Chapter 5: First 15 Weeks

"Gentlemen, these are the list of names whom we'll be recruiting for our cause behind the scenes, and the other whom we'll be assassinating." Finished Juan Joy Abante, a Filipino historian, who was here with historians in our ranks, about the names.

Us, the Filipinos, weren't surprised about Jose Rizal since he's a federalist and reformist back in his day.

One name in the list had us curious. There's Alfred fucking Nobel listed for us to recruit and share information about Nobel Peace Prize becoming a joke which I suspiciously think was machinated by that dirty fucking organization and that philanthrophist but who was that Japanese dude listed?

Not counting the guy who made Skorpion and good toys I would love to play with, why was there no picture of a person instead it's a three-legged crow?

"I see. Who is this Magoichi Saika?" I asked, a bit curious about the Japanese person listed in the list.

Other non-Japanese persons except historians here nodded their heads in agreement. We don't even fucking know this guy.

"Kyle," said Haruto Sasaki. "Magoichi Saika is an alias of a leader of Saika Ikki and leader of the Saika clan. One of them who donned the Magoichi Saika mantle, Suzuki Saika, fought against Nobunaga Oda during the Sengoku Jidai Period. It was rumored the name and the Saika clan died out in our former timeline after the events. When our benefactor gave us the list, we were surprised the name was listed."

"Oh, do tell us about the Saika clan."

"They're expert gunsmiths who can create high quality gunpowder called Saika gunpowder, one of the best ones." replied Haruto. "I won't be surprised they're expert marksmen and snipers since guns are their specialty."

"'kay, let's invite them here after we kick out the Spanish Colonial Government packing. The better we are prepared and won the independence earlier than our former timeline, the better chances we can prevent the growth and influence of the USA, prevent Opium Problem, preventing Japan's 'sins', and things around for the better and have a head start in development. We can also have William Adams' descendants settle here."

"Yes. Also to be sure in case we'll be starting the Meiji Restoration event flag and meeting the Saika clan, we're gonna have to have trained snipers and marksmen. If we have them in our side, our country's gunpowder combined with the modern techniques and knowledge taught to them will be one of the best in the world."

"That's the plan. We're gonna have to use our funds to establish our DARPA for creating the bullets we all know, used, and familiar with." I agreed, earning nods and ayes, as I added more. "The Maphilindo agenda that solved Sabah issue or mess in our old timeline, however, must become a reality here. We have to make Maphilindo country a reality."

Sabah issue, that thing, in a nutshell, was a mess caused by a history and the Brits. My position in that was I let the people decide or as an advocate for Jose Rizal's "Malay Country" form a Maphilindo together with Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippines, which I used my influence to say "the doors for that is always open to everyone.". It wasn't realized until China being oppressive lately with corruption in our old time brought the Maphilindo option made possible with that Sabah issue permanently patched through forming a Maphilindo where everything went smoothly until our countries including Singapore were ready to put the drafts finalized and talks of approval very high 'thanks' to CCP-'occupied' China under the 'president' causing damages including the sabotage of Korean Unification efforts that could be found in the file given by our benefactor.

That file for China and CCP when I read it, it almost tested my temper. The CCP will be gone for good. The China we will be reforming would be Qing, a better future federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy state, that'll follow our model to have it lasted than being destroyed by the lack of reforms and modernization in our old time.

How many weeks lapsed after my arrival, you asked? It's been 15 weeks.

We started recruiting what would we call "Revolutionary Army", a temporary name that'll become Armed Forces of the Philippines should our revolution succeed. So far, we got plenty of 'indios', 'half-bloods', and good 'old time' Spaniards joining us and backing us in our ranks. They shared the sentiments like others who were sick of unfair treatment including this one 'old time' Spanish gentlemen who fell in love with an 'indio', whose experience and disproval from the 'Father Damaso' assholes and some colonial officials, inspired writers in our ranks, to start a draft that'll shake the world here.

Besides recruiting, we got in contact with Andres Novales, Mariano Novales, Count Varela, and other names listed. They all agreed with our ideas and vision with the Count himself got hooked reading books from our time and providing his input to the draft and constitutional draft while Andres would get himself taught about constitutional monarchy, the monarch as a head of state under the constitutional monarchy, history, and books by one of our own.

