Miitopian Civil War

Chapter 2: Tensions Rise

Date: November 8th, 2022

Theme: Broken Hope

"The war, the war is coming

We're gonna bleed and

We're gonna cry

Out on the battlefield

Everyone's in danger

And our dreams are

Being crushed

We have broken hope

It's shattered into pieces

Due to the rise in fascism

They want to kill us all

None of us want to die

But it feels hopeless

They get stronger and

Fool more Miitopians

Into their cause of

Hatred, greed, and destruction

Every single day

How can we fight that?

Their numbers are greater

We can't give up

We have to survive

To restore our broken hope

How can you ignore it

And say there's nothing

We can do

Yet there is so much we can

Even with our broken hope

*repeat*

Come on now, we're about to

Fight the Miitopian Civil War

Whether we like it or not"

It has been 3 days since I became a knight and just over 2 weeks since Nazis tried to kill my friends and I. We are lucky war hasn't begun yet. The day before yesterday where chaos happened at Jungle Jim's and CiCi's was something I neglected to mention. I spent all day that day helping Mel and the other knights on our side investigate the organization. Bray and Dominic came to help. Lucky us, we didn't have to go on any missions again for the day. Now that yesterday is just a memory, we're finishing our investigation. There's only a few knights left to investigate. We'll figure out the rest from there. I think Mel wants to officially turn on the royal families of Greenhorne and Neksdor as soon as we're done. We'll see. Anyway, Dominic and Bray don't join me today because there are a crap ton of missions to deal with today. There was even one about the fact that the biggest dead villains of Minecraftia including the Wither Storm escaped from that realm, the Aether. An investigation into that, if you will. After I ate pancakes by myself as everyone else went off on missions except for Herbsalvin, I go get the pegasus. It was easy to, they're in their room right next to mine just eating Minecraftian apples: "Hey, Herbsalvin. You ready to go back to the knights today? I hope the others have been informing you well about BRAINS. We actually have clean super stretchy underwear again so no more embarrassing undergarments." "Yes, I have certainly learned a lot. I'm ready to go there when you are." "In that case, let's go!" I teleport the both of us to the base of the knights.

Mel greets us: "It's great to see you again! Why didn't you come here yesterday? You were going to help train Rol and investigate more knights." "It's an embarrassing story. Carlos wanted to go to Jungle Jim's. The whole trip was a disaster. I'd rather not talk about it. Can we just finish the investigation?" "I understand. The next 2 knights to question are in the training grounds. As usual, we'll talk to one each. We've had the reduce our numbers like 55% over this. It's fortunate you're one of the strongest knights in our organization now." "I'm just about ready. Herbsalvin, can you watch for trouble again? You said you wanted to practice that once more, right? Blaze told me." "I will." "Speaking of pegasi, what do you do with the pegasi of the knights who have been kicked out of the organization, Mel?" "We take it on a case by case basis. It depends on the bond between mii and pegasus. If it's strong, we don't break them up but otherwise, we send the pegasi back to the island so new knights have a chance to bond with them. And when we remove a knight from our organization, we always confiscate any gear the knights have given them, swords included. We are changing as a whole. We aren't royal knights or anything like that anymore. We're anarchist knights now." "In that case, you need to decentralize the knights as soon as possible. You have to become a former leader like myself. Are you ready for such a change?"

