35 Chapter 35: The Formation of A Nation! (Time Skip!)
'Thinking'
"Talking"
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- 3 months Later | Azgeda Territory -
- 3rd Person -
On top of a snowcapped hill looking over a massive crash site of a massive metallic structure was a small two-man team. One was laying down in the snow with a sniper rifle in hand and the other one was in a crouched position with a radio in his hand and with a small antenna sprouting out of his backpack.
On the massive metallic structure was a set of massive faded out red letters that read - FARM STATION -.
"Hello bravo-one, this is overwatch, over." the man said into the radio.
"Overwatch, this is bravo-one. Over." responded bravo-one on the radio.
"Bravo-two, this is overwatch, over."
"Overwatch, this is bravo-two, over."
"Bravo-three, this is overwatch, over."
"Overwatch, this is bravo-three, over."
"All fireteams are accounted for, over." The man said after altering the radio's frequency slightly.
"Copy that overwatch, operation: Reclaim the farm is a go. I repeat operation: Reclaim the farm. Is a go."
"Copy that command, over." The man said before altering the radio again.
"All fireteams, operation: Reclaim the farm. Is a go, I repeat it is a go."
"Copy that overwatch, over."
"Copy that overwatch, over."
"Copy that overwatch, over."
After that, the man had placed his radio back into his backpack and in exchange took out a pair of binoculars. The man then laid down next to the man with the sniper rifle and looked towards farm station through his binoculars.
"You think this will work?" the man with the sniper said while maintaining a calm and steady breathing pattern.
"This will be the very first op. for us mountaineers. I pray that we don't fuck this up. Because if we do, then an entire war may break out."
"Agreed." the man with the sniper said ending the conversation and looking in through his scope.
After a few minutes had gone by the sniper team were finally able to spot all three fireteams of bravo squad. "Ah, there they are, skis and all." the man remarked looking through his binoculars.
The man then pulled back out his radio before focusing his sights onto the entrance of the cashed Ark station. "Bravo-one, this is overwatch, over,"
"Come in overwatch, over."
"You've got two contacts at the front door, unknown amount inside. What we've seen over the past few days gives us a best guess of twenty-three. Over."
"Copy that, anything else overwatch, over."
"A group of fifteen left earlier today and as of now are still unaccounted for, over."
"Copy that, thanks overwatch. Bravo-one out."
*CRACK! CRACK!*
Two loud bullwhip like cracking sounds were fired out, causing the two guards at the front entrance to fall over dead.
"Detaching skis now, moving into farm station bravo-two, out."
"Detaching skis now, moving into farm station bravo-three, out."
"Copy that boys, good hunting. Overwatch, out."
- [Image of the Mountaineers] -
- Inside of farm station -
*CRACK! CRACK!*
Two more cracks sounded out from their suppressed Scar-H's as they moved further and further into Farm station.
*THUD! THUD!*
Both now lifeless Azgeda soldier's bodies dropped to the floor with a thud, alerting the small group of three around the next bend.
"Chit daun bilaik?" one of them said. (What was that?)
"Now!" their fireteam leader whispered.
The four-man fireteam all turned around the corner at the same time and unloaded a few rounds into each of the Azgeda soldiers.
*CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!*
*THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!*
"All right you know what were here for, we grab the hydro-generator while fireteams bravo-two and three deal with the Azgeda chief and gather the remaining survivors."
All the soldiers nodded before beginning their search around the area in search of the hydro-generator.
"Come in bravo-three have you found the chief?" the fireteam leader asked on his radio.
"Azgeda chief is K.I.A. I repeat the Azgeda chief is K.I.A."
"Copy that bravo-three, good work, over."
"Bravo teams one, two, and three come in, over."
"This is bravo-one, what's going on overwatch, over." he said into the radio while hearing the other fireteams respond in a similar manner.
"The hunting party from earlier is on its way back and they're closing in fast, over."
