Miitopian Civil War

Chapter 20: A Rising Hope

Date: June 11th, 2023

Yes, it doesn't take long to get everyone inside of the military complex. Carlos was among those sent first to disable any of the traps that were throughout the complex. Once those were gone, it literally took only seconds for everyone to enter the complex. Once everyone was inside, I was surprised to find out that no alarms had gone off. And then, I saw the smirks on the faces of the Knights of Hanoi. That's all I needed to know to realize what they had done. Even Biara was smirking. Spectre grins widely: "So what do we do now? I'm ready for something very entertaining that will allow me to manifest my ambitions!" Deku replies: "We have to find and save everyone!" And that's when attack drones come at us. Orbital 7 gets mad: "Leave these pesky machines to me!" Blood Sheppard adds: "I will take them on as well with the drones from my deck. Go, Battledrone General!" Roboppi also helps: "Roboppi will be helping too! There sure are a lot of these drones! And with the help of my fun appliance friends, we'll wash them all out!" Lilybot also decides to help: "We'll take care of these drones who stink more than Yuma! Go on ahead! Wind Up Rabbit, I activate this spell card to increase your attack points! Wind Up Zenmeister, attack!" So with that, the rest of us run ahead and split into groups. This time, I end up with a mixture of Akatsuki members, our goofiest comrades, and some Z Fighters and sword users. Deadpool exclaims: "This sh-" "PG-13, dude!" "Oh right, I forgot I'm supposed to keep my language PG-13 if it means you write what I'm saying. Sorry. This crap is crazy! You better pay me very nicely for my services!" "You will be fairly compensated quickly if you accept gold coins raided from the office of a tyrannical leader. But come on, we gotta take this seriously." And that's when we run into a bunch of lasers.

"Damn it. It had to be lasers. This is not good considering my armor is so heavy and metallic. Then there's the armor of some of the others and the swords and everything. I sense a bunch of life forms ahead but it feels like all of them are weakening. We have to hurry past all this stuff." Nagato steps forward and directs one of his Pains. "Deva Path will take care of this." And so, both walls of the corridor we're in get pushed, breaking the laser things. Well, expect the ones on the walls. But Pickle Rick Not An Alien uses his alien powers to take care of them for us with ease. With them out of the way, we keep running through the corridor until we enter a large room. I look around as do the others. Hit states the obvious: "This is where they feed the people here." That is literally all he said even throughout the rest of the mission. And by the time we planned out getting into this place, the day had shifted to June 11th already. So it was now past midnight. It was hard to see in the dim light but we managed. And then, a frozen bullet headed towards one of us until Hit intercepted it with Time Skip. Jiren speaks: "The enemy is here. They can't be sensed but I can hear them. There are many of them." And then, we were surrounded on all sides by frozen troops who speak in unison: "We cannot allow you to pass through here." Pickle Rick Not An Alien uncharacteristically just stares at them: "We're surrounded. We have to fight like hell to pass this room that doesn't stand out at all from what we've seen so far in this base." Even HE was taking this seriously. That's the best way to describe just what we were in for in terms of a fight. Nagato observes: "My Pains and I can't defeat all of these enemies on our own. Otherwise, I would have created an opening by force for all of you to go ahead through. We must fight together to be allowed to pass. It is that simple in the end."

And the enemy troops all put out guns, swords, bows, and all kinds of weapons except they're made of solid ice. I make my own observation as the room starts to get colder: "Comrades, it's going to get far below 0 in here very quickly. Because metal is a conductor, heat can travel easily to and from it. That means metal can generally heat up a lot faster than water. That also means it cools a lot faster than water. In other words, give enough heat and the metal will burn a human hand that is unprotected easily, probably causing a first degree burn or worse. And it won't take long for that to be possible. We're dealing with the flip side and now we have to worry about a slip hazard as well. We have to fight carefully in here. Our space is limited and the floor will become slippery. *I draw my sword* I don't know about all of you but I think the ideal technique is to use the walls to our advantage. We better get started. It really is getting colder in here." Case in point, I could see a vent up on the ceiling as it begins to freeze over. I pointed it out to the others. That was enough for our side to make the first move. Konan made paper bomb clones and has them jump into the air before exploding on our foes, shattering a small number of them in the process. The elven swordsman and duel monster Celtic Guardian attacks next: "I will do what I must to ensure our victory!" When he attacks, all hell breaks loose as Orochimaru takes the opportunity to do something that was so him. He performs hand signs after restraining some of our foes. "Perfected Reanimation Jutsu!" With that technique, he is able to sacrifice the foes he restrained in order to bring back several individuals in temporary bodies.

