Tyranny 2025
Chapter 1: Liberation of Station Square
Date: September 16th, 2024
It has been only days since we defeated the villain behind the lethal theme park Alva Towne Unamusement Park and about a month since the fall of Don Thousand's empire and the rise of a new empire controlled by Baby, the Tuffle parasite from Universe 7. However, something very recently changed and we caught it on video because Baby thought it was a good idea to move the empire's seat of power to Station Square from Sonic X. Soon, we will see what happened as recorded by one of Dr. Eggman's robots. Station Square was once the capital of a nation not unlike the United States except less corrupt. But under the Empire Of Nacirema's rule, it has become the seat of power for the latest evil fascist empire to threaten the multiverse. The White House like building has been transformed into an imperial palace. Still being paranoid despite switching his allegiance to good, Dr. Eggman built some tiny robots and one of them slipped inside this imperial palace with ease. It captured the moment Baby was overthrown and replaced. We watch the footage carefully, watching as Baby made an address to his quadrillions if not more of sentient subjects across many worlds: "Subjects of Nacirema, it is I, your emperor, Baby of Planet Plant! And today, I have something to announce! All these annoying worlds that have chosen to refuse to become a part of our glorious empire shall soon be invaded and conquered! Even the most resistant of them so far, Mii World will fall under my control. And let me remind you of the law of this empire. There are no more elections or any other semblance of the weak system they call democracy. Now that the constitution of Nacirema is no more, I have ascended to emperor from the now abolished position of president!
In schools, girls who wish to become athletes must undergo genital examinations! I must admit, the ideas of the US's far right fit perfectly with what I have in mind so I have implemented not just their genital exams but more too! For example, less taxes on the rich, the end of free money for the poor, no more free lunches or healthcare, marriage is between a man and a woman, immigrants are criminals, and all of the others! You foolish subjects are too brainwashed to even realize that you should hate me! Those ideas aren't even in touch with reality but I sure love how they make you suffer and hate each other! What even is the point of a genital exam? I can keep talking like this all day and most of you won't even bat an eye! After all, I have successfully purged countless resistance groups in all of these worlds! Team Sonic is in hiding along with Dr. Eggman's team! So many versions of the same city have been successfully wiped off the map on multiple planets called Earth! No more legislation against fossil fuel companies! LGBT events are now illegal and anyone who partakes in them are killed on site! Anyone who identifies as something other than their born as is sent to 'conversion' therapy camps! The more worlds we conquer, the more powerful I become! This is so much better than turning all of my universe's Earth's humans into Tuffles! I nearly got my revenge on the Saiyans back then but they still found a way to ruin everything! But that doesn't matter anymore because Universe 7, I'm coming for you! I found the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 to be quite inspirational! And how do I know about it?! Easy, it exists in many of the universes that have fallen to my control! And now, it's almost time to-" He is cut off as a person attacks him from behind. Baby responds by fighting back only to stagger in shock: "Impossible! It's you! The human who ran against me in the election! What are you doing here?!"
The person gets within the view of the robot, revealing them to have a chilling familiar aura. The same aura Pmurt Nedib and Alva Towne Unamusement Park's Matt had radiated around them previously. They have a fragment of The Shadow inside of them. They reply: "I'm here to kill you in front of you 'loyal' subjects.'" "And what makes you think a weak human like you can kill a superior Tuffle like me?!" "I don't know, maybe a shard of The Shadow, perhaps?" "You have one of those?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You think that's going to stop me?!" "The party I ran under for the presidency is funded by the same rich greedy men as your party is although your party is now calling itself the Imperial Court with you at its head. My party has been conning people for decades, claiming to champion change and progress against yoir party's greed, hatred, selfishness, and bigotry. Sure, we have done some things in the name of progress but it was only because those activists and climate lobbyists wouldn't shut up! Thanks to our schemes, we have gained lots of money and with that money including the funds leftover from our 'stop Baby from winning, he'll destroy our entire world' campaign, I have been given an upgrade. Those old farts in my party. They didn't realize just how far their money could go so I had my people assassinate them and take their money. *reveals technological body upgrades* Behold, I am now a fusion of human and machine unlike any seen before! I even have AI installed that was programmed from the garbage known as generative 'AI' but improved greatly! But that's not all. Go, Artificial Barian Battlemorph! Thanks to some of the remains of Don Thousand's empire, I have gained a Barian form. *transforms* I'm no longer just a weak human. I'm the future supreme leader who will replace you!" Baby laughs: "Go ahead, I dare you to try to kill me, Katherine Glassgate!"
"I will do more than just kill you. I will show my superiority and dominance. It's ironic, isn't it? It's the rich old men who are the bad guys and yet, here I am, as bad as they are. Or that's what the pawns of society say. I say they're not the bad guys nor am I because we're the ones who deserve all of the power. Your party called me a communist. But no, I'm a neoliberal. My party and your party have many similarities. It's no wonder it was so easy to con so many voters for such a long time. I used to be like most voters, wanting things to get better. But now that I've seen what I've seen, all I want is power and control. My machine parts even uses left over scraps from Pmurt Nedib's empire. I have learned a lot from the mistakes of other would be multiverse dominators. Pmurt Nedib, Don Thousand, you Baby, the Supreme Dark Lord, Thanos, and more. And you know something? White women like me became almost equal to white men over the past 100 years on my planet and many others called Earth in other universes, causing the likes of me to hold the same power and entitlement as many white men do. It's a shame that some white women have betrayed the white race to fight against like likes of you and me. But they'll soon be trapped in marriage and be forced to make babies for their husbands anyway! Oh and what's the person's name? Right. Kamala Harris. She's not nearly as pro establishment as I am. She still is but not like I am. But I think that's enough talking. DIE, BABY!" To the shock of some of us, she kills him easily and takes the crown he was wearing and places it on her head. She then addresses the empire: "Hear me, citizens of Nacirema. From now on, I will be your empress and you will do what I say. Unlike most other young leaders in my party, I will not even remotely listen to any of your concerns.
