Elfen World (Remake)

There was a sound washing over his ears. It sounded like the waves of the ocean. It was a calming sound after this long and hard war he had fought. Sprawled out over the ground with his arms stretched out, Hector Reidswood lay on his back. His body felt limp now, his energy gone, he could move no muscles and could only look up at the orange sky through his dimming vision.

Somewhere further away, he heard movement, the man's comrades helping to take him away. And now, he was alone on the island of destruction he had created. The King of Determination breathed slightly in as the special candy wore off inside of his body.

A long time ago there had once been a boy who had been through a war. He had been saved by a man who he adored as his own father figure. He thought of the many faces that had come through his life, people he respected, people he raised, people he fought. He thought of the people at the G.O, his first real family after meeting William Schlenzanner.

He thought of his old friends from long ago. He thought of that girl he and his friends had met in the Netherlands, that girl with horns. He thought of that swordsman of the forest, his opponent.

That old Ex-Captain of the Great Order, who desired to protect the world and thus became the evils of the world to do so. The man who valued his humanity over everything else was on the ground with the sun cast over the horizon. He slowly, ever so slowly felt the rays of those lights pass over his body.

And with a trembling hand and small fatherly smile on his face he reached up to that gleaming sun and grasped his hand around the light. A lot of things would happen now, a lot of fun and interesting things. Things he would love to have been a part of, but this was his finale. Those people, his worthy and wonderful comrades and enemies would go on.

No hatred, no disgust, just pride. He was not a saint by any means, he would be remember as a monster for sure. But...this feeling in his soul could never go away. In the end, it was a good life, one worth living to the end.

*Tak*

He thought he heard something. Something like a foot step through the hazy vision of his dying body. Figures standing there as his hand fell to the ground.

The figures of Max, Katherine, William and Iree. They had smiles on their faces as the young horned girl reached down and placed her tender hand on his chest.

"You're war is over, it's time to head home now, Hector."

The island broke apart in its final throes. The waves collapsed on a place that would no longer exist anymore. Those final moments ended as the ocean took Ominimbus down along with the King of Determination.

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Lasciel watched the short, but exciting battle happen right before her eyes. She knew the outcome, she could see Hector's life-force trickling away. She was impressed she could still see it even after getting to this phase of her return. The fact that he held on so strongly was impressive in of itself, magic or not. She smiled when the final blow came down and both of them had taken some serious hurt. Her interest was not in Luuk, so as soon as the fight had finished she simply closed her eyes and faded away back to Ariel. She was grateful she could still do this, but as soon as she made it to the next stage that ability would be no longer.

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Ariel could sense the return of Lasciel and turned to face her ancestor. "Where have you been?"

Lasciel grinned. "I simply observed a dying man's final fight. It was glorious."

Ariel's expression darkened. "What if you had died?"

Lasciel laughed as if Ariel had said a hilarious joke. "Please, dear, I am not so pathetic as to let myself die so easily. You are very well aware of my power, you of all people should have no concern for my safety whatsoever."

Ariel relaxed her expression a bit. "Very well."

"Whoo! Thanks for helping me out, I didn't think I was going to make it once the island started breaking apart." Vast replied as he laid spread eagle on one of the few surviving G.O ships that began to head back home.

Little was set amongst the members despite the victory on their hands. A lot of lives had been loss in this battle. A battle that even now was not over. Perhaps one could say that this was only the beginning of the true war. Hector Schelnzanner was the one who lit the fuse, and now someone else was going to take up the cannon to fire again.

That island of Omnimbus was no more, but that war was still ongoing.
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A young girl from Brazil was greeted by her team who brought her the news to her.

"So...he's dead huh?" Teressa said softly with her eyes closed. "In the end you were finally brought down huh...father? I wonder what went through your heads these past few years."

She spun around in her chair and propped her feet on the top of her desk. Her head was in thought, eyes looking up at the ceiling as she pondered her next course of action.

"I want a flight to Europe as soon as possible. I would like to meet with this Elena person as soon as possible." She said with a small and mischievous grin on her face.
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Elena sat in her wheelchair with her hands folded across her lap and her head bowed. Her cute little daughter Ericka by her side seemed to realize the tone in her mother's appearance because she too remained solemn.

It must have been hard, for many of those in the G.O. It was hard to tell what was worse for them. The fact that Schlenzanner was now gone or the fact that he had become what he was. Despite all the things he did, things that could never be forgiven...he was still the only person many of them knew as father.

Many of them were kids when he came around and raised them. Even Elena remembered the first day she met him. She didn't really have any thing nice to say either. But those days were still filled with fond memories.

"...Farewell Captain Schlenzanner." She muttered under her breath.

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*After the battle*

Zero and his group were one of the first that Elena got to meet. The members of the G.O were working tirelessly along the way with the antidote that Hector had given them before the final battle.

"Anna Onee-chan!" Ericka said with childish glee as she quickly hugged the girl.

"Welcome back." Elena replied sternly as Zen, covered in bandages stood next to her. "I'm glad that you managed to make it back here safely. Unfortunately not everyone was able to make it back. The Great Order can't afford another battle like this so soon, we lost over half of our men just trying to take down Omnimbus alone."

She thought of all the other problems. She thought of Yamamoto, Exaclibur and even this new threw she was even hearing a few things beyond these groups. Not to mention there was the issue with that Diclonius girl.

In short, Elena had more problems to deal with and it pissed her off.

"As you already know Hector gave us the antidote for the Diclonius voice. Right now its being processed but once its finished, we'll hand it out. It should completely suppress the urges of the Diclonius to kill humans. Step in the right direction but as you know we still have other problems to deal with.

We have a few threats we need to deal with. We need to deal with Excalibur for one thing and that Diclonius girl as well. But before we get into that, is there anything you would all like to tell me?

Vast was also near the entrance, waiting to speak to anyone else who might come along. He wore his usual G.O coat that hit his missing arm that had yet to be replaced.
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*Near a Brazilian Airport*

Wearing two golden ribbons around her most prominent features, Teressa began to board the flight her team had gotten for her. She soon realized much to her chagrin that she did not receive first class, but the "cramped and unable to move much" class.

She quickly went up to one of the pilots.

"Hello!" She said in Portuguese to the young looking man. "There seems to have been a mistake, I mean, I'm supposed to be in first class." She traced her finger across his chest seductively

"Sorry madam, but you have to stay int he seats that were assigned to you."

"Oh?" She asked with a tilt of her head. She brought herself closer to the man, nudging her head up against him as her eyes fluttered. "You know..if you let me sit up there...I"l let you."

And she put her head up to his ear and whispered sexually.

"...Touch...my...breasts." She smiled as she broke away and nudged her hands up against her nice sized areas, cupping them between her hands. "I'll let you touch them as much as you want if you..."

"I'm gay." The man said as he walked away.

Pouting angrily, Teressa crossed her arms and leaned against the window at the back of the plane with some fat man sweating next to her.

Inagi made it back to the base he broke out of. The place was empty. Devoid of life. He had done this. That thought put a proud smile on his face. He began his search for information. He check the computer database to find it had been wiped. If he had the know-how he would have looked up how it was wiped and from where. Either way data recovery was not in his skill set.

He checked if there were any paper copies. The most he found was burned paperwork. This place had been cleaned out rather quickly. He was about to give up hope when he saw something under a desk and pulled out a clipboard. On it was a memo. A memo which had the name of this base in some code and another one in some numbered code. Entirely useless without one of Excalibur's men to explain, and probably someone with some rank.

He took the memo off the clipboard and tossed the clipboard over his shoulder while pocketing the memo. He'd have to hunt down himself a peon of Excalibur. With that he left the base and transformed into a bird to make his way to Hong Kong. He knew it was a place out of the reach of Lester and someone he knew from when he worked with the Rosary lived there. If anyone could help him with his goals it would be her.

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Ariel's first stop on her trip to the United States would be Hawaii. However, the trip would take her a week. Something that she and her dicloni comrades would end up working up some stress over. At least they'd be able to exercise their frustration on the civilians and the Navy there. They were all eager to slaughter them all.

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Lester's flight was fourteen hours. He landed safely in New York and was escorted by the Americans who were waiting for him. He was brought to a safe house where he waited until the appointed time. From there he was driven to the airport again where he'd fly to Washington D.C. There he'd be brought to another safe house to rest until he was brought to the White House.

Here he met with the President and his advisers. Lester bowed to the President. "I'd like to thank you for taking the time out of your day to meet with me, Mr. President."

They all took their seats. "So, Mr. Lin-yen, you said you have a proposition for me. Lets hear it." The President leaned back in his chair as he watched Lester with interest.

Lester smiled. "Yes, I have an offer you can't refuse. Something to help you with your diclonius crisis. Yes, I am aware of your country's stance on the little monsters. I agree that they are a danger that cannot be allowed to continue to exist. I also understand that you're having difficulty dealing with them."

The Military Adviser grumbled. "Hurry up and get to your point."

Lester gave the Adviser a disappointed look. "This is something that'll interest even you. It is something that used to be more widely used by humanity until a little something called the Dark Ages happened." With a flourish of his hands and a quick mumble of words he created a copy of himself before his eyes. The secret service men in the room pulled out their guns and two of the three advisers there stood up nervously. "Magic." Said Lester and the clone simultaneously. "The natural counter to the diclonius race. It's not perfect, but it is very strong against most dicloni."

The real one clapped his hands twice and the close burned up smokelessly and quickly. A piece of paper cut into a human form floated harmlessly to the floor. "It can do much more than that. Now sit down." With a slow gesture with one hand he made everyone in the room sit down slowly. "I can train your people in the ways of magic, and make a force for you that will easily handle all dicloni that threaten our world."

The Secretary of State stammered. "A-Anyone can learn th-this?"

Lester grinned and winked at the woman. "Yes. Anyone." Now that he had an injection that could make anyone capable of magic, anyone could learn it to their own limitations. Lester stood up steadily. "I'll dismiss myself while you discuss among yourselves privately. You know how to contact me." With that he left the building and went to another safe house to wait for their response.

"Anna Onee-chan!" Ericka said with childish glee as she quickly hugged the girl.

“Master...what is this little girl doing?” Anna asked, puzzled by Ericka’s sudden grab.

“It is a hug Anna, most people usually hug back when they are being hugged” Zero replied as he stood back up.

“Understood” Anna said to Zero. She then slowly moved her arms around Ericka and hugged her back. The feeling suddenly brought a small smile to her face, and she didn’t know why.

"Welcome back." Elena replied sternly as Zen, covered in bandages stood next to her. "I'm glad that you managed to make it back here safely. Unfortunately not everyone was able to make it back. The Great Order can't afford another battle like this so soon, we lost over half of our men just trying to take down Omnimbus alone."

“Indeed” Suzuki coldly said. “Many of our men died in the battle to stop Hector, their deaths will not go unnoticed and we will be having a remembrance for those that had fallen in battle” Suzuki continued. “But...with Zero killing Hector, the biggest threat is now gone...for now…”

There was still many threats to them still around, Excalibur, Ariel and possible someone else as Suzuki has been getting a report of someone coming to their Headquarters.

"As you already know Hector gave us the antidote for the Diclonius voice. Right now its being processed but once it's finished, we'll hand it out. It should completely suppress the urges of the Diclonius to kill humans. Step in the right direction but as you know we still have other problems to deal with.

We have a few threats we need to deal with. We need to deal with Excalibur for one thing and that Diclonius girl as well. But before we get into that, is there anything you would all like to tell me?”

“Well yes, as mentioned with the threats that still remain, we need to help strengthen our bonds with the countries outside the EU, the biggest being the US, as they currently don’t agree with our siding with the diclonius, which in turn could help our threats get the US on their side...which will cause more problems for us if that happens, so getting that sorted as soon as possible is needed” Suzuki said to Elena.

“As well as with that, there is problems to be sorted within the EU as well, which I will be sorting when we head back, so I will be very busy” Suzuki continued. “Zero will be helping as well, so he will be busy but will be available if the urgent need as well as for emergencies...Anna, Alice when she is fully healed and the members of both Squad A and B will be fully available at your disposal when you need them” Suzuki then bowed. “That will be all for now, I must leave back to the EU headquarters and get to work” Suzuki then looked at Anna. “Anna I want you to stay here to wait for Alice to be fully healed, once she is healed I would like for you both to return with both Squad A and B”

“Understood” Anna replied with a nod.

“If you need me, just call” Suzuki then motioned for Zero to go and Zero bowed to Elena before leaving. Suzuki and Zero stepped into the helicopter and headed off back home to headquarters. There was a lot of work to be done.

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Squad B made it back to G.O headquarters and hurried Capt. Schlenzanner to the medic room. The two medics from the squad noticed them come in and quickly got to work, as they had finished patching up Alice and left her to rest.

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Anna stood there in silence, staring at Elena and Zen. She then stared at Ericka before randomly beginning to wander off out of the room.

“Anna!” Alicia said, grabbing Anna and hugging her.

“Alicia! Ethan!” Anna said, surprised.

“Where is mummy and daddy?” Alicia asked.

“Master Zero and Lady Rose have head back to EU headquarters and Alice is currently in the medic room” As soon as she finished, Alicia grabbed her hand and Ethan’s.

“Let’s go then!” Alicia cheerfully said as she led them to the medic room.

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Alice woke up and saw that the medics were now working on one of the squad members.

“Mummy!” Alicia happily said with a big grin as she hugged her mother.

“Alicia! It’s so good to see you!” Alice cheerfully replied as she hugged her daughter back. Alice noticed Anna and Ethan. “Where’s Zero and Suzuki?” She asked.

“Master and Lady Rose have returned to the E.U Headquarters to work...I was ordered to stay here until you are fully healed…” Anna replied.

“Well...I am fine so let’s go” Alice said as she got up.

“...As well as both Squads being healed up as well…” Anna replied as she looked at the other side of the room. Alice sat down slightly annoyed. “I’m sorry Miss Alice, but it is Lady Rose’s order”

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*Next Day*

“Do you really think you can do this?” One of the men asked Suzuki. Right now Suzuki was talking to all the representatives of every country under the E.U, it was short notice, but every countries representative knows that when Suzuki makes an emergency meeting, they know it is very important.

“Positive” Suzuki simply replied. “I have sent each and every one of you a document detailing all the information, statistics and how I will cut the unemployment by more than half in the next two years” Suzuki continued. “With us living peacefully with diclonius, and with the diclonius antidote being made in mass, more jobs will be needed for them and for us. My plan is to build schools that will teach young diclonius about their history, and to educate them so that they can live normal lives just like us, which is why these schools will be built with zero tolerance to bullying, failure to do so will be given punishment” When Suzuki finished, all the reps began talking to each other over what was just said.

“Everything else that I plan will be in the documents given to you, so read it and get ready, we may have ended a war, but we have a lot of work to do to get this sorted and so that we can finally relax and enjoy life!” Suzuki said assertively. Suzuki was then interrupted by a soldier, who talked to her quietly.

“...Understood” Suzuki replied. She then took the phone the soldier was holding.

“Yes?”

“Very well...this is what I want you to do…”

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The woman was working at the front desk, she had got more security to stay at the front, as well as have the gates shut, only having it open for important people only. With what happened with the war, it is not safe to let anyone to just walk in without safety, whether they are friend or foe. The woman then noticed that the big man from Iceland was outside the gate again. “What’s he doing back here?” She said to the soldiers.

“How will we know? Do you want us to sort him out?” One of the soldiers asked.

“No, I will notify Lady Rose and ask what is the best thing to do” The woman picked up her phone and called the conference room.

“Hello? I need to speak to Lady Rose, it is urgent” The soldier on the other end understood and got Suzuki on the phone.

“Yes?”

“Hello Lady Rose, Ragnar of Iceland has come to the front gate again, it seems that he won’t give up in trying to talk to you”

“Very well...here is what I want you to do...let him in…”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes...if it is important he wouldn’t be persistent in seeing us...take him to Room 102...but make sure that he is escorted with our men, while he may have something important, we can’t just let him walk freely”

“Understood” The woman replied. She then put down the phone and motioned the soldiers. “You ten follow me”

The front gates opened, and the public looked on, as a woman, being followed by ten soldiers walked towards Ragnar.

“Ragnar of Iceland, Lady Rose has agreed to meet you to discuss whatever you wanted to discuss with her and has instructed us to escort you into the building and into the meeting room…” The soldiers then began to surround Ragnar, holding their guns, not in a way that they were pointing them at Ragnar, but in a way that kept them ready for any threat.

“Please know that the soldiers are for our sake, as we recently just went through a war, thus meaning we can’t just let anyone through, even if your intentions are for the good or not...we can’t take the risk, so don’t take this the wrong way…”

The woman then turned around.

“Now please...follow me…”

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Suzuki put down the phone and then looked at the rest of the room. “The leader of Iceland will be meeting us today, what he wants to discuss...I do not know, but whatever he wants to discuss will be told to all of you so I can get your views...so please follow me to Room 102” The reps all got up and followed the soldiers to Room 102. Suzuki then looked at Zero. “Be ready for anything” Zero just simply nodded and the two then made their way to Room 102

*The day after the battle, five days to first civilian deaths to the virus, six days to the deaths of the soldiers in the battle to the virus*

Ragnar finished drinking down four liters as he kept on waiting for the official to come. The amount of soda he drank was half insane, almost as if he was testing the boundaries of how much one could drink before dying from overhydration.

He paused for a moment. The pause was only for a moment as he looked around him, breathed in and felt his environment. It was autumn. “How fitting” he thought “The plan will pick full on up over this season. How very fitting, possibly even frighteningly so”. He drank down another bottle before continuing his relaxed thought “I had not planned for this plan to take place in Autumn, but I must say, I would not blame anyone for thinking so. Spring, the season where life grows, blossoms and begins a new, the darkness retreats to be replaced by light and optimism. Summer, the season when life has grown, reached its prime and lives to its fullest extent, when the darkness seem to have almost completely disappeared and light and optimism dominate the realm. Autumn, the season when life starts to wither away, slows down and starts to fade, when the darkness starts to creep back, pushing back the light and optimism for itself. Winter, winter, winter is the season when the body has turned cold, nothing moves and parts of it are gone, when darkness and depression envelope the land with no sign of light to come, till eventually spring would return once again and the cycle continues. What a coincidence that it fits with my plans.”

He reveals in his thought of this coincidence for long enough that he decides he needed something else to focus on. He needed a little story to take his mind off the subject. He then remembered on little story, the story behind the coat of arms for Iceland. He liked the story since he was a kid. The four fictional protectors of Iceland, all in that one story, and once Iceland made its coat of arms they put them on it. Then he suddenly froze and dawned on him something, he asked himself so quietly that it was practically inaudible a simple question “Was it only a story?” He took a mental note to try find the answer to that question later.
And with that he drank down his thought away with some soda.

After finishing yet another soda bottle he thought about what he was gonna do, besides making sure his plan was working and possibly adapting it if needed. He knew after this for the most part he would just have to wait and see his plan take form. Sure, he could try do something but that could be risky, because the more he did something the more likely he would be getting the attention of others even in times when it was unbeneficial to him.
He remembered that there was a holiday that soon would start in the town of Reykjanesbær, not far away from Reykjavík. It was called ljósanótt, basically bright night. Every town seemed to have one signature holiday, but he always had wanted to go on ljósanótt. A night where there would be some celebration and late at night many fireworks would be shot into the sky over a long time, lightening the night sky. It was simple but for some reason he always wanted to see it, though one thing crept over to him, it was a simple feeling but a feeling none the less. It was a feeling of desire, the desire of being able to maybe share something so simple but beautiful with someone, to see it with someone else.
Even if he is king, he doubted anyone would be interested to go with him there.

He felt uncomfortable waiting. He could not simply run away or distract himself from these kinds of feelings and thoughts and neither could he try to silence them with his work, all he could do was drink and hope for something to happen soon.

He drank down an entire bottle in one go. The moment between finishing it and reaching for the next one came a new thought to his mind, a thought that he wanted to avoid but knew he had to at some point, though, he had similar reasons to feel uncomfortable about it as the previous thought had been.
Marriage, specifically a royal marriage that involves him. He knows that he has to get married, even if just so his kingdom might have a direct descendant of his as heir. However, he neither wanted to force anyone into marrying him nor did he desire to marry anyone for power reasons, nor anyone that was interested in him for simply his powers. Ragnar however knew it was unlikely to be that way, if his looks did not scare off anyone that might even have the slightest interest in him what he has done will almost assuredly keep them away, or maybe the spotlight they would get, or what he predicts to be his incompetence when it comes to close and personal matters with others and etc. Ragnar had very little confidence in being lucky enough but started to try to distract himself from it, whistling and looking up to the sky, concentrating on the clouds and their shapes.
He just needed something and fast.

