Chapter 2: An Odd Alliance

It was an average day for Empress Mandy who was overseeing her empire crushing the remnant forces of the rebels. Her main arch rebel forces have fled to Cuba under the leadership of Irwin. Empress Mandy wanted all of Cuba herself along with the extermination of all rebel forces, even the rebel forces against Mindy who succeeded Eris as the goddess of Chaos. Everything for an invasion for Cuba was in the final planning stages with Mandy's advisors such as Nergal Jr. and his father.

"Empress" said Nergal as an incoming message was coming in, "we have word from your old arch nemesis Mindy on some information."

Grim's POV:

Now Mandy had always been quite suspicious of Mindy. Even the first day she met her. She annoyed the heck out of her when Mindy just blabbed on like Billy would in some sort of stupid rant. So Mandy told her to "Shut up" and well, things have always been quite hairy between the two ever since elementary school.

Things between the two really started to up the anti in college when Mandy took some sort of supernatural items from my trunk so that she could win to become President of the local student government. Mindy was quite jealous because she also wanted that position in power as she held it back in elementary school and even in middle school. She knew something was going on when people were flocking to her speeches and not hers. Mindy also suspected that Mandy was behind her failing college to which her parents were quite upset that Mindy would accuse Mandy of doing these sort of things. So they sent her to England in boarding school where Eris would make the mistake of taking her as apprentice.

Well, enough of my chit chat, back to the story.

End of Grim's POV.

"On screen" ordered Mandy, "well, well, well, if it isn't Mindy, I guess I should thank you for taking out Eris for me. She has been quite troublesome for me even my days as a kid."

"Well thank you Mandy" said Mindy.

"So what do you want from me?" asked Mandy, "To be nuked?"

"Actually no" replied Mindy.

"Then what then?" asked Mandy.

"I would like to offer an alliance between our two empires" said Mindy.

"Why should I bother?" asked Mandy, "You have always been in my rear end since day one since we first met."

"You never wanted to be my friend" replied Mindy as she folded her arms and pouted at her, "so the rest is all your fault."

"You want to form an alliance with my empire but you rudely call in against me?" asked Mandy, "Are you prepared to go to war to fight me and my forces?"

"Look Mandy" replied Mindy, "as much as I would like to push my nuke buttons against you and use the power of Chaos against you as well, it would still end in a stalemate, and I know because my main general, General Skarr who I reenlisted to become a general again has said so. And even I bet your top generals have stated similar things as well but are too chicken to admit it because of your domineering jerkish power hunger attitude."

"Speak for yourself" said Mandy then the Empress turns to Nergal and his son, "so is this true that if we were in a war against Mindy and her Imperial forces it would end in a stalemate?"

"Well" replied Nergal as sweat ran down his forehead and neck, "yes."

"I'm sorry Empress" said Nergal Jr. as he bowed down to her along with his father, "but we played every workable scenario out along with every sort of campaign. It would all end in a stalemate."

Mandy then pounded her fist on her chair in such a fury, and then turns toward the computer screen with Mindy smiling with glee to see Mandy in this position.

"Fine" sighed Mandy, "I'll accept this alliance. We would send both of our forces and split up Cuba in half for our empires."

"Good" said Mindy then she turns off the computer and turns to her main general, General Skarr.

"I just heard that everything went peachy with you two" said General Skarr as he was eavesdropping on the conversation.

"You heard correct" said Mindy as she got up from her chair and began to stretch, "I can't believe I never enjoyed seeing Mandy's face looking like that. I have waited so long for her to bow down to my terms ever since elementary school."

"Oh I remember it quite well too" said General Skarr as he and Mindy began to walk together out of Mindy's chambers, "I'm glad that Mandy eventually got control of that Billy. He was quite annoying as from what I have heard from our intelligence network."

"Well general" said Mindy, "you can head back to your quarters, I think I should really plan something into getting Mandy to do more things on my terms. Like even subverting her empire to serve mine."

"Don't give me too many personal details on how to deal with someone like her" said Skarr as he was leaving the scene.

Grim's POV:

Ah, General Skarr, he has certainly made Mindy's empire quite deadly. Deadly enough for me to enjoy all the reaping of his victims to which I was personally quite fond of doing as much as I was doing with Mandy's empire and her atrocities. I enjoyed reaping Skarr's old boss-Hector and that dumb bear he was attached to. Hector's brain was attached to Skarr's wall along with that dumb bear being turned into a rug for his room.

Any who, I don't want to spoil anything further in the story, but I have heard rumors of Dean Toadblat allegedly being recruited by General Skarr and Mindy's intelligence network just in a sort of case if Nigel Planter or any member of the rebel forces should come and try to steal advance magical weapons to fight the two empires of Mandy and Mindy's. But I have said too much, so let's find out if something evil happens to old Nigel Planter and Hoss Delgado.

End of Grim's POV.

The portal opened by Nigel Planter had finally led him and Hoss Delgado back to Toadblat's School of Wizardry. Delgado was acting like a body guard for Planter as Planter was quite weak, weak because of his poor magical skills.

"So where is these advance magical weapons?" asked Hoss to Nigel as they were walking down a hallway.

"They should be somewhere down these hallways" replied Nigel as he was using his wand like a flashlight.

"Shouldn't be too hard" said Hoss.

As they were looking for any sort of place where those advance magical weapons could be, Nigel found a strange door and opened it.

"This must be it" said Nigel as he opened the door.

"It's kind of dark in here" said Hoss.

Suddenly the lights turned out and Dean Toadblat was in the center of the room along with a group of hooded wizards.

"Well, well, well" said Dean Toadblat, "if it isn't Nigel Planter and his friend Hoss Delgado coming here to retrieve some advance magical weapons to fight Mindy's Empire."

"So how do you know about that?" asked Nigel.

"I'm part of her intelligence network now you idiots" replied Toadblat, "and I would enjoy torturing you two and bringing you two to Mindy on your knees begging for mercy."

"Not if I can turn you into frogs legs" said Hoss as he readied his mechanical arm and turned it into a machine gun of some sort.

Hoss then began to fire against the hooded wizards and Toadblat. But Toadblat used his wand and created a shield around himself while not doing the same to his fellow thugs which unfortunately led to life threatening injuries for all of the hooded wizards as they were too slow in drawing their wands against Hoss.

"You're next!" shouted Hoss as he pointed his machine gun hand to Toadblat.

"Okay, okay" said Toadblat, "take whatever you want."

"Not buying it" said Hoss as he turned his machine hand into some sort of bazooka and launched a net from it, "we're going to have some frog legs when we get back to Cuba."

"Time to hit the road' said Nigel as he got some advance magical weapons.

"Let's get going then" said Hoss.

As they left the scene Grim had arrived on the scene to reap the group of hooded wizards.

"About time I came into this story instead of just narrating it" said Grim as a portal opened then he got out his scythe, "time to reap you poor souls and send you to the nether realm with the others."

The scene then ends with the sound of the scythe slashing against a few objects.