Chapter 10
Scepter of Darkness
Summary: Time has been altered in the interest of the cunning defeater of Voldemort, Dumbledore had no idea this would happen and he wasn't able to stop the plan now the timeline has been altered. Peril is on the horizon of this future, beware the wrath of the dragon.
Helltanz's notes: Some foreshadowing. Also the Middle East were pro Axis during the second world war, prominent phrase, I may be misquoting it but it's the jist, "Allah is your lord in heaven, Adolf Hitler is your lord on earth." And that was in English controlled territory, so I don't think their loyalty is that much of a stretch. Another small change is the way the Axis is divided into regions, moderate future the countries of Spain and France, Hispania and Gaul their Axis regional names, will still be allies to Germany but not directly under direct German control, they have sovereign governments, as I mention. Also when I say the Axis, and by extension Soviet, Carriers are armed with missile batteries I mean like heavy ship to ground or ship to ship batteries as well as ship to air batteries. Also for obvious reasons the Hellsing once we return to the future will be very different, the biggest is because the Germans did not loose World War II, thus Millenium did not go to South America. The Axis Stargate Program will not include the Soviet Union; the Stargate Program will be built in a new location, not the Hell's Citadel Facility of the Order of the Dragon. James Essex is X-men's Sinister, Sinister is one of my favorites characters; you will note he also shows up in Lightning Fervor.
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Chapter Begin
Introduction
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"With the conclusion of the Korean conflict the world went through some changes, the United Sates of America was pushing for the creation of the United Nations of this timeline, it would differ greatly from the previous United Nations. But before that could come around into being we had other issues. And indeed many things went on. Zero and Ein started attending Durmstrang academy of magic, a fond day indeed, despite my teases. We confirmed the other powers had super soldiers better that we now knew were sure.
We, the Four I mean, myself, Grindelwald, Adolf, and Sehkmet went about our tasks. Adolf was dealing with the non magical leaders, as he was chancellor of the empire, I to dealt with my share of non magical heads of state, as did Grindelwald after he, something I was very glad about, succeeded me as the primary ambassador to England when the Korean conflict broke out, I handled the Soviet Union, something that Stalin was more than pleased about, I imagine I am a tad more amiable than my predecessor, Sehkmet was handling some technological and archeological activities in the former Goa'uld regions of the Earth that were under Axis control.
Unfortunately this is where problems started.
Grindelwald was attacked in England by an English wizard, again, who managed to escape do to the incompetence of the Aurors something I am partially inclined to believe was them simply turning a blind eye to the attack. I was in England with an hour of the word being spread. Sehkmet was assembling a fleet of bombers armed with alchemically enhanced Naquadah bombs. Adolf went before the entirety of the Axis confederation on the state television, a formality really, and alerted the situation, the German branch of the Heer was mobilized almost immediately, with the order going out to mobilize the entire imperial military. Stalin put the Red Army on alert as well. The Order of the Dragon went to full combat alert, our highest peace time alert status, UNIT Two and Unit Eight started to move closer to England. The Thule Society began assisting the Axis military in their preparations for combat, and readied themselves for offensive against the English wizards. With the military mobilizing and Orden intelligence reports indicating Truman was furious and things looked pretty grim, or another way of putting it good odds for war. We needed to prevent a war while maintaining the position of the Empire.
The English wizards had not a truly serious clue of their situation Soviet Lenin Battleships had met up in the north sea and were moving with the rest of the Red Navy's Atlantic Surface fleet alongside the Kriegsmarine and Orden of the Dragon commanded Navies toward England.
While the problem was also going on we had another in France the America had decided to take a leaf out of the Soviet's book, the resistance were getting American made guns. Well it certainly was a nuisance would have been more so if the French Magical Resistance were not like the English and would use everything at their disposal but their stupidity is our advantage, it was a small problem to regular troops thankfully the resistance suffered greatly from the SS and Gestapo raids coordinated by the Orden's intelligence division, though they still proved elusive though they rarely acted except in isolated incidents after the sixties, becoming nothing more than a small group of fanatics.
