The Gods and Humans watched as A.R.E.S walked over to the Pylon and watched as he set it up. Many of them were uneasy since he managed to smile with a faceplate on. They were also wondering what could make him smile.
"A.R.E.S, Could you perhaps tell us what is making you smile" Aphrodite asked nicely trying to not set him off.
"No, it would spoil the surprise and I need to bring in the others." He replied, causing Aphrodite to hang her head in defeat. A. then snapped his fingers and a new group appeared in the room, one near the gods and one near the humans.
"What in the name of Hades" A purple skinned man said looking around in confusion.
"Where are we?" A Human woman asked, looking confused as well.
"I don't but I'm going to punch the person who brought us here" A mountain of a man yelled.
"That would be me," A.R.E.S told him, raising his hand.
The Man turned fast and gave a strong punch to his chest leaving no damage. He looked shocked not expecting it to do nothing and surprised he was as tall as him. A.R.E.S just looked at him and then looked at his chest.
"Well, you're a man of your word," He said.
"Raiden! You don't just punch random people" The small human yelled at her son. "Apologize to the Man now."
"Mom! He kidnapped us so I'm making him pay" The Man now named Raiden told her.
"You don't know who he is or what he wants," She replied.
As the two argued, the other either laughed or sweatdropped at the scene. A.R.E.S just looked at the scene holding the Orb.
"Excuse me, Your son is fine and it's good he attacked a random person or teleported you to an unknown place but can you please sit down. The others will explain to you" He asked.
She stiffed and apologized and took Raiden and a human man to the other humans. A tall and buff woman followed them, A.R.E.S looked to the newly arrived gods and pointed to the other gods.
"And who says I have to do what you say" The purple man said smiling getting close to A.R.E.S faceplate.
A.R.E.S got closer and said "You better or your wives find out the truth of your 524th anniversary" The man stiffened causing his wives to look confused. "How do you know about that?" The Man asked quietly. Ares walked up to Shiva and whispered in his ear, this caused the man to pale if he could. He turned and walked over to the gods and sat down which his wives and son followed.
"Ok now we can begin" He said, turning around to get the viewing started.
"So who is he?" A goddess with green clothes and tan skin asked.
"A.R.E.S" answered Sif
"But he is right there" A goddess with pale skin and a dot on her forehead said pointing at Ares.
"It's a long story but the short version involves the Humans and Ragnarok," Hera told her.
"So the Human did that to him" Another goddess with a black and white scarf said looking at her.
"No, something far worse," Aphrodite said.
"Well, It's a good look for you uncle Ares" a small elephant said smiling at him.
"Yes, it makes me look like quite the god," Ares said, striking a pose.
"Yea, you just need to get ripped apart, have what's left of you skinned and mounted on your horse and sent back to the gods as a message" A.R.E.S said not looking but you can hear no emotion in his voice.
Everyone just looked at him in shock."there is a reason I wear this armor. My body wasn't the only thing broken that day, it was pride and spirit as well" He said looking at his hands. "I'll see if you can see what did this to me and maybe you'll lose that pride of yours" He said activating the pylon and left.
"What happened to him?" The Green dressed goddess named Parvati asked in shock.
"Our pride in thinking we are unbeatable" Hermes told her looking ahead.
"Ares, you are not to fight that thing no matter what" Zeus told him caring for his son.
Ares just looked where his other self left. "Ares" Shiva said to him with a look that said he knew what he was thinking.
Ares closed his eyes and breathed in deep and got up and walked to the door and looked at his fellow gods "I may not be strong but I am the God of War and no matter the future or fate for me I must meet the Very embodiment of War itself. I could never forgive myself if I let someone else do it. As my title and domain of God of War I will if it comes to it meet the Horseman of War." He said before leaving to go after his other self.
The gods just looked at the door knowing the weight on his shoulders. Zeus looked down before a hand appeared on his shoulder and saw his brother Poseidon. He smiled and sat up and got ready for the viewing.
"I was hoping someone can explain what's going on" The Woman said looking at the other Humans.
"We are here to view different humanities," Lu Shang told her.
"Oh, so did you all come right before us?" She asked.
"No, we watched a Young soldier fight a war without using a weapon," Chen Gong said.
"How is that possible?" The Human man said, shocked.
"He was a healer and dragged many of his comrades to safety," Goll told them, smiling.
"We also watched a Man accept the sins of his past and accept the demon inside him" Anne told them.
"Hm, that's interesting. Can he fight" Raiden asked.
"Raiden," his parents yelled at him.
"He can turn into a demon of fire the size of whale" Kojiro told him
"I want to fight him," Raiden said excitedly.
"Get in line, I'm going to fight him" Lu Bu said to Raiden getting up to face him.
They both glared at each other, Randgriz got up from her seat between them. She grabbed their ears and twisted them "Both of you calm down or i'll personally kick both of your asses" She told them. They sat down rubbing their ears, They all looked at the screen since it started to turn on.
Soon something appeared on the screen and it was slowly revealed to be Earth with the Sun rising in the background. You could see the lights of massive cities on the planet's surface. A voice of a man was heard saying "Super Earth, Our home"
"Super Earth, What kinda name is that" Heimdall said wondering why they would name it that. This also interested the other as well.
