Ch 5

After the departure of Aley's ship to mercury, Zeol was also making his plans for the trip to United Kingdom but their was a little change in plan and he had to go to United States first.

It was a nice weather in Florida a least populated state in the United States in 1940 and this was all going to change in a year after United States entered the war, Florida was the main point or a spring bord for the US troops to jump in Europe with 172 military installation of small and large size with the two famous military camp being Camp Blanding, established near Starke, and the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.

Zeol who took over 20 tons of gold with him "from a sunken Spanish ship" made it to Florida, his first goal was to get the gold converted into money which was pretty easy considering money was still linked to the gold. He knew that if he wanted to find the person who attacked them during their first landing he had to join the war because he was pretty sure that it was Ares who attacked them either to check their strength or if they were going to be life threatening for him, Zeol couldn't join the war as British troop considering they were planning on getting independent from the British Empire and what best country was their after British other then United States.

Zeol first visited Key West in Monore County in Florida which was established in 1923 by the Monroe family, it had a population of approximately 688 people's in 1940 and was a good starting point for him with low competition and long-term prospects.

Zeol introduced himself as a arm's merchant from Northern part of the United States to the sheriff of Monroe County and asked if he could open an arm's factory in Key West, Zeol also tried tempting the sheriff that he could provide the sheriff with lot of money if sheriff helped him in completing all the processes for obtaining license and labors on which the sheriff obliged happily, it wasn't a problem as new arm's companies pop up every day or two due to the huge demand of firearms in the European continent.

After a month of waiting the sheriff provided Zeol with the license and a gift in a form of deed of an abandoned storage building to be used for the factory just outside the city.

Two months after the arrival of Zeol in Monore County his factory was completed and was ready for production, Zeol had many blueprints for firearms but that were too advanced for the current time period if produced the war would end in a month or so which wasn't in his interest, thus he dicided on producing AK 47, seven years before soviets invented it.

"The AK-47, officially known as the Avtomat Kalashnikovais by soviets is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov rifle (or "AK") family. 47 refers to the year it was finished."

Zeol wasn't stupid to name the rifle AK 47, as it was named in his last life, he came up with a new name for the rifle AF-40 (first letter of both his and Aley's kryptonian names and the year it was produced). Zeol also hired a retired US army colonel named Victor James for mediating between the army and his company for the purchases of AF-40's.

Zeol had time till when Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. He had to establish a ship yard, make his control over local forces strong, create a food processing plant and build factories for more arm's and emergency treatment products, all this before US joins the war.

It is the new day of a new year for Zeol, it is January 1st 1941, Zeol had established many things as planned, he now had 4 arm's factories, 1 tank production plant, 1 factory for the testing and production of war planes, 10 food processing plants, 8 ranches, a dock for the production of merchant ships, a small airport and a railway line connecting half of the cost of the Florida and the rest were under construction, and to do all this he had to dig out almost every piece of gold in sunken ships throughout the Atlantic Ocean but through his water like spending his name has almost become the morning talk of the families throughout Florida and many big cities, it had also helped him in creating many friends and contacts in Washington DC including some historical figures as well as figures from Wayne family.