Last part, the story skipped 6 months ahead- to reveal that the Red Fists are now preparing to go on the offensive. Now, Restroid has started to share his views on why humans are flawed...

Kodan's P.O.V.

"MAY I UNCOVER MY EARS NOW?" King shouts out of nowhere which makes me snort, and I give him a nod.

"What were you two talking about? You'd better not be keeping any juicy secrets from me!" He asks as he plants his hands on our shoulders,

"Restroid here isn't such a fan of how humans work it looks like. He thinks that our souls are just slaves to our bodies that are always manipulated-"

"B.L.A.S.P.H.E.M.Y.! Perhaps some unfortunate, spineless, humans do indeed get "manipulated". But there's plenty who are fantastically free, like everyone in our group who wants to free the other manipulated folk in this continent!" Metallica says as I nod my head, Restroid doesn't react though as we start to head out onto the street again, I'm probably gonna get some lunch at Luenzo's.

"Exactly, King Metallica. Also Restroid- for your point on our bodies manipulating our souls. Humanity's overcome that pretty well through things like doctors and shrinks, who can manipulate the body's manipulating- hah." I say with a laugh as I give a wave to Erica as she walks by us, talked with her for a bit last night- nice gal, though she doesn't say hey to me back.

Probably embarrassed because I said no to going on a date with her, and she asked like five times too...

...Wait that just gave me a funass idea, but more importantly, Restroid responds to my question,

"Correct: doctors are beneficial to humans. Which proves how inefficient your bodies are. Is that not:......" Restroid completely stops moving for a bit as I can hear a fan blowing from him now, uhhh...

"You okay bud?" I ask as I slowly start walking back towards him,

"Sad: is the word humans would use in this scenario I believe. I will now extend my points to humans in general. Example A: A parent treats their child as a science experiment. i.e.: tricking them into believing food is an airplane-"

I laugh at that one which makes him stop, but I mumble a sorry and nod my head which makes him go on.

"Example B: Humans are often forced to trick themselves into doing certain tasks: I have seen tutorials on how to do so on the internet: such as on "beating procrastination"." Restroid says- looks like his mind isn't going to be changed anytime soon. Bummer. Not like he would ever turn into a traitor though, he's programmed to follow my instructions until his batteries run out- and if he did try anything we could easily take him out. I'd rather not consider that though, also we're getting closer to where we're eating lunch, so,

"Welp- I guess you're pretty convinced on your point there. Nice chat, I can see what you mean that some of the ways humans work are kinda weird haha. Time to eat!" I say as I swing open the door to Luenzo's small resturant, he really does have the best damn barbecue in our base!

Another six months later...

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"The soldiers are headed this way, Kodan." Salem whispers to me as she puts her invisible hand on my currently invisible shoulder.

"Sweet. Let's give em' the honor of greetings first." I say back to her, no clue if that made sense or not but hey it sounded cool- either we, me and my small team of twelve soldiers start to walk out of the alleyway we were hiding in, and what do you know- the scumbags are walking along the neon lit sidewalk to the left of us. 

Just like we planned, my own much better invisible soldiers silently walk ahead of me to surround the two monsters, while I stand in place and wait.

"Freeze!" The bitches yell as they point thick guns at what looks to be thin air, but with my visor on I can see that two of my guys heads are being pointed at.

"Fuck- the secret services have tech to see through the invisi-wear suits now?" I think to myself as I don't move a muscle and neither do any of my soldiers, good. 

"...Alright. Only one way out of this really. No way I could move fast enough to just disarm the guy holding Jack and Sander at gunpoint, let alone any of my squad members. Haaah, without using deadly force at least. I've got no choice, I won't let them take any more of my friends." I think to myself as I take a deep breath which makes one of the bastards holding my friend at gunpoint twitch. But I keep calm as I can start to see the glowing particles flowing around me now. I mastered this kind of thing a few months back but, I never wanted to use it like this.

"Drop your weapons immediately." One of the two scumbags say, though regardless I slightly bend my knees and,

*FWOOSH!*

I leap forward at a insane speed, thanks to me manipulating the gravity around me- more specifically making it push me forwards instead of the usual boring downwards. Then, without having to even take another step-

*POW!*

Using my momentum I slam my fists into the poor bastards upper chests', and like I thought I punch right through them. I can feel the warm blood of their insides burning my arm... they sure won't be able to shoot their guns anymore. Luckily though, just in case my two guys who were at gunpoint have backed away now. Though one of them starts to throw up after seeing what I did.

