text: [Themes: sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, war]
  
  You have no desire to resist her advances and you totally give in to consummate this new alliance in a very special way...
  
  Afterwards you and Lisa get to know one another a little better. It's funny that she finally returned to the GZS research outpost after all these years. At the time you were kicking Owen's ass to take refuge here, she was attacked and nearly killed by Ferals and had to hide for several days struggling to survive. She mentions how she nearly died, how she got sick, how she came to accept the changes in her body, and how she managed to unite the sewer dwelling mutants.
  
  You and Lisa talk about how you do both feel a sense of superiority to humanity, though it would seem Lisa has felt this way for a lot longer than you have and has stronger feelings about it, whereas you never really thought about it until you were actually killing Combine members. Indeed she does have a stronger feeling of only the strong should survive mindset, though that might be due to the harder path she had when trying to survive during those first few years.
  
  You and Lisa begin to make plans for unifying Zeropolis. It isn't widely accepted at first, as there are hard feelings on both sides. Your side is willing to stop the fighting, but their a little leery of an alliance. However, your standing is good so you don't suffer outright rebellion, just a lot of grumbling. Lisa's side is even less receptive; you honestly don't know how she manages to keep those big hideous freaks in line even if she does have mutant pheromones and a strong force of will. As it turns out, the Shadow Horde for the first time splits and bickers among itself. Lisa manages to keep control of most of it, but not without an underground civil war.
  
  After all the smoke clears, the Shadow Horde and the Zeropolis Guard (Which you've renamed the Zeropolis Legion) maintain a shaky alliance.
  
  Five years pass...
  
  Ten years have passed since you decided that going to the City would be a great place to find supplies...
  
  Unification of Zeropolis has been going as planned, but its still slow going. Most of the Ferals still alive have managed to overcome their relentless need for violence and food, but that doesn't mean they are any nicer. The Shadow Horde has more success with those types as great display of strength, intimidation and fear work well. On your end you've managed to employ more peaceful means of incorporating the less hostile groups of mutants, such as restoring power to their areas and rebuilding. (The messenger rat system for long range communication even works well now)
  
  You and Lisa could be considered "together" but it's a distant relationship. She runs her part, you run your part and every now and then you get together. She has some sort of feelings for you, but she's very much in her own world sometimes. Though the same could be said for you, but you do have feelings for her as well.
  
  Lisa has also had your child. (Predictably 9 months after your "agreement" to the alliance.) A son, though you don't get to see him too much, mainly because Lisa wants him to be closer to her. In fact you get the impression one of the reasons she had sex with you was in order to have a fairly "normal" looking child. She called him Adonis. It would seem that for all her talk on mutant supremacy, she still holds the "human" standard of beauty in high regard, (though to be honest so do you!) She's already training him to be self-sufficient with minor "tests" she sets up in the sewers; however despite this rather harsh training Lisa is very protective of Adonis.
  
  The main faction standing in the way is one that has somehow gained momentum relatively recently over the last few years. A cult of mutants called the Glow Children, have taken over a great portion of Zeropolis through their weird faith. They follow a leader calling themselves the Savior. In your experience, groups with any type of religious faith behind them are never willing to negotiate and they aren't an exception. They are utterly fanatical and devoted to their cause. They also engage in attacks from the sewers as well, causing you to believe that ex-Shadow Horde members fill their ranks. They've made their headquarters (or Cathedral as it were) at the old hospital.
  
  You and Lisa are supposed to meet tonight with the rest of your respective cabinet tonight to determine how to best approach the Glow Children problem. You're walking out of your headquarters with your guards when from out of the street a very very LARGE creature appears with the biggest fucking gun you've ever seen. Its resemblance to humanity is superficial even by Shadow Horde standards. You haven't seen ANYTHING like this before.
  
  "Goddamn it Lisa what the fuck are your people doing!? You're supposed to be defending that area!" you yell to yourself ducking back inside your headquarters and lying flat. The creature's weapon rips through the door and the walls, killing many of your men. You hear gun fire outside followed by screams.
  
  You know damn well it's probably going to laugh at normal weapons so you run to grab those old CE weapons you haven't used since the Alliance. Time to use those plasma guns again.
  
  The creature breaks through the remaining bit of wall ignoring the bullets flying into its back, a Shadow Horde member presumably coming from the sewers jumps on it and stabs it in the head, but the giant aberration only grabs him and breaks his neck with a squeeze of his own enormous hand and throws the lifeless body through the nearby wall. You've never seen a Shadow Horde member treated like such a mere annoyance, and for once in a long time you really are scared.
  
