Arc 12 - New World

Earth. A small planet that holds more humans than it should.

Humans. Species that only care about themselves. Selfish beings who do not know or care about their surroundings. We have been like this since the dawn of our civilisation.

We have been through a lot. War after war. Instead of solving the problem, we make better weapons to make more wars. We have been through one genocide after another. Instead of stopping it, we just forgot about it. We have been repeating the same thing over and over again.

Recently we went through another war. But for the first time in our existence, it was not between humans. For the first time in our pathetic existence, we fought against something other than humans. We united against the enemy. We merged our powers together. We hugged each other until the war was over.

We saw people dying. We held our hands together.

We saw our friends and families getting injured. We helped one another.

We saw people fall down. We reached out our hands to them.

When millions of undead came crashing down on us, we run away. We ran faster and faster. We threw the weak at them to save ourselves.

It was different all across the world. In some places, it was night while in some places it was a day. The undead came crashing down on us. We called the police but then remembered that not a mere hour ago, the entire world forces went extinct. It happened all too fast.

People died. People were injured. We looked up to help and prayed. They were answered. A man showed up in black clothes showed up. Our hope lied in a person who has killed thousands. But he was soon followed by others. Others who could fly. Others who could move as fast as him. Others who could grow very tall.

And before we knew it, we found ourselves on rooftops and in buildings. We looked down and saw these few people save us. In this few hours, they managed to save us and save the world.

We hugged each other and laughed. Shed tears of happiness.

But… as soon as it was over, we went back to being at each other's’ throats.

As soon as the war was over, more and more people across the world started committing crimes. No police to stop you. No law to hold you responsible. Humanity was free to do what they wanted to do.

People started killing. Stealing. Mugging. Raping. And so much more. Life had just started to become much harder.

Where are our saviours?

We looked up at the sky again. We looked up again before closing our eyes shut, sometimes forever and that little flicker of hope vanished.

The strong took control of the weak. And the weak just obeyed them.

It has been three days since the attack on Earth and things have only gotten worse.

Every person with a little power and money considers themselves the rulers of whatever place the, please. Most of US is overtaken by street gangs. People are living in fear. Governments have crushed down. And power and money is a new law.

Unknown location:

The head of Internal Order just finished a meeting with the new superhumans. He has deployed at least one superhuman to each country. The number of superhumans deployed to each country depends on the size and the population of the country.

The big burly man who is in charge of the Internal Order smiles. He is up to no good, but he could be humanity’s saviour.

As the superhumans left the place, they started appearing across the planet. There were no government officials who could help them. They just appeared here but what are they going to do?

New York:

001 appeared in New York City. He is the field leader of ANTF. He analyses the situation around him. He sees the world that changed in three days.

Four days ago, he knew of a world where some places were at war and some places were utopias.

Three days ago, he saw a world where everyone came together and helped each other. Three days ago, he learned that they were stronger together.

And now? Now he is looking at a world where everyone is fighting one another for no reasons. They are fighting because they can. They are fighting because they want to.

001, takes a step forward. In front of him are people who are fighting against one another. A young boy is also mixed up in there.

He closes his eyes and holds his hand horizontally and as he opened his eyes, his eyes lit up. It did not lit up because he saw a terrible scene before him, but it lit up with energy. His grey eyes were now replaced by blue energy.

As he opened his eyes, he started to float. He is an esper. His main powers are telepathy and telekinesis.

He started to float and he shouted something inside the mind of everyone around him. What he shouted was, “STOP!”

As he said that, everyone close to him moved their hands up in despair to their head. Because 001 recently got his powers, he doesn't know how to control his powers. He just wanted to say something to them, but his emotions got better of him and he hurt the people he wanted to save.

Everyone down below him was holding their hands to their heads. As he saw that, he just teleported out using the technology in his uniform.

London:

023 is a new superhuman who have only one power. Her power is flight. Having the ability to fly also gives you a little speed advantage and strength.

Once she got teleported into London, she started to fly above them. She saw what was going on.

She saw people in crowds fighting against one another with different weapons that were left behind by the police and military.

The world she saw four days ago was different. Cities like London were supposed to be utopias. With the lowest crime rate. But now she sees something different. Building in ruins. Cars on fire. Blood is running in the River Thames rather than water.

Four days ago she knew of London as a place where people respected the law. Where people respected their surroundings. But now, it’s like everyone forgot what they were a few days ago.

