Nanoha FanFiction Discussion

[Old_Iron]

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

I'm unable to form a coherent opinion, due to varying levels of canon and fanon.

That was mostly a joke, since so far in this chapter it looks more like Signum is taking advantage of Yuuno rather than the other way around that Zwei is warning Yuuno about.

I supposed I read too much into before, because it felt like saying that Yuuno had no place on the battlefield.

My own interpretations of the canon, as well as Yuuno's revealed and expanded capabilities in Gears of Destiny, would not agree with that idea. Nanoha herself even says that Yuuno's (deviceless) defense is much better than hers, and that she (powerhouse that she is) cannot penetrate his defenses without going all-out with an attack.

Of course, she may just be saying that Yuuno is happier and more at home being a scholar than a soldier, and I can't disagree with that at all. It's true, for all that Yuuno actively throws himself into danger to protect others, he's happier when he doesn't have to fight.

Indeed, it's even possible that he doesn't particularly like friendly sparring, or feel any inclination to engage in martial sport.

But while possible, that's never been conclusively stated or shown. Perhaps Yuuno does have some pride and competitive spirit in regards to his combat ability.

How much is the "canonical" Nanoha relegating Yuuno "to the kitchen" in her conceptions? How much is your version of Nanoha doing that?

I think that GoD throws quite a bit of what we know about Nanoha and Yuuno's relationship out the window, so far as I can tell. Not to mention what we know about Yuuno's combat preferences. I think that if he didn't have some pride or competitive spirit, Yuuno wouldn't have developed a combat style that functions as it does.

So far as Yuuno being told to make Nanoha a sandwich goes... I think that canon Nanoha feels that since she has power to protect Yuuno from enemies as she did for the majority of early S1, she must continue to do so whether or not he wants her to. It just so happens that his appointment to the Infinity Library and his enjoyment of the job helps to facilitate this mindset.

My Nanoha is coming from a similar viewpoint. The difference being that she knows Yuuno doesn't need to be protected from enemies, but she'd rather he choose to stay safe and let her protect him anyway. If he wants to train himself, that's fine too.

Would either of them be thinking that way after knowing that Yuuno could defeat the likes of Stern the Destructor (an event that did not happen before the Sound Stage was made or your story was begun, and thus had no impact on their "canon")?

Would Nanoha be as upset about this development if it were anyone other than "kind, gentle Yuuno"?

How much of her displeasure stems from disaproval of the character trait itself? Did she previously feel uncomfortable about the trait in Signum? Does she feel that NO ONE should fight with such urges?

I think that after taking down Stern, Yuuno's combat recognition would skyrocket. Since he effectively trounced an 'evil' super-Nanoha single-handedly. The TSAB would be wanting to get him trained with proper combat skills and field him. Possibly the fourth 'Ace'?

I don't think she'd be as upset if it were anyone other than Yuuno. Since his new combat stance is so opposed to his previous one and how violent he's behaving while using it. Its less the urges themselves, but who those urges are affecting. And I doubt that Nanoha would think that such a mindset is a bad thing, its just not something she wants Yuuno to have.

I doubt that her displeasure comes from the trait, but rather with who is displaying it. Imagine how you'd feel if someone you'd been really close to for many years suddenly went and did something that is antithesis to everything that you knew about them. It would be unsettling at the very least depending on what the new action was.

In short, I'm having trouble forming an opinion on who is "right", and what I personally feel is "best" for Yuuno.

And how much of this is a previously undeveloped part of Yuuno's personality, and how much does it derive from his usual drive to give others what they want? Is he doing this because he wants to, or because it is something within his power to give to Signum?

Maybe you'll have a better idea when I post the next chapter?

This started as a combination of wanting to improve himself and not wanting to disappoint Signum, who he has a level of attraction to. Though it was more of the former until he saw that Signum was becoming dissatisfied in their first fight, then it shifted to the latter and his improvement simply came along for the ride.

The next two matches are him using his desire to give Signum a good fight as a catalyst for his own improvement. Its kind of a mix of the two at this point.

Signum addressed that; she was fighting for victory. Nanoha wanted to win.

Yuuno is trying to defeat and dominate Signum.

Domination is more concerned with the opponent, whereas Victory is more impersonal. For example, Victory can be achieved through time-out, or a judge declaring a technical victory, or achieving some other sort of goal.

Domination can only be achieved by knocking the opponent unconscious, forcing them to surrender, or killing them.

Well said.

I hope my reply made sense XD

[ZeroIchiNi]

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

Signum addressed that; she was fighting for victory. Nanoha wanted to win.

Yuuno is trying to defeat and dominate Signum.

Domination is more concerned with the opponent, whereas Victory is more impersonal. For example, Victory can be achieved through time-out, or a judge declaring a technical victory, or achieving some other sort of goal.

Domination can only be achieved by knocking the opponent unconscious, forcing them to surrender, or killing them.

Oh? It's been a while since I've read that part. I remembered that Nanoha had that look in her eyes in that pic.

[Sunder the Gold]

Well, I'm going by what Old Iron has had Signum say, rather than what I may or may not have seen in the manga.

I'd have to go back and look.

Originally Posted by Old_Iron

I think that GoD throws quite a bit of what we know about Nanoha and Yuuno's relationship out the window, so far as I can tell.

I already wanted to declare discontinuity on StrikerS, anyway.

Still, StrikerS does point out that Nanoha still continued to learn spells from Yuuno after A's, since he's the one who taught her Chain Bind, and likely also Physical Heal. I'd bet money he taught her the Chain Shield she shows in ViVid, too.

But as an aspiring combat instructor, surely she would spar with Yuuno. And help him master Shooting magic more advanced than Shoot Barret, though I don't see him doing any Bombardment.

There's also Vita seeking him out for a rematch, and the Wolkenritters' gratitude for him helping Hayate create Reinforce Zwei.

...Which may not happen in the PSP continuity, if Eins is taking care of that by herself. Do you think Yuuno has any help to offer, with her there?

Not to mention what we know about Yuuno's combat preferences. I think that if he didn't have some pride or competitive spirit, Yuuno wouldn't have developed a combat style that functions as it does.

To be the devil's advocate:

He doesn't need pride or aggression if he developed combat skills for the purpose of protecting his clan mates, just like you don't have to like cooking to have a reason to learn how to feed your loved ones.

I think that after taking down Stern, Yuuno's combat recognition would skyrocket. Since he effectively trounced an 'evil' super-Nanoha single-handedly. The TSAB would be wanting to get him trained with proper combat skills and field him. Possibly the fourth 'Ace'?

But he didn't fight Stern. Not if the player chooses Nanoha. And you'll probably never get a consensus from the fanbase on which fight "means more", or if Yuuno deserves the screen time.

Of the people he definitely fights and defeats (those whom everyone still remembers afterward, anyway), there's Amitie (who was suffering from a virus) and the Lieze Twins.

Now, the Lieze Twins ARE relatively well-known in the TSAB as combat instructors, and experts in their different combat fields. To defeat both of them at once is a note-worthy accomplishment.

Whatever the TSAB offers or asks Yuuno, if he wanted to improve his combat skills with the intent of moonlighting as a field operative, I'm pretty sure they'd gladly accommodate him. And whatever else, they DO want someone to clean up that Library.

And working in the Library IS the way that he can best help the most people, especially since he's the only one who is willing and able to do that job.

This started as a combination of wanting to improve himself and not wanting to disappoint Signum, who he has a level of attraction to. Though it was more of the former until he saw that Signum was becoming dissatisfied in their first fight, then it shifted to the latter and his improvement simply came along for the ride.

The next two matches are him using his desire to give Signum a good fight as a catalyst for his own improvement. Its kind of a mix of the two at this point.

Yes, I rather forgot that his first appearance in this story involved him undergoing training to surpass his limitations. I'm glad that you had him mention to Rein that he'd hit a plateau, because it ties back into that earlier element.

He's changed which aspect of his skills he's trying to surpass (offensive punch instead of flexible agility), but the fact remains that he's trying to overcome a weakness.

[WarpObscura]

Just some randomness.

Spoiler:

Aris Faridah binte Abdul Karim's eyes widened in confusion.

There was a bobbing headful of long, luscious silvery white hair approaching, but beyond a black-clad shoulder she could see the half-concealed face of a green-eyed blond.

"Yes, the boss carries his wife everywhere they go. Don't stare, it's rude," her supervisor, Marcela Martinez, suddenly said.

It was too late. The bizarre thing locked onto them and strode over purposefully.

As it approached, Aris finally figured out what she was looking at. The blond was a young male dressed in enough green for a forest, and the silver hair belonged to a woman that was... hanging from his front by her limbs?

"Marcela, how is the progress on Ilos?"

The voice only added to Aris's confusion. It did not sound right, but she could not pin down why.

"There's a problem with Mu-R, Chief. I was going to tell you today. I think I'll need to work with Herakir and the Remivir team to resolve it."

"Please do so." Again with the weird voice. The man rounded on her abruptly, then the woman detached her right arm from its grip on him, turning to face her in a manner that should have had the man wobbling while trying to maintain his balance, and they offered their right hands to her. Aris saw that the woman had vaguely upsetting red eyes set in a face of mature beauty. "You must be... Aris Faridah binte Abdul Karim, our newest member?"

