A/N: Here's the another extra chapter!

This is a follow-up that takes place shortly after the Arcadian Cross attack. It is chronologically 14th, and not posted before.

Enjoy!

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Cain

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Ruined! Everything was ruined tonight! This was supposed to be a momentous event for me! Prime Minister Natsuma and I were going to make a speech that would forge a renewed business relationship! But, it's all been ruined thanks to those damned Sailor Senshi and whatever those extraterrestrials were! Every single time I try to make a good scene, fate just so happens to dash it all away!

"Damn it all!" I cursed and tried to relieve my nerves after taking a few deep breaths. Relax, control yourself. Yeah, easier said than done when all the hard work you put forth goes down the drain. This has happened more than on one occasion. First, they were responsible for the loss of my wife, their good will to the people overshadows mine, and tonight... this has gone long far enough! I stood from my chair and paced forward to the wall of windows in front of me. I meticulously viewed the quiet evening Tokyo city and it was baffling to believe the skies were filled with resounding explosives.

The O-Bon Festival turned into a war zone in a matter of minutes.

No one had seen the invasion coming. Whatever they were, the Arcadian Cross are just more outsiders these heroes seemingly have been attracting! When is this madness going to stop? I was lucky to have fled from the scene. I had my trusted bodyguard, Grace Groves, safely escort me back to my facility.

I can't quite elaborate how and why Yamaki supports the Sailor Senshi, or these Digimon. All of these meta-humans and monsters don't belong in our city! With the powers they wield, they're attracting all these otherworldly threats and leaving nothing but collateral damage in the wake of their battles. Well, I've had enough! Someone has to police and pacify these freaks before our world becomes their playground! I won't be trifled with and I refuse to accept these super-powered beings to freely run amok.

If there's anyone who will stop them, it will be someone with power, prestige, wealth, and capital. It will be someone who has gathered the resources necessary to subdue these super-powered monsters. That's me.

I am Cain Bearer, famed CEO and entrepreneur of CainCorp. I am in control of the American and Japanese branches of my corporation, which I've inherited from my father, Stephen C. Bearer. I was entrusted to expand my father's empire and establish strong business relations on a domestic and international level. I oversee the activities that occur within the American facility in San Francisco and the Japanese facility in the Shinjuku Ward. My companies' line of work revolve around engineering, scientific research, robotics, military weaponry, and state of the art technology. I've claimed fame in becoming Man of the Year twice, albeit that was when she was still alive to see me receive the prestigious reward. On top of many awards, I've even won favors with the United States government, befriended three US Presidents, and loaned some of my tech to every US Military branch.

I was a man who had it all.

But, lost the most important person in my life.

Mei.

Why do I hold such resentment for these super-powered beings? This is all stems back to an incident that happened eight years ago...

My wife and I were walking in the park on a night with several shooting stars. We had heard about them on the news and Mei wanted to see them for herself, when a black cloud of serpentine smoke came out of the sky and appeared to pierce her through the heart. As the smoke passed through my wife's body, it seemed to draw out a bright purple crystal. The smoke seemed to be drawn to this crystal as it surrounded it and began to form the shape of a body. It was too dark to make out many details, but it was definitely a woman's body with long hair wearing a black sailor fuku with a white skirt and a white bow, the uniform of a Sailor Senshi.

Suddenly, Mei collapsed into my arms, unconscious. I carried her to the street and hailed a taxi, but by the time we got to the hospital, it was too late. Her official cause of death was a heart attack, but even the doctors were perplexed, as my wife had been perfectly healthy up to that point. It was if her heart just lost all its strength. I tried to tell the doctors what I saw, but they didn't believe me. They chalked it up to the delusions of a grieving husband, but I know what I saw.

Mei, I miss you, my dear.

You were taken away from me too soon.

My friends, family, and rivals have claimed that I've fallen into descent, but that's nonsense. They don't understand me. Few do. One of those few is Grace. With Mei gone, she has filled that void to suppress the inherent rage in my heart.

"Sir, it's me, Grace."

"Come in, Grace."

The instant my office doors opened, Grace Groves, my bodyguard, came in garbed in a black business suit and matching colored heels. Grace is not only my bodyguard, but my trusted office assistant and comrade. I took her under my wing six years ago and acquired her services. Prior to being my bodyguard, she was the leader of a teenage street gang. Her life completely turned upside down when they betrayed her and left her for dead. I found her sitting on a street corner and without a home. It was then her former gang tried to finish the job, but I intervened, with limited success. Grace quickly interceded on my behalf and gained her retribution by severely beating down the gang she once considered a family. Intrigued by her strength and resiliency, I offered Grace a home and she accepted in kind.

For the last six years, she's been devoted to serving me and accomplishing the duties bestowed to her. She currently lives a wealthier life and that wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for me.

