About One Month.
The girls, after some convincing, did agree to the marriage and Seth explained his reasoning for asking Serra Keto for her hand in marriage given that the Jedi had no feeling of love for Seth. Seth wanted to build a Sith order, but he was worried that the Jedi and Sith would fight with one another. He wanted a political marriage granted that she was selected to be the new Jedi grandmaster and Seth was the Dark lord of the Sith. He wanted the marriage so the two orders wouldn't fight with one another. She agreed to the marriage for the sake of peace, but Seth swore that he would win her heart.
Seth, while working on his love life, also began to work on increasing his military strength. He ordered the construction of several hundred nuclear war heads and three Venator-class star destroyers. He would name them the [Nobunaga], the [Ieyasu], and the [Hideyoshi] after the three unifiers of Japan. He also ordered the construction of thousands of battle droids as he needed at least 7,400 droids to operate just a single star destroyer. [Perseus] and [Prometheus] were sent down to earth. [Perses] was station off the coast of South Africa and [Prometheus] was station off the coast of Japan. Seth also started construction of colonies on Venus and Mars. [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] said that they would be undergoing upgrades for something special so Seth wouldn't be able to use either of his machines.
Seth was currently in the cafeteria sitting with Samus. The two were enjoying a nice lunch together and sitting close to each other. Today was December 23rd, the last day of school before the beginning of their winter break. He had plans for a vacation on the winter break with his wives. As the two were enjoying lunch together, they were joined by the other girls.
"You too seems to be having fun." Houki said as she and the others say at the table. They were angry. Over the last month, Seth had seemed to be spending less time with the group of girl and was spending more time with Samus.
"Hey." Seth said as he continued to eat. The others were noticing that Seth and Samus were acting more intimate with one another. To the point where the group was starting to wonder if something was going on between them.
"So Seth are you doing for Christmas? Got any plans?" Charlotte asked trying to start a conversation.
"Just spending time with Akikaze." Seth said. It was clear by the tone of Seth's voice that he didn't want to speak more about the subject. This caused the group to enter an awkward silence. The silence was shattered by a member of the group talking.
"Why the hell won't you talk to us?!" Rin said as she slammed her hands on the table. She hit the table so hard that she knocked over the glasses on the table. However before the glasses fell Seth raised his hand and used the force to pick hold the glasses.
"Shit!" Seth mentally yelled as he reacted without thinking. The group minus Samus were in shock to see the liquid return to the glass with seemingly nothing acting on it. Once the glasses were on the table, Seth got up and calmly picked up his tray and left the cafeteria. The others followed him only to find no trace of him.
Later that Night.
"You ready to go Akikaze." Seth said as he was holding two suitcases filled with clothes.
"I'm ready." Akikaze said as he was clearly happy that he was going on his first vacation.
"Come on, mama is waiting." Seth said as he took Akikaze to the school gates. He met Samus at the train station and the three of them boarded. Once the group got to the airport and cleared customs they sat in the gate, waiting for their flight to leave. Seth sense that several of the girls were in the airport, most likely returning to their home countries for the winter break. He sensed that they were getting closer and that three teachers were with them. Maya, Chifuyu, and Natasha had planned on a trip to together. Natasha invited Seth and Akikaze to join them so they could spend Christmas together. She even offered to pay for their tickets. Seth said that he was going to stay back, so she was shock to learn that Seth was in the airport. She and the others wanted to confront Seth on his recent behavior for the last month. He seemed to be isolating himself which worried her.
The group consisted of Houki, Rin, Charlotte, Laura, Cecilia, Tatenashi, and Kanzashi along with the teachers. The latter two joined the group when Tatenashi saw the five girls leaving the school together so she decided that her sister and she should join them.
As the girl were nearing the gate, the saw a familiar pattern of black and white hair enter the gate and the desk attendant closed the door behind him. They tried to get the air crew to open the door, but were unsuccessful. They saw that the plane was heading to Seoul, South Korea.
The next Morning.
Cecilia used her private jet to get the group to Seoul. After they cleared the airport, the group now had to look for their missing friends. Natasha had placed a tracker onto Akikaze as she knew that Seth or Samus would easily find the small device and destroy it, but since it was sown onto an article of clothing on the small child. The chances of them discovering it was slim. The group suddenly heard a strange sound that they really couldn't explained. The group saw that the source of the sound was coming from a nearby alley. The group of girls decided to investigate the source of the noise. In the alleyway the group saw of about ten girls, along with a fairy?
