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Chapter 4

Location: Dead City Zone of Kyoto, Military Territory of Nippon

Date: February 25rd, 1995

Time: ?????

“Agent Paget. Respond”

. . .

“Responding sir”

. . .

“Is Code Risen Operational?”

. . .

“Yes sir, it’s ready at a moment's notice.”

. . .

“Cabinet Member Kallen has officially sanctioned this operation. proceed with standard procedures for Code Risen”

. . .

“Affirmative sir”

Location: Washington, Military Junta of North America

Time: 8:00 am

“This is what you were told by the. . entity. Am I correct?” Asked the Military Cabinet Member curtly through the phone.

Agent 177 was quiet for a few seconds before speaking up on the receiver's end. “Yes sir, she has claimed that she is a part of some kind of invading force with the prospect off. .” He once again was quiet but the CM could vaguely hear him mutter something out of pure disgust before answering, “Off liberating and freeing human life from suffering and to live in. . .’Harmony’” He said with the end slightly breaking the stoic tone and being replaced with bafflement and disgust at what he had to repeat.

The CM simply nods his head when he heard this before asking the Agent. “What did this entity have that was unique from a regular human being?”

Again there was a momentary pause, a pause that was uncharacteristically uncommon with the Agent as the CM knew he always provides direct answers each time he was given a question. So for him to be more quiet was something to take note of, then he finally gave a vague answer. “Teeth”

The CM simply raised a highbrow on the lack of an answer. “Explain”

The Agent tone then returned back to a stoic but stern tone when he explained to the Cabinet Member. “When the entity was detained by the Stormtroopers, they had one casualty throughout the figure’s infiltration, the soldier was bitten directly in the center of the neck which was clean and direct, she had two teeth that was longer than it should normally located in the canines which was used to penetrate the victim's neck. The structure of the teeth came from an unknown origin.”

The Cabinet Member, ingesting the information he was given then asked once more to 177. “Have you been able to extract the entity's body out to Brazil?”

“Negative sir” Came in the response. “The German army in the area refused to give up the body due to prior events and the death of one of their own, they have decided to keep the body, however, in a act of goodwill, they have decided to retrieve the teeth to me for the successful interrogation I did for their behalf, as of now, it should reach a Brazilian lab soon”

The CM simply nods his head in acknowledgement. “I see” While it was frustrating that the Junta was not able to take the corpse for the Brazilian Scientist to do their study into it, it was still understandable in the end of the day so it would be worthless to dwell on it as it would inevitable become a waste of time arguing over.

But one other issue crept up into the mind of the CM, and that was one concerning the whole of Germany. “What is the current stability of the German State?”

There was a moment of silence before the agent gave a full answer, unlike in the previous topic, this was one where he had a full answer for. “The current situation in Germany is rather bleak sir, the tensions between Hans Speidel and Otto Remer has almost reached a boiling point where the stormtroopers under the personal order of Remer, are being stationed in key locations around Hanover and Nuremburg should the tension between the two escalate to a point of no return.”

Well that was sour news to hear at this point of time, a possible German Civil War between the two grand saviors of the fatherland. A German Nationalist whose only interest is to protect the German Nation and its people. And the German Nazi who wants to realize the failed Ayran dream that both Hitler and Himmler once tried to achieve.

While this was to be expected, as their ideological differences were radically different from another to keep working together. Though, one thing has concerned the CM, If the Germans were too busy killing each other, who would be the one to keep the Eurasian Horde in check?

The Junta certainly wouldn’t be able to do anything should the Communists decide to act, per say, they finally decide to put an end towards the Titoist Yugoslavia Regime, who would be there to stop them?

“Is there anything else to report 117?” The CM Questioned.

“Negative sir, all reports have been said” The Agent responded curtly.

The CM slightly nods his head. “Continue your operations in Germany until further notice, if any development occurs within the German government or more entities reveal themselves, report back immediately”

“Affirmative Sir, Glory to the Military Junta” The 117 stated.

“Glory to the Military Junta” the Cabinet Member said before placing the phone down onto the receiver and remained still, He was like that for a split second before picking up a pen up as his other hand then reached out for the nearest file to him, grabbed it, proceeded to open it and read the contents inside.

To which he blinked momentarily before laying the file down on the table in front of him and took a moment to realize what the contents were about. He placed his hand on his forehead as he shook his head slightly.

Operation Rust Belt.

The Operation that would lead to the final blows against the Neo-Revolutionaries in the Rust Belt Region so its chain of functional command would collapse.

