Divine intervention

-Three years later POV: 3rd-

Three years passed by quickly for Sakura. She had started discreetly giving out the entrails animals plushies to girls in her school. Only to see either a red or blue bracelet on the next day. They seemed to be able to trigger a transformation of sorts. From something as minor as a hair change, to looking completely different and a personality shift more suited to fighting. Most times, they didn't even need a push to get them to kill each other.

One interesting thing to note is that any who died simply vanished from the memories of all but the Kampfers. It suited her just fine. In her ideal world, only the strongest decided their fates. That was the belief she inherited from her Father. Who she kept up with as he was running for President in four years. He kept a lot of what he did on the down low but she did manage to get the name 'Desperado' last time she visited him. There wasn't much she could do at the time so she dedicated a good amount of time into hacking and encryption to see what her Father was involved in.

It took a while but three years of hard work allowed her to get a glimpse of what he was involved with. And it impressed her. Cybernetic mercenaries, Metal Gears and Robotic canines. With all this manpower behind him, she had an inkling as to what he was trying to do. Though she would confront him later with this due to kicking off the Kampfer war in earnest.

Sakura was laying on her bed, having finished her lab where she could create more entrails animals under her house's basement. She was considering who to turn next.

-POV: Sakura-

Just finishing a rather long and eventful day of looking into my Father's partners and finally finishing my own laboratory, I consider who to turn next. My childhood friend, Shizuku is the most impressive Kampfer I've turned thus far. I have no blue Kampfer left, thanks to her. I do have one idea though. Senou Natsuru and Mishima Akane. I want to experiment and see what will happen to a timid girl and if a boy can be a Kampfer. Though I suspect he will turn into a girl too..

"That sounds fun.. He has such a crush on me, I might consider it if he somehow becomes my type" Saying to myself, I picture a beautiful tall woman with sizable breasts, thick legs and a nice curvy butt.

Deciding on my two targets, I feel myself slowly drift off to sleep. Though, like that visit with the moderator, I found myself in a rather bizarre place. Why was I at a Starbucks..?

-POV: 3rd-

Sakura found herself in a Starbucks, of all places. Though, sitting across from her was a gorgeous woman with pink, brown and white hair that possessed fox ears and nine tails. She held an iced coffee in her hand and sipped it while looking at a few papers. It was like some sort of interview. Sakura tensed for reasons she couldn't understand as the woman smirked and looked at her.

"Um.." Sakura defaulted to her mask, seeing the girl put one finger up.

"Ah not yet. My sister's coming too" The woman said.

As if on queue, a door chime rang out from behind Sakura. Soft steps soon followed, but they were not the sound of shoes she was familiar with. It almost sounded like metal. She was about to turn around to look when the owner of the footsteps came into view. Before her stood a rather tall woman in what looked like knights armour, from the olden days. It was dyed blacker than she thought could be possible. She also noticed along the woman's skin were lines of the same blackness while glowing an outlines red.

Even more, it felt like the world around her was darker than the rest. The woman looked at Sakura for a second before turning to the other and said, "This the mortal?"

The fox tailed woman sipped from her cup again, smirking to herself as she observed Sakura subtly checking them both out through the mask of innocence. Aside from that, she slowly folded her leg over the other, observing Sakura's eyes as they focused on her legs. Then she set the sheets down and tapped them before looking at her sister.

"Sure is. Fits not one but two of my own authorities. Freedom and Yurism. Heheh! Can you feel it too? She's got that villainous aura. Plenty of potential but she's limited to such an.. unfinished and unremarkable world. Oh, there IS Metal Gear.. I guess it was some kind of experiment. They've got light versus dark over there but she's ambitious. Different than the original.. Took her Dad's 'freedom' ideal and made it her own" The woman explained, seeing Sakura shiver at their words and appearances.

Much unlike the Moderator she encountered years prior, these were different entities. Though ones she was awed by in terms of appearance and presence. After the fox woman finished talking, the Knight turned to her. While Sakura couldn't see her eyes because of the visor, it felt like she could see into her very soul.

The woman suddenly smirked and said, "I see. Maybe this will be better?"

She then leaned forward slightly and her armour vanished in smoke, and was replaced by a very snazzy one piece dress that showed off all her curves. It was a nice royal purple, and even though it showed off a lot of skin Sakura could only gape at how it still managed to look regal.

"Much better. Ahh I can feel it comin' off her in waves" The fox woman snickered and looks over to her sister.

With a soft chuckle the woman continued, "Yes, I can see she resonates very well with two of your authorities. But she just needs a little bit of a push, and she'd resonate with a few of mine as well..."

"Exactly what I was thinking. She's started to initiate some small scale battle herself. Likely she'll try to join her Dad's plan soon. She's got real potential. Oooh.. like a child of ours, kinda?" The fox woman mused with a small smile.

"I.. see you can see through my act. Goddesses.. I assume?" Sakura composed herself, though she was still hiding the blatant interest in their figures.