"Swiftdrawer, I'm always ready for change. Now come along, I'll take you and Herbsalvin to them. You two don't know this base as well as I do." We follow her for a couple of minutes. Upon reaching the training grounds, Herbsalvin moves aside to stand guard while Mel and I head inside. I approach an older knight with blue eyes, pale skin, gray hair, high posture, and silver armor named Bobins: "Hi Bobins. We haven't officially met, have we? I vaguely remember fighting you during my 2nd trial." "Don't talk to me! The nerve Mel has to investigate everyone AND let a young, new, and foolish knight help her do it! This is a disgrace! There's no honor in this!" "Maybe so but I have to talk to you. There are many ways we can talk this out. Some involve your fears coming to life through Duel Monsters. But I prefer to go with the casual conversation method. Not everything a knight does is honorable. I don't know of a single world where a knight's pooping is considered honorable. I think I'm going to go with the empathize route this time. You're unwilling to talk to me so I have to convince you to talk. It is illogical to frighten you when I don't need to. You must have seen some brutal battles in your day. I can only imagine but I'm betting you resisted the SDL's rule, to little avail. I helped take him down. I also helped undo the tampering of this world's timeline and was partly responsible for thwarting the two latest invasions of Miitopia." "I see what you're doing but it won't work!" "Who said you really knew what I'm doing? Anyway, I'd rather be fighting some enemies but that can wait. Let's talk about pain. I wonder how much we can relate to each other's pain."

"You will get nothing out of this! But I'll talk. I've been in countless battles and seen so many of my fellow knights die! Furthermore, my children, wife, and best friend are dead!" "My mom is dead as are several of my uncles. I just lost my mother 9 months ago. The shock of her death still sometimes haunts me. She died in agony. Don't tell me a young knight like me can't be trusted. Damn it, I have died several times already! I had to kill my worst enemy with tears in my eyes and apprehension! I risked everything to pass the final trial to become a knight! I've seen so many of my friends and comrades suffer! The world I come from is run on needless pain! So much suffering and for what? More money for the rich and powerful? I may be a new knight but I've been so much and come to interpret the pain of so many others! Pain is a powerful force. What about you? Tell me, what is your pain truly like? Please!" "You've been through all of that? I've never known anyone who lost their own mother so young. I owe you a description, young knight. The SDL brutally killed some of the knights right in front of me. He enjoyed every moment of it. My wife died because Dark Lord Melvin took her face and it never returned. It's still out there, on a monster somewhere. I can't describe how horrible my suffering has been. My heart aches for my loved ones, I feel so alone when I'm not with the knights." "Do you see now? We have an idea of each other's pain now. Can we talk about what matters right now now?"

"I'm impressed with you. Of all the knights who have joined since the SDL's imprisonment, you are the one who thinks logically best. I'm willing to talk about the investigation now. What are your questions?" "My first question is why are you a knight?" "I wanted to protect others after seeing my village destroyed during the Evil Sage War that happened shortly after Bray became a Great Sage. I didn't want anyone to suffer the same experience. I just couldn't tolerate something like that. I had to take action so I did." "I read about that war. It was quite brutal from what I understand. Bray refuses to talk about it for some reason. Okay, you show no signs of lying. I have a lie detector device powered by Minecraftian redstone, magic, and multiple other power sources. It's advanced and has never been wrong. So far, you haven't lied. Friend of mine created it for this investigation. Next one, who do you serve?" "Whoever is in trouble and needs help. I swear it by my shield." "So you hold no allegiance to the Nazis or the kingdoms?" "No, I do not. Prince Jack of Neksdor is a selfish prince with a heart of ice. The other royals of Neksdor are just as sour. I've helped guard them in the past. I met Luis of Greenhorne long ago. I can't believe they let someone so incompetent be on the throne. The Nazis have tried to recruit me but I knew better from the last time their numbers were great. The Neksdor Empire was a cruel and short lived thing." "That means you're good. You can go do whatever you want to do now." Bobins nods and I thank him for his time. He goes off on a mission to help someone at the Travelers' Hub.