And from this day forth, the Imperial Court will have its members replaced by the most senior members of my party! Police! Arrest the current members of the court and execute them outside in public! Despite us sharing many of the same goals, they still chose to hate and spread lies about me when I ran for office! They deserve no mercy! I'm sure many people all over this empire are rioting in the streets or peacefully protesting. And to them, I say stop or die! That's right! Armed forces and police of Nacirema, I authorize you through imperial decree to kill anyone who riots. Not only that but kill anyone who peacefully protests! Even peaceful protesters are annoying and disruptive! They are lazy and have no place in this empire! The invasion plans against worlds outside of this empire will be on hold in order to revise them. For now, we will focus on continuing Baby's great purge, starting with the immigrants and trans people. And let's not forget the villains who made all of this possible. I will cooperate with them to make sure all of our goals are met. Once I'm done, a improved version of Baby's Tyranny 2025 plan will destroy the ecosystems of countless worlds, leaving just who I deem worth alive inside of biodomes, using the ruins of the destroyed ecosystems for more money. That will satisfy Goku Black's Project Zero Mortals." Katherine discovers Eggman's robot and says: "Someone must be spying on me. That matters little but I can't allow it to continue." And then, the footage turns to static after a dark energy blast. Most of us onboard the BRAINS space station are stunned into silence.
Being from a nation where voter suppression, a corrupt 2 party system, thousands of terrible companies, a massively shifted to the right Overton Window, and billionaire scumbags thrive, I'm among the first to recover. I speak: "It's obvious what we need to do. Katherine Glassgate is the number one enemy of the people now. We must begin our plans quickly. The Empire Of Nacirema has already well gone to a point where reform is no longer possible from what we've discovered through investigation. Now, we must fight harder in this conflict. As a knight, I can't sit idly by as this level of tyranny is imposed on so many innocent lives. It's clear that we must issue statements against our newest foe and Nacirema as a whole that also make it clear that we seek the liberation of all of its subjects from its grasp. The neoliberal/fascist & capitalist system of Nacirema must fall. We will liberate and grow anew. Due to this conflict, my Twisted Land theme park's very world has been moved along with the Solar System around it to Mii World's universe as a safety measure. These are my thoughts on the matter and my thoughts alone as the former knight envoy of our collective and the new Wicked Parks Resort envoy, representing Twisted Land and what surrounds it when needed. But let me emphasize the fact that that doesn't grant me any level of power or authority. We don't need that crap in this collective. We are all equals here. No one is superior. Even if they're a god or someone who has acted as a ruler in the past."
We then get into the meeting further, talking extensively and making and improving upon various plans. Eggman even arrives to update us on the situation in Sonic's World as well as its parallel world where Station Square resides at the end of the meeting: "Look, it isn't good. If we don't do something soon, the majority of sentient life forms on both planets are going to be massacred by the Empire. I may be an eccentric genius even now but I can still clearly see what's going to happen. It will take days for the massacre to do what is meant to do so there's still time but we need to act immediately if we can." I nod: "I'd like to add that some of us are going to insert ourselves into Nacirema's power struggle to attempt to sabotage it from the inside. It's going to be dangerous and difficult and not something I recommend for the average person. Like seriously, in my original world, there's no way I'd let myself attempt to do so for so many reasons. But in this body, I got a good chance of success. I'm using my Darkwind persona to earn the trust of Katherine Glassgate. I have 2 main objectives. Assassination if possible and tricking her into thinking some of us and our allies are dead. If I can work for her as an assassin and only pretend to kill my targets and make the killing look real, I can do a lot to mess up our enemy's plans. But I'm not the only one who is planning something daring and dangerous. Some of us are planning on impersonating some of our foes in high positions among other things. We're going much further with stealth than we did in Alva Towne Unamusement Park recently. It's going to take me months to finish writing all about that adventure by writing 30k words about it a month."
We soon ended the meeting after going over all of our plans and up to date information. I even mentioned that I foresaw Katherine preferring using the other villains and her hierarchical power as opposed to her actual power. If I'm correct, we have a serious character flaw right off the bat. We may even force the Empire to move its capital altogether if all of our plans to start right away work out. We are liberating Station Square, Sonic's World, and so on. I plan on writing more about the action rather than my stealth mission in this story. Now, all I have to do is move to Station Square and blend in. But first, we have to make statements against the Empire. I head to Twisted Land and gather together its inhabitants and workers. Together, we go to the top of the hotel in Chaos World and broadcast live throughout the entire resort and beyond. I speak during it: "Attention viewers, I am Dark Knight Swiftdrawer, the creator of the Wicked Parks Resort. As its creator, I'm especially qualified to make a statement of great importance that has already been unanimously supported in my making it by everyone else besides me who is behind the resort's continued success including chefs, ghostly spirits, and scare actors. That was decided as we came together towards where we are broadcasting from right now. So let's make this quick. On behalf of the entire Wicked Parks, we issue this statement. The Empire Of Nacirema is a threat to all that exists. It is a nation that has recently transformed into a land hungry fully fascist state that seeks to destroy and consume everything in its path.