"Uhh..." Aris looked between the two hands, trying to figure out which to take first, before taking the woman's. "Yes, uhh, sir... ma'am?"

"Dr.s Yuuno and Reinforce Scrya at your service, but you may call us Chief if your gender constructs are confused," they said, and it finally clicked for Aris why the voice was so weird. It was not one, it was two in perfect synch, albeit one a Mid-Childan male's and the other a female's tinged with the accent of an archaic Belkan flavour. "We shall see you at 1400 today in our office." They must have seen Aris's body tensing up, for they proceeded to say, "Please do not worry. We always make it a point to speak with all our new hires." They paused before saying, "Also, Marcela, please try not to scare her too badly." The woman cheerily waved goodbye before replacing her right arm around the man and resettling her chin on his shoulder, after which the man walked off.

Aris turned to look at Marcela, bewilderment ever more plain on her face.

"What?"

[Sunder the Gold]

Originally Posted by WarpObscura

Just some randomness.

That's a bit creepy.

Hanging on his back via flight with a perfectly straight face would be cute, but I'm not even sure that's what was being described. It sounded more like she was partially merged with him in a disturbing variant of Unison.

Speaking in perfect sync and confusing gender lines (or hell, lines of individual identity) only adds to that impression.

[Nanya01]

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Vita grimaced as she saw the two new opponents in front of Nanoha and Fate. "Dammit," turning, she glared at Nove, Cinque and Wendi, the latter was still rubbing her ribs in irritation. "You three are still outnumbered."

"Really?" A familiar voice spoke up and Vita looked up, twitching and wondering what gods she pissed off in her past lives to get this treatment. "Because from where I'm standing here, it looks like it's five on five."

"Tre-nee..." Nove smiled as she saw Tre and Sette hovering just above them. She blinked as Mr. Snuggles jumped off of Sette and landed on her head.

"Do not worry, we will deal with them."

"Did that cat just speak?" Vita blinked as she looked at the thing. Such a thing wasn't too unfamiliar, but it was weird to hear a cat speak out like that.

"Oh yes, I did," Mr. Snuggles looked at Erio and narrowed his eyes, "and you, boy, don't think I forgot about when you nearly fed me to that Dragon."

"I believe..." Sette narrowed her eyes and gripped her blades before rushing at Vita. "That was have unfinished business!" She swung forward and her eyes widened at the result of the attack.

As did everyone else's as they saw what happened.

"Signum," Vita looked on, relieved as she saw the pink haired knight in her battle garb, Laevantein held against Sette's blades, "thank you."

Signum nodded and pushed Sette's blades away. "You and I are in need of words..." Her eyes narrowed at the cyborg as Vita flew up to meet them. "You hurt my sister the last time you fought, I did not... Appreciate seeing her cut up and bleeding."

"I see..." Sette nodded as she and Signum flew upwards. "Then perhaps we shall have to have our disagreement in more space?"

"Indeed." Signum nodded to Sette and closed her eyes briefly. "I am Signum Yagami, and you are?" She asked while sheathing her sword.

"My name is Sette, Signum Yagami." Sette crossed her arms over her chest.

The two stayed floating in their positions for a few moments, until a breeze caused their bangs to move slightly. Both of their eyes widened as they disappeared from sight for a moment, when they reappeared, Signum was parrying Sette's left blade with Laevantein before slashing up and knocking her off balance. Taking advantage of that moment of weakness, Signum swung forward with the sheath, smacking Sette right in the nose, much to the cyborg's annoyance, which was proven when Sette lashed out with a kick, striking Signum in the stomach and forcing her back a couple of feet.

Signum grimaced and hunched over slightly as she held her blade in front of her. From what she could see, Sette didn't have much in the way of formal training with those blades, in fact, they seemed rather awkward to her. When Sette tossed them into the air, Signum was about to yell at her for being a careless swords woman, but her protests died instantly when the blades seemed to shatter into much smaller blades.

"Schlangeform."

Laevantein popped off a cartridge and Signum snapped her blade up, causing it to extend and spin around her, parrying the blades with ease. Spinning her wrist a couple of times, Signum slashed forward and scattered the remaining blades to the wind.

Sette narrowed her eyes and pulled out another blade, before rushing forward and batting the chain blade to the side and rushed in and moving up slightly so she could use more force as she swung down. Her eyes widened as Signum jerked her wrist back. Turning her head, Sette stared as the pointed tip of Laevantein came rushing right for her head. "No." Moments later, several smaller blades came rushing forward and knocked the tip off course, causing it to crash into a water tower just behind Signum. Turning, Sette narrowed her eyes at her opponent. "That was not nice." Her only response was Signum's fist landing on her cheek and sending her flying down onto the rooftops.

"It wasn't meant to be nice." Signum flexed her hand and grimaced as Laevantein went back to normal. '...What is she made of?' She wasn't the least bit surprised as Sette pushed herself to her feet and looked up at Signum, her eyes narrowed. When Sette held a hand out to her and closed it into a fist, Signum's eyes widened and she spun around to see lots of metallic flashes rush at her. She slashed upwards and side to side, sending the blades flying everywhere. Spinning around, she swung outwards and narrowed her eyes as her blade crossed with Sette's. "You have impressive skills." She stared as Sette was forcing Laevantein back towards her. Grimacing, she grabbed the hilt of her sword with both hands and pushed forward, stopping Sette's advance.

As their blades grinded against each other, causing some sparks, Signum noted one thing that she didn't like.

Sette was only using one hand.

'So she's stronger than me, at least as tough as that thing is and not too bad with her weapon.' She heard, rather than felt, the smaller blades rushing at her. "No choice, Laevantein!"

"Böe-Modus."

Sette's eyes widened as Signum's armor became completely metallic with pink and black flames shooting upwards on it while her weapon became silver-tinted. The shock on her face remained as Signum cut through her weapon, through her body armor and left a shallow cut on her body, sending her flying down to the rooftops.

Signum turned and slashed outwards, cutting through the smaller blades with ease. "I did not wish to kill you, that cut was only deep enough to draw blood." Still, she hoped it was enough to cause the girl to stop attacking if she knew that Signum could do a lot worse to her.

Besides, Sette didn't seem like a bad kid, just misguided, and part of Signum wanted to correct Sette's sword skills.

After all, other than those few times against Miyuki, Signum didn't get to use just pure sword skills against an opponent.

[mega1987]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

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Vita grimaced as she saw the two new opponents in front of Nanoha and Fate. "Dammit," turning, she glared at Nove, Cinque and Wendi, the latter was still rubbing her ribs in irritation. "You three are still outnumbered."

"Really?" A familiar voice spoke up and Vita looked up, twitching and wondering what gods she pissed off in her past lives to get this treatment. "Because from where I'm standing here, it looks like it's five on five."

"Tre-nee..." Nove smiled as she saw Tre and Sette hovering just above them. She blinked as Mr. Snuggles jumped off of Sette and landed on her head.

"Do not worry, we will deal with them."

"Did that cat just speak?" Vita blinked as she looked at the thing. Such a thing wasn't too unfamiliar, but it was weird to hear a cat speak out like that.

"Oh yes, I did," Mr. Snuggles looked at Erio and narrowed his eyes, "and you, boy, don't think I forgot about when you nearly fed me to that Dragon."

"I believe..." Sette narrowed her eyes and gripped her blades before rushing at Vita. "That was have unfinished business!" She swung forward and her eyes widened at the result of the attack.

As did everyone else's as they saw what happened.

"Signum," Vita looked on, relieved as she saw the pink haired knight in her battle garb, Laevantein held against Sette's blades, "thank you."

Signum nodded and pushed Sette's blades away. "You and I are in need of words..." Her eyes narrowed at the cyborg as Vita flew up to meet them. "You hurt my sister the last time you fought, I did not... Appreciate seeing her cut up and bleeding."

"I see..." Sette nodded as she and Signum flew upwards. "Then perhaps we shall have to have our disagreement in more space?"

"Indeed." Signum nodded to Sette and closed her eyes briefly. "I am Signum Yagami, and you are?" She asked while sheathing her sword.

"My name is Sette, Signum Yagami." Sette crossed her arms over her chest.

The two stayed floating in their positions for a few moments, until a breeze caused their bangs to move slightly. Both of their eyes widened as they disappeared from sight for a moment, when they reappeared, Signum was parrying Sette's left blade with Laevantein before slashing up and knocking her off balance. Taking advantage of that moment of weakness, Signum swung forward with the sheath, smacking Sette right in the nose, much to the cyborg's annoyance, which was proven when Sette lashed out with a kick, striking Signum in the stomach and forcing her back a couple of feet.

Signum grimaced and hunched over slightly as she held her blade in front of her. From what she could see, Sette didn't have much in the way of formal training with those blades, in fact, they seemed rather awkward to her. When Sette tossed them into the air, Signum was about to yell at her for being a careless swords woman, but her protests died instantly when the blades seemed to shatter into much smaller blades.