"Is everyone alright?" The fairy said.
"Yeah, I think so Histy." A short light purple hair girl said.
"So are we in the right place?" A busty blonde woman said.
"I'm not too sure?" A brown hair petite girl said.
"It appears that we've attracted the attention of some locals." The black hair red eye girl said.
"Onee-chan, they might be able to help us." A girl with long light purple hair said.
"Excuse me, you ladies wou- Ow!" The fairy was poked by Natasha to see if she was real.
"Why did you poke me?!" The fairy said.
"She's real!" The girls said as they were in shock.
"Of course I'm real and I have a name. My name is Histoire." Histoire said as she introduced herself to the group. The other introduced themselves and now that both groups knew each other's names they began to speak.
"Any Who, we're trying to find someone. He a young man with black and white hair. He has orange eyes." Neptune said. The girls instantly thought of a certain boy and wondered why these girls were looking for him.
"Here, I have a picture of him." Nepgear said as she brought up a picture of Seth. Now that they knew for a fact that they were looking for Seth, they had to know why.
"So why are you looking for Seth?" Natasha said.
"Well I have something important to tell him. It's kind of private." Neptune said.
"If it's something private, then I'm sure you could tell me, his older sister about it."
"Eh? He has an older sister? I thought Madoka was his only sibling?" Nepgear said.
"He's in contact with Madoka?!" Chifuyu said as she was clearly in shock.
"Madoka?" Houki said as they had no clue that Seth had a younger sister.
"You're papa's Onee-chan?!" Peashy said.
"Papa?!"
In order to try and clear up some of the confusion the two groups decided to travel as one and find Seth. Now the group of twenty one were following Natasha tracking device on Akikaze and they were getting close.
Meanwhile with Seth.
Things have been going great so far. After the three of them arrived in Seoul, the trio went out and enjoyed the city. Seth was currently wearing a plain white shirt with a green light jacket and jeans. Samus was wearing long sleeve black shirt with a white winter vest along with dark blue jeans. Akikaze was wearing brown winter jacket and other winter gear. The city wasn't too cold, but the last thing Seth wanted was a sick kid on their vacation, even though Akikaze immune system was incredibly strong. While they were eating at a restaurant, Seth sensed that his sisters along with several other classmates were in Seoul as well. His eyes widen in shock as he sensed several presences that he hadn't detected in almost a year.
"No, that's impossible. They're in another dimension." Seth said. "I have a bad feeling about this." Seth said in his mind.
"What did you say?" Samus asked as Seth mumbled something to himself.
"Oh, it appears that we've been followed." Seth stated.
"Dammit! They seriously followed us?" Samus said as she was mad. She and the other wives wanted to spend the holidays together with the man they loved, but they seriously had to do something about the girls at school. Just as the two were trying to think of a way to avoid their followers Seth received a call from his imagecaster. Seth accepted the call and a hologram of Misato appeared in his hand.
"Admiral Katsuragi, I take it you have something you wish to speak about." Seth had promoted Misato to the rank of Admiral as he needed someone to lead troops and ships should he be gone for any reason.
"Lord Dominus, we've been tracking a ship that enter the port of Incheon last night. We believe that the ship is connected to umbrella, but we are not aware of what the ship is transporting. We know that there are currently seven trucks that have entered the city of Seoul carrying the shipment. We have assembled a team to search for the truck." Misato said.
"Negative, I'll personally search the trucks. Send me the tracking data." Seth said.
"As you wish lord Dominus." Misato said. The data came in and Seth was set to go.
"I'll go with you." Samus said.
"Sorry. You need to stay with Akikaze. You don't have any weapons on you and someone has to watch him. I know you don't like me doing things by myself, but I promise you that if anything goes wrong, I'll call you and ask that you use [Varia]. Alright?" Seth said.
"Fine, but if anything happens you better call me." Samus said as she agreed to head back to the hotel with Akikaze. Before she left, Seth pulled in Samus and gave he a kiss.
"I promise I won't do anything stupid." Seth exited the restaurant and headed towards the closest truck. He brought out his imagecaster and a hologram of a super tactical battle droid appear.
