2 Chapter 2

Title:"Growing Up"

1910 A.D. The Republic of Sardinia

The baby of the El Presidente was now 5 years old. His beauty was starting to take form and many people can see this.This beautiful baby was named Alfonso by his mother, after his grandfather.He was currently on the presidential manor, learning how to solve complex algebra equations. Since when he started to talk at the age of 2 everyone was astonished and perplexed by his genius.

When Albertu, his father and the El Presidente got him a private teacher,he started to show his genius in Math and Science.Originally, his teacher was only supposed to teach him how to write and read in Sardinian and English, but apparently he became proficient in both within the span of 3 days.Everyone thought that their child must be really gifted and praises the God for ensuring their future. Alesandra, who was his mother was grateful for having such a son. She thanked God nonstop for this opportunity and swear she wouldn't let her son's genius go to waste.

"Okay so what is x on the equation?" asked the match teacher of Alfonso named Aledenu. This teacher is his new math teacher, and this is his first class with him, after his previous teacher ran out of materials to teach him.Alfonso looked at the equation on the chalkboard and mentally solved it with ease.

"The value of x should be 50." answered Alfonso with a bored tone. His teacher was shocked, he didn't really believe that this boy is a genius of some sort but when he saw him easily solve the equation mentally he was convinced that he is a real deal.

"Cough* Very good, you got the answer correct. Now how about this equation." said Aledenu as he erased the equation on the chalkboard and wrote a new equation.After quite some time he finally finished the long algebraic expression.

"So what is y on this expression?" asked Aledenu as he brushed the chalk powder in his hands. Alfonso once again looked at it and easily solved it mentally.

'If I just didn't have a body of a 5 year old I would slap him!He's asking me,an engineering graduate and the top of the whole class at that, basic complex Algebraic expression.The audacity!' thought Alfonso in irritation.

"Sir, the value of y is 1/6" answered Alfonso after the brief pause where he solved the equation.

"O-okay, how about this..."

The day passed by quickly, after all the classes, Alfonso was now free to play or do anything he wants.

"Great, I can finally see the progress of the ore collectors I summoned 2 years ago." said Alfonso as he slowly sneaked away from his personal guards and maids and went to the cave where he summoned his ore collectors.

He entered the cave and after entering a couple of passages he finally reached his destination and what he saw there was amazing.A large reactor can be seen placed on the center of the large cave,an outpost building was also seen near the reactor.Surrounding the reactor was ore refineries, and large ore collectors was seen going back and forth from the refineries to the resource hotspot. The entire base was surrounded by fortress walls and protected by sentry guns placed on overlapping firing range. Alfonso slowly and carefully walked on the ladder placed near the steep hill like rock form. Once he finally got down from the ladder he was greeted by a group of medic and Conscripts equipped with ADK-45 rifles.Then a man in lab coat stepped forward and saluted him. The man wmhas a typical Russian face with a great moustache and he looks like Stalin. He was originally part of the chief scientist Alfonso first summoned, he exhibited great leadership and was appointed as base overseer by Alfonso. Alfonso at this time was experimenting, he wants to see if his soldiers would have different personalities and such. After a couple of tries he concluded that there would be a chance that one of his summon have a different personality and skillset. But most of the time they are the same and acted the same like on the game. Overall, everything worked just like the game but the time is lengthen. Once he ordered the construction of a building a magical wall will appear and sounds of building construction can be heard. And after the designated time it would be completed and the site wall will suddenly collapse and disappear without trace.The "people" who worked on the building was also nowhere to he seen. He hypothesised that the system summons the workers and once the building is completeled they would disappear because their summon duration is up.

"Comrade Alfonsue, it's nice to see you again, the base is doing great while you're away, we have already built 5 more barracks on top of the original 3 barracks.Currently we have more than 700 conscripts and 100 engineers." said Comrade Vladikovich Zhakiv.He is the head of the chief scientists and oversees the base while Alfonso was away.

"Comrade Vladikovich, thank you for your service to the motherland, I will make sure you are rewarded." said Alfonso as he saluted Vladikovich.

"Let's get into the hospital to have your annual check up comrade Alfonsue" said Vladikovich as he lead the way towards the base hospital.The conscripts walked with Alfonso and the medic team surrounding them in an arc to ensure protection.

On the way towards the hospital, Alfonso can see that his Soviet base is doing great from the looks of it. The first time he booted up the system he was asked what faction he liked to have as his first base. He, of course chose the soviet, they have powerful teslas and a broken airforce. The world he was in has not invented a plane yet. At least that what the books he read said. There wasn't a study about aerodynamics and the most advance air unit is a glider powered by diesel. But this wasn't adopted by everyone. The book he read said that the poeple on the city of The Factory developed it and was mainly used for quick transportation and such.But he wasn't convinced about this.He thought that the mechs originally was developed by The Factory so sure they should have already at least thought of planes, afterall developing mechs us a magnitude times harder than figuring out how to fly a piece of metal.

