Editing Krieg (section)

===Story Start===
As a member of [[Empire Eighty-Eight]], his secret identity was leaked to the press by [[Coil]].<ref name="7.6">The images displayed on the screen were the same as the ones I had seen in the email, earlier.  Max Anders and Kaiser.  Kayden Anders and Purity.  The blondes as Fenja and Menja.  The broadcast flickered through all of them: Hookwolf, Krieg, Night, Fog, Stormtiger, Othala, Cricket, Rune, Victor, Alabaster, the Crusader… the list went on.  The screen shifted to two news broadcasters.  In the top right corner of the screen, there was the usual story of the moment image, showing Max Anders sitting at a table at some event, with a swastika followed by a question mark hovering above him.<br><br>“Word’s out,” Brian spoke to me, quiet.  “If they didn’t know about this already, they do now.” - [[Buzz 7.6]]</ref>

In the [[Collapse of the Empire Eighty-Eight|clashes that followed this outing]], he and his faction fought alongside the factions of [[Purity]] and the [[Herren Clan|Clans]].<ref>Below, it seemed, there was an all-out war.<br><br>As she targeted Glory Girl, one of Purity’s blasts of light slammed into the edge of a rooftop.  Debris showered down, but was deflected by a bright blue forcefield.  That would be Shielder’s power at work.  He fought alongside Flashbang and Brandish, and I could identify Krieg, Victor, Othala and Alabaster in their immediate vicinity.  Further away were Night, Fog, Panacea, Vista and Clockblocker. - [[Buzz 7.9]]</ref> In a fight against [[New Wave]], Krieg punted [[Manpower]] through a brick wall.<ref>A crash behind me made me duck.  Manpower, a powerful seven foot tall athletic figure decked out in white and yellow, had been thrown through a brick wall.  Maybe more than one.  He seemed unhurt, but he was a fairly durable guy.  Personal electromagnetic shielding, if I remembered right.  He was still struggling to his feet after we left him behind. - [[Buzz 7.9]]</ref><ref name="SB ePowerNotes" />

In a discarded [[Coil]] timeline, he and his allies defeated [[the Undersiders]] in a direct confrontation.<ref>“And the fight with Empire Eighty-Eight?”<br><br>Lisa frowned, “Apparently that was one case where he saved our hides.  Remember that call I got?  Telling me to be careful?  Same thing he did with the bank robbery.  Tells one version of me to push us to be careful, tells the other to go in for direct confrontation.  Knowing how he works, I try to nudge us in one direction or the other.  The group of us that went in for the headlong attack?  We got taken down.”<br><br>“That happened?” my eyes widened.  That would have been the fight with Night and Fog, and it hadn’t been pretty as it was.  “Did we die?”<br><br>Lisa shrugged, “Not sure.  He didn’t elaborate, often doesn’t, unless it’s key info.  But Coil decided ''not'' to go with that option, so it was clearly worse than what did happen.  Or worse in his eyes.”<br><br>“Damn,” I muttered.  What had happened?  Not knowing was almost worse than hearing we’d all been slaughtered. - [[Extermination 8.8]]</ref><ref name="SB eLostChapter">Krieg used his power in the first 'lost chapter' - the chapter which (now) opens with Brian's chest getting stitched up after fighting Cricket. I wrote it at a point in time when I was pretty damn busy (IIRC, end of last semester at University?) and preoccupied (end of last semester at University?) and I rushed it. It came out rushed, a lot of conflict that made no sense. I pulled an all-nighter to rewrite it before the sun came up.<br><br>That chapter doesn't exist anywhere except in the email notifications and minds of the earliest Worm adopters. Before anyone says "Death of the Author", remember: it <u>is</u> canon. In the last chapter of Arc 8 before the interlude, Lisa talks about Coil's power - and how the events of the lost chapter were merely lost as a Coil altworld. - Comment by Wildbow on [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/wormverse-ideas-recs-and-fic-discussion-thread-39.310173/page-95#post-15196243 Spacebattles]</ref>