Because of this, Mel turns to me with the other knight being physically restrained by her: "Would you care to take care of this one for me? He's a Nazi. I'm going to start Rol's training and have his pegasus partner be returned to the island." I nod and take him off her hands. With that done, I ignore the pleas of the Nazi knight and easily take off every piece of equipment that he got from the knights off of him. Now, he has no sword to fight with. A fallen knight but not dead, only disgraced. Once that was done, I drag him out of the base. Before throwing him as far away as possible towards the south, I say: "You are no longer a member of The Knights Of Miitopia. Goodbye and may you never return unless you give up on fascist ideas completely. I'm going back inside now. You can call yourself a knight all you want to. You have the skills and experience of a knight but you don't have the true compassion or honor of one. To us, you'll always be a Nazi. See you hopefully never." I then see another sight nearby. Yappa Yappa is here and killing a different Nazi knight: "Yappa Yappa! What are you doing here? You're not welcome in Miitopia!" Yappa Yappa turns to face me while sadistically cutting the throat of the Nazi he's currently killing: "Master wanted me to kill this failure. He was supposed to stop you from becoming a knight but failed. I'm enjoying playing with him nice and slowly! I've been slowly killing him for 15 minutes. Isn't it fun to pummel and then slowly kill someone? Don't you like the idea of an enemy of yours suffering?" "I only killed you because I had to. And I won't stop you from killing the Nazi because I don't want to fight you right now. Yes, I do like the idea of an enemy of mine suffering but only under the pretense that it's the only way to stop them. You won't get in my head, Yappa Yappa."

"Oh come on, killing for fun is fun! You should try it sometime!" "Over my dead body. I'm leaving. I don't want to keep watching you kill this Nazi who failed your cruel employer. I will help ensure he and his company along with you fall. He helped caused the Nazis to nearly kill me and some of my closest friends. I'll see you next time we fight. Be warned, I am stronger than ever and won't hold back. If I have to kill you again to stop you, I will." I return to the base even as the smell of blood iron gets stronger in the air. I wish there was a way to get Yappa Yappa to change his ways. Suffering and revenge twisted him. He is a victim of the oppressive power dynamics that hurt so many in so many universes. But now, he's feeding into it by making others suffer too. Upon entering the base, I see a stressed look on Mel's face. She knows Yappa Yappa is killing a now former knight: "Adam! You were just outside? Why didn't you stop Yappa Yappa from killing the Nazi? He's probably dead by now!" "I don't want to fight him right now. Alone, I wouldn't be able to beat him. He'd kill me. The only reason I was able to kill Yappa Yappa was because I had a lot of help. Comrades restrained him for me so I could stab him right through the heart. As far as I'm concerned, I don't find it necessary to save the lives of Nazis. I have little to no sympathy for them. Maybe if these Nazis actually bothered to consider our ideals, then I'd change my mind. As long as someone who hurts and wants to hurt others for cruel reasons shows no signs of change, I have no reason to save them from death. Do you understand now? I'll clean up the mess Yappa Yappa left behind myself."

"I understand completely. Thank you for explaining. You know when to cut your losses. That's good. Come along then, I have to take care of a lot of business. For example, I'm going to step down as leader of the knights so we can begin restructuring it in earnest. The last knights have been questioned. We have lost 65% of our numbers from when you joined now. I thought we had more on our side, I was even convinced that way. Please train Rol alone for me. He'll tell you what he needs to work on, he knows what he needs to improve and how far he has come. You'll enjoy him." "Great! I'm excited! Is he in the training grounds?" "Yes he is. Herbsalvin is still guarding it." "Good to know, thank you." We part ways from there. I head to the training grounds and Herbsalvin decides to follow me in: "I'll explain what happened after I left here later. Right now, I'm training Rol. Tomorrow, Mel and Rol will both go on their first BRAINS mission." Rol is already practicing on a wooden dummy, slashing at it over and over. He's already quite good at sword fighting but it's clear he hasn't gotten all the instruction he needs to grow a lot stronger. His body is covered in minor bandages and a few scars. Rol must have been on a lot of missions since joining the knights. He has jungle green eyes, magenta spiky hair, black eyebrows, brown skin, and blue, yellow, and white full body knight armor. His sword matches the colors of his armor and is pretty long: "Hi, Rol. I'm Adam aka Swiftdrawer and this is Herbsalvin. It's nice to meet you. I'll be helping train you while Mel is busy. After that, I think the plan is to restructure the knights and firmly turn against Luis. She hasn't said much about that yet. I guess we'll just see. Anyway, show me what you got. Try to attack me."

"It's nice to meet you too! I'm so excited to finally meet you in person! But I'm no pushover. Just watch! I'll perform my best skills right now!" He tries attacking me but I easily dodge. This kind of thing continues into he foresees my movements and is then able to hit me a couple times until I pull out my own sword and we parry. However, I have the upper-hand and manage to knock him down but do no major damage and barely any damage at all overall. I offer my hand after putting my sword back in its sheath. He gladly takes it and I help pull him up: "Your moves are quite impressive. But you need to improve your speed both neurally and physically. You need to be able to learn to predict- Wait, why am I telling you this? Mel said you knew what to work on and that you would tell me." "Haha, you're bad! I'm not angry, I'm laughing! But it's the truth. I need to become faster and speed up my thought process." "Hmm, you seem to not notice other things you need to improve. For example, I saw you fight without a single special technique. You swung wherever you could without even coordinating it a little bit. When we fight the Nazis, we'll need your help. As you saw, my attacks were well executed. I was in the rush but still able to use my eyes to pinpoint where I should attack. Sharpen your mind and observation skills. Make your mind a nexus of information and decision making. Don't let insults distract you. It is hard to do something physical fast while also thinking, even I struggle with that. But when I don't, it saves lives. Also, don't be afraid to block attacks or use your armor for more of what it's meant for. If someone is too strong for you, try to get them to wear out or outthink them. It's how I defeated and killed Gofast."

We discuss more about what he should work on and then start training side by side with me every so often giving some pointers. About an hour later, Mel comes into the room: "Thanks for helping train Rol for me, Adam." "Hey, what are friends for? Are you ready to restructure the knights?" "Yes. We're going to have a meeting about it in the dining hall. Be sure to be there in a few minutes." "I'll be there for sure. Just gotta clean up that mess first. I don't want anyone to get scarred for life who isn't already." Without another word, I teleport outside to where the former knight was killed. It's a horrific mess. I'm not going to describe it. Upon seeing the body, I call Dominic by instinct. He picks up: "Hey Adam, can't talk for long. Almost out of water. It's so hot here. We should have brought more water. We're looking for cacti right now. They're excellent for storing large amounts of water in a climate this harsh. My study of different ecosystems is going to save our lives." "Well, I don't have much to talk about. All Nazis and those aligned with the kingdoms of Greenhorne and Neksdor have been kicked out of the knights. And Yappa Yappa killed one of the former knights. Their body is right by me. I'm sending them to the lab. Can you and the other scientists analyze them later?" "Yes and great to hear. Except the whole Yappa Yappa thing. I want a nap now. But I will preserve through this desert. See you tonight. Don't sweat what happened yesterday, we're all over it now." "Okay, see ya later." I hang up and teleport the corpse to the lab. After that, I cleaned up the bloody mess from the ground as best as I could.

I then went to the bathroom above Expedition Minecraftia in Twisted Land in an instant to wash my hands before teleporting back to the training grounds in the base for the knights. Herbsalvin stuck around to await my return: "You're back! I'm glad you took care of it on your own. Now come on, the meeting is about to start." I nod and the two of us walk together to the dining hall for the meeting. Once there, I sit down in one of the chairs closest to Mel. Upon seeing me sit down, she speaks: "My fellow knights, we've had to let go about 65% of our forces. As a result, our strength is lower than it was around 2 summers ago. However, the rest of us will be united, better than ever before. I am so grateful to everyone who helped with the investigation. In fact, the investigation will be my last order as leader of The Knights Of Miitopia. I am stepping down, effective immediately. And upon doing so, I don't name a successor. I call for change. Most of you don't know that I joined an even more secretive group known as the BRAINS Collective. Swiftdrawer is a member as is Herbsalvin. What does that mean? I've been thinking and want to propose changes to our structure that mirror the structure of BRAINS. For the first time in our history, we will vote on the matter. Swiftdrawer, can you tell them about BRAINS?" I nod: "Sure. *explains the collective* And there you have it, a secret leaderless collective that shares resources, ideas, and much more like often going on missions to stop time travel caused problems and such. We went over the structure of the collective. Due to that, I hand it back over to Mel."

"Thank you so much. I could have never hoped to tell any of you what BRAINS is without having a hard time with it. My proposal with the restructure is this: we all become BRAINS members if we aren't already but stay here to live. Instead of having a power hierarchy, we'd work together with no one above or below. We'd do everything we can to contribute to our combined efforts. Additionally, we'd implement the same mission system BRAINS has and use that to help ask who wants to help with what. Besides that, we'd take turns doing certain duties and give all of our proceeds to the less fortunate. We don't need gold to live if we all join BRAINS. What do you say, is everyone okay with this change?" No one objects, everyone nods: "I'm so happy! Now everyone, we need to destroy the written agreements we have with Neksdor and Greenhorne's kingdoms." Rol adds: "Why don't we destroy them in front of King Luis?" I reply: "That's a great idea. After all, we should really let the cat out of the bag now. Besides, Luis would get suspicious soon enough and send down his men to investigate this base as he knows where it is. Let's end this organization's agreements together in Greenhorne Castle. That is, if everyone agrees on that plan." Again, no one objects so I ask Herbsalvin to watch over this place while we confront the king of Greenhorne. They accept and I teleport all of us to the throne room in the castle. It's huge because Luis is a huge gray eyed pale skinned and black haired king. He stops eating a giant sized piece of food called Royal Roast and widens his eyes; "Why are you knights here? I thought I told you we weren't meeting again until next month. Hold on a second, why do you have a anti-state miscreant among your ranks? This is unacceptable. I thought you knights were supposed to be our protectors."

Mel spats out: "Not anymore." Rol pulls out the agreement between the knights and Greenhorne: "What are you doing? Are you betraying me? Why would the knights ever betray me? GUARDS, THROW THEM IN THE DUNGEONS NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!" Hundreds of guards come out of nowhere with some New Lumos coppers indeed among their ranks. But, they were no match for me: "Not so fast! You won't take us dead or alive! Extremely Risky Spin Slash! Haaaaaaaaaa!" In seconds, a flaming tornado sucks them all up and sends them flying throughout the castle. The commotion is heard by Princess Sophie who looks a lot like Princess Peach besides her face which has brownish yellow eyes and a normally calm face: "What in Greenhorne is going on? Father? What are the knights doing?" "Sophie! Stand back! Let my guards take care of this! Guards. GUARDS!" Suddenly, Prince Carson as he was titled after the Darker Lord was beat rushes in and charges at us. He has pale skin, orange hair, and orange eyes with a nobleman outfit on: You won't betray the king! Not as long as I have anything to say about it!' I grab him and easily stop him from taking another step: "I like you Carson. In fact, I like Luis and Sophie as well. At least when you're on Pizza Island. Listen, this kingdom must be abolished. And the knights are through with serving any kingdoms. I am their newest member." Luis gasps: "They let YOU in?! This is heinous! If my guards won't do anything, I will do things myself along with my royal council. COUNCIL, HELP ME!" He begins to stress eat as the royal council come in.

I hardly know anything about them but that matters little. Several of the knights restrain Luis somehow, causing all action to stop. Sophie screams: "Father! Noooo! They're going to take you away from me!" I reply and get in front of her while still holding onto Carson: "I hate being villain like in a time like this. It's really annoying. Oh well. Your father is complicit in making your own people starve so you and him and Carson can bask in luxury and have everything you want. Austin, Madison, and Lauren, 3 miis who were most helpful in helping and saving the 3 of you. Unfortunately, sides have shifted. They are against this kingdom now. It's only a matter of time until war breaks out. We have a couple choices for you. We can fight, you can surrender, or you can change and turn against the very system that has kept you happy for your whole life. I became a knight 3 days ago and met a individual who was out exploring to help their family. They come from a very poor family, you see. Poverty is an artificially created problem and it must be solved. I would love for you to be happy all your life because you're a sweet and kind individual. However, if you continue benefiting from the system knowing what it does to others, you are in the way of true liberation. Make your choice." Sophie excuses herself to think it over. Good, she isn't automatically rejecting what we want for Miitopia. Luis is horrified: "You just told my daughter so much! Nooo! Why did you have to? My facade of not caring is gone! What have you done?" "I've done something that is only the tip of the iceberg. Mel, please calmly burn the agreements now."