Today, its emperor, Baby was killed and succeeded by its new leader: Katherine Glassgate who is even worse than he was in terms of threat level. We have learned that it seeks to expand even further, stripping away the rights of all who stand in the way of its goals. This is a call to action, this is a declaration. We will not stand for what they're doing. They're killing their people for opposing them or not fitting in with what they consider to be normal and civilized. The Wicked Parks Resort hereby declares a fight of liberation and resistance against the Empire Of Nacirema. Make it known that we will not tolerate what they're doing. We will help dismantle their capitalist and fascist and neoliberal system of oppression and build anew in its place. *pulls out Graceful Protector and raises it high as wind so happens to cause my cape to flutter around a lot* Today, the real fight against the Empire begins and we will as a community fight together to stop the Empire of Nacirema and help bring it to its end. Its leaders are either powerless to do nothing but obey or are truly scum who have abandoned what it means to be truly caring and compassionate. But let's also remember that individuals in the latter category are VERY WEIRD! Onwards to liberation! Huzzah! Power to the people! Let prosperity rang in the communes forever! No rulers, no masters!" After the speech ends, I lower my sword. I speak to my comrades: "Please don't say I make a good leader. I just know exactly what to say because I'm a long experienced writer. I have the heart of a writer, not some ruler. Anyway, we should depart soon to do what we each need to do.
First, we have to show up for some of the other speeches to be made." After that, the speech from the shell organization for BRAINS called Infinity is made and then, I went to the Akatsuki's headquarters to be present during the Akatsuki's statement. We air it on as many places and such as we possibly can. We all wear our Akatsuki outfits and any masks any of us opt for while wearing them with Nagato at the podium with his Rinnegan glowing: "We are the Akatsuki. We show those who harm others what it means to experience the same pain they inflict onto others and punish those who will never change. We silence those who dare stand against the will of the poor and others who struggle to survive. You cannot expect us to go easy on the enemy. And right now, the enemy is the Empire of Nacirema. It's new leader, Katherine Glassgate is as twisted as they come. The horrors committed under the rule of Baby are continuing as if he were still alive to command their continuation. Needless pain.. There is so much needless pain and suffering in the multiverse. We oppose any who inflicts a great deal of needless pain for dark purposes. We will not let the Empire be left unpunished. They will be held accountable for their actions. The Akatsuki remembers. The Akatsuki doesn't yield. The Akatsuki executes. The Akatsuki holds up the rights of the oppressed. We will soon you soon, Empire of Nacirema. And we encourage all who listen to prepare to fight or even rise up against the Empire which will soon try to expand its borders once again. Be prepared and give them no quarter.
The Akatsuki supports you and fully condemns Nacirema and its empress, Katherine Glassgate." A couple hours later, all of the necessary statements have been made even from the stabilizing new communes of the furry world of Kohnanix as well as the people of Planet Tomapie. With all of them done, it was now time to get to work. I find Herbsalvin in the space station: "My pegasus knight, would you like to move to Station Square with me? I don't want to be alone there." "My dark knight, of course. When do we leave?" "Soon. Just gotta get the essentials packed up. We'll find a place to stay. It's all part of my plan. What's your plan?" "I wish to say to follow you anywhere you go and vice versa but I'm needed for a different area in the overall operation of sneaking into the Empire's structure." "Good thing we're buying a probably crappy apartment for a bit to live in Station Square. But I don't think we'll live there for long because of the liberation operation for Station Square and beyond. We'll have to haggle but it'll be okay. We have a bunch of dollar bills from various places. Some enemies we've taken down dropped money as loot. Wow, that sounds so wrong. Whatever. So where are you going to be working instead of assassination and bounty hunting?" "A seat in the Imperial Court." "And how are you going to manage that?" "Gen, Irina, and others coached me on impersonation." "Here's an idea.. Is the person you're impersonating newly dead, fine, or locked up?" "Fine." "I'll take care of them and you can take their place on that court. This is going to be so chaotic. We have multiple sources for the bond we share. Let's add another one to that. Accomplices in infiltrating a fascist empire. It's so dirty and rebellious.
Like the very pinnacle of chaotic good that doesn't necessarily involve civil disobedience. We are going to be putting ourselves in very dangerous positions. We have to play roles like actors on a stage and do so without slipping up. But if we do slip up, we'll have to improvise. Do you have a memo of the person you're replacing?" "Planning for what I'm going to do has been ongoing for several days. I know everything about them. Fear not, my dark knight." "We're overdoing that stuff today. Oh well. It's like we're making fun of some knightly tropes all the time like we're Smosh or something but are actually just that passionate towards each other despite me being an introvert. Okay, back to business. We definitely have to try meeting up while undercover several times. It will help our chances if our foe thinks our false identities are in league with each other. I mean, it's not hard to imagine. A political party politician now court member colluding with a lethal assassin. Except they're actually both knights who are undercover and wish to overthrow the Empire. This kind of thing is dangerous to write about while living under a fascist regime but here we are. We should get ready to go now." "Aye. We must depart for our room in the Miitopia base post haste." And that's exactly what we do. We pack up what we need from there including furniture and teleport to Station Square with our energies suppressed completely, disguised as normal young adults with colorful anime hair new to Station Square rather than a pegasus knight and a zombie knight from 2 totally different worlds. I speak: "Okay, we need to find the cruddiest apartment for the lowest price we can.
If this is anything like back home, we ain't going to be living easy. *whispers* Play along. We have to act like we belong on this planet. *Speaks loudly again* I wonder if someone would be willing to tell us where to go to find a really cruddy but cheap apartment we can actually afford to live in." An hour later, we're signing a lease with a serious looking landlord after negotiating the price to where we only have to pay half of a month's rent upfront to move in. Once it's all cleared, we're given apartment keys, find our apartment, and check it out. And it's terrible. I laugh: "It's horrible and chaotic in here! *quietly casts illusion and sound muffling magic* Okay, let's have some fun. We can trash that sparkling with electricity TV first." We spend the next 45 minutes making it safe and actually livable. I even use Artist's Eye to create some new furniture to replace the old crap. We can later make the excuse that we cared about getting good furniture and that's why we went with such a cheap apartment instead of a better one. It was perfect. The floors and walls still looked horrible but for now, it was home. With all of that done, we turned our attention to the infiltration part of things. I don my menacing Darkwind outfit. Grim reaper like cloak with a demonic plague mask. But then, I switch to something different at the last minute. And after that, we teleported away after Herbsalvin dressed over their armor as if they're some kind of rebellious beautiful prince(just in case, we can make up a false story for them later). Which was funny considering who we are and our beliefs and what not. We teleported to the quarters of the person my lover is going to impersonate. Lucky us, it's nighttime. And guess who's in the living quarters? The target.
