An Age Of Heroes Or Darkness: A Meta Human Timeline

Venan Vs American Height Difference

So I decided to repost an infographic from my TikTok onto here as a better reference for some of the characters' height. Here is a chart of the height comparison between the average Venan Soldiers and the average American soldier. Venan's exceptionally tall height was inspired by the Dinka people of South Sudan, who are some of the tallest people in the world and would probably be even taller if it weren't for issues around nutrition.

Here is a more detailed depiction of the height difference between Venan and American soldiers.

Here is a Venan compared to their Wolfaninan counterpart. The height difference is even more noticeably shorter than the Venans. This is largely due to a combination of factors, but mostly the lack of nutrition due to the Wolfanina being a feudal society with the bulk of their population being serfs. For example, Princess Mina is around 5'4 and Prince AJ is around 6'11.
 
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If that is the case, unless they can hide themselves really well, they just are going to paint themselves as target due to that kind of height.
Most units don't use modern camouflage at all preferring their older more WW2 style uniforms which is a disadvantage to them though this is offset by them not being all that casualty adverse.

Is this a glaring flaw? Yes but the Venan military gotta have some flaws otherwise they would be a army of Mary Sues.
 
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The comparison of the Venan people to the Dinka was actually something that was in my head when I saw this post's title notified on my alerts.

The idea of the Dinka being mentioned with the fact that Vena had easier access to food.
 
Memo On The Introduction Of P.M.A.F Units
Legionaries,

Following our recent discourse last month, delving into the intricacies of forming task forces, I am pleased to present the formal announcement regarding establishing six new Permanent Mobile Auxiliary Forces [P.M.A.F.]. These distinguished forces, numbering six in total, shall be allocated to every member of the Legion, expanding harmoniously with the induction of new recruits. While these task forces will fall under the jurisdiction of each Legionaire Hero Command, it is imperative to note that, owing to their distinctive expertise, the current allocation is capped at a maximum of 144 members. The meticulous selection process ensures that each P.M.A.F. is tailor-made to complement the unique powers and combat styles of their respective heroes.

Splinter:


Your Holynees While acknowledging your wishes that due to your power, you don't need backup, however, her Grace Princess Mina harbors her own opinion, foremost among them keeping her future husband safe by any means necessary. In pursuit of this objective, a specialized task force has been meticulously crafted, devoted to escorting you seamlessly to the designated target location. This task force incorporates cutting-edge technology to ensure your security.

Real-time overhead surveillance is facilitated through a fleet of high-flying UAVs strategically deployed as parasite craft. These UAVs, capable of launching from larger drone craft with advanced 3D printing capabilities, stand ready to generate smaller parasite drones on demand.

The Comic:
While I have moral reservations about your statement of having A squad of all my ex-boyfriends oiled up in hoochie daddy shorts," I acknowledge your unique history with most of the Nation's highly trained special forces agents. Nevertheless, these men and women constitute a formidable and versatile force, adept at discretion or overt action. Their combat expertise extends across battles in Africa, The Middle East, and Asia, coupled with specialized training in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism.

Equipped modestly with fatigues, rifles, radios, and combat knives, the emphasis lies on agility and lethality. Each squad member wields a highly modified AK-101, capable of firing both 5.56 and 7.62 rounds. However, after the unveiling of your rifle design schematics, it did induce mental distress within the research and development teams, leading to one researcher's hospitalization after they ran around in a circle screaming, "IT SHOULD NOT BE!" over and over again. Consequently, it is urged that any further weapon designs be channeled through Director BlackHeart before reaching the research and development teams. Your cooperation in this matter is sincerely appreciated.

Ogun:


The designs you submitted for your personal unit presented a captivating proposition. Although your Power Armor design incurred a higher cost than preferred, with each of these 12-and-a-half million dollar suits amounting to 2.5 times the expense of a new battle tank, the innovation is commendable. Despite not matching the full capability of your own suit due to cost concerns, what you've fashioned bestows upon a single individual the formidable firepower and armor akin to an American Main Battle Tank, if not surpassing it.

However, due to power concerns and budget constraints have led us to make strategic adjustments. Regrettably, we had to curtail their flight capabilities to simple air-assisted unpowered gliders. In essence, these suits will be lofted into the air by a bomber or jet craft, launched akin to a missile towards the adversary. Their unpowered wings will then guide them to the ground, positioning them to serve as supplementary armor support upon landing. This adaptation is particularly advantageous in urban settings where traditional tanks encounter limitations. It's emphasized to exercise caution in preserving these assets, considering their substantial cost.

Shrouded Justice:

While I have read your repeated request not to have "soldiers to babysit," Nevertheless, given the context of Legion missions, the presence of these soldiers as willing collaborators is inevitable. Each of these dedicated soldiers is outfitted with state-of-the-art technological stealth capabilities, ensuring a seamless integration into your missions. The intention is not to intrude but rather to offer invaluable support when required. Your collaboration with them during moments of need will undoubtedly enhance the effectiveness of the mission, aligning with the shared objective of achieving success in Legion endeavors.

Photonica:


You have been one of the more interesting members for us to build a team around. Mostly due to your powers giving the R&D team a new idea for a direct energy-based weapon.

The D.E.B.A.W. is what amounts to a mini-particle accelerator. The D.E.B.A.W. functions by colliding high-energy photons plasma into a single beam. The beam acts differently than a typical laser. Unlike conventional laser weaponry, the D.E.B.A.W.'s focused photonic plasma beam operates by quickly impacting and obliterating its targets. Outside of their aircraft, they are equipped with advanced combat armor and a sophisticated targeting rail gun rifle system. This arsenal empowers them to unleash tracking smart rounds with precision upon adversaries.

Druid:
In creating your unit, we have devised an eco-friendly unit design along with one that synergize with your fast and agile movements, compensating for the inherent vulnerability your fighting style may expose you too. The foundation of this design rests upon the Russian Ros tec's next-gen Sotnik battle-armored exoskeleton prototype, substantially enhanced for optimal performance. This fortified unit not only affords you heightened protection but also incorporates a chameleon-style stealth system. While not reaching the sheer strength and fire power of Ogun's power-armored troops, these eco-friendly armors wield a potent punch, along with the armor being eco friendly of course.

Ghoul:
Your unit has been equipped with a modified and miniaturized D.E.B.A.W. pack blaster. This adaptation deviates from the conventional photonic energy, instead emitting controlled bursts of ectoplasma in a flamethrower-esque pattern. Additionally, your unit is fully equipped with a comprehensive array of ghost-hunting equipment and specialized tools aimed at disrupting ectoplasmic entities. While theoretically capable of targeting ectoplasmic beings, it is acknowledged that, for most adversaries, the utilization of these packs would amount to excessive force.

Night Witch:


Your Grace, while your initial plan to use your gargoyles as a surrogate for a standard Duken'Korps support unit was the primarily concept that inspired the inception of the P.M.A.F. project. However, unforeseen circumstances have necessitated an augmentation to your unit. A group of remarkable ladies have emerged recently, pledging unwavering loyalty to you. From what we can tell they are from a small Venan sect of Steppe Christians, after hearing word of a Christian Princess of Vena they felt compelled to enlist to fight under you. Efforts to persuade their departure were met with resistance, resulting in multiple injured Korpsmen. Presently, the same soldiers are currently vying for the chance to propose to these ladies.
-Director Wolf July 8, 2025
 
Yep, time for the Anglophones and Francophones to shit their pants.
I mean the korps by themselves while powerful is still relatively small when comparing to actual major military powers mostly being around the 40-50 thousand mark with a good chunk of them not being in combat roles. They have fancy gear but their numbers put them at a disadvantage what makes them a force to be reckoned with is the fact they are part of a team with powerful metahumans.
 
Chapter 40: Knock Them Ankles Loose

"Wait, so you get to go into space to fight Egyptian space cyborg mummies this weekend, and I was stuck fighting Slap Stick again for like the third time this month," said Destiny as she dodged a throwing knife.

"I personally find the story fascinating," said Adisa as she swung down her blunted sword at Ace, who blocked it and managed to sweep her to the ground. Adisa quickly used this time to grapple Ace and flip him over towards Destiny, sending them both tumbling.

"Well, personally," said Ace as he and Destiny flipped back and landed on their feet, "I would take fighting crazy fan girls any day of the week than..." Both he and Destiny grabbed training swords from a nearby rack and rushed towards Adisa, who began to sword fight both of them at the same time while adding, "The play hamster maze with off-brand Trazyn The Infinite meets Brainiac anytime again."

"Yeah, sure, but you don't have to deal with exploding Whoopi cushions," said Destiny as Xander and Mia walked down the stairs holding huge bags from Wardburger.

"Dinner time," said Xander as he and Mia placed the food down on the table near the training area.

"Ok, so Xander and I got our usual, Destiny, we got you a chicken sandwich, and Ace, we got the three pounds of fried rice, a bucket of lemon pepper veggie wings, fries, and egg rolls for Ace,"

"Fat bih," quipped Destiny.

"Right now, don't play like you gonna be asking for some later on," said Ace before turning to Adisa. "You didn't want anything. I know you say you weren't hungry earlier, but feel free to get some off my plate."

"How kind of you, my dear, but this type of cuisine has never fit my palate,"

"More for us then, let's dig in," started Xander before an alert call from ACB Detective Monroe, Destiny's mother.

"Looks like we have to dine and dash," said Ace as he and Destiny got up from the table before he asked, "Adisa, are you coming?"

Adisa smiled, "I am afraid not, I have a concert I wish to attend to."

"Shame, we can always need a third partner out there," said Destiny.

Adisa smiled seductively. "I will keep that in mind for another night, maybe."

Agent Yin was lighting up a cigarette and looking over the city on the fire escape of a tall stone brick apartment building when he spoke up as Reaper and Shadow landed behind him.

"I was wondering when you two would arrive," said Yin.

"We got here as quickly as we could," said Reaper, asking, "Where is Monroe?"

"She is inside with Danny and Keller checking out the crime scene," said Yin as the two superheroes entered the building through the nearby window. The room was from an ISOT section of the apartment block from the 1940s. It was apparent to Ace just by looking around at the room—the lack of pictures on the wall, the overly clean layout, and the minimum amount of furniture—that it was a rental room, most likely from Airbnb.

"What are we looking at here?" asked Shadow.

"Name is James Wu," said Detective Monroe.

"Wu?" asked Reaper as Shadow looked at him concerned.

"You know the guy or something?" asked Danny.

"I mean, the guy was a famous martial artist," said Keller.

"Didn't know you were such a fan of martial arts," said Danny.

"A man can't have hobbies?" said Keller before turning back to Reaper. "Apparently, all that training just to get dropped by some rando."

"This wasn't some guy," said Ace, looking over the body. "There is no sign of birder weapons, and by the bruising and cuts on the body, this was a personal kill."

"Meaning?" asked Danny.

"Whoever killed this guy was able to take down one of the best martial artists in the world with his bare hands. We are looking at a professional."

"Or a Metahuman," said Lisa. "No offense, but you guys aren't exactly even with regular folks when it comes to hands."

"None was taken," said Reaper as the lights of the room flicked off, and by the time they flickered on again, both Reaper and Shadow were gone.

"I can't believe it," said Destiny. "Wu is dead."

"Even though we hadn't talked in a while, he was a good friend," said Ace.

"He was more than that," said Destiny. "For me, at least."

"Wait, you guys?" asked Ace. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was just a kiss between us," Destiny sighed. "I always thought there was something there between us, but it never came of it."

"Why do we keep losing people, Des?" asked Ace, looking over the city. Before Destiny could answer, Ace shoved her out of the way and sliced away some exploding ninja stars.

"I'm guessing this isn't another random training exercise from Adisa," said Shadow as thick smoke began to blow around the two heroes, and out of the thick grey smoke came a dozen monks armed with spears, swords, staffs, and nunchucks.

"Unfortunately, I think you're right, old chum," said Ace as he leaped forward, his scythe staff slicing through the air and through the first monk's swung staff, cutting it in half as Reaper threw a powerful roundhouse kick that sent him sprawling. Meanwhile, a nunchuck-swinging monk approached Shadow, who managed to sidestep his strikes and countered with swift punches and flipped over on his face.

Reaper parried a katana strike with his scythe, locking eyes with another monk. Ace smiled under his mask as his scythe sent a taser shock through the sword into the monk, knocking him out instantly.

Shadow flipped over a spear thrust, her agility unmatched. "You guys really have no respect for personal space," she remarked, using a grappling to shoot around the monk's legs rapidly pulling him forward into a spinning kick to the face by Shadow.

The fight intensified as more monks joined the fray. Reaper and Shadow exchanged glances, a silent understanding passing between them. Shadow executed a stunning acrobatic move, disarming two monks with a single spinning kick. "Teamwork makes the dream work!" she called out.

"Well not for these guys at least," said Ace, hurling a mini scythe at an approaching monk.

The remaining monks regrouped, attempting a final assault. Reaper and Shadow stood back-to-back, a united front against the onslaught. "Ready for the grand finale?" Reaper teased. The monks answered by throwing smoke bombs, picking up their injured bodies and running away, disappearing into the shadows of the night.

"Apparently not," said Destiny before turning to Ace as the smoke began to clear, "Who the hell were those guys?"

"I don't know," said Reaper as a partial realization hit him, and his voice changed to a serious tone. "But I'm beginning to figure it out."

