It's a tradition to put one meme in every interlude this book will have. And yes, this is gonna be a long ass book because of those interludes along with chapters that has some story segments in it.

Anyways, enjoy this interlude

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Nian stared at the window of the Toyota car feeling a bit bored. They've reached several villages for the past twenty five minutes thanks to the speed of the car, but there was nothing too interesting for them to see. They briefly took a look on the place before driving away.

Nian let out an exhale before gazing at the holo map as D added another waypoint that leads to a town, a far bigger place than the settlements, though it is still twenty more minutes away.

She then saw how focused Feerzo looked in the driver seat, despite what D claimed that he programmed him to be able to drive. Nonetheless, it was a good thing they have not crashed. Even then, they are driving on the barrens.

Nian then decides to shift her glance towards D, the latter was on his wristband computer as usual.

She took a closer look and notices that he is texting with someone. That someone being a person named Octavia

She observes the texts he and this Octavia person sent to each other.

How you doing, lately?

Octavia:
Mom and Dad still arguing at eachother as usual,
mostly regarding about you

Yeesh, sounds like i stirred that mess...

Octavia:
Well, It's not your fault, Dixie.
It's mostly mom's problem that i can't be friends with whoever i want.

Hope you're doing well with it.
I'll probably visit you again when i have the chance.

Octavia:
That would be great :)

Nian raises an eyebrow in curiosity when this Octavia girl called him 'Dixie' instead of 'D'. Along with the 'Stolas' guy that seems to be her dad.

D continued texting with Octavia for a few more seconds before exiting her messages. "I'm assuming you want to ask more questions regarding me and the others?" D asks, turning to Nian after.

Nian immediately responds with a nod. "Yeah. Who was that Octavia person?"

"She's a friend of mine from the Helluva Boss universe that I visited before." D explains. "Her parents don't seem to have really good terms with eachother."

"I see. I would hate to be in her position." Nian remarked before asking, " What does she look like?"

"Best if i show you. Just give me a sec." D went to his wristband and searched up some images. Then he brought one up to Nian, that being a picture of Octavia.

Nian looked a bit surprised when Octavia looks to be a female anthro Liberi with gray feathers and pink eyes while wearing a emo-like uniform and a beanie that has a tiara outside of it.

Nian observed the picture with interest, then she pointed out. "What's with the that tiara though? Does that make her..."

"Yep, she is royalty." D answered.

Nian whistles in amazement. "That's pretty neat. By the way, why did she call you Dixie?"

"Oh, well that was a name I used as a disguise when I visited that world." D then explains, " You see, before I visited Terra and introduced myself to you, I have been exploring other worlds with different disguises and different names."

"Well if that is the case, why did you feel the need to conceal yourself when you visited those worlds?" She asked.

"It's simple, really. I just feel a bit uncomfortable for intervening with the characters of the world and if i would mess up something." He answered. "But after some talk with my watcher friends, they had convinced me to do interact with the characters, you being the first."

Nian smiled at that and nodded. "Alright. Speaking of the watchers, can you tell me more about them. Particularly about all the countries that they're in since you had only mentioned like half of them back in the previous town."

"Lucky for you, I had just remembered all of them. I even made a list of all the countries we're from because I don't want to infodump a lot in this chapter." D said.

"What?" Nian raised an eyebrow.

"Nothing. Anyways, here's the list of the countries." A holo feed from D's wristband showed up infront of her as she looks at all name of the countries along with the flags beside them. They were in alphabetical order.

Argentina, Austria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, South Africa, USA, and Vietnam.

Nian was interested in all of these nations that she never knew of, though they all are part of D's homeworld. Then she noticed something odd. "Hey, didn't you say there were 26 of you? And all of you are from each countries? Why are there only 25 countries?"

"Oh yeah, i forgot to mention that two of the watchers are actually from the same nation, and that nation being Canada." D clarified.

"I see." Nian acknowledged. "Since you said you befriended some of them, care to ask who they are?"

"I have four best friends in particular. They are E, H, R, and P." D listed off with his fingers. "Three of them are from Asia while one of them is in Europe."

Nian gave him a puzzled look in which D realized that he did not mention her of the regions and continents in his homeworld

"Oh right, sorry. What i just said was the continents of the nations in it. There are a total of 7 continent. Asia and Europe being two of them, then there is Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, and Oceania."

"Hmm, alright." Nian nodded in understanding, interpreting about the continents he mentioned. The fact there's seven of them surprised her too.

Since the Terran civilization she is in appears to be in a continent, she wonders how many there are on the entire planet. Or perhaps the continent they're standing on is the only continent. Man, she hoped D had known every knowledge of Terra since his species basically created it through a game.

"With that aside, care to tell me more of your four watcher friends?" She inquired.

"Like i said, three of them are from Asia, that being E, R, and P. E's from Iraq, R's from the Philippines, and P's from Vietnam. And H is the one from Europe - being from Austria."

Nian chuckled a bit. "I can imagine how awkward H would be if she hangs out you and the other three while being the only person from this 'Europe' continent."

"Heh, well we don't think of that anymore." D waved a hand off. " And besides, I rarely hang out with the four altogether, instead I hang out with two of them, which is why I put the four together in two groups. They're called the "Weeb friends" and the "Non-Weeb friends".

"Weeb friends and non-weeb friends?" Nian raised an eyebrow in amusement of the name itself.

D gave her a nod. "Yep. E and H are part of the non-weeb friends while R and P are part of the Weeb friends."

"I still don't understand what you mean by 'Weeb' though." Nian said.

"Generally in my homeworld, Weeb is a derisive term for a non-Japanese person that is pretty obsessed with Japanese culture and stuff, particularly those that loves anime and manga." D explained.

"Hmm, so it's like the folks that love the stuff coming from Higashi?"

D shrugs. "I guess."

"Looks like i found another term to call them." Nian let out a chuckle. She then continued. " Are you considered a weeb by any chance? You are friends with two them after all."

D darted his eyes away for a moment. "Um...no."

