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"Three days, I give them three days at maximum before they fold."

Said a voice of a mature woman who looked at Album, who hummed.

"Are you sure you want to do this? Normally this is work of my big brother."

"His majesty is currently gods know where, and if we are to survive as a nation, we can't stop just because King isn't there to tell us all the little things, he gave us his goals, and it's in our work to work to it."

The mature woman said as she folded the papers on her desk.

"Hm, you are right, still this isn't little matter, making Vale finally integrating into Solitas is... Much bigger than you making it sound, you are downplaying the big picture little too much, miss Minister of Foreign Matter's."

Album said to the woman who was one of the precious people in high standing in Solitas without any connection to Schnee family except her vow of loyalty to Schnee throne she made when she took the position of Minister of Foreign Matter's, or shortly MFM...

"Mhm, you know this farce was delayed long enough, I know his majesty is very systematic when it comes to adding people to his kingdom, but already there isn't a person who didn't hear the name of Aegis Schnee, already Vale is dependent on our protection, energy, resources, and overall all strategic and civilian sectors, they arent in Solitas in all but name, and I think it is time to change even the last thing."

Siera Wolkan, who was in her late forties and after two divorces with three children, said as her tired eyes looked at Album's hologram.

"You tell me, as A.I you should know the opinion of Vale masses because the last census clearly showed that already the people of Vale follow his majesty more than they follow their own Council..."

Siera, a matter of factly said.

Album pursued her lips and after a while made a sigh-like sound even if as an A.I...

"Yes, yes, I know you speak the truth, it was me who made the census if you don't remember... Alright, I will send the report to Weiss, as she is the highest standing person in the kingdom just after big brother..."

Album said as she had already sent the report to Weiss's scroll, just waiting for Weiss to either accept or deny the operation.

"Good, that's all I want to, now if you excuse me, I need to call Vale Council and make them aware of possible power change, and even if crown princess denies it now, the Vale Council would be prematurely prepared for the future..."

Album looked at the MFM Minister as she sighed, it was strange to watch someone other than her big brother or Schnee family make such significant operations, but Album supposed that's just how organics worked...

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Victoria Dallon, or as was more widely known as, a Hero Glory Girl from New Wave, or worse something she hated, as Collateral Damage Barbie, something Victoria hated, but at the same time the little voice in her head told her it had some truth in it...

The truth was that Victoria didn't know or rather dint understand how the last month could go soo... Strange, first there was the death of Lung, and wasn't that surprising?

Then the RIG was half-destroyed, followed up with a freaking snow blizzard all around the world, making the people panicked, then the name of responsibility was released by some PRT leaks, Taylor Hebert, a twig-like looking girl who was supposed to be responsible for all of it, firstly there were calls for her blood as the snow blizzard made a lot of problems, which changed into a call for the Taylor when PHO and all news started noticing the miracle like things when the snow started to melt...

Of course, as one of the Heroes, Victoria made sure there weren't some who would try to use the chaos for their own goals, but when the calls for her sister Amy came, Victoria made sure to by with her and protected her when the panic of possible master effect from the snow came...

That changed when her sister confirmed that the snow healed all body problems, from injuries to illnesses...

In some way, Victoria was happy, as the following days her sister had little to heal with the snow doing all the work, but when the heroes, rogues, villains, and freakin army started to come into the city, Victoria knew it wouldn't end so easily, after all...

Victoria lived in Brockton Bay, and if there was something sure she about the city, it was a magnet for problems...

Still, nobody expected the attack from multiple groups that never worked together or the fact that all of them somehow arrived at the city without anybody knowing...

What followed next was even more confusing, or at least to Victoria who at one time fought the teeth members and another was restrained by some kind of power that made her kneel on the ground with the rest of the parahumans, surprisingly the normals were just frozen in place, even those with injuries didn't seem to move or react to their pain as if they couldn't feel the pain in the first place...

Then came the... Transporation? Or just teleport? When she, with what seemed as rest of the parahumans, both villains, heroes, and vigilantes arrived at the plaza where the first thing Victoria saw was a maimed man, and after recognizing his attire, came to the conclusion that it was none other than Hookwolf who now lacked both legs and arms...

Then her gaze fell on Taylor, the girl who started it all, and lastly on the man who was beside her, and that was the moment Victoria felt it, it was like pain, a need to kneel, Victoria didn't feel it previously, but when she saw him she felt so... Small...

