The Phantom of New York

Prologue

One decade ago, the third war to end all wars began. The year was 2019, and the Allied Forces were facing the Korean Revolutionary Army (KRA). This army consisted of North Korea, China, Russia, and the hidden military of Antarctica. The KRA were very advanced, they had hidden their tech from the U.S. using nuclear tests as a distraction. When the United States saw the threats, they didn't do anything. They called back all their military forces to Washington. Without any resistance, the KRA managed to take over New York, Maine, and Rhode Island. The residents of these areas were evacuated before the enemies arrived. People were boycotting the president, accusing him of being a traitor and helping enemy forces. They received no response from anyone. The KRA was beginning to gather their forces to attack Ohio and Pennsylvania when the President finally made his move. He planned to send forces to the edge of West Virginia to counteract the KRA as they invaded the states West Virginia was wedged in between. A Russian spy caught word of this and quickly alerted the KRA forces. With this information, they decided to post up inside West Virginia and wait for the forces. They wanted to establish absolute supremacy so no one could challenge them. With their goal of overthrowing America's rule over the planet Earth, it was an unstoppable movement. After a few days, the KRA started to worry that the spy's information was incorrect. They sent out two groups of scouts to enter West Virginia but found nothing. After another week of waiting, the forces finally showed up. Confusion erupted in the KRA forces. Instead of an army, a single modified Apache Attack Helicopter flew into the premises. It landed around a mile away, and a rope dropped out. The KRA quickly sent out the vanguard of their forces. They positioned themselves around half a mile from the drop zone. Before the backup was able to reach the rendezvous point the vanguard set up, the helicopter quickly flew away, activating its flares to negate any missile locking. The forces hopelessly tried to fire at it, but it was to no avail. The helicopter was out of view by the time the vanguard started moving towards the drop zone. The rope that fell from the helicopter was laying in the middle of a field; the KRA rushed forward to the rope. As they made it within the vicinity of the rope, they felt a rumbling under their feet. Before they had any time to react, a massive explosion erupted around the rope.

"Land mines!" the backup force yelled.

One of the soldiers in the backup force screamed into his radio," The vanguard has been completely wiped out by land mine traps set at the drop zone."

"That is incorrect information, those were not land mines. They were EFT's, Exploding Fire Traps," a monotone, emotionless voice from above stated.

Everyone's eyes flew up to look for the source of the voice.

"It-it's a little boy," a confused soldier said. Floating above the soldiers was a little kid, maybe 5-6 years old. His face was covered by a red Oni demon mask. Black hair was peeking over the top of it.

"Why is there a little kid, and how's he floating? Hey boy, why not come down here and tell us what's going on," the commander of the backup forces said, looking behind his back.

Off in the distance, the rest of the KRA forces were speeding over on militarized vehicles. He smirked and looked back at the boy. He had flown slightly closer.

"Negative. My orders were to fly to the warzone and eliminate each KRA member and stop the war," the boy stated.

Many of the soldiers burst out laughing, the commander was chuckling as well.

"You? So what if you can fly, you're still just one little boy," a soldier yelled out.

Another soldier exclaimed," He killed our entire vanguard forces, we should make him pay."

An uproar of agreement blasted out, all the soldiers pointed their weapons at the boy. The commander shook his head.

"Well, it was nice to meet you, but I gotta agree with them," the commander said, pointing his pistol at the boy.

He showed no sign of fear, he just simply stared at the forces. The first soldier began firing and the rest followed, a barrage of bullets exploded at the boy. He snapped his fingers and he turned transparent and smoky like a ghost, he flashed behind them and raised his hand.

"What is he? Some kind of monster? He's like a phantom," a soldier yelled in fear.

"Correct," the kid said, becoming opaque again," I am test subject Code-P or Code Phantom. I've drawn on too long, I apologize."

His hand started to glow red," Red Oni mask, Hellfire."

It was a slaughter. Just as the remaining KRA forces arrived, an explosion of blue fire erupted from the drop zone. The fire spread and rushed towards the KRA, they jumped out of the vehicles and flanked from the left. When they reached the drop zone, they didn't see anything but Code-P floating above the giant patch of fire. The forces from before had been completely incinerated. Code-P slowly turned his head towards the soldiers that had begun to flank him. Turning transparent again he bolted away, the soldiers lost sight of him.

"Over here," Code-P said from behind them.

The soldiers quickly turned around and started firing in his direction. He was able to easily dodge them, and the ones that did hit him traveled straight through him.

"He's a monster! What kind of technology is this," a soldier said, struggling to reload in a panic.

"I believe it is called Magic," Code-P said, still appearing transparent.

"M-Magic?"

Code-P raised his hand and waved it over his face.

"Wind Serpent Mask," Code-P said.

When his hand wasn't covering his face and it was visible, the Oni mask was gone. Code-P now had a yellow serpent mask over his face.

He raised his hand again.

"Twister Destruction!"

"Hello America, this is your president speaking and I'd like to make an important announcement. As you all know, the force known as the Korean Revolutionary Forces or KRA proclaimed war against us and attacked New York, Maine, and Rhode Island. Well, with a proud heart, as of September 19th 2019. The United States of America has won the war."

Cheering could be heard from off-camera and the president had a wide grin.

Footage of Code-P and the KRA encounter was quickly leaked by hackers that were suspicious of what had taken place. All over social media people were discussing whether the idea of magic was real or not. To some people, they were exclaiming how they always wanted to use magic and this was a dream come true. Later at night, the president came back for another speech.

"As I assume most of you have seen, we have discovered how to use Magic. I know it sounds incredibly unlikely, but I can assure you, it is in fact true. After many failed trials and unfortunate test subjects, we managed to find the key to using magic. The missing key was a tool to conduct the mana in the air that creates the magic. This is where Code-P comes into play, the masks he uses to conduct the mana into use. But, we have realized this is not a safe or human way to conduct mana. So, we have created armbands that can safely conduct the mana and create a similar product to what Code-P did. I will be creating the Ten Magic Laws, and if these can be agreed upon, then these armbands will be released to the public. Thank you for your time," the president said, he waved at the cameras till they stopped recording and the broadcast ended.

Everywhere around the world, people erupted in cheers. Everyone except Code-P. He sat down, his back against the cold stone walls of the cell he was in. Instead of his long dark tailcoat and waistcoat, he now wore tattered clothes that were covered in dirt and marks. Long footsteps rang outside of the cell. He looked up and saw the man he hated, the man that made him what he was.

"Good job Zane, you did well to eliminate the entire KRA forces."

"Thank you Dr. Ajax, but my name is Code-P, why did you call me Zane?"

"Well, it's quite annoying saying Code-P for everything, and wasn't Zane your name before the testing started.

Zane nodded his head.

"Well, here you go, enjoy your meal.

Dr. Ajax tossed Zane a small piece of burnt bread. His eyes lit up and he started to quickly eat the bread. When he looked up, Dr. Ajax was gone.

Why? Why? Why? Why did I have to kill everyone?