Chapter 9: Day Of Operation Independence – Hours Before

The day has come.

We had everything set for the ‘later party’. It’ll be the biggest slap to the arrogant asshole absolutist anti-liberal, anti-constitutionalist short anti-reformist short-sighted king, Ferdinand VII of Spain, the retard who caused shit in the Philippines and former Spanish holdings by abolishing the Cadiz Constitution, the Liberal Spanish Constitution that looks good and approved by us, which in turn, destroyed the Spanish citizenship of subjects, and representation of the Spanish Cortes, giving courage to the poor excuse of absolutists Spaniards and number of idiots who are racists here in the Philippines, acts that were beyond the line with one report I read that summarized one mestizo got bullied by the Spanish teachers and students because of the ‘Spanish-ness’ and ‘purity’ crap I won’t expect from the Mad Austrian and his clown circus, the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, the Nazis.

We also had finished pet projects such as working samples of breechloader rifle jokingly called Type 1 Rifle or Pattern 1823 Rifle also known as the reinvented carbon copy of Remmington Rolling Block that caused the Katipunan revolutionaries in our ranks tell a story of how he sniped some Spanish Loyalists in their day, recreated spitzer bullets, the .30-06 Springfield which was given a name “.30-06 Imperial” in this timeline, I was fucking fond of when I played with M1903 Springfield back in the days besides the Lee-Enfield sniper rifle and one of alternatives for our marksmen, future shooters, and snipers, the glorious 7.5 Swiss and 6.5 Swiss that the Council decided to call it “7.5 Imperial” and “6.5 Imperial” similar to the case of “30.06 Imperial”, many items approved by the Council recreated by our pre-revolution DARPA that the “men in a shed” joke made by an previous timeline Youtuber, literally became one that Lawrence and others who know the joke started by that old timer gamer had tried not to smile or laugh whenever they think about it since the technology, sources, tools, and machineries, that’ll be subjected to recreation, resources, given by our benefactor, combined with our group, just made the thing literally possible but eh, we can pull a trick to fill the gap and to put it for our planned “historical museums”. The ‘public’ production of those on the list will start behind the scenes after we introduce methods that’ll level up the areas in the Colonial Spanish Regime-free Philippines and its “stats”. We already decided what to recreate and improve, and what not. At least the Minie ball and the muskets still has some use in the revolution and after with our improvised Gatling Gun, the Type 1 Imperial Minigun, the world’s first machine gun in the fucking world in this time, ready to be deployed anytime and mass-production outside our bases.

‘Right on schedule. The Governor-General’s schedule is the same as ever like that. Hmm, what’s this? A name of a corrupt priest, sans, a Padre Damaso character, who never heard of but who the fuck cares of a bastard we’ll be hanging after fair trials? They’re just a useless mob fodder character..’

At the undisclosed room belonging to one of the hideouts right in Manila, done looking at the files given to me, I gave back one of the true copies of the reports to Miguel, one of the good old timer Spaniards, with others from our secret group, tasked with an assignment of recruiting, assembling and arming a group of carefully screened revolutionaries and anti-absolutists in Manila, who shook my hand and smiled.

The reports and having our own modern version of Philippine Shinobi Corps, don’t mistake that for Overseas Security Bureau (OSB) and Domestic Security Bureau (DSB), basically an approved idea by the Council that gives a modern spin of the shinobi we know of became part of our planned armed forces, helped our situation in getting the intel and who to target.

The intel we got over the months, not surprisingly, reported rape cases committed by the priests or any disgusting poor excuse of a Spaniards, another racial inspired events that had some of the Spaniards and those with me in this house control their temper, bullying cases, another broken houses of some families who tried to help the ‘Indios’, things that’ll make a man from our time and the Iron Duke cringe.

The racial injustice here won’t no longer be tolerated after winning the Revolution™ with a gigantic middle finger to the Spanish absolutists and anti-constitutionalists to come.

That good old timer Spaniard, who had a hidden modified silenced Mannurhin MR73 for his protection, who I’m chatting with, you were wondering, what’s the unknown chap’s background, you asked? Well, this chap and his family accepted his son’s love interest and fiancée, a beautiful ‘inferior’ ‘indio’ girl, as one of their own. When the other ‘mainlanders’, some businesses owners, the fucking Padre Damaso idiots, and government officials (not all of them), learned of the matter, they started imposing ‘special prices’, ‘special taxes’, and support lynch racists mobs that disgusted me and New Society more that we decided to give those racist ignorant assholes a court trial after kicking the bad old timer Spaniards out from the Philippines. He was also one of the good Spaniards around who provided us safehouses and support.

