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Chapter 41 - chapter 41

Lunar Base.

As Seth, along with several members of WILLE, the battle droids, and the new Jedi members began to unload the supplies they brought back, a voice yelled with excitement.

"PAPA!" Seth turned around just in time to be hit in the stomach by a small child. Seth looked up and saw a teary eyed Akikaze looking at him.

'I guess he really missed me.' Seth calmed the small child by hugging him. The Jedi masters were wondering who this small child was and why was he so powerful in the force. Needless to say that they were shocked when they learned that he was his son. Seth also sensed that Madoka was force sensitive and could learn the ways of the Sith. Everyone was completely shocked when they started seeing Seth using the force to lift things up and seeing his lightsabers. They were even more shocked when they saw that the youngling also could use the force and some of them too had lightsabers.

It took several hours to get everyone set in, but luckily they had enough space in the base for all the younglings and the Jedi. Seth noticed that he had to get back to I.S. academy soon, otherwise he wouldn't get a full night of rest. He told the others that if anything happen, they should contact them right away. He took Akikaze and the astromech R8 with him back to earth. He forgot that the Jedi had a language barrier between the Japanese speaking Willie.

The next day I.S. Academy.

Seth saw currently in class listing to another lecture on I.S. combat. He really wasn't paying attention, and failed to notice someone enter the classroom. Suddenly everyone got quite and Seth heard some familiar beeping. He looked up and saw a small grey astromech holding a Seth's lunch he forgot this morning as he woke up late this morning.

"Ah, R8, thank you." Seth said as he accepted the lunch from the droid. R8 let out a few happy beeps. Everyone in the classroom was wondering what this robot was.

"Seth, what is that?" Natasha asked as she stared at the droid.

"It's a robot I made. His name is R8D3" Seth said explaining to the class.

"Why did it come here and interrupt my class?" Chifuyu said clearly not happy with the droid. The small grey droid let out some scared beeps while was easily interrupted as fear. R8 turned its head towards Seth and began make more beeps.

"He said, he wanted to bring me my lunch and explore a little bit. He also wishes you don't hurt him."

"Huh? You can understand him?" Maya asked.

"Of course. R8 head back to the room." Seth ordered, but R8 explained that he didn't know how to get back.

"Just go back the way you came." Seth said. The class was starting to get confused. They couldn't tell what R8 was saying, but Seth answers filled in a little bit for the missing dialog.

"Fairs what the issue. Why won't it go away. It's taking up my class time."

"Well he wants to stay and learn what it's like to be student."

"Eh?" The whole classroom said.

"Well the personality I gave him, I set it to be curious and try to learn new things. Orimura-sensei I don't think he'll leave. Just let him stay here today please." Seth asked his sister.

"Will he be quite."

"Of course." Chifuyu allowed it only because she didn't want to waste more time. Surprising R8 didn't make a single noise as the lesson continued.

Rooftop.

Seth, along with R8 decided to enjoy today's lunch break on the roof. They were joined by Houki, Cecilia, Rin, Charlotte, Laura, Samus, and Kanzashi. When the blue haired girl saw the grey astromech, she couldn't contain her excitement and started to ask a little of questions. Before Seth could answer any of them, he received a phone call. It was from the moon. He had to answer it.

"Excuse me, I have to take this. Talk to me." Seth moved away from the group and into the stairway to talk in private.

Kanzashi kept inspecting R8 as she was curious as to what the little droid was meant for. She questioned what Seth said the robot was designed for as it didn't seem like a design for a regular robot. She thought why didn't it have arms or why does it only respond in beeps and not words.

"Eh?" Kanzashi pressed a button on the head of R8 and two strange metal curved objects popped out. Kanzashi grabbed them and the others saw them. They started to wonder what it was that she were holding.

"What are those?" Laura asked.

"I'm not sure. Maybe the robot's batteries?" Kanzashi found a button on the strange metal objects and pressed it. She didn't expect two red lightsabers to extend out.

"Woah!" The group looked in wonder as they looked at the red blades.

