Also transferring this to here to store because freeing up storage space. It’s bad ok.
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Chapter 3
Mission Epilogue
"VHAT?!" Yakov boomed. "Given your record, I thought you wouldn't fail!"
It was only the next morning.
"Apologies, but there was more than expected. Both cubes were filled to full capacity."
"That cannot be helped, but given they still have dark matter in their possession they would continue to experiment." Yakov said sternly. "You know I do not tolerate failure."
"They won't experiment any longer, as their 'classified' files show that they don't have anymore, and therefore experiments will cease. I promise you, I already destroyed their notes and collected data.
"I also erased the scientist memories of the project the following minutes." Vanya stated.
"You have better made sure of it. When signs of contamination appear in Goverment Agent Chrome, eliminate her."
"Yes, Mr. Noris."
Corrupt
Agent Helen Chrome wasn't fine. Collapsing the today and then coughing up abnormally dark blood.
Over the next few days, there were dark thoughts..... urges to destroy......
Her appearance more resembled a corpse. She still yet insisted she insisted she was fine. She continued to insist to do her job, despite barely being able stand.
Then, a few days later, Agent Chrome was lively again.
However, she was deathly thin, and her eyes were sunken. They were dark with only lights for pupils. Like a skeleton. More efficient, unable to tire easily, and now oversaw the mission to retrieve the dark matter.
However, Chrome had her own plans with the matter. Now with no mercy, and a ruthlessness that frightened her colleagues.
What most frightened the other agents, however was the ability she now possessed. It was dark magic. Yet defying all sciences, magic was not supposed to exist.
They couldn't experiment, and run tests on their Agent though. She would not consent, and insisted, again that she was fine.
Currently one goal in mind. To eliminate the competition of power.
"Vanya!" Ayanav shouted.
Vanya clutched his side as he fell to the floor, the other hand covering his mouth as he coughed. He slowly stood up and proceeded to stumble towards the washroom. Ayanav ran forward and helped Vanya along until he spit the blood into the sink.
This had been happening the last few hours after Vanya had gotten home from the mission.
"Sister, I told you! You should get some rest! I'll take care of you."
"No... you need to-bleh." Vanya spit more blood into the sink. "Take care of yourself. I'll be....fine."
"Sister." Ayanav said with a stern tone.
Vanya couldn't tell her it was brother rather than sister between the spurts of abnormally dark blood.
Vanya then stood up and washed the corners of his mouth.
Then proceeded to take Ayanav to the bus station.
"It's ok. Go to school. It's Monday."
"But you're sick! And it's bad! When people start coughing up blood, it means they are dying!"
"I've defied death before."
"Vanya!"
"Go to school, Ayanav. Don't end up like me. You are smart."
"But so are you!"
"Not smart enough, as I am dying, am I not? Don't forget what I told you. Find Yakov Noris. Tell him you are my sister. He will make sure you are all right if I die. Then if I do, I can be at peace."
"Vanya!"
"You're going to miss the bus! Go, go!"
Ayanav huffed and ran towards the bus.
Vanya smiled and waved. Seeing Ayanav wave back and smile as well made Vanya feel that everything would be alright. His sister was too precious for the underbelly he worked for.
He always knew when his sister was in trouble, and tried his best to protect her in any way possible. He always knew one day, because of business, he wouldn't be able to protect her any longer.
"Excuse me, madam, but are you ok? You seem rather... sickly..." a passing stranger asked.
"I have been told. Although I am perfectly fine. I assure you. No need to worry about another random stranger right?"
Vanya proceeded to walk away but the man stopped him.
"Madam, I really worry."
Vanya sighed and rubber his temples.
"Mind your own business."
"Wait..... I know you...... It's you!" The man shouted. "You're the-"
"Say one more word and you die." Vanya whispered, holding a gun under his long coat.
Vanya took the man's hand in a deathly tight grip, and lead him to an alley.
"You may shout for help, and run. I will give you a head start, but you will not escape, I assure you."
"I don't want to escape." He said. Dangerously, deep rooted hatred in his eyes. No longer looking like a simple civilian. "I am part of the Snakehead Mafia, Vanya of the Quantum Mafia, and I am here from for a personal debt. I knew I would find you wandering."
He drew a gun.
"You killed my brother, Montesu. What did he ever do? He loved you. Did you not know?"
"Ah, but Montesquieu, love has no place in this business." Vanya said, keeping the gun trained on Montesquieu. "Besides, my boss wanted Montesu out of the way."
"Ha! Looks like you are a soulless dog. I should kill you RIGHT NOW!" He fired the bullet, but Vanya anticipated it, and dodged. He hated when this kind of thing happens.
"I always win Russian Roulette, Montesquieu. Now, like your brother, you die." He hated this part. When people had to die for no reason. Emotions, this kind of passion. It only causes trouble in business. He always played emotionless killer.