"Really?" Nian said, feeling a bit surprised from it. "Thought for sure you'd be one."

"Well more of an in-between, since i have non-weeb friends too. Overall, not a weeb." D stated.

Nian doubt it but shrugged it off anyways. "So how did the four of you become friends?"

"Well for E and H, we shared the same interest in movies, cartoon shows, and games. The latter being Call of Duty. The three of us are fans of the stories, especially the modern warfare one. Man, the original series was pretty good." D let out a smile after that. " Anyways, we introduced ourselves to eachother while talking about our same interests too, then we've become great friends."

"I see. And what about your weeb friends - R and P?"

"For those two, it is mostly that the three of us were from the countries that are neighbors in the South East Asian region - or SEA for short. The three of us share the same interests too, especially in anime and manga stuff."

"So you are a weeb." Nian remarked.

"I am not!" D exclaimed. "But yeah, that's how I became friends with the two. I can show you this pic of us that R took months ago." D went to the gallery section of his wristband and find the respective image, showing it to Nian.

Nian then looked at the pic that has three people in it. There were one guy and two girls.

She recognizes D as he was the only guy in the picture. She can now see what he looks like under the mercenary outfit as he is a young man on his early 20s while having short black hair, light-brownish skin and black eyes.

Then she looked to the two girls by the pic, which has to be R and P.

The first girl was by the middle, holding both D and the other girl together for the picture while she's smiling. She has medium-length black hair that goes over her shoulders while having eyes that of different colour of each. Her left eye was red, while the other was blue.

Nian thought of how she has heterochromia before looking at the second girl of the pic.

The second girl on the right had a very tomboyish appearance. She is also smiling in the pic too. She wears a purple beanie that covers most of her black hair that seems to be tied to a ponytail. She also has a lighter skin tone like the middle girl while having regular black eyes.

"That girl in the middle is R." D pointed out with his finger. "And the girl on the right side is P."

"I gotta say, they look pretty nice. Goes for you too." Nian commented, looking back at D in the picture.

She then noticed that D looked like he had a forced smile in the picture. Though, she shrugged that thought off, thinking that one of them must've forced him to join the pic, hence the smile.

D appreciated Nian's comment of his look with a nod. "Thanks. I always thought i still got the looks."

"Well why don't you remove that headgear of yours?" Nian questioned.

"You know what, you're right." D then takes off his cap and his shades before lowering down his balaclava ski mask. Nian now gets to see what D looks like. He looks exactly like in the pic, albeit his hair is now a bit longer than usual.

Nian whistled before giving him a thumbs up. "You still lookin good."

"Thanks." D replied, blushing a bit. "But it's gonna be for the ride. After this, I am putting it back on."

"Alright, if ya say so." Nian shrugged. "Anyways, care to tell me more about R and P? I've become a bit interested in them with their looks alone. You two seems to be close too since you're part of this SEA region with them in your homeworld."

"I'll start with P." D began. "She usually acts like a tomboy around, hence why she's wearing that purple beanie along with a hoodie. But overall, she is a great friend to me. And she is just a normal girl that likes boy stuff more."

D then deadpanned at his next response, "The same can't be said about R, though..."

Nian raised her eyebrow at D's sudden change in emotion. "What is with R?"

D sighed. "How do i begin this...she's a weird girl to say the least."

"Ya sure? She looks normal to me." Nian said, looking back at the pic. "Except for her heterochromia, though."

"Oh those are actually her eye contacts. They're just in a different color." D pointed out.

"Oh...well that aside, there's surely nothing wrong with her right?" Nian claimed, but she already knew it is false when D deadpanned at her.

"Well there are three things I have listed off regarding of R's bad side." D responded, making a listing hand gesture. "One, she is a perverted creep. I've seen her ogling at some of the female watchers that are single, including P. There were lots of times I've seen her flirting with them or any women without any shame in her face. She also likes to intermingle in others relationships, like W and N. She even has a note where she ships the watchers with anyone, including me!"

"Oh wow." Nian gave him and incredulous look.

"Two, she is a sex-crazed horny ass raging homosexual." D listed. "Follow up from the first note, R has a harem of four girls. They all look beautiful - not gonna lie. She really loves them a lot. She always gives them kisses or hugs when she meets one of them. It's kinda sweet, really." D smiled for the moment, before frowning again.

"But I swear....she can't go for like two days without thinking of fucking one of them or two! She is also determined to expand her harem, getting as much girls as she can. I don't want to imagine hearing eleven girls moaning in the same room together. I was unfortunate enough to walk pass her room and then overhearing her and two of her girls moaning and stuff."

Nian stared at him with red cheeks on her face while Feerzo shifted uncomfortably in his seat, having to hear the whole conversation from behind. He focused back on the wheel - trying to ignore it all.

D had composed himself before listing the third thing of R. "And three, the worst one of all...." Nian leaned forward, anticipating of what the third worst thing of R is.

"She is a Filipino." D responded.

Nian blinked in confusion before slowly nodding. "Uh....okay? You're not exaggerating about this are you?"

"Alright, that third one was really an exaggeration and also a joke that you won't possibly understand." D admitted. "However the first and second thing about R - that is NOT an exaggeration. It's all true."

After hearing all of that, Nian now felt a bit scared of R if she ever meets her face to face. Then to her surprise, she saw D smiling after he explained all of those stuff regarding her.

"But even though she was all of those things, she is still a good person. Not to mention that she, along with her other best friend - C, is actually super smart. Considered that she's a nerd back in Earth."

"Huh, really? Who knew a nerd like her can be that perverted and horny of what you said." Nian remarks.

"Eh, life works in different ways." D chuckles after that. "So any other questions worth asking?"

Nian thought of it for a moment before she eyed on his bolt action rifle by the floor of the car. "That weapon of yours."

D turned to his gun. "My Mosin Nagant?" He questioned.

"Yep." Nian nodded while acknowledging the name of the gun he said. "I've been wondering why you use a gun that old considering your...modern-like appearance."

