Zepplien Hegemony School (IC)

[Edenecho]

Jeremy rolled his eyes and looked kind of bored,"It's normal water for me. Why would I even think about it. Beside, you're one to call me cruel, seeing how to treat your girlfriend." He sighed and shook his head,"Like I said before, Why would I think about it when that water for me is just like your water is for you. He didn't actually seem to be in much pain from being punched. He just seemed more annoyed then anything. When she said that Violet didn't exist, he punched her this time. Rather hard,"How dare you say she doesn't exist?! Just because you are to lesser for her to grant you with her presence doesn't mean she doesn't exist!" He plopped down on the bleachers, thinking that he really didn't want to be here.

{Cliff}
Cliff kind of just looked at Sarto like he didn't know what a joke was. When Sarto asked why would he die, he only replied,"Because it's Gerelden," referring to the fact that he would die just because the place he was born was crazy.

Bianca and Rosie headed towards the bleachers and sat down.

[Alan Haskayne]

(Oita)
Oita narrowed his eyes at him and said "Very well comrade, I thought you were someone who would enjoy the responsibilities. It is a shame, we could use some eye candy in that office." he then sighed and said "The competition for spots is high once school starts, it looks really good if you are trying to be part of the civilian government." he then turned and said "See you around." waved his hand and walked toward the bleachers.

(Jane)
Jane was gone too quickly to hear what Shake had to say, she felt awful for hurting him like that, and polished her rifle more. She thought about what she would do if someone damaged her rifle like that, and sighed, forcing herself not to cry.

(Brisco)
Brisco frowned at what Jeremy said, but felt he didn't deserve a response for most of what he said except saying "Bala loves being abused by me." and crossed her arms. She raised up her arms, and easily took the punch with nothing more than a grunt, seeming used to getting punched herself. She seemed annoyed at what he said about his religion, and said "What the fuck? Do you seriously believe something exists outside of the will of Marx? You are quite insane comrade." it actually seemed to be one of those useless religious debates. She then actually sounded kind of girly and braty and said "I mean I knew you capitalists were stupid but Marx, your so stupid." she then turned and walked away from him, looking around for Bala.

(Sarto)
Sarto frowned at what he said, it actually might be the first time most people had seen him frown, it took a lot to make him frown, but his insane nation surely made him frown. He sighed and walked back over to his group and began telling them about what happened, and telling them ideas for a new propaganda film.

(Bala)
Bala looked at Shane and said "Because they are superior tech not from the Hegemony, we are supposed to think that the Hegemony has the best tech in the world. I think the fact I got bullied for being part of the cyberwarfare unit is testimony that that won't change." she smiled at him and said "Thank you comrade, this means a lot to me." she smiled and looked at the chip and said "If you want I will show you cyberwarfare classes sometime. I will help you select classes for this." Brisco walked over just as Bala was picking up a part right next to Shane's hand and got the wrong idea. She walked over and slugged Bala on the nose, then grabbed the broken chips and shoved them into Bala's mouth and held it shut as Bala tried to explain herself. When Brisco finally let Bala open her mouth she spit out the chunks, and a lot of blood. She was crying and said "I'm sorry." she had no idea what she did wrong, but hoped that Brisco wouldn't do that for no reason. Brisco then looked at Shane and said "Don't you dare try to touch my girlfriend." then dragged Bala over to the bleachers while Bala's mouth continued to bleed and she just swallowed the blood.

--Once they have all sat down--
A man walked forward from one of the Helicopters with a good stiff military uniforms, he had a lot metals on the front. He stood in front of the assembled students, he looked over the around 10,000 students (Yes it is a big school) and began speaking "Greetings my fair students. Once again we stand ready to begin our usual classes, as so we can serve the Hegemony. I must say I am proud of all of you, and will be very happy to call you all comrades someday." he gestured to his guards and then moved a person whose head was covered in a black canvas bag. He then looked around saying "I know that there are new students from other nations, well as I'm sure everyone know of our recent take over Communisme ZSR." the crowd clapped enthusiasticly and he smiled at them. He continued "Some people were not happy about this, and I know one who truly spoke up." he then took out a charred book and held it up and said "This Girl defiled the Word of Marx, she burnt a copy of the manifesto." the crowed gasped and he pulled the hood off of the girl. She looked around 15 and was gagged and made sounds of protest, and the guards, and people in the front spat on her. The commander pulled out his revolver and said "No one is above the great word of Marx, and no one is above the State." he pressed the revolver to the Girls head and she managed to finally gnaw through the gag and screamed "Please, for god sake, don't kill me." she was still crying as he fired a bullet through her head.

