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“Here First, what can I do for you?” I replied readying another artillery barrage.
“I need another supply drop at the green smoke please send as soon as possible.” First replied. I pulled up my airdrops menu and selecting the resupply air drop It pulled up the map of the siege and I sent the package to first division. The sound of a helicopter taking off could be heard from my airstrip. This is the siege of Cavern high school. So far the plan was working and we were slowly pushing on the wall till it cracked. The school's main army was made of nomad players with only two Turtles and a single Forter. We had a major advantage of them needing to use their attacking armies for defense and we had a high rank infiltrator among their ranks as a backup in case things went wrong. We had this victory in the bag.
“Fort come in Fort.” Called in the second division.
“Fort here.” I replied readying an airstrip.
“We need a bombing run at the south gate. Over?”
“Okay bombing run initiating should hit in thirty seconds.” I watched the miniature B-2’s moves onto the runway and takeoff.
“All divisions division one reporting in. East gate has fallen.” Division one called in. A cheer came over the coms.
“Division nine report to the east gate to reinforce the first.” I ordered
“Yes sir.” And like a stack of cards the school fell under our assault.
“Woo hoo.” My classmates all yelled as we walked onto the campus for the war demands. Our army marched through the school taking down the few pockets of soldiers that refused to surrender. I remained at the cafe across the street where I had set up my temporary forward command center while our commander the class rep waltzed in with his armored battalion to discuss the surrender. I recalled my mobile artillery squad and began to take down the camp. I left the barracks, field hospital, and the defense's up so we could finish healing the seriously injured. Now everyone but the general came to the cafe a sure sign that the negotiations were underway. In the real world my classmates and I were enjoying some biscuits and cups of cocoa to celebrate the victory while the school generals met. I watched comrades celebrating this great victory. I looked at the command tablet in my hand at the long list of medical needs the High Lands unity army required. And looking back down at the medical tents at with soldiers carrying the wounded into the tents. Then I compiled a war report and sent it to everyone. I didn’t like the death toll sixth and seventh division took but we won so those deaths were not in vain.
When the general returned to the cafe about fifteen minutes later he was beaming.
“They gave you what?” I was surprised the General isn't known as a pervert but he has his moments.
“Yep their whole stash.” I looked over at the Pervert cult battalion or the tenth division. They were staring at their tablets not even blinking. I
looked at the war loot that the general had gotten.
“You know you're going to get a lot of flak for this from B-2 army.” I said raising an eyebrow. “And number 2.” The general smiled but his face instantly went pale.
“Heh yep but it will be worth it.” He was shivering in his boots at the thought of number two’s reaction to the loot horde we were bringing back. The Cavern High’s Pervert horde of girl’s locker room footage. File size forty gigabytes and all in sparkling high definition.
Then as a class we all walked back to the school.
“Are you off you bloody rocker?” Yelled number two as the file spread like wildfire through the school. I had started my visual recorder before we entered the room for the punctuality if there was a trial later.
“Oh come on two you know you like it.” said the general, Number two opened her mouth but she didn’t say anything. But being the Spy net commander she had something up her sleeve. She showed the general her tablet but blurring it on my screen. The General face went from a good tan to sunburn red in a millisecond.
“How did you get that?” He asked.
“Trade secret. Now about my demands.” She lazily hung her finger around where the send button was.
“What do you want?” The general was nervous now that can't be good this must be some good black dirt that she has. I set a reminder to look through the bases intelligence unit later.
“I want a copy of that file.” Two said slightly blushing. I was very glad I had my recording on. The news club will love this.
“Okay tell you what you give me that file I will give you this one.”
“Sure but Fort you be the medium I don't trust him to keep his end.” Two said.
“Sure.” I walked over and held out the virtual file and held an open hand. Two handed me the black dirt on the general and I gave her the loot horde file. Then being sneaky I copied the file to my personal hard drive in my backpack before handing the folder to the General.
