Brotherhood

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*"Let's just say, the Brotherhood will not be underground for much longer."*
―Jamie Smith[src]
The **Brotherhood** is one of the two main antagonistic factions (alongside the NoHeads) of the D.I.T. Literary Universe, serving as the main antagonistic faction of *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid* and the upcoming *Vault of Ages* trilogy as well as a major antagonistic faction in *Band of Justice* and *Band of Justice: Omniverse* and a background antagonistic faction in *Red Cavalier* and *Demolition One*. Possessing an unclear connection to the Council of Devils, it is essentially the inner circle of the Black Queen in her realm, which is also made up of the most fanatical servants that the Black Queen herself has chosen. It consists of the chief scientist and torturer Tehnett, her right-hand man and majordomo, and Mykew Hadeline, her estranged daughter who briefly served as her herald. In addition, a special squad of handpicked warriors and comrades was assimilated into the Brotherhood by Summer Petersen in the dark potential future known as Fusion, appearing in *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers* and *Boys vs. Girls 2*. Despite this seemingly being a warning to Steven Thompson concerning a terrible future phenomenon, the events of Fusion may never come to pass as Summer slew Emily Watson and the Black Queen was soon after thwarted by the Union of Ladybugs, meaning Summer may never become a tyrant and the squad would never come into existence.

## History

### Pursuit of power

In the Brotherhood's bid for power, they discovered that their mystical abilities could twist life to serve their purposes and create new life. Using alchemically altered soldiers and beasts, the Brotherhood silently conquered Sector 28 and used it as a temporary base. During their Expansion, the Asteroid and his companions would come across the Brotherhood, though their encounter would end with the two races becoming enemies.

### War with the Guerrillas and Attack on Earth

At some point in a possible future, either Steven Thompson or Joshua Petersen fell dead, with Vincent Organa somehow being involved. Unhinged with grief, Summer Petersen was swayed to a life of malevolence by the Black Queen using arzneillium. She brought a squad together to aid her in her enigmatic plans, mercilessly killing anybody who opposed her. Vincent promptly founded the Guerrillas in order to combat this new threat. After being cornered, Vincent fought against multiple elitists, while helping some of his surviving guerrillas escape the area. Although he managed to take down most of the Brotherhood elitists while Wraiths invaded the area, Vincent was eventually overwhelmed by the remaining soldiers there. Seeing the elitists' trouble in restraining the alien inflicting such damage, a Wraith restrained Vincent long enough for an elitist to take out the Kraton with a single strike. Having already detained numerous others, the Brotherhood chained Vincent in a grim yet sumptuous hall and informed their founder, Summer herself. A heavily drugged Summer proceeded to carry out the capital punishments without hesitation.

Shortly after being arrested, Satana Larson had a communication with Mykew Hadeline, where she revealed that the exploitation of five Naegri could destroy the Earth in its entirety. Hadeline proceeded to attack Earth with her Wraiths. However, they were all stopped by the newly formed Union of Ladybugs. Eventually, they employed Stormicide as an insurgent and he began carefully observing the Band of Justice as they came together to contest the devices of Pomp and later the Resometh. By 2036, parts of diverse communities across the cosmos, including the Master, considered them to be fanatics.

## Organization

The Brotherhood consists of only the best in the Realm, and it goes without saying that its members are individually much more powerful beings than humans and many other species in the known universe. They possess superhuman physical abilities, being one of the most predominant superhuman strength, with one example being Laura Hu keeping up with Cherical McSnake in battle, even though McSnake was far larger and had demonstrated several signs of superhuman strength. The Brotherhood, like Hadeline, Hu, and presumably Smith and their leader the Black Queen, have incredible superhuman speed and agility that allows them to easily overcome and overwhelm other smaller and agile beings. They are also able to react quickly to high-speed projectiles. The Brotherhood are invulnerable to many forms of damage, since they can even withstand the terrible blasts from one of the four Arts. In addition, they are immortal beings that can live for at least five decades without visibly aging.

It has been shown that the Brotherhood are able to control their astral minions with absolute authority in a manner similar to mind control. However, they did notably defy Jamie when she told them to do something that would have been extremely humiliating.

### Technology

The Brotherhood are an advanced monarchic organization with access to technology and mysterious mystical powers that are beyond human understanding.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Band of Justice*
2. ↑ *Demolition One*
3. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls: The Fate of the Towers*
4. ↑ *Annie and the Blue-Eared Kid*
5. ↑ *Band of Justice: Omniverse*

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