The Red World

Chapter 5 - Rivalry

"Huh? A problem?" Andrei immediately picks up his radio to talk to Vikentiy. Yekaterina does the same. "Where are you guys right now?" She says as she prepares her pocket knife in case. After five seconds Vikentiy answers. "Someone has been tampering with our posters and graffiti art, with the words 'RNU' just spray painted on our posters and our graffiti! Look, just come check it out, we are just back tracking on the streets me and Veleriy were already in." The radio stops any form of communication. Andrei and Yekaterina hastily stop their objective and start running towards Vikentiy's and Veleriy's current position. Soon, they reach the duo, right exactly where they started their main mission: The street beside the Nikitin Mansion.

"Finally, you two are here." Said Vikentiy, holding a few photos. "Here, these are the photos of what were our posters and graffiti." The photos include posters that have been spray painted with the letters "RNU". Other photos include the ARM graffiti, spray painted with blue, replaced also with the letters "RNU" colored black. Andrei begins to contemplate on these photos. "Why does the RNU sound familiar?" He thought to himself, before Yekaterina starts to speak. "Hey, maybe the culprits are going through Andrei and I's posters and graffiti." Vikentiy and Andrei share a nod of agreement. "Yeah, maybe they're going through our posters. Should we move?" Said Andrei. Everyone nods in agreement, and Vikentiy begins to speak. "Ok, it's decided. Quickly, everyone catch the culprits! Andrei and Yekaterina you lead the way!"

Everyone, lead by the Andrei-Yekaterina duo, begins to go through the route of the duo. They arrive at the first area where they put up posters. "Oh no," Andrei stops and looks at where their posters were hanged. "Guess they also got to this spot first." Yekaterina begins to walk infront of them. "Come on, they might not be far ahead!" Nearing their second location, they see a black-hooded man, holding what seems to be black spray paint, and holding crumples of paper on both hands. Vikentiy starts shouting against the man. "Hey you!" The man seems to hear Vikentiy, and starts running instinctively. "After him, everyone! He must be the one responsible behind this!"

Everyone starts chasing against the man. They seem to be right behind the man, but then the man turns away from his usual path and into his left side at a street intersection. "He won't fool us that easily!" This goes on for some time until everyone and the man reach a dead end. "Stop, there is no way for you to escape!" Gavriil starts arming his assault rifle. The man points at something behind the gang. "Look!" the man says, causing everyone to look behind them. The man suddenly disappears from their sight. "What the- hey, this 'dead end' is a secret door!" Andrei notices the "dead end's" center rotate back and forth. They enter the dead end, and find the man with another group of people, armed with spray paint and a few pistols.

"So, you finally found us, huh?" Another man with a black leather jacket starts speaking. "Who are you people?" Vikentiy speaks, before Andrei begins to speak up. "Yeah, and why are you spray painting the letters RNU?" Veleriy also begins to speak. "Don't you know that what we're doing is essential to free the world from this corrupted ideology?" The man in the black leather jacket starts laughing to himself. "Keh heh heh... you and your Democratic ideology shouldn't be the rightful rulers of a non-Communist Russia. How would you even restore stability to a war-deprived Moscow? Not to mention how much ethnic groups Russia has right now. How will you stabilize those two components of a 'democratic' Russia?"

 Gavriil begins to speak to them. "We will give them better rights, of course, and we will rebuild Moscow quickly because of... uh..." The man begins to laugh to himself again. "Keh heh heh... you don't even know how to fix a war deprived Moscow. Do you imagine how much unstable a city is after a war? There's alot to fix, and crime rates will especially be high. Do you know what is most essential to keep everything up, especially in a post-war Russia?"

The gang hesitates to answer, until the man starts speaking again. "Order. Order is most needed for a post-war country. This is so that a destroyed Moscow can be rebuilt again, without any fear of crime throughout the city. This applies to other cities as well." The gang is silent after hearing the answer. "Oh, and about those ethnic minorities, they are what they are: minorities. They are better off not living in Russia." Yekaterina starts speaking after moments of silence from the gang. "But, why would you deport those ethnic minorities? Their homeland is just coincidentally in our land, doesn't mean we have to kick them out!" The man answers her question. 

"There's a reason why this country is called Russia. Russians founded this country. Russians expanded our country. Russians dominated this country. It's not called 'Chechenia, Tuva, Yakutia,' or any other foreign name. Again, they are 'minorities,' not 'majorities' which are Russians. They are better off moving to another homeland, away from the land dominated by Russians." Andrei begins to speak up again. "Aren't those fascist tactics?" The man chuckles again. "Yes, they are." The gang is in shock. "We are fascists, neo-Nazis to be exact. That's right, the same ideology that, quote-on-quote, was exterminated by the 'might of the Soviets' back in World War II. If you want order back in Russia, keep Russia for the Russians, remove the impure ones."

The gang is still in shock, until Vikentiy speaks again. "Again, I ask, who are you?" The man chuckles, again. 

"Keh heh heh... My name is Alexander Barkashov, we are the Russian National Unity Party, the RNU. We shall be the rightful rulers of a non-Communist Russia, and restore the Russian Empire to its former glory. I shall say again, Russia for the Russians!" The gang gasps after hearing Alexander. "The Russian National Unity Party? I swear I heard that name before!" Vikentiy talks to himself. "Anyway, we will keep neo-Nazis like you out of our goal of a free and federal Russia. We will not harm this country's minorities, they are the children of the Motherland!" Alexander laughs again. "Keh heh heh... whatever you say, capitalist pigs. You haven't seen the last of us! Russia for Russians!" The members of the RNU begin to run from the gang, keeping them in shock.

"Well, I didn't think we would have rivals having the same motive, but different methods of fulfilling it." Andrei said to the gang, before Vikentiy speaks up. "I can assure all of you now, at this point in time, that our future missions will not be affected by an ideology worse than Communism. They are just a distraction." Vikentiy starts walking towards the entrance of the hideout of the RNU. "Mission accomplished, for now. Since our posters and graffiti are vandalized by them, anyway, it's currently pointless to restore them. Good job, everyone, you can go back to your homes to rest." The gang gives eachother high-fives before going their separate ways.

Andrei returns to his mansion, where he is greeted by his butlers again. "Welcome back, Sir Andrei, that was a long jog, wasn't it?" "Y-yeah, it was. I'm going directly to sleep, if you don't mind." "Of course, good night, Sir Andrei." Andrei goes back to his bedroom to prepare for tomorrow. Moments before he drifts to sleep, Andrei thinks to himself.

"Things just got interesting."