After sometime they reached the hospital, the group entered but the conscripts waited outside on guard. only 2 went inside for safety purposes.Inside,Alfonso was lead to different laboratories, from X-ray to MRI he was tested for any sickness or such. The hospital is something advance, the moment this was built all the necessary personnel was summoned, the supplies was apparently magically pops out of nowhere just like the food for everyone.The equipment was also summoned. With the advancements on health in the Red Alert universe, HIV-AIDS has a cure, even the SARS-COV2 pathogen has a vacine. This hospital has all the necessary equipment to save anyone from certain death, you're decapitated? Easy just bring the head and we will stitch it back to the body with special techniques and you're good once again.

While waiting for the results that usually takes up to half an hour,Alfonso decided to discuss certain pressing matters with Vladikovich.

"Comrade, has the war factories been built? We need to start arming ourselves, I am sure that war is on the horizon.Plus is our ore supplies sufficient, we will be starting to produce different machines once the factory was built. " said Alfonso to start a conversation, as he tilted his small body facing Vladikovich.

"Yes comrade, the war factories was nearly built,I expect them to be built within a week and once it's built we will start producing more ore collectors with 3/4 of the factories and the 1/4 left will be used to produce different war machines just like in your plan, the current stock of our ores are sufficient to atleast build a company of Sickles and Terror drones each." answered Vladikovich with proud in his eyes.

"Very good, continue with the plan and once it's complete upgrade the reactor to super reactor.Understood?" said Alfonso as he shifted his body towards the door waiting for the results.

"Yes, comrade" answered Vladikovich.

Just then a doctor came out of the door, in his hands was the results he walked towards Alfonso's direction calmly.

"Comrade, the results are out, your health is in top shape, if you continue with the diet and training you're currently doing you shall preserve this grest health of yours." the to doctor towards Alfonso.

"Thank you doctor, and yes I will continue with the diet and training just like you said.Then I shall beg my leave for I have been away for more than an hour now, my family should be concerned for me right now." said Alfonso as he slowly made his way towards the exit.

"Then I shall see you out comrade, said Vladikovich as he stood up and walked Alfonso out of the base.

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"You lost him again?!" shouted Albertu to the head maid and head guard.

It's been more than an hour since they lost their young master and it's the 3rd time that this happen. On the first time they lost him, they easily found him wandering the vineyard near the manor, the second time was a bit harder, they searched for more than 2 hours on the places he might go including the vineyard but they can't find him, just when they lost hope they find him near the cave overlooking the shoreline. But now they can't find him, they even tried entering the cave but there are just simply too many passages that may lead to dead end or danger. So they decided to ask their master for help. And of course he was furious. But as Albertu was shouting at the servants Alfonso entered the manor. Albertu saw him entering and quickly ran towards him for a hug.

"Alfonso where did you go this time? You know your mother will kill me if anything happens to you right!" said Albertu as he hugged and kissed him in the cheek.

"Nothing father, just went and sightsee the beautiful nature." answered Alfonso as he also hugged his father.

Originally, he didn't thought that he would grow to love his parents, but time facilitated it. He saw how much they love him, and he in turn grew to love and accept them. They provided him with everything he needed and desire, and he need is to ask and it will be done. For others this many be great, but for him it's a task, a hard task. He needed to control his greed and stop spending if it is unnecessary.Afterall, their money isn't infinite, even if they're the ruling family.

"Yeah, where's mom?" asked Alfonso to his father who stopped hugging and kissing him.

"She's on a painting lesson if I recall correctly that should be today, why?" answered Albertu to his son.

"I want to ask her if when can I go to a school." answered Alfonso to his father who signaled him to sit and tell him about it. The servants and guards on the surrounding just left quietly, the servants retreated to the kitchen and brought drinks for the father and son.

"You see my son, your mother and I talked about this more than you think, we agreed that once you completed your home schooling we may enroll you to the Unibersidad de Barcelona on Kingdom of Espania." said Alfonsu as he took a glass of juice from the servant who brought it.

"Really dad? Thank you so much!" I shouted in joy as I hug my dad. Finally I get to travel and see what this world has to offer.

"Yes, yes, that's fine but there's a condition." said Albertu to his son as he looked him directly on the eye.

"You can't sightsee anymore if you won't bring a servant or guard with you." said Albertu still looking at the eyes of his son seriously.

"Okay dad, just promise that I will be enrolled to a university after my home school!" said Alfonso as he compromised with his dad.

"Of course my son" said Albertu as he laughed.

'Crap, sneaking towards my base wouldn't work now! But if I'm near it I may continuously order the construction of facilites through the system.Well I will find it out." thought Alfonso.

"Speaking of university, what is your dream job anyway?" asked Albertu with a curious tone.

"Well dad I want to become an Engineer"

1915 A.D. Unibersidad de Barcelona.

The day is bright and lively but everyone has mixed feelings. A European wide war has started a year ago. This war is the first of its kind. Alfonso completed his home schooling within a year and a half before he was sent to study here. He has a window of half a year to adjust to the ways amd culture of people here so he can easily blend in. He was living on a big apartment prepared by his dad, his two neighbors was his gurdians, they send and pick him up from the school.The day he entered the the university, he caught everyone's attention. Afterall he is only 7 years old and was already on university.They thought that there must be something special about him. And surely after the classes has officially started he shocked everyone including the teachers of his genius. He easily breezed through the civil engineering course and graduated on top of his class. With a perfect GPA, the first in history.