There were a few moments of silence before Brisco stood up and clapped and started singing "United forever in friendship and labour, our mighty republics will ever endure." she was then joined by other students, gradually more and more as she sang "Great Soviet Zepplien will live through the ages, the dream of a people their fortress secure."

[Leslie]

Jesse laughed again and smirked. He thought it was funny that he wanted him for eye candy in the office, but not really anything else. That was another reason why he thought he might be able to get into a place of power easy here, when he was offered the right kind of place of power. He listened to what he said, and waved at him in a way to look like he actually meant it, even if he didn't. "See you" He said. He was thinking he might need to do more research on this 'position', just in case. After everything, he headed over to the Bleachers himself.

{Shane}
Shane looked shocked at what she said. It seemed unbelievable to him that this nation would make their people think they had the best tech, even if they didn't. He just couldn't understand that. "That seems silly to me" He said, but didn't say anymore and kept his voice low just in case someone overheard them, and in case that was a bad thing. "That would be appreciated" He said with a smile to her. So far he liked this girl, but not the girl who showed up next. "What the heck was that for?!" He shouted at the girl when she slugged her in the nose, then put the chips into her mouth.....which sounded extremely painful to him. He made a face, and said, "I wasn't doing anything. I was just talking to her. What is your problem?". He pretty much shouted the last part to her as she left, and let out a sigh. What kind of girlfriend was that? He wished he could somehow save that poor girl from her, but he figured that'd just make things worse, not better. So he went over to the Bleachers himself.

{At Bleachers}
Jesse, Gail, Shane, and Selena all listened to the dude with all the metals speech in silence, coincidentally all sitting next to each other. Though, Shane was next to Jesse, and Gail was next to Selena. Gail was for some reason twitching uncomfortably before the guy was even dragged out. Shane was giving Jesse strange glances, and Selena was probably the one paying the most actual attention. Jesse just scoffed at the mention of him being proud of all of them, since he or the newcomers haven't done anything yet. They all seemed to look at the guy that was dragged out with suspicion of what was going on, but said nothing. Though, Jesse almost seemed enthusiastic about it. And none of them knew what Communism ZSR was, and of course didn't bother asking. The fact the crowd clapped enthusiastically just confused them, and both Shane and Jesse looked at each other. Gail just continued to act like she was going to have a panic attack or something. Selena remained calm. As he continued and took out a charred book, both Jesse and Shane looked at each other yet again. Being the douche he was, Jesse honestly wasn't sure he cared at all that this 'holy book' was burned, and everyone else just didn't seem to understand what the big shock was. Sure, it was a holy book here it seemed, but to them it was just a book. As the girl was revealed to be gagged, the newcomers seemed a little uneasy, except Jesse. Gail was panicking at they started to spit on her and act like she did the worst crime ever. Well, maybe not to that extreme, but that's how her mind seemed to be thinking. When guns started to get involved, everyone except Jesse started to look freaked out. As soon as the girl was, well, shot dead, Gail looked shocked, then fainted. Shane was just shocked, and so was Selena. They both gasped. Selena was regretting being so nice now, but she was still glad she was here over someone else. Jesse just seemed to be smirking, thinking it was funny more then a bad thing. "What the heck?" Shane muttered to himself, and he let out a sigh and wanted to get the hell out of this crazy place already.

As everyone started to sing some Zepplien song, Shane and Selena officially decided that everyone here must either be brainwashed, or crazy. Or both. It just seemed like an extremely wrong and sickening thing to be clapping and singing about. Jesse just joined in, even though he had no idea what the lines were until they were said. Gail continued to be fainted, obviously.

[Edenecho]

Jeremy rolled his eyes at her saying that Bala loved being abused by her, “If she does or doesn't, I really don't give a damn.” He looked pissed when she said he was insane,”You're the insane one. One day Violet with punish you and all the other disbelievers for not serving her. May her tentacles always secret slime,” The last part was probably proof that he was insane. It was probably the weirdest thing to say about a goddess ever.

(When everyone's sat down)
Everyone pretty much just sat quietly throughout the first stuff. Bianca looking bored, Jeremy looking pissed for no reason, Cliff looking like he might have a panic attack and Rosie just kind of watching. When the girl was brought out, only Jeremy's expression changed. He looked less pissed and more interested. When the guy shot the girl, Rosie gasped and put her hands over her mouth, Bianca looked bored like seeing people get shot was getting really old, Cliff looked rather pale and terrified, and Jeremy just looked twisted excited. It was probably the first time he had actually looked even the slightest bit happy since he got here.

[Alan Haskayne]

(Brisco)
Brisco just chuckled at what Jeremy said, thinking he was simply mad. She then said "Comrade know, that when the day of the glorious global revolution you will be judged by Marx and struck down with the vengeance of the people for your capitalistic crimes. Then you will rot for all eternity in the Eternal Gulag." she then raised her arm and shouted "All will bow before Marx!"

(Oita)
Oita narrowed his eyes at Jesse, then pulled something off his belt. He extended a shock baton and hit Jesse with it "Don't laugh at such an offer, to be offered this is an honour, I should throw you in a mine for not accepting." he thought and said "Actually." then took out a notepad and wrote out what looked like a police ticket and handed it to him, then said "Sign your name here." and held a pen out to him, and added "You will be reporting for 2 hours of mining service for speaking against a state institution."

(Bala)
Bala put a finger on Shane's mouth and then loudly said "I'm surprised even a socialist like yourself can enjoy the glory of the state." with a sad smile and mouthed the words 'because it is Zepplien' she smiled slightly and said "That is if Brisco doesn't mind, she is my.... possessive girlfriend, but even if she says no I will help you out. I can only imagine how much you capitalists will get, hit, raped, shot, beaten, forced to work in mines, experimented on, stabbed, you know, all the usual stuff." she seemed sad for them, then perked up and said "At least you don't have to be in Corrien any more, you can live the rest of your lives happy in the Hegemony."

When he asked Brisco why, she scoffed and said "For trying to get my girlfriend to lay down with some capitalist scum." she clearly ment him by the way she said scum. There was some aura around her, a don't Fuck with this girl aura. She glared at him for the next thing he said and picked him up by his neck "If I ever hear you ever even had the slightest feelings for my girlfriend" she paused and grabbed his crotch with her other hand and said "I will make you no longer male, got it?" then let go of his crotch. She then threw him backwards and picked Bala the same way, just walking along like she weighed nothing. A young 10 year old male student in a black uniform stopped and looked at Shane "Brisco is the smartest, strongest, most agile, you are brave to even talk to Bala. I would advise against it, but what do I know, I'm only a spy." then smirked as he walked off, straiting his uniform, and then holding hands with another boy his age.

(Later)
When Gail fainted a person nearby who wore the same white uniform as Oita looked pissed. So far she didn't do anything, wishing she would hurry up and wake up. When Shane said 'what the heck' Jane seemed to appear next to him and said "I know right, she should be burned to death for that, or do you mean you wish you could punish such a capitalist scum?" she seemed to be talking loudly and glancing at the girl in the white uniform indicating she was putting on a show for the benefit of him, to try and make up for breaking his phone.

Near the people from Gerelden another person in a white uniform sat, this person male, smirking slightly at them not seeming to object to anything. He did look at Cliff and said "Don't look so shocked comrade, all obey the state, and any who don't are killed. I'm sure capitalistic scum aren't anything like you." he then smirked at Bianca and added "It isn't like any of you crave money, right?" apparently seeing what kind of girl she was and wanting to have an excuse to hit her.