With a slight nod of her head, the woman leaned back into her seat and said, "That is correct. And you, my little mortal, have caught our attention. You may call me Lady Artoria, by the way"

"And my name is Neo. Now.. onto why we're interested!" Neo exclaimed eagerly.

"For.. my role as a mediator and instigator? Being my Father's Daughter..?" Sakura leaned in and asked.

"That's a small part. You're in a unique position. No other versions of you are so.. hm.. developed? That development comes along with having an idealistic Father like yours, whose dream it is to have 'Everyone control their own destinies' even at the cost of millions, if not billions of lives" The fox woman explained.

"Those lives would just have been too weak to survive in a strong world. My world is.. sick.. diseased.. by weakness, greed.. Where laws chain up the strong. My Father wants that for his home country but it's. too. small.." Sakura clutched the table with a dark ambition lighting up her eyes.

"The whole world needs it.." She muttered, much to the fox woman's amusement and look of impressed happiness.

A light chuckle could be heard, as as Sakura looked up at Artoria, she had a wicked grin on her face, "Oh yes. A very slight push indeed"

Her grin was soon replaced with a mischievous one however as she said, "Do you want to know where your current plans would have led you? What your "glorious" destiny was at the hands of the two idiots who gave you that little trinket on your wrist?"

"Destiny..? No. What do you know..? Can you even tell me?" Sakura asked, seeing Neo snort in amusenent.

Artoria simply snapped her fingers, and a mirror appeared near them, that played out her life for the three of them. It showed the Kampfer battles, if she could even call it that. Though it seemed the one male she was thinking of turning became some kind of protagonist. A very.. very dumb one with zero interesting personality traits as a male. He ends up allying with the red Kampfer along with Akane Mishima and successfully fends off Sakura and her group of unremarkable women. Sakura's brow twitched in annoyance at it all. That was how it was supposed to go for her? It was so.. mediocre.

"Let's give her a chance to do just that.. Untether her from her fate as some shitty harem antagonist. Say if she does succeed in evolving her world, she can travel to other worlds and develop those interesting ideals" Neo added, shaking her head at her fate.

Nodding her head Artoria said, "I see no reason not too. She'll cause so much conflict, and "corrupt" so many"

Artoria leaned in, as her eyes glowed a brilliant gold she said, "Ohh, the Wars you and your Dad will bring"

Sakura shivered. Though it wasn't in fear. The face and aura she had was intoxicating to her true self. Like she found a kindred spirit.

"So long as she doesn't affect free will that is. Though manipulation is all good with me. I suspect you'll gain allies through your own means" Neo added as Sakura raised her brow at the two Goddesses.

"What will you do, exactly?" Sakura asked, though a little excited at the prospect of being given something by the two.

With a small smile Artoria leaned back and said, "I'll give you the option. Do you want a blessing in War, or Corruption?"

~War sounds as if it will bless my combat prowess and corruption my ability to affect certain things..~ Sakura thought before answering.

"War. The few times I'd fought other Kampfer were.. exhilarating. I'm not simply going to be in the background. If I want a new world, I'll have to fight for it" Sakura answered resolutely.

Sakura blinked as she was filled with a strange sensation. Her body had grown to one hundred and eighty centimeters while her iris gained a fiery orange hue. Her bare arms looked the same but when she flexed them, the muscles on her arms revealed themselves in vivid detail. She now possessed the body of a rather seasoned warrior. Exhaling, she found her pajamas tightly clung to her grown form.

"Not bad.. Not bad at all" Neo complimented with a whistle.

Nodding her head Artoria said, "Yes, she cleans up nicely doesn't she?"

"She does. Now! Freedom or Yurism?" Neo asked, wrapping herself up in her tails.

"I'd rather embody the aura of freedom myself so.. um.. Yurism? What does that even mean..?" Sakura asked.

Neo nodded in approval as another aura filled Sakura. This time, she grew a little more in height and her breast, hip, thigh and butt proportions grew a little. Her skin retained its softness with the hard, steely feeling of her muscles just beneath the surface. Aside from that, her hair grew and gained an unnatural shine and silkiness.

"A.. beautifying power?" Sakura asked, looking herself over.

"You have a HELLUVA sway over women. Even more so than before. I'd say you could 'corrupt' any woman you got your hands on pretty easily" Neo wiggled her brows suggestively as she stated.

With a smirk on her face Artoria said, "Oh yes, I am very much looking forward to what you will bring. Sakura Armstrong Kaede, a little tip for the power I gave you to think about"

She leaned in and her eyes glowed just a tiny bit brighter as she said, "'War' is not just the act of fighting someone"

Sakura took her words in and slowly nodded while thinking them over. Nodding and feeling herself begin to wake, she replied before bowing to the two Goddesses.

"Even so, I intend to win each and every 'war' I wage, Mistress Artoria, Mistress Neo" Sakura declared with a driven smile.

Smiling Artoria said, "Good. Show your world that a new Apex has risen"

Those were the last words Sakura heard before awakening anew in bed once again. This time, with ambitions stoked even higher than before.