Shattering Humanity-Chapter 117: Rebekah DaeMon & "This Dumb Bitch"

Back in Roronora City a.k.a Gangsta’s Paradise, alien snow falling.

Police cars flashing their blue lights around the area where Don Laban DaeMon and her goons harassed the man, Benny. Then influenced a young woman/"pet" to kill her "Master" and take his eye to be recognized as a citizen.

The young woman "pet" is unconscious next to the body of the dead man, Benny.

One cop opens her right eye revealing a twitching IceEye where the girl’s right yellow eye used to be.

Nephilim, Tristan, Bethany, and Silpheed are on the sidewalk waiting for the Don to finish her conversation with the officer.

Nephilim: "Not bad, Don Laban. Not bad."

Tristan and Bethany look at him shocked.

Tristan: "What do you mean ’Not Bad’, Nephilim Sir? That was horrifying."

Without turning towards his "disciple", Nephilim explains himself.

Nephilim: "But was it not justice, young Tristan? Did we all not witness that man’s universal karma catch up to him? I’ll admit, her society is unorthodox and can lead to problems in the future but for now it’s sustainable when humanity’s future isn’t certain. This world would be a lot simpler to survive in, if humans stopped fighting ’against one another’ and began fighting ’for one another’. Fighting for purpose and our visions of true freedom and justice."

Bethany: "Before the apocalypse, this would be considered slavery. How is a slave killing her ’Master’, justice? That man should have to live in a cell and think about his evils. People don’t deserve to die because of their sins!"

Nephilim thinks back on Daisuki’s time in a cell, and how he ’dodged’ judgement for his sins. Unaware of the truth behind Daisuki’s conviction.

Silpheed watches in silence knowing exactly what the replacement ’Mentor’ is about to say in rebuttal.

Nephilim: "No, but do innocent people deserve to die because of the future sins of others, Ms. Bethany? That young woman wouldn’t have beaten an Iceman, both of you know that as a fact. That man, Benny, had beaten her and weakened that poor girl, just so she would be killed easily by one of those aliens. There are a lot of people in this community, here, who believe they are now a ’higher quality human’ who have the ’right’ or ’ability’ to decide whether another human lives or dies. ’Rights’ at the end of the day, are a human’s actual physical and mental ability to do something, without repercussions. An official ’God’ has unlimited rights because, who’s going to stop ’God’?"

Bethany steps back to think about the General’s question and subtle facts she hadn’t pieced together.

Nephilim: "The Don may say empathy is a reason weak people exist, but justice exists within that feeling as well. When the oppressed finally overcome oppression, it makes someone like myself, feel a cognitive, emotional, as well as compassionate sense of empathy towards that fighter, fighting to prove another human can’t keep them down. Insecure oppressors differentiate humans by whether they have an alien eye with magic abilities or not. Or the color of their hair, eyes, or skin. I, and the Don, treat people differently on whether they’re fighting to survive in this world or just coasting through their life, off the sacrifices of fighters and workers."

Tristan: "I’m more upset that girl, BloodBug, has Gray’s eye ability. She’s the one that killed our last General."

Bethany: "We’ve made sure that there wouldn’t be anymore attacks on the Sister Mountains, we should get back home and start planning on how to overthrow those last two remaining ’Sisters’."

Silpheed crosses their arms and gives a snide sounding muffled remark.

Silpheed: "Woei- dou- nee- ah- bran. Doz- zizzerz- doun- aff- ahnee- baag- ubb- brodek- shun-, bu- zaiz- Neff- e- uhm- Zr."

Nephilim: "Silph’s right, those Sisters have no protection after me and the tiny .22 Morta thinks can protect him. I’ll just have the entire HFF storm their ’hideout’. What I want to do, is figure out her ability and make sure our relationship with Roronora stays peaceful so we can get assistance on taking over Hanabi City once you three take control."

Tristan, Bethany, and Silpheed give comedic expressions of shock and disbelief. They all ask at the same time.

Tristan and Bethany: "US THREE?!"

Silpheed: "UFF- FREE!?"

Nephilim looks over at the Don handing over money to the cop. She then uses the cops uniform to wipe "Benny Blood" off her face, and gives an "on the field" style pat on the butt to the cop.

Nephilim: "As soon as he found out about this thriving city, and the sham of a society inside the dome mountains, Gray was depressed knowing he was part of the reason people were accepting to hide like mice." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Nephilim gives his group a bit of new information with a reminder as Don Laban comes walking over to them.

Nephilim: "Gray knew the risks of coming here without any backup, that’s why he gave me the position of General before heading here, in case he didn’t return. Don’t forget we are in a territory, out of our jurisdiction, young Tristan and Ms. Bethany."

