With the surprise attack on Midway, the Allies became aware that it is impossible to say grace when the enemy has still the capacity to fight. Every major military bases across the world began to beef up defences and nations coordinate with one another to form one large defensive lines. Patrols were frequent to vital airspaces and curfews became very strict to as early as six o'clock in the evening, no one is allowed outside regardless of any reasons. At night both law enforcement and military patrols the streets.

The allies became too confident that they already suppressed the combat capabilities of the Order of the Sword and their demonic pawns. With consecutive battles one every months that passed thanks to the help of the Devil May Cry team, the leaders became more and more confident and very much laid back that soon their enemies will simply lay down their arms and give up the fight. Demons don't work that way and they were riddled with hail of bullets as a result.

This confidence also made Jack a little reckless in his decisions; it was too soon to wrap up everything in a single platter. This has ticked Dante off.

Dante was sceptical on the 'undercover' gig that the general has cook up for the past days. Making an exact replicate copy of the girl that the enemy gave powers with was not the best solution. He knew that one day the 'programming' might click in that uncover agent will forget who she is. It wasn't impossible that the Order of the Sword gave a certain program to Kyrie when she was converted into an Angel, and copying her altered DNA that program might have been transferred to Maria as well.

Maria might have been lost to the Order of the Sword, programmed to destroy all of its enemies. A fine example was what happened to the Allied third fleet and Midway itself.

The red clad demon walked across the busy hallways of the Pentagon as soon as they arrived back from Midway. The staff could literally feel the heat and rage he was emitting and tried to get out the way as soon as possible. He learned that the general was just debriefed by his superiors and went to his office.

"Dante wait, what you doing?" Trish tried to come after him but he kept walking faster.

"I'm gonna have a little chat with pretty boy."

"Slow down Dante, this is not going to help. I mean-"

"What do you mean? How this not going to help? Because of his plan, more people were lost. So I going to have a little chat, doing my best to keep his teeth still intact" he walked again and Trish still followed him.

Lady and Vergil met up with Nero and Kyrie at the lobby. The couple had asked what happen and Vergil told everything. The story made Kyrie body shook out in horror. Her hands on her lips as she learned what Maria had done. Nero was furious as hell as expected.

"Dante figured that something was planted in you when you were converted to what you are now." Lady said to Kyrie

"What is it?" the young brunette asked.

"Some kind of programming, I don't really know but if my memory serves me right, experiments or conversions like that, something was usually implanted. A programming, a code, subliminal message, any of those that will keep you on their side no matter what, and that programming might have been also transferred to Maria" Vergil explained.

"So any time, Kyrie can turn again?" Nero was worried.

"No, its been a while since you become an Angel and the program should have been either dormant or erased. My guess is that when you went through the medical examination you through back in Fortuna, they must have deleted it should have any." Lady placed a finger on her jaw.

"Maria..." Kyrie looked down in despair. Nero comforted her.

Vergil was about to say some more but several MPs walked fast beside him and heading straight to the general's office. Alarmed he quickly followed the squad with a word.

"Something tells me, something bad is going to happen. Come on" Lady motioned the couple to follow her.


General Jackson Darby was stress out. He got a good berating from the president and the UN council after the Midway fiasco then felt that his uncover scheme might be blown. Maria was seen responsible for the destruction of the Allied navy in the pacific. Now the UN wants that Dark Angel eliminated and alert all of the military to put Maria another priority target for their guns to aim at.

He sat on his chair and slammed his right hand on the desk at his sheer frustration. "How did it end up like this?" he asked himself. he was hoping that Maria would immediately extract information regarding the location of their bases but soon he found out that Maria was having difficulty getting the info they needed.

Apparently from the encrypted message they acquired just two days after she was found, Agnus was making sure she was on their side by giving her several trials that only a 'true' knight can accomplish. Of course she passed every test Agnus threw at her but the final one was a mystery. Maria doesn't know the last test and only sends riddles that were spoken to her.