"What I see now with this attempted Uni Corp buyout of Afton Manufacturing, a company is nothing more than a direct threat to America by a faceless multi-national corporation. I am not a communist; I have denounced Western communists and capitalists as incompatible with our culture and traditions. However, when bought and paid for politicians allow faceless market-driven

entities to let the interest of capital for the benefit of a few usurp the securities of the nation and of her people! Capital cannot and should not have power that is above political authority!" said Imani V Clair over a computer screen in the graveyard bunker as Mia and Xander watched.

"Man, I hate it when Imani starts making sense," said Xander. But before Mia had a chance to say anything, Ace and Destiny entered the abandoned subway entrance.

"Interesting night?" asked Xander before Shadow responded back grimly, "Wu is dead."

"I think I know who killed him," said Reaper as he took his mask off before plunging it into the mainframe.

"Computer, analyze recorded data from the most recent fights," said Ace as he crossed his arms while the video of the battle between him and Shadow against the monks began to play, replacing the video of the massive NOAAU rally.

Ace, Destiny, and Xander's eyes all began to widen as they saw the monks move more in detail. Ace paused the video suddenly, saying, "I suspected these moves were familiar, but now I know not only that we have all seen them before, but we know who taught them."

"And who would that be?" asked Mia.

"Sifu Jian Liang," said Destiny. "An old martial arts instructor." Xander pulled up some local news headlines saying, "And look who is back in town," as they're on the screen of the computer was an advertisement for Sifu Jian Liang.

"Well then," said Reaper, "Looks like the tournament is going to have two surprise challengers."

"Xander placed a call to the African Legion and ACB," said Destiny.

"Not APD?" asked Xander.

"We need professionals," said Ace. "And that is why Mia, I will need you to keep the APD back from the scene. The last thing we need is a bunch of trigger-happy chuds wasted by some monks or some innocent bystanders getting caught in the crossfire."

"Keep the police safe for themselves, got it," said Mia before turning to Xander. "Keep us all updated from here."

"Of course, how else would I spend this lovely Friday night," said Xander sarcastically before asking, "Do you want to try out your new suit, Destiny's dad has been bugging me about getting you to field test some of that alien tech you had integrated into the new model."

"Another night perhaps," said Ace. "Tonight, I prefer to rely on my fist to teach my old master a new lesson."

"A lesson in justice!" said Mia excitedly before realizing she had just killed the vibe. "Sorry, I don't really do dark and edgy."

The martial arts arena was a colossal structure, its metallic surfaces gleaming under the stark overhead lights. The stage, encircling the artificial volcano, was a network of platforms and walkways, intricately designed for combat. The dark and light mats covering the arena floor added a gritty texture, bearing the marks of countless battles.

The artificial volcano, a centerpiece of the spectacle, towered in the center, emitting an eerie, pulsating glow. Neon lights traced the edges of the structure, casting dynamic patterns on the ground below. The volcano's rough surface hinted at the illusion, carefully crafted to appear as a force of nature amid martial prowess.

The audience, packed to the brim, surrounded the arena like a fervent sea. Every seat was filled, creating a wall of faces eagerly awaiting the clash of titans. The spectators, a diverse mix of ages and backgrounds, leaned forward with bated breath. The air hummed with a blend of excitement and tension.

The overhead lights, strategically positioned, illuminated the arena without washing out the dramatic atmosphere. The metallic structures forming the stage were both functional and aesthetically pleasing, a testament to the craftsmanship dedicated to this martial arts extravaganza.

The crowd's energy was palpable, their cheers echoing against the metal framework. Banners and flags, symbols of different martial arts schools and enthusiasts, adorned the spectator stands.

"You remember these times?" asked Ace to Destiny as they looked down under the skylight.

In an instant, Destiny found herself transported back to their younger days. The roar of the crowd, the gleaming metallic structures of the tournament venue, the smell of popcorn, the music, and above all else, the anticipation in the air felt just as real as it did back then.

Destiny faced off against Kimberly, a tall brute of a woman but a skilled opponent despite what she may have appeared on the outside. Kimberly, at the age of 14, was damn near peak human in terms of strength with the skills to match.

Destiny and Kimberly circled each other, the tension building with each step. Destiny initiated the exchange with a lightning-quick jab, aiming for Kimberly's midsection. Kimberly expertly sidestepped, countering with a roundhouse kick that Destiny narrowly avoided by ducking.

"You're good, but," Destiny said, executing a rapid series of punches, aiming for Kimberly's defenses, "I'm great."

Kimberly smirked, "We'll see about that." She said as she parried each strike, her smile growing wider and wilder each time. Destiny, annoyed, began to truly focus as Kimberly threw a jab followed by a spinning kick, attempting to catch her off guard. Destiny, however, gracefully backflipped into a somersault, narrowly evading the attack before, seizing an opening, and launching a powerful roundhouse kick. Kimberly was caught off balance and attempted to counter, but Destiny managed to dodge and strike Kimberly hard and fast, earning her a momentary advantage and throwing out a rapid-fire sequence of strikes until with one final spinning flip kick to the face, Destiny sent Kimberly to the mat unconscious.

"Like I said, I'm just better," said Destiny as the crowd roared with excitement, amplifying the intensity of the moment. The referee quickly rushed over to Destiny and raised her hand, declaring her the winner and handing her a trophy. She turned towards the audience, expecting to find Wu's approving gaze. However, her heart sank as she witnessed him hugging someone else in the stands.

Yet even as her heart threatened to sink into a black hole, Ace followed by Xander quickly appeared at Destiny's side, wrapping her in a congratulatory hug. "You were amazing out there! That trophy is well-deserved," Ace said with pride. Destiny, momentarily caught in a mix of emotions, smiled at Ace. "Thanks. Let's get out of here," she said, snapping back to the present and refocusing on the current situation in the martial arts arena.

"Yeah, I remember this place," said Destiny, snapping out of her flashback, "It was also the last time I saw Wu, until tonight,"

Ace was about to say something to comfort his friend, but before he could say anything, Destiny's eyes went a pale bluish-white color for a solid second. Ace could have sworn he saw sparks in her eyes before she snapped back with a look of shock on her face.

"Destiny, what the hell was that-" started Ace.

"No time to explain, but it's not Liang-" said Destiny, but right as she said that, the doors to the arena below them slammed shut as smoke flowed around each exit before suddenly, out of the black mist came monks along with somewhere else a woman dressed in all-white ninja armor holding a mechanical sword that was on fire with some type of green plasma.

"Sifu Jian Liang, your time has come!" said the woman as armed ninja monks ambushed him, overpowering him before he could react. "To pay for what you did to me!" She said as she pointed her flaming sword at Liang. "It's time to show you how wrong you were—fa-"

"The only thing on show here tonight is an ass-kicking," said Reaper, with Destiny adding, "And you've got a front-row seat," as they crashed through the glass skylight, intentionally scattering some of the monks who dove out of the way of falling glass.

Reaper, in the spring of his leg, leaped into a kick at one of the monk's faces before throwing a mini-scythe at a group of monks. A moment before impact, the mini-scythe broke apart into smaller electrified pieces, taking down the scattered monks all at once. Ace then grappled one of their bodies and used it as a "ball and chain" to sweep away another group of monks. A warning flashed on Ace's battle HUD. A monk with an M16 was getting ready to fire at him from behind. Ace leaped backward out of the way of the bullets, landing on a wall adjacent to the sniper before leaping into a punch, knocking him out. Ace grabbed his rifle as it dropped and threw it at another armed monk with a crossbow. Destiny swooped in, grabbed the bolt midair, and used it to nail another monk trying to sneak up on Ace, stabbing the monk's shirt into a nearby wall.

"What would you ever do without me, ghost boy?" she quipped.

Ace rolled his eyes under his mask as he shot out a cobweb bomb at a monk diving at Destiny from the top of one of the upper scaffolding of the building, sending him flying back up and sticking to the roof. "Shadow, I need you to get these civilians out of here now."

"On it," said Destiny, swinging off towards the locked main exit. Shadow quickly began to untie the doors to the exit, but as she did so, she could hear footsteps from behind her.

"Time to die, little shadow," said a massive monk from behind her as Destiny turned back around to face the monk, firing a grapple line above the monk's head. "You missed, little girl!"

"Did I?" asked Destiny sarcastically as she pulled down a hanging light between them, distracting the monk before turning invisible.

"HEY! WHERE DID YOU GO!" shouted the monk, to which Destiny answered by punching the man with an electrified shock gauntlet falcon punch, sending the man flying into the air for a short time before Shadow fired a grapple line around him and slammed him back to the floor, knocking him out. "Nowhere," she quipped, tossing a cobweb bomb on the monk, locking him in place.

Meanwhile, Reaper had jumped in between Liang and the woman in all-white.

"Out of my way, Reaper, or you shall meet the real one!" said the woman.

"No can do, crazy ninja lady, the Kumite is next week."

"I've had enough of your insolence, Reaper. If you insist on standing in my way, revenge, then you should die alongside my father!"

"Your father?" said Ace. "Wait, that would mean!"

"That is right, I am Lian Liang!" said the ninja woman.

"Daughter, why!" shouted her father.

"Oh, please! You know why! How dare you pick Wu over me, your own flesh and blood!" She shouted, "For her ex-boyfriend no less!"

"You two were dating!" shouted Reaper as Destiny landed behind Lian.

"Of course, the Master's daughter and his prodigy, but now Wu is dead, and soon you all will be too."

"I don't think so," said Shadow. "There are two of us, and only one of you."

Letting out a scream of pure anger, Lian lunged forward, aiming a swift kick at Reaper's midsection. Ace sidestepped with an almost balletic grace, throwing up and tossing his scythe staff to Destiny before countering with a spinning kick that Shadow seamlessly integrated into her own assault. Destiny slashed the scythe through the air but was blocked by Lian, who swung back at Shadow and managed to jump out of the way before throwing multiple mini-smoke bombs at Lian, distracting her long enough to leave Reaper an opening. Reaper came in with a punch to her side that sent Lian flying across the stage into a punch from Shadow. However, Lian managed to grab Shadow's arm and throw her into Reaper, knocking them both over. As the two heroes picked themselves up, Lian came back at them with a series of rapid strikes. Reaper lunged out of the way, tripping Lian up with his legs, which caught her off guard and allowed Destiny to kick the woman dead in the face with her taser boot, sending Lian stumbling back, but not down. Lian would feel a tap on her shoulder as she stumbled. Turning around, she would see Reaper and her father, then nothing, as the two men punched her in the face at the same time, finally knocking her out.

"I see you two have taken my lesson in teamwork to heart," said Liang. "Though not in a way I would have expected," shocking both Reaper and Shadow. "You don't think I wouldn't recognize two of my greatest students?" Liang added as the African Legion and ACB agents rushed into the building, guns drawn, only to be disappointed to find all of the monks and their leader tied up and knocked out, with Reaper, Shadow, and Liang nowhere to be seen.

"Are you ok?" asked Shadow to Liang.

"As much as I can be right now," Liang answered before Reaper asked, taking off his mask, "So what did Lian mean by choosing Wu over her?"

Liang sighed, "After me and my school left Atlanta, I became ill with COVID-19. I recovered, thankfully, but I knew then that one day I would not be so lucky, one day the sands of time would run out for me. So I decided to choose a successor to my schools and fortune."

"Wu," said Reaper.

"Under my tutelage, he had grown wiser over the years, more so than my daughter Lian."

"Given what happened tonight, I'm guessing she didn't take the news well," Destiny quipped.

Liang sighed, "My daughter has always been a jealous young woman, even after I promised her a trust fund in my will, it wasn't enough for her. She wanted it all, and things only worsened after Wu broke up with her. She flew into a rage and left me in the nights three months ago, vowing vengeance." Liang looked down, sighing again, "I never thought she would be capable of taking a life, let alone the life of her own father. I'm going to need some time to process this."

"I guess this is goodbye," said Shadow.

"Liang," reached into his pocket and handed something to Destiny, "This was from Wu. He was going to give it to you in person this week, but I guess he will never get the chance to do it now."

"Thank you," said Destiny as she and Ace dissipated in a cloud of smoke.

"So what is it?" asked Ace hours later as

he and Destiny sat in his mansion's study.

"A letter," said Destiny, "From Wu apologizing about not being man enough to tell me the truth about him and Lian."

Ace placed a hand on Destiny's shoulder, "I'm sorry about what happened tonight," to which she placed her hand on top of his and looked at Ace with a smile, "It's alright."

"I take it you two have had an interesting night," said Adisa. "Or rather morning," she said, looking at the rising dawn through the window.

"Yeah, it's been troublesome, to say the least," said Destiny, with Ace adding, "Do you mind if we skip morning lesson, practice, and workout?"

Adisa frowned, "Oh, that's unfortunate. I had quite the extensive workout plan this morning."

"Well, it looks like you have to cut the lesson until tomorrow," said Reaper.

"Who said anything about a lesson," flirted Adisa, winking at both Reaper and Shadow as she left the room, leaving Ace and Destiny to look at each other with the same expression on their faces.
...

Eric Spader marveled at the grand design of the building lobby. The massive, indoor-compact vertical domed eco-living area stretched upward towards the sky. Towering pillars, clad in bamboo and steel meshed together, acted as supports to the massive glass dome of the building.

The walls of the lobby were paneled with recycled materials and vibrant greenery, integrating seamlessly with the surrounding environment. Large sliding windows allowed light to flood the lobby, emphasizing the eco-conscious theme. The polished concrete floors, adorned with subtle geometric patterns, spoke of a commitment to durability and simplicity.

The centerpiece was a cascading indoor waterfall, descending from the top of the dome into a serene pond below. This water feature not only added a calming ambiance but also served as a reminder of the building's sustainable ethos. Surrounding the pond, carefully curated planters housed native flora, contributing to the building's green aesthetics.