Like the rest, Mister Miguel Cervantes here was one of the good old time Spaniards, basically, were sick and tired of the absolutist sophomaniac buffoon’s idiocy, the Governor-General, the enforced status quo of absolutism, anti-liberalism, and the Colonial Government. He’s a good man who welcomed liberal ideas and equality that had his family targeted by those ‘purist’ and absolutists in the Philippines because of his son was engaged to an ‘Indio’. When I got introduced to the old timer Spaniard by Alfonse, one of the good Spaniards from the time we left, like other modern Spaniards, Miguel and the other recruited old timer good Spaniards, the huge dislike towards el Rey Felón, The Criminal King, also known as Ferdinand VII of Spain or in Spanish, Fernando VII, firmly cemented, after learning the deeds and policies of Spain’s worst king with our facts and information from our time, and bringing these old timers to the good principles of anti-absolute monarchy/leadership, constitutionalist, equality, and proper representation.

The situation caused by the arrogant moron really helped our cause and recruitment these months who wanted reforms and equality without pure ‘Spanish-ness’ bullshit that had them trained properly at our base away from the prying eyes and had them return with him in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. As a result of our communications, presence, and their presence that carried our message of better life without injustice, racism-free, and free from Spain, we had many good recruits besides some old timer Chinoys; they were Napoleonic War veterans, some fought with the Iron Duke, both ‘mainlanders’ and insulares, who were dissatisfied with King Asshole, the Absolutists, and the Colonial Government who persecute the natives, Philippine-born Spaniards, Chinese, Asians, and ‘half-blood’ Spaniards. From there, they shared stories including war stories at our base and some surprising rumors about the Iron Duke, the 1^st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, the man who earned the “Napoleon of Britain”, “British Napoleon”, many nicknames and titles, who they say, disapproved the Spanish King, for being, bluntly, a dick, ‘cause of abolishing the Cadiz Constitution and undo the things the other parties who were likely liberals, put back during those days of Napoleonic Wars against the Bonapartists and the Continental System, and the unpopular autocratic Spanish king himself surrounded with outdated absolutists pricks and undo parts of the Spanish Liberal Reforms, confirmed by the Filipino Count himself during our meeting and chats, giving me and others an impression that Fernando VII was a classic example of a real life version of arrogant young master who was courting death figuratively and literally speaking, and proven why absolutism sucked balls.

For now, para sa kapayaan at kinakubukasan for Inang Bayan and every Maphilindo/ LuzVisMin™ man, we’re gonna focus in driving out the Spanish Colonial Government out from the LuzVisMin™, rebuild the LuzVisMin™, and prepare laws that’ll benefit the country including this “National ID” that’ll be established in the future together with “Creation on the Ministry of Cybersecurity and affiliated agencies and units”, the prioritized ‘official’ “Establishment of Defense Advanced Research Project”, “Establishment of the Philippine Gendarmerie”, “Establishment of the ”, “Establishment of Sovereign Wealth Fund”, “National Service”, many goodies that were good, and some “too radical” in the eyes of people in this era.

Though it wasn’t July 4 but July 1 today because we’re all set with communications ready and the recruited members of Revolutionary Army trained-well, the later night within hours from now, we’ll strike, the moment when Andres Novales and company enter the gates after Mariano Novales and the infiltrated team of old timer and uptimers backed with concealed marksmen faraway.

The Governor-General and the disgusting filth of the Spanish Empire ruled by Fernando VII, one thing for sure, will not know what hit them and the after effects of a document we’ll be publishing right in the middle of an expected fight of the Spanish Loyalists in the Philippines today.

I digress. Whether we join the Spain or not as a state like those Iberophiles of a Philippine-based constitutional reformist movement’s Facebook page and group from the old time of Christopher’s who wanted the Philippines as a Spanish state, but fuck that because they don’t know Ferdinand VII’s ‘greatness’ and personality, and what to come next after the idiot’s reign, at this time, this era, the fault lies in the current autocratic absolutist monarch, his faction, and the current unjust political governing system planted by the King Asshole himself and his attempt of changing the liberal constitution into an old school outdated shit with absolutism tone. Them, the xenophobic shitheads, robber barons, Spanish absolutists, corrupt men of religious occupation, and the Spanish Empire, will be one of the first corpses of our road in achieving the independence, revolution, and better life under the Maphilindo Dream™.