Very good day. We already discussed prevention of nuclear weaponry and nuclear weaponry-free world for the sake of the world.

Nuclear weaponry, we have an alternative for that, it starts with us, New Society, individuals who possessed knowledge who'll be playing as the benevolent puppeteers behind the scenes. Nothing to show off but nuclear weaponry and knowledge must not be created by any country to avoid those dangerous things misused by wrong hands.

"And that's where we come in behind the scenes, right?"

"Yes, Bruce." I answered. "Every shot and resources for those units must be counted. While our benefactor gave us shit ton of it that we thought we're gonna build a country in another world, everything must be accounted for. Didn't the Council had some samples of each item safely stored for future use, reproduction, research, and subject to improvisation all of which handled by the DARPA including the ones after this era?"

They all nodded.

I continued. "Good, everyone thinks the same thing as I do and bloody remember it. While we'll have Gatling Gun, and the bullets we all know, one of the prioritized items, we have to be prepared for troubles and every butterfly effects to come in the future because everything we are about to do behind the curtains and winning the independence earlier and weakening the USA and influence by its size along the way, will have different, parallel, and newer events that we must have a fucking measures and preparations for it so that we can have a different and better future."

"Yes, that's why we are here. Anyway, Kyle, the building of our own upgraded and modernized version of USS Constitution ships, is going smoothly with no problems so far. As usual, the ships will be in one piece, maintained, and upgraded after our fight against the Spaniards and Colonial Government July 4 next year."

"Excellent. If the 'downtime' and 'uptime' USA have USS Constitution, the Philippines must have their own version too to show off a new era and the world we are about to create behind the scenes secretly. Not because to remind Spain and the future Spaniards about why we want independence due to the racial inequality issues they haven't fixed in this time but because to show the true spirit of revolution and its success, and pride to the future Maphilindo people. July 4, as we all agreed on, in this new opportunity will be the prosperous and better Maphilindo's Happy 4th of July. To those who aren't aware, it's basically Independence Day."

Some heads nodded.

"We will work on that bright future together, Kyle. The intel we have on the Spanish and the Colonial Government tells us we have a bigger advantage overall due to the discontent and racial discrimination in establishments, and rape cases committed by those Padre Damaso. Our informants, you can say their friends, their lovers, and families experienced those, including rape cases committed by those poor excuses. That is why we all are for capturing them alive."

'No wonder why there are so many unregistered half-blooded Spaniards in the Philippine civil registry. Fucking priests! No wonder the Japanese had a bad guy corrupt men of religious occupation in fiction.' I thought with disgust and the sins committed by the Spanish Empire including outside the Philippines, as I looked at the eyes looking at me. "Very well. Be them priest or not, we will have a trial and witnesses. Hang them, kill them, any method that is appropriate for death penalty, let's give the fucking rotten bastards a true fair trial to give justice to the victims."

"""YES!""""

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"For the picked trees, one of which, the Dao trees, to be planted on the riverside and other places, it must be planted including after the enaction of the Project Maphilindo. We know the Dao tree survived many times in typhoons in the Philippines. We also must not repeat the mistakes of the extinction of the species and languages. Proper pruning, proper preservation, proper reforestation, best proven practices, those methods are to be applied no matter what. That's where we put rangers and likeminded occupations as measures and safeguards."

""HEAR! HEAR!""

"And the deuterium, the valuable white gold and resource, an alternative for oil, the Maphilindo have, must be guarded by the Navy, Coast Guard, and the classified units that must not be made known in public including our country's partners. We are to take advantage of it, make the country into a well-known deuterium specialist and home to green tech." I said, earning all nods, as I took a sip of glass water to quinch my thirst. "Everything we discussed, talked, and agreed on must be put into motion than laying in limbo or table. We have plenty resources provided by our benefactor but like others said, everything must be counted for the better world we are about to create, a drug-free world free from Troubles in the Middle East, tensions rising between Russia and Ukraine, refugee crisis, tensions caused by the CCP, etc. Our benefactor sent us here with that mission of making a better world."

Pausing for a moment, I looked at the eyes and faces of our own guys for a moment.

Russians, Ukrainians, Malays, Singaporeans, Indonesians, many fucking nationalities.