The mechs was used just like a tank back on his world. The war has only been going on for about 9 months yet the total casualties count already reached more than 5 million on all sides.The Sardinia has opted to remain neutral from the conflict.Their ally italy has joined the war on the Allied side and has declared war on the Crimean Khanate,thinking they would gain large swats of land once they defeated them. Currently there were a military parade on Barcelona to commemorate the new graduates, this event has become pretty much a tradition.But the purpose of this parade is to try and win the graduates on staying in Espania and working here. They're basically saying "Hey look we have numerous mechs, which means we have a strong economy, come work for us and prosper together".

The graduatees were all wearing black scholar robe with a cap. Most of them were watching the military parade with brimming eyes. They were thinking of staying on Espania and working here. Seeing the overwhelming shock in the eyes of his fellow graduates, Alfonso laughed inside.

'Fools, these tin cans won't stand a chance against the great tesla of my Soviets. But they would be great conductors.' thought Alfonso as a man in suit approached him.

"Mr. Alfonso Sierra, the son the Sardinia's El Presidente, I am Migeul Borja a government official, nice to meet you." said the man as he offered his hand for a shake.

"Nice to meet you too Mr. Borja, what's the matter?" asked Alfonso as he shook Miguel's hand.

"Nothing much, I was just here to congratulate the top of the Engineering class. I heard that you were the youngest man to ever achieve sich thing. At the age of 10 you became an engineer." said Miguel as he sat stood beside me. We were watching the boring parade and the scene isn't changing.Tin cans, after tin cans.

"So what do you think of staying here? We have a friendly relation with Sardinia and we cna help your country." offered Miguel as he didn't looked at him and continued watching the parade.

"Hahahaha, Mr Borja is funny, how could I accept such offer." rejected Alfonso trying to hold back his irritation.

'What the duck, you think am I? I won't stay here on this country where it's near the fighting,even if you have a powrful military."thought Alfonso in irritation.

"Come on Mr Sierra, your talents may go to waste if you have no resources to translate it, here we can fund you with everything you need,just say the word and we would give it to you." Miguel didn't give up on trying to bait this kid. He was sure that he would be able to convince the kid with his words.

'His talents is something unbelievable, we need to hook him to oyr side before anyone else.' thought Miguel.

"Mr Borja, my mother said to me that if a anyone rejected you just accept it,else you are making a big fool out of yourself." said Alfonso as he looked directly on the eyes of Miguel. Miguel was shocked at the kid's words. And due to embarrassment he parted with Alfonso but nit before he gave his adress.

"Cough* Mr Sierra, I would be going, and if your mind changes here's my address you can write or come there so we can discuss about it." said Miguel as he silently left with a smile.

Alfonso looked at the paper with an adress written, he just looked at it and silently crumpled it before throwing it away.

'Tsk once my Kirovs appeared you all shall tremble' thought Alfonso with a proud feeling.

1916 A.D. The Republic of Sardinia

Alfonso was currently inside his Soviet base and was directing things here and there.It's been 6 months since he returned from his 4 year schooling overseas. The base has improved greatly in terms of defense and production.His current base capabilities has already reached the tier 3 and has The current base has 10 super reactors on the center, which supplies the base with electricity.

More than 50 barracks, construction yard, ore refineries, naval yard, and war factories each. His current funds are more than 1 billion dollars worth of resources.His current army has more than 50,000 conscripts,30,000 Tesla Troopers, 39,000 Flak Troopers, 8,000 Combat engineers, 25,000 Mortar Cycles, 20,000 Sickles, 20,000 terror drones,15,000 Bullfrogs, 15,000 Hammer tanks, 15,000 Repears, 5,000 Stingrays, 25,000 Akula Submarines,500 Dreadnoughts and 50 Iron Curtains in counting. He didn't irder ti summon war bears because the climate isn't suitable for them and he fears that they will die due to sickness and he will waste money.

He currently doesn't have any air force. He fears that once he ordered his people to build an airfield and start producing planes, people may freak out and the eyes of the world superpowers be shifted to their little island nation.Once this happen, he would have to bring his hidden forces to help his father and that would open another door which would be the questions.He would surely ask me where do I got this people and machineries.He just can't say that he summoned them, that would be unrealistic,so he need to stop his desire on hearing the famous phrase.

Inside the command headquarters, Alfonso was seen seating inside his office looking at reports.

"Comrade Vladikovich is it ready?" asked Alfonso as he stood up from his seat.

"Yes comrade, everything is set for them, the Battle Lab is already constructed" answered Vladikovich as he also stood up from his seat. The conscripts on the surrounding as got ready to depart.

"Then let's summon her, I want to see her, and my time is short, my father demands me to attend a national banquet later." said Alfonso as he slowly walked towards the exit, following him was Vladikovich and 15 other conscripts.

"Let the famous Natasha Volkova pierce everyone on this world with her beauty"