I am now dressed as a pirate captain. Meanwhile, Dominic contacts us through telepathy thanks to myself, him, Herbslavin, and the rest of our core friend group making blood pacts with each other to strengthen our bonds with one another. "Are you two in position along with the others who need to slip in?" I reply through my thoughts: "Yes. We're ready. Are you ready to help shut off the power in the entire imperial palace which will not stand for much longer if all goes to plan?" "Yes. Everything is ready on this side. But it needs to look like an accident or act of nature. The weather team is handling that part. A lightning storm will soon be over the palace. It will strike it several times and when it strikes at the right spot, the power will go completely out. All of you are being protected by arcana and technological things that hide your presence in the palace. Even from Katherine Glassgate. She so happens to be busy having dinner. This isn't the time to assassinate or capture her though. So stay away from her except when you have to be close, Swift. We aren't ready to confront her yet. Far from it. As we all know, she can't know that we have you and others inside the palace. Okay. That's all for now. What a nap causation. Over and out." We show ourselves to the target once the power is shut down. The emergency power flickers on but as another bolt of lightning strikes, it too goes down. The only things illuminating the room now are candles and the nightsky. We walk towards the target. I pull out one of my daggers and point it at the target's neck: "Hi there, we're here to have you replaced in the Imperial Court. You would do well to not even attempt to struggle.
My lover will replace you. Tonight, I'm their sword and you will listen carefully. Do you understand?" "No! I refuse to let you get away with your intrusion and plans!" "That's a shame, I didn't want to resort to this." Instead of cutting them with my dagger, I punch their lights out with a single hit after removing my metal gloves temporarily to do so without spilling blood. "Okay. Now just do your thing to start impersonating them. Once you're done, they'll be a prisoner of the BRAINS Collective. Echoing the fun jail that exists in Stampy's Lovely World, we will confine them in a fun space where they can live happily and healthy. After all, we refuse to treat our prisoners poorly. I hate taking prisoners anyway. To this person, confinement will be like a nice long vacation and we'll get whatever information we can out of them through the power of friendship. That isn't a joke. That's a plan." Once Herbsalvin is done, they cast a spell to look and smell like who they're impersonating. My pegasus knight speaks in a replica voice even: "I believe I have laid in bed enough. I should get something to eat before it's all gone. ..After the power comes back on." I pick up our hostage and say: "Herbsalvin, please return to me soon. Meet you back at the apartment first thing in the morning. I'm going to send this person to their fun vacation. All expenses paid. This sounds really evil, doesn't it? But what else could we have done? Abandoned them on a deserted island, locked them up in a place forever where they're bored and miserable, put them in a medieval torture room, or just killed them on the spot. This is the least cruel option."
After that, I drop off the prisoner at a newly built structure in Miitopia's Greenhorne region. It houses prisoners along with individuals who specialize in mental health stuff and can reform prisoners and what not. With that done, I take the pirate outfit off and don my Darkwind persona again. With that done, I teleport back to the imperial palace before the power comes back on and head to the nearest door to the dining room in it. Once there, I conceal myself in shadows and wait for the tyrant to come out of it after the power returns. It took some time but my patience was rewarded. I quietly and discreetly trailed our biggest enemy until the right moment came to speak to her. And that's when it happened. She went to her grand bedchambers. Inside, it was disgustingly rich looking. I slipped inside once she opened the door to it. "I know you're there. Show yourself or I'll kill you." I slip out of the shadows and allow the lights to show my form: "I was about to threaten to kill you myself. But we could work together." "Who are you and what do you want from the empress of the Empire of Nacirema?" "A job and money. You may have heard of me. My name is Darkwind." "As in the individual who caused trouble at that insignificant theme park in my empire's territory?" "The very same one. Let me be straight with you. I'm not asking for us to be friends. I'm asking for a mutually beneficial relationship. You give me a job to kill anyone you desire and pay me for my troubles. I just moved to this city, desperate for work. I'm almost broke. Could only afford a crappy apartment."
"But from what I heard, you sought vengeance on that colony world where that theme park is located." "Yes, I did. I still feel that way but what I was doing that night doesn't pay the bills. And you know, Matt actually believed he destroyed me. Look at me. I'm still breathing." "That's right. You were seemingly destroyed. I'm impressed you survived." "I didn't exactly survive. I've been dead for quite some time. It's why you can't feel my heartbeat or presence no matter how hard you tried. You have a keen eye. I was hiding pretty well even in the bright lights of this palace. I'm not going to give you nonsense. I'm giving it to you straight. I need money and you could always use someone who can get the dirty work done much more quietly than your police and military can. I silence my targets as quickly as possible, leaving no room for struggle. Sometimes, it takes an assassin or bounty hunter to get the job done faster. You can have the police violently raid a house or you can have an assassin slip in unnoticed and end it in a single shot. No screams, no resistance, nothing. Very little blood if any. And to show you that my work is quality and trustworthy, allow me to show you some of the bounties I've hunted and collected." I pull out legitimate bounties I've hunted as a member of the Akatsuki but she didn't realize that at all. She doesn't know who I really am and I intend on keeping it that way for the entire rest of this conflict. Katherine reads them over: "I see. You collect on them fast it seems. But I don't trust you. I'll give you one chance to prove yourself. Now that all of those troublesome entities that helped thwart many of the would be overlords I admire have made statements against me, the tension and pressure is on. *pulls out a picture of Nagato* Kill Nagato Uzamaki and show me proof.