The building was almost Venetian in design, though instead of art deco turned solar punk, it felt more modern and more American. It had been one of his greatest creations, well, at least the one that didn't involve his "other job."

"I have to say, Spader, you have really outdone yourself with this project of yours," said Travis Jean, a real estate mogul. "I'm impressed you managed to raise the value of this neighborhood from nothing to one of the best in the city, but why are you making this project open to the public?"

"Why wouldn't I?" asked Spader.

"Money for one reason, money for the second reason, and how about money for the third," said Travis.

"Not everything is about money, Travis."

Travis rolled his eyes when Spader said this. "Great, now you sound like Ward. Don't tell me his bleeding heart is rubbing off on you."

"Times are changing," said Spader. "The days of people like us being able to sit in our ivory towers and pretend that the stuff on the ground doesn't affect us, or we can go the way of the dinosaurs..." And as if saying a spell, the dome above the lobby shattered as dozens of android metal Pterodactyls began to swoop down into the lobby, their wings cutting through the air as their engines hissed while fire came from them. Each android creature had a wingspan of at least six feet, and their bodies had a dark green camo pattern.

Panic erupted as people scattered, continuing Spader, trying to evade the incoming onslaught, albeit Spader knew where he was running to and wasn't exactly running away from the attacking birds as they began to rip apart the lobby.

One of the robotic creatures was about to swoop down on Travis when suddenly it was shot out of the sky by a high-impact rubber round, smattering the flying mechanical monstrosity into dozens of pieces.

"I think you are about 65 million years late to the party," said Ace Of Spades, flying in on his jet pack. The packs of metal Pterodactyls began to surround the hero.

"Time to blast," quipped Spader as he jetted off into the sky, the metallic dinos not far behind him snapping at his wings even as he flew over skyscrapers.

"Flying robotic dinosaurs," said Helen over his comms, adding, "What next, Dragons?" and with that, one of the robots shot fire from its mouth at Spader.

"Thanks for the jinx," Spader said sarcastically before deploying an electric break net that grabbed up and short-circuited most of the steel prehistoric birds, but there were still some of them on his tail even as Eric cut and weaved through high rises.

"Any ideas on how to shake them?" asked Helen.

"Yeah, a really stupid one," said Ace Of Spades as he flew toward a billboard advertising a Dandy Girl Concert. "One that if I don't time it..." Eric picked up speed, and so did the robots. "Right, I will end up going..." he suddenly jerked up over the billboard as the Dino drones crashed into it. "Splat!" shouted Spader like an excited child while the Dinos shattered on impact.

Landing on a nearby rooftop, Spader asked Helen, "You got any information on whatever the hell that was?"

Helen sighed. "You want the good news or the bad news?"

"Hit me with the bad news first," said Spader.

"Apparently, this isn't the first time something like this has happened," said Helen, adding, "A similar event happened to a bank in Jersey, followed by a government facility upstate near Buffalo."

"So why didn't we hear about this in the news?"

"My best guess is that no one probably believed the security guards when they said they were attacked by fire-breathing metal pterodactyls."

"True, so what's the good news?" asked Spader.

"When seen this tech before," Helen answered, "Spader, do you remember that drone contract we lost with the government?"

"Yeah, I remember they wanted me to arm autonomous medical drones, and I refused," Spader sighed. "Helen, don't tell me someone is using my tech."

"Not exactly, but it was from a similar program created by Death Watch."

"The mercenary group?" asked Spader. "I didn't know they had an autonomous resource drone department."

"They did under one Dr. Rose Stryker, and guess what?"

"She used to go to school with Bishop."

Northern Mexico

Black Power landed in between the gunfight outside of a small village being fought over by CGJN and the Sinaloa cartels. As the fighting began to pause around him, suddenly, both cartels trained their fire on him as he got a phone call from Spader.

"Hey BP, are you busy?" Spader asked Bishop.

"No, not really, why?" said Bishop, catching each fired at him in mid-air.

"I need to ask you about Rose Stryker," Spader said.

Bishop threw the bullets back at the gunmen, not enough to break their skin but at the speed of a major league pitcher so enough to knock them out. "Now that is a name I haven't heard in a while; why is something wrong?"

"I think she might have gotten herself into some trouble, Bishop," Armored pickup trucks began to arrive around Bishop, each one with heavy machine guns and even rocket launchers, none of them doing any damage to Black Power. Spader asked, "Do you know where I could find her?"

"We haven't talked in a long while; me and Rose had a falling out after she went to work for Death Watch," said Black Power, using his heat vision to pop the tires of the pickup trucks.

"Is there anywhere you think she would be?" asked Spader as Bishop generated force field bubbles around the ends of the pickup truck's machine guns as something quickly knocked out and handcuffed their occupants.

"Yeah, she had a lab in the city near the east end," said Black Power.

"Thanks, BP, talk to you later," Spader said, hanging up.

Behind Bishop, a cartel gunman pulled a pistol to the back of Black Power's head, but he was knocked out by Blue Blur.

"What took you so long?" asked Bishop.

Blue Blur licked his fingers. "I had to get some tacos."

Back in New York, Spader was flying around the city before he got another incoming call from Helen.



"Did you get a lead from Black Power?"

"Yeah, Stryker has an old lab, I'm going there now."

"Be careful," started Helen, but before he could answer, he was attacked by a woman in pterodactyl-themed armor and a jet pack.

Eric soared out of the way of the crazed villain, firing a barrage of rubber rounds from wrist-mounted blasters as he whizzed through the air, attempting to disable rather than harm her.

"Dr. Stryker, stand down," said Spader.

"You fool!" She shouted back as fiery breath from her beak mask provided a dangerous counterattack. "You can't stop the vengeance of the Pterabyte!" She yelled as she shot out cyber talons at Eric as he flew towards him, thrashing his suit, but it wasn't enough to stop him as he tackled her through the roof of her laboratory.

"Lady, this is your last warning!" said Eric, raising his arms towards the woman who was still getting up. But to Spader's shock and horror, what was getting up wasn't Stryker but a mangled abomination of bolts and wire. Its voice was breaking down as it lunged at Spader. "YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME..." it started before it was struck in the back of the head with a metal pipe, completely destroying its robot skull and sending the android crashing down into a pile of metal and scrap revealing the real Dr. Stryker in torn clothing crying holding a pipe. Her face bleeding from escaping her chains.

"I'm so sorry; I didn't know what I created, I'm so sorry," was all she could say.

"Spades, is everything okay?" asked Helen as the police began to arrive on the scene.

Ace Of Spades hugged the Doctor to comfort her. "Things are complicated, but yeah, everything is going to be okay," yet unknown to Spader, as Rose cried on his chest, she smiled a wicked grin... her gambit had worked, and all she would have to do now is wait like the cybernetic prehistoric bird of prey she truly was.
...
Florence Weaver was, of course, surprised that her "baby boy" was home. Not only that, but he had brought along his girlfriend, whom she and his father had not yet had the chance to meet, whom they had only seen photos of, the ones Benjamin shared from his limited social media presence, showing only the cute-looking brunette with glasses.

Said brunette with glasses, occasionally known as Banshee, had slowly climbed out of Blue's childhood bed as he slowly began to stir awake. He aimlessly reached towards the phone on his bedside table while Bree went to put her shirt on. Although they had slept together the night before, they were far too drained after narrowly avoiding death or, more likely, arrest given who was hunting them down.

As Blue woke up, he already knew that the day was gonna be a long one. He just hoped Polly and the rest of the gang were gonna help clean up the mess left behind. Blue felt a pair of lips against his. "Good morning," she told him. "Hey," Blue said with a smile.

"I'm gonna go get something to drink," Banshee tells him before she puts on her glasses.

So Blue texted his cousin, Polly, only to be met by:

"She's busy, bro"... Blue was, of course, confused.

"She's asleep," and so he asked them, "Tank?" a little annoyed, not really liking the idea of Tank dating his cousin, though luckily for him, to an extent, because it was not Tank but "Pyro, actually."

Blue felt relief coming over him, as the last thing he wanted was the image of his cousin in bed with a friend of his, let alone somebody like Tank, a meathead that they still had mixed feelings about. On one hand, he was a pain in his ass for a good part of his life, but on the other hand, he was also willing to take on the mother-fucking Reaper to save his life, even if it leads to the worst ass-kicking in his life. But on the bright side, Bree and Polly looked after him. At least Pyro wasn't gonna sleep around with her.

Because Pyro already did that... He was actually sitting next to her when he texted Blue.

"Dr. Umar, forgive me," Pyro quipped to himself, smiling down and looking at Polly; she seemed so peaceful as she slept there on the couch with him. Pyro laid back down beside her, quietly wondering what to do next. And she was probably wondering the same thing. Polly Weaver never really had a boyfriend before.

Technically, unless playdates when she was a kindergartener had counted, but now here she was, and Pyro never really had a girlfriend before... Unless a prostitute counted... Or his right hand. Meanwhile, Bree is in the kitchen, getting a drink.

"So… You're Bree?" she was asked by the woman standing across from them with a face that was hard to read; her eyes seemed excited but her brows seemed a little angry or surprised, her lips were shut and in something of a smile, and her arms were crossed as she watched.

Bree was just a little surprised that Blue's mother had platinum blonde hair and a warm tan. She couldn't be sure if her hair was dyed or not, but her eyes did remind Bree of both Blues and Weavers, albeit much more smokey. "Um… Yeah, I'm Bree, Bree Ellis," she told Florence.

"…So what do you do for a living?" she asked Bree.

"Oh, I, uh—I blog and I… Write," Bree said to Florence.

"Oh really?" she asked excitedly. "You know, my dad was a writer," Florence Weaver told Bree.

"I know that," Banshee said. "Blue told me, and I… I'll be honest, I'm kind of a fan of his work."

"He is getting pretty popular these days, in the wake of, well… You know," Florence mused.

"…Did you know that Brad Bird wanted to make an adaptation in the early two-thousands?"

"I think I saw concept art of it," Bree admits to her. Birds adaptation of Alphas and Omegas never came to fruition, mainly due to September 11 and a key plot point of the book being a terrorist attack in New York City. Another adaptation was cancelled in 1995 for a similar reason, the Bojinka plot, both never coming into fruition.

"What exactly do you write?" Florence asked them.

"Oh, it's uh, it's not important," Bree attempted to shrug off, but Florence seemed persistent.

"You know, some short fiction, some essays, an—"

"About what?" Florence asked Bree, who thought long and hard about her response before spitting out "Ace Ward; His family and his public image mainly, I mean, he's a big celebrity."

Florence chuckled a little "Ace is a pretty rich boy."

"Um… Yeah, really, really, really rich," Banshee said as Florence went to fetch herself a drink.

"Just so we are clear, between my baby boy and Ace Ward, which one would you choose?"

"What?" Bree asked, "If Ace Ward ever noticed you and wanted to date you, would you do it?"

"…Of course, I'd pick Blue over him," Bree told her.

"Why?" she asked her, almost interrogating them "Money?" she came close to suggesting.

"Because I know him way better than I do Ace Ward, I mean, I use his nickname all the time," this would of course suggest that she didn't know Ace's many nicknames… Which was a lie. She had also, like many a girl, dreamt that Ace Ward would sweep them off their feet and…

Blue eventually entered the room, not noticing his mother at first as he casually asked Bree:

"So, when d'y'think we should go ho… Hi mom."

Florence Weaver smiled to him "Hi, Blueberry" Bree asking "Your nickname is 'Blueberry'?"

"Yeah, only she calls me that," he said, trying to brush this off. "I'm just gonna go get a snack."

"Oh, but me and your girlfriend were just talking about what she does for a living," she said.

Blue almost had a heart attack before Banshee said, "Yeah, just essays about… Superheroes."

"And Ace Ward" Florence said "Yeah, especially Ace Ward" Bree said "Not that he's a hero…" she wrapped her arm around Blue, the two of them looking cute as Blue searched the fridge.

Pyro made his way into the theatre room where Tank was laying sprawled out on a recliner.

"Yo, Tank?" Pyro asked him, realizing he was dead asleep.

"Tank," before getting a mean idea.

"GET THE FUCK UP THE REAPER IS HERE! AND RORA IS HERE WITH HIM AND GOT A SWORD!" trying not to laugh as Tank stumbled off his seat, shouting.

"OH SHIT OH FUCK!" Before he fell to the floor as he realized it was a prank. "Fuck, that is low," Tank told him "Low as fuck." The two other young men laughed this off before Tank asked him, "So… is Polly's back blown out?"

"The fuck are you… Look, man, don't tell Blue, okay?" Pyro told him, "Why?" Tank asked him.

"I've heard about their family, and I do not wanna get tied up in rich white people's shit."

"Okay, then why did you do it?" Tank asked Pyro.

"It just happened, you know?" Pyro admitted.

"…But I'm glad it did." There was a flash of pride across Rick's face as he tried to shrug this off.

"Up top," Tank said before giving Pyro a high-five.

"But still, I can't blame you, she's pretty hot, like not Hannah Hellfire hot or Oracle hot, but—"

Tank stopped what he was saying the moment he and Pyro opened the door to the theatre, where standing waiting for them was Polly, Oracle, her boyfriend Jinx, and Hannah Hellfire.

"But yeah, Draco King, she is kinda hot," Tank said. "In a weird sort of female God Fellas kinda way."

"Smooth," Jinx said with his arms crossed. "So uh… What brings you guys here?" Tank asked.

"I texted them, I was just about to tell you, but you were off on your… Draco King tangent?"

