The Cross of Mithras Vol. 1: EOD Operation Welcome to Hell (32 page)

  “In English.” Mad Dawg added.

  Ikknustll held his head down with a smile, then he shook his head, look up, let out a deep breath and said, “One day Ydxx’od’omaa heard some Imperial Troops singing it and he started to cry. Not only did it remind him of his wife, but it also told him what he had to do. There are four verses to it, but I will only sing the first one in order to speed up our day. And here it goes:

(Chorus)

You will believe, you will see. (Repeat twice)

What God has ordained

What God has created

You will remember, you will know. (Repeat twice)

His love created life

His love created freedom

You will believe and you will see.

That you cannot keep me down. (Repeat twice)

I was imprison in your icy glove

Taken away from all that I loved

You broke my body, raped my soul

And you wanted me to behold

My chains are forever strong

But you could not be so wrong

Your chains are broken

I will fly away. I will fly away.

(Closing)

Evil shall fall freedom will soar. (Repeat 4 times)

Into the hands of God. (Repeat twice)

  Vaistll was so moved by it (and hearing her brother sing) that she was crying. She finally felt free for the first time in her life of her pain. But she wasn’t the only one who felt that way. Both Ramirez and Mad Dawg felt the same way. They all felt at peace.

  “When Ynuo’stole finished his time machine the engineers placed it into a spaceship. Ydxx’od’omaa then have everybody under his aegis go on board. Under the direction of Ynuo’stole they could only go back in time to test to see what would happen. Not to make any changes. It was Ydxx’od’omaa who chose to go back to the Second World War.

  Once they got there, Ydxx’od’omaa went to see a speech that Zeno’y’lk gave right before the war. If you were to look real close in the video of that speech, you could actually see Ydxx’od’omaa. After he saw that speech it totally changed him. He said that he finally understands why people who were there said that everybody always misunderstood the speech. Everyone always thought that the speech was to show off the power of the state. But that was far from the truth.

  On the beach there was an open air beach stadium that could hold fifty thousand people. The audience faced the sea. The smell of the salty air helped to remind the people of their ancestral roots. There was no stage, just a platform ten feet above the sea level so that the Emperor can give a speech. Behind the center stage there was a large screen that could be retracted into the platform during a storm. Below the platform, on either side of the center stage, along the length of the beach stadium, there were bonfires that burned fish. That was done so that as the smoke rises, and the wind or a large fan blow the smoke over the audience, it will further remind them of their ancestral past. As a person enters the stadium there are bonfires along the length of the stadium that were symbolic of each of the regiments in the army. The stadium also took full advantage of surround sound technology. At certain locations there was a platform for music groups. When the each of the bands played the same song it would create the surround sound affect. The sweet spot was a few feet in front of the center stage.

  It was nighttime when General Ydxx’od’omaa arrived at the stadium. He then found his way to the sweet spot. Hearing the music groups playing and being skilled enough to create a echo effect. What’s more, the Imperial Navy also participated in the music. Not with their music groups... but with their ships. Whether it was the artillery, or the shells that went overhead, it added a new dimension to the music. Those shells came in a rhythmic pattern. You could actually see Ydxx’od’omaa looking up in that video.. He said that he was both nervous and excited at the same time, hearing those shells going overhead. You really had to be there in order to understand it. It overwhelmed the senses. You could feel it in your body.

  He then noticed a disturbance at the sweet spot. An army officer was being taking down by another group of army officers. He didn’t know if that officer was an assassin, protestor, or what, but he then noticed that the audience was so transfixed on Zeno’y’lk that they didn’t even noticed what was going on. General Ydxx’od’omaa then started to listen to the lyrics of the song that was playing. It was not the national anthem, but a very beautiful song. That song could be interpreted in two different ways: the struggle between life and death; and/or, the struggle between freedom and tyranny. He then realizes what it was all about - the music, the ships, the smells, the bonfires. It represented the struggle between  life and death, freedom and tyranny. That freedom is life and tyranny is death. That we are all part of some grand symphony. A symphony of life and death. A symphony of freedom and tyranny. That we are all just notes in that symphony. The symphony will continue on long after our note has stopped being played.