"What are those?" Charlotte asked.

"Sword?" Laura answered. Kanzashi was mesmerized by the weapon as were the others looking at it.

"You know, it's very rude to touch someone else's stuff without asking." Kanzashi looked behind her and saw Seth looking a little angry.

"Gomen." Kanzashi said as she handed back the lightsabers. Seth retracted their blades and saw curious looks on the others faces.

"Seth what are those swords?" Samus asked.

"They're called lightsabers and they were supposed to stay a secret R8." Seth glared at the astromech who let out a few sad beeps and hid behind Kanzashi.

"Why are they a secret?" Just then the bell rang, signaling the end of lunch. He put the lightsabers inside of his blazer since R8 couldn't keep them hidden leaving the others wondering what those blades did.

The next day. Arena 3.

Chifuyu had schedule a joint practice between class one and class four. Once everyone was ready and already in place she started the lesson.

"Everyone, today we will be learning flying combat maneuvers. Aran, Dunois bring out your I.S. units."

"Yes ma'am." Both of the girls said. They began to fly up in the air as Chifuyu instructed them. Seth was getting bored. He forgot how clam and peaceful this place could get, which wasn't a bad thing. He decided to meditate. He sat on the ground, crossed legged and closed his eyes.

"Eh? What's Fairs-kun doing?" A girl asked as she saw the boy sitting on the ground. This started to gain the attention of all the girls and even Chifuyu.

"Fairs! Are you listening to me!?" Chifuyu ordered, however she got no response from the boy.

While Seth was connecting with the force, he started to feel a great disturbance. It was as if someone or something was tearing a hole in the force itself. Suddenly Seth realized what it was. Someone was opening a portal into his dimension.

Without warning, Seth jumped up and activated [B.L.A.Z.E.]. He entered Trans-am and quickly flew beyond the arena's protective barriers.

Meanwhile in the thermosphere.

Dark Seth and the rebirth dark Samus inside of a Phazon version of [Varia] had just arrived into this dimension. They didn't expected to be hit by a beam of Phazon the moment they arrived. Dark Seth narrowly avoid the beam and quickly turned towards the source of the incoming energy beam. They saw a a black object with blue streaks of energy nearby them.

Seth wasted no time in attacking the two Phazon beings. He brought out [B.L.A.Z.E.] miniguns and began to unleash a massive volley of energy blasts at the duo.

Dark Seth and Dark Samus moved to evade the incoming fire. Seth used his grapple beam and latched onto both Phazon beings. He dragged both of them down to a lower altitude as the three of them began to fall Dark Seth and Dark Samus brought out a energy blade and cut themselves free. They both charged up a beam of Phazon. Seth raised a A.T-field and took the blast head on. The two Phazon beings used their attack to sneak up on Seth. Dark Seth tried to slashed Seth with a energy blade, but Seth quantized and turned to GN Particles. Seth appeared above the Phazon clone and entered a elemental shift. [B.L.A.Z.E.] armor turned yellow and he unleashed a massive amount of blue lightning and Force Lightning at Dark Seth. Dark Samus quickly rushed to attack Seth.

Meanwhile on the ground.

"Where is he?" Chifuyu said as she tried to look for Seth, but he just flew straight up.

"According to the GPS, he should be right above us." Natasha said as she looked at the HUD of her I.S.

"Alcott, see if you can find him using your rifle." Chifuyu ordered Cecilia, who wasted no time in using her starlight MKIII to search the sky for the boy. However she quickly saw a blue comet coming towards them. Soon everyone started to see this blue object coming closer. It broke through the protective barrier and barreled towards the ground. A large amount of dust was thrown into the air.

Suddenly two light blue beams bursted through the smoke, hitting two objects, resulting in a small explosion. The blast cleared the smoke and revealed the two Phazon dopplegangers and a heavily damaged [B.L.A.Z.E.]. The visor on Seth face was cracked, the left wings were damaged along with both of [B.L.A.Z.E.]'s arm and leg armor. It was clear that Seth was tired and breathing heavily. The two Phazon instantly charged towards Seth. Unable to move, Seth was forced to use Force Push and knock the two Phazon being back towards a wall.