And they weren't just any ordinary individuals. They were the previous Hokage who had died. Hiruzen, Tobirama, Hashirama, and Minato. Hiruzen is the oldest because he survived the longest. His appearance is easily described as a elderly man with light skin. Tobirama is a strict looking middle aged man with light skin, brown eyes, a sort of side helmet with Konoha's symbol on it, black clothes with some sort of white fur thing going on draped over his shoulders, and silver hair. Hashirama has brown eyes, really long dark brown hair, light skin, and a red and black outfit. Think samurai like. Minato has slightly long blonde hair, blue eyes, light skin, and a Konoha jounin uniform on. Hiruzen is surprised: "Orochimaru, why have you brought us back to life once again?" He smirks: "Sensei, I just figured you could help us along with the other deceased Hokage with a little bit of a frozen soldiers problem. That's all. Your bodies should be able to hold up for a while so enjoy your time in the living realms once more." Before anyone else can talk, we're all forced to get into action. Cluu screams: "Let's go! Hurry! Stop these frozen nightmares before they freeze us all to death! I don't want to be a block of ice!" Tobirama frowns: "Just what kind of silly creature is this?" Orochimaru replies: "We'll explain that later. Striking Shadow Snake!" Even Pitohui is with us. Yeah, we recruited Llenn and all her friends. All of them. Even SHINC is on our side now. Pitohui is currently laughing as her Photon Sword from GGO is really effective against our enemies of ice who were once more than just ice. "This is even better than GGO! This is far more dangerous and far more satisfying!" And yes, funny comrades include Llenn so she's here too. "Pito, will you lay off with that a little bit!" "Just messing with you! Now come on, let's beat these bastards so we can move on to the really fun stuff!" It's chaos. Everyone's attacking at once.

I'm attacking with my red and black sword on one hand with my BRAIN Blaster in the other. Shooting and swinging. Not doing much damage but at least I'm able to tank and reflect things pretty well. Even the ice lasers that are now a thing too apparently. Coming face to face with those was completely unexpected. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Hiruzen summon a ninja ape named Edma I think. Meanwhile, Minato is like flying everywhere using his teleportation technique after managing to place papers I think he got from Konan around the room and embedding them with his jutsu formula. They don't call him the Yellow Flash for nothing. I see as I continue to do my thing Fukaziroh just send rpg after rpg at our foes, wiping out a bunch of them and damaging some of the room in the process. If this weren't part of the brutal and bloody war, I would be far more excited and yelling about how awesome this action is. But because it is part of a war, I stayed focused on what only I could do to buy time for everyone else to unleash hell upon our absolute zero level chilled enemies. That's right, I was doing pretty much the same thing as I did earlier but more offensively because we're in a room and not outdoors in a freezing chill. At least it was good to see that Panther Warrior doesn't need sacrifices to attack unlike in the game of Duel Monsters. It was nice to see Flame Swordsman, Buster Blader, and more fighting along with us too. After some time, we managed to defeat our foes but not without damage. Even I was pretty hurt in the fight. "Come on, we have to keep going now! We won! Don't worry about my pain! We gotta go! There's no time! Besides.. I cast Cure!" I heal myself and am able to run forward with the others after Pickle Rick Not An Alien overdid the whole Rammstein style flamethrower thing on the floor of the room. I was almost tempted to shout the words that I know from various Rammstein songs but ended up not doing such a thing because we just have to keep going and take all of this seriously.