Don Laban walks up to the group and Nephilim steps up to talk to her.

Nephilim: "I will say, Madam Don Laban, that example of a true ’no BS’ leader was quite the combination of both impressive as well as gruesome, if you don’t mind me saying."

Don Laban: "I’m sure ya know, Nephi, especially as a ’General’. In dis ’bidness’ of being dah one who runs shit, people only ride, if dey know dey ridin’ wid a killah. So if you don’t crack a few eggs, none of dese chicken heads will take you seriously. Ya know? Dat’s why the God from dah Bible was always smashin’ heads to dose who opposed him. Makes people tighten up, ya heard?"

The Don pulls out her lighter and her cigarillo case. Nephilim exposes his ear from within his thick hair and reveals the put out ’blunt’ he and the Don were sharing before the confrontation. The General calmly hands it back to the Don Laban.

Don Laban: "Ayyee! Good looks, Nephi. Anyways, now dat DAT, is taken care of, chew guys ready tah check out dah ’Initiation Arena’?"

She lights the green filled cigarillo and takes a hit.

The General slightly bows.

Nephilim: "After you Madame, but aren’t you going to wait for your wife, Zoram? She did leave to get you new clothes."

The Don pops off her IceEye into 2nd Stage, her always grey aura, coming off her alien eye like there was a fire inside her skull.

Nephilim pays close attention, careful not to ask the Don about her ability, as so not to offend her and ruin their current peace.

Don Laban: "Oh! Well speak of the devil and she shall appear."

The Don turns around and Zoram walks around from the corner of a building. She has an all white sweatshirt and all white pair of sweatpants under one arm, and the hand of a little 8 year old girl with black hair in pigtails holding the other hand.

Everyone from the mountains is in shock to see the little girl has an IceEye, but not just a regular alien eye like everyone else. The little girl has a right blue eye that matches the Don Laban’s and for the first time other than Katsu and Saku, there is another "Lefty" IceEye user.

They watch as the woman who just committed a RICO act, playfully and in a high pitched voice runs with her arms out wide, towards the little 8 year old girl.

Don Laban: "Rebekah! Hiii my sugahhhplum!"

The little girl releases Zoram’s hand and runs towards the Gangster Mob Boss.

Rebekah: "Mommy!"

With blood on her clothes, the Don hugs her ’daughter’, and she gets some blood on the face of the little girl but she isn’t fazed.

Don Laban: "Oopsies"

She licks her finger and cleans the dead man’s blood from the smiling 8 year old’s cheek. The little girl’s left alien eye pops off to 2nd Stage and there is a bright pink aura emitting from her IceEye.

Rebekah: "Mommy! Mommy! I used my powers to see you kick that guys butt! It was soooo cool!"

Tristan and Bethany give each other worried looks to each other over the young girl’s infatuation over murder. While talking to the child, the Don’s accent disappears and the ’Mommy Tone’ of voice can be heard.

Don Laban: "Rebekah, you can’t go around talking about your ability, it needs to be a secret for you and Mommy’s protection, remember?"

Rebekah covers her mouth and her left eye goes to its base-kit.

The Don looks over towards Nephilim and looks him up and down. Her city/Italian accent returns while talking to him.

Don Laban: "Ya know Nephi, since I’ve grown to like yah, I’ll let yah know a little more about dese alien eyes."

Nephilim swallows his spit.

Don Laban: "So, I don’t know if yah know dis, but dese ’eyes’ are aliens demselves. After we managed tah catch one, we realized dese ’eyes’ feel fear and pain. You know what dat must mean, right Nephi?"

Nephilim nods his head at the question.

Nephilim: "If they can feel pain and fear, they can feel euphoria and joy."

With the little 8 year old in her arm, the Don points her still lit blunt at Nephilim and looks at her smiling daughter.

Don Laban: "This guys a freakin’ legend. Make sure you remember his face, just so he doesn’t plan on turning on us, okay Babes?"

The little girl pops off her IceEye, it still has a pink aura.

Rebekah: "He’s clear for the next-"

Don Laban quickly covers her mouth, cutting her daughter off. Rebekah’s eye goes back to the base-kit.

Don Laban: "My daughter has tah ability of ’Foresight’. For how far in tah future she can see up tah wid her ’Eyelien’, dat’s staying a secret between me and my daughter. Not even Zoram knows how far ahead Rebekah can see. But undahh no circumstances, are yah to ask me about my ability. YAH GOT THAT?!"

Nephilim looks over and Zoram slightly nods to acknowledge the truth.

Tristan: "’Eyelien’s’?"

