Prologue Part 2, A Evil for another.
"Between two evils, I would choose the one that I never choose before"-Anonymus Writer
In the little farmhouse at a silent night , he read and reread the cryptic phrase with the two red slits that is his eyes. He didn't get what the phrase meant, so he decided to read the whole book instead of just focusing on the phrase :
"Seize the means of production."
As he continued reading the interesting book, the phrase became clearer and clearer to him. His confusion and curiosity became feelings of anger and outrage. He read about a conflict between two classes of people, the proletariats who are the peasants and the workers. While the Bourgeoisie, are the foremen , the rich men , and of course the royalty.
The Bourgeoisie owned "the means of production " , they exploit the worker`s hardwork for their own benefits. While the workers starved, the Bourgeoisie were still fat. The workers cannot produce themselves , because of the existence of this parasitic group of Bourgeoisie. Now Xenin knew why the workers he seen in Orussia, Britannia and a whole lot other places in Earth yelled out those words of displeasure at their foremen.
This then hit Xenin, he realized something that burnt his core with outrage. He realized that his people, the majority , the Workers were the poletariats. The Queen and her lackeys were the Bourgeoisie, who did nothing resourceful other than forcing the workers to suffer while they squandered everybody's hardwork into wars, and to their delusional Inxoden .
All for what? For nothing but their hubris and their ego? Why was Xenin even here on the soil that does not belong to him? Why was he taken from his mother and his father? Just to suffer for the uncaring Queen?!
No more , no more Inxoden, no more Great Starvation, no more retarded monarchy and Bourgeoisie. The solution?
The solution of this problem that had plagued the Neuroi race was very simple , the solution was stated in the book : "Socialism " . The steps and methods of this great solution was screaming at him , screaming loudly from the book, "disagree! " , "redress ! ", "Rebel ! " . This all summed up to one word : " Revolution !"
He closed the book gently, absorbed the biggest treasure he discovered from Earth into his body , headed back to his hiding spot in the forest. Where he rested and planned his rebellion to free his people from the painful cycle of Inxoden, and to bring equality back to the Neur.
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Great Rexo , Capital of the Neur 1875
Xenin returned back to his land two years later. Well prepared in his time in Earth , studying. After reading that book with a author that he cannot find, Xenin was inspired to read more and learn more.
Back in Earth, he would snuck into human libraries at night to read more books, scrolls and even documents. As he read more, he became smarter, more interested and more angry. He read Sun Tzu`sThe Art of War , and the stories and conquests of Caesar, a war that happened after the first Inxoden Campaign , a time when the Neuroi haven't attacked the humans for a while , and of course , the humiliating records of the two Inxoden campaigns.
Xenin was intrigued and astonished by the human wisdom in warfare. The evasive tactics , the methods of luring your enemies into a trap , and this new tactic call : "retreat". He also read about books about human politics and human economy. These nodes of information had no doubt benefited Xenin.
This also made Xenin angry, by reading the books about warfare , he was angry at what a failure the Queen`s inxoden was. Sure, they had more superior firepower and technology, but they had a inferior command structure and a retarded leader who also took the role of Chief in command. A chief in command that told her warriors that she had no care for , to rush foward and forward only, getting themselves killed for no good reason. A trait of the Neuroi army that the human historians began making fun of. This gave more reasons for Xenin to stop the Queen`s Inxoden for good.
Reading the books about politics and history made Xenin more angry. Xenin read about the despicable tactics that politicians used to lie to their people and frame their opponents. He read about the horrid lies made by liberion liberalism, and how western powers set up colonies to enslave others human beings for their selfish gains. He read about the poor treatment of African and Asian workers in western soil. Even their own Caucasians workers weren't treated as well, these all sum up to two words: "Democracy and Capitalism" .
Now he was back to Rexo , the heart of the Queen`s cancerous rule.
As he returned, he reported he learnt nothing much from Earth. His angry superior then downgraded him into a worker. Just as Xenin expected and intended , he was stripped off his prestige of an Adapter. In the first days of his dishonorable discharge, everyday after work, he would walk the black, metallic pavement , passing through columns and columns of spiked shaped towers that contained more of his kind. Each Spike towers held a thousand workers each, but only held a hundred quarters each. Every quarter lived ten workers like him, resting in nothing but little catacombs that they could stuff their bodies in.
Now it was his breakday, his only breakday. In human day it would be a Tuesday. Xenin was in his spider-crab form, the typical shape of all lowly workers, with sickle shaped princers and a round shell. Xenin took that opportunity to do something many Neuroi that don't do. He was going to visit his parents. He reached sector 12 where he was taken away be the Royal Enforcers at the age of six. Hopefully come to say hello, or show some appreciation for showing love and care to Xenin when he was little.
As he reach a certain Spike tower that was identical to the others towers in sector 12. Once he reached there, he scaled up the honeycombs and chambers until he reached his parents' crowdy apartment. Only to find their catacombs to be occupied by two other strangers. Xenin asked the two Workers if they know anybody with the names Xelia , and Bexin. The two workers looked at Xenin in confusion before one of them bluntly replied that Bexin died due to malnutrition five years ago and his wife worked to death three years later. The poor couple was just another victims of a Starvation caused by the Queen that ended two years ago.
Xenin fell silent once he heard this , he was devastated and infuriated after receiving the news. He grind his princers so hard that white sparks came out of it. His scars burnt redder and hotter. The two workers saw this fell into silence as well. They never seen a Neuroi act this strangely, one of them even hesitated to sound the security alarm . Xenin saw this and knew he over stayed his welcome. He head out solemnly empty-pincered , without even a fragment of his parents that he can remember them with.
That eternal night he returned back to his catacomb in his own worker apartment. He force appendages into that little cave of his , imagining that his father choking for a second before disintergrating into dust. He rolled a bit in his little hole, he cringed as he visualized his mother, while washing a power core above a pool of water, too exhausted, she collasped in it with a splash, leaving nothing but a ripple.
In his sorrow , he opened his stomach and took out a well preserved book that he brought back from Earth and began reading it.
"Seeer!" A soft, but high pitch whined beside Xenin.
He poked his head out of his little cave and saw two worker Neurois in a unlit cave. One male, other female, cradled inside the female`s arm was a little ball that had four little legs , squirming gently in her mother`s embrace. The father watched with unblinking eyes, while his young looked back with twinkling ones.
"Sewwoi!" The hatchling squealed , reaching its tiny legs out to his father.
"It cried out you first name Seyoi! " The mother beamed, caressing the ball like cheeks of her infant.
"Shh! Keep her quiet before the Enforcers are alerted!" The father known as Seyoi hissed, his wife slowly turned her spherical head towards her husband. Sadness and helplessness lingered in her eyes.
"So what if we keep her hidden? We are workers Seyoi, we cannot keep little Leyoi well fed, maybe..." The mother known paused , before letting out a cracked voice. "Maybe she would be better off in the Enforcers` hands."
Xenin made a low sarcastic laugh as he overheard the couple`s conversation.
The couple jolted before turning towards Xenin who laughed at them. Seyoi looked at Xenin uneasily while his wife hugged her child tighter. The young hatchling who was innocent and unaware of the situation, fell asleep in her mother's embrace. Xenin looked at the three before he cleared his voicebox and asked:
"Lione, are you sure your hatchling would be better off in the army?"
Seyoi looked at his wife Lione, whom looked back at her husband before staring back at Xenin. The couple had no idea where this conversation was going, so it was Lione whom decided to speak first.
"The army was always well fed, even in the great starvations. So if we sent little Leyo..."
Xenin smashed a hole on the wall, surprised the couple for a bit. Through the hole, they can see a sea of towers , none of them was taller than the egg shaped structure in the heart of the city, the Grand Nest of the city
"Now why is it so Lione? We are Neurois , the Queen and her army are Neurois ! We all have a red core in our body, then why are we starving and why their not! and... " Xenin jabbed his pincer at the distant Grand Nest. " Why are we living in these confined towers while THE QUEEN is pampered in her grand nest over there!?"
"Is it because this is the natural way of life for us Workers? Is it because we Workers are the weaker Neuroi? No! A thousand times no my Comrades!"
"If you take away the miasma weaponry of the Queen`s soldiers , they would be nothing more than plain workers! And the Queen, was nothing more than a worker that had bloated thorax with tentacles! She cannot even fire miasma beams herself, she cannot even fight, let alone to lead a nation ! " Xenin raised again his appendage directly at the giant dome where the queen lives.
"Now tell me comrades, what do you see over there!" Xenin asked
"Uhh...the Queen`s nest that was twice the size of our towers?" One worker blurted.
"I see millions and millions of workers, and only one Queen. If we unite, we can bring the dome to the same level as our towers. She is one while we are many. This is the power of workers, we are powerful Comrades, we are able to make weaponry, without us there would be no army and Enforcers. We are able process our food , build homes and craft cores for the birth of our young , without the workers there would be no Neur. The workers are more important and powerful than the Queen and her court ever was." Xenin spoke, this time hundreds and hundreds of Neuroi crowded to Xenin`s floor, although crowded, they gave Xenin as much as space as possible. Behind Xenin was the hole he made that was slowly regenerating and shrinking, shrinking on the Queen`s grand nest.
"Then again, we must ask ourselves again the most important Question , why are we even starving?! Why are we even listening to the Queen`s idiotic ramblings?! Why are we even fighting for that a single Neuroi who have nothing but tentacles and a thorax?! Why working for a parasite when you can work for yourselves? Reap your own fruits of labour , instead of seeing our Queen squander our labour on her ridiculous Inxodens!" Xenin yelled out loud, like excited but soft chatters began to sound in Xenin`s audience.
"Yes of course, the Inxodens , both were failures, both planned none other by the Queen herself. The first Inxoden occurred because of the Great Starvation, and with her LIES , She tricked us to war and we come back poorer. In the second Inxoden, there was no Starvation, but the Queen started the Inxoden because of her hubris and her ego! Once again, we ran back home empty handed , but this time because of our labour was once again exploited by the Bourgeoisie that is the Queen`s court it resulted in another Great Starvation!" Xenin cried out loud with all his anguish, raising and twirling his appendages furiously.
"But something was amiss, the Queen and her court does not seem to starve like us , they were still sheltered and pampered in their nest . The Queen had the guts to do that after she sent our children to die for nothing but for her selfish goals! Now Lione, " Xenin pointed his body to Lione. "Your little Leyoi, he should be the support and pleasure of your old age, but the Queen will steal her away from you at one year old...you will never see her again. In return for this claustrophobic cave that you can barely stuff your body in, and all your pointless labour in the factories. "
Angry chatters can be heard in the crowd, as the Neurois began to reflect and think about Xenin`s words , they felt resent and anger. A feeling they had never felt before, it felt so strange and at the same time ... free. "And even with the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural lifespan, because of the Starvation and painful labour caused by the Queen`s irresponsibility. My father, died a choking death in the last Starvation, my mother died while washing a core without rest , fell into a vat of water and drowned in it. Their stories is insignificant, as there was already too many of these tales that plagued this land. I know there are already some starving ones amongst you, and my parents' tale would be most of your future, unless we do something about it!"
The angry chatters turned into roars of rage, many Neuroi Workers begun frailing their pincers furiously, jabbing their points in the air , pretending their Queen was there.
"Is it not clear? All the evils in our life spring from the tyranny of the Queen. Take her away, and the means of production would be of our own. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of this tyranny! This is my answer,Revolution ! A revolution that will come soon, it may come in a day, in a month or even a hundred years. But I know, sooner or later, this justice would be served."
The crowd cheered wildly , then Xenin rose a appendage up in the air, and the whole crowd obliged to his request for silence.
"And keep this in mind, comrades , your resolution must not falter. Do not believe the lies spewed by the Queen, do not believe when they tell you that if the Queen prosper and the whole Neuroi prosper. If somebody said that, remind them to to look up into the sky to look at the shadowing dome of the Queen. She already prospered, but look at us! We aren't! It is all lies, the Bourgeoisie only serve in their own interest. And amongst us Neurois let there be perfect unity , for all Neurois are equal , no Neuroi should tyrannize over another. All workers , all those who believed in equality, in this idea of equal `Socialism!` is a comrade, is a friend. What is "Socialism" ? This idea is the definition of what we need most, Peace! Equality! And Food!"
"So let there be Equality!"
"So let there be Peace!"
"And let there be Food!"
Xenin cried out his voice.
At this moment there was a tremendous uproar, all Neurois in tower roared in excitement. Xenin turned behind a bit, through a hexagon window , he saw there was more Neuroi Workers peeking out of their window, also roaring for revolution from their towers.
"Peace! Equality! Food!"
"Peace! Equality! Food!"
"Peace! Equality! Food!"
The whole tower of Neurois chanted, not only Xenin`s tower, but the many neighbouring towers around it. Neurois workers waving their princers with joy and hope, they were consumed by a euphoric feeling that they never felt before. They were so delighted with the three words that they chanted it for hours and hours, and might have continued chanting all night if they had not been interrupted.
Unfortunately, the uproar attracted a group of Enforcers' attention, they flooded into the towers, with their weapons ready. However , the moment when they stepped in the entrance, the hole canopy of catacombs fell into a eerie silence, and they found all the Workers were back in their sleeping place.
...
After that days, three months later, Xenin`s speech gave many Neurois a new perspective on life. In work and in breaks, workers would be chattering with each other about this new and strange idea of "Socialism" , and the topic spread like wildfire. Neuroi workers would tell another Neuroi of this weird idea in another version. Some say it was about an idea of peace, some say it was about an idea of not starving, while some even say it was an idea of overthrowing the Queen.
This idea eventually spread to the Enforcers and the Royal Court. Which most of them laughed it off and dismissed it as a stupid folk tale. However, this idea slipped into the head of many Enforcers and Soldier Drones when they heard it.
While the Royalty was ignorant, in every breaktime Xenin would be holding secret meetings to preach the idea of Socialism. At first, although many had accepted Xenin`s idea, but many was still very stubborn. Some workers talked about the duty of loyalty to the Queen, or rebuked with "The Queen feeds us." Still, there were lesser dissidents than believers.
Xenin`s most faithful disciples were the couple , Lione and Seyoi. They accepted Xenin`s teachings and began passed it on other workers with simple arguments. They were always present in these meetings with their little hatchling Leyoi, whom seemed to be listening attentively despite his young age.
As it turn out, the Revolution was achieved much earlier and more easily than everyone was expected. However it was not enough to carry out the rebellion, as there was too many workers who weren`t bothered at all. They simply don't believe what the socialist Neurois said and want to live their peaceful, but unfairly hard life instead. Still, because of the Socialists' words and teachings, the Inxoden were already unpopular and was resented by a overwhelming amount of workers, and even some soldiers and enforcers alike. All it takes was a spark to light the fire of revolution from the Inxoden catalyst
Then one fine day, a royal spokesperson, escorted with two enforcers, gathered the workers and their hatchings to the city square. He hovered up to his pavilion, above the sea of masses below him. Then he announced that the Queen had the quota for the production of cores, food and armaments increased by a hundred percent, because the Queen was going to start her inxoden soon.
There was dead silence, usually there would be chatters of approval and acknowledgement. Now , the millions of red glowing eyes stared at the Spokesperson blankly. The Spokesperson was confused, but he continued anyways.
He said the Queen will be drafting the young into the army , so everybody must sent their hatchlings to the collectors by tomorrow. He paused, hoping for a reaction, and he got one.
Angry mutters now began to sound in the mob below him. The voices they made were so strange and negative. The Spokesperson quickly gesture to a Enforcer to do something. The Enforcer quickly fired a loud, screeching beam up in the air and the crowd fell into silence.
The Spokesperson looked around suspiciously and nervously. He cleared his voice box before speaking :
"Now, I don't know what is this about, but those children you sent are going to bring prosperity to the Queen, in other words , bring prosperity to us Neurois..."
"LIES!"
The Spokesperson snapped his optics at a certain female Neuroi who shouted that. It was Lione who yelled at the Spokesperson, the two Enforcers were already facing her. Their hexagons already ready to fire at the Neuroi mother, but lione was not one bit intimidated.
"The Queen had already prospered! Look up right there!" Lione pointed her pincer to the phantom-like Dome that was the Queen`s. "See! The Queen and her court already lived a gluttonous life while we are suffering. Now she want to start another inxoden that was doomed to fail! No way are we sending our hatchlings to die for her!"
The angry mutters sounded in agreement, and it got louder and louder. The Spokesperson looked around furiously .
"SILENCE!" The Spokesperson screamed, it was ineffective to the masses, so he have to use his Enforcers again.
The two Enforcers descended from the pavilion and dragged Lione up the stage, she tried to struggle , but the Enforcers were too strong. Lione looked like she was about to speak something, but the Enforcer used a claw to beat her into submission.
"This...is the face of a traitor! There will not and must not be any traitors to hinder our Queen`s wishes!" The Spokesperson angrily pointed towards Lione and screeched in a high pitch voice. With that, other two Enforcers came to the scene.
"This is what happens to a traitor!" The Spokesperson pointed at Lione, and the two other Enforcers pointed their appendages at Lione, the tips glow red hot and a beam was about to fire at any moment. The masses eyed with terror as they realized what the spokeperson was about to do, to order the first very public execution in Neuroi history.
Lione lost her ability to rebuke as fear began to overwhelming her when she saw two glowing appendages pointing at her face.
"Fire in three!" The Spokesperson screamed,
"Two!"
Lione closed her optics, not daring to accept her fate.
"One!"
The two Enforcers fired, but Lione was still alive, but the two other Enforcers that was holding her captive had a hole in their torso each. In each hole was a cracked core that had a nasty hole torn through them. The Enforcers stuttered a bit before collapsing into nothing but dust. The Spokesperson stared at his two "Subordinates" with horror as he realized what was going on.
"Long live the Revolution!" One of the remaining Enforcers screeched. A symbol materialized on each Enforcers' hull, it took the shape of a red hexagon that shaped like a core, in the center was a black sickle, the sickle identical to the pincer of the workers, the symbol of the Revolution. A shady figure walked in between them, it was Xenin, he waltz onto the pavilion slowly, then halt to look at the Spokesperson with red glowing eyes. The Royal spokesperson , without his Enforcers, now seemed pathetic , cowering in fear in front of a Worker.
Mobs of Neurois suddenly flooded from the four sides of the city square. Most of them were workers , some Enforcers and soldiers. All have the red hexagon with a sickle symbol , and all armed to teeth. This was the massive militia that Xenin secretly built in the course of six months, and in six months Xenin already achieved this far.
Cheers erupted from the City Square. The former Enforcers dragged the Spokesperson to a corner for Xenin to take his spot on the Pavilion. He raised a princer high up and the crowd fell into silence.
"Comrades, the reign of the Queen ends now! No more will we listen and take part in her outrageous demands and her destructive conquests. Today is the day we achieve freedom! Today is the day of Equality! Peace! And food!" Xenin declared, the crowd once again gone wild. They chanted:
"Peace! Equality! Food!"
"Peace! Equality! Food!"
"Peace! Equality! Food!"
With that Xenin gestured to his fellow revolutionaries , and the two former Enforcers tossed the Spokesperson down the pavilion to the mob of workers with a thump, the ones who were supposed to be inferior all looked down on the Spokesperson with disgust and anger. The poor Spokesperson looked as if he was trying to plea but got trampled to death by a barrage of angry appendages of the furious Workers , whom were taking out their anger on the dead Spokesperson who represented the oppressive regime of the Queen.
All that was left of the Spokesperson was a battered bed of white crystal fragments, littered all around the hard pavement as if a bag of flour had spilled.
Xenin walked down the pavilion with triumph and stomped on the remains of the Spokesperson. He look up the skies with all his pride then raised his pincer high up in the air before pointing towards the grand nest.
"To the grand Nest! To victory!" Xenin cried, pointing his pincer at the dome like a sword, driving it into its heart.
"TO VICTORY!" The worker`s army repeated. Millions and millions of armed workers, soldiers and Enforcers flew towards the grand nest. All chanting Peace , Equality and food as they formed a unstoppable tide that will wash over the heart of the regime .
...
On Ninth of September 1875 , the Socialists stormed the Grand Nest. Despite only being workers with improvised weaponry , and a small pocket of Soldiers and Enforcers . They were met with very little resistance in their take over of Rexo, the capital. Only a hundred Soldiers was stationed there, all was reduced to dust by the tide of the million angry workers
They tore down the main gate of the Grand Nest, made multiple holes on the exterior, and finally, the workers finally entered the Grand Nest. The Workers did not hesitate to set foot on the area they were once forbidden to set foot on. They were surprised and awed at the luxurious interior of the Grand Nest. The roof was made from colonies of gems and crystals, the floor was tarnished with silver and gold, with a bit of metallic Neuroi black. In the center of the royal house erected a shining Silver statue of the Queen herself, as if she was some benevolent figure. Then again , the only ones who was allowed to enter this house was none other than herself and a few guards. So only she can look and admire her "beautiful" self.
Xenin was infuriated by these unnecessary luxury, but what made him more angry was the fact that the cowardic Queen had fled during the commotion. Now her new capital is in Afmcis, in the west of the Neur. The Silver statue was torn down and the beautiful crystals was crushed into dust by sickles, the whole place were lit on fire.
From outside, Xenin looked up the hundred-meter high burning bonfire that was once the Grand Nest. All around the building, a sea of Neuroi cheered and celebrated as the heart of the Neur was burning. The Grand nest had gone up in flames, leaving a charred cone that had become a memorial of the glorious day of the Revolution , and the birth of a new nation.
Hence, the in the fire of revolution, the Neuroi`s Equal Hive was borned.
The Revolution did not only start and end in Rexo. Cities and provinces began to join the Revolution one by one. The province of Elinn ran to the red banner of Socialism on August , the people of the industrial city of Arxm revolted against their master and became part of the Equalist hive. Finally, the great city of Talins swore its allegiance to Xenin.
The Queen decided that she had enough, on 1876, January, she sent her army to vanquish the pesky Socialists once and for all. The Black versus the Reds, it was a bloodbath. The Blacks had the western half of the Neur, while the Reds had the Eastern half. The battles were sluggish at the beginning, but due to the Queen`s inferior command structure and Xenin`s military self education in Earth, plus supported by Socialist popularity. Xenin managed to pushed all the way near to the Afmcis.
Xenin`s campaigns were a success after another, even killing the Queen in one Skrimish, who knows using a suicide dummy would end the Queen`s life with a boom. The Socialists cheered as they waved their war banner that hold their symbol high up in the sky, waving it over the Queen`s fragments.
The Queen may die, but her regime remains. Princess Rin the First took her place of the Queen of the Black Neurois. Little did everybody knew, Princess Rin like Xenin, was an Adapter once, in Earth she also developed a liking towards literature and warfare, she herself once criticized her mother's decisions in their civil war against Xenin, alas she was too proud to listen. Once Rin took her place as Queen, she managed a slight push to make the Socialists back off, while suppressing the Socialists that tried to tear her nation from within.
Eventually when she took back two of the five province lost to the Socialist onslaught. Leaving Six states under her rule, while Xenin controlled Seven. Right after the victory, the ten year old Queen Rin, unlike her mother, did not continued her aggression on Xenin and his Socialists. She decided to make peace with the East, to attempt to sign a armistice to prevent anymore unnecessary Neuroi deaths.
Xenin, compelled by the word "Peace" , in his "Peace, Equality and Food" code and influenced by the stalemate he have with Rin`s Black army. Xenin agreed to Rin`s deal, Rin recognized Xenin`s Equal Hive`s sovereignty. And so, the Symmetrical line was drawn , splitting the Neur into two. In the West, was the Original Neuroi Hive, and in the East, stands the Equal Neuroi Hive. Xenin later renamed Socialists Neurois to Equalists.
Despite the "peace" , both West and East hated each other.
In the Neuroi`s Hive, Rin managed to foster a strong sense of Nationalism and every week she would made exaggerated rhetorics and criticism against Socialism and Xenin`s Equalism. In the Equalist hive, Xenin was pretty much doing the same, almost two days a week he would rant about how evil Rin`s regime was and urge an overthrow for Rin. The anti west sentiments was strong in the East .
Other than fighting their little war of words. Xenin desperately tried to catch up with Riliane`s production, ironically , Riliane were also desperately trying to catch up with Xenin`s armament. Wars in that period was not fought hot by weaponry and miasma , but war was fought cold with factories and words.
So Xenin decided to take a gamble to beat his nemesis`s production. He realized he needed more resources to do so, and in order to do that he must trade, but in this world there was only one neighbouring nation. A nation that Xenin definitely don't want to and cannot trade with. So he decided to reach out to a race that was once the enemy of his race.
The humans .
On 1887, the Equalists appeared on Karlsland. Soldiers were dispatched to scene as a gigantic vortex made a hole on the Karlslandian sky. A pack of black creatures that shaped like airships descended from the storming sky above. They look ominous and threatening, while the humans underneath it looked like ants. On the front of each of the flying monstrosity, was a symbol that have a red hexagon with a smooth crack that looks like a sickle.
The Marshall of the Karlslandian troops, immediately recognized the mysterious creatures were none other than the infamous Neuroi. The Neuroi that invaded the human race twice, and now they are back. The Marshall immediately ordered his troops to ready guns , ready their artillery, preparing to fire at the approaching monstrosities, ready to go to war once again.
"Greetings there!" One of the ships boomed in Karlslandian.
The confusion and awe was written all over the Marshall and his men`s faces. They were utterly surprised by the friendly greeting that the "Hostile" Neuroi just wait for the giant ship to approach. As the humongous ship halted in front of the human battalion. A Ship descended until it reached the ground level, a creature that shaped like a crab jumped off the battleship and landed on the ground with its long hind legs. The creature was as tall as the Marshall, and have claws that were curved and sickle shaped.
As the creature walked forwards to the Marshall. He raised a pistol at the small Neuroi that was no bigger than a boulder. It halted and raised its "hands" up in the air as a intelligent response.
"Commander, you do not need that right now. All we want is a era of peace and cooperation. I came here unarmed as a gesture of goodwill, but of course , you can shoot me right now and wish for a war that i believe we both don't want." The Crab Neuroi calmy said in fluent Karlslandian.
"Era of peace?" The Marshall laughed, "After the two great wars you animals had with us?"
Despite being called "animals" , the Neuroi doesn't feel a tiny bit of rage, because this was the first word the he want to hear from humanity upon his arrival. The Equalist Neuroi took the chance to slander the Blacks and their Queen. The Neuroi explained with fiery eyes the history of his people to the Karlslandian Marshall. What the Inxodens were, and the reason for implementing them. He howled in pride as he described the Great Revolution without missing a beat, how the united Equalists chased the aggressive Blacks to the west before they can launch another costly invasion on humanity.
Of course, most details were exaggerated and it mostly depicted the Queen as a evil tyrant and a idiot. While the Equalists as heroes of the downtrodden and as witty revolutionaries.
Even the Marshall had difficulty believing the tales of the Neuroi, whose race that harassed humanity for hundreds of years. He thought that this might be the only chance to reach a compromise with the Alien species and mitigate years of horrifying wars.
Hence the Marshall offered his gloved hand to the Neuroi...
"Field Marshall Hindenburg of Karlsland, accepts your gesture of goodwill." The Marshall introduced himself.
"Premier Xenin of the Neuroi`s Equal Hive." The Neuroi introduced himself, extending his pincer to Hindenburg.
With that , the human hand joined with the Neuroi claw. Marking a era of diplomacy with the Neuroi and signalling to the end of the Neuroi wars, the end of the fruitless wars that cost both Humanity and Neuroi so much. Little do they know, they escaped one evil for another.
...
Despite Xenin`s best efforts to warm ties with the many nations in Earth, he was still faced with mistrust by many. Many kings, prime ministers and presidents do not buy the story of the Great Revolution. And even some believe that it was real, a new fearful realization might possess their heads, that these "Equalists" might possibly be communists and Marxists.
Still, Britannia and Gallia was the first nations to trade resources like water and minerals for Equalist synthesized oil. After much hesitation, the United States of Liberia decided to trade as well. There was still much disagreements with the Equalists and their human trade partners, for instance, Karlsland want to engage in technology sharing with the Equalists, which they refused , heightening tensions between the two nations.
Then one day a Neuroi fleet descended from the skies in the coast of California. These Neurois do not possess the Equalist red Hexagon with the Sickle symbol, but a black hexagon with a red outline . It was clear to them, this was the Neuroi faction that tried to dominate humanity twice, Queen Rin`s Neuroi Hive. Surprisingly, it also turned out they wanted peace and trade with Humanity.
When asked about the "inxodens" and the Great Revolution, Rin merely dismissed them as Equalist lies and distortion. Inxodens were merely a nationalistic movement of making the Neur great again. No invasion or aggression was ever part of that glorious plan of greatness. However the Equalists, according to the Queen, were filthy communists. Who wanted to get rid of monarchy , a governing system used by many European Nations such as Britannia and Orussia. Rin also said that the Equalist encourages revolutions in factories, causing them to revolt against their governments, destabilizing nations.
All of these words shook fear into the human aristocracy. All of them feared that the Equalist would be asserting it's revolution to their land and to their people. At this point, the humans have no idea which Neuroi faction to trust. One might possibly be vicious invaders that attacked Humanity for hundreds of years, the other might be Communists that will pose a threat to their governance and stability.
Some nations decided to lean on the Blacks, some nations allied with the Reds, while some Nations such as Liberia and Romagna were pragmatists that leans on two sides. Studying them with close eyes , even hoping to exploit their rivalry.
This all changed in Xenin`s trip in London.
Xenin was strolling along the misty, nightly streets of Britannia before coming across a book on a bookshelf : "Das Capital" in a old bookstore. He brought book for some shillings before engrossing in its contents. It surprised him, in a place like Britannia , there was actually a book so strong on Socialism, so strong in Equality. Eventually, he traced the book`s author , Karl Marx, and would like to have a talk with him. To show respect , Xenin morphed into his humanoid form, and knocked on the philosopher's door.
It opened to reveal a bearded old man who was elated to see his visitor. The two sat on a couch and discussed tastefully about Socialism for hours and hours beside a fireplace. To Karl`s surprise and delight, he learnt that a nation had adopted his ideals and was functioning splendidly smooth. To Xenin`s surprise, he found that Karl was the author of the book that changed his life, that changed his nation.
Bonded by common passion for their ideology . The two eventually became good friends , they drank tea, laughed together. Eventually they decided to publish many books together that mostly turned out to be bestsellers. It was of course, about communism. Soon, almost everybody, every worker in Europe heard of this idea , and many brought it. The ideology even managed to spread to Asia, a relatively poor continent with more people accepting the ideology.
Although Socialism popularity boosts greatly in Earth, It came at a cost.
Many nations and monarchies, especially the United States of Liberia was absolutely disgusted and shocked by Xenin`s affiliation with communism. The Liberion president even threathened to impose a trade ban and a embargo on the Reds if they don't change their ideology or if they keep propagating it. Britannia took a hard stance with Equalist and the Britannian Queen constantly denounced their ideology . Despite all that, the Brits continued to trade oil and resources with the Equalists, but not as much as before. Gallia and Karlsland turned to the Queen Rin instead, hoping to use her as a shield against Xenin`s Socialism.
In the New Grand Dome of West Neur, in her Witch form, the eleven year old Queen Rin was celebrating all night with a expensive bottle of Gallian wine, laughing and crackling to herself over her victory of the Diplomatic race with her Nemesis. Xenin on the other hand, still stubborn and faithful to his ideology, other than verbally attacking Rin, he now began to call Liberions liars, capitalists, rats and enemies of the state.
Xenin readied his army, Liberia readied its witches. Although both sides did not fire a bullet or a miasma beam. Staring at each other aggressively for years.
Some years later, Karl Marx died of old age. In his funeral, a Karlslandian friend , his family, and of course, Xenin in his humanoid form, dressed in a black tuxedo, was present. Karl Marx`s humongous stone bust stands proudly on his tombstone, a phrase : "ALL WORKERS UNITE!" was engraved on that tomb. The three Soldiers that Xenin brought with him marched to the tombstone, fired a beam to the sky and saluted to the father of Socialism.
In a distance, three witches from the Britannian Royal Airforce eyed the scene distastefully with a spy scope.
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In year 1887 everybody's heart was overjoyed with the dreamy vision of peace, the Neuroi wars has ended. Now those hopes were replaced with paranoia and fear, and hate. Liberia hated the Equalists alien pleasant commie scumbags, Britannia hated them too. Britannians also hated the Karlsland Navy that was seemingly meeting up to theirs. Gallia hated Karlsland for occupying some territories that the Gallians claimed that were theirs, and of course, many Eastern European Nations hated Ostmark. For Karlsland, it hated everybody else.
The feeling of forgotten hate came back to them to a disease. Gallia`s claims on Karlsland actually dates back from hundreds of years ago. Few decades ago, the Gallians forgot everything about it as they hate the Neuroi invaders more. Now without the Neurois to hate on, again the Gallians hate the Karlslandians. For Ostmark, Serbia now seemed to be its new enemy.
It was 1910
Then one fine, sunny , beautiful day, Ostmark Archduke Ferdinand brought his pretty wife to a drive in his glamorous ride. He was shot on the way, by a angry Serbian Nationalist. Ostmark now really, really hated the Serbian government, and began accusing them for Ferdinand`s assassination, and the Serbians denied it . Eventually Ostmark made up a terrible justification to go to war with Serbia.
Orussia and Gallia, Serbia`s allies, declared war on Ostmark. Then Ostmark`s Ally , Karlsland declared war on Orussia , Gallia and Serbia. Then the three nations declared war on Karlsland, and then Ottoman empire and Romagna joined sides with Karlsland. Then Karlsland decided to invade Beligca for no good reasons, causing the formerly neutral nation and its ally Britannia to declare war on Karlsland.
Karlsland, Romagna , Ostmark, and Ottoman in the Central Powers.
Versus Britannia, Gallia , Orussia, Serbia of the Allied Powers.
And the Liberions...joked that it was a bar fight.
No longer war was only about Humanity fighting the Neuroi , it was about either your in my faction, or you die. War had changed, first time in forever , a man shot another man , and the Witches, the heroic maidens that were supposed to shoot Neuroi and only Neuroi, now began shooting each other. Trenches were dug, no man zones were made, starvations were dire , diseases and sickness were frequent.
It was horrendous, even more disgusting than the Neuroi war.
The Liberions were still Neutral, and the Equalists...still doing their Socialist things. For some reasons, Liberion opinion worsen about Karlslandians as time passes. From using chemical warfare to bombing civilian ships, every one of these actions were drawing Liberions closer and closer to war. Equalist Neurois on the other hand...seemed be less threatening to Karlsland, just annoying, but ignorable.
In was in this moment, there were two nations who desired world attention see this war as the perfect opportunity to gain that. The two nations were the Fuso Empire, and the Imperial Neuroi Hive, clenching their claws to earn the title "world power". The Black Neuroi, who once fought with Humanity, once again invaded humanity, with humanity, not in the name of Inxoden, but under the Allied banner with Fuso.
...
Years passed, the nations were interlocked in a stalemate. Morale was low and casualties was high. The war was no longer about who was capturing more land, but the whole point was to make their opponents to suffer most from starvation, attrition and low morale until they break down. It was a matter of time before somebody, or some nation to break down and go insane. Guess which nation breaks down first and go psycho?
Answer: Orussia.
The Tsar got overthrown, Orussians suffered most in the war, so they thrown all that blame to their government. So Tsar Nicholas stepped down, and the Orussian Federation was formed, a Democracy . A governance system where people can have their voice heard, where people can choose their leaders and most beautifully, the people can have freedom, sounds cool?
Orussia was still in war fighting Karlsland. Hence, the Elections was stalled, civil rights was frozen , so Orussian Democracy wasn't that free in Orussia. Orussians still starved, so was the Karlslandians. The Karlslandians looked at the Orussian situation with great interest. Premier Xenin also seemed to be studying the Orussian crisis as well.
While in the far west, Liberion opinion was getting worse with Karlsland. The liberion government also had been selling tons and tons of weaponry and supplies to the Allies as well. Karlsland fears of a Liberion war was impending, and they have to do something about it.
A Karlslandian ship that was secretly heading for the Liberia continent was intercepted by the Britannians. In the ship holds a piece of paper that had changed the outcome of the war. That paper was the Zimmelmann telegram, a message from the Karlsland Kaiser to urge Mexico to invade the United states and take back some border states.
This was actually an attempt to keep Liberia out of the war, it backfired horribly, the angry Liberions declared war on Karlsland. The attempt on the United States had failed miserably, but the attempt on Orussia had been indisputably successful.
In 1917, in a cold , silent night ,the Karlslandians had loaded a secret weapon to a heavily guarded train from Switzerland that was heading to St Petersburg in Orussia. Karlsland was famous for its technological advancement and its weaponry engineering. This weapon...required none of that, but it promises to eliminate the Orussian aggression , a weapon that would destroy Orussia inside out.
The train arrived a St Petersburg station, and its blacken steel doors slide opened to reveal Karlsland`s most dangerous weapon...
That weapon is Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Communist revolutionaries of Orussia.
Inspired by Karl Marx`s writings and Xenin`s successful Revolution in the Neur, Lenin decided bring the glorious revolution to Orussia. Starting from Saint Petersburg. He confidently walked out of the train station and into the snowly fog, where two figures waited to greet their comrade.
Lenin smiled as the two figures halted infront of him.
It was a good friend by the name of Leon Trotsky, and a dishonorably discharged Georgian witch who supported Marxism and Xeninism. For that she was arrested six times and was exiled in Serbia for six times, and six times she escaped back to Orussia.
She had black raven long hair, a steely glaze of fire and steel , as well as a heart of steel. Her name is Josephine Jughashvili. In prison, she renamed herself "Stalin", the woman of steel, the name that the would shook the world one day.
"Comrade?" Lenin said, breaking the winter silence, he reached his hand out to Trotsky with a smile.
There was a slight pause, but Trotsky smiled back.
"Comrade." Trotsky repiled , gripping firmly his friend`s hand.
With the money and the arms smuggled from Karlsland, and most importantly with the workers resentment with the Provisional Orussian Government. Lenin gathered a massive worker militia , armed to teeth, causing riots and anarchy throughout Orussia, taking cities after cities , brandishing their red banners over government buildings.
Most of the Orussian army was still in the frontlines, and the soldiers that were still in the nation does not even pose a threat to Lenin`s Bolsheviks, some even joined their cause. Liberions had no choice but to intervene in the Orussian civil war. Bringing in airforces, artilleries and lots of armed men. "Orussia must not fall !" said the Liberion President.
The Liberion weaponry were superior to Lenin`s pleasant armaments. It seemed that the Liberion Democracy was winning, this worried Trotsky a lot.
"Comrade Lenin! The Liberion capitalists are tearing our Comrades into shreds!" Trotsky cried as he slammed lenin`s door open in panick, just to find Lenin sitting comfortably in his armchair with a smoking pipe dangling from his left hand.
"Excuse me..." Josephine coldly called from behind as she shoved Trotsky out of the way from the crampy corridor he was standing in. Josephine was holding a plate with one gloved hand, on the plate was two wooden mugs of tea. Josephine exchanged glares with Trotsky as she bend her slender body forward to put one mug of tea on the coffee table in front of Lenin.
Trotsky straightened his uniform as looked like he was about to say something, probably about the current situation with the Lenin calmly hushed him with a sly smile :
"Comrade Trotsky my friend, never disturb a opponent when he is making a mistake."
Josephine put the other mug of tea on the same coffee table, but it was slightly away from Lenin, who tilted his head slightly foward and said :
"Am not right Comrade Premier?"
A black metallic hand with sharp red fingertips that shaped like claws grabbed the ears of the other wooden mug .
"Of course Comrade Lenin, of course..." A new voice chuckles.
Trotsky carefully walked into the living room where Josephine , Lenin and the Strange visitor was. To his surprise, the stange visitor was a humanoid Neuroi, sitting comfortably on the other armchair that was at the opposite side of Lenin, taking a sip of his tea that Josephine made for him.
"Ahh , Comrade Xenin, I would like you to meet the chief of the Red Army, my best man Leon Trotsky." Lenin gestured an arm to Trotsky. The Humanoid Neuroi stood up from his arm chair and extended an arm to Trotsky.
"Premier Xenin of the Neuroi`s Equal Hive, nice to meet you Comrade Trotsky." Xenin introduced himself.
...
On year 1916, using the Liberion backing of the White army, the anti Bolshevik forces of Orussia. Xenin accused Liberion of aggression in interfering Orussian state affairs and oppressing the Orussian people`s wish for communism. Using that as the perfect excuse to be involved in the Orussian civil war.
Xenin formed the 81st Volunteer Army, a army that consists fleet after fleet of heavy Neuroi types, all headed to Orussia. The Orussia Civil war became the first proxy war in human history, but the backing of Neuroi weaponry, immediately overpowers Liberion backing of conventional weoponry human armaments.
The Bolsheviks emerged victorious in the end of the Orussian Civil war. Marching over the bodies of the dead pro Tsar and pro Democractic forces that were littered on the Orussian snow, Lenin planted the red flag of the hammer and Sickle on the ground. The already abdicated Tsar family was brutally massacred by angry communists, even the young princess was also reportedly being bludgeoned to death.
Hence, Liberion`s greatest fear had come true : the first socialist human nation , the Soviet Union was borned.
Once Lenin got into power, he immediately exited the war with Karlsland, and the Eastern front had vanished with a flick of a pen. The Karlslandian gamble was a success.
Lenin and Xenin, both fearing Queen Rin and Liberion aggression, decided to band together to protect themselves by forming the faction, the Comintern. A faction where communist nations come to military aid in the face of capitalistic aggression. In other words, against Liberion aggression, so they began to isolate themselves from the world, started to engage in economic and military projects with each other, even engage technology trading.
Soon Soviet Orussia had successfully developed its Neuroi army, the first human-Neuroi army in the world. While Equalists traded the Witch technology, and assimilated them into its military. Hence now the Equalists Neurois have a new type of deadly unit : "Neuroi Witches", a unit that Queen Rin yet to have. The biggest achievement of the technology sharing was to discover a way to regenerate the magic of retired witches, and reenlist them back to military. Who knew all it takes to recharge the Witches` magic was a few wires , a generator and a Neuroi power core?
The Liberions were so jealous of the new technologies that the Orussians and the Equalists possessed, the technology that they were so unwillingly to share. So they began their own technological developments, and even attempted to engage in technological trade with the Neuroi Queen, who was the Equalist biggest rival, and whose relationship with the Liberions were just merely trade partners. So despite countless proposal and persuasion from the Liberion Government, the Queen still refused to engage in technological trade with the Liberions, tensions hence heightened between them while the Equalist and Soviets aleady engaged in technological trade and immigration.
...
With the Orussians out of the war, Karlsland can finally focus all their effort on one front. The Karlslandians managed to push deeper and deeper into Gallia. They rushed in with more troops then before, fired their stuttering rifles, roaring their machine guns over the overwhelmed Britannian and Gallian soldiers. Sadly , their victory was short lived.
Attrition took toil on the Karlslandians once again, again the Karlslandians can only peek and glare from the little peepholes of their trenches at their enemies, while the Gallians and Britannians were doing the same. Until one day, the stalemate was broken.
In a dark, murky trench, a Karlslandian was savouring his tasteless ration with his rusty spoon. Then he stopped digging the milky mud and perked his ears up, he heard a sound, a sound of death.
It had a loud rustling and droning sound, with a apparent chunking of gears and cogwheels. It sounded like that of a tractor.
The Karlslandian poked his head up slightly, "mein gott" was all he can say at the bizarre sight that greeted him. Several boxes of steel with tractor tracks , moving towards them. These moving iron boxes each have a mini fortress glued on their tops, a tiny cannon protrud out of each of these rotating turrets. Each of these metal beast have a Liberion army emblem painted on them.
The Karlslandians tried everything, they wasted machine guns, threw rifle pellets rounds at the new Liberion weaponry. The most the Karlslandians did was only denting them, but when these moving fortress fired back, a mushroom of fire blow the tiny Karlslandians away. The witches tried suppress these things with their oversized gattling guns, but the liberion iron boxes just sprayed back with the exact amount of machine gun fire.
Alas, the Karlslandian Witches don't have the exact armor, they fell like birds, with a bloody splatter when they land.
The testing of the new Liberion armament, the tanks , was a great success.
With the stalemate broken in the Allies favour, they pushed straight to Karlsland, without stopping. Romagna joined the Allies last minute and backstabbed Karlsland. Ostmark were decimated and capitaluted by the Black Neuroi army. Ottoman Empire was trashed into submission. Finally, the Karlsland army surrendered, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated.
The Allies triumph over their victory! The imagery of liberty, defeat of a evil nation pumped into the heads of the Allied leaders like a drug. The Liberion president, Woodrow Wilson said, this war was known to humanity, and to the participating Neurois as the Great War, a war to end all wars, he was so confident that a era of peace awaits for everybody, for Liberions, Blacks Neurois , Fusoans , Karlslandians, everybody!
Then he looked around the former no man lands, the abandoned trenches, bodies of millions that had no name , littered all over the deserted battlefields. The Allied politicians then looked at the world map, the nations Ostmark, and Ottoman empires were crossed out, their multilated bodies were laid grotesquely on peace treaties and white papers. Karlsland, although still living, barely , laid ragged and pathetic as it lost all her former glory. From the far east of Europe, and east of the Neur, a red shadow was casted all over the Western establishments .
Despite all that, Woodrow and his Allies just looked down on the cowering, beaten up Karlsland, and reached out not a helping hand, but an itching palm, forcing him to pay up.
...
In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was held to conclude the Great War, Woodrow said this is the new step of peace and to the new world order. He also helped the formation of the League of Nations , a international or extraterrestrial organization to keep the peace and to uphold the New World Order. Woodrow dreamed of a world where people can get along , throw their weapons and guns down the well, hold hands and dance around it.
The League was made up of the victors of the Great War , Britannian, Gallia, Fuso , Romagna , and the Imperial Neuroi Hive. The much-hated communistic Soviet Union and her best comrade, the Equalist Hive were not invited the League, so was the big loser Karlsland, and surprisingly, the United States of Liberia was also not in the league due to its isolationist policy. The delegates of each nations sat around the birch white round table, readied their papers like civilised gentlemen and spoke out their demands. The discussion however, was not exactly civilised.
Britannians wanted Karlsland to get rid of its navy , but still wanted Karlsland to recover economically as they fear that the war torn nation might fall into communism just like Orussia. Gallians however, wanted Karlslandians to get rid of everything, their navy , their witches, their army, their economy and most importantly, Gallians want the evil Karlslandians to get rid of their dignity and become the dogs they meant to be. Woodrow was shocked and surprised, this was pure bitter revenge.
The Imperial Neurois, Fuso and Romagna only wanted a few colonies and land. Fuso and the Imperial Neuroi Hive wanted to be recognized as world powers,but they were constantly ignored by Woodrow, Britannians and the Gallias. Every meetings it would be a dark-faced Fusoan, a salty Romagnan and a bitter Neuroi who walked out of the palace of Versailles , where the peace conferences were unceremoniously held.
Few days later, the conference had been concluded, Karlsland`s fate had been decided. Karlsland`s army, the once biggest fighting force in the world had been reduced to only a hundred thousand men. Karlsland`s navy, one of the most armoured navy in the world had been melted into only five dreadnoughts and a few little boats, with no submarines allowed. Karlsland's once strong airforce had been reduced to nothing, literally nothing. All planes were scrapped, all witches were discharged. To the Karlslandian Witches , it was a dishonorable discharge.
For the Karlslandian economy, its bank notes had turned into firewood overnight. Kids even threw it up in the air like conffeti, men burn notes to light up their cigars. The worse part was that everyday, the Britannians and the Gallians would knock on Karlslandian`s door to asked them to pay up or else... The Democratic government, the Weimar republic of course weakly agreed to their demands, they were living under Liberion loans with nothing else.
Eventually, the Karlslandians were too poor to pay up, Gallia invaded the Saar region of Karlsland as payment. Karlslandians were extremely angry at the Gallian Loansharks, but they were more angry at their weak government. So many Karlslandians either went to the far right, the nationalists, or the far left, the communists.
Things gone worse when the Great Depression hits, Liberion stock market crashed, now the rich in Karlsland had become poor. Not just Karlsland, the whole world also suffered . Gallia became more depressed and more grumpy, asking for money more aggressively from Karlsland. Liberion became another loanshark for Karlsland, who was already begging on his kneels for mercy.
While the whole world was hit by the depression, the Soviets were drinking Vodka and laughing, gloating over the capitalist misfortune that was caused by their very own system. One Soviet was not laughing, that was Lenin, because he`s dead and dead men don't laugh. Died of a stroke in his office , leaving his seat empty for a worthy successor.
Lenin had it well planned, he even wrote a testimony to ensure Trotsky to succeed him, while criticizing his Secretary General, Josephine Stalin, to make sure that she never, never get her itching butt on Lenin`s seat.
Josephine was a pretty Georgian chick that had a teenage face, round bottoms and a good cleavage, many men in Orussia tried to woo her while many Orussian women envy of her body. Lenin however, did not see a sexual schoolgirl with a tight butt, but all he saw was a diabolical madwoman who had ambitions taller than the Ural mountains, and teeths sharper than that of a bear, with a heart as wild. To add on, those red , hungry eyes of hers really unnerved Lenin.
Sadly his comrades don't see it that way, all they see was a pretty Secretary girl, or even a possible backroom slut. Trotsky on the other hand, was a arrogant, outspoken , scratchy , Red army chief that must be put down. He spoke of lunatic plans such as Rapid Industrialisation and other garbage the Politburo also don't understand. Many even viewed him as a traitor when he criticized some of Lenin`s policies.
This eventually leaded the Party to kick out Trotsky, then the Moderates began tearing the prominent Radicals members, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who they called associates of Trotsky`s. Later, the remaining Radicals, who was not prominent, but many , mobbed the prominent Moderates, or the remaining prominent candidates that could succeed Lenin. Poor Bukharin, and Rykov got bumped off as well. Leaving only one person, or one backroom slut who was also the General Secretary, Stalin, the only candidate to succeed Lenin.
And she did, she had planned it all along, she used her General Secretary position to replace the Cheka members to serve her. She formed the Troika alliance with the Radical members to kick out Trotsky. Later she used her charming voice to charm the Moderates into kicking out her former colleagues. Finally, she gathered a bunch of radical herd to shove the prominent Moderates out of the way. Any little dissidents were gunned down by her Cheka secret police. Her very last competitor took a cyanide pill and died, leaving her as the only true successor.
The young witch hence rose to power. In white military overalls , decorated with badges and medals, and donned with a white army cap that displayed brightly the emblem of the Hammer and Sickle, Josephine Stalin seats on Lenin`s armchair. She stood up to walk to her balcony, through her balcony window she can see millions of supporters waving the flags of the Soviet Union, and holding her portrait up high outside her home.
"Long live Comrade Stalin!" They chanted
With a bright smile, Stalin waved back, the crowd grew wilder.
...
While things were going grimly in Karlsland, the whole world started to change horribly.
In the Neur, Queen Rin aged out, fourteen year old Princess Rillane took her mother`s place as Queen. Rillane was a fanatical nationalist, always rant about reunification with the east and even praised the Inxoden constantly. The Eastern Equalists really hated her and the Western human power raised doubts about her. Although she did claimed that she respects the armistice and the international laws of Earth.
In the East, old Xenin finally aged out, died of a natural death. His Second in command, Kherol took his place. Kherol ordered Xenin`s fragments to be encased in a canister cone, that would be the tip of a gigantic pike and that pike would impale the old Grand Nest, the pike was to remember Xenin and his Great Revolution. The Great revolution was something great , Kherol said, so he wanted to spread it.
In Fuso, as the military was not getting what they want from the League of Nations, they began their aggressive expansionist policy. For those weak pacifist traitors who stood in their way, was assassinated either by a bullet or a katana. Poor prime minister therefore got shot, so was his supporters, gathered up like cows and sliced by the military police.
In Romagna, a bald man that goes by the name Mussolini, fantasised of a Roma empire. With his speech and his fantasies, he made thousands of young militants that goes by the name Black shirts. The Black shirts stormed the Palace, the Duchess were forced flee, offering her crown for Mussolini`s bald head.
In Karlsland, a certain man who suffered and fought in the Great War was reading a newspaper about Mussolini`s victory. He lost almost everything in the end of the Great War, his left testicle, his mustache, and his sanity. He put down his newspaper and straightened his sleeves, one of them had a red arm band, on the red armband was a white disk, on the white disk was none other than the iconic hooked cross, the Swastika.
"Herr Hitler, our men are ready."
"Then no time shall be wasted!" The man stuffed a pistol into his pocket , and stride his way outside his hideout into the dark night. Where the members of the Stormtroopers from the Nationalist Socialist party, also known as the Nazis, waited for him with a rifle in hand each. Their face were illuminated grimly by the torches they grip tightly in their other palm.
Adolf Hitler, stood in front of his men, he raised his pistol up, and pointed it at the giant structure several metres away from him, the Beer Hall, the Burgerbraukellger.
"In that beer hall lies our destiny: a great Aryan`s Karland! A pure Karlsland!" Hitler cried
The young Stormtroopers raised their arm to a forty-five degree salute in unison, then stomped their feet.
"Seig Heil!"
"Seig Heil!"
"SEIG HEIL!"
The double doors of the glamorous beer hall was busted opened by two Stormtroopers. Hitler marched in. First thing Hitler saw other than the glamorous chandelier that dangles from the ceiling, was millions of people , well dressed, drinking to their heart`s content, nobody seemed to notice him...yet, but Hitler notice the his target, Gustav Von Kahr blatantly showing himself on stage. A politician that wanted to damn him, that wanted to damn the Fatherland with his weak Democracy.
Kahr was saying : "And so, we would like to emphasis that this is a very fruitful..."
BANG !
The blustering beer hall fell into silence. All eyes shifted to Hitler, who was pointing a smoking pistol up in the air, standing on top of a chair. Kahr , on his stage, eyed Hitler with terror, behind Hitler was dozens of men, all armed with rifles, pointing at Kahr. Hitler put down his pistol, jerked his body up and yelled:
"The national revolution has broken out! The hall is filled with six hundred men. Nobody is allowed to leave!"
Everybody eyed Hitler with terror, speechless. A woman`s whimper was heard in the sea of patrons below Hitler. Two armed men dragged Kahr from the stage to the backroom, and then Hitler went into the same room as well.
There was a moment of awkward silence, nobody raised a muscle, drank a sip of beer , just glancing at the hard faced Stormtroopers awkwardly.
Then Hitler walked back on the stage with his associates, Hermann Goering and Ernest Pohner. Behind the Nazis was Kahr, Seisser, and Lossow, the triumvirate of Free Bavaria. The six men on stage joined hands and raised it high up in the air in triumph. The Stormtroopers that blocked the exits stood in attention and did the forty-five degree salute.
"The triumvirates supported our noble cause ! Do not fear my Fellow Karlslandians as our guns aren't pointed at you, Neither they are pointed at our noble Reichwehr ! Nor at our honourable police." Goering spoke.
Then Hitler pointed a finger up the sky and roared:
"BUT!"
Everybody looked at Hitler, he paused for a while, and yelled out his lungs:
"They were pointed at the true enemy of our Fatherland! They were pointed at the ones who caused us so much pain and suffering! These Karlslandian guns are aiming at the traitors who agreed to the shame brought to us by the Treaties of Versailles! These guns are aiming at the Profiteers who profited from our suffering and ruined our great Karlslandian heritage!"
The fear in the crowds eyes slowly dimmed, many craned their necks forward to listen to Hitler`s speech. One took a sip of beer at Hitler's rant, attentively seeing him forming dinosaur claws with one hand, while the other was gripping tightly to Kahr`s sweaty palm.
"But Who are these enemies of our Great Karlsland?! Who are we fighting against?! " Hitler paused, and looked around his masses with dilating eager eyes. "We...are fighting against the Berlin Jew Government and the November criminals of 1918!"
He keep yelling and speaking, entrancing the crowd with promises to make Karlsland great again, promise to bring back her military glory, promise to get rid of all the Jewish people, who are the scum of the earth, who stole all the Karlslandian money while the true Karlslandians were suffering in the Great Depression. The crowd hated the jews, and loved Hitler.
The crowd fell under his spell, all of them jolted up from their seats and applauded loudly and the Stormtroopers bleated "Seig Heil!" repeatedly . Hitler marched out to the streets, his Stormtroopers paraded behind him, preparing to take Karlsland for themselves. There was a roadblock, bunch of policemen lined up in front of Hitler, raising their rifles at the leader of Nazism.
Hitler stopped on his tracks, but he looked confident, he showed his chest to the policemen and shouted:
"Join us!"
The policemen did not bulge. The police chief, raised a hand up in the air, and cut the air in front of him. "Fire!" He shouted, and his men launched a volley of shrapnel at the Nazis. The once well organized Stormtroopers scattered into the alleys, talking cover. Hitler did the same, he shrunk into a cover and pulled out his pistol.
Hitler stick his arm out to fire, it was shot instantly. He fell onto his kneels and clenched his bleeding palm. Through the misty air, he saw one by one, his SA, the Stormtroopers , crumbled down to the crackling rifles. Now only a few men, including him were left to fight, the police chief marched in front of him, slammed the muzzle of his pistol on Hitler`s forehead .
It seemed to Hitler...it was a failed putsch.
The police chief release the muzzle , and he fell onto the hard ground right beside a cowering Hitler. Blood started to drizzle from his mouth and a big ugly hole yawned from the back of his head. A hail of projectiles meteorite upon the poor Karlslandians policemen, who stood no chance against the tempests that rained on them.
Hitler looked up and saw what used to be the former maiden of the skies. The Karlslandian witches, who got unceremoniously discharged and were extremely bitter about that. Like Hitler, they thrown all the blame to the November criminals, the Weimar Government. Hence they like Hitler, they stood with Hitler, and were intoxicated by his radical thinking.
Now they were the angels of death, dressed in black robes, with a red swastika armband tied grimly on each of their left arm. The Witches rode on their broomsticks and rained a hail of shrapnel from their submachine guns upon the helpless policemen. Soon only the SA , Hitler, and the Nazi witches left.
The remaining policemen raised their arms high, but the Witches rammed the wooden butt of their submachine guns on the already surrendered policemen. One witch, the leader of these dark harpies, Adofline Galland grabbed a young policemen by his wrist, and thrown him in front of Hitler, who was now standing proudly , casting a shadow that was darker than the night above, upon the poor policeman in front of him.
"Look at his what his ring Herr Hitler, " Adolfline refered to the quivering man. Who now desperately tried to covering the brass ring on his index finger. On the brass ring was the Star of David , the symbol of Judaism.
"His a filthy Jew," Adolfine Galland she nailed a finger on the Jewish policeman in front of her, and she then swiped that black finger over the remaining unarmed policemen accusingly, who continued to raised their hands high up in the air with pleading, watery eyes. "And they are all disgusting Semites"
Hitler darkly eyed the young blonde Karlslandian, in return , the policeman eyed him back with pleading eyes, he croaked : "mercy...". The fire of the torches was reflected on Hitler`s eyes, He stretched a palm to his right, and Goering put a pistol on it. Hitler cocked the pistol and shot young man on his chest.
The man gripped his punctured chest and rolled backwards, coughing out blood and pain. He stretched out a begging hand towards Hitler`s silhouette, next thing he saw was a bright flash, then red, bloody red. His eyes rolled backwards, as blood drooled from his lips and his nose. With one last struggling breath, the man dropped his arm with a clank, the brass ring with the Star of David that was now stained with a bloody lubricant, and it slid of his lifeless hand.
It rolled right Hitler's shiny boot, who gripped it up in the air and showed it to all his devotees.
"You see! The Jewish disease had infected our once honourable policemen! These men..." Hitler threw that bloodied ring at the group of policemen like trash. "These men are Semite traitors that betrayed the Fatherland. Let this be a message to all Karlsland`s enemies, external or Internal , will be SHOT DEAD !"
The group of witches crackled their automatic weapons at the unarmed men, painting the Karlsland town red with their sicky blood.
"For those who struck the heart of our great Fatherland, Those traitors who opposed us in our great cause, those enemies that agreed to submit to our oppressors, and those who threatened our great Reich, NO CLEMENCY WILL BE GIVEN AS CERTAIN DEATH WILL BE THEIR FATE!"
The Witches and the SA now in a military roles and columns, stood in attention. They thunderously stomped their boots, and raised their arm to a accurate forty-five degree.
"Nobody will threaten Karlsland, the million year Reich will live on! In its steps of greatness..." Hitler paused and raised his finger up in the air, then point it to Reichstag."We must start by clearing the Internal threats, STARTING WITH THE NOVEMBER CRIMINALS AND THE CANCEROUS JEWS! LONG LIVE THE THOUSAND YEAR REICH!"
Hitler snapped to his forty-five degree salute to his soldiers.
"Sieg Heil!" Goering and Galland cried.
"Sieg Heil!" The Stormtroopers roared.
"SIEG HEIL!" The Witches cried.
"To the Reichstag! Reclaim it back to the true Karlslandians!" Hitler roared, the Witches and the Stormtroopers goose marched forward like a tide of black, marched forward to consume the Reichstag. The Beer Hall Putsch was a success, it was on that day Hitler became the Frürher, it was on that day Karlsland fell to his Nazism.
One single witch did not followed the rest, she walked towards the bloody ring with the Star of David that Hitler threw, and gingerly picked it up with shaking petite hands.
Hitler and his mob marched away from the street, they left alone the dead bloodied policemen and the dead comrades they forgotten-all discarded like trash or broken tools. The young witch had crimson red hair and regretful, mournful eyes.
She cracked when she saw the face of the dead blonde policeman that was shot dead personally by Hitler . The red haired witch dropped her Submachine gun and dashed to the body with regretful tears streaming down her face.
"Kurt! Not my Kurt..." The Red haired Witch sobbed, caressing the face of her dead lover.
This was not what Minna Dietlinde Wilcke wanted. When she was lured by Galland's seductive promises of returning the military honour of Karlsland and her promises of returning recognition back to the Karlslandian Witches. Minna was swept away, then she heard that, for this to happen, they must help a man by the name of Hitler to rise to power , and tonight there was a putsch.
Minna`s patriotic heart roared loudly as she grabbed her cloak, her armband and her Submachine gun to battle. She never expect this "great" man Hitler, is such a merciless maniac. She helped a devil rose to power, and hence she is not a witch, but a demon , a succubi , a succubi that was involved in the murder of her lover, Kurt.
The screaming pride in Minna`s heart turned into bawling murky regret as she sobbed silently in the middle of the dark lonely night, hugging her dead Kurt, who was just doing his job.
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End of Prologue Part 2
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Author's Note
Golly that was a long one, I would like to say this isn't much of a Prologue, it was more like a filler to add in the context to my story and to give others a better understanding of my alternate universe. But don't worry, in the next chapter I would add in more of the Strike Witches characters into the play.
I already tried my best to add in something "from the SW Universe" to the story, such as Minna and her dead boyfriend Kurt, who here instead getting killed by a Neuroi, got killed personally by Hitler himself. I also added in Adolfine Galland, the General of the Witches Corps in the Original SW universe, here , she is a Nazi fanatic who will be the field Marshal of the Luftwaffe witches corps.
But first, I would like to mention a few historical facts. Hitler`s beer Hall Putsch was supposedly to be a failed one in the real world. In the Beer Putsch , he did forced the triumvirates on stage and Goering did reassured the patrons and audience that this coup is not directed at them, nor at the police and the Reichwehr. Hitler then added on in Goering`s speech :
"We...are fighting against the Berlin Jew Government and the November criminals of 1918!"-Adolf Hitler
He was arrested by the police as a result, and in prison he wrote the infamous "Mein Kampf" . But since now there are witches in this world, deadly superhumans with magical powers that mostly served in the airforce . The League of Nations would definitely want them out of the German/Karlsland military
Therefore, the Karlslandian Witches will felt angry towards the League and towards the Weimar Government who agreed to that. Logically, Hitler`s rhetorics and his ideals would mostly appeal to these unhappy Witches. As a result, most of them would turn to Hitler and once they do, these superhumans would overpower the weak policemen easily, allowing the Putsch to be a success.
I did add in a few eastereggs through, if you managed to find them, be sure to point them out in the reviews, a big shout out for the ones who managed to do so !
Hints: check the names of the Neuroi cities.
