Two months later...
Shamal sat in front of her desk and sighed as she looked at her medical journal. "Well, I can honestly say that I'm glad that things have finally calmed down somewhat from the insanity of Levi's actions. Nanoha's family is now living on Mid-Childa, which is still somewhat of a shock, but at least they have their new Midoriya Cafe ready to go. It will still be at least another month before they're ready to open up shope completely. The only reason I note this is because of two reasons, one, I miss those delicious snack items and two, well, apparently Lina put in the paperwork and Cinque and Dieci are now officially adopted into Lina's family."
Shamal leaned back into her chair and took several breaths before continuing. "If my words are jumbled, I apologize, I'm trying to collect my thoughts as I go along. Cinque is still ashamed of what she did during the last crisis. For awhile, she refused to be in the same room as Signum for any length of time. Even though Signum's not angry at her, Cinque still feels bad about what she did."
Shamal giggled softly as she recalled what happened only a few days ago. "Nove finally got tired of it and gave Cinque a headlock..."
"Dammit, Cinque!" Nove growled as she the shorter cyborg whimpered. "Signum forgives you! You need to forgive yourself too!"
"But, I..."
"Shut up!" Nove let go of the headlock and hugged Cinque. "No one blames you, so you need to stop blaming yourself, okay?" Cinque nodded against her chest before Nove let go, turned and pushed Cinque towards Signum. "So, talk to her already!"
Signum had an amused look on her face as Cinque walked up to her. "Before you say anything, no, I'm not mad. I'm a warrior, stuff happens on the battlefield that you can't predict."
"But, your eye..."
Signum shrugged at her. "It can be replaced, then again, Shari was saying she wanted to try something new out."
Cinque wondered why Signum was suddenly shivering, but shrugged it off. It wasn't that cold in there.
"Dieci's been a lot more cooperative with meeting and working with us." Shamal smiled as she remembered her conversations with Dieci. "Other than being a little naive, she's a really good girl. Compared to Due, nearly anyone's a good girl." Shamal snorted as she remembered that blonde. "Despite everything, Due only helps in the investigation because she's got nothing better to do."
"That's it?" Shamal looked at Due, who nodded. "No reason?"
"Like I said, I don't care for the Bureau much, but I'll cooperate, since I know that my sisters would be upset if I didn't. As for any other reason, well, they're my own. Just make sure that you do your part, okay?"
"She apparently just wants to go with Lutecia and be her bodyguard for some reason. It wouldn't be hard for me to say that she's too dangerous and unstable to be released from prison. Still, she has been very helpful, her testimony alone is making life miserable for a lot of people who were involved in illegal activities. I can say that she's mentally sound, but letting her go from prison just isn't a good idea, I'll have to recommend that some method of monitoring her be put into place."
"However," a small smile came to Shamal's face as she continued to speak, "Nove is someone I would allow to leave right this minute if she wanted to. She isn't the only one, but of her sisters, she did the least harm, outside of kidnapping Subaru, during the last crisis. She is a dangerous opponent, but I've watched her with the other cyborgs, and other than some annoyance at Wendi, she's usually really nice."
"Hey," Nove waved at Shamal as the doctor and Genya walked into the room, "uh... You're..."
"You don't need to call me dad if you don't want to," Genya smiled at her, "I would like it though. I'd like to thank you for helping Ginga get my wife treatment while you fought off that robot."
Nove blushed and looked away, "well, ah, we're family, right? I'd hate it if my family died on me for no reason. Cuz, you know, I was looking forward to knowing my parents and..."
"It's okay," Genya continued to smile at her, "I was hoping to get to know my newest daughter as well."
Nove blinked at him. "Newest?"
"Well, to me, you're the newest member of the family. When you get out of here, you'll have to see your little brother and sister." Genya nearly laughed as Nove blushed and turned away from him. "You don't have to be so shy."
"I'm not shy!" She shook her head and looked away. "I, uh..."
Shamal nearly laughed, the way Nove was acting reminded her too much of Vita when Vita was younger.
"Wendi is, incredibly excitable, but she's mostly playful and loud. Then again, from what I've heard, none of the other combat cyborgs would want her to be any different. I have no recommendations about her, other than some proper guidance once she gets older."
"Tre is similar to Due in that I don't really trust her being let loose is for the best. Part of her reminds me too much of Vita on a bad day, but she does care about the others, particularly Sette and Lutecia." Shamal nodded as she thought about it, "so, for that fact alone, plus the fact that she helped Hayate, Nanoha and Fate raid the Saint Cradle, I'll recommend that she be allowed to leave when the therapy is over. I'm only doing this because the Saint Church offered to take her and Sein in as combat nuns." Shamal wouldn't admit it out loud, but the thought of Tre in an outfit like Schach amused her to no end.