With the impending possibility of war tensions rose once more to all time highs. And even once the problem was resolved things were tense, and it was still politics as usual. Now more so, the English pureblood wizards were deciding to make a move and we needed to be weary of Dumbledore, the fool actually would have the gal to attempt to kidnap me a decade after my 'rebirth' in my own Duchy none the less, the stupid sheep he sent actually were foolish enough to admit they had illegally entered the country.
But that is alas a tale for another day, as I was explaining in the spring of nineteen fifty three Grindelwald was attacked, oh it failed miserably the Blitzjager dealt with the attempt forcing the attempter to withdraw Grindelwald ended up with a fractured arm nothing more, but it was an attempt none the less against a leader of the empire. So we all, meaning all the various world leaders, the important ones any way, had to sit through this annoying conference in an attempt to smooth over relations, well the conference was also to help start the United Nations, so I might as well cover them, the founding members were the United Arab States, or UAS, or sometimes known as the new Ottoman kingdom, it was a collection of several middle eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Afghanistan, Oman, and the Emirates territory, oh and Yemen, it is the Islamic state of the Axis confederation they enjoy quite a free hand in self government, obviously the Soviet Union is another member of the new United Nations, as is the United States of America, the Dracaena States, the nations governed by the Orden is also a permanent member, then you have Germany proper and Imperial Japan, and obviously Great Britain, and Canada.
Well after all the pleasantries were dealt with, it was back to various works for the rest of us, till the next major incident and the Vietnam War, well unless you don't count getting dragged back down in to the muck that is pureblood politics. Though in the beginning it was myself and Grindelwald, and our respective political blocs, were focused on fixing up the continental pureblood contingents into a more ideal group; ideal in our sense of the definition but England is still part of Europe, as much as modern continental purebloods would like to deny it.
Among other things that occurred in Europe was Turkey's application to the Drachenorden governed Dracaena, which was surprising as it had been suspected that it would apply to membership to the United Arab States, not that Hitler had a problem with Turkey joining either portion, the application votes were actually free unaltered by government or resistance forces, namely the Arab states were very loyal to the Axis corp. of states, and because they were given quite a bit of self government.
Unlike in the previous timeline South America was undergoing a large amount of turmoil, with nations becoming Fascist, Communist, or Democratic, each siding with their respective superpower. The United States fostered relations with several of the later countries, who in turn allowed pro US policies to flourish and the setting up of United States armed forces bases.
I met Tom again; he was studying to become a proper dark lord he became Dark Lord Voldemort in the seventies, Abraxas, who was still a bit of a… pansy I suppose wuss maybe, married had a son named Lucius who thankfully for the Malfoy line didn't inherit the daddy boy syndrome.
But anyway I'll start the day after the attempt, with the rather irritating diplomatic meeting with the English Wizarding Government."
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Europe, 'Free Nation' of England, London
Asran cracked his neck strolling down the corridors, the lights flickered due to a conveniently enough release of magic embarrassing the English ministry for 'faulty charms'.
Flanking Asran were six Drachenorden shock troops, oh the English weren't happy but arguing with the death eyed noble when he has eight gigaton yield warheads pointed at all your major cities not going to do much. Beside him was Gellert Grindelwald flanking him were the Thule Society's own shock troops.
Asran hummed quietly to himself projecting a loathably calm exterior, the cane, which concealed Gram, twirled gracefully in his hand as the duke strolled through the hall. Asran's boots clicked against the hall floors, the first sign of an assassination attempt the Drachen Orden leader would flood the building with gamma radiation, which would trigger the orden pre prepared safety precautions moving them back to safe territory, and start a new war in the process.
Asran walked through the Wizengamot doors flanked by his 'escorts', in reality the shock troops while more then capable with dealing with the sheep were mere show, out of sight awaited the jinn ready to strike, two forces standing by to wipe out the British magical government in the event things went sour.
Asran glanced upon the Wizengamot and other officials of England. "Well good morning, well I suppose it would be a good morning if circumstances were different, I won't bother with meaningless trivialities or dodging around the subject, because of your societies idiot actions you all of you are facing imminent annihilation at the hands of the Empire." You could here the capital letter.