"Strike the heart, strike true and proud. Face defeat but left the enemy bleed to despair...

She was pretty much sure the allied decoders will have the hardest time of figuring out what the riddle is but she found it the best way possible to prevent the Order from ever finding out.

Indeed it confused the hell out of the decryption team, even Vergil was puzzled at the message Maria sent. They are pretty much confident that she will send clear reports ever she went undercover. It was too late when the decryption team receive an urgent message from her saying that she will sent message on riddles to prevent the enemy from finding out. it was received just minutes before the third fleet was attacked.

His thoughts were cut short when there was knock on the door and before he could answer, Dante rushed in quickly followed by Trish who is trying her best to stop him.

The general didn't manage to say a word when he was grabbed by the collars and been pushed back at the wall behind him. his feet left the ground and he felt the air was choking out of him, the son of Sparda was too strong and pissed.

"This is what you meant huh?" he began angrily Trish was already trying to hold him back but he didn't nudge.

"Dante stop!" she commanded but her lover is not listening he slammed Darby against the wall hard again that the alarms tripped. Jack was struggling his breath.

"I did what... I have to... do... I..." he said

"So let me get the straight. You clone one of our friends without her consent, you proudly proclaimed that this piece of military trash will locate the Order and also use thousands of YOUR own men as collateral damage do it!?" his voice was become more demonic as each passing moment. his eyes were beginning to glow red with rage.

"Dante stop!" Trish tried again and this time, she was left with no choice. She electrocuted Dante and even somehow the current got Jack as well. the two men struggled as the pain slipped to their senses until Dante let loose of his grip.

When Dante stepped back from the jolt, the rest barged in along with a small squad of MPs. The soldiers raised their tazers and aimed it at both Dante and Trish.

"Freeze!" one of the officers shouted.

Nero suddenly went in. "Whoa, whoa, timeout! What is going on here!" he said trying to put down the soldier's weapons but he was shoved off. Vergil cleared his throat and spoke

"General, we need to talk about something." He was completely unfazed by the tension in the office. The staffs outside were curious but they were shoved up by guarding MPs.

At that note Jack raised a hand signal to the soldiers and quickly they let their weapons down, their captain looked concerned at him.

"Sir? Will you be alright? We will send a medic to help you."

"Thank you Captain now leave us."

They saluted before quietly going out of the room. Dante crossed his arms trying his best to prevent another scene. Trish reprimands him for a moment before turning their attention to Vergil who approached the recovering Jack.

"General, have you checked Maria's brain activity when she first woke up?" he inquired

"Yes why?"

"Normally when a person is altered, some sort code or program is inserted to their minds. They know that anytime, their agents will turn against them and they will use some sort of key to turn them back... forcefully and against their will." He said his theory.

Jack shook his head, and took out a folder from one of the cabinets. "This is Dr. Gru's diagnostics report of Maria." He handed the folder to him.

The folder contains the written reports of the clone, her statistics, her attributes, even her genetic DNA code that Kyrie found herself familiarize with. Jack then explained "We are also speculating the same thing and Dr. Gru is already monitoring the brain development ever since the template began taking the DNA. So far there was no alterations on the brain activity the clone had but there are no findings at the matter."

Kyrie was alarmed upon the realization of having a hidden programming that will make her forget of who she is and kill everyone that is very dear to her. Nero turned to her concern, his blue eyes were full of confusion, concern and somewhat hurt. She now thinks that she is a ticking time bomb.

"Nevertheless, as far as the development is concerned, Maria showed no questionable actions upon her awakening in the lab, until now."

"Damn right you are!" Dante said stepping up again but Trish and Lady stopped him.

"Programming is done in the brain cells, implemented into the subconscious. I'm not an expert but I believe Kyrie will not have such a case. Just to be sure though, that idea had surfaced and both women are exactly different despite the similarities of DNA." He turned toward her.

"...We will have you in CT scan just to be sure and get you checked out. that is a concern as well, if we planted a mole in the Order of Sword, chances are we have one ticking time bomb here as well. no offense miss" he said apologetically.

Nero threw him a glare at that but he felt that it was the best idea now despite being late and fortunate that there was no any more troubles as of late. Lady however suddenly said.

"There is also a possible that Maria has done it against her will. Agnus may have forced her and since this is an undercover mission, she has to do it. This is why is plan is also risky."

Jack looked down and took a deep breath. He swallowed his pride and said "The US government doesn't know this yet"

"What?" Trish asked surprised

"Well you just dug your grave deeper pretty boy" Dante said with a smug.

"How come the government does not know of this?" Vergil asked "This is a very serious matter from what I'm seeing."

"They will not agree with me, and the war will be prolonged as long as possible. People are dying everyday because of this mess, we've been fighting for a year now and we are all tired of this crap. You have to agree with me that this is getting tiresome; I know that this is your job but..." he trailed off and sat on his chair as if defeated.

"... if this ends me up in jail or worst I will accept it, I will do what it takes to end this war without any more collateral damages. Midway will be last."

Everyone collected their thoughts and took breathing or two and lost in their own world within their heads. Finally as aggressive as he is towards Jack, Dante spoke up.

"Kinda agree with you there, since as you said we don't have a choice at the matter and we all know that we want to end the war. I have to agree but Maria must work her ass out and get the vital information we need to find them."

"Forgive me for this but I already knew several worst outcomes of this mission. We all know what will be the consequences of this matter. But rest assured when the war is over, I will take full responsibility of all the actions done by the Allies during the war."´

A short pause "However..." Jack pressed a button beneath his desk and stood up. The soldiers from before stood by the door, Dante glared at what is coming next. "... your actions must also have consequences. You are in the Pentagon, you are in my office and acting just now will result in consequences" he nodded to the Captain and he himself handcuffed both Dante and Trish.

The rest was speechless upon the turn of events. "I'm sorry, but this is professional not personal Dante, you will be detained until further notice. Take them away Captain."

The soldiers ushered both Dante and Trish away. The son of Sparda never said a word anymore and hung his head low. Trish threw an apologetic look at the general before both left the room. When the door closes Jack sat back down looking all tired and pained. Nero took notice.

"Are you all right General?" he asked.

"I'm fine, just a little shocked that's all." He replied casually as best as he could but his voice contained a slight amount of pain in it. Vergil took notice on the crack on the wall.

"That would have hurt" he pointed out "Dante must have gave you a back ache. And judging by the voice I guess you got a special current from Trish. That's why they are both detained."

"That is correct Vergil."

When silence settles in everyone sat down for a moment but Kyrie was still worried.

"Sir?" she began but she doesn't know what to say.

"Worry not, I doubt that there is any programming crap Agnus may have put on you. He cherish and worships the idea of a saint so I doubt that anything that can soil that image was not considered. Vergil will agree with me on that matter." Jack said clasping his hands over his desk. "though we have to make sure..." he picks up and dials a series of numbers in the phone. "...Yes, this is General Jackson Darby of the United States Army, I would like to schedule a though rough CT scan... yes... as soon as possible... urgent... thanks." He hangs up and turned his attention towards his company.

"Tomorrow, we will sort it out. for now, get some rest. I got some lot of work to do, you can visit the two at the lower floors but I suggest giving them time to breath first."

Vergil of course, wanted his brother to learn lessons in some way and decided not to drop by and he said "Fair enough" his tone is just nonchalant and they can all know that he is not going anytime soon.

"We will see you tomorrow, see you general" Lady stood up and prepares to leave.

"Forgive me about the incident earlier, but rest assured 'what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas'"

When they left the office Nero whispered to Lady "What does he mean by that?" Kyrie slightly smiled and rest her head in his shoulder and Vergil also let his ear catch up the question.