With a frown I take my bloody arms out of their chests, which makes both of them fall face first towards the ground as I take a step back.

"Bastard..." I jump back as I hear one of the guys I took out somehow groan, oh God I missed his heart. Shit I wanted to end them quickly at least. ...No. It doesn't have to be that way. 

*Bzz...*

"Medics- try to heal him up please." I command with a sigh as I turn off my invisible suit, which makes my members do so as well. I call it a "suit" but, it's invisible, super thin, and slides right over your normal clothes. Anyways, no time for that bullshit-

"What?! But Kodan, doing that would be almost impossible- did this garbage not murder innocents, even ones you kne-"

"Yeah- but we're better than that, when we can afford to be at least. The plan was to take them prisoner, and we'll still try to make that the case- so please hurry the hell up." I say as I clench my fists... I think I can hear movement around me so that's good...... if the fuck's got the same implants in him that I do, he'll probably live. But still...

"Hope you're happy God... I held back my urge to leave him for dead. Sorry for saying hell too, by the way- hah. But please take care of... who am I kidding. They're not in heaven anyways are they, Lexin and Cole didn't follow you before they died... have to say God- and the Five Kings too, I'm not a big fan of that rule." I think to myself, with my eyes starting to tear up a little as I try to keep myself distracted by keeping watch.

...The two soldiers we ambushed, they were the same ones who tried to drag me back to the Hopian Army's special forces a few years back. Who took my innocent friends hostage to try to do so, and killed two of them because of my stupid mistakes. Lexin and Cole. After I brought up the experience to one of our base's shrinks, she said she had a horrible encounter with the same guys too pretty recently- after I described how they looked to her at least.

And so I decided to take them out once for all. All it took was some waiting since I've got the special forces patrol routes pretty well engrained into me, after all I served for them for years as a kid. Hah... my doc will probably be pissed at me for "healing" my mental scars this way but- this is for the sake of this continent, not for fixing my guilt.

But even then I sure didn't want to kill them though... this isn't my first army member kill though by any means. We've faced a decent chunk of twisted ones who we were forced to kill so far in the past few months. Finding them isn't too tricky, since we have a team that goes around and talks to citizens about their bad experiences with specific army members. The ones that repeatedly get shit on, we look into. A pretty simple system but- it works for now.

Course we try to imprison most of those people instead of killing them but... well accidents like these happen.

Suddenly one of our medics speaks up, "There's a chance the man could make it. We need to get back to base ASAP to stabilize him though, what a waste."

I wipe away my tears, feeling a bit better now and say, "Great. Let's get a tele set up then. Easy by the way, these guys' uniforms could have cameras broadcasting on them remember?" I say which makes the medic who said that- Daz, cringe and slap his face.

"...Wonder what Prósopsi would think if he heard that. The guy would probably be scared shitless of the idea of any gangs rising up on his watch, after only being in power for a year. Hah. He should be. Bet when he's away from the cameras he's just as human as the rest of us." I think to myself to try to fully cheer up, and give myself a confidence boost.

Meanwhile, at the Hopian Army's headquarters, Vegastrat...

Prósopsi's P.O.V.

"H-harder~" Aphrodite moans as she grinds her butt onto my face, and so I pick up the pace and lick her "parts" faster and deeper, using my fingers to help me do so too. It's nasty but, I treat it like a video game at this point- my best record for, um, you know getting her "off" is two minutes, right now I'm at one minute fourty-

Aphrodite lets out a weird sound as she shudders, and a few seconds later after pulling my fingers out, my face starts to get covered in her fluids. Recently she's tried to mimic the 18+ animated stuff she caught me watching weeks ago which is pretty weird...

"...Ahhhhhh... you're so good at thi- hey! What the fuck?!" Aphrodite squeals as I start to cough underneath her lips which finally gets her off me, yeesh she weighs a lot for her size.

"Ugh, not my fault you were trying to drown me there. Also, can we not try that again? From what I've researched, women normally do that position for the sake of the guy not themselves." I ask as I lean up, feel around for, and finally find the cloth on the table next to me and start wiping my face off.

"I give you all sorts of powers, you give me all kinds of sex. And you actually had to research that? Your stupid cartoons not teach you that one?" She asks me as she lies back on the couch with a smirk, which makes me blush-

"Yo Prósopsi, wanna hang out for a bit? They had some donuts in the caf, I brought you some." Someone says from outside my room which makes me perk up, that has to be commander Erucid!

A/N: Kodan's revolutionary empire continues to grow, with them now taking the offensive against the army. And Prósopsi seems to be completely negligent of said fact...

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