Nanoha FanFiction Discussion

[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

I was speaking solely about the canon, actually, since that was what Aki was talking about--that Vivio carries Olivie's soul in the canon, which can't be the case.

Considering what happened to Olivie in BTF, people are saying that Vivio can't exist. =/

[Rising Dragon]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Considering what happened to Olivie in BTF, people are saying that Vivio can't exist. =/

Well, given that you're (finally) in StrikerS now, they'll find out if their claims are justified or not, won't they?

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Meanwhile...

Shari gulped as she stood in front of Hayate's desk. The commander of the Riot Force had her hands crossed in front of her, which hid her mouth, and was looking at Shari with a very serious expression. The poor technician might have been good, but she was fighting the urge to wet her panties and run home crying at that moment.

"Knock it off, daddy." Rein Zwei said as she flew into the room. "Big sis is fine and Nanoha's just fine, she just needs to wake up." The small device pouted as she saw Hayate's expression. "Signum-nee! Daddy's stuck in her Gendo Ikari impersonation mode!"

Walking into the office, Signum rubbed her eyes. "Hayate, if you don't stop that, I'm going to make you wear a chastity belt and tie your hands behind your back for a week." Seeing Hayate instantly change from terrifying to a more scared and emotional mood, Signum nodded and turned to Shari. "Sometimes you need to scare her into not having fun for awhile."

Shari nodded and sighed in relief as the mood in the room lightened up. "Well, I finished the data gathering from both Graf Eisen and Raising Heart." Shari pulled out a small remote and pushed a button, causing a screen to appear in the room, showing off the two opponents that Nanoha and Vita had fought against. "I am unable to determine who they are or who they work for in such a short time, but I can tell you a little more about them."

Hayate blinked as she looked at the pink-haired one and turned to Signum. "Did you have a daughter and not tell us?"

"Hayate, by that logic, Caro would be my daughter, no, I don't have one." Signum rolled her eyes and looked at the pink-haired one more closely. "Though, considering that she has hair similar to mine and blades, I can see why you might think that."

"Though, I doubt Signum has anyone in her family with reptilian eyes." Signum, Hayate and Rein all blinked and stared as later battle footage was shown. "As you can see, her eyes became very reptilian shortly after Vita released her limiter, and her strength and power seemed to increase as well."

Signum raised an eyebrow as she saw the pink-haired opponent easily block Graf Eisen. "Impressive, to say the least."

"Yes, but she can also create four swords, and this..." Signum raised an eyebrow as the swords seemed to shatter into millions of smaller blades.

"...That is impressive." Even if the woman was an enemy, Signum couldn't help but appreciate a powerful technique such as that. Especially as it was later shown to tear through Vita's outfit easily. "That shouldn't be possible, even if Vita does like to expose her backside quite often, her Knight Armor should have held against normal blades, even Laevantine has trouble tearing through a Barrier Jacket, so, how?"

"That's a question I asked as well, so I took a closer look at the blades." Shari shook her head. "Without one on hand, I can't tell for sure what they were made of, but, just from a visual glance..." The image zoomed in on one of the smaller blades and Hayate blinked at the slight difference between the cutting edge and the flat of the blade itself. "Just from a visual glance, it kind of looks like whoever made these blades managed to come up with a lot of the Blaster Metal." Shari frowned as she looked at the other three in the room. "Which should be impossible, even if the production of the Blaster Metal has gotten easier over the years, it should be impossible to make such a large amount."

Hayate nodded at that. "Understandable, Signum, if you go against her in the future, try to get one of those blades for yourself."

Signum raised an eyebrow, but nodded. If she fought against that pink haired woman, she really did relish the thought of fighting such an opponent. "What about the other one?"

"From the data we got from Raising Heart, this woman has speed on par with Fate and greater strength, but what surprised me was this..." Shari pushed a button and Hayate, Signum and Rein all winced as they saw the woman's blades change color and cut through Nanoha's Barrier Jacket with ease and cut into her stomach with ease.