  You grab a plasma gun while the creature is still preoccupied with your guards doing their best to bring it down and that's when you fire a hot bolt of plasma into its massive body, again, again, and again, until the damn weapon overheats and burns your hands, causing you drop it. Fortunately you've melted enough of its internal anatomy to cause it to finally collapse and die.
  
  "Alright what the fuck IS that thing?!" you shout wincing from the pain in your hands.
  "It's a fucking big ass freak, that's what it is." One your men says. "You don't think it's a Horde member do you? You think they..."
  "No, no, shit I hope not. Besides I just saw it kill a Horde member with its bare hands like it was nothing, never seen that before. Might've been an Ex-horde member at one time though."
  
  Another one of your soldiers comes in through the hole in the wall and has more news for you.
  
  "Just got word from one of the horde, they got a similar attack on their Queen. Don't worry though, she's alive and so is your son. She said she'll be arriving soon."
  
  That relieves you on several levels; you were sort of worried about them even if you all aren't exactly a proper family unit. You and some of the others inspect the body of the fallen creature. Damn thing is huge, but what disturbs you more is the fact you're seeing cybernetic implants...not to mention its weapon is pretty high tech stuff, similar to the same ones you received from the Cybernetic Evolution...
  
  "Oh shit, we got cyborg mutants." You say.
  "What? But how? I mean...last we heard The Combine won that war. Just barely, but they won." One of your soldiers replies.
  "Yeah, well it looks like there were survivors and they probably want revenge on us and what better way of doing that then by helping our enemies? (Sigh) the only good thing is that they can't possibly be able to have access to a lot of this high tech stuff anymore; they don't even have the means of manufacturing it since we own the factories. They're probably just using scraps and pieces they managed to take with them after the beat down they suffered from the hands of the Combine."
  
  Though those "scraps and pieces" can still do a lot of damage, and that's not even counting the regular fanatical cultists. You'll really have to get this attack plan with Lisa organized quickly. Suddenly you hear MORE sounds of battle! The Glow Children have sent more of their suicidal attackers to wreak havoc in your territory, most likely attempting to get to you though. Your guards suggest you descend down into you private quarters for protection, until Lisa arrives.
  
  > stay where you are
  As much as you probably regret getting yourself into this mess by EVER returning to the City, you are a leader now and you're determined to continue to act as such.
  
  Sometimes you wonder what would've happened had you bought that bomb shelter...
  
  You stay and demand to be informed on the current situation so you can position the defenses better. You want double security on the borders. You also order that all non-combatants should stay in their homes.
  
  When Lisa arrives she has Adonis with her, as well as her own retinue of guards. After telling a couple of your men to take Adonis to your quarters and look after him, you and Lisa begin to talk in your half ruined warehouse.
  
  "We've been getting attack from all sides here you know." You say.
  "So have we, the ex-members that broke off from my Horde have been leading many of these attacks at least as far as the sewers are concerned."
  "Yeah well we got bigger problems, have you noticed some of the firepower a few of these Glow Children are packing?"
  "Yes, the same type that you used against us five years ago. Some of my people are starting to think that this is some complex ZL plot to wipe us out again, I've had to alleviate those concerns though I can't say it didn't cross my mind."
  "Hey, I nearly got wasted by that colossus lying on the floor over there! And as you said your own ex-disgruntled employees are leading a lot of the attacks so don't think the same thoughts of treachery haven't gone through our mind up here as well!"
  "Funny that you should think that about us since we don't have the history of betraying our allies..."
  
  An argument about accusations breaks out until gunfire from your quarters is heard.
  
  "Adonis!" Lisa says stopping her ranting at you.
  "Oh fuck!" you say and run to the ladder with everyone else not far behind.
  
  When you get to your quarters, you see a dead mutant cultist lying on the floor with multiple gunshot wounds, one of your men lies dead with multiple stab wounds and happily Adonis is still alive with one of your guards breathing hard. Adonis immediately runs to Lisa when he sees her.
  
  "Whew! That motherfucker did NOT want to die!" he says.
  
  After thanking the soldier profusely, you make a check wondering how the fuck the assassin got in, the only one who ever got through the door before was Lisa and that was because she managed to subdue your guards and had prior knowledge of the place.
  
  And that's when you see a hole in the wall in one of the bedrooms, that hole now leads to the sewers. Knowing damn well that Lisa would make it known that harm should NEVER come to Adonis, any theories that the Shadow Horde is somehow behind things are out of your mind. Lisa's speculations for you are squashed as well.
  
