[Nanya01]

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Revolution 1-15

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Revolution 18

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - Revolution 19:

As she looked around the deserted village, Corona started pouting, "aww! Everyone's gone!" She closed her eyes in annoyance as she continued to look for a Zennefa armor. There had to be more than one, right?

After all, if that elf had the only copy, she was going to have to take the Jörmungandr and hunt that Elf and Golden Dragon down. Corona suddenly grinned as she opened a door and found what looked like some sort of workshop. "Well, time to see what's around here." She giggled and walked in. If she had to put an armor together, so what?

It wasn't like she had anything to look forward to anymore. "Rio..." Her eyes started to water up as she felt herself trembling. "Why?" She asked no one in particular as she looked around for what she needed.

A vicious grin came across her face as she saw what she needed.

(---)

Back on Mid-Childa...

"I'm surprised, Fate." Said blonde looked up and smiled as she saw who walked into the room. "I would have thought you'd be working with Nanoha right now."

"Vita." Fate stood up and stretched lightly before glancing at the clock. "Is it that late already?" Shaking her head, Fate grabbed Bardiche and stepped out from behind the desk. "Paper work always has to be done, and right now, working on this makes me feel like I'm doing something. Even if I'd rather find who took Vivio and the others away and stab them Bardiche a few hundred times."

Vita grinned at that. "Only if you let me crush every part of their body first." Fate laughed and nodded in agreement. "Say, wanna go get a bite to eat? Verossa's not going to be home for a couple of days and I've got nothing else I can do."

"Sure." Fate smiled as the two left the office. "Mom made Hayate join her and Nanoha."

"Oh, I know." The busty redhead chuckled as she remembered talking to Signum about it. "Your mom's a real slave driver, huh?" Fate giggled softly as they waited by the elevator.

"How about you, Vita?" Vita looked at her curiously as the elevator opened up. "How's things going for you?" It was a bit surprising to see Vita blush about anything, but all things considered, Fate couldn't hold it against her.

Especially if one looked at her left hand. "Getting excited about the wedding?"

Fate sweat-dropped as Vita, the rough-and-tumble tomboy who had as much fun beating a person up in sparring, training or a fight as she did having sex, started to get all giggly about what was coming. "Wow, you must be..."

"Sorry, I just can't help it." Vita continued to blush as they stepped off the elevator. "Amazing to think that just fourteen years ago we were still just programs of a book."

Fate looked up into the sky and nodded. "Yeah... Vita, do you think they're okay?"

Vita's blush went away as her thoughts turned back to Vivio and the others. "I'm not sure, part of me really wants to say yes..."

"But you don't want to get my hopes up?" Fate sighed as Vita nodded. "It's not your fault, Vita..." She smiled at the other woman. "So, where did you want to eat?"

"I'd say you were taking their disappearance well if I didn't know you as well as I do." Vita smirked as Fate blushed. "So, how much extra work did you give your interns?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about, Vita." Fate huffed as they walked to the car. "It's not like I gave them so much work that the librarians at the Infinity Library would balk at what they have to sort through. And I am surely not using Bureau resources to see if there's a way to scan to mom's old home world in the Red universe to see if Vivio, Arashi, Nove, Einhart, Ixpellia, Rio, and Corona are alive, nope not at all."

"...Riiiiiiight." Vita drawled out sarcastically, she knew Fate would and probably did do that.

When they got to Fate's car, she turned to look at her friend. "I'm absolutely terrified that when we finally can get over there, we'll find all of them dead and what that will do to Nanoha and mom."

Vita grimaced, she couldn't even begin to imagine what that would have been like if Zwei had been stuck in another universe without support. Hell, she could just imagine Hayate unisoning with Reinforce and finding a way to blast through the dimensions by brute force. "Fate, I'm going to ask a stupid question here, but why hasn't Nanoha tried to force her way across the dimensions?"

Fate sighed as she started her car up. "Because, despite being worried sick about them, Nanoha knows better than anyone short of mom, Cinque or Dieci just what's there between the dimensions. We've felt it, but..."

Vita nodded and shivered as the memory of a nine-year-old Nanoha popped into her head, glowing gold with black lightning crashing around her and going utterly berserk on her. "I can imagine..."

"That doesn't mean she hasn't wanted to try though. Mom had to smack the idea out of her head a few times." Fate snickered as she drove off.

(---)

Meanwhile...

Mary smiled as she walked into the room. "Admiral Chrono Harlaown, Admiral Lindy Harlaown, General Gaiz, thank you three for listening to me on this proposal."

Lindy waved her off. "You said it was something that concerned the Riot Force, and considering that we three are among the strongest supporters. But why didn't you invite Knight Carim?"

"Well, technically, the Church isn't part of the Bureau," Mary shrugged as she motioned for Shari to join her. "No doubt the three of you remember four years ago during the initial year the Riot Force was started." The three of them nodded. "Well, even though we had success against the Mazoku Levi and her mechanical army of Megahs..."

"The fact is, we still got lucky, as we saw, the Megahs, learned from each encounter and developed abilities they didn't start with." Shari pushed a button on a pop-up screen and a video of a Megah appeared. "This was one of the earliest encounters with the Megah, at the time it had only the ability of its canon," the scene shifted to Mid-Childa with a Megah fighting various members of the Riot Force, "it's possible that Levi unlocked some features with its offensive abilities as it has both a blade for close combat and can shoot some sort of energy arrows for a more concussive ability."