Suddenly he was finally snapped out of it all as he heard the gates open. He looked and sure enough it was not his mind tricking him as the gates opened and one woman along with ten soldiers came towards him. He raised an eyebrow, as the EU official that was supposed to come to help him in had not yet arrived, which he found to be a bit suspicious considering ten soldiers were approaching him, though he did not show much worry, at most they would arrest him, killing him right then and there would both be something he would never allow nor would it be a wise move to kill a national leader, especially one as popular as he had become.

“Ragnar of Iceland, Lady Rose has agreed to meet you to discuss whatever you wanted to discuss with her and has instructed us to escort you into the building and into the meeting room…” The soldiers then began to surround Ragnar, holding their guns, not in a way that they were pointing them at Ragnar, but in a way that kept them ready for any threat.

Ragnar was relieved, he was not sure how much longer he could have spent being simply idle there with only his thoughts about such trivial things as himself.

“Please know that the soldiers are for our sake, as we recently just went through a war, thus meaning we can’t just let anyone through, even if your intentions are for the good or not...we can’t take the risk, so don’t take this the wrong way…”

Ragnar had quickly scanned the soldiers. He believed himself being of no threat from these men. “So this is what constitute as soldiers by them” He thought for a second, before focusing back to the women. He simply nodded to her, confirming he understood the situation.

As the woman turned around and said “Now please...follow me…” Another simple nod came from him and a few words “It is a nice day for that” and with that said he followed after her.
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Einherji had landed.

He had not gone along with all the other passengers.

He was being picked up and taken to his target’s location.

For some it would be an honour to have the title Einherji granted to them.

Though, he found it more as forced onto him, and he is not sure how he could have survived without it.

He missed his daughter and wife, it had been so long since he had gotten to meet them in person.

He was certain it had been whole five years.

He was supposed to have gotten back to them two years ago, if it were not for what happened three years ago.

He was glad though that he still got to call them and contact them.

His daughter had grown up well.

She actually had gotten succesful, able to make good amount of money on her own without going so low as he had.

He had joined the forces because he could not find any other employment.

He and his little brother had both joined the forces.

His brother could run so fast, kick the football further than anyone else in their class, scoring goals, he was even a good goalie.
He is dead now.

A booby trap went off while his brother had been trying to neutralize it.

Yet, despite his losses, and despite his loneliness away from his family he was still happy. He was still happy for all that he still had. A happy, loving and healthy wife and daughter, both of whom are safe and sound. He cherished the memories he had with them and his little brother as well as his mother and father. His life was not a tragedy.

Though he wished he was a bit more alive.
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As Kuzu, Peko and the kids are staying in the hotel room while six men entered the hotel.

Kuzu had picked this hotel not so much for safety rather than it being low profile and it being not half bad, as he had not guessed anyone knew he was there and therefore would not have to worry about being hunted down. He only got that half right.

The six men walked close to their room. They dropped a bag in front of the door.

Sam heard it and dropped cutting the sushi suddenly, ducking down to the ground. This confused for a second Kuzu and Peko, along with the two kids, then suddenly Kuzu and Peko realized he had heard something and was probably reacting out of instinct, though both of them took no note of it as neither of them thought it to be anything important.

Before they could calm Sam down suddenly a loud explosion happened, Kuzu and Peko ducking behind the table quickly, avoiding the splinters shot out from the door, the two kids already being behind a wall scream and back away from where the explosion had sent the splinters flying.

Almost right away three out of the five men that had placed the little bomb rushed in. Each one of them was carrying a gun that could probably take out a light tank. The five men were however not going after Kuzu.

“Where the fuck are they?” One of them said, scanning the room quickly. “Careful guys, get too close and it will be the end of you” said another, but as he finished his line a bullet went through his neck, the other two left confused and a bit panicked. Kuzu had pulled out his pistol, he had been given it three years earlier and was a decent shot with it. He had peaked out for a moment to get the shot before being pulled back down and into a different piece of cover by Peko’s vectors.

The five men had not been expecting someone using a gun against them in their raid and had not brought any bullet proof vest, though that would not have helped the one who had been shot in the neck anyway. These weren’t any geniuses, they were simply five men with big and powerful guns and a goal.

After a moment or two hiding behind the wall they both re-enter, one however does not get to hold his head for long as it suddenly is divorced from its neck by a quick slice of steel, the other one suffering a similar fate by one of the vectors of Peko, who had taken the opportunity to get in position to use her vectors and sword.

The two guys right outside suddenly scram away, holding onto their massive guns. They were ready to kill a diclonius or two but their plan had gone disastrously, three of them dead, one having been killed not even by a diclonius.

Kuzu stood up and looked over to Peko and the three dead bodies right there. “Fucking hell, how did they find us and who the hell are these guys?” said Kuzu before quickly moving his head to Peko and asking “Are you alright Peko?”

Peko responded back “Yes, I am alright master” Before either could continue they noticed Sam peeking over there with his mouth agape in surprise and shock before saying “God damn, so that why brother picked her for you, but we got get out, no want attacked”

They quickly gathered their stuff and calmed down the kids, ready in case if they were attacked again. Then all of a sudden they hear a very loud gunshot, followed up by a scream and what would be best guessed as some bones breaking.

Peko pulled out her sword carefully, telling the others to stay there and gather the stuff. She glanced carefully out of the room into the hallway and was wide eyed as she saw what looked like a big man with one leg on one of the men that fled, who seemed barely alive now, and the other one backing away holding his massive gun straight at the man. A second later the man pulled the trigger, but instead of blood spilling out or wounds opening up only the clothes on the big man seemed to get damaged. The man did not even flinch. In panic the man with the large gun started running away, but before he could get close at all the big man ran after him.
The speed seemed unnatural for the man’s size, and before she knew it the two men were lying on the ground with broken bones in pain, though neither were dead.

The big man looked up towards the open room, and before she had fully realized that he had noticed her he started sprinting at high speed, even faster than before.
She suddenly turns her head and yells towards the others “Run! I will handle hi-”

“Kuzu, Peko, Einherji at your service, sent by Ragnar”

She turned around and saw him so close that she could see the burned mark of the man from having been shot at point blank range, though she noticed one unusual thing, there was no blood.
In fact, there was not even any flesh there.
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*Three years ago*

Project Einherji has its first successful patient.

Patience first name is Willhelm, last name Brandenburg.

Family connections of patient include the following, wife’s first name Maddalyn, daughter’s first name Celestia, deceased little brother’s first name Hans, a former failed patient.

Patient selected for the project due to mortal wounds from explosion in field.

Life status stable, expected to be a long term success.

Expected to survive future upgrades.

Patient adjusting to new body and its system, mental health stable, is communicating with his family through calls.

Einherji minimum project goals fulfilled, the project shall continue as part of the transhumanist project.

Einherji, dead ascended warriors of valhalla, one man army.

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*The day after the battle, five days to first civilian deaths to the virus, six days to the deaths of the soldiers in the battle to the virus*

“...Did not know that my target would be fucking one hundred fifty and seven centimeters short” thought Willhelm, the Einherji as he looked down to Kuzu, careful not to get too close to him as he sees the look on Peko.

“So, Ragnar sent you? How did he know that we were about to be attacked?” asked Kuzu a bit angry.

“I was not informed how he found out, but I was not sent out to pick you guys up because of them, the threat I came here for seems to not have come” Responded Wilhelm back.

Sam was for the most part hiding behind the table, clearly intimidated and scared out of his mind, unlike the two children who were now annoying Willhelm as they observed his robotic body, poking it again and again.

The material was the same as that in Ragnar’s robotic hand, in fact this was the pinnacle of quality, till the next thing would inevitably replace it and he would need to be re-upgraded.

Kuzu sighed and looked over to Peko and said “Well, we are going now with him” Peko did not object and simply said “yes master”

Suddenly Willhelm found that the two kids had climbed onto his shoulders, to his annoyance, though he did not mind too much.

Willhelm noticed how Kuzu right away picked up one specific package, trying to get as good a look of it as he could without being noticed by Peko’s still distrusting eyes.
When they had gotten everything Kuzu right away asked “So, how we gonna get out safely and without being stopped?”

Willhelm simply turned around and said “Just follow me”
Willhelm was a bit bored that his mission had been so uneventful, despite the five idiotic anti-diclonius vigilantes, they just were pathetic.

Sam followed behind them, clearly still scared and on alert as he glanced everywhere around him.

When they got to the ground floor they quickly disappeared before anyone could notice them, going straight into a truck that just barely had enough space for everyone.

Willhelm took the driver seat, the two kids, Kuzu and Peko were put in the back seats, as Peko refused to be in the front seat and rather be by Kuzu, forcing Sam who really was not ready to stand up to anyone there, not even the two kids, being put into the fronts seat next to Willhelm.

Kuzu noticed that there was some blood on Peko’s glasses and took them while saying “Let me clean that” Peko then said “It is alright, I can do it master” Kuzu groaned a bit and said with a loud and angry voice that scared the little kids and made Willhelm self groan from annoyance “Do not call me fucking master! I have told you to call me Kuzu!” Peko kept her emotionless face and simply nodded saying “As you wish”
While the others did not like Kuzu loud noise Sam took interest, because he found this to be unusual for a member of his family, specifically why he got angry. Sam decided not to press it though knowing there was a good reason why it was unusual, he decided to keep quiet for now while being surrounded by bunch of people that intimidated him, even his brother’s son and the kids intimidated him, and that was not to mention either Peko or Willhelm.

Willhelm meanwhile was concentrating on driving fast but safely. What had worked as his artificial skin was recovering from the shots he received. While the material he was mostly made out of was not harmed at all by the gunshot the fake skin over it had gotten shot part of where the shot hit. It was know automatically repairing itself. The fake skin was not a perfect replacement, largely due to what was under it and the fact it had more purposes than normal human skin was supposed to have.

The primary purpose of the artificial skin beyond aesthetic reasons were four. To begin with it was able to absorb simple shock and spread it out, which would help make the body overall tougher which was vital as very tiny things could make the difference in battle, and when something is as valuable as an Einherji, one could not afford to take any unneeded risks. Secondly was that it helped keep the body intact so it could escape and fix, as if something would break this would help keep it together, not exactly in ideal condition but enough to let them escape and be repaired relatively easily. The next two were connected to each other and were a bit more unique as well as inspired by nature.

Along with normal sensors for heat, touch and etc. the artificial skin here had another utility, electric pulse. This was primarily used in two ways, one was to detect muscle movements of living animals/humans/diclonius as well as electricity from machinery and the second thing was sending electric shocks. The electric shocks worked both on machinery and on living beings. On living beings it could work as simply as tazer up to even causing heart attacks depending after how much is put into it. On machinery it could either be used to make something specific activate on its own which could mess things around while the other possibility was to short circuit the machinery.

It was inspired by the electric eel, to few people’s surprise. It was one of the many little functions that was to make it so valuable and important in battle, as well as on the market like it had been originally be planned for, though at this point it was unlikely anyone would be given the chance to buy this. Ragnar had new plans for its future use.

After a while, shortly after passing some man on the street with a sign claiming the world would soon end, Sam looked back to Kuzu and asked “So, Kuzu, how your little sister, Azumi, doing?” in a friendly tone with a smile, seeming to want to really know. Sam’s smile however faded when he saw Kuzu clench his fist and said “She was fucking killed two years ago.” Even though it was not loud the anger in his voice was clear as day. The news hit Sam hard as well. Kuzu and Azumi were the only ones that did not really hate him out of his family, though he did not blame the rest of his family, he was a failure in the family business after all.

Peko did not say anything, but she looked down, some shame and regret being clear on her face. Kuzu noticed it and sighed saying to her “It is not your fucking fault what happened to her, it is none of our faults here, none of us could have stopped it” Sam suddenly looked to Kuzu and Peko, his suspicions growing more, but before he could have them either confirmed or denied a thick piece of bullet and sound proof glass slid in between, getting Sam to flinch away in surprise, as well as Kuzu, Peko and the two kids on the other side.

Sam looked to his side to Willhelm who had just pushed a button before pushing and holding down another button while saying “I am not gonna have any more noise come from the back seats from all of you there, I prefer not to land in a car crash from being distracted by you people” Kuzu, Peko and the two kids heard it through a speaker in the backseat. Willhelm then let go of the button and sighed in relief “Finally, some peace and quiet on the way, I swear I was getting close to crashing intentionally” he said, Sam looking at him, clearly a bit threatened by being stuck now there next to Willhelm.

After a while Sam starts to relax a bit, but as he is finally getting relaxed Willhelm suddenly asks “So, what were you curious about exactly?” without taking his eyes off the road.

Sam looked at him confused and asked “How know?”
Willhelm responded back “Long story involving electrical pulses in your brain, but that does not really matter, but what were you curious about?”
Sam said while feeling a bit intimidated “Kuzu acting Peko”
Willhelm asked back “You mean how Kuzu is acting around or to Peko?”
Sam simply nodded, thankful that Willhelm could at least understand him a bit.
Willhelm then asks back “What is so odd? They are friends or lovers, right?”
Sam responded back “I not know”
Willhelm looked for a second to Sam and saw his puzzled look, one that he mirrored back. “What do you mean?”
Sam responded back “Peko tool, Kuzu yakuza heir”
“WHAT!?” Responded Willhelm back in shock, taking his eyes off the road for a moment, almost driving into a car in that moment before bringing his view back to ahead of him.
“Lets get this clear, Kuzu is a heir to a yakuza family, but what exactly is Peko?” Asked Willhelm, still confused about what was weird with the whole interaction between Peko and Kuzu.
“Peko, baby dumpster, Peko raised crib with Kuzu, Kuzu heir, Peko made Kuzu’s guard and tool” Responded Sam back, trying to explain the best he could, and it was clear to Willhelm that he was struggling not getting too intimidated and finding the right words, but Willhelm had to be sure he was understanding this right.
“So, she was a dumpster baby, raised with Kuzu since they were little babies, and because Kuzu was the heir she was made into his bodyguard, probably because she is a diclonius, okay, I got that, but what do you mean when you keep on saying tool?” responded Willhelm back, feeling a twinge of pity for Peko.
Sam rubbed the back of his neck till eventually saying “Peko raised tool for Kuzu” Willhelm looked to Sam for a second and asked “She was raised like she was a tool for Kuzu?”
Sam nodded saying “Last time there, worked maybe? She act like it...” despite the uncertainty there it was clear to both that what had been done and had worked in some way at least, or at least appeared so, but now both of them were puzzled as to what was going on then between the two.
After a while Willhelm asked Sam a question “You are part of the family, so why were you not there when Azumi died?” Sam stared down and said “Because I am failure”
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*Five years ago*
“I am going to miss you both” said Yamura to his his nephew, niece and his newphew’s bodyguard. He hugged his nephew and niece and gave a smile to the bodyguard, even if she did not return it.

“We are going to miss you uncle” said the nephew. He smiled back and said “thank you, I promise I will see you again later, when I have done something to be proud of.” he took a pause and looked with a smile to all of them “besides being with all of you”

With that he left and he heard them call to him as he left them calling by what he had been called for as long as the three had been alive “Goodbye uncle Sam, please come back soon”

Yamura had long lost his birth name. Too often he had failed at what he was supposed to do that he believed he had no right to have the name his parents gave him, after all, he had squandered any blessings he had been given by them. He now hoped that he could make a name for himself somewhere else. He was to become famous, restore all that he had wasted and make his family proud. That is what he thought as he took his flight out of the country, not knowing how proud the three kids he had been with so often were of him.
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*The day after the battle, five days to first civilian deaths to the virus, six days to the deaths of the soldiers in the battle to the virus, evening*
Seven young friends were hanging out together that night, drinking and having fun at one of their places. They had all finished their education last spring and were now celebrating what was happening in their country.
The first friend, the leader out of the group, was Danish and male. He was about one meter and eighty centimeters tall, short blonde hair, blue eyes and a clean smile. He was a bit thin but nothing too noticeable. He had interests in toys and manufacturing of it. He was the one who had gotten the beer. His name was Sven.
The second friend was about one meter and ninety centimeters tall, short black hair, blue eyes and a big grin. He had very unwide shoulders and was thin. He had been planning to become an engineer. He was Norwegian and male, as well as being very confident. His name was Olaf.
The third friend was about one meter and eighty centimeters tall, relatively long blonde hair, blue eyes and a small but charming smile. Nothing particularly stuck out from his body. He had been planning on becoming a simple bureaucrat. He was Swedish and male, while also being very social. His name was Karl.
The fourth friend was about one meter and seventy centimeters tall, long black hair, brown eyes and a cute smile. The friend had a normal body, slightly bigger chest then on average though not very noticeable. The friend had been planning to become a psychologist. She was Finnish and female, she had been the one to pick everyone up on the way. Her name was Agnes.
The fifth friend was about one meter and sixty centimeters tall, relatively long black hair, green eyes, tanned skin and a friendly smile. She had just a normal average body. She was planning to become a doctor. She was an Arabian immigrant and female, and the only one not drinking at there. Her name was Aludra.
The sixth friend was about one meter and seventy centimeters tall, short brown hair, teal eyes and a charming smile. He had a relatively a bit fat body, though it was mainly noticeable only at few spots on him. He was planning on being a construction manager. He was Estonian and male, as well as the main conversation starter in the group. His name was Erik.
The seventh friend was about one meter and seventy centimeters tall, short blonde hair, blue eyes and a small smile. He was a bit fat and it was noticeable, he also had noticeably wider shoulders than the others. He had been planning on becoming a historian. He was an Icelander and male, and was the most quiet one in the group. His name was Ægir.
They were planning to all join the army, as huge new benefits had come to the army that would make their lives easier after they were done being in the army. None of them were thinking of going to war as the army was mainly for defence and they knew nothing of anyone that might even consider attacking their country or that anything else would change. Only Ægir was hesitant following the plan, and he was not sure why, but he felt it in his guts that something was not right about all of this.
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Viva kept himself hidden on the ship. He had discovered a way to move around the ship without being seen or heard from, but he could see and hear others from there.

He explored the ship carefully as he was not fully sure whether all of those diclonius were now looking for him after having heard someone shoot a gun. He observed everyone’s patterns from his safe hidden place, after realizing he was safe there he started to take notes on everyone on the ship and on the ship and its supply as well. He was taking notes not just to learn how to be safer but also just to learn about them, who they were and what made them who they were, what made them happy and what made them angry or sad.

When he felt safe enough and was absolutely sure that no one was around or was coming he checked on the supplies, quickly searching and taking small amount of it himself, primarily some of the more luxurious food that had been picked up, though that meant only candy, bakes, soda, sweets and some beer or other alcohol if he could find some. He was careful to make sure they would not notice the missing supplies before disappearing back out of sight and all the way back to where he had basically made his home.

When others would leave their rooms and it would be safe for him to go in there he would occasionally drop a candy or sweet or something else in some of their rooms, though he made sure that it looked like it had not just simply been placed there, that it had been there before they had never noticed it before. He did this mainly because he wanted to help them feel good or happy, even if he wished that they were not killers, and even if they did not know of him, at least, as far as he can tell.
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Jane was about to leave before someone would get her when she noticed something. Something was moving in one of the boxes. Whatever was inside the box it was moving the box violently. She approached it, wondering if she may have hit the jackpot and something valuable was inside. A moment after she opened the box the fire alarm went off. A great fire had gone off in Ragnar’s room. A body was never found, though Ragnar’s sword had been found out of its box and on the floor causing cracks there. No one is quite sure how it got there.
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Finally, the mutant arrived at her destination. They were by Ragnar’s headquarters. She started to open her eyes and found herself in a nice room that she did not recognise. She sat up confused and scared. She looked around, trying to figure out where she was. Suddenly she heard a simple but old voice through a speaker “Calm down, you will not be harmed, however you will have to stay here for a while, as we have never seen anyone with a mutation similar to the one you hold. My name is Darwin, what is yours?”
She looked around to see whether there was any camera before answering quietly and shylie “A-amare” The speakers responded back “Welcome Amare, try to rest if you can, it probably has been a hard day for you today” Amare tried to cover herself and said quietly and submissively “okay...”
On the other side Darwin sighed, realizing that this might not be as easy as it usually was. He usually did not have to deal with someone so shy that she is fully able to hide her mutation, which he hated as he found her mutation to be so unique, and to some extent unbelievable had it not been for the existence of the diclonius race already showing him something he could not believe, to the point that now almost nothing surprised him anymore.
Yet hers still did.
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She breathed heavily out of her lips while she rested her head against the palm of her hand, leaning slightly forward in her chair. Her Lt. General, Zen noticed that the leader of the Great Order seemed oddly tensed now. Not just because of this ongoing war, but other things as well. It was as if there was something else going on in her mind.