"Schlangeform."

Laevantein popped off a cartridge and Signum snapped her blade up, causing it to extend and spin around her, parrying the blades with ease. Spinning her wrist a couple of times, Signum slashed forward and scattered the remaining blades to the wind.

Sette narrowed her eyes and pulled out another blade, before rushing forward and batting the chain blade to the side and rushed in and moving up slightly so she could use more force as she swung down. Her eyes widened as Signum jerked her wrist back. Turning her head, Sette stared as the pointed tip of Laevantein came rushing right for her head. "No." Moments later, several smaller blades came rushing forward and knocked the tip off course, causing it to crash into a water tower just behind Signum. Turning, Sette narrowed her eyes at her opponent. "That was not nice." Her only response was Signum's fist landing on her cheek and sending her flying down onto the rooftops.

"It wasn't meant to be nice." Signum flexed her hand and grimaced as Laevantein went back to normal. '...What is she made of?' She wasn't the least bit surprised as Sette pushed herself to her feet and looked up at Signum, her eyes narrowed. When Sette held a hand out to her and closed it into a fist, Signum's eyes widened and she spun around to see lots of metallic flashes rush at her. She slashed upwards and side to side, sending the blades flying everywhere. Spinning around, she swung outwards and narrowed her eyes as her blade crossed with Sette's. "You have impressive skills." She stared as Sette was forcing Laevantein back towards her. Grimacing, she grabbed the hilt of her sword with both hands and pushed forward, stopping Sette's advance.

As their blades grinded against each other, causing some sparks, Signum noted one thing that she didn't like.

Sette was only using one hand.

'So she's stronger than me, at least as tough as that thing is and not too bad with her weapon.' She heard, rather than felt, the smaller blades rushing at her. "No choice, Laevantein!"

"Böe-Modus."

Sette's eyes widened as Signum's armor became completely metallic with pink and black flames shooting upwards on it while her weapon became silver-tinted. The shock on her face remained as Signum cut through her weapon, through her body armor and left a shallow cut on her body, sending her flying down to the rooftops.

Signum turned and slashed outwards, cutting through the smaller blades with ease. "I did not wish to kill you, that cut was only deep enough to draw blood." Still, she hoped it was enough to cause the girl to stop attacking if she knew that Signum could do a lot worse to her.

Besides, Sette didn't seem like a bad kid, just misguided, and part of Signum wanted to correct Sette's sword skills.

After all, other than those few times against Miyuki, Signum didn't get to use just pure sword skills against an opponent.

Me: When will Zest and Quint will, once again, do the big damn heroes just for Nove receive a motherly hug(read: bear-hug) from Quint?

Odin: With this commotion, it will be soon.

Val: I'm sure both faction will be wishing they bashed themselves silly when Levi and Quattro revealed themselves...

Me: Oh Nanya-muse!!! We got another dozen box of cinnamon rolls and a truckful of stolen muses... *points outside at the parked truck*

[LostSome]

Nine lives of payback is coming your way, Erio ! lol

[WarpObscura]

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

That's a bit creepy.

Hanging on his back via flight with a perfectly straight face would be cute, but I'm not even sure that's what was being described. It sounded more like she was partially merged with him in a disturbing variant of Unison.

Speaking in perfect sync and confusing gender lines (or hell, lines of individual identity) only adds to that impression.

Huh, I didn't deliberately intend for it to be creepy... Went and changed some details.

[GaelicDragon]

Originally Posted by WarpObscura

Huh, I didn't deliberately intend for it to be creepy... Went and changed some details.

Originally Posted by Sunder the Gold

That's a bit creepy.

Hanging on his back via flight with a perfectly straight face would be cute, but I'm not even sure that's what was being described. It sounded more like she was partially merged with him in a disturbing variant of Unison.

Speaking in perfect sync and confusing gender lines (or hell, lines of individual identity) only adds to that impression.

I didn't get a good mental picture of what was happening either...

Then I looked at Warp's avatar, and it all became clear.

After both readings, this is better. I had a similar problem to what Sunder the Gold did.

[WarpObscura]

Shh! Spoiler that! You're giving the joke away!

[Nanya01]

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Vita narrowed her eyes at Tre. "You four, deal with them, she's mine."

"Gigant Form."

Tre watched as Graf Eisen's head became much larger and yellow. Narrowing her eyes, she zipped away, trying to get some space as Vita followed her. Stopping above some buildings not too far from where she left her younger sisters, Tre turned her head and narrowed her eyes as she saw, with her enhanced vision, someone carrying Dieci and putting her into a pink car that was, somehow, parked on top of another building. "...How is that possible?"

"Distracted?" Vita narrowed her eyes at Tre, who looked at her and smirked.

"Not at all, just making sure that my sisters aren't in trouble." Tre bent her knees and took a fairly defensive stance with her left arm held at an angle by her side while her right arm was held upwards in front of her.

"I wouldn't worry about that," Vita pointed Graf Eisen at Tre, "even if they are fighting against us, we won't hurt them any more than we have to."

"How kind," Tre narrowed her eyes before disappearing in a purple flash, "but foolish!" Tre yelled as she drove her foot into Vita's back, getting a grunt from the redhead, who spun and slammed Graf Eisen into Tre, who managed to get her arms up to block the attack from hitting her in the head, but it wasn't enough to keep her from being knocked away from Vita and into a nearby building.

"Speak for yourself." Vita muttered softly and narrowed her eyes as Tre got to her knees and disappeared. "Dammit," she let out a grunt as she was slammed into from behind, and then a punch to her face sent her tumbling through the air, before a kick to her stomach had her gasping out in pain. Tre ended the attack by grabbing Vita's face and driving her knee into Vita's nose, breaking it with a loud crunch and a spray of blood.

"GAH! YOU!" Vita growled, tears leaking out of her eyes. No matter how tough a person was, getting their nose suddenly broken hurt like a bitch. "Bolt... WAVE!" A wave of lightning magic erupted from Vita's body at that moment and she reached up to grab her nose and pull it back into position. "GAH! OWW OWW!" She had forgotten how much it hurt when the nose was broken and had to be reset. She looked up and glared at Tre, who was twitching from the lightning energy around her. "You..." Vita put her hand over her chest. "If you think you're the only one with speed, you're wrong." When Tre disappeared in a purple flash, Vita glowed red softly for a moment. "Boost up!"

Tre's eyes widened as Vita suddenly appeared in front of her. "Fast..." An upwards swing of Graf Eisen had her crying out in pain and sending her spiraling through the air out of control.

Vita panted as the glow subsided and groaned. "Ugh... Lina was right, that spell really does drain you if you're not careful." Still, the speed boost was incredible. 'Just hope that was enough to...' She trailed off as she noticed Tre wasn't there anymore. "Where..?" Vita's eyes widened as she felt something rushing right at her head. Moving so that she could duck out of the way, she felt a breeze over her head as something swished by at high speeds. "What the..?" Turning, her eyes widened as she saw her hat fall to the ground... All two pieces of it.

Tre mentally frowned as she missed before turning and punching downwards, her eyes widening as Vita stopped her punch with one hand. "What?"

"That... Was my hat..." Vita growled as she squeezed Tre's fist tightly. Her hair bangs were covering her eyes as her shoulders shook slightly. "My hat... That was given to me as a gift over ten years ago... And you RUINED IT!"

Tre curled her body and turned her body so she could drive her feet into Vita's stomach. "Well, it was a stupid hat!" When her legs slammed into Vita's stomach, the redhead was forced to let go of her hand, however, that allowed Vita to grab Graf Eisen with both hands and, looking up with fire in her eyes, she slammed Tre in the side, sending her spiraling through the air again.

"Not this time!" Vita swung Graf Eisen upwards where its size increased several sizes and the handle increased in length before Vita swung down, slamming into Tre and driving her into a parked car, creating a crater in the street as she drove the cyborg down. "And STAY DOWN!"

As she recalled Graf Eisen back to normal size, Vita grumbled and rubbed the top of her head. "My hat..." She pouted heavily, it just wasn't fair, why did her hat have to suffer so much?

[GaelicDragon]

My second Snippet for MadScientist Fate-chan

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Mad Scientist Fate-chan Snippet 2

By: GaelicDragon

Jail could only stare at the numerous screens that Quattro was directing to him. The wave, no the tide of the various forces that little Fate seemed to conjure from the ether were within visual range. They were, well…green. The workmanship also seemed rather sloppy, like Precia’s second daughter was trying for quantity over quality. Their screaming was annoying, and something was happening to his own forces.

“Status report,” remarked Jail.

“Diverting a number of gadget drones to intercept these new forces. With how poorly these, golems, seem to be made, do you think they are a threat,” questioned Quattro. The sensors were trained on these unknown forces, but there was something off. It was like she could hear the screaming of the golems. But that was impossible, the gadget drones for this battle didn’t have any audio receptors?

“Any idea what is causing the vibration,” questioned Jail as he saw the normally stable visiual sensors seem to rattle.

“No clue.”

