Author's Note

Hello everyone, it’s me, 2112 again. Sorry about not updating for awhile, work is just so stressful and now I’m gearing up and preparing myself to go to school sometime next year so there’s that. But yes, I’m not dead and I came here today to tell you all, the fans that are enjoying REIGN and the ones that stick around that I’m sorry for keeping you all in the dark but I just have to say this and I’m a little nervous but I am doing a reboot of REIGN. *Insert angry commentors lol*

Yes yes yes, I know what you all are thinking or going to say, but this has been something that has been brewing in my head about my writing and that is, I’m terrible at writing the Mane six, Celestia, Luna, and a few others. It’s one of the major reasons why I am rebooting. Essentially what’s going to happen is that Victor (that is what he going to call from now on, not Zero) is still going to that planet which I called Gaia, he just isn’t going to meet any of the ponies. How will this effect the flow of the story? It won’t, just that some characters will be taken out and some will be brought in.

Look, I’m writing this expecting you guys not to hear my sob story but... I really want to be a better writer and what I wrote before was a bit... alright. Borderlining bad, but I promise you guys that this reboot will be better than the original. After some thoughts about it and talking to a friend/my inspiration, I finally decided to make this for you guys. What are you going to do about the original you ask? Well I am going to complete the final battle and just like the Flash, I’m going to rewind and form a new history. Thank you all who enjoy my story and giving me encouragement and without further ado, here’s a sneak peek of the first chapter in the reboot. I will see you all next time, peace out and I hope you all stay safe out there.

The New Me/Announcement

New York City

Power is something all humans strive for during their lifetime. It’s something humans crave for and will seek it out by any means necessary. It can be stressful at times, but if you have to have the knowledge to lead and be a prominent leader, then you’ll have the power to do anything with the snap of your fingers. But always remember those who have helped achieved this goal, because if it wasn’t for them, you wouldn’t have lasted a day…

A man sat in his office alone as it rained outside. Lightning flashed as the thunder roared as the man just sat there unfazed by it all. He wore a black business suit with a few custom modifications to it as it was bulletproof to an extent as he also wore custom-made black Nike forces. This man was Victor Daemon, a business man along with being a mercenary for hire. He was sitting at his desk just thinking about the many people he killed from when he first started to now as he could hear their screams of terror to them begging for mercy as he smiled sinisterly. He wasn’t always like this, he used to be the nicest kid till the day his mother was killed right in front of him. He remembers trying to fight back the men to protect his mother, but he was too weak until he managed to get his father’s gun, shooting them both dead as he just stood there, tears streamed from his face as he began to laugh and tremble. He looked in the mirror as the lightning flashed to reveal a scar over his right eye to remind him he failed to save his mother.

After the day of his mother’s funeral, his father took him and his twin brother, Vector, to work at his company as little helpers to get them used to working in such an environment. Once they turned sixteen, their father gave them both a choice. They could help him with his company along with doing a few jobs with him and his mercenary buddies or they could live a normal life. They chose the latter and from then till now, they’ve been doing the jobs under the radar of the people who work in the company and the government. This went on until their father was shot and killed by an unknown sniper as that event broke them and they only had each other now as they both ran the company and continued with the jobs.

He then lost his train of thought when Vector came through the door. He threw a desert eagle at him as he catches it, “All hell is breaking loose huh?” He stands up and loads up the gun as he looks out the window as his eyes trail down to see SWAT trucks surrounding the building as he looks back up at the sky. It was raining as lightning flashed while the thunder roared. He sighed as he was about to turn when a bullet from a sniper graced his shoulder as he growls, shooting three bullets at the sniper, “Hmph. And it was such a peaceful week before all of this… I hate Mondays.”

Vector just snickered before taking out a shotgun from a secret department as he loads it up. “You always say that, but at least we always have something to do on a Monday.” He cocks his shotgun and cracked his neck, getting himself pumped up.

“Everyone out the building?” Victor asked as he reloads his desert eagle and looked towards his brother as they both head out the office to the elevator.

“Yep. Gives us nothing to worry about except getting to the basement and destroying as much evidence as we can.” Vector stated as the elevator arrives as they both get in. “So what’s the plan? We just going to the basement or…”

Victor just smirks and chuckles softly as he pulls out a bowie knife from his suit, “Might as well have a bit of fun before we get the job done.” Vector smirked as well as the elevator doors shuts as they head down to the main floor where a squadron of SWAT members were waiting.