"Come on, I mean, did you see that collab she did with Ice Spice?" Tank said, brushing it off.

"Oracle, back me up," he asked her "I didn't see it."

"I walked right into that," he said before he asked.

"So is this everyone helping out?" to Pyro.

"Emilio might come back, but the last we heard from 'em was from Neva back at Dreamland."

"What about the NSS?" asked Tank. "And bring another paramilitary team into this house?"

Omega had asked him, "Thanks… But no thanks."

Polly was just waking up when she noticed Lola sitting across the room from her, the girl was petite and quiet, watching videos on her phone beside Golem.

"Um… Hey there," she said to Lola, who glanced up at her and gave Polly a friendly smile.

"Lola doesn't talk too much," Glitch told Polly, "But I swear I heard her talking—"

"Who the hell are you?" she asked him in a tired tone of voice. "Glitch," he introduced himself.

"I'm with the Crime League, and the JLA, technically, I mean, I'm dating a member of them."

"Cool" Polly said before she heard footsteps behind her, turning around she sees Hannah…

"Holy shit," she said, entranced by the red-head "I'm guessing y'know who I am?" she asked.

"Members of my family literally hate you," Polly had told Hellfire "Can I get your autograph?".

A while after Blue and Banshee left his parents' place, Florence poured herself some wine.

"So what do you think of her?" Blues father Charles Stamp asked Florence "She's so… Poor."

When Blue returned with Banshee, they found that they weren't alone, as Jinx, Oracle, Glitch and a couple other Crime League members were there doing their part in fixing up the place.

"Like what you've done with the place" Jinx quips.

"The last time we were here, we almost died on that carpet," Jinx commented; Oracle admits.

"Well, it's better than dying on the concrete floor of a warehouse" as she sat upon the couch, she was just getting herself comfortable when Polly nervously blushed and Pyro hoped that she didn't know what they did on it the night prior…

Then her blank eyes seemed to glow a little, doing so in the direction of Pyro and Polly…

Slowly she scooted her way off the couch before choosing to sit upon a table not so far away.

"Shit, she knows" Pyro thought "I do" Oracle had said out of the blue, refusing to elaborate.

Instead, she gave them a wink of "Your secret is safe with me" as Jinx helped fix up the place.

"You guys handling alright?" Blue asked Polly and Pyro "Pretty much," Polly said casually to him as she sipped from a coffee mug of hot chocolate, the mug having once belonged to the cousin's shared grandfather, Terrence Weaver, adorned with "My house, my rules, my coffee."

"Yo man, so how did you pull in Hannah Hellfire to help out around here?" Trent and Simba asked him, the latter asking, "Isn't she busy with… You know, JLA stuff? Why's she helping."

"Me and her're friends," Pyro said "I mean, you're also friends with Kruger Davis" said Simba.

Pyro went quiet "…Me and Kruger aren't friends."

"I don't think Kruger has any friends," Oracle says.

"Then I guess that gives us a one up" joked Trent.

"Hello, X-Men," a voice declared as its owner rolled his way into the room in a wheelchair…

Neva would hop off the lap of Emilio, though her legs…

More so, their knees seemed weak, as Emilio says.

"Guess who has just come back from Vena!" with a wicked smile and electric eyes.

"You gotta be shitting me," said Tank "You and—"

Emilio cut him off "Me, Neva, and The Comic."

Yeah, Oracle didn't need her powers to tell that most of the guys were thinking "Awesome!".

Emilio smiled, adding, "I was in the zone, wham wham wham, knocking them blood ankles loose," making most of the guys laugh. Oracle shot a look at Jinx, who stopped his little smile.

"No," she said plainly to her boyfriend "…Not yet."

"Not yet?" he asked, a little confused and a little excited, Pyro also wanted to ask what that meant, but he didn't want Polly to get the wrong idea and kill him in his sleep, so instead he kept his mouth shut "Don't get any ideas" Hannah told Glitch "Zero would never agree to it."

"…Columbia?" Bolt asked Hannah, raising his fist.

"No way, that would never happen, I'd never even suggest it, that kind of

"No way, that would never happen, I'd never even suggest it, that kind of relationship."

Glitch is interrupted by Banshee saying "You totally would!" but again, he denies this


"Someone would be bound to get jealous," Glitch said. "No jealousy here," Neva said playfully.


"Is it feminism to avoid a threesome?" Toxic Sludge asked Pink, "Like, am I a dumbass or d—"


"You're a dumbass," Pink said casually "…But what if it's between three women?" Trent asked

"I can actually lend you a boke on open sexuality and gender liberation and-" started Hannah

"Okay, combined this room's sharing one brain cell, so let's just move on from this," said Pink.

Banshee didn't move on, and neither did Emilio. Instead, he was telling Jinx to move their wheelchair with his mind to help him with playing Professor X; Jinx asked Emilio if he had also wanted him to shave his head. "Then what else is Comic going to pull?" Oracle quipped. And nobody knew whether or not that was a lie…

Pyro and Polly were sitting back, watching the more capable and strong supervillains doing all the work, it was there that Pyro noticed the fact that Polly was looking at a piece of paper, one snatched from some notebook, one which was signed by the infamous Hannah Hellfire.

"Y'seriously got her autograph?" Pyro asked them

"Wouldn't you want the autograph of the girl who saved your girlfriend's life?" she asked him "…Good point" he admitted, before asking Polly:


"So, are we actually dating?" she shrugged. "I don't see why we shouldn't?" explained to him

"My parents aren't racist; I mean, they'd be a little turned off by the tattoos and background," she interrupts herself, saying, "I could go on, but I don't really want to pull a 'My Fair Lady'…".


Pyro didn't get the reference, so Polly reworded it.


"I don't want to pull a 'Pretty Woman'" Pyro asked her "Like that film with Saoirse Ronan?"


"What? No, that's 'Little Women', Pretty Woman is the one with Julia Roberts" she told Pyro


"Oh, the one where she's a hooker!" Pyro said, "…Wait, are you calling me a hoe?" he asked.

Watching them laugh from afar, Blue asks Banshee

"D'you think those two like each other?"

"What are you talking about?" Bree asked before she looked over her shoulder at those two, watching them for only a second before she turned back, saying quietly, "He's knocking them ankles loose," which caused everyone to laugh again.
...


"It wasn't supposed to be like this," thought Daryna as she rode on horseback with her soldiers. "I wasn't supposed to be like this at all." It was supposed to be simple: sign up with the Venan military as a collaborative auxiliary, using her Uncle DPR's connections to put in a good word for her with the Venan. This would get her the rank of Aare, where she would spend some time in the reserve riding horses, not dealing with some mess. From there, she would meet a Venan nobleman, some handsome gentleman far away from home and lonely, making him an easy target for someone as good-looking as her. After marrying him, she could spend the rest of her life in a Venan castle, wearing pretty dresses just like Princess Mina.

The first half of the plan turned out well. The only problem was that through some type of mistake in the paperwork, she was actually selected for the proper Venan military as Aare of the Venan Cavalry unit, filled with White Venans—one of the worst to command. Not because they were disloyal or cowards; no, it was the exact opposite. They were brave and loyal to Venan to a suicidal point, even more so than the average Venan soldier. Since she had been in command of her unit, they had fought over 100 battles in less than 100 days.

Yet, she still hadn't met her Prince Charming, her tall, dark, and handsome Venan nobleman who would sweep her off her feet and into the lap of luxury. Instead, the only men she had met were white soldiers from the Venan steppe who were too crazy to marry. Even if they weren't, Daryna wasn't going to trade her life going from a dirty apartment in former Ukraine to some goat herder's wandering grassland. Besides, most of her soldiers probably wouldn't even live to summer given how ready they were to all "die in glorious battle," which would be okay if it wasn't for the fact they seemed too eager to take Daryna down with them.

It was not like she could order them to retreat or stop trying to go out looking for insurgents or bandits to kill. If she did, they would probably kill her. White Venans had a nasty reputation for killing officers who showed fear in the face of death, and with the White Army being nearly de facto independent from the rest of the Venan military, they almost always got away with it.

She had just been lucky that somehow she had managed to keep herself and her soldiers alive for so long. She had always been lucky, though, always managing to get by by the skin of her teeth. From school, passing every exam by some means rather than studying, to life somehow getting by and paying rent without even having a job. If Daryna didn't have anything in her life, she had luck, even if it came in a roundabout way.

Still, that didn't stop her from being nervous and fearful, which was worse tonight as she and her soldiers were being sent out to investigate a rebel camp. She smiled as she saw the light of the rebel camp. These fools were dumb enough to leave themselves in the open, meaning they probably weren't suspecting a raid. This was perfect for her—a raid like this was just what she needed to get her name in the Venan papers and a rich man in her bed. Her smile quickly turned upside down as those lights began to move closer to them faster and faster.

"Out of the way!" She shouted as the gunfight began to happen. Fighting was so chaotic Daryna couldn't tell what was happening as a flurry of light and bullets and lasers blasted at each other. In the craze, Daryna's horse ran her straight to the rebel camp before suddenly stopping, sending her flying forward off her saddle and stabbing into a rebel leader. The bullets and gunfire quickly died down as the insurgents began to attempt to fall back, only for them to suddenly be cut down by black Steppe Stalkers drones as they quickly circled the area.

As Daryna attempted to cover her eyes from the spotlight, she saw the logo of a red claw on a black background, the symbol of Legion.

The Comic poured herself a shot in a bar in Kyiv, reaching across the bar without paying any money.

"Hey, you can't do that," started the owner.

"Didn't I stop your bar from being robbed, asshole?" She said.

"They would have stolen maybe a few hundred. From the way you are going, you are going to drink more than what they would have fucking stolen."

The superhero handed over 100 Draka before downing another bottle. "That good enough for ya?"

"That—that's yeah. Drink as much as you like, ma'am!" said the man before another voice shouted behind The Comic Book, this one belonged to a Russian soldier.

"What are you doing!" Shouted the soldier.

The Comic rolled her eyes. "I told you to leave me alone, Yuri."

"Fuck you!" He said, "You shouldn't be drinking in your condition!"

"Condition?" asked The Comic.

"Are you an idiot? Do you know what drinking can do to a baby?"

The Comic almost fell over laughing. "Dude, a baby, c'mon relax, I took care of it."

"Took care of it… NO!" He shouted. "YOU DIDN'T."

"What is done is done," she said, taking a sip of her drink before the soldier smashed her head with a glass bottle to no effect besides a punch that sent Yuri flying across the room as she laughed, "Hey caveman, haven't you heard it's the 21st century? The whole forcing a woman to keep and take care of something she doesn't want isn't something that flies anymore. Besides, you really think I am going to let some random Russian conscript knock me up and ruin," she waved her hand over her body, "This," she added as Yuri suddenly pulled out a gun firing at her. In a blur, The Comic dodged the shots, closing the distance between them, grabbing the Russian's arm holding the gun, and snapping his bone. Yuri screamed out in pain as his bone shot out of his arm; he was quickly taken down by a headbutt from The Comic.

"Val, this is why I hate fucking Russians," quipped The Comic, giggling at the double entendre as she stumbled back to a hotel that Legion was using as a safe house in the city. She was just about to go to sleep when she got a call on her phone.

"This better be good."

"In the heart of Dominion Town where the city never sleeps, you can see some of the baddest cats walking down the street."

Daryna was puzzled in the large military bar office. Despite what the Venan propaganda may have claimed, Vena sure did share a lot of similarities to America, or at least one of the '50s in terms of pop culture, though Vena did lean pretty hard into the solar punk aesthetic too.

As the door opened, Daryna stood at attention, saluting none other than The Comic, who, as she walked into the office, asked, "You're the new girl?"

"Yes, ma'am. I'm Aare Daryna Petrovna Pavlichenko."

"Cool. I'm The Comic," she said, pressing a hidden button behind a picture that made the room

begin to shake as Daryna realized it wasn't a room but an elevator. One that was taking them down at a rapid speed.

"So I heard about you, Aare, quite the record you have made for yourself already. Really impressive work over 100 battles in the last two months alone, each one a victory. Normally, this would get you a lot of shiny medals and turn you into a superstar in Vena."

"Thank you, ma'am," started Daryna before she was cut off by The Comic.

"But what really made you stand out is the fact you haven't lost a single one of your soldiers."

"I try my best," the Aare was cut off again.

"And considering how happy those steppe-riding glory hounds are, that's a damn near miracle," said The Comic. Daryna was about to say something else when she was cut off again. "So that's why, instead of pumping you out to the press as some propaganda about how well the Venan military is, we got another job for you."

"What?" started Daryna but stopped as the doors to a massive underground facility filled with thousands upon thousands of soldiers dressed in grey trenchcoats and gas masks. Others drove industrial machines, moving tanks and aircraft around. In the far distance of the bunker were actual factories creating these weapons of war. In between the face-covered masses of people were hundreds of individuals in black lab coats carrying clipboards.

"Welcome to Legion, Pa'sha Daryna."

"Hold up, Pa'sha," said Daryna before she was cut off again by The Comic.

"Don't worry; the Korps is far smaller than the Venan military, so the number of soldiers won't change."

"Well, at least I won't have to deal with those suicidal lot anymore."

"Actually," said The Comic, "We considered their records as well and, well," she waved over a group of 50 gas mask troops. As they took off their masks, it was all Daryna could do not to scream as they were her exact same unit!

"Wait, no—" she started.

"Congratulations, Pa'sha Daryna," said The Comic. "You're one lucky woman."

