Part 15: DIE, INFIDELS!!!!!!
*SJ Forest, Freak Attack's Capital City*
Emperor S and his second in commander, Alexander, both stand over a map of the Playground. Little flags and stuff like that show troop positions all over the Playground. S and Alexander are both in the standard black and gold uniforms of Freak Attack, as is all the other non-important-people-whom-I'm-to-lazy-to-give-names-to. In some strange twist of all logic and common sense, Alexander, the second in command, has a much more ornate and shiny uniform than his emperors.
S: "Staus report."
Alexander: "Char has driven all of our forces off of Octogonia. We have no navy to counterattack with, so the only reason to remain at war is to make Char's people unhappy."
S: "We can afford to keep this up for a few more days, until Alexi and I can agree on a favorable treaty. Until then, I won't see any of their envoys. Freak Attack never surrendures."
Alexander: "What of the Teachers? They say that they will not allow fighting amongst us."
S: "We've seen the Teacher's fight. They may be powerful, but their lack of mobility greatly weakens them. And they wouldn't dare set foot into this forest."
Alexander: "If you say so, sir...."
At this moment, a messanger runs in, franticly waving a piece of paper.
Messanger: "Emperor S! Outpost #5 has fallen to the Teachers!"
S: "What? That's practically right on our doorstep! What about the reserves we had for a counterattack?"
Messanger: "They've been wiped out! General Chen's trying to gather as many people as he can to retake the city, but the best he says he'll be able to do is hold off the Teacher's advance for a while!"
S: "This is not at all according to plan.... Start training boy agents! And I want workers to start building road systems to allow better movement for reinforcements!"
Another messenger comes into the room.
Messenger2: "Emperor! Teacher Informers have snuck into our territory, killed most of our workers, and are destroying the roads around the capital! And Outpost #19 and #15 have both fallen!"
S: "Curse you, Omega!!!!"
While S cursed him for being a bloody genius, Principal Omega was still wandering the mountains, huntind down Barbarians. But with his new laptop, which the School could easily afford now that its treasury had broken $20,000, allowed him to control his troop movements, and gather info much faster than with a radio. He was particularly pleased with the efficency the informers now had at cutting off Freak Attackian supply lines, and sabotaging their workforces. Back in his army days, Omega had been taught that weaponless workers should be captured, not killed. However, in light of the current situation, Omega had given his informers the right to decide for themselves whether or not the captured workers should live or die. He was getting surprisingly few slave workers because of that order....
And then, a new message from Irene popped up on the screen. Apparently, the Girls had been the first to complete building the Toy Store. While it brought a warm glow to Omega's heart at the thought of how all that time and effort the other groups had put into trying to build it first had been wasted, he also realized that now Freak Attack would probably start using those resources to pump out military units. He had to finish this war fast.
To finish the war faster, he sent orders to the Teachers in the forest to divide into two groups, one to strike deeper into the Forest, the other to attack Freak Attack's outposts to the east. Results came much quicker than he had expected....
*Back at SJ Forest*
S: "This is getting worse and worse.... We have to end this. Send a message to Alexi. Tell him we're willing to end this war."
Alexander: "But what if he asks for terms of surrendure? Surrendure is against the Code of Freak Attack...."
S: "Forget the code! I don't want to end up with us wiped out just because of stubbornness."
Alexander: "Yes sir. I'll try to contact him. But with all the Teacher's everywhere, we'll be lucky if any messanger gets through...."
S: "We'll have to risk it."
Another Freak Attackian walks into the room. Everyone but S and Alexander salute him, even though many of those people are the same, or even higher rank than he is.
S: "Ah, Chen. What news from the front?"
Chen: "Nothing good. The United Forces have made an agreement with the Barbarians, so we'll have a bunch of Barbarians charging at us pretty soon."
S: "That's not good.... I'll take control of a force to defend the souther part of the forest. You try and hold the Teacher's back."
Chen: "I mean no disrespect sir, but we dont' have the manpower to have two fronts at once. And even if we did, I can't do anything to stop the Teachers. We've only been able to kill one, and that was only because he was wounded after killing 5 of our warriors. We can't win this war."
S: "I know.... But we just have to hold out until we can get a peace treaty with Char...."
*Back to the mountains*
Omega was thinking of taking a short nap after a long day of killing little childrens. But before he could go to sleepyland, he had to check troop movements. Everything looked good. Freak Attack Outpost #4 had fallen, and with iits fall, the QUEST Program was securly in Teacher hands. Plus, SJ Forest was almost completely surrounded. And then another message appeared on the screen, which put Omega in a very, very sad mood.
Without the war between Char and Freak Attack, the Staff had no good excuse to keep fighting. Omega decided it was finally time to give S a call....
S would forever remember, and fear Omega's last words before leaving the peace conference....
"Always remember that we could have killed you. SJ Forest is only a short distance away from most of the city's we captured. However, you still have some uses left for us...."