Before Rift Apart (Complete)

Miscalculation

Corson V, Nefarious City, Verdagris Sector

Nefarious was fuming over the war with Gadetron. It hadn't been going well since Gadetron was the maker of weapons and other fine products. (Buy the Hologuise today!!). It also so happend that for the moment, Nefarious was losing. The Gadetron war bots had been much more of a nuisanse than he had anticipated. It actually wouldn't be much longer before they reached Corson V. Nefarious still had a surprise or two waiting for them. Namely his impressive defense satelittes, which boasted over 100 RYNOI class missles each, and a small fusion core that can be activated by transmitter to power the focus beam. In a twisted sense of events, these orbital weapons of mass destruction, were called GOD. Not just because the Emperor seen himself as one, but because GOD was short for Global Orbital Defense.

It was more than defense he was planning on however. Emperor Nefarious had eyes everywhere, and was well aware a rebellion he crushed years ago was on the rise, and in the same style as before. He had become obsessed with finding out who was leading it. "I know that moron Layden is dead for sure. Yet this whole thing is just too familiar..." He said to himself. And it was true. Layden had died almost a full decade ago. But the Emperor was missing something. Or in this case, someone. He scoured every piece of intel he had. It seemed Layden himself went through the trouble of hiding his sister's identity but eventually, Nefarious had found out the missing piece of the puzzle, was Rivet. An adopted infant, who wasn't even the same species as Layden.

If this girl had indeed been raised around Layden, she may very well hold his ideals for freedom. Eventually, Nefarious found an image he was looking for. A trooper had taken an image of Layden's dying moment, in which Rivet could be seen taking his scarf, and holding it. "She may be far more dangerous than Layden... It's not just freedom she may be after. But revenge as well. And that... Can be used against her." He smirked, an evil plan already forming in his head. He would capture this Rivet... And turn her against the Rebellion. The Emperor was a very cold being. Not just because he was a robot, but because even he, in a very brief moment was a little disturbed at the prospect of killing someone's brother, then years later using her as weapon to kill her friends.

His moment of weakness over, Nefarious decided to do exactly that. He needed to find some way to trap Rivet. It shouldn't be hard, considering she should have similar ideals to her brother he thought. He'd attack the Kerchu! "Oh wait that's right.. They're already dead.." He had a slight chuckle to himself. Remembering a defeated enemy always pleased Nefarious. He figured instead, he'd show his power not just to Rivet, but the entire galaxy, by culling some of the organic population on Corson V. This would make Rivet intervene, and hence, he'd capture her. It was evil and brilliant even to him. It would have to be personal in some fashion. Rivet seems to defend anyone in need, but if Nefarious wants her to be careless, he'd have to capture someone she knows.

The problen with his solution ironically, was that so little was known about Rivet, including her species, is that he'd have to dig so deep in what little footage he has of her that he may still come up empty. His only option was to be extremely cruel. Well, more cruel than usual. "Get some genetic engineers on the line... I need a clone." The Emperor's Assistant obliged, and gave him a list of the most qualified geneticists. Nefarious chose the ones with the best backround. The Emperor laughed, knowing the scope of what he was about to do. It didn't matter that Rivet could forever be traumatized. What mattered was that she come back to Corson V, and presumably deal with the ghosts of her past.

At least, one ghost in particular. The geneticists had come and started working for Nefarious, albiet at the business end of a gun. At first they were just happy to have a job, then they got details of what they were doing, and as a result, tried shutting the whole thing down. This was appearently not an option according to one insane robot. The work so far was perfect. The DNA complete, the memories intact, this clone was perfect. Perfect enough to fool Rivet, Nefarious had hoped. With her out of the way this little Resistance would hopefully waiver and fail, just like the last one. Once this Resistance was crushed Nefarious doubted very much that another would just simply take it's place. In a way, the odds were heavily against him.

Gadetron had taken over some of Nefarious' orbital bases, and MegaCorp had considered throwing it's hat in the ring as well. MegaCorp decided it may not be needed after all. Nefarious had it going well for him, all things considering. The war with Gadetron may be going badly, but he had plan after plan, after plan. All of it was risky, but he knew he wouldn't get anywhere withour risk. His new plans were in motion. He was fully prepared to give Gadetron a wrecking. Nefarious planned to have Rivet be in for a rude awakening, and he had plans to crush this stupid little Rebellion. It was all in motion. He smirked and laughed in a way only a true villian could.

After this was over he planned to slaughter thousands of organics in order to stave off any further resistance. Starting with Rivet. Nefarious wanted to make her lose hope. He wanted to see her obviously defiant eyes twinkle into despair, and hopelessness. As he stated before, it would take something special for her to just show up with reckless abandon. She'd never pass up a second chance to correct a serious mistake, or event. Many would say she was heroic. Nefarious... Saw it as a weakness to exploit.

(Sorry this chapter took longer than the rest to do. Inspiration and time are difficult things when work stacks up :P