  "See, the enemy is trying to sew the seeds of mistrust. The old divide and conquer, well to hell with that, they fucked up big time with this clumsy assassination attempt. That's it we're mobilizing every fucking thing we got, we're pooling our resources and..."
  
  You get another report while in the middle of your speech.
  
  "SIR! THEY'RE ATTACKING DOWNTOWN!" a soldier shouts from the upstairs.
  
  "Fuck!" you exclaim and rush to the scene.
  
  When you arrive cultists are throwing home made bombs all over the damn place, some of them are purposely blowing themselves up.
  
  "Aim for the goddamn explosives on their chests before they get close!" you order, while you engage in your own fighting from afar with your rifle. They're coming like swarms of lemmings though and the body count is growing, monstrosities like the one that tried to kill you earlier are proving cover fire for the gibbering suicide cultists.
  
  You need to get into a better position to do the maximum amount of damage, so you look for higher ground while Lisa directs from the street level. You enter one of the buildings and begin running up the stairs to get to the roof. In the process of the excitement, you notice something.
  
  "Damn, I used to work in this building."
  
  After this brief thought of the past you make it to the roof, where upon you're kicked in the face as soon as you exit the door, dropping your rifle.
  
  "Good! I'm glad you avoided the assassins, I was hoping to finish you off myself."
  
  As you stand up, you see a nasty looking creature, with a hideous appearance.
  
  "You're going to pay for what you did to me, YOU turned me into this! With your lies and your assault! I was NORMAL until YOU came and ripped me from my protective sanctuary!"
  
  You immediately know who this is.
  
  "Owen?"
  "Silence! I'm the High Priest! Owen DIED when you threw me into the blasted City! Do you know how much pain and sickness I suffered? How many years I wandered the streets of Zeropolis little more than an intelligent Feral? You realize how long it took me to get over the madness?"
  "Well from where I'm standing I don't think you're quite over it."
  "Oh you're wrong, quite wrong, when the Savior came, she brought clarity to us all. She will bring true order to this City, not the Horde and not the Legion, but the Children! For the Children ARE the future!"
  "Yeah...and you say you got over the madness?"
  "It doesn't matter what you think! What matters is you're going to pay for ALL your lies and treachery tonight! To me AND the Savior! YAAAAGH!"
  
  Owen attacks you, which you narrowly dodge and trip him to the ground, he rolls out of the way and jumps back up.
  
  "Owen, you really want to continue this exercise in futility?"
  
  Owen attacks you again at which point you punch him in the face followed by a kick to his nuts. While he crumples to the ground you retrieve your rifle.
  
  "Alright Owen, you know what happened last time...and trust me I WILL be shooting if you attack again, now what are the defenses of the Savior at the..."
  
  Owen pathetically tries to grab the rifle from you, at which point you blast him in the head splattering his brains and skull all over the roof.
  
  "Idiot."
  
  You grab Owen's corpse and throw it on to the street battle below. His body lands in a bloody broken heap before some of the Glow Children. Upon seeing one of their top leaders dead, this is a great blow to their morale.
  
  "YEAH, THAT'S ONE OF YOUR LEADERS DOWN, NOW GO TELL THE FUCKIN' SAVIOR SHE'S NEXT!" you shout and begin sniping the ones in retreat.
  
  After attempting to mop up the stragglers, the general report is that the Glow Children greatly expended a lot of their manpower in this last attack. It's odd; it's almost as if this "Savior" doesn't really care about controlling the city at all, just destruction.
  
  Lisa suggests an attack be made immediately before they can put up a suitable defense, she's still upset about Adonis nearly being killed, but you'd like to at least regroup and mount an organized attack.
  
  > attack now
  Lisa's emotions might be running high, but it does make some sense to attack now. You order a full push to the hospital and not to stop until everyone of the Glow Children are dead along with their Savior.
  
  The battle to the hospital lasts a couple days mainly because your forces aren't in a cohesive attack group, you're getting reinforcements, but it would've been more efficient regroup first and come at the GC with some sort of battle plan rather than relentlessly throwing troops into the fray until you break through.
  
  By the time you get to the hospital, that's where you meet the last stand of the Glow Children, and it's also where their battle elite are. The last cybernetically enhanced mutants come out in force and begin mowing down the Alliance troops at an alarming rate, you have order a retreat.
  
  During this retreat, one of those giant battle monsters that tried to assassinate you a few days ago targets its weapons on you and mortally wounds you. You lie on the ground and lift your head up long enough to see both of your legs have been blown off and your guts are hanging out. The creature now stomps in your direction ready to finish you off.
  
  You sure hope Lisa can finish this war by herself, because it's over for you.