When the Corriens didn't seem to be singing, and one was sleeping. The same female student walked over to them, then jabbed the two awake ones with an electrical prod, and said "Sing." then realised who they were, and took four pamphlets and handed one to each of them, and stuck one in Gail's pocket, on the back was the national anthem, which was being sung now. She smiled slightly at Jesse being so patriotic, especially for being a corrien, and them being capitalists. She then used her electrical prod to beat Gail until she woke up, no matter how long it took. She then shoved a forum in front of her "Six hours of mining work for sleeping during the national anthem, sign." she then handed her a pen and crossed her arms over her perfectly maintained white uniform. She quickly added "Your welcome for being kind on your punishment."

The guy looked at the Gerelden people and commanded "Sing." and handed them pamphlets, and gave them each a jab with his electrical prod for not singing already, and looked like he wanted to use it one them more, so they should probably sing.

(Post song)
After the song stopped another person took the stage, dressed in a hockey jersey, and matching pads. The captain of the hockey team waved to the crowd as some girls and guys tried to climb onto the stage, showing just how popular this person was. Hockey in most countries was almost entirely male, with only two women in the NHL and KHL combine, but in the Hegemony the genders are equal and this captain was a girl. She was strong looking, and had a few scars on her face from fighting, but the people adored her. She kicked one girl down off the stage and instead of getting mad she seemed really happy about getting kicked, that's how popular hockey was in the Hegemony. She took the microphone and said "Hello my fellow subjects, I'm sure you all came out here, not to listen to some old gasbag ramble about duty, but to hear about our national pastime, hockey." it should be noted that anyone else would have been shot for calling an officer a gas bag, but hockey players were afforded more freedom in their speech than most. She looked at the students and said "Lets hear a cheer for our men, women, and teenagers in uniform over in Afghanistan, fighting to free the people of that backwards nation from both their religion, and the United States." the crowd gave a thunderous cheer for them. She leaned on the podium "Now you all know I'm a patriot, so later today I will be holding a raffle, the winner will get a night with me to do as they chose, anything they chose." she gave a wink to the crowd, and several people of both genders near the people from the other nations swooned, and some counted their private credits. She added "Tickets will cost twenty private credits each, and all of the money will go into a fund to help rebuild those left homeless by evil American airstrikes, in the parts of Afghanistan that have joined the Hegemony anyway." many people in the crowd smiled and Jane whispered to Shane "She is so giving isn't she?" the girl then waved directly at the new students and said "I would also like to welcome our new comrades from the nations of Corrien and Gerelden, I invite them to see our first game on me, and I'm sure I would be interested in showing at least one of them the locker room." she gave them a wink and smiled, apparently meaning something other than a tour, that could also be based on the fact some people looked jealous. She then looked down at note cards and said "Uh blah blah blah, the Hegemony has been turned down for entering our teams into other leagues. Our school's team, who I captain as I'm sure your all aware, is looking for new players after some players died from, uh well sedition filled speech." she sighed and looked over at one of the soldiers near here "Which was very appropriate, no one should speak against the government." though her words had no heart in them. She knew the soldiers wouldn't kill her in front of the crowd, lest they start a massive riot that even their gunships and tanks could handle. She shook her head slightly looking over notes, then said "Uh hockey is open to all people if you can prove your skill and I will be hosting a tryout in one week." she waved and blew a kiss to the crowd, smiling at them and walking away from the crowd.

More speeches stretched out over hours, and hours, talking about patriotism, duty to state, and other things that were petty much just brain washing, installing the ideas that Zepplien was the greatest nation in the world, and it should never be disobeyed. After the speeches they all sang again, the national anthem of course. Afterward two members of the disciplinary commission lead a unit of 8 soldiers each. The soldiers pointed their AK-47s at the new comers and the members of the commission both said "You will follow us, and be processed into our school system, understand? Disobey and you will be shot." the soldiers then forced them to walk at gunpoint into a central building, not particularly quickly. The two commission members were of different genders, but no one even looked at them differently, when they got in the building they were shown to two separate rooms, the Corriens having the female, and the others having the male. Both of them handed everyone a small bucket and said "Personal belongings go in the bucket, anything not in the bucket is considered property of the state. Money will be exchanged for private credits." they both acted the same way, standing in front of them, with theirhands clasped behind their backs "Now strip down, and prepare to be fitted for your uniforms. If you do not you will be shot." the guards readied their assault rifles for effect.

