We told them that we would protect them if they needed help. Within a week, they were calling us into help with a brawl with a rival gang. Just by appearing at the hastily decided place to fight, we gave them the upper hand in the fight. Between us giving back up and their own prowess, they destroyed the guys from the other school. They were only 4 boys against 7 from the other school. I knew then that they had what it took to help with the new mercenary company. I approached them with the idea. "Hey guys. I have a great idea for you. What if you guys opened a business together? We could help you sell it. You should be able to get paid for your fighting skills." I offered. Syble scoffed. "Because mercenaries get killed by other mercenaries and armies. Don't be stupid." "Can 17-year old's even start businesses in this country?" I asked. 17-year old's could, in fact, start their own businesses in this country. Jert was even 18, so it was all fine anyway. He was the one who liked fighting the most. With him on board, he was able to start filing paperwork. Leendert, Mekke and Ouren were in too.
Now we had a company of 10 that were ready and willing to fight for pay. The mercenary company was registered in his name. I actually got help from General Kroll. He was all too willing to send the paperwork along the proper channels in an expedited fashion, so we got all of the licenses needed to operate legally in the country. The company was called the Dirty Pansies. Just like our squad name. Once everything came in, we could get work actually using our offensive skills. Since the condition of the asylum was that we not be involved with the military, we got requests from civilians. It was very funny though. It just so happened that all those people tended to be extended family members of high ranking government and military officials. Definitely a coincidence though. Since there were members that were young citizens they could be sent outside of the country. However, they had no training with guns or tactic whatsoever. Taking them out of the country would basically be sending them out to die. That was why they got some training from soldiers straight from the national guard.
These were not elite troops, but it was better than nothing. Once this got out, it might cause problems, but I was sure that things could only go up from here. As long as we were in a gray area, we could not be touched. It was the greatest frustration the war hawks had in the country had. They were not the ones in both the government and military that wanted to bow to Reuzam's every whim. Contacts from the actual chains of power relayed to us that they wanted to have aeromorphs that they could openly use for their own military units. It was totally understandable feeling. Having a fleet would instantly make them a world power. We could not leave our borders. It was nothing that bothered us. In fact, it would be much more likely to run into Ixiti forces that wanted to kill us if we did leave Liboleone borders. We could not even be used for self-defense of our host nation though. That was a very bad thing for Babybird, Hatchling and Bouncer. They found it too boring. One way to fix this would be to have children and conscript them into the military. We were all virile males here though.
People would notice if a female aeromorph went missing. Especially if her eggs wound up in the country. That was where General Kroll came in. We were all hanging out playing in a hangar that we built after we got the funds. I was having a meeting with them to determine what job we should take next. There were several options. All of a sudden, all of the aeromorphs looked up in surprise at the same time. They then turned to look in the same direction in sync. I also got a notification to look at. Checking the menu, I saw that there were drones connected to me. Apparently, General Kroll was actually able to do something. Looking into it, I was able to figure it out. By using extracted human egg cells, Kroll introduced them to the nanites of the data paste. Apparently, he had gotten 3 eggs to take hold of my nanites. How many tries he had done previously was unknown to me. Due to the fact that these were a combination of human and machine life, I was able to use the nanite data to determine the actual appearance of the 3 hybrids. I decided all of them should have a golden tan skin tone.