“Well I got to go do stuff tech points and upgrades to do.” I walked out of the room and toward the courtyard. I picked my favorite spot out on the grass around the track under a maple tree. I looked around at the virtual army men patrolling around and the air strips on the track and the hangars where we kept the planes. It was surprising sometimes how this game was so good it made it feel like reality. I looked at the long list of virtual soldiers. Each with an individual name stats and skills. I needed a lot more in my medical teams so I recruited a lot of doctors being careful with the background checks. The way one army infiltrates another is through recruiting. If your spy gets recruited, then you have a man in their army. That man could do many things like assassination, theft, recon. Hell if you're lucky the player could promote your spy to captain then you could try a coup d’état. I looked down at my tablet turning to the tech tree tab I saw I had fifteen unused tech points. I opened my tree and scrolled far far down to get to some of the newer techs. I had a lot of choices. I could go do the commander tree where I could get three more commander slots this tree has been nicknamed the lazy bastard tree because a commander is an AI that can command say a base or an army. I already had fifteen commanders and five empty slots so I don't really need any more and that tech is ten points. I decided to go with the turret defense tech I got better AA anti-tank and anti-personnel for five points each. Then I looked around at the school. The students were walking around small batches of soldiers followed them as they moved to be in position to protect their leader if needed. Then Konoko the leader of the twenty first division walked over. She has some weird ‘I want you to be mine’ crush on me. That is either because in game I’m a Fort or because she thinks I’m handsome or cute. Oh and being a Fort is a really cool thing because it is proof that you were a part of the game since the beginning when it was a you chose you command style and not a tech tree. Because of the overpowered defenses the Fortifier class was deleted and replaced with the Turtle.
“Hello Fort.” Konoko said smiling at me. She had an entirely female army which is sexist even if it is virtual.
“Hi 22.” I said not looking higher than her ankles.
“Oh come on I have a name you know not only a number?”
“Yep Konoko I know you have a name.” She did a little happy dance. Konoko is one of our air force commanders. She flies with the three other air force divisions we have. She took a seat next to me under the maple tree peeking over my shoulder. I turned to my radar tab and looked at the surrounding area within a three-mile radius. I saw the normal players that live around the school. Each of those players has made a truce with us so we won’t attack them in return they won’t attack us. I took a risk and looked at Konoko. Yep she was giving me a peep show again. She was sitting at just the right angle so I got a good view up her skirt and down her shirt. I immediately turned away.
“Oh don't like what you see?” Konoko asked laying her arms around my shoulders. Then I heard a buzzing sound. I looked up to see a messenger drone coming in for a landing. I put my Virtnet glasses on my forehead and rushed over to the drone. It requested a login which I gave it licit split. It had finally arrived. As soon as I input the code the box under the drone dropped to the ground and the drone took off. I looked at the box in amazement.
“What is that?” Konoko asked as a small group of students gathered around to see what the drone was dropping off. I popped open the lid to reveal a black slab of metal. To tell the truth in reality it didn’t look so cool but this was a new base kit. One comes with the game and you can buy more for a price. This black slab was the starting of a new base and I knew exactly where to put it.
After school which felt like an eternity with the new kit in my backpack I went down to the old docking yard not a mile away from the school. When I was younger I would run around in the warehouse till my parents dragged me home. But now I was going to turn this cove into my own port. I went inside the warehouse which was still filled with rusting steel and rotting wood. I went to the ladder that went to the roof and using a drill I grabbed from my home I screwed the kit to the roof. Then I pushed the power button and watched it open like a flower after winter. Through my glasses I saw the New Fort building screen. To begin a fort, you must build the fort main reactor. I climbed down into the warehouse and built the reactor in the smack center of it. This fort was now operational. I spent the next few hours building up this new fort. I built three dry docks and seven docks. Then added turrets on the docks entrance to deter any enemies. Put in the barracks, research lab, command center, and a training area. All and all a great start. I didn’t see a point in building an airstrip here because I had already started construction on an aircraft carrier and two battleships. When that was complete I set a commander to the command center and set his AI up to focus on Naval production and a strict recruiting policy. After that I went home for some bangers and mash. After dinner I went into my room and sat on my bed looking at the virtual fortress around me. Like most other players my home is my main base and it is my strongest. This is where the bulk of my stuff is. I have a single nuclear launcher on the lawn and the tightest security on the block. And each soldier here was handpicked by me for each individual job. So I let them do their virtual jobs and went on with my life. I cooked my bangers and mash then ate said bangers and mash while watching the latest Warzone News. Apparently the two biggest factions in England have gone to war and there is live footage of the battles as the two giant factions duked it out. After my dinner I walked upstairs and went to sleep.