Grace approached my desk and placed a folder on my desk.

"Are those files on the Souja Project in the files like I asked of Victor?"

"Yes, sir. He's given you a report on the status updates on the preliminary Souja Units."

"Very good," I smiled as coolly as I was able to, despite being filled with so much anger over the disaster from the O-Bon Festival.

I didn't fool Grace. She was easily able to discern my mood and approached my side. "Sir, what matters is that we escaped from there alive. You or I couldn't have predicted an attack from outside forces."

"But those so-called heroes caused as much damage as those invaders! Our saviors are the ones who lure these outsiders to our world!"

Grace nodded and calmed me by rubbing my shoulders. "I know. Please relax, sir. Don't overly stress yourself. You'll pop more than just a blood vessel." I let out a deep and relaxed sigh as she continued massaging my shoulders. She moved her hands over the back of my neck. I leaned back and looked her straight in the eyes. "While you obviously show hostility toward those heroes, the Prime Minister's views skew differently from yours. He was thankful for them saving all those people at the festival."

"They even have the Prime Minister eating out of their hands. They're not fooling me..."

"Sir, with all due respect..."

"I don't want to hear it, Grace. Are you on my side or theirs?"

She dismissively nodded and massaged my head, whispering. "Yours, sir. Why would I betray the man who gave me a new life? After all, it was you who saved me from living the rest of my life as a street urchin."

"Indeed, and your loyalty has earned the finest rewards."

Grace smiled as she withdrew her hands from my scalp. I stood from my chair and casually paced toward the doors. "Come, Grace. Let us see how Victor is coming along with the Souja units."

"Coming, sir."

After opening the door for her, we headed toward an elevator and went down to one of my main laboratories. There we saw a Hispanic man with a thick black goatee, short dark hair, and garbed in a white lab coat. This man is Victor Trask, the head of my science department and an entrusted colleague who's worked with my company for 9 years. It was four and half years ago that Victor and his crew collected alien tech from the Rajita invaders after the incursion abruptly ended. Victor's discovery intrigued me and I had him conceal these findings in one of my secret laboratories. What he and his team discovered was groundbreaking. They found a living bio-mechanical organism in one of the alien pods. This organism referred itself as Souja. This alien bio-mechanical life form has shown itself to be capable of communicating with humans via verbal and telepathic means.

Interestingly enough, a Rajita ship was shot down by an Air Force pilot outside San Francisco and confiscated by the US Government, who took it to a containment facility at Beale Air Force Base in Sacramento, California. And since then, there have been alleged reports of meta-humans in California in the last few years. Could these meta-humans and these alien ships have a connection? No, it seems to be just a series of coincidental and rather isolated incidents. Still, it's something I can't seem to shake off my mind. The notion of a growing number of metas overseas disturbs me. It's as if my worst fears are catching up.

"Sir, you might want to know..." Victor addressed me. "Lately, the Souja unit has been rather inconsistent with its actions lately."

"Have you gotten anything more from the machine?" I approached the head of my science department.

Victor turned and nodded dismissively. "I'm sorry, Mr. Bearer. Other than what I've written in my latest report, nothing else. The Souja unit isn't active. In fact, it's shifted into stasis mode."

"I see. The machine's been stubborn lately," I coolly smirked as I casually paced across and stared toward the wall of windows. They barricaded a confined room with a large tank containing a half-humanoid cybernetic being floating inside. I noted two glowing orbs , colored cyan and purple, situated on its forehead. I pressed a button as steel doors slid across the windows and concealed the room containing the Souja. I'll leave it be for now, but I will require the Souja to produce weapons necessary to combat these super-powered beings.

No, I'll need more than just the Souja.

In order to suppress those monsters, I require a larger and more efficient assembly. I'll need to fight super-powered beings with super-powered beings.

I must create an army to defy these heroes. I will protect the masses and expose their so-called saviors as the tyrannical oppressors. They wish use their powers to authorize their place amongst us good and normal people. I will open everyone's eyes and unite every nation to destroy these super-powered beings! Whether they're Sailor Senshi, Digimon, or any freak of nature with powers, they're all a menace to society.

Jeremiah and Yamaki won't likely join my cause. That's fine. I don't need them.

I have all the power and capital I need to make this all possible.

But, this can't happen overnight. Rome wasn't built in a day. And there's a chance there'll be obstacles to obstruct me from attaining my goal. I've learned to accept that there will be delays, but I won't rest. I will ensure a better and stabilized future for normal people. I will ensure that no incident like what happened in the O-Bon ever occurs. We will secure every perimeter, hunt down these freaks, and drive them to the darkness where they belong!

And only then will you finally rest in peace, Mei.

