Divergence (Chapter 4)
Author's Note: I promise this story does have a plot. These first few chapters are the buildup.
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October, 13'Th, 1840: Arendelle city, Kingdom of Arendelle, inside royal carriage.
"So that man didn't want to eat me" Elsa said to her little sister as they sat in the carriage heading back to the castle.
"Well not in the literal sense" Anna answered hoping that Elsa would drop the matter. Part of the reason Anna had become so angry at that crude dock worker was the way he could voice his desires for the Queen (that matched her own) and not be rejected by his peers.
"Well why else would he want to know what I taste like?" Elsa pressed on, completely confused by the matter.
"Um… Elsa I'm surprised you haven't figured this out. Mama and Papa gave you the talk right?"
"I had many talks with our parents."
"I mean the birds and the bees one."
Elsa just gave her sister an odd look.
"Oh come on you have to know about this. Sex Elsa, I know you know what that is, I mean you went ape sh… you went ballistic when you walked in on me and the rest of us when we were having that four-way."
"Yes Anna, I did not approve of that one bit. However, even though you took advantage of our sweet cousin, she had not been eaten."
"Oh yes she had, and if you had been fifteen minutes earlier you would have seen me eating Rapunzel."
"Anna, Punzie is alive and well, you did not eat her"
"Ahh the hell with it" Anna finally cried out and then proceeded to whisper in the Queens ear."
"Oh my" Elsa said in a gasp.
"Well I don't see how that could make a baby."
"WHAT!? Anna when that man said he wanted to know what I taste like, he actually meant…"
Anna nodded her head and spoke again "He actually said "I wonder if her pussy tastes like vanilla ice cream." And that's a direct quote, so you can't give me any soap points.
"Why, that disgusting pervert. Anna I am glad you made him swim in the fjord." Elsa pondered the situation for a moment and then spoke when she had a realization. "So everyone there knew what he meant"
Anna nodded
"So when I ordered everyone to return to their homes because of a dangerous cannibal, I was really just making a fool of myself." Elsa looked away and hugged herself feeling very small and stupid.
"No Elsa, you thought you were protecting them, our people realize that."
"They realize that there Queen is a fool."
"Uh, uh; you are not a fool. You are a smart and talented Queen who is loved by all of her subjects; especially this one." Anna said as she placed the side of her head on Elsa's shoulder.
"Anna you are my sister not my subject, I don't like thinking about you that way. I don't like being the authoritarian monarch with you."
"You didn't have a problem being one, when you made me stand in the corner last week." Anna said in a slightly sulking tone.
Elsa ran her fingers thru Anna's hair as she spoke with a smile. "That was me being your big sister not your monarch. If memory serves, I never officially passed judgement on you like I did the others."
Anna thought about it for a minute and realized that Elsa was correct, and that seeing she was the one pulling the strings on that bizarre little puppet show Anna had to admit that she had gotten off pretty easy."
"I guess that unlike Kristoff, no matter what you'll never take my carrots away" Anna said with a smirk.
"Yes and unlike you, Kristoff will never go across my knee for bad behavior". Anna's smirk quickly turned in to a pout; and then into a giggle as she pictured Elsa spanking the large ice harvester.
Elsa wasn't privy to Anna's thoughts, but she was glad to hear her little sister giggle.
"I was really tempted to carry out my other threats." Anna said
Elsa then took her sister's hand into her own. "We both know that you would not have had that man executed."
"No, but I was tempted to give him the fifty lashes in the town square." Anna said as she flashed an evil grin.
"You are fully aware that I would not have permitted you to do that."
"Why not? He would have lived… well maybe… you know, if he didn't have a heart attack or something."
"Anna, once you were done; with all of the adrenaline and rage spent, you would look at his blood soaked back and burst into tears from guilt."
"Uh, no I wouldn't. I'm stone cold like that" Anna said feigning a hard and rugged demeanor.
Elsa leaned in and kissed her little sister on the cheek and spoke with a smile. "Yes, my little sister, is stone cold"
"Well not when you say it like that." Anna blushed.
Elsa pulled her sister into a hug and then placed the girls head in her lap and looked down into loving teal eyes as she stroked the young woman's hair. "Anna you do not have a mean bone in your body
"Ugh.. But I'm fierce. Anna lamented weekly from Elsa's lap."
"Of course you are my little princess"
Anna looked up at her sister and smiled while thinking. "I am fierce… and dear god I'm in love."
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April 28, 1995: Tokyo, Japan,Akasaka district, Syndicate headquarters beneath the Tebanashimasu motel.
Alter quickly crouched down to cheek for a pulse, there wasn't one.
"Alter look" Ethan said pointing at Hiragana characters drawn in blood.
"What does it say; you read this shit better than I can." "Even though I've lived in Japan a hell of a lot longer than you have." The middle aged Israeli said and then thought begrudgingly (but only a little).
"Order seventeen" Ethan read aloud and then cringed.
"Well then we carry out Kagome's last orders". Alter said somberly
"NO, NO FUCKING WAY!" Ethan shouted
Before Alter could speak the sound of machine gun fire came from multiple directions, and both remaining agents realized that they had stayed in one spot for too long in a combat zone. As they went for cover Ethan continued his protest.