Hayate frowned as she watched it. "How long will Nanoha and Vita be out of action?"

"A day or two at most." Shari blinked and Hayate nodded, leaning back, sighing in relief.

"That's good, write up a report and we'll get it to the right people."

Shari nodded and left the room.

Hayate sighed and massaged her temples. 'Who were those two? Why were they after that Lost Logia? And why do I feel that there's more coming?'

(---)

Quint frowned as she listened to Erio, Caro and Subaru about what happened. "So, there were four people at that train?"

"Yes." Quint turned to see Teana walking with a limp, her ankle in a cast, towards them.

"You could have that healed, you know."

Teana nodded as Subaru helped her to the couch. "Yeah, but I didn't want to bother Dr. Shamal and..." She wilted under the look that Quint gave her. "It'll heal just fine."

Quint shook her head. "I know you're tough, but no need to stress your body." She frowned softly and Teana blushed hard as Quint called up Shamal to come and see them as soon as possible. "Teana, Subaru mentioned something about a fourth person that Erio and Caro did not see, can you describe any details?"

The teenager nodded to the older woman. "Yeah, he was kind of tall, at least taller than I was, he kept saying my name wrong..." She frowned as a thought came to her. "He sounded somewhat like instructor Greywords did, but I just ignored that, brown hair that was streaked backwards... And he was fast, very fast, he ran on the side of the mountain as though he was on normal ground, before moving really fast and leaving glass in his wake."

Quint blinked and nodded at that. "Did he fight against you?" Teana shook her head. "What was he there for?"

"He was stealing something, but I'm not sure what it was." Teana leaned back and frowned softly. "...Still can't believe that..."

"Sein betrayed you?" Quint finished and Teana sat straight up and looked at Quint, who nodded at her. "Erio, Caro and Subaru all described her to me, and I remember that cute girl from anywhere."

"But, why?" Subaru asked, looking as confused, lost and hurt as Teana felt. "She was super friendly, nice, bubbly, why would she do this?"

"I'm not sure," Quint shook her head, "but I want you four to do your part and write up your reports on what happened, okay?" Teana and Subaru nodded, but Caro and Erio blinked in confusion and Quint smiled at them before standing up and walking over and kneeling down. "See, we need as much point of views as possible in reports, and Teana and Subaru both knew Sein, so they might be a bit too emotionally invested, you two need to write up good reports so that we get all the details, okay?" She winked and rubbed their heads, causing the two children to blush.

Quint lasted all of three seconds before she pulled the two of them into a hug and started squealing. "Oooh! You two are just so cute!" She hugged them tightly and started rocking back and forth. "I could just gobble you two up right now and..."

"Mom! Stop it, people are staring!" Subaru blushed hard as others in the room were, in fact, looking, smiling and laughing softly, most of them remembering what their own mothers did to them.

"Sorry, sorry." Quint let go of the two children, who were still blushing hard. "Just take your time and write as clearly as you can, get all the details you can into the report, okay?" She stood up as Caro and Erio did as well, the two children saluted Quint, who returned the gesture, before they ran off to find a terminal to write their reports down.

"I need to go talk to some people, you two will be okay, right?"

Subaru was still blushing, but nodded as Shamal walked into the area.

Quint smiled and left the area, her smile quickly left her face as her mind went over what she had just been told. '...They had to be Scagiletti's Combat Cyborgs.' If Sein was with them, and she was that girl's, Nove's, sister, and those two were working with Sein... 'Did he know this would happen?'

Still, this was something, and she would get to see the reports before they were sent to Hayate's desk anyway.

Quint stopped walking and her face paled visibly as a flash of memory came to her. "That one..." She hadn't been too conscious, but she remembered the reports that Zest had given, about his opponent from years ago.

"Please, please don't let me be right." She said softly while continuing to walk down the hall.

If she was, things were going to be a lot...

Worse from here on out.

[Kuroi Hadou]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

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*snip*

Poor Tea... I want to comfort her.