"And sadly they were not the aggressors this time around."
Truman had arrived, surrounded by secret service guards.
Asran and everyone's eyes fell upon the president of the United States.
"Yes, it was you who attacked Grindelwald, and didn't even pretend enough to make convincing, sadly the attempt failed, and the Axis is united together to strike out, against this small island nation, you face the combined might of the entirety of the Tripartite Pact, that is the combined magical and non magical force of Germanic Kingdom, Gaul, Hispania, the States of Dracaena, the United Arab States, the Scandinavian States, the Asiatic Nationalist States, the Soviet Union, Nationalist North Africa, and the Empire of Japan."
Asran's speech was working some of the members were starting to sweat, others looked offended.
One of the light aligned members stood up. "How dare you this is England you dark wizards can't come."
"Sit down fool, or I will kill you now, England is nothing puny child which thinks it can play with the adults, without America's intervention you would not exist." Sneered Grindelwald.
"Why you!"
Magic erupted spreading like a drenching storm. "Silence, this talk is to prevent war not encourage that course of events." Stated Asran with a sneer of his own, most people shivered due to the amount of magic that held on their shoulders like a heavy weight. The duke of Kiev looked down his eyes swooping the room like a tiger. "Despite Gellert's crass method of explaining it, England is in no position to challenge the Germanic Kingdom, much less the entirety of the Imperial Confederation of Axis States, or another Axis Power, like the Soviet Union or the Empire of Japan, and most certainly not all of the Tripartite pact members at once. This conflict can yet be avoided. I should think that should be everyone's goal, and everyone's goal to avoid meaningless bloodshed. England did not act unilaterally in this and we of the Axis understand this but none the less the government turned a blind eye to it and allowed it to happen that is wholly unacceptable, England, nor any other nation can afford to act in such a manner, one side of the government cannot encourage such reckless and foolish behavior, you would indeed be alienating your own populous, you may not think but the non magical world is a part of your nation and either you will stand as one and may yet survive or will surely fall, as sure as the sun sets every day bringing night." Asran's deathly eyes swept the crowd once more, the sheep needed to understand, not because Asran desired their survival, no because if they continued to act in this manner they would encourage hard line elements with in the Empire, radicals who desired a truly unified empire under a single German banner, the empire as it was, was still technically just a tightly bound and unified confederation of states, though some were ruled by proxy of a puppet leader. War would encourage hardliners, and in this case and in the current state of the world such imperialists would not be a positive thing, for either the world or the Empire.
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Asran looked about it was decided it had worked, the English had done the correct thing, and they had handed over the assassin, a Thomas Prewwet. Asran drew his the silver dragon inscribed Berretta and chambered a single rune inscribed bullet, the gun clicked as the safety was turned off as Asran turned to face the would be assassin. The custom made Berretta pistol came up, and the Duke of Kiev, the leader of the most powerful order of knights in the world squeezed the trigger sending the executioners bullet tumbling through the air. The chamber was filled with a deafening crack, as the pistol let loose its retort. The assassins body quivered as the bullet pierced his abdomen, the magic began to work, no survival, the man would die a slow torturous death, the bullet had pierced the lining of his stomach he would bleed out, and his stomach acid would burn his organs, as the bullet's magic damned his soul. Asran caught the expended shell casing with his free hand, and stowed it away.
Once the man's body finally gave out. Asran raised his hand with a flick of his finger he severed the head, and destroyed the body and the bullet.
Asran sheathed his second sidearm, returning it to its holster at the back of his waist.
Now that this unpleasantness had been dealt with, the talks could begin to discuss the formation of the United Nations.
It was a small thing, this had simply been the fool who had been tricked into being the wet works man, he had not planned the attempt against Gellert he had merely attempted to carry it out, but it would satisfy the people, knowing that he had suffered judgment.
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Axis Empire, Europe, Germanic Kingdom, Central Sector, Austria, Vienna, grounds of the University
Asran moved with unparalleled grace down the streets. The Germanic Kingdom, as it was named was geo politically like the Roman Empire borders wise for the most part, except with Berlin as its capital, rather than Rome, it was the major Axis state of the confederation.