This war, which wasn't even completely over, had taken a lot out of them. Maxwell and Ivan were both dead and over half of the G.O members had been killed. This was the price it had taken for them to defeat Hector and destroy Omnimbus.

She didn't like to admit it, but right now, the G.O was in no position to start any fights. Not until they could regain their power and standing from before. It also lead to another, more significantly dreadful thought in her head.

And that was the standing between the humans and the Diclonius. There stood a certain fact in this world that she knew through the years. And that in terms of superiority, the horned ones had the advantage. In a straight up battle between humans and Diclonius, it was obvious who would have the advantage. Humans possessed certain skills and weapons but would that be enough?

She tapped the edge of her chair and closed her eyes. One could imagine that the battles between the humans and Diclonius had become as such. Let us say that there were 10 humans and 10 Diclonoius on each side. Each human would be ranked at a low 1-2 with one specific at a 10. The Diclonoius might be ranked at a 6-7. In short, the overall advantage went to the Diclonoius. The humans may have had that one trump card but once that trump card was gone, they had little left.

After all, it was astoundingly hard to fight those horned people, who are practically designed to kill humans.

And now the human's trump card had been defeated. Elena realized something very important that the death of Hector would bring. On one side, it would protect the horned girl's being hunted down and destroyed. On the other hand, the humans themselves had effectively lost a barrier. Hector was one of the very few humans with the capabilities of directly fighting with the Diclonius. He was without a doubt the strongest human there was in the world.

And their enemies would certainly get stronger. Perhaps even stronger than the King of Determination.

Elena Squratoli, truly hoped things weren't going to go down hill from here. But once that antidote was fully complete, her heart would rest. That was the problem between her kind and their kind. If that one notion, that hatred those girls felt for humans was erased, then they could start living in peace.

"Alice." Zen said as he came up to the red haired girl who followed Zero without hesitation. "If you could, I would like you to come with me. You can come too as well Anna. Let's head over to my office."

"Alice." Zen said as he came up to the red haired girl who followed Zero without hesitation. "If you could, I would like you to come with me. You can come too as well Anna. Let's head over to my office."

Alice thought for a second before nodding “Very well...look after the kids” Alice looked at the soldiers of Squad A & B, they all nodded. “Come with me Anna...it will be best if you were with me for this”

“Understood” Anna simply said to Alice. The two then followed Zen as he walked to his office.

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The woman and the ten soldiers led Ragnar through the gates and into the building. You could see everywhere that no one was just standing around. everyone was hard at work, making calls, writing up reports, it was a surprise how anyone could have time for a meeting at the moment. Ragnar was led up the stairs, across the hall and eventually to Room 102.

“Here we are…” The woman said. She then opened the door and led him into the room. “Lady Rose, I have brought you Ragnar of Iceland as you have requested…” The woman spoke to Suzuki with respect. The soldiers lined up by the door as the woman bowed and left the room. The soldiers then shut the door and stood in front of it.

The room was massive, on one end, stood a long lonely table where Ragnar would sit, while on the other side, stood a massive and long table that had each representative of each E.U nation, staring at Ragnar as he walks in and sits down. In the middle of the table was a higher platform, where Lady Rose and Zero stood.

“Ragnar of Iceland...welcome to the E.U meeting room, where the most important calls and decisions are made, I do hope what you have come to discuss is both important and worth my time…as I am currently a busy person and you should be glad that I took time out of my busy schedule to put this up...” Suzuki coldly said to Ragnar before looking at Zero and then back at Ragnar.

“Now...what is this important topic that you wish to discuss with us so much?”

Ragnar observed his environment as he was led to room 102. He took note of whatever he could find, everything he could find from the technological level of the devices that he could see, the amount of information stored in paper instead of digitally, work level discipline, how tired they were, even the ratio of workers between different sexes and races. Anything that could in anyway be used he took a note of, as he knew that what would be useful information might not be discovered till months after it is too late to check again personally, though he did know that what he could observe was limited information. He also took note of where he sensed if any dicloni there, trying to realize where they were kept there, since that was one of the more important pieces of information he could use if problems were to occur

“Here we are…” The woman said. She then opened the door and led him into the room. He turned his attention to the massive room and the collection of people that had gathered for this. He went and took a seat, though while he was getting himself comfortable he looked over to Suzuki as she said “Ragnar of Iceland...welcome to the E.U meeting room, where the most important calls and decisions are made, I do hope what you have come to discuss is both important and worth my time…as I am currently a busy person and you should be glad that I took time out of my busy schedule to put this up...”. While he noticed the coldness of her tone he did not care, hostilities were expected from the start, regardless of whether she was busy, which was evident from before, or not, as he knew she most likely did not take him too seriously, and why should she? He is a young man, some would say a young boy, who had inherited great amount of wealth and one of the most profitable companies in the world from his father, even though he had expanded far beyond what it had been before both in secrecy and in public view, and had suddenly appeared onto the world stage out of nowhere and had now demanded a meeting with one of the most influential and powerful leaders in the world, arguably the most influential and powerful world leader, though that may change soon. He knew that by most accounts he must have looked like the most arrogant ass in the world. Instead he took note of her looking to the man that he did not know the name of, called Zero, between her saying the previous line and then saying “Now...what is this important topic that you wish to discuss with us so much?”. Realizing that he may have just located someone close to her, or at the very least someone that must be important in one way or another, a weakness he could exploit later if needed or a point of interest he must observe.
He gave them a smile and said “I am very grateful for this” his voice did not make it clear whether it was genuine or mocking. He looked directly to Suzuki and said “Good day, queen Suzuki, excuse the mask, I recently had an ‘accident’ that did not leave my face exactly in mint condition, and I know how the common public might panic seeing it, but I am sure all of you would not mind a few scars and burn marks” after having said that he took off his mask, his burned and scarred face in wide view for them all, and despite the horror the face held Ragnar kept a friendly and almost innocent like smile on.
“But now, lets get to the matters I must discuss, lets start with something that I know you might be interested in. Last night we captured a man, and shortly after he had confessed to having been a member of the organization dubbed as omnibus. He is for the moment being kept anonymous at his request but he has made a deal to testify against omnibus at exchange of being relieved of his own crimes as well as a few benefits, mainly for his family. I will say this, of what he has told me I highly doubt many nations will be as eager to associate with them, hell, he claims that some of the soldiers had gone, massacred and raided a civilian port when the battle started going against them. Though I doubt you would have actually left a civilian port undefended when it would be in the range of your enemy to get to it. He will be a vital tool for this fight against these anti-diclonius group, if not for any other reasons than few would be willing to be associated with something as horrid as that. I will send him to you at your request if you so desire to have him, he has been very cooperative so far.” Ragnar’s voice sounded proud and his smile indicated that these were clearly also good news for him, but he also made sure that he sounded naive of the fact that the port town had truly been massacred, instead letting a tone of  fake, though genuine sounding, naive optimism come in.
Ragnar’s smile however then disappeared as he said “But, now onto a bit less positive news, at least for you. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Dubai and Qatar along with Iceland have all agreed to be part of a union under me.” He gave a small pause before continuing “As of right now, the nations have agreed to this by their own will and as a nation it already has been formed as a single union, though I recommend you do not bother with the union name, it is only temporary for the transition period. While you cannot interfere with the sovereignty of these states I wish to try make the transition as smooth as possible, so I will still keep EU passports and citizenships, as well as continue partaking in the schengen, but that is just it, two of these countries, Dubai and Qatar, are not even part of Europe and I wish to know what stance you plan on taking on their integration into what is gonna be primarily a european country, especially since as of right now they do not hold EU citizenships or EU passports, but in this union they will be allowed to travel within the other countries of the union. I also request that you inform all soldier’s of the EU army that belong to any one of these nations of these changes, they will still be accepted into their home countries whenever they wish, but I do not want them coming back without any knowledge of these changes. I will not demand them back nor will I deny any of my citizens from joining your army, at least for now.”
Again he took a pause and pulled out a soda bottle that he had hidden in one of his deep pockets, ignoring any reactions that might have made around him he opened it and drank it till it was half empty before continuing “Sorry about that, got a bit thirsty, but continuing, this will also mean all of these selected nations will be under my economic policies, so I apologize if that may interfere with your economic plans, but at least you will have a much smaller territory to manage, that should make whatever plans you have easier to manage, as well as I will try to support your economic policies if I see them to be beneficial and that you need something from my country.”
He then gave a sigh and said “However, unfortunately, this means I cannot have my nation be part of the EU once it has transisted, and while most changes will be kept domestic for some short time, once it has transisted out of a union to a single country I may have to leave the EU completely, at most be in the European Economic Area. This is especially problematic when it comes to the countries of Finland and Estonia, both using Euros. The EU national bank and my countries national bank are gonna have to co-operate in the transactions that will be needed in that, since even though I do not have to co-operate with you there, not doing so might crash the Euro, and many of the EU countries economies that use it with it, and I wish not so to happen.”
He adjusted himself a bit before saying “I hope that is all understood, for even though this may lead to the separation from the EU I am not doing this to weaken you nor to distant my countries from the EU, and I hope relations keep on holding strong despite this.”
Suddenly one of his vectors moved, it moved and made a simple cross through its movements in front of Ragnar’s body. Ragnar had barely noticed it himself, it was just something he did sometimes, despite being not overly religious he did find comfort in his religion occasionally. Ragnar had however not done it had he known that a certain person in the room could see his vectors.
Ragnar then picked up his soda bottle again and drank a bit more from it, before his vectors suddenly took it and slid it up to Sazuki as he said “Here, have a bit to drink” his voice change was easy to notice, having become much softer, friendlier and more genuine and for a second his eyes got a green tint to them instead of a blue tint, before returning back to a blue tint moment later as he then said “The last thing I am to tell you though, will probably upset you, though do not take it too personally.”
He looked her dead in they eyes, his eyes having turned to a red tint and said plainly, clearly, coldly, and almost threateningly he said with a voice that was unrecognisable from the other two, radiating a powerful aura “I do not recognise anyone as queen or king of the Diclonius race. No man alive or dead commands me. Is that clear?” He finally let the words float in the air, blue tint returning to his eyes, and awaited for their responses. However, despite them returning to blue, one could still see the fires of confidence, ambitions and determinations in the bottomless abysses that were his eyes. Even a blind man could see it in his eyes that he was not messing around at all.

Every Diclonius in the building had felt it in those few moments.
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Seven young friends had gone to a recruitment center few hours ago. After a few tests they had all been accepted. Now they were all in a controlled manual coma, the new genes integrating into them.
The lighter and much stronger bones, stronger muscles, both more advanced and faster thinking brain. Meanwhile, elsewhere suits were being prepared for them as well as everyone else that had gone into recruitment after the huge increase in pay and benefits for the soldiers. Knowledge of everyone of them had been dug up to save time later when training would come, as they could start training where they would be most effective at from the start instead of finding out a bit later on what they were to train for.
The robotic suits were being produced in secrecy along with a new naval, air and tank fleet, far more advanced than anywhere else in the world. Funding and technology ‘stolen’ from the USA, though Ragnar would not consider it stealing if they signed a deal that allowed him to do it, regardless of whether the government knew of the possibility or not.
Seven young friends would be by each other side for these days, they would lie there along with few millions others that had the same idea as the seven young friends of Sven, Olaf, Karl, Agnes, Aludra, Erik and Ægir.
The war would soon come to wake them up from their dreams, though some were not to wake up the next time they went to sleep.
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Elsewhere, a few scientists roared up in celebration, bringing one of their older colleagues back to an awaken state. Darwin had fallen asleep at some point, as it was night and despite his will of steel he was old and watching the camera was pretty boring.
Though he was wide eyed awake as he saw the mutant missing and stood up, running to let know when he ran into his colleagues who suddenly said “We did it Darwin, we finally isolated the gene that makes so many diclonius sterile.” Darwin was wide eyed, he had not expected these new colleagues to be able to find something like that so quickly and easily. “Natural reproduction of the diclonius race might actually be the one thing that can get them truly and fully accepted and integrated into society perfectly with everyone, given as long as they do not kill someone.” he thought before shaking his head and suddenly saying “Good, you guys will be promoted in the morning, but we have a problem, the mutant escaped her room, we gotta find her before something happens to her, now!”
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Suzuki listened as Ragnar spoke. He started off by mentioning that he was wearing a mask because he was horribly burned and had scars. He then took off the mask. Suzuki and most of the reps did not even as so flinch, they have seen much worse, so if he was expecting for some shock value, then he will be disappointed.

Ragnar then went on to mention that his group had captured a Omnibus soldier, who is willing to go against Omnibus for a better life. Suzuki did not care for a traitor like him, she knew someone like him would betray anyone just so he could live an easy life. Some of the reps seemed to think the same as Suzuki.

“Testify against Omnibus? That traitor would screw out anyone if it kept him safe and well paid…” Some of the reps said as they whispered to each other. They didn’t seem happy by Ragnar’s plan of keeping the man well funded for testifying against his own group, some of the reps even think that he should be punished no matter what for what he did.

Ragnar then spoke of a union he is planning with Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Dubai and Qatar along with Iceland, his home. The reps of Sweden and Norway became nervous as Ragnar spoke, Suzuki had not know of this union, especially with two nations that had joined the E.U only a year ago. The two reps then turned to notice that Suzuki was giving them a cold look, any colder and it would kill them. They both became scared, not wanting to know what will be of them by the end of this.

Suzuki then felt disrespected as Ragnar went to take a drink. This also started to annoy Zero as well. “Where are your manners?” The reps said between themselves. They were disgusted by Ragnar’s actions. Ragnar then continued on about how he could not be apart of the E.U and the problems that could happen if he does so.

Ragnar then suddenly used his vector to make a cross motion. Zero saw this, but didn’t react as he saw that it was not targeting anyone, and if it did, he would be able to stop it before Ragnar would even know about it.

Ragnar then took a sip again from his drink before his vectors passed it towards Suzuki as he offered her a drink. Before the drink could reach near her, it vanished from Ragnar’s vector and was placed on his table within a second. The reps were confused on how it just went from one end to the other so quickly, as they saw nothing happen, no one moved or anything, it just went from one end to the other but Suzuki knew why.

Ragnar lastly made one last comment, one that seemed to be like a threat. “I do not recognise anyone as queen or king of the Diclonius race. No man alive or dead commands me. Is that clear?”

Suzuki simply smirked. “Loud and clear...I do not care what titles the diclonius give each other…” Suzuki coldly replied. “Now...to answer to what you said…” Suzuki took a deep breathe. “Firstly...you can do as you please with the Omnibus traitor...I do not want to deal with his kind...but I and the representatives here agree that your way of dealing with him is unacceptable...we here believe that this man should be punished for his act of betrayal of both the diclonius and the humans...and should not be given a good life just because he agreed to testify against his organization…” Suzuki coldly said. “What you will pay him should be given to people that deserve it...not for a traitor…” Suzuki then breathed in again.

“Secondly, I do not mind you creating a union with some of the European nations...as well as those two from outside the E.U...but it will not go as smoothly as you have planned…” Suzuki then coldly stared at the Sweden and Norway reps before looking back at Ragnar. “The reason being is that both Sweden and Norway have been apart of my E.U group as of last year...and any business with them, no matter what they say...has to be agreed with me and I don't plan on handing over two nations that I have only recently got in my group...so you will have to make that union without them…” Suzuki then closed her eyes and breathed in again.

“And lastly...about the Economic side of things, if you feel that you can no longer be apart of the E.U once it has transitioned, then I will be happy to help it go as smooth as possible, the same with the money change for Finland and Estonia, as the money that will be given back from them can be used to fund future projects that will help my plan to cut down unemployment and lower the rate of poor people in the E.U...and I’m sure that you have enough money yourself to fund the two nations by yourself so there won’t be a problem there…” Suzuki then looked around her side. “Do any of the reps want to ask anything?” The room remained quiet as Suzuki finished talking. The reps look at each other and did not say a word, it seemed like they did not want to ask anything incase it would get them on the wrong side. Suzuki then looked at Zero, to see if he wanted to ask anything, but he remained silent as well. “well then...will that all be discussed today? If so, then my men will escort you out…”

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The medics were tending to Capt. Schlenzanner’s wounds, but it seemed like he didn’t want them to. “Captain! We need to fix your wounds!” Lt. Andersson said to Capt. Schlenzanner.

“I’m a Schlenzanner! I don’t need help!” Capt. Schlenzanner replied to the woman.

“Well with that attitude you won’t be a Schlenzanner for long…” Maj. Volkova coldly replied as she walked in.

“Major…” Capt. Schlenzanner said to Maj. Volkova. “I will take whatever punishment is given to me for my actions…”

“And you will be punished once this is all over...but for now...we wait for our next order…”