If you do so successfully, I'll give you the job." "Very well. I'll take care of it. I'll be off, then." I leave swiftly through the nearest window and seemingly vanish into the night. Now to stage a fake assassination. It isn't the first time I pulled something like this and it won't be the last. Once Im far enough away, I teleport with no one watching to Nagato's location: the Akatsuki headquarters in Amegakure. I speak to him: "Nagato, it's me. Swift. Are there any prying individuals or spies around here?" "No. We just made a sweep for them around this area. None were found even with advanced technological aid." "Good. We need to stage a fake assassination of you at my hands as the supposed villain who remains a mystery known as Darkwind in a location that won't give this base away." "I see. Let's begin. I have expected something like this may eventually happen. The Akatsuki only becomes more feared amongst the villain population of the multiverse. There have been many attempts to find and destroy our base as you are aware." "We're an infamous group of assassins with a long history. Before the likes of me joined and when you were known as Pain, things were drastically different but no less intimidating with the group. Rather than being a force of greed and oppression, this group of assassins now does good by doing the stuff most good people can't bring themselves to do which is understandable. I don't want to kill our foes but sometimes, we have no choice but to do so. That's why we try to spread peace as we continue on with our adventures." "You are right. Now, we must figure out how to fake you killing me." "Yep. Photo manipulation won't work. I may be certified in Photoshop but even I know that altered images won't do.
I need to bring back physical evidence and video footage. We must consult with our BRAINS Collective's scientists and the other creatives as well as mages to pull this off perfectly." And that's exactly what we do. 3 hours later, it's all ready. I thank Nagato for allowing me to pretend to kill him and head off with an exact duplicate of him after he explains he will go into hiding until the time is right. I present the evidence to Katherine after I slip into her chambers unnoticed. She was waiting for me: "Did you do what I asked?" "Yes. Sorry it took a while, do you have any idea how hard it was to track him down?" "I have been trying to locate the Akatsuki base but have had no luck so I understand why you had so much trouble. Now, prove your words with evidence." I show her the beheaded body with head and blood included. I then show the weapon I did it with. One of my daggers, covered in fresh blood. What's more is that I show her the footage from a video camera that was supposedly set up near where I supposedly did it. "I was lucky and didn't have to find their base to find Nagato. I even got to see up a camera before doing the deed, I was that quiet. As you can see based on the terrain pictured, there's no sign of the base anywhere near it." The evidence couldn't be more perfect. It looked so real that before returning to the palace, I pranked some of my friends with the evidence and they fell for it. I had to claim someone else did it to convince them. It did the trick. And our enemy was no less fooled. She smirks: "Welcome to the secret assassination group within the Imperial Court, Darkwind." "Thank you. But I'd like to say a few things before I turn in. I'm really tired after all of that. Actually, no I'm not. I forgot I require no sleep. Anyway, you can trust me. We don't have to be friends like I said. Just give me targets to kill and I'll kill them.
But a word of warning, I do not do well with being used or betrayed. Want to know why I said what I said when I bothered Alva Towne Unamusement Park's ex-owner and manager? The society I came from used me like a ragdoll and threw me away. I won't betray you as long as I get paid. If you betray me, I will be among your worst enemies. I will turn on you right back and give my services to the other side to spite you so let's just trust one another based on our agreement and things will go smoothly for both of us. Sound like a plan?" "I'll agree to that. Tell me though, who are you behind that mask? A man or a woman?" "Neither. I'm a zombie. I told you. I've been dead for a while. Rage is what keeps my carcass moving along. I can't reveal my face to you or anyone else. I'm trying to blend in. Even villains like me get lonely sometimes and if my friends in the area heard that the empress knows me personally, that might cause problems neither of us could have foreseen. For example, the Akatsuki could find out you know my full identity and use that information to find me in my apartment and capture me for information on you as well as how to get to you. You are definitely one of their targets. Now do you see how serious I'm taking our agreement and why I don't want to show my face to even you?" "Okay. You don't need to show your face to me. But on one condition. Whenever I'm around you, you must wear what you're currently wearing so I recognize you. It might be better if I only know your villain identity in case my court has traitors in its ranks. Anyone close to me is a potential target for a traitor to use against me. They could kidnap you but if no one knows your real face, they can't get you when you are not in that outfit."
"You get it. I'm glad. Here's to a mutually beneficial relationship. Oh and one more thing, I only kill at night. It's easier and more discreet that way." "I figured as much. That works well for me too. Come to dinner over 12 hours from now. I invite you to attend it." "To eat or look out for traitors?" "Both if possible. The latter is the priority." "As long as I get paid, consider it done." "Your pay for it and the assassination is already being prepared." With that, I slip away into the darkness of the night again. In the morning, after some nighttime training in secret far below Twisted Land, I meet with my lover at our new shabby apartment. We eat breakfast together and swap success stories. Our infiltration has gone perfectly. Now to get closer to our foe and learn everything we can while also creating an ever growing list of our comrades who are supposedly dead after being assassinated. It's going to be a treat when we use our new positions against her. Throughout the day, we prepare with our comrades for the liberation of Station Square and beyond and spend some time bonding in that crappy apartment of ours. We purposefully in our false identities get seen talking in a dark alleyway in the afternoon about pulling strings to make each other's jobs easier. Fake collusion. It should make us seem more trustworthy to Katherine especially because we sprinkle in things about using our new collaboration to support her rule for money in my case and power in Herbsalvin's case(but not really, it's just a ploy, we don't want or need either). Additionally, we secretly start harboring so called illegals inside our apartment before sending them over to Mii World for the time being. We have been thinking up these plans for some time. That's why they're going so well.