And the planned killing of former Military Cabinet Member Bill Clinton. Once a soldier who served part of the 7th Military Division in the Japanese Wars, A Member of the Military Cabinet of the desire of restoring democracy to the continental America. And turned into the one who instigated the start of the Second American Revolution in the fake promise of “Restoring Liberty and Freedom across North America.

He was almost like a statue as his mind was going through a list of interactions between him and Clinton. Almost so that the Secret Service began to take slow glances towards the Cabinet Member with a slight combination of concern and worry. Then after a minute, he finally muttered something audibly low.

“God damn it Clinton. .If you just followed standard procedure.”

Location: Washington, Military Junta of North America

Date: May 15th, 1993

Time: 9:30 pm

“. . . .I would believe that I must have misheard you-” The Cabinet Member began slowly in his usual stoic tone, almost trying to rationalize what Clinton had just said to him.

But Clinton began first. “You heard clearly what I said and what I want for the future of this nation Kennedy.” He pauses for a split second to look at the door to see if the guards outside the door have made any sudden moves. They didn’t, so he continued. “America was the first birthplace of democracy back in 1783 and it was to guide the American people for liberty and freedom, and now? Ever since 1965, 28 years have passed since the death of democracy, but now the people in this very continent are demanding a return of the old. Kennedy, you yourself have expressed that you wanted reform withi-

That’s when Kennedy Jr finally spoke up. “I don’t believe you understood what my stance on reform signifies.” He said coldly and stood up from his chair. “My definition of reform does not constitute the return of democracy into the Military Junta but instead it's to give more liberties to the people in the outer Military Territories and reforms within the Military Cabinet to be more humane.” Clinton was about to interject but the Cabinet Member continued “Nor does my ideas of reform constitute on attempting to bring down the Military Junta in favor of an American Democratic Government ” He finally finished saying the last sentence with a bit of disdain in the wording.

Clinton had a confused expression visible on his face, if the son of the former officially last president had to guess that Bill didn’t think that he would be so against the reclamation of American Democracy. It took Clinton to speak but he finally did. “Why are you so against the very institutions that made the nation how it was back before 1962?” He questioned JFK Jr. “America was the beacon that represented freedom and hope in the world of darkness, and now? The only thing that these Militarist folks do is unrelenting revenge against the Communist Government in Eurasia at the cost of millions dying on the island of Japan.”

As much JFK Jr wanted to rebuttal that claim, he wanted to, but he simply couldn't as that was the truth. The total number of deaths in the forsaken island has never been identified, but from the estimates from Mexico, Brazil and even all the way from Portugal and Germany. The total death toll would’ve reached more than 100 Million Deaths. All of this coming from the Military Personal of both the MNJA side and GSSE side of the conflict but also taking in account of the Japanese People.

And this was just taking account of only the deaths inside of the island of Japan. And outside of the island, it was much higher.

In 1987, The Military Junta was at a complete stalemate with the Eurasians and the Chinese in Japan, something had to be done to break this unrelenting stalemate, and at that point, the Military Cabinet was willing to explore any options available to finally get a win against the claws of Stalinist Russia and Maoist China.

General Kennith, former Lieutenant General and now General ruler of the Military Territory of Nippon. Had proposed an idea that General Lemay had originally proposed back in 1981 but never came into the hands of the Military Cabinet until then. And the contents of the plan that General Lemay proposed was simple.

Bomb.

Bomb China.

Put them on a chokehold and never once let go

Keep the air bombardment at any means necessary.

Target every single thing in sight.

Civilian or Soldier

Maoist or Chiangist

Communist or Not

They all had to face the brink of bombing for victory.

No matter the cost.

This had baffled some of the Members of the Military Cabinet at the time, and justly so as the simple word bomb was too broad. As Air Bombardment just seemed too improbable to even do or even accomplishable as the amount of aircrafts required to even do the operation seemed borderline impossible. But.

But desperation at getting some form of move in the conflict as the Cabinet knew that if they didn’t make a change in the next years or so. The Soldier’s will most likely go insane from the lack of advancement in the front that they might do something drastic.

So Operation Red Dragon was made in the premise of General Curtis Lemay's Plan but made more modified. And as simple Lemay’s plan was, it was as simple as the operation was. The operation would include an enormous amount of one time aircraft so it would give some amount of success, and the Junta didn’t bother to count how many they had in storage or how many they made, they kept making aircraft after aircraft until the day finally came to launch them up.

