After Baron got the paperwork to be in charge of Jaxon was all sorted out, he went into the room that Jaxon was supposed to wake up from. The moment he did, Jaxon was right there looking at him as if he had just found out the secret to the universe.

(BM) “Jaxon Long. Long time no see.” Baron said with a scrunched up smile.

(JL) “I’m sorry, who are you? You look quite familiar but at the same time so different from anyone I have ever met.” Jaxon Long said while studying Baron’s face.

(BM) “It’s me, Baron. Or have you already forgotten me?”

(JL) “Baron? Baron Magellan? Is that really you?”

(BM) "Oh, of course, it’s me.”

(JL) "No way, where are we? The last thing that I remember is that I was laying in my hospital bed and the next thing I knew, I was sleeping on this bed over here.”

(BM) "Long story short, you died and have been transported to one of many worlds, this one is planet 4, the planet of the strategists.”

(JL) "You can’t be serious,”

(BM) "Oh, I am deadly serious. Come with me, there are many things that I need to show you that will no doubt be even more surprising.”

(JL) "Alright. By the way, why do you look so different from what I remember? Did you get some work done here or something?”

(BM) "No one really knows why it is the way it is. Look at yourself in the mirror sometimes, you’ll see that you were restored to your youth as well as slightly different from your own memories.”

(JL) "This is so mindboggling the more you try to explain everything to me. Where are we going?”

(BM) "We will be going to my HQ. There, we will begin your testing.”

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After the two of them reached the HQ, they went to the war room and after a brief explanation, Baron and Jaxon both put on the helmets to go into a simulation. Baron set it up as an aerial battle as he knew that Jaxon was far more adept at this kind of warfare as compared to either land or sea. However, Baron’s expectations were completely shattered once he saw what Jaxon was capable of. Not only was Baron beaten back by planes he knew and had seen before, but there were also many that he had never seen before. This could only mean one thing. That Jaxon was a lot better at strategies than he had led Baron to believe or he had gotten quite good at it after Baron had passed. The two of them were transported back to the war room to discuss what had just happened.

(BM) "Jaxon!”

(JL) " What.”

(BM) "Jaxon!”

(JL) “What.”

(JL) "Jaxon!”

(BM) "Just tell me what Baron!”

(BM) "When did you become so amazing at warfare?”

(JL) "To be perfectly honest with you, Baron, your death was what inspired me to become like this. Your sacrifice for your team, the bravery you showed, such passion really got to me and I was not able to shake that feeling of inferiority to you and I knew that I had to continue on your legacy. Even if I was the only person that would remember you.”

(BM) "Where did you disappear to though, Jaxon, Roxi said that you just never went home to your parents or any other places that you could have gone.”

(JL) "Oh that, well, the first few years after your death, I focused all of my being into perfecting my passion. Building aerial warcraft. After that, I ascended the ranks of our countries’ strategic ladder and eventually, I was one of the upper echelons after experiencing a lot of drills and real-life commanding of our aerial division. I decided it was best to disappear from even my family because I knew that they would definitely not approve of my actions. So it was better that they did not know that their son was responsible for the deaths of thousands.”

(BM) "Oh my. Listen, Jaxon, my group and I are going to be needing your help.”

(JL) "What for?”

(BM) "I’ll explain all of the specifics later, but essentially I need to start my own faction here and I will need your help to do that.”

(JL) "For you, brother, I will help.”

(BM) "One more thing, we are immortal here, so get ready for warfare for the rest of your life.”

(JL) "To be perfectly honest with you, I despised warfare up until the point where you died. I tried so hard to see why it is you loved it so much, and after years of searching, I finally found it. You just love when everything goes your way don’t you, Baron. It is the same for me. When your opponent has nowhere to go when they have nothing left when they don’t have any hope left. It’s a good feeling, probably sounds insane when I say it out loud, but that is the way that I feel about war.”

(BM) "You are absolutely correct. I love being right more than anything, but we can have a conversation about semantics and all of that later. For now, let’s get to work. You have studied the warplanes for a long time and even developed a few of your own right?”

(JL) "I have, yes.”

(BM) "Make a blueprint of them and we will have effectively accomplished half our goal of becoming a faction. The other part is to actually go and attend the faction selection tournament.”

(JL) "I don’t believe that there is anyone that could stand against us when we are together. It is the return of the young gen. Well, once Roxi gets here that is. It’s a shame, I don’t think I ever comforted her after your death. She must have felt your loss the most out of all of us.”

(BM) "Don’t worry about her, she is a strong woman, and if I have to put it into words, I think that both of you are quite the coincidence being here together with me. Who knows how lucky others have been in reuniting with friends of their time. I feel quite blessed.”

(JL) “Likewise.”