“[Spanish: Mr. Kyle,]” said Miguel in Spanish, happy expression present in his newly cleanly-shaved face, a sight I say unexpected for this era of men knowing the word “shave” as one of the things in this era because of the items our resident blacksmiths who taught the old timers in our ranks how to make that item, and for the purpose of personal hygiene, one of the things we’ll reinforce and introduce in LuzVisMin™ and Maphilindo in the name of health issue and to properly wear gas mask because the last time it wasn’t got themselves gassed because of their thick mustache blocking the mask. “[Spanish: I’ve done my part in providing you the help needed in these months. The opportunities and the country you talked had me dream of our country truly free from slavery, equality, freedom, liberty, like those Americanos’ Founding Fathers, envisioned by our association, my friends, my partners, my family, and I were very delighted to witness the new life our associate speak. Like you and others said before, the idea of independence came from the Americanos, but too bad, there were still slavery issue there…they didn’t abolish slavery right away.]”

‘Oh, how much the graves of George Washington, the Patriots, and the other American Sons of Liberty who freed their slaves, roll from such stupidity and inhumane treatment towards their fellow Americans. Don’t worry guys, we’ll show you the real spirit of independence and the message of true freedom of men in the Maphilindo with the message loud, clear and solid. I hope y’all understand why we have to do this to your country when we could have...but alas, we arrived too late. With the fuckeries of the presidential system and not changed into a meritocracy and real parliamentary political system, the USA will be a mess again with popularity-based personality politics.’ With those thoughts and my huge disregard towards the presidential system that the United States of America still used that I’m sure as hell will fuck things in their country in the future again with expected presidency of President Buchanan, and other presidents who are assholes like Woodrow Wilson, Francisco Montgommery and others, the Jim Crow ‘laws’ and the likes, for a moment, I thought I heard an accented voice coming from the wind as if it read my thoughts and feelings.

“We heard and saw your plans and the tragic future you came. We are horrified at what had our effort, fights, and blood spent, the independent United States, had become. Whatever your ideals are for the country your group envisioned, that we agreed with, the true spirit of freedom, revolution, and liberty…we’ll leave it to you, your group, and the next generation.”

‘Strange…is this the work of our divine benefactor again? Showing them the unfortunate future of the USA and the world we came from? If that is so, we’ll have to make our planned Fourth of July, the set independence date of the Philippines in response to the racial treatment, and things we plan for the Maphilindo Dream, accounted for at the expense of nerfed USA, clean energy and green tech boom.’

“Kyle?”

“[Spanish: Uhh, yeah. Sorry, I got things to think about after the revolution that is by putting my touch on the things that require my attention and experience like leading a group of men from a specialized unit to do the cleanups and law and order. We were quite surprised when we learned the number of things committed by those disgusting filth of scum. We couldn’t believe it happened behind our backs and…well-hidden.]”

Showing his disgust towards the information he knew and understood my piece, Miguel shook his head. “[Spanish: As a Luzvismin™, I’m disgusted at these persons going that far. You told me the horrors and crimes of the Nazis. These ‘special taxes’ and racial laws implemented here, I’m sickened of it as a whole. It’s…. beyond the line. I’m sure the Iron Duke, if he is here in the Philippines, will be sickened of it considering he fully 100% supported the Catholic Emancipation…well anything that goes with a British person being a British identity first and their background of a Brit. I won’t be surprised he’ll also push for the other emancipations like Jewish Emancipation in the future.]”

At the mention of the famous figure, the Iron Duke, the 1^st Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, I raised my eyebrow, out from curiosity towards the man’s political leanings.

‘History did say the Iron Duke was a supporter of the Catholic Emancipation since he’s an Irish who fought with fellow comrades of different backgrounds. But the leanings of the said figure? That sounded like our revolution’s agenda and our plan of putting a Maphilindo Identity into the minds of the next generation as part of our Project Maphilindo and Maphilindo Dream.’

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“To refresh what we said and agreed upon - what we’re gonna do next will be contacting the British for investments, support, and recognize our sovereignty as a nation free from Spain’s clutches. The news of that decree we prepared and the Spanish defeat will be heard throughout the world. The Iron Duke and the Arthurists will have a good impression to us.”

