Six months ago during the attack on the plastic beach, the isle of Jamrock was also destroyed,

To the general public and even most of the government officials don’t know how or what happened,

There only exists a short clip of the isle being shattered to pieces after being hit by something with incredible force in mere milliseconds,

“Apollo, did this to me,” speaks Dante’s severed head flowing out of his neck is an array of wires desperately trying to download the apparent android’s data

“I miscalculated his mana control that he was able to move over light speed and launch me into that isle,

I was able to put up a defensive barrier, but it only protected my head while the rest of my body destructed,

Now these lowly second ring humans try to hack my brain to learn our secrets” Danté’s eyes flicker constantly while speaking to me, as he tries to keep his systems stable,

This is the first time I’ve actually gotten to look at his face,

It bears a striking, almost identical appearance to the Sweepstake City Mayor.

“Are you really Ozymandias’ son?”

“No, I chose this face for myself out of respect for him,”

“You must have actually cared then,”

“…..

Are you here to free me or kill me?” Danté ignores my previous statement

“It depends on what you tell me,”

“I can only speak within my given parameters,”

“…Apollo and Himari,

Where are they?”

“If they are missing, they have either died along with Brandon and his sibling or have been taken to Terra by Alexander”

“What is Terra and how do I get there?”

“Terra is what we call our ring, I am not permitted to say how to get there,”

“Permitted by who?”

“The supreme leader, my purpose is to fulfill his orders and that’s it,”

“…..”

“Don’t you want anything for yourself?”

“Why are you asking me this?”

“Because I’m still deciding what to do with you,

What kind of person are you, if you even are one to begin with,”

“I am a human, just a perfect one in the words of our supreme leader,

Before I was given my perfect body I had a weak human body, a different face,

As a child I was sent to the third ring to monitor the man with the warp magic Ozymandias,

Our warp technology does not work accurately on the third ring, none of our tech does,”

“You were trying to find out his warp magic works so you could replicate it’s effects?”

“Not how it works, how it is allowed, technology is rejected by the third rings energy flow, the entire ring act like an electromagnetic pulse, canceling out anything we create,

Yet second ring technology is partially allowed,

I tried to my best to dissect the magic theory of Gaia—the name we assigned to the third ring,

But didn’t matter how much you knew about magic, you can’t go against the rules established on Gaia,”

“You did all this as a child?”

“At the age of ten the average ‘child’ on Terra knows more than a full-grown adult on Tellus—the second ring,

The warp battle system in Sweepstake City, I was responsible for it’s creation, it was just a smaller scale version of our tech instead using magic,

I…..

I, really appreciate my time there,”

“Yet you mascaraed many people while on way out”

“That was to make sure no one would miss me or worry about me after I’d left,

My father.. Ozymandias would have followed if he didn’t have the aftermath of my actions to deal with,”

“So you killed them out of love and respect for your father?”

……

…...

“The only person I love and respect is the supreme leader,” Danté replies in a more robotic tone

(Fear, regret)

Those are the emotions I feel from this man, I had thought he was a mastermind behind all pf this, but it’s clear he is nothing more than a foot solider, someone who just follows orders,

(……….)

“Do you know who I am Danté?”

“I do not nor have I been giving access to this information by Alexander,

I am merely a second-class citizen,”

(They rank their people over on the first ring)

“That makes Alexander a first rank?”

“I am not permitted to divulge that information,”

“What are you permitted to say then?”

“I’ve already spoken all that which is in my given parameters,

Have you decided what you will make of me now Kage?”

(……..)

“If you won’t tell me how to get to Terra,”

Bzzzzzztttttt!

“You are going to have to show me”

Walking up to head I yank it of the operation table disconnecting the wires in the process

Danté eyes flicker violently for a moment before regaining it’s focus on me

“I may not be able to tell you how, but I am certain I can guide you,” his voice sounds like radio receiving static now…

(Not that it matters)

…..

“Who said anything about needing a guide?”

Bashh!

I slam his head on the steel floor dropping to my knees

Bashh!

Bashh!

Bashh!

Over and over I repeatedly ram his skull on the steel,

It doesn’t feel hard and metallic,

His head feels soft like skin

His face doesn’t react to my repeated smashing, he died the first time I did it

Bashh!

Bashh!

Bashh!

His skull breaks open oozing a mix of blue liquid and red blood, pieces of his soft brain fly up into to air splattering on me

BASHH-SPLATT-SPLATT!

His head now a blobby mess beneath my hands,

“Huhhhh–huhhhh!” I breathe staring at my bloody hands

“Huh-huh-ha-ha!

Haha!

Hahaha!

Why,

Why would I need you to guide me,

When I could easily kill you and take your memories?

Ha-haha-ha-ha!”