Once they had been given their grey uniforms and put them on the person explained "Whatever your government told you was a lie, this is not a transfer program but a long term study. You will never leave the Hegemony, your home nation might as well be on the moon, because you never ever get to go back. You will now be given 15 minutes and a phone/webcam to contact your family and inform them that you decided to stay in the Hegemony for the rest of your life. This will be considered your decision, or at least they will think so. If you inform them of your true reason for staying well then.we will send our special operations in and kidnap your family. Then we will torture them to death in front fo you, followed by your own death by starvation." the guy looked sad, and like he felt bad for them, but the girl just laughed sadisticly. There was a small booth for them to make calls, monitored by the Zep comm system, amazingly there was no delay, meaning Zepplien only monitored, it couldn't cut the line if you said something wrong.

[Leslie]

Jesse seemed to have a surprising lack of response to being hit by the shock baton, but he still reacted to it in some way. Other then an "Ow!", he didn't start complaining though, because he was smart enough to know that would just get him in even bigger trouble. Not that he seemed to be majorly one that cared if he got in trouble or not. While he liked the brutality of this place.....He didn't like such authority being used on him as much. He'd prefer to dish it out on others. When he handed the ticket to him, he sighed and took it, signing his name on it and handing it back. Maybe one day I can throw out these kinds of punishments to people myself, he thought.

Shane
Shane seemed to feel really bad about what everyone seemed to go through here, and what he would probably need to go through. They acted so brainwashed. And they seemed to say stuff that was kinda confusing to him. Like calling him a socialist then going on about capitalism. How could he be socialist and capitalist? He considered Corrian more on the lines of being socialist, anyway. "Don't get yourself hurt for the sake of me..." He said to her, frowning at her slightly. He swallowed and twitched nervously when she went on about all the things that were done to people, and making it sound all casual while describing it. What is wrong with this place? he thought to himself, letting out a sigh. "But....I'd rather be in Corrian. If what you just described is true, I don't see how I or anyone could be happy here..." He said, keeping his voice rather low and glancing around for any nearby people while speaking.

"I'm not trying to lay with her, and I'm not capitalist!" Shane shouted. Even he pretty much considered being called a Capitalist insulting. Well, he'd rather be a Capitalist over whatever the hell was wrong with this place, but he still didn't like being called a Capitalist because he thought Capitalism could be really messed up, too, like in the case of America. Then this psycho of a girlfriend grabbed him by his throat, and then his crotch, threatening that if he even indicated he had feelings for her girlfriend, she would cut off his crotch, pretty much. This almost made him want to get the poor girl away from this freak even more, but now he was also rather scared to even try and get near her. He just gave a nod in response, and sputtered when she threw him and let go of his throat, laying on the ground for a while. He had the urge to flip Brisco off, but decided better of it. Then, a little boy approached him and started to speak to him about her. "I believe the strongest and most agile part, but not sure about smartest" He said, his voice sounding a little hoarse still. He then said something about only being a spy....Who was 10, and he raised an eyebrow, then just watched him walk off and shook his head for a moment, and at some point after all this headed to the bleachers and stuff.

Bleachers
In response to what Jane said to him, he just looked at her and said nothing, because he didn't feel like saying his true response to that or try and fake something he didn't want to say. He hoped he didn't get in trouble for that or something. That would be irritating.

"Ow!" Everyone that got hit with electrical prods said, but the whiniest of them all was Gail, who was the most likely to get themselves killed. Selena and Shane hesitantly took the pamphlets, while Jesse took it willingly since he was singing already. Gail noticed hers and didn't look like she really cared to sing. Selena and Shane both started to sing, even if only quietly until they learned the lines better. Selena seemed to sing quite good, while Shane didn't really sing very good at all. In response to her punishment, Gail just knocked the forms out of her hand, apparently really not trying to last long here. "Mining is dirty. And girls shouldn't be working in mines and getting themselves all dirty. Besides: I might break a nail" She said, looking at her nails despite the fact she was, you know, just prodded and should be rather clear by now that she'll just get herself a larger punishment for her idiocy. Shane, Selena, and Jesse could all tell that she wasn't going to last long here, and while Shane and Selena felt slightly bad, despite the fact they thought she seemed like an idiot, Jesse just found it amusing.

