The End Of The Substantial World - Chapter 19: Discussion

It had been two nights since the police armory raid. We had created a whole nother news headline for the town to hear. The town was shocked that the cops were even more defenseless, due to the stolen weaponry. To keep suspicion to an all-time low, we had captured a few more people throughout the few days and recruited them as new cult members. People were wondering why everything and everyone was going so awry. "What could be happening?" they were wondering. Everything was still going perfect according to plan.1

It was early in the morning, about 12:37. Everyone had snuck over to the church for our secret meeting that was about to unfold before their very eyes. It was a suspenseful moment of what was to happen. I took the podium on the 2nd floor to give my speech to the boys and girls of the cult.2

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen!" I yelled. Everyone got quiet.3

"Listen up, you all have done a pleasant job in the theft of all the police arms. I congratulate you all. For all your hard work, those weapons shall be entrusted to you all, being that was what the mission was for mainly besides lowering the defenses of the law enforcement. Good job, my children. Now, I have something else for you all. My love.."4

I snapped my fingers for her to bring out the other thing I wanted for my troops. She had bought out 3 boxes of stuff for them. One was full of black cloaks, the others had paper-mache devil masks that cover half the face and black gloves. These were simliar to my costume, except a bit less of costumes. Me and my love had used the drug money we had stolen to buy all these for our troops.5

"Dark Angel, will now explain to you about what she has got for you here." I said, right before she took the podium.6

"Me and Red Devil had ordered a huge quantity of these offline," she said, "these costumes and masks have been ordered just for all of you. By getting into this attire, you will be recognizable by us, your leaders, as one of ours, as one of the cult. You will all form a single file line and slowly ascend up these stairs one at a time. You will each take one mask, one cloak, and one pair of gloves. If ever, you lose any one of these or if you manage to get an entirely new recruit to the cult, me and the Red Devil will have extras waiting for them or you. Are there any questions?"7

There were none. "Alright, then, everyone start ascending the stairs, one by one, come and get your attire." They had begun to ascend the stairs in a single file line, one by one, they got their needed attire. They had been officially marked as my troops.8

After they had obtained their attire they had needed, I had stepped back up to the podium to give another speech.9

"All right, everyone! Now, listen, the next plan is how to get me out of here to avoid suspicion. You will need to cooperate in this, otherwise, we won't be able to move on w/o someone thinking it's me who is the Red Devil. You never know if our plan could foul up and that it could mean my life to be over. People must never know until the takeover is a success."10

Then, I got to the plan.11

"Alright, now, I will be at working later on this morning at my usual day job work place that's right down that road over there. Your mission is to get me out of there, but I want it done in a special fashion. You will bust on inside and you will stick the place up. You may take whatever you want from the place, money, food, etc., but what you are mainly there to do is to kidnap me. Yes, you are to look for me as a random person to take with you all and you look like you're kidnapping me." I stated.12

"How do we do that, sir?" one guy asked.13

I said with a low chuckle, "Grab and hold me at gunpoint before taking into the van, you need to make this look like an actual kidnapping, okay men and women? We need to keep the public's suspicions to an all-time low. Nobody must know."14

They shouted with respect, "Yes, sir!"15

"Alright, thank you, my children. I shall see you later on in the morning. Also, you probably should destroy the surveillance system, just to be on the safe side. Good night for now, rest well."16

They had all headed home, as had I...