Vanya was about to pull the trigger, but then was hit with a wave of racking coughs, eyes wide, Vanya spat blood on to the floor, crouched down.
"Not this time." Montesquieu whispered, eyes filled with a crazy glee, then fired.
Vanya smiled as he spat another few drops of blood, and closed his eyes.
However, death never came.
Vanya opened his eyes to find the bullet hovering in midair, Montesquieu standing with the trigger pulled, and a smirk on his face.
Birds were in mid flight and people in the middle of walking.
Time was frozen.
"Vat?" Vanya whispered.
"So you are the Insurgent."
"Ah, Agent Chrome. Your doing?"
"Well, looks like we know each other well."
Vanya turned around to see Chrome with her usual prim and proper attire, but face and hands slender, full of life, and with the urge to kill written all over. Eyes like a demon's.
"What do you want? Other than something to do with business with our opposing organizations." Vanya asked, amber eyes narrowing, gun ready.
"You know. But first:" She motioned her hand.
Time flowed again and the bullet Montesquieu shot hit a brick as Vanya just shot him in the head without looking.
"Well then, that was taken care of. Now what I want is the location of the dark matter you stole."
"I'm afraid that is business. Classified."
"Well then, I suppose the your life instead will do."
"If I do tell you, you will simply kill me when you get what you want."
"Ah, you DO know me well. You die now." Chrome was about to fire, but Vanya fired through her head.
Yet the flesh just healed itself and sealed the hole in her skull.
"What?"
"Stupid. You don't even know what you have been given. I suppose killing you will be easier than expected."
Agent Chrome fired and fired as Vanya narrowly dodged.
"The competition will be quite easily eliminated, the world will be mine."
"Well, who's the traitor to the government now?"
Chrome hit Vanya in the gut with a bullet as he was saying those words.
"You should know that running your mouth with provide you distraction, as I get the chance to kill you. Goodbye Insurgent."
They had gathered a small crowd of an audience. When Chrome turned around however, and waved her hand, they all fell in a trance, and continued about their business.
She walked away, chuckling.
Fredrick
Vanya held his abdomen and the got up, glancing wistfully at the dead body of Montesquieu.
"At least I gave them a painless death." He muttered before walking away from the scene as well.
Covering the wound with his coat, and the ever growing pain and numbness from the wound.
Vanya barely got halfway back home before falling, vision getting blurry.
What did it matter? He was already dying anyway. Time for an earlier than expected trip to hell.
He didn't care that it drew eyes when he collapsed and coughed up more blood.
"Sorry Ayanav."
He closed his eyes and waited for the numbness and darkness of death.
Yet he still felt the ground in which he collapsed.
Then a voice
'Don't give up. You must keep going. For the world. For Ayanav'
Vanya didn't care. He deserved to die, but there was a will power. He.... refused to die.
He opened his eyes again to see a stranger carrying him, and calling the emergency phone line.
Vanya planted his feet on the ground and felt for the wound.
It was healed. The bullet within the cloth of his shirt, however still stained with blood.
He took the bullet out of his shirt.
Suddenly the stranger dropped him onto the ground in surprise.
"Ow." Vanya grumbled.
"Sorry! Sorry! I just thought you were unconscious!"
"It's fine. I don't know why I am alive at all either...."
Vanya fingered the bullet in his hand and then dropped it to the ground.
"Wait! Ummm..."
"Yes?"
"My name is Fredrick Roescech, what's yours?"
"Vanya."
"Well, um... nice to meet you! I was going to take you to the hospital but you seem fine now!"
"Thank you. I shall be taking my leave now."
"No problem! Bye!"
Chapter 4
The Sisters
Fredrick jogged all the way to his workplace. He was late. He was also rather concerned. It was a terrible state she was in, she practically resembled a corpse.
He remembers those two sisters.
Now he knows one of their names. Vanya. It was a nice name in his opinion.
They moved to this town with their parents about two decades ago.
The two then were happy children. Frolicking with flowers and occasionally playing with the other children of the neighborhood.
Fredrick then was to shy. It was also the added fact that the sisters parents were rather scary.
The younger one was an absolute angel. Too precious. However the older one was more like their parents, but only when harm was about to come to anyone and in cases of dispute.
It was only a few years later when Fredrick was 15, the older one, Vanya became like their parents were. Their parents also had disappeared. Whenever someone asked the younger one, she simply said that they were gone, according to her sister.
Eventually Vanya had completely alienated from the others in the neighborhood. Constantly absent and gaze cold like a predator's.
Ah, but he never had thought that such a predator would be downed, and in such a state.
Fredrick had always admired Vanya, from afar. Now, about eleven years from then, Fredrick finally knew her name.
He was late to work, of course, but everyone should help a person in need.
Calling
"Vanya! Fredrick told me you talked to him today!"
"That friend of yours? Ok."
"He said that you were injured. Did someone come after you? You weren't on another mission right? You need rest."