*****

A few minutes had passed as the crowds of people outside the building panicked a bit when they heard a shootout going on inside as the police try to calm down the crowd and making sure no stray bullet hit anyone. After that, the gunfire died down as the SWAT team commanding officer was waiting for his squad to come out but growled in anger as he looks at the the other group that came. “Make sure you have each others back. I wish all of you the best of luck. Now get in there and take them down.” They all nod as they head inside the building as the rain poured down hard, more lightning flashed throughout the sky as the thunder roared once again.

The commanding officer watched them head into the building as he stops one of them and pulls them aside, letting the rest of them go into the building, “We need to talk before you head in Sergeant Jackie.”

She looks at him, sighing softly and looked away from him, gripping her rifle tightly. “There’s nothing to talk about, sir.”

“Yes, there is... I know what happened between you two.” She said nothing as she looked away. “And I hope that doesn’t cloud your head and what your aim is.” He places his hand on her shoulder, “Do you understand me, Sergeant Jackie?”

She composes herself, kissing the locket around her neck as she looks back at him, “I promise I won’t let you down sir...” He nods and lets her go as she heads inside to get with the rest of her group. Once she walked in, she saw dead bodies everywhere, blood painted the floors and walls as she covered her mouth as some of the officers’ heads looked to have been blown off by a shotgun as she gulps.

She puts her rifle up and pulls out her pistol with a flashlight attached to it as she presses a button on her radio, “This is Sergeant Jackie, does anybody copy over?” Static ran through the radio as nobody answered as she looks around, biting her bottom lip and sweating slightly.

“This is Sergeant Jackie! Does anybody copy?! Over...” More static rang out as she growls, thinking there’s just a jam in the system as she slowly made her way around the ground floor. Everything was quiet as she heard the something as she quickly points her gun at it, only to see a rat scurrying away as she breathes softly. She then sees a door that was opened to what is possibly the basement and heads down there, thinking the rest of her squad went there as she hugged the wall. There was an eerie silence... the only thing that could be heard was the sound of water droplets hitting the floor and the ventilation system as she slowly heads down the stairs to the basement.

Once she got there, she hid behind a pillar as she looks around the corner to see her comrades... dead as some of them had multiple throwing knives inside of them and gunshot wounds as she heads over to see if any of them had a pulse. No one survived as she sighs calmly and slowly starts heading towards the trail of dead bodies, not knowing that someone was watching her from afar.

She continues as she comes across another door as she opens it; the lights turning on as she sees this huge base of operations full of weapons and maps as she goes over to investigate, seeing tons of pictures of different crime lords and the areas they stayed in as she couldn’t believe that they were capable of something of this level.

She then hears something behind her as she quickly turns around, hearing footsteps coming towards her as she points her pistol towards the door. She began sweating even more as the footsteps got closer and closer to reveal Victor, dragging one of her squad members who was still alive but badly beaten as he just stared at her, not saying a word.

“Oh, thank god! Jackie, you gotta save me from this crazy bastard!” He lets the rookie go as he crawls towards Jackie, crying as he coughs up blood. “Please... I don’t want to die...”

Victor hits one of his pressure points to knock him out as he kicks his body out of the way, shutting the door behind him as he smiles softly at her, “It’s so good to see you again Jackie. How long has it been since we last saw each other? Two... no, maybe three years?” He strolled over to her as she backups slightly, still pointing her gun at him.

“Not another step, Victor!” He stops in his tracks as she looks up at him, “Where’s Vector?”

“Right behind you...” Before she could do anything, Vector came from behind and instantly puts her in a choke hold as she struggled a bit in his grasp. “Long time no see Jackie... nice gear.”

Jackie sighs, knowing that Vector was still as nice as ever as Victor walked towards her, nodding his head to Vector as he lets her go and heads over to the rookies body. “I missed you Jackie…” He grabbed her chin gently, pecking her lips softly as she pushes him off of her. Wiping her lips as she notices his custom-made watch.

“I see you still have your watch.” She watched Victor, who looked at her and at his watch, sighing as he opens it to reveal a picture of him, Vector, their father, and their mother in the photo.