He quickly brought out a IS beam magnum and fired all five rounds into the Phazon duo. The girls in their I.S. units were about to help Seth by attacking the mysterious intruders, but a voice shouted something.

"GET BACK!" Samus yelled, getting the girls attention. They stopped for a second, which was all Samus needed to charge up the zero laser that was enhanced by her entering Hypermode.

The massive beam engulfed the two Phazon beings and was so bright that everyone had to cover their eyes. When they could see again, the two Phazon beings were gone. Seth started to look around for them, but he felt a massive pain in his chest. The pain was so intense that he passed out. Samus felt the same pain and blacked out as well.

A few hours later.

Seth slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was in the nurses office. He turned his head and saw Samus who was still sleeping. He looked at the window and could tell that the sun was setting.

"Seth we have some good news!" Blaze said clearly excited.

"What is it?"

"Master, Samus and yourself are no longer creating Phazon in your bodies.

"Really! That's wonderful." Seth was glad that he was no longer making the toxic material inside of himself and that meant two things. First was the fact that he recovered a small amount of his humanity back and secondly, Dark Samus and Dark Seth were finally dead. Though to be honest, Seth was able to understand the two beings in their short fight together. He understood that they simply wanted to expand their existences and that was the purpose of every living thing, including humans. Seth was brought out of his thoughts when he received a video call from Chris. After Piers's death, Chris decided to leave the field and took a job as a tactician.

"Chris? What's up?"

"Seth I'm sorry for contact you on such short notice, but there is a high value target nearby you and you're the only operative that can do this mission in such a short time frame. A train will arrive at a rail yard, I want you and Aran to climb aboard and capture the scientist Juan Perez."

"Wait, you want princess to come with me?"

"Seth you're partners, I can't send you in alone."

"But I would-"

"I don't mind going." A voice said. Seth turned around and saw Samus getting out of her bed.

"Princess?"

"Seth, it's been far too long since I've seen any action and I'd really like to stretch my legs."

"But-" Seth didn't want to have Samus join him because of his new fighting style, but he knew better then anyone that once Samus made up her mind, nothing was going to change it.

"Seth we've contacted WILLE and they've have sent a package full of supplies to this location. The train will arrive in one hour, get moving." Chris said as he cut the transmission. Seth and Samus began to move towards the supplies drop from WILLE. While they snuck out Chris made another call.

"Huh? Chris?" Natasha said as she was eating dinner with maya and Chifuyu. She answered the call and Chris began to speak.

"Natasha I have something to tell you, but promise me you won't get mad."

"Chris, does this have something to do with Seth." Maya and Chifuyu began to listen in once they heard Seth's name.

"I was ordered by my higher ups to send Seth and Samus on a mission." Chifuyu grabbed Natasha wrist and looked at Chris with anger clearly in her eyes.

"Mr. Redfield, I believe we had a discussion not too long ago about my student, Seth Fairs's involvement in operation and how he is not supposed to take part in any." Chifuyu said with anger clearly in her voice.

"Miss Orimura I understand that you're mad, but please understand that I had no choice, my superiors were left were no choice. Plus Seth and Samus are no longer members of the BSAA anymore. He's in a PMC. We contracted him"

"WHAT?!" Chifuyu and Natasha yelled out loud startling maya.

"Didn't he tell you? Seth is a member of PMC. A soldier of fortune. I personally was against him leaving us, but he is his own person and I can't stop him from making his own choices."

"What is the name of the PMC?" Chifuyu asked.

"It's WILLE."

"Will?" Having spent a few years in Germany, Chifuyu knew that Wille was German for will. She searched on her phone and found the PMC's website. She saw under the logo of WILLE more words in German that read, 'Wille zum Leben'. Which translates as 'Will to live'. She started to read the page and saw that the company had a base in South Africa and specialized in security, but was shocked to find out that the company had legal rights to use an I.S. in a combat mission.