“Goodness me.” said the Filipino Count, who was picked to be one of the representatives to go Europe since he was one of the recognizable figures in Europe, and one of the most famous Filipino noblemen available. “The Duke of Wellington will approve that degree’s message. Same goes to the movements in the UK regarding women’s rights.”

Those who know that degree, all of them, one of the weapons that’ll be used as part of Project Maphilindo and Maphilindo Dream, had confident smiles. It was way too good. They even daringly make a political anime-style drawing later featuring Ferdinand VII of Spain, a known anti-liberal and anti-reformist king, obviously, because history and personal accounts said so, childishly “reeeeing” and triggered followed by a heart attack from a sight of liberal decree planted in the independent archipelagic country who scored an independence from Spain.

Besides doing business as usual in the independent Philippines as long as one follows the laws of the land, what made it more enticing and ‘too radical’? Women can work, join any branch of the armed forces, run as member of parliament (MP) in the Philippine Parliament, positions in the (secretly uptime Denmark-patterned) independent Philippine Judiciary System, and more, added with benefits.

“If the stories of King Retard were true, with an unexpected fact that the Catholic Emancipation passed early in Britain thanks to this world’s Iron Duke before he became a British Prime Minister, I bet he’ll use a scapegoat to hide his failures.”

“He sure is.” confirmed the Filipino Count, with heads nodding. “As one of the persons who personally saw the Iron Duke and the Criminal King exchange before the duke left, I say, his personality was intolerable and unfit as constitutional monarch including in Britain. That include his pure hatred and ignorance towards the liberal reforms, the type he and the absolutists flatly rejected, we’ll plant here in the country we are about to create. Seeing you all here with these modern ideas you carried and proven from the time you came from, made me glad. Screw the Criminal King.”

The otakus in the ranks present in the room, grinned and almost chuckled. Fernando VII really deserved the mocking title, “King Asshole”, “King Retard”, or any that mocks the man’s short-sightedness and personality in the changing times. The absolutists and the autocratic absolutist despot’s really very silly in “not moving in the times”.

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“Still, we can’t let our guard down against the Spanish and other nations.” said Alex, scoring approving nods. “We can use it to achieve the Maphilindo and Maphilindo Dream™ all we want and maintain the top rank status but we all know, we have, our own secret weapons.”

They nodded in agreement. They knew one of those secret weapons will earn praise and score a good PR, that was to say, language preservation, restoration, and making the populace, including the future generation and here, able to speak and write it. What’s more was the benefactor did an excellent job in making them all, including those joined New Society, literate in all languages, including the Norman, Latin, and many more to name, that had them and the Council decided to put a “polyglot agenda”, and set the goal of the Maphilindo™ populace able to speak one or more including the languages in the archipelago such as Bisaya, Chavacano, and more, with English as a “medium for all things”. They could have picked Latin to troll the heck of the partners and allies on battle and future wargames in speaking the almost-dead language but what’s the fun in having their own group, [New Society], possessing these ‘black technology’ goodies that were subjected to reproduction, future-proofing, and improvisation?

“Okay, it’s time to start the checks now. Skydaddy, do you copy?”

“Loud and clear, Olympus. What’s up?”

“Asking the situation of our deployed teams and assets in the field. We talked of the el Rey Felon’s stupidity, the future, and essentials for the Post-Independence Phase.”

“So far, so good. One of our sniper teams heard three Spanish soldiers talking about the Iron Duke freeing Spain only for the work to be done by the same Duke of Junedo, the Duke of Wellington, undo by anti-constitutionalist King Asshole. The English-speaking Spanish soldier himself was confirmed dissatisfied with the Spanish King. They’re lowly muttering in Spanish that they agree with Arthurists and with that line of thinking hoping that can be applied to Spain and its colonies. Seadog-01 waiting in Guam, naval teams, and others as per orders reported same thing.”

“A fucking parallel world with differences, alright.” remarked Alex, delighted, somewhat understanding what the term, “Arthurist” meant and connection to the Iron Duke and the man’s ideology, and small changes in this world, as he confidently went on with a smile for everyone to hear. “Gents, all teams, we’ll be having plenty of fights to come. A single decree unleased will give us detectors to our side in this war and after war. Hang on until we reach the designated time to strike together. We are to use blitzkrieg in this war as per we agreed and practiced before the Loyalist obsolete rascals could blink and see our good shit.”

“Copy that. Oh my – another case of bullying and injustice, racial superiority crap again.”

