Last part, Kodan started to train using his newly created armor suit that's made of the strongest metal in the world, Hesalo. He also watched an interview of Commander Jaxonite on TV, which only fueled his goal to kill the man...

1 month of intense training later...

Kodan's P.O.V.

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"Good luck Kodan!" Metallica shouts as the three fully automatic turrets at the restricted and empty area of our base turn on- and start blasting me all at once. But not a single shot hits my armored self as I use my gravity manipulation to yank myself into the air, then to the side since the turrets keep on tracking me.

For a while I continue to bounce around midair to practice my evasion. Then I go on the attack by launching myself super high up, then down real quick- slowing my descent at the very end to make sure I don't break my legs. Anyways I swing my armored arms out and turn off the two turrets that are next to me.

"Can't forget you." I think to myself and a second later hop over the turret to my right, only to be face to face with the third turret that starts firing at my chest- which of course does nothing as I turn it off as well.

Jeez it's crazy how precise I can be with my fingers in the armor now!

"Round 2 shall commence!" King Metallica shouts- which activates the 30 Officer level training bots around me, as well as the 50 sargeants and 100 soldiers. Wish there were Commander level bots but- I guess this'll have to do.

My stomach growls- haven't eaten lunch yet so I'll make this quick. Good thing the bots are eager for an ass kicking because they're all circling me with guns, fists, batons- and pretty well every basic weapon we could think of to give them.

Because I'm feeling boring today, I look down, stick my arms out, jump and use my gravity manipulation to drag myself forward- and in less then a second I can see and hear myself ramming through a bunch of the Officer level robots, yeah don't think those guys are gonna be functioning anytime soon.

To spice things up just a little though I stop my "hovering" and land on the ground, to where I cover my face with one hand and stand still, and finally let the remaining bots start to surround me. I can hear them hitting me like crazy- but I can't feel anything. Wonder if they're trying to grapple me now... alright I'm bored.

"RAHAHA!" I shout out like a villain as I take my hand off of my face, and spin myself around with my arms out- ok I may have gotten that from Metallica. But anyways, it causes pretty well all of the bots who were around me to get sent flying or torn apart- man are my powers handy, I could legitimately lift a building at this point. Well- or more like I know how to do that more consistently now.

I can see one last sparking robot stumbling towards me, and so I try out a new fancy move by crossing my arms across my chest. Then right when the silver bot tries to whack my with it's baton- I swing both of my arms out towards the robots chest, and crush slash slice it in two.

...Ok so maybe I went a little overboard there. But I mean, they're not human so... ok ok hey Metallica's different, and Restroid grew to have a personality, kinda. Ah why am I feeling bad, these training bots literally can't speak or anything like Restroid can. Anyways man am I hungry so I say,  "Let's go grab some lunch eh King Metallica? Oh- where's Restroid by the way?" I ask since Metallica normally always drags Restroid along with him, but he's gone today it seems.

"He said he had to charge up his body for today, truly a tragedy- I've lost one of my 8000 companions for 24 hours!" King says as he starts to wipe fake tears off of his face, then suddenly perks up with a smile, saying, "And sure I'd love to eat!" which makes me grin. Never knew Restroid had to charge up, guess it makes sense though since not many bots can power themselves up forever without a boost.

One month of preparation later, near the outskirts of the Hopian Continent....

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"You're not feeling nervous, are you Kodan?" One of my soldiers ask me, as I'm hiding behind a big machine thing on the roof me and some of our soldiers are stationed on.

"Nah just taking a piss. Anyone find Jaxonite yet?" I lie so that my teams morales aren't lowered- but yeah no I'm actually trying to calm myself down, since I can't afford to lose focus during this fight at all.

But lying is against the rules of the five kings... whoops. But to be fair I've been praying a bit less than normal recently, and my powers are still working just fine. So maybe you don't have to keep on being a Five King fanatic after you already learned the soul of the universe stuff?

Anyways, the same guy says back to me, "Not yet... oh shit! Team A's spotted him. Looks like the patrol schedule and routes Luciel saw were right." I knew getting ex Hopian Army members was a good idea.

"Sweet. Let's get moving. Alright, so team A's tele-tri is... here." I say as I walk out from behind my hiding place on the roof, which causes all the other soldiers in my team to gather around me. Then with my armored hand I press the button on the bottom of the triangle teleporter thing,  that I yanked out of the bag I was holding- which was holding all of the other teams tele-tri's. Anyways, doing that of course instantly brings us to the same big roof Team A is on in a split second.

Seconds later, the other 7 teams teleport onto the roofs around us, which makes about 200 armed soldiers in total. We would've brought more but, didn't want to risk losing all of our troops out here in case this all goes to shit.

Either way I take a deep breath and walk to the edge of the building were really high up on, and looking down- I can instantly see Commander Jaxonite. He's walking on a neon lit sidewalk in the same black uniform or costume or whatever he wears. He's literally right beneath me... if I'm lucky, I could just crush him by falling on top of him.

"Going in. Remember the plan, just keep on shooting him from up here. Don't worry about hurting me too much." I say to the few guys around me as I step off of the roof, and pencil dive straight down at Jaxonite's head, come on don't notice...

