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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Legend of ZUN 2.5: The Last Great War (Episode 3)

{Author's Note: This takes place after Legend of ZUN 2 and it is highly recommended that you play it before reading this to better understand the material and any possible spoiler from any 1 of the two games.}


Episode 3: Doomsday

The war closes in on its fourth year and onto its fifth year. The raging tank wars between the kappa made Master Spark tanks and the electric Tesla Gaster Blaster tanks. Territory in the Pacific shrank and grew constantly, every time the America fought forward, they were counter attacked and vice versa. Yukari Yakumo began to have other plans, as she believed the war was nearing its end and one of those plans has to do with ZUN and his disposable job.

******

"What do you mean? We almost got Hawaii twice! Why are telling us that we should be on the defensive?" Said General Reimu Hakurei to Yukari on the phone.
"I have a strong feeling Reimu, a feeling that the war might be ending soon."
"Ending? But we haven't even reached the damn mainland!" Complained Reimu.
"Reimu, just stay defensive and everything will play out."
"I hope your right, you old hag."
Reimu hanged up. The war in the Pacific between Gensokyo and America has never really gone anywhere since the battle of Midway. The RUA forces have largely left to fight a just as stagnant war in Europe fighting the Germans and the Russians. Well, the same could be said for Japan, as they too have to focus on fighting the Russians over China and they weren't going to help the youkai anytime soon, despite the alliance.
"Where's Jun'ya?" Asked Yukari.
"The last I heard, he's at Eientei."
"Thank you Ran. I need to tell to start publishing stories about some 'victories' that we made."

******

Asgore Dreemurr was depressed, even ever since he stopped collecting souls for the barrier. He mostly overcame that back then, but then the colony incident. He wanted to expand the kingdom to move more monsters from out of the Underground. But nations like South Africa, India, England, France, and even Belgium and the Congo, told him with the utmost anger that what he was doing was wrong. Even if he pulled the excuse that he was only doing it for the benefit for the monsters. On top of that, the corruption brought on by foreign corporations and the two separate Islamic terrorist attacks in Hotland and New Home respectively. He had no choice but to abdicate. Of course democratization would mean the people could better benefit themselves better than he ever could by himself. He helped out people and that made him feel good about himself. So he thought that by preventing a world war, he could redeem himself, now that is not the case. His depression had returned. The Third World War looked like it would never end. His family was still broken and Toriel still doesn't talk to him that much even after since the barrier fell. He walked around solemnly. He opened a drawer in his office.
"Heh, the humans use these to fight each other with now. Not with swords or spears, just these."
He looked down at the Luger he had. Of course he still owned his trident and even a scythe and still knew magic but...these are how things are done now.
He loaded the pistol and placed it in his mouth. He felt his teeth clench on the metal barrel. He pulled the trigger and everything went dark.

******

Toriel was taken aghast, "Why did he do that?" She queried.
"Don't know. But his neighbors said he hadn't come out of house in months. Luckily one of the neighbors called about a gunshot from his house." Said the Policeman on the telephone.
There was a knock on the door. "I gotta go." Toriel hanged up.
"Hi mom." greeted Frisk.
"Oh um, Frisk. Can I tell you something."
"Sure." Frisk walked into the house.
Toriel began, "So, remember Asgore."
"Yes, very well. Why?"
"He just committed suicide."
Silence filled the room, until Frisk muttered something uner his breath "ZUN...".
"What?" Toriel asked.
"I gotta go, I have something to take care of, it nice meeting you. Sorry about Asgore thought." Frisk left.

******

Aya was tending to one of the large printing machines. When ZUN called out.
"Yukari just phoned in, victory in Hawaii apparently."
"Oh really?!" Replied Aya.
"No land's been taken but America is leaving the island chain."
"I can't believe it."
What the two didn't know was that Yukari had fabricated the whole Hawaii. In fact a stalemate battle happened just outside of Midway and it leaned sightly in favor of the US.
"Something isn't right." Said Jun'ya.
"What's the matter?" Asked Aya.
"It's just seems like our journalistic integrity is at Yukari's whim. We're just playthings in her larger scheme. I'm not even sure that this battle even happened."
"But we must keep the public's confidence in mind, huh." Aya said.
"Right."
The two then proceeded to make the newspaper issue anyway, despite its questionability.

******

Frisk entered the airport. He got his ticket and walked toward the terminal. Just as he was making it to the security checkpoint, someone yelled "Nihon to gensō gō no eikō no tame ni!".
A loud bang was heard and Frisk lost consciousness. He woke several hours later in a hospital. "Where the hell I'm I?" Frisk asked.
"You have been hospitalized from a terrorist attack. Your fine, but you'll need some plastic surgery. Your face had some nasty burns. We've grafted your skin, some features are a bit off from the blast." Said the doctor.
Frisk got up from his bed and walked to the bathroom, he took off the mask and behind was his face, only...words can't possibly describe its description. Frisk put the mask back on.
"Until you get surgery. I recommend you keep the mask on." The doctor said.
"It would a day or two for you to leave." The Doctor continued.