Somewhere in France near Paris…

"You mean to tell me they failed!" shouted the Sentinel, his laser eyes glowing a deadly red as he looked down at one of his henchmen, a rogue Polish general.

"Not fully, sir. Sure, an unlucky cell of ours got caught, but we still have a number of soldiers along the DMZ waiting to be activated at your command. Each one is armed with experimental weapons that will cut the African and Russian hordes like butter.

The Sentinel slapped the General. "You eastern fool! Don't you know those men could talk!"

"They can, sir," said the General holding his cheek. "Dead men tell no tales, sir."

"So they are all dead?" asked The Sentinel. "How are you so sure?"

"Even if they weren't, they don't know the full plan anyway; each team in this little game of ours only knows as much as they need to know, nothing more, nothing less."

The Sentinel sighed. "Very well, General," he said, now glaring at the man, "But do not fail me again because next time I won't be so merciful. You will be so lucky, and it won't be just your soldier who ends up dying in some forgotten ditch. Do I make myself clear!" shouted the Metahuman.

"Y-y-yes, sir," stuttered the general before leaving the room.

"Why are you so concerned?" asked the figure of Nyarlathotep emerging from a dark corner of the room.

"I am planning a war; I have every right to be."

"Everything will work out in the end," said the dark god.

"I understand," The Metahuman glared at the door. "But with allies such as him, I would be lucky to even win a Pyrrhic victory over the savages," said the Sentinel, but his voice only echoed in the now empty room.
Bailey stood over the tiny grave, barely marked. The air of the night was cold, as a winter chill despite the fact it was early July. Yet the air was nearly still, except for a small gust of wind that was just barely able to move her coat. This night had been one of the few nights since she woke that her mask had come off. Yet her face was like her mask, stone-cold without a single hint of emotion.

"I don't remember your name," said The Black Death to the grave. "I'm so sorry for that, Freedom. I'm sorry for what they put you through, soldier. I'm sorry for what they put us through." The grave had no replies as she went on. "We gave everything to them, to our country, our lives, our bottle, our blood. We gave it all to become their weapon. We sacrificed so that victory over the fascists abroad could be achieved. Yet we lost, not because we didn't fight hard enough, but because we were betrayed by our own government.

They didn't want to defeat Germany and Japan because they were fascists. No, they were simply competition that built upon the fascism that came before them. I know now that if you must kill a tree," she reached down, placing rocks on top of the gravestone. "You must kill its roots, and that is exactly what I plan on doing. Liberty is dead, but America, America must fall with it." She said, placing her mask back on. "And I shall be its Azriel, Angel Of Death."
 
A War Planed By AI
Double Supervillain Attacks!
"In a series of stunning events both in New York City and "Neo" Atlanta, there was a series of as-of-yet-known unrelated attacks by what appears to be metahuman or supervillain criminals. In Atlanta, a group of Monks attacked a martial arts event, taking hostages at an arena. The group leader, Lian Lang, was arrested after reported intervention by the vigilantes, known as Reaper and Shadow, with aid from the Metahuman, known as Desert. However, Atlanta PD has yet to comment on the events.

In New York, there was no denying the involvement of armored flying Ace Of Spades as he took down mechanical pterodactyl drones in high-flying style….."
-CNN July 10, 2025


Reports Suggests That The Bloody Red Barron Has Once Again Become Active Again Over The Skys Of New York
-NYT July 10, 2025

Anti-War Protest Ends In Violence After Riot Police Is Driven Back Due To Protestor's Phalanx
-Popular Front (Instagram) July 10, 2025

Isreal Condemns NAZ Recognization Of ISOT Land In The Control Of Palestinian Groups
-GBNN July 10, 2025

"….We do not care what the occupiers say just as we don't care what the fascists say here. We support Palestine from the river to the sea. There is no Israel, just a wretched colonial outpost. One that will be dug up at the roots and destroyed. We shall do what we did to the white government in South Africa. We are not fighting Jews but a lowdown, dirty Apartheid regime! Our loyalty isn't to some puppet regime in Israel ruled by people born in Brooklyn! Our loyalty is not owed to them! Our loyalty is owed to the people fighting for their freedom! Our loyalty is to men, women, children , and nonbinary folk that the damn Zionists are oppressing! Our loyalty is not to the fictional country born from genocide! Our loyalty to the people of Palestine not that abominable apartheid nation! Our loyalty is to the resistance!

We are going to put so much pressure on them that Israel will break. We, as Black people know what Jim Crow looks like; we know what racism looks like! We know what fascism looks like! We know what a wannabe genocidal government looks like! We know what a blood-drenched white supremacist land thief looks like! We know what oppression looks like! Until all people are free from the boot of the colonizers, none of us are! So one more fucking time to the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! An-nasr lilmuqatilin min ajli Allah! An-nasr lillshuhada! Hassir al-muhtalifin ila al-bahr!"
-Jake Jagger in a rock concert in Jackson while on tour on July 10, 2025

The Dark History Of Anti-Semitism Among Blacks: From Malcolm X To Jake Jagger
-GBNN July 10, 2025

Isreal is the Plymouth Rock of the Middle East a lighthouse for western values in a dark ocean.
-Kamala Harris (Twitter) July 10, 2025
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Saying Israel is the Plymouth Rock of the Middle East isn't the win you think it is…
-Bishop_Castle (Twitter) July 10, 2025

"Are we shocked that the Black Terror of the South is pro the destruction of the only democracy at the hands of cowardly terrorists who hide behind women and children,"
-Niki Hailey during a GOP event July 10, 2025


//Imani: The Black Terror Jagger is going to love that title.

//Heart: I am a bit worried this could hurt our support with the libs.

//Imani: We only need to split the lib votes, though most libs would gladly sell out their friends in Israel so long as they are kept comfortable at home, or at least they think they will be. Neo-liberalism is like a hydra willing to sacrifice one of its heads for the safety of the others, in this case, a colonial outpost, in order to save the greater whole when said outpost is no longer maintainable.

The same thing happened in South Africa after the fall of the Soviet Union political support for the whites became no longer useful and in fact, began to hurt the libs here, so they cut off one of their heads to save the rest. They will do the same with the entity in time. Or at least a large enough faction of them will be willing to, large enough to split the vote. All we need to do is keep splitting their vote.

The only real large voting supporters of Israel are the missing-teeth white trailer trash evangelicals from fly-over states that support Israel because the megachurch pastor told them to so that Jesus would come back. And frankly, I could care less if those people starved or not let alone voted for us.

Two Nearly Killed After Off-Duty APD Officer Open Fire On Anti-War Protesters Before Being Stopped By Desert
-Unicorn Riot July 10, 2025

Footage shows Black Power & Blue Blur Teaming Up To Stop Cartels!
-HeroWatch July 10, 2025

Two High-Ranking JLA Leaders Killed In Raid By Dayton Ohio Police
-CNN July 10, 2025

Inside Vena's Atlantic Fleet
-TLDR July 10, 2025

The Hunger Games is just fanon for white people
-Desert (Ward+) July 10, 2025

Modified Corps Meant To Lower Radioactive Activity Around Chornobyl Shows Limited But Successful Trails
-Vena Today July 10, 2025

2KWNBA Releases To Wide Spread Success
-IGN July 10, 2025

Why Many Middle-Class Young Americans Are Fleeing To Mexico To Dodge The Draft
-ABC July 10, 2025

Duken'Korps To Set Up New Bases Around The World:
"…While no one fully knows outside of Legion themselves the exact location of these "hero bases," the vast majority will be in the Liberated World, Syria, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba, The DPRK, ETC. There is even talk of the Korps hosting a base within the New Afrikan Autonomous Zone…"
-Venan Today July 10, 2025

President Imani V Clair's Palestine Stance Causes Debate Among American Politicians As Support For Palestine Among Likely Young Voter Rises
-Gallup July 10, 2025

Tennessee National Guard Unit Trying To Break Up Pro-Choice Rally Lead By Roraist March Blown Back By Micro Tornado
-WeatherChannel July 10, 2025

Despite Claims From The Alt-Left The Congo K/D Ratio Remains High
-MSNBC July 10, 2025

The Majority Killed By American Bombing In Congo Are Civilians, Nearly Half Of Which Are Under 18
-New Moon News July 10, 2025

White Feminism & How The DNC Failed Women Of Color
-Bishop Castle (Medium) July 10, 2025

Where In the World Is Liberty?
-NBC July 10, 2025

Hoodad Unviles Lab Grown Brain Neron Computer System Prototype
-Popular Science July 10, 2025

Vena Launches Another Spacecraft From Polaris Station Towards The Moon
-CNN July 10, 2025

Zero Leaves Bank Empty & Frozen After It Planned On Hosting Conservative Fundraiser
-HeroWatch July 10, 2025

Russian Flu Spreads Like Wild Fire
-MSNBC July 10, 2025

There Are No Major Outbreaks Everything Is Fine
-Russia Today July 10, 2025

"Each American soldier killed in defense of the homeland is an act of revolutionary violence; it's a good act. It's a fair act. Killing the invader is not a sin nor a crime; it is a natural right of survival."
-Comrade Bango July 11, 2025

Breaking A Massive Blast Kills Five Near The City Of London
-BBC July 11, 2025

Bomb Blast Killed 5 Hedgefund Mangers, 3 CEOs Of Fortune 500 Companies, and Over A Dozen Other People; Dozen More Injured
-BBC July 11, 2025

Deadliest Day In Terror For Britten In Over A Decade
-Sky News July 11, 2025

Muslims, Irish, Roraists, Alt Leftists, It Doesn't Matter Terror Is Terror! And If We Were A Proper Country As We Use To He We Would Deal With Them!
-Pierce Morgan (Ward+) July 11, 2025
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This user has been kicked for a week for threats of violence
-Ward+ July 11, 2025

"I am in deep mourning for the loss of life that happened in one of oldest allies,"
-President Harris July 11, 2025

"What happened in the UK is in the hands of its security agency. However, terrorism never happens in a vacuum. The English , with their neo-colonial greed and thirst for blood, have helped destabilize large parts of the world. They have colonized the majority of the world, and back home, their politicians, with their neo-liberal policies, created the conditions to push people into acting out as insurgents. The same way as people like the self-serving Democrats and Republicans had done here."
-Imani V Clair July 11, 2025

ROTC Building In Portland Fire Bombed By Far-Left Anti-War Miliants
-Fox News July 11, 2025

"Anyone who doesn't support this war in Congo is a pro-Venan, brained-washed commie who wants to destroy America! They should be thrown in jail like we did for the commies who opposed real Americans in WW1 or thrown out of a helicopter!"
-James Mansfield July 11, 2025

Skin Walker Reportedly Takes Down Far-Right Militia Group Planning Attacks In Boise, Idaho
-NBC July 12, 2025

"There are currently more of a growing market of Black and Brown consumers in the world when it comes to media. Of course, I will appeal to them vs a dwindling number of other people willing to buy my media products. I want to appeal to the vast majority of people in order to maximize profits so yeah pretty much all Ward media in the future will be slowly phased into having mostly POC leads and Black and Brown stories will be favored over more "traditional ones". If you don't like this there is nothing stopping you from filling that tiny market gap with your own indie media go for it."
-Ace Ward When Asked "Why Media isn't including white leads in the majority of their media," July 12, 2025

A War Planed By AI:
How AI Is Helping America Win In The Congo
-GBNN July 12, 2025

France Refuses Food Donations "We are not a third world nation, we are Europeans we can feed ourselves," Says French Health Minster
-BBC July 12, 2025

Why Now Is The Time For You To Reunify Your Nation. Vena Will Support You Against The Americans.
-OP-Ed Written By Princess Emma To North Korean State News Agencies July 12, 2025

Jake Jagger's Music Tour Goes Well
-Music TV July 12, 2025

Syrian Arab Army Reached Turkish Border As Rebels Are Finally Defeat, While Our Kurdish Comrades Push Deeper Into Occupied Kurdish Lands!
-Vena Today July 12, 2025

Turkey On The Verge Of Collapse Following Series Of Military Defeats And Economic Downturn
-The Economist July 13, 2025

Venan Syrian Strategy: Genus Gabbit Of Doom To Fail?
"…while the invocation of Article 4 of the NATO charter may be something that is becoming increasingly likely as the PKK and YPG push deeper into Turkey. Another threat looms for Vena as while united in terms of being very supportive of Venan-made weapons and military technology, the Kurds and Syrian Governments are both diametrically and ideologically opposed to one another, while both being socialistic, at least on the surface in the case of Syrians with some very compelling arguments to be made that it is actually National Socialist in nature, the Kurds are the true leftist forces in the region one who total message of liberation and social progressivism runs in the face of Syrian chauvinistic Ba'athism, and they are truly allies of convince being held together by not just a common enemy but also the influence of the Vena, yet the questions remain how long can Vena perform this balancing act or will it Syrian gambit come crashing down like a house of cards,"
-Kelly Hatter (New Moon News) July 13, 2025

Tense Stand-Off Between Kanas And Nebraska Over Water Rights Ends After Third-Party Negotiations By NAZ
-The Black Star July 13, 2025

Idaho Airman Arrested By Zetaman After Attempting To Sell Nuclear Materials To WRA Front Group
-CNN July 13, 2025

Philippines To Buy Predator Drones Originally Made For Ukraine In Order To Combat NPA Insurgents
-CBS July 13, 2025

Star Dust Appears On Sesame Street
-TV Guide July 13, 2025

How To Legally Dodge The Draft
-Popular Thread On Ward+ July 13, 2025

Why Have So Many Post Trump Q-Cultists In North America Has Latched On To Omegaism
-Vice News July 13, 2025

"We are going to the moon, and then we are going to Mars; Democracy, not the barbarism of communism, shall inherit space,"
- President Harris July 14, 2025

It's time to Nuke the moon!
-James Mansfield (Twitter) July 14, 2025
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It's time to take this ratio!
-Destiny Masters July 14, 2025

"I don't think the atomic bomb is as potent a force as some politicians suggest. While designed to intimidate the timid, they can't determine the outcome of the great trial by themselves. They are simply another tool to be used in furthering all goals. Nuclear weapons are no different than tanks, fighter jets, or chemical weapons. They are simply tools to be used when needed.