“Bring out an extra flight of the type-II gadget drones, if Fate is truly trying to meet or beat Precia’s reputation, she’ll have a nasty surprise ready,” remarked Jail as he looked at the numbers in flight. He had seen Precia’s notes on these, her “Garden of Time” was stocked with them for defense, for what little good it did her.

“Wait, I can hear the golems. What is going on,” whispered Quattro as her fingers flew across the keyboard of her station. The “queen” was asleep on her throne and would wake up later. Something was beginning to dawn on her.

“Crap! Its some kind of bleedthrough,” paniced Quattro as she quickly toned done the sensors to prevent what ever nasty surprises her apparent rival might have cooked up. She was lucky in that the drones only appeared to have lost some efficency. They could still fight.

It was at this moment that the drone was heard upon the battle field as the two lines clashed. The primeval yell from the beastial mouth of the green horde resounded upon the comm. channels and even through other sensors.

“WAAAGH,” screamed one of the lead Knight Golems as it took a full side from a gadget drone and blew up spectacularly. The pack upon with it flew with cut through the debris cloud and headed back onto the rear lines. Another of these Golems used its large metal blade to cleave through a type-I gadget drone.

“Oooh, I want dat one!” shouted yet another drone as it chased down one of the type-II drones. The Knight golem then grabbed onto it and slammed a foot down. A small blade slammed through pierced through the type-II drones armor as the drone appeared to buck wildly. Soon, the drone settled as the Knight golem seemed to bounce up and down getting more and more excited.

“Always rememba. DA RED WUNZ GO FASTA!” roared the Knight golem as the outer color of the drone changed to a pure blood red. At this moment, the winged pack shot from his back and flew back to its origin point.

“C'MON BOYZ! Let’s get stuck in it,” screamed the green monstrosity as it aimed a large cylindrical barrel and shot at another drone. The cry was returned by many of the other golems as they rushed to the horde of drones approaching them from the large vessel.

-----

“Orks…you modeled them after ORKS. What are we going to do with a bunch of golems running off of AI’s created based on orcs,” questioned a bemused Yuuno. Well, with Fate’s eccentricities things at least never were boring.

“Not really,” replied Fate softly. The camera was off so she had no reason to act up.

“Oh?”

“The AI is similar in nature to Bardiche. The suits themselves have the subroutines for target acquisition and vocals,” replied Fate with a small grin. No mater what the card people have in hand, the jokers always wild.

“So your planning on refilling the bank accounts through selling the TSAB a large number of Intelligent Devices,” questioned Yuuno. He had seen the numbers and while Precia was actually quite wealthy, getting herself up to speed and R&D costs had been awful on the budget.

“The suits also have a few other functions that I’ll charge the bureau for their use,” replied Fate with a grin.

Yuuno had to note that Fate seemed to be getting back into her role. Things were about to take a turn.

[mega1987]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

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Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 41:

Vita narrowed her eyes at Tre. "You four, deal with them, she's mine."

"Gigant Form."

Tre watched as Graf Eisen's head became much larger and yellow. Narrowing her eyes, she zipped away, trying to get some space as Vita followed her. Stopping above some buildings not too far from where she left her younger sisters, Tre turned her head and narrowed her eyes as she saw, with her enhanced vision, someone carrying Dieci and putting her into a pink car that was, somehow, parked on top of another building. "...How is that possible?"

"Distracted?" Vita narrowed her eyes at Tre, who looked at her and smirked.

"Not at all, just making sure that my sisters aren't in trouble." Tre bent her knees and took a fairly defensive stance with her left arm held at an angle by her side while her right arm was held upwards in front of her.

"I wouldn't worry about that," Vita pointed Graf Eisen at Tre, "even if they are fighting against us, we won't hurt them any more than we have to."

"How kind," Tre narrowed her eyes before disappearing in a purple flash, "but foolish!" Tre yelled as she drove her foot into Vita's back, getting a grunt from the redhead, who spun and slammed Graf Eisen into Tre, who managed to get her arms up to block the attack from hitting her in the head, but it wasn't enough to keep her from being knocked away from Vita and into a nearby building.

"Speak for yourself." Vita muttered softly and narrowed her eyes as Tre got to her knees and disappeared. "Dammit," she let out a grunt as she was slammed into from behind, and then a punch to her face sent her tumbling through the air, before a kick to her stomach had her gasping out in pain. Tre ended the attack by grabbing Vita's face and driving her knee into Vita's nose, breaking it with a loud crunch and a spray of blood.

"GAH! YOU!" Vita growled, tears leaking out of her eyes. No matter how tough a person was, getting their nose suddenly broken hurt like a bitch. "Bolt... WAVE!" A wave of lightning magic erupted from Vita's body at that moment and she reached up to grab her nose and pull it back into position. "GAH! OWW OWW!" She had forgotten how much it hurt when the nose was broken and had to be reset. She looked up and glared at Tre, who was twitching from the lightning energy around her. "You..." Vita put her hand over her chest. "If you think you're the only one with speed, you're wrong." When Tre disappeared in a purple flash, Vita glowed red softly for a moment. "Boost up!"

Tre's eyes widened as Vita suddenly appeared in front of her. "Fast..." An upwards swing of Graf Eisen had her crying out in pain and sending her spiraling through the air out of control.

Vita panted as the glow subsided and groaned. "Ugh... Lina was right, that spell really does drain you if you're not careful." Still, the speed boost was incredible. 'Just hope that was enough to...' She trailed off as she noticed Tre wasn't there anymore. "Where..?" Vita's eyes widened as she felt something rushing right at her head. Moving so that she could duck out of the way, she felt a breeze over her head as something swished by at high speeds. "What the..?" Turning, her eyes widened as she saw her hat fall to the ground... All two pieces of it.

Tre mentally frowned as she missed before turning and punching downwards, her eyes widening as Vita stopped her punch with one hand. "What?"

"That... Was my hat..." Vita growled as she squeezed Tre's fist tightly. Her hair bangs were covering her eyes as her shoulders shook slightly. "My hat... That was given to me as a gift over ten years ago... And you RUINED IT!"

Tre curled her body and turned her body so she could drive her feet into Vita's stomach. "Well, it was a stupid hat!" When her legs slammed into Vita's stomach, the redhead was forced to let go of her hand, however, that allowed Vita to grab Graf Eisen with both hands and, looking up with fire in her eyes, she slammed Tre in the side, sending her spiraling through the air again.

"Not this time!" Vita swung Graf Eisen upwards where its size increased several sizes and the handle increased in length before Vita swung down, slamming into Tre and driving her into a parked car, creating a crater in the street as she drove the cyborg down. "And STAY DOWN!"

As she recalled Graf Eisen back to normal size, Vita grumbled and rubbed the top of her head. "My hat..." She pouted heavily, it just wasn't fair, why did her hat have to suffer so much?

Mariemeia: Maimers of the bunny hat: 2. Vita pounding the maimers: 2

Me, Val and Odin: Ah Shut up Marie! *wacks her with a trio of paper fan.*

Odin: *stow away paper fan* Talk about payback....

[Nanya01]

Wish my ears weren't ringing so much.

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StrikerS 41

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 42:

Erio looked at the cat and had the urge to gulp as the thing glared at him. "Ah... Nice kitty?"

"You'll wish I was nice after I'm done with you."

Erio sweat-dropped and looked at Caro. "Isn't it usually a mad scientist who says stuff like that while petting his hairless kitty?" Caro could only nod as she stared at this weird development.

Teana felt her eyes twitching, this was just stupid! "Alright, I've had..." She trailed off as several pink beams started to surround them. "Wendi..."

Wendi grinned, even though she was still rubbing her side. "Heh, glad you remembered me, Teana..."

Teana bit her bottom lip. "That's it! I've HAD it!" Holding up her right hand with Cross Mirage, her eyes seemed to glow brightly as she called up her magic power. "Typhoon Shot!" Normally the spell was meant to be fired at someone in the form of a bullet, which would either explode just in front of a target, sending him or her flying away, or it would connect with the target and expand around the person, protecting them from attacks for a short period of time.

This time, Teana was using it to disrupt Wendi's attack as well as provide cover for the group. "Subaru, now!"

Letting out a yell, Subaru rushed through the wind, an electrical spell gathered in her right hand. "Mono... Volt!" Sure, a Digger Bolt was more powerful, but rushing forward with her hand crackling with lightning was rather cool, in Subaru's opinion. Subaru's eyes widened as Nove rushed forward to meet her and raised her leg upward, causing her gauntlet-covered left leg to smack into her right arm. "Nice move, but can you keep up? Wing Road!"

Nove looked up as Subaru took off into the sky and grinned. "I think so... Airliner!"

Subaru stared as Nove not only had her own magical road to fly on, but was also able to catch up to her. "Fast..."

"Faster than you!" Nove yelled as she jumped forward and started lashing out with a multitude of kicks that Subaru was hard pressed to dodge or parry. The instant Nove touched down on her Wing Road, Subaru lashed out with an upwards kick, sending the shorter redhead backwards and back onto her airliner.