"Deployed the [Nobunaga]." Seth ordered.
"Roger Roger." The super tactical battle droid said.
A little later. With Samus.
Samus had return to the hotel with Akikaze and were in the lobby. She was worried. She knew that if Seth got in trouble, he wouldn't call for help.
"Mama, want to play cards?" Akikaze said as held up a deck of playing cards.
"Sure." Samus said as she took the deck and shuffle it. The two decided to play a simple game of goldfish. Midway through the game, Akikaze put his cards and looked at a group of people.
"Peashy!" Akikaze said excitedly. He rushed towards a blonde little girl that was in the group.
"Aki!" Peashy said as the two kids hugged each other. While the kids were enjoying their reunion Chifuyu approach a fearful Samus. The face Chifuyu had on was easily able to spark fear inside the seasoned bounty hunter.
"Orimura-sensei? Funny seeing you here." Samus said nervously.
"Aran, mind telling me why you and my little brother came to Seoul without telling anyone before hand." Samus was sweating bullets, but before she could answer, the group heard a beeping noise coming from Akikaze. Akikaze let go of his hug and pulled out an imagecaster. A hologram of Seth appeared and he was wielding one of his lightsabers.
"Akikaze, put mommy on the phone!" Seth shouted and the brown hair boy rushed to Samus and handed her the imagecaster.
"Seth, what's wrong?!" Samus said as she was shocked that he actually called. She didn't care about the people in the room with her.
"Princess, the trucks are filled with a gas and have some sort of anti-I.S. Field projection system. Stay in the hotel, I'll meet you there." Samus felt the imagecaster being ripped out her hand. Chifuyu grabbed the device from Samus and wanted to know what the hell was going on.
"SHIT!" Seth yelled as the connection was cut and the hologram disappeared.
"Ichika! Ichika!" Chifuyu yelled as she wanted to know if her brother was safe. Just then the group heard several explosions coming from outside and green gas filled the streets of Seoul. Rin and Natasha remembered that color of green gas very well. It was the same one from Lanshiang.
"We need to move to higher ground!" Natasha said as the group used the stairs to avoid the gas. Panic quickly filled the streets as the gas infected the people of Seoul. Soon the screams of people filled the city as the virus turned people into mindless zombies.
"What is this?!" Blanc said as the group took shelter in a meeting room in the hotel that had windows to the outside. They witness that the horror that was taking place outside. Several of the older members of the group covered the eyes of Akikaze, Peashy, Rom, and Ram. Samus said that the best thing they could do right now was to barricade themselves in until help arrived.
They weren't even sure that help was coming. Several of the I.S. Users tried to summon their machines, but to no luck. Neptune thought about the weapons they were able to store away thanks to being CPUs, but they couldn't summon them. They couldn't transform into their goddess form. Their cell phones had no single either and they had no weapons to protect themselves. All they could do for the moment was to hold out. The group was also worried about Seth. He has yet to contact them and they can't get a hold of him.
The group hid in the room for what seemed to be a long time, but that was due to the stress the group was in. The CPUs were wondering if this was what Seth had to deal with on a daily bases. The groups were suddenly ripped out of their thoughts as they could hear something outside of the meeting room. It wasn't human.
The creature burst through the barricades they set up and reveal that it was a Tyrant B.O.W. Along with the Tyrant was a squad of Umbrella Secret Service.
"U.S.S?!" Natasha said in shock that Umbrella's black ops unit was here.
"Target confirmed. Take the boy alive. Eliminate the others!" The leader of the special forces unit said. The U.S.S members raised some sort of unknown assault rifles and aimed at the group. As the U.S.S had their fingers on the trigger. The group suddenly felt the room become a lot colder and the squad of U.S.S. members was lifted in the air and began gasping for air. They grabbed their throats out of instinct, trying to free themselves, but there was nothing there. The group of girls and Akikaze heard a clear snapping noise coming from the U.S.S. Members necks.
"Hey ugly! Over here!" A familiar voice said. The Tyrant turned around and charged at the source of the voice. The group saw the Tyrant severed from the waist across. The top part of the Tyrant was on the floor when it was impaled by a pair of red lightsaber.
"Papa!" Two small children said. Seth was shocked to receive a hug from a familiar blonde girl.
"Peashy? That mean…" Seth looked towards the group and ignored everyone expect for a short purple hair girl.