"I am resting."
Vanya was buried under covers up to his neck. Ayanav had just come home from school and checked on Vanya.
"No you weren't, you were out again!"
"Yeah, but only for a few minutes. Can I sleep now? My day was rather interesting." Vanya said sarcastically.
"Don't give me that end of your sarcasm! Although go to sleep. Even if it's unlike you, you need it. Goodnight sister!"
Ayanav said.
"It's brother!" Vanya called.
"SISTER!" Ayanav insisted. Then left.
Vanya then waited until he could hear Ayanav was in her room, doing homework before trying to get out of bed, only to be hit with another coughing fit.
'Shit.' He thought.
"Vanya are you ok?!"
"Yes! I'll be fine! I told you!"
He then spit the blood into the bucket Ayanav got and then took a knife out of the drawer.
He took off his shirt and the. Stabbed himself through the chest, spit out the blood and then took the knife out, collapsing.
Still, somewhere deep inside, he would still refuse to die. Something was pushing him forward, to keep him going, a will to live.
'Vanya, never give up. It what we Makars do.'
'Vat.'
Vanya watched as the wound healed, sealing itself over in a sheen of that abnormally dark blood.
He didn't understand. Mother and father never said that.
He then cut himself on the wrist. It didn't hurt, and again the blood resealed the wound.
Vanya put the knife back in the drawer and then took out a mirror.
The bags under his eyes were deeper, and his cheeks were gaunt.
"Geez. I look like crap." He muttered.
Then another coughing fit, and more blood .
You get the idea.
It was only a matter of a day or so until Helen Chrome figured out the Insurgent wasn't dead, and had grasped the very tip of the power the dark matter gave.
It called in urgent calling. It wanted the more powerful host. Agent Chrome wanted the power, and was determined to eliminate the competition.
Chapter 5
The Authorities
It was a few days later when he woke up again, Vanya was walking the open streets, there were multiple attempts on his life. Assassins here and there. Vanya couldn't risk pulling out his gun in the open, so therefore he had to call the authorities, or government police to take care of the problem.
It was rather impossible when they wanted the reason why someone might be after him rather than just taking care of the assassins.
He was under the guise of Vanya Nightingale. A citizen whose younger sister was living with him. Their parents had abandoned them, and now they were here. He got strange looks because of the last name Nightingale, but hey. There are quite a few Collinses around.
He looked ok now, less like a skeleton, but still, rather pale, and thin.
He had multiple messages from Agent Marriot, Leader Noris, and the other agents in the Quantum Mafia.
"Why do you need to know!? Heck, I don't even know! That person was trying to kill me! If you do this with every person who is a target of some idiot, then citizens would be dropping dead left and right!"
"Madam, please calm down."
"I'm a man!"
"Apologizes sir, but we are asking as to better trace who might be after you."
"I don't know! I've already told you!"
"Mr. Nightingale. We will be supervising then, until the attempts have been completely stopped, as to ensure your safety."
'Shit.' Vanya thought.
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Greetings, fellow members of the Quantum Mafia.
I apologize for the short notice, but the authorities are keeping watch on me. I'm afraid missions will not be possible without risking the security of the Mafia.
Agent Makar
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Vanya sent the message, the erased all computer files and locked it in the form of a laptop.
Sighing, and sitting back in his seat, he pondered through everything that has happened the last week.
"Things change. They always do." He whispered.
Suddenly, Ayanav burst through the door. Making loud noises as she ran up the stairs, her boots clomping.
"SISTER! WHY ARE THE POLICE OUTSIDE OUR DOOR?!"
"Ayanav, calm down."
"No! What did you do? Are we in trouble!? Van-"
"Ayanav. We are not in trouble. The police are just keeping watch because I have had attempts on my life. It's for safety. Don't worry, everything will be alright."
"Vanya."
"Yes. I know."
Ayanav sighed. Then she went to do her homework as Vanya proceeded to make dinner.
"Stop Vanya! Let me do it!"
"I'm fine! You do your homework! I can handle it!"
"Just because you are fine after a few days of rest does not mean you'll be fine burning the candle on both ends!"
"You worry too much!"
"Hypocrite!"
"Don't care!"
That's how conversations in the house usually went.
This is how it was when there was a risk to security.
Investigation
An agent couldn't be involved with assassins. Although now, Agent Chrome knew who the Insurgent really was.
Vanya Nightingale.
Who knows if her sister had anything involved with those stunts.
Ayanav Nightingale.
Parents weren't in the citizen records. Interesting. No Mr. or Mrs. Nightingale.
Agent Chrome took out a hair from her pocket. It was silver, practically grey.
She put it into the small container, and put the container along with the hair into the machine.
The machine then analyzed the DNA sample, and then the mother and father came up.
She remembers them. Two agents of a rebellion against the government when she was but a girl.
No wonder the girl, rather actually boy is the Insurgent. Carrying on his parent's legacy. Foolish.