"Hey, don't talk about Mosey like that." D responded, holding his bolt action rifle like it was his baby. "She may be old, but she can still kick ass."

"Mosey?" Nian raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, that's what I call this beauty." D said while caressing the rifle with care. "She's based on the Mosin Nagant bolt action rifle in my homeworld - from a country called Russia. It has been used in wars and conflicts for about more than a century, given how massively produced the gun is."

"How many were they produced?" Nian asks.

"From the current year they were produced till now...about 37 million." D answered.

"Damn, that's a lot of firearms." Nian commented. "It's even more than the population Laterano has."

"And you can literally arm the entire population with these guns, and there will still be many more left. Same along with some of the weapons I also have in my arsenal."

"Wait, you have more guns in you?" She asked

"Yep. And all of them are made from the same country Mosey is from. Let me show you real quick." D once again went to the section of his items he stored in the computer.

He then shows the set of guns that Nian has whilst she is observing the pictures of the respective weapons.

- AK47 (Assault Rifle)
- PPSH41 (Sub-machine gun)
- Tokarev TT-33 (Pistol)
- SVT-40 (Semi automatic rifle)
- RPD (Machine gun)
- Mosin Nagant M1891/ "Mosey" (Bolt action/Sniper rifle) - Currently taken

"Those are some neat designs." Nian commented. "And all of them really are from Russia?"

D nodded. "Yep. Some of these weapons are so iconic, that almost the whole world had used it, preferably the AK47."

Nian then asked, "You said before that the Mosin Nagant weapon you have is still being used in wars from your own homeworld?"

"Sure is. Though nowadays they are use in minimal numbers, but it's still being used. Speaking of which, i think you should see this video regarding the Mosin and all the wars it was used in."

D went to the 'Youtube' section in his wristband and searched up a video. After a few moments, he showed the feed to Nian as they both watched the video.

https://youtu.be/TKFTH0OEmac

After watching the minute-long video - whilst pausing some parts of the video to see the texts, Nian spoke up. "Wow, those sure were a lot of wars. And you weren't kidding of the Mosin Nagant still being used."

"That's Russian productivity for you. Hence why i decide to make it my own super weapon." D replied.

Nian then turned her head to him, raising an eyebrow. "Super weapon?"

"The higher beings had let me and the rest of the watchers to have their own 'super weapon' , or atleast a signature weapon for the job." D explain. "I requested for an arsenal of Russian/Soviet weapons from the early and mid 20th century. Though the catch is I have to have one weapon of each type. Like one pistol and one sub machine gun."

"I see...but what makes them as Super weapons than the normal ones in your homeworld?"

"Let me demonstrate." D said as he grabbed Mosey again. "In my world, this Mosin rifle only holds up to 5 bullets in a stripper clip like this here." D then pulls out a stripper clip with five bullets in it before inserting it in the rifle.

"But with Mosey's case, it can hold up to more." D then takes out another stripper clip and insert the bullets into the Mosin rifle, holding it up to 10 rounds. He then points at the scope mount. "I even added a scope mount that can make it as a sniper rifle."

"Interesting..." Nian said, a little amazed.

"Also, I've modified the weapon to be as powerful as the modern counterparts of the bolt-action sniper rifles in my homeworld, and along with a few other modifications. Hence why i was able to one shot that metal crab when it was ambushing us."

"I see. Those creatures truly do have tough armor that almost any physical weapons would be useless to kill the thing except for arts."

"You can thank my powers for it." D chuckled.

Feerzo then spoke up. "We're closing in to the town." D look to the holo map and saw that the vehicle was about a few minutes away to reach the waypoint.

He nodded in understanding. "Alright, Feerzo. Just keep driving there."

"Yes, sir!"

"And don't call me sir, please!"

"Yes...master!"

D sighed and leaned back in the chair while Nian was chuckling at what he just called him. "Master? Really?"

"Well he is one of my personas that I created, but it just feels a bit awkward when I'm called Master by them." D then begins to put the balaclava back on along with his shades and the cap. "Anyways, you heard what he said. We're gonna reach the town. Hopefully it's more interesting than the last ones."

Nian frowned. "Aww, really? I was just about to ask more questions about Feerzo and the personas. Like does he have a crush on one of them?"

"Excuse me?" Feerzo turned his head to her to here while D chuckled.

"Alright, we'll talk about him and my personas after we visit the town." He said.

"Fine by me." Nian nodded. Feerzo focused back on the wheel while mumbling about something as the car head towards the town.

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Rhodes Island Landship, at the cafeteria, present time

"Thank you as always for the food, Gummy." Amiya said as she is holding a tray of food filled with various food. One of them being a bowl of stew that's made by Gummy herself. Said stew seems to become a favorite at this time.

Gummy, behind the counter, gave her a smile. "You're welcome, Amiya! My Zharkoye is one of best dishes I offered to Rhodes Island."

Amiya giggled. "You are one of our best cooks after all." 

"Hope you enjoy it!" The cautus girl nodded before leaving the counter and went to her table where the Doctor was also there. They were also eating Gummy's special stew, though it was the only thing on their tray, aside a water jug beside it.

Amiya sat down beside the Doctor as she watches them taking a spoon of the stew, sending it into their mask. It looked like they almost consumed it.

Amiya begin to eat her food while occasionally staring at the Doctor, mostly the mask. The Doctor had wore that mask every time she sees them, but she always wondered had they always wore them every time they go.

Like the part where the Doctor went to her room still wearing the mask or when they are eating right now.

Amiya decides to ask, "Hey, Doctor. Can i ask you about something?"

"Oh, sure thing, Amiya." The Doctor responded, putting the spoon down to the tray. "What's on your mind?"

"Well..." Amiya hesitated a bit before pointing at the mask. "It's about your mask, Doktah."

"What's wrong with my mask?" Doctor asked back.

"It's not about your mask, it's just....have you ever remove them in some occasions?"