When March 9th, 1989 rolled around, the same day that General Curtis Lemay died from a Japanese Stalinist Sympathizer, was when Operation Red Dragon was put into effect. Every single airfield in every island near the lands of the Dragon. The Philippines, Taiwan and Amami were the major spots that most bombers left to never return. This operation would last two weeks.

By September 18th, all communist forces had evacuated from Japan. And By October 4th, when the unsigned peace was declared by the MNJA and GSSE that was mediated by the German State under the guidance of Hans Speidel. A good chunk of South Korea was liberated and by then the war was “over”.

And with that all account with the casualties from China and Korea that were estimated from other nations.

WW1 left 32 Million dead

WW2 left 106 Million dead

The Japanese War left 250 to 630 Million dead. Easily making it the most deadliest war that mankind has ever witnessed following behind the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

And while the war ended with the GSSE running towards it’s defenses in Central Korea and Sakhalin to prevent the Military Junta expanding and the utter collapse of any authority in China as whatever left of the PRC was now either fled to the now Soviet Controlled Manchuria, Inner Mongolia or the Chinese Rump State of Beijing. The Chinese, as far as the Military Junta of North America was concerned, would never be able to organize itself to be a threat or even as a nuisance to the Junta for the next foreseeable future.

And while the war was won massively in favor of the Military Junta, including having the stepping stone they needed to finally have an invasion into mainland Russia, it did leave a bitter taste in many of the soldiers who fought that war, including his.

It could mean either way, as one could believe that the amount of death was either unnecessary or wasn’t even worth the resources, some would believe they didn’t do enough at what they gained enough with the amount of soldiers that died for the cause of ending communism throughout the entire globe.

For John F Kennedy Jr however, he saw things very differently from the other Military Cabinet Members, hell one could make some similar comparisons to his father in a twisted sense. As while he would consider himself a borderline Macarthurist and vividly despise communism in any shape or form. He was willing to do it with a human face and to give more liberties to the outer Military Territories.

When he ascended into the position of the Military Cabinet in 1990, he was able to pass some acts within the Military Junta, one of first would be the separate creation of laws that differentiate from the continental Military Junta in the former USA and those in the Military Territories. The next would be the planned Independence of the Philippines and New Zealand. While some in the Cabinet outright rejected this, especially the old guard, claiming that it would be considered a growing weakness to any nation who had enough brain cells to think. He was able to pass the act with one simple tactic.

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Simple pragmatism.

Which was easy enough to convince the other Cabinet Members to drop those territories as they didn’t give much to offer except population recruiting wise and would probably be a detriment in the long run. He also wanted to release the Australians from the Junta’s grasp but that was one line he couldn’t negotiate for so he just dropped it for a later date.

And pragmatism was one of the sole reasons why he didn’t favor his compatriot’s idea of restoring democracy. Like sure, give rights back to the people of America whose it’s people who identify themselves like that are self narcissistic and only care about their own serving goals. Who’s to say how they’ll make the British Isles, Australia or even Japan into their own corporate playground along with the heart filling lies of freedom and desire.

As his head hung low, he finally looked up to Bill who was waiting for an answer from the Cabinet Member. To which Kennedy finally spoke to him. “While I do agree with some points that you have inquired that the Military Junta has issues from within, alongside the unrelenting violence they are willing to inflict. It doesn’t sway me away from believing the system that is currently implemented, won’t work. As it can be reformed into a more humane matter. As getting rid of the Military Cabinet and the Military Junta who had existed for more than 25 years and had solidified into the minds of the common soldiers. It would be. . catastrophic at best .” He ended with a clear emphasis at the end of his sentence and made his stance very clear to Clinton.

Bill's expression just morphs into disappointment as he looks away from him and rubs his forehead with his right before looking back at the Military Cabinet Member. “I thought you were different from the others when you were sworn into this rank, a new generation that would see the multitude of flaws that this nation has and the war crimes this junta has committed that would even make the Germans and Japanese from World War 2 sick to their stomach. But no, you're just like the exact same Macarthurist Psychopaths in this Cabinet. Your father would be disappointed in how you turned out to be. “

. . .

Your father would be disappointed in how you turned out to be. . .

Your father would be disappointed in how you turned out to be.

Your father would be disappointed in how you turned out to be.

Your father would be disappointed in how you turned out to be.

Your father would be disappointed in how you turned out to be.

JFK Jr then slammed his hands down onto the table hard that everything on the table shook or got knocked off onto the floor, Clinton took a step back at the sudden backlash at his wording when he got the clear cold death glare from the Military Cabinet Member.