"Alter I didn't spend four years researching that goddamn rock just to destroy it." Ethan still had his 'extra crystal' the one Alter, Kagome, and the rest of the Syndicate didn't know about; but he was reluctant to experiment on it.
"Ethan we have to. Every other intelligence agency on Earth is willing to kill for it; to may innocents will get hurt. Come on kolboynik think about it The C.I.A. having constant gun battles with M.I.5 in every major city in North America almost daily, while Mousad and the F.S.K. do the same in Europe. Oh and all the while E-14 is sniping everyone because they think it's there's in the first place.
"Speaking of which, why the hell does Norway even have an intel service?" Ethan asked out of frustration more than curiosity."
"To protect their secret recipe for lutefisk… I don't know why half of these stupid spy networks exist in the first place." Alter answered in his usual sarcastic way.
"Look this whole conversation is moot anyway that damn rock is indestructible. I put it in a twenty two kiloton press and didn't even scratch it. Ethan pointed out.
Alter smiled and held up six plasma grenades wrapped duct taped with the triggers tied together (The Security Council made plasma grenades standard issue for all agents worldwide about one month after Ethan had developed the Mark I service model).
"Ok, that might do it" Ethan ceded.
Before Alter could say anything else doors exploded open and uniformed soldiers propelled down from the ceiling on ropes.
"Well the Blue Berets finally made it" Alter observed with a dead pan face
"Not in time for Kagome" Ethan retorted in anger.
A lieutenant wearing a tan uniform and a black beret made his way over to the two agents
"I am Lt. Hirohito with U.N.I.T. Who is in command here?"
"As of now I am" Alter answered
The tan uniformed officer looked at Ethan and sneered as he looked back to Alter. "Who the hell is this kid?"
"I'M YOUR DADDY MOTHERFUCKER, NOW SHUT UP AND DO YOUR GODDAMN JOB!" Ethan answered in a shout.
"Now see hear boy…"
"Like the Agent said shut up and do your job, and if you call him boy again, I'll let him kick your ass. Alter responded; you do not give his protégée shit. "Now how long until the rest of your U.N.I.T. squad gets here?"
"What you see is what you get."
"What, you and seven men from the standard peace keeping force; that's it? There are over two hundred enemy combatants on the other side of that door." Alter said in disbelief.
"We have to get to my lab, have your men ready to provide cover fire we go in as two teams." Ethan said to the lieutenant in a calmer voice.
"Yes agent" came the soldiers reply, he had fallen in line after Alter chewed his ass.
"I'm out of ammo, I need your side arm" Ethan then told the U.N.I.T. soldier
"Ethan once we get to the lab we'll destroy the crystals and then everything else, if we get separated we rendezvous in Beijing." Alter said to the Ethan as the young agent checked the clip on the pistol he had just received from the lieutenant.
"You heard the Senior Agent MOVE OUT" Special Agent Ethan Beckett ordered. If anyone on Ethan's team had an objection to a twenty year old taking command, they didn't mention it.
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October, 13'Th, 1840: Arendelle city, Kingdom of Arendelle, Arendelle Castle, hallway outside Crown Princess Anna's suite.
"Well I had a splendid day with you Anna" Elsa said as she pulled Anna into a hug.
"Me to Elsa" Anna answered in a quiet and strained tone.
"Anna is everything ok?"
"Yea I'm just tired"
"Anna…" Elsa continued not sure as to why her hyperactive little sister was acting so sullenly.
"Good night Elsa, I love you."
"OK Anna, I'll see you in the morning"
The redhead just flashed a kind smile as she started to slip into her room.
Once the door was closed Anna's broke down; collapsing on to the bed with a sob. After a few minutes the Princess got up and opened her closet; retrieving a large satchel and an arm full of clothes.
Once she was packed Anna sat at her desk and pulled out a piece of personalized stationary and dipped her quill into the ink pot.
Dearest Elsa.
By the time you read this I will be gone. Don't search for me; we will both be better off this way. Elsa I love you so much and all I wanted was to be your crazy little sister. However that cannot be. I am a sick freak and a deviant; and sick freaks like me don't deserve awesome big sisters like you. This is why I must leave Arendelle and never return. I hereby abdicate my title and station as Crown Princess of Arendelle.
In the years to come you will be known as a great ruler, and I am so grateful that I had my time being part of the Snow Queen's legacy. Hopefully not to far from now, when whoever is lucky enough to be your King is holding you in their arms, remember that I will always be holding you in my dreams.
Love Anna
The note was short and sweet, much like its author. The young red head folded the paper in to thirds before dripping wax from her candle and pressed in her signet ring.
Anna waited until eleven that night (knowing that Elsa would be asleep) and then slipped out of her room and paused at Elsa's door. The Princess stood there silently for a moment, Anna smiled at the cruel irony; all those years trying to get Elsa to open that door and now she was running away even though she could now go thru that door any time she wanted.
Sliding the note underneath the door, Anna took a deep breath and sighed, determined not to start crying again until she reached the stables.
