text: "We need to get our shit together first, look, we got people all over the damn place and wounded everywhere." You say surveying the damage.
  "You can't be serious! We need to attack NOW! Or don't you remember what they nearly did to our son?" Lisa exclaims.
  "Christ Lisa, I'm aware of ALL the shit they've done! What I'm saying is we need to organize here, and not just throw people at them until something happens! I understand that's the Shadow Horde way of doing things but... "
  
  At this point Lisa slaps you, and while your skin is tough, it still manages to sting.
  
  "Oh fuck you; if it hadn't been for YOUR duplicity we wouldn't even BE in this situation!"
  "Look Lisa, we NEED to at least regroup. I'm sure that hospital is going to be their last stand and we can't go in attacking half assed. We need to attack from all sides and cut off all avenues of escape so we don't have to deal with guerilla hold outs after the main attack is over. We want to kill them ALL in one fell swoop; we don't want the fucking Savior to escape to cause trouble later!"
  
  After a little more debate, Lisa finally agrees and you quickly gather your troops and implement a plan while Lisa takes care of her own end of things. Within a couple days you're ready, but Lisa still being strong willed sort she is, jumps the gun and begins before you.
  
  "Goddamn it Lisa... "
  
  The battle to the hospital is a slaughter on the Glow Children's side. They still haven't recovered from the battle of Downtown and they've been losing many to the Shadow Horde. The Zeropolis Legion doesn't lose too many troops, though the Shadow Horde is taking a beating due to the fact that they're taking the brunt of the Glow Children's hospital defenses. That needn't had been the case had Lisa not attacked so soon. By the time you make it to the hospital most of the heavy fighting has been done. Dead bodies of both Glow Children and the Shadow Horde are littering the streets. Lisa stands outside the hospital seemingly unconcerned.
  
  "What the fuck Lisa? I told you to fuckin' wait! You look like you lost your whole goddamn Horde trying to storm this hospital!"
  "Who cares? If they aren't strong enough to survive then they can die like the rest. They're meant to serve me anyway, and the Glow Children MUST pay for what they nearly did to my son, no matter what the costs. Now go in and PROVE you're a father by doing what needs to be done. Should be easy... I did most of the work for you."
  
  You shake your head trying to reason with Lisa's recent volatile emotions, and head into the hospital with your own people. Sounds of battle are heard and body parts are all over the place. After a few shoot outs with the few wretched hold outs, you eventually track down the infamous Savior. Yet another old face that looks a lot different from when you last saw it.
  
  A severely burned female cyborg attempting to fix up one of her Glow Children on an operating table throws her scalpel down in frustration when she realizes nothing more can be done and sees you enter the room.
  
  "Mutants! Fucking goddamn back stabbing mutants... you're no good for anything!" she shouts.
  "Wow, AVA that's a lot of emotion for a cyborg." You say calmly.
  "Let's see how emotionless you remain when you see YOUR future destroyed before your eyes. This is all your fault! YOU caused all this! You did this to me!"
  "Yeah, yeah, I've been getting that line from everyone lately. It's getting old."
  "Fool. We would've brought unity to the world; mutants would've been incorporated too. All you had to do was help, but instead you betrayed us to those who hate you!"
  "Yeah and that incorporation would've been the total loss of free will I'm sure. No thanks, I'd rather take my chances with some disjointed puny humans than an army of unified cyborgs."
  "Ah, of course. You mutants think YOU are fit to rule the world. Huh. You're little better than humans. You still act on emotion rather than clarity. Look at your wife... she sacrificed hundreds of her own people who she claimed she looked after all for a mere child. Don't look so surprised that I know about that act of total illogic, I could hear her screaming her rants of vengeance when I first saw her approach the hospital with her mutant rabble."
  "First of all she's not my wife. And what about what you did? Are you saying sending in multitudes of brainwashed mutants was so different?"
  "YES! Yes it was! My purpose was NOT based on emotion! I was trying to kill as many as mutants as possible! I had a clear goal! A clarity of purpose! What do I care what mutants died on who's side? I am not one of them!"
  "Uh... yeah. Well sounds pretty emotional to me. Sounds like good ol' fashioned revenge. And I suppose those assassination attempts on me was just business to eh? Nothing personal?"
  
  AVA shakes her head in dismay and looks up at the ceiling. Tears stream from her non-cybernetic eye.
  
  "You'll never understand mutant... it... it should've been us... we... I'm sorry Alex... I'm sorry my father... I have ended up like you... trapped and surrounded by my enemies with only death awaiting me... forgive me... "
  
  Strangely, you almost feel sorry for AVA, putting her out of her misery is probably an act of kindness at this point. And so you do with a couple of well placed bullets.
  
  "(Sigh) Well AVA, if it's any consolation, you did a lot of damage to us, a lot of damage... "
  
  When you exit, Lisa is still waiting outside, she looks like she's deep in thought.
  