Ragnar noticed the lack of shock from the reps. It really did not matter whether they were to be shocked or not, he just felt uncomfortable with the mask on while facing other world leaders. Almost like it was a show of weakness, which he could not allow them to hold over him.
“Testify against Omnibus? That traitor would screw out anyone if it kept him safe and well paid…” He heard from the reps whispering while he talked about the omnibus soldier. He kept himself from addressing any one of them directly, surely they would address him directly after he is done saying everything.
Ragnar noticed the nervousness of the swedish and norwegian reps as he went onto talk about the union. “Well, at least they do got me to defend them, or rather make excuses for them” thought Ragnar as he saw how visibly scared they were. His eyes did not reveal their movements though as the tinted black globes they were.
“Where are your manners?” He heard from one of the representatives talking to another as he drank down his drink “Probably the same place as yours, back talker” he thought, getting more annoyed of these reps, though he did not show it.
Ragnar took note of the unusual thing that happened with the drink when he tried to give some to Suzuki “Typical, a gesture of trying to ease the tensions and reach out the hand over the aisle, so to speak, rejected and cut down. Sure, I doubt she would have taken a sip, but this is just burning a gift wrapped bridge.”
Suzuki simply smirked. “Loud and clear...I do not care what titles the diclonius give each other…” Suzuki coldly replied. Ragnar was, well, confused by this. Specifically he was confused that right over there was a person that commanded almost all of europe, and yet, so blatantly insulted him. Sure, a backhanded reply might have been expected, or something of that ilk, but this, this was so simple, untactful and blunt. “This, this is the person that ‘unified’ europe?” He thought. Quickly he shrugged it off, assuming she was just tired or trying to trump what he said, giving her some benefit of a doubt.
“Now...to answer to what you said…” Suzuki took a deep breathe. And with that he quickly realized that this was gonna be far more of a drag then he was hoping for at the end of this day.
“Firstly...you can do as you please with the Omnibus traitor...I do not want to deal with his kind...but I and the representatives here agree that your way of dealing with him is unacceptable...we here believe that this man should be punished for his act of betrayal of both the diclonius and the humans...and should not be given a good life just because he agreed to testify against his organization…” Suzuki coldly said. “What you will pay him should be given to people that deserve it...not for a traitor…” Suzuki then breathed in again.
He barely believed this, “Is she being fucking serious? The one weapon that could end these anti-diclonius supporters is a confession from one of them about the horrors they have committed, and I just offered one, and she fucking says no to it?” he thought half stunned by her denial of the prisoner for interrogation, though he is sure that was the best for the prisoner, by how many of the reps and she was talking it sounded like they planned to torture him or even execute him.
“Secondly, I do not mind you creating a union with some of the European nations...as well as those two from outside the E.U...but it will not go as smoothly as you have planned…” Suzuki then coldly stared at the Sweden and Norway reps before looking back at Ragnar. “The reason being is that both Sweden and Norway have been apart of my E.U group as of last year...and any business with them, no matter what they say...has to be agreed with me and I don't plan on handing over two nations that I have only recently got in my group...so you will have to make that union without them…” Suzuki then closed her eyes and breathed in again.
“Keep it in” he thought “Give her a chance, she can redeem herself, let her finish, she will compromise like a real leader, like you had done, like you were offering to her, she cannot seriously be saying that she will oppress the demand of a huge majority of the public in Norway and Sweden for them to join his union, she must just want another asterisk or something about those two states, some compromise, something, these people could not have chosen a leader like this...”
“And lastly...about the Economic side of things, if you feel that you can no longer be apart of the E.U once it has transitioned, then I will be happy to help it go as smooth as possible, the same with the money change for Finland and Estonia, as the money that will be given back from them can be used to fund future projects that will help my plan to cut down unemployment and lower the rate of poor people in the E.U...and I’m sure that you have enough money yourself to fund the two nations by yourself so there won’t be a problem there…” Suzuki then looked around her side. “Do any of the reps want to ask anything?” The room remained quiet as Suzuki finished talking. The reps look at each other and did not say a word, it seemed like they did not want to ask anything incase it would get them on the wrong side. Suzuki then looked at Zero, to see if he wanted to ask anything, but he remained silent as well. “well then...will that all be discussed today? If so, then my men will escort you out…”
“No” the voice was once again filled with a powerful aura, his eyes were tinted red again, but this time his breath shook, it shook of anger.
“You did not listen to my statement from before. No man alive or dead commands me. Fifteen million of norwegians and swedes chose me. What will you do with those that wanted me instead of you? Will you silence them? Will you ignore them? Will you oppress them? Are you willing to kill them? And what if other countries want to leave? Will you take away the choice of their people as well? And are you willing to pay the same price to keep them under your control?” The anger was not hidden in anyway. This was clear anger and determination against the outrage that he had heard.
“I did not mention this before, but I do have supporters for this, ready to take up arms if need be, even if they are little and small countries, among them are such small countries like Russia, China, India, you know, small countries. I did not mention them before because I was expecting you to not oppress two sovereign states and the fifteen million people in it, and I did not want to create tensions, as this had all been planned to avoid these problems. But instead of finding a compromise you refused to look for it, expecting me and the fifteen million people in those countries to simply bow down to your will and ‘power’, as if we ever would have, even if wars were not guaranteed you would be facing millions of protesters and rioters.” He said with a confident tone, a smirk similar to the one that Suzuki had been sporting moments before appearing on his face. “I know about your losses” he said with a tone of confidence “You are in no position to fight these wars after your battles with omnibus, and if you do not remember, it is I who holds control of those Euros in these countries at the moment. In a moments notice I could wipe them out, it would only take minutes before the Euro would lose over half of its value and you would be stuck in a currency and economic crisis while fighting a war against multiple of nations and keeping all of those that still willingly following you on your side from instead of getting their own ideas of separation from the European Union. Even if you would win the wars you could not afford what you lose from it, and for what exactly? Pride? Presidence? Stubborness?”
He then looked at the representatives he had heard whispering before and said “Which reminds me, a lot of you were certainly willing to whisper and try as you might talk behind my back without my knowledge, yet when you could ask questions freely and at will you all went so silent that the one who spoke the loudest was a buzzing fly. Oh, I did certainly hear those whispers. Whispers of how the omnibus soldier was simply a coward while all of you went silent the moment you could voice anything yourselves out of fear. How you talked of him as a selfish traitor, not caring about anything as long as he gets to live a comfortable live. How interesting hearing this from highly paid representatives about a man that refused to accept anything before his kids were safe and secure, and that had lost his hands and was suffering from PTSD after battles by the time he was found, oops, did I not mention that before, must have been lost somewhere among the hypocrisy here. Men of mercy and forgiveness certainly fill up this room, just as the kings and priests of old did. Or how about those of you who talked about the lack of my manners for being thirsty, all the while being content of keeping those talks as whispers to avoid myself hearing it. Plus, anyway, how many of you truly feel confident to speak of morals and manners.”
A smile spread on his face that told what he meant about those last things “How confident are you making those statements if ever I were to tell you that I know what all of you have been up to in your own lives for the past few years or so, how many of you worry over whether it is not a bluff?”
A simple look was given to them before he refocused on Suzuki and said with a voice that would have silenced an artillery strike “Now, I gave you the ability to negotiate, to compromise. Now I give you an ultimatum instead, kill me right here and now, and with it start a war with me as its Martyr, declare war but let me go, meaning no martyr but still you must deal with me, or the simple option, you will agree to my terms with the union and have peace and cooperation. I expect you know what is the best action for your people, and understand if you choose war, it is you who brought it, not I, for I would never start an unjust war, let alone against someone I had expected to be happy with someone else who wants a future where dicloni and human can live together just like they had in my native lands.”
With that he stood and started walking away, back out of there with the guards if they chose to escort him, his back against them as he awaited the answer, knowing fully well that his rune would give him the answer before he died, regardless of their choice. His soda bottle was left on the table, what could be said a single sip was left.
His eyes finally went to being tinted blue, though the anger did not leave from him.

“She has no right over my people, everyone that ever thought they were failed and it shall fail once more” his thoughts told him.
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Inagi's flight took only a few hours, but the trip to his contact's place took a bit of work as it was in the outskirts of the city and the location itself was carefully guarded by a network of cameras with very difficult to find blind spots. The building was an old motel that had in actuality been recreated into a Rosary base of operations. Most of their hackers operated independently, but one in particular actually lived here. Her username was SevrrdTies and she was next in command after Victory1.

He was tempted to just waltz right in setting off whatever alarms he could, but with his broken relationship with the Rosary it would be a definite fact that she'd vacate the building immediately and destroy all evidence. He had to play this carefully. Thankfully he had magic which meant he could more easily go around the cameras and avoid any traps he would trigger by walking.

He closed his eyes and conjured power. "Come air, come and help me fly." The incantation was shorter than he normally used, but with the power of his blood magic flowing through him he could avoid the price of doing so. With that he flew over most of the cameras. There were some placed upon the roof, but he flew low enough to keep out of their line of sight.

He flew up to a window and with air magic he opened the latch from the outside and opened the window quietly. The main operating room wouldn't be far from here. A short walk and through the door on his right and there would be SevrredTies. He floated there carefully as not to trip any traps and then he quietly opened the door. Facing the wall opposite in a desk chair working on a computer was the Chinese hacker herself.

He whispered. "Come wind pull her to me." at the same time he released his flight magic and landed softly on his feet. The woman let out a small sound of surprise as a small gust of wind pushed her and the chair towards Inagi. She turned her seat around just as Inagi grabbed her throat and lifted her from her seat.

He looked at her hungrily. The fear was clear in her eyes. She remembered him, that was certain. "Hello, SevrrdTies, how long has it been? Years?" His tone was deadly calm. "You will answer my questions now."

She gasped. "Inagi!"

He grinned. "That's right." Then he lowered her so her feet could touch the ground. She then kicked him between the legs to which he only winced. His blood magic reduced his feeling of pain, but it also affected his temper. "Bad idea, dear." He then slammed her into the wall next to the door. There was a snap as her ribs cracked. "Tell me! Where are Excalibur's bases? I know you've been working the last several years to find him for the G.O. You must know something."

Tears flowed down her face. She clearly wasn't built for taking a beating. The pain must be excruciating for her. "I-I don't know." She spat through clenched teeth.

Inagi pushed her into the now dented wall to put pressure on the damaged ribs. She let out a squawk of pain. "Don't you lie to me. You have to have an idea."

She winced with pain and struggled to break his grasp. "England!"

Inagi pushed harder. "Don't waste my damn time! That base was discovered years ago by the bastard Zero and his companions. Excalibur won't ever return there again!" The then punched her gut and dropped her to let her catch her breath. She was far enough from her computers that she couldn't reach them, and any movements she made would result in him grabbing her again.

Inagi stepped on her calf while she was still kneeling and catching her breath. He put pressure on it to keep her from moving and cause a lot of pain. If he pressed any harder he'd likely shatter her bone there. "Try. Again."

She glared at him hatefully. "We... don't... know exactly... where they are."

He then crushed her leg. "Then give me a clue." The scream she let out sent chills of excitement down his spine. He was impressed that she was still conscious. This was crushing a bug though and he wanted to fight a monster. He wanted to try fighting Itachi again.

She struggled to speak now that she was in so much pain. "China. Russia. Saudi Arabia. Those are the only countries we have clues about, but they aren't solid clues. He might not even be in any of them!"

He picked her up again and brought her face close to his. "Thank you for your service." Then he tossed her into the hallway. He wouldn't kill her. That would simply be a waste of time and energy and he had bigger fish to fry.

He then turned to face her desktop to confirm her answer. He scanned the secret forum that the Rosary used and smiled. What she said was true. From the clues they had gathered, even though Excalibur was very careful at hiding his bases, those three locations were definitely hypothesized to be countries with a base or bases within them. Then a username that recently posted caught his eye.

Hack/Slash. His blood boiled. He remembered hunting her down only to be humiliated by Zero. She posted yesterday. She was alive? He grinned. "More prey."

Ragnar’s comments angered the reps completely and one stood up. “How dare you use what we get to justify yourself!” One roared. “We worked our way to get where we are today...not like some billionaire rich son like you…” The man coldly said with rage. The others reps roared in agreement.

“And what do you think will happen if the Omnibus soldier testify against Omnibus? The anti-diclonius groups will just ‘suddenly’ see that they were wrong about diclonius? Your way of doing this will only make them fight more!” Another rep roared. The reps finally had enough, they remained quiet out of respect for Suzuki and Ragnar during their discussion, but it seems now that all signs of that has gone out the window. “Did you even think this through? What are they going to see if a human goes against his own because a ‘rich diclonius’ has promised him a well life? They are going to see it as another reason why diclonius should be killed because they are paying our own to go against us!” The reps continued their roar of anger towards Ragnar, if he wanted them to talk, well here it is.

It seemed the rep of both Sweden and Norway got involved too. “I have a question for you...who decided that you were the leader of our people?” The Swedish rep asked. At first it seemed they were nervous of what would happen to them, but it seems the two reps are now behind the others. “Last time I checked, you’re only the leader of Iceland, which has a population of over just three hundred thousand people...we have our OWN leaders and our people are the ONES that were happy to join the E.U, they WERE the ones that believe in the better future that WE ARE trying to achieve as we join together to become one big nation that will solve all the problems that lie ahead of us…”

“That’s right!” The Norwegian rep said. “We are looking towards the future...and the the past as what you seem to be stuck in…”

“ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!” Suzuki screamed in anger as she slammed the table, causing the entire room to become quiet. Even Zero was surprised by Suzuki sudden anger, but can easily understand why she was angry. His blood boiled as Ragnar made his demands and threats.

“How...HOW DARE YOU!” Suzuki angrily said to Ragnar, with only hatred in her eyes. she has never been so pissed off in her life, but somehow, Ragnar has released the anger that is inside of her. “HOW DARE YOU COME IN HERE AND ACT LIKE THAT! I don’t care if no human or diclonius commands you...BUT I WILL NOT BE ORDERED BY A DICLONIUS NOR IS ANYONE, EITHER HUMAN OR DICLONIUS THE BOSS OF ME!!” The rage was beginning to build up and the reps were glad that this anger was not towards them. They were worried of what Suzuki would be like if they got on her bad side, considering her cold side they saw sometimes, but now they were going to know what crossing Suzuki is like, but not be on the receiving end of it.

“I let you in here because I thought I would be getting an important discussion..but I was wrong..because all I got was a big child that tried to make demands and is using war as a bullshit excuse to justify himself as a martyr if I don’t agree to your demands…” Suzuki continued, slightly calming down her angry tone, but keeping a cold manner within her. “You say that you wanted to negotiate in a peace and cooperative manner...yet you demand that I either accept your demand or go to war..now where is the negotiation in that? Negotiations are meant for both parties to reach a mutual agreement that will benefit both parties at the time and for the future...but as I see it...the only options are either Ragnar’s way, in which I let you take the countries to form your union and risk the possibility of the E.U crashing because of Finland and Estonia’s involvement...or death by war...and those are two options that don’t please me at all…” Suzuki made sure that every word felt the displeasure that she felt with how Ragnar is taking this.

“I also made my part of this ‘negotiation’ by offering to ‘help’ with your transition, but the moment I mention that you couldn’t have Sweden and Norway...two nations, Sweden being a member as of nineteen ninety-five, that chose to join the E.U, which their people happily agreed to might I add, you decide to have a tantrum...what’s the matter Ragnar? Finally found a moment in your life where you couldn’t just throw your money at the problem and hoped that it would solve it?” Suzuki then slammed her table. “WELCOME TO LIFE!!!” Suzuki shouted at him. “Everything can’t just go your way all the time...if that was true then we would be living in a world where everyone, human or diclonius, lived happily together and there would be no war...BUT LIFE DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!” Suzuki continued.

“You haven’t been a leader for long...you don’t know what it’s like to lead a group of twenty-nine countries, let alone just one...so what made you think that you could walk in here, make a demand like this and expect that it will all go your way? Because you think what you say is the best decision? Oh I’m sorry! I didn’t know what you thought was fact and the right way while everyone else is wrong, I’m sorry I didn’t know you spoke for every single person that you lead…” Suzuki continued.

“Our motto is ‘United by diversity’ and it’s because of that is why that, while I may be the leader, I don’t make the choices and everyone accepts it...the reps around this table get their say as well, which they get their approval from their people…” Suzuki said to Ragnar with a proud smile. “We always have constant polls and suggestions for our people, with all of them voices their opinions and votes, and what is the most common choice or problem is what we sort out” Suzuki continued. “The main problems our people talked about was the high unemployment and the high ratio of poor people, which is something that we are working hard to cut down and already have plans in motion...now if you were somehow in control of the Euro in our countries and lowered our value, then you would destroy that possibility and who will our people blame? Because it won’t be us, as we were trying to help, while you were stopping that…” Suzuki said to Ragnar. She wasn’t going to let him place all blames for this on her. “And how will the anti-diclonius see it? They won’t see it as a peace between human and diclonius...oh no, they will see it as diclonius trying to kill the humans and will try to fight back for it, so your suggestions and ideas will only cause more problems then it will solve…” Suzuki then sighed.

“Oh and another thing…” Suzuki looked him dead in the eyes. “Don’t you ever, and I mean ever! Force me into an ultimatum! You seem so arrogant to the idea that there are more powerful things in this world then you, but...while I am not in the state for another big war, I still have enough firepower, as well as something else...that will take you out before you could even realise it!” Suzuki coldly said. No one makes an ultimatum like towards Suzuki and gets away with it. “There was no mention of war during our talk except for the omnibus traitor, so for you to say that if we go to war it will be on me because you ‘wouldn’t start an unjust war’ then...what a load of bullshit you just said” Suzuki began to sound annoyed. “Did I ever mention about going to war with you because of this? No I didn’t say a damn thing about war! But you...the so called ‘I don’t start an unjust war’ blatantly said that if I don’t choose your choice, then I should declare war or kill you to start a war...now why is my only other option is war? That is so stupid for you to think that if you can't get your way, I have to either kill you for a war or declare it myself! What kind of fucking logic is that?” Suzuki was starting to get a bit of her anger back as she spoke.

“That is not how it works at all! The only one wanting war here is you...now, this is the end of this, I have wasted my time for this and can’t waste no more…” Suzuki then motioned for the soldiers at the door. “Please escort Ragnar off the site, his time here is done and I’m sure he has things to do…” Suzuki waited for Ragnar to leave with her soldiers.

How long had it been? Three years? More? Less? Lily had lost track of how long it had been since she had to fake her death. Japan was supposed to be a safe place for her to stay, and yet she had been found. Ever since the assassination she pulled off on the Brazilian Drug Cartel's leadership, she had the same assassin hunting her. All she knew about him was she had captured his attention when she pulled off that assassination, but he had no connection to the cartel personally. She felt as if he was hunting her for personal pleasure.

She missed the friends she had made, but there was no way she could get them involved in this. She had helped from the shadows since her "death". She sent clues to the GO and Rosary about Omnibus, and now that she knew they were gone she felt a bit of relief. Unfortunately, she was dreadfully aware of the other threats such as Excalibur and Yamato.

She had spent her time constantly on the move. Now she was in London. Last week she had been in Australia. She was already making plans to head to Tokyo. So long as she stayed on the move her hunter couldn't find her. Sometimes she stayed in low end hotels, others she lived luxuriously, but always with an eye over her shoulder.

She always kept an eye the things going on with the GO and around the world. She saw the security feeds of Lester's meeting with Elena and his display of magic. Magic. She couldn't believe it still. She had seen crazy things, but those could be explained by science, this was just way out there. Then there was the ruler of Iceland. Ragnar. Something felt off about the diclonius and the way he meddled in things. Thus she decided that it would be best for her to begin her investigations into him. She would have preferred to look in on Lester, but his operations had absolutely no computers, or video feeds to hack into.

She found some disturbing things pointing towards a virus of some sort. "Oh dearie, this is going to change my plans. This really is going to take some investigation."

With that she began to make plans to head for Iceland immediately. She sighed as she reminisced about her garage back in Japan. She hadn't had time to go back and use it to build and tinker like she loved to do. As she reminisced she called up Fenix to get a private flight to Iceland, something she trusted him to do discretely as always.

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Sten frowned. Australia. She had definitely been here. His prey, Liliana Brennan. The Red Queen. Assassin. She was very good at covering her tracks. This had been his first real challenge in his entire lifetime. He could only admire her genius. Finally, he had found someone that could rival him. Her aliases were quite strong as well. He had some difficulty finding the name she used to come and leave.

In order to find her he had joined the GO as an investigator. There was no way they would know his true intentions. The background check they would have used would have followed through the life of Sten Walker, ex-US military man looking for a new job. His credentials checked out perfectly. Otherwise he wouldn't have been a member for the last three years now. He had been on assignment when the battle with Omnibus happened and couldn't participate, but he was alright with that since his prey wouldn't be found in the middle of the battlefield. No, her talents were much like his own: suited for espionage and assassination.

His current task with the GO was to investigate rogue dicloni and bring them in if they're willing. A thankless task, but it gave him free reign to travel wherever he wanted so long as there was reason. So long as he made his quota there was no conflict with his superiors.

He really was Sten Zaffers, code name Solitary Watcher, an ex-mercenary who now only hunted for worth targets. His code name brought him as much fear as he got respect. The only names he knew that did that anymore were the names Zero and the Red Queen. Hector Schlenzanner would also have been on that list except his death had been confirmed after the battle that happened not so long ago.

From his profiling, Sten recognized Lily to have a righteous side. Her targets were always bad people, and she fought for justice. She only used killing in extreme situations like with the Cartel Bombing of years past. Even with him being so close behind, she still sent messages to the GO anonymously, and it was that goodness that would result in her defeat. He simply needed to find out her next target. He knew her enemies and they were few. They were huge targets, but they were few.

Sten decided to just continue doing his "job" while waiting for the opportunity to find Lily.

