Enforcers

Irene let out a heavy sigh as she walked forward slowly. Her mind raced with thoughts as she folded her arms. Her pace quickened as she marched towards the doors of Oleander, the City that housed the Enforcers. "d.a.m.n it, Ken. d.a.m.n it, Hero. d.a.m.n it, Cloud... And definitely d.a.m.n it Kitsune..." She hissed out as clenched her fist.

"Whoa! Cool armor man!"

Irene turned finding one of the normal humans, who guarded the outside of the city, staring at her from behind his helmet that covered his head.

"What?" Irene asked raising an eyebrow at the normal guard. This one seemed to be different from the others. The other guards simply stood still ignoring her but this one was actively trying to talk to her...

"So you got in after all!"

"What?" Irene questioned again turning to stare at the strange man.

"Oh. You probably don"t recognize me!" The guard said with a bit of realization. He did a pose holding his gun, which would be useless against anything above Baron level, up posing with it. "My name is Ace! It is my duty to guard this city against the enemy!"

Irene blinked a few times as she stared at the man. She gave an awkward shrug. "Sorry... I uhh... I still don"t recognize you?"
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Ace hit the floor as he let out a pained groan. "My pride..." He whined slowly getting back to his feet. He cleared his throat as he adjusted his helmet that covered his entire head. "I"m Ace... I was the person who let you into the city last month? The guy who opened it..."

"You were?"

"Yeah! You remember me now?"

"No."

Ace hit the floor again...

"Look, I"m sorry," Irene said letting out a sigh. "A lot happened this month so I guess I just forgot? I"m dealing with a lot of problems right now, so I"m sorry I didn"t remember you."

"No! It"s fine." Ace said obviously crying, as a stream of tears flowed out of the bottom of his helmet. "I"m just a Guard. I"m not even really considered an Enforcer so... I don"t blame you."

Irene took another sigh. "I"m sorry I hurt your feelings..."

"Apologize not accepted, as you didn"t hurt anything." Ace said as he clutched his broken heart, and the stream of tears only grew.

Irene turned away from the man as she rolled her eyes. "And I thought Ken was one for dramatics..."

"So what"re you doing out here anyways?" Ace questioned in curiosity as he stopped crying.

"Well," Irene said reaching into her pocket and pulling out a small thin piece of paper. "I"m going to mail my village a check. This is 50% of the Bells I earned from my mission. I"m going to send them this so they can repair any damages and maybe even build a better wall? Now that I am not there to help out I decided I would use all my Bells to build a better village for them."

"Wow!" Ace said as he dropped his gun. He brought his hands up and began to clap for the Enforcer in front of him. "Bravo!" He stated clapping. "You"re so full of Justice. More people should strive to be like you! Willingly giving up their hard-earned Bells! You"re the kind of Enforcer I would want to be!"

Irene stared at the man in mild confusion as she turned away from him. "Sure..." She said training off. "I"m not even supposed to be an Enforcer..." She thought as her clenched fist grew tighter.

Irene let out a heavy and disappointed sigh as she walked towards the large metallic square that would allow her to send her mail to her family.

"What a swell guy!" Ace said to himself watching the Enforcer leave.

The other guards remained silent none of them bothering to talk.

Meanwhile...

Cloud walked down the street twirling his new cane as a small smirk crossed its way onto his face and he walked with an unusual pep in his step. "Ahh yes... This city is certainly better than my old one. Of course my old place, wasn"t really a city... It was more of a s.h.i.tty town, but I digress... ~Home sweet home. That"s what I have found. So here I roam. Forever-~"

"Why is he singing..." Someone hissed out as they stared at him.

"Oh G.o.d that blind kids walking around again! He"s gonna roam around for like an hour talking to himself and trying to sound deep!"

"And they say we need the Enforcers..."

Cloud"s ear twitched as he turned to stare at the man in question. "Ahh... I recognize that voice." Cloud walked forward towards the man. He slowly pointed his cane up placing it under the man"s chin. "I recently acquired a new cane... This one seems to have a few features on it. Mind if I test them out on you?"

