Third Faction Wars

Stars dotted the dark sky, and the moon was in full view. Hellion stared at the moderately sized building residing at the bottom of the hill he stood on. The combination of the darkness of night and the trees around him kept him fairly well hidden and inconspicuous. Pretty soon it wouldn't matter, however. He didn't plan to engage them indirectly.

The Guild of Heroes was well known for being the defenders of Earth 2's people. In addition to this, they seemed like the epitome of benevolence, showering the world with genuine kindness and compassion. They held innumerable fundraisers for charity, and harnessed technology that allowed people to use their powers to provide electricity, heat, and other forms of energy to areas all around the world for people who couldn't afford such things, and people who lived in areas that didn't have such luxuries. The Guild of Heroes also provided as much food as they could accumulate to the world's hungry, and saved innumerable people and families from starvation and disease. They also founded the world's first free hospital for people with financial troubles. The Guild of Heroes pay the physicians' salaries with their own money generated from fundraisers.

Then, there was the Guild of Villains, who simply wanted to conquer Earth 2 and enslave everyone, though this description sounds far more threatening than their true intentions. While it's true that they want to make everyone their slaves, they have no intention of being brutal tyrants. Families will not be separated, no one will be forced to do too much work, and discretion will be used when assigning each person to their labors. They, also, will do no harm to the people they will rule over. Special precautions will be made to keep people in line, but pain and excess fear were things they were unwilling to employ to keep their slaves obedient. They deem every person to be valuable to them, and are aware that excessive force would hinder their slaves' ability to work hard. Also, they have no real desire to be cruel to them in the first place. In addition to their strangely compassionate world domination design, the Guild of Villains adhere to strict rules. Killing is frowned upon in the organization, even if it's a hero that is killed. Their reasoning for this is that people are far more valuable alive. And torture is absolutely condemned. The Guild of Villains partially hides behind the reasoning that sadists, like psychopaths, could not be trusted. Thus, allowing such people into their organization would result in immense mutiny and backstabbing that would eventually drive the Guild of Villains into the ground. However, it's evident, for the most part, that they Guild of Villains refuses sadists and psychopaths mainly because they, too, hate them for their cruel ways.

And then, there was the Third Faction: an organization of supervillains filled with sadists, psychopaths, and the like. They were denied acceptance into the Guild of Villains, and formed their own alliance. In comparison to the Guild of Heroes and the Guild of Villains, the Third Faction was, ultimately, a joke. They had far less manpower, and far less resources, mainly due to the fact that they were cold-shouldered by most organizations that could help them obtain more power. No one wanted to help such cruel, atrocious people carry out their dark wishes. Regardless, the Third Faction seemed rather resilient for a party that appeared to be hanging on by a mere thread.

Hellion glared viciously at the building, knowing just what kind of people were inside. "The lowest of the low," Hellion thought, his blood-red eyes fixated on the edifice very closely, as though he were trying to see through it, and look directly at the remorseless monsters that reveled in cruelty.