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Chapter 274: 274. It has begun
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Hector signed the deal with Estonia, Latvia, Latveria, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.
Most of these nations were once a part of the Soviet Union and were still somewhat influenced by Russia. But it was understandable that they wanted to get rid of that influence. They wanted an independent foreign policy and wished to do what was good for the people. Of course, that was after Hector changed their regime from dictatorial to democratic.
The world map had changed all of a sudden. So many boundaries had changed. But that was only on the paper for now as the system needed to be placed that could handle the movement of people. After all, there were still a lot of risks involved in erasing borders.
After a long trip, he returned home and found the little pup, Michu, playing around the garden and eating flowers.
"Bwahaha... Diana will scold you for eating her flowers." He went ahead and picked the little potato in his arms.
"Wuf!" Michu started to lick his face happily, unable to contain his excitement.
He took the little boy inside and sat down to watch some news and youtube to see what was happening in the world, and what the normal world was thinking about his policies and other decisions.
He just searched his name, and the first video appeared, by some guy named Johnny Harris. It was strangely titled, "Man Who's Erasing The Borders."
Hector opened the man's channel and found there were a lot of videos about various borders around the world. He chuckled at that. "Haha, it seems I'm taking this lad's business. Well, let's see what he's doing."
He opened the video. It was based on a few key points. In the beginning, it said when Hector was born, the world used to look much different. Back in the 1870s, the world was still going headstrong towards colonisation and imperialism.
America was no different, and Hector himself participated in the Spanish American War, where the US took Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam.
Hector didn't mind this, as his past was an open book to all. What he cared for was that people don't use it to paint a wrong picture, because he's been the President longer than he was a soldier.
The video continued and revealed that Hector was in space from 1987 to 2010 and that he met with various large organisations, fought wars for liberation, and helped create a better system. And that was the reason he wished to erase borders because, from space, all planets are just little round marbles.
The boundaries exist in maps and minds only. And they should be forgotten. For as long as they exist, they will never let the planet be united. On the contrary, it will leave the planet prone to infighting and colonisation by a foreign power because that is precisely what the old superpowers did—Divide and Rule.
"Well, this is somewhat right. Let's hope most people have the same idea as this guy." Hector muttered. But that did not mean there was not a fair share of critiques as well, and most of them were accusing him of planning a war, which was not really wrong. But all those videos had a higher dislike, so Hector didn't mind.
"Just a few more days." He went to Twitter and posted something, a reminder to the world, about a promise he made years ago.
"One month to go before I reset the Earth's climate and ban fossil fuel. A humble request to all world governments, if you have not worked on your alternate technology, just inform me. I will get it done in a month." He announced.
Hector was only stopping the cars at the moment, and power plants. Heck, the ban was not stopping the use, but rather production. According to it, no more cars can be made with fossil fuel engines. No power plant can produce electricity from coal. They need to use the provided Stark Reactors.
Meanwhile, he was not banning the use of fossil fuel's byproduct, as it was a large industry, and he had to give some leeway to the Middle Eastern nations that depended on it. Still, they will have to stop slowly with that as well over the years.
"You're back?" Diana returned home soon, and along with her were other women, wives of other heroes, or female heroes.
Hector waved. "Yeah, I was done with work. What are you folks cooking up in the gang?"
"Nothing much. Tony and Pepper are getting married, so we decided to help her." Peggy spoke.
"Wait, I just returned from Avengers Tower. He didn't tell me anything about this. When did it happen?" Hector wondered. Though he also wondered if he left the Avengers Tower too early.
"It's been a month since he proposed," Pepper said. "Maybe he will tell you later. He's talking about hosting a bachelor's party."
Hector sighed. He never liked those kinds of parties. To him, the best party was at home with family. But, he'd go to it; the kid deserved it for coming a long way.
"I hope it's not something crazy. Well, I shall head out and see my alien friend. You all enjoy the evening."
He got up and left with Michu in his coat's pocket, as the little boy looked around excitedly. Moony and Fenris were not at home, so he was his responsibility.
He flew to the location where he had parked the Freedom One ship. It was now used as a workspace by his Ravager clan that acted as his propaganda experts.
However, it was not Yondu working there anymore since the man was a general in his armies in space, fighting for the federation and keeping the space safer.
He checked everything in there and then flew to the school for gifted children, which had now expanded to house thousands of kids. Thankfully, they had a vast array of faculty with valuable abilities to manage all that.
However, when he arrived, he saw Jean hiding behind some bushes and looking at something. He landed just behind her and tapped her shoulder. "What are you doing?"
"Woof!"
"Holy shi..." Jean nearly jumped.
She looked back. "Grandpa! What are you doing here?"
"Haha, I should be the one asking that, dear. What are you doing? Peeping on someone? Let me look." He moved a little and peeked out of the bushes.
"Ah!" He exclaimed at the scene. "What's going on here?"
Jean chuckled. "Well, Scott and Emma had a fight. I'm just entertaining myself. Scott just got slapped recently."
"He got slapped? Why? Did he do something again?" Hector inquired.
Jean sighed and nodded. "Well, he went to a bar recently and got drunk. Emma tried to look for him the whole night, but in the end, Scott turned out to be sleeping in some woman's home. Although nothing happened between them, but still."
Hector shook his head in disappointment. "Where did we go wrong with this kid? I don't know where his confidence comes from. Anyway, since you've returned secretly from Mars, want to go and have some ice cream on Xandar?"
"Why not? A trip with my grandpa like the old days? Let's go!" She jumped up and got excited.
*BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!*
But just as they were about to leave, Hector, Jean, and every other person in the vicinity heard their phones beeping. Then without doing anything, voices started blasting at maximum volume.
"Move to the nearest bomb shelter! Move to the nearest bomb shelter! DEFCON 1! Nuclear war imminent!"
The words kept repeating again and again. Finally, Hector just sighed, as the moment he had been planning for had arrived.
While the rest of the kids and the people across the country were scared, Hector remained calm. Jean, too, as she knew no bomb could harm anyone in the presence of Hector. "So it has started, grandpa?"
He nodded. "It seems so. Well, I anticipated it from a mile away. Unification can't happen without bloodshed. Our ice cream will need to wait, dear."
"Hehe, go and kick ass, grandpa. I will wait." She grinned.
But Hector felt sad at that instant, knowing he didn't have much time left to remain in this world.
"I will... see you later."
He flew away silently. The world that had taken his existence for granted was soon going to cry... as not too far was Hector's final goodbye.
[A/N: I am about seven chapters away from ending this book at 300.]
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