"On top of that," Mary continued as she pointed at the screen as various magics seemed to splash off of something, "they were equipped with several Gadget Drones, gaining what has been called an AMS, or Anti-Magic Shield. Plus, as we learned later, they could fly, become invisible and even anticipate attacks that they had data on."

"A troublesome weapon." Chrono muttered to himself. "However, wasn't it proven that the AMS can be over-come with enough power?"

"Last time we had a conflict, yes." Shari nodded at him, "however," the screen changed again and everyone in the room stared at the screen pensively as they saw several Megah and someone who looked somewhat like Levi, though the quality was very poor, so they couldn't tell exactly, attacking some sort of small village. "This was given to us just over two weeks ago, so it's distinctly possible that that is Levi, and even if it's not, the Megahs are still in operation."

"Do you think that their AMS would be calibrated to deal with any of the Shine weapons?" Regius narrowed his eyes when both scientists nodded. "So, what's your suggestion to deal with this?"

"Well," Mary grinned at him, "we do have information that extends beyond just what we know in science. Anyway, it's not just the Megahs we're concerned about, there's also what happened to Navy Team six on that desert planet..."

"You heard about that?" Chrono frowned as Lindy and Regius looked at him.

"What happened?" Lindy was sure she wasn't going to like what she was going to hear, but she needed to know.

"Apparently criminals are starting to use anti-magic technology." Shari explained, getting a frown from Lindy and Regius. "While the Shine weapons were able to affect the anti-magic technology that's in use now, there's no doubt in my mind that they'll soon improve upon it."

"And increasing the power is out of the question, isn't it?" Regius grimaced as she nodded. "Explosive?"

"Extremely." Shari grinned. "Though, I have to admit, the thought of setting the thing to explode on purpose and watching a miniature Neutron Star explode is something like a wet dream for me, but..." She trailed off at the weird looks she was getting. "You have no idea how awesome it would be to see a Neutron Star go off, do you?"

The others shook their heads and Shari sighed. "Amateurs! Anyway, I'm getting off track. The fact that there's anti-magic technology being developed to combat the Bureau is not exactly something that any of us look forward to. I thought, at first, it was something similar to the AMF, or Anti-Magic Field, that we had known, for now, it is, but..."

"I hate it when someone says but in a conversation," Regius narrowed his eyes, "what's with that look?"

Mary grimaced. "Well, the field generators that were being produced don't work like the AMFs that we had encountered before. Instead of dampening the effects of magic, it's more like..." She looked upwards and tapped her chin as she tried to think how to explain it. "Vibration." Mary snapped her fingers and grinned. "Every type of energy, whether electrical, magical, solar, or whatever, goes along various wavelengths, granted, magic's at a much higher frequency than mundane energy and is damn near impossible to detect with mundane means, but the core principle remains the same. Anyway!" She blushed at the looks of impatience she was getting, "the anti-magic technology seems to be some kind of prismatic lens, if you will that ends up fracturing and destabilizing magic."

"Sounds bad." Lindy sighed as she heard that, it really wasn't a good thing in her book.

"Well..." Shari smiled at the Admiral, "it's not quite as bad as Mary's making it sound. So far it only seems to be tailored towards binds, which, if you think about it, makes perfect sense, if you're put into binds when you have little to no magic, you can disrupt them with this technology and then get free when the opportunity arises. However, that's not the big problem right now." She held up a finger as the screen went blank, "the problem comes from the fact that there are those terrorists that are utterly immune to magic. The power that eclipses all others and will purge the world, remember?"

"Well, we've been working on new weapons that could get around that anti-magic abilities..." Mary pouted and sighed heavily. "Sadly, they're in just the development stages, we don't even have a working super prototype yet." She muttered something about blaster modes exploding when Nanoha tried them, but that was quickly ignored. "Anyway, the basic idea is pretty simple. We use magical energy and turn it into a mass-based weapon."

"You're serious?" Chrono frowned deeply. "We worked hard to get away from mass-based weapons, and now you wish to return to that time?"

Mary winced at the question and shook her head. "No, no, no! Not that! We wouldn't want that, this is magic that's being changed into a mass-based attack. However, such a system is still a few years away from even getting prototypes off the ground."

"I see..."

Shari nodded at Regius. "Yes, this still follows the practice of using magic, but we convert the magic into something that can take down criminals using anti-magic."

"So, why run it by us?" Chrono wondered why they hadn't brought it up to the general assembly yet. "I'm pretty sure that you'll get the funds for it. The two of you have come up with some rather impressive technologies."

"Well..." Mary pouted. "We needed a couple of voices to support us before we decided to bring this up, since I doubt we'll get away with just saying 'hey, we can turn magic into mass-based weapons, who wants to fund it?', you know?"

"Well, that and you three are about the only three in power that doesn't look down on us just because I suggested we try and reinforce the frames to the Blaster System we tried to have Nanoha Takamachi test out." Shari grumbled and looked away.

"...Didn't she cause five of them to explode, nearly killing several interns from the shrapnel?" Chrono pointed out, getting an annoyed look from the both of them.

"Please, we took every precaution we could! It's not like we were trying to have her use the Blaster System to out-power a Super Nova and then see what would happen if she fired a full powered blast straight into a White Dwarf." Mary crossed her arms under her breasts in annoyance.

"Yeah! We were going to save that for when we got our hands on a collapsing Neutron Star!" Shari grinned, getting sweat-drops from Lindy, Chrono and Regius.

"Just... Develop those weapons, I'll see about convincing them about this." Regius muttered, wondering how he would need to spin this to make the funding go through.

Shari, this is why we don't let you off your meds very often.