Now that we had passed the room, the path forward was clear for a while. Until we ran into more foes, we kept going forward long enough to see a horrifying sight. The sight made my heart skip a beat and I clenched my sword extremely tightly as tears fell down my face: "No! Damn it! Not more!" Even Orochimaru was horrified: "How could they do this to all these people?!" Llenn glares at Pitohui. "Don't make the joke. This isn't the time for a joke." "Okay okay, Llenn." Pitohui actually looks sad. Here's why. We entered another room. It looked like some sort of combat training room. And what we saw inside of it was beyond cruel. There were at least 100 dead people who were massacred with guns and other weapons. Minato yells: "How would do such a thing to all these innocents?! They didn't deserve this!" A voice from an unknown source speaks: "Oh but they did." Suddenly, a middle aged well kept and fancy looking man walks into the room with the symbol for the Freedom Front on his suit and tie. Celtic Guardian is the first to point a weapon at him. "Who are you and why would you say these people deserved to die?" The man smiles in a way too professional manner. It was kind of unsettling: "Oh me? I'm just the leader of Powdered Peaks. I'm Hector Stein. And you're all next for these frozen soldiers that are coming here are going to kill you. Enjoy your last moments of freedom before those brave men slaughter each and every one of us like they did these people who dared to defy my will, the same will that Pmurt Nedib has." He then walks off only for Llenn to shoot him in the leg. He sighs: "Ow. So I do have to fight you all myself? I was hoping to avoid getting my hands dirty with the blood of sinners."

He gets into a fighting position but we're all ready for whatever he wishes to throw at us. "I will punish all of you so badly that those men will be able to easily and painfully finish you off. I wish you could have just left me walk away so those men would bear the complete burden of having blood on their hands for me. I've never had to kill anyone myself in my entire time! It's so much easier to claim to be pure when you let others do the killing for you!" And then, all those damn troops arrive. "Oh, right on schedule! You'll have to face both me and all of them! That's even better than what I had planned! None of you will survive for sure! All of you are going to die here today and have you bodies added to that mass of bodies over there!" I step towards him, wielding both of my swords at once now. "I will be one of your opponents." "Oh how brave of you, filthy woke knight! The things you do and believe are a disgrace to true knights who serve their lords and kings without fail! Too bad your bravery won't be enough to save yourself or anyone else for that matter!" "Call me a filthy woke knight all you want. I serve no master and do what I think is right. You cannot shake my resolve. If I'm so filthy, I should cover myself in mud right now and then fight you like I'm the muddy knight now or something!" Llenn and Pitohui also step forward as do Flame Swordsman, Tobirama, and Hiruzen. "Ha! What are you people going to do? Lightly hurt me too? Don't make me laugh, all of you are too weak to pose any semblance of a threat to me. The almighty Pmurt Nedib has blessed me with some of his power. And with that power as well as my own, you will all be the first ones to die!" Hiruzen speaks up: "If you think we will die easily just like that, you are mistaken."

Flams Swordsman adds: "We will deliver justice by slaying you here today in battle." Pitohui further adds: "We will hold nothing back against you and we will destroy that smile of yours for good!" She equips a gun to her left hand to dual wield herself. Meanwhile, the others begin taking on the next wave of frozen troops. "If you're all so confident you won't die easily, go ahead! Show me what you can do so I can crush all of your hopes and dreams before you die one by one!" "Drawing Devastation!" "Fire Release: Fireball Jutsu!" "Hahahaha! You don't scare me, Hector Stein! Compared to Squad Jam, this is nothing!" "Picchan, I'm counting on your power once again! Let's go!" That's the name of her gun which somehow gained sentience in GGO. Tobirama and Flame Swordsman also attack at that moment. But our enemy easily tanks all of our attacks like they were nothing. "Damn it! How did none of that work! He's even harder to kill than you have been, Llenn!" "This guy is so annoying! I don't think there's anyway we can spare him without him creating more problems for people. Let's hold nothing back!" "Even I have to agree. I wish we could save him but his Ki says it all just as his attitude and personality have so far." "Ha! Save me?! From what exactly?? My life has been perfect for such a long time until you wokeists had to ruin it by destroying traditional values and overthrowing governments over and over again! How could you do such things? You never once cared about the well being of rich and powerful people!" "Why should we care about you? You get every want and need easily taken care of. That's obvious now. You don't have to do anything in your life and you will still benefit from your position!" "Sinners like you are all the same! You demand so much and snap at us like we're the problem! Die, sinners! This is your punishment!"

