The Fate of Nenoria

Chapter 2: Knights & Demons

A noticeable sun shined bright in the radiant blue sky. The ground covered in grass and lustrous trees stood tall. All this seemed very similar to D-Squad however, in reality, this was another planet only similar to Earth's ecosystem. It wasn't long before D-Squad reach their supplies. Their designated location was in the middle of a forest. A wide patch of land around 900sqm which its trees had been cut down by the bots would be their temporary forward outpost. Larger parts of the base were airlifted to the destination and the construction bots would assemble them.

"Alright squad, you know the drill. Secure the perimeter and radio in if you find anything suspicious. We take our positions in four directions. North, East, South and West. The bots should be done with their work by the end of the day." Chain issues his orders to his squad, as per what they were told to do in the briefing.

"Yes, sergeant," Kretschmer replies and heads North.

"Ugh." Amelia hesitantly responds and heads East.

"..." Sophia continues to be silent and heads South.

This leaves Chain to head West.

D-squad spreads out not too far from their outpost and idly guard their positions. As time went by, there was nothing to report and no signs of 'alien life'. The only thing waiting out there for them was only the silence. Wanting to start up a conversation, Chain contacts his squad on the open radio channel so any one of them could join. Thinking it to be a good idea at first, he puts it to the test.

"So how is everyone enjoying this new planet?" Chain starts with a simple question, hoping he could get to know everyone much better.

"I was hoping to find some aliens but I guess not," Kretschmer replies with a saddened tone.

"Aliens, you're kidding me. You actually believed what mum said." Amelia recalls the statement from the briefing."

"Mum?" Chain asks in confusion.

"You seriously don't know sarge. Hah! This is hilarious. I think you are the only person that doesn't know. My last name is Cowan. Ring any bells?"

"Cowan..." Chain mumbles on the name as he has heard the name from somewhere before. He soon realises it's someone VERY important. "Senator Cowan. THE senator Conwan is your mother?!?"

"Ding, ding, ding. You've won a million dollars! I can't believe you've only just realised this."

"Kretschmer, did you know this?"

"Yep!"

"Sophia?"

"..."

Upon realising this, Chain found out he was the only person in the squad who didn't know of the crucial information.

"If you are senator Edith Cowan's daughter, why are you serving in the military? Isn't it dangerous for the daughter of a senator to be risking her life, let alone risk being a hostage if sound one finds out you are in a vulnerable position without any protection?"

"Hahaha, you sound just like my mother." Amelia laughs at Chain's concern for her safety. " It took a while to convince mum (She threatened to run away from home) to let me join the military cuz it was sooooo boring at home. Still, who would have expected her to use a dirty trick to get me to join this military unit so she could monitor over me. I bet she's watching us right now from space." Amelia then stuck her tongue out and looked into the sky.

"So were technically your bodyguards so to speak."

"Correctamundo!"

"So now I have to be a bodyguard for the senator Cowan's daughter. Great, just great. Can't this day get any worse?" Chain thought to himself as his responsibilities just kept pilling up and up.