Snippet #869997

"What's this?!" snarled the Lieutenant Major at the soldier who had just delivered him a message.
"Er, just what it says...the Colonel hereby places Lieutenant General Berthold Gregor in command of Zuven Vulf Fortress. He's arriving now as we speak."
"How could...why..." the Lieutenant Major was so angry he couldn't even manage to formulate words. At that moment, however, the door flew open, and Lieutenant General Gregor himself walked in. Even now, not on duty, he wore his military uniform.
"Good evening, Lieutenant Major Reivel," he said, almost conversationally. It wasn't typical of Gregor to deal with pleasantries.
"Lieutenant General Gregor...sir," Reivel spat, reluctantly adding the title at the end. "I just got note of your arrival."
"I saw no reason to send the notice until I was just about to arrive," Gregor said as he paced around the seated Reivel. Reivel kept his eyes forward, trying to look less nervous than he was. Now that he confronted Gregor, the infamous 'Devil of the Nazcrut', he was less confident. "However, Zuven Vulf is mine now, and that sends the clear message that you performed inefficiently. The Zelphune filth has not yet been cleaned from this area--that task is now mine, and I will carry it out with the skill you apparently lack. You are dismissed, Lieutenant Major Reivel."
Without getting a chance to put in so much as a word, Reivel felt himself stand and leave without a word.
"Well."
Gregor sat down in Reivel's comfortable chair at his desk.
"I daresay it is time we wiped the Zelphune vermin from Zuven Vulf; this will be an easy task, I'm sure. Prepare to move out soon--we will crush them out as soon as possible."
Gregor grinned. And hopefully, I'll get another chance with those two pilots...

Soon, news had spread across the region, and to Zelphune ears--Berthold Gregor was now the commander of Zuven Vulf Fortress. The news spread like wilfire from the Nazcrut, to the Zelphune, to the Ignat, and beyond. Gregor didn't care; now that he was fighting the Zelphune, he cared of nothing else.