But as time passes, we itch to get into the action, just waiting to begin the liberation. Lucky for us, on the 18th, the day after I have dinner with Katherine without accidentally revealing my real identity which happened the night after I pretended to kill Nagato, we struck just as the Sun rose over Station Square. Myself, Herbsalvin, Jomi(Toward The Terra), Barla, Pitohui, Senku, Candace(Phineas & Ferb), and Argo form a team. That's right. We're back to small teams and that's a good thing, it makes it much easier since we're all specialized in different skills. An army of the likes of us is good and all but the formations of an army hold us back to be honest. Senku smirks: "Who's ready for some science?!" I reply: "I hope you know what you're doing. We're one of those wild card chaos teams. Who knows what we'll end up doing. Technological sabotage is already being done by the Hanoi along with Dominic, Kirito, PIXAL, Zane, and Unagami as well as the Crash Bug virus, the computer virus of choice for the BRAINS Collective. *smiles* I gotta admit. Sticking it to the fascist empire is going to be pretty fun. I'll still take it seriously but I can't deny the thrill of battle and tactical chaos any longer. It's the kind of stuff I enjoy writing about the most with stealth stuff and chaotic hangouts just behind it. Let's do whatever it is we're going to do. Do you have a weapon, Senku? In a battle of this caliber, your calculated science techniques won't do any good. In fact, they'll put us in danger unless you prepared them ahead of time." "Good thing I did! Heh! Get excited!"
Argo replies: "Wait. Hold on a second, we need to figure out where we'd be best suited at the moment." I add: "We're a seriously motley crew. 2 knights, a Mu, a gunslinger/tank, a chaotic GGO player, a dagger wielding info broker, a scientist, and a teenage girl that got over the urge to bust her brothers thanks to the BRAINS Collective. We all have differing priorities for what to do in this team of ours. We should just call ourselves Team Unpredictable or something." "Ehehehehe. Good one and great points. It really comes to where the most help is needed right now.." That's when we find a familiar villain heading towards some of our comrades who are currently decimating the military, secret service, and police at the same time around the imperial palace. Candace points at them: "I know what to do! Let's bust that villain! Wait, isn't he the one they called Frieza?" Pitohui grins: "I'm going to enjoy this so very much!" I do the thinking pose with one of my arms for a few seconds. It's sort of a habit of mine. I then say: "Frieza will end us unless we seriously outsmart him. I could try to lull him to sleep with Artist's Eye: Evolution techniques but I can only do that for 15 seconds." Senku replies: "Oh. We can outsmart him! I'm 10 billion % sure of that!" Jomi speaks: "Are you sure about that? I have a bad feeling about this.." I nod: "Frieza is bad news. Best to make him underestimate us. Hey, can any of us pretend to be extremely wimpy on queue?"
Candace nods: "I can!" "I know YOU can. I was just testing and giving ideas." Candace then runs over towards where Frieza is about to land while wearing the same exact kind of running shoes you may know from the "Run, Candace, Run" song in Phineas & Ferb but actually stable and easy to control. With us tailing quickly behind her, she stands right in front of Frieza with a defiant look on her expression. "Disgusting human, get out of my way!" "*sounds wimpy* M-me and my friends will stop you! We're stronger than you! Definitely!" "I don't have time for weaklings like you. Get out of my way unless you want to die! Seriously, you humans are almost as annoying as those damn monkeys! Curse those Saiyans! When I get my hands on them, I will-" "WE WILL STOP YOU! *magically puts on a Ducky Momo suit* And with the power of Ducky Momo in my possession, there's no way we'll ever lose to the likes of you!" Frieza laughs: "You are such a ridiculous and pathetic human! Fine! Have it your way! I'll go easy on you to amuse myself with how weak and feeble you are! Your friends must be as weak as you if you're that confident that you can defeat me! I am Lord Frieza, conquerer of galaxies, tyrant of Universe 7! You will make a nice warmup before I find those Saiyans and anyone else who annoys me like that Namekian and that short bald headed human! I will never forget how they've stood in my way in the past!" He reverts to base form and blasts Candace only for her to take no damage because of my shield. I smirk: "Hey Frieza. Haven't seen you in a while!" "Ha! I remember you! You aren't even worth me transforming into my second form to defeat! Go on! Entertain me along with the rest of your weak gang of weak mortals!"
The others for the most part grin. Jomi sends Frieza back with ease and reads his mind, allowing him to avoid Frieza's next attack with ease. Frieza laughs: "You are better than I thought. It's too bad this form will be enough to kill all of you!" Senku throws homemade bombs at the villain. They explode. "Are you certain about that?! Heh, I've encountered your kind before. And the likes of you always end up losing to the power of science." True to Frieza's word, our base attacks still do nothing to him nor do Senku's bombs. But then, after we repeatedly avoid his attacks, he gets a little annoyed: "How are you avoiding my attacks?! You're not as weak as I thought. Very well! Time for-" "Not so fast! Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 150! My limit for now! HAAAAAAAAAAAA!" "Pegasus Knight Technique: Wing Slash!" "You will feel my power! This is the will of my people, the Mu!" "Hell yeah! RPGS, bullets, lasers, go go GO!" "You're so busted! Ducky Momo, let's GET HIM!" "Heh! And here is what I can really do with the power of science! Why don't you try some of this?! TAKE THIS!" "Ehehehe! I will now use the power of flowmanship to give you some serious trouble!" Our moves catch Frieza off guard. Senku yells: "We can't stop now! This guy is tough! Far tougher than even the Strongest Primate High Schooler: Tsukasa. I can tell! But that only makes me more excited to use some science to turn the tables! Let's go!" "Time for it all. Yami No Game. Game start! The rules are ambiguous. The shadows will decide the end result. Or that's what I'm just saying. Not telling. And now.. Appear, Regnes! Help us out! Attack Frieza directly! We must overwhelm his mind with too much to handle! He's still in shock but not for long! Quickly! True Shadow Hurricane x5! Anatomical Disruption! And now for a new move! *channels creative energy from Artist's Eye into sword*
Feel my imagination. Imaginative Slash! *when the creative energy hits Frieza, I shape it into the most disadvantageous things for our foe* But I'm not done! Taste many of these attacks in rapid succession! Air Slice Slash! Wind Break Slash! Drawing Devastation! Piercing Darkness! Infinite Pain! And finally, moves sourced from other worlds in differing ways! Wind Release: Gale Pong! KAMEHAMEHA SLASH! Shadows, the real conditions of the game have been fulfilled. The enemy has more confidence on the inside than he did at the start of this fight despite all of his shock. Therefore.. PENALTY GAME! JUDGE FRIEZA WITH YOUR HUNGER AND RAGE." "NUCLEAR LASER BLASTS!" "I won't hold anything back! This is FOR TERRA!" "Science is awesome, right?! Here's the rest of what I have!" "Nyehahaha! Now's the perfect time to unleash my ultimate dagger skill!" "Ducky Momo will never be mocked again! Ducky Momo forever!" "This is even better than Squad Jam 2!" "Pegasus Knight Technique: Blinding Slash!" The others unleash other attacks besides those but I didn't want to write them all in. When the dust cleared, the Yami No Game has ended and Frieza was clearly hurt, panting, and sweating. "You.. outplayed me.. *collapses and bleeds to death*" Jomi warns: "Watch out! This is far from over!" Frieza vanishes only to return to his original ultimate form that was used against Goku in the battle that destroyed old Namek: "HAHAHAHAHAHA! DID YOU REALLY THINK ID LET YOU FINISH ME OFF FOR GOOD?! You fools!"