Luis, Carson, the Greenhorne Royal Council and all the guards are helpless as they watch Mel jump into the air and gather fire magic in her sword: "The knights serve no royalty no more! Knight's Rage! We want the complete liberation of all Miitopians regardless of species from the state, capitalism, and more!" With that attack, the agreements are turned into ash in seconds. Luis is beyond horrified now: "Mel! You were so loyal to me! What happened to you?" "The SDL's invasion, Adam's arrival, and more happened. I learned what was really going on and couldn't just blindly serve royalty anymore. Over the past weeks, we've expelled most of our members and now, we have no leader either. I stepped down and we restructured our organization." Carson shouts: "Don't you dare kill the king!" I reply: "We really can't. With his size, not even I could burn him to death with my best attack. But he has caused a lot of pain by ordering his subordinates to do what he wants. We'll punish him through other means. I have no desire to kill you or Sophie either. Royal Supports Trey and Gabriel, you can be free of your one job and join use too." Trey, a mii with natural red hair with a strand going diagonally down the center of his forehead with brown eyes and pale skin replies: "It's a boring job. Are you certain our king has done what you allege?" Bray pops in: "Aha! It's intriguing how quick that mission was but I'm here now. And I shall expose the king's incompetence and lies right here right now. You will have a lot to atone for a while on Pizza Island. I cast Memory Display."

On one of the walls, a bunch of stuff starts playing and Sophie renters the room in time to see this. We see starving families and one of the members of one explaining to her children why they didn't have enough to eat for dinner the past few months. She explained that most of the gold in the kingdom goes to the king while everyone else labors away and sees their work get barely compensated at all. Profits from blacksmithing don't go to the blacksmith that much, most goes to the king as "taxes". Taxes on living, breathing, land, eating, sleeping, talking, and even existing and thinking. The scene changes to a bunch of children who get blinded from the harsh inequality by a bunch of royal jesters performing for them for an hour as their parents cry and sweat just behind them, giving royal guards the tax they supposedly owe. It gets worse. King Luis is shown to have been bribed by Nazis to not do anything about their activities in Greenhorne. Additionally, we see Luis order the arrests of all protesters months after the SDL's defeat. Then there's all this footage of him eating nonstop while ignoring the one member on the Royal Council who cared about the well-being of the citizens before having them publicly beheaded to keep others in line. This breaks the faith Trey and Gabriel had for the king. Gabriel looks almost the same as Trey but has yellow eyes that are differently shaped. In acknowledgment of the knights who are restraining Luis, they gently set the king down before jumping onto him after grabbing guard staffs to hold them up against his neck.

Sophie cries: "Father! How cruel! How could you be so mean to everyone? I don't understand!" "I had to do what I had to do to make us a happy and powerful family!" "But I don't want that at the expense of others. I renounce my place in the line of succession for the throne of Greenhorne!" Carson replies: "I do so too! How could we have been so blind all this time? You're a tyrant, just like the SDL!" The New Lumos copper guards try to shoot us but Rol easily knocks them unconscious and destroys their guns. Not bad. Not bad at all. Bray speaks to the council, guards, and Luis: "All of you are coming with us. There is no choice in the matter. I shall make sure of it. We're freeing Greenhorne in a coup. This is not a drill. The Kingdom Of Greenhorne is no more. Instead, we proclaim the Greenhorne Commune! For now on, all resources will be distributed equally and gold will no longer be required to obtain goods. There will be no need for castle guards, police, or the monarchy anymore." Suddenly, myself, Bray, Rol, Sophie, Mel, and Carson are taken to Guardian's realm. Once there, they speak: "Hohoho. Greetings all of you. Young artistic knight. Wise Great Sage. Young aspiring knight. Experienced Grand Knight. Former but kind hearted princess. Noble former prince. Bray, Rol, Mel, and Adam, I brought you here to witness the beginning of the true destinies of Carson and Sophie. You can thank Abstractoa for this." We're all surprised at this: "I see your looks. The Nazis must be stopped. They will try to cast me out for good. Carson and Sophie, are you ready to pick jobs for yourselves? The list is appearing now. Pick what suits you best."