And our battle was the man continues. We all try to attack him for several minutes on end but nothing happens. Hiruzen says: "Damn it! This opponent is far tougher than expected! There has to be a way to overcome him!" Tobirama adds: "This is no ordinary person. It's going to take a lot to bring down." "Ha! Not even the legendary Hokages of Konoha can stop me! Yes! I know about you! I know about all of you who have chosen to fight me in fact! While I don't know everything about any of you, I know enough to counter all of your usual moves! Your most used attacks do nothing against me!" I glare: "We'll see about that! Haaaaaaa! Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 18! Take this!" My attack deals significant damage to the room we're in but it doesn't harm Hector in the slightest. Llenn yells. "Come on! That should have at least done something but it didn't do anything! That's it! Picchan! It's time to go crazy!" Pito laughs: "Sounds fun! Let's hold nothing back!" Their increased firepower doesn't deal any damage. "Damn it! Why isn't this doing anything either?!" Hiruzen replies: "Young one, it is simple. His defenses are far higher than we could have foreseen. We'll have to use all of our strength at the same time to have a hope of even grazing this man with anything." I curse under my breath. "If we're going to do that, we better get started right now because here he comes!" Hector rushes at all of us with surprising speed while casting destructive magical blasts aimed right at us. I put my old sword away and pull out my shield to block as many as I can with my shield. "Impressive, young knight. That is how a true warrior must act in the face of danger." Our foe laughs: "True warrior? That's amusing! A true warrior must destroy anyone who gets in the way of their overlord! Your defiance of Pmurt Nedib will end here and now! Get ready to die! Wrathful Rampage!"

A huge amount of magical energy forms before splitting up to blast all of us at insane speed with great force being inflicted every single time. My armor is able to resist most of it so I play the role of the tank again to shield the others from as much of the damage as possible. However, that isn't enough to prevent dents in my armor that are barely visible. But because they are there, that allows more of the attacks to directly attack my already damaged and long bloodied knight robes and through them, my very skin. I cry out in pain but hold on. "None of you are as well protected as I am! If I can't do any damage, I can at least take on as much of the damage coming our way as possible! That is what a knight does, enduring pain so others don't have to. But it isn't just the knights who do that, it's anyone who is willing to take a firm and violent stand against the forces of evil. Haaaaa! Proud Protector!" I keep taking as much of the attack combination as possible even though my blood is dripping once again. I grit my teeth and scream. When they finally stop, we're all still standing but I'm pretty bloody and beaten up. I pant but don't give up. "I have felt far worse than this. This isn't enough to stop me. This isn't enough to stop any of us. Let's make that clear right here right here. We will find a way to kill you and when we do, it will be too late for you to fight back!" "I would like to see you try!" "Picchan! This is our time! We're okay!" "Don't forget about me, Llenn!" "Naruto would be so happy to see all of you fighting like this. Naruto.. The one who changed the very ninja world we come from.. It's time to use everything my chakra can do!" The fighting gets a lot more fierce as we put in as much effort as possible to win this fight. At this rate, I will be strong enough to survive doing 25 Great Infernal Tornado Slashes in my armor without being in the verge of death by the time we end this war in our victory.