It showed a neighborhood of Houses and well kept yards and plant life. The man continued speaking "Prosperity, Liberty, Democracy, Our way of life" as he said that it showed a street with two armored people carrying guns and then showed the man waving to his neighbor and then the Armored people.
"Did America conquer the world?" Goll said. Wondering what she was listening to. Her sisters were also wondering that too.
"Those bastards finally did it, and they said it would be communist" Raiden said. His parents and the others looked at him with confusion, while Kojiro and Musashi hung their heads at the loss of their home.
"I am so confused, what is he going on about?" Cain asked while his brother also nodded wanting to know.
"It's not the time to explain and maybe we will get some more information watching" Brunhilde massaging her forehead at the headache coming on.
It then showed his house with his wife and son getting up to come greet him. He opened his arms to embrace them but a shadow appeared off to the side, as this was going on he said "But freedom doesn't come free". It was revealed to be a giant insect-like creature that attacked his family which ripped them apart as the man collapsed to his knees not being fast enough to save them. "No… Sweet liberty" He cried out as blood splashed on him. Then the words 'INVASION' appeared across the screen.
"What in living Hell!" Sif yelled out watching the wife and son being ripped apart. "Why isn't he doing anything?!" Parvati screamed at the man. "What would he do, or be able to do?" Heimdall asked. Parvati stuttered trying to come up with a response. "He could punch it," Shiva said. Everyone just looked at him and in turn just looked at him. "Shiva, he is a normal mortal human, not a warrior" Hermes said. "Plus he would also die," Thrud said, knowing the human wouldn't survive.
Adam just looked at the screen, his wife looked at him with worry. She grabbed his hand to see if he was ok. Reginleif also looked at him with worry, his sons also weren't sure if he was ok.
"I hate those things" He finally said. This caused everyone to look at him since Adam normally didn't express himself like this.
The man then walked onto the screen and laughed out "Look familiar?" He asked. "Scenes like these are happening all over the galaxy, right now" He continued. He then pointed at the screen and told the viewers "You could be next"
"He better not be talking about us" Zeus said glaring at the human pointing at him.
"For the love of everything holy, Zeus, he is talking about the humans watching this, he is doing a propaganda promotion video. Humans do it to try and get people to listen more often" Brunhilde spoke with her head in her hands.
"Why would the humans here need to listen to him there dead?" Sif said, confused.
Brunhilde began groaning into her hands in despair before a bottle of hard liquor appeared next to her. She began downing the whole thing, while the others watched her drink her sorrows away.
He continued speaking "That is unless you make the most important decision of your life" He raised his left hand and snapped his fingers and the background changed to a waving flag of Super Earth. His hair was cut into a buzz cut and he was now wearing the armor of those individuals walking down the street. He then said "Prove to yourself that you have the strength and the courage to be free" He was handed a helmet by someone off screen. He put the helmet on and as he did he said "Join… the Helldivers"
"So it's a military promotion" Anne said knowing they do this to get young men to enlist.
"Who would fall for this?" Aphrodite asked. Anne then pointed to Chen Gong, Abel, and Cain as they looked at the screen in amazement.
"Young men who they can easily send to their deaths for stupid and pointless wars" She finished. Jack just looked at the screen and said something that caught a lot of people's attention.
"His color is the same as hers," He said out loud. Brunhilde and Anne just looked at him wide-eyed.
"What does he mean by that?" Raiden asked, confused. Before he was shut down by Thrud shaking her head.
It then changed to four objects on fire falling to a plant's surface. He was then on the ground while his teammates were gunning down one of those bug-things while he spoke "Become part of an elite peacekeeping force" he finished as did his squadmates while one of them kicked as more of those bugs appeared in the back. It changed to them running forward gunning down the Bugs as they were charging them.
"I never understood why they use those metal slingers," Hera said. Goll looked at her.
"You must have never fired one," She said. Hera and Amphitrite looked at her in turn. "You have fired one?" they both asked. She smiled and nodded. "We found the one who put the hole in the wall" Reginleif said as Goll paled. Randgriz grabbed her cheeks as Hrist held her up as both of them were angry with her. "SO IT WAS YOU" Hrist yelled. "I'M SORRY, AND I FIXED IT ANYWAY" She shouted back. "WOULDN'T NEED FIXING IF YOU DIDN'T PLAY AROUND" Randgriz shouted. Hera and Amphitrite just looked at the sisters.
He now appeared closer with a large object in his hands. It then moved to some more of those bugs with a massive one towering over them. He then said "See exotic new lifeforms" and a sound was heard as a small object flew to the head of the massive bug then exploded. It moved back to him as he was covered in its blood and guts. It changed to him standing there firing his gun off to the side killing something as his teammates in the background shoved a flag into the stomach of a bug. "And spread managed Democracy throughout the galaxy" as he said that his squadmates chest bumped each other after finishing 'planting the flag'. Then he and his other member clasped hands laughing as he said "Become a Hero" with a jet flying overhead. "Become a legend" as it zoomed in on his helmet. "Become a Helldiver" As he said this they posed with two massive ships in the back with a planet also in the back. The screen faded to black.
"So how did you like it?" A.R.E.S asked, coming back with Ares. he then saw Randgriz and Hrist getting revenge on Goll with Brunhilde drank her sorrows away while others were confused or in thought.
"So I see that it went well," He said.
"What did I miss?" Ares asked, confused.