Lady lets out a small giggle and replied "It means this is an isolated incident"


"Long live the Order of the Sword!" everyone said as they raised their glasses together in a grand toast. Agnus stood up from his chair.

"This is a great victory my brothers. This is one small step to achieve the salvation we all want for humankind. They are weak and frail; they are meant to lead and herded to their destiny. We must lead them, save them from all the evil that the Great Sparda fought. We must be strong! We must be relentless, we must not falter! Even at the might of the Allied demons, we must keep going and eradicate them from this world."

"We shall cleanse this world and the demon world as well. And the people will seek salvation to us. No more evil, no more corruption, no more pain, no more suffering, no more wrath and we will have peace."

"Again my brothers, a toast for the success and the upcoming victory of this holy war; long live the Order of the Sword! All hail our holiness! Long live the legacy of Sparda!" he raised his glass in a salute; everyone saluted and shouted the glory of the Order of the Sword before beginning their grand feast.

Maria sat still where her chair is stirring the golden plated wine glass she was holding while look rather observant to the events that transpiring around her while keeping her blank look on her face seemingly devoid of all emotions. Her mind was working on the plot on how to frame and destabilize the chain of command. With the information she had while eavesdropping in two of most elite commanders of the Order.

"Having fun my saint?" Agnus looked at her curiously

"I'm only felt..." there was a pause as she tought of a word to say she must not show her emotions and finding the words that will not express any of it was very difficult for her. "...Invigorated" she said with a little irony in her tone.

"Ah, well enjoy the evening for now and do not stress out yourself my saint. The work has just began." He said before turning converse with the other commanders and patrons.

Maria took sips of her wine (which she found really delicious) as she observe their slowly-turning-drunken feast. The knights and their leaders began to chat loudly and laugh without a care to anyone or anything. She contained her laughter on some of the drunk knights falling down. She wondered if she will be amuse to stab and slice these fools at their predicament, it would be no problem and less efforts will be used.

Her job will be easy now if she slaughter everyone here in their very state.

Suddenly her eyes turned to the attention of person opening the door to her left. Her chance had finally presented itself, General Hamilton has bid his colleagues farewell for the night as he was already too drunk and wishes to return back to his quarters while he is still conscious. When he left, she finishes her drink and excuse herself from Agnus.

"Time to get to work" she said before following her victim.

The low lit corridor gave shine on the empty corridor. Echoes of the air flowing from the open windows and the distant cheers from the grand hall were heard even with great distance. The moonlight shone its bright lights in the clear night sky. Maria overlooked the entire landscape of the Island, the small lit town below the castle is seen, she can also see the other knights partying around a big bonfire in the town square looking like the medieval ages.

She shook her head and close her eyes. The cold breeze kissed her smooth skin. With the soft silken dress she wore made more comfortable in her senses. It was peaceful, it was serene, it was the thing that she wanted.

But she was to get back on track.

The drunken wail and slurred singing get her attention back on track. She carefully wandered around the corridor, setting her auditory to the maximum as it can be. She looked at every corner and listen to the noise of the singing. It was incomprehensible, maybe due to the sheer drunkenness or the different language she didn't know.

The sound became louder as she stealthily walked the corridor until upon reaching another corner the sound stop.

"..." she took her soft breath and looked around as she turned towards the corridor. It was empty and now silent. She kept walking alert, ready for anything that might spook her from what is ahead in front of her. A nagging told her that something was beyond the door that was ahead of her.

The clicking sound almost echoed in the empty part of this castle, Maria opened the door slowly and as quiet as possible but then as the door was halfway a hand grab her wrist.

"GOTCHA! BITCH!" Hamilton's voice made her ears popped out of surprise.

"Ah!" she gasped in surprise before being pulled inside of the door. The sheer strength of the drunken general made her frame flew a few paces from the door and met the hard wooden floor with a thud.