After a few moments, they pick. After that, Carson becomes a warrior and Sophie becomes a flower. "Hohoho! I hope the rest of you train them well. They will need your guidance for now on. Off you go, back to Greenhorne Castle. We'll meet again, I look forward to it. Hohoho!" Just like that, we're back and Luis yells again: "My daughter a flower?! No! No! No! This isn't going to plan! My business partner isn't going to be happy about this!" Pmurt Nedib appears through a portal: "What am I not going to be happy about? Oh. ADAM. You have effectively destroyed the trade relationship I just established with Luis after my plan to invade Miitopia went horribly wrong. He was one of my best clients and now you have captured him and his guards and council. I'd stick around to fight but I have business in a city called Crestland and another called East City to attend to. Some clients there appear to be having some trouble. No, Adam. Don't think about going there after me or else, you'll be sorry. I'm not ready to kill you myself and I'd rather have Yappa Yappa kill you. Toodles." He's now gone. This just keeps getting deeper and worse, doesn't it? With him gone, we return our attention to everyone we captured. I let go of Carson and the two of us restrain some of the guards. As that happened, more BRAINS members showed up to help including Dominic: "I want a nap. Nevermind! I'm parched after that desert! I'm so glad that's over! Anyway, what did you do without me? I'm so disappointed I didn't get to participate. Actually, I don't care if I got to or not. It's done now. The Kingdom Of Greenhorne is effectively gone. Let's question all these miis tomorrow and figure out what to do with them from there after."

None of us have any objections. Blaze hands out Quantum Leap bands to all our new comrades, even Carson and Sophie. It's good to have them on our side. With that out of the way, we all transport them outside of time and space for now and head back to the castle. It's now almost empty. Together, we then head to Greenhorne Village. Mel gratefully takes a megaphone Dominic just synthesized from the air around us: "Attention Greenhorne Village, this is The Knights Of Miitopia. We're here with some comrades of ours to announce something important." The whole village stops whatever they're all doing to watch and listen. Mel holds up some of the remains of the agreements that she burned: "These are some of the remains of our formerly long standing agreements with Greenhorne and Neksdor's royal families. There is no more Kingdom Of Greenhorne. Sophie and Carson have renounced their claims to the throne. Luis and his guards and council have been captured. You're all now free to live in the newly formed Greenhorne Commune. Imperialist and capitalist rule over you is at last over." Mayor Joey gets everyone's attention: "In that case, I resign! I'm going to live with my family for now on! Bray, will Nathan ever come home? Please tell me, we're worried sick. It's partly our fault he became the Dark Curse." His wife Jenny and son Owen come to and hug him. Bray replies: "No better day than today for this. Nathan finished his atonement and studies with me sometime ago. Go on, my graduated pupil. Rejoin your family. I shall leave him in your love, Jenny, Joey, and Owen." The ex dark curse with a kind of green hair in a mullet and brown eyes shows up behind Bray and goes to his family, reunited at last.