[bhl88]

lol Blaster Metal reminds me of Cardfight Vanguard

Blaster Blade: My weapon is forged by gods using Blaster Metal to make the sword of light!! *is under MD syndrome and needs treatment*

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"Oi..." Vita grumbled as she was laying face down on her bed. "Reinforce, don't you knock? I'm naked here!"

"One, you're wearing a hospital gown, two, I've spanked that ass how many times over the years? And finally, you've got nothing that I haven't seen already."

Vita snorted at that. "Yeah, you probably get to look at Hayate naked all the, OWW!" She yelped as Reinforce pinched her butt and twisted her fingers. "That hurts, oww!" She looked at Reinforce with tears in her eyes as Reinforce let go of Vita's butt. "Why'd you do that?"

"For one, even if I am doing that stuff with Hayate behind closed doors, it's none of your business what I have or have not seen." Reinforce crossed her arms under her breasts and closed her eyes. "And two, like I said, I care not if you're naked or not, I have to ask you some questions."

Vita grunted, but didn't move from her spot. "Fine, if you're going to ask, can you at least rub that lotion onto my back, legs and butt then? Feels like I got a sunburn."

Reinforce rolled her eyes, but opened up the back of Vita's gown and did as she was asked. "Rapidly healed skin does feel tight and itchy, huh?" She could still see the marks on Vita's back, legs and butt. "...Tell me something, Vita, you fought against one of them, huh?"

Vita let out a hiss of pleasure as the cool lotion was rubbed onto her butt. "Mmmmhmm... She had pink hair, this weird multi-colored headband, a blue body outfit and used swords... Kind of weird looking." The redhead closed her eyes as she felt Reinforce's fingers massage her rear end while working the lotion into it. "Feels nice..."

"Focus." Reinforce gave Vita's butt a slap, getting a hiss from the redhead. "Weird how?"

"Like they were meant to be thrown and not swung around." Vita closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensations of Reinforce's massage. "Anything else?"

"Did you feel malice from any of them?"

"No," Vita shook her head slowly, "some anger at me for hitting her, but I didn't think she wanted to cause me any real harm, but her anger was just some frustration, nothing compared to you when you're mad at me." Vita laughed softly and enjoyed the sensation of Reinforce rubbing the lotion onto the back of her legs.

"I see. How would you compare her to the rest of us?"

"Stronger than me," Vita muttered softly, "and tougher than Signum is, but I could beat her in skill, and if I wasn't bleeding, I might have been able to stop her without too much damage to either of us."

"You think she's not bad?"

"No," Vita shook her head again and sighed in delight as Reinforce worked on her other leg, "compared to Signum, Shamal, Zafira and myself when we were hunting Linker Cores down, no, she's not bad, just doing what she was asked to do, I think."

"Good to know." Reinforce patted Vita's butt before closing her gown and standing up. "What's your recommendation for her?"

"If you face her, go all out as soon as possible but avoid lethal strikes."

Reinforce nodded and left the room, smiling softly. Still, the fact that someone was able to injure Vita bad enough to put her in the hospital, even if she'd be out in a few hours at most, was worrying. As she walked down the hallway, she blinked as she saw Yuuno in the hallway. "Aren't you with Nanoha?"

Yuuno chuckled and rubbed the back of his heck nervously. "She just woke up, actually." Considering how flushed Yuuno became and how he was acting slightly nervous, Reinforce shook her head.

"I don't care if you had sex on the hospital bed, but I do need some information from you." At least Yuuno stopped looking so flushed at that point. "You, Rein Zwei, Arisa and Suzuka all went on a mission, but, I need to ask, did you find anything?"

Yuuno shook his head, a confused frown on his face. "No, we didn't. We found some sort of cave, but that was it. We couldn't go inside when Vita called for us."

"I see... Thanks." Reinforce frowned softly. If there was nothing there, why did the scanners pick up a weird signal near that area.

"Um, Reinