"Get the system ready" a technician said. "On it" another said. It was phase 2 of the Stardust Project and it was time to test the ability for an object to be transported across a large distance using the slipstream effect. The team had hit a wall with getting results and was hopeful that using integrated Ingress tech would solve some of the problems. Little did they know that old scouting data had been sent as well to help with coordinate targeting. The probe was 15 ft. in length and was shaped like an egg. It was outfitted with sensors and comm equipment to record and transmit any data acquired. Because of its mission, the scientists named the probe series "Pathfinder". Today they would launch Pathfinder 9.
"Engage slipstream" the chief technician said. His coworker hit a button on his tablet and the probe hummed. It hovered in the air. "Input coordinates! Target Auckland, New Zealand!" the chief technician yelled. "Imputing! Coordinate lock! Slipstream drive has breached the dimensional membrane! Pathfinder 9 is entering slipstream vortex!" the coworker yelled. The probe floated into a sparkling vortex of yellow light and vanished. The team waited. "Do we have GPS coordinates?" The chief technician asked. "Negative. No signal detected in New Zealand. Scanning planet wide. Nothing. Pathfinder 9 not detected" he said. "Impossible! It can't have gone too far those coordinates should be accurate within 2 miles!" the chief tech yelled. "Try using the recall function" he said. His friend pressed the button and...nothing. "It must have been destroyed during transport or when it emerged. For all we know it's at the bottom of the ocean" the friend said. "It could have ended up on another world" a mousey assistant said.
They turned to him. "What do you mean? It wasn't designed for that" the chief said. "Well sir keep in mind what technology powers this. It is possible" the assistant said. The chief sat down in his chair. The assistant could be right and that worried him. "Contact Union military. Tell then we might have a situation" the chief said.
Since the creation of Project Stardust, there were specific protocols put in place. The chief one was of a probe was unrecovered, the military took over recovery operations. Keep in mind the Ingress found their way to Earth due to a friendship probe sent decades ago. No one wanted the possibly another malevolent species coming for a visit. Karen and a team of experts arrived two days later at the lab.
"So it just vanished?" Karen asked. "Indeed. No signal, nothing at all" the chief replied. "Show me the data on it just as it disappeared" Karen said. The chief gave her the data and she read it looking for an answer. Karen sighed. "I think I found the problem. There was some kind of power spike as it tried to lock on to the coordinates. This could have thrown off the target lock as it entered the vortex" Karen said. "But where did it go?" the chief asked. "Let's find out" Karen said taking out a portable comm system and activating it. "This scanner was used by the Ingress to find and isolate comm signals across dimensions. If it can't find it nothing can" she said. She activated the scanner and watched the holo screen. "Okay...I can tell you it's definitely not on Earth. It must have fallen out of slipstream" she said.
"Why?" the chair asked. "My best guess is the targeting system defaulted to an earlier coordinate stored in the system as a safety measure. The question is which one" Karen said scanning dimensions. Her scans dragged on for hours until she found Pathfinder 9's signal. "Bingo. It's on an Ingress charted planet. P132" she said. "We'll take it from here ma'am" a man said speaking from a STRIKE II. Him, an Ingress girl around 17, and a human male around 22 stood there awaiting Karen's findings. They were the assigned recovery team and were waiting for the green light. When she told everyone it was off world that was a green light to go if any.
"Any information about this world?" the man in the mech asked. "The database only says it was poor in resources and the only life there was insignificant" Karen replied. "Roger that. Please forward the coordinates to the Los Angeles transit hub" the man said. Karen didn't like his tone too much but did as she was asked. The team left the lab and flew to the transit hub.
The team was called Watchdog Charlie and was stationed out of Sacramento. They were part of the peacekeepers but they were also attached to any incidents connected to Project Stardust. The Captain was Donald "the Don" Liston. He was called "the Don" because of his way of giving orders with a coldness streak that bordered on the antisocial. His orders were law in the squad. He piloted the STRIKE II. 2nd Lt. Selina was the Ingress girl and was the backup muscle and Ingress culture expert. And rounding out the trinity was 1st Lt. Mike Patterson, the tech and infiltration expert. They landed at the transit hub and walked in. Transit hubs nowadays were only used to go to the homeworld and even then for approved reasons. Today the hub would be used for military purposes.
"Did you receive the transit order?" Donald asked. "Yes sir. Transit pad 3 is ready for your team" the officer in charge said. The team stepped onto the pad and heard it hum to life. "How long do you think this will take?" Selina asked. "Not long. This should be a cakewalk" Mike said. "Wonder if this world would suit our needs" Donald thought as the air crackled with energy. The pad pulsed with energy and a vortex formed over their heads. It descended over them until it reached the base of the pad and then dissipated. The team was gone.
They had arrived on the world P132 and looked around. It was an empty field but there were signs of old craters. "Deborah 616. Scan the area" he said. "Scanning. Atmosphere normal. Gravity normal. Elevated radiation level detected but with safety tolerance" she replied. "And the probe signal?" he asked. "Detected 1,122 miles east of our location" she said. "Damn we got a ways to travel. Fall in and move out" Donald said taking into the air. Selina held Mike and followed her Captain into the air.
Amy looked out of her window at the people passing by. Today for her was like any other day; dull and empty. Ever since that horrible day 13 years ago, she had been alone. What family she had left were her three grandchildren who Chris had sired. She had lost her parents, sister, son, and her brother/ husband with 24 hours. It broke her. The destruction caused by the giants had decimated two countries and left the other two defenseless. It was total chaos in the first few months. Refugees streamed for all four countries only to be met with other refugees hoping the neighbor country fared better. Arcadia was in ruins along with Colonia. Estania and Showa had survived but with the loss of their armies and so many troops it was unrealistic to keep order.
Eventually, many refugees ended up in Estania or Showa but were treated as second class citizens. Rape, murder, and exploitation were rampant. At one time, the people would have called on their giant rulers to restore order but with the Ingress showing up wiped away any notion of the humans being a god or savior. After all, you wouldn't expect to see a god eaten by something 50 times its size right? The people had little hope for any help from Amy who was now the sole human among the population. The people of Arcadia cried for her to help their people. They urged her to lead a campaign into Showa or Estania and unite the nations under one order and rebuild their shattered world. Amy said nothing. She spent her days rambling and crying in her room.
Without her leadership, the council of Arcadia took matters into their own hands. They began massing their forces along with Colonia for a campaign against Estania and Showa. By the next year, they were ready. This wouldn't be like any tower war they previously fought. When Amy's dad detonated the nuke that wiped out a portion of the Arcadia army (and killed his daughter and grandson), he unleashed a genie out of the bottle. The genie was nuclear weapons and unlike the genies of a fairy tale, this one was too powerful to back into the bottle. Both sides clamored to possess this power. Both sides built crude nukes from what nuggets of uranium could be found. Barely a kiloton but more than enough to kill a city populated by people who were at most 3 inches tall.
Each side stockpiled weapons that would obliterate the other. Doomsday for these tiny people seemed certain. One day as Amy looked out of her window she saw a peace demonstration. It was being led by Kenna and Marcus; her grandkids. They resembled her son so much that Amy would cry sometimes when she saw them. They had grown to the size of a normal human and this size still inspired people even though they weren't considered gods anymore. Realizing that if nuclear war did break out, what was left of her family would burn like the rest. Amy sent out peace envoys.
Amy was clever in dealing with a plan for peace. Instead of dealing with the governments directly, she chose to play up to the people. She spoke to them about having two choices; unite under one nation or annihilation of everything. This of course freaked people the fuck out. One would expect such rhetoric from a conqueror but when Amy explained how the world was destroying itself with the divides it had made; people began to think unification might truly be the answer. The governments of Estania and Showa fought this ideal but when the people rose and overthrew them, the ideal became reality. Within a year, all four nations were united under one government. Amy assumed leadership of course and under her rule peace returned to the world. The unified nation needed a name and with some thought she named it Artesia.
Now one would think that under one nation now they would disarm their nuclear weapons. They didn't. Amy gave explicit orders for them to be manned and maintained at all times. Why my you ask? Well, the Ingress attack damaged her mind to the point she obsessively feared their return and if they did she would be ready. Amy smiled at the fact her plan worked. She had unified the world under her rule without bloodshed and kept them dependent on her "just" rule. She had tried playing it Nick's way with being a kind ruler but losing a family to overwhelming force showed her superior might makes right. With her rule solidified, she divided the land into 100 sectors; 25 for each former nation. To appease the populace, she had a representative from each sector advising her. The Artesia Senate didn't make any laws however, Amy did that. Their job was recommend certain things and also to be her eyes and ears.
Amy was not a ruthless ruler nor was she a benign one. In the fall of the second year of the new nation, the western sectors of old Estania chose annexation. Amy wasn't having that. She personally marched in with over 50,000 troops. The tiny war was over in less than a week. She executed the 8 senators publicly and personally. Amy didn't have dinner that night. Her stomach was bloated from eating the conspirator senators. As the years ticked by, the people would call this a golden age. Technology advanced by leaps with the science community not having to concentrate on subjects of war. Crime was way down and poverty dwindled with the increase of trade. Amy was hailed as the greatest queen who ever lived. This of course was the public face, in private, Amy was very different...
10 years later
Amy heard a commotion outside. She stepped out of the old castle and into the streets. From a distance, she could see smoke. "What's going on?" She asked a man running down the street. The man saw his queen. Even though she was now 45 years old she looked no older than 35. Her stature of the tiny man cast a shadow over him. "A strange metal thing appeared in the air and crashed into the city!" he yelled. Amy didn't like the sound of that; she walked down the street carefully to avoid crushing the people under her sandals. What she saw frightened her. "A probe? A probe from Earth? No, it can't be. We left almost 30 years ago! No way they still are looking for us! They must be returning!" she thought. Amy quickly returned to the castle and summoned her generals. "Go to alert condition 3. Contact all missile bases and have them prep for possible launch" she ordered. "Milady, what has happened?" one General asked. "The ones from that day 30 years ago may be returning" she answered.
As Amy readied her forces, Donald and his team were flying over the desert. They had flown over 800 miles and with each mile wondered why the terrain looked so...stunted. "Sir, I'm going to have to land soon" Selina said looking at her fuel gauge. "Can you hold out for 40 more miles?" Donald asked looking at the radar map. "Barely" she replied. "Roger that" he said. The desert ended and a savanna began 30 miles later. They landed in the stubby peach fuzz like grass. Selina landed and put Mike on the ground. Selina immediately began refueling her flight system with the oxygen in the air. Mike bent down to touch the grass. It was so short it looked like gold moss or extremely fine carpet. "Interesting" Deborah 616 said. "How so?" Donald asked. "I have observed serval species since we have arrived and they conform to ones know on earth except they are considerably smaller. The birds alone are only a few millimeters big" she replied. "So no threatening predators?" Donald asked. "None" she replied. "This world may indeed suit Omega's needs" he thought.
It was two hours later that Selina had finished refueling her flight system. The sun was beginning to set. "We'll camp out here for tonight and start fresh in the morning" Donald said. He set Deborah 616 to perimeter watch and settled in the cockpit. He kicked off his boots and unbuttoned his uniform shirt. "Deborah, open a dimensional secured channel to this frequency" he ordered. Deborah opened the channel. "Anything to report?" a young male voice asked. "We have arrived on a previously charted planet and have observed elevated ration levels. It's safe to say that radioactive materials are present. Furthermore, we have not encountered any hostiles and the only life so far has been minute" Donald said. "Sounds promising. Omega could use a place where we can obtain resources off the books. Keep me informed while I tell mom...I mean General Henderson" the young voice said closing the channel.
Donald was pissed that he had a superior he had to answer to that was so young. The kid hadn't even grown out of puberty and he was giving out orders. If there was something he hated more than Ingress than it would be the privileged. People getting through life because of who their family is irritated him. His commander was no different. Brandon Henderson had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth and the silver spoon was property of Omega. It was no secret that Brandon was the son of Aaron Pherson, the man who had an Ingress wife and hybrid children, but woe be unto ye who mentioned to Brandon. The last Omega operative who said something about ended up being transferred to the Antarctic base. Donald brushed off the agitation and pulled out his tablet and began reading Othello.
Hours dragged by as the three tried to sleep. Selina was wide awake. It was her first time visiting a world other than the homeworld or Earth. Her sense of curiosity gnawed at her. "Mike you awake?" she asked. "No" he answered. "Funny. Mike, you never talk about yourself. Why did you join the peacekeepers?" she asked. “I lost my family in the war so I was in an orphanage for a while. An Ingress woman adopted me when I was 10. Figured I'd pay it forward. And you?" he asked. Selina pulled off her boots and flexed her toes in her socks. "Wanted to travel. I was only 2 when I came to Earth so I don't have any memories of the homeworld. I've been back but it doesn't compare to the lush life and diversity of Earth. I want to see everything out there Mike. Everything" she said. "Sounds like a nice reason. Selina, I like you very much but can you do something about your feet" Mike said smelling the pungent aroma of the giantess teen's feet.
Selina was embarrassed and walked away from them. She took out an alcohol pad and wiped the sweat off her feet after taking off her socks. She left them there and returned to the camp. "Sorry about that" she whispered. "Don't worry about it. Those boots we have don't exactly breathe" Mike said chuckling. They fell asleep watching the stars. Two miles away, a farmer was sound asleep until her heard his livestock crying out in the barn. "What's the commotion? Is it a storm?" he asked himself getting out of bed and putting on his clothes. He walked outside and was immediately hit with a horrible smell in the air. "Like something died!" he yelled. The smell was definitely coming from a particular direction. He hopped into his truck and drove along the open fields wondering what could possibly be causing it.
The smell was overpowering now. The field was lit only by his headlights but a faraway orange glow caught his attention. As he neared the glow, he noticed the horizon slightly blocked. He didn't know how it could be. Only a mountain could do something like that. He got closer to the glow. It was less than a half mile from him and the same smell made his eyes water. All of a sudden he ran into something. If it wasn't for his seatbelt, he would have been thrown through the windshield. He got out of the totaled truck and wondered what he hit. He held his nose and breathed through his mouth. The air was tainted with the smell of rancid sweat. He turned on his flashlight and saw a grey cloth that stretched on for over 800 ft. He touched it and was grossed out by the damp sticky sensation. He didn't know he had crashed into the toe of Selina's sock. He heard a loud rustle and tremor. The man walked toward the orange light.
