Chapter Forty Eight: New Leadership

Rick was the assumed leader of the Worlds Army but even he had to report to people that outranked him on many levels. One of these people is the President of the United States, the most powerful country still in the world. He had to routinely report on the army's progress against the Force Army lead by a Darth Salvador.

Rick stared at a copy of the Vaccine file that had been given to him. A secret project carried out without his knowledge, a project that at first outraged him but upon further examination of the project he realized that it could actually help him in his cause and his plans.

There seemed to be no way for the body of a force sensitive human being to reject the vaccine. It would make force humans normal humans, and would have no effect on normal humans. The report stated that they were in the process of pressuring this vaccine into bullets and gaseous vapors that would enter the body through the lungs and be transferred to the blood stream and begin attacking the midi-chlorians of the being. This would be a way to eliminate all force sensitivity in the known and unknown humans. Thusly, restoring order to the world.

At least that is what the top powers of the world was thinking would happen. Over half of the Worlds Army came from the United States, and thusly the President was basically the ruler of the world for the time being. All other countries reported to him regularly and gave progress reports on their fronts of the war.

Rick despised being treated like a dog like this, but soon it would be over and he would be leader of the world and the Worlds Army at the same time. His phone started to right next to his desk. He reached over and picked it up. "Yes?" he said into the phone.

"There's been a situation" a voice replied. "Get to the following coordinates at once"

"Right" Rick answered placing the phone back on the receiver.

It took him two hours to arrive at the scene he was being called to. He arrived at the gates of the white house and flashed his ID badge and security number. He was escorted by several World Army soldiers that led him into the white house and towards the Oval Office of the President.

When the door to the office was opened Rick knew exactly why he was called there. The President lay on the floor, a fresh cut into his chest, blood pouring profusely from the wound. The President of the United States had been killed or rather assassinated.

"He was found like this an hour ago" a soldier stated. "The slash is clearly a lightsaber slash, an assassination"

"It looks that way" Rick replied staring at the body. "Anyone get a look at the perpetrator?"

"Negative" the soldier answered. "He was alone in his office when this happened"

"The President of the World basically and you leave him alone even for a second?" Rick asked irritated. "That's just screaming from someone to kill him"

"I know, sir" the soldier replied sadly. "We should not have allowed him alone time. It was too dangerous"

"With him gone, who will lead the world back to salvation and freedom?" Rick asked more to himself than the others in the room.

"The President had been saying for a few days now" an official said stepping forward. "He had been telling me how if anything were to happen to him, then someone with extreme knowledge on this situation, such as the Force Army and the members should be the leader of a world fighting against them" he explained.

"What does that mean?" Rick asked.

"He named you his successor if he were to be assassinated" the official replied. "You have been fighting these force humans longer than anyone else, you know how they think, act, and move. And you are leader of the Worlds Army. You are the only person capable of leading us back to the peace we enjoyed before this incident" the official went on.

Rick was silent. "I…don't know"

"It has already been announced" the official said. "That you are now the President of the World"

"His assassination has been made public?" Rick asked surprised.

"Yes, we thought it unwise to keep something like this a secret for fear of a conspiracy theory that would most likely pop up" the official replied.

"You are now the official ruler of the world, sir" the soldier said with a salute.

"Can you…give me a minute with his body?" Rick asked slowly.

"Of course" the soldier replied motioning for everyone to leave the room.

When he was alone in the room Rick walked over to the dead body of the President. He looked down at the lifeless corpse. A figure appeared in the window behind the Presidents desk. "It is done, master" the young man said with a bow.

"You have done well, my apprentice" Rick replied placing a shoed foot on the Presidents dead head and turning its face. "Everything is coming together perfectly. Now all we need to do is see what the Force Army's next move will be" he added with a slight smile. "This war is nearly over" he told his apprentice. "Soon this will all be over, and a new World Order will be established"