Ragnar listen to what they said back.
“How dare you use what we get to justify yourself!” One roared. “We worked our way to get where we are today...not like some billionaire rich son like you…” The man coldly said with rage. The others reps roared in agreement.
“And what do you think will happen if the Omnibus soldier testify against Omnibus? The anti-diclonius groups will just ‘suddenly’ see that they were wrong about diclonius? Your way of doing this will only make them fight more!” Another rep roared.
“Did you even think this through? What are they going to see if a human goes against his own because a ‘rich diclonius’ has promised him a well life? They are going to see it as another reason why diclonius should be killed because they are paying our own to go against us!”
Ragnar smiled at this. He smiled at the fact that at least they were willing to talk up now, though he felt like they did not understand what the point was of an omnibus prisoner confessing. The point was to get more countries to condemn the anti-diclonius groups, which while not wiping them out it would make it so that in most countries they would not actually get to hold political power there.
It seemed the rep of both Sweden and Norway got involved too. “I have a question for you...who decided that you were the leader of our people?”
Ragnar raised an eyebrow towards the rep of both Sweden and Norway, confused by the question.
“Last time I checked, you’re only the leader of Iceland, which has a population of over just three hundred thousand people...we have our OWN leaders and our people are the ONES that were happy to join the E.U, they WERE the ones that believe in the better future that WE ARE trying to achieve as we join together to become one big nation that will solve all the problems that lie ahead of us…”
Ragnar contained a small laugh that almost came “One big nation? Just like the Holy Roman Empire was ‘one big nation’, but I guess things have really changed since this the E.U. was a union, clearly they became a single country at some point. Well, at least it is not quite as bad as the Holy Roman Empire”
“That’s right!” The Norwegian rep said. “We are looking towards the future...and the the past as what you seem to be stuck in…”
Ragnar really did wonder whether they had heard of the referendum in all of these countries that had supported this. He guesses they must have been very busy over that preparation period and still are, or maybe they had not been informed of the results yet, after all the count of the ballots was just finishing this morning and it was to be told officially over the countries soon today there, around the evening time when the news is on.
“ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!” Suzuki screamed in anger as she slammed the table, causing the entire room to become quiet.
Ragnar was not caught off guard by her scream of anger not the slam onto the table, but it certainly got his attention.
“How...HOW DARE YOU!” Suzuki angrily said to Ragnar, with only hatred in her eyes.
“Because I did” he thought to himself, knowing what was to come.
“HOW DARE YOU COME IN HERE AND ACT LIKE THAT! I don’t care if no human or diclonius commands you...BUT I WILL NOT BE ORDERED BY A DICLONIUS NOR IS ANYONE, EITHER HUMAN OR DICLONIUS THE BOSS OF ME!!”
Ragnar shortly wondered whether she knew what she implied with that “NOT BE ORDERED BY A DICLONIUS NOR IS ANYONE” part but assumed she was just angry at the moment and could be excused some small mistakes like that.
“I let you in here because I thought I would be getting an important discussion..but I was wrong..because all I got was a big child that tried to make demands and is using war as a bullshit excuse to justify himself as a martyr if I don’t agree to your demands…” Suzuki continued, slightly calming down her angry tone, but keeping a cold manner within her. “You say that you wanted to negotiate in a peace and cooperative manner...yet you demand that I either accept your demand or go to war..now where is the negotiation in that? Negotiations are meant for both parties to reach a mutual agreement that will benefit both parties at the time and for the future...but as I see it...the only options are either Ragnar’s way, in which I let you take the countries to form your union and risk the possibility of the E.U crashing because of Finland and Estonia’s involvement...or death by war...and those are two options that don’t please me at all…” Suzuki made sure that every word felt the displeasure that she felt with how Ragnar is taking this.
He certainly noticed her displeasure but that did not matter to him. The child comment did however visibly irk him, though it was actually much greater of an insult to him then she may have realized, and he would not let her exploit it as he kept down the anger that had suddenly rose by that comment in him.
“I also made my part of this ‘negotiation’ by offering to ‘help’ with your transition, but the moment I mention that you couldn’t have Sweden and Norway...two nations, Sweden being a member as of nineteen ninety-five, that chose to join the E.U, which their people happily agreed to might I add, you decide to have a tantrum...what’s the matter Ragnar? Finally found a moment in your life where you couldn’t just throw your money at the problem and hoped that it would solve it?” Suzuki then slammed her table. “WELCOME TO LIFE!!!” Suzuki shouted at him. “Everything can’t just go your way all the time...if that was true then we would be living in a world where everyone, human or diclonius, lived happily together and there would be no war...BUT LIFE DOESN’T WORK THAT WAY!” Suzuki continued.
He looked at her, wondering how long she was planning to insult him. He had to admit that his plans did depend a lot on his riches, but he hated to be talked down like a child.
“You haven’t been a leader for long...you don’t know what it’s like to lead a group of twenty-nine countries, let alone just one...so what made you think that you could walk in here, make a demand like this and expect that it will all go your way? Because you think what you say is the best decision? Oh I’m sorry! I didn’t know what you thought was fact and the right way while everyone else is wrong, I’m sorry I didn’t know you spoke for every single person that you lead…” Suzuki continued.
“That is because if I told you the reason why I was right you would either kill me, torture me or think I am crazy until you discover it yourself, along with any combination of those possibilities” thought Ragnar as he listened to her being condescending.
“Our motto is ‘United by diversity’ and it’s because of that is why that, while I may be the leader, I don’t make the choices and everyone accepts it...the reps around this table get their say as well, which they get their approval from their people…” Suzuki said to Ragnar with a proud smile. “We always have constant polls and suggestions for our people, with all of them voices their opinions and votes, and what is the most common choice or problem is what we sort out” Suzuki continued. “The main problems our people talked about was the high unemployment and the high ratio of poor people, which is something that we are working hard to cut down and already have plans in motion...now if you were somehow in control of the Euro in our countries and lowered our value, then you would destroy that possibility and who will our people blame? Because it won’t be us, as we were trying to help, while you were stopping that…” Suzuki said to Ragnar. She wasn’t going to let him place all blames for this on her. “And how will the anti-diclonius see it? They won’t see it as a peace between human and diclonius...oh no, they will see it as diclonius trying to kill the humans and will try to fight back for it, so your suggestions and ideas will only cause more problems then it will solve…” Suzuki then sighed.
Ragnar stared down her down, with a neutral expressionless face. That is all he did as he listened to her.
“Oh and another thing…” Suzuki looked him dead in the eyes. “Don’t you ever, and I mean ever! Force me into an ultimatum! You seem so arrogant to the idea that there are more powerful things in this world then you, but...while I am not in the state for another big war, I still have enough firepower, as well as something else...that will take you out before you could even realise it!” Suzuki coldly said. No one makes an ultimatum like towards Suzuki and gets away with it. “There was no mention of war during our talk except for the omnibus traitor, so for you to say that if we go to war it will be on me because you ‘wouldn’t start an unjust war’ then...what a load of bullshit you just said” Suzuki began to sound annoyed. “Did I ever mention about going to war with you because of this? No I didn’t say a damn thing about war! But you...the so called ‘I don’t start an unjust war’ blatantly said that if I don’t choose your choice, then I should declare war or kill you to start a war...now why is my only other option is war? That is so stupid for you to think that if you can't get your way, I have to either kill you for a war or declare it myself! What kind of fucking logic is that?” Suzuki was starting to get a bit of her anger back as she spoke.
He waited, those eyes simply waiting for when it is all over.
“That is not how it works at all! The only one wanting war here is you...now, this is the end of this, I have wasted my time for this and can’t waste no more…” Suzuki then motioned for the soldiers at the door. “Please escort Ragnar off the site, his time here is done and I’m sure he has things to do…”
A smile came to his face.

Ragnar stood up and said “Quite an impressive speech, but I ask you, and the former reps of my countries” he looked over to the reps of Norway and Sweden before returning to her and continuing “Why do you think I said the people chose me?”
He pulled out a few documents and put it on the table before saying “Results of the referendum on this, done separately in each one of the countries that I said were to join my union. The subject, the creation of the union that I had come here to discuss, results? Overwhelming majority of voters agreed to it in every single one of the nations that I had mentioned were joining the union. Though I swore I send you some of those early copies earlier today when I had asked for this meeting, the results came in this morning and it is to be informed to the public this evening news. They chose me, whatever is said here will not change that. Going to war for their choice would be a Just war, though I will not go to any war or conflicts with you if their choice is not interfered with, that is why I gave you the ultimatum. Negotiations were simply too smooth things out, the end result would be the same in case of the nations part of my union, it was the other things such as making sure your economy would not crash from the changes as well as being willing to assist in any political issues that may have effect on the union. Also to you representatives here, I will remind you all that the omnibus traitor will be kept anonymous, why do you think I would reveal to people something like the support he gets beyond the anonymity and relief from most of his crimes. The support I gave him was because I had money, and I was willing to help a man that is willing to change. I know some people here disagree with such sentiments, believing it to be being weak on criminals and such, which is the reason that death penalty exists, but I do not hold that same sense of strict justice like Hammurabi had. As for the thought of the future over past, you really think I am stuck in the past? The future is dominated by technology, commerce and politics, anti-diclonius groups will wein in influence due to the influence this will have on other countries. My countries will have huge excess of technology and commerce as they already do, a scale of economic and technological progress that usually takes many years in almost an instance. Do not talk of me having been fed by a silver spoon as well, while I was lucky enough to be raised by a billionaire I am still the one responsible for it becoming much bigger than it had been before, and I certainly know a few things about how to use it effectively. By the way, on the diversity thing, I do not know whether you have checked the immigration policies recently on my country, though I do not blame you for missing them, hard to notice with all the reformations of the government I made, but I am at the moment with the most open immigration process in the world and by capita I am accepting most people from many different parts of the world, especially dicloni around from the world, all of which, both humans and dicloni, are given support by the state as they get settled. I am the return of Enlightened despotism, and I will show that in my rule, whether you like the fact that I am ruling or not, or whether you like myself or not, or whether I am old enough or having 'ruled' for long enough or not. Now I shall leave, I have to hurry for the speech for the evening news in the nordics, this is a lot bigger thing there than it is here, I also am gonna have to learn a few lines in arabic for their news as well. You may come to crowning, it will be after six days, it is being organized until then, and I wish that these feelings of hostility will not last.”
With he was done here, he needed to go to do that speech, even if it was simply a formality it was important to him to not be rude to people that chose him.

As Ragnar was leaving he thought half ashamedly “Why did I react like that?” While he did not show it he was puzzled by his sudden reaction “It probably was just the Rex part of me, he can get overly passionate over some things...no, I was already having those thoughts myself, before Rex took control. What made me overreact? Maybe it was just I had to be defensive, two of the eight nations as well as close to half of the population, not to mention very resource rich nations, that was to be and will be in my union. I need that. But, why did I then say all those other things? Maybe it was just to make a point, maybe I was just not aware of my own boiling rage over how they were viewing me and how they acted, and how they planned to control my people above them, or at least I thought so at the moment, was the final straw. Maybe I did it because I know I am one in the position of power and I am just jaded after the last deal with Ariel, entertaining others belief of control is tiring after all. Maybe I was just acting arrogant, but is it really being arrogant when I know that only in a week, regardless of whether war comes or not, I will not have to fear their armies regardless of how things go. But, why did I speak so much about standing for my people? I would say it would be only to make my position and right to rule over them be stronger and clearer, but, it certainly did not feel like it was a way to simply hold onto those lands. I did want to stand for them, or at the very least I was able to fool myself as well that is what I wanted to. Maybe I just felt like if I would not have those countries I could not guarantee enough people would survive the virus for a prosperous recovery, so that when the slate is cleaned and the world is plentiful and fresh once more for the few who survive, and the world needs not to fear those survivors bring it down to its knees through overuse of resources and too high population pressure as it is now, enough survive so that progress would not be halted by lack of innovators in a world that lacks suffering. Maybe I just wanted to show that I would not be kidding around when it comes to my demands and decisions. Maybe I just really like the idea of all the nordic states unified as one, an ideal that has existed so long in the minds of many of my people, and I would be lying if I were to say it was not in mine. Maybe I just felt like doing it, after all, I am still not in perfect control of myself after all. It probably is just combination of all of these things and maybe many other things. Too late to change it now, the words have been said and the message is clear as day. I will just send a private apology for this reaction once it is clear that I alone rule over the nordics, the one they chose.”
He was planning to go straight to his realm, no stops made, not even to pick up the mask that he had come with, soon enough it was going to be pointless to have it anyway.
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In Brazil there was a special flight. The flight was for immigrants to Iceland. These were immigrants with various of different backgrounds, though one group of them was different from immigrants on other flights.
On it dicloni and their families could be safely transported out of the country. This was primarily allowed as it was far more efficient for the Brazil to simply throw away dicloni to Iceland that was asking for them rather to try and deal with them and possibly make it into a bigger political issue, as it could work for both most of the people wanting to accept dicloni as they are sent to somewhere where they are supported by a very supportive and accepting state and it also works for many anti-dicloni people that are not as afraid as these people are extorted out of the country more or less, depending after how the government spins it in each speech or political debate. The same was in Russia, India, switzerland and several other countries, though while China does it as well they just simply choose not to talk about it to their people and use it when discussing with other nations.
Despite this, there were still a huge amount of guards and even aerial escort for this, since extremists were always not the same as those groups that had accepted these semi-neutral policies. Extremists were still threats regardless of other people’s opinions.
These flights also helped protect the identity of the people on board, to make sure that if they were fleeing something that they would not be easily tracked down, they even offered name alternatives if people wanted to change their names to fit the country where they were going to or if they wanted something that would help them blend in.
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Ragnar had in his waves of reforms passed a law that had hugely streamlined the ability for his people to come to a meeting with him if they so desired.
Ragnar was not going to ignore his citizens, regardless of whether they were born in his countries or not.
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“Welcome.” Zen replied in his usually emotionally voice from behind his desk. “I’ll be quick here. Right now the war to protect the relationships between the humans and the Diclonius is still underway. We lost a lot of people in that  battle with Omnimbus including many of the Diclonius on our side. We don’t know the whereabouts of her right now or if she even survived, but #44 who was supposed to be the leader for the Diclonius has not shown up yet.”


Zen clasped his hands together and moved the same sheets he had shown to #44 a while back to the young red haired girl.


“It is not the humans who should be the one to lead the Diclonius, they will only see it as us forcing ourselves upon them. We need someone  like them, other horned people. I believe it is clear that the horned people would be more willing to accept humans knowing that their own leader would be willing to accept humans as well. I talked to No. 44 about this before but I’ll tell you as well. This will make you into the leader of the Diclonius under the G.O and E.U regime. We would give you free reign to rule them as you please.


We as the Great Order though would still keep watch and interfere if we needed to.”


He pulled out a short device from his cabinet.

“This is anti-Diclonius device, it decreases the Diclonius aggression towards humans. However it also means that it practically lobotomizes them as well until its removal. Since the antidote for the inner voices is being manufactured, we may not need these. But I’m showing you this in case we do have to use them. We at the G.O are willing to make the relationship between your kind and ours work, you know that already. But we are still human and we’ll do anything to protect humanity as well. That’s what I wanted to talk to you about, will you agree? Do you have any questions?”

Meanwhile, one of the G.O members came up to Elena.

“Master General Squratoli, I have excellent news. The antidote for the inner voices has now been completed and manufactured. We already have about 5 antidotes created. At this point there’s no doubt we can create more. Now that we’ve got the entire thing done, mass producing it will be easy. If I may say so Master General, but things are finally looking up for us.”

“Excellent.” Elena said, smirking something between happiness and “Imma fuck you up real good.”


“That’s what I’m talking about. Something that goes in our favor. The antidote is ready to use now?”

“Yes madam, an injection will do the trick.”

“Lt. General Vastopida!”

“Yo!” Vast replied, stepping over and saluting. She handed the syringe  over to him. “Inject Ericka.”

O_o


“WAAAAAAH!!!” Ericka screamed and ran off as Vast took chase.

“Stop running away and take your damn medicine!” Vast yelled.

Somewhere about 400 miles away from the Citadel that was the Great Order, a lonely plane landed at the airport. A young girl with bright blue hair and brown skin jumped off, carrying a bag around her. There were three other people around her. Her very own employers.

“So this is Europe, what a nice place. I wonder how I can get to the Great Order though, I doubt I could just walk in. Ah who cares, I’ll figure it out eventually."

OCC: Not sure when your coming back Crane but had to do a little something here since #44 hasn't shown up in a while lol.

“Welcome.” Zen replied in his usually emotionally voice from behind his desk. “I’ll be quick here. Right now the war to protect the relationships between the humans and the Diclonius is still underway. We lost a lot of people in that battle with Omnimbus including many of the Diclonius on our side. We don’t know the whereabouts of her right now or if she even survived, but #44 who was supposed to be the leader for the Diclonius has not shown up yet.”

Zen clasped his hands together and moved the same sheets he had shown to #44 a while back to the young red haired girl.


“It is not the humans who should be the one to lead the Diclonius, they will only see it as us forcing ourselves upon them. We need someone like them, other horned people. I believe it is clear that the horned people would be more willing to accept humans knowing that their own leader would be willing to accept humans as well. I talked to No. 44 about this before but I’ll tell you as well. This will make you into the leader of the Diclonius under the G.O and E.U regime. We would give you free reign to rule them as you please.


We as the Great Order though would still keep watch and interfere if we needed to.”


He pulled out a short device from his cabinet.

“This is anti-Diclonius device, it decreases the Diclonius aggression towards humans. However it also means that it practically lobotomizes them as well until its removal. Since the antidote for the inner voices is being manufactured, we may not need these. But I’m showing you this in case we do have to use them. We at the G.O are willing to make the relationship between your kind and ours work, you know that already. But we are still human and we’ll do anything to protect humanity as well. That’s what I wanted to talk to you about, will you agree? Do you have any questions?”

“I do not have any questions to ask, I will agree to be the leader, but only as a temporary choice until number 44 returns or a more suitable candidate arrives…” Alice quickly answered. She didn’t really care about being the leader of her own species, there were many that she didn’t know, nor care for, all she cared about was what was in the best interests of herself, Suzuki and Zero. Alice signed where it was needed. Anna tilted her head in confusion.

“Will this be all? As I need to return to the E.U headquarters with the others…”


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As Ragnar left the room, being escorted out by the E.U soldiers, the room remained in silence, the reps looked at Suzuki in fear, as she had stayed quiet after Ragnar had finished talking. The silence ended as Suzuki angrily slammed her desk, snapping it in half. Suzuki then felt a hand on her shoulder.

“Do you want me to kill him?” Zero asked, his voice so cold and filled with anger. Suzuki simply shook her head.

“You heard him...if we kill him we start a war...and we will be seen as the bad guys if we do it…”

Suzuki then calmed down. “Besides, Ragnar will get what’s coming to him...his type of people always do...and we will make sure of it…”

“I’m sure he will!” The Norway and Sweden reps agreed. Suzuki gave them a cold stare.

“Quiet you two! As of now, you are no longer the reps of your countries because of Ragnar...you do not have a right to speak in this hall” Suzuki coldly said. The two reps remained silent, realising the title that they have lost because of Ragnar. “You will be given a new job within the E.U headquarters...soldiers! Escort them out” The soldiers walked up the the two reps and the two followed the soldiers out of the room.

“This meeting is over...I hope you enjoyed the debate…” Suzuki said to the reps. The group then began standing up and orderly leave the room. Suzuki then grabbed Zero. “It looks like we will have to start our plans earlier than expected...we can’t let Ragnar ruin what we have planned for the future of this world...too many people are getting in our way…” Suzuki said to Zero.

“...which is why we will even kill if it for the better of this world...too many rotten people are infested in this world…” Zero replied.

“...and we will purge it for the greater good…”
“...and we will purge it for the greater good…” The two said together. They have had a plan set together since the death of Zero’s parents 15 years ago, and they won’t let anyone get in the way of it.

“Now...we must head to the lab, there is a lot of work to be done…”


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Zero hooked himself up to the wires and the devices that surrounded him in the testing labs and sat on the chair.

“Ok Zero this experiment is going to hurt a lot, but the reward will be amazing if successful...are you sure you want to do this?” Suzuki asked, worried.

“I’m positive...we have to do whatever it takes...or else we will never archive our goal…” Zero replied.

“...Ok...start the experiment…” Suzuki said with a slight frown. The scientists pushed the button, and the test begun. They watched as Zero screamed in pain, as the test was going on. Suzuki couldn't watch and see Zero in pain, but she began to get worried once the red lights started flashing.

“WARNING! OVERLOAD! POWER LEVEL REACHED AND PASSING SAFE LEVELS!” The voice above said.

“Stop the test now!” Suzuki quickly said to the scientists. The scientists quickly tried to find the off switch until they were interrupted.

“Don’t push that button!” Zero shouted while still in pain.

“But Zero!” Suzuki cried.

“The test isn’t finished! I’m not letting some warning ruin it!” Zero shouted. Suzuki didn’t know what to do. But before she could figure out what to do, Zero had stopped screaming in pain and a noise was heard again.

“TEST COMPLETE. MOVING SUBJECT TO BATTLE ROOM” Suzuki watched as Zero was being moved down to the battle room and quickly headed down there.

As she got there, she noticed that Zero was beginning to stand up from the device. Suzuki quickly opened the door and got in the room. “Zero…”

“My weapons...hand them to me…” Zero asked. Suzuki hesitated, but then nodded. She pushed a button and Zero’s weapons appeared in front of him. Zero slowly reached towards his weapons and and got them ready. Once he had them prepared the blade suddenly turned red with energy. Zero aimed the blade towards the large target on the other side and in a quick second a beam shot out of the blade and connected with the large targets on the other side, completely destroying them, leaving nothing left but ashes.

Suzuki watched on, holding to Zero as they both watched the burned mess before looking at each other. The two then began to just laugh.

“It worked!” They both happily said. “With part one possible...now it’s time to find out if we can do part two…” Suzuki continued. “I will send the report back with instructions with what to do next...with this progress...no one will stop us!” Suzuki said with a smirk. “Now...I think it’s time we went home, today has been tiring and I want to sit down and relax”

“Indeed, I’m also sure Alice, Anna and the kids have returned home as well by now, so we can relax...as a family” Zero said to Suzuki with a smile.

