1 Death Is The Beginning
"No one knows what death brings. We as the living can only guess and assume what happens when our last breath passes our lips and our heart beats its last. They say life flashes before your eyes. I say its called living. Some say the good go to paradise and the evil go to hell. Others just say that death is the end and nothing awaits us. But I know what happens. Death is just the changing of worlds and the start of a new journey."
----Zander Duskwood----
----Wasteland Earth----
Its the year 2420 and what was once earth is a desolate wasteland thanks to many years of fighting over the dwindling resources and countless years of excessive use of said resources. The sever decline on resources many of which should have been renewable but weren't due to over harvesting began well over four hundred years ago. No one knows when the first bomb fell but when it did every one that had a nuke launched them further ruining much of the remaining resources that the survivers had access to. The only good thing is that the number of people fighting for said resources also deceased by a large amount making it easier for those alive.
A young man sits reading in a room with out windows and artificial lights flicker every few minutes. The walls are metal and it is obvious that the room is in a bunker of some kind. He has black hair in a buzz cut with deep blue eyes that glow in the fluorescent lighting. He is built like a runner and stands at 5'11". The room is filled with novels, comics, and manga. The walls covered with many posters in various conditions showing characters from the books, comics, and manga. He is reading Naruto once again reading the fight with Haku on the bridge. In the room with the young man is two girls and a boy. The boy has blonde hair cut as short as the young man and caramel brown eyes and is 5'11". The first girl has red hair to her shoulder and emerald green eyes and the second has brown hair to her shoulder with blue eyes. Both of the girls are 5'8" while all three share the same body type as the first young man. They have no names raised from birth to be killing machines. The youths are only identified by numbers. The black haired boy is Zero the leader of their cell, The red head is One the 2nd in command, the brunette is Two the tech and equipment specialist, the blonde is Three is the medic. Since the death of Four the job of communications as fallen on to Two until a replacement can be found. The only solace they find in their day to day life as killers is the fantasy stories they find in ruins while out on missions.
The group was always reading and talking about their favorite characters and what it would be like to live in one of these fantasy worlds. They all agreed that Naruto, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson would be the worlds they would wish to go to with Harry Potter and Naruto being the top two. With Zero and One wanting Naruto and Two and Three wanting Harry Potter if they had to choose just one world to go to. They spent many hours a day during their free time discussing what they would wish for or hoped to get after finding a working ipad with many novels saved onto it. A bell rang in their room letting them know lights out was in thirty minutes. The four quickly put away what they where reading readied themselves for bed knowing they needed sleep for the possible missions they will be given in the morning.
Like every morning an alarm blared in their quarters waking them up. In a flash they where up and dressed in a black military uniform and running to the mess hall for breakfast. After a quick meal the four entered the briefing room and took a seat after a few minutes the lights when out and the screen on the wall flickered on with the details of their next assignment. The quickly read through the information that was presented before planing the operation and leaving to gear up. They gathered their standard load out that contained a black body armor enhanced for stealth operations. Zero had several blades and wires for close combat along with a pistol and several explosives. One had a sniper rifle and two silenced pistols. Three had her medic load out alon with a few knives and a silenced pistol. Similar to Three's load out Four had his tech gear and a few knives and a silenced pistol. It was obvious that Zero and One where the main attacking and assasinating force while Two and Three where the support force.
The mission was going well to well this caused Zero to get a bad feeling and he was tempted to call a retreat to regroup and request a intel check on their mission. But it was to late a spot light fired up illuminating the team of four as hundreds of soldiers surrounded them. As Zero thought about how to escape a man with short brown hair and dark brown almost black eyes approached them. When the man got close it sent the entire team into shock because it was Four a man, a friend, a brother they thought had died on a solo mission years ago.
"Four your alive why did you not come back why did you leave us" shouted Two she was always closes to Four before his supposed death.
"Three I am sorry on my last mission I was hurt and caught and they showed me the truth about the brotherhood that raised us as killer kids so I left and joined the Legion to make the world a better place for everyone. Join us and we together again the five of us can make the brotherhood pay for what they did to us destroying our child hoods if you don't you will be killed here. I took the name Paul Black I am no longer just a number" Paul said as he raised his hands above his head.
The teams faces turned black as they glared at the person they once called brother at his betrayal because of the words of another. Forgetting that without the brotherhood he would have been dead like the rest of them. They all agreed that traitors do not deserve to live they looked into each others eyes and nodded.
"Traitors and Betrayers Die" the team of four said at the same time as they shot Paul he had no time to defend as four bullets pierced his skull two in each eye.
After that the team of four took off in four directions and began their killing spree but they are only human. Three took a bullet to the head and was knocked back by the force of it. Two raged out and ran into the line killing everyone in her path after putting a knife into Three's killer she was shot several times stumbling before collapsing to the ground dead. One didn't rage she simmered in cold hate for those that caused the death of her siblings and took it out on those around her. But she to fell from the overwhelming firepower powered on to her. Last to fall was Zero after killing several responsible for the deaths of his team. He fell and lay still staring into the sky as he cried for his team apologizing in his head for it was his responsibility to make sure the intel was good and he failed in his responsibilities. As was having his inner talk .... pity party. He never took his eyes off those around him once they where close a wicked smile grew on his face and he decided to take several Deidara quotes and mesh them into his own for shits and giggles.
"Life's only beautiful because it's so fleeting, so transient. Fine art is something that blossoms for an instant before withering away, it is the beauty of that single fleeting moment of explosion. Look at these fools. They have no appreciation for art. You have to feel art.This will be my ultimate piece of art. I'll explode. I shall die and become art itself! This will be like no explosion before it, and it will leave a scar upon the Earth unlike anything else. Then, my art will receive the admiration it's always deserved Cower in awe! Recoil in despair! Cry your heart out! Because the explosive power that is my masterpiece is the essence of true art.... IT IS AN EXPLOSION!!!!!" Zero yelled the last of his little speech as he pressed a button.
