Spectacular World

A War In The Present

So, time would pass...

The village they called home wasn't anything special. It had been turned into a makeshift military base and had hundreds of large tents scattered all across the road. The people that still lived in the village had mostly gotten used to it and were glad to have the protection.

Avalon held his finger out and allowed his drone to land on it softly. The thing was small and shaped to look like a fly. If one were to look at it closely, though, they'd realize that it was a silver color. He used them to spy on the battlefield for Mr. Sini. He himself wasn't in the Full force and didn't wear a uniform. Instead, he had taken to wearing a lab coat he found. It made him look cooler. At least he thought so.

"Hey! You're that scientist person, right?" Avalon turned his head when he heard the voice. He found himself face to face with the talk of the town. A young boy with fiery red hair. The current Lord of the Sun and Cosmos Jackson. The boy had a large, goofy smile on his face. "We made it back from our mission! We got a bunch of rations as well, so here you go!" Slung over his shoulder, he held a bag of bread, though it was quickly running out. Despite that, though, Jackson pulled out a slice and handed it to Avalon.

Avalon didn't take it. Instead, he swiped his hand through the air. A screen appeared floating above them and showed off something his drones had caught. In the image, it showed Jackson handing bread out to every person in the village. "You're running low on food, and you're one of the strongest Super's we have. It isn't smart for you to feed others. You should be building up your own strength."

Jackson gave a shrug. "What's the point of me hogging all the food for myself? It won't matter how strong I am if you all starve to death."

"You're a soldier, not a hero."

Jackson placed his hands on his hips and gave a large grin. "Nah. I'm not just any normal soldier. I am a future superhero!"

Their country's biggest hope, the current Lord of the Sun and Cosmos, the only one with the power to defeat Lucifer, turned out to be an idiot.

Jackson tossed the bag of bread over to Avalon, who caught it on instinct. "Why don't you finish handing that out to everyone else? If there's any left, save me a slice, okay?"

"What-" It was too late to say anything to the weird boy as he turned and began to walk away, giving a lazy wave of his hand. Avalon sighed and swiped his hand once more. His screen changed. This time it shifted to a live view showing him what was going on inside of Mr. Sini's office. "These guys are all weird."

"Good job on your mission, Nier. You and Jackson showed up just in time to save the day." Mr. Sini took a sip of his coffee and sighed as he dropped a stack of paperwork onto his desk. His office was messy, filled with stacks of half-done documents or notes, as well as a few blueprints for things he had been working on for when this blasted war finally ended. "How is Jackson, by the way?"

Nier rubbed his messy blonde hair, his eye twitching a bit. "Well, he's not that whining baby I found fifteen years ago. I can tell you that."

Thirty-three years... The war with Lucifer had been going on for over thirty-three years now. They were just fresh off their fight with Gargoyle, the villain Jackson had taken out. It had been fifteen years since Nier found the current Lord of the Sun and Cosmos. Since that time, the child had grown.

In the old days, the passing of time was always something people would take note of. Here, though, fifteen years had come and gone in the blink of an eye. Nothing had changed, really. At least in terms of the war. He had gotten taller and was a full-on adult now, with a messy blonde beard. Mr. Sini was getting a few grays, years of stress catching up to the Lord of the Sea.