Shina woke up on her bed , the stiffness of the bed frame and the thin sheets are oh so familiar to her, looking around she sees her only battle sister snoring her ass off on her own bed, taking the opportunity of peace she takes a long stretch while yawning.
*Knock*
*Knock*
*Knock*
Three knocks from the wooden door across from her echoes through the room, not wanting to get up, she stays quiet hoping that whoever is at the door would think she was still sleeping.
*Knock*
*Knock*
*Knock*
Three move knocks sounded, this time more harder, but yet she stays silent the whole time, not even daring to breathe too loudly.
“Bachelor Shina and Squire Zaphrea, if you do not open the door this instant, I swear to the holy empress I will break it down myself.” The stirn voice of her Dame Arzia called out from the other side.
Not wanting to get on Arzia’s bad side, she quickly woke her battle sister up to start immediately fixing the beds and to stand at attention.
Shina opened the door slowly, looking up she can see Arzia's proud figure in front of the door frame, a peak example of a truly feminine woman, large breasts, muscular, and tall. Today she seemed to be wearing her combat armor, well her chest plate that is, as her helmet was attached to her side with some buckles.
“GOOD MORNING M’LADY! BACHELOR SHINA AND SQUIRE ZAPHREA REPORTING FOR DUTY MA’AM!” Shina and Zaphrea calls out as they both snap a quick salute by balling her into a fist and placing it where their heart would be with their elbows pointing outwards.
“Alright listen girls, the whole battery is moving out to a completely new world, the mages managed to open up a gate connecting another world and we’ll be moving in.” She give them both a few seconds to understand and take in what she said before continuing, “so far we found no intelligent life besides a couple non hostile animals, the air there is breathable and world very similar to ours, so our battery is going to be the first to go in there to set up a base camp for future operations, got that? Good, get dressed and move out to the front rally point, dismissed.” She ends as she closes the door and walks to the next door.
Turning around, she looks at Zaphrea and they both stare at each other for a while before Zaphrea opens her mouth to speak,”Did she just say another world?” she questions.
“She did, she also told us to get dressed, and what the Lady says we do.” She ends by walking to her closet and opening it.
The familiar face of the olive green uniform greeted her as well as the steel chest plate painted green and her steel pot helmet, grabbing it she takes a moment to appreciate the looks of them before she puts them on.
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Walking down the hallway towards the rally point, she passes by a plethora of other species, some beast kin, some insectoids, some elves, etc, all female of course since all of the gender ratios of every species is around 10 women for ever 1 male, but some species had it worse than others.
She can see the beast kin with their rifles and their long bayonets always on it, giving it a look more akin to a spear more than a rifle, their armor were very similar to knights, except it was painted a light green and had some plants covering some parts for increased camouflage, near them were some insectoids with their carbine rifles and the short swords always to their side, their armor only covered the parts where their exoskeleton didn't cover, normally the joints, groin and chest region, and of course there were the elves, they were the main operators of vehicles, from tanks to their fighter planes, you can always find an elf in one, these elves seemed to be tank commanders, their caps, goggles and chest rig made it pretty obvious that they were.
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“I wonder what adventures await us?” Zaphrea ponders out loud in a curious and excited tone,”Maybe we can finally get lucky and hook up with some hot males.” She says in a hopeful tone.
“The monarch said they haven't found intelligent life there, even if there is, they're probably barely sentient or really primitive.” Shina responds back, “but we can always hope.” She ends with a cheery smirk on her face to lighten the mood.
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Shina stood in formation , her MLR-2 at her side, armor gleaming brightly, and helmet attached to her side, she could feel the warm sun on her skin, the wind blowing at her face softly, and the sound of hundreds of soldiers going about their day.
Directly in front of the platoon stood Arzia, proud and bold, her tall figure dwarfing those under her command, she stood straight and tall, her battle armor gleaming brightly in the sun's morning beam.
And directly In Front her here stood a Direction forward command officer, her nearly blind bright white uniform and gold embedded strips on her cap made her stand out like no other.
“Ladies!” She says out loud as everyone straightens their posture even more, “Your battery has been chosen to lead the first exploration of many to a new world, you have all been chosen due to your ability to adapt and learn fast in high stress situations.” She looks at them stoically, “this world will assist our current stalemate with the Vorcian Republic, our mages have suspected a high concentration of energy rocks in the world, and their potential energy could be the push to win the war once and for all.” She stops talking as they all process the information, “Ladies I have full trust in you, the empire has full trust in you, I have no doubt you will succeed, so go! And make your father proud of you!” She roars out as they follow with a loud “Arhu!”
Just then several mages around her started placing energy stones around a full concrete platform and only after forming a full circle do they start chanting and quickly a gateway is formed, big enough to fit a whole battery inside.
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As she stepped through the gate way, a huge wave of a freezing cold feeling hit her like a brick to the face, but it left as soon as it came, looking around she saw…trees? Grass? Everything seems normal here, to the point she thought the gate just had transported them to a random place in Panrea, but looking around she can see wild animals that aren't from there, like a small brown ball of fluff bouncing around.
Looking behind her, she can see utility vehicles come on by and she had to step away to not be run over,” Alright ladies, let's get building.” The DFCO yells out and everyone breaks formation to construct their basic necessities and defenses.
Shina’s back ached, she was sitting in the new trench she just dug a few hours ago, looking next to her she can see Zaphrea taking nap in a dug in wall she made just for sleeping, seeing nothing else to do she tried to slip in a little nap, before she heard a low rumble and the sound of women shouting orders, waking Zaphrea from her sleep with a slap she loaded her rifle with a musket ball and pulled back the lever, grabbing her helmet she and Zaphrea quickly rushed with other women towards the commotion.
Looking towards the tree line’s edge, she can see a single green vehicle from a far, approaching with speeds unheard of. As it came closer she could start making out little details, first she noticed the boxy shape of the car, how armored looking it was and of course the speed, the other thing she noticed was it's color, it wasn't a single color like she first thought but a mix of greens and browns.
The strange vehicle drove over to the front area of the camp, stopping right at the entrance and as soon as it stopped multiple soldiers swarmed and surrounded the vehicle screaming for the occupants to step out, after a few minutes of screaming, all the doors of the vehicles opened and out stepped tall bulky figures wearing clothes with the same pattern as the vehicles, then she realized they were armed with something, rifles? She questioned, looking at the figures they looked oddly, human? But her thoughts were caught off as soon as one of them spoke.
One of them seemed to be trying to speak with them, but it sounded like a drunk and angry person speaking at the same time, seeing that the being’s attempt at communication failed it turned to what she thought was its commander, saying some words before looking at them.
“IDENTIFY YOURSELVES!” One of soldiers screamed out with her rifle trained at the one with what seemed to be a radio
“DROP YOUR WEAPONS!” another one screamed, this time at the one carrying a large LMG looking weapon.
Then she realized something, they didn't have long hair, nor breasts, could they be? No that's impossible, this must work differently around here. Just then the familiar sounding voice of Zaphrea interjected, “Holy empress, are they male?” She mimicked her thoughts out loud, hearing this, the women around them stopped screaming for a second questioning what to do, before they continued screaming.
Just then the gateway opened up, turning around, she sees one of the grand mages stepped out with her red silk robe following behind her and her face covered with a thin black vale.