Doctor hesitated to answer the question. It's been a while since an operator would brought up the topic of their mask. 

When Rhodes Island have been getting new operators lately, they would constantly ask why the Doctor is wearing a mask and never seem to take it off. The seniors would respond of how it's only their business and they would remove their mask if they want to.

To see Amiya, who was very close to the Doctor, asking them regarding their mask was a slight surprise. But nevertheless, they had to answer. "I just...don't really prefer showing my face around any people." 

"But why?" Amiya furthers the question, causing the Doctor let out a little sigh.

"Maybe I'm probably just insecure about my look...or maybe showing my face would be a risk to me, or...I don't know - it's most likely the former." Doctor lumped down on their seat, staring at their bowl.

"I see..." Amiya acknowledged their reason, giving slow nods. "Does that also mean that you never took it off when you're alone? Like sleeping?"

"Well it's usually in the morning whenever I always get up and took a little shower. But after that I just put on my clothes and my mask. I don't often look in the mirror." Doctor explained.

"You don't? Why is that?"

"Maybe i just feel uncomfortable looking at my face. I don't know why, but there is always that feeling every time whenever I try to look at my face in the mirror."

"Well whatever it is...I still think you look okay, Doktah." Amiya assured, feeling a bit of pity towards the Doctor. Amiya may not know of their personal problems regarding their face, but she would be there to help them.

"Thanks..." The Doctor and Amiya continued to eat their foods.

"So, when should we start the next session for the third act?" Amiya asked for a suggestion.

"Tomorrow afternoon." Doctor said, getting a nod of approval from her.

"Alright."

Elsewhere in the cafeteria, there were also the operators that had participated on watching the MW universe. Those being Spot, Catapult, Steward, Blaze, etc. All of them sat in their respective seats.

Spot and Catapult were with the rest of team A6, that includes their team leader - Orchid. Being the only one that hasn't seen the MW universe,  she was curious about it what happened in those events. Though when Spot told her of the 'Nuclear explosion' that traumatized Popukar, she decided to not let Popukar to watch it again.

"So how was the second act?" Orchid asked, despite not seeing it but learned it from Popukar.

"Well...it was interesting, i guess." Spot answered before recounting of what happened. "Drudge Tulla was killed, avenging the 30,000 Yanese marines that were killed by the nuke. We get to know of Ch'en's past along with how Patriot got his arm off. Then it turns out that the Hoshiguma chick was alive along with that Massey NPC dude. They all set off to capture the Frostnova chick, but when she got cornered - she ended up killing herself."

"You left out the part where Dobermann got killed off." Catapult chimed in.

"Oh, yeah..."

"She got killed?" Popukar inquired getting a nod from the two. "How did she die?"

"When they were escaping Drudge's hideout from the Reunion forces, Dobermann got shot and bled out. But atleast she  went out fighting." Catapult said.

"A shame to lost such a good comrade." Midnight remarked.

"So the second act ended with Frostnova shooting herself to evade capture?" Orchid asks.

"Yep." Spot nodded.

"Well...it doesn't sound too bad than how the first act ended with the whole nuclear thing."

"Yeah, but it doesn't make it better." Catapult replied.

"Are you two going to watch the third act?" Popukar asked.

"I would. I'm beginning to be interested with the Modern Warfare universe thing." Spot answered.

"So am I." Catapult followed.

"Well, you can count me in for the next session." Midnight chimed in before turning to Orchid. "Maybe you can join aswell Orchid. You haven't been there for the previous two sessions."

"Three." Spot interjected.

Orchid thought of it for a moment before shrugging. "Alright. I'll probably be free when the session starts...When would it start?" She asked again.

"Maybe tomorrow at the afternoon." Catapult speculates.

"Well if everyone is going, then i will too!" Popukar proclaimed making the other four A6 members to turn to her.

"Um, Popukar sweetie...maybe you should sit it one out." Orchid insisted.

"But why?" She queried.

"Well...i don't want you to end up traumatized when you were with Spot and the rest a week ago."

"Come on, Orchid. Sure, that was a jaw dropping scene, but I'm sure it won't happen again for the third act." Catapult assured.

"I agree with her, Ms. Orchid." Midnight joined in. "There's no need to be negative for our dear Popukar hear.  Besides, Spot here can cover her eyes to the explicit scenes she shouldn't see."

All the four A6 members then turned to Spot, waiting for his response as Midnight and Catapult already did. "Well, we can't just leave her all alone. So...she can join with us." He said.

"Alright, 3 to 1. It is official." Catapult proclaimed while Popukar would smile that she would be hanging out with them again.

Orchid sighs before giving in. "Okay then..."

"Thank you so much!" Popukar smiled.

..

"You're not gonna join the next session?" Steward asked to Ansel when he said that he is not joining them to watch the third act of the MW universe.

"No, i have medical duties to attend." Ansel said. "Being a medic takes lots of work."

"Alright then." Steward then turned to his team. "What about you guys?"

"I'll gladly join for the third act." Cardigan said.

"Yeah, me too." Adnachiel concurred.

"Maybe i do too." Melantha said.

"I guess Ansel would left out again." Cardigan remarked with a giggle.

"Well since all of you are joining for the third act, then I'll join aswell." Ansel asserted. "Regarding what day it would be, I can catch up when I'm done or on my break." 

"Alright, noted." Steward give him a thumbs up for it.

"I wonder what the third act would offer to us?" Melantha asked.

"It may be the last act, so surely they would take out the leader of the Reunion army." Adnachiel stated.

"What if more people would die though?" Cardigan said in a worried tone. "You said that Dobermann was killed during one of the missions right?"

"Yeah...but maybe it would be different. They would probably be cautious of it." Steward speculate.

"Hopefully." Melantha said.

...

"I'm still hoping that I would appear in that MW universe as a character." Blaze said while eating her food.

Greythroat let out a sigh. "You said that like fifty times now."

"I'm just curious, okay? Nothing wrong with that." Blaze asserted. "Besides, aren't you also curious if you would be part of the universe?"