I lowered my head and clasped my heads together, praying for my fallen love.

"Grace, I'm ready to return to my private quarters. I need rest."

I bid my farewell to Victor and his team while leaving with Grace. As we arrived at the limousine sitting outside my facility, Grace offered me my coat and opened the door for me.

"Sir, try and get some rest this time. I'm worried..."

"I'll be ok, Grace. Safeguard my mansion and don't let anyone in. Oh, and do make yourself at home while you're on guard duty."

She affirmed. "Understood." With no further arguments, she closed the door and I sat in meditation while remaining in solitude in the back.

In less than half an hour, I was home and laying comfortably. My hands held a framed picture of me and my late-wife. It was our wedding picture, which I kept in a drawer in the nightstand. I set the framed picture down and turned away, facing a wall of windows situated near my bedside. A fiendish smile curled over my face as I envisioned myself being the crusader to oppose the metas and monsters plaguing our world.

I will restore the balance of this world and make for a better tomorrow.

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My Commentary: This just might be my shortest entry in this series. Well, that was always my intention. I think I got straight to the point regarding Cain's intentions.

Cain Bearer was created as a voice against those with superpowers, primarily against the Sailor Senshi. He's the Lex Luthor to their Superman. Whether they're a Sailor Senshi, a Digimon, a Beast Tamer, a Chimera, one attuned to the supernatural, or just linked to forces beyond human comprehension, he holds no liking to them. He views them all as out of place within human society and a threat to people. He lost his wife when a mysterious Sailor Senshi garbed in black stole her Pure Heart Crystal. Who is this murderous Senshi? I will say two things: First, the 'night with several shooting stars' that Cain alludes to happens during Episode 200 of Sailor Moon. Second, we have not seen the last of her.

Subsequently following the loss of his wife, Cain fell into despair and his hatred for the Senshi grew. But, as more heroes and metas started appearing, Cain reaffirmed his stance against not just the Senshi, but toward all super-powered beings. The Rajita Invasion, Taiyoukai attack, and now the Arcadian Cross are just more variables that firmly establish his need to get rid of the super-powered beings. Over time, his paranoia has also gotten the better of him. He believes the heroes are only doing good will to win over their mass support and will later betray them by becoming tyrannical. In Cain's eyes, these 'heroes' are in it together to rule over the weak and form a totalitarian power.

To oppose this supposed threat, Cain feels he needs to help open the masses' eyes. Now, while I know the heroes have a lot of support, there will be dissenters who will join Cain eventually. Only time will tell. However, the Souja unit that Cain's science team uncovered from a few Rajita pods may hold a key to building weapons to oppress the heroes. The Souja will be more or less a Master Mold/Brainiac Expy. Victor Trask is the Expy for Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinels. The weapons Cain wishes to create will be based off Sentinels, but I don't wish to disclose any further detail on the extremities of their nature.

In Dawn of Chaos, Cain and his department have already started gathering intel spying on the heroes. They've already started accumulating information about the heroes and began forging suits & weapons based on the alien tech from the Rajita & Souja. So, yeah as of season 3, the build-up to forming his Defiant army is already in the works.

Grace Groves (a Mercy Graves Expy) is not only Cain's bodyguard and colleague, but fills the void left by Cain's wife, Mei. While not romantically linked to him, she does care for his well being and remains loyal to him. Yeah, I know she's a former street urchin like Kasumi. The difference being she was taken in by Cain after being betrayed by the gang she led.

Anyway, this chapter serves as a precursor to one of my future YYGDM installments, which falls a few years after Dawn of Chaos. It'll be entitled Wrath of the Defiants. And if you didn't already notice, everything seemingly is aligning into place, according to Angelia and Zagato's claims. Lycosyncer, if you're reading this, I know you're really giddy about these developments. But, you and the other readers will have to hold for a few more years. Dawn of Chaos is already long enough as it is and that story will likely end in 2013. There'll be a few stories after that, which will ultimately build up to Wrath of the Defiants. This includes a story based on the Sacramento incident.

The wrecked ship in Sacramento just happened to be the one Nate Escobar shot down in Season 2. The Rajita pod held containers of serum, which were then developed into a mutagen. Now the ship has been held in the real-life Beale AFB inside a containment facility. And whatever got leaked out has been exposed to a few Californians, including the daughter of the Air Force Admiral in charge of Beale. These California-based meta-humans will be featured in their own spin-off story entitled The West Coasters, which will be the final tie-in to the Wrath of the Defiants event. Most of these major events to this point have been planned ahead, but I do hope I can make it this far. Granted, anything could happen from now until then, but I remain optimistic.

The series will continue to develop and mature if it hasn't been already. We still have a lot more YYGDM ground to cover until then. The series isn't ending any time soon and I hope you'll still continue to support!

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