Chapter 3: Diplomacy, Spies, and the XXXV

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Announcement: The United State of the Americas is now renamed United Federal State of the Americas, forget about the United State of the Freed Americans. (I haven't informed the ones on Wattpad but informed the ones on FanFiction.net). The date is on the empire last chapter is now changed on September 7, 2055. The one on FanFiction only has Part 1 and Part 2 since I always forget that I also write on FanFiction. The new US Liberation Navy is now changed to UFSS

Location: Portal Number 1, Atlantic Ocean, United Federal State of the Americas

Date: 09/07/2055 (local time), 1/10/1940

Time: 1620

Ambassador Virgil Goodwin is sent by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to "The New Americas" in "The Portal" as they are known in the 1940 USA. Roosevelt sent him to negotiate terms as the encounter between the United State Liberation Armed Forces (now United Federal State Liberation Armed Forces) and the United States Armed Forces is just a misunderstanding. While another ambassador, Kent Clayton is sent by President Robles.

The USA's ambassador and his escorts are approached by a helicopter, they are just standing there, dumbfounded until it opened its hatch. With no way to pick them up aside from lowering personnel, they lowered a flight engineer despite not having a rescue mission. It impressed them.

"Impressive aircraft can travel at really slow speeds and even hover! They even sent a man to pick us up and bring us there!" The ambassador thought.

Once the ambassador and his escorts are now aboard the helicopter, they are brought to the UFSS Mexico City, a Bremerton-class light cruiser.

"Are you the ambassador?" Clayton said. "Yes, I am Virgil Goodwin from the United States of America, we are here to discuss the misunderstandings," Goodwin said.  "I am Kent Clayton from the United Federal State of the Americas, nice to meet you."

Location: UFSS Mexico City, 1 Kilometer South of Portal Number 1, Atlantic Ocean.

"This is the UFSS Mexico City, a Bremerton-class light cruiser, she is a very versatile ship, she can even hunt down submarines and do shore bombardments like the battleships of old or their modern counterparts, hypercruisers, giant cruisers, better known as ultracruisers and supercruisers. Battleships became obsolete when aircraft carriers and aircraft showed their true potential. They can attack enemies without the commander seeing where they are. Anyway, enough talk, about the negotiations." Clayton said.

"So the portal is currently considered as a territorial dispute. What do you think we should do. Honestly, our side of the portal and half of it should be ours and the rest is yours." Goodwin said.

"My government and its people think the same as you. Do you think we should help you modernize and trade? I don't, not at this time."

"I agree on the first one, your government is thinking about claiming their side of the portal is also my government interests. But not helping us modernize is something odd."

"In our history, we are under the USSR's watch due to Soviet spies disguising as Russian Immigrants, we don't want communists to get their hands on our technology, I think you should also use spies to spy on the KGB…" Clayton replied and Goodwin, knowing he wants to say more, stayed silent. "…Unless the USSR and KGB exist in your world. Fortunately, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency managed to track every one of their spies or devices, arrest or confiscate them, and interrogate them. Even their successors the Federal Security Service is afraid of the FBI and CIA due to them arresting all of their spies." Fortunately for both nations and ambassadors, there are no Soviet spies or devices nearby.

"Understood, we will sign this treaty and I'll meet with President Roosevelt and tell him that we should be careful of people who enter our soil, especially if they're from the USSR."

Treaty of the Portal:

Article I: The United Federal State of the Americas and the United States of America will have their side of the portal as their sovereign territory.

Article II: Any military force that entered without permission from any of the two nations will be met with force.

Location: Ocyssa (GPS Coordinates 41.8024° N, 12.6021° E | Stroidor), Peninsula of Caderin, Empire of Thaparea

Date: 09/07/2055

Time 1830

The XXXV (35th) Legion is marching toward the portal since morning (0800 hours to be exact). They are resting after a 10-hour march from Parenia (41.8559° N, 12.1981° E) and are headed to the portal (Portal Number 1). Cossus Herennuleius Neptunalis, the general sent to command the investigation, is confused about what happened to General Novius' legion.

"Centurion Taurus Urseius Hilarinus, come here." The general calls one of his many centurions.

"Yes my lord, what do you want from me?" He replied.

"I want you to tell our men and your fellow centurions not to fight immediately when we encounter the enemy, if this enemy is strong enough that it left no survivors, we're doomed if we don't learn how to make tactics and strategies against them. That army is lost, most likely left with no survivors as no message returned. If there's a message, we would know that they're still alive, but no, there's no message, no one returned from the portal. Take note that many of us are bragging about how strong our empire is and will attack the enemy despite the Emperor's order due to their arrogance. Warn them that this enemy is something far worse than the Agreoseans that we conquered a decade ago, probably ten-thousandfold, and if they tell me that I'm exaggerating, tell them to take everything that I said to you literally, and if they tell you that I'm doubting the Imperial Army, tell them that they're stupid because NO ONE from Novius' army returned and the 25th legion he commands is the most loyal to the Emperor." He said.

"Yes my lord."

But there's something they don't know, there's a Federal American (I used this term on purpose as there's no better term that I can think of) drone and a CIA agent near them, to make it even worse the agent is broadcasting it via radio to another agent near the portal who broadcasts it to the CIA.

"They're planning to investigate what happened to the one ordered to attack us. Federal America needs to prepare for this." The agent said while being a hundred meters away from the legion.

Centurion Taurus showed up to the other centurions and did what the general told him, but they thought it was a joke, made by him and the general.

"Are you kidding, no one can defeat the Empire!" "The general's gone nuts, pretty sure he knew the empire can't be defeated so he told you to do this to make us laugh or wake us up!"

"I'm not joking!" The general shouts to the shock of the centurions except Taurus.

"Consider the enemy ten-thousand times more powerful than the Agreosean Kingdom that we conquered a decade ago, it took two and a half decades to conquer them. No one returned from the portal there are likely no survivors from the very loyal and brave twenty-fifth commanded by one of our most competent, but arrogant generals." He adds.

"Y-yes, sir."

"Man, they're more arrogant than the Mad Austrian Painter or that French Emperor who is average height for the time." The agent thought to himself while watching the enemy using his drone.

To Be Continued

Another note: The Thaparean government received the message so quickly despite the distance (the portal is in the same GPS coordinates as Ankara, Turkey while Thaparea, the capital is in the same coordinates as Rome, Italy). It's because they have the road transportation system that the Incas have.

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