Greythroat begin to think about it. "Hmm, yeah, you're right. It is a possibility i could be in there too."

"Well, i hope we'll be good comrades in arms." Blaze then wrapped an arm around the Liberi's neck. And instead of pushing it away, Greythroat simply rolled her eyes.

....

"Hibiscus is joining us for the next session?" Kroos asked to Lava after she inform her, Fang, and Beagle.

"Yeah, i told her a bunch of stuff regarding the MW universe and she got pretty curious since had never been there once." Lava said.

"That would mean the whole A1 team would be here. Awesome!" Beagle grinned in happiness.

"If the third act would be the final act of the first MW game, then might aswell invite everyone in our team." Fang proclaim.

Lava and the rest nodded. They and the rest of the ops at the cafe were all but eager to see the third act of the MW universe.

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Sargon, a week ago

The Toyota car had made it to the town as Feerzo put the vehicle to a stop by the entrance with a big sign on the front that says the name of the town - Perisa.

As expected, their arrival had caught some glances from the locals of the town, mostly children that were playing around. D and Nian opened their car doors and walked out of the vehicle before observing the scene of the town. 

"Hmmm, nice place." D said.

"I agree. Looks like a decent-sized town that could house a thousand people." Nian replied. "Hopefully we would find something interesting here."

"I'm sure there would be." D then turns to Feerzo. "Feerzo, i need you to stay here and watch the car for us."

Feerzo responded with a nod. "Of course. But...are you sure it is okay? We are getting some eyes here..." He said with a hint of concern, looking at the young townsfolk that were looking at them.

D waved it off and assured. "Ah don't worry about them. They're just curious is all. If they start asking some questions, just try and answer them."

"If you say so..."

"Great! We'll be back in an hour or two." With that, D and Nian went into the town as Feerzo had to stay by the car. Feerzo let out an exhale as he stayed by the driver seat, checking on the interior of the car to make sure it's in good shape. 

He then heard a few voices as he leaned out of the window and a saw a bunch of children gathering around the car while they utter in amazement.

One of the children notices Feerzo before running up to him. "Hey, Mister! Nice car you have." The kid said.

"Oh, um...danke." Feerzo replied. "But it's not really mine, it's from my...boss that just walk into the town recently."

"Ah, okay." The kid said before chuckling. "You sound funny, mister. Are you a Leithanian?"

 Feerzo paused a bit, trying to think of something as a response. He was having some difficulties as he don't even know what 'Leithanian' means. Might as well go with the flow.

"Uh, y-yeah! I was just some guy from Leithanian until my boss hired me as his personal driver to go around the world." Feerzo answered with a nervous smile under his mask.

"That's so cool! You're very lucky, mister!" The kid brighten up in amazement. "I wish i can be like you!"

"Well... someday you might."

"Hey, mister!" An older kid called out to him as he approaches the car. "What is with the get up? Are you a soldier?"

"No. He said he is a driver." The first kid said.

"Well he could be a soldier too."

"Um, about that-"

"Hey, mister!" Another kid call out to him, being a little girl as she was by the front of the car. "Why is there a word named Toyota in the front? What even is a Toyota?" 

A few more kids begin to surround him as they along with the other three children - asks more questions.

"Hey, mister! What is this small circle thing on the side of the car?"

"Mister! Do you have more cars like these?"

"Mister! Why are you covering your face?"

"Mista! Can i go in the car with you?"

"Mister! Do you have anything fun in the car?"

Feerzo let out a sigh as this is gonna be a long hour for him.

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D and Nian strolled around the town, observing the buildings and the roads and the people doing their usual business. The townsfolk gave them a quick glance before going about their business. The town seemed pretty big in D's eyes, possibly housing about more than 10,000 residents.

The two passed by several houses and shops. They even stumbled upon a busy marketplace with tons of sellers and customers buying food, materials, clothing, all a bunch. 

The two immediately thought of how interesting the place already is. Then they stumbled upon the town park that also looks like it's an Oasis. In such a land like this in Sargon, seeing an Oasis is a good choice to built a town or a settlement. 

"Wow, this town looks amazing." D uttered.

"Agreed." Nian nodded. "It's nothing like the rest we've passed. It's like a breath of fresh air. However....I think i'm gonna take a rest for the day." Her response got a surprised reaction from D as Nian went to sit on one of the benches.

"Ah c'mon, why?" D asks. "We've only been here for 10 minutes. There's so many things to see in this town,  you would definitely want to know.

"This oasis is enough for me. You do you and explore the town by yourself. I'm gonna enjoy my time here." Nian closes her eyes as she leaned on the chair.

D rolled his eyes. "Fine. We'll meet back with Feerzo at the Toyota in an hour or two, alright?" Nian gave him a thumbs up as a response as he sighs and walks away from the park.

For the past 30 minutes, D looked around the busy town. 

He passed by several food stands that has a variety of food that he was willing to try them all, and when he got thirsty, he saw some stands serving drinks that are ice cold. 

Though the further he explored the town, he was aware of locals in that are giving him worried looks. Maybe it's because of his mercenary attire. He had to clarify to some of the stand owners and the locals that he wasn't there to rob or threaten them. He was only here to explore.

He was then told that the town had its fair share of mercenaries or bounty hunters that had constantly visited the town. He was surprised that the town didn't have any guards or any sort of law enforcements. Instead the mayor had rely on mercenaries to do all the enforcing. He has the money for it too, so it won't be that big of a deal.

However this had spark some clashes between rival mercenary groups and along with bounty hunters or criminals. The locals said that they're still in conflict across the town, albeit not to a large scale but only small skirmishes.

Nevertheless, D had to be careful. Turns out the town was not all so great after all despite the beautiful Oasis park and all the great food and drinks he tried. He just hoped he won't stumble upon some of the mercenary groups or the ones 'policing' the town.

"Hey you there!" A voice called out to them.