Chrome shut the Mega-computer and retrieved the sample.
She then made her way up stairs to the top floor. There, was the President's office. Standing with him was the Vice President, who was but a pawn.
"Sir, I have found the Insurgent."
"We expect nothing less, Agent Chrome."
"Vanya Nightingale. Son of Jera and Boris Nightingale."
"The agents of the rebellion?"
"Affirmative."
"Hm... New mission: apprehend this Vanya, and whoever else is involved with his work."
"Yessir."
She then left the president's office. He was more of a dictator actually. He secured his place after the rebellion with the support and favor of the public. Although his time was coming to an end. He could sense it. He was just a man, but someone, especially those like the Nightingales, would one day bring him down. He expected it. In situations like this, that kind of thing always happens.
He was ready if they tried. Just like before, they would fail.
Same plot, different time.
Chapter 6
Capture
Someone had opened his parent's and his files. Vanya could see. He knew it was a matter of time. He saw the files when he hacked into the government database, checking more than usual, as the government was not watching.
Vanya grabbed a bag, and proceeded to stuff it with items important to him, his sister, and their parents.
Photos, journals, and finally food and water.
He then grabbed his laptop, and folded it into a phone, then called Marriot.
"They found me."
"Vat!? I thought-"
"Well you thought wrong. You know who's doing."
"Hm. That favor that I owe you?"
"Yes. Bring Ayanav to Mr. Noris. Stop in from the back. Quickly and quietly."
"You always pull stunts. I should have expected this."
"I didn't."
"Telling the police is a stunt. Stupid."
"Vhatever. Just get here."
"Already here, just look out the window."
Vanya looked to see Marriot on a motorcycle, waving.
He then went to Ayanav's room, and she was trying to fall asleep.
"What is it sister?"
"They found me. Pack up what you need."
"What?! Sister! No!"
"It's happening Ayanav. I can't let you end up in the government's hands."
Vanya and Ayanav proceeded to pack her stuff, and Then went out though the back door.
Vanya then went back in again, and came back out.
"Take this with you sister." He gave her the bag."it's everything I had promised to tell you."
"Sister..."
"Yes Ayanav?"
"Will you be ok?"
"I will always be back. Always. I promise."
"Don't make promises you can't keep, Makar, now buckle up girlie!"
Ayanav buckled up and hefted the bag two bags into a secure position as she waved.
"You are now, Ayanav Noris, got it?" Vanya whispered.
She nodded, and then the two headed off.
Then the helicopters came, with their lights and all.
"Freeze!" A man shouted. "We know who you are, Insurgent."
"Do you?" Vanya asked.
"Don't try and fight. We have you surrounded."
"Perhaps." Vanya then pulled out his gun and shot the man straight in the heart. He fell with an expression
Then more agents and police emerged, and began firing stun blasts.
They wanted him alive for interrogation, and to where the rest of the so called rebellion was.
Vanya narrowly dodged and fired into the crowd, but there were too many. Despite them being outmatched, he was outnumbered.
It was only a matter of time, but Ayanav had to be safe. The more time the better.
'Or better yet, kill them all'
It was the whispers. The ones that forced him to live on, and the ones that kept him going.
He then felt a smile creep up on his face, as two stun blasts hit him.
'Get up. Ayanav... must be safe.'
Two stuns would paralyze a person fully through to be unconscious, one would render a person unable to move, but Vanya kept firing.
'They are like the stereotype for pigs. They deserve to die.'
'They will not reach Ayanav or the Quantum Mafia!'
Then, four more shots hit him, but this time with increased power.
They dragged him down, but he was determined. Vanya's movements were getting sluggish, and he couldn't do it anymore. Then, before one more stun blast hit him, he collapsed.
As the authorities closed in.
It was enough time. He closed his eyes, and smiled.
Crimes
"132 of our officers and agents killed...."
There was a man speaking. He wasn't quite clear in appearance yet, as Vanya's head was still foggy.
His vision clouded.
"Taking about six stun blasts before finally falling..."
Vanya became aware of being blinded to a chair, and proceeded to lift his head and blink one more time before recognizing the President of the government.
"Who... no what are you Insurgent... or should I say Vanya Nightingale."
"Greetings, President Asshole."
"Now, that is no way to greet your Leader, now is it?"
"No, but you already know who I am. You are going to 'execute' me for my 'crimes.' Might as well be as big of a nuisance as possible."
"Knowing your record, you would be thinking of an escape tactic." The President said, pacing with a folder, reading off the papers inside. Eyebrows raising higher, and eyes wide.
"Nah." He shrugged.
"Hm. Interesting, well what would you do, say... we have your sister?"
"She's dead because of your people. During the last rebellion, your bomb killed her." Vanya spit.
"She... is not dead... I know you care for her. She is very much alive. We have her."
"That's logically impossible. She's dead."
"Really? Logic... recently, has been defied. I'm sure you met Agent Chrome before."
"That old hag? Sure, why not."
"She has magic." The president said.
"Pfffffff- HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That is hilarious!"
"Please come in, Agent Chrome."
"Hello honey."
"Hello, sweetheart."
Vanya mimed barfing.
Agent Chrome waved her hand and twirled around a dark colored flame.
"I find it hard that you don't believe after our last encounter."
"I overestimated the lengths you would go just for me. I'm very disappointed."
"I will enjoy watching you in great pain." Chrome whispered.
"Quit being a rapist."
Chrome then proceeded to choke Vanya out of anger, but he just grinned.
"Helen."
Chrome released Vanya and then turned to the President.
"Right. We'll leave him to the interrogators."
They left as another man came in.
"Oooo! Yay! Another asshat." Vanya said sarcastically.
They told something to the interrogator and then probably went to a room that was unseen to those in the room Vanya was currently in, to listen for information, and watch his pain.
The door opened as a woman dressed in an apron and gloves came in.
"Greetings, Mr. Nightingale."
"Finally. Someone's got my gender right." Vanya continued with the sarcastic tone.
"We shall begin, then. Here is the deal. Tell us where the dark matter and the rebel base is, and you can leave, your sister unharmed. Or, you can suffer beyond anyone has suffered before, and your sister will die."
'Ayanav is ok. She is with Yakov.' The voices whispered.
Then, an image of Yakov, Ayanav and Marriot together, Marriot having just brought Ayanav to Yakov's is what appeared in his mind's eye.
Vanya knew this image wasn't illusion. It should be happening. Agent Marriot usually got away unnoticed, if noticed then untraced.
"Meh." Vanya shrugged. "I don't feel like telling you. Can I take a siesta?"
"No. Now did you not hear me? Tell me, or your sister will die."
"Aaaah... no."
"We know where she is, and we can terminate her at any instance."
"Where then?" Vanya asked, one eye closed smirking.
The interrogator was silent.
"Geez, you're terrible at your job."
"Looks like we will do this the hard way. I wonder... are you afraid of pain?"
The interrogator asked, pulling out a knife, and proceeding to cut across Vanya's forehead.
It bled out that dark blood, but Vanya wasn't worried about pain. He was worried about then figuring out that he possessed some dark matter within.
They wouldn't care about him. They would do anything to get it out of him, with no concern for his well being. He promised Ayanav he would be back after all.
The voices urged him, pushed him, but he refused with all his determination.
It bled. Vanya began to feel a bit light headed as the blood ran down his face, and onto his coat.
"Oh come on! That's never gonna come out." He complained.
"Really, That is what you are concerned with?" She asked, hazel eyes becoming widened, and smiling.
The interrogator continued to to make small cuts along his skin.
Vanya was straining now. The voices, they were so loud now. They kept urging.
Then, one voice:
'Interesting. You resist us well. Interesting human. Impressive human. Perfect partner. Perfect host. Not a puppet. Show them our true power...'
Vanya refused.
They kept saying it.
'Show them, show them show them showthemshowthemshowthemshowthemshowthemshowthem!'
The cuts continued to bleed as the interrogator kept causing pain to Vanya. However, Agent Chrome was bored. He should have healed by now if he had the barest grasp of the power.
The interrogator asked each time, but he stayed silent.
Though it was good that he was breaking. Hands and jaw clenched, sweat forming in small drops.
The interrogator then used electric shock.
Then his expression loosened.
"Y'know, I put a lot of sweat and blood into keeping something shut, but it's not my mouth. Now you let it out. And I think I'll have fun." He whispered.
Then his eyes opened, and the whites were black, and the pupils were glowing red, and the light flowed like a flame.
All the cuts healed, and the bonds on his wrists broke. Standing up, Vanya held out his hand, and the interrogator's head popped off, the body dropping dead.
"Get the president to safety! I will deal with this." Agent Chrome shouted.
The two agents guided the President out of the room as Agent Chrome stared into Vanya's eyes, her own taking on their demonic form.
In the depths of the Quantum Mafia's labs, the two cubes broke as the scientists there panicked.
Yet, the dark matter didn't head for them. It escaped out the vents and....
Chapter 7
The start of a Chain Reaction
The dark matter then went to it's caller, and proceeded to devour the building inside out.
The building was on evacuate, but only 24 of 326 occupants made it out, the President included.
Agent Chrome was still in.
The building was a bubble of dark matter now. It was a experimentation lab. Kind of like Area 51. The same lab the dark matter was initially stolen from. They were interested in how Vanya "Nightingale" was able to accomplish all those practically humanly impossible feats on his record. They also needed the information he might've possessed.
Although this, this was beyond what any of them had expected.
Vanya tackled Agent Chrome into a dimly lit, polished granite hall.
"Well, looks like you really are competition now." Chrome hissed. Regular voice voiced over with a deep rumble.