The Americans are scared of the atom because they are weak-willed by their nature. How can a society founded by slavers ever hope to have a strong will? The same goes for the West as a whole. They are scared because they are prepared to endure the hardship of the aftermath of such a war; they are scared of what they call the nuclear apocalypse. Our society does not fear the atom because we have prepared for the day of its use since before even the Soviets got their hands on the bomb. Why should Vena fear the apocalypse? We have been living in the apocalypse for over 400 years. If he loses 250 million people in a nuclear war we will still have 250 million people left over to rebuild. Even if we lost 400 million people we would have 33 million people left over to rebuild. Because as always throughout all of history, Vena Endures,"
-The Emperor Of Vena July 14, 2025

The Far Right Next Target Isn't Gat Marriage…It's Interracial Marriage
-RRW July 14, 2025

Scores Of New Species Discovered Across North America Since The Placement
-CNN July 14, 2025

Military Deaths In The Congo Has Only Increased With The Draft
-USAToday July 14, 2025

"When Congolese rebels use human shields they can't then turn around and cry about Collateral Damage. Sorry little Ooga Booga Click Click Jr your brother or daddy shouldn't have been using your mud hut as a military base,"
-Bill Maher July 14, 2025

"There is no one group more bloodthirsty in our time than those cunning deceitful Western fools who called themselves liberals who kill and enslave the children of the third world in their quest for comfort."
-The Comic July 14, 2025

Why Future Medical Breakthroughs May Happen In Orbit
-New Noon News July 15, 2025

Cop Nearly Beaten To Death By Anti-War Protesters Before Being Saved By Uncle Sam After Rioters Burns Down A Recruitment Office
-GBNN July 15, 2025

"To be clear I think the war in the Congo is an illegal act of imperialist violence, but also I don't like seeing people killed at home or aboard. Personally, I don't care if people want to burn down an empty government building involved in the war. Burning government buildings and property is how this whole country got started, by problem is when you start dragging people into the street. At the same time let's not pretend the heavy-handed responses of the cops to mostly peaceful anti-war demonstrations across the country are justified due to one bad incident here today."
-Uncle Sam July 15, 2025

Unconfirmed Reports Of Alt Leftist Congolese Rebels Using Tear Gas and Other Lowe Teir Chemical Weapons Against US Forces
-GBNN July 15, 2025

Death Of The Rule Base World Order Or The Start Of A New Order?
-The Atlantic July 15, 2025

Ward Synthetic Hickey Wood Coffee Has Finally Managed To Crack The Coffee Taste As Prices For The Real Thing Reaches An All-Time High
-Foodie July 15, 2025

Deadmen Flims By Martin Scorsese Sees Horrible Opening Days Ticket Sells
-The Critic July 15, 2025

Spiderman Freshman Year Opens To High Reviews And Box Office Sells
-IGN July 15, 2025

*NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT*

*Camera zooms in on a dimly lit alley Ms. Marvel is punching out some criminals before suddenly one of them is webbed up.

*Miles Morales lands*

Miles: Wait I know-

Kamala Khan:
No way-

*A man attempts to fire a gun at them before he is shot with an arrow knocking it out of his hand*

Kate Bishop:
Guess so. New York's getting crowded with heroes.

Miles Morales:
(grinning)
Well, this is awkward.…
FADE OUT.
-Post Credit Scene for Freshman Years Ends Credit Is "We Are The Champions" By Queen

Spader Industries Scores Geothermal Contracts With The Canadian Government
-Bloomberg July 15, 2025

Cartels Hire A Number of Metahumans To Deal With a Growing Number Of Mexican Superheroes
-CapeCrusadersWeekly July 15, 2025

"They call us Expendies…basically these white officers send us mostly Black a few Hispanic and your occasional native or Asian draftees out as meat shields to get their kill counts. They know due to our firepower for every 1 ****** or ***** they might get killed every week or so they are getting at least 10 to 20 rebels in exchange."
-A Black Soldier July 15, 2025

Breaking Ohio Governor Has Been Killed In A Bomb Blast
-CNN July 15, 2025

"We, the JLA, claim full responsibility for the targeted killing of all legitimate targets, including enemy leadership. Our demands are still the same our mission statement is still the same, and our targets are still the same. Up the JA!"
-JLA Offical Statement July 15, 2025

"I fully a total condemn acts of terrorism and criminality. The JLA is a terrorist organization and it is time we start treating them as such. Thus I am authorizing the DHS and FBI to treat them with kid gloves no longer. The Janes Liberation Army despite their so-called goals, is no different in form and function than terrorist organizations like the IRA, ISIS, The Congolese Rebels, and any other extremist alt left and right group in the world."
-President Harris July 15, 2025

"We are already doing that. Doesn't she know we are spread too thin already dealing with Texan Insurgents? We don't have the funding, man, manpower to do so."
-FBI official July 15, 2025

President Xi and President Imani V Clair Share "Productive Phone Call," Alt Leftists And Black Nationalists Team Up?
-GBNN July 15, 2025

"I believe in negotiations; I believe in talking with people before fighting them. The fact of the matter is that China isn't going anywhere and the idea we can just sit on the sidelines and ignore that fact is ridiculous and only sends the world closer to WW3. The United States and China don't need to be enemies. In fact, I believe we have a lot to learn from each other,"
-Imani V Clair July 15, 2025

*Video shows a female American soldier holding a detonator in front of a recently abandoned home in a remote village in Congo where occupants had been forced off their native land to move into a secure hamlet camp*

Soldiers: Hey Kenny I know it's your b-day and you miss your big sis, and I know this won't make up for me not lighting your candles but I did want to light something for you!

*Cut to drone footage of a drone flying through the abandoned house. It is apparent that the family didn't bring or wasn't allowed to bring many of their items. The drone footage ends with the drone entering a little girl's room that had been sprayed painted "Boys Rulez!" by the female soldiers before the camera cuts back to her*

*She blows up the home along with a few other nearby buildings with an incinerated device planted before the start of the video*

Soldier: Happy birthday little bro, I gotta get back to work your crushing some rebel scum.

*She slams her boot down on to a skull of a little African doll that had been blown out from the home*

See you soon once I get back to the real world.

*Video ends*

North Korean Forces Enter Russia As Part Of Russian Peacekeeping Operation To Stop Banditry
-Venan Star July 15, 2025

Protest In Iraq Spreads To Multiple Different Cities As Neo Ba'atheist and Communist Attempts To Storm Buildings
-New Moon News July 15, 2025

"We must become lunar power,"
-Kim Yo Jung's opening line about the new DPRK lunar space program on July 15, 2025

Photonica Scene Shooting Down Kork Ship Near Cape Town
-VenaToday July 15, 2025

Why We Should Start Bombing The Kurds (A Thread)
-NAFO_Watchmen July 15, 2025

"Our next target is schools and books. The NOAAU does believe in banning books provided they are the wrong type of books. Books that paint slaveholders and civil rights violators in perfect god-like context will of course be banned. Along with the enforcement of secularism in schools.

If the party wishes to control the future of Black America we must be the ones teaching the kids about its past. And it's rather simple, most school board seats are up for election and very few people vote in them. Most school meetings have very few people showing up to them. We must control education, but we must also begin to look beyond that in terms of general media.

We must work as a united front to create a Black population that is educated, motivated, and supported so that they can become the future leaders this land needs. We must maintain and build upon the concept of Black Excellency."
-Heart Harkon giving a speech to the New Afrikan National Congress About the Educational 12-Year Plan July 15, 2025

Union Of Social Sahel Republics (USSR) Central Committee Hits Impasse During Military Leaders Integration As Power Struggles Between Junta Members Continue
-Vena Today July 16, 2025

Death Watch PMC Accused Of Training Right Wing Pro-Government Death Squads In Argentina
-The Black Star July 16, 2025

Members Of Iranian Population Mobilization Forces Engage In Shoot-Out With Unnamed Neo Ba'athiest Groups In Iraq
-New Moon News July 16, 2025

Are Refugees From Africa and Eastern Europe To Blame For Britain's Belt Tightening
-The Daily Mail (Twitter) July 16, 2025
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When all else fails blame the most vulnerable huh? I would say the next thing they would do would be to start a war, but let's be honest the UK is in a worse military position than the French were before they got their navy sunk by the Venans.
-Eric Spader (Twitter) July 16, 2025
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That's not fair they used metahumans they cheated! France didn't lose!
-Bloomer_Geazer (Twitter) July 16, 2025

Hundreds Saved From Mudslide In China By Red Matter.
-HeroWatch July 16, 2025

Nigeria To Receive More Emergency Military Aid From NATO After Brief But Devastating Venan Invasion
-GBNN July 16, 2025

Thousands Of French Citizens Are Attempting To Flee The Country As Food Prices Sky Rocket
-New Moon News July 16, 2025

Games Workshop Offical Bought By Ward Entertainment
- GammersNGames July 16, 2025

Martian Settlement Expanding Says Watchers:
"New developments show that New Eden the Black Power-created refugee settlement on Mars has begun expanding their borders to include three new settlements and communal farms. It is currently unknown at the time how these areas of Mars have become habitable to humans, but most believe it is due to Alien technology belonging to Black Power."
-MSNBC July 16, 2025

Breaking: Star Dust Take Outs Ohioan JLA Terrorist Cell Responsible For The Death Of Governor
-Fox News July 16, 2025

The Afghani Female Freedom Fighter Takes Her Army On The March Crediting In A String Of Victory To Rora
-HeroWatch July 16, 2025

Over 200 Confirmed Cases Of US Military Deaths In The Last Week, But Thousands More Communists Are Dead! The Ratio Still Holds!
-GBNN July 16, 2025

"The Color Purple" Has Been Banned From Being Streamed On NAZ State-Owned WiFi: "Due to Ahistorical Portrayal Of Black Men As Dealers Of Patriarchal & Sexual Violence In The Early 20th Century South Which Runs Counter To Traditional Anti-Soulannic Values,"
-The Black Star July 16, 2025

Jade Javelin Stops L/A Arms Deal In Viral Video
-TVN July 16, 2025

Major Medical Breakthrough In Endoskeleton Treatment For Those Muscle Issues
-The Times July 16, 2025

Hate Crimes Against Black and African People Living In Europe Skyrockets Why Vena, Roraism, Black Power, And Russia Could Be To Blame
-The Guardian July 16, 2025

Mountain Climbers In Nepal Report Being Saved By Reaper & Shadow During Avalanche Near Mount Everest
-HeroWatch July 17, 2025

Breaking US F-18 Was Shot Down In Congo By Rebel Anti-Air System During A Routine Raid.
-CNN July 17, 2025

F-18 Likely Shot Down By Venan-Made DEAA System
-GBNN July 17, 2025

"This marks the third time a US fighter jet was lost in the Congo due to Venan-supplied arms however over 10 other older jets have been lost through these were operated by Death Watch PMC. The Air War in Congo has been the deadliest for American airmen since the Vietnam War."
-Jacob Trapman New Moon News July 17, 2025

"The Americans think they can conquer us; they are fools. They think their technology will secure them an easy victory; they are fools. They think if they kill enough of us, we will give up and become slaves to the Global North again; they are wrong. This is a war not of national liberation but of survival. To Washington DC, I say this: the only way you can win this war is if you kill all of us. Maybe you can do that, maybe you can destroy this country, but we will take as many colonizers with us as we can; if Congo falls, America shall fall with her. Homeland Or Death,"
-Comrade Bango July 17, 2025


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180. Francisco Rodriguez (19)
181. Kayla Washington (22)
182. Gabriel Mitchell (24)
183. Sophia White (21)
184. Kaden Kim (20)
185. Isabella Martinez (19)
186. Aiden Brown (22)
187. Gabriela Gonzalez (20)
188. Caleb Taylor (24)
189. Layla Harris (25)
190. Julian Turner (22)
191. Valentina Lee (23)
192. Xavier Butler (20)
193. Emily Rodriguez (21)
194. Noah Davis (25)
195. Mia Kim (23)
196. Ava Smith (18)
197. Isaiah Nguyen (20)
198. Sophia Turner (24)
199. Elijah Taylor (22)
200. Aria Patel (23)
-Number of drafted US soldiers killed in Congo between July 10, 2025-July 17, 2025
 
Anti-War Protest Ends In Violence After Riot Police Is Driven Back Due To Protestor's Phalanx
-Popular Front (Instagram) July 10, 2025

I just imagine a bunch of Romaboos getting together in full centurion gear and using a combined shield and spear wall. Complete with spartan war chant, to really piss off the Andrew Tate crowd for stealing their shtick.
 
"GBNN". This is funny. I think it's supposed to be an equivalent of the real world cable channel "GB News".

Here's the thing. GB News' advertising is handled by Sky. Sky is owned by the US firm Comcast. Comcast was implied to be in financial dire straits in a way early update (having sold the Casper the Friendly Ghost rights to Warner Bros. Discovery [which was just called HBO].)