"This company can use an I.S. legally?" Chifuyu was beyond shocked that the U.N. gave the group permission to use the most dangerous weapon ever build my mankind. The three teachers moved into Chifuyu office.

30 minutes later.

Seth and Samus arrived at the supplies drop location and geared up. Samus put on a skin tight light blue jumpsuit that felt a little heavier than her regular zero suit. Seth put on his armor that he wore during the clone wars. It was made of mandalorian iron and was suit of segmented plate armor underneath his black cloak. The cloak was not just a piece of fabric. It was immune to bullets, blaster plasma rounds and fire, giving Seth a great deal of protection. Samus jumpsuit was made of carbon fibers. It was also immune to bullets and fire. Chris gave Seth a odd request to live stream the operation via body camera. He said to him that this was the new protocol and that none of the video footage would be recorded. He forgot to leave out the part where Chifuyu had forced him to stream the mission to her. Seth without knowing that his sisters were watching his every moves, agreed to this.

"Chris, are the cameras working?" Seth asked as he turned on Samus's and his body cameras.

"They're working fine." To be honest the cameras Seth were using were stream in HD so Chris, Chifuyu, and Natasha could see everything.

"Princess, come here. I need to show you how to use the new gear." Seth handed Samus a pair of green tinted combat visor. Which displayed a HUD very similar to the HUD on her Powersuit. Seth grabbed two pistol like weapons and handed them to Samus.

"What are these?" Samus could tell they were a not a earth made weapon or rather it looked like a plasma weapon and did not use bullets.

"They're call the Westar 35 blaster pistol. They're small but they pact one hell of a punch. Try them out." Seth said as he pointed to a tree. Samus pointed the weapons at the poor tree and fired three shots. The blue plasma bolts ripped apart the tree.

"I like these." Samus said as she placed the pistol in her two holster. Seth handed her a pair metal gloves and strange looking shoes.

"Princess, these are special magnetic gloves that will allow you to climb on any metal surface and in the right glove is a micro rocket launcher and the left is a flamethrower." Seth said explaining the gloves.

"What about the shoes?"

"Well about these shoes, um clap them together." Seth said. Samus humor Seth and clapped the shoes together. She didn't expect the shoes to suddenly turn into heels.

"What the hell?!" Samus said as she struggled to maintain her balance on the heels.

"They're emergency rocket heels. If you use them you should be able to jump 20 meters."

"You expect me to jump in high heels, fight in them and land in them?!" Samus expressed some discontent with this gear.

"Well the shoes turn back to normal after jumping, so landing should be easy, but the yeah you'll have to jump in them. I did say they're for emergency."Samus noticed that Seth didn't really have any extra gear on him. She started to wonder why was the only weapons he was taking was those energy swords and a few explosives.

"Princess, you good? We need to get moving." Seth said as he was all geared up."

"Yeah. Let's go." The former bounty hunter said.

Twenty minutes later. I.S. Academy.

Chifuyu, Natasha, and Maya were inside of Chifuyu's room. They had linked up the video transmission from Seth and Samus body cameras to the large screen tv in the room. They would be able to oversee anything that happened during the mission.

Back to Seth.

The duo had just arrived at the train yard and saw two guards standing watch next to their target. Samus was ready for sneaking behind the guards and was about to kill them, but the guards in question were suddenly lifted in the air and started to gasp for air.

"What the hell?!" Samus looked towards Seth and saw him holding his right hand out. As Seth closed his fist Samus heard a clear crunching sound coming from the two men. They landed dead on the ground.

"Let's move." Seth said as he continued with the mission. Samus wanted to ask what that power Seth used was, but she knew that they didn't have the luxury of time. The duo quickly climbed aboard the train. They started from the last cart.

Back with the teachers.

The three women and Chris were in shock at what they just saw.

"What was that?" Natasha asked Chris.

"I don't have an answer. I've never seen something like this. Is it part of his mutation?" Chris started to rapidly search through his medical records on Seth, which were updated recently, but there was never any information on telekinetic powers.