I even power up with my Ki again to do more damage. I'm so far from where I want to be in terms of strength but that won't get me to quit what I'm doing. It is my duty to see this through to the end. Even if we lose this war, I want to keep fighting until it's over. Because even just delaying the suffering of others is worth dying for. I'm losing more blood. This is bad. As we continue to fight, I cast Heal to stop my bleeding at the very least. Since Bray's murder, I have been forced to get better at the healing techniques she passed to me before her death. I continue to live in memory of her. The most powerful Miitopian Great Sage in the history of this world. The pain of her gone and the nightmares I've experienced and seen first hand still haunt me but I've been getting better slowly over time. We all have. "Why do you freaks never give up?! You sinners should all be dead by now!" Llenn replies: "We aren't going to lose to bastards like you!" I add: "Each of us has survived far worse than just you!" And with that, we fight even harder. I can feel my muscles seriously burn as I push beyond my comfortable limits to keep going. The only ones not worn out are Tobirama and Hiruzen because their temporary bodies are not easy to destroy and pretty much make them have access to infinite chakra and unable to die again. Well, they can die again but that process is a little bit complicated to say the least. After some more time, right as I feel my body want to break apart from the strain I'm putting on it, Hiruzen and Llenn do some attacks that change the course of the battle. Once that happens, I release a Kamehameha I was charging and that was a critical blow. "Aaaaaa! What's happening? How are all of you overcoming me so easily?! I don't understand what's happening!" "Nazi bastard, we are going to wipe you out for good! This is your last chance to save yourself. Almost anyone can be redeemed and I thought you were too evil to be but looks can be deceiving. Even though you're a selfish rich bastard who doesn't deserve anything, we are giving you this chance."

He laughs at this, thinking that it was naive or something. That's when it became clear that there was no saving him by means other than killing him. 2 minutes later, he laid dead surrounded by his own blood. None of us celebrated or anything. We just turned our attention to the fight against the frozen troops. Our comrades were slowly losing and freezing. "Damn it! We better hurry up and help! Not even I could kill that many foes! I killed so many players in GGO but this is different and far more dangerous!" "That's right, Pito! We can't afford to stand around and do nothing!" And with that, we join up with the others. This shifts the tide of battle in our favor as we begin to break our foes apart one by one. I was again unable to do really any damage but at least, I was able to stall and give others more time to prepare whatever they had in store for our foes. Naturally, that was a good thing but I knew that I wouldn't be able to keep that up forever. My Lord Knight counterpart made that obvious. "Don't do this on your own. You can only do so much and you're slowly freezing. We have to do this together." I nod to them as they continue to attack and defend while riding their heavily armored Peco Peco friend. And then, I get into a combination with them and their mercenaries as well as their Marionette Doll pet to fight effectively. I also ate an HP banana really quickly even though it was nearly a chokingly bad idea. That allowed me to fight at my best again without my body threatening to rip itself apart internally. Now that my body felt so much better, I was back to near perfect condition. And I barely had any time to repair my armor again with Repair. I nearly risked having one of my eyes get shot out by a frozen bullet when I cast that spell. But the risk was worth it because now, I could fight without as much worry. We just kept laying down all the damage against our foes when possible and blocking any damage sent our way.

My counterpart's Magnum Break kept a few of us such as myself warm as it did damage to 10 enemies at a time. That was very helpful but it was clear that that wouldn't be enough to keep the cold from eventually freezing all of us solid if we didn't beat our foes soon. We kept pressing on as our foes started dwindling at a slowly increasing rate. The more we defeated, the easier it was to defeat the others with less foes trying to kill us and whatnot. 30 minutes later, we managed to overcome our foes and ran all the way to the next room where we saw even more recently killed people. Banana Pants speaks in a serious voice: "We have to avenge these poor people too. This war, it has gone on for far too long and has caused far too many to suffer. I have no want to be funny at the moment. We will destroy this base and save and bring back as many people as we can." Another round of frozen troops stood in our way to move forward. But we had gained a lot of experience dealing with so many of them up to now. This made it a bit easier to end up overcoming them as well. That took 25 minutes and while we were all drained from that(with the exception of the 4 revived Hokage), we continued further into the base. And what we saw next was a huge surprise. Someone yelled: "We won't let you take our lives too! As members of the Powdered Peaks rebellion, we will not give up!" This base wasn't full of the remains of a massacre all throughout it. There were still good people fighting the good fight against their oppressors. The person that yelled those words sees us. "Finally! Help has arrived! Our comrades and the innocent people sent here have been mostly killed in this hell of a military base but we still have been able to fight back. So many of us have perished but we have fought at our best in the face of all of that. Please, everyone must be saved or revived! We have to win! Once this base is ours, the Powdered Peaks government will truly be gone for good! I know some of you killed their leader already. We have hope!"