"N-Neptune?!" Seth eyes locked with the goddess of Planeptune and Neptune returned the act. The two were dragged out of their minds when they heard the sound of glass breaking.
Five soldiers wearing old republic trooper armor broke through the glass. They were wielding DC-15A blaster rifles except for one of the troopers whose armor seemed a little different. It had a larger rectangular shape shoulder pad on the right shoulder. The different trooper wielded two DC-17 hand blasters. The troopers approach Seth and kneeled to him. Seth gave his trooper the same kind of armor the clone troopers had in the clone wars, however at the request of the Jedi, Seth had to redesign the armor due to the fact the order 66 was still fresh in the Jedi and younglings' minds. He liked the appearance of the old republic troops and decided to go with it.
"Lord Dominus, we've arrived." The odd looking member of the men in white and red armor said.
"Captain Ortega, you're ahead of schedule. I'm impressed." Seth said.
"Thank you, my lord." Captain Ortega said.
"Ichika what on earth is going on?!" Chifuyu spoke for the group that was really confuse on what was going on.
"Now is not to time to explain. Right now we need to focus on getting out of Seoul." Seth stated. But before Seth said another word, he turned around and unleashed a powerful blast of force lightning at the Tyrant behind him.
The Tyrant from earlier had apparently regenerate and got back up, but Seth was to detect it's presences and hit it with a blast of force lightning so powerful, the creature turned to ash. Seth was about to speak when one of the troopers came up to him with an item in hand.
"My lord, I believe that these would more appropriate for our current situation." The trooper was holding black force user robes that were neatly folded. Along with a black cloak. He also handed Samus a pair of Westar-35 pistols.
"Thank you Johnson. If you'll excuse me." Seth said as he left the meeting room to change. He came back wearing the Sith clothing and now had to figure out a way to get their group of 28 people, in total, safely out of the city infested with infected humans. There was also the fact that a nuclear warhead was most likely headed their way to eliminate the threat of the outbreak worsening. He was limited on time. As Seth's mind was racing he noticed the odd weapons the U.S.S. member were wielding. "Energy weaponry?" Seth thought to himself. He decided he would deal with the problem at hand.
"Everyone look here." Seth said in a commanding tone. Seth placed his imagecaster on the large table in the center of the meeting room and it projected a hologram of the city.
"So we're currently here and we need to get to this nearby park. However we have the problem of the infected ov-" Seth ignited one of his red lightsabers and charged towards Noire. He stabbed towards the CPU of Lastation, but not at her. His red blade was merely a few centimeters away from her face, but his red blades impaled a creature that was invisible. It was a large snake like creature very similar to the iluzija that was in Lanshiang in Chris Redfield's report of the mission.
"You alright Noire?" Seth said to the frighten goddess.
"Y-Yes. Thank you for um…"
"It's fine. Don't mention it. Now then, this location has been compromised. Everyone! We're moving!" Seth said as he moved out of the room. Now the group was in the lobby of the hotel. The front door was barricaded. Seth could sense the infected humans on the outside. He decided to reveal a secret weapon.
"General, do you read me?" Seth said as he brought out the imagecaster.
"Loud and clear my lord." The super tactical battle droid said.
"Begin orbital bombardment in a three kilometer radius around the building I am transmitting from. Do not destroy any of the building!" Seth said.
"Roger roger." The droid said as the transmission ended.
"Seth, did you just called in an orbital strike?" Samus said.
"Well, yeah."
"How? None of the star destroyers are ready yet. Right?" Samus asked.
"Well I kinda prioritize the construction of the [Nobunaga] over the other two star destroyers."
"Without our permission, you changed the construction plans and launched a star destroyer."
"Construction is one of the few things I do not require permission in changing and the [Nobunaga] is strictly under my jurisdiction. I can deploy with it as I please." Seth stated. The other members of the group were wondering what the two were talking about.
"We're going to have a long discussion after this." Samus said as she was clearly angry.
"What are you guy- What the hell?!" Natasha was interrupt by the sound of loud explosion surrounding them. The bombardment lasted for sixty seconds, before the sound began to grow distant.
"Lord Dominus, we have completed our bombardment. Standing by for new orders." The droid general said.
"Good work. Continue standing by." Seth said.