Stuff
Then, a hockey player arrived who seemed to be seriously worshiped by the people of Zepplien from what they could tell. Selena, Jesse, Shane, and Gail, if she wasn't dragged away by now, all didn't respond much to what was going on. Though Selena, Jesse, and Shane all cheered, even though they didn't know who it was, just to avoid the possibility of punishment for not cheering or something silly like that. Then they all just listened to her. Her calling them "subjects" made Selena and Shane raise an eyebrow, but that was about it. In response to cheering for their men, everyone cheered, including Gail, even though they didn't technically consider what they were fighting for to be that great. At least the whole thing about freeing Afghanistan of their backwards religion. Shane and Selena thought bashing others religions were dumb, and if they had to choose a backwards religion, they'd probably say Zepplien's was. Jesse just didn't care, and would probably pretend to be any religion as long as it benefited him. Gail was Christian, and she didn't really have a high opinion of Afghanistan's religion, or Zepplien's. At the hockey players offer, Shane and Selena looked at each other, not sure what to think about that. Not that they had any money to throw into the raffle even if they wanted to. Jesse seem tempted, even if it was just so he could, again, push his own agenda. But he didn't have money, either, so it wasn't like it mattered.

"Uhh, I guess" Shane whispered back to Jane. Then the hockey player spoke directly to them, offering them all a free trip to the first hockey game. Selena and Shane seemed to think the idea wasn't bad, but Gail hated hockey. She was at least smart enough not to say that out loud, though. Jesse didn't seem to really care either way. At her next bit about offering someone a tour of the locker room, Selena and Shane gave each other weird looks again. Jesse just smirked, wondering if getting a "tour of the locker room" would make him more praised around here. Gail just seemed to think this girl was icky for even offering this kind of stuff openly to anyone. To the rest of the speech, nobody really had a response. Selena and Shane both took note even she seemed to have problems with some of the stuff that went on around here, while the others didn't or didn't care. None of them were all that interested in hockey, either, so that part wasn't all too interesting to them.

Selena, Shane, Jesse, and Gail all had to try hard not to fall asleep throughout the boring speeches over hours and hours of time that was full of a bunch of brainwashing. Of course, everyone sang when they were supposed to, to avoid being beaten in this screwed up place. That was about it in response to everything, though.

Then, a bunch of armed soldiers came over to be processed into their school system. Gail kinda freaked out when she saw guns pointing at her, Selena and Shane both pretended not to be bothered by it, and Jesse was just smirking for some reason. They all stood up and gave a nod to the soldiers, walking when ordered. Gail was trying to avoid having a panic attack with being walked at gun point, Selena and Shane both looked scared, and Jesse just looked normal. When they were sent into rooms and given buckets to throw their personal items in, some of them seemed hesitant. Shane took a moment to get himself to put all of his gadgets in the bucket, stuff he typically wanted on himself, not in a bucket. Jesse didn't really have anything. Gail was annoyed that she had to put all her jewelry in there, but did anyway. All Selena really had was her cellphone, with the exception of stuff brought here in her luggage. Then after all of that, they were all told to strip down to be fitted for their uniforms, or they'd be shot. They all had guns pointed at them for effect. Selena was starting to get really scared, Shane seemed to be able to handle everything better then she could, Gail was kinda freaking out, and Jesse just still seemed calm. Gail stripped down without seeming to care that much, Jesse did as well, Shane was somewhat okay with it, and Selena appeared to be the most uncomfortable with stripping down in front of a bunch of people to be fitted, but of course did it anyway so she didn't just die.

Then after they got suited up into their uniforms, they were told that whatever their government told them was a lie, and threw out a bunch of other stuff that didn't please most of them very much. Selena felt tears stinging her eyes as he continued about them not being able to ever go back and that they would be informing their parents that they chose to stay, despite the fact they didn't. She had a feeling her parents wouldn't entirely believe it, anyway, seeing as she was crying. Gail seemed to be on the verge of tears, too. Jesse found it amusing, and was perfectly willing to tell his parents that he wanted to say. Shane seemed to be a mixture of pissed and upset, but tried to avoid showing either. They all started to head to their individual booths to tell their parents lies, each one likely to have their various different ways of handling it.