Selina was having trouble getting comfortable. The grass made her itch. She decided to use her shirt as a mattress. Now she felt like going back to sleep. The man had finally made it to their camp and if it wasn't for the shock, he would have screamed. To his left was a man the size of Queen Amy and to his left was a creature the size of a mountain. She was female judging from her face and tits. Her tits were the size of a warehouse. He was frightened to the point he pissed himself. Selina licked her lips in her sleep and the sight of those massive white teeth and her fleshy giant tongue was fracturing his sanity. What sent him over the edge was the realization that this creature mirrored the description of the three who visited his world 13 years ago. He screamed.
Selina couldn't hear him. To her it was like the screaming of an ant. Deborah heard it though. She filtered out the sounds of her squad's snoring and heard a tiny chirping yell. "Donald. I'm picking up something" Deborah 616 said. "What is it?" Donald said tired. "Unknown. Too small and faint to see in the darkness even with infrared and night vision" she replied. "Probably just a bird or something" he replied. The man began backing away from Selina until she moved in her sleep. Her foot jerked forward and slammed into the man. The man was hurt badly. He felt broken ribs and was coughing blood when the giant sole the size of a battleship hit him. He knew he was in deep shit when he couldn't free himself. He was stuck to her sole due to her sticky foot sweat drying in the breeze. He used all his might to pull his arms free. The force ended up ripping his shirt and now his battered chest was sticking to her flesh.
Even in intense pain, he was able to pry himself off her sole but now he was several hundred feet in the air. No way would he survive the fall. Climbing down was too dangerous so he hoped climbing up would be better. He figured if he could climb to the top of her foot and walk to her pants, he could use the wrinkles to climb down. Slowly, he climbed up the massive sole using her prints as leverage. He had climbed for over an hour finally reaching the base of her toes. Taking a chance, he decided to walk between the space between her big and second toe. The smell was choking him. He was middle way when he felt he couldn't lift his feet. The sweaty gunk glued him to her foot. He braced his hands alongside her second toe and yanked his foot. His shoe came off but now he could move better. He did the same thing again but as soon as he was free her toes moved. Selina instinctively wriggled her toes feeing a tiny ticking between them. The man fell back onto her second toe and gripped it so he wouldn't fall the several hundred feet down.
He was grasping so hard that the tickling had increased. Instinctively, she clenched her toes. He barely had time to scream as the walls of her toes came together and flex downward. The sound of his body popping and crunching was inaudible to anyone but someone his size. When she stopped clenching her toes, what was left of him was a blood spot the size of a matchstick head. The team awoke just after sunrise. Selina put on a fresh pair of socks not knowing she had snuffed out the life on a tiny person. His remains would be mixed in with today's sweat. They set off for the probe's signal and as they got closer began to notice the towns.
To the people below, it was like a mountain moving faster than the speed of sound over them. Donald and his team noticed the odd houses and structures. "Uh guys, are you seeing this?" Selina asked. "Seeing it but not believing it" Donald said. "Guess everything is tiny here" Mike said. "Deborah, are you getting all this?" Donald said. "Everything is being recorded. Confirming suspicions that the beings here are of small size. Approximately 3 inches in height" Deborah said. "Human-like?" Donald asked. "It would seem so" Deborah said bringing up a snapshot taken of a child pointing at them as they flew by. "This might require further study" Donald thought. "Guys, it looks like the indigenous people her are similar to humans but much smaller. Apparently their size is comparable to humans and Ingress" Donald said. "I'd like to meet some of these people" Selina said. "As do I. We'll look into it after we complete our objective" Donald said. "Captain, we just got radar pinged" Deborah said. "Stay sharp everyone. We might have company soon" Donald said.
"Early warning station in sector 24 has detected 2 massive inbounds coming in a Mach 1!" the comm officer yelled. Amy was sitting in the command room of her palace. “Define massive" she said. "Inbounds appear to be my god...40,000 ft. long!" he yelled. The entire room was silent. Amy was scared and at the same time exhilarated. The ones she had feared had returned. The ones who had taken her family away a destroyed virtually all she held dear has returned and she was ready for them...or so she thought. "Scramble the bombers! Take them out of my sky!" she yelled. From sector 24, three bombers roared off the Tarmac heading for Donald and his team. "Patching in radar feed" her comm officer said. Amy watched the three blips approaching the two huge dots that filled the corner of the screen. "I have advanced the technology of this world to the equivalent of 1960's Earth. This has to be enough" she said clenching her fist.
"Donald, something is approaching. Three small airborne objects coming at us a 500 mph" she said. "Birds?" he asked. "Unless birds on this world have jet engines I suspect no. No, these must be aircraft. Their size is about 3 ft. long. About the size of a small human child" she said. "Maybe an escort? We did just pop up out of nowhere" Selina said. "They could be friendly" Donald said. As soon as he said that a warning went off on his HUD. "Radiological alarm! They're carrying nukes!" Deborah yelled. "Not friendly! Charge positron cannons. Target incoming aircraft!" Donald yelled. Deborah locked onto the bombers coming at them from 4 miles away. His wrists glowed red as the cannons charged. Donald pulled the trigger and three beams burst from his wrists.
"Distance to target is 4 mikes! Opening bay door as preparing to launch mark II payload!" the weapons officer aboard the lead bomber said. He pressed the switch to open the door and when he looked back up he saw a red glow getting brighter. "What is...AHHHHGH!" he yelled just before he and his flight crew was vaporized. The three bombers disappeared from the radar screen but the two giant blips didn't. "Contact lost from bomber group" the comm officer said. "Project their flight plan!" Amy yelled. "Flight plan would lead them...it would lead them right here" the com officer said. "Contact the senators of sectors 17, 13, 7, and 5. Tell them to get their population to the shelters. Diehard protocols are now in effect" she said.
The Diehard protocols were a plan created by Amy that involved the use of tactical nukes in a populated area in case the Ingress had appeared in a densely populated region. The people balked at this plan but seeing how just three Ingress had brought the entire world to its knees, they concluded it might be a necessary sacrifice. Donald and his team stopped to refuel. Amy saw that their motion had stopped and ordered a missile strike on their position. They were well within Arcadia's borders now. They saw a town just a half mile away. "Let's meet the locals. Maybe we can convince them we mean no harm" Selina said. "I'm up for that! My body still aches from the concussion from those bombs going off" Mike said. "We could use some intel. Very well. Let’s meet the locals" Donald said. They approached the town.
As they neared it, the local militia swarmed out to meet them. Before they could say hi, tanks and artillery opened up on them. Selina tucked mike into her breast pocket as the shells streaked toward them. Smoke and explosions erupted where they stood. It didn't stop till the commander ordered a cease fire to see if they were successful. They weren't. "Shield status?" Donald asked. "100%. Their fire was so weak I could recharge the shield faster than they can deplete it" she said. Rightfully so. Their tanks were no bigger than a coin so their shells were the size of pinheads. "Attention people of this land. We mean you no harm" Donald said over the speaker.