Back on the train.

Seth and Samus made their way towards the next cart and accidentally set off a trap. Several guards instantly entered the cart and opened fire on the duo. The two operatives quickly moved behind a small crate. The two quickly brought out their weapons. The Westar-35 and Seth's lightsabers.

"You get the two on the right! Tiid Klo Ul!" Seth used a dragon shout to slow down time and ignited his sabers. He charged forward and slashed three of the attacking guards killing them instantly. At the same time, Samus fired two shots, with pinpoint accuracy. She killed her targets at the same time as Seth. The two made their way towards the door of the cart.

"Wait." Seth said calmly. He activated his lightsabers and impaled the door. Two grunts of pain could be heard. Seth opened the door and saw two bodies on the floor, dead. The duo moved cleared their way towards a cart that had no cover and was exposed to the outside. As they continued to move something shook the cart they were on. They saw the next cart moving farther away. They realized what was going on. The train conductor disconnected the cart.

"MOVE!" Samus yelled as they had a very short window of time to jump to the next train. Seth easily made it across, Samus on the other hand had to use the rocket heels to make the jump. They both used the magnetic gloves and cling onto the train's metal. Seth used one of his lightsabers to cut a hole open in the train. The duo were back inside and quickly made their way towards the target. As they continued to move they noticed something. The guards they were passing were already dead.

"What killed these guys?" Seth examined a nearby corpse, and saw signs that the man was drained of bodily fluids.

Samus was searching for any clues on what happened to these men when she heard a strange sound. She looked towards Seth and saw something jump at him.

"Look out!" She warned Seth. Without batting an eye, the black haired boy with white highlights brought out one of his lightsabers and slashed the attacking creature. The creature turnout out to be a spider the size of a small puppy. Seth inspected the creature and determined that the spider was a mutated version of a Goliath spider and was extremely aggressive. He brought out a strange capsule and placed the body of the creature into said capsule for future study.

The duo continued their journey through the train and encountering more of these spiders, but thankfully the flamethrower on Samus's wrist and Seth's fire magic was useful for killing large numbers of the spiders all at once. They found what appeared to be some sort of nest and found several human size cocoons. One of them started to move. Samus raised her blasters, ready to kill whatever was going to come out of the cocoon, but Seth took out one of his red lightsabers and slashed the cocoon open. The duo saw a man that was easily clearly in his sixties. He had hair white as snow and wrinkles littered his face. Seth took one look at the old man and rage instantly began to build in him.

"Seth you found Juan Perez, see of you- WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!? LOWER YOUR WEAPON!" Seth brought out a pistol and aim it directly at Juan. The Cuban scientist was slowly coming to when he saw the gun pointed at this face.

"No, please!" Juan begged.

"Finally. After so many years I've found you." Seth cocked back the gun hammer and pointed at the cowering man.

"Seth wait!" Samus said as she moved the gun away from the man.

"Princess stay out of this." Seth said calmly but she could tell that their was a clear rage in Seth voice.

"Seth what's gotten into you?" Samus said trying to calm the boy down.

"This man tore me apart from Chifuyu. He made me into the monster I am."

"Wait, experiment 121?" Juan said. The rage in Seth boiled over. He fired three rounds into Juan left leg striking his knee.

"FUCK!" Juan held his leg in pain as the bullets tore through his flesh.

"I AM NOT A FUCKING EXPERIMENT!" No one had heard this much hatred in the young man's voice before. Seth pointed his pistol at the elderly man and Juan could see the hatred in Seth's eyes. This was not looking well for him.

"Please, I beg you, have mercy! I'm just an old man."

"AND I WAS A FUCKING CHILD WHEN YOU DECIDED TO DO YOUR TWISTED EXPERIMENTS ON ME! There will be no mercy."

"SETH NO!" Chris yelled through the mic, but his words fell on deaf ears. Seth shot Juan right between the eyes, instantly killing him.

As the scientist's body fell on the ground, a strange sensation of joy filled others watching his action felt a sensation of dread. They couldn't believe what Seth just did.