The tension suddenly went high in the room before Cabinet Member Kennedy spoke directly at Bill in the eyes. “You don’t have the authority to speak about my father, you American Republican piece of shit” He stated with a very cold and distained tone. A tone that was almost alien coming from someone who never usually bitter. “You claim that the cheers from the people who demand a restoration of an Elective American Democracy in this nation is nothing more than a complete fool that walked the earth as this nation as they never once learned what were the exact foundations of that former country. It was nothing more that was filled with lies and degeneracy ever since the very beginning of this nation's formation.”

He went silent for a moment before speaking up once more. “So do me a favor.” He then gestured towards the door. “Leave and control yourself. You're lucky that what you said to me isn't considered treason just yet. So leave .”

Clinton, without much of a rebuttal or anything to say, promptly turned to leave as he opened the door and left, the Secret Service who was guarding outside the door walked inside with at least one of them looking back at the leaving Cabinet Member before closing the door and turning its attention back towards the Cabinet Member in the room.

Their attention was focused on the Cabinet Member who in the three years he was in this position. Never once got angry with another Cabinet Member, as he was either stoic or he was incredibly patient on what they got to say. So for him to be so ticked off meant that Clinton said something offensive towards the Military Cabinet or something offensive directly stated at JFK Jr personally.

They opted to keep shut as they both went into their respective positions on the side of the Cabinet Member as he slowly sat back down and went back to work without a second thought on what had just transpired.

Location: Washington, Military Junta of North America

Date: February 25rd, 1995

He regretted that he didn’t detain him the second he spoke out against the Military Junta. If he had just detained him just right on the spot then the Junta wouldn't have had to deal with his idiocy. But because he still retained hope that Clinton was just acting out of bounds for the moment and was just frustrated with the current system on how the Junta Operated and how it acted. He just let him leave so he could cool off.

Then he got bolder in the same year against the Military Cabinet to which he started to sprout nonsense about freedom and democracy, and how conceding to the American people would be beneficial in the long run. Kennedy was there when Clinton made the liberty speech, and the reaction could be easy to read in the entire room that there was a big majority of the Military Cabinet Members sending Clinton death glares.

Then the next year, July 4th. he conspires against the Military Cabinet and leads up a Military Rebellion with the 5th Military Division against the cabinet, to which they attempted to take Washington from the North from Batilmore. Didn’t work out in their favor as the 5th Military Division was then soon kicked out from Washington. And then it started a whole chain reaction where now every single city had some form of rebellion and local governments had begun to form up from the seemingly collapse happening all around them.

Now was it’s second year of the conflict and things weren’t even looking good for the supposedly united democratic front.

The south were under fire by the other goverments as Atlanta has now begun to act independently from the others as the same is occurring with the San Antonio Government.

The Boston Government has refused to begin its offensive into Pennsylvania as they were now on the defensive after the loss of New York City.

The Omaha Government has begun to collapse from within as many began to defect back into the Military Junta proper after the Cabinet began to give amnesty to those who return back in line.

The only functional government that is still operating, would be the Chicago government as it’s the home base of Bill Clinton and the 5th Military Division. And Operation Rust Belt's has a detailed and calculated plan for the endeavor and it had one prime target.

Bill Clinton.

It would be as simple as cutting a snake's head off, without the head. The body won’t operate at all, and the same exact logic can be used here. If Clinton is dead, then whatever stability the other governments would have will collapse into war factionings against each other as Clinton was seen as a unifying figure between him. Without the unifying figure, whatever is left unity in the governments is out the window at that point.

JFK Jr is fine with how the Operation would be played out, it was simple and direct to the point on what it was doing. But he felt albeit uncomfortable at what the proposed outcome the file came up with.

By the calculations by the CIA and FBI. When Clinton would be declared dead, many opportunities would attempt to take the mantle behind Clinton, and they would vividly oppose one another for the high position. The governments would fight in a vicious civil war against one another, finally letting the Military Junta to reorganize their lines and logistics and wait them out and when they’ve been completely exhausted one another, the Junta would then steam roll them and then sack them all in the process.

This didn’t sit well with the Military Cabinet member at all, and there were multiple reasons to take account to why he didn’t like it due to two main reasons. First reason, it meant they would have to prolong the revolution for an unknown amount of time, something that any outside nation or outside rebellion would take advantage of. The second reason, that would mean more death, much more death.