At first, Victoria thought it was some kind of master effect, as her own aura, but before she could think or theorize more, it happened, the Valefor, someone Victoria just heard from rumors of PRT, was, well, Victoria thought that death would be much more preferred by that man, such brutality made her almost throw up...

But then came the next big thing, something made Victoria gape, the fact the man just took all villains powers, especially the big ones whose names are spoken with fear, the S9, the Teeths Butcher, and Fallen's, plus E88, Merchants and ABB, all these parahumans seemingly losing powers and gaining an eternal pain as an exchange made Victoria gape with her mouth, worse or better yet, to know that Siberian, the freaking monster that killed Hero, the best tinker and previous member of Triumvirate was just mere projection, and said projection now was in possession of Taylor who gained another ace in her sleeve, something Victoria was sure would make PHO go wild, then the mans proclamation of taking or maybe mastering the two villains, the bitch Tattletale and freaking Bonesaw who was a freaking biotinker, hell Victoria's head hurt when she just thought about it...

But of course, before the man could do anything other, he said something about not being welcomed by something and then promptly taken away, leaving three gaping and sole moving girls, and what looked like a very confused Siberian there, but still even if Victoria felt like she could move she didn't dare, as if some voice was whispering in her ear that if she moved before she was permitted by that Taylor, then she would pay...

Something some others dint seem to hear or care as Victoria saw Armsmaster make a move, just to be pushed down on all four by some invisible power...

"O-Oh right, I n-need to, how was it again?"

The girl Taylor said as if moved with her hands, as if trying something, before being stopped by Tattletale.

"Hey, before you release them from something that guy did, why don't we make sure they don't do something a hasty, like attack us, or you?"

When she said it, Victoria felt like punching the bitch, but at the same time, when she looked around, she knew it was a valid concern as the heroes looked agitated, especially her mom who seemed to seethe through gritted teeth...

Victoria already knew the following days would be very... Interesting...

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Summer groaned as she watched the little twerp make another push-up just yesterday, Summer had enough of her little... Master? Nah, why not Summer thought with a grin, at least her little master was cute, especially when she was mad and made pouting noises, well at least after Summer made it clear how bad idea for the girl would by to try to punish Summer as some bad dog, that night the little Louise pulled out a whip, Summer bounded Louise with her animal rope Louise had bought when she thought she would get animal familiar and made her sleep with the ropes constraining her...

Louise quickly learned that Summer didn't take shit from anybody, even if she had a weakness for children, especially cute ones, which Louise was under all that haughty and arrogant exterior...

Plus, something Summer didn't want to think about, taking care of Louise made it easier for Summer to not think about her two daughters, how she missed her little Ruby or the firecracker Yang...

"Er, Summer!"

"Hm? Oh already done with ten push-ups?"

Summer asked with a mischievous grin, making Louise flinch.

"Yes!"

Louise said, knowing if she didn't make the push-ups, Summer would come with something much worse, by the Founder even the teachers couldn't do anything against her familiar, not when all spells were too slow to even remotely touch Summer...

On the one hand, Louise was glad for having such a strong familiar...

On the other... Louise didn't know who was master in their relationship, even if Summer liked to call her little or cute master, Louise knew she done it just because Summer had the fun of it, and with Louise unable to do anything against her...

Rule of Steel Louise told herself, something her m-mother liked to tell her, Louise knew she shouldn't but...

Even with how degrading her familiar behaved, Louise just couldn't shed the thought that Summer, her own familiar, was much more...

More...

More mother to her than her own mother...

And wasn't that painful to accept?

Plus, every time Louise wanted to scream at Summer, she just flinched and looked away with the knowledge she too her, the woman from her own children Summer clearly loved and missed, and because of her, she would no longer see them...

Yes, even if Summer said that she saved her from death when she summoned her, there was still that little voice that told Louise that she didn't deserve even the little motherly love Summer shoved her...

By the Brimir, Louise felt so weak, but before Louise could spiral into another depth of despair, the familiar warm and rose-scented embrace awakened her, making Louise blush and look away in shame...

"There, there, no need to think to have such dark thoughts, Louise, you did good, im proud..."

When Louise heard Summer say that last word, all the shame and she felt just flowed out of her as her eyes became moist...

"Hic-hic..."

"There there, no need to be that hard on yourself..."

Summer said with a kind and motherly tone as she held the crying girl in her embrace, ignoring the fact that the girl said something that sounded too similar to a mother...

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