Pulling her hand back, the gears on her gauntlet spun quickly as she punched forward, launching a sphere at Nove, who was forced to block it as Subaru was too close for the shorter girl to dodge the attack. "Revolver Cannon!" Subaru looked at the result of her attack and frowned in confusion as Nove flipped in mid air, created another Airliner and zipped forward. "Get back here!" Subaru took off after Nove as the two spun higher and higher into the air.

"Really want me, even if you know that you're too SLOW?!" Nove held her arm out and released several small canisters, all of which exploded and released some sort of clouds into the air of various colors.

Subaru frowned as wind formed around her arm. "What's the point of this? Diem wind!" She smiled as the cloud dispersed, what she saw coming right at her had her smile disappear.

"A..." Nove grinned as she rushed straight down in a diving kick, "distraction! SUPER! NOVE!!"

"Protection."

Subaru threw her hand up to create a barrier to block the attack and hoped it was enough, since she was off-balance otherwise.

"KIIIIIIICK!" Nove yelled out as she slammed her feet into and through the barrier, driving her wheeled feet into Subaru's stomach and sending the two rushing towards the ground at a high speed.

Subaru grunted as her back smashed into and through several Wing Roads and Airliners before finally stopping just a few feet from the ground itself. Grimacing in pain, Subaru looked at Nove, who was bending over to look her straight in the eye. "...Why, Nove..?"

"Because I promised to protect them." She said to Subaru, her voice soft as she got off of her older sister and knelt down, taking some deep breaths as she looked away from Subaru. "Because I care about my other sisters," she turned to look at Subaru, who was pushing herself up with her elbows, "like you care about your sister... And our mom."

Before Subaru could say anything, Nove pointed her Gun Knuckle at Subaru and blasted her with a red gas that had Subaru hacking and coughing while her eyes teared up. Standing up as she watched Subaru roll around on the Airliner they were on, Nove got a rather mischievous smirk on her face as she moved Subaru to a kneeling position, before reaching under the hem of Subaru's shorts, grabbing the older girl's panties and pulling up as hard as she could, causing them to dig into Subaru's crotch and butt-cheeks while yanking her rear end high into the air.

Nove had to fight the urge to grin as Subaru screamed even louder in pain. Sein was right, this was fun.

After all, she did manage to beat her "sister" in battle.

(---)

Caro, Fried and Erio all looked at the small, silver-haired girl, well, she wasn't shorter than they were, but she was still fairly short, and the small cat. "You two are?" Erio asked while adjusting his hold on Ragudo Mezzagis.

"I am Cinque," she narrowed her eye and held up a pair of knives in each hand.

"I am the cat that you tormented for ages!" Mr. Snuggles's eyes glowed red as ten inch claws extended from his paws while he stood up on his hind legs. "I must thank the doctor for this, now I know why you humans walk on two legs, it's much easier to move."

Erio gulped as he saw those claws, they weren't normal cat claws, and that was ignoring the sheer length of them, it was almost like they were metallic in nature. "Ah..."

"If you must know, boy... I am Mr. Snuggles!"

Erio and Caro both stared, pale as they saw the cat somehow take an offensive fighting stance against the two of them. "...Mr. Snuggles? Suzuka's cat that kept exploding?"

"No thanks to you and that other brat." Mr. Snuggles suddenly launched himself into the air as Cinque threw several knives at the children.

Erio jumped to avoid the knives, he had seen what they had nearly done to Nanoha, and swung his spear upwards to block Mr. Snuggles as the cat came down at his face. "Come on! We didn't mean to keep blowing you up!" When the cat narrowed his eyes, he gulped as it suddenly flipped over his blade and unsheathed claws out of his hind legs that were aimed right at Erio's face.

"Got you!" Caro cried out as she wrapped a chain around Mr. Snuggles's mid section and pulled him away from Erio. "Get her, I'll try and calm Mr. Snuggles down."

Cinque looked at Erio as he touched down near her. "Are we done playing around? I'd ask you to leave, but you work for the Bureau, so I cannot see you leaving at all."

"Why?" Erio asked her as he pointed his weapon at her. "Why fight us?"

"I fight for their future, not my own." Cinque tossed another knife at him and stared as his body seemed to blur before disappearing all together. "Where..?" Cinque's eye widened as she felt a metal blade touch her throat lightly before pulling away a few millimeters. "Nice speed."

"I don't want to hurt you." Erio said from behind her and pressed his body against hers. "But you need to stop before I have to hurt you."

"Hurt me?" Cinque suddenly smiled, moved her head forward, cutting her throat before she threw her head backwards to slam into Erio's face and force him to stumble backwards. Turning, her throat bleeding, Cinque tossed a knife right at his feet before snapping her fingers, causing an explosion that engulfed them both.

"ERIO-KUN!" Caro cried out, staring in shock as both Cinque and Erio were consumed by that explosion.

"I hope he can heal, otherwise he might just be hurt." Mr. Snuggles said, causing Caro to turn to him. The cat suddenly grinned and spun, shattering the binds he was in. The cyborg cat flipped a few times before landing on his feet and sticking his paws out at Caro. "Fried, you tried to eat me!"

"Kurrr...." Fried growled and leaned down to snort at Mr. Snuggles.

"...You do have a point, fine, I won't try to turn you into Dragon steaks, but you still shouldn't have tried to eat me!"

"Kurrr..." Fried opened his mouth and let out a gout of flame at Mr. Snuggles, who jumped over it and landed on Caro's face before using that as a spring-board to launch a powerful kick at Fried, knocking the Dragon over.

"Fried!" Caro gasped out as Mr. Snuggles stood tall where he landed.

"Oops, you missed... Almost had me there. That attack would have done the work... If I was paralyzed, deaf and blind."

"Bad kitty!" Caro pouted as she created an array that snapped around Mr. Snuggles, where several binds snapped up and pinned the cat to the ground. She looked over to where Erio was and gasped at what she saw.

Both Cinque and Erio were bleeding from several wounds, though Erio had a barrier up and Cinque didn't even bother.

"Why?" Erio gasped as he looked at Cinque as blood dripped off of her body.

"...You think this is serious?" Before Erio could answer, Cinque ran a finger over her throat and cleaned the blood off of it, causing Erio's eyes to widen in shock as he saw the flesh mending itself. "I can regenerate damage to my body." Reaching up, she pulled off her eye patch, revealing her black and golden eye to Erio. "But I doubt you can." Her eye briefly flashed as her blades took on a slight golden tinge to them. "And I doubt you can block this power."

Granted, with as little as she was using, it wasn't as powerful as what it was when she went berserk that one time, but it was still plenty powerful and could likely kill the boy if she wasn't careful.

"You can use grandma's power?!" Erio couldn't believe it, he thought only Arashi, Nanoha and Lina had that power, and he only knew of the power because he knew what it felt like.

Cinque could only stare at him in shock.

[mega1987]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Wish my ears weren't ringing so much.

StrikerS 1-40

StrikerS 41

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 42:

Erio looked at the cat and had the urge to gulp as the thing glared at him. "Ah... Nice kitty?"

"You'll wish I was nice after I'm done with you."

Erio sweat-dropped and looked at Caro. "Isn't it usually a mad scientist who says stuff like that while petting his hairless kitty?" Caro could only nod as she stared at this weird development.

Teana felt her eyes twitching, this was just stupid! "Alright, I've had..." She trailed off as several pink beams started to surround them. "Wendi..."

Wendi grinned, even though she was still rubbing her side. "Heh, glad you remembered me, Teana..."

Teana bit her bottom lip. "That's it! I've HAD it!" Holding up her right hand with Cross Mirage, her eyes seemed to glow brightly as she called up her magic power. "Typhoon Shot!" Normally the spell was meant to be fired at someone in the form of a bullet, which would either explode just in front of a target, sending him or her flying away, or it would connect with the target and expand around the person, protecting them from attacks for a short period of time.

This time, Teana was using it to disrupt Wendi's attack as well as provide cover for the group. "Subaru, now!"

Letting out a yell, Subaru rushed through the wind, an electrical spell gathered in her right hand. "Mono... Volt!" Sure, a Digger Bolt was more powerful, but rushing forward with her hand crackling with lightning was rather cool, in Subaru's opinion. Subaru's eyes widened as Nove rushed forward to meet her and raised her leg upward, causing her gauntlet-covered left leg to smack into her right arm. "Nice move, but can you keep up? Wing Road!"

Nove looked up as Subaru took off into the sky and grinned. "I think so... Airliner!"

Subaru stared as Nove not only had her own magical road to fly on, but was also able to catch up to her. "Fast..."

"Faster than you!" Nove yelled as she jumped forward and started lashing out with a multitude of kicks that Subaru was hard pressed to dodge or parry. The instant Nove touched down on her Wing Road, Subaru lashed out with an upwards kick, sending the shorter redhead backwards and back onto her airliner.

Pulling her hand back, the gears on her gauntlet spun quickly as she punched forward, launching a sphere at Nove, who was forced to block it as Subaru was too close for the shorter girl to dodge the attack. "Revolver Cannon!" Subaru looked at the result of her attack and frowned in confusion as Nove flipped in mid air, created another Airliner and zipped forward. "Get back here!" Subaru took off after Nove as the two spun higher and higher into the air.