"Speaking of Sein, other than how close she is with Tre, she doesn't seem like a bad kid either. She's more excitable than Wendi is and all she wants to do is have fun. However, despite that, from what I've seen, she really does care for her sisters, all of them. She told me that despite everything else, she still cries when she thinks about Quattro." Shamal had to admit, Sein was the only one who admitted that openly, though she suspected that both Due and Tre were upset about Quattro as well.
"Otto is a little confusing. Not because of the fact that she could pass as a boy, but because she actually wants people to think that she's a boy."
Shamal blinked at the response. "Really?"
Otto nodded, blushing as she pulled her legs up against her chest. "I do not want to be a boy, mind you, I just... Feel more comfortable if people think of me as a boy. The only male figure I have had in my life was the doctor, so, I have no idea how to act properly."
Shamal sweat-dropped, well, this was going to be interesting for awhile.
"Even if most women wouldn't want to act like a boy, Otto seems more comfortable in male and unisex clothes than in female clothing. There's nothing wrong with it, but I might have her spend some time with Zafira when he recovers properly."
"I have nothing much to say about Deed, she's rather polite, though sometimes I wonder if she knows when to quiet down." Shamal nearly laughed at that, she never would have guessed that Otto's twin would talk so much. "Like Otto, she seems like a good girl, though she has a bit of a temper problem. I thought it was because she was part Dragon, so I had to ask Filia about the temperament of a Dragon, sure enough, some Dragons do have worse tempers than others. I'm just thankful that Deed's temper is mostly limited to glaring and nothing worse."
Shamal took a deep breath as she looked at the clock, then back to her journal. "The last one, Sette, well, I don't know how to describe her, she's probably the most silent of her sisters, but from what I can see, it's probably a defensive mechanism, since she's in a situation that's new for her. I would like to spend more time with her and pick at her brain some more. Her familiar though..." Shamal sighed as she thought about that cat.
"What do you mean, I'm not allowed?" Mr. Snuggles glared at Shamal, who shook her head. "Listen, I go with my master, no matter what."
"Not this time."
"She'll talk more if she's petting me." Mr. Snuggles said, causing Shamal to bite her lower lip lightly. "Plus I can answer some stuff for you too."
"Fine."
"That cat was right, Sette was more talkative while petting him. I don't know why the cat likes her breasts so much though." Shamal shook her head. "Sette's probably the most childish of them all, other than her fighting abilities, she's completely innocent. Thankfully, she learns fast. However, I think she might have a mild case of Autism. More time will be needed before I can make an accurate diagnosis with this, however."
"However," Shamal sighed, "while the Combat Cyborgs are, for the most part, okay, other than some possible future check-ups with Sette, Deed and Otto, the Florian sisters, on the other hand, are far worse off. I'm not sure what I can do for them at this point. Due to Levi disappearing, they seem to be completely lost and looking for a path to follow. Honestly, I'm a bit at a loss as to what to do with them." Shamal sighed heavily. "For one, they're not insane, they know exactly what they're doing at any given time, however, they're quite, for a lack of a better term, broken."
"Amitie seems to have her head together, though, from what I've observed, she's incredibly dependent on Kyrie, even if it's just to make sure that Kyrie is okay. Even if she's not as," Shamal blushed as she recalled Kyrie's "offer" just the other day, "open about her experiences as Kyrie is, it didn't take long for me to figure out that Amitie's just more composed than Kyrie is."
"Amitie?" Shamal looked at the girl as she trembled. "What's wrong?"
"You are!" Amitie yelled as she stood up, turned to the wall and punched a hole in it, much to Shamal's shock. "If you were using us for hard labor, I could handle that, it's easy! Just do the work and you'll be happy. If you wanted to use us for personal pleasure, that's easy too, I can at least appreciate that! If you wanted to beat us because we were your enemies, I can withstand that, I've done all of that before! But this..." Amitie stumbled back, slamming her back on the door before sliding to the floor, "you're too nice, just like Kuma... It's not natural for people to be nice to their enemies."
"Are you an enemy?" Shamal raised an eyebrow when Amitie nodded. "Really? Because I'm not seeing an enemy in front of me."
"Then, what do you see?" Amitie asked, bitterness in her voice.