D turned to the voice, and by his luck - it was a mercenary. He was accompanied with three other mercs of his group. He wasn't sure if they are the 'hired enforcement' for the town since they're wearing ragged olive green clothing, which doesn't make them look the parr to be security forces.

"Yes?" D said to them.

"Are you with those security bastards?" The leader of the group asked. His head was covered in rags like the rest while having a pair of shades over his eyes like D.

"Um, no. I'm just here visiting the place." D answered in a calming manner. Even though D's way more powerful than the group, he prefers to not fight them and try his best to stay out of it. 

"Oh really? Your uniform says otherwise." He remarked, looking at D's Shadow Company merc attire. 

"Look, boss. He doesn't have a weapon." One of his goons pointed out as the Leader looks at D and notices it.

"So it seems. I guess you like being suicidal, eh?" He chuckled before making his way towards D along with his goons.

"Hey, easy now. I don't want a fight here." D said, backing away slowly. 

"Then give us your shit and we'll leave you alone." The Leader demanded.

Of course, D have to deny it. "I'm sorry, but I won't allow you to do so."

"You wanna play tough, huh? Fine!" The leader unsheathes his sword and gripped it tight. His men doing the same. 

D took a stance as he readied his fists. He won't use his guns at them, knowing that they'll get suspicious of him as his guns differ from the ones in Terra.

Just then, D hears more footsteps behind him as he saw four more mercenaries, them having the same attire as the leader infront of him. D cursed as he had to deal with 8 mercenaries at once.

He sighed internally, wishing he would just have a regular exploration for once.

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Nian was heading her way back to the car as two hours had passed. Since D had said they'll meet back at the car in those two hours, she stood back up from her bench, stretching her limbs for a moment before heading back.

While stopping by at a few food stands or souvenir stands, she made it to the Toyota car where she saw Feerzo waving goodbye to six children that too waved the persona goodbye before leaving to their houses.

"Made some friends, eh?" Nian spoke up to him as she reached the car. She notices that Feerzo had a tired look on his eyes, figuring it had to do with the children that was with him, giving her an amused smirk.

Feerzo let out a sigh. "Two hours. I had to endure two hours of answering questions from those little gremlins..."

"You mean the children?" Nian questioned.

"Same thing, alright!" Feerzo let out an exhale before saying, "I assume you're finished visiting this town?"

"Yep, it's been two hours after all. Anyways, where's D at?" 

Feerzo raised an eyebrow at her. "I thought he was supposed to be with you?"

"He was until we decide to split up and he told me to meet back at the car until an hour or two." Nian said. "He's not here?"

Feerzo shook his head. "No. Hadn't even seen him when i was forced to answer to those little gremlins."

"Weird...he must've got lost or something." Nian speculated.

"Or maybe he got in trouble, no offense to him." Feerzo said.

"Tch, since when do you think he's in trouble?" She asks. Immediately after she said that, loud crashing were heard behind them with the local townsfolk causing a commotion.

"Like that, perhaps?" Feerzo answered.

Nian turned around as she sees the crowd making way when D appeared on her view. He was followed by a mercenary raising his sword in hand to slice him. D quickly evade the slash before sending a fist to his head, knocking him down.

Another mercenary came into view, going to slash D down. However, D grabbed a large box filled with fruits and threw it at the mercenary by the face, knocking him down.

"Sorry!" D apologized to the seller before running towards Nian and to the car. Suddenly, two more of the mercenaries appeared infront of him, one of them being the leader.

D stopped on his tracks, heavily breathing and panting from all the running, dodging, weaving, and fighting he had to endure when he was chased by the mercenaries along with other contenders that took advantage of the situation. Luckily, the Security mercs have not intervene in the situation.

"Nowhere to run anymore, kid!" The leader exclaimed, pointing his sword to him.

"Kid? I'm practically an adult..." D muttered. He then pull out a sword he took from one of the mercs and readied himself for a fight. 

When the leader and the other merc went for the attack, a rock had hit the leader to the back of the head. He let out a grunt before turning around. "Who threw that?!"

Then he saw the culprit, which was Nian holding another rock in her hand. "I did." She responded with a cheeky smile.

"You have a nerve to intervene you-" He stopped himself when Nian threw another rock to the face, angering him further. He growled at her before turning to his subordinate.

"You! Take care of her!" The merc nodded as he ran towards Nian while the leader focus back on D. He then charged at the watcher as D stood his ground before their swords meet. 

D may not be great at fighting in close combat, but he can still hold himself pretty well. The leader begin to exchange blows at him while D kept blocking his attacks. Irritated, the leader went for another attack which was blocked again by D. Unknown to him, D had a plan to end the fight quick.

He pushed the mercenary back before swinging his leg and then kicked him in the nuts.

The leader let out a squawk of pain from the hit while the spectators, mostly the guys, cringed of what D did to him. Even D felt a little guilty doing it, but it was the only way to finish the fight. The leader held his injured nuts before falling to the ground, wheezing in pain.

D let out a few breathes before turning back to Nian, seeing that she already took care of the mercenary. She too saw what D did to the leader. 

"Damn, man. You didn't need to go that far." Nian said as D walked over to her.

"I did...what i have to do." D replied between his panting whilst sweating a lot.

"Anyways, what the hell happened?" Nian asked.

D begin to explain. "Well when i was strolling through the town, i was encountered by a group of eight mercenaries. Thanks to my attire here, they all thought i was a threat to them or working with the mercs that acted as Security for this town. When they want me to give my shit to them, i declined and it led them to chase me across the town whilst I have to fight them. It didn't help that other mercenary groups or bounty hunters took advantage of the situation and joined in the fight."

"I assume you didn't have a good time exploring the town?" Nian questioned.

"Yeah, no shit!" D exclaimed, raising his arms up. "I had to run and hide for an hour and a half, with only having a few minutes of rest! I did got some souvenirs though." D takes out a small pouch that was from one of the mercenaries.

"Can't you just kill them? You have firearms after all that are extremely powerful." Nian reminded.

"I know that, but that would get me in trouble by the security forces here!" D then let out a deep breath before exhaling. "I think we should leave now."