Which was something he was unsure about as the days of the Second American Revolution went on, why was he feeling sympathetic towards the unarmed people dying? If it was a mere couple years ago he wouldn’t have a second thought about it as the saying goes in the Military Junta, people die, you will die. It was as simple as that.

He had to guess it was the number of people dying per month that was most likely getting to him, Kennedy would guess that the number of dead reaching 6 Million had got to him somehow, he didn’t feel like this when he was told the total estimated amount of casualties in the East Asian War. Perhaps it was his own countrymen that was making him feel uneasy about the total death count? He wasn’t even sure.

It also didn’t comfort his slight nerves that reports of multiple entities are coming out of thin air around the globe, and if the agent 117 interrogation could mean anything, then they could pop into Washington and take them off guard within seconds. And the fact that the Military Cabinet was possibly willing to drag this conflict out when another threat was rising didn’t make things better.

He then mimicked a sigh as he shook his head as he closed the file and pushed it to the side as he took out a piece of paper to write a report until the telephone began to ring, catching his immediate attention. He looked at the telephone for a second before picking the telephone up. “CM-JK” He began stoically until the responder said something that made him raise an eyebrow and almost made him pause for a second. “What do you mean a cargo plane in England has gone ‘missing’?”

Location: Dead City Zone of Kyoto, Military Territory of Nippon

Time: ?????

Dead Zones.

Dead Zones are almost a similar equivalent to no man's land back in World War 1 and World War 2.

In World War 1, it was used as a term to describe the muddy terrain and stretch of trenches between two sides with the middle being nothing more than a kill zone as it filled with craters and a dead toxic environment.

In World War 2. It was used to describe a chunk of land that was not identified by any unit and anyone who had to go there would either come out with nothing, or they died to an enemy ambush that was simply waiting for someone to show up within their sights?

And where do Dead Zones come in? It is to depict a stretch of land or city that is completely destroyed in an aftermath of a head on battle between the Military Junta and the Eurasian Soviet. What is to include inside of a dead zone would require the simple terms to classify as such. It would need to be in an area that is battle torn, has multiple destroyed military equipment that is unsalvageable or only has short term usage, inhospitable in any kind, it has to be a place where no one wants to live in, and most Importantly. It has an entire patch of Returners immobilized and in place.

This is where Agent Paget's entire role comes in, while CIA agents are usually out on the field outside of the Military Junta and its territories. His role is at best, replaceable and unique. He is unique in the role as he didn't have any paranoia whatsoever when he roamed around the dead city.

While ridiculous at first, it would be important to acknowledge that Dead Zones are something that an overwhelming majority of soldiers part of the army are, extremely paranoid when roaming around in one place, it doesn't matter if there is only one returner or a group of them. Just the presence of a Returner in the area just makes them cower in one spot out of fear of the complete unknown.

That wasn’t the case for Paget, as the concept of death has really left out of his mind. He had too many encounters to die as many times as he could count, guess that happens when you're always sent to a bloodbath city but the receiving end always fail to kill him. Not that it mattered at that point.

There were three specific reasons why he was stationed specifically in Kyoto.

One, he is to simply observe and report on the area if anything out of the ordinary occurs.

Two, immediately respond against any Japanese opportunists or any opportunist in general, by any means necessary.

Three, this would be the place he would die in. In his own terms of course.

Simple enough isn’t it? Just watch and report like nothing is gonna happen, hell take a stroll across the dead city where you get to see pieces of genocide committed by both sides. But of course, like any task, it never goes without problems creeping its ugly head out.

If he had to exactly recall when he had to experience unwanted guests coming across Kyoto. It would roughly be about 3 times.

The first time he had to deal with a person intruding into Kyoto was back in 1994 in December when it was a mid age Japanese guy with a kart going into the city, mostly looking for supplies. Which he did not find at all, and ended up being in a corner crying. Which. Admittedly, the agent took pity on the Japanese man and practically had to show him like a dog a way out of the dead city with some canned food, and a curt warning to not return or he would die should he return back.

The second time it happened, it was a group of Japanese terrorists who thought of the most genius plan to salvage the dead city for the hopes of getting the Military Junta’s gear and weapons. And the moment they entered inside, they immediately became the attention of self desiring satisfaction prey for the Returners and never came out again, well except for pieces.

And the third time? Well it is currently happening full view as the. Erm. Abominations? Yeah Abominations. As the Abominations were having a fulfilling time with the Returners. And when he meant that, he meant that they were utterly being killed one by one. One that he was watching with absolute wonder as each death is different from the last.

