Finally reaching Brazil after 23 days at the sea and a crazy adventure, the ship had docked at Rio De Janeiro's port. The ship was to undergo some routine maintenance and the crew were told to wait at the Docks' living space temporarily or can visit their homes if they live nearby. The docks was built in an area spanning over 20 hectares, used both for transporting commercial products and it was used by the coalition as well. Luca wanted to report to the Joint coalition's continental headquarters and meet the Chief-in-Command of the headquarters after hearing something about the "organization" from Gabriel. He wanted to take Gabriel, Johnathan and tommy with him too, The kid would get to meet someone his age too, if he were to come with them. Cassius had to run an errand for a while and said he wouldn't be able to visit the headquarters. After packing their luggage, All four of them left for the Continental headquarters with a vehicle provided by the coalition branch at the docks.

The Continent headquarters was built in the heart of Brazil, the city of Brasilia. It was a huge megastructure almost as huge as the entire city itself, comparable to the Human nervous system, brain being the actual headquarters and the thousands of nerves connecting to everywhere in the body being the roadways diverging from the fortress, to the entire continent. It's defenses were formidable, one of the finest Luca has come across. It's aim not only protecting the higher ups of the society but everyone who resided in the area. The filtering was thorough and suspicious ones were stopped for even more of painful and tedious checking.

The squad had finally got through and they were happy to see some life and some bustling activity after nearly a month of being at the sea, and being bored of the monotony it had to offer. The entire city and even the entire continent was one of the most secure places on earth after the doomsday, since this coalition's branch was quite efficient at locking off evil activity and they were able to effectively countermeasure the infected from spreading and terrorizing people's lives. The entire continent's populace lived like there wasn't any pandemic or a global emergency ever, thanks to the steps taken by the Chief-in-Command and a proper implementation of those.

Tommy was very happy since he got to see that many people and he was also happy that he was among the company of many more kids at the staffing sectionc of the Headquarters, where the squad was temporarily at. After taking a bath and eating a bit, Luca and Gabriel left to meet the Commander-in-chief, while tommy was left in John's care. Tommy asked john to take him to play parks and got him to buy ice cream too. After roaming for a while, both of them settled down at a park, completely exploring many others. While both of them are eating their second ice cream of the day, they sat on a bench and tommy all of a sudden, asked John, "Say, uncle john, why do you look a bit different than others? Why is your skin so pale and your eyes a distinguishing blue?", "woah, where did that come from all of a sudden?" John replied to tommy's question. "To answer your first question, do u remember when we first met? There was a woman shouting at me in the middle of the night? The reason she did this is because I'm a bit different from the rest of us, but I'm still a human, nonetheless. It is because of this "difference" i have, my eyes glow blue and my skin is paler than the others."

To this, Tommy said: "How are you different than others? say how are you different than me? I'm a normal human, how are you so different that the woman went so far and shouted at you?" Johnathan looking at the child, curiously ,as to how he is so mature for his young age of barely 7-8 years. Whether it was simple curiosity or genuine interest to know more about him, he was ready to answer the curious child's questions. John was genuinely so happy that the child grew so much from the moment he stepped onto the ship along with Gabriel, and from the little timid child he was. It was just a few weeks but seeing him finally act like normal children made John happy.

"Well, for starters, I'm faster, stronger and agile than normal humans. And my IQ is a bit high then normal humans as well." Johnathan said.

Tommy: "How fast?"

Johnathan: "Well i think i can run 1 kilometer under 50 seconds?(I don't wanna blow this child's mind and introduce him to such topics)."

Tommy: "Woah!!! That's so cool! But how strong are you?"

Johnathan: "I think i can swing around a car with just one of my arms?"

Tommy: "WOAHHHH!!! YOU'RE SO STRONG UNCLE JOHN!!(He said with a huge smile on his face) Can i become as strong and super cool like you one day?"

Johnathan:(Not being able to tell the story behind his appearance and his inhuman milestones, he didn't say anything much, regarding t his topic) "Yeah you sure will be. You'll be even stronger than me one day, and I will be around to see that day and help you along the journey too. "(he said as he embraced tommy.)

Tommy: "Thanks Uncle John and I'll be stronger than you one day, remember that!! Hehe (Said tommy as he embraced john as well.)"

The two of them left the park as they got a call that Gabriel and Luca were back and are waiting for them. It was already sunset, and john thought to himself about how genuinely happy he is when he is around tommy, he can forget all his problems and forget all his tensions and be around tommy indefinitely. Tommy asked John to not tell anything to Gabriel as he would angry that he ate so many ice creams.

It was already like Gabriel was his...father. After both of the pairs met up at their temporary residence, they went to dinner together and had a great time, Gabriel truly enjoyed his time, as all others did, and tommy ended up getting more ice creams. When they came back to the residence, Gabriel put tommy to bed. Luca, John and Gabriel sat down in the balcony, in their hands each of them had a beer and were chatting about their lives and how different they were before the "doomsday". It was like these three were friends outside their professional selves. They held professional etiquette because of the nature of their jobs and respected their ranks, At the end of the day they're the closest thing they had to family.

Gabriel: "One hell of a day, eh? By the way, where did you both go, Johnathan?"

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Johnathan: "A lot of places, man. Kid's the best guy to be around, his energy just hypercharges me, you know?"

Luca: "That kid sure is a handful. But at the end of the day I'm happy that the kid's grown. The kid became more lively despite the horrible conditions you found him in, Gabriel."