She swoops in between the crowd and separating them. She can fly which comes with a little speed and a little bit of strength but the people did not see that. This is because, without the speed ability, she would be moving slower than a turtle. And without a little strength, she would be pretty useless. They were every trying to attack their own saviours.

As she saw the savages that tried to attack her, she flew back up and pushed a button on her clothes that teleported her out.

The Moon:

Nazar finished eating his chicken wings calmly. Emma, Emily, John and Mary watched as he was eating calmly. They were beyond surprised. How can someone eat this calmly when the world beneath them is replaced by hell.

Nazar noticed their surprised expressions and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“What do you mean surprised? How can you eat in a situation like this?” Emily replied.

“Oh, my bad. But I am hungry and I will get to that now.”

As he said that, he got up and went into his computer room. In this room, he connects himself to a hundred computers and it allows him to access every kind of technology on Earth.

He wires himself in and sees what has happened so far. Beside the bloodshed, crime, and fall of the world government, nothing new has happened. But in this crowd of new information, he noticed the superhumans from three days ago.

“Just who are you, people?” Nazar said that out loud but there is no one around to hear him.

But he started wondering about something else instead. Zerathos. What was his true plan? What was the real reason behind creating superhumans? What was his ultimate goal?

As he was thinking that, he teleported out and reappeared on Earth.

Classified location:

001 and a few other superhumans return back to the base. They return back to the underground city that holds hundreds of superhumans and weapons that they could destroy countries with.

As 001 returned, he went to the massive meeting room. There he found another of his team members in there too. One of them was 023. The others were 009, 010, 059, and 065.

“Look like the mission was not very successful.” 001 said to everyone while taking a seat.

“I don’t understand them. We just saved their asses from a certain doom but now they are fighting amongst themselves.” 023 said angrily.

“Anyway, has anyone heard or seen Nazar since he left with that weird people in robes?” 009 asked.

001 wondered for a while then answered, “No. No one has seen him. But from the data we got from the previous owner of ANTF, apparently, he is living on the moon.”

They were shocked to hear that.

“The moon? No way.”

“How does he survive without breathing?” said 059 sarcastically.

001 looked at him weirdly and said, “He is easily more powerful than most of us combined. We still don’t know how his powers work but apparently, he already has over a dozen different powers. So, breathing in space is not going to be a problem for him. In theory, even I can do it with my telekinesis.”

They were all shocked to hear that but someone else just walked in.

A big burly man with black hair and black eyes. WIth a scratch on his right cheek. He is taller than most of his underlings.

“Yes, you can do that in theory but you are so weak that you cannot even stay afloat for more than 5 minutes. Your telekinetic speed is as slow as a turtle. Have you seen how powerful Nazar was just after one month? He did not even have a trainer and he did not have a training facility.”

They all looked down and started thinking.

“Sir, I will try and become more powerful than him.” 001 said.

“Oh, really? When? In the next 5 years? Don’t worry, we have developed something that will increase your power limits and also help you control them better. But we need test subjects. When everyone returns, I will tell you in more details.”

The people in the room looked rather surprised and scared.

New York:

Above New York, a familiar figure showed up. People looked up and were somewhat scared. It is true that they saw Nazar saved them, but he did not do it alone. To most of the public, one act of good is outweighed by one act of evil and to the world right now, they only thing they know about him is that he is a murderer.

In the last five second, since he appeared here, he has analysed how many people are dead and how many people are injured. They are all lying on the streets without anyone helping them. While right next to them, the people are fighting. For what reason? No one knows.

He leaves New York and goes to another city he knows very well.

He looks beneath the city where he lived most of his life. He looks beneath the city that was once a utopia, but now it is nothing but in empty buildings. The people of the city are fighting against one another. They are fighting for stupid reasons.

Some of them are fighting because they want to. Some of them are fighting because they want to control something.

“Pathetic,” Nazar muttered to himself.

He teleported out and moved to another city. He moved from one city to another city and looked down on them. He looked at the cities that were peaceful once. He saw the true face of these so-called ‘peaceful’ people.

(I was kind of happy that the world had other superhumans, so I thought maybe I should just disappear forever. Go to my own Batcave but who knew that I would be needed again?) Nazar thought.

He could easily leave them be, but he nearly risked his whole life saving them. It is true that he might not have died due to his extraordinary powers but when he was travelling to Battlefield 5, he could have easily slipped into the wrong dimension and he might have been stuck there forever.