"He's dead. He's dead! I did it! Hahahaha!" Seth began to laugh maniacally.

"Seth, how could you?!" Chris yelled into the mic.

"You should know more then anyone why I killed him. He was a monster and he had to be stopped."

"Seth 'he' was the one who told us about the train's schedule. He struck a plea deal with the U.S. government."

"Are you telling me that in exchange for some information he was gonna walk a free man?"

"Well he would have been imprison for a while." Seth was done with this operation. He grabbed the body cameras and mic off of him and Samus. He threw them at the ground and smashed them to dust.

"Princess, I'm sorry you had to see that." The boy said as he realized how much he lost his shit. Samus replied by hugging the boy.

"It's alright."

"No, I allowed myself to be consume by my rage."

"Everyone gets mad and sometime they lose control of themselves, but they're still the same person. Seth I know the type of person you are and I want you to know that whatever you choose to do, I'll stand by your side." Samus words were just what Seth need right now. Seth moved back and looked at the blond bounty hunter blue eyes. He started to move in closer for a kiss. They were centimeters apart when a light was shined on them and the roar of an engine could be heard.

"Onii-chan, I hope I'm not disturbing you." A voice said.

"Onii-chan?!" Samus looked shocked as Seth never said he had a little sister. Samus looked at the source of the light and saw a girl she remembered as the pilot of [Silent Zephyrs], but now used the [Kuroshiki]. Seth was surprised to see Madoka in the LAAT he brought back from his last adventure, but he saw the reason why. Master Drallig and Serra were piloting the transport ship.

"Climb on board!" Serra Keto said as the LAAT transport ship flew next to the train. The duo jumped up and started to fly away. Seth brought out a detonator and pressed the button at the top. The charges the duo placed earlier began to explode. The train was a mess that no one would he able to recognized.

"Master Drallig, drop us off at the outskirts of the city. Samus we can't sneak back to I.S academy right now. We'll have to spend the night at my one of my hideouts."

"You have a hideout?" Samus asked. The two would spend the night at the hideout, but Madoka didn't really approved of her older brother sleeping in a building all along with another woman. She decided to join them under the fact that Seth had yet to spend any personal time with his imouto as he promised her. Seth was actually pleased with Madoka wanted to spend time with him as he had an important question to asked her when they were alone also he had to introduce the two girls to one another.

In the hideout.

"By now you two are wondering what my new powers are." Seth said to the two girls. The two of them nodded their heads and Seth began to explain the force to them. At first they thought he was nuts, but as Seth explained more and more the two of them started to understand what the force. That's when Seth asked Madoka a question she didn't see coming.

"Madoka I sense that the force is strong within yourself. I can help you reach your full potential. Become my apprentice."

"You mean become your student and learn this strange power."

"That's correct."

"Fine, I'll do it."

"Madoka, I don't think you understand. This isn't just learning some sort of fighting style. It's a lifelong commitment and your life will never be the same. The training will be extremely difficult. It could kill you, but the reward would definitely outweighs the risk. Knowing these terms do you accept the path of the Sith." Seth said in a very serious tone, however Madoka had decided that she wanted to be useful to her older brother and if gaining this power would help her then so be it.

"I accept." Madoka said without any hesitation. Seth was pleased by her immediate response.

"Get down on one knee." Seth said and Madoka quickly kneeled at Seth. The Sith Lord brought out one of his lightsabers and brought it close to Madoka's face.

"Do you pledge yourself to my teachings?" Seth asked.

"I pledge my body and soul to your teaching, my master." Madoka responded.

"The force is strong with you. A powerful Sith you will become. Henceforth you shall be known as Darth...Zus." Seth had to think a few moments before he could find a name that had a nice ring to it. It means sister in Dutch.

"Rest well tonight Darth Zus, for tomorrow we begin your training." Seth said as he readied himself for a long night of sleep. Starting tomorrow things would start to get a lot more interesting for the young man and his new apprentice. Deep inside Seth could feel something was off, but he ignored it for now.