Vienna itself was a center of higher learning in the magical world, like Ravenna or Venice in Italy, or Berlin in Germany, or Kiev. The formation of the United Nations had gone well its permanent membership included several Axis powers, the United Arab States, Drachenorden, Germany, of course, the Soviet Union, and the Empire of Japan. Though the Soviet Union was kind of the odd man out being communist, they had been pushing for the addition of another communist republic being admitted, Venezuela or Cuba were there preferred choices. Asran sighed thinking of the matter.
The Allies had designated the Lenin as the Dreadnought. Truman had been replaced by Eisenhower, more military build up was occurring, indeed the first and second of the Elysium class super battleship would be laid down in a few weeks one in Odessa in the Ukraine, and the other in Kiel, Germany, but yet the world seemed almost normal.
England was in a stir, at least in the magical portion of the sheep land, politically it was divided Dumbledore and the supposed light side, the ministry, and the traditional purebloods, each extolling their own view of what was the right course of action. America was solid politically unified any way against communism any way, slowly were the United States warming up to the other Axis.
But it didn't matter that wasn't important at the moment, despite the fact Asran lived by his ancestor's name, the noble house of Kiev, he was still one of Potter blood inheriting the English family's skill in ward construction and spell craft, born as Harry Potter, the Drachenorden leader had basically learned the craft without tutoring up until he had been ten. Vienna's university, Gellert's alma mater, had applied for special package of warding.
The warding had been a favor, in warding their were three types of wards for permanent structures, you had home defense, wards to stop burglars and alert the law authorities mainly, then you had wards used for commercial buildings and schools like Durmstrang, they were stronger and generally not nearly as intruder friendly, and then you had the wards which guarded the estates of purebloods certain of the wards of this were illegal in but it mostly depended on the government, but for the most part they were legal simply because no one knew about them, when the last of a family of ward casters died the secrets died with them. The Potter's had been careful a nice little tome locked inside a box made of cold iron in hollow hill in Wales, then again it had not been such a surprise.
All Asran wanted to do now was to head home to his manor. To Asran such warding wasn't particularly draining, creating a Shangri-La base was a tad exhausting in comparison. However it didn't mean Asran wanted to be out after expanding such a large amount of energy.
Kemmler nodded beside him, the necromancer looked thoroughly exhausted, Radu was sweating under the fading light of the sun, the fourth member of the group was Aleksander Duran a prominent pureblood, holding the title of count, he was one of the man purebloods that Asran was getting used to dealing with on a regular basis. The group cleared the line of the wards.
"Well I am due back in Munich." Stated Kemmler suppressing a yawn.
"Right."
Kemmler vanished into a black sulfurous cloud.
"I hate it when he does that." Grumbled Duran. "Herr Asran you are invited to the gala in October remember that."
"I will be heading back to Aissii." Radu vanished as well. Aissii was a newly, actually the base was still under construction; anyway it was a new air force base in the Umbria region of Italy.
The death eyed knight vanished as well.
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Europe, Axis Empire, Drachen Orden dominion Dracaena, Turkey, Order of the Dragon Terra to Spatial Coordination Facility number 3, Command Center
The new facility was similar to its counterparts from the original timeline's space program, with one major difference, this facility was designed along with other four facilities currently in operation to coordinate with the newly finished Order of the Dragon Jörmungandr Space Station.
"Status report."
"All communication stations are up and running the station is transmitting the information general."
"Good keep me informed Herr Asran will be here shortly."
"I am here actually."
"Lord Asran." The general glanced at the clock. 'He's early, again.'
The largest plasma screens flickered to life, display a massive circular wheel shaped station, around the wheel like station were varying pods and other protrusions.
"Status on the mirage colloid?"
"They are preparing to activate it my lord."
The radio
clicked on. "Herr Asran we are now activating the Mirage
Colloid."
Several smaller screens showed the space station
vanish from view.
"Mirage Colloid deployment has been completed Lord Asran."