"Hell yeah! We're here! Who are you, anyway?" "I am Rones Gnores. But enough with the introductions! We don't have time to chat! We only have time to fight! Come on! We have to stand together even if we all die here together!" I add: "But if we do win which I'm certain we will, our fight for the people of Miitopia will never truly end. There will always be power hungry people around and we as well as future generations will have to stop them before they can do any harm." And with that, we all charge in and help the surviving individuals among the comrades we have been trying to fight with this entire time. Soon after we join in, the battle stops because a loud explosion was heard and it was followed by many other loud noises. Walls around us were suddenly broken through without warning. When this happened, it revealed all of our other comrades we had split up from earlier to cover the entire base. And at their feet lies the remains of many frozen troops. Everyone has been fighting so hard for such a long time. And now, after like 75 minutes, we're all back together, ready to end this battle for the liberation of Powdered Peaks for good. All it would take was defeating our remaining foes within this military base. Batman suddenly uses his batterangs to make some of the ceiling fall on some of our foes before punching a few of them. I even see Supergirl and Superman punching foes together and actually breaking them apart one by one. Meanwhile, Green Lantern among others create shields to temporarily protect everyone and give all of us a chance to have a break and rest. I used that to my advantage. I formed another Kamehameha and instead of sending it out, I decided to do something a little different. As the shields protecting us we're blasted apart by frozen lasers, bullets, spells, and more, I moved all of the Ki into my red and black sword. It's like what I did during the fight with Super Covid-19 but it wasn't just for storage this time. "KAAAAAAAAAAAME HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!"

Yep, I combined the Kamehameha with my sword skills. It was a devastating combination that wiped out an entire wall and a good number of foes with it. But now, I was low on Ki so I can't use any sort of energy attack again. I have to let my Ki recover and fight with what else I have at my disposal. The substance my daggers are coated in will do nothing to help us unfortunately. They can't destroy ice after all. But still, none of us are going to quit. Several Z Fighters unleash their ultimate attacks at once, dealing a lot of damage and freeing up some of our Powdered Peaks comrades at the same time. But then, Hyuga looks ahead: "Damn it! There's just so many more of these icy menaces just waiting to be able to kill us all!" That's very bad news for us. We still have so much fighting left to do. Dominic groans: "What a nap causation! It's like there's no end to them!" Madeline yells: "WE WILL CRUSH THEM ALL NO MATTER HOW MANY THERE ARE!" Barla adds: "And we better speed things up and turn up the heat because this whole base is going to reach absolute zero so quickly! Can't you feel it? I'm no scientist or very smart in terms of temperature but even I can see that things are getting so desperate!" Endeavor shouts: "Then we'll just have to force the air to heat up ourselves! Hell Spider!" "THESE FROZEN BASTARDS WON'T FREEZE ME! THEYRE GOING TO GET IT! AP SHOT!" A bunch of mages say in unison: "I cast Fire!" And now, the room we're in is warming up a lot but the intense flames being generated are largely getting nullified by the cold. But this is too far better than how things were before so none of us could exactly complain without looking like complete clowns." And now, all of us could fight at max now that we aren't being slowly frozen to death.