The Don and her daughter shoot identical annoyed glances at the young man.The little girl holds up her tiny fist then puts her pointer finger up.

Don Laban: "Eye."

Her daughter then holds two fingers up with a closed fist next to it.

Don Laban: "Alien."

Rebekah bumps her ’peace sign’ into the side of her closed fist. Making the two fingers go down and the middle finger on the closed hand go up at Tristan.

Don Laban: "Eye-lien. Come on. Keep up kid."

Bethany: "Yea, I mean, it’s more catchy and creative than ’IceEye’ and now that we know they are a separate being from the ’Icemen’, it’s not fair to group them with the same terms. Especially now that they help us."

Don Laban: "Umm, I was tryin’ tah be nice and explain shit, but I guess you wanna take dah stage, Shawty?"

Nephilim looks over to the usually promiscuous woman and she reluctantly bows at the hip out of respect and apologizes.

Nephilim dips his head for her to continue.D

Don Laban: "You may have noticed her special Lefty ’Eyelien’. Well we ain’t dah smartest of individuals running this hea city, but when we had brought tah ’Eyelien’ back to my crib, it was squealing and crying inside the stove pot we had caught it in. So we know it was scared and probably in pain from not having a human or ice alien to live off of."

Zoram, with a clean white sweatshirt and white sweatpants under her arm. She looks at her ’daughter in law’ and wife while Don Laban ruffles the hair of Rebekah.

Don Laban: "This lil goofball opened dah lid when we weren’t looking and from desperation, it may have just gone for dah first human eyeball it saw which happened to be her peeking Lefty."

Nephilim smiles at the affection between the mother and her child.

Nephilim: "If we’re building trust with interesting information, Don Laban, I can give you the information on two "Lefties" that I know of myself. If you’re interested."

The Don still has her IceEye popped off with the grey aura, it flashes yellow while she looks at the General.

Don Laban: "No need tah tell me nuthin’, I already know now. Those bafoons, Saku and Katsu right?"

Nephilim, Tristan, Bethany, and Silph look at the Don, amazed that, because of her ability, she knows about the two left eye users from inside the mountains without ever meeting them.

Her eyes grow wide and she carefully and quietly puts Rebekah down.

Rebekah: "Mo-"

Don Laban: "SHHH!"

The little girl flinches from her mom’s abrupt motion to quiet down. The Don is stuck in a trance, as if learning something about the two other lefties. She mumbles while in her trance, no accent.

Don Laban: "So that’s how humans were created? There really is no God? Anjells? Are we really just a science experiment? That dragon stole the ability to create?

...what the fuuuck?"

The entire group, even Zoram is listening, wide eyed.

Bethany: "What is she saying? Is her brain fried from those drugs?"

Before anyone can answer, Don Laban can be heard giggling softly. Getting increasingly more loud and maniacal.

Don Laban: "hahaha. hahaHahahHa. HA! Ha! HaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It seems like one of dem can control Icemen! And dah uddah can copy powers."

In realization of something, her grin twists to an ugly mean mug frown and the grey aura grows extremely large, it scares Rebekah and she runs towards Zoram’s protection.

Don Laban: "Wait, does dat mean? Wait. Fuck. No. No No."

The civilians, even the police, begin leaving the scene in a hurry as the Don gets progressively more loud and angry.

Don Laban: "GOD DAMN IT! HE DOES!! FUCK!"

She then looks to have realized something else that makes her anger quickly fade and her smokey aura that only showed flashes of yellow, is now a blinding bright pink ebullient aura.

Everyone looks confused.n

I less than 60 seconds, Don Laban DaeMon’s moods switched to maniacal happiness, to psychotic rage, and finally, unexplainably blushing and twisting her legs as if in lust.

Don Laban: "That was so fuckin hot! He actually called me out and told God to ’run that fade’."

She gets a blushing smile and a bit of drool drips from her mouth while looking at her wife.

Don Laban: "I’m sorry Zoram, but I think I might like guys again."

{On the highway 3 miles from Roronora City}

While glowing with refilled Sun energy, Izanami Division is passing a highway sign that reads, ’Roronora City Next Exit’.

Dom has fuzed with their hostage that Saku kicked like a football across the highway. The fuzion of Dom and the man is missing a couple front teeth.

While Saku is running at the point of the group with Itsuka, he gets a surprised look on his face and then his IceEye pops off to 2nd Stage. He hears the sounds of unlocking and a bright white aura with a black stripe up the middle appears.

Itsuka: "What? Are we getting ambushed again?"

Saku gets a smile and now HE is the one silently giggling.

Saku: "Nahhhh. This dumb bitch just gave me ’omnipotence’ by accident."