"Really want me, even if you know that you're too SLOW?!" Nove held her arm out and released several small canisters, all of which exploded and released some sort of clouds into the air of various colors.

Subaru frowned as wind formed around her arm. "What's the point of this? Diem wind!" She smiled as the cloud dispersed, what she saw coming right at her had her smile disappear.

"A..." Nove grinned as she rushed straight down in a diving kick, "distraction! SUPER! NOVE!!"

"Protection."

Subaru threw her hand up to create a barrier to block the attack and hoped it was enough, since she was off-balance otherwise.

"KIIIIIIICK!" Nove yelled out as she slammed her feet into and through the barrier, driving her wheeled feet into Subaru's stomach and sending the two rushing towards the ground at a high speed.

Subaru grunted as her back smashed into and through several Wing Roads and Airliners before finally stopping just a few feet from the ground itself. Grimacing in pain, Subaru looked at Nove, who was bending over to look her straight in the eye. "...Why, Nove..?"

"Because I promised to protect them." She said to Subaru, her voice soft as she got off of her older sister and knelt down, taking some deep breaths as she looked away from Subaru. "Because I care about my other sisters," she turned to look at Subaru, who was pushing herself up with her elbows, "like you care about your sister... And our mom."

Before Subaru could say anything, Nove pointed her Gun Knuckle at Subaru and blasted her with a red gas that had Subaru hacking and coughing while her eyes teared up. Standing up as she watched Subaru roll around on the Airliner they were on, Nove got a rather mischievous smirk on her face as she moved Subaru to a kneeling position, before reaching under the hem of Subaru's shorts, grabbing the older girl's panties and pulling up as hard as she could, causing them to dig into Subaru's crotch and butt-cheeks while yanking her rear end high into the air.

Nove had to fight the urge to grin as Subaru screamed even louder in pain. Sein was right, this was fun.

After all, she did manage to beat her "sister" in battle.

(---)

Caro, Fried and Erio all looked at the small, silver-haired girl, well, she wasn't shorter than they were, but she was still fairly short, and the small cat. "You two are?" Erio asked while adjusting his hold on Ragudo Mezzagis.

"I am Cinque," she narrowed her eye and held up a pair of knives in each hand.

"I am the cat that you tormented for ages!" Mr. Snuggles's eyes glowed red as ten inch claws extended from his paws while he stood up on his hind legs. "I must thank the doctor for this, now I know why you humans walk on two legs, it's much easier to move."

Erio gulped as he saw those claws, they weren't normal cat claws, and that was ignoring the sheer length of them, it was almost like they were metallic in nature. "Ah..."

"If you must know, boy... I am Mr. Snuggles!"

Erio and Caro both stared, pale as they saw the cat somehow take an offensive fighting stance against the two of them. "...Mr. Snuggles? Suzuka's cat that kept exploding?"

"No thanks to you and that other brat." Mr. Snuggles suddenly launched himself into the air as Cinque threw several knives at the children.

Erio jumped to avoid the knives, he had seen what they had nearly done to Nanoha, and swung his spear upwards to block Mr. Snuggles as the cat came down at his face. "Come on! We didn't mean to keep blowing you up!" When the cat narrowed his eyes, he gulped as it suddenly flipped over his blade and unsheathed claws out of his hind legs that were aimed right at Erio's face.

"Got you!" Caro cried out as she wrapped a chain around Mr. Snuggles's mid section and pulled him away from Erio. "Get her, I'll try and calm Mr. Snuggles down."

Cinque looked at Erio as he touched down near her. "Are we done playing around? I'd ask you to leave, but you work for the Bureau, so I cannot see you leaving at all."

"Why?" Erio asked her as he pointed his weapon at her. "Why fight us?"

"I fight for their future, not my own." Cinque tossed another knife at him and stared as his body seemed to blur before disappearing all together. "Where..?" Cinque's eye widened as she felt a metal blade touch her throat lightly before pulling away a few millimeters. "Nice speed."

"I don't want to hurt you." Erio said from behind her and pressed his body against hers. "But you need to stop before I have to hurt you."

"Hurt me?" Cinque suddenly smiled, moved her head forward, cutting her throat before she threw her head backwards to slam into Erio's face and force him to stumble backwards. Turning, her throat bleeding, Cinque tossed a knife right at his feet before snapping her fingers, causing an explosion that engulfed them both.

"ERIO-KUN!" Caro cried out, staring in shock as both Cinque and Erio were consumed by that explosion.

"I hope he can heal, otherwise he might just be hurt." Mr. Snuggles said, causing Caro to turn to him. The cat suddenly grinned and spun, shattering the binds he was in. The cyborg cat flipped a few times before landing on his feet and sticking his paws out at Caro. "Fried, you tried to eat me!"

"Kurrr...." Fried growled and leaned down to snort at Mr. Snuggles.

"...You do have a point, fine, I won't try to turn you into Dragon steaks, but you still shouldn't have tried to eat me!"

"Kurrr..." Fried opened his mouth and let out a gout of flame at Mr. Snuggles, who jumped over it and landed on Caro's face before using that as a spring-board to launch a powerful kick at Fried, knocking the Dragon over.

"Fried!" Caro gasped out as Mr. Snuggles stood tall where he landed.

"Oops, you missed... Almost had me there. That attack would have done the work... If I was paralyzed, deaf and blind."

"Bad kitty!" Caro pouted as she created an array that snapped around Mr. Snuggles, where several binds snapped up and pinned the cat to the ground. She looked over to where Erio was and gasped at what she saw.

Both Cinque and Erio were bleeding from several wounds, though Erio had a barrier up and Cinque didn't even bother.

"Why?" Erio gasped as he looked at Cinque as blood dripped off of her body.

"...You think this is serious?" Before Erio could answer, Cinque ran a finger over her throat and cleaned the blood off of it, causing Erio's eyes to widen in shock as he saw the flesh mending itself. "I can regenerate damage to my body." Reaching up, she pulled off her eye patch, revealing her black and golden eye to Erio. "But I doubt you can." Her eye briefly flashed as her blades took on a slight golden tinge to them. "And I doubt you can block this power."

Granted, with as little as she was using, it wasn't as powerful as what it was when she went berserk that one time, but it was still plenty powerful and could likely kill the boy if she wasn't careful.

"You can use grandma's power?!" Erio couldn't believe it, he thought only Arashi, Nanoha and Lina had that power, and he only knew of the power because he knew what it felt like.

Cinque could only stare at him in shock.

Me: MOAR!!! MOAR!!!!!!!!!

Odin: You just broke your usually record of 1/day update... I think we like it, right guys?

Val: Yup!

Reia: Hai! Hai!

Iris: Hai!

Sarah: *nods*

Mariemeia: HELL YEAH!!!!

Ami: Yes.

Elane: Do it again!!!!

Me: Btw... Nove pull out The Super Inazuma Kick from Gunbuster, no?

[Akiyoshi]

Originally Posted by Old_Iron

Sorry that this took so long and I apologize that its not as long as the others. But I hope you enjoy it all the same.

Major credit goes to Kuroi Hadou for beta-ing this chapter and helping me get off my sorry arse.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3a
Chapter 3b

Spoiler for Swords and Shields: Chapter 4:

Nanoha Takamachi had a great deal on her mind. She was seated in her office, re-watching the video feed portraying one of the most vicious battles she'd seen in recent memory. It was not the scenes of violence that bothered her, she herself had been party to more than a few bloody battles. No, it was whom the participants were that she had a problem with.

Never before in Nanoha's memory had the matches between Yuuno and Signum gotten so… intense. It was different from the times when both were at their best and putting everything into their efforts. Those matches never turned the pair into raging animals throwing themselves at each other in a mindless display of their baser instincts. Nor did they leave the battle broken, bloody, and half-naked at the end.

Well, on occasion, they did. But not to this degree.

As Raising Heart began playing the recording again, Nanoha felt something uncomfortable settle into the pit of her stomach and it lay right next to the simmering anger at what had been done to Fate the previous week. Signum was on her way to this very office at the brunette's request and she was certain the inevitable conversation would reveal things she would not be comfortable with.

She'd seen that battle hungry expression on Singum's face before, sometimes she had been on the receiving end of it. What had truly disturbed Nanoha, more than the ferocity of the battle, was that Yuuno had donned a very similar expression on his own face. It was unsettling to see such a look on her childhood friend and teacher. Why had he done it? What had prompted them to go so far? Those questions and more swirled about her mind in the empty office.

The only sound in the room was that of battle, and it was finally interrupted by three sharp knocks at the door.

Steeling herself for what was to come, Nanoha asked Raising Heart to pause the recording and then called out, "Come in." The door opened and into the office stepped the source of more than a few of the brunette's current concerns.

Signum stood in front of Nanoha's desk, stoic as ever. "You wished to see me, Takamachi," she stated without preamble. It was obvious from both her tone and her wording she knew some of what was to come.

Nanoha gestured to an empty chair, "Have a seat, Signum." When the Knight did so, the brunette continued with folded hands and a stoic expression similar to the woman across from her, "You probably already know part of why I wanted to talk with you." Nanoha's current look was perhaps more unsettling than the fake smile she usually wore when she was unhappy.