‘Give us a break already.’

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Watching the former Spaniard smiled and looked at his pocket watch, an essential item reinvented by DARPA gifted to him and other recruited old timers, I told the former old timer we should go and meet someone, one of the persons in our list we recruited.

When he asked, who was that?

I chuckled, confusing Miguel for a moment.

That man’s nickname, oh I bloody remember the time the laughter made by everyone minus the Filipinos in our group when we told the old man’s fame, habit, and occupation. Yes, he’s someone important alongside his student who was 35 years old this year. Yes, he got skills but he’s weird. In return of his and student accepted our ideas and visions, we’ll give them a better place in history and make his works known.

Hailing from Tondo, hometown of my ancestors, but we had the man moved to our place once and cured his ailments and some sickness that had him recovered, the elder, alongside his student, these figures, will be part of our planned educational curriculum related to literature. Back in a day, these days before our arrival in this world, history said he demanded a thing for his payment only, very worthy of his nickname after we had our informants and disguised shinobis investigate and confirmed it. We all know it. Fucking hell, I do love to eat balut I wasn’t that addicted.

That man was Jose de la Cruz, also known to us by his moniker and nickname, the Filipinos of our group, “Huseng Sisiw”, Francisco Baltazar’s mentor.

‘I hope he won’t laugh.’ Thoughts gathered, I gave the ex-Spaniard a name, for conveniences, in Spanish than English, Spanish, or French. “[Spanish: Huseng Sisiw.]”

“[Spanish: I think I heard that name somewhere.]” said Miguel. “[Spanish: The famous self-made poet who demands chicks as payment?]”

Smiling, I nodded my head. “[Spanish: Same guy. I can also converse with him in Tagalog, one of the languages in this archipelago.]”

“[Spanish: Ah, a friend of one of my sons commissioned the poet, a love poem for his sweetheart. He paid him with live chicks. Weird man but his poems are good.]”

‘You really lived up to your moniker, you motherfucking sisiw addict.’ I thought, before smiling in approval. “[Spanish: Okay, let’s go there for a tea with them before we ‘party’. The places near that, speaking as a veteran, are good spot for snipers and sharpshooters.]”

Miguel smiled back. “[Spanish: Snipers, eh? I’m still surprised that they evolved from the sharpshooters.]

“[Spanish: Yeah. A couple of veterans I talked to said something to that process except they had another job and training - that is scouting and reporting the intel to the allied forces besides using concealment.]”

“[Spanish: So much for technology evolving. I feel sorry to those who dare to wrong us and our country.]”

“[Spanish: Don’t worry. We will show those Spanish Colonial Government and the absolutist buffoons how and why true reforms are necessary.]” I said, as I grimaced for a moment how the ‘bad ending’ timeline was a biggest scam ever pulled and deprived every Filipino liberty and happiness but this timeline, without a coup, like what we did in the previous timeline, we’ll make it right for future and better Maphilindo™. “[Spanish: They, who joined us, will be joining us in more days to come after we capture the Governor-General and our objectives. They are unarmed and protected with a bullet-proof clothing beneath as per their wishes. They’ll sing a song, Bayan Ko, in Spanish, while marching, as a protest and plead to the Spanish soldiers to detect to our reformist camp.]”

“[Spanish: What a crazy accepted plan.]” muttered Miguel. “[Spanish: I can’t believe at the numbers recruited to do that risky role. They even volunteered.]”

“I know.” I said, not hiding my musings. “[Spanish: It was ‘thanks’ to Fernando VII’s personality known and the distributed and published papers written by our renowned merchants, banished liberal individuals who criticized Fernando VII and the absolutism in Spain, common men, and Count Varela. Also, the ‘leaked’ corruption of the government officials publicly made it known by us and published for every man to read helps our independence cause. In a way, if this succeeds, it’ll be a motivation, source material, and in history books read by every next generation.]”

“[Spanish: What was it again? Using facts as a propaganda in a war to win the hearts and minds?]”

“[Spanish: You got that darn right. That degree will be both a fuel and fire, metaphorically speaking.]”

‘At least we won’t be dealing with purchase of commissions in the armed forces. Thing’s a dastardly and inefficient nowadays.’ With the old timer chap behind my back, having myself the modified silenced MR73, combat knife -cough that can be used as a bayonet-, and ‘mags’ hidden while wearing clothes to blend in this era, we exited the safehouse via one of the secret doors.

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