"Bullshit! Your kind came her before and killed thousands! Continue fire!" The commander yelled. The force fired again. "What's he mean our kind came here before? He mean Ingress?" Donald said ignoring the shells hitting his shields. "It's possible Ingress were here. They did sometimes go to other worlds personally to survey them. Records say they came to a world that led them to Earth. Maybe it's this one" Selina said. "Will somebody do something before I go deaf!?" Mike shouted. Donald saw his greeting was ignored. "We mean you no harm but that doesn't mean we can't fight. Consider this a warning" Donald said. Donald chose a small hill out in the distance and charged his positron cannon to max. He moved his arm and pointed at the hill and fired. The commander and all his men watched the beam of light streak toward the hill (which was a mountain to them) and hit it. A flash of light and mushroom cloud rose into the air. The debris came down like rocky hail on the small battlefield. As the cloud dissipated, the hill was now a crater.
"They destroyed Mt. Cinna!" he said. He knew it would take a large nuke for his people to pull that off. These visitors were no one to fuck with. "We surrender just please spare the people!" the commander cried. "We're not attacking! We come in peace!" Donald said shouting. The commander was confused. Why were these giants different for the ones who attacked before and why was one wearing such armor? The team walked to the city and stopped there. "Selina stay here. You're too big to come closer" Donald said popping the hatch. To the commander’s amazement, a giant similar to queen Amy was sitting in the armored giant's chest. "Donald we got big trouble!" Deborah shouted. As soon as she said that a klaxon sounded. "It's the shelter alarm!" a tiny tank driver yelled. The commander asked over the radio what was happening. His tiny face went pale when he heard that 5 missiles were coming his way.
"They're coming..." he muttered to Donald. “He’s right! 5 missiles inbound! ETA is 7 minutes!" Deborah shouted. "We can shoot them down like last time!" Selina yelled. "No, that won't stop the fallout. We got lucky last time because it was sparsely populated. Everyone stay here" Donald said launching into the sky. "Deborah, if we're close enough, can you override the missile's flight system?" Donald asked. "Most likely but we have to be within 400 ft. for that to work" Deborah said. "Sounds like a plan" Donald said throttling to max. With his speed, he was closing in on the missiles in no time. "Incoming transmission on coded channel" Deborah said. "Omega...send message that I'm busy stopping nukes. That should shut them up for a minute" Donald said nearing the missiles. He flew high into the air and into the middle of the missiles.
"Scanning radio frequency! Locked! We got them!" Deborah said. "Send them up! Way up! Donald yelled. The missiles arced from their flight path and shot straight up. When they hit 100,000 ft. they detonated. On the surface, the people saw bright flashes and for a minute their sky appeared to have 6 suns. The power flickered in the town and died. The commander yelled into his radio to see what had happened but the radio was stone dead. "EMP. An EMP knocked out the power" Mike said. "EMP?" The commander asked hearing the voice. Mike crawled out of her pocket and motioned her to put him on the ground. The commander was awed that a giant was inside the mountain on a woman's pocket. "Electromagnetic pulse caused by those high altitude nuke blasts. You guys are going to be without power for some time" Mike said. "You saved us!" the shocked commander said. "Of course we did. We meant what we said when we mean you no harm" Selina said. Donald returned 10 minutes later and found that the commander had accepted them as friends.
"You said that people like her had come before?" Donald asked. "Yes, 13 years before. What few survivors that were present when they arrived say they spoke of finding few resources here and found the probe in Arcadia. They made their way there and disappeared in a hole in the air" he replied. "The Ingress did come to Earth originally for resources. I guess the theory of them finding Earth from her was true. What is this probe?" Donald asked. The ones like this man and you called it a friendship probe" the commander said. "Like me? Not her?" Donald asked confused. "Yes our queen is like you and him not like the mountain woman" he replied. "Humans were here?!" Donald thought. "May we enter your town? We wish to hear more about your world" Donald said. "By all means. You did save us so it's the least we can do" the commander said.
Selina stayed behind as Donald and Mike walked into the town. They were amazed how tiny the people were and they were not frightened by them. The people oohed and awed at the giant men. No one had seen a giant since the death of Amy's brother Nick and his father Mike. Before today, they thought that queen Amy and her grandkids was the last of their kind. "Mike see what you can do about restoring power. Hopefully the EMP didn't fry everything" Donald said. Mike left and was led by a man to the power station. Donald sat down in the center of town. A senator came to meet him. "You let them walk right in!" the senator yelled. "They saved the town from a nuclear strike and they have enough firepower to wipe us out in seconds. If they were hostile we wouldn't be talking right now" the commander said.
"The commander here was gracious enough to let us into the city so we could talk" Donald said. "About what?" the suspicious senator asked. "We were told my kind has been here before and some still are. I want to know more about your world and that day the mountain people as you call them arrived" Donald said. Donald sat there and listened for hours about how Amy and her family had arrived and changed the world*. He listened to how she had united the world and armed it to defend itself from an invasion. Donald asked how they came across such technology so fast. The friendship probe was the answer. When the man told Donald how they had built the weapons and technology they used now from resources found underneath the oceans, he knew that this world was perfect for Omega. Donald was exhausted and began to nod off. "Pardon me. You must be tired. We will show you to a special place we have built for the queen. You can stay there tonight with your friend" the senator said. Donald said thank you and followed a woman to the giant building. After he left, the senator ran to his office and contacted Amy.
"My queen, two giants like you and one similar to those that came years ago is here. They seem benign and even saved our town. What would you have me do with them?" he asked. Amy was livid. She couldn't believe that they meant no harm and was surprised that two of them were her size. Humans from Earth had come to her world. It seemed like a dream...or nightmare. "Keep them occupied till I say otherwise" Amy said over the phone. "Gather all forces to the capital. They might have fooled that old man but not me" Amy told her main General.
"This planet fits perfectly with the plan. Resources for the taking and the resistance is negligible" Donald said over a secured line. "What of the natives?" Brandon asked. "Small enough that even their best weapons can be shrugged off by good shields" Donald replied. "I see. Maybe I'll see for myself. I've been meaning to get more time in the field. Stay in contact" Brandon said closing the channel. Donald was pissed that Brandon might show up. He didn't need some kid whose balls haven't even dropped yet to fuck up his op. Part of him didn't like this plan either. He had gained the trust of these people and he was about to sell out their whole world. "Now I know how the Ingress felt when they came to Earth" Donald thought. The lights flickered and his room lit up. "Mike got the power back on. Leave it to the genius to get shit running again" Donald said taking off his boots.
Donald relaxed in his bed and heard a tiny knock. "Come in" he said. A girl around 16 entered the room. "Hello sir. I am Dana. I'll be your attendant for your stay" she said. Donald was surprised that a 3 inch girl could be so pretty. "What does that entail?" Donald asked smiling. "I will serve you dinner and clean for you. Basically any needs you may have" she said. "I see. I guess dinner first" Donald said. Dana left the room and kept coming in with trays of food. She didn't stop until she had brought in nearly 30 trays. She was visibly tired bit stood still awaiting for him to finish. It bothered Donald watching him eat. "You hungry?" he asked. "Yes but I will eat later" she replied. "Nonsense. You will eat now" Donald said picking the girl up and planning her next to him.