  When General Ydxx’od’omaa got back to his ship he knew actually what had to be done in order to win the Tylkuoply war. He had to indirectly influence Emperor Zeno’y’lk before the Second World War occurred. Like Kase’hyn’nkk, Hau’rino became too weak to win the Tylkuoply war. But if the Hau’rino Empire were to win the war instead, then the Tylkuoply war could be won as well. When Kase’hyn’nkk won the war it created doubt within the minds of the people of Hau’rino. But if they were to win the war instead, then it would confirm their beliefs within themselves.

  When Emperor Zeno’y’lk was ninety-six years old, he written a book about great military leaders throughout history. And one of the leaders that was mentioned in the book was Zell’tlaxx. If General Ydxx’od’omaa were to travel backwards into time and, in a subtle way, influence military leaders like Zell’tlaxx, then it would indirectly influence Zeno’y’lk. What’s more it would be extremely difficult for the Time Enforcement Officers to change the time line back.

  Before he travel back in time to become Zell’tlaxx aide, he read all that he could on the General. At some point he came across the stories about my sister. I guess there was something about my sister that sparked the interest of Ydxx’od’omaa. I think that it was all that she went through and how it was her arch rival who ultimately save her. If that is the case, then it sounds like what he was going through at the time, becomes the equivalent of what she was going through. With the Hau’rino Empire being the equivalent of my sister arch rival.

  When he went back to that time period to become Zell’tlaxx aide, it was another test. If the time line is messed up, then it could easily be changed back. After he got back, and nothing too negative happen to the time line, he started to become deeply depressed because he felt guilty about knowing what will happen to my sister, and not being able to do anything about it. Then one day he could no longer take it, so he convinced Ynuo’stole to help him. Ydxx’od’omaa then went back into time and got me and my siblings first. He then went back and got our parents, leaving a clone to die in their place. There was a cloning facility on RMX.

  After we got back to his time period, Ynuo’stole wanted Ydxx’od’omaa to wait until he finished creating a time shield for RMX. That was mainly because with Vaistll, unlike with us, there were too many people around on the night that she left our birth time period. Unfortunately for us, it would take years before Ynuo’stole would be able to finish the time shield. Ynuo’stole forbid Ydxx’od’omaa from doing any more time traveling until the time shield has been completed.

  While everybody was waiting for Ynuo’stole to complete the time shield, the war was going badly for everyone. At one point, and nobody knows how they learned about it, the Time Enforcement Officers learned what Ydxx’od’omaa was up to. The Tylkuoply hive then restarted their war with the Republic of Kase’hyn’nkk afterward. The actions of the Time Enforcement Officers and the Tylkuoply hive made it that much harder for Ynuo’stole to complete the time shield. After he completed the time shield Ynuo’stole committed suicide.

  Despite the lost of Ynuo’stole, we could finally leave that godforsaken time line. We travel all over the time line. Ydxx’od’omaa would do his thing, being the aide to some General. We did our thing. The Time Enforcement Officers did their thing - trying to catch us. They didn’t fully understand what Ydxx’od’omaa was trying to do. Even if they did... what could they do?

  When Ydxx’od’omaa finished influencing all of those military leaders, we went back to his time line. We did that to see if everything worked. It did. He saved the Apollinarian race. And as for those Time Enforcement Officers? Both Okuoyk and Ryyuoxx killed them about 712 years before those Officers were born. I don’t mean they were erased from existence.

  Causality of Predetermination started to dictate everything after that point. Ydxx’od’omaa may have changed the cause, but when it came to the effect, the new effect was justifying the original effect. He may have saved the Apollinarian race from extinction but he created something far worse than before. It turned out to be a nightmare for him.