To add to that, Dominic says: "Everyone! Now that the kingdom is gone, it's time to restructure your society! Gold will no longer be necessary. Take care of each other and work together to prosper. Nazis lerk here in Greenhorne. Be prepared for they will not like hearing what has been done." No one is sad that Luis has been captured or that we effectively abolished the kingdom for good. Instead, everyone even Sarcastic Guy Seto cheers loudly. For about an hour, we help explain to them how to restructure their society without authority. Additionally, we all agree to take turns protecting the village as its residents prepare to get much stronger to prevent what happened when Dark Lord Melvin, the SDL, and others have attacked it. After that, we said goodbye and teleported to the BRAINS base in Miitopia. Dominic and I lead the knights in a tour of the place. Herbsalvin sticks right by me with a strong loyalty that is mutual. They'll be useful for flying above oceans. I have my duel runner so on land, I'll be fine without their help. But fighting while on them would be great. Anyway, it was clear that our surprise would be a short lived victory. In the evening after the knights returned to their home, we got word that the Nazis won all elections or seized power in New Lumos, Nimbus, Otherworld, Galados Isle, Powdered Peaks, Peculia, The Sky Scraper, Karkaton, Neksdor, and even The Travelers' Hub. That means Greenhorne and Realm Of The Fey are the safest places in Miitopia for now. After our overthrowing of King Luis, public outrage echoed throughout Miitopia among Nazis and monarchists alike. On New Lumos TVs as Dominic found out by hacking the city's security system, they were pulling our reputations through the mud more than ever. The tension is rising even more now. Once the 15th rolls around, it will burst or be close to bursting. But we still had great food to eat and comfortably fell asleep in preparation for tomorrow.

The Darker Lord's quarters, Annihilation Council* The Darker Lord glares at assimilated Gorganan: "You're telling me they captured that incompetent fool for themselves and abolished that kingdom? And that they're doing it to better Miitopia? This ruins my plans for conquering Miitopia and killing my future selves, the Great Sage and Ex Dark Curse!" Gorganan replies in a flat robotic voice: "It is all true. Look at the video screen over there. If you don't mind, I'm returning to my master to help him plan his revenge. We'll plan my revenge after that." Gorganan turns and returns to Freddie who grins widely as the Darker Lord gets even more angry: "It worked perfectly! My first test of assimilated Gorganan was a success! He managed to anger the Darker Lord! All without me directly helping!" Gorganan replies: "What do you want me to do now, master?" "Besides express actual emotion, why don't you help our new biggest ally console the newest batch of inferior 100% organic creatures?" "Of course, master." "Our ally is going to be pleased. I finally got Gorganan under control. Let's not forget that the revived Dark Lord has been returned to Glast Heim already! I can't wait for it to begin! If only Windy and Lightning would just hurry up and die already! I'd enjoy having those 2 around a lot! Aaaa! Programming error! Yappa Yappa is influencing me and he won't be coming here until he dies 2 more times! I will assimilate him if he gets out of line once he's here." *Akatsuki hideout* Itachi senses something during another meeting with the other members: "Something far beyond my comprehension is happening. My Sharingan is acting up in a way it never does. It's sensing a large number of malicious entities gathering in one place far from our world." Pain, their supposed leader replies: "I can sense it too. But what does it mean? We'll have to find out after all of our plans go as they are supposed to."

He pauses and then says: "Jiraya-sensei is coming. I must go." The meeting ends and Itachi opens his eyes to see himself back where he actually is with Kisame. *Goat Simulator Earth* Doctor Goat gets Evil Goat to baa as long as possible to get the attention of the other goats. They fall silent: "My goat brothers, today marks the beginning of a new future. The final touches on Ultimate Goat are complete. He has all of our wills and powers inside of him. He will headbutt everything that exists. Let's watch as he headbutts everything here before moving on." But then, Ultimate Shaggy appears, somehow back from nothing: "Like man, none of you stand a chance against me. You won't be headbutting anything. Not when I use just 0.0001% of my power. It'll be so groovy." Seconds later, all the goats, Ultimate Goat included are dead. But then, the mysterious figure retrieved them from the afterlife: "These goats want destruction. They'll be perfect. Thanks Ultimate Shaggy for making it easier to get them for me." "Like, of course man!"

Outro: So, you know who is gathering up dead individuals of cruelty and destruction like trading cards still. You'll find out what they're planning with them in time. I wasn't expecting to write about Greenhorne's kingdom being overthrown with ease. That was not the plan. But it happened and it's great. The knights stand with the people now in the pursuit of liberation. The war to shake Miitopia is getting closer by the day. It'll be brutal. Who will win it? The Nazis or anarchists? Only one way to find out. Keep reading. See you later.