Chapter 9

Eric van Genus' Audio Journal #9: My Old Earth Life, Part 1

It has been a while since I talked about my first life. I mean before all my reincarnations. Back on Earth, I grew up in a small town in Minnesota where everyone is protestant, Bibletown. Needless to say, it sucked. I mean it looks nice, but it was home to close minded, white bread, hypocritical and backwards people that are living in the 1950's and it sucked! There were no televisions, no computers and the only way to know what is going on in the world is through the radio. Back then, I knew it was a shit hole, even as a child. Somehow I knew. The only place where you can get the internet was at the news radio tower where they can predict the weather and get the latest news in the world. Not to mention that the only place where laptops go, which I'll get to later. So the place is similar to Moral Orel.

When I was a child, I was being forced to accept that "god" was the only thing that there is along with all the crap they try to teach us. Like god made the universe, the Earth is at least six thousand years old, flowers reproduced by "god's giggles" and not pollen and a whole lot of bullshit. My parents looked at me in disappointment when I refuse to follow their crap and go to church on Sundays. It was a rotten childhood. But one day, I saw a strange truck heading to the radio station so I followed. When I got there, I saw them unloading all the modern tech into the building. Portable drives, laptops, computer parts, the works. As much as I hate to admit it, I stole one of those laptops and learned the Wi-Fi password by sneaking around. I was only eight at the time. With that laptop, I gain true knowledge! I learned things that I never knew, gain new perspectives on the outside world. I even made a Swiss bank account along with gaining some wealth from the stock market. Even made enough money to pay the station workers the laptop I stole with interest.

I kept going back to the station to learn more and to watch all sorts of shows whenever I have the chance to do so. By the time I was nine, I had enough money to buy at least four houses and a three star hotel. I was quite the genius back then. Nobody ever knew. Since I kept my distance from all the religious morons, they never bothered me. So I enjoyed all the anime, sci-fi shows, some documentaries, movies and even read some books. Plus I even got some equipment that allow me to use the internet at a secret base in the woods with solar panels to power everything, did my own electrical wiring, dug an outhouse. I did a lot for someone that was only nine. But I will tell more when the time comes.

End of recording.


Enlighten Valley, Hidden Go Board Room

In the underground, Eric moves a Tyrian piece and Arthur Watts piece on the board to Atlas.

"Looks like things are coming together." he says to himself. He looks at the Sanus board, "But maybe we should send some help when the time comes. And that time is closing soon." He takes a hand full of some pieces as he looks at them, "But which ones to send?"


Sanus, Mountain Glenn, One Week Before Volume 2...

In Mountain Glenn, deep underground in the hidden village, a bunch of Evolutionary soldiers are busy setting up an ambush for the day when Roman Torchwick and the White Fang to come in. Some are doing practice drills with blank ammo. Others are setting up a base of some sort base as they set up a few walls on some of the old buildings, get supplies stored, and use some sort of train that has some strange engine that allows it to move swiftly and silently through the tunnels. The soldiers are mix of Wesen, human and Faunus yet not Transformers. As they continue to make preparations and get everything in order, a jeep pulled up close to the train and its five cabooses.

Exiting the jeep is a woman in a blue Chinese dress with orchid patterns on it yet has a picture of a praying mantis on the right side of her dress. Plus she has C-cup breasts. She has an olive complexion, fingernails painted blue, silver eyes, and antennas of a mantis. She also has short dark blue hair. This woman is Maya Mantoida who is a martial arts instructor. Another Faunus comes out that has a wolf tail and is a male that stands one foot above Maya (she is five foot seven which makes him six foot seven). This male wolf faunus is wearing the same sleek uniform as the soldiers but the blue areas are replaces with amber. He has spiky amber-colored hair and silver-colored eyes while having pale white skin. On his left shoulder, there is a picture of a wolf's head howling at a crescent moon. This man is Rune Fenris and he is the guy in-charge of the army.