"A girl," Shamal walked over to Amitie and knelt down to look her in the eye, "a girl who's afraid of the changes around her and worried that it's all just a trick to build up your happiness, before we tear it all away." Amitie looked at Shamal, her expression was one of complete defeat.
"What do you want from me?"
Shamal shook her head. "Just to talk, nothing more." It took Amitie almost five minutes, but in the end, she did give a shallow nod to Shamal.
"Poor girl," Shamal shook her head, "I honestly don't know what to do with her or Kyrie. I can't authorize them to leave anytime soon. They know what they're doing, have their full mental facilities, like I've said, so they aren't insane, but they do need help, a lot of help. Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to handle some of the portions of their trauma. I know a few therapists who can help with it, so I might have to get some help with those two."
"Next is Agito, a rather unusual case, if I do say so myself. We've already given her the option of leaving confinement, but she said she wanted to make sure that Due and the rest were doing okay. I'm actually glad that Due told her to leave and that they would all be alright. Considering the only Unison Devices I've ever known have been Reinforce and Rein Zwei, Agito is quite unusual, to me at least. A firey temper, a mischevious streak a mile wide and she's not afraid of teasing people if it gets a reaction out of them. Still, she recently became Signum's partner, and if Signum hadn't said so, I would have thought that Agito was actually a link to Signum's past somehow. The arangement that Signum and Agito have works out pretty well for the two of them, and I have to say, it will be nice to have another family member around the house."
"Finally, there is Lutecia Alphine. After talking with Verossa about the need to remove her memories, I'm glad that he did so, such a thing, it's best that Lutecia doesn't remember that." Shamal sighed and shook her head. "Even so, she's still a ten-year-old girl stuck in a teenager's body, and that includes all the fun stuff that comes with it, including the hormones." Shamal was grateful that Megane was there to explain everything to Lutecia, about why her body was reacting the way it was and other stuff that the poor girl didn't understand.
"I am no sex therapist and yet I find myself having to deal with three kids who have all been sexually abused in their lives." Shamal leaned back and sighed heavily. "I just hope that I can help them out. One last note concerning Lutecia, even if she was aged to sixteen years old, somehow Jail was able to come up with a drug that stopped her aging almost completely. From what Due told me and my own observations of Lutecia's bio-scans, the drug is slowly wearing off, though it will still take several years before it wears off completely. Jail Scagiletti was a genius when it came to DNA manipulation. In a way, I'm almost sad that all reports of him have him as dead. I would have loved to have learned how he did this."
"One last piece of information, apparently the recovery crews managed to find four Unison Devices that hadn't died off just yet. They're currently in stasis and between Shari and Mary, I'm sure that we'll be able to recover them, now that we know that they just need a partner to regain themselves. Apparently their Linker Cores are both drained to almost nothing and over-stressed, bonding with a person takes pressure off of their Linker Cores and allows them to recover properly. I don't know if or when we'll see them, I'm just hoping that things turn out alright for them."
Shamal nodded and turned off the screen, shutting off the recording of her medical journal.
(---)
Time would continue to move on as events and people's recovery continued.
Amy shook her head as she watched Val play with Liera, Karel and Lia. "So, it's finalized then?" She asked Chrono, who nodded as the two of them sat in Chrono's childhood home. Granted, he didn't think much of it, since he spent most of his time growing up in a starship, but at least his mother never sold off the old house, it made it easier to move into it.
"Yes, as soon as they're given the green light, we'll have four new members of the house."
Amy nodded and turned to look at Aria and Lotte, "you understand that?"
"Yes, ma'am," Aria, dressed in a French Maid outfit that showed off the top of her cleavage and shoulders, bowed, giving Amy and Chrono a glorious look at her breasts, "you won't need to worry about a thing, Lotte and I can help mistress Filia's new children adjust to society better than anyone."
Lotte nodded while grinning. "You won't need to worry at all!" She pulled out a duster and turned to go clean the basement out.
"Should I go help her, or do you wish to have some more tea?" Aria asked, getting a shake from Amy's head. "Very well, I'll go assist my sister then."
As Aria left, Chrono looked at Amy, "just where did Filia get the idea for Lotte to be a combat maid that involves a duster and Aria to serve tea?"
"She heard about a couple of characters from a video game and liked their designs." Amy was blushing softly and Chrono blinked at her. "Let's just say that if she knew that it was a porn game, she might have broken our computer back on Earth."
"Or gotten ideas." Chrono muttered, sighing heavily. "That reminds me, we have a new bed upstairs, right?" Amy nodded slowly and blushed at his grin. "So, want to go break it in properly?"
