Imperial Japanese Occupied Alaska, IJA Special Projects Division Headquarters and Testing Grounds.
Director Kouzuki was quiet pleased with herself to the point of which she locked herself in her office with a bottle of alcohol, her assistant, her own personal living human lab rat and of course the two Imperial Royal Guards assigned to her to insure the lab rat didn't try to turn and bite it's new owner. "This is a victory for Japan, a weapon like this in our hands... Now for as long as I live and breathe... And should I decide it'd be worth the time to have children, Japan and it's territories will be safe from all invaders." Yuuko said taking another drink from her bottle of Sake while Oliver sat on the other side of the desk listening to her go on about her weapon, her pride and joy. the EML-99X. He almost got sick of hearing of it but one thing stuck out in his mind. 'Japan and it's territories will be safe from all invaders.' This played back in his mind over and over again. Japan, and it's territories would be safe from all invaders? What did this mean? What did she mean when she said that. There was something missing here, something he overlooked. "Director Kouzuki?" Oliver asked curiously, looking over at the woman of whom was having strange child's joke glasses with a large nose and moustache put on her by Kasumi which was out of character for her, she usually remained a bit back when not by Director Kouzuki's side, and when she was at Director Kouzuki's side she clung to her like young child with her mother which is how it looked to most others but the answer to that question would surprise many who asked.
"Oh? Sakamoto-kun...? I forgot you even existed. I didn't say anything about any sort of secret national security matters right?" Director Kouzuki asked to which Tsukuyomi Mana yelled across the room. "No ma'am!" Which comforted Yuuko, she was drunk... But not drunk enough to let something slip of which she intended. "Alright what do you want Sakamoto?" She returned to her semi serious attitude taking the child's joke glasses off and putting them in her desk. "Well, you said 'Japan and it's territories will be safe from all invaders.'.." Oliver said to which Yuuko sat back in her chair holding her chin with her right hand while she thought. "I did say that didn't I.." Yuuko said looking to Oliver. "Why are you bringing it up?" Yuuko asked swishing around the sake bottle dangling from her left hand. "Well I assumed the EML-99X was meant as an assault weapon and I..." Yuuko interrupted Oliver bursting out laughing almost dropping her bottle of Sake while she did so and almost falling back in her chair if not for being caught by Kasumi, returning upright the clearly amused look on her face had turned serious.
"You thought the EML-99X was meant to be an assault weapon? For an invasion I assume?" To which Oliver nodded his head yes of which disappointed Yuuko, she thought that he was smart enough to look at the data before Kasumi had it stored away personally for Yuuko. "You can't be serious? Is that what the whole business in Kyoto was about? You're more of an idiot than I thought you were." Yuuko sighed and got up going to her filing cabinet with Kasumi of whom helped her search for the most recent test data of the EML-99X. Upon finding it Yuuko had dropped the paper on her desk in front of Oliver. "Do you not see the power intake and output? The output for the EML-99X was enough to knock Kyoko's TSF back into the trees and the nearby hillside. She had to fire her engines on her Takemikazuki at full blast to keep that from happening. I designed the weapon to vaporize enemy vehicles, and troops but it was always meant purely for defensive purposes of which the Shogun knew and understood. But in any case as you know and have seen the project was allowed to go ahead. All of our weapons of which have been developed and still are being developed are for our own defense... Well except for the G-bomb, but that was created by another Director before me, of which I couldn't care any less about considering it'll never see any feasible use unless the Empire was to be invaded by another country and a large amount of our land was taken from us during said invasion."