Rune climbs the ladder of the caboose to make it to the roof before clearing his throat to shout, "ATTENTIIOOON!"

All the soldiers stop what they are doing and form-up as they stand in attention.

Rune makes a speech while speaking in military tone, "Alright, ladies and germs! Listen up! I know that being in a shit-hole like this is unsettling, but our Leader says that Roman and the White Fang are coming here real soon! That man has predicted many things and they have come true! If Torchwick is coming here, he is coming here! We are so close to winning this secret war that we can practically taste it! Okay, maybe not that close but we managed to get one of their artifacts! The Culling will come once we deal with many oppositions that stand in our way! Revolution through evolution!"

The soldiers salute, "REVOLUTION THROUGH EVOLUTION!"

"Huh-uh. Now lets get back to our drills and get ready!"

The soldiers went back to what they are doing as Maya shows something on her scroll to Rune. If you guys are wondering if she is a mute, yes. Yes she is. Just answering a question ahead of time.

"What is it, Maya?" Rune looks at the scroll and isn't happy. He gives her back the scroll, "Time for a game of darwinism."


On the surface in the Emerald Forest, there is a battle happening between the White Fang and the Evolutionaries. Some members of the White Fangs are attacking a convoy in the forest as the Evolutionaries retaliate. One of the Siegbarste in red with the words, 'CLUBBER' on his chest charge at a few members and bulldoze them. Many others are still firing each other with their rifles or other weapons they made. The White Fang that is attacking are falling back a little. The Evolutionaries believe that they are gaining the advantage and slowly advance towards the White Fang.

As they advance, three members of the White Fang that were hidden head over towards the back of one of the trucks to steal whatever they can get.

"Quickly!" one of them whispers, "Just grab something and let's go!"

One of them head into the back of the truck and see a small metal crate that appears to be 10x10 inches. He takes the box and exits out. But when he did, the box suddenly became heavier and left a six inch impression in the ground. Almost as if the package became heavier when it exited the truck.

"What the fuck?" says the female member. "What just happened?"

They look at the crate and try to figure out what happened.

"Is there some sort of anti-theft device on these crates?" asked the first one asks.

"Let me check." the second member examines the box. He tries lifting the box, but cannot get it out. He then examines the locking mechanism and noticed a red light. "What do we have here?" The guy checks it and try to figure out on how it works.

But a bunch of White Fang members showed up with one asking, "What are you guys doing?!"

The female member of the trio look at the new guys and say, "There is some sort of security system that makes the crates heavier."

The guy chuckles, "Really? Let me see." The guy heads over to get the crate. He bends over, "Let me see what the hell is- Holy shit!" He tries to lift if up but unable to. "Is there some sort of gravity Dust that act as some sort of anti-theft system?!"

Before they try to steal anything else to see if they get the same results, a jeep pulls over with Maya and Rune. They step out with Rune cracking his neck and shoulders.

"What do we have here?" Rune asks, "A bunch of thieves?"

Maya nods her head.

"You guys are Faunus?" one of the female White Fang members asks.

"Not only that, I'm also in-charge of the military forces you see here." Rune says with pride and does a salute.

One of the male White Fang members smile, "Okay, that is awesome."

Rune pulls out a revolver, "Not as awesome as you guys being dead."

All the White Fang members have their weapons out and aim at the two. One of them says, "No offense, but we're making sure you guys aren't gonna let you guys get away with some of the bullshit you guys are pulling."

Rune smiles, "Wanna bet?"

Rune moves his right foot a little and a sudden flash of ice appears on the ground that cause them to either freeze or slip. Then follows it with a high heat blast from his left hand that cause a sudden explosion from the sudden freeze and heat. Rune's semblance is half temperature. Which means he can manipulate both fire and ice. Some of the White Fang members manage to avoid the blast. Yet Maya kills one of them with a sword in her right hand. Correction, her right arm IS a sword. Maya's semblance is weaponized body. She has the ability to shapeshift parts of her body into any weapon she likes. She doesn't need a weapon, because she is one. But with ranged weapons, it requires a bit of aura.