"You refer to my bout with Testarossa." If there was any sign of confusion on Signum's face at what Nanoha had said, she had either missed it or it was indiscernible at best.

Nodding, Nanoha's eyes narrowed as she spoke, "I want you to tell me exactly why you decided to beat Fate senseless."

The Knight maintained her stoic demeanor. "Testarossa allowed herself to become complacent. She gained only enough strength and skill to make use of Bardiche and nothing more. I was under the impression she was the kind of woman who strived for excellence." Signum paused, allowing her words to sink in before continuing, "I felt it best to show her what the price of such a mindset is."

There was no response from the brunette, only a stony silence.

"...I will admit that my actions may have been in excess, but I will not apologize for them. Better for Testarossa to learn of her folly here, in a sparring session, than in the field, where such a lesson could very well cost her life," Signum finished flatly.

Nanoha raised one eyebrow at the Knight's words. It was one thing to hear the explanation from Fate or one of the other Wolkenritter. It was another thing entirely to hear it from the General of Fire herself. "You really believe that? You couldn't have just pointed that out to her instead of beating her sensel-"

Signum cut her off sharply, "And how would you have me prove it to her otherwise? With sugared words and gentle taps?"

"You could have told someone about it. Hayate, Vita, anyone! Me!" Nanoha snapped back, "We could have taken care of her problem without landing her in the hospital or breaking her spirit!" A part of the brunette knew she was exaggerating severely, but anger at what the pinkette before her had done to Fate was clouding her mind. "Aren't you her friend?"

"I am her friend, and as such I could not allow this to continue when I realized the gravity of her situation," Signum responded just as sharply as before, but she maintained the composure Nanoha seemed to be losing.

Nanoha glared at Signum for a time as she worked to reign in her anger. She truly disliked losing her temper like that, but with everything that had been going on as of late it was unfortunately easy to do. "I'm not sure I can believe you," she eventually said in a somewhat concerned tone.

Those words hit Signum sharply, as though she'd been physically struck by the brunette. "What do you mean?" Though her expression did not betray her shock, the Knight's voice did. Even if it was only a slight sliver of the emotion, it was still noticeable.

"Signum, we've gotten into some absolutely vicious battles before. You remember our match a few years back? When everyone was wondering who was stronger between the two of us?" Nanoha waited until Signum confirmed the memory before continuing, "I don't think I'll ever forget the expression on your face. More than wanting to beat me, you wanted to fight to your absolute limit. No holding back. Maximum power. Am I right?"

"I did indeed desire to fight you to my fullest capacity at the time, however I-" Signum's reply was cut off.

"I've seen you enjoy fights. Its simply part of who you are. But I've only seen you with that look in your eye one other time and I'm pretty sure if got my hands on the footage from when you fought Fate, it would be three," stated Nanoha with some sense of finality.

"I would appreciate it if you would get to the point." Signum may be a patient woman, but she did not appreciate being led around as though she were a child.

Nanoha sighed, "My point is that for whatever reason, you wanted to fight Fate like it was a life or death struggle. And when she didn't deliver, you punished her for it. Whatever limitations you may have seen were just an excuse for you to try and push her into going all out."

Signum's eyes flashed dangerously at the accusation, "Takamachi, yo-"

Again, she was cut off, "What happened between you and Yuuno? Whatever it was, it was enough to drive you to go after Fate like you did, and..." A motion of Nanoha's hand bade Raising Heart to bring up a paused shot of the recording. It was zoomed in on Yuuno and taken just after he had stood from being hurled into a wall. He was broken, beaten, bloody, and exuded with such an overwhelming desire to fight, to strike down his foe and dominate her that it was almost palpable from the screen. "...It was enough for you to turn Yuuno into that."

The image elicited an odd, tightened sensation within Signum's core. Her hands balled into fists as she remembered being on the receiving end of that gaze.

"I've never seen him make that kind of expression before, not once. I've never seen him fight this way either. I've never seen that kind, gentle man act so..." Nanoha trailed off as words failed her. "I'll ask again, what is going on between you and Yuuno?" She paused as Raising Heart played back more and more of the battle. Nanoha nearly winced when the image of Signum driving her armored foot into Yuuno's face came around.

Silence reigned as Signum processed what Nanoha had laid before her. While the Knight had truly seen such shortcomings in Testarossa's capabilities, had it merely been an excuse to go further? She thought back to the feelings that bubbled up within her breast when Yuuno had decided to throw caution to the wind and fight with everything he had. It didn't matter that she severely outclassed him. He still fought on, trying to better himself with every blow he received and landed. Adapting himself to go beyond the limitations of his mortal frame. To become a sword, rather than a shield.

That feeling he had given her, that burning sensation… had she sought a similar feeling from Testarossa in their match? All her battles against Yuuno, however few they may have been, starting from the one which resulted from their chance meeting that fateful night had ignited such a heat within her. It was a high that only came about with the right mindset and the right stimulus.

Yuuno had kept her drunk on that high and she had savored it like a fine wine. He'd given her that life or death struggle and she'd pushed him on to further it. For a 'battle-junkie', there was no greater satisfaction. Was she even concerned about his original intent at this point, so long as he kept satisfying her primal urges?

The lack of an immediate answer disturbed the normally unshakeable General of Fire.

"Well?" asked Nanoha, having found the oppressive silence to have stretched on for too long.

"I..." For once, Signum did not have an immediate reply and she languished further in her concern. After a time, she opted to explain the beginning of things to Nanoha. "It began a few weeks ago..."

And so Signum told the tale of her unexpected late night rendezvous with Yuuno Scrya. She told of their first match where he made the initial decision to step beyond his limitations and strike out against her, culminating in their mutual decision to grow as warriors against one another. Her story flowed from there and Nanoha's expression seemed to waver between surprise and worry. The slivers of passion that slipped into Signum's voice on occasion did not soothe the brunette any.

"...it was wonderful. I can find no words to properly describe that feeling other than wonderful. Basking in the afterglow of such a vicious battle against someone with whom I can exchange blows with in earnest..." Signum's words sent a shiver down Nanoha's spine while the faint traces of red on the Knight's face seemed wholly out of place. "I have never known such a feeling... Against you, your drive was only to win, was it not?"

Nanoha felt herself nodding as the surreal nature of the situation continued to permeate her mind.

"Even against Zest, whom I shall always regard as a great and formidable foe, he did not draw out such a feeling." Signum subconsciously wetted her lips. "Scrya, however, fights like a man possessed. He is driven neither by ideals, nor by the approval of others, nor by something so fleeting as victory." A strange glint appeared in the Knight's eyes that did not go unnoticed by Nanoha. "He is driven by the singular desire to become strong enough to dominate his foe and relish in doing so..."

"Signum...," began Nanoha after the other woman had gone silent, a look of horror having taken residence on the brunette's face as she began to realize just how deep Signum's distortion ran, "Have you completely lost your mind? You said that you were going to help him improve himself, not turn him into a maniac and use him as a... a-a way to relieve yourself!"

Signum's eyes widened at Nanoha's accusation, but she was unable to retort as the White Devil continued on, "Yuuno is not that kind of person. He's a kind man who loves books and history, not battles!"

"Then explain to me what that is," demanded Signum harshly as she stood, pointing to the maddened look in Yuuno's eyes on the paused recording. "That does not look like a man who desires to sit down and turn the pages of ancient tomes. That looks like a man who would step up to the greatest of foes and do everything in his power to make them fight with their all."

Nanoha's eyes narrowed. "That, looks like a man twisted into something to fulfill your desires and nothing else. From my perspective, you may have started out with good intentions, but now you're just using him for your own benefit without a care in the world. You're toying with him. And with how things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if you tossed him aside the moment you got bored with him!" she finished with a raised voice that carried more anger than Signum had ever heard from the brunette before.

The Knight's hand twitched before balling into a fist. "You dare accuse me of that, Takamachi Nanoha? You would dare think I would sully both my honor and his by acting in such a manner?"

"I think you already have. Whether you realize it or not," stated Nanoha with a finality that shook the other woman.

Signum's fire left her and she fell back into her seat, an unusual and uncomfortable expression upon her face. "What would you have me do then? I may have sparked his drive, but he is ultimately the one who decides whether or not to follow it even if I push him towards it."

"That's... I don't have an answer for you. If I knew, I'd tell you. This is something you'll have to work out between yourself and Yuuno. But I'll tell you this right now...," Nanoha trailed off as she took a deep breath, "Yuuno is a very important person to me, more so that you probably realize. If you don't fix this and end up hurting him because of it, there will be nowhere you can hide from me. Do you understand me, Captain Signum Yagami?"

The Knight felt the sincerity and power behind Nanoha's words and nodded, even if she did not truly know what to think about them. At the very minimum, she had far more to think about now than what her next bout would be like.

- Scene Break -

To say that the Infinity Library was truly a massive place would be somewhat of an understatement. It was constantly growing, more and more tomes, scrolls, and data files added to its shelves every day. Unfortunately, this made navigating the halls a rather difficult task unless you either had a map or were a constant presence in the library.

