Control, or to be in control, it is something that we all take for granted in one way or the other,

As we perform basic and considerably mundane actions, like walking, talking, breathing, smiling when things makes us happy, scowling if unhappy, our emotions in general are under our control

The way we go about our lives with so much control ourselves, yet so forgettable that control is

It is why we subsequently seek out even more control be it the control of another person, or maybe it’s a deeper control of oneself that involves body augmentation etc.

Some people desire political control while others seek power,

To control, to master advanced weaponry, mana or magic, one way or the other we sought out more control, taking for granted what we’ve already had….

And me…

I never realized how little control I’ve had all this time,

Everything I’ve done up to now, was me being pushed along,

An eddy in an ocean of speedboats,

My ripple moves in response to the fastest and loudest thing nearby,

I have no control of what or who I’ll like or not like,

My emotions not my own, they unstably fluctuate acting on their own,

This hampers my ability to control mana or magic,

Or at least I had thought that, but that was when even my perceptions of things were out of my control,

The memories I have, has always lead me to believe that I was a regular human, and thus I restrained myself to that perception on what humans can and can’t do,

All the while I could have had control,

Control of not just myself, and my actions,

Control of everything…

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*****

“All out defense!”

A woman’s voice echoes through the mansion,

Smoke bellows out the huge silver entrance doors, they spread open widely facing outward into a serene garden, that holds flowers of many types,

The garden of sound this was called, because of the many birds that would oftentimes come and play, signing about happily in the flowers and trees,

Smoke now covers these plants,

And the source of the smoke, within the mansion, unlike any house seen prior this ones interior is like a massive ballrooms, only filled with swirling panels that teleport you to different locations of the house,

The entrance doors are only one of a small hand full of doors in the mansion,

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“Guess like they’re getting ready for us,” Apollo lazily extends sword out,

“This is all just pointless” I yawn in response,

“This would be much less of waste of time if they just showed me to their server room, where I could then wipe every single bit of data away and then still destroy it.”

“I’m with you Kage, but still, please try not to get captured again,”

“Ha,” I scoff

“I would like to see them try”

“You must feel pretty confident now that–”

“Shhhh, just now” I shush him, trying to concentrate on listening

I can hear the sound of footsteps, the soft puffs the smoke makes,

Weapons being loaded and gear armed,

“If we over power them together….” Voices plan and strategies against us

(Not the voice I am looking for however)

……..

“What’s the status on them currently?”

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“They’re still standing at landing Miss Vaughn, it will possibly take them up to an hour going around all the warps, we are thinking about–”

(Miss Vaughn…. That’s the one..)

“Apollo” I snap out my trance, from which I’d been listening to every single sound in the mansion,

Tugging his arm forward I warp us to the sound of that voice,

(This is what it feels like)

“Pleasure to meet you” smiles Apollo drawing his sword like a shield the instant we appear in what seems to be an office,

“How?” a man stutters in fearful surprise before unleashing a barrage of blasts at us

“Xanxander, cover me!” The woman orders him, her right-hand peels back and her arm turns into a mini canon,

Thumnk!

Apollo zips quickly up to the man ramming his sword into,

Biijuuuooowww!

A high intensity blast fires off from the woman at me,

But instead of hitting be it bends past me hitting the wall,

The woman stumbles back for a second shocked, before making an attempt to warp away,

“No,

You’re not going anywhere,” Extending my hand the woman flies across the room to me,

I haven’t moved an inch yet

(This is what control feels like)

In mere minutes we were able to overpower them

“Ehhckk!” she chokes as I grip her neck,

“Hello, miss Vaughn,

I’m certain you know who I am,

As I know you are the wife of Xezus and the second in command after him,

Where is he?”

“Ddeeaad…you killed him”

“Where is his backup? I’m not dumb?”

“…….”

“Answer me!” I shout into her face, her eyes lock with mine as she falls under my compulsion,

“On my wrist, you can use my all-control to warp to the server room,” she replies obediently

“Good girl,” I slip the device off

“Another thing, where is it that you people found my body originally?”

“The tower of Babel, it is under this mansion,”

“Under?”

“You will understand upon seeing”

(The tower of babel, hmm)

“Ok thanks for your cooperation” I release the woman by warping her somewhere else,

(It’s out in the wintery area)

“Very shrewd of you” comments Apollo, sounding half impressed and displeased

“It’s an interrogation tactic I learned when I was studying…” my voice trails off

(That’s from Himari’s memories,

It’s like I’ve adopted her sense of firm justice…

Maybe I don’t have as much control as I think….)

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*****

“I wonder if we are the bad guys here,” I mumble looking at a progress bar on screen,

We’re now in a room surrounded by the holographic screen, and rows of flashing black boxes,

The hub of digital data on Terra,

The ‘brain room’ there is no door to enter only via teleportation one can get here

(The data deletion is almost complete)

“I personally would hope we are the heroes” answers Apollo

“Mmmm……

I guess that’s neither of us then,

The supreme leader has done so much evil all in the service of his people’s well being,”

“Seems pretty contradictory then that he would call himself the supreme leader, if he wanted everyone to be equal” grunts Apollo

“….

Sadly, in a weird way, that is how you make people each other their equal

With no one standing above them, humans will always fight against each other for that spot,

By taking on the rule of the supreme leader, the one with all the power, everyone will feel equally as powerless compared to him, all the envy and jealous, hate or love will be directed to him,

If you took one hundred moons and put them next to sun that shines brightest of them all,

No one would be able to tell the moons apart from each other,

It’s a foolish take on equality I’ll admit, but it works in the right circumstances….”

(Like this ring with a low population and lifespan)

“And where do you factor into all of it Kage?”

“Nowhere, I’m going home as soon as this is finished,”

(There’s nothing for me here)

“I’m sorry for leaving you to deal with the aftermath though Apollo…”

“You want to know something Himari?”

“What?

No wait, why did you call me Himari?”

“I was just testing to see if you were really her,” smirks the young man

“Just find out who you are Kage, don’t worry about me or anything else.”

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100%

The deletion completes with that erasing everything of Xezus Punk First,

“Haaahhh,” I breathe a sigh of relief,

(That takes care of Xezus for good)

“Now for that tower or whatever,”

“I’ll stick around until I see you go wherever this home of yours is safely,” Apollo holds my hand

“Yeah, yeah, I knew you would already,

Next stop

Home.”

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