Comcast apparently sold a bunch of smaller franchises it owned from the NBCUniversal deal, but has enough money ITTL that it's British subsidiary can run advertising for a cable channel that is apparently more popular ITTL.
 
Lecture On The New Afrikan Bush War Part One: Overview
While the 2020s is remembered as The Age of Heroes, it is important to note that it was and still is an age of strife. Untold numbers of people were washed away by fire or in battles and wars fought and waged during 2020, such as the Venan-French War that saw the first use of [Redacted] in 80 years in the first but not the last [Redacted] War, and then, especially after the exchanges of 2026 that concluded The Week War, which combined with the radically shifting climate to have what has been since nicknamed the "Long Winter" followed the next year as the "Long Summer," leading to the resource wars which would later become known as The [Redacted] War.

However, our current topic is far narrower in scope. In fact, it is a subsection of a subsection of a subsection. That, of course, will be The New Afrikan Bush War, The Dixie Rebellion, The Unrest, The Ongoing Troubles, The Southern RAHW, The Klan Wars, Or The Great Patriotic
Struggle For New Afrikan National Liberation. This is, of course, a subsection of the "Quiet Little War" or American Troubles, which is part of the Venan-American Cold War and the end of the Venan Dark Ages, which is itself part of the Years Of Strife, which is then a part of the Age Of Heroes which in term is apart of the Apocalypse.

While this essay could cover the history of armed resistance in service of the national libertarian and freedom struggle of our comrades in the NAZ, that would make this essay and lecture multiple hours long, so instead, we will focus on the time closer to the source. Racial-based militias and paramilitaries in the pre-war, post-millennium American South were always common.

Racial white militias in America can trace their origins from the start of the country through to the antebellum, then through the civil war as the Confederacy, then in reconstruction as the Klan, then as the paramilitary groups of the '60s through the '90s "white patriot movements," with the election of the first black president, the militia movement among the far anti-government right would see a massive surge of support during the eight years of Obama reign.

During 2016, a shift happened between a vast majority of these anti-government militias groups began to act as semi-enforcers and supporters of the state under President Donald Trump, with notable exceptions such as the boogaloo boys, most of which would become poli-mercenaries and smaller sects of larger militia groups. By the early 2020s, these paramilitary forces had begun to become more anti-government as their party was out of power. This only skyrocketed with their defeat in 2024 by a very narrow election when Kamala Harris, after the resignation followed by the sudden death of former President Biden, managed to scrape out a victory over Ron DeSantis, who came to power within the Republican Party after the death of former President Trump in 2021 while he was in Florida. Then, of course, you had the rise of Black Power as a superhero, which then led to the rise of the Klan.

Let's begin there with the birth of the fourth Klan. "The White Terror" or the "Klan's Second Reign of Terror" could really be traced back to the early 2020s and the fragmentation of southern white nationalist street fighting groups due to a number of Rico cases stemming from January 6th. This led to both a power vacuum and infighting among street fighting gangs, with many of their members looking for new organizations and, more importantly, for a fascist movement, a strong leader figure. They found this in droves in the reform Klan and its leader, General Confederate.

While "The General," as he is called by his "soldiers," his origins aren't exactly known to the public, with some stating he is far older than any human should be able to be. He would become a major problem within the American Southeastern United States and New Afrikan Autonomous Zone. Starting in the early 2020s, General Confederate would unite different southern white nationalist gangs, political parties, churches, militias, and street fighters alongside the middle class and upper class, which nationalists political leadership into the Klan via the pen or by the bloody end of a bayonet.

The American Klan would grow from around a few hundred members of disgruntled aging white southern nationalists fighting amongst each other to an invisible empire that held its height would be the second-largest era for the Klan since the 1920s. Then, with the newfound economic, political, manpower, and arms, the Klan would begin their reign of terror upon the African-American population between 2021-2025, known simply as the "White Terror".

In those four years, more than seven and a half times as many people were lynched by the Klan alone than had been for the last century when factoring in the Texan Genocide and 2.5 times as many when factoring out the genocide. Beyond the lynching, there were, of course, a number of mass shootings of soft targets such as churches, hospitals, nurseries, colleges, shopping malls, playgrounds, senior centers, and within the homes and communities of African Americans being subject to these terror shootings along with bombings, cyber attacks, plots to poison.

Along with this, there were also the neo-Confederate political aspirations of the Klan. While despicable, General Confederate understood that to achieve his goal he would need to do more than use his Klan as a squad of spree killers and gang members. Thus he set about creating or rather rebuilding the so-called invisible empire of the Klan.

This was primarily done by the infiltration or persuasion of the local Republican then Patriot Party members and supporters that held power within communities such as cops, judges, doctors, lawyers, pastors, preachers, white union leaders, landlords, teachers, local state, and even federal politicians and officials. This would give the Klan political cover, monetary support, an intelligent network, arms suppliers, and supporters as well as the political base and framework to help bring about this new Klan's ultimate goal the establishment of a neo-confederate nation within the American Southeast and the complete re-enslavement or full out extermination of the Black Population after a race war. If it was a war General Confederate wanted he would find it the battleground of the Texas street and desert highways.

The War in Texas wouldn't even last more than a week with the "official" Texan government unable to control both its national guards many of whom refused to fire upon their own countrymen be it out for fear of going to jail after the war was lost or our loyalty to the federal government, but more importantly they were able to control and coordinate the chaotic group of militias that West thought he could use to fend off a weakened federal attack. These militias many of which didn't view Alen West as legitimate too due to him being Black quickly turned genocidal towards anything, not cis, white, or sufficiently fundamentalist evangelical Christian.

This would result in at least 50 to 100 thousand dead in three days of all-out horrific slaughter. The Klan would take part in this genocide targeting Blacks, particularly with hundreds of captured Black men, women, and children being Lynched from Lamp Posts in the town of Vidor Texas before the entire town was destroyed by Hannah Hellfire killing upwards of ten thousand Klansmen and an unknown number of others. This slaughter of the innocent would actually take away much of the main focus of these groups, especially the Klan and other East Texas "rebel groups" Which meant when the NOAAU and African Legion invasion of Texas began they were effectively taken by surprise.

To call what happened an invasion wouldn't justify it in the name. The African Legion would quickly discover and exploit the lack of air defenses these groups had. African Legion air power at the time before the start of indigenous manufacturing mainly consisted older model civilian owner fighter jets and helicopters the group had acquired through as of yet unknown means which had been rearmed roared through the sky alongside converted civilian aircraft and swarms of drones targeting every position they could. A vast majority of the weapons would be dumb bombs or primitive homemade guided weapons this meant often time while hitting their targets they would destroy the surrounding area.

Yet this didn't stop the "Black Army," from keeping up their heavy attacks from the air in fact the level of destruction was fact very much intentional to deny the area any urban cover by completely flattening the area with heavy air strikes homemade hell cannons a tactic picked up from the Ukraine War of 2022-2024. In fact, this was part of the reason for the use of this mobile hell canon. It's war head which was usually a propane tank with strapped-on shrapnel, tannerite, and homemade napalm would often cause more area damage than a traditional artillery piece in addition to them being far cheaper to make. A number of these hell canons would be mounted onto the bed of modified semi-trucks alongside longer-range artillery and supported by smaller protection and support technicals and recon drones effectively creating mobile land battleships.

Elsewhere on the ground African Legion tanks would punch a hole through the already shattered front lines. Upon punching a hole through the line with breakthrough tanks, and homemade and civilian armored vehicles hundreds of fast-moving technicals would flood in alongside them hundreds more calvary units armed with ATGM weapons. The cavalry would pass the tanks riding behind enemy lines where they would dismount and fire their ATGM before quickly remounting and riding off to different locations taking more of the enemy armor.

In terms of infantry fighting the African Legion and their allies while not as brutal as the Klan and their allies would still respond to any act of resistance with a tactic of intentional over proportional responses. The fighters were filled with a type of anger that could only compared to the Venans during the French-Venan War or the fighting during the Week War shortly before "The Exchange" end of that ended the conflict.

In many cases, soldiers upon seeing the mass slaughter of their kin folks would simply kill any captured klansmen they saw. Those who were captured were expected to meet the same fate or rot in prison for years to come or be forced to dig out the rubble, clean minefields, or re-burying of the dead. Other lucky ones mainly the child soldiers were sent to rehabilitation camps for a period not last more than five years.

Jake Jagger himself would employ another tactic one that is still controversial and one that the Klan and other White Nationalists still label as genocide to this day. "Push Them West," Jagger would have all captured Klan-supporting civilians sent to run forward from their homes toward the enemy lines in other to clog up their logistics and plant fear in other civilians' population in the hope they would join the Yellow Rose revolt if only to save or keep their homes.

The advance would last for another two days until the fall of Austin to Federal and Yellow Rose forces. What was left in the East would fall under the occupation of the NOAAU and its African Legion which at the same time was just finishing off a coup against the Mississippi after the state government was about to vote to join in with Texas in succession which itself could have triggered more states to attempt to leave the union. Just as the plans for the creation of the NOAAU client state of East Texas were being inked out the unthinkable happened…The Placement.

In a flash of blinding brilliant blue lighting, the world was changed forever once again. What would come to be known as the largest global ISOT event to date? Taking place between April 23 to May 7 for two entire weeks reigned chaos all over the world as time and space seemed to be in flux as it began to warp around the globe changing large swaths of the map as items, regions, and people from both our actual past as well as alternate pasts suddenly appeared across the globe. While the placement could be a story of its own we will be focusing on only one part of the entire event. That being the ISOTs that took place in the American South.

By and large the heaviest consistent ISOT took place in South Eastern United States. Where major southern cities like Atlanta Georgia 500 thousand to 3 million within the city limits alone with the metro areas growing by out to triple their pre-placement Size in a matter of seconds. Similar events would happen in cities all over the South. However, a much more troublesome event would take place in the rural areas. While over 500,000-1,750,000 freedmen would be ISOT to the area within the rural south alone from 1870 to 1880 that wasn't where the majority of the millions upon millions of slaves on ISOTed plantations dating from 1619 in some areas to shockingly small pockets from 2019 in others from timelines where the Confederacy won the civil war. It is estimated that between 12.5 and 15.2 million African Americans across America would appear with at least ten to eleven million appearing in the South the bulk of whom were formally enslaved or held on plantations.

However, the placement wouldn't just didn't bring about the arrival of millions of slaves but also their soon-to-be former masters. Large pockets of what would become New Africa were still Under the control of a mixture of ISOT pockets of the Confederate States Of America, both formed within our timeline as well within timelines where the war for enslavement was successful. Alongside this were pockets that were both under the control of pre-war antebellum state governments as well as segregationist governments.

What followed next was one of the most one-sided military battles in history. The African Legion, who only hours to days before had just witnessed an attempted genocide in Texas, saw in the flash of blue lightning the sum of all their fears and hatred reappear behind them. Jake Jagger understood what would come next would be a pivotal moment in Black American history and without the consent of political leadership took his army on the march. With 15,000 soldiers, Jagger freed millions of men, women, and children during a march from East Texas to the Sea and beaches of South Carolina in less than a week. All those who attempted to fight back against the march were crushed by superior technology and highly mobile troops. All the while giving speeches to the media.

"I have freed a million men today. Tomorrow we will free teen millions more. I am doing what John Brown one of the few based white men of his time never got to do. With me rides the Black apocalypse that shall kill Dixie. The African Legion is content to drive a stake through its hurt and burn it to ash. To my enemies I am walking death, I am hell worse than the devil himself. To the slaves I free they call me Black Moses. To both of them I say that I am Jake Jagger Nat Turner's ghost who has come to past,"
-Jake Jagger

More important than that was the fear tactics Jagger used upon his enemies. Chief among which was trial by vote. This was the practice of offering enslavers or members of rival governments a chance to flee the advance with nothing more than the clothes on their backs or be dragged upon a stage and tried by nearly free slaves via a simple vote. If the majority of slaves voted to convict, which they always did during the march to the sea, the person on trial would be quickly executed by the former slaves. This trial was both a fear tactic to force slavers and their supporters to flee the advance to limit resistance as well as coming from Jake Jagger's overall disdain for American democracy, turning the idea of election into a kind of joke, with him being quoted as saying:

"What I thought you guys wanted us to be more democratic. What's more democratic than justice delivered by the people for the people via a machete into the head of an enslaver? After all, isn't mob rule the truest form of democracy?"

By the end of the short advance, nearly the entire Black Belt along with the entire state of Mississippi under a NOAAU-backed junta was under the control of the African Legion or rather the National Organization For Afro-American Unity. Yet it wouldn't be until the Juneteenth Proclamation of Autonomy that this would be officially made to be the actual case with the creation of the New Afrikan Autonomous Zone.

Yet it wouldn't end there; in fact, the NAZ counterattack on the Klan and their allies had only just begun. The next step following the military defeat of the Klan within the heartland of New Africa was to target their political lines. This was primarily done through the Enfranchisement Act of 2025. While this act granted the right to vote to millions of free slaves and ISOTed freedmen in addition to granting the right to vote to prisoners and ex-felons due to American systematic racism often leaning far more towards the NOAAU both in ethnic and political support, the Enfranchisement Act also stripped all slave owners alongside those who directly benefited from slavery during its legality, as well as anyone who worked within southern governments during the time of chains, from having the right to vote in addition to anyone who was a direct living blood relative of a slave owner for 5 to 10 years.

While this part of the Act was only truly enforced within NAZ-controlled land, it did manage to negate any potential electoral base for the Klan within their ISOT white population. However, this would be quickly followed by a series of "rounds up" and raids on public Klan locations, properties, and leadership. The KKK and other white nationalists would be driven underground within New Afrika as they, along with their allies, would be labeled a terrorist organization.