  The mistake that Ydxx’od’omaa made was in not understanding something that was called... um... I can’t seem to remember what it was called. But it was something like that of, causality of something. Whatever it was called it was not the same as Law of Unintentional Consequences. The causality of whatever stated that; when you make a prediction, and there is the probability of failure, any failure of your prediction, regardless of how large or small the failure, then there would be a greater statistical probability of failure when you make the next prediction.

  An example is: SAW, when Hau’rino won the Second World War. The computer simulation that Ydxx’od’omaa used, the one that he used to get himself promoted that is, predicted accurately that  SAW would dissolve itself and then form a new confederacy of States. But what it could not predict was what type of a confederacy it would be. It said that it would be no different than SAW. Wrong, after SAW dissolved itself, and seeing the success of the Iraxxan Union, they formed the Waldaxx Union. Normally the Hau’rino people and its government would not tolerate that, but when they won the war they didn’t care.”

  “Why not?”

  “Because the Hau’rino Empire never acted like an Empire until Ydxx’od’omaa changed the time line and allow them to win the war. They felt that if the Waldaxx Union gave them any trouble, they would be more than capable of dealing with it. The Waldaxx Union knew that so they wanted the Hau’rino Empire to place a large military base somewhere in the Waldaxx Union. The Imperial Forces agreed and both peace and prosperity was kept under the watchful eye of Tyknuna (tick-new-na) the capital of the Hau’rino Empire. The formation of the Waldaxx Union, and the Imperial Forces being stationed there, was something that the computer simulation could not have predicted.

  Under the causality of whatever it was called, by the computer simulation failing to accurately predict the formation of the Waldaxx Union and the Imperial Forces being stationed there, the probability of predicting what comes next is reduced even greater. The people who created the computer simulation knew that, but somewhere down the line Ydxx’od’omaa forgot that. He wanted to change the past, but he didn’t take into account that things don’t always turn out quite the way in which you plan.

  After the Waldaxx Union was formed they revived slavery. To the members of the Waldaxx Union the Khin’kyn’ko civilization was reborn. Although the Hau’rino Empire should have been deeply upset by the actions of the Waldaxx Union, they dismissed it as irrelevant. The Hau’rino Empire was just too busy with rebuilding the Republic of Kase’hyn’nkk to care. What’s more, the Waldaxx Union was no longer a threat to the Empire.

  During the Tylkuoply war both the Republic of Kase’hyn’nkk and the Hau’rino Empire was hit pretty hard. With the Iraxxan Union they were hit hard, but no were near as hard as Kase’hyn’nkk and the Hau’rino Empire. They just needed to be rebuilt in order to recover from the war. With poorer nations they just needed financial aide in order to be stabilized politically. Neither the Hau’rino Empire, nor the Republic of Kase’hyn’nkk, could be able to rebuild any nations, or provide for political stability. They needed it just like the poorer nations needed it. It was the Waldaxx Union that faired off pretty well because of the steps that they have taken at the start of the war.

  The Waldaxx Union was the first to recognize what was going on. They were the first to have created safe guards against the Tylkuoply hive. Everything that they did ensured that they, and their allies, will quickly recover from the war. But for the Hau’rino Empire, they had a major image problem leading up to the war. It was the fact that they were becoming too arrogant. So poorer nations didn’t rush to their aide. But with the Waldaxx Union they had a much better relationship with nations, so poorer nations were quick to help them out. It all came down to intervention, the Hau’rino Empire like to make its business everybody’s business, while the Waldaxx Union did not.

  When General Ydxx’od’omaa got back to the alternate present he was in for one huge rude awaking. He received one of the biggest insult to injury that nobody would ever hope to receive. The shock was too overwhelming for him. The injury came in the form of the Waldaxx Union. When everybody heard of what Ydxx’od’omaa did, the Waldaxx Union used it as propaganda victory. They pointed out that in an alternate reality, the single most freest society of them all, Kase’hyn’nkk, caused the Apollinarian race to become extinct. In their reality the most strongest freest society lost everything. But it was they, a slave society that ultimately saved the day. But it was the insult that was the worst.