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April 28, 1995: Tokyo, Japan,Akasaka district, Syndicate headquarters beneath the Tebanashimasu motel.
Alter led a five man assault team composed of the lieutenant and three others in a direct line towards Ethan's lab The plan was to destroy the crystals and every bit of research data compiled over the four years of analysis. Ethan also led a five man team walking along the cat walk above the operations room and leading to his lab; providing cover fire from an elevated position for Alter's group; both units armed with P-90 LV Assault rifles with frame mounted with green laser beams coming from the weapons.
Ethan held up his hand and made a closed fist and then a thumbs up; alerting Alter from the catwalk that they were ready. The ground team moved forward with the grey haired Senior Agent taking point. Once thru the door leading to the corridor a symphony of automatic weapons fire filled the voluminous underground passage as the two Syndicate led teams battled a death squad from every major indigence agency on earth (Who were incidentally trying to off each other as well.), and a few minor ones. As a thousand bullets flew thru the air Alter's team forced their way to the lab. Once the first group was in, Ethan ran his contingent down the stairs and into thru the lab doors, firing rounds at the opposition the whole way.
Alter ran to a small glass container and broke it open with a shot from his Desert Eagle 5.0 and grabbed the Energon crystals.
Before the Blue Berets could seal the lab doors a conventional grenade was thrown, the detonation killing all of the eight man squad, save for the Lieutenant.
The Blue Beret squad leader and the two Syndicate Agents each grabbed a P-90 and started to fire at the spot the lab door had been. Returned fire came at the trio; the Lieutenant fell dead from a round to the head. Alter assessed the situation and to him it looked grim, he knew what to do.
"Ethan is that your modified Faraday Cage Chamber?" Alter asked motioning towards a tall wide silver cylinder.
"Yea, but it's not bullet proof." Ethan answered, not following his mentor's train of thought.
"Good; you've become one hell of an Agent over the last six years kolboynik, I'm proud of you Ethan, it was a privilege to have you as a trainee and a partner… and a friend."
"Alter… come on man don't talk like that, we've gotten out of worse shit then this. We'll make it out we always do." Ethan countered with a nervous laugh.
"No son, just you this time." Was Alter's response as he spun around and cracked Ethan upside the head with his P-90 at full strength.
With no time to waste and the enemy advancing, Alter threw young man's unconscious body over his shoulder and ran to the Faraday Chamber. Hitting a button on a console a couple of yards in front of the chamber Alter opened its door. With a little effort, the Israeli tossed Ethan inside and hit another console button to close the door and final button to activate the three thousand Tesla Deflection shield around the chamber.
As Ethan started to come to (Agent Becket is six feet tall and weighs two hundred and twenty pounds, a whack to the head doesn't exactly take him out of the game) looking out of the chamber doors window he saw that Alter had his back to him and was holding the half dozen plasma grenades in one hand and the two Energon crystals in the other. The enemy forces were closing in on his position.
"NO, NO, FUCK THAT NO." The young man screamed in vain; the chamber door would not open while the Tesla shield was active.
Alter turned his head back to make eye contact with Ethan one last time. The old man winked and pressed the button
.
The combined blast of ultra-hot plasma was a hundred feet in width, with large blue electrical discharges arcing across. The blast wave curved around the Tesla Shield and burned with the intensity of a hundred thousand suns. After the blast cycle was complete there was nothing left but scorched earth, sky and Ethan unharmed and alone; even the Faraday Chamber disintegrated around the brown haired young man. A building full of two hundred men was reduced to nothing but one twenty year old Syndicate Agent standing in the spring rain… that had just lost the closest thing he would ever have to a father.
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October, 14'Th, 1840: Arendelle city, Kingdom of Arendelle, Arendelle Castle, Queen Elsa's Suite.
It was one in the morning and Elsa couldn't sleep her feelings about Anna in a jumble.
"No Elsa, damn it you cannot be in love with your little sister, it's not what good girls door."
The Queen paced back and forth hugging her stomach.
"Anna's certainly not going to reciprocate these feelings. She'll think I'm a sick freak."
Elsa continued to pace back and forth, looking at the ground until she noticed a wax sealed parchment in front of her door. Picking the note up, Elsa noticed the seal of the Crown Princess.
"Anna?"
Elsa opened the note and began to read.
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Kai heard a scream coming from the Queen's chambers. Once the Housekaral arrived at the young blonde's door he could see a sheet of red ice spreading out from the bottom.
"YOU'RE MAJESTY, ARE YOU OK!" Kai asked in a shout, preparing to slam his shoulder thru the ice covered wood if need be.
The door swung open and the Queen stood there with mascara streaks running down her face along with fresh tears
. "SHE RAN AWAY" the Queen shouted with a sob.
"Wake everyone up immediately, I want everybody searching Kai, Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, Castle Guard, All police and town watch, everyone even the fucking kitchen staff… Now, NOW, NOW. "Elsa collapsed against her door frame.
"Kai find her (The Queen was in tears by this point)… Find my little princess."
Author's note: sorry about the short chapter, but this seemed like a good stopping point for both story tangents. I'm going to try and keep most chapters around 5K or 6K words.
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