Tainted Hearts

Harsh Truth, Harsh Reality

"As expected from a power hungry  person." Andrew mumbled, gazing at the buildings afar.

"Sure, Verosha is big. But this is just the whole continent!!" Alex exaggerated.

The trio hesitantly made their way to what once was Verosha, their expressions were only worries and the skies weren't making it any better. The Orb Of Power was truly terrifying, no wonder Shattered desired to obtain it.

"Um, guys...?" Denny called out, halting their walk.

"What's up, Denny?" Alex questioned, turning to her.

"Look, over there." Denny pointed to the sky, several helicopters roaming.

"Holy hell." Alex muttered.

"It'd be appreciated if you teleport us right now." Andrew offered, not wanting to prolong standing still risking being caught.

"Oh, good idea." Alex snapped his fingers, it took a while before reality altered into a place. "Ah.. There.."

'.. Just teleporting tired me out now..?' Alex thought to himself.

They took in their surroundings, they were currently in an alleyway.
Everything was materialized by metals except for the road, it looked like cities on the other continents.
They could see the residents marching.. forced.

"Oh God..!" Denny covered her mouth seeing the situation, what could The Man wanted now?!

"... This is unforgivable.." Alex clenched both his fists, fuming rage.

"Tune it down, anger won't be any help."

"You can't expect me not to be mad when my people are being oppressed!" Alex argued.

"Uderstandable, and that's why we're here in the first place. To stop it, but we can't be careless, hold yourself." Andrew calmed the spirit down, he clicked his tongue in response. "Now, since you're the leader of this group, what's the plan?"

"Since when— I'm not going to argue.. Okay, let's get into our human form and blend in with the people. When we saw The President in sight, we go nuts while Andrew go spear to fist with him. Sounds good?"

"Simple enough, sure. Let's get onto it."

The trio turned into their human forms and left the alleyway before blending in with the residents, they had a hopeless expressions on their face and it hit Alex hard.

The urge Alex was feeling to go mad with the SOTW was very tempting, but he had to hold himself, he couldn't be careless.
He knew The Man had unimaginable power in the grasp of his hand. One thing that the spirit had noticed was that they were heading towards The Center.
But, for what?

Denny had her gaze to the ground, the bright red color was hurting her eyes. She stole glances to the residents, seeing their condition made her heart crumbled.

Andrew, was complicated to say the least, he didn't knew what to feel. He was more fixated on blocking his right eye with his hat. He loosened his scarf a bit, the air was burning hot.

Crossing the gate to The Center, a loud voice was heard, taking the attention immediately.

"Residents of Verosha! As you may already know I, your President, have achieved power beyond mankind's capability! With this power in my hand, we will break through the barrier that's been keeping us from advancing ourselves! Not only we will go beyond the other continents, we will RULE them!!"