The soldiers around the bodies of the team of assassins felt something was off with the speech but it was to late as explosives attached to each of the assassin team went off. The explosives used where special because though small had huge explosions. The blast caused the ground to quake for miles around and a cloud of dust rose high into the air. Once the dust cleared a crater with a diameter of two football fields was all that was left. Out of the hundreds of soldiers sent only six managed to get away and heavily injured at that. In the reports of these six soldiers it is stated that the team of four assassins where like demons on the battlefield and it took a lot just to put them down. Each of the six agreed that they hoped those where the only four that the brother hood had that where like that because they never want to face such monsters ever again. The Legion officers agreed and pray that no more explosives like that exist. Because the Legion my just get a pyrrhic victory if the brotherhood has more and they continue to seek its destruction.
--Void--
Floating in the vast darkness a large bluish white orb floats traveling slowly. This is Zero's soul unknown to him souls are normally torn to ribbons and disperssed floating in the void like this with out protection. After death a soul is automaticlly put into the cycle of reincarnation of the world they died. But the rare soul will be strong enough to break out of this cycle. Doing this though with out protection usually ends in permanent death as with out the soul their is no life to reincarnate or live. This goes to show how rare it is for Zero to be able to travel the void as a soul with out any protection. Zero does not panic and begins to pass his time going over all the fantasy stories, comics, and manga he has read and the talks he had with his team in case he met a god or got a chance in a new world that is if he isn't stuck in the void for ever.
After what appeared to be an eternity Zero fills a pull and is taken from a black void to a white void where a young man that looks like Daidera from Naruto is laughing his ass off. After a while he notices Zero and straightens up still giggling on occasion.
"Are you really Daidera?" Zero asked unable to keep his curiosity in check.
"No child I am Eon God of Creation and Order I took this form because my true from would disintegrate your soul. Before you ask I took the form of Daidera your last words after all was just your twist on several of his quotes." Eon spoke while trying not to giggle or laugh any more.
"Disintegration bad, so why am I here?" Zero asked confused at his current situation.
" Well you have a strong soul and your last words before you got your revenge on those soldiers had me laughing my ass off. So basically I find you entertaining and going to let you reincarnate in another world to continue to do so" Eon said with a smile.
"So reincarnation in another world so what are my options, and do i get wishes or something? Also how long was I in the black void?" Zero asked
"You get to choose three worlds and you will have a private world that will eventually connect to all three. You will start in your first pick then at a certain time be transported to your private world. You would then have to go to your second choice after you complete all the task their say if you chose one piece you would have to at least get one piece and end the corruption that is the world government. Then you can go to your private world and do the same thing for your third choice before coming back and ending with your first choice. After you complete all three choices they will be connected to your private world permanently and only you and those you allow will be able to travel between these worlds. Also if you allow someone to travel between worlds but not access your private world they will always go to one of your three chosen worlds and bypass your private world. You where in the black void near on two millennia. Sorry about that was laughing so hard at your last words that i lost track of time and for us gods a second is a couple hundred years so my laughing spell though only a few minutes for me was several thousand for you." Eon said apologizing to Zero at the end.
"Well that is a depressingly long time but at least I managed to keep my sanity. So why am I leaving my first choice only to come back to finish it?" Zero inquired looking at the supposed God in front of him.
"Well to be honest I thought it would be fun to watch. If you live as long as I do you find ways to make some entertainment such as reincarnating random souls in random ways. So what worlds do you want?" Eon still hiding giggles but managing to finally calm down.
"Naruto, Harry Potter, and Percy Jackson. With Percy Jackson both the first series of books and second with Jason Grace but none of the other stories that the author wrote about other gods just the Roman and Greek gods" was Zero's quick response.
"That can be worked out just fine and no you don't get wishes but I will be providing things for you. Your brother and sisters One, Two, and Three will join you on this journey. You will get a simple system that will have limited functions. The system will have a shop, limited inventory, status, factions, lottery, and Missions. Just so you know their is no A.I. just think what you have a question about and the knowledge will appear in screen format in front of you and only you can see it. You will get sent to your private world first meet with your team before going to each world you get to decide several things which will appear as a screen in front of you. As the leader you get to decided a lot. You and your second in command get a lot such as when you go to Harry Potter you can choose for you and your second to be the Heir to several houses where as the others only get one or two. No your team doesn't get a full system but they do get access to missions and the ones they complete earn you system points (sp) to spend in shop while they get other rewards such as currency of the current world or items that would suit them in the current world. The final thing you will get is a starter box but the things inside will for the most part apply to your private world." Eon went into a long spiel about what he was giving Zero.
"So I start at my private world with a system and meet my brother and sisters their. They have access to missions only earning them items and me some sp for he store use and we get to make choices before going to each of the three worlds for the first time. I also get a starter box which by your words is most likely items to develop my private world for limited habitation by humanoid species. The starter box probably already has some sp for me to use and get used to the shop. That is so cool I can not wait to see my family again and start this new adventure even if it is for your entertainment when do I go? Also thank you so much Eon" Zero said smiling happily.
"Your welcome and I hope you enjoy having a name other then some number your going now" Eon said again and their was a flash and Zero was gone.
"I hope the kid entertains me " Eon said after a few minutes. Eon fades away and the white space returns back to the black void.
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pyrrhic victory - is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Winning a Pyrrhic victory takes a heavy toll that negates any true sense of achievement or damages long-term progress.
