The Five Kings: First Step

The Red Recap

A/N: In case you didn't see the post on my message board, this is just a short recap chapter of the flashback up to 117 in case anyone forgot some things. If you feel like you remember most of the flashback so far, feel free to skip this. 

Narrator's P.O.V.

The flashback started off 10 years ago with the homeless man Kodan, who lived on the streets with a few of his  friends. Most of them were killed by Hopian Army Special Service members due to Kodan's past with the group.

Little did his friends know that Kodan was abducted by the group as a child, in which he was forced to have cybernetics implanted into his body- as well as train as a soldier. He escaped from them years later however, but unfortunately he didn't expect his past to come back to bite him in the form of his friends deaths.

More importantly, this tragic event led him to further develop his life of prayer as he attempted to gain the powers of the "soul of the universe".

It also led him to create the revolutionary group, the Red Fists, after he met King Metallica. This was because he realized it would be possible to take Head Commander Prósopsi down with the "Emperor" form that King Metallica has.

Using the power of King Metallica's Emperor form to make a massive hole in the Hesalo metal underneath the continent, over the years Kodan recruited more and more members into his hidden group. As the massive hole underground turned into a full-fledged city, thousands of people were in the group from soldiers to families who simply helped with construction.

Later, Kodan also allowed the seemingly harmless worker robot Restroid into the group after King asked for a new robotic friend. After pleading with Kodan to change his plans, Restroid realized that Kodan would not change his mind- and instead decided to slowly cause the groups downfall, so that he could eventually lead it.

Meanwhile, the Red Fists were weakening the Hopian Army by taking down government facilities, and even taking down two commanders, Jaxonite and Erucid. The reason why the Red Fists were able to take these two down, was because of Kodan's ability to, in short, manipulate gravity. More specifically, he utilized these powers to wear a Hesalo armor set that was virtually indestructable.

However, just before the revolution- Restroid completely ruined the groups plans. He did so by leaving Commander Ontarus a file containing vital information about the group, mere minutes before the planned revolution. This forced the Commander to rush into the base and infiltrate it in disguise, however his true identity was soon exposed and the entire base started to hunt him down.

This led to Ontarus having to use the power of his sword, Bahari, which seemed to be able to control the seawater that's stored inside of pipes on the Hopian Continent. With the blade seeming to partially have a mind of its own, it wrecked havoc and flooded the base- while Ontarus also partially controlled it to eliminate enemies. It turned out that sword acts on it's own the more injured Ontarus becomes, which led to it slicing down any projectiles around the Commander, making him almost impossible to beat.

Even after Kodan arrived for backup in his upgraded armor-set, the Red Fists still struggled to take down the Commander. However with the Red Fists having taken down most of the Hopian Army's communication lines, Ontarus is stuck in the base fighting alone.

As such, the battle between Ontarus and the group rages on.