"Hm?!" Shit- the fucker noticed me, and with that he runs out of the way of my feet, and at the same time I slow down my fall by making gravity push me up instead of down for a sec.

"And who might you be? Answer quickly, or you will be detained." Jaxonite asks me in his gruffy voice as he raises his fists.

"My name's-"

Before I can finish he gets blasted the fuck out of by my rocket launcher guys who are way up high on the roofs above us, damn. Crazy to think he should survive that too. Can't see him just yet though- oop never mind, I can see a swarm of bats flying up towards my guys from the smoke that's covering Jaxonite.

That'd be his Blessing of course, he can create bats and control them. Wish it was just normal bats but nope- they fly as fast as bullets, and they're bites can tear through pretty well anything.

Including buildings so yeah to save my troops from a collapsed building- I launch myself forward into the smoke, and straight into the unsuspecting asshole which makes him wail in pain. Good. I use my gravity manipulation to keep pushing myself forward as my feet drag through the ground, and doing that also drags the shit along with me.

But damn- just before I can ram him into a building, he summons hundreds of more bats and makes them pull him into the air.

"Dumbasses. You should've, should've killed me when you had the chance." Jaxonite pants and tries to scare us as he uses a bunch of bats to hold him in the air. Man does he look dumb with them holding up his arms- ok I have to focus this could be bad, but hey this helps me keep calm.

The guy summons a bunch more bats- ugh that's creepy, they literally start off as little pink flesh things when they're summoned. Either way- he's launching a bunch down at me now, without a word or even moving.

"Remember, they can't hurt me." I think to myself as I can hear the bats screeching around me- then splattering on my armor a second later when they get launched into me. Like we thought, these bats can't even get close to breaking through my Hesalo armor. They should be breaking through the road beneath me though, so I've gotta be careful to not lose my balance.

For now though, all I can see through my mask's eyeslots' is- well nothing, I'm covering my face with my palm to avoid blood splattering into my eyes.

A few seconds later I can hear the swarm stop, and so I yank my hand off of my face and glance up to see Jaxonite looking down at me in shock, as he starts summoning more bats to launch at my gunners who are firing at him from above. He must've thought that bat-attack would kill me- too bad. Before he can summon more of 'em to launch at me, I jump up- and force the gravity around me to send me flying straight up into the bastard, without even moving a muscle.

"AGH!" He cries out in pain as I slam my armored fist up into his chin- which sends him flying up even higher into the air as his mask shatters. But before he can get too far I grab his foot, crush it with my hands like butter, then hurtle him back down to the ground as he screams, yeah no bats can save you from that one Jaxonite.

*BOOM!*

He slams into the ground backfirst as my blood starts pumping- FUCK I'M A BADASS!

"A-Ah- shit!" I cry out as suddenly I start to fall, shit my gravity manipulation- I lost focu-

*BOOM- CRACK!*

"Ah!!!" I can't help but shout as I slam into the ground feet first, I think my legs are broken- and shit the armor feels so heavy, this suit is gonna crush me!

"No- no just, this can be stopped- just calm down!" I think to myself as I fall to the ground on my chest, and cover my eyes. I take deep but shallow breaths at the same time. A second later I can hear my guys start blasting Jaxonite with literally every weapon they've got- or that's what was part of the plan at least. With his mask cracked and his head more exposed- plus him having some broken bones from that throw, he should be dead meat now.

Suddenly- I start to feel a whole lot lighter... OK. My legs still hurt a LOT but, that was my bad- shouldn't have got so excited there.

After two minutes straight of firing- and after the smoke clears around Jaxonite, I look up to see his body. Or what's left of it at least. I won't get too into details but- it's a bloody mess to say the least, think I can see some organs out and about.

I smile in relief. Guess I'm not losing my role as leader tonight. Yeah my soldiers finished him off but- if it weren't for me, they never would've been able to, since Jaxonite could've just dodged their shots by flying around with his bats, and then shredded all of them. Which is why they let this slide as part of my deal of beating a Commander.

I could care less about getting some help to win myself. Oh right, yeah hopefully someone comes to pick me up soon- since we need to get out of here ASAP. Don't want the Hopian Army to realize it was the Red Fists who did this, or we don't want them to know for certain at least. After all- we don't want to be targeted before we even fully start our main mission.

Narrator's P.O.V.

And so, the Red Fists continued on with expanding their group, as well as their base. Kodan, and especially King Metallica trained themselves frequently over the course of a few years, in preparation for their revolution.

The amount of members to join the Red Fists slowed quite a bit, and hit it's peek at 10334 members. However, to make up for the slowed recruitment rate- many more citizens of the base enlisted as soldiers, who would be trained and fight on the day of the revolution.

Unfortunately as the Red Fists grew- more and more traitors were discovered, using the help of the woman Laya's Blessing. Which was, in basic terms, set to detect if any human member of the Red Fists had any plans to betray the group.

Four years later, as the day of Kodan's revolution was only a week away- Kodan set out to take Commander Erucid out of the upcoming fight...

A/N: The Red Fists continue to advance at a seemingly fantastic pace, and now the day of Kodan's revolution approaches!

Sorry for the cliffhanger at the end there- and I hope you all consider voting or commenting if you enjoyed, and see you next week!

On that note, the lengths of chapters may get cut in half starting next week.