"Mmm! Where is he?" grumbled Reinforce Zwei as she suffered that exact problem. Even if she usually came to the library with Hayate, who was a rather frequent visitor, Zwei was still not nearly so familiar with the layout as her mother.

It did not help that she was looking more for a specific individual rather than a specific piece of information. She'd have called him ahead of time, but she didn't want him to run away from her.

Right now, though, she was regretting her decision of conducting a sneak attack. At the very least she knew that Yuuno Scrya was near his office, assuming Arf's information was correct. "...I think I'm lost," Zwei said aloud as she pulled up the map again. Sure enough, her location was now further away from Yuuno's office than it had been ten minutes ago.

"Zwei?"

"Hya!" the Unison Device squeaked in alarm before whirling about to lay eyes upon the one who had snuck up on her. To her welcome surprise, it was the very man she'd been looking for. "Y-Yuuno! Don't sneak up on people like that!" she admonished after regaining her senses.

"Right, right. Sorry about that," Yuuno apologized with a smile, his arms carrying a stack of rather old looking tomes. "Anyway, what can I do for you Zwei? It’s rare for you to come by without Hayate."

Blinking as she remembered her self-appointed task, Zwei then flew up closer to Yuuno's face. "I have to talk with you about something important, Yuuno."

The expression on Zwei's face conveyed the seriousness of her words to Yuuno. "We should talk in my office then. It'll keep anyone else from overhearing," he replied before gesturing with his head for her to follow him.

Much to Zwei's consternation, it took all of three minutes to reach Yuuno's office. It had taken her nearly twenty just to get as far as he did and even then she had gotten lost in the end.

"Stupid map...," she mumbled while glaring at the holographic display.

"Ahh... Sorry about that. We're expanding some of the sections on Ancient Belka and the Nasuvians. The maps haven't been updated yet." The blonde's words did not do much to appease Zwei, who shut the large doors of the office behind her while Yuuno set down the heavy books.

Before Yuuno could offer Zwei a seat, she had assumed her fully grown form and now stood imperiously before him. Although the effect was slightly offset by the fact that she was still shorter than him and had to stare upwards to lock eyes. "Yuuno Scrya!"

"Y-yes?" he stammered in response to Zwei's sudden offense.

"What are your intentions towards my sister?" demanded the young, blue-eyed woman pointing a finger at his nose. She didn't care if she was the baby of the family, Zwei was going to do everything she could to look out for her mother and older sisters. Even if that meant going up against their longtime friend.

"Your sister? What's are you talking about?" asked Yuuno, blatant confusion evident on his face.

"Don't try to play dumb," Zwei retorted with some fire in her voice, "You know exactly what I'm talking about. And don't think you won't be hearing from everyone else either. We haven't even given you proper approval in the first place. I'll permit it only so long as you follow the proper laws for courting one of the Wolkenritter!"

Yuuno had gone from simply confused to flabbergasted and bewildered. Not to mention the embarrassment that was creeping up his spine. "Would you please explain what's going on and what you mean by 'courting'?" Last he checked, he wasn't in that kind of relationship with anyone.

Zwei gave a frown of irritation and placed her hands on her hips. "If you're going to be dating big-sis Signum, there are rules you're going to have to follow. I won't have you treating her badly or taking advantage of her kindness." She ignored the poleaxed look on the librarian's face as she continued, not letting him get a word in edgewise.

"Firstly, you will treat her well and with proper respect. She's a good woman who deserves it and I won't have you trampling all over her heart. Secondly, you'll have her home by curfew as set by Lady Hayate. No more mysterious late night funny business, got it? You're not even married yet! Thirdly, if you try to force her into something she doesn't want or make her cry, I'll make sure they never find your body! Fourthly...," Zwei seemed to be running out of steam, but did not stop.

"Fourthly... Err... You'll take her to nice places on dates. No dingy bars or the cafeteria on base. Make sure it’s the full deal. Full candlelit dinner, music, romance, the works! The whole nine yards! Fifthly... Um...," she paused and scratched her head as she tried to think of something.

"Zwei!" Yuuno called out, taking advantage of her stalling and causing the powder blue haired young woman to jump in surprise. "Zwei, please back up and explain why you think I'm dating Signum."

"Y-your're not? That's even worse! Taking advantage of her like that. How could you?! I-I thought you were a better man than that." Zwei looked truly distraught as she drew her own conclusions from Yuuno's words and her already limited knowledge of the truth about the situation between Signum and the blonde standing before her.

"What in the Kaiser's name has gotten into you? Signum's just helping me with my training," he explained quickly, trying to assuage Zwei's fears.

"T-Training?" she inquired slowly.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Yuuno continued, "Training. I've hit a wall where my own ability is concerned and Signum offered to help me with it. We're not in that kind of relationship." Though if he were to be honest, he would not deny the pull that Signum held over him. It was different from the attraction he had once harbored for Nanoha. It was more ...tangible, solid, if he were to describe it.

"Then why does Signum come home so happy from training with you?" Zwei pressed on, not quite ready to believe Yuuno's denial.

Yuuno crossed his arms and looks thoughtful for a moment, as though thinking of how to explain that. "Well... We don't train like how Nanoha or Vita train the new recruits. We just... fight. Trial by fire. She... seems to enjoy it. I'll admit that I do as well." He scratched his cheek in embarrassment as he recalled his own developing battle-lust going head to head with Signum's.

"It gets pretty vicious, but I can say that she's helped me far more with this method than by standard means. And we've only had three sessions so far," Yuuno admitted somewhat sheepishly.

The wind having been taken out of her sails, Zwei slumped over a bit. "Then... I was worried over nothing?"

Yuuno patted her head affectionately. "Hardly. Signum's lucky to have a little sister like you watching out for her."

"D-don't think I'm letting you off the hook that easily. Even if you aren't dating Signum right now, that doesn't mean you might not try to in the future. So I want you to remember what I've said," stated Zwei, trying to build up a stern composure as the heavier atmosphere lifted.

"I'll do that. But, you forgot one thing." Yuuno gave a small grin at Zwei's confused look. "You told me four of the rules, but not the fifth."

"Ah! I almost forgot. The fifth rule is that you must take Signum's little sister out for ice cream. Or she'll make things very difficult for you in the long run." Zwei maintained her stern look at least until Yuuno gave a sigh of resignation.

"I guess I have no choice then...," he stated in mock despair. "If I am to return to the good graces of the Yagami family, then I must find a nice ice cream parlor and treat their youngest to a frozen treat from it." He knew it was hammy, but he couldn't resist in the face of Zwei's demands.

Zwei giggled in response. "Then let’s go. It’s not good to keep a lady waiting."

"Especially if that lady is my good friend and training partner's little sister," quipped Yuuno as he gathered his jacket and sent a message to Arf, explaining his sudden absence.

"You learn quickly," Zwei stated winningly.

You did it again, a new interesting chapter xD!

I like that both Nanoha and Signum have pros and cons on their arguments.

Nanoha is right in that Signum is unaware of how easily she's letting herself be carried on by her opinions and feeling and thus having unexpected and exaggerated reaction like beating Fate for the sake of teaching her a "lesson" but she's overlooking all the progress Yuuno is making as also Signum's pretty valid points on the matter(probably a bit biased by her preocupation for her close friend).

The Blazing General is right on wanting to pursue excellence and improvement but she slowly started to loose her grasp on earth to the point of feeling indignation at opponents not taking fights as seriously as her and/or taking advices/warnings as direct offenses(also probably bbiased by the newfound excitement she's getting by training with him). I doubt she goes to the lenghts of "disspose of Yuuno when she gets bored" as Nanoha claims but the Ace of Aces is right that signum is definetely not her usual self.

Yuuno's word on the matter will be very important for the developement of the story xD!

I'll keep waiting for the next chapter, keep up the good job xD!

[Dark Wing]

How about this for a concept?

Picture if you will a world where magic isn't a fantasy but a known fact...

We would be in a magical arms race. Young girls and boys would be drafted and indoctrinated into the magical military at young ages to be trained to defend their countries from various threats including other magical military powers.

It would be the duty of various International Organizations to create magical weapon arms treaties to lower the number of these (Magical Weapons of Mass Destruction) MWMD's.

Scientists and psychologists would dedicate their time to creating artificial scenarios to induce tragic pasts on unsuspecting children to awaken their magical powers putting them on the path to becoming powerful magical warriors.

It would be a world of constant war and chaos where only the strongest and prettiest survive.

It would be hell...It would be Earth 20XX A.M. (After Magic)

[novalysis]

With Nanoha class mages ? Earth is in the same Dimensional sea right ? But when ? The Old Belkan Wars , or the TSAB era , a few decades into the future?

[Dark Wing]

Originally Posted by novalysis

With Nanoha class mages ? Earth is in the same Dimensional sea right ? But when ? The Old Belkan Wars , or the TSAB era , a few decades into the future?

According to canon I believe it is said that it's rare for mages to be born on earth but when they are they tend to be the most powerful mages of all. Remember when Nanoha was awakened she was measured as AAA rank.

In few decades in the future it is suppose to be the After Magic era you the world becomes aware of magic.