"W-What!" The man said with a frown. "Y-You can"t do that." He stuttered slightly but tried to keep his calm expression.

"I"m pretty sure I can."

"Y-You"re an Enforcer! What reason would you have to attack me?"

One month ago my group and I were on a simple childish mission. Our job was to clean up the trash. Then... You showed up proceeded to drop a can of soda, which was still full, on two of my friends... And you got away with it to..."

"And so what if I did?"

Cloud gave a small frown. "Before I wasn"t technically a full-fledged Enforcer. I was merely a kid playing pretend. Now I have gone on my missions. Fought with these people. I don"t appreciate you treating us poorly for the amount of work we have to do... Those people are my team mates, my friends, my family."

By now a small crowd was starting to form around the two men as they both stared at each other. Cloud stood standing tall, as the a.s.shole"s eyes reflected off of Cloud"s gla.s.ses and back to himself.

"The Enforcers..." The man said giving a frown. "We don"t need them..."

"What?" Cloud said taking aback by the man"s tone.

"We don"t need them." The man said again. "You guys aren"t needed. You think you"re better than us but you aren"t. I know the government likes to label you guys as superhuman but that isn"t true. You guys aren"t special."

"Buddy... I can literally rip your head off with very little effort..." Cloud said staring the man down with his sungla.s.ses. "That"s pretty special. I can also fight a horde of Barons... It takes a squad of peak condition, heavily armed humans, to take even a single Baron down... We protect the world."

"Liar... You guys are just having us waste money on you."

"What? We protect you guys from the Bestia Macht!"

"I don"t believe in the "Bestia Macht!"" The guy said giving off quotation marks as he said it.

"Ar-Are you an idiot?"

"I"ve never seen a Bestia Macht before! I bet none these people had. There might have been proof that those creatures existed at some point but I don"t believe in them now."

"How?"

"I know how you guys work. The government wants us to be nice and quiet in these warm cites. They make up lies, saying the world is a frozen waste land-"

"Literally walk five feet out the door!"

The man continued. "They want us to think we have to stay in here. The Artificial Lights are fake! They don"t provide warmth! That is scientifically impossible! The goverment wants us to behave in these cities. They don"t let anyone out of the city unless they are a n.o.ble, or an Enforcer, or someone else important. So they made fake science to tell us to stay in these cities. An artificial light can"t be providing heat through an entire city, that isn"t how science works. It is something else but they won"t tell us what it is."

"My outfit was literally a black box that wrapped around me, and became a white trenchcoat. Pretty sure Scientifically, and Impossible do not go in the same sentence when an Enforcer is involved."

"I know the secrets!" The man yelled out. "There was once a land beyond! Up above! The government made the void we see above us! They made this world! They made it to control us! They killed the world and made this wasteland for us to roam around in! I know how this works!"

Cloud let out a heavy sigh. "No, you don"t... First of... Bestia Macht do exist. While I have not personally seen them, I have fought them. Nearly died to them. And slaughtered hundreds of them. Secondly. The world is cold. Wild. Cruel. Deadly. Unforgiven. And just downright cheating, outside of these walls. In a village, you live knowing every day could be your last. In a City you live with technology. Lights. Warmth. Protection. In a town, you live with only a few people dumb enough to guard it. A small tiny group of Enforcers, that will only show up sometimes, and hand me down tech that will constantly crash and break... You also have to deal with muggers, murderers, thieves, thugs, bandits, and the occasional Bestia Macht that get in, or the superhuman a.s.shole, who gets bored and wants to go on a rampage for fun, because he knows the Enforcer"s don"t care enough to send anyone to stop him... So don"t you undermine the kind of life you live? Safe behind these walls, knowing that at any moment if your life is in danger we the Enforcers will come to save you... Because unlike most people you were born lucky. You were given an amazing privilege at birth. You were born in a city."

The man was silent as Cloud stepped away from him.

"Don"t make this mistake again. Unlike me, most Enforcers aren"t very nice." Cloud said giving the man a warning.

The man gave a small nod as he walked off. The crowd parted allowing him to walk through.

Cloud let out a sigh as he walked back to his dorms. He didn"t feel like walking around anymore...