"Copy that overwatch, bravo-three will move to engage, and if possible, take out their party leader, over."
"Copy that, brace overwatch is about to go loud. Over."
"Copy that overwatch."
"We've found it!" the fireteam leader heard after placing the radio into his back pocket.
"Great. Mickey get started on it, we don't have that much time left."
"Yes, sir." Mickey said as he began to detach the hydro-generator.
*BANG!*
The large sound of the Sniper Rifle System 99D-Series 2 Anti-Matériel firing filled the air and caused the entire valley to go silent. Then suddenly a dozen more suppressed cracks wrang out before abruptly stopping.
"This is bravo-three to all fireteams, Azgeda hunting party has been taken out, over."
"Copy that bravo-three, nice job, over." The leader of bravo-one responded before going over and checking on the hydro-generator.
"How's the generator going, Mickey?" he asked.
"...Hold on... hold on... I got it!" he said as the thing began to fall.
"Grab it quickly!" he shouted as he, Mickey, and one of the other fireteam members all grasped onto the generator to make it stop falling. "Alright, let's get this thing out of here."
"Rorke, grab my radio and tell overwatch that we have the generator and we're good to go."
"Yes, sir." Rorke replied as he moved to grab the radio out of his pocket. "This is bravo-one, we have the package, reading for extract, over."
"Copy that, extract is on its way, meet up with bravo-two and three at the front entrance, over."
"Copy that, we're moving, bravo-one, out."
After that, the radio went silent as the men carefully moved throughout farm station and towards the front entrance where two military trucks with solar panels attached onto them waited.
After safely securing the package and the remaining survivors of farm station, the bravo squad swiftly made their way back to castle base, otherwise known as fortress base: Mount Weather.
- Castle Base | Mount Weather -
"How many survivors were there?"
"Forty-two, fortress commander."
"Good, have a team escort them to Arkadia and tell them to take the hydro-generator with them."
"Yes, fortress commander, Jet, sir." the man salutes.
'When I imagined a Mountain fortress, I didn't think that the King would build a medieval fortress but modernized.' Jet thought to himself as he stood on top of the castle walls.
"Sir!" Jet heard from over to his right.
Jet turned his head and saw one of his radio men exit one of the fortified towers and run along the wall towards him, all while shouting his name.
"Yes, Leo?" Jet asked once Leo reached him.
"Huuu.... Huuuu.. You've received... huuu... A transmission from the King."
"Well then let's go." Jet said, quickly walking past Leo and towards the fortified tower to make his way down.
"Sirrrrr....!" Leo whined as he was still trying to catch his breath. "Wait up!"
Jet quickly made his way down the fortified tower, through the courtyard, and into the keep. Jet then made his way down a few of the hallways before opening a large oak wood door and entering the new second command center of Mount Weather.
"The King is on, sir." One of the men sitting at one of the many monitors said.
"Your grace?"
The large voice of King Arthur Pendragon then filled the room. "How did the operation proceed?"
"Great, your grace. We had the element of surprise on the Ice nation soldiers and with the new equipment you made for the mountaineers it was a piece of cake."
"That's great to hear. How many farm station survivors were you able to rescue and were you able to acquire the hydro-generator?" the King asked.
"We were able to rescue a total of forty-two survivors as well as acquire the hydro-generator, both are on their way to you as we speak."
"Great job, Jet. Keep up the good work, we'll speak again when you make your weekly visit to Arkadia." The King said before disconnecting.
"When do you leave for Arkadia, sir?" One of the newbies asked.
"Tomorrow." Jet replied.
- Arkadia -
- Arthur Pendragon -
The growth that Arkadia has undergone in the past three months is to be frank, scary. Arkadia's population has grown from three-hundred and twenty-three to five-hundred and eighty-six and that's excluding the population of my people in Mount Weather. Including the population of Mount Weather which has grown from three-hundred and eight to three-hundred and thirty-nine then the total population of the kingdom of Arkadia is a staggering nine-hundred and twenty-five people. Four-hundred and five men, three-hundred and sixty-two women, and one-hundred and fifty-eight children.
