challenge 64 'riot', Star Ocean: Second Story, Truth Will Out

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 Title:  Truth Will Out

Fandom: Star Ocean: The Second Story

Characters/Pairings: Vesper, Chisato Madison

Word Count: 300

Rating: PG-13/Gen
Tags: endgame spoilers, villain sympathetic POV

Summary: Vesper remembers the riots.
 

 If the new Government of Nede actually remembered how the riots used to be, or at least were informed about it properly, mused Vesper, they wouldn't be so quick to judge how harsh the methods of the Ten Wise Men could be. These weren't peaceful protesters demanding their rights, these were entire planets, armed by mercenary third parties with weapons they shouldn't have at their stage of development, breaking out into anarchy over the 'right' to make their own, autocratic Governments with the most brutal warlords imaginable. Some of them even openly took off from the planet and attacked the Central Government, trying to turn it into a civil war. Vesper was generally in charge of dealing with these sort of ugly situations, mostly because the sight of a military cyborg floating above you and throwing missiles, lasers and petrification beams into the crowd tended to scare anyone, yet he wasn't as outright destructive as his partner Decus, who would just set everything on fire for a laugh. Mostly he tried to avoid casualties if he could leave them as a statue for a few weeks until they had learned their lesson. To be fair on today's Government, they couldn't hope to find out the real story, not with the lengths that the old, hardcore Nedian Council would go to if they wanted information not to get out. Vesper had to be careful how much he personally leaked, though, as Indalecio would probably delete him if he was seen to he aiding the enemy. In truth, he had no intention of letting them win, he just despised misinformation. He'd gotten Indalecio to let him be in charge of the Intelligence Trio, had sneaked a few subroutines into their programming. Hopefully that nosy reporter woman would do the rest for him.