This meant that I could fully go all out again. What a relief that was. Now that we all better understood what our foes were like, we were finally all able to deal damage to them. Even I was able to directly pierce the ice of some of them without putting in too much effort. When you understand and fight an enemy enough, you find ways to deal damage where you previously couldn't before. Of course, that happening is highly dependent on a wide variety of factors that must be always taken to account when dealing with many of the same kind of opponent. It's just how it works. After 3 more hours of fighting that forced us all to use up all of our recovery items, we managed to defeat the last of the frozen troops. And to think, nearly all of those troops came from Pmurt's Earth. That's horrifying. We must have taken on hundreds of thousands of them here in Powdered Peaks. If I'm right, that means that Pmurt Nedib really doesn't care about anyone but himself. He's willing to send his own brainwashed people to their deaths in attempts to kill all of us through them without him having to fight for himself again in battle. Such selfishness is beyond horrible. It is so utterly cruel and heartless. There's no words that can truly describe the magnitude of Pmurt's cruelty. There just isn't any words. I sigh: "We did it but this doesn't feel like a victory.. We lost so many people and Pmurt sent so many more to their deaths to try to kill us all without having to attack any of us himself." All Might sighs too: "We couldn't save so many of the people we were supposed to protect." Uraraka speaks up: "That's true but we can't let this crush our spirits! We are all fighting to make this world a better place even if most of us do not call it home. We can't give up. We just have to keep doing our best. You know, Plus Ultra!" Yuma smiles: "That's the spirit! We can't lose hope! We gotta keep going no matter how many times we fail. It's the only way to stop that Pmurt Nedib guy."

Hell Kaiser speaks too: "I feel so fortunate to be able to fight alongside all of you. I should still be suffering from my days of underground dueling but advanced magic and technology healed my weakened heart. Now, I can fight alongside all of the Cyber Dragons. And my brother Sho can fight alongside the Speedroids." Ghost Gal adds: "This war has really been eye opening, you know. It really shows what lengths the shareholders of Sol Tech as well as Lightning were willing to go to get what they wanted. They were willing to ruin the lives of innocent people if it meant they got what they wanted." Blue Maiden further adds: "We still have so much fighting left to do. We can't let anyone suffer if we can help it no matter where we came from." Pretty much everyone does some indicator of understanding what has just been said. Dominic speaks next. "Hold on a second, I'm going to go get the device for reviving the dead. I'll be right back. Everyone, stay here. This will only take a second. We should all stand together as efforts are made to bring everyone back so anyone who is is comforted by someone else when they wake up alive again. It's going to take so much energy and magic to pull it off but we will do it." Several minutes later, everyone who was killed was brought back to life. All of us ended up going to comfort one of them each. I ended up comforting a little kid. I hugged them: "Don't worry, kid. You're safe now. You're back to life." The kid tries onto my shoulder as I hug them. I do not mind if the tears of the innocent get on my armor. It's certainly better than the blood of them getting on any of it.. "Our fight isn't over but we're going to keep fighting so kids like you don't have to fight and get to grow up in a better world than others did. Let all your tears fall, kid. Let them all out. You're back to life, you're back in Miitopia. You will see your loved ones very soon, I promise."

The kid stares up at me: "I never had a family.." "What's your name, kid?" "I'm Marko.." "It's nice to meet you, Marko. I'm Swiftdrawer. I will make sure you become part of a family who accepts and loves you very much. At the end of the day, we are all social creatures, we need people to care about to have a reason to live." "Are you a.. knight? Could you become my family?" "I certainly could but I just can't invest the time needed to raising a kid like you. As a knight, I must protect and keep fighting no matter what. I have to do things that hurt. I'm old enough to adopt you without any issues but.. I'm afraid that I can't raise you on my own. Would you accept being a part of a much larger community than any family could be?" The kid looks interested and stops crying. I tell them the basics of the BRAINS Collective. As a result, I have recruited a kid to join BRAINS. That makes 2 in less than a day. Xeldelpel, the only survivor of Camp Soulcrusher is the other. For now on, Marko would stay in the Miitopia BRAINS base and learn a lot from various members. We would house them, feed them, raise them, and strengthen them. It was true that it's going to be years before Marko is ready to fight for real but we weren't going to force anything. The kid truly wanted to become stronger so we started providing what was necessary for that to happen. After I talked to Marko, myself and my comrades all temporarily got all of the people we saved or revived in the Miitopia BRAINS base as we all worked together to do a little something. We all teleported back to that military base and worked together to raid it completely in minutes before destroying it. The remaining crater was enormous and would serve as a symbol of the fall of fascism in Miitopia for centuries to come. Once that was taken care of, we helped rebuild whatever was destroyed in Powdered Peaks before relocating its people back to their homes. With that done, I returned to the pizzeria with that pizza still stored inside of a card. I walked up to the counter as business was back to normal.