"Roger roger." Seth used the force to lift up the furniture that was used to block the door, surprising the group. The group looked in shock as they saw the destruction outside. The streets were were destroyed and cleared of anything. The group noticed the stares of living people in the building around them as they walked through the streets of destruction.
"Ignore them. We don't have the resources to take them with us. The South Korean government will help them." Seth said as he could sense the emotions the group was feeling. He had no clue if the South Korean government was coming for them. Seth sense something hostile and ignited his two curved lightsabers.
"We have company. Assume formation Charlie!" Seth order his men. Two troopers quickly moved the unarmed members of the group into a nearby building and stayed with them, with their weapons drawn towards the door.
Seth and Samus, long with three troopers were waiting for the enemy to show up. The group soon heard the sound of blaster fire coming towards the group. Seth began to deflect the blaster fire. Samus and the three troopers brought up their blasters and took aim at the group of attackers.
As the two groups were fighting, Seth noticed something odd about these men shooting at them. They were wearing some sort of advance full body armor unlike the people he killed earlier. It reminded him of his mandalorian segmented body armor, but it was thinner.
The group eliminated all but one member of the attackers. The sole survivor tried to run for safety, but Seth used the force to grab him and dragged him back to the Sith Lord. Seth used the force to look into the mind of the umbrella member and finally learn some interesting information.
"I see. Well, you are of no use to me." Seth crushed the neck of the man reaching out with the force, ending his life. The unarmed members of the group now revealed themselves and began to move once more. The group saw large bolts of blue plasma ripping through the clouds and making sure any infected were far away from them. The group was now getting closer to the the park, Seth decided to lay out the plan he had in store.
"Alright, we're only a two kilometers away from the park. Once we get on the LAAT gunships, we'll be taken to the [Nobunaga]. The [Nobunaga] will take us back to the base where I will explain everything. Is that clea-." The Sith Lord stopped talking as he sense a great disturbance in the force. It felt like someone was tearing a wound in the force, much like when his phazon doppelganger appeared. Without saying a word, Seth started to run in the direction of the disturbance.
"Seth? Where are you going?!" Samus asked as the Sith Lord took off quickly. The group naturally followed after Seth and came across him tending to a woman wearing similar clothing that he was. Except that the woman was wearing a brown cloak and tan robes.
"Medic!" Seth yelled as he was helping the injured teenage girl on the ground. One of the troopers in the group ran up to Seth and removed his backpack. The trooper brought out medical supplies and started to treat the girl.
"Ugh, where am I?" The girl said as she regained consciousness.
"Don't worry you're fine. You're a little banged up, but we're gonna fix you." Seth said. The group was starting to wonder who this English speaking girl was. It was clear that the red head beauty was disoriented. Her vision was starting to focus and she saw a man in a black cloak along with what appeared to be a clone troopers. Seth acted on instinct and raised a force shield. The girl had used force push on Seth and the trooper. The trooper medic flew towards a car, but the armor took most of the damage. Seth wasn't even phased by the force push. It was too weak to break his force barrier. Seth jumped back as he sensed something was off and he easily a avoid a sky blue lightsaber that the girl brought out.
"What the hell is your problem!? We're trying to help you!" Seth said clearly angry. He landed next to the trooper, who said that he was unharmed from the force attack. The girl responded by charging at Seth with her blue lightsaber ignited. Seth was left with no choice but to defend himself. He brought out one of his curved lightsabers and blocked the blue blade of plasma.
"Stop! I'm not here to fight! I wanna help you!" Seth shouted at the female Jedi that appeared before him as the two entered a bind with their blades.
"I won't trust the words of the Sith!" The Jedi said as she was dead set on fighting. Seth and the Jedi started to clash their blades, but Seth had to figure out a way to take this girl alive, or deal with the Jedi being angry with him. The Sith Lord jumped back and landed towards his group.
"My Lord, what are your orders?" Captain Ortega said as he and the rest of the men were ready to open fire on the Jedi.
"Set your weapons to stun. I want her taken alive! Understood!?" Seth said.
"YES, MY LORD!" The troopers said as they set their weapons to stun. Samus didn't have this feature on her Westar-35 blaster pistols so she had to sit this one out.
"Do not worry about hitting me. If you see a shot, take it. That's an order." Seth stated as he took off his cloak to show that he was serious.