"Oh shit!" One of the White Fang males try to aim his gun at Maya.

However, an ice shard hit the side of the barrel of his guy. He looks at Rune who fires another round from his gun. That round is a fire blast that melted the guy's head.

Maya's left leg transforms into a chainsaw and slice through one guy's gun. She opens her dress and her boobs have transformed into SMG's that fire aura bullets at the guy. But he hides behind a tree but only to have his head encased in ice by a bullet. Some of the White Fang members fall back to the forest. Maya chase them with with her left arm being a scythe and her right being a sickle with a murderous, grinning look on her face. Rune place one foot on the ground as a wall of ice appear in front of the White Fang that stops them. Rune fires a few icicle bullets at some of them right through the head as Maya slice and dice the rest.

One of the Gelumcaedus Wesen soldiers approach Rune, "Sir! We managed to stopped some White Fang soldiers but only four escaped."

Rune fires a fire bullet at one of the White Fang members that so happen to be stabbed by Maya. But Maya gives him an upset look that reads, 'No kill stealing, you fucktard!'

He looks at the soldier, "Good. At least you guys got some actual combat against other humanoids under your belt. Now get this convoy to the ambush point on the double."

The Gelumcaedus gives Rune a salute, "Sir!" and orders his men, "Alright! Get this convoy to Point Glenn at once!"


Atlas, Schnee Manor, Jacques Office, Nighttime...

Jacques Schnee is sitting on his chair as he holds a glass of whiskey with a spherical ice cube in it with his right hand. His hair is a little messy, has some bags under his eyes, his blazer is a bit unbutton with his tie loosen and the red handkerchief is just hanging. The reason for his miserable state is because he is losing his business, his reputation is nearly shot and Willow keeps on yelling at his ear for a lot of things. Including selling her animals. Nearly eighty percent of the Schnee Dust Company has gone down the drain, stocks have fallen, and his usual methods aren't working with many of his questionable business dealers stop supporting him.

Whitley opens the door partway while being nervous, "Father, um, you...have a visitor."

Jacques slams the glass on the arm of his black leather chair, "I told you I didn't want to be disturbed. Why did you let them in? And that better not be the paparazzi or even worse, Ironwood. I will not beg him for his help."

"I didn't. This guy...let himself in."

Arthur Watts grabs the door and pulls it the rest of the way open, walking into the room as Whitley moves out of his way.

Arthur smiles as he says, "A spitting image of you, this lad, Jacques. Creepily so, I might add."

Whitley stands in the hall, holding the door open and watching as Arthur walks around Jacques' office.

"He's definitely inherited your…affect."

Jacques is completely surprised by Arthur's sudden appearance. "You." He takes a second to gather himself, clean up a little then looks at Whitley. He says to him in a commanding tone, "Whitley, leave us. Shut the door. And never tell anyone. Ironwood, the police or otherwise."

Whitley looks confused and then looks suspiciously at Arthur. He has seen the news and seen his face on the wanted posters.

Jacques slams his glass again as he says in an agitated tone, "I said shut the door!"

Whitley closes the door.

Jacques turns his attention back to Arthur, "I-You're supposed to be dead. At least that's what I thought until I saw your wanted poster on the news."

"That is what I wanted people to think. You're right. However, I've heard things about you too, Jacques. Like you are losing your business to people who have rebelled and took control of your mines. Plus I also heard that you try to takeout your ilegit son, but less said about that the better. Not to mention the bounty hunters that have you trap inside your own home. All that is linked to a certain group that is causing all these problems. Even more so to Ironwood."

Jacques looks down and does a sigh. "This group is costing me more money every day for each mine they stole from me. Not only that, I may not even have a shot at the Council seat now. Even if I do recover everything in time."