"Alright, let's go." As Nian and D were about to head back to the car, they were interrupted by another voice.

"You two over there! Stay right where you are!" D and Nian both turn around as they saw another Mercenary. Though this time, it was a Sarkaz mercenary, which the two easily recognized.

Due to the local spectators eyeing the merc with worry, D thinks he must be part of the security enforcers for the town. Maybe they're even all Sarkaz.

D then asks the large mercenary. "What is it?"

"You did all of this haven't you?" He said, which D nodded. "You've caused quite a ruckus between these lot." The Sarkaz mercenary looked down on the downed leader and his cronies. He then continued. "But you have been disrupting the peace of this town and commit unnecessary vandalism, hence why you should come with us."

"Oh come on, man. I'm sure he didn't mean to do all of that stuff." Nian defended. 

"I don't care." The Sarkaz mercenary asserted. "Our employer said that anyone that breaks the peace and commits violence or vandalism throughout the town should be dealt with. So you better come with us right now."

"Look, man. It has been a rough day for us and i am very exhausted." D proclaimed "So let me kindly refuse the request as we'll be going back to the car, get out of this town, and leave you guys alone, alright?"

"It is not a request, it is a command!" He boomed.

"Then i will still refuse the command." D replied.

"Fine then, we're doing this the hard way." The Sarkaz merc then takes out his Greatsword and points it at D. "Our employer also said that we could kill those that refuse to respond to us."

"Oh you gotta be kidding me..." D muttered, shaking his head.

"D, i think we should get out of here quick." Nian whispered, backing away a bit. But, D stopped her. 

"It's alright. I can deal with it." He said.

"Are you sure? You still look tired after that chase."

"I'll deal with this quick." D then walks towards the Sarkaz mercenary with the sword he stole still in his hand.

When he is now face to face with the Sarkaz merc, the latter let out a chuckled of D's puny weapon in his hand and how he is going to fight him. "So you're gonna fight me. This is too easy."

"I can beat you, y'know?" D avowed.

The Sarkaz let out a scoff. "Really? Are you sure you can beat this?" He then begin to show off his swordsmanship skills towards D. The locals were intimidated of how the Sarkaz spin his heavy greatsword in hand with ease. 

He kept spinning his sword around in an intimidated manner, hoping it would intimidate D to rethink his decision. When the Sarkaz merc finished his move, D had stared at the entire act with a bewildered look on his eyes, not understanding what the hell he was doing.

D let out a sigh and responded by throwing his sword and then summoning his TT-33 pistol from his back before shooting him to the head.

(Picture that scene from Indiana Jones, lol)

With only one bullet, the Sarkaz mercenary fell to the ground, dead. The locals reacted in shock of how he easily put the Sarkaz down, same goes for the merc leader and his cronies that watch the scene. Fearing D's capabilities, they retreated back in the town

D put back his pistol before turning around. "Come on, Nian. Let's get out of here." 

Nian was momentarily surprised when D shot the Sarkaz mercenary that easily, but then remembered that his guns are basically super weapons. Nian got off of her thoughts as she quickly joined D and walked back to the car. 

"I did not expect that to happen." She said

"I told you i would make it quick." D replied.

"But what about not getting in trouble with the security forces? You did just killed one of them."

"At this point, I don't give a damn. We're getting out of here anyway before more of them show up. Let's go."

The two made it to the car where Feerzo had also watched the entire thing happening. "Are we making our departure?"

"Yep." D nodded, "Start the car, Feerzo." 

"Yes, sir." D decide to ignore of Feerzo calling him 'sir' again as he went in the car with Nian. The two sat in their respective seat with D leaning his back onto it with a relaxed sigh.

"Where are we off to now?" Feerzo asks D after starting up the car.

"Anywhere. I'll be taking a 15 minute nap, so don't bother me." D responded.

"If you say so." Feerzo then puts the stick shift to drive before it drives away from the town. Nian looked back at the place from her window, slowly coming out of her view.

Nian let out an exhale. "I'm gonna miss that place."

"I don't." Feerzo said. "The next time we're visiting a settlement, i am not spending my time asking questions to little gremlins."

Nian snickered before glancing at D as he is taking his deserve nap. She wasn't exactly sure how D got in to that mess, but atleast he survived it. Not wanting to bother him, she went back looking over the scenery at her window

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30 minutes later, D had already woken up before checking the next location where they'll be going. He observed the nearest town from where they are called that is called Byzentin.

D chuckled at the name of how it's similar with 'Byzantine'.

Nian then said that she had visited that place a while ago, claiming that it is a safe place with no mercs or other bad guys to bother them. He sighed in relief before pinpointing the destination they are going, which is about 35 minutes away. 

"Alright now." Nian spoke up, turning to D. "Tell me more about Feerzo."

"What?" Feerzo briefly turn his head around before focusing back on the wheel.

D raised his eyebrow for a moment until he remembered that he did told Nian he would explain to her about Feerzo and his personas after their trip at the town.

"Okay." D accepted. "Like i said, Feerzo is the first of my ten personas that i created, which makes him the oldest. There's also Feera and Nathan which you've seen them too."

"So that means it leaves to the other seven personas right?" D gave her a nod as she asks, "What are their names?"

"Hmm, why don't we let Feerzo to answer it?" D said as he and Nian turned to the German driver. "Feerzo, care to tell Nian about the rest of your persona group?"

"Very well." Feerzo obliged with a nod. "There are also Ozone, Jackie, Cronon, Pacifica, Grian, Matriax, and R3700."

"R3700?" Nian questioned of the last name while listing all the previouis personas in her head. "Strange name."

"Again, it was back when i was younger and weirder. R3700 is one of those names for a persona." D said. 

"Alright then. Do you have any images regarding the personas? I wanna see what they all look like." 

D then goes to his wristband and went to a section where Nian could see the biographies and appearances of all of the personas. Nian eyed them in interest, especially the one that is wearing a headgear. 