"Filia will be upset we didn't invite her..." Amy trailed off as Chrono stood up and picked her up. "Aria! Lotte! Please go watch the children!"
"Okay!" Both familiars yelled as they ran out of the basement.
When they got upstairs, Amy blushed as Chrono put her on the bed and climbed on top of her. "Filia's going to be mad."
"Oh, I know..." Chrono chuckled as he undid Amy's clothes. "But I know she's on her way back home." Amy blinked as Chrono smirked at her. "I wasn't going to do this without letting her know what was going on."
Amy blushed as Chrono slid her shirt off. "Should have guessed you would have contacted her."
Amy didn't say much after that as Chrono took her bra off.
(---)
"Mom!" Miyuki called out as she got out of the store room. "Everything's put away back here!"
"I helped too!" Arashi ran out, covered in a dusting of flour. "See?"
Shiro shook his head and laughed. "Alright, thanks Arashi, Miyuki. It shouldn't be too much longer before the store is open for business."
Lina smirked as Shiro took Arashi into the back to wash him off. "So, have you decided where you're going to be living?" She asked Miyuki, who nodded. "Oh?"
"Nanoha invited me to live with her, Fate and Yuuno." She sighed when Lina shook her head. "What?"
"Nothing, I'm just glad that I never had to fight for the guys I liked, I would have blown too much stuff up." Lina laughed as Miyuki blushed. "But, good luck."
"You do realize that you're wishing me luck against your other daughters, right?" Miyuki sweat-dropped as Lina nodded. "Mom?"
"Let's just say, Miyuki, I just want you to be happy. That's all."
"You just want one of us to get married and make you into a grandmother." Miyuki shot back to Lina, who shrugged while laughing at her. "Alright, I'll see you around, mom."
"Later." Lina smiled as she watched Miyuki leave her. "Well, time to get more checks on the store done up."
(---)
"Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was," Yuuno laughed as he dropped onto the master bed. "Just needs some paint outside and new furniture inside."
Nanoha nodded, smiling as Vivio rested on her lap. "I'm surprised Hayate gave us the day off."
"She gave everyone the day off." Fate said as she, Erio and Caro, Fried was resting on Caro's head, walked into the master bedroom. "Only a few people are on duty right now anyway, and if they need us, they can call us and we'll be back in less than two minutes."
Nanoha nodded and looked at Caro and Erio. "I know you two are going to be working on a nature preserve soon, but I want you two to know that you'll always be welcome here, this is your home too."
The two blushed and looked down, embarrassed about it. Caro had to hold out her arms to catch Fried as he fell off her head suddenly. "Thanks, Nanoha-san." Caro smiled at her.
"It's three months on and three months off, right?" Fate asked, getting a nod from Erio. "Well, be careful, I'd hate to find out that something bad happened."
"We're just making sure that the animals aren't doing anything wrong and keeping poachers in check." Erio smiled at Fate. "We'll be fine. Besides, we learned a lot while we were here. We'll be fine!"
"Ku ku!" Fried chirped in, getting a smile from Fate and Yuuno.
"Yuuno-papa..." Caro put Fried down as Yuuno sat up. She ran up and hugged him tightly. "I'll miss you when I'm out there."
Yuuno smiled and hugged her back. "I'll miss you too. By the way, Caro, what's with that list on the fridge anyway?"
Caro looked up and smiled at Yuuno. "Those are the people that can hug Yuuno-papa." Fate and Nanoha both had to cover their mouths to keep from laughing too loudly at that.
Yuuno chuckled, though he was sweat-dropping heavily. "Ah, okay..."
"Nanoha-mama..." Vivio looked up at Nanoha, who looked down, smiling at her. "Is hugging Yuuno-san nice?" Vivio blinked as Nanoha picked her up and nuzzled her nose against Vivio's. "Mama?"
"Wanna find out?" Nanoha winked at Vivio and looked at Yuuno. "Yuuno-kun, Vivio wants to hug you too."
Yuuno chuckled and opened his right arm up, allowing Nanoha to put Vivio next to him so he could hug her. "Well?"
"Mmm... I like Nanoha-mama more." Vivio sighed as she rested her head on Yuuno's body. "This is nice too."
Fate smiled and looked at Yuuno, then at Nanoha and nodded. "Yes, yes it is."
(---)
"It's nice to be home again." Vita stretched as she and Zafira, who was in wolf form, walked through their home. "How are you holding up?"
"I've been better." Zafira muttered as they walked outside to enjoy the sea air. "So, do you know what Hayate has planned for us?"