While each woman was different depending on the. .surprising amount of variety of mutations each woman had. It didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things as they would wound up dead either way.

There were many spectacular scenes to unfold, like theres one being cornered in an alleyway that led to a dead end and is now being brutalized by two Returners with her right arm in the process of being torn off. Then there's one being dragged away into a building as she’s screaming out the top of lungs which he could only presume is mercy, he couldn’t tell. The camera’s he got didn’t provide audio which sucks but something not to be concerned about.

And as he switched the camera from his keyboard, one monitor showed a woman with really strange pointy ears running towards an end of a building with a pretty armor Returner chasing after her with multiple arrows lodged into his right arm and chest. And if the Agent really had to guess which era of soldier generation the Returner was from? It would most likely be 5th Generation with the star marking in the mid center of the helmet and blue gray modern clothes and a mix of Kevlar and steel armor.

The scene appeared to be quite exciting as the women, who was now corner near a mirror, was about to prepare her bow until it was smacked away from the hands of the mutant women and the two began to scuttle each other as one was desperately trying to get the other away while the other was trying to rip her face off, and it seemed tha-

Then his own inner thoughts were interrupted by frantic knocking on his door. He almost instantly turned his head towards the door in complete silence as he firmly grabbed his silenced M1911 from the table and aimed at the door. From the door, he could hear the knocking still but also a frantic breathing as well, the other side tried to speak but it was clear whoever it was, they were out of breath and using whatever strength they had left to get his attention.

How or why did that person know he was in this building or how they knew Paget was in this room was out of the question. What now matters is that they did get his attention. And while he was usually slow with his victims, he already had a slight feeling that a couple of Returners were already on their way, so the most logical thing to do was simple.

Paget simply got up and aimed his suppressed sidearm towards the door, and judging by where exactly they knocked, he took a wild guess as the agent fired his weapon at the door and immediately rushed but quietly to the wall away from the doors sight.

He heard the person on the other side fall to the ground as they began to gurgle and began to drag themselves away from the door and only to be met with a door crashing alongside growling being heard. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that a returner had found its prey.

What should have followed next was the usual business of hearing a prey being either beaten up to death by the returner just smashing their arms at them or if the Returner has enough motor function to know how to make their victim suffer even more for their own satisfaction.

But unfortunately the agent. The mutant had attracted the attention of a smarter one as the Returner was taking small steps instead of rushing in like a wild animal. The steps from the Returner then suddenly stopped right in front of his door as the gurgles of the women were still heard but more faint than before, it then dawned on him slightly to why the Returner was at his door instead of attacking the dying women.

It knew that someone caused the damage to the women, and it came from his room.

This was only proven as a fact as it began to bang itself against the door, so preparing quickly for confrontation, he pulled out his boot knife from his belt and had his entire sights directed towards the door as the banging on the door intensified.

When the Returner knocked the door down, he also went down with it. Seeing that the Returner didn’t have anything protecting whatever bits of it’s head left, the Paget took full advantage of this before the Returner got back up again, he rushed forward and sank his knife in the Returner's exposed head before quickly taking it out and stabbing the head once more.

He didn’t know how many times he sunk the knife into the Returners head. But it would’ve been multiple and done at a fast pace, as indicating that whatever brains the Returner had was now fully gone alongside its head. And he still heard the small but faint wheezing of the Mutant who brought the Returner to his location.

Being already fed up with the bitch who brought a Returner to his location, he didn’t bother to look at her properly as he just took one step outside of his near his doorway before promptly ending the miserable existence of the abomination before going back inside and stoically sitting back down.

He stared blankly at the doorway to see if any other Returner took notice of the loud noise that had occurred just a few minutes ago. Sensing or hoping that no one did, he promptly looked back at the screens to see what else he missed.

He looked at one that had a broken mirror and. Not a single corpse, sure there was clear signs of struggle as indicated by the scratches on the wall and the bow on the floor. But where the hell was the blood?

Shaking his head slightly in slight irritation before looking at the doorway for a split second before looking at the screens once more as he changed the cameras to look at something new. To which he was introduced to one scene that had a natures mockery trying to fly away, only to be caught mid air by a Returner by going through an apartment window and crashing hard onto the ground. Which, he did see the mutant flying slow, didn’t know if it was the wings or her being scared shitless. But that was something to take note of for the Returners.

Maybe it won’t be that bad seeing a few more see a gruesome death in his dead city.

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January 1st, 1992 (World Map)

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February 24th, 1995 (North America Map)

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