Senku replies: "Uhh. *derpy face and voice* We kind of expected this to happen from the getgo.." Frieza only laughs harder: "OH, IS THAT SO?! Then you won't mind me taking your lives without mercy now, will you?" I stand in front of my comrades: "Not a rat's chance in hell, Frieza. *pulls out shield* Everyone, I'll protect you even if this causes my zombie body to be torn to pieces. Save your strength and gear durability. I'll take the full force of this attack. Don't worry about me, you can always put me back together with the latest version of that machine designed to save zombies like me from total destruction. I've been its test subject far too many times to count." "Get out of the way! I want to kill your friends! You're a zombie! Thanks for reminding me of that, you annoying knight! I won't waste anymore time with you ever again!" "I'm not moving out of the way. I do not listen to orders from the enemy and hell, I don't exactly like em entirely even when they come from allies and friends. But that's a topic for another time because I need to think on it more! Anyway, I ain't budging! Why don't you move yourself then?!" Frieza glares at me while charging up a massive death beam before moving towards the others only for me to move to get in his way constantly. I even use instant transmission to pull this off more efficiently. "YOU DAMN ZOMBIE!" "Oh, you better release that Death Beam sometime soon unless you want it to become too unstable in your hands and hurt you in the process of becoming unstable! Hey, now I even more understand why some people from my world find me annoying! I'm persistent in saying what I want sometimes!"
Frieza tries to get past me but I won't let him. Instead, I just keep being an annoyance. "DAMN YOU!" "Screw you, Frieza!" "How dare insult me like this?! HAVE IT YOUR WAY! THIS WILL COMPLETELY OBLITERATE YOUR PATHETIC EXISTENCE! DEATH BEAM!" The attack hits me spot on. I resist as best as I can with everything I got. I even teleport away from it as soon as I could. What's more is that I had positioned myself in such a way that by teleporting out of the way of the rest of the blast, the blast ended up blowing a large hole into the imperial palace. Frieza shakes angrily: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" That's when Goku and the others show up. Goku gives us a smile and thumbs us: "Good job keeping Frieza busy for us! Well done! We'll take it from here!" "So YOU have finally come, GOKU, GOHAN, VEGETA, NAMEKIAN, AND BALD HEADED HUMAN! REVENGE WILL BE MINE! AND WHEN IT IS, I'LL GET YOU FOR STANDING IN MY WAY, SWIFTDRAWER! AND THEN, YOUR LITTLE FRIENDS TOO! MARK MY WORDS!" Barla looks at the hole in the palace I tricked Frieza into making: "Let's destroy more stuff!" Before any of us could reply, military reinforcements show up for the imperial forces in this city called Station Square. I reply: "Let's nail these troops first. I don't even know why Katherine bothers sending these people in when she knows that they don't stand a chance." But before we could do anything to them, Team Sonic arrived along with Dr. Eggman and his robots. Together, they decimated the reinforcements in seconds. Sonic sees us, notices the fight in the sky between The Z Fighters and Frieza, and says: "Heya, friends! Are we late or something? Aww man!"
Jomi replies: "That doesn't matter right now. I can sense other powerful beings around us including inside the palace." I think of something I planned weeks back after healing my gear with the Repair spell. "I know who's in the palace. Katherine is still here. Most leaders tend to hide behind their troops, fearing the collapse of the chain of command should they die. And in a hierarchical structure, that is a valid concern but we don't play by those rules. However, Katherine isn't afraid. That implies a couple of things. She's not afraid and she's very confident in her system and/or her abilities. But she prefers to use others to do devastating feats for her as well as use her political power as opposed to her own power. She made that preference I speak of really clear at dinner last night. I'm going to try something. I hope someone is willing to try a mind erasing spell on her if it goes south which it probably will. I will be back soon one way or another. Don't come after me. Keep fighting. This is an experiment to see how far she's willing to go to take me out. Luckily, she doesn't suspect I'm Darkwind. I even designed wanted posters for that alter ego of mine to pull off the rouse even better than otherwise. Oh yeah, this should be interesting." I then teleport to the most likely location of Katherine after putting on my Akatsuki robe and artistic mask over my armor and cape. Once there, I speak to the villain: "You are Katherine Glassgate and you ordered the death of Nagato, one of my comrades in the Akatsuki. I have come here to make you answer for that and everything else you've done." "So the Akatsuki has found me already. But it doesn't matter. You are far too weak to kill me!"