"Other than living here? Not really. She said something about disbanding us officially."
"Officially?" Zafira looked at Vita. "What's that mean?"
"I'm kicking people out of the Riot Force and having them work with the new ones that are being made." Hayate said as she walked into the house. "Before you ask, I told them to call me if there's an emergency. For right now," Hayate gave them both a sad smile, "I want to say, I'm sorry, for behaving so coldly to everyone when Reinforce was kidnapped and Zafira was hurt. I... I didn't know how to handle it, so, I'm sorry."
"Hayate," Zafira shifted into his human form and walked up to her, before he and Vita knelt in front of her, "you're our family. Even if things go wrong, you're still there for us. None of us blame you for losing your cool back there."
"Zwei does." Hayate said sadly.
"Daddy..." Hayate turned to see Rein Zwei float outside and look at her sadly. "I'm sorry for being mad too."
Hayate smiled at her and sighed heavily. "We're not perfect, so... Let's just use this to learn, okay?"
Vita stood up and smiled as Rein Zwei agreed with that. "Good, now that that's done... Let's go swimming!"
"Vita?!" Hayate yelped as Vita picked her up and carried her into the house. "What are you doing?! What if I get a call?!"
"Hayate, we're going to enjoy this warm day even if you don't want to. Besides, you gave most everyone the day off, remember? That includes you!" Vita grinned at her. "Come on, we gotta try on those new swim suits we got last weekend."
"Alright, alright, you win." Hayate laughed and looked at Rein and Zafira. "Come on, you two, I'll need back-up in case Vita decides to try and start a water war with me again."
Zafira chuckled and nodded as he and Zwei went to get changed.
(---)
Genya watched as Ginga and Quint, his wife's hair was still green, though it wasn't too big of a deal for him, it made his sex life more interesting when they could role play that she was a different person entirely, continued their education of Nove's other family. It was almost amazing how even Tre had no idea about some of the stuff about human culture. Thankfully the judges involved with the case for all of the cyborgs were being really lenient, though they were waiting for the final word from Shamal before making any final decisions.
Part of him was kind of sad that all of those cyborgs were being adopted so quickly. After all, he always did want a large family.
Oh well, he wouldn't complain, he had a very lovely wife and five children. What more could a man ask for in life?
(---)
A month later...
Kyrie looked at Shamal in shock. "You're... Letting us out?"
Shamal shook her head. "Not entirely accurate, Kyrie. You two have done very well in your sessions, so, I'm authorizing the use of a pass to take the day and go outside to enjoy some time for yourselves." Shamal smiled as Kyrie hugged her. "It's... Hey!" Shamal jumped as she felt Kyrie's hands slip down and squeeze her butt. "While I appreciate the sentiment, Kyrie, please refrain from groping your psychologist."
"It was just a joke." Kyrie pouted as Shamal rolled her eyes. "Alright."
"Good, now, remember, if you need something, call back right away."
Both Kyrie and Amitie nodded as Shamal walked them out to the front door. "Um, we'll be unsupervised?" Amitie asked, slightly confused.
"Not entirely." Shamal shook her head. "Someone put in some paper work for a day visit for you two, that's why you got your pass today."
Both girls blinked until they got outside, where Amitie stared wide-eyed and Kyrie gasped at who they saw.
"Hey girls." He waved at them as he leaned against his car. "Been a long time, how have ya been?"
"KUMA!" Both of them squealed and ran for the man, hugging him tightly.
"Where have you been?!" Amitie asked as she hugged him.
"Hmm, well, I was on that giant ship that got blown up almost four months ago." Kuma chuckled as both Kyrie and Amitie stiffened in response. "No, I'm not dead, I got out well before that blast hit, after all, if I died, I couldn't show you to your new rooms, could I?"
"New rooms?" Kyrie blinked and Kuma nodded as he jerked his head to the car. "What new rooms?"
"Get in the car, I'll show you."
(---)
It didn't take long, with Kuma's driving, to get to his hotel. Kyrie and Amitie both stared at the names on rooms nearest to the hot springs. "See? I think I got the names right too."
Sure, the name plates were on simple plastic, but the fact that he got them their own rooms, and came back for them was more than they had ever thought.
"Thank you." Amitie hugged him again, tears filling her eyes. "Thank you, so much."
Kyrie just grabbed Kuma and kissed him on the lips for a few moments before hugging him as well.
Kuma just blinked and chuckled. "I'll see what I can do about getting you two out of the psych ward and out into the real world, okay?"
They both nodded.
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