"You think you can follow me huh? Guess what bitch, we are alone and what do you think I will do eh?" he laughed before pouncing on the dazzled Maria. In less than a second his entire large frame was over her in an instant.

"Get off!" she shouted as she tried to break free from his grasp.

"I think not sweet pea" he laughed as he began sniffing her hair then her exposed skin from her shoulders to her hair.

"Stop!" she said before kicking him in the neither regions then breaking herself free from his grasp. She then back away from him with the black sword summoned in her hand. The drunken general cried pathetically from his predicament, nursing his injured regions.

"You just dug your grave deeper. Bitch? Heh! You're a swine!" she said with pure malice. at that, Hamilton looked up in fear and it was his turn to back away.

"No, no, please!" he begged but it was too late.

SLASH!

The black sword made a clean diagonal cut across the general's body. Blood and flesh scattered in the floor beneath him. he choked from the blood flowing out of his mouth. Maria stood for a moment before bring out another slash from another direction making a 'X' cut across his body. The corpse fell backwards with its eyes wide open and its mouth dyed in darker shades of red blood.

Maria's head was twitching and she looked visibly insane now. She walked with the dripping blood from her sword. She knelt down on her dead victim and began peeling off the skin from the face of the corpse then spreading it across the room resulting more blood spilled out from the dead face. She then severed the head off its body then let it roll somewhere else in the room.

"One down, more to go." She said with a twisted smile before putting herself back to being visibly sane again.

Her next move would be frame General Fergus of the murder. She moves out of the room and quickly broke into Fergus' quarters and stole his Officer sword in the wall. She then ran back were the corpse is and stained the spotless blade with the crimson red and its flesh before putting it at the far side of the room.

This will look like Fergus killed his fellow general and dropped the sword in shock and making him run out of the room, a perfect yet plausible plan that Maria hoped to work.

After the scene is set, Maria rushed out of the room and went to hers and cleaned herself of all the stains and evidences on her body. Having a fresh of similar dress that she wore, she quickly ran back towards the main castle hall and made herself look like she was in a distraught or having a decent urgency.

"Here we go..." she took deep breaths and opened the door with a loud bang.

The loud noise made everyone turned towards her and she said "I witness a deception. A murder!"

Everyone were surprise and Maria kept her rant "General Hamilton is Murdered!"

"WHAT?!" Agnus stood up in both surprise and anger "Who did this?"

Maria looked at the direction of Fergus and pointed a finger on him. "Him! I saw general Fergus stabbing and mutilating Hamilton in the guess room!"

Fergus stood up in objection "That is preposterous! I was here the whole time and I never went to the guess room I went to get fresh air earlier! Do not lie!"

"I saw you. I saw you beheading and skinning Sir Hamilton. I saw you dropped your sword in surprise! I saw you ran away in both anger and shock! I will not lie!" Maria accused him.

"The sword is in my room! That is a false accusation!"

As of cue, a knight opened the door holding Fergus' sword stained with skin, flesh and blood. "Sir, we found this in the scene. It belong to Sir Fergus." The knight handed the sword to Agnus who immediately turned in his angelic form.

"ARREST HIM! I WANT HIM THROWN IN THE DUNGEON AND TO BE EXECUTED AT FIRST LIGHT!" he ordered in pure hot rage. Immediately the knights around him quickly subdue him to the ground and began dragging him away.

"No! No! I'm innocent! I did not committed the murder! Spare me! No! We are all deceived!" he ranted as he was dragged away from the hall. Maria looked at the scene with an evil grin. Everything was according to plan.

After the scene, Agnus ordered everyone that the celebration is over and quickly get back to their duties. He then sat down to his chair with a deep breath as he turned back to his human form. Maria walked calmly without any emotions on her face once more.

"My lord, I know it's not my place to say this but we must be cautious about the subordinates around you. Danger lurks at every corner and the length of this cause has made our view that there is no Black and White. We must be cautious about trusting our officers now, the death of General Hamilton proves that some might be against the cause."

