Black Earth

The Black Earth was a lengthy conflict that occurred in a possible future in which Chris Leonard's insurgency fought to overthrow Shane Marcus' regime, after the actions of Alana Leonard, Chris' mother, have caused death of Kisaragi at Chris' hands, and left Shane susceptible to the Abyssal corruption, turning the Abyssal forces into his and becoming the tyrannical ruler of Earth.
Shane would ultimately prevail in defeating the insurgency, prompting that possible future's version of Shimakaze to go back in time using the time portal to warn a present version of Chris. Thanks to the efforts of Squadron Fleet Zero, this timeline was averted.
==Background==
At some point in a possible alternate future war with EVOLVE, Alana Leonard manages to complete the sacrificial ritual with the Abyssal Core, which Chris, Alana's son was unable to prevent. Despite Alana's defeat, believing that the process is irreversible, Chris kills Kisaragi in order to save the world despite Shane's pleas and protests. Consumed with rage and grief, Shane succumbed to the Abyssal corruption, as this harrowing and unfair event made them mortal enemies. Shane subjugated the Abyssal forces into his will and proceeded to become a dark tyrannical ruler of the planet. Earth was successfully terraformed by the Abyssal Core, after which point Shane scorched an flame symbol into the dried up harbor of Chicago.
The regime was founded to aid Shane in his totalitarian rule of Earth, mercilessly killing anybody who opposed him. Chris and the Naval Military promptly founded the insurgency in order to combat this new threat, thus beginning a long conflict.
The war was long and hard, transforming Earth into a primordial hellscape of an apocalyptic wasteland. Among those who were killed in this future were Shiranui and Tenryuu, whose respective weapons could be seen lying broken in the ruins of the Naval Base's headquarters. Their deaths left their respective homes devastated and vulnerable to attack by Shane's forces.
==Black Earth==
After years of conflict, a war-weary Chris, now living in a bunker and wearing a desert-altered version of his exosuit, received word from his insurgency allies that they found a piece of Aether, the ore which turned out to be the Abyssal's weakness and now the only remaining hope of defeating Shane. The insurgency planned to bring the Aether to their base, which Chris awaited cautiously optimistic. However, on the way to the bunker, the insurgents were intercepted by soldiers of Shane's regime, who destroyed the Aether before continuing on their way to the base.
Upon their arrival, Chris met with them and asked to see the Aether, which they had switched out for a decoy of yellow-white light bulbs. Once they revealed this, a remorseful regime soldier apologized to Chris and held him at gunpoint. He followed through with their commands as the undercover regime stormtroopers revealed themselves to Chris and the insurgents. They executed them, as Chris watched helplessly.
Angered, Chris began a killing spree and gunned down multiple stormtroopers, while helping some of his surviving insurgents escape the area. Although he managed to take down most of the regime's soldiers, while Abyssal revenants invaded the area and abducted many of his allies, Chris was eventually overwhelmed by the remaining troopers there, who could barely restrain him. He snapped one of their necks, but then was brutally, but barely, beaten by the other troopers. Seeing the damage that Chris was inflicting on the stormtroopers and their inability to restrain him, a revenant knocked Chris unconscious from behind.
Once Chris was detained, Shane was informed. Filled with a mixture of anger and hatred towards his enemy's son and a sense of triumph that justice for Kisaragi would finally be done, he heads to the bunker where Chris was held. Meanwhile a chained-up Chris regained consciousness in the bunker, where he found himself among his few remaining insurgents, chained up as well. Shane himself then landed in the bunker, and his soldiers and revenants reverently knelt before their leader. He approached Chris, swiftly murdering the other insurgents with his heat gauntlet before unarming the visibly horrified scientist. He expressed his anger at Chris for killing "her", as she was "[his] world." Shane gave Chris one final look of hate, and ruthlessly and brutally killed him by plunging his bare hands into Chris' chest and reduces his heart to ashes from the inside, thereby ending the conflict.
==Aftermath==
With the aid of Jack Deaconhouse's calculations, Shimakaze was able to use the time portal to run back in time to warn Chris Leonard of the dangers that his mother could pose. However, as he reached Chris' bunker, a dismayed Shimakaze realized that she traveled too far back in time by accident, to a time before Chris had met her or even knew who she was. Nonetheless, Shimakaze issued her brief warning of the war, and stressed the importance of Chris finding Shane and stop Alana's plans.
As the Naval Military later gathered in the base to plan their final assault on EVOLVE, Chris recalled the events of the future Shimakaze's time travel over a year prior, and the implications of her words with regards to Kisaragi being a "key". While Aiden asserted that he meant that she was the key to Shane's heart, Chris was firm in his belief that it could mean something darker at play.
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