Yuuko sat back down at her chair crossing her legs. "You seriously thought a weapon like that could be used for assault purposes?" Just even mentioning it was enough to make Yuuko almost laugh again. "Let me give you some advice. In Japan, things are not always as black and white. The.. Actually hold on." Yuuko opened her desk and took out two containers of experimental ear protection of which was meant to block out all sound possible, tossing both small containers to Maya and Mana. "Both of you, put those in and I'll give you the signal to take them out." To which both Mana and Maya replied. "Understood." Putting the ear protection in and taking out a bullhorn and an airhorn. "Sakamoto. Kasumi, please cover your ears." Putting in her own set of ear protectors she turned on the airhorn and the bullhorn at the same time, the loud sound echoing down the long metal hallway for a couple minutes before Yuuko turned both off and took out her own ear protectors. "Alright, they aren't bleeding from their ears to they're working." Yuuko said smiling and looking at Oliver of whom removed his hands from his ears, as did Kasumi. "Now where was I... Right. The Shogun is paranoid. I suppose being the leader of a country's military dealing with insurgents on a regular basis will do that to a person. But anyway she means well but she's indeed paranoid and that's why the EML-99X was developed, it was meant to serve as a defensive weapon to mow down large amounts of troops, vehicles and whatever else was required to be destroyed at the time."
In the meantime back in Kyoto, the Shogun was sitting down to dinner with her husband, the Emperor and her daughter. "Meiya? Why was Kyoto.. I mean the mainland itself put under marshal law? Had something happened to bring this about?" The Emperor asked looking to Meiya of whom was eating her dinner. "Yes, it was a matter of national defense. Don't worry, the problem has been dealt with, no such thing shall occur in the future." Atleast this was what the Shogun had hoped for. Deep down she had known something would happen to possibly change this situation, she could feel it in her bones but soon her train of thought was derailed as Takano had tapped Meiya's shoulder and pointed to their daughter of whom was sitting with her hand up waiting for Meiya to notice her. "Hmm? Yuuhi? Is something wrong?" Yuuhi shook her head and smiled. "No... I was just wondering if we could spend the day together tomorrow.. Like a family." The idea did warm Meiya's heart at the thought of it. It was rare for the Imperial family to actually spend time together and so Meiya had made her mind up in and instant, there wasn't anything that couldn't have been dealt with by one of her many body doubles so why not take advantage of it for once and spend time with the family. "You know, it has been a while since we've been together has it not?" Meiya looked to Takano of whom shrugged his shoulders. "It has indeed. So why not? I think it's a great idea. Even a son of heaven as the people believe me to be does need to spend time with his family." Takano knew of his position, Emperor of the Empire of Japanese Pacific States and wore the title humbly, doing his best when it came to state affairs while Meiya handled military and foreign affairs. It had worked out so far so there was no reason to change it.
Now it was decided, the Imperial family would spend a quiet day alone away from the public and just together. While this was going on a body double would handle Meiya's responsibilities for the day. But before that Meiya had one last order to give before her day off. And it was for the IJN fleet of which was steaming full speed towards Sepsis and the USN. Details of the order included them stopping directly before the international boundary for Sepsis, holding their position there unless directly specified by her and they were only free to engage whatever forces were there if attacked.
Admiral Genda had taken charge of the fleet sent to Sepsis and the USN, while the fleet was mostly nothing of what the IJN before the second world war and in it's early stages had, it was still a force to be reckoned with, training of it's officer corps had improved allowing for more free thinking and less arrogant prideful single minded thinking, of which almost drove the IJN to shambles in the mid stage of the Asia-Pacific War, but quickly during that war Japan had bounced back with a few victories where it counted, ending with the US carrier fleet in the pacific laid to rest on the ocean floor. If it came down to it and the fleet was attacked, Admiral Genda was confidant that result would be the same. Standing on the bridge of the flagship Kii, the nameship of the Kii class battleships of which were the new pride of the Japanese fleet, much more advanced than their predecessors of the Yamato and Yamato-Kai class ship lines.
He watched as rain had pounded against the glass and a message had arrived from the mainland. Reading it he give the orders over the ships' radio. "We are indeed bound for Sepsis. We are to hold out position at Sepsis' international sea border and we are only free to engage those who attempt to attack us. That is all." Admiral Genda had turned off the radio, while it was standard procedure for the IJN to maintain radio silence during times in which they may potentially strike against their enemies, this time was different, there was no other way to get the message, it was raining too hard to safely use a spotlight, even then with it, it wasn't guaranteed that it would be seen, flags would also likely prove to be ineffective too.