“Yes...after so long...we might finally be able to have at least a day to relax as a family…”

Once Ragnar was far away from EU headquarters he finally gave a sigh of relief. Despite having been ready to die if they chose to end his life he still was glad that hadn’t happened. He was ready to die but being still alive was many times better.
Ragnar got onto his plane as it started to fly back. As it was flying back he went over his lines for the speeches he was to give. He was ready to give the speech in each one of the native languages of the regions. He had no problem when it came to Icelandic but he just had to memorize for the other languages.
Once Ragnar finally arrived back he got himself quickly prepared for the speech.
He then stepped onto his place and said his speech.
Each one of his speeches were filled with gratitude towards the people. Each one was said in a strong booming voice. Despite however his looks the people, while initially shocked by his condition, did not hold contempt for him. Celebrations were held many places while Ragnar returned to his headquarters.
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Soldiers of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Finland, Qatar, all the soldiers that now were to belong to Ragnar’s union, received something special.
None of them were to tell of it and for good reason, their nations were waiting for the results of the referendum of whether they joined the union or not. The soldiers were to get the answer before any of the other citizens.
They had to know, after all, they were to swear a new oath, an oath to the union, or rather as the oath was hinting, to the Rex.
A secret they were given and a secret they would keep until it would be announced to all.
Over four hundred thousand soldiers were to know before anyone else. Four hundred thousand soldiers who had not joined the EU’s armies.
With the oath they memorized it for the announcement, so all could hear it.
And, as the speeches finished, they said their oath in their mother tongue.
“To our Father State and to our motherland, we soldiers born of ice and forged in fire stand tall.
Our Father state calls us to defend, and we answer the call of glory and valor.
In one hand, our Father state holds the gift of prosperity and equality,
in the other he holds the sword of might and honor.
To battle he wears his armour of unity and carries his shield of tradition,
his call of independence and liberty from his cold breath burns like fires of the earth.
His mind of enlightenment guides him,
his loyalty holds him true.
His arms of productivity and his feet of progress holds him ahead of the rest,
to guard the motherland the state calls all, the commoner as well as the kings,
those born to the motherland as well as those who were adopted by the motherland,
the extraordinary to the common, the odd to the normal, the brave as well as the cowardly, anyone who is ready to answer the call of the state shall never be turned down, for the protection of the motherland and its ideals are greater than anything else.
Never shall the state take up arms onto its people, never shall the people have to wield arms unwillingly, and never shall a Rex ever call to war till he is standing next to his soldiers in battle, where there is no difference between kings and soldiers, for we all are people of our great Motherland and Father state we serve willingly.
Like great guardians, we shall stand and protect our people, our motherland, side by side with no fear in our eyes, as the Rex leads from the front, we and the Father state charge together, for we all have the same blood in battle, and our enemies shall learn of the spirit that resides within us, once they have brought war on to us, and we give them the steel and lead they asked for.
The earth shall shake as we siblings of war march under fire, the enemy shall flee from our tanks like they were crawling dragons descending upon them, the skies will be clear and our sea ours, no foe will defeat friends and siblings of war as we fight for each other, our ideals and values, hope in our hearts that of dragons might may keep our peace, or give us our victories.
From the old world’s demise see an empire rise. With god and victorious arms.”
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Ragnar looked over his plans. He was quickly mobilizing the one thing he knew he needed in a war to defend his lands, his defence system.
The defence system was made up of mostly large laser defence system, they were excellent for what he needed. It would give him complete control over the sky, no enemy aircrafts could go into his territory, meaning he would always hold air superiority over his territories and where else he could deploy the lasers on mobile platforms. This would also deny the enemy use of missiles and he could even target enemy ground targets, primarily vehicles but groups of infantry were also possible targets. The biggest weakness was mainly that they were large and therefore not practical for infantry use, but that did not matter for the purpose Ragnar had for it.
He had gotten great amount of power and he was to preserve all that he had gotten, regardless of cost.

With that he gave a great sigh. It was late, the speeches had lasted long. He hated it, mainly due to it did not feel like anything was accomplished from it, it felt like nothing was done of value, but he simply smiled, being happy that it had confirmed to him that the people loved him.
He looked back to his desk. He was making more plans. The preservation program is gonna be his pride and eternal legacy he believed. Four plans.
One was his least prideful one, the one he was racing himself against. The depopulation plan was simply a guarantee. If none of the others worked then at the very least this one will. It was the most straightforward of them all, fix the problem of overpopulation has on the environment, economy and resources by getting rid of it. The fact that it only has effect on humans and not dicloni was more of a bonus than anything else, as it means that the progress of humans and dicloni will become easier when the dicloni minority will be more even to the rest of them. He however will directly interfere and stop it when the global population has shrunk down to seven hundred million. He is also ready to abandon the depopulation plan if it turns out to be too risky, either to his other plans or to his own people.
The second one was a far more optimistic view on the world. A great coalition around the world, encompassing so many nations, Brazil, most of the african nations, most of the asian nations, all the nations in the middle east that are part of the oil cartel and both cuba and mexico, not to mention russia. This coalition is not just to increase his own power, militarily, economically and diplomatically, but also to have enough power over the world to make it change. To advance the world onto a new path, lead by himself. A path of prosperity, sustainability, preservation of the environment, advancement of science and etc.
The third one was a simple restoration plan. If too much is lost, of people, dicloni or human, of animals, plants, everything, then there will be back up plans. Shelters around the world and massive gene banks. If need be both humans and dicloni will be able to retreat there and live for eternity, or until it is possible to live on the surface once more. Along with that they could bring back extinct animals and plants to restore the world that would have been lost.
The fourth one however was his most ambitious one. The colonization plan. The plan was in two parts. A moon colony and mars colony. Both would be made self sustainable and able to support millions of people. The moon colony was to be both a colony with people living on it, but also if the earth become uninhabitable some refugees might be able to escape to the moon. The mars colony however would be too far away for something like that. The mars colony had a different secondary purpose. The mars colony was to make mars inhatible. The time for it to be completed would only be merely fifty thousand years. He chuckled to himself alone in his room. Fifty thousand years, five times the length of agriculture’s existence. A legacy that was to last so long that humanity and dicloni kind will have disappeared. Both of them will have disappeared, they will be replaced, by creatures, evolved, both dicloni and humans will have gone extinct by then, a new species evolved from them to replace them, just as has happened before and just as it will happen again and again forever.
He was to initiate fully the great coalition, the restoration, and the colonization plans tomorrow. The depopulation plan has already started, no records of it, only two people know of it, him and Darwin.

He looks up at the ceiling, sighing. The only problems were gonna be the EU and anti-diclonius groups. Even if the captured omnibus soldier may hold great influence over most people when he testifies against omnibus, it will not be enough to end the groups, just weaken them, maybe stop their growth, possibly slowly shrink them, but it won't end them, that he knows, the anti-diclonius group will live on for a while. He will hide the connection between himself and the soldier to avoid rise of even greater extremism, but otherwise he just hopes that people will start understanding.
The EU on the other hand is different. The EU is an enemy that he did not want. If it weren’t for the fact that they both wanted scandinavia they most likely would have been allies, but now the creation of his union, soon to be an empire, has left sour taste for the EU and a rivalry that may grow.
He hopes he can fix those damaged relations, he prefers that europe were not to re enact another war between the north and south that lasted for thirty years.

But now, he just needed to go to sleep. He gave another sigh and looked out his window. The northern lights danced among the stars in the night sky. He got a smile, the beauty of it reminding why he cared so much for this world.

He suddenly heard someone open and close the door to his room behind him. He gave a sigh, expecting it was someone reporting something. He looked over, but his breath and heart froze for a second and his eyes went wide open at the sight in front of him.

It was the mutant, Amare, who stared back at him, frozen seeing him. She had been trying to find her way out of this place and suddenly gone into this room to hide away from some security that was after her, but she had not expected to walk into someone.

Ragnar blinked several times and finally asked “What is your name?” She had not expected that question but answered back in a hushed down voice “A-amare, w-who are you?”
Ragnar answered back “Ragnar, Rex, king, son of Tyr, soon to be more, though, I must ask one more question, are you an illusion? Because if I am not mistaken, those are wings, am I right?” pointing to what made her a mutant, a pair of wings on her back.
“I-I-I a-am not an i-illusion, w-why d-do you ask?” she answered back, unsure why he wanted to know. Ragnar stared her down eventually saying “So, you are either an angel or a mutant, why are you here?” She blushed a bit by his comment but shook it off responding back “I-I am trying t-to escape, I-I a-am scared here”
Ragnar stood up and said “You won’t get far, just rest here, I will handle whatever the problem is.” he wasn’t sure why, but for some reason he felt something, something he wasn’t sure what it was.
She nodded nervously, she sat down, trying to comfort herself. She was scared and hoped everything would turn out fine. Then she asked “W-why are you h-helping me?”
Ragnar looked over to her and smiled, saying “Why wouldn’t I?”

As Ragnar left her and headed over to the guest room he was in last time he felt unusually happy. He was not sure as to why, but he suspected it had something to do with her. But now he needed sleep, he had stuff to do in the morning and needed some rest himself.

Amera meanwhile tried to get herself comfortable. She herself was not sure why, but for some reason she trusted Ragnar. She hoped it wasn’t misplaced.
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When the plane finally landed and Teressa was able to get off, she was more than just relieved. Stuck on the back end of a plane was nobody's idea of fun. So to be able to stretch her legs and arms did wonders for her mentality.

"So this is Europe. Come to think of it this is the first time I've ever been outside of Brazil. There are so many people and so many places."

She smiled happily and looked over at her company, carrying the few supplies with them. It was amazing their pint-sized leader decided to come all the way over here just to try and get touch with the leader of the Great Order.

Three people had accompanied her.

Yestelero Amako.

Terenvius Tivus

and

Brutucusuvanalo Von Albertaselvata Esterlohellmier.

Of course there was no god damn way she'd ever remember that. So she just called them in order, John, Jack and Joe.

"Make sure you keep your hat on well." Joe uttered over to the blue haired girl with fluffy hair who wearing a large white hat over her head to cover her horns.

"I know." Teressa replied winking at him. "Anyways head off to the location we secured earlier, I'm going to head off. I'll be back hopefully later tonight."

Understanding their orders, the three left and the girl merrily began to skip away. The unfortunate part here was that even though knew where The Great Order was, having a nice little map to show her, she was still about 50 miles away from it.

Even if she had a car she didn't know how to drive it. She knew that her own kind sometimes used their vectors to race across the ground at high speed. Even if there was nobody around, her powers worked much differently than her iconic sisters.

No the only way for Teressa to get around was by the normal means. That of course meant the best way would be to hitch several rides until she finally got her destination.

She quickly realized that she should've tried to get a closer "parking spot" than where they landed before.
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But she did arrive, a lot sooner than she thought but she did arrive. The young girl with fluffy blue haired walked across a wide open field where she saw the massive fortress of the Great Order. There were several armed guards around her, many of them looking at her but making no move.

She was just one person and they could stop her at anytime. Perhaps they'd just let her in anyways if she tried to explain herself. There was another person coming out of the building as well who finally met her half way across the large field that once was part of the fight between Elena and #44.

It was Vastopia Jerrioshi, commonly known as Vast and more commonly known as the most bizarre person in the place. One could never believe he was actually considered the third in command of the Great Order. Behind only Elena and Zen.

Of course with the other Brigadier Generals having passed away, it was obvious Vast would have more things to do.

"Hello! It's good to see you!" Teressa happily called out.

"Hello! It's good to see you as well! How can I help you." Vast replied in a tone just as ridiculously silly as Teressa's. "We don't get a lot of visitors that often, you can take your hat off as well, Diclonius. There is no reason for you to worry."

Surprised for a moment, Teressa grinned and pulled off her hat, rubbing her fingers through her hair and touching the tips of her horns.

"It would be rude not to introduce myself. My name is Teressa Silva..." She purposely used her mother's surname for very obvious reasons.

"My name is Brigadier General Vastopia Jerrioshi, but you can call me Vast if you want. So what brings you here Ms. Silva?"

"Well you see Vast, I'm from Brazil and I've been keeping watch on what's been going on in Europe and Japan for a little while. I have this kind of group with me, not right now they're actually far away but I was wondering...can I meet up with Master General Elena? I'm hoping that I can be of some service to you all."

She winked at him and continued to smile.

"I'm a Diclonius as well and this place specializes in building up relationships between us and humans. I thought it would be nice if I could be of some assistance here."

Vast returned the smile and nodded and turned around.

"Come with me then, just behave yourself and don't touch anything. We're doing a lot of work in here after all."
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Following Vast, Teressa entered into the large doors and held a gasp. The exterior of the Great Order had already been magnificent, but the exterior was even larger. It was also by the time she got in that she felt several Diclonius around the entire place. So much that she thought might get overwhelmed by them in a moment.

She was brought to another room where when she entered was a wheel-chaired bound woman with pink hair and wearing an eyepatch. She was currently sitting by a desk that overlooked a large window and was busy writing some sort of forms on it.

As the door open, she peaked her head inside.

"What is it Vast? Who is that?" She asked in her usual curt voice. Teressa felt a chill ran down her spine. Although this woman's physique didn't look threatening, she gave off an incredibly powerful and dangerous aura.

"Hello." Teressa answered while bowing respectfully. "My name is Teressa Silva. Do I take you are the legendary leader of the Great Order?"

"Who wants to know? Get to the damn point."

Wow she was strict. Teressa knew that it was best just to get, as the woman said, to the point.

"I want to be of help. I've seen that you all as well as members of the EU have done a lot to help my kind and I thought I could be of services to you all. I've got some other helping me along the way who are somewhere quite far away but we'd be willing to give our services to you."

Elena clicked her tongue.

"Really? You just want to do that, to help out?" Elena replied in an unconvincing voice.

"I know its hard to believe but its true. I just want to help out."

"Tsk, if that's the case then whatever. However I am too busy with other things right now than to deal with rookies of the Great Order. As for now just stay here and make yourself home. There are places where the other Diclonoius stay where you can make sleep if you desire."

"Ah thank you. I'll have to contact the others and tell them I'll be staying here instead. I hope to be of great support for you later."

"Of course..." Elena replied without looking.

"Perhaps I'll take you on a tour." Vast answered and the two walked out of Elena's room. As they did, Elena finally looked back up and watched the girl leave.

"She seems familiar in some way."

“Good little bird”
A raven is placed on the finger of the speaker of the voice as he is lightly patted by the man.
After a while the raven flies off, Ragnar looks towards the raven as it flies away saying “Smart bird” before turning towards the cold winds that were coming, unfazed but his smile missing, till another man he is well acquainted steps out.
“Good day” with a cold and calculating voice the man said “I see the third one has yet to arrive, not surprising”
With the statement the ground turned from green to frozen ice, the air dry and still, one could hear how the ground crackles by the sudden freeze while the blue black eyes of their owner peered down onto the rest of the world, a darkness enveloping those living as well as dead. One would not be able to tell whether the man was alive by touch, his body being as cold as a corpse left in the snow.
From the opposite direction the ground shook, a hand shot out of there, soon followed by burning flames. An explosion that followed was to have deafened the world like a mighty volcano, launching the owner of the arm into the sky with black burning smoke, the only lights left being those of flames between the smokes as eventually the man landed by the other two as he emerged from the smoke like a demon, a flesh half melted, movements that never stop, an expression of energy, power and odd form of friendliness jumps from his face as with a loud booming voice he said “I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT FOR IT!!!”
The other two just stared at him a bit awkwardly until one of them asked “Uhm, what is the it that you are talking about?”
“VISITING SOLDIERS OF COURSE, I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT, BEING SURROUNDED BY WARRIORS AND TRAINING ALONG WITH THEM, DEVELOPING STRATEGIES AND TACTICS, SO MANY THINGS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER A WAR COMES OR NOT THERE IS STILL A GREAT THRILL AND MAGIC TO IT ALL”
“Please stop attempting to deafen us with your voice, your little entrance was bad enough without you yelling out every audible sound”
The loud one gave a goofy almost innocent like grin saying “Ah cheer up already, you can enjoy the new power of the state, I prefer a soldier’s company over a bureaucrat's company after all. Plus, anyway, it is not like I can actually deafen you right now, you know that very well.”
“I know that, but I prefer not to have a headache when this is over, you damn idiot”
“You really do just like to complain, don’t you?”
“Both of you, we need to talk, now!” intervened Ragnar into the conversation, the voice being quiet angry. “Both of you had just risked bringing war to bunch of people, do you two have any ideas how many could have died because of your actions!?”
“I was to not let someone else rule over my rightful realm, anyway we would have won the war regardless, just got to out last for a week or so, after that they will be too crippled to continue the war and we can hold a peace treaty in our favour, plus, a little victorious early war against a great power can strengthen the spirit and resolve of the state”
“We never would have lost, regardless of whether their army would be crippled after a week or so or not, I guarantee you that they would have come for a peace treaty after I ground there invasion forces into dust through my plans, in fact I already was thinking of them while we were talking with them. They would have lost no matter what, the question is just how big our victory would have been, hell, I had already thought up plans that would have allowed us to take some parts of north Germany, granted, they would be begging for a peace treaty long before then”
“And what would you do if the soldiers wanted you to accept that peace treaty?”
“...Soldiers do not get the power to choose when wars start, rulers and diplomats hold that power, nor can anyone control when a war ends, for that is in the control of the enemy, however, when the opportunity arises for peace, I shall listen to my soldiers, and I shall give them a privilege unlike any other soldier my hold, to end the war if they wish for it to be over, it is the least I could give them for fighting for all of our ideals and each other.”
“That is not what I am talking about, you guys risked the lives of thousands, possibly millions, regardless of whether we win or lose you risked the lives of many to death, and for what? A state that does not consider its people before itself is a state not worth anything, and how valuable are ideals to the dead? Or how valuable are those ideals to the close ones of the dead, has that not occurred to you guys? What would our father think of your two insanities?”
The other two were silent for a bit before one of them said “He probably would disown all of us, well, all except you, after all, you are the only one of us that actually tries to stick to his morality, but we all have gone off differently into the deep end after discovering our ticking time”
The other two looked at him with single eyebrows raised in confusion “What do you mean? This better not be something stupid game of messing with us that you are playing.”
A smile came to the man’s face, and then he said “Of course you would try to deny it the most, after all, you need the high ground in your possession all the time to be satisfied. We all know we have fifteen years to live, or around so, and that has shaped us all. You, Ragnar, you took our father’s teachings and values and kept them close to you. When you realized how short your life was you started to value everyone’s lives so much more, more than ideals and more than power. You, Hertogi, on the other hand just wants to set up something bigger than himself, something that last longer than he does, something great and huge for all to see, but this makes the fuck not value life since it is fleeting and valueless in his eyes if not used for some goals, this is why he thought up the depopulation plan.”
“And what about you? You seem oddly confident to criticize us and yet you have been the one to kill most people directly out of us all three, not to mention you are the most violent and war appreciative of us all, so, how does us having shorter lives affect you?”
Silence lasted for a few seconds as the smile disappeared and look of defeat and shame came to Rex “Simple, I neither value life a lot or little, but I value living a good life, regardless of whether that is simply doing something you like, regardless of how shallow or deep it is, or to live a meaningful life, a life for others or life for ideals that others will enjoy. Life is too short to feel unhappy and do other things to be wasting time instead of enjoying it. When you die all of your experiences end there, you cannot get anymore, and your effects stop there, set in stone for rest of time, there effect cannot be changed nor gotten rid of or added, they are stuck like that. Wasting time one something not meaningful nor enjoyable is pointless when life is so short.”
Then the smile on Rex came back as he said “But enough about depressing matters, I noticed that Ragnar is unusually happy when he was going to sleep” He looks to Ragnar and then says “Let me guess, it is because of her”
Ragnar looked at him surprised that this suddenly became a point of discussion but simply nodded back and said quietly “Y-yes, I think so at least”
Rex smiled back and then said with a loud voice “Congratulations, I hope everything turns out fine then, despite me and Hertogi making these things difficult, but do not worry, I am working on a plan to fix that”
Hertogi raised an eyebrow and asked “Exactly what and how are you planning something like that?”
Rex smiled back mischievously and said “That is gonna be my secret that I shall reveal later”
And with that the world disappeared.