“Yea she was... it’s my fault she died that day. I should’ve protected her, but I was too weak!” He slams his hand down on the table as she sees a picture of some man named Daniel. “I should’ve been the one to die that day...”

Her heart ached as she knew he was still hurting as she places her hand on his shoulder, “Then why are you doing all of this Victor? You’re a smart man. One of the smartest guys I know... so why go around the world, killing some of these people?”

“The people I kill are nothing but dirtbags. They steal, kill, control, and rape anyone in their way! But as soon as we rid this world of filth, the world now sees our company being evil after they found out what we were doing. But look at what the good we did... we gave hundreds of people job opportunities. I took a stand when nobody else did...” He sees the picture on the ground and picks up to look at it.

“This is a moral example of someone too weak or too goody two-shoes to do anything. He never had the guts to even pull the trigger...” He scoffed as he threw the picture back down on the ground. “I knew I should’ve taken the shot that day, but I didn’t. Would’ve been too damn easy…”

Jackie looks at him as she sneakily places her hand behind her back and grabs her knife, “You’re psychotic...”

“No... not psychotic. Just human.” Victor grin was wide as Jackie had enough as she pulls the knife out and uses it to slash at him, who dodged it just in time but it graced his face, making him grunt in pain as he covers the slash mark on his right eye.

She was about to attack him again until a shot rang out. She heard Vector yell in pain and he falls to the ground as another shot rang out as the bullet went through Victor’s shoulder as he hisses in pain as they all look at the officer who was knocked out. He was standing up with a C4 in his hand as the timer was counting down as it was at the one minute mark, “Rookie! What the hell are you doing?! We’re supposed to bring them in alive!!”

The rookie looks at her but still pointed his gun at Victor and Vector, “Our commanding officer never cared what happens to these two.” He sees Vector trying to get the jump on him as he shot him in the leg. “Next bullet is going through your head if you try anything!”

Victor glared at the rookie as he growls as he grins again, “You think you’re so big and tough now huh?! But was about to piss your pants when I was punching your teeth in!” The rookie growls and shoots two bullets, one going through his other shoulder, the other going through his leg as Victor yells in pain as he continued to glare at the rookie as he points his gun at Jackie.

“He also told me if you don’t comply and follow my orders to kill you... so what’s it going to be, sergeant?” Jackie couldn’t believe what was happening as she looks at Vector and Victor. They look back at her, telling her with their eyes to do something as she just balls her fists up, tears streaming as she was about to sprint at the rookie, but was too late as he shot her in the stomach. Victor yelled and crawled his way over to catch her body as the rookie shot the elevator to disable it as he throws the C4 into the room and runs away, blocking the door before Vector could do anything.

Vector struggled to break down the door but gave up as he sat down, looking over at Victor who tried to stop the bleeding. “Don’t die on me Jackie... we can make it out of here...” Tears streamed down his face as Jackie looked up at him, coughing up blood and smiling softly at him as she looked at the bomb as it was at the halfway point

“Don’t worry Victor... everything will be fine.” She gently places her hand on his cheek and wipes his tears away, “You know I always loved you since high school right?” She felt cold as her vision became blurred as she panted softly and places her finger on his lips to stop him from talking. “One... one more thing... you were going to be a...” Before she could finish, she took her last breath as her body goes limp as she dies right in his arms as the timer was on fifteen seconds.

Vector looked shocked as he looks at Victor, who didn’t say anything but trembled as his grin widen as he went from a snicker, to a chuckle, to a psychotic laugh that echoed throughout the basement as tears streamed from his face as the timer goes off. The entire basement caught ablaze as the explosion shook the entire building as it destroyed everything, leaving nothing behind.

The whole world watched as Blade Industries was no more. A few people laughed... a son and his mother celebrating. A few people cried... Jackie’s mother when she found out the news of her daughter dying. While most people were silent... Victor and Vector’s mercenary group when they heard as they bow their heads in respect. But as the saying goes, What doesn’t kill you, does make you stronger...

Somewhere else, somewhere... not earth was a destroyed city. There was nothing but rubble and destruction everywhere as there were four beings, kneeling as they had their heads down as there was a mound of rubble, and on the mound stood a being. This being glowed a shadowy-purple with two horns and one wing as they look like they were roaring up at the heavens.

Now he has become Death, the destroyer of worlds.