"Ahahahahahahaha!" Vanya's eyes returned to their normal amber as his laugh also settled from it's own demonic accent.
"It's not me who is doing this. It is the matter acting upon it's own will. It whispers doesn't it? It urges you. Your not it's master. It tries to make you it's puppet."
With those words, Vanya's eyes morphed again, and he proceeded to summon torrents of dark matter.
A battle ensued. Chrome refused to listen to the matter. She refused to be its puppet. Yet, the matter was no longer enhancing her power.
"No!" She growled. She then turned her gaze to Vanya.
Her fate was already decided. Another puppet to be cast aside.
She grabbed at Vanya attempting to do whatever damage before her fate was sealed.
Then, she stopped. A tendril of matter formed into a spike, and stabbed through her chest, catching her so onto it.
"Snake." She hissed at Vanya, smiling out of spite. Hoping for one last blow that will effect this man forever.
Vanya just shrugged.
The dark matter then acted of it's own will, sacrificing a now useless pawn for the bigger game. Agent Chrome was gone. Mortal form consumed, and then turned into more matter.
It was done. The dark matter then all retracted, gravitating towards Vanya, and then formed itself as a pair of dark arms on his back.
He opened his amber eyes. It was done.the dark matter consumed the building.
The staff at where the exit once was and now gathering journalists stood there in absolute shock.
"Greetings." Vanya said. "You know me as the Insurgent. My name is Vanya Nightingale. Your government is full of corruption for the desire of power and money. It's time for a new age."
The arms formed into wings, and he spread them. He always wondered what it was like to fly.
A bit melodramatic, yes, but Vanya was really tired of the government getting in the way of business.
Rebellion Beginning
Ayanav watched the news at Mr. Noris's house, have just settled in, as Mr. Noris was a close friend of their parent's.
It was Vanya. What was he doing?!
Ayanav knew something big was going to happen. Words may be simple, but they carried the weight of inspiration.
Nothing was safe any longer.
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Fredrick watched the news. It wasn't quite a small world after all. He was afraid. The Vanya that he admired for so long... was not who she seemed. Something happened, but how could he understand? How could an entire lab be just erased off the Earth? How did she do it?
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In the uncharted mountains, east of the main city and outer districts, and villages, a man, about in his late forties watched the news on the old tv.
"Greetings. You know me as the Insurgent. My name is Vanya Nightingale..."
The man's green, blue eyes widened as he spit out his drink of water, and went to the tv, holding it in desperation, with suprise and hope written on his face.
"...Your government is full of corruption for the desire of power and money. It's time for a new age."
He watched as the camera filmed Vanya Nightingale flying off.
Hope. It was the beginning.
He turned off the tv, and opened a closet at the back of the room.
He shoved all the clothes until he got to the back of the closet.
"Ah, my old uniform."
He put it on, and stepped outside, where many others were now also gathered.
"My fellow rebels... the angel of death, has come, not for us, but them.
"Vanya Nightingale, sire of Jera and Boris Nightingale.
"We can now rise again, and fight for what we believe in!
"We, with the angel of death with us, shall bring a new age!"
End of Part 1
Mafia
Vanya of the Mafia 1
Part 2: Ayanav's Journal
Chapter 1
Dear diary,
Everything is changing. My brother, (but I call him sister to get him back for trip king me into thinking he was a girl when we were little, and when momma and papa were still around) had sent me to his employer in what he calls "business".
This business is worrying. He packs weapons, and has a strange laptop. Sometimes I swear it is a phone.
His eyes are always dead, and without their usual sparkle when he gets back. He sometimes is absent, days at a time.
Mr. Noris is nice. He said he knew our parents.
I live under the name Ayanav Noris, a grandniece of him, now. It's a disguise because Vanya wants me to be safe because his business usually ends up with the govern after him.
He want me to call him Uncle, but I don't think that would be necessary.
Mr. Noris is involved with this business, but he's too rich and has much influence in the government, so no one dares mess with him.
I'm ok, and everything is calm, but I can't help but feel something is wrong. These Agents that are in this house. Their eyes are like Vanya's.
Dead.
Thank you for listening.
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
Something has happened. Vanya was on the news today.
He has introduced himself to the world. Something has happened to him. He can control that stuff, and now he's like an angel of death.
He said: "Greetings. You know me as the Insurgent. My name is Vanya Nightingale. Your government is full of corruption for the desire of power and money. It's time for a new age."
Something big is bound to happen. I can hear it as I walk to my new school, after breakfast. He tries to keep me safe, I appreciate that, but he can't protect me forever.
There are whispers of rebellion against the government.
I'm scared.
Thank you for listening.
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
Something has happened again. I remember history lessons at school. They talk about the rebellion sometimes.
One of the old leaders, Garland Morris appeared. He was sending a message to inspire other to the rebellion.
Vanya also came back today.