"Confirmed, the mirage colloid is functioning as planned. If it fails immediately switch to hyper jammers, the Mirage Colloid system is a prototype once the hyper jammers are functioning, if you need to deactivate and jump to Shangri-la to repair the Mirage Colloid."
"Yes lord Asran."
"Be advised the Babylon Military Platform will be passing nearby."
"Acknowledged we have it on sensors."
"Yes it will be passing over the Southern region of the United States of America check and insure its course is correct report back in half an hour."
"Yes Lord Asran."
The radio clicked off.
"I am going to check on the launch platforms." Asran turned on his heel and left the command center. The Turkish complex was still under construction, but for the most part its operations centers were finished and only the launch platforms were what needed to be completed, not limited to the three large mass drivers that were under construction, they would be completed sometime in nineteen sixty.
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Europe, Axis Empire, Germanic Kingdom, Berlin, Capital building
'Empire of Japan, here, Arab State, here, Gaul, here, Hispania, here, Germanic kingdom, obviously present, Drachen Orden, here,' Asran scoffed before continuing his attendance checklist. 'North African states, here, right every one is present.'
"Welcome, we are here to discuss a new joint top secret project, to strengthen the Axis."
'Giving him a stargate may not have been a good idea, after all.' Thought Asran. 'I can't believe I have to listen another one these glory of the Reich speeches.'
"Due to the contributions of Herr Asran the Axis now possess a powerful alien artifact of long vanished race of humanity, the device is known as the Astria Porta, literally Stargate, with this we may explore other worlds."
The meeting continued while the politicians continued to debate where the new Axis stargate facility should be constructed, obviously Asran had suggested a mountain facility, for additional protection, and that the facility is to be constructed in utmost secrecy.
'Which should delay the implementation of the program for five to eight years, more than enough time to implement appropriate security measures.' Thought Asran watching the politicians debate possible locations for the base. 'That is assuming the politicians pick a location sometime with in the decade.'
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Chapter conclusion
Helltanz's notes: What do you think of the new summary? Asran's magic release is like a Shinigami captain, or other high ranking Shinigami, from Bleach releasing his spiritual pressure. So to recap the nations who are permanent member of the New Timeline United Nations are Germany or more precisely the Germanic Kingdom, Imperial Japan, the United States of America, the Dracaena States, Canada, the Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United Arab States, and Iceland, the are the permanent, Founder, members, meaning they have permanent seats on the UN Security Council. The Germanic Kingdom is comprised of Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece and Albania.
The Germanic Kingdom is divided into two major sectors the Central states comprised of Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Czechoslovakia and the Eastern state comprised of Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece and Albania. The next few chapters will probably cover the Vietnam conflict going over allied attempts to repress communist rebels in the nineteen later portion fifties, more Wizards, Axis and Allies, and eventually a nuclear armed battle tank developed by the soviets in the sixties. Oh and Stalin will survive at least until the mid sixties.
The Future: (besides Stargate differences borders will also differ in each future, as will magical-muggle relations)
Benevolent Future: The Nazi succeed however Hitler dies and is replaced by a less Master race leader (Grindelwald dies as well unless people vote they want otherwise additionally Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, Roosevelt will likely die oh somewhere in the seventies and a decade later for Grindelwald)
Five votes for
Moderate Future: Nazi's still in power, the Axis states are all allied together in a confederation (Grindelwald will likely be alive though also Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, maybe mid sixties he will be out of office by then, Hitler will be dead make no mistake, this is true for all timelines, he will be dead by the time we get back to the present, also the Russian Federation, well they won't be exactly the same after the fall of communism in the nineties)
Six votes for
Harsh Future the third Reich is victorious the culture Nazi Empire if this occurs will likely hold some similarities to the Dominion of Draka, it is likely rating will increase to M, the non M rated Harsh future will if written will feature all Axis states united in one large multi continental empire, meaning a tightly unified (Roosevelt will survive longer than in reality, Hitler is succeeded after his death by a leader who wished to build the Third Reich into the greatest empire to ever exist, additionally the US will expand to encompass both American Continents)
One vote for