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*Four days until the first civilian deaths and five days until the first military deaths to the depopulation plan*

Ragnar woke up from the unusual dream. He was not sure which one he was in that dream. Was he all of them? Was he none of them? He could not answer, it seemed to continually change throughout the dream.
But, was it a dream? He was not sure, it had been so unusual that he could not be certain, it was too, how to put it, real. Actual things had been discussed in his dream and he remembers it all clearly, too clearly for being a dream from him. Despite parts of it seeming impossible, it still felt like a real conversation.
He shook his head and stood up. He rubbed his eyes and template. He had stuff to do for the day.
After getting himself in some clothes he exited the room. He then noticed that the effects of the rune from yesterday had not gone off, as his plan to quickly check on Amera were stopped when he saw she was still asleep from the eye of some raven by the window in the room she was sleeping in. He took note of this, since this meant the runes were much more practical than at first thought, but also he took note that this means he has to find a way to turn them off easily without removing the runes themselves.
Seeing that she was still asleep he directly went over to his small committee and sat down. From there he instructed the procedures of the great coalition’s plan, since the coalition already existed and he held borderline absolute power, so it was very simple to carry the actions out, he also instructed them on both the colonization plans and the restoration plans. He made no mention of the depopulation plan, knowing that fewer knew it the better. No records to be found of it either, he couldn't risk it. With that his plans were launched into work.
He had also been informed of the geneticists discoveries and the disappearance of the mutant, which he quickly calmed them down about, explaining what had happened and that she is fine.
Meanwhile he looked over his plans for the day. These were much smaller and more direct plans where he would go and check on events and people in person. He was to go and check on new diclonius that had arrived in the country and help them get used to humans by bringing them to a town celebration while keeping them in control and instructing them on how things are, not to mention giving emotional support to them. Showing them in person as an example was to help them trust humans like he did.

He prepared himself to go when suddenly he got a message and smiled. Kuzu and Peko had arrived and were on their way. He sent them the message that he had to go and check on the diclonius but that they could stay at the HQ, and they would talk when he came back. He knew he needed more time to be able to talk to him properly.

With that all done he entered his car and headed off. It was still early in the day when he finally arrived, some newly arrived diclonius coming as well, he could sense them all, and they could sense him. Him and his powerful but unusual aura, an aura that held power to command but also power to calm down and learn from. It was the aura of Ragnar Tyrson, Rex of the nordics, Drekinn frá Norður.
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Planes, Lily never really enjoyed them. She had to wrap the seats in plastic to avoid breaking out in hives. Her flight fortunately was short and she had very little luggage. Fenix had a contact with a privately owned airstrip that she could land in without any danger. Ragnar Tyrson, a diclonius king, as she dubbed all males since they were so rare and so powerful, and he was ruler of Iceland. An impressive feat. At least that's how she felt. How did he acquire such power? It would be difficult even for a human unless it was inherited.

She landed and got directions to a place she could stay without prying eyes. A small privately owned inn used for tourists primarily. This would help her cover a bit. After all, tourism was a major part of Iceland's revenue. She paid for the next few days with cash and smile. She unpacked some of her luggage in her room before putting a laptop with a spare battery and a charger. She also put a gun in a secret pouch in her backpack with three clips of ammo.

Tonight she was going to scout out the headquarters of the Icelandic government and see if she could acquire some blueprints.

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Lester waited at his estate near the capitol a whole day. That night he received a phone call from the General of the Army.

Lester felt quite smug as he answered. "Hello, General. Have you decided?"

The General's voice came across as very serious. "Can you really defeat those monsters?"

Lester chuckled to himself before responding. "Of course, and with my help every one of your soldiers can too."

Lester could hear the General breathing through the receiver. "Good. While the President hasn't given his answer clearly yet, I want to get started as soon as possible. Can we meet? I want to see this in action, and not the display you presented the other day."

Lester stood up from his seat and grabbed his cane. "Yes, how soon can we meet?"

There was a pause. "One hour from now. I need to prepare. I'll send you the address shortly."

Lester nodded towards his aide. "Excellent news. Take your time and I look forward to our meeting, General."

With that the call ended and he handed the phone to his aide. "Get the car ready we'll be getting to work soon."

*Four days until the first civilian deaths and five days until the first military deaths to the depopulation plan*
Ragnar was exhausted when the celebration for the new dicloni that arrived was over. Things had gone over smoothly between the humans and the dicloni, in fact even more smoothly than he had been expecting, but that didn’t change the fact that trying to keep eye on hundreds of different of his own kind at various ages, backgrounds, former nationalities, races, cultures, all of the other gender, and various different personalities and backgrounds was hugely exhausting and took a lot out of him. He was happy though that things had turned out not just fine, but even much better than he had anticipated.
When it was all over and they had been gathered back together they were given genetic shots to get rid of their sterilization, though that would still take a bit of time till they would be no longer sterile, about a few weeks as the body changes. Everyone left to go to one of their homes afterwards, most of them getting homes in formerly vacant homes, available spots in retirement care centers, houses in the country or in special government provided homes, though that last one was only for those that had taken a job somewhere in the government, most of the time in security or in the newly reformed military.
Once Ragnar returned back to the headquarters he immediately met with Kuzu, though he quickly noticed the slightly younger boy’s uncle, and the two orphans they had picked up. After sorting out the uncle and the two orphans a place to stay for a while he returned to Kuzu and began their conversation. He had made sure beforehand that no one could listen in on their conversation one way or another.
Both were sitting down on the opposite ends of the table. Next to Kuzu was Peko, sticking close to him, even more so since another diclonius was in the room, even if that diclonius was not aggressive. “Now, lets get to the point, I am gonna grant you the title of my family’s personal guard and head of a separate unofficial secret police. I shall provide your organization protection as long as you hold and your organization hold to the regulations that you are already following and provide help when it is demanded from you. If my family is overthrown, exiled, or any other numerous reasons for them to lose power, you shall keep me and my family members close and protected, as well as take care of them and assist in placing them back in power, one way or another. In return I shall also provide security to you and eventually provide you the public title of duke with fixed income, an estate and other benefits. Does that sound reasonable, as a young king to heir of the greatest criminal international organization that isn’t a terrorist organization, your father has approved it already, but he said you must make the decision yourself.”
Kuzu thought for a bit and eventually simply nodded and said “Fine” and with that a smile came to Ragnar’s face and a more cheerful and boisterous voice came “Perfect! Now, lets do the blood oath” and with that both Ragnar and Kuzu extended their arms, giving a cut on their palms, letting blood flow out a bit before shaking hands.
After that Kuzu went off to the room that had been prepared for him and Peko, meanwhile Ragnar went over to check on the progress of his projects in peace, till eventually going off to check on Amera. He and her talked for a while together. He learned of her love for nature and animals, her kind nature, and a lot about her personality.
He was not sure why he felt so comfortable talking and hanging out with her, but for some reason he found a lot of comfort and good feelings from being with her.
When it was late she went to sleep in his room again while he went to the room he had slept in the night before, again going to sleep feeling happy.

There were no records of the depopulation plan and only few plans that he would make public soon to all, he had few things to worry about.

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Meanwhile, Darwin and other geneticists were hard at work trying to find new gene sequences. One of the goals they had been given included finding a way to make humans and dicloni be able to produce oxygen, energy and vitamins from light, primarily sunlight. Accomplishing that was very important, as if it were to be successful not just would that be a huge leap in science and a big boon for humans, dicloni and nature, but it could actually change Ragnar’s plans, or more accurately, one of Ragnar’s plans, the depopulation plan.
If successful it might massively reduce the point at which Ragnar intervenes to stop the virus, meaning fewer of them would die. Granted, only one of them knew of that important part, Darwin, as the others were intentionally left in the dark about the virus, both for the security of the plan and security of the individuals themselves.
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Millions of spies were around the world. They were working for Ragnar either directly or indirectly, continually providing him information of what is happening around the world. In every nation’s military in particular was a high spy ratio compared to those among common civilians. The reasons were simple, these men could convince other soldiers against a war or a group if they go to war with Ragnar or one of the nations under Ragnar’s influence, but more importantly it meant Ragnar was always knowledgeable about advancements in other countries armies, and if he found them possibly useful, he could try to adopt it himself, either by integrating tactics, strategies and etc. into his army, stealing technology that could be useful in one way or another or possibly steal a secret of some kind if another country has found such. This also meant he could sabotage armies fairly easily and safely. While he could not know of everything most of the time, he still would know a lot of things, especially things that are widespread in the army.
This was to be one of his many secrets to insure his own dominance on the world stage, a way to try be two steps ahead of everyone else. Better yet, it is almost impossible to track them back to Ragnar and his government.
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"Of course." Zen answered back with a short nod of his head. "You may leave now if you wish, thank you for your time."

He let them leave and once the door was closed, the robotic man leaned back in his armchair and put away the papers and devices that were scattered amongst his desk. As he clicked the computer on, he received some information from the E.U.

"Hm?" He mumbled to himself, reading it carefully. Apparently at the E.U. meeting, some person had arrived and demanded issues that, from what the document told him, pissed off Queen Suzuki. After he finished reading the document, another sigh escaped his lips.

There was too much going on here. He was also beginning to think of some other things. The overall fighting prowess of the Great Order was not good at all.

All but one of the Brigadier Generals were dead. Over half of the G.O's forces was also depleted. Without the help of others like the E.U., there was no way that the G.O could dare to take another attack head on.

They were technically exposed. If someone unleashed a powerful assault on the Great Order headquarters, there would be little for them to stop them. It worried him and he was sure this was something that Master General Squratoli had not overlooked either.

He began to type another message.

"To: Queen Suzuki, Head Commander of the E.U,

I received note from another officer about what happened at the E.U. meeting, although details on there were scarce. If there is anything you would like to tell me, do say so.

This may be common knowledge to you now, but the battle with Omnimbus has crippled the Great Order by a hefty amount. We have lost many of high commanders such as Cross and Maxwell and our current rate of power is less than 50%. It is needless to say that we ourselves are not in a good position after this fight.

If we were to be attacked, there is little doubt that in our current state, the Great Order would wiped out. Unfortunately I also know that the E.U suffered casualties at the battle as well. Usually I would ask if you could provide assistance for us to compensate for lack of numbers. But if we do that, then it will only mean that your lack of numbers will decrease even more so.

I am unsure of what to do now. I almost believe that we may have to move to a new location and abandoned the current G.O headquarters. Perhaps you have some suggestions?"

From: Xurtius Zen, Lt. General of the Great Order

SEND"

Sending the message, the door opened again.

"Brigadier General Jerrioshi? Who is the girl?"

"Yo! Zen." Vast happily replied as Teressa stepped in, bowing respectfully. Zen narrowed his eyes when he saw her. There was a familiarity about her that he could not put his mind to.

"This is Teressa Silva, she apparently wants to help out with the Great Order."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Teressa said, doing a sort of cute curtsey.

"I see.We could use all the help we can get at this point. I am Lt. General Xurtius Zen, second in command of the Great Order. Hmm?"

The young brown skin girl tilted her head to the side while smiling.

"Eh?"

"You seem familiar." Zen answered back, looking at her carefully.

Teressa tried to ignore the sweat running down the side of her face and continued to smile nervously. There was no way they could have figured it out that soon. Besides she definitely took more after her mother.

"I'm sure its nothing. I-I mean we all have similar faces to people we know. I'm sure its nothing. Besides I'm from Brazil, its not like you'd know anyone from there."

"From South America as well, just like me." Zen stated. "It may only be me, but you still look somewhat familiar. Behave yourself why you are here, Teressa."

"Aye!" Teressa answered back with a salute. "Please keeping showing me around Vast!"

"Right-e-o!" Vast said with another cheerful grin and the two left off.

The door close behind and Zen clasped his hands together. He did nothing for a good five minutes, he leaned against his chair and let his thoughts head off. A moments rest and a moments time to think. He wasn't when Suzuki would reply back but he did need to make another move.

He needed to contact Elena and tell him what he thought.

"Yes, Zen?" Elena answered over the end of her phone.

"We may need to abandon the Great Order." Zen resolutely said.

OOC: Not that you guys have to, but this would be a perfect chance for one of your villains to take on the Great Order headquarters and take control of it.

But your choice, just offering suggestions.

When his sleep turned to dreams Ragnar was greeted by a similar dream as he had the night before, but this time there was no entrance of the others, and something else was different.
They were different.
Hertogi was now  blue as a frozen corpse, but now also donning a smile, but the smile wasn’t real, it seemed to be frozen onto his face, his voice not coming from his mouth but from somewhere, everywhere, all the while being stuck with a fake frozen smile.
Rex was also different, though it was hard to tell his eyes had become that of a lizard’s, which would have been clearer had it not been that the black was surrounded by very dark red. Rex also donned a smile, though not a fake one, nor frozen and completely willing one, but something was different with it as well, specifically it was to do with his teeth, his teeth being like that of a predator, thick and long with clear sharp edges like that of knives. He moved more like an animal than a human, though still with the equal amount of expression and energy.
Ragnar on the other hand, while also donning a genuine smile showed no change from the dream of night before.
“I am going to be honest, while I would have preferred seeing my soldiers and generals, this was a fun day, had been too long since I enjoyed a small town celebration”
Ragnar nodded happily to that before saying “True, this was a good day” he had few other things to add to that short statement of his.
“The subjects were happy” said the Hertogi, his voice cold and echoing as it came from everywhere and nowhere “The subjects are content with the celebration and had fun. Integration between humans and dicloni are going smoothly, this was simply a confirmation of it. They are adopting the values of the state, as well as the value of the state, they are expected to possibly become the most loyal subjects in our lands. Easier to predict and understand than humans, more desperate of finding leadership and acceptance, greater fear of foreign powers and their possible threats to the country and the state. All of them seem to have learned of the benefits of living with humans and have either no contempt for humans in our country that have accepted them and at most only some distrust of them. Humans have completely accepted the new dicloni and are enjoying the new economic support from the state. All subjects have accepted the new rule. Majority of foreign powers recognize our legitimate rights to rule over the territories and countries that we have acquired. Current subjects have shown great support behind the state, as seen by the three million recruits for the army. All projects are going smoothly and disasters have been averted. Global spy network has high success at little extra cost. No nation has yet to directly opposed us, majority of the nations of the world have joined our great coalition, though granted none of them are highly developed besides ours and very few exceptions, but it does mean we have huge amount of population and resources within this great coalition as well as great power on foreign soil and on their foreign policies. Few of the still powerful monarchies are even considering making us the emperor, or king of kings specifically, to increase the legitimacy of their own rule and reap some more benefits as well without completely losing their position as a king of their state. They will be the first members of our imperial vassals soon enough.”
“Can you please spare me from death by your insistence of talking about the growth of our kingdom instead of anything with no flair or color in your dialogue, at least I try to make it sound like there will be legends of us, regardless of whether we will be seen good or bad, which will be up to the judgement of future generations. You just sound like the only people that would be interested in us will be some plain text book historians instead of historians who have their own views on the world, romanticists that want to see the world from a far more filled with ideals and personalities.”
Rex then stood up straight, holding himself more like a normal human then like an animal that he had been doing right before “At a dawn of an era and the end of the old world, an empire rose in the north, headed by an enlightened despot that was described as a fierce and intelligent dragon in the body of man, his skin blackened and burned to resemble the hide of the black dragon within him, blessed by god and his people, spared from the plague he lifted the pains of the past and restored empires that had long fallen before to new and greater heights. Fear not existing in him he lead his men from the front, the king’s men did not falter regardless of their foe. From the front the king lead his men with god and victorious arms, striking fear into his enemies and rallying the spirit and bravery of his people and allies. An immortal among men he fought and won, a man who brought wealth and prosperity to those who lacked it, restoration of balance in the world he came with order, liberty, progress, freedom, stability, unity, backed up by might, enlightenment, tradition, productivity of his people and the state he created. All was plentiful in his land, no product his realm lacked, no poor and no homeless, no unworked hands and no empty dishes. The world would hold its breath for his decisions, nations of millenias of pride bowing to his authority, unconquerable lands fear conquest from him, the sea and the air at his command, the land shakes in fear when his army moves, the shadows try to hide in his eyes just as knowledge hides from his enemies. A man who had resolved himself to never start an unjust war but to never end a legitimate war without the defeat of the enemies of his people. With one simple command he unites all people, the word of the Rex to be the word of realms beyond the earth, and no one shall question his rule. No man dead or alive commands him, his will be done. Thought to be too young to rule the realm, just as they failed to understand how to rule, his time had come!”
With that he finished. It was few moments until Ragnar responded “You sure do have the flair for the dramatic, and you certainly are confident in all of this being true from how you talk of it.”
Rex smiled and said back “Of course we are confident in it, we know it is true, for we are confident, determined and capable of it, so when we die we will not leave in defeat, we shall leave victorious and with a legacy carved into the stars for eternity. Plus anyway, being dramatic is fun, and we have every right to have fun with life. Besides, what is drama but life with all the boring parts cut out and maybe a few spices added to it?”
A sigh could be heard from Hertogi before he said “That is wrong, that is only in the case of good drama, plenty of bad drama forgot to get rid of the boring parts and forgot to keep the parts that did not bore people.” once again with a cold and disinterested voice.
Then Ragnar asked Rex as Rex started moving around again like an animal rather than a human “What exactly is your plan that you talked about last night? You never did explain what you were planning, and it is sort of uncomfortable being left in the dark about it.”
Rex smiled with his predator like teeth “I will tell you one thing about it, it involves our sword.”
Suddenly both Ragnar and Hertogi looked at him with questioning and worried eyes “In, exactly what way?”
“That is my secret, but do not worry, I have just been talking and listening to him”
“Wait, what!?”
“Do you not remember the first time we touched the sword, it gave us a choice, it asked to accept a deal, and we did, you two may not have been having conversation with him, but I have, I have speaking to him for a while, for a long while in fact, for now though we are simply discussing possible plans, you would be amazed how much a millennia old conscious sword knows, especially about killing, who is killed, and who is the killer, would be great for a game of who dunnit”
Both just stared at Rex till eventually “So, you are telling us you have gone stark raving mad, have you not?”
Rex chuckled a bit before saying “Oh, of course, in this world of ours the strangest thing is a millenia old magical sword that is conscious, not that there are people with deadly and powerful ghost hands, foes of ours using magic, magic that we ourselves have used, a highly infectious and deadly virus spreading to many without anyone’s knowledge, a world where seven billion people live in an interconnected world, a time where europe is the most peaceful united place on earth, where a single man has the power to bend down china and russia with ease, and set man is less than twenty of age as well as living on a ticking clock shorter than most and born to a mother who died giving birth to him and a father with no home, only luck and love having given him a second chance in this world under another father, a father who showed kindness, love and care for a child that was not born his son but chosen as his son, a son born a viper and raised as a human, a son that almost lost himself upon his second father’s death, a son that became scared and insane, and yet, he pulled through to this day, the world at his mercy, and his mercy has been shown so far, his messed up mind however debates with itself, against all the different parts of himself, with only one of those minds truly being clean while the others have killed directly or given commands to kill many. In this world, at what point did the sword sound so impossible?”
The two of them were frozen by this. Rex was fully self aware what kind of world he was in, despite half the time he did not act like he was in it. Those words could have been heard from so many, but someone like Rex did not seem right.  A knowing mischievous smile spread onto Rex’s face, the air waved from the heat from his breath as he said his next words
“I am determined, I am lucky, I am intelligent, I am confident in myself and  my abilities, I know myself, I know my enemy, I do not have to fear my enemy nor myself. I know the world I live in and I know how to have fun in it, by living in a drama whenever I can afford it, if I never did so than my spirit and determination may wain, my self confidence might erode, a man lacking self confidence cannot use his luck, cannot use his wisdom and intelligence, cannot press his advantage, cannot be victorious. A dramatic speech is useless if it gets in your way, but to never indulge in it can break you long before anything else makes your life shorter. Revenge is always a tragedy, it may vary how bad of a tragedy the act of vengeance is, but it always will be a tragedy that only hurts the world more than needed. Hatred sows nothing back other than pain, death, suffering, tragedies and more hatred. Revenge is an act of hatred. When I kill someone, I do not do it out of hatred. If I killed out of hatred, if I took any action out of hatred, than it would be corrupted. Forgiveness and acceptance is what gave us life, and it is what we shall return life with in repayment...we all have minds, each one broken in some way...I am a killer, Hertogi lacks empathy, and Ragnar is good hearted...good hearted is the worst curse of all, since you are forced to witness our action and the actions of this world, and be forced to be unable to stop it…..you are the only good one of us, and I promise you, somehow I will try to relieve you from this curse.”
And with that sober statement, it ended.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*Three days until the first civilian deaths and four days until the first military deaths to the depopulation plan*
Ragnar opened his eyes. He sat up and looked into his mirror. Four days until he is crowned. He sighed. That was not simply a dream. There was no doubt this time a part of him knew something the others did not. He stared at the sword. Sword of Surtur it was called. He wonders how much of the name was now a title and how much of it was true. He guessed that one part of him knew the answer.
He thought for a moment when suddenly, something hit him, a huge burst of energy, with red black eyes he suddenly left the room. A great big smile was on his face as he quickly marched over to check on the research team he were surprised by his early appearance “How is everyone doing!?”
His loud and booming voice was clear and everyone greeted him back with smiles and waves if they could before returning to their work. He than noticed one of the newer ones coming over to him. “Sir, something strange has been happening recently. Huge bursts of energy have been happening around here from an unknown source. Other facilities in the country have reported it as well. One happened at noon two days ago, a bit of time before you returned and gave your speeches. Another one happened just moments ago. It does not disrupt anything, but we are worried that this may be an indication of some significant volcanic activity. We cannot place where exactly due to the oddity that all of them reported it exactly at the same time, regardless of distances from each other. This is also worrying due to the fact that this was not a normal surge since we could detect an electrical pulse as well.”
Ragnar thought for a while. Surely if it happened everywhere over the country, and when the young man means over the country he most likely only means over Iceland, someone else would have noticed.
After a bit he said “Put teams on high alert and take some precautionary actions, I wish not this ends in any disaster. Report any changes and observe the phenomenon. Contact foreign research groups about this strange occurrence. The more people are observing this the more likely are we to get to the bottom of this and respond properly to it.”
The scientist nodded and went right off to do as he was told. Ragnar meanwhile checked over on the progress of the scientists. They were excellent scientists, the best in the world he was sure of. The rate a small group of them discovered technologies and had other discoveries would astound most nations. The entire group together made discoveries at such speeds that he was always ahead of everyone else, that is one of the primary reasons why he did so well with full and utterly complete automation. Many times faster working, next to no needed input, adaptable to multiple of different jobs, and never stop working gave him a significant production advantage. In fact so great he had been solving almost every economic problem in his countries and been preparing his military at an unimaginable rate for the three million new soldiers.
His country was however still building up, he was certain he could hold out long enough if there was something to happen for his country to properly build up but he had disadvantage of both a smaller population than most of the other major powers as well as the need to build up to get to the same heights as the others. Until he was ready he had to rely on his skills, intelligence and the great coalition.
With this he left them to their work, marching into a room of vital importance, a room filled with men who would determine the survival of his countries against the adversaries of this world.
Entering the room he saw the men. Generals, many were his own, but they weren’t the only ones that were important. In the room he saw generals from his allies. Russian head of the military, Chinese General, mercenary Generals from africa, they all varied but there were five major Generals in the room. One was a chinese General renowned for his ability to command a force to accomplish any objective in the shortest amount of possible time, though usually with heavy losses. Another General from the kongos, an expert at guerilla warfare, he had harassed state forces for years with only forty men under his command after the main force had been crushed in a battle along with his higher up in command, after ten years later his forty men were still fighting, having become legends in the kongos for being so effective as to be the equivalent of an entire regiment harassing the enemies kongos armies. Another was a Georgian, he had gotten the reputation of being absolutely ruthless, showing no mercy to his enemies and caring for nothing but shortening the wars he fought with his own victory. A fourth one came from sweden, who had shown his skills of keeping casualties next to zero in multiple of wars as a NATO general. Fifth one was from Brazil and had been given the affectionate name of the turtle by his troops due to his strategies. He always took his time to think out and plan out his plans, usually being a really good defensive General.
These Generals had all been banned either from their armies or country for one reason or another. Most of them had become more or less refugee outlaws from the world, due to many international organization targeting them for one or another reason.