"They look pretty nice. You did good on making them." Nian commented. 

"Thanks." D smiled.

"Are they just stored in the wristband, though?" She asks.

D shook his head. "No, i actually created a small world in my wristband for them to live in while they wait for more orders from me. It was an idea i thought of after I created them a while ago."

"I am still thankful for you to giving us that place, D." Feerzo said. "And for giving us the ability to speak and making us sentient."

"It was no problem." He gave him a thumbs up.

"Sentient? Voices?" Nian raised an eyebrow.

D then explain. "When I first created Feerzo and the rest of the personas, they all acted like robots. They don't speak and they don't do much other than following my orders. But after a while, I decide to give them voices and some sentience so I can feel more comfortable talking to them and so they can get to know each other better." 

"That's a pretty swell thing to do. And i thought you only treat them as lowly subordinates to order them around." Nian remarked.

"I mean, they kinda still are." D shrugs while Feerzo briefly glanced at him while raising an eyebrow.

"So when did you decide to create them after you've become a watcher?" When D was about to answer that question, Feerzo suddenly spoke up.

"We were created to assist D and his friends to fight Kaltan and-"

"Feerzo! I did not give you permission to speak!" D exclaimed.

"Sorry, sir..." Feerzo apologized.

"Kaltan?" Nian's interest piqued at the name. "Who's that?"

"He's just someone that we all fought a while ago. He wanted to take over the multiverse, but we all stopped him in a fight. In the end, we all won and he now ceased to exist."

"Woah....I couldn't imagine a fight with 26 deities at once." Nian uttered. "Since you guys won that fight, how did it went? Was it an easy fight or an extremely hard fight?"

D rubbed the back of his neck, wondering how to answer this. "I...don't feel like answering that for now."

"Oh, alright then. We'll talk about it someday." Nian replied, though a bit suspicious why D doesn't want to explain the fight with this 'Kaltan' person.

After 8 minutes of awkward silence, D decide to break it. "Hey, you wanna see this video i made like i did with the MW thing of replacing the characters with the ones from Rhodes? Might as well kill more time before we reach Byzentin."

"Sure, it is getting a bit bored here." Nian accepts. "What's the video called?"

"Steamed hams. It's an almost 3 minute skit from an episode in this show called 'The Simpsons'. It became a popular meme later on in my homeworld." D explained.

"Alrighty. Who'd be the characters?" Nian asked as she scooted closer to him to see the video, much to D's sudden embarrassment of having someone sitting close to him. 

He quickly brush it off and said, "You'll find out." before he starts the video. 

The two then sees the screen starting from someone ringing a doorbell on a suburb house. It then went in the house, briefly showing the Doctor going to the door before opening it, revealing Kal'tsit by the front.

"Well, Doctor, I made it. Despite your directions." Kal'tsit said.

"Ah, superintendent Kal'tsit, welcome!" The Doctor greeted. "I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon!" 

"Yeah..." Kal'tsit then enters the house.

While watching the whole thing, Nian raised an eyebrow. "I don't know how is this a meme, but i am enjoying the interactions."

"I have the same question too. But you'll love it when i show you the original and see the entire meme videos of it." D said as they continue to watch the skit. 

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Lungmen, Penguin logistics hideout

"We're back!!" Exusiai call out, opening the door to the rest of the PL members. They also brought some food that Mostima requested.

"Alright, right on time." Mostima said as Exusiai tossed the bag of desserts to her, that being a box of mochi. The Blue-haired girl begin to dig in. 

The rest of the PL girls walked in the hideout, carrying some personal stuff on their bags before setting it down.

"So, how was the rewatch, Bison?" Sora asked.

"Well, Mostima had some reactions seeing the Prologue and the first act. Of course, the nuke thing shocked her like we were the first time we saw it." Bison explained.

"I can't believe such a thing like that exists." Mostima said whilst eating her mochi.

"We thought the same thing too." Croissant chimed in. "I keep wonderin' why in the world would the terrans make such a destructive weapon like that?"

"There is got to be a good reason for it." Texas speculates. "Why else would they create such a deadly weapon?"

"Whatever the reason is, i just hope it is something positive." Exusiai said, taking out an apple pie she bought from a bakery.

"Speaking of the MW universe, anyone wonder who that Feerzo guy is?" Bison asked. "He is the one that gave us the tape after all."

"Where did he even get this anyway? Did he created it or is he working with someone that created it?" Sora thoughted, putting her fingers under her jaw.

"If we meet im' again, he better owe us some explanations." Croissant asserted. All of the PL members nodded in agreement.

"So when should we watch the third act?" Texas asks.

"Maybe when that penguin guy comes back and when you guys are done with your jobs." Mostima suggested, eating another piece of mochi.

"Hmm, i can agree to that." Sora says. "We could watch it tomorrow in the evening."

"Sounds good to me!" Exusiai concurred, eating her apple pie while humming from the taste.

For the rest of the evening, the Penguin logistics members did their usual stuff as they pondered of watching the next and possibly final act of the first MW universe.

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And that was a wrap for the second interlude of this chapter. All the watchers' nations has been revealed, and D seems to be friends with Octavia from the HB universe. 

However, the interludes are not done yet - because after this, there would be a .5 interlude where it would focus on the Personas.I'm doing this so that they would be explored more and getting to know their personalities. It would be a short chapter, though. 

I apologize if you're itching to see the third act of the COD4 AU, but I really want to flesh out the personas, writing them as they're actual people. (Hint: It would be a major plot point for the future interludes). 

To make it up, I'll also be working on the Ultimatum chapter the same time i'm making the next interlude, so that you guys won't have to wait long.

By the way, the whole watchers thing had been a collaboration idea between me and fellow Wattpad user blaszczu2500 . 

If you want to learn more of the watchers, you can go to his story, "Watchers of the Multiverse". It would be a story about the 26 watchers doing their job and hanging out with the characters they befriended in their visits. There might be even some action and romance too.

Anyways, see you in the next Interlude.