  "Yeah, the Savior's dead and from what I can tell so are all the other Glow Children as well as most of your Shadow Horde... " you say to Lisa
  "Given the temporary mistrust both side had for each other, perhaps its for the best... perhaps this alliance needs to be dissolved and simply unified under one banner, one name, we are all mutants, no one is better than another, but we are all better than humans."
  "So what're you saying exactly?"
  "I'm saying we should be joined officially... with this latest annoyance out of the way, Zeropolis will soon be under our total control and then it will be time to handle the humans. I'm already a Queen, and you shall be my King and Adonis... shall be a Prince... heir to our new mutant dynasty."
  
  You're a little surprised by this sudden suggestion
  
  "Whoa! What the hell? You want us to get fuckin' married?"
  "Yes, do you not have feelings for me?"
  "Well uh... yeah I guess... I mean... "
  "Am I not the mother of your son?"
  "Well of course."
  "Do you not see the wisdom in this action?"
  "I suppose, but... "
  "Then it's settled... and be honest wouldn't you like to be able to spend more time with your son? Spend more time with me... and be closer to you... "
  
  Lisa's manages to convince you in that way she does through her seductive embraces and strong commanding will. You swear she has some sort of mutant ability to control minds.
  
  A festive wedding is soon held after the celebration of the Glow Children's destruction.
  
  Ten years pass... 
  
  Twenty years have passed and the unification of Zeropolis is complete. One City of unified mutants and you are their KING. What was once a warehouse has now been turned into a palace.
  
  War against the humans is also in full swing. Lisa made sure that was the first thing on the agenda the moment Zeropolis was completely unified. The Combine wasn't even prepared for the first few attacks, as entire towns were taken over with relative ease. Never before had mutants been so organized, and are now the greatest threats to them since the Cybernetic Evolution, worse even, since you can breed, and not just with other mutants... 
  
  The Combine and The Zero Dominion (That being its new name) fought for a long time, but The Combine lost mainly due to its own internal turmoil. After a couple years of your attacks the government collapsed and splintered into several factions. Some of those factions willingly surrendered to you. Human traitors were not unheard mainly because rule under The Combine was little better. It was a corrupt and decadent organization that bullied its citizens, while human subjects living under your occupation are treated fairly well as long as they know their place and they are certainly well protected from other humans like the outlaw scum who lurk in the wastelands. With the Combine completely destroyed, mutants now rule everything within the area ranging from towns to even the Ground Zero Shelters still containing their inhabitants. (Actually many of those genuinely thanked you for releasing them from those underground coffins! Lisa of course wasn't surprised by the shoddy workmanship that went into most of them given that she used to work for the corporation)
  
  Now eyes of conquest look ever further, but despite all this, you're a relatively benevolent dictator.
  
  Though Lisa often thinks you're too lenient on the humans, and claims you must set a better example for Adonis who shall take over from you one day. Adonis is only a teenager, but has the arrogance of a god. The tests and training Lisa insists that he engage in continue, and have produced a superior specimen of mutanthood thus far. Already he is eager to shed the blood of humans, you sometimes have to tell him that he shouldn't let something like that dominate his thoughts as it can lead to recklessness, but he's very much like his mother despite the fact that you've had regular contact with him now.
  
  Your daughter Venus on the other hand is different. She's still young, but even now you can see that she will be a very dissimilar person than her brother. While you'd think Lisa would want to spend time with her own daughter, she still concentrates only on Adonis. Leaving you to take up that role, but even that is only minimal as Venus often prefers spending time by herself. She reminds you of... well you. Over the recent years, you've often wished you could spend time by yourself like you used to, but that's a rare luxury nowadays... 
  
  But heavy is the head that wears the crown and you have a host of concerns as of late to attend to and they only stack up. Hell, you don't even know where to begin anymore. You begin to wonder if any of this is even worth it. You know you're better than humans, but is constant ongoing warfare REALLY what you want?
  > stop it
  You don't really want this, you never really did. You feel like every decision you've ever made has either because you had no choice or because you felt influenced in some way. Well you're in charge now and if you don't want to wage an ongoing war with humans then you're not going to!
  
  You immediately call a halt to all further acts of aggression on human settlements. You say you're going to concentrate on defending and holding on to what you have. Lisa isn't too pleased with this decision. You argue that what is the point of it all since you've eliminated the greatest threat to mutants, while Lisa says as long as humans are around they'll always be a threat to mutants. You're not going to change your mind though; you've made your decision.
  
  Adonis naturally feels like you've cheated him out his chance to prove himself in true battle against humans. In the years to follow he joins the Dominion army and entertains himself by being cruel to the human subjects. One day in a human settlement called Ashtown, he goes too far and one of them actually fights back. In the ensuing struggle Adonis' face is hit by a small explosion, severely disfiguring his once relatively human looking appearance. Now all that is left is a horrific skinless face and little of his remaining sanity. In retaliation he orders the complete destruction of Ashotwn. When Lisa hears of this she wants even more vengeance and goes over your head as well to order the destruction of another town called Cinderville, by the time you can call a stop to any of this, both places have been razed to the ground and its inhabitants butchered.
  