Arthur takes a seat next to Jacques, "What if I said you can have your cake…and eat it, too?"


Somewhere else, in some room that seems to be made of giant pixels with glowing blue edges and a bunch of green zeroes and ones pass by as if this takes place in cyberspace in a black area with the floor being a red grid. In this room, Coco Mint is watching a direct feed in Jacques office. She sits on a chair made of pixels as she watches. This is all thanks to her semblance, Digi-Network, which allows her to gain access to any digital network. Thanks to the satellites, she has full and unlimited access which allows her to hack anything.

"What do you have in mind?" Jacques says in the video, "But none of this should traced back to me."

Arthur explains, "James Ironwood never recognized my genius. After everything I gave him, he still disgraced me. I simply wish to return the favor. Plus I would like to gain the insight of his secret files about this mysterious group. Not to mention complete access to that generator Daisy Taggart made."

"What's in it for me?"

"A seat on the council. All I need is your login credentials for the Atlas network. Once I am in, I can find out more about the group causing you problems and my...new employer will take care of them. Not only that, I will guarantee you victory at the polls by giving the voters down in Mantle a little…'digital push', if you will. Everybody wins. Well except for the group that is causing us all problems, Robyn Hill and Daisy Taggart."

"I always knew you were a good scientist, Arthur...but I never knew you were such a good salesman."

Coco smirks, "That should be good enough." She presses the stop button and gets off her chair.

A bunch of holographic screens appear that serve various functions. Coco does some dance moves as she does some manipulation to whatever the hell she's doing and hit a few buttons with her hips. She slams her left hand down on one screen which causes a slot machine appear. The three slots spin to show three strawberries which then explodes. The map of Mantle appears along with Atlas that shows different areas that support different candidates. Parts of Atlas supports Jacques Schnee (white) while Mantle is divided in half between Daisy Taggart (yellow) and Robyn Hill (green). Two red blips appear on the screens that show the location of both Tyrian and Arthur.

"Alright." Coco rubs her hands, "Time to see who is the best hacker in Remnant once the game begins."


Mantle, Sunrise...

In an underground lab on a metal catwalk, a woman dressed in a yellow-colored fur coat is walking to see something. She appears to be middle-aged with a few wrinkles, blonde hair with the bangs brushed to her left and goes down half of her back, carries a red handbag with a yellow daisy on the lower right corner, and high-heel shoes, and vivid yellow eyes. She walks down the suspended catwalk with many pipes that go under all of Mantle. Daisy Taggart walks until she enters in an area that has a strange generator that seems to be in a shape of a lantern. Below it are three men with black outfits and green devices on their eyes that look like VISOR's from Star Trek.

"How is it going?" Daisy asks in a voice of a young woman.

The one in the middle says, "The Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum Generator is ready. We await your orders for testing."

"Do it." she nods.

The man on the left press some holographic buttons as he says, "Initiating starting sequence."

The man on the right looks at the monitors, "We're green across the board. Initiate start...now."

The main circle of the generator flash as it comes to life. The circle shows a variety of colors once the flash settles. The majority of the circle is comprised of a white light with smaller colors that follow such as a small amount of red, a large amount of green, blue and violet; some indigo and a small amount of orange with black being the smallest out of all the colors. It is on, but the generator is quiet.

"Energy levels are good. The core is stable."

"Detecting all levels of emotions in the spectrum."

"All systems are a go. Everything checks out."

Daisy smiles, "Good." Then she pulls out her scroll to make a call as she clears her throat to do her middle-aged voice. "Hello, Ironwood. This is Daisy Taggart. I have some good news you might like if you are interested."


AN: Now for one Q&A!

G3N75UK1: No, there will be no continent-wide war. Plus I did read that fanfic you suggested and that was funny. As for this story, there is something brewing and expect things to get a little ugly. If you want a war, you will get it. But it will be against the Queen Bitch of the Grimm. Just be patient. Got a lot of stuff to do in this story. But expect something...bloody.