"You are correct my saint. Forgive me for my request but I want you to be vigilant about this traitors. Capture them, report them, and I will deal with them personally." he looked at her for a moment before standing up. "Will see the scene of the crime, return to your quarters my saint. Thank you for seeing this through."

"Thank you my lord" Maria bowed before leaving, as she turned she gives into her evil persona and proceeds to her next step of her plan.


12:30 am

Fergus sat on the wooden bench that also serves as a hard bed on his cellar. The moonlight recently blocked by the gathering clouds making his cellar giving off a dim light. he put his hand on his forehead in distraught the news of death of one of his closest friend is too fast for him. On top of that, he was framed for his murder.

Minutes began to turn hours in the dungeon for him. he can't sleep, he can't think anymore straight even though he was sober now. His mind went back at the main hall, where he was accused and taken away by the very men he commanded during combat.

Suddenly loud metallic clanks echoed in the quiet dungeon. He heard chocking of blood and dying breaths from outside the metallic bars of his cell. He stood up and tried to looked around, but it was difficult to see due to the low light.

"Hello?" he spoke up.

More metallic chunks fell to the ground followed by more chocking sounds of death. Then his door opened to his surprise. He stepped out unaware that their is a corpse of a dead knight he stepped upon.

"What the?"

The lights suddenly appeared and he saw a hallway filled with dead knights that guarded the dungeon. Blood flooded the hallway and swords impaled brutally on the vital parts of the body. And at the very end, his eyes went wide open. He saw Maria standing their looking at him in an insane manner, her dress and her black sword was stained and dripping with the darkest blood from the dead knights. When her eyes landed on him, she giggled.

"Oops... silly me" she said when her head is twitching.

"It... was... you! it was you who killed Hamilton! Traitor!" he shouted as he grabbed as sword of one of the dead knights and began to lunge at Maria at full wrath of his powers. His eyes went yellow in rage as he prepares to impale the dark angel. Maria simply dissolved her weapon and spread her hands will laughing.

Maria dodge the sword a split second and let her body fell to the ground, splashing herself in the pool of blood. Fergus spun around and prepares to stab her defenceless.

"You die! Witch!" he said as she raised the sword over his head but suddenly he choked and spit out his blood. He looked down to see three silver lances prodding out of his abdomen, his hands curled at let the sword dropped behind him. he knelt down and give out his last breath before dying and began swimming in his own blood.

Behind him were a squad of Bianco Angelos retracting back their weapons. one of them reach out a hand to Maria.

"Are you alright my lady?" he asked.

"Yes, thank you. It is fortunate that you came in time, he went mad and began killing everybody. I was trying to visit and help him with the case but he got free and started killing everyone, I was fortunate that I got a safe distance but he was too fast and put me down. Thanks to you to come just in time, I would have been dead and the cause is lost."

"It is our pleasure my lady, please rest we will handle this."

"Thank you." she walked away from the squad but she didn't grabbed and left the dungeon. Instead she closed the door and locked it, the knights were confused as the door was shut. Maria's eyes began to glow blue and began looking insane, with her twitching.

"You found the treasure, and now you will be buried with it! this is the consequences and the ghost of Midway" she summoned her blood stained sword and her lance from both of hands. The knights readied themselves as best as they could but they know they are all going to die.

the last torch that lit the dungeon was blown out and the only thing happening was shattering of metallic armour, sound of flesh being ripped apart, the dying screams of the knights as they were brutally mutilated and the insane laughter of Maria enjoying the bloodshed.

Revenge at last.


Note: Maria's insane behavior (Twiching head, laughter, insane look in her face), the methods used for framing Fergus for murder and the last line of the chapter is all based from the game "Yandere Simulator". Genrally the entire Maria's plot scene is inspired on that game. Credits to Yanderedev and his game.