"Understood, Lord Dominus!" Captain Ortega and the other men said as they raised their weapons. Seth jumped that the Jedi and began a barrage of swings with his two lightsabers blades, force the Jedi to focus on defending herself from the onslaught of swings.
The members of the large group minus Samus and Akikaze were shocked at how acrobatic Seth was. He was flipping all around the girl who was trying desperately to block all the attack and the barrage of blue rings being fired from the troopers' weapons. It was clear to Houki and Chifuyu, who were martial artist, that Seth was well trained in using the two weapons in his hands. It took Chifuyu several seconds to analyze the fighting style and could tell that her brother was not giving his all. He was going easy on the red hair girl with the blue blade of plasma.
Seth saw the his men were firing at the Jedi, but she was moving too quickly and was still able to avoid the blue ring or strike them with her blade even as he was putting a lot of pressure on her. Jedi was slightly impressed with the Jedi's skills, but this was taking too long. Seth used a Force push to force the Jedi back and as she was flung across the street, the troopers started firing a barrage of blue stun rings from their blasters. To Seth shock, the Jedi was able to quickly recover from the force push and started to blocking non-lethal rings of energy.
Seth decided that too much time had been spent in trying to capture the Jedi. He used double Accel and appeared behind the Jedi. He grabbed the Jedi's wrist that held her blue lightsaber as she turned around to strike Seth. The Jedi tried to used her free arm to punch the Sith Lord, but with was captured as well. Next she tried to kick Seth in one of his knees, but he stood strong.
"SHOOT HER!" Seth order as he held the Jedi that was desperately trying to escape. Captain Ortega shot a blue stun ring from his blaster that hit the Jedi, knocking her out. Unfortunately because Seth was still holding the Jedi he was also effected by the stun ring. The Jedi and Sith fell on their back, unconscious from the non-lethal weapon.
"Lord Dominus!" The captain Ortega yelled as the group rush to the two. The troopers tried to wake Seth with smelling salts, but it was no good. The Jedi and he were out cold. The group noticed that a large scar appeared on Seth's face. The Sith Lord normally used a force illusion to hide the scars on his body and the marker symbol on his chest as well, but with him out cold, they were visible for everyone to see.
"Dammit. Johnson, take the girl, I'll carry his majesty. Lady Samus, I believe we should move towards the LZ as our next course of action." Captain Ortega said as he grabbed the unconscious Sith Lord.
"Yes, captain. We should move quickly." Samus said as she took charge of the situation as she was the person next in command. The troopers and the group made a mad dash for the the nearby park and once they were there, one of the troopers brought up the commutator on his wrist. The device on his wrist began to let out several beeping sounds. Two minutes later the group began to hear the sound of some sort of engine running and sure enough two LAAT gunships arrived. The doors of the gunships slid open and several more men wearing the same armor with blaster rifles in their hands.
"Get on!" One of the men yelled as he offered his hand to the group. Natasha took the man's hand and climbed aboard. The group split up into two small group and entered the gunships. Once the group were on the gunships, they took off for the [Nobunaga] in orbit.
On the ground a single man watched the gunships fly away. He was a young man with black hair that matched his armor that he was wearing. It was the same armor that the U.S.S. Members earlier were wearing, except that his armor had a N7 marking on his chest. Another man wearing the same armor, minus the N7, came up to the young man and asked him a question.
"Commander Orimura, should we follow them?" The man said.
"Negative. I've seen enough here. Call in a transport, we're leaving." Ichika said as he observed the groups interaction and now knew that Seth was far too dangerous to engage without an I.S. Ichika turned to face the man and the man noticed that one of Ichika's eyes were different. It sclera was black while the Iris was blood red.
Onboard the [Nobunaga].
As the LAAT gunships doors slid open, the group of girls plus Akikaze, were shocked at the slight in front of them. The place was covered in battle droids pointing their weapons at the unknown intruders. Samus quickly order the droids to lower their weapon and they did. A human medical team came and took away the Jedi and Sith. They placed them inside of a medical Capsule. Samus was about to say something when a voice came over the loudspeaker.
"All hands, we will return tothe lunar base. Estimated time of arrival is 30 minutes." The voice said and this instantly got the attention of the group member that were from this dimension.
"Lunar base?" They said. Samus knew that they couldn't keep things a secret now. All they had to do was for Seth to wake up.