"Here" he said picking up a tiny chicken and giving it to her. Donald watched the girl eat as he dropped food into his mouth. Every minute he would pick up a try's and dump the contents inside. Dana watched in awe. His mouth was so big that she realized he could fit her inside as well easily. She had heard stories of how the giant rulers of old sometimes ate her people and those unfortunate victims of the mountain giants (as they called the Ingress) were devoured like crumbs. The more she thought about it the more she was frightened by him. Donald benched so loudly the vibration was felt throughout her body. He had eaten enough for a hundred men. "That was surprisingly good. Wouldn't you say so? Well, maybe you're used to eating like that" Donald said to the tiny girl. "No, this is the first time I have eaten food this good" she said. "Then I guess you have me to thank for that" he said picking her up as he lay on the bed.
The girl was frightened how he looked at her. Donald began to take off her maid uniform. She looked away ashamed as her tiny breasts popped into view. He had gotten the uniform off and now she was only dressed in her stockings and black shoes. She whimpered when he brushed her tits with his finger. He chuckled at seeing her blush and cringe. Donald sat her back on his chest and fumbled with his pants. He whipped out his straining erection and placed Dana next to it. "Rub it" he commanded. "Sir please-" "I said rub it you stupid tiny thing! Your job is to serve me right? Then serve me!" Donald yelled. Dana quietly cried as she began stroking the cock that was three times her size. Donald moaned as her tiny hands went up and down it.
After a minute or two, Donald wanted more from her. "Give me a footjob" he told her. Dana took off her shoes and began to take off her stockings until he stopped her. "No, leave those on. I want to feel those tiny hosed feet" he said smiling. Dana gripped his cock and began sliding her tiny feet up and down it. "Oh yeah. I get why the Ingress did as they did now. This feeling of power is the best!" he said. Donald gripped his cock not caring about the safety of the three inch girl masturbating him with her little feet and started jacking away. Knowing her tiny life was in his hands literally was too much for him. He came. Dana felt the warm gallons of fluid splash over her. Her entire body was covered in giant semen.
Donald relaxed and laughed hearing her cough out what cum she had inhaled. Dana had climbed off the bed and could now hear him snoring. The bastard had fallen asleep minutes after raping her. She wanted to just cry right then and there. She knew her other duties to fulfill now that the giant was asleep. Her footsteps squished with cum soaked stockings and it disgusted her how his cum was trapped between her toes. Dana pulled off the stockings and decided to wash away her shame. The warm water felt nice and her skin wasn't sticky anymore. Alone with her thoughts, she began sobbing. The shower water hid the tears streaming down her face. 15 minutes later she stepped out of the shower and got dressed. She left her stockings in the room.
"Dana could you do me a favor? Check on that other giant for me. He hasn't eaten yet and the master would be displeased if we didn't make sure he was treated well" another maid asked. Dana said nothing and just nodded. Dana walked into the room where Mike was. Sure enough they trays of food were sitting there untouched. Mike was fiddling with his wristcomm. "Damn EMP did a number on you but I think I got you working...damn!" Mike said pissed the wristcomm didn't start. His shouting scared the traumatized Dana. Mike looked over to where he heard a sound similar to a mouse squeak. "...hey" Mike said seeing the tiny girl. "You haven't eaten sir?" Dana asked. "Yeah, I got wrapped up in some work" Mike said frowning. Dana got one of the trays and held it up. Mike saw the shaking she made. "Please sir" she said. "You'll get in trouble if I don't eat?" Mike asked. Not wanting to tell him the real reason she was afraid she nodded. Mike took the tiny tray from her and emptied the contents into his mouth. Mike was surprised how tasty something so small was. Mike began eating more until he had finished every tray.
"Didn't realize I was that hungry. Guess MRE's masked it" Mike said smiling at her. He was disappointed how she acted. It shocked him when she began undressing. She closed her eyes when she heard him move but opened them when she felt her clothes being put back on. She had a look of confusion and shock which Mike noticed. "But why sir?!" Dana asked. "Because you don't love me. That much is obvious. Don't know what you were told but sex should the part of a job description" Mike said turning back to his work. Mike stopped when he heard her crying. Mike put down the wristcomm and gently brushed her face. She stopped crying immediately and froze. "Sorry, it's just have a thing about pretty girls crying" he said. The girl was lost in her emotions. Just a little while ago she had been raped by one giant and now the other refused using her for sex and was even consoling her.
Mike pulled his finger back until he felt her tugging on it. "Don't" she said quietly. Mike wondered what had happened to her but chose not to ask. "If you want to serve me then there is something..." he said. Dana frowned. She thought that his kind words were just a front. "Could you jiggle this?" he said. Dana wanted to cry again hearing that. She opened her eyes and got ready. She was stunned to see him pointing to an exposed circuit on the wristcomm. She walked over in disbelief and touched the circuit the size of a basketball and shook it. The wristcomm beeped back to life. "Whew, thanks! That circuit became lose when I was working. Couldn't reach it because of how small it was. Thanks...um I never got your name" he said. "Dana, my name's Dana" she said smiling.
Dana couldn't stay for long but she was fascinated with Mike. The stories of how different the giant rulers were made total sense to her now. "Goodnight sir" she said. "Mike, call me Mike" he said waving. Dana smiled and waved back closing the door.
Donald and Mike went to the edge of the city to check on Selina. "Oh you haven't forgotten about me" Selina said sarcastically. "Of course not Lt. Obviously you can't fit in the city so what else could we do?" Donald said. "How are you doing Selina?" Mike asked. "Bored to tears. Nothing to do last night except lay here. I did see the occasional plane fly by. I guess it was a plane. Kinda hard to tell when it's the size of a bug" she said. "How'd you know it was a plane?" Donald asked. "Bugs don't leave contrails in the sky" she said. Donald wondered why a lone plane had been watching her. Did they think they were still a threat? "You didn't detect anything Deborah?" Donald asked the AI. "No but then again these things are very tiny so radar isn't always effective" she replied. "We need better eyes. Deborah launch an Oracle" he said. A compartment in the STRIKE II's back opened and a small missile shot into the air and disappeared.
The Oracle lived up to its name. It was a small satellite that could be launched from a mech. It would fly in low orbit and gave a better picture of the overall area. It took only minutes for it to reach optimum altitude. "Give me an overview of the area and track forward to the probe" Donald said. He saw the town where they were and watched the map progress to the capital. When the map centered on the capital he noticed a collection of...something outside the city. "Zoom in" he said. The screen zoomed in till he saw a massive buildup of forces. Donald realized that he was being stalled for time. That didn't sit well with him.
Donald bent down to the commander who was charged with watching them. "You played us. You were buying time till you got some help" Donald said raising his massive armored foot over him. "Sir wait a second!" Mike yelled. Donald ignored him as he slammed the foot down. The tremor was felt in the city. "Deborah target the comm array of this town" he ordered. His target popped up on the screen. Donald fired a single shot that obliterated the array tower and anyone inside it. "Change of plans. These people have no intention of helping us. If anything they are hostile. Rules of engagement no longer apply. Protocol Red is now in effect. Destroy any hostiles" Donald said. Selina and Mike were speechless at how callous Donald was. Donald raised his arm and pointed at the town. "No!" Mike said jumping in front of him. "Out of the way Lt." Donald said still charging. "Those civilians are not hostile! For god's sake their weapons can't even hurt me let alone Selina or you!" Mike shouted. Donald didn't like his attitude but he was too valuable to his mission. Donald chose to placate him...for now. Donald lowered his cannon. "Let's go" he said flying into the air. Mike got on Selina's hand and bid farewell to the tone and the friend he made.