"Is that what you think? We'll see about that." I pull out my BRAIN Blaster and start firing with the blaster set to the most lethal setting possible. It does an incredible amount of damage to her. "How dare you do this to me!" "What's the matter? You don't want to take me seriously by using your true powers?" "No, I just don't want to waste them when I can just have someone else take care of you for me! Now if you'll excuse me. This city is lost. My empire's capital will be moving from here soon enough. I will build a new palace, one far greater than even the Britannian Empire's palace that existed in the city of Pendragon!" I restrain her with the red thing that number hunters like Kaito used to use to keep their prey from escaping. "You're not going anywhere! I activate a sphere field! It's just you and me now, Katherine Glassgate!" "I don't know your real identity but I will still kill you for your insolence since you won't leave me alone, you probably working class *redacted*!" "Not with that attitude!" I hold back as much as I can to avoid revealing my abilities to her. She must know what I can do when I'm fully out as who I really am: Swiftdrawer so I have to do this carefully. But after a short time, I just ended up killing her and releasing the sphere field. She pretends to be finished off for good just like that but I didn't buy it. That's when more reinforcements arrived. As in more villains. Some of them surrounded me inside the palace only for one of them, Granny Goodness to suddenly collapse and transform into the empress of Nacirema.
She laughs and dismisses the villains: "Begone, take care of the others for me. This one is mine. Now then. You. So you managed to kill me in my base form? I'm surprised. I thought you Akatsuki members were weak considering a villain and otherwise nobody managed to kill your precious Nagato Uzamaki but it looks like I was wrong! Oh and about what I just did. Whenever one of you kills me, I take control of one of the villains who is allied to me! I promised Granny Goodness and the others from that certain world that I'd help Darkseid conquer their universe and the plan to do so is developing nicely! You see, I may look up to the overlords who failed up to now but I learned from their foolish mistakes. They got too caught up in their own plans to make room for letting their allies get what they want too without fully controlling them. I have an agreement with all of these villains. The same one Baby eventually signed with them. I told them I'd let the agreement continue and explained that I'm better than Baby ever was. It was that simple. There really was something to friendship all this time after all. Even villains are more successful when they decide to be bad together. I must thank Tirek, Cozy Glow, and Chrysalis for that lesson when I see them next! They should be fighting some of your annoying allies down on the ground! Don't bother telling anyone what I'm explaining to you! I will end your existence myself right here and now!
Give people what they want and support their goals of getting what they want and you will have yourself some allies who won't so easily turn on you. That's why a 2 party system works so well. Give enough money to both parties and they won't ever dare to betray you. It's so much better to let others think you want them to succeed by giving them as much of what they want as you can. And I don't mind giving that to all the villains that are working with me right now. I have even granted them portions of my empire's technology and military forces to help hasten their respective goals. I must admit. Don Thousand and the others were too ambitious with how much they wanted to rule. But by having allies you don't actively make into your puppets, you can rule alongside them together! It's much easier that way!" "Damn it. I hate that you're right but know this, Katherine Glassgate, just because you're right about all of that doesn't mean you're all knowing or benevolent. But enough talk. Let's fight once more!" But before we could clash, Goku Black appears while bleeding heavily. He grabs Katherine and says: "Listen you, I was just defeated and have to retreat and you're too stubborn to take our enemies seriously. I'm taking you to a safe place where I can recover and teach you what you really need to do. I'm am a god of divine justice and you're still a mortal. I hope you listen to my advice. Our goals line up almost perfectly. We have no reason to use each other or become enemies." I was powerless to stop him from leaving with her.
I sent a video message in the BRAINS chat about what just happened and shuddered at the thought of Katherine choosing to actually fight us seriously. This conflict is a lot more intricate than any that I've been in up to now. It's like we're seeing the true depths of evil emerge in preparation for the ultimate battle with the Annihilation Council whose general whereabouts have eluded us for the past 2 years. Their leader is the villain of all villains, someone so powerful that no one in existence no matter what others say to the contrary can stand up to them. The Plot. When that battle comes, one question may finally be decided. Who is more powerful? The writer or the plot? Actually, the answer will never be truly clear because it varies in every case. But if we're talking who is in the upcoming battle several years from now, the answer WILL indeed become clear. Seeing no reason to remain inside, I reunite with the rest of Team Unpredictable and together, we help destroy what remains of the imperial palace in time for another villain to appear to fight us. It's a man in formal attire laughing and clapping: "You never cease to amuse me, enemies of my allies and I! And now, I Doji of the Dark Nebula organization will put an end to all of you! The less of you brats there are, the more likely my revenge against Ginga and his friends will finally come at last along with the destruction of the world I come from through the power of Diablo Nemesis! Doesn't that just sound wonderful?!" I reply: "Shut the hell up. You are seriously weird in a bad way. Let's settle this with your preferred method of combat: a bey battle." "Oh so you want to challenge me to a bey battle?! Very well! I accept! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Get ready to be crushed along with your precious beyblade! I'll make an example out of you!"
But before we could start, someone else comes along. It's Ginga: "Doji, I will take you on instead. All of you, listen. More enemies are coming by the minute. You must focus on them." Doji laughs: "It's been a while, Ginga! Very well! I'll take you on instead with my new and improved bey! So long, Dark Wolf and hello, Plague Wolf! We're going to have so much fun! Yes! Yes we are! It's going to be truly unforgettable! AHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!" I reply: "Alright then. We'll leave him to you, Ginga. You're right. The fight to liberate this world is far from over. I have a hunch Katherine Glassgate was lying to me when she said this city was lost for her. It isn't yet. She was trying to lower my guard and trick me into telling all of you that she had given up on this city. Goku Black may have forced her to retreat along with him for now but I just don't buy it anymore. It's like a whole load of crap, that's what it is." To be continued..