  Previously the humans under your rule were scared just enough not to start an uprising, some of them were even loyal, you always made sure never to be unnecessarily brutal even though Lisa and Adonis would prefer otherwise; so what occurs next isn't too surprising to you. These events as well as the liberties Adonis has been taking, has pushed them over the realms of fear and into hatred. You begin to have uprisings, and guerilla attacks all over the Dominion, some of the more fanatical ones even launch suicidal attacks on targets in Zeropolis.
  
  You do your best to try to stop the attacks while at the same time trying to still be fair to the humans, but the time for that is long gone. Instead the mutant citizens just think you're being too weak.
  
  More years go by and you're getting assassination attempts by other mutants calling for your blood. Parts of the Dominion begin to splinter as you unsuccessfully attempt to hold everything together. It's just like what happened to the Combine. Now you you're forced to become brutal just to keep everyone in line for a few months, but it's too late, now nobody likes you, not even your family which has been apparent for quite some time, but one time it goes to the point of no return.
  
  One night while you're brooding to yourself in your private chambers, Adonis shows up before you with his own personal guards. You can't say you didn't see this coming as well.
  
  "Old man you are no longer fit to rule the Zero Dominion! I'm taking over!"
  "You think you are...you're mother will be the one really running shit, because as far as I can tell you're barely capable of staging a coup."
  "SHUT UP! KILL HIM!" Adonis screams.
  
  You might be older, but you're still relatively quick. You dodge for cover as Adonis' guards attempt to kill you. You pull your own weapon and with your usual deadly accuracy you blast every one of them, though Adonis has managed to sneak around behind you at this point. Being dramatic is his downfall as he attempts to slit your throat, but you manage to grab his arm and break it, before he can. He falls to the ground clutching his arm.
  
  "Stupid ass kid, don't bring a knife to a gun fight!" you say standing up.
  "Yeah, and don't talk when you have the advantage, old man!" Adonis retorts and a blade from his boot suddenly appears as he kicks up at your stomach, impaling you with it.
  "Fuck!"
  
  You quickly dislodge yourself from the blade and stagger a bit before dropping your pistol. Adonis takes the advantage and side kicks you in the face, this time taking out one of you eyes. Oddly you don't even feel the pain; in fact you're beginning to feel pretty numb to everything right now.
  
  "Mom always said you were weak."
  "Yeah, well I'm not the one who's the mama's boy... I think you should call her, you need all the help you can get."
  
  This little taunt throws Adonis off his game and he charges at you. You drop to the floor and trip him. When he falls face first to the ground you immediately shove your knee in his back and break his other arm.
  
  "Sorry son, but your name is Adonis, not Oedipus and you ain't gonna be killing me."
  
  And with that last statement you snap his neck.
  
  Now you start to feel the pain of your wounds, you've lost quite a bit of blood, but you'd probably be able to survive if you had the chance to get to the doctor, but you know you aren't going to get that chance.
  
  Lisa walks in with pistol in hand, and at this point you don't even want to stop her even if you were in a position to do so.
  
  "You killed my poor son, he would've ruled... "
  "Think of it this way, now you can eliminate the middle man and just rule directly, just like you've always wanted, just like you did with the Shadow Horde... (groan) I think I'll just rest here for awhile. Yeah that's better."
  "You're going to die for what you've done!"
  "Yeah, I kind of figured that, look I don't care anymore, don't you see that? It's been nothing but a fucking headache anyway. ... now if you're going to shoot, you go ahead, or just let me bleed to death because I just don't care anymore."
  
  Lisa looks genuinely upset, and you don't think it's solely over Adonis. Even after thinking you're unfit to rule or be her husband anymore, she's still reluctant to kill you.
  
  "Goddamn it, what happened to you? Why couldn't you have just done what I wanted? To create a dynasty to last forever!"
  All I ever wanted was to live a peaceful life, well that didn't happen for a variety of reasons, but I guess I can say it wasn't boring. And there was the fact that I did get to meet you... Lisa don't prolong this, just do it. It'll be easier for all of us. Tell Venus I love her as much as I still love her mother."
  
  Lisa sheds a few tears and then carries out your request.
  
  Soon after your death Lisa takes over the Zero Dominion and does a much better job than you or Adonis could've ever done. In the years to follow, she restores order and quells all rebellions. She might've even brought in further territory had she not been assassinated by Venus, who always stayed quiet and in the background plotting and waiting for the right moment to strike. Strangely Venus never took over; instead she left Zeropolis and the Dominion altogether, letting it collapse into multiple civil wars until it destroyed itself.
  
  Where she wound up is unknown, but being her father's daughter, it was probably someplace quiet and isolated.