165 165 Humanity III

HFA hierarchy is in disarray, especially the President of HFA as he loves his family very much and their protection is his number one priority, he was so protective that no one from the top executives knows the name or even what his family looks like, and he even asks his family to change location every now and then in random interval.

But even with all those protections, they failed, and he knows it was Grand Trading who did it, he didn't know how they did it as he wasn't even aware that his family has been taken as he limits their communication when HFA is in trouble because of Grand Trading demands. He only found out about it when an untraceable email was sent to his email account. At first, he thought it was just a sick joke as he has lots of enemies after all. But as he read he began to feel a sense of dread, so he immediately contacted his family using a secret hidden device and when no one responded even after several tries he knows his fears have come true.

And he wasn't alone. And what's worse there was no demand from the other party. Making them even more fearful about the condition of their family.

Oda didn't mind playing the bad guy role, in fact, he likes it. So even after taking all those families, he acted as nothing has happened, he continues to do his everyday work. He didn't order for demand, to those that know the operations it seems like Oda has become senile and forgot about the families he abducted. Of course, Oda didn't harm the family, but he kept them all separated. He kept them all in different rooms, one room per person. The room is soundproof and only has a single bed and toilet. No other device is in there. The room is big enough for 20 people to fit through, so they can stretch themselves if they wanted. The kids have droids to take care of them. They are given the lowest of solutions for food it is tasteless. Of course, the children are treated more humanly as possible, so their food is much better compared to the adults. All the rooms are like a room of a psych ward all white and the walls and floors are covered by soft rubber substance. Even the beds and toilets are made of the same materials.

They have no conversation with anyone only mindless robots patrol that manage the area.

As Oda was acting carefree the same couldn't be said to the leaders of HFA. They have been meeting for hours but barely any conversation took place. It seems like they are waiting for demand but after a whole day and no one receives anything they even called Dianna, but Dianna denied everything and even threatens to sue them if they continue to harass her. Dianna didn't bother to ask for details about the families Oda abducted and just continue as nothing happen and that makes all the spy of HFA confused.

The news of the abduction reached the elders of the GFA but when they asked why would Grand Trading do it HFA just give a bunch of random reasons. Of course, they won't tell that they tried kidnapping Arc parents, and it happens hours after they failed to abduct Arc parents and Sisters.

And because of that, they failed to gather sympathy. And what's worse some are accusing them of lying or just plainly making excuses to not accept Grand Trading demands. After all the news of all the families of the top executives of HFA was all abducted at the same time sounds stupid and ridiculous. After all, those families receive the same kind of protection the top executives have, some even exceeded it. So who would believe that grand trading was capable of identifying all their family members and abducted them all at the same time without them knowing about it? When even the GFA doesn't have complete data on who their family members are.

Especially Markos who personally talked to Arc as he is a very good judge of character he believes that Arc is not capable of doing such things. If there's any hesitation on his mind would he push his most beloved granddaughter to that kind of person? Of course not. So he firmly believes that Arc has nothing to do with the said abduction. So he no longer pays attention to it, and besides, he hated those from HFA.

As many days have passed HFA top executives becomes even more desperate without receiving any form of demand it's like their family was swallowed by a black hole. In fact, being swallowed by the black hole is a lot better as they have a map of all possible exits from the black hole. No, lack of news from their families paralyzed them of what actions to take.

Especially the president of HFA huge eye bags can be seen from under his eyes he refused to eat and do anything. And just shut himself in his office.

The destruction of their most important base from space seems a small matter to the top executives now. In fact, they just stop caring about anything else and just continue to worry about their missing family, of course, there are some who tried to take their mind away from their missing family and decided to just work.

As the war with the Ganesh intensified GFA becomes more desperate for more Drones and shields luckily the coalition who received their order of Drones, Shield and weapons began to once again take a huge portion of Ganesh attention, but that didn't make the GFA happy as the more battles they didn't take part of the more spoils they missed.

Especially when they saw the Coalition winning some big battles and getting a huge amount of spoils. And now even the merchant guild is beginning to become more active in fighting the Ganesh with the help of the drones and the new product of Grand Advance tech. The autonomous Mech. they actively take part in fighting the Ganesh unlike before. While many human superpowers who once remain passive are becoming active thanks to Grand trading Corp. Even some aliens are joining the war after they purchased the products from Grand Trading.

After all, the product of Grand Trading is so much cheaper compared to the spoils they would get.

GFA knows in the future looking for the Ganesh would be difficult. As more and more rivals for Ganesh spoils increases GFA profit is decreasing. Until finally, they couldn't take it anymore the HFA incompetence has taken the nerve of all elders of GFA, so they unanimously voted for the take-over of HFA.

When the President and the executives of HFA heard it, it's like they have been doused by cold water waking them up from their grief. But it's already too late many leaders and officers of HFA already made a deal with GFA and change sides. Almost 80% of HFA admirals have accepted the GFA deal.

The rest who were loyal to HFA fought back, but before they can take any action they were betrayed by their own men who were bribed by GFA, 10 days that's all it took for GFA to take over one of the biggest human superpowers in space after the GFA took over HFA, GFA officially announced that HFA would be completely part of GFA and all their territory would then be taken over by GFA. The president and the top executives were all imprisoned their assets confiscated of course only the physical one, their credits from the first bank remain untouched. As GFA can't touch those.

But even so, the news of HFA being completely absorbed by GFA reach all human civilization especially Earth as they were under HFA shadow for a very long time.

And so commander Markos once again renegotiates with Dianna who was smiling brightly when he saw her.

All assets of HFA on earth would be handed over to Grand Trading Including the space elevator and that includes the HFA Space station hovering above Earth.

Grand Trading then announced that Space Elevator would be available to everyone on earth. And HFA Space station would then be converted as a transit city as well as Entertainment and Commercial district. Making everyone on earth rejoiced.

A few days after that all the families of the top executives were released silently to all corners of the earth and to many human colonies in space. And from beginning to end they never interacted with anyone many of them suffers from delusion from a long period of isolation, but ODA didn't care they should be thankful they weren't executed silently.

Of course, everyone finds out about it when one of the family members goes online and started making video messages the girl used to be a social celebrity so when she suddenly come online and began to recount her experience it made headlines. But only barely as many didn't believe her and just plainly hated her and her family because they are part of HFA.

But even so, GFA tried to investigate but found nothing, no lead to follow, and with the victim having no interaction with its captor. They have no choice but to simply stop all investigation before they pissed the mysterious captor.

Of course, the top executives of the former HFA found out about it but by then their happiness is short-lived especially when they realized they have lost everything. Only the president of HFA is very happy and didn't seem to care about what happens to HFA.