As they flew to the capital, they destroyed any communications or bases that could be used against them. At their speed, the people couldn't mount a defense fast enough. Their best chance came when they landed 400 miles from the capital to refuel. By that point, the entire nation knew of their visit. People cowered in bunkers. The team came across a town located on a stream (a river to them) and searched it for food. Donald got out of his machine and began walking through what appeared to be the deserted town. Mike was on the opposite side looking for something to eat and poor Selina was eating another MRE. Donald walked through what was the town square looking for anything. He was starving. Movement caught his eye. He glanced at a building's window.
When the klaxon went off in town, people began to take cover in bunkers. Their visitors showed up just 10 minutes later. A teacher was running through the school looking for any student who hadn't made it to the bunker underneath the building. The tremor from a giant step signaled how dangerous what she was doing. She saw the giant out of the window and froze. She saw him turn her way and hid between windows with her back to the wall.
"I know I saw something. Wait..." he said seeing a tiny shadow through the window. He flicked the building exterior so hard it cracked. The shadow moved. Donald put his two fingers through the window and hocked them around the wall and pulled. He yanked out a portion of the wall and saw a tiny woman on the floor. His stomach grumbled. He didn't want to eat her but he knew that substance was paramount and it was very unlikely they would find food so easily this time. Donald grabbed the dazed woman and held her in his grip. Not wanting to ingest her clothes, he began stripping her. He finished when he flicked off her high heels. The woman woke up just in time to see his cavernous mouth open. "No please!" she screamed as she was thrown inside. Donald was startled to actually taste anything from the woman. The combination of sweat and body lotion made taste like a salty piece of sweet ham. Donald closed his eyes in ecstasy. He sucked on her till the flavor was gone and swallowed. He gasped when he felt her land in his stomach and chuckled at how it tickled him when she fought to stay alive. Her tiny fists beat on his stomach walls and then nothing. "Jesus, now it see why the Ingress loved to eat humans so much" he mumbled. He wanted more.
He began tearing off the roof and didn't find anything. He ripped apart the school till he hit the basement and saw a steel door in the floor. He ripped it away like it was nothing. Inside he found a group of kids ranging from 14 to 18. A man stood in front of them to protect them. "Leave them alone you bastard!" He yelled. Donald plucked the man from the group and tossed him over his shoulder. A tiny splat could be heard 4 blocks away. The students whimpered and cried at his cruelty. Donald seized on cute girl and brought her closer to his face. A cute 14 year old girl with braided hair screaming not to hurt her. Donald didn't care. He was so drunk on power she might has well been a toy to him. The girl thrashed around as he ripped off her school uniform piece by piece. He slipped off her tiny loafers and rolled off her kneesocks with his fingernails. He yanked off her bra and parities not caring if he hurt her. She cowered in his palm. Donald chuckled at how tiny her feet were with their toes curling. He tilted his head back and slowly lowered her in.
He closed his lips around her waist and sucked so hard she screamed. He felt her tiny legs kicking around and poked her tiny pussy with his tongue. She let out a terrible scream and he tasted blood. He had poked her cunt so forcefully that he had taken her cherry. She hung out his mouth and sobbed. Donald slurped her in and rolled her around in his mouth. The kids collectively screamed when he swallowed and saw their classmate bulge out his throat and disappear past his collarbone. "Damn that was good" he said belching. He grabbed another, this time a boy and stripped him down. Donald wasn't gay but he had to admit the kid was cute. Short for his age with long blond hair made him look like a girl. Donald tortured the kid by ribbing his crotch with his finger. The poor boy came within a minute and just sobbed in shame. "Didn't take much for you did it? I'll enjoy eating such a horny kid" Donald said tossing him in. The boy was screaming until he heard something. In the back of his mouth at his throat, the boy could hear screaming.
To his horror, he realized the last girl was still alive in his stomach and was screaming not out of fear but in pain as Donald's acids broke down her 2 3/4 inch body. It was too much for the boy as he passed out. Donald let his unconscious body slip down his throat. He had eaten three people but still had room for more. He glanced down and saw that many more were still down there in the small bunker. He knew he couldn't eat all of them. He chose only the cutest ones. The irony wouldn't be lost to the survivors of bunker #3. The outcast kids, the ugly ones, the fat ones, the frumpy ones, would live while the cute, popular kids would become food for the giant. Donald reached for a black haired girl only to be blocked by a 16 year old boy. Donald ended plucking the boy so hard he went flying into a wall. The boy slid down the wall. A splatter of blood where his head hit it stained the white paint.
The girl screamed his name and shook him but it was evident that he was dead. Donald pulled her from the dead teen and ripped her clothes off. Her sobbing was muted by his lips as he closed his mouth. Her sobs turned the shrieks as he began chewing. The kids turned away and put their hands over their ears to block the screaming and crunching of tiny bones. The shrieks stopped when Donald grimaced to bite down on something hard. He swallowed the pulp and grinned. A few kids fainted when they saw his blood stained teeth. Donald picked up another teen who had fainted. He was disappointed that she didn't move or scream. She didn't even wake up as she was stripped naked. He ate her fairly quickly. For the next two minutes he ate 2 girls and another boy and only stopped when he finally felt full. The pile of skirts, socks, shoes, and dress shirts littered the frightened survivors. Donald just smiled as he dropped the door back into place.
Donald's wristcomm beeped. "Report" he said. "Three squadrons are on radar. ETA 5 minutes" Deborah said. "Mike, double time it back to the LZ" he ordered. Donald didn't tiptoe through the town coming back. He crushed houses and cars for every 3rd step he took. They were back in just two minutes. "Get airborne!" Donald yelled. Selina (with Mike) and Donald took off into the air. They barely saw the 20 dots on the horizon coming at them. All of a sudden 3 orange dots appeared coming at them. "They fired nukes! Full throttle! Evade!" Donald yelled. The missiles streaked past them so fast they didn't have time to proximity detonate. A flash of light behind them and then a body numbing shock wave hit them. Both of the airborne flyers struggled to keep in control. They were able to keep from crashing and glanced behind them. The town they were in was engulfed by three mushroom clouds. Anyone not in a bunker was ash.
"Oh you're not getting away" Donald said seeing the radar blips flying away from them. Donald fired a 5 second burst from his autocannons as he moved his head right to left. The cruelness of it was each shell was the size of a human and that meant that to these pilots a 200 ft. metal shell with a depleted uranium core was speeding at them at Mach 3. It was like killing a gnat with a .357 magnum round. The jets shook with the displaced air as the first rounds missed but then each one was hit. They didn't just explode. They just ceased to be. Dust was all that was left of the 22nd Imperial flight squadron out of the capital. "Jesus. They blew up their own people to get at us" Mike said. "Now you see why I called Protocol Red. No mercy for them" Donald said. "Sir, I found people in the supermarket when I was looking for food. They...they didn't deserve this" Mike said. "Focus on the mission soldier" Donald said. "Sir...do you want something to eat? I did get some things before we had to leave" Mike asked. "No thanks. Not hungry" Donald replied.