The next morning was much like any other. I got out of bed went downstairs had a bowl of cereal put on my uniform and my Warzone Fortifier jacket. These jackets are specially built for the players who make it into the top thousand players. But they stopped doing it a while ago and just gave out the patches. I had ten patches including the Fortifier emblem. There was War Beast, Commander, Builder, and two others for faction size and for battles won. Now off to school. I walked quickly down the road to my school. And when I got there guess what I found. A bloody civil war. Apparently the ninth graders weren’t happy about the fact that they were excluded from the last war and walked to name one of their own general so they are fighting the upper classes for the right to command. But in the school in pertaining to the game if a class wishes to do a civil war then I can't get involved. Since I control all the schools defenses I can't join in the civil war at least not in a guns blazing way but that gives me protection from the war's effects such as having to fight. But in the making of the War Zone rules for the school I added in a loop hole. You see all the players at this school have at least ten soldiers that are loyal to me so I can sabotage and they blame it on the other team. But I didn’t really think my intervention was necessary. By the end of first period the Ninth graders were on the run and by second the General was having the peace talks which ended in the Highlands High school Tenth Unity pact.
“So how did the war go I asked as the general took his seat next to me he and Two had happy smiles on their faces.
“Oh a smashing victory by the Highlands Unity army?” said the General.
“So One what next.” Two asked the General.
“One?” I asked
“Yah a part of the agreement stated I would be called One instead of the general.”
“Ok One.” I said raising my eyebrow. Then someone from the School paper came up to Two.
“Hey Two evidence has been brought to the paper that can prove that you are a lesbian. What do you have to say on the matter?” The reporter asked with her recorder out.
“What evidence?” Two asked blushing.
“A copy of the Cavern High pervert horde was found on you and had been watched several times.” the reporter was getting all up in Two’s face about this with honest curiosity.
“And what slime ridden good for nothing twat gave you this evidence?” Two had her devil face on and I could feel the death bringing rage resonating off her in our direction. Since I was the one who tipped them off I would have to stay clear of this conversation. So I got on with my school work. When lunch came around I was back sitting under my maple tree. I was watching the soldiers walk around at my feet making friends, talking strategy, and in general walking around. Did you know that each soldier is programed with their own A.I. so they can think on their own to a degree? They talk to each other they make friend with each other and hell they could even make a family in the battle encampment. I got down on my hands and knees and looked at the soldiers. As I looked closer little data tabs appeared above each of their heads with data like how much endurance, strength, intelligence, accuracy, what weapon they use, who their friends are and what their name is. Then the air raid siren blows. I looked at the radar screen too see three Cloud High bombers on route to us. I opened a link with One.
“Sir Cloud High bombers one mile out and closing orders?”
“Ready defenses for counter attack.” One yelled as students ran around getting to battle stations. Fighters were getting ready for takeoff to get us Air superiority. Then a message came through on my tablet.
“Highlands United army please stand down we mean no harm we just want to talk?” said one of the Cloud High commanders. I checked my radar to find that the bombers weren’t accompanied by a fighter squadron.
“Sir did you get the message?”
“Yes Fort let them land let’s see what they have to say?”
“This is Highland Commander Fort speaking you have been permitted to land on the third runway. Any deviations of course and we will open fire. Confirm.”
“Confirmed. Thank you Fort.” I cleared the third runway and watched for any change in the bombers course. But bombers made a clean course and landed on the third runway. Now it is time to have a talk with one of our three rival schools.
Cloud High school was the next strongest school in this to