The Falling of Empress Malty

Chapter 5: The Weapons of Mechanized War

Since the travel from Rome to Weis is a bit far to take by limousine, Empress Malty orders her royal train to take her to the Austrian territories. A steam train that has all of the luxuries of the palace on the go. A train that is heavily guarded by the palace guards, and a security train that travels ahead to make sure that everything is intact before the empress arrives. All other trains are cast aside for the Empress' train to push through the Empire. After the quick stop in Salzburg for Malty's favorite coffeehouse, which she enjoyed quite fondly, the train reached Weis station and a limo-Cade escorts the empress to Weis Research Laboratory.

A large building that can be converted to a war plant in just mere seconds, but right now it is researching on a weapon so destructible, when completed will be on par with the nuclear missiles. One of the scientists on this gargantuan project was one Senku Ishigami. He is a favorite with the empress, given that she likes to make fun of his weird bok-choy-like white and green hair. He usually wears a lab coat while doing his researching, but right now he is wearing work duds and overalls, for he is building something massive. This massive contraption is what one could call a mecha, a giant robot to be manned by soldiers. Equipped with high tech lasers, heat-seeking missies, and an array of machine guns. Senku sees the empress and immediately heads down to greet his empress.

"Ah! Your Graciousness!" Senku says after bowing to Malty. "I am so honored to have you here today".

"Well, you are lucky this place is near my favorite coffeehouse down in Salzburg, or I will have never come Bok-choy boy" Malty replies snarlingly.

"The name is Senku" he replies.

"What did you say?" Malty asks with temper.

"Never mind" Senku says not wanting to anger the empress. Having steady work within the empire without angering the empress with his more democratic ideals, he is willing to let the empress forget him rather than be executed for correcting the empress.

"Anyway" Kaname butts in, looking up at the mecha. "Is this what you want us to see?"

"Ah!! Yes!" Senku replies. "You are looking at the new machine that will usher a new era of mechanized warfare, it is decked out with our best lasers ready to take down enemy armor. Missiles to take down enemy aircraft, and a mass of machine guns to take down infantry. It is the perfect war machine to take out other weapons of war. I can bet you that this will change warfare ten billion percent". A colossus like this was never achieved by any other civilization... yet. Senku made sure that this project was under lock and key to create the ultimate mecha.

"That sounds amazing" Kaname says to Senku. She turns over to Empress Malty. "Your Graciousness, what do you think?". Malty seems a bit suspicious of the new gigantic machine. She thinks that her heavy bombers always does the best destruction upon an army, and her nuclear bombs and missiles cause major damage to major cities around the world, as mentioned previously in the Third International Catastrophe. Besides, it looked ungodly. Empress Malty prefers to have a stylish military, which is why she still has riflemen around in purple and gold colored uniforms while the rest of the world adopted green camouflage infantry regiments.

"Tell me Bok-Choy boy" Malty remarks looking at the behemoth. "Will this thing really bring in a new era of warfare?".

"Your Graciousness. I assure you that the entire world will tremble upon laying eyes on this great wonder of mechanized technology. Not even the gods can take these great machines down" Senku replies with confidence in his project. "Why, I sat down with the great scientists Thomas Edison, Johannes Kepler, and Albert Einstein to help come up with this colossus".

"Wait, what happened to our scientist Marie Curie?" Malty asks, disappointed that no female great scientists were present with this creation.

"Don't you remember? Marie Curie retired after figuring out gunpowder for you back in the 1730s for you".