I stood in the command center of the Umbrella Hive, deep beneath the bustling streets of New York. The chaos was a seismic hum… the collective screaming of a billion minds realizing simultaneously that their leaders were monsters.
"Queen," I said, my voice cutting through the hum of the servers. "Execute Clean Sweep Protocol."
"Orders received, Aryan," she replied, her voice stripped of its usual playful affectation. On the main monitor thousands of blue icons turned blood red in unison. "The U.S.S. is mobile."
Across the globe, the Umbrella Security Service (U.S.S.) moved with a synchronized efficiency.
While the generals in the Pentagon scrambled to figure out who was still loyal to the flag and who was loyal to the tentacled beast of Hydra, the U.S.S. breached their facilities. They used high frequency dampeners and sonic weaponry. Any name on the "Hydra List" was terminated with clinical precision. In the hallowed halls of American military power, the only sound was the muffled thud of bodies hitting the floor.
In the gated communities of D.C., the luxury penthouses of London and the historic villas of Berlin, the "Rotten" were harvested. If a politician was on the list for eating the people from the inside out, for trading blood for profit, their story ended that night.
In police precincts across the country, U.S.S. units neutralized compromised captains and commissioners, stripping the "Blue Wall" of its Hydra bricks before the sun could rise.
"Status report," I commanded.
"The list is clear, Aryan," Red Queen whispered, a note of awe in her synthesized voice. "No Hydra signatures remain in the major hubs of power."
But I knew from the future that nature abhors a vacuum and usually, something worse fills it. Unless I filled it first.
To establish a grip on the physical world that matched my absolute dominance in the digital one, I had invested ten billion dollars into a specialized Omega level Shapeshifting ability. This was a total molecular restructuring that allowed me to create a biological duplicate with a DNA signature that did not exist in any known database.
I named this persona "The Leader."
While Aryan remained the high tech architect in the shadows, "The Leader" was the sun. I gave him a meticulously fabricated history. A self made humanitarian, a philosopher king with a smile that felt like a promise. To ensure his rise was absolute, I synthesized my Omega level Telepathy with my Gamma level Friendly Aura.
While the telepathy allowed me to plant specific thoughts and read the emotional temperature of a room instantly, the Friendly Aura acted as a passive field of warmth. It made people feel a brotherly bond with "The Leader" the moment he stepped into a room. To the public, he was the best friend they hadn't met yet, the only person who truly understood their pain.
Under this guise, I founded the Global Progress Party (GPP).
The recruitment process was a masterpiece of social engineering, fueled by my specialized abilities. Red Queen used her algorithms to identify the "Golden Generation"… thousands of brilliant minds disillusioned by the corruption of the old guard. During private retreats, secluded from the world, I used my Telepathy to perform "Subconscious Alignment." I smoothed over their anxieties, erased their doubts and anchored their deepest moral convictions to the platform of the GPP.
In the middle of my speeches as The Leader, I would flare my aura. The effect was immediate… hostile journalists would soften their tone, finding their cynicism melting away. Cynical politicians would find themselves nodding along, their psychological defenses lowered, making them biologically predisposed to agree with me.
While "The Leader" stood on stage, beaming with charisma, my mind was divided into thousands of sub processes via Cognitive Multitasking. I was simultaneously reading the surface thoughts of the crowd, adjusting my rhetoric in real time based on their emotional feedback and using my Omega level Technopathy to ensure the media cameras captured only my most charismatic angles.
I provided these young politicians with "insights" about the impending collapse of the current political system. Because I had already seen the future through my Precognition, my predictions were 100% accurate. To my followers, I was a prophet who could see through the fog of chaos.
Within a year, the GPP was a secular religion. These young politicians became my loyal eyes and ears in every local council, every state department and every international embassy. They were brilliant, they were untainted by the Hydra rot and most importantly, they belonged to me. By the time the world realized the old system was collapsing, "The Leader" and his army of devotees were already standing at the podiums, ready to catch the falling crown.
"Activate the GPP cells," I ordered, watching the news feeds of burning government buildings. "Tell them it's time to step into the light. The people want justice? We will give them 'Order'."
Across sixty capital cities, the activation was instantaneous. These young men and women had been waiting in the wings of history, embedded as low level staffers, civil rights lawyers and municipal advisors. At my signal, they stepped onto the stages of history with a calm coordination that stood in stark contrast to the panic around them.
In Washington D.C., as the smoke still rose from the Triskelion, a group of GPP representatives walked toward the steps of the Capitol. They came with tablets and a message. Using my Omega level Technopathy, I hijacked every major news network to broadcast their arrival live.
"Citizens of the world," their spokesperson began… a young man whose mind I had personally refined to be a perfect orator. "The age of the shadow is over. The 'Shield' you relied on was a mask for the 'Hydra' that fed on you. But we are not here to sell you fear. We are here to provide the solution."
I watched through Red Queen's eyes as the GPP cells began their work. They implemented "Umbrella Protocols" in real time. While the old government was paralyzed by the purge and the loss of its leadership, the GPP used Umbrella's logistical network to stabilize food supplies and power grids. They showed the people that 'Order' had a tangible face.
Behind the scenes, I amplified the Gamma level Friendly Aura through the Leader's televised appearances. I projected a psychic "calm" over the world's most volatile zones. I made the rioters feel that their anger was finally being heard, effectively de-escalating the violence by making the GPP feel like an extension of their own will.
With the "Hydra" politicians being dragged away in chains by the U.S.S., the GPP moved into the vacuum. They declared "Emergency Administrations." Because they were the only ones with the data… on how to fix the crumbling infrastructure, the remaining government officials had no choice but to follow their lead.
The people wanted justice for the Hydra betrayal and I gave them a clinical version of it. I gave them the sight of corrupt senators being led away in handcuffs while GPP leaders stood in the foreground, looking like the only sane people left in a world gone mad.
"The public sentiment is shifting from 'Panic' to 'Reliance' at a rate of twelve percent per hour," Red Queen reported.
"Excellent," I murmured. Through my Omega level Precognition, I saw the branches of the future merging. The chaos was being squeezed out, replaced by an Umbrella branded peace.
The people didn't want the flawed justice of the old democracy. They wanted the efficient certainty of the GPP. They wanted to feel safe and I was making them feel safer than they ever had… even as I locked the doors from the outside.
As the sun began to rise on a world in shock, the U.S.S. changed their mission profile. They moved from the shadows to the streets as Peacekeepers.
I sent them to every major city to stop the riots I had started. They protected the grocery stores, guarded the hospitals and stood at the intersections. Dressed in their black and silver Umbrella gear, they were the only calm faces in a world on fire.
I stepped onto the balcony of my office, looking out over the city. Red Queen projected a holographic map of the world in front of me.
"The GPP is taking the lead in fifteen different parliaments as of ten minutes ago," she reported. "The people are cheering for our security teams. They think we saved them from a Hydra coup. They're calling for an emergency global summit."