A Whole New World

Chapter 6: Plea for Help

William's POV

A few months have already passed since the first encounter with an entirely but not really new world, the space that King Darius gave us has grown into a massive operational base named 'Cairo Naval Base' complete with docks and a large airfield. Where hundreds of planes were parked on the tarmacs and as for the docks, they had several of our ships anchored.

Just a month ago we welcomed the new year of 1939 at our country of course but not theirs, back at home I have heard that the United States have carefully occupied the Hawaiian Islands they were careful not to destroy or disrupt any native tribes on the islands. We were lucky enough to find that the place that was Pearl Harbor wasn't occupied so they rebuilt the naval base of Pearl Harbor.

Surprising to us was we heard that the United States expanded North into Canada taking control of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick using them to expand the growing American population and military. Things were looking great for us, and it seemed we would have a great start in this new world.

Since King Darius wasn't from around here and was going back home to Persepolis and Darius sent a letter about taking Halsey and a few soldiers to meet with him and discuss a problem brewing on the borders of the Persian Empire and we may be of huge help. Me and Aseir were amongst the 5 soldiers chosen to follow Halsey to Persepolis where we travel by plane which wouldn't be a problem since a small airfield was being built and had a small military presence.

3rd Person POV

An olive-green DC-3 flew in the clouds towards the Persian capitol city of Persepolis where they were 3 hours away needless to say William, Aseir and the rest were fast asleep on the plane waiting for their wakeup call. When the time finally came for them to wake up the plane had already landed on the small airfield, walking down the steps of the aircraft awaiting them was a truck preparing to take them to King Darius palace. The capitol city was the most spectacular thing they had ever seen, the architecture was breathtaking and the city itself was miles spreading miles and miles wide, housing probably millions and millions of people. The truck drove through the city catching everyone's attention and piquing their curiosity, from the back William could see the trucks passing through an arch that connected to a wall. Then the truck came to a halt, "Stay by my side" Halsey said, "Yes sir" we all said in unison hopping out of truck and forming a circle around the admiral.

Scanning around the perimeter they were in William and Aseir were memorized by the massive structure before them which they didn't see before.

A massive tower possibly 3 kilometers tall reached into the sky, the building was built in a spiral like shape. The base was one massive circle and as it went up the circles got smaller and smaller until it reached the peak, dragons circled around the tower, they couldn't even see the top since the clouds obscured it. They all couldn't believe their eyes it was so massive then from the base of the building two large golden doors opened revealing King Darius with four bodyguards. "Welcome to Persepolis, Admiral Halsey, I see you are trying to process the tower" Darius said pointing to the staggering tower, "This is Persia's greatest creation, the Tower of Persia built decades ago it stands as the royal palace for me and the past kings of Persia" Darius said proudly.

"Please follow me Halsey we must talk over a situation brewing" Darius said gesturing aggressively for the Americans to follow him, Halsey sensing the desperation quickly followed the king into his palace. Entering the palace, the interior was massive, in the direct middle of the tower was a pure golden statue of Hystaspes above him was the interior of the tower looking straight up was head spinning but if you looked closely, you could see the balconies of endless floors to the building.

"We have to climb up all that?" William asked thinking about the future leg cramps, "Worry not, we have a way to go up" Darius said leading the soldiers to something that was all too familiar to them, "An elevator?" Aseir said confused which Darius turned to face the American soldier, "Elevator... you people have these back home?" Darius inquired causing all the Americans to nod, "Interesting, come now".

All the soldiers were led inside the elevator, but the Persians call them 'Lifts'. A servant inside the elevator pulled a lever and the lift started going up with medium speed the Americans were surprised that the lift was able to carry all of them at once.

For a few minutes the lift climbed up and up and they passed by endless floors until the lift stopped at the peak. Ahead of the Americans was a long hallway, red carpet lined the floor, torches lit up the dark areas of the hallway, three large windows lined the left wall letting in light for the rest, and at the end was a doorway made of gold with a black outline etched into the door was the image of two dragons. Beside the doors were two guards standing at least 7ft tall and wearing jet black armor with silver masks depicting the theatrical sad face.

Walking through the hallway the Americans stopped in front of the door, William and Aseir looked at the tall guards before looking away when they saw the guard slowly turn his head to look at them. Darius opened the doors and inside the Americans looked at the throne room ahead of them, the throne sat elevated from the ground above the throne was skylight letting the sun glare down on the throne. Beside the throne were two of those 7ft tall guards, alongside the wall of the throne room were regular guards and beside the throne were two doors.

King Darius walked ahead of the Americans and climbed up the steps of the throne, the two 7ft tall guards kneeled and bowed their heads to their king. Darius turned around and sat down on his throne looking down to the Americans, "Its probably not complimentary in your nation but in this room, you kneel before me" Darius said sternly which the Americans were taken aback by, they didn't like being ordered to do something by a foreign, but Halsey nodded to his men, and they hesitantly kneeled and bowed their heads.

"Rise" King Darius spoke, and the Americans rose with irritation plastered on their faces, King Darius noticed this but chose to ignore it. "Americans a few days ago one of our settlements on our Northern Border was attacked and burned down, survivors of the attack claim the attackers were from the Mongolian Empire".

The American soldiers looked at each other and whispered amongst themselves at the name of Mongolian Empire, "And just yesterday a full-scale attack was launched on one our cities on the coast of the Caspian Sea" Darius took a deep breath and stood from his throne and looked down to the Americans with desperate eyes.

"The Persian Empire is on the brink of war; we are a powerful nation, but the Mongolians are way stronger, and they outnumber us in every way. If they invade and destroy the Persian Empire they will take all the women and children rape them, turn them into whores for the rest of their lives, and enslave them and they will enslave all the men or kill them... please I am begging for you help"

Halsey and the soldiers could hear the desperation in King Darius's voice, Halsey bit the inside of his cheek and thought hard, "Alright King Darius I have to talk to the generals, they will talk to the government and then finally the decision comes down to the president".

"President?" Darius asked

"It's what we call the leader of our nation"

Darius nodded and sighed, "Please hurry Admiral Halsey, its only a matter of time" King Darius said to which Halsey nodded to the king and gathered his men to leave the tower.