He wanted to leave them, but then he remembered some membered of the ANTF who got injured pretty badly. He remembered how many people died not so long ago.

He wanted to leave them, but he remembered that the world nearly ended three days ago.

“How can these people do this now? Weren’t you crying for your lives three days ago?” Nazar muttered again.

He then moved his fingers. With a slight movement, he collected the particles in the air and transformed them into something else. He transformed the air particles into solid matter and created a camera from it.

The camera started to float in front of him. He then proceeded to use the technology in his clothes and his technopathy to hack every device on the planet. People must see him because he has a message for them.

While hacking the world computers, he was unable to hack a few. For example, he could not hack computers that Zerathos used because it was built in with ANT (Anti-Nazar Tech) that stopped his technopathy.

He sensed that he could not hack many computers this time.

“LISTEN HERE!” Nazar shouted into the camera. Everywhere on the planet the technological devices lit up and they could only see his face on it and heard him shout.

As he said that, everyone stopped doing what they were doing. If they did not have a technological device next to them, it did not matter because Nazar was also broadcasting this using his telepathy.

“Just what the hell do you think you are doing? We just went through something that could have ended our entire civilisation and now you people are fighting amongst yourselves. For what reason? Remember not long ago? Yeah, you do remember that. You do remember how pathetic you acted, right? How you held your hands together and tried to be brave?”

People down below did not really seem to care about what he was saying. They were trembling in their boots.

“We went through an event that could have ended humanity. Some of us risked our lives to save you. To give you the chance to live your life. But, now I am thinking it was a waste of our effort. It was a waste of our time. You don’t know this, but a few of the superhumans, like 004 got hurt badly. She nearly lost her leg and her life too. Were they worth it?”

Most of the superhumans from across the world returned back to the Internal Order’s base. As they were returning, they were surprised to hear that Nazar knew that some of them were injured.

Nazar floating above the humans noticed something. The people were paying attention to him but he could easily read their thoughts. On the outside, they were pretending to listen to him, but on the inside, they were thinking of how to kill or the person next to them. Why are they even fighting?

However, not everyone is fighting. Some people are dragged into this battle for no reason. Some of them are dragged from their homes because they were weak. Some of them are dragged here because they left their home to buy some food for themselves.

“>Sigh< I came here to tell you why you should not fight. I came here to tell you how we should hold hands together and fix everything. But… But now I think that ‘sunshine and rainbows’ kind of person is not needed at the moment. I was going to go easy on you, but now, there is no chance.”

Nazar had an angry expression but after he said that, he started to smile. The wide grin on his face so terrifying that it made a demon tremble in his boots.

“A ‘sunshine and rainbows’ superhero cannot make you idiots to stop. Only I can stop this madness.”

He was saying this while laughing. A laugh so psychotic that it scared everyone.

“I will give everyone 1 hour. In this 1 hour if you if you don’t return back to your homes or stop fighting completely, I will deal with you. I know what you are thinking. You think that this is just a bluff. But it is not. If I see one person fight after 1 hour period, I will kill them.”

“What the hell is he saying?” Emma asked a question that she knows no one has the answer to.

“If you don’t believe me, please keep fighting. Keep killing and hurting one another. But after 1 hour, I will find you. I will kill you in the worst ways possible. Hmm… what methods shall I use?” While saying this, he folded his hands. Then he lifted his index finger to his cheek. He just kept it there for a second.

Then he unfolded his hands and let them lose.

“Oh, I know what to do. I have never used matter manipulation on humans before. I mean I have used it to kill but this time I want to try something with it. I want to disintegrate all the atoms and put them back together differently. Maybe turn a human into a cow or something. Oh, this is getting exciting.” While saying this he let out a psychotic laugh and then he looked at his palms.

In an unknown location, most of the Internal Order’s superhumans have returned. They are watching the video. Even though they have blocked most of their technology from Nazar due to ANT but they have left a few without that technology. What might be the reason behind it?

They are all looking at the screens that are showing the video and are actually surprised to see it. 022 is the most surprised because when she met Nazar, she thought he was different in person but this video proves otherwise.

“Ah. I cannot stop thinking about the ways to kill you. Which one shall I choose? Which one shall I choose?” He asked the question over and over again in a worried face. But then he grinned again and said, “So many options. I will start by using matter manipulation and turn you into a cow. Or I could throw you into the sun. I wonder how long a mere human will last. Or I could throw you into the core of the Earth. Or I could start with breaking every single bone in your body. I am getting excited.” He said this while laughing.