******

"Are you sure you want to do this? I mean the world much more different than it was back in 1945, everyone has nukes now." Said Bill.
"Yes, but think of this as a peace bomb." Hillary explained.
"You'll regret that decision, nuking Japan like that."
"But Asgore wanted this to end."
"But not like this!" Bill cried out.
Hillary paused, reflecting on if either to do what her husband said or continue anyway. Her husband did cheat on her way back when, so she left the room towards the oval office, to where she get the codes. Sooner or later, this war will end.

******

It was a fortnight since Frisk had left the hospital, his plastic surgery would be scheduled for next week. He had taken up urban exploration and was exploring an old bunker, it was well kept and was surprised that the electricity still worked when he reached the breaker box in the maintenance room. He was kept company with and old MTT brand FM/AM/Satelite radio, the AM/FM still worked this deep Underground. The radio crackled on, "President Hillary today has announced her plans to end the war. She didn't clarify on what would be the plan would be in the form of...More on this later.".
Frisk stopped at a blank cracked white wall, he found a permanent marker and drew a Delta Rune on the wall. He remembered when everybody was still alive, Toriel and Mettaton where still around and kicking, but for how long?

******

Hillary Clinton punched in the launch codes, and twisted the two keys. She ordered no one to enter the room. A touch screen folded out in front of her and she picked the location, Kyoto. She press the button and sirens blared and a synthetic voice said "Nuclear launch activated, missles inbound to target.". After the ruckus from the machine stopped, she left the room. She stood in front of her cabinet and generals and announced "The war is over!".
Everyone clapped and cheered for her actions, unbeknownst to them that she had launched a several megaton nuclear warhead to Kyoto, Japan.
Russia had detected a nuclear strike aimed at their ally. So they launched a nuke at America. Then a beleaguered China shot their nukes at Russia as retaliation. Then Iran launched their nukes out to everyone they considered an enemy. Britain and India had no choice but to send out their nukes as well. Within a half hour nukes whizzed throughout the world. Hillary Clinton was short sighted in seeing that she had just ended the known world.

******

Toriel was tending to things at her school, she was preparing things for the following week, it was a Saturday. Secretly, she was still shocked about Asgore killing himself. But a bright flash appeared. She put her arm in front of her eyes as the flash darkened. A shock wave blasted the windows a minute passed and she felt something warm...no...warmer...wait...hot..like very hot, like Hotland hot, this quickly turned to a burning feeling on her skin. Her fur began to burn up as the incredible heat became even hotter. She screamed in pain as her clothes were rapidly burning, the whole school was on fire. Then another shock wave came and killed her instantly as the wall where the windows once were, blew apart and her skin and flesh as well. She quickly became monster dust as the rest of the school was blown to pieces. The radiation was setting in and around the blast zone.
Mettaton was entertaining some troops in a French village a few miles away from the Ruhr. A RUA soldier bursted in screaming "The angel of death has come for us!!!". Everyone panicked and rushed out. Mettaton rolled outside and witnessed a mushroom cloud not too far off. A blast of hot air rushed in front of him. Mettaton made haste for an old deep tunnel that connected the tavern to an old chateau. His regular form's defense was enough to repel some of the heat, but the radiation would mess up with how his body worked. On top of that his body couldn't stand with the extreme heat. Mettaton came halfway through the tunnel before ends collapsed leaving him stuck. He went into a low power mode, waiting for anyone to rescue him...anyone. 
Papyrus went to check on Sans, ever since he narrowly escaped the Gaster Blaster tank explosion. Sans wasn't himself anymore, after all, he gave away his strongest attack so that this war could be better fought. Papyrus enter his room, before he comfort him, the house exploded into flames and with a bang both him and Sans blacked out...they were killed by a nuclear blast that was only a city away.

******

"This is the Emergency Alert System, nuclear weapons have been detonated in United States territory. This is not a test!" Frisk promptly turned off the old radio.
"That explains the banging up there." he said to himself.
The electricity was cutting in and out, as the bunker creaked and moaned. Frisk tried to turn his radio back on, static. He sat down, everyone he knows is pretty much dead as far as he knew. He was angry, angry at ZUN. Without him and Gensokyo, all his friends wouldn't have died. Frisk looked up at the ceiling, he reflected on his years as a child. Now he was self inflicted with a vendetta. Frisk was filled with determination.

******

The war was over and Yukari arrived at the Bunbunmaru Newspaper building. "So are you going to give me my newspaper back?" Asked Aya.
"I need you to run some more stories, that I'll explain later." Yukari said to her.
"No! I can't do this anymore, I can't sacrifice our integrity so you can sway the people all like that. That Hawaii battle was a total sham!" Jun'ya cried out.
"That may indeed be the case. But the war is over. We still have to deal with a postwar outside world, we have colonies to rebuild, land to assess." Yukari replied.
"But...But what about the humans that are still out there."
"Jun'ya Ota, I relieve you of your duty. Ran."
"Yes, Yukari-sama." Answered Ran.
Ran placed a damp cloth over Jun'ya's face. Within minutes he collapsed in a drugged sleep.
"What the hell Yukari?!" Yelled Aya.
"Ran, put him in cryogenic storage. He is of no use to us...anymore." Yukari commanded.


To Be Continued...in the Legend of ZUN 3!

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