He doesn't know he started the reawakening of this rebellion. He doesn't have the wings, that is. The wings make him look more like death more than usual.
He wears a long black scarf though, and there is a splotch on his coat. The coat is also covered in dirt. Luckily, the maid, Mrs. Maryweather, assured him she could get the stain out.
I was scared to start over in school at this day and age, but I made a friend at school today. Her name is Wendy. I told her that my brother, but I call him sister to annoy him, came back from college today. That's what normal 22 year olds do, right?
She was happy for me. She asked me his name, but if I said Vanya, then that would only spark suspicion, so I told her his name was Victor.
Hope he is ok with the name.
He likes Victor, but prefers Vikita.
Maybe Vikita can be his cover nickname.
Though Wendy seems nice.
Thank you for listening.
-Ayanav
Chapter 2
Ayanav's Journal, Continued
Dear diary,
He realized he reawakened the rebellion. He wasn't happy.
It was scarier than usual, when he had a hissy fit. I used to make fun of him for it.
Not anymore. He needs less negativity. More cupcakes and rainbows.
I went to school. Vanya wore no prescription glasses, as to hide his face, and also dyed his hair the same color as mine.
He wanted to see what my school was like.
I told him he didn't have to worry about me, but he always insists.
Wendy came up to me.
"Is this your brother?"
"Yeah, meet Victor, Victor, meet Wendy."
"Hi! What's college like?"
"School. That's what college is like. Except you live nearby, and the school is bigger, which means more work and stuff. Nice to meet you Wendy." He said.
Later on Wendy said he kinda looked like a girl, but I told her people often misjudge his gender.
"He's kinda hot."
"Ew! Wendy!"
"Sorry, but it's true. It's not like I'm gonna try"
"You better not! He's older than you! By the way, how would you like it if I hit on your brother?"
"What! Don't. He's five years younger than you!"
"Just like my brother is five years older than you!"
"You need to learn to take a joke." Wendy had said, laughing.
"That was a joke?"
"Yeah."
"Oh... sorry."
"It's fine, rich girl, jokes with the people you grew up with must be those corny ones."
"They don't involve corn."
"I didn't mean- oh. That was a joke, wasn't it?"
"Yup!" I flashed a grin as we headed to our first class.
By the end of the year, we have to take a test, and then college, then a career would proceed from there.
I'm honestly nervous. It's not like I could ask Vanya. He never actually gone to college.
"I read about it in books." He would say. Not quite the same.
I'm planning to be a physiologist, or a doctor of some sort.
That way I can help people!
I maybe could also help brother too. He has depression, I can diagnose that. I think one of the few things that keep him going is me, and his business.
I haven't gotten to reading the journals in the bag, and the files on his computer, so I don't exactly understand.
He probably took his computer back.
I met more people today. They are Wendy's other friends they seem nice.
Thank you for listening
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
There's no school today because it is Saturday.
I was finishing yesterday's homework, when I heard yelling. I went to investigate. Mr. Noris is mad at Vanya. Saying that he had a bad aspect of our parent's. He was to showy, rather reckless at times, especially when he was on adrenaline.
"What vere you thinking?!"
"I vasn't."
"That's your problema! You don't think in certain situations. Now you could even more risk the uncovering of our agency! Starting a rebellion!???!!!! Do you know the power of words!?"
"The government gets in the way of business."
"Vanya. The government is there for stability."
"The government is unstable."
Mr. Noris sighed.
"You can't stay here forever you know. Missions will be impossible because of your stunt."
"They can. I will not fail. It's about time I get back."
"No. That is an order, Agent Makar."
"But-"
"Don't defy me. Please. I am the Leader, and you an agent. I'm trying to keep all of us safe. Jera and Boris would want that. You shouldn't have signed up."
"What was I to do, when the Mission New Government failed? Where else was I to turn? Besides, I did well in my job, right?"
"You are one of the best. You could have just come here, live a normal life as Ayanav is now."
"Nothing is normal. Besides, if I did, I would be slaving away as a military person fighting for the wrong cause. I'm no genius. I'm a killer, not a human."
I couldn't bear to listen anymore after that. Is that really how it was?
Violence... there's another way Vanya....
I shut myself in my room for the rest of the day, messaging me friend, Wendy and her other friends she introduced me to on Friday.
I can't confide in them, despite them being my friends. So, diary, I can only confide in you.
The Mafia is a curse.
Thank you for listening
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
Vanya was gone today.
He left a note like he always does.
___________________________
Dear Sister,
I am going to not be coming back until a goal is completed. I'm finishing mother and father's mission.
Don't tell Yakov. Please.
Thank you.
You might see me, here and there, but... please, don't get involved, and please stay safe.
And I will always be back, and I will protect you. I promise.
-Vanya
__________________________
He shouldn't make promises he cannot keep.
When I was done studying for the test, I decided that it was about time I found out what was going on.
There were four journals in the bag.