“This is going too far.” 001 said.

“Really? I think this is good.” The big burly man said.

“Sir, how can you think this is good?” 001 asked. The others just watched.

Without turning around, the big burly man replied, “Our first field mission with you guys was a success. We saved the world. But you second field mission, which was today, failed miserably. You did not manage to bring in a little peace between the people, but in the last minute, he has managed to stop many people from fighting. Yes, he is our enemy, but we can use him.”

The all just watched the video quietly.

“I will give you one hour, you decide whether you want to die by my hands or live your life. The choice is yours.”

As soon as he said this, the video vanished.

Nazar listed to the people below.

“Is he serious?”

“He cannot be...”

“What if he really is serious?”

“So, he was a killer after all.”

“And here we thought, he was a hero.”

“He is insane.”

“I am out of here.”

Nazar listened to them and then he left. He teleported back to his own home.

As he appeared on the moon, he saw his friend and family. They were scared.

“Just... just what was that?” Emma said while trembling.

“A warning.”

“How can you say this so calmly? You are talking about killing people.”

“If they are smart enough, it will not come to that.”

He moved his fingers and the other four vanished.

“Where the…?” Emma said that before noticing she was in her home again.

He then strapped himself to the wires and watched the world. He saw everything that was happening using all type of technology around the world.

His warning actually worked.

Majority of the streets after an hour were empty. The fighting stopped. The gunshots stopped.

He teleported back in. Sure, there were some people still fighting but not for long.

A camera appeared out of nowhere and everything piece of technology showed his face and every device screamed his voice. “My, my. I cannot believe there are still some people outside fighting against one another.”

He was above New York now. In an alley, there was a woman being trapped by four big guys. Nazar noticed and he wondered why they were still outside.

The four men grabbed her purse and threw it away. They took her money from the purse before throwing it away.

“Any more valuables, missy?” One man said. He was very tall and had blue eyes with blonde hair.

“N-no.” Said the blonde woman who was trapped in the alley while trembling. “P-p-please leave me alone!”

The four men looked at one another and then smiled.

“But, you have something else, don’t you?” Said another man. This was not very tall but he was big. He had black hair and black eyes. He also had moustache too. He was sweating at the moment.

Another man who was very tall and skinny moved his long arm and grabbed her clothes. The woman was wearing black jeans and a white shirt. He grabbed her from the shirt and tried to move her closer to himself.

But they heard a voice coming from behind them.

“My, my. Someone has a death wish.”

The voice belonged to the most dangerous man on the face of the Earth. There was a camera floating beside him.

“Oh, shit. RUN!” The short guy with black eyes and black hair said.

“Run? I am just getting started.” Nazar said while letting out a laugh.

He moved his fingers and the ground beneath them trembled. They all fell on their back.

“N-no. P-p-please.” They all said.

Nazar just replied with a smile.

The woman he was saving was more scared of Nazar than she was of the four men.

He moved his fingers again and a sword like a construct appeared from the ground. Nazar’s another power was Earth Manipulation. He never used it before but he had it. He manipulated the ground and turned the dirt into a sword and stabbed one of them in the leg.

“Arghhhh” the skiing man shouted.

He then held his palm out and twitched it. As he did that, he manipulated the atoms in the big man’s leg and cut it off completely.

He wanted to take his time with them while the world was watching this.

In an unknown location, 001 said, “He is going too far!”

“Okay, you guys are up,” said the big burly man.

The burly man then created a group of a few superhumans and 002 as their leader.

“001, I have another mission for you.” Said the burly man.

They all vanished into thin air.

In New York, Nazar had already injured three of the criminals. Can they be even called criminals?

He looked at the fourth man. He was young, maybe in his early 20s. He had grey hair and blue eyes. He was trembling and tried to move but was to scared to move.

“Now, it’s your turn. Hmm… what should I use?” As he said that, he expression changed. A smile appeared on his face. A smile that you would normally find on the face of a child who just found out that he can get another toy. “Ah, found it. I use my vector manipulation to stop your blood flow. How does that sou…?”

Before he could finish, he felt a rift being opened. He looked back and found 002 and dozens of other Internal Order’s superhuman minions.

“We are here to stop you. You are going too far.” 002 said.

Nazar just replied with a smile.