The chef making pizzas sees me and smiles. "You're with the revolution, aren't you?" I put the card with the pizza in it on the table. "I saved this pizza you made before you were taken away." They smile again: "I don't need it. You can have it as a reward for the work you have done. Every member of the forces against fascism is always welcome to have free pizza here at my pizzeria. Once money is no longer necessary, I promise that my pizzas will be be an even bigger part of the reason the people of Powdered Peaks will never starve again!" "Okay, I accept. I'll pass on your words to the others. Your pizza smells delicious. Keep up the great work!" I sit down at a table and release the pizza from the card after getting a cup of water the chef let me have without any charge. I certainly stood out like a sore thumb with my armor against the design of the pizzeria. I almost chuckled about it but I was more concerned about eating the pizza and preparing for whatever battle was next. As I ate my pizza, the people in the pizzeria started one by one walking up to me and thanking me. "You're welcome, everyone. But please, you don't have to thank me. Just continue supporting us so we can build a better future for Miitopia and beyond. We're just trying to do what's right in the end no matter how much it hurts. I appreciate your kind words but I'm far from the only hero around. Like it or not, I'm a hero as tainted as that word has become in some places. We fight for what we believe is the best for all of Miitopia. It is your support and appreciation that reminds us of how worth all of this is. As painful and brutal as the war is, bringing back your lives and smiles is what makes it worth it. Please continue to eat your early morning meals here. Enjoy yourselves. Oh and btw, we are accepting any and all new comrades. If you want to fight with us, you can talk to someone with one of the armbands. We'll make sure some people are basically always here to protect this region from invasion. We will keep you all safe. And if you wanna fight alongside us, we will make sure to find a place for you & possibly train ya too."

They all nod and return to eating. Hours later, I was in yet another battle. Neksdor was seriously making its move now as were Peculia and the Travelers' Hub. However, things are starting to look kind of bright. The people of Miitopia are willing to do anything to fight for a better future now. Most of the people we have liberated are contributing in some way. Whether it's by helping with supplies, keeping their fellow people feed, creating media to increase support for our efforts, or something else, most people are doing something. A small number of people don't want to help but as long as they don't hurt or use anyone, we have no reason to bother them. We don't want to force anyone into anything if we don't have to do so. If we do, we do it reluctantly but also with a great seriousness. Our ideas for a practically utopian society are not perfect. They cannot possibly root out all evil, selfishness, or suffering so to maintain it all will require a great deal of effort. But because the common people will have the power at last, we won't have to be completely controlling. We will have to create a transitional government to oversee all of Miitopia until Miitopia is completely ready for communes but it will be worth it. It will be made of representatives from all over and help get through the issues that happen when you overthrow capitalism, fascism, and the rich class. When it's time, the government will be dissolved and more power will be handed to the worker unions and the common people who will help decide all of Miitopia's future. Thankfully, we have already taken care of most of the worst individuals in Miitopia one way or another so that will go a long way to minimizing selfishness and greed. Hell, Luis has finally changed for the better. He looks much healthier and happier. The Powdered Peaks battle was his first on our side. It took a lot to get through to him but our efforts paid off. The tropical island did wonders for him. And there you go. That's the update for Miitopia as it is now. We still have so much fighting left to do but we will succeed or die together while trying.