyed, the flames burning a bright neon purple. Looking closely one could see charred bodies, burnt out husks of vehicles and other such crap. It was a sad sight to say the least. I watched as cat jets screamed past, much to my own surprise, my pipboy had them marked as friendlies so the Point Defense Weapons didn't shoot them out of the sky like a hunter shooting ducks, the jets engines wailed as they shot past, and they each let loose several R4M rockets at a large Storm Empire airship, striking its sides and exploding with brilliant orange flashes of flame as the gas lit from within, and caused the airship itself to go up in a ball of flames and scrap metal.
More airships where in view as well, the jets turned around and landed on the antigrav carriers roof, it being flat it could act as a runway, despite not actually being designed to do so, and they got refueled, I had prepared to fuel powerplants and perhaps cars, so I had fuel for their jets, 17 jets landed for fuel, and while they where busy refueling, the ships defenses decided to knock a few of those Storm Empire airships from the sky, missiles fired in a spiraling arc, spinning around one another, and slammed into the airship two miles away, these had been plasma missiles, just a small missile with a plasma warhead, and since the gas keeping those airships afloat was flammable, the airship went up in a brilliant display of neon green and orange, the shockwave from the blast rattled other nearby airships.
I grabbed a radio and spoke into it, broadcasting to the remaining fleet of airships. "This is King Lorenzo, Ruler of the Crystal Empire. I hereby order you to cease all hostilities against the Abyssinian Empire and immediately vacate this Empires territory, or you will be stricken down where you are, I will not tolerate anything less than what I have stated." I set the radio down, letting the button go, and waited.
I didn't have to wait long, as the voice I recognized as the Storm King's came through the radio speaker, however, he didn't sound like I remembered, he sounded serious. "This is the Storm King, ruler of the glorious Storm Empire and all its territories, this Empire now belongs to me, as such I will not have my forces vacate it, you shall leave now, or face the might of my military, air force, and the wrath of our arcane bombs."
Facepalming I pressed a button, and the antigrav carrier released its troop carriers, they shot off to various cities in this empire, things where about to get interesting, that much was for sure.
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Chief of Police, Johnson was looking over some new reports. "God damn it! We only have enough diesel to last 25 days? That's not even a month!" He slammed the papers down onto his desk. The officer that had brought the reports shrugged.
Greg looked at the now scattered reports on the wooden desk. "Like I said sir, we are not on Earth anymore, we just fuckin can't be, you saw that shit on the television and heard it on the radio, hell, people are even beginning to panic, the statement we made about the new world thing only excited some scifi nerds, and the old people brushed it off, not believing a single word out of our mouths....but the more important thing here, is what do we do if we encounter some sort of alien life?"
Johnson sighed. "Try to make a peaceful first contact, don't shoot unless shot at, the three gas stations in town are to be blocked off from civilians, we will need all that diesel for the powerplant at the edge of town, its only a miracle the power didn't shut off the moment we got here, as such we should ration the power itself, the 4 water towers scattered around town will keep people with drinking water for about three months, if rationed, we'll just have to do with what we've got, the cattle and wheat farm will be our most valuable source of food for now, once the canned and store bought good runs out. For now however, I want one of our choppers to scout around, see if there's anything near us."
Greg nodded, and relayed those orders to the three men trained to fly the helicopter, whom quickly took off after fueling the craft, and preforming some pre flight checks. The police helicopter quickly gained speed and flew from the town of Raspberry, and flew for three miles before the very edge of a massive city came into view. "Dear god....its massive, it has to be hundreds of miles, if not more, from us, and yet we can still see the buildings clear as day from here, some of those half to be half a mile tall or more!"
The co pilot nodded and pulled out his smartphone and zoomed in, snapping a few photos. "Chief is gonna wanna see these, this is big news." He put the phone back into his uniforms pocket. "We better not fly to high or close, otherwise their radar, or whatever they use, may detect us and shoot us down, we still don't know if anything here is hostile, but if their civilized and advanced enough to build such skyscrapers, then I'd say we have a decent chance for first contact, but better to not risk it." Unknown to the co-pilot or the pilot, they had been detected the moment they got into the air, and soon enough something would be coming out to greet them.
Next Chapter: Chapter 47 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 50 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
So I had about 200 of this typed up at a library computer before my time was up, and I was told I can't just switch to a new computer or get more time, so fuck me eh?
those are the old authors notes
new one
I HAVE A LAPTOP NOW EEEEEE, an ASUS VivoBook 15 to be exact, THE STORY IS BACK ON BOIS, don't have a charger for this beast yet, due to ...issues, but it was charged when I got it, and I shall be getting a charger soon, as such don't worry, this was a smol chapter to tide ya'll over, I'll try my damndest to try and make the next chapter longer
in other news blue gaget was drawn, enjoy him lol, and yes I know ya'll likely expected something different , that was why I decided on this style for the mane n tail
I will still be taking donations, but for a different reason now, if you wanna donate to help me with the story, like helping pay for potential cover art n crap like that, or you just feel like givin a guy a buck, feel free, but by no means, does anyone have to donate, hell I could care less now if no one ever donates to me again for any reason, I have my new laptop , and I have all of you whom donated and gave enough of a shit to thank for it, so thank you