Of course, the Klan terrorism didn't end with the establishment of the New Afrikan Autonomous Zone; it simply changed. Going from a semi-above-ground organization that acted as a front for acts of violence and criminality to a full-blown insurgency. Through a tactic of "terror and war".

The main political and civilian base of the Klan would retreat from the south over the summer months of 2025. They would, however, leave stay-behind forces mostly within some rural white and some major urban areas. These stay-behind forces were directly inspired by the "werewolf organization" created by Nazi Germany at the end of WW2 as other stay-behind forces from other wars. It was also a product of the messy retreat that followed the NAZ crackdown, which itself was inspired mainly by modern Chinese methods with possible advisers from the Chinese Communist Party's State Security Ministry as well as an ex-hired Russian Federation FSB officer and even the alleged help from the Iranian Revolution Guard Core.

This left this Klan cell shattered and isolated itself leading to mixed results. As these cells, better known among the Klan as Lavern's, operated with a great deal of independence. Their main goals were to help undermine the New Afrikan state through terrorism, recruitment of new Klansmen, sabotage, sowing discontent between the different racial and political groups within the NAZ, training and arming other likeminded organizations to help them in their aims such as the NAZBOLs groups and other Neo-Confederate and fascist organizations and gangs. This was done to "hurry the natural collapse of any negro nation into their base ape-like the warring natural state. While the main force prepares for the reconquest of the Heart Of Dixie,". This idea steamed from the Klan racist ideology that believed Black people were not able to build or maintain a functioning state or nation for any long period of time due to them "Being nothing more than savage African jungle apes playing dress up,".

In reality, many of these Klan cells simply fell into infighting or criminality joining the gangs and groups they were meant to train with them only being loyal to General Confederate the Grand Wizard of the Klan but only loyal to the greater Klan on paper. Many of these groups often found themselves more focused on money, random acts of violence, and crime than actual insurgency. However, those groups that "stuck to the plan" managed to wage a terror campaign that brought them into conflict with not only the New Afrikan Government but with superheroes such as the Reaper in Neo Atlanta.

In the countryside "The Fight for Dixie" took the form of a mixture of political insurgency and economic banditry. For example, while the Klan may have targeted and raid actual military patrols of the African Legion or NA-DIS conducting operations or border control near the ever-expanding "New Afrikan Frontier," the Klan raiding small convoys for heavy weapons or cause some casualties of New Afrikan military troops from ambushes; their main tactic was targeting soft government or civilian targets.

This took the form of deadly highway robbery, train derailment, attack on rural infrastructure particularly electronic, the killing of construction workers, prison breaks, cattle, horse, and food truck robberies. But the most common were farm attacks or farm lynching. Where the Klan would lay in wait, going after small-time Black farmers, many of whom moved to a settlement or farm offered by the NAZ under their 40-acre program that would radically shift the demographic balance in the southeast.

These attacks would always happen at nightfall when a small number of Klansmen would sneak onto a family farmland before quickly murdering the farmers, slaughtering or taking their animals, and looting anything of value before burning the farm down. The covert and remote nature of these "raids" often made it nearly impossible to respond in time. So, the African Legion took another approach. New Settlement within the frontier region of the ever-expanding NAZ would be settled by veterans in groups. These veterans would be allowed to use and keep military-grade weapons and organized into a Militia deputized under a newly created elite unit of Panthers with an African Legion Military Officer being placed over these paramilitary-held areas as Rangers that acted much like sheriffs during the days of the Wild West.

Much like the West, the New Afrikan Frontier, but instead of wild bands of bandits and brave native freedom fighters, the Panthers found themselves against the Klan who were far more vicious. In return, the Panthers would be far more vicious as well. In the early days, prisoners were barely taken alive, and those who were often found themselves dead in their cells overnight. The part, of course, looked this over until it quickly became an issue of reprisals towards people who could be civilians. As such each grouping of Panthers was to have political officers loyal party functionaries of the party and of the NA-DIS which acted to maintain order and discipline among militias. Officially these Panthers were under the authority of the NA-DIS until the frontier of New Africa would inevitably expand outwards and the Panthers of the previous frontier were simply folded into the African Legion with new Panther units taking positions on the new frontier. There would be a larger battle however towards the edges of the ever Expanding New Afrikan Frontier where rival local and state governments often with links to or backed by the Klan would arm the Klan with far more powerful weapons than the KKK often used.

The worst being modern anti-air and anti-armor, though these were even limited then it was still deadly and considered to be a grave threat to the African Legion and the Panthers so much so that the African Legion air ore would launch air strikes on other state facilities and locations believed to house these arms. Other times these air strikes were on public Klan offices in other states as the Klan in the NAZ-held territory was considered a noncriminal and non-terrorist organization and thus weren't handled as such allowing them to conduct their war against New Afrikan self-determination from perceived safe locations. However, African Legion air strikes often shattered this illusion.

Still, however, there would be a number of major battles on the frontier. This often took the form of large-scale raids on Klan and other White nationalist compounds as part of hunter-killer or search-and-destroy missions by the African Legion, NA-DIS, NSS, or Panthers. These missions would often be preplanned set-piece battles that were equally important both militarily as well as in terms of propaganda value. Where scores of Klansmen would be killed in exchange for little for casualties for the African Legion.

However, the most common type of"battles" between the Klan and New Afrikan forces would be small-scale skirmishes or ambushes from both sides. These often resulted in little casualties for both sides. This was due to the fact that most of the fighters on the frontier especially among the Panthers and rank-and-file Klansmen foot soldiers were both veterans of the pre-Congo war American military. Meaning these were some of the best-trained soldiers on the planet fighting on the terrain they both knew with weapons they both knew and with matching combat experiences. What this meant in reality was that the two groups would cancel each other out unless the Klan had overwhelming numbers or an element of surprise or the New Afrikan would have the advantage in technology or heavy weapons.

Yet there would be other battles within the frontier. This mostly took the form of a Klan night raid "going south," when they attempted to raid a farm or small town or outpost only to find themselves far over their heads as both sides poured more and more men into the fight. In some cases, this would be a curb stomp for NAZ forces, in other cases a Pyrrhic victory yet the result would always be the same for these battles. A call for a campaign, which meant punitive invasion into other states in order to both punish the Klan and local and state governments who provided aid to them, as well as targeting high-ranking Klansmen as well as their logistics. In some cases, it also meant taking nearby borderland for themselves as "payment" or creating a "buffer" zone.

The name "Campaign" came from General Jackie Hightower. She would coin the term after the Romans. However, some would also allege that the word "Campaign" was a cover for using the word war or invasion. That being said in many such cases, the Campaign would some time be conducted far beyond the border and conducted for other state governments dealing with banditry or insurgents that the NAZ also considered to be a threat on behalf of the federal government or proxy other non-Black EAO (ethnic armed organizations) within the country. The reason for these campaigns was, of course, for both the political clout and targeting shared enemies, but also to make the NAZ a region within the United States. It would also allow for the development of new weapons systems for and training for battle-hardened soldiers to use both domestically as well as for weapons sold overseas under state-owned defense companies their soldiers also would soon see themselves helping to train and on rare occasions fight for nations on the nonaligned market. More importantly than all previous mention the campaigns would both make many new alliances and enemies for the African Legion the extent of which wouldn't reveal themselves until Black January 2028…
-Lecture On The New Afrikan Bush War Part One: Overview Publisher By The Lakota Nation Educational Collective In Partnership with the Ouagadougou Temporal University Of War Studies 20XX
 
"GBNN". This is funny. I think it's supposed to be an equivalent of the real world cable channel "GB News".

Here's the thing. GB News' advertising is handled by Sky. Sky is owned by the US firm Comcast. Comcast was implied to be in financial dire straits in a way early update (having sold the Casper the Friendly Ghost rights to Warner Bros. Discovery [which was just called HBO].)

Comcast apparently sold a bunch of smaller franchises it owned from the NBCUniversal deal, but has enough money ITTL that it's British subsidiary can run advertising for a cable channel that is apparently more popular ITTL.
No GBNN is pretty much this TL "Vote blue no matter who/Harris loyalists" mouth piece.
 
No GBNN is pretty much this TL "Vote blue no matter who/Harris loyalists" mouth piece.

The problem is that MSNBC and to a lesser extent CNN already appeal to that crowd. The idea of a prominent "Harris loyalist" actually feeling unsatisfied by MSNBC and CNN's appeals to that crowd actually creating a cable network feels oddly cursed.
 
GBNN is to MSNBC what NewsMax is to Fox News.

So here's a history lesson. Newsmax was started in 1998 by a man named Christopher Ruddy. In 2014, the company started plans to launch a cable channel. In 2017, the cable channel began to gain traction, right around the time of the big sexual scandals in every aspect of American society (there's a reason the Celebrity Abuse Megathread on this site was started in 2017), notably by hiring journalists disgraced in these scandals, especially from conservative media like Ed Henry. Soon it began to emerge as a home for hosts fired from the likes of Fox News, along with some other figures like Mark Halperin.

Then comes the 2020 election, Newsmax becomes a leader in conservative media spheres (It had already been a leader with its magazine and website.)

When Fox News began to cover the fact that Biden was the likely winner, Trump began to heavily promote Newsmax and even discussed at one point with close advisors potentially buying the network.


The question is: Who is there among neoliberals who could serve as a Christopher Ruddy figure?
 
The question is: Who is there among neoliberals who could serve as a Christopher Ruddy figure?
I actually plan on name dropping her within the next news update, but it is a fictional character/tech billionaire. Just as James Mansfield is a mix of the worse traits of the Trumpist far right this person is the same for the center right. Like imagine a near parody of a neo liberal billionaire.
 
Map Of The Congo War


Dark Red: The Congo-Soviet

Light Red: Heavy insurgent activity

Blue: DRC-USA controlled areas with mid to light insurgent activity

Black: The "Corpse Zone," areas directly "administered" by Death Watch PMC.

Welcome to "Oz," otherwise known as Congo. A nation divided and at war with itself. On one side, you have the Congo-Soviet, a hardline Marxist-Leninist regime led nominally through "Democratic Marxism," but in reality, it is centered around Comrade Bango and his inner cadre. However, he has done some positive things like land reform, enforcing laws against slave labor, and attempting to actually build a functioning state that doesn't allow foreign companies to loot it constantly. However, he is still a hardliner, which comes with its usual authoritarian caveats.

This, of course, doesn't go over well with a lot of people, mainly in the Global North and the United States, which is already in the early stages of a new Cold War, deciding to take Congo, wanting to rule themselves and control their natural resources (albeit under an authoritarian one-party state) personally the President plunges America into a quagmire not seen since the days of Vietnam. Much like Vietnam, America finds itself unprepared for this war as the Congolese Rebels, supported by the Congo-Soviet and, more importantly, Vena, have been armed with varying degrees of modern weapons (and maybe Venan soldiers though don't take this a canon). In addition to this, a lot of America's technological advantages, mainly in armor and air power, are being negated by the environment itself. High-flying drones and jets struggle to spot targets under the dense jungle canopy. Tanks, MRAPs, Bradleys, and other armored vehicles, when they are not falling prey to Venan-supplied handheld ATGMs or mini-drone swarms, or are just being eaten by the jungle as they regularly get stuck in the unpaved mud roads, forcing slow logistics as well as forcing soldiers to become even more vulnerable to ambushes by rebels. And also like Vietnam, America has been "forced" to start a draft because no sane person in 2025 America wants to die in the jungle so that Apple doesn't have to pay a fair price for cobalt.

The DRC government itself is very corrupt and is being propped up mainly by the Americans and their allies. Their armed forces are little more than warlords and a collection of "pro-government" militias that spend almost as much time fighting each other, robbing city civilians, committing ethically motivated atrocities as they do fighting the rebels. In many cases they can be bribed into switching sides. Speaking of corruption, that is basically how the DRC rump state works now, much to the frustration of the Americans, but much to the joy of their main PMCs. Which brings us to Death Watch… the American Wagner. As the war has dragged on, the US begins to rely more on PMC groups. However, most American PMC groups have refused to get bogged down in a high-intensity, forever war that would be more costly than it would be worth in the long term. Well, besides Death Watch, who are as much politically minded anti-communist paramilitary groups as they are private military for hire.

Death Watch's ranks are filled with ex-military officers and leaders, along with some ex-special forces, but the bulk of their people are the type of 4chan /k/ brained maniacs who really want to larp out their Rhodesian fantasy, alongside ex-gang members, former convicts, dishonorably discharged soldiers, ex-rebel commanders from Congo's previous civil wars, actual ISOTed downtimed Rhodesians, anti-communist volunteers from all over the world, and other people who probably shouldn't be trusted with military equipment. Death Watch is paid both by the United States government and allowed by the DRC to collect taxes and run mines in areas under their control. Not much is known about what goes on in these "Corpse Zones," similar to the Wagner State in former Ukraine. Speaking of which, due to the war turning out differently in Ukraine, the idea of the Wagner Model is seen as still effective, besides all the other times throughout the history of conflict where hired mercenary armies turned out to be a bad idea. The bigwigs in DC, learning from history, wouldn't matter much anyway as the PMC is now an essential part of the war effort.

The biggest losers of all this are, of course is the poor men, women, and children of the Congo. They didn't ask for any of this; they just wanted to exist. Instead, they are being pulled apart, and their country is bombed and burned in the fires of a "Cold War," led by distant superpowers who might as well be worlds away.
 
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