A/N As you can see my house of cards is building and I am about to use the one forbidden card… the Joker…
One hour later
As I slowly opened my eyes I realized I was still in the Orca.
Tigress was sitting in the pilots eat starring at the Nod symbol on the screen.
I sat upright and glanced at it and then back at her.
"So that's your army's symbol" She said not even looking at me instead just starring.
"Yeah it has been for a few thousand years now" I said rubbing my eyes.
"Why" she asked "Why that"?
"I don't know… I guess Kane saw a lot of scorpions out there in the land of Nod" I said.
"Land of Nod?" she repeated still not even looking at me.
"Yeah, after Kane (spelled Cain in the bible) was exiled from Eden for killing Able, God sent him there to live out his punishment." I said.
"Eden?" She repeated mindlessly.
"It's a long story…" I said, I didn't feel like telling the whole story.
"About what" she asked still not thinking.
"Christianity, Earth, God, Jesus, Satan, ETC. It sums it up really good in a book called the bible, I highly recommend it" I said
"What?" she said finally looking at me.
I had forgotten this was china.
"I may have to go to Europe to get you a copy, but it may not be in Chinese." I said groggily.
"No it's ok, it's not that important to me, I don't believe in Gods or any of that stuff" she said.
That one hurt me where it hurt the most… my faith.
"See that's Ironic, because people like you kill people like me where I come from"
She looked shocked.
I knew I was going to have to explain "After decades of hopelessness, most people turned their back on God, but some like still believed and these people stood right in the big middle of both Nod and GDI agendas, so they sought to destroy us, and they were doing a good job at it too…"
"I'm… sorry… I would never… kill you" She stuttered.
"I hope not, but I wish you would convert, as a Christian that is my god given duty, is to recruit followers" I said.
"Maybe I need to think on it, after all I can't see him so he must not be real" She said
"That's not exactly true, he is in everything and he is everywhere at once and he loves us, that was why we were created was because he needed something to love him too." I said.
"that's highly illogical, if you are the most powerful being in the universe then why need something to depend on you" she said.
"Because… It gets lonely up there" I said looking up and then looking back at her.
She didn't say anything, she just starred.
Then she spoke up "then tell me how come we can't see him, how come he doesn't come down here".
I giggled "He did once, but that was before men became immortal".
"See that were you are wrong, you will die someday" she said as a smirk crept across her face, she was satisfied she had made her point.
I did the same because I had that answer too "John 11 verse 26, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"
Her smirk faded she had run out of things to say "I still don't believe it" she finally said.
I giggled "one day you will see, you will know, you may be sleeping when he comes, you may be walking in the woods but you will be approached by a man that looks like me, do not run just talk with him, and you will believe in him" I said.
There was silence.
"Well we better get going" I said breaking the silence.
"Yeah" she agreed.
I grabbed my helmet and opened the hatch.
I got out and offered her help but once more she turned me down, and another back flip off of it.
…
We went to the top of the stairs and into the sacred hall of warriors were Shifu was meditating.
He knew it was us without turning around "Hello, Apostle Nikolas and Master Tigress"
"Hi" I said wandering how he knew I was an Apostle but then it really wasn't that important to me.
"Your soldiers have some important information for you Apostle" Shifu said.
"Business as usual I suppose, I will go have a look" I said turning and walking away.
Tigress attempted to follow but was stopped "and I need to talk with you Master Tigress" he said and she stepped forward and put her fist in palm and bowed.
After I was gone Shifu began to speak.
"Tigress…" He said standing up and taking a step towards her.
"I know what's happening between you and him…" He said.
She looked a little embarrassed "I'm sorry master… it's just that… we're in love".
"I know and I couldn't want this more than I do right now but you must understand this is forbidden by fate" he said.
"Fate? Fate brought us two together-" she was cut off by Shifu.
"Fate can and will tear you two apart, it did bring you two together but this was just never meant to be" Shifu said.
"So what, how do you know this?" she said in disbelief.
"Prophecy, not legend, prophecy, Legend is just stories but prophecy is harsh reality" he said.
Then a familiar voice came in "but it's just words on paper" Oogway said.
"But it's going to come true" Shifu said turning to him.
"It's just words on paper" Oogway said with a smile "They will come true, but the ending was never told."
"What is the ending" Tigress asked.
"That's why I never finished it, because your path is yours to walk, and not my right to tell you were to go" Oogway said still holding his smile.
"Then Why did you write it" She asked.
"So that you could finish it" he said fading away.
Tigress and Shifu starred at each other.
…
I walked into the kitchen and I saw four crisp black figures, still burnt from training, it was nice though it was a soft black color, better than the metallic black, all we had to do now was repaint them with the right markings.