Ragnar took his place. Almost immediately one topic was brought up. “The Great Order is currently weak, if we press our advantage now we could get to their headquarters even before the new forces are completed and we could occupy the European Union consequently, force them into a peace settlement to our favour and ending the Great Order, eliminating the one other big international competitor of power that we have” This had been said by the georgian General. He had long history that gave him reasons to dislike both the European Union and the Great Order along with Russia. One of the big reasons he was sticking to Ragnar was a simple promise of Georgian independence from Russia.
Ragnar gave out his response quickly, having already thought about the matter “No, as of currently it is the anti-diclonius groups that are our greatest threat, the Great order is at most a competitor, the European Union as well being not enough of a threat to start a war over, for the time being both the Great Order and the European Union is our unofficial allies against a common enemy, regardless of whether you like it or not.”
He then said with a loud voice silencing all others in the room “HOWEVER, WE SHALL PREPARE FOR EVERY POSSIBLE WAR, I HOLD FULL AND ABSOLUTE COMMAND OVER MY FORCES, YOU ALL HOLD COMMAND OF YOUR OWN, YOU SHALL DO WHAT I SAY WHEN I SAY IT, BUT I SHALL LET YOU MANAGE YOUR FORCES FOR THE MOST PART AND GIVE YOU OBJECTIVES, YOU SHALL RESPOND WITHOUT SECOND HESITATION! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!”
With that all the Generals rose up to their feet and saluted saying “YES SIR!”
Ragnar smiled and then said “Perfect, now, lets go over strategies”
For many hours strategies were forged and taught, they went over new possible strategies with the new weapons and as well as going over older ones.
When it was finally over they were dismissed.
Ragnar exited the room. He then went over to check over the status of all of the states and projects. Once again, only good news seem to greet him.
With that over he walked over to check on Amera. Once again he felt comfortable in her presence and they talked together for a long time. Then something started biting in him, until he could not ignore it any longer and he suddenly asked one specific question “Amera, why are you not repulsed by me? Why are you not scared of me?”
They had not discussed this before so it caught her off guard and she asked back “Why are you asking that now?”
Ragnar took a few seconds before saying “well, I am a monster...I look disgusting, I am massive in size, I come from a species that able to kill dozens in seconds without any problem, hell, even by my own kinds standards I have been able to intimidate many of them by my simple presence, they love me as much as they fear me, even if they try to hide it I notice their fear, I feel their fear along with their love for their king, their protector, their liberator, their servant as well as master, yet, you, delicate and beautiful, shy, nice and kind have chosen to not run, even when you have had many opportunities to do so, you could fly away before anyone else knew, and yet you have not, not even the first time you saw me you did not fear me for who I am, you feared for the situation you were in, you trusted me even when by my appearance you probably should have tried to run away and show no trust to me, than why did you?”
Amera stared into his eyes and moved her hand to his shoulder. He was trying to remember when was the last time someone willingly touched him, it had been some days, maybe over a week, it was hard for him to tell anymore with how time was working. It felt good to feel the touch of someone else once more, a touch from someone who cared, he could feel she cared for him by her touch, it was subtle but noticeable.
She then said “You do look scary, I have to admit that, however, I can feel you are a good person, from the moment I saw you, the moment I heard you, I could tell that you were a good person, struggling with something, I have always been able to tell that from people as well as animals, I have always seen the good in others, I knew I could trust you, and I knew you would never harm me” her wings seemed to relax down as she spoke to him.
Ragnar smiled, what she said had been comforting for him. “Thank you”
He surprised her by a hug. It took her a few moments to realize he was hugging her and she slowly hugged back. Her cheeks had flushed by the surprise hug. When the hug was over they smiled to each other.
It was a bit awkward, after a bit Ragnar said “Well, I will let you get to your animals again, I have to go outside to train a bit”
Amera nodded back, not saying a word over the awkwardness.

It felt like eternity for Ragnar till he came to his training grounds. They were outside and not really far away from the headquarters, but the awkward feeling had followed him the whole time, thoughts over whether he did things right kept on racing through his mind.
He breathed in slowly and then out and looked at what he was gonna use to train. Then, without his vectors help he picked up the boulder, five hundred kilograms heavy, he lifted it with surprising ease and with great amount of force threw it a distance.
He kept on repeating this again and again. It was normal for him. He however did not realize how much he was doing it with ease as he kept on thinking, only half aware of his training. He had become significantly stronger since the last time and was now just thinking.
His mind was going over a certain idea. Using his rune magic on all of his troops. Doing something like that might however be risky for his reputation if someone would find it out before it became clear that it actually works. He was also thinking about Amera and whether it was safe for her to be anywhere close to him.
Too many different other thoughts also raced through his head to even mention, but two others also took his attention more than the others. His sword and the current global situation.
Both of them made him uncomfortable but in two very different ways. He knew perfectly well how the global situation was, and that is one of the primary unmentioned reasons why he did not decide to try to attack the Great Order and the European Union. Doing so would not just possibly hurt his reputation and put his people in war they did not want to be involved or starting it, but also he knew one simple fact, there were four sides in this conflict that yet has turned into a bloodshed.
The group that is both the least threatening and the most dangerous were the diclonius supremacists as he calls them, specifically Ariel and her group. They were an uncontrollable zealous group that can only be used by having an enemy they also have, and even then they may attack you along with their primary enemy. However, they are too few to be able to defeat any of the other three sides in this conflict on their own or to last for long after the initial conflict, they were great soldiers and warriors, horrible conquerors, not to mention that they will never form a permanent alliance with anyone, at most getting a temporary one from another diclonius. All of this would eventually doom them unless they are ignored by all the other sides until only one of them is left and the one left is too weak to fight them off, they reform themselves into much less radical and zealous group and then either ally themselves to someone or get a peace treaty to live on some island or something like that and try to grow from there, or the final possibility that always exists, pure luck.
The currently second smallest group would be the anti-diclonius radicals. They were also zealous radical groups that answer to themselves, but the major difference is numbers and supporters. Unlike the diclonius radicals they will get more support and far fewer people be against them. That is the advantage of being the zealous enforcers of the power and tyranny of the majority upon the minority. As of currently they lost one of the major groups, but it is not over. There are more of them and while currently they do not hold as much power as the other two big sides they are unified by a current goal for now and may gain allies, in fact the USA could become their allies, as they did show their anti-diclonius sentiments a while back, so the USA joining this side is not out of the question, and if that were to happen than they would become a seriously powerful and dangerous side. However, all the other three sides are united against them as long as peace, or semi-peace exists between the other three sides.
The next two are his own side, and the Great Order and European Union’s side. Both are going for a goal to unite humans and diclonius, though in slightly different ways and with different people at command. However both sides have their own additional agenda and are therefore not unified unlike the other two more zealous sides. In fact these two sides are competing with each other. One of them building itself up and the other one has been weakened.
If he were to attack the Great Order the anti-diclonius groups would come in and try to attack after he had wasted resources in eliminating his competitor. If the diclonius supremacists attack they would ultimately be crushed and accomplish very little. If the anti-diclonius group would attack the Great Order he would come and fight against the anti-diclonius group and defend the Great Order. It was simple, the first side to make a move would either be doomed or simply put in a bad position. He was not gonna be that side. The same would apply if any of them decided to attack the other one full scale, the moment they do so the others will take advantage of it and unite against set side due to it being favourable to themselves at the moment.
However, while this was not the best possible situation as he would have preferred to eliminate his personal threats early on he knew how to deal with it and he could handle it.
It was the issue of his sword that worried him far more. One part of him knew what was going on with his sword, but he seems to refuse to share most of the information to the rest of himself. He did not fully know what was going on nor what it could mean, especially since the sword was conversing with the most violent part of himself, which was far from promising. But on the same time, that part of him seemed to not be planning something purely for his own benefit, but also for the benefit of one of the other parts of himself. If that were the case then it could turn out fine, but even then it was not a good idea to not know what was going on. He hated not knowing something, he loved knowing things, because not knowing meant not being able to think about it. He considers the quote ‘Ignorance is bliss’ with the response ‘bliss is boring’.

After a while he realized that he had gone quite a distance away from the headquarters. He was unsure how long he had been in his thoughts and training as the sun had moved quite a bit from the spot it was when he last checked. He walked back, his thoughts mixing and stewing together.
When he came back he walked to the omnibus member. He was about to be shipped to the United Nations to hear his testimony against omnibus and their crimes. He sat down in a seat in front of the member and asked “Are you ready?” the man stayed silent for a bit till nodding and saying “Yes, I think so at least...” a few more moments of silence continued until the member asked “Why did you show mercy to me?”
“Hmm?” was the response Ragnar gave. The man continued “I worked for an organization that massacred your kind, regardless of the age or innocence of them...why are you showing mercy to me?”
Ragnar stayed silent for a bit, then he said “Because everyone deserves a second chance....I am going to tell you something that few people know about. My father, my father that raised me was my foster father, my mother had died shortly after giving birth to me and my real father was homeless, unemployed and poor, he could not take care of me...he marched through a winter’s cold snowy night to get me to the man that I was to call my father, just so I could have a chance to survive...my father gave me a second chance to survive....when my foster father saw me at his doorsteps, he could have left me there to die, he could have sent me to an orphanage and I would be doomed to die to people like your organization most likely, he could have sent me to the state were who knows what would happen to me....he did none of those things, he took me in and gave me my chance of life and happiness…..when I was eight he died, and I was left alone once more...five years later I discovered I was not to survive for long….that is still the case…..but if I were to give up on life then or now, then everything they did for me would be wasted, my chances pointless...we all deserve second chances, regardless of who gives us it, and we have to learn from it and live with it...I was born as a horrible creature….you chose to become a horrible being…..I changed and you can as well, we all have chance to change if we are given the opportunity to do so...I hope you do just like I did and everyone else I try to give mercy...”
With that he left, shortly after the omnibus member was sent out to the united nations and testified with his identity kept a secret against omnibus and its actions, listing the groups crimes. One of the first steps towards acceptance of anyone is the condemning the ones who make them suffer the most. This step was vital.

He checked on Kuzu and Peko. Despite how Kuzu tried he could tell Kuzu was not cut out to be a ruthless person, and that was most clearly seen when Kuzu thought he was alone with Peko.
Kuzu kept on taking care of many small things that Peko insisted was not a problem that Kuzu had to concern himself with. Kuzu seemed to genuinely care for Peko, even though it was apparent that something was preventing Peko from accepting this care. Ragnar thought about checking on Kuzu’s father to find the answer, but thought it to be best to leave Kuzu’s father alone so he could handle the new jobs the man had after the deal had been made.
Ragnar’s and Kuzu’s families had been working for a while, even before either one of them were born. They had assisted each other as the two fathers had become friends with each other early on and found a great amount of usefulness from each other, Ragnar’s foster father being a business genius and Kuzu’s father being the head of one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world, and with small co-operation they boosted each other’s position massively. This tradition of cooperation had continued onto their sons, though neither of the sons had met each other, only having met the fathers of the other family, at least until yesterday when Kuzu came to Iceland to meet Ragnar, and was now staying here.

He decided not to disturb Kuzu and Peko and instead went over to check on Amera. When he got to her they had gotten over the awkwardness from earlier that day and talked for a long time. However both felt some kind of tension, both not sure what it was.

When night finally came he bid goodnight to her and went back to the room he had been sleeping in the recent nights. He did not go to sleep right away though, as he had stared at his sword for a while and tried numerous different things to try get a response from it. It never answered back. Eventually he sighed and gave up on trying that for now and laid down onto his bed and closed his eyes to go to sleep, being ready for what his sleep would bring him.
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Suzuki and Zero returned home, to which their children happily ran up and hugged them. Seeing their children brought a smile to their face, after a long day, it was the best thing they could have. Zero noticed that their computer was flashing.

"Master, it seems you have an email" Anna said as she bowed. Zero walked up to the computer and opened the message.

"Suzuki, it is for you" Zero said as he walked off to the kitchen to get a glass of water. Suzuki looked at the message.

"To: Queen Suzuki, Head Commander of the E.U,

I received note from another officer about what happened at the E.U. meeting, although details on there were scarce. If there is anything you would like to tell me, do say so.

This may be common knowledge to you now, but the battle with Omnimbus has crippled the Great Order by a hefty amount. We have lost many of high commanders such as Cross and Maxwell and our current rate of power is less than 50%. It is needless to say that we ourselves are not in a good position after this fight.

If we were to be attacked, there is little doubt that in our current state, the Great Order would wiped out. Unfortunately I also know that the E.U suffered casualties at the battle as well. Usually I would ask if you could provide assistance for us to compensate for lack of numbers. But if we do that, then it will only mean that your lack of numbers will decrease even more so.

I am unsure of what to do now. I almost believe that we may have to move to a new location and abandoned the current G.O headquarters. Perhaps you have some suggestions?"

From: Xurtius Zen, Lt. General of the Great Order"

Suzuki thought for a bit before replying to the message.

To: Xurtius Zen, Lt. General of the Great Order,

Yes, the recent E.U. meeting did not go as I wanted it to go, I did lose my temper during the meeting, something that I am not proud of, but I felt I had a right to be angry.

I am sending you a full report of what had happened with this message, as I know that you were only given a short description by one of my men, so please read the report to have a better understanding.

To respond to the lack of men in the G.O ranks, I would like to discuss to Elena over the matter, as I already have a solution to help solve the problem for the time being while you rebuild. And please do not worry if taking some of my men would weaken me, as I have more soldiers than you seem to think I have. The soldiers that helped in the war were the ones that were ready from their respective countries, on the day before we had left, I was notified of more soldiers being fully ready, I had chosen to leave them with the rest of the soldiers that were going to be left in the E.U. so that Hector could not attack the heart of the E.U. and making matters worse. Another reason was because I had enough soldiers with me for the battle, if I did not have enough I would ask for more to be sent, but luckily it did not have to come to that.

My increase of soldiers is the main reason why I want to talk to Elena, as I am happy to have a rotation of soldiers to make trips to the G.O. to help keep the numbers high there, so that if anyone did try to attack, the soldiers will defend the base as if it is their own.

I hope I can have this meeting tomorrow, as I feel this is urgent, especially with the lack of men for the G.O.

I hope to hear from you soon.

From: Lady Rose, Leader and Queen of the E.U.

*Send*

Suzuki sent the message and then sighed. “I’m so tired…” Suzuki then noticed that Zero had placed a cup of tea next to her. “Thanks” Suzuki said with a smile as she took a sip. She let out a happy sigh as she enjoyed the drink.

“So what now?” Zero asked, taking a sip from his cup of coffee.

“Well...for now, I will wait for a reply, so I just want to relax and watch some T.V” Suzuki calmly said as she stretched.

“Ok...KIDS! MOVIE TIME!” Zero shouted, the response was a happy cheer as they rushed to the sofa. Alice and Anna soon followed as they all sat down on the sofa and put the movie on. It was a while since they had been able to just sit down as a family after all that has happened, and they want this moment to last as long as it can...well, unless Zero starts constantly singing ‘Let it go’ and ‘Do you wanna build a snowman?’ because of his daughter making him watch Frozen, then yeah…


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"Is she ready?" Excalibur asked.

"Yes sir, Subject Alana is now at 100% and ready at your command" The scientist replied. Excalibur could only grin, all three of his first project is now at 100%, the other two will be used later, but now was time to test them and the best one to do so is with Alana, as her objective requires her to be far away from him.

Excalibur walked over to the microphone and switched it on. "Alana...stand up" Excalibur ordered. Alana stood up as soon as he spoke. "Good...now speak"

"...Hello Master...what are your orders?" Alana said to Excalibur. He couldn't stop the huge grin on his face, it worked! Alana was at his command, which was a huge benefit for him, as this was his current weapon against the diclonius, which he will later create more to help his plan to take this world as his.

"Excellent! It is good that you obey me like the animal that you are...now...I order you...to kill your sister Ariel..." Excalibur said with a massive evil grin. The first thing he wanted to do was take out the annoying girls twin sister, who has become a thorn in his plans and would make an excellent addition to his project, just like her sister.

"I want you to kill her and bring her back here, as I want to turn her into my obedient pet just like you...and considering what she looks now I will be happy to use her for more than just a killing machine haha!" Excalibur said with a disgusting laugh.

"And if you see Zero...I want you to bring him to me...alive...I don't care if you have to sleep with him to do it, just get him here..." Excalibur continued.

"Understood..." An emotionless Alana responded. Doors opened and a few men stood next to her.

"These men will drop you off at Ariel's last known location, once you land, I will allow you to act as yourself, so that you can convince your sister that you are real, you will act, talk, walk and think like Alana as if you never were killed by me haha!" Excalibur said with an evil laugh. Alana simply nodded and followed the men.

A few hours went by as they reached the location. The plane landed and Alana got off the plane. Once it had flew off, Excalibur has pushed the button and Alana began to act as she normally did.