Out of that population one-hundred and sixteen were soldiers (renamed guards), Forty-two rangers, twenty-one mountaineers, and ten Arkadian royal guards. Not only that but we've been able to develop a few vehicles as well. We have three troop transport trucks that could fit up to twenty-four men with solar panels attached to the sides. One M1114 Humvee with a minigun on top as well as a small portable grenade launcher turret that you can detach and reattach with ease, which also has solar panels on the side. Lastly, we were able to reconstruct as well as improve on the mech that Cage tried to use against me and the commander.
Military improvements weren't the only ones that came to the newfound kingdom. There were now massive castle walls that surrounded the downed Ark station and protected it like a shield. On top of the walls were gun emplacements and flying high above those were the kingdom's flag. A new take on the Ark symbol, connected to the triangular shaped symbol were dragon wings and at the top of the triangle was a dragon's head. The new symbol was colored gold on a red background.
Inside of the walls, however, there were few homes, and as such the plaza inside the walls was primarily used for different grounder merchants that had decided to set up shop here. Outside of the walls were hundreds of homes that stretched for a mile or two, past that was miles worth of crops and different farms. Such as a cattle farm and a few goat farms. There were also a few horse stables scattered around, as well as one massive one that was located within the walls that easily housed one hundred of them. And through it all was a large concrete road that led directly from the edge of Arkadian territory all the way back to the walls of the capital. The road separated at one point and led to Mount Weather.
There was also a standard currency now that Lexa and I had created, besides the traditional bartering system that was in place. The new currency was called credits and depending on where you lived the credits would be called differently. For example, in Polis the credits would be called 'Polis credits', but in Arkadia they were called 'Arkadian credits'. Therefore, with that banks were needed and the very first bank was created in Arkadia, called the Arkadian general bank. The result was not immediate and rather hectic but after its first month or so in use the results started to show themselves. Including our trading that we currently have going on with both Trikru for wood, limestone, and a few other metals and resources as well as the quite literal shit tons of metal that we are trading for with the Blue Cliff and Rock Line clans we are one of the most prosperous nations in all of what was Eastern United States.
Not only that but now instead of the small fraction of land that we once owned we now outsize Luna and her Floukru.
"How long are you going to take? Clarke is already out there waiting for you." Octavia said as she leaned on the doorframe into our bedroom.
"It's called looking nice. The farm station survivors should feel welcomed once they're here and I plan to make them." I respond as I place my arms into my jacket sleeves.
"I still don't understand why you can't greet them in armor. I'm doing it." Octavia replied.
"That's because you're my royal guard captain, and we're not at war so there is no need for me to wear my armor. Also, you're just jealous that I'm greeting them with Clarke at my side instead of you."
"Shut up. I thought that becoming your guard captain would mean we spend more time together."
"You mean like all those times where we've had sex in my study." I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes." she admits with a blush. "But whenever there is an important event, I always have to stand guard, it's stupid."
"You think guarding my life is stupid?" I asked with a hidden grin.
"Wha- NO! Of course not! It's just-..." she stumbles looking for the right words.
I walk over to her and embrace her in a hug even though she's wearing armor and place a chaste kiss on her forehead. "I know what you mean, but we have our moments. Both inside the bedroom and outside, you know that." I say once again causing her to blush. "Next time we go to Polis or hold an event of some kind, I'll make sure that you're involved in it, and not just standing on the sideline. Ok?"
"Ok." she mumbles before disengaging from our embrace and regaining some of her composure. "Now, come on you have a speech to give." she said walking off.
"Yeah, yeah, I know." I mutter to myself as I follow her.
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A/N: A little time skip like what happened in the show but from here on out if you couldn't notice things are going to be massively different from in the show. Some parts may be similar or familiar but from here on out things will be different.