One of the Ukrainians, in our ranks, Oleg was a victim of confirmed Neo Nazi Battalion due to his fiancée being 'that', a common thing the Nazis and Neo Nazis disliked for being 'inferior filth' ala hate crime. He got a fucking Nazi swastika scar in his left engraved by those Neo Nazi bastards whom the people fooled by the propagation of propaganda unknowingly, as the 'defenders' of Ukraine and the jokester clown puppet president, a hero. From the time we left, he and his family received death threats. I don't know if there's other worlds out there but that thing in the time we came from, confirmed and shocked us with a fact the comedian turned Ukrainian president was a puppet and asset of a warmonger.

'This is why never trust the USA and never put a popularity-based in governance because shit knows the leader will be a puppet to a CIA, oligarchs, and those parties responsible for the mess. Poor Ukrainians and other foreigners, you got played with a propaganda fueled by those punks. For the best of the worlds and sanity, we have to weaken the USA in size this time including the preventing the creation of the CIA by any means necessary including killing that Brit and other individuals.' I thought with a sigh and almost annoyed at the fuck up world and how lucky our country was for having a blackmail material against the USA and the CIA that had them fucked off respectively in our matters that does not need 'assistance' and 'freedom', before resuming. "Yes, we are to 'disappear' the bastards listed in our own hitlist before things come into worst. Plans, we put operations and actions including that Leopold II of Belgium who was responsible for the Congo horrors.... are to be in motion including us behind the scenes. Remember what we talked about in the meeting including the very message of abolishing slavery and slave trade to the whole fucking world. There'll be no shit called One China Policy but a better democratic China we are about to create with better history for them, no CCP, not causing troubles, no that kind of 'projects', nothing. Same goes to Japan."

Pausing once more, all of them nodded.

China from the time we left was wasted due to CCP and corruption, ruining the work done by Deng Xiaoping, the only Chinese guy I would respect.

They interfered with the attempts of reunifying Korea.

They rammed boats except from the Philippines with their naval 'militia' which the Philippines responded with larger presence of combined 'Maphilindo' + ASEAN Navy in the waters and Airforce in the air.

They under the rotten-hands of CCP did unpleasant things they hid just like North Korea.

For Russia, if the DARPA were able to recreate a winter clothing, we might be able to prevent the Red Tsar and the Soviets but if we're too late, we'll rescue the Romanovs in the same manner to Germany's royal family.

For Formosa/Taiwan, we have better plans for that alongside the areas here and the 'Maphilindo'. All we need was technology and resources.

The One China Policy, it failed from the time we left 'thanks' to the CCP and the set of leadership.

Smiling slightly, I ended the meeting. "With this, I hereby conclude our meeting. Have a good day everyone."

We left the meeting hall and later the building.

Minutes later at the exit, Gregorio Macalintal, one of my friends since the army days, awaited me in a vehicle, the modified Storm MPV.

Greg was one of the Huks, a resistance fighter/guerilla against the Japanese during World War 2. He hated fascists when he heard one of those fascists back then who was responsible for rape cases got hanged. Like myself, we despite rapists, fascists, and communists. From the life and time we left, he was a happy family man, enjoying shooting with his family.

"Where to, Kyle?" asked Gregorio.

"To that cave, Greg." I replied. "We're gonna check the ships and our 'secret weapons' for the next coming years after the revolution."

That cave, which we dubbed as Poseidon, was where the ships and submarines were at, a sort of dock, a hidden base for the ships. The plan for Poseidon and the hidden fleet after revolution were anti-piracy operations, keeping an eye on the waters, anti-slavery operations, and operations connected to Project Maphilindo.

"Okay, I'm excited too. I've been itching for a righteous fight like spreading the anti-slavery message and ending the piracy. Those Somalian Pirates back in our day are getting on my nerves. We are fucking lucky we killed Sison and others earlier or else he'll flee his cowardly ass back to the Netherlands and use his connections there."

'Right, I forgot he'll be joining that unit who'll be doing those jobs behind the scenes.' I thought, entering the Storm. "Me too, Greg. The Council is sticking to those plans. The Filipino Count himself made the plans and Deng's playbook better for the country building. We have long days ahead."

"Sure, we are. One of the Katipunan veterans I talked with had a beef against the Spaniards due...to you know."

I sighed and shook my head in disappointment.

Stupid Padre Damaso, stop ruining everyone and the country!

"I know, Greg."

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