Gabriel: "That we can all agree on. We can agree that he sure is a good kid."

Luca: "Then why do you not adopt him? He doesn't have a guiding figure and you are currently filling that role, and you are doing an excellent job, i must say."

Gabriel: "I do wanna adopt that kid, man. After I found him i just...became more lively. I started to enjoy life again, after you know what happened... the only thing I'm hesitating about is that i might not make a good father, i couldn't even protect my own children..."

Luca: "Hey, come on ,man. Stop blaming yourself for something which you had no control over. you gave it your all to safeguard your family. I Agree that it is painful to let your family go, but please man, Stop exhausting yourself with something which is already done. We have a lot more stuff which could use your expertise and your attention, like tommy and the case regarding the "Organization."

Johnathan: "Speaking of, what did the commander-in-chief say?? What took you so long as to you had to spend the entire day at the headquarters?"

Gabriel: "Oh. That. Well, the chief first introduced himself as "Matteo". He said he wanted to know what had happened in the bunker. I briefed him about our adventures there and informed we had a revenant from our team help us out. He searched for your file and how you were turned. We told him about the entire story and further delved into the main focus of the visit, we briefed him about the incident that happened at the sea, which deeply concerned Matteo. "so who dealt with them?" he asked, Luca pointed towards me and Matteo shouted "YOU ARE A FORCE USER!? No matter i felt a familiar feeling from you, You are a dark user aren't you? The moment you walked in, i could feel resonance, our strengths match in magnitude and it truly is a big milestone considering you are just a ship X.O, I'm a light user, and I'm so glad to see someone match my strength. You truly don't deserve to be there, come to the headquarters, I'll place you one of the best and deserving ranks, even the vice Commanding officer in chief." He truly tried to woo me with all of those ranks and power. I just rejected him since i work under Luca because he is my friend. "Oh working to stick near your friends, yes? I respect that...for they're all i have as well." Matteo said. "Well, it is what is, I suppose. May I ask you, what awakened your strength? And why it was exactly darkness? I've heard the people who were the most wrathful and vengeful awaken light, and the people who were full of hatred awaken their dark energy."

From the dawn of humanity there existed 2 forces, 2 sides of the same coin, after the news of the fantastic strength of the first person who awakened his "life force" spread among the tribes, the man who initially wanted to keep it a secret, had now disappeared because he disliked popularity and attention, he went deep into the nearby mountains seeking peace. Rumors followed that the man grew exponentially in strength and trained everyday to increase his power. In which he was quite successful. The people who lived in the areas surrounding the mountains, Saw a thick, strong gleam of light everyday around the time of 7-9pm after nightfall. Over time, the people of the surrounding valleys developed myths that there was a person who had divine origins and strength. A lot of people trekked the mountains and tried to debunk the myths surrounding the gleaming light but only few made it to the top and witnessed the true nature of this wondrous incident. But only a select few could make it through the journey and none returned to tell the tales of their voyage to others. The myth of one time became legends for the following generations, the legend of "The mountain's divine", died out. Where this was exactly on earth is unknown but scriptures across multiple continents were unearthed who spoke of this mysterious man and hint at the subsequent development of mankind's force utilization, it gave hints on how such power of humans originated from, although they were subtle and vague they still dropped some crucial information, nonetheless.

Matteo could see Gabriel's distress and asked him to stop if he didn't wish to, "Thank you." Gabriel said.

Matteo: "No need man. It was kind of negligent on my part too you know? Anyways. I'll ask our reconnaissance team to look into this "organization " and get more information on them. According to the intel we have on them now, they're a typical organization who wish to brute force their ways to conquer the world and have the riches of the world for themselves, a truly cliche goal indeed. They plan to do this by slowly taking key points around the world and neutralize any and all of the coalition's activity around those areas.",

Gabriel: "Is there any way we could stop this madness? And put an end to the organization's activity once and for all?"

Matteo: "Well its not that simple. They existed from more than 5,000 years and no one could pin point their location. They are headed by a group of dreaded force users who show no mercy when it comes to enforcing their goals"

Gabriel: "Well, how the hell did you get this much of information from? I thought they were secretive when it come to their activities and plans."

Matteo: "Thanks to our reconnaissance team and the special operations squad, we could capture their representatives and extract information from them, although, they wouldn't initially talk, we got them to do so by our very "humane" methods you know what i mean?"

Gabriel: "I know exactly what you mean, hahaha, i once had the opportunity to see their methods, truly "humane" indeed."

Luca: "So how many places do they have troops garrisoned at? How many places do they exactly have planned to take over? And are there any places they have taken over??"

Matteo: "They did not take over any place till now, well up to our knowledge at least, but they do have troops garrisoned at 3 continents, which are: Antarctica,

Europe and North America. Where they are exactly, is unknown. They might be anywhere, we couldn't pin point there locations because that's all our subjects told us."

Luca: "Well, something is better than nothing, i suppose. Well then, we shall get going now, Commander. I thank you for the time you've given us."

Matteo: "One last thing. Gabriel, take care, not as your superior but as a fellow human, take care of yourself. You are too strict and harsh on yourself when it comes to the incident which awakened your powers, it truly is a boon but often it only comes through a curse. Humanity's been blessed with this boon but in the exchange for a curse. It is indeed a fact that we only get something when we lose something. The law of symmetry and conservation applies to something as abstract as the human thought and relations too, is truly humorous. I know the pain since I've lost something too."

Gabriel: "Thanks, chief. Take care."

(Back to the present at the balcony.)