One computer, in which everything on it had been erased except a few files.
I started with the computer.
It was pictures of newspapers about the rebellion. Pictures of mom, dad, and a two year old Vanya there.
There were also our true citizen files mother and father had stolen, or so Vanya says.
I opened mother and father's.
It said that they were average citizens until they joined up and became the leaders of the rebellion against the government.
Then, I saw that there were files from the Mafia.
They told a different story.
The Makars were long time agents for the government, but realized the corruption after a few years of service.
They eventually followed whispers in the streets and came across the Mafia, a crime organization. However, the Mafia was actually a series or organizations, each one with it's own unique goal. The Quantum Mafia's goal was to make sure there was stability and make sure everything in space-time and the multiverse ran smoothly, as their leader, Mr. Noris...
It just said to read his file.
So I continued reading mother and father's first.
They joined the Mafia, and worked as double agents. Eventually they worked to bring down the government and restore true democracy.
They had two children, Vanya and Ayanav Makar.
Their mission failed. They are now dead.
They were part of the government at one point. I couldn't believe it. What else had Vanya not told me?
I pulled up Mr. Noris's file in the Mafia, as he does not have a government one in the files here.
His government file would not provide much information is stated on the file.
He wasn't from this world. He was from another.
A higher dimension.
That was what shocked me so. I didn't understand, nor do I now, but I didn't finish. That's all I needed to know.
From everything that has taken place now, and what information it tells, I have a grasp on what happened in the past.
Oh, so much information. School lied. Such things do exist.
My world is shattering, I don't know what to do. For now, however, I must carry on as normal.
Thank you for listening.
-Ayanav
Chapter 3
Ayanav's Journal, Continued
Dear diary,
I haven't entered all week. It's stressful. Luckily today, which is Friday, there wasn't as much homework, so I finished already.
Mr. Noris burned the journals in the bag, saying the information on them cannot just be laying around in the open.
I have already read them. They tell the story of the rebellion mum and papa led.
So many hopeful souls have their words written down on those pages. They were crushed.
No word from brother yet. I worry, but he always comes back. Eventually...
School was fine.
Thank you for listening.
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
I'm so sorry! I just really have a lot of homework and projects due!
It's nearing the end of the year and I have to get good scores, so that I can get into a good college!
I'm so nervous. It's been two months, and the rebellion has begun again.
Many others in the school are talking about it. Some students have disappeared, Wendy has.
Vanya had been making many appearances on the news. I don't talk about it. I often change the topic. It's dangerous. I think Wendy has disappeared because she spoke out against the government.
I'm worried. They now have drills in case of attack.
Mr. Noris is really easily angered now. It must be the stress. He has to deal with even tighter security from the government, and the suspicion of the government in general.
I know he worries too for brother.
He refers to me and Vanya as his children. I guess he feels as if we are.
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
Today Mr. Noris told me about me and Vanya's parents. They were good people. He also told me about himself.
He was here to monitor the human race. To make sure they don't mess with things beyond their comprehension.
He was from where the matter came from, which explains how he knew why my brother was scarier than usual.
Brother had some in him. No wonder he was dying. Although Mr. Noris says that Vanya is going to be alright. The dark matter seems to be willing to be part of Vanya rather than consume him. As what happened with Chrome.
Agent Chrome, the lady that Vanya doesn't like. I think I know why. He always just called her another corrupt official, but now I know it's because she interfered with his business.
He tells me, because he says I deserve to know, but he tells me not to speak a word of this to anyone, except Vanya, himself, and Vanya's friend.
He came by today. He was rather friendly, but loud.
I don't understand how Vanya is friends with him. Vanya is quite the opposite.
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
Everything is on lockdown. AlthoughvI got my letter, and it's from a good college!
I can be a doctor now and help people! Although it seems that dream will have to wait. Vanya has led the war on the government. I've never seen so much violence on the news....
Why did he cause this suffering? It's not like him.
Although, I can still see him in his actions. Despite what he says, how he is a killer, he tries to cause as little harm as possible. He's not just a killer.
His casualties are low on both sides. The war is already here. They are closing in on the capital. Please.... don't let everything fall into chaos......
-Ayanav
Dear diary,
Today... is a sad day. War never reached me, but I could still feel the horrors of it. They overthrew the president, and rewrote the constitution!
They returned democracy...
Then they killed Vanya.......
they shot him with a firing squad,
they executed him because:
"He had requested it."
Did it really get that bad? He promised to come back!
Why did he chose to die?
Dear diary...
It's been a few months, but....
He's alive. I don't understand how, but he is!
Mr. Noris says it's because of the dark matter.
I don't care he's back. Although, what he has planned next... he wants to travel the world for a while, with me. He's inherited what momma and papa had, due to their last will and all that.
He's decided to use the name Victor Noris.
Although, he said "I will always be Vanya Makar."
I'm happy!
-Ayanav