"We have a growing problem" Frank said "the GDI are fixing to move an entire army through the portal."
"Well my experience is that the landing points are random and that we would have to be everywhere at once in order to stop this from happening" I said.
"That's right ve couldn't stop it but ve could be ready for it…" Anton said.
"We have got do what Americans call 'rounding up the boys'" Jeremiah said gaining smiles from everyone.
…
We see snow and we hear the whistle of the -15 degree winds, we see a hooded figure marching through the snow, towards a giant glowing red dome that was covering an area the size of a half of a mile.
The dome is transparent and we can see buildings inside of it.
He marched towards it and when he got it a hole opened up and he went inside.
The hole closed behind of him.
There was no snow on the ground, there were metallic buildings bearing Nod flags, it was about 80 degrees in here, there were places for SAM sites, there were obelisks of light, and there were solar panels everywhere on every building.
There was one five story building in the center of the base it had the shield generator on top of it; it also had a large hall way with Nod banners hanging along the hallway. There was something wrong though, there were about a hundred cyborgs standing in two formations facing each other they formed a walk way which the man in the hood used at the end of the walk way there was an elevator which he used it and he took it past three levels and landed on the fourth, it was a dark room with automated computers lining the wall and a single light illuminating the room in the center.
The man walked up to it and took of his hood, he was bald and he had a beard not a long one but a beeard, he picked up the ball of light with one hand and held it in front of him…
"The Tacitus" he said to himself with a smirk.
He then put it back and got back in the elevator and went to the fifth floor.
This room was also dark with the exception of a large flat screen covering the entire wall it had the symbol of Nod on it, there was also a chair in the middle of the room facing towards it.
The man walked up to it and sat down.
The screen turned into a blue head it to was bald it had electric blue eyes, the whites of his eyes were black, and a black background surrounded the head.
"It's been a long time" the man said.
"Indeed it has, about 5000 years" the head said with a cyborg almost demonic voice.
"The Brotherhood will rise again, peace through power" the man said with a smirk.
"Peace through power" the head said.
"This time we will not fail, we have an army, a people, a leader, and no GDI" the man said.
"Yes, Kane, input directives" the head said.
"Let's get this base back to life" Kane said.
"Directives received, standby" the head said.
After a minute or two it said "complete".
"Thank you Cabal" Kane said getting up and going to the elevator.
He took it down to the bottom floor where the cyborgs were waiting.
He walked past them and there was no reaction, not even their glowing red eyes moved.
He walked up to the door and it opened up he took a few steps out and was greeted by the automated industrial machine that was his cyborg base.
He raised his arms and embraced it, as a devious smirk went across his face.
There was only one problem though the descendant of one of the greatest military minds the world has ever known was standing in his way, the son of very same man who led the Brotherhood to victory against the mighty industrial machine in the first place was alive…
As he thought about this his arms lowered and his smirk faded.
…
We go back to the jade palace kitchen and we see the soldiers huddled around the table.
"Do you think it's going to work" Diemos said.
"Oh yeah, it's gonna work" I said confidently staring down at a piece of paper with a poorly drawn line and a circle at the tip with an arrow pointing to it saying helmet.
"That's how you get the boys together? You make a really long pole, put a helmet on SOS, and put it at the top so that all of the soldiers can receive it?" Jeremiah said disappointed.
"Do you have a better idea?" I said irritated that he had disagreed with my idea.
"No, no… it's a… it's a fine idea… just…" he said.
"Poorly executed?" Anton said.
"Yeah" Jeremiah said.
"We could use the Orca" Frank said.
I could imagine that right then.
We see the orca doing flips and turns and barrel rolls through the air.
The sky is gray and it's raining and there is lightning.
I look around at everyone in the front and back seat.
I then looked out of the hatch at the ground below
I turned back to them "let's do this" I said seriously putting my helmet on SOS.
Diemos was driving and he opened the hatch.
I leaned out as far as I could and held it out
The wind ripped the hatch off.
The Orca was now tilting around
"GODDAMN, HOLD IT STEADY" I shouted.
Then I saw a light coming towards us.
"What's tha- OH SHIT AHHH-" I was cut off when the RPG blew us up in midair.
"No" I said quickly "I like the pole better".
"It won't work" Jermiah said.
"Neither will the Orca, besides it won't hurt to try" I said.
"I have an Idea" Frank said gaining our attention "we fly it into the stratosphere and we send coordinates through radio signals down to the land mass down below."
We all exchanged glances I then picked up the paper and balled it up and threw it away.
"Let's get to it." I said.
A/N The house builds and the deck grows ever thinner until I have to use the one forbidden card… the joker… so now the question is will the Joker pull his greatest trick ever and send the house crumbling to the ground or will he fold and let the house stand to fall another day.