Amy was frantic. Her best squadron was wiped out and the invaders were only an hour away. "Ready all forces at the front of the city! I want every General battle ready in less than 30 minutes!" she yelled. "And what of us grandmother?" a 13 year old boy close to her size asked. "Peter...I want you and your siblings by my side. Our family will not be defeated so easily" she said placing her hand on his cheek. Peter left the war room to tell his sister and brother. "Come you bastards come! I will turn this city in a scorched wasteland before can have you way!" she cursed. Amy watched the horizon and as the minutes ticked by she could hear explosions in the far off distance. Donald and his team were destroying the AA and military bases as they approached.
"Donald we got multiple hostiles" Deborah said showing him the massive amount of troops encircling the city. "Hold here" Donald told Selina. The people watched as the massive beings just hovered in the air. Now that they were stationary, the troops converged on them. "Sir are we just gonna sit here?" Selina asked. "Yes and you'll see why soon" Donald said. "My god so many" Mike said seeing the tiny people swarming to their location. "Radiological alarm! Missiles are popping up from the ground!" Deborah said. "That's our cue. Land Selina and lock down your systems. Deborah engage EMP hardening and prepare to fire a medusa rocket" Donald said. As Amy readied her missiles, she watched the giant machine fire something very high in the air. A bright flash filled the sky and the power went out.
Planes in the air fell out of the sky. Tanks shut down. The missiles went dead. Her master plan had failed before it was started. The tiny troops looked at each other not knowing how to fight something so big with any air or heavy ground support. "How many are there?" Donald asked Deborah. "100,000 easy" she replied. "Are they still capable of fighting?" Donald asked. "They can't hurt us" she replied. "What about Mike or me without the STRIKE II?" he asked. "Possibly. They could still have explosives not affected by EMP" she said. "Fine. Full power to positron cannons" he said. His cannons glowed red as he aimed at the troops.
"No! They are defenseless you can't just kill them. We have to follow the Rules of Engagement!" Selina yelled. Donald punched her in the face. Mike went into free fall and landed on her chest. Selina wiped the blood from her nose. "Rules of Engagement were suspended remember? They are still a possible threat to the mission and you will not interfere or jeopardize it! Now fall in soldier!" Donald yelled. Selina and Mike could only watch as her captain fired. Those twin beams of red light would be the last thing thousands would see that day. They struck the center of the helpless troops and the ensuing blast annihilated the army with the force of a tactical nuke (of human proportions). The shockwave slammed into the city wall knocking part of it over. The glass of many buildings and homes was blown out and the tallest structures were felled. Amy was lying on the floor with her ears ringing. She felt glass in her hair and got up to look out of the blown out window. A mushroom cloud rose from where her best troops once stood. "Fire missiles! FIRE MISSILES!" she yelled into her walkie only to get nothing; not even static.
28 years ago, Arcadia lived in a 16th century way of life but that changed when Amy and her family came. Since that time technology and their way of life had progressed by centuries in just 28 years. A phenomenal feat by any means but the act of one human had erased that in just 3 minutes. Selina looked on in horror at the devastation. She looked at Mike with tears in her eyes. Mike slid off her chest as she got up off the ground. She walked over to the sizzling crater and saw ash and melted tanks. A tiny blacked figure caught her eyes. The man was frozen in death in a huddled state behind a tank. She barely touched him with her fingernail and the figure collapsed into a very tiny pile of ash and carbon.
Selina screamed at the sight. Her young mind couldn't process such a brutal sight. "BASTARD!" she yelled attacking the surprised Captain. "This wasn't necessary! They couldn't hurt us anymore!" she yelled. Donald pushed her off of him. "I'm going back home and tell our superiors of this!" she yelled taking off. "You will not interfere with Omega's plan" Donald said. Selina realized who she was really dealing with. Panic took hold and she gunned it. Donald took off after her and with his superior speed caught up with her soon. "Stay away!" she said firing off shots from her positron weapon. Donald dodged the shots and pulled out his sword. Selina weaved and zigzagged in the air. Their fight had taken them over the ocean a few miles away from the city.
"This was your plan all along! You plan on taking this world for Omega! WHY?!" she screamed. "We need resources and land to build our next army. Land and resources out of prying eyes. Humanity needs to be ready for the eventual day your kind turns on us. If you're worried about if you will stop us then don't. That will not happen today or any other day" Donald said parrying a sword strike and slashing her with a counter. Selina tumbled out of the air and crashed into the sea. Donald charged his cannon and waited. The clear blue water became stained with red and he saw bubbles rise to the surface. "Infrared?" Donald asked. "Negative" Deborah said. Donald flew back to the city.
Mike saw him land but Selina was not present. "Where is she?!" Mike yelled. "You saw her attack me. She tried to kill me when I went to restrain her" Donald said. "Liar! You killed her to keep your secret!" Mike yelled. Donald felt like killing him too but he was too valuable. Donald aimed his gauntlet at him. "You can join her or you can join me. What will it be?" Donald asked. Knowing he couldn't fight him Mike hung his head. "Awaiting orders...sir" Mike said quietly. "Wise decision. First order of business is securing the city take out any weapons still operational" Donald said. Mike stepped over the ruined wall as Donald hopped out of the machine.
Amy had in her hand a tactical nuke the size of a soda can. She had planned to set it off the moment the giant placed her in her mouth but that all changed when she saw Mike and Donald stepping into her city. They were human like she was. Humans from Earth. She didn't know if she should be happy or angry. The city street was empty and littered with tiny brick and glass. They saw nothing that could be used against them that still worked. Missiles sat on launchers stone dead and artillery and tanks frozen in motion. What they did see next caught them by surprise. Amy stood in front of the castle with her arms crossed holding a pistol her size. "Well I'll be damned" Donald said seeing the person his size. As he approached, Amy fired off shots at him. The bullets bounced off his personal shield with audible pings.
These pings were soon replaced with cracks from rifles. Donald looked up and saw two figures from far away taking sniper shots. One round struck him in the chest and knocked him over. "Little fuck! Carbine mode!" he yelled pulling out his positron weapon. He fired a shot at the shooter and blew up a building. A loud groan could be heard. "Tony!" Amy shouted. Seeing one of her grandkids injured threw her into a frenzy. These people would kill them; human or not. They were no friends of hers. If they were to die, she would bring them with her. Amy pulled the nuke out from her pocket and pressed the detonator. Nothing happened. The EMP fried it.
Amy pressed the detonator franticly until a hand stopped her. She looked up to see it was Peter. "Who are you and why do you attack our people?" he yelled at Donald and Mike. "Were are soldiers of Omega and lay claim to this world. Surrender and you will be spared. Fight and you will die" Donald said coldly. Mike turned his head away in shame. Peter thought about how destructive their weapons were and how feeble his were. If they could cripple an entire sub nation in just 3 minutes then fighting was suicide. "On behalf of the royal family of Artesia, we surrender" Peter said to him. Amy started crying hearing those words.
The first order Donald gave the conquered family was to have the citizens come out of hiding. He wanted to know how big a population he was dealing with. After seeing the frightened people, Donald met with Amy and her grandkids to learn the nature of this world and how humans had arrived before they did. Amy told them how their family arrived 28 years prior and how they changed the world. He was not too surprised to hear about the Ingress attack. Donald told her how the Ingress nearly conquered Earth. She didn't believe him when he told her that many joined forces with humanity to stop the Empress. The same beings who wiped out her family had found peace with humans? It sounded like a cruel joke to her. Amy asked what her future would be under this occupation. He told her that she would be the familiar face of the people but she would answer to him. Amy was surprised to hear such a generous offer. She accepted.
Donald and Mike settled in for the night. Donald slept easy for one who had killed enough people to fill a major city that day not considering how he put his own subordinate to the sword. Mike didn't sleep however. His conscience plagued him. He didn't sign up to be a peacekeeper to play second fiddle to a tyrant. He feared for those people, people like Dana, who despite their size, had hopes, dreams, loves, lives as big and as important as any human. He eventually fell asleep and only awoke when the sound of a vortex opening could be heard. Mike rushed out of his room and was met by Donald who had a very pissed off look on his face. "He's here even though I told him I had it under control" Donald said. Amy and her grandkids watched in awe as a STRIKE II painted red stepped through the vortex. "Who is it? Who are you talking about?" Mike asked. "The second in command of Omega" he answered.
Amy had hoped she could pacify Donald and Mike when she was told she could keep her title but with the addition of another visitor, one that even Donald respected, cast more doubt on the validity of her plan. The new machine's feet filled the center of town. If it wasn't for people fleeing the vortex as it formed, he would have crushed hundreds as he touched down. The cockpit opened and out stepped Brandon. Brandon rode the metal hand down to the street and stepped off. "Welcome sir. I wasn't expecting your arrival...so soon" Donald said saluting. "Your report was so promising I had to see it for myself. You weren't lying when you said everything here is much smaller in scale" Brandon said. Amy was standing in disbelief. She was expecting some hard as nails looking middle aged man to appear but some pimply faced 13 year old kid who commanded respect was totally off her radar.
People began to come out into the street when they heard no explosions or felt no more tremors. They saw a young giant similar in age to the Queen's grandchildren. "You inform her of the plan?" Brandon said. "Yes, she knows that we run the show while she's our frontman" Donald said. "Excellent. Our people back home has noticed something interesting about these nukes they have been using. Far more powerful for their size than usual. We should take a look at one" Brandon said. "Don't you wish to settle in?" Donald asked. "Later. Strike while the iron is hot so to speak" Brandon said. "Take us to one of your missile installations" Donald told Amy. "...yes sir" she said. Amy led them across the city. "Humans, humans here before us and she conquered these people so easily. Imagine what we could do" Brandon said watching her and her grandkids leading them. Brandon watched the people stare at him as they passed by. A woman on her 20's caught his eye. Brandon reached down and picked her up.
The woman had a terrified look on her face as the adolescent giant studied her. "Please don't hurt me" she whimpered. "You people really are tiny" he said putting her back down on the ground. The woman was relieved that he only wished to see her more closely. The people who saw this had hope that these giants were benign but truthfully Brandon wanted to take care of work then play. They had arrived at the missile instillation and ordered Amy to have a missile brought out. It was nearly 3 ft. long and was designed to be a city killer. "Inspect the warhead. Tell me what you find" Brandon ordered Mike. Mike gave him an irritated look and pulled out his specialized wristcomm and scanned it. "Fuck was that about?" Brandon asked. "I had some issues with them following orders. I had to dispose of my Ingress subordinate" Donald said. "I was wondering where she was. No surprise that an Ingress might have problems with the plan. They always did have issues with loyalty" he said. Brandon was so blinded by his hate that he failed to realize that Selina had acted out of kindness of these people. His hypocrisy was not lost on Mike.
"Incredible. This uranium warhead is unlike anything I've ever seen. A totally new isotope which is enhanced with some unknown element" Mike said. "Can you isolate the element?" Donald asked. "I think so" Mike said as his fascination was replaced with suspicion. "See to it. In the meantime I will take our commander to his quarters" Donald said. Mike say on the ground and began stripping the missile down. "Ma'am do we help him?" the commander of the missile installation asked Amy. "Do as they say...for now" she said. "And what of us grandmother?" Peter asked. "I want you to get those types of tactical nukes ready. I will...occupy our hosts" Amy said.
Meanwhile on an island in the ocean....
Selina woke on sandy beach. She was cold even though it was summertime in the tropics. She tried to move and felt resistance. She glanced at her arms and legs and saw thin chains holding them down. A tiny clamor was heard and she strained her neck to see she was surrounded by troops and tanks. She flexed her body and felt a sharp pain. She felt where the pain was and felt a bandage on her side; the same side she was slashed by Donald. Selina didn't like being chained down and ignoring the pain, pulled free of the chains. The troops and tanks took aim and Selina saw a radio signal being picked up on her wristcomm. She quickly tuned into it.
"All forces fire if she moves again" a voice said over the radio. "Hold your fire!" Selina said holding up her hands. She knew their weapons couldn't hurt her and didn't feel it necessary to kill them. The troops froze. What reports they had gotten said that the mountain giant couldn't communicate with their kind. Selina saw one shouting but didn't hear anything. "The radio is how I heard you" she said. The man spoke into the radio. "You understand us?" he asked. "I can as long as you use the radio. You're too tiny to hear otherwise. Where am I?" she asked. "The island nation of Utopia. We found you washed up on the shore" he answered. "Did you bandage me?" she asked. "Yes, it took considerable effort though" he replied. "Not that I'm ungrateful but why?" Selina asked. "We heard how you fought the one in armor after that army was destroyed and how you didn't like the slaughter. We gambled on you being peaceful but we had to take precautions" he said. Selina nodded. "Well I don't mean you any harm so you can relax. Look, I'm going to pull out a medical device not a weapon okay?" she asked. Selina reached into her utility belt and pulled out a syringe full of nano aid.
She injected herself with it and felt immediate relief of the pain. Selina was very fortunate. When Omega released the virus, she was still living on the homeworld. By the time she came to Earth, the virus had died out after its bio programmed time limit. She was just some of a small population that was unaffected by the man-made disease. Her genetic healing ability saved her life. Any other Ingress like Ned or Leila would have bled out. Her stomach growled as her body sucked up what protein it needed to regenerate. The sound was noticed by the ant sized people. "What was that?" the man asked. "My stomach. Guess I'm hungry" she said. You could see the people back away from her. "Selina burst out laughing. That didn't help the sudden tension. "Relax, I got like 3 MRE's left" she said pulling one out. The troops relaxed.
"Where did you guys come from?" Selina asked them. "Our city is over that mountain" he replied. "No I mean where on the mainland" she asked eating a peace of jerky the size of a warehouse to them. "From all over. The citizens all come from each of the 4 old nations. Most of them chose not to live like slaves" he said. "I didn't see them living like slaves" Selina said. "You can still be a slave without having to work on some factory, field, or warehouse. Just the loss of being able to go where you want, say what you want, work where you want, that's slavery. Many bought into the Queen's idea of a universal nation free of war but at what cost? A police state and citizens disappearing; many of them in the capital itself. God, sometimes whole families just disappear" the man said. "Seeing their technology, I'm surprised they haven't attacked you" Selina said. "They haven't due to the threat of nuclear retaliation. Weren’t just citizens who came here. Many military personnel and scientists ended up here. They won't attack us but that might change soon" he said.
"What do you mean?" Selina asked. "They are working on a missile shield. If they get that working then they can nuke us without having to worry about our missiles. Selina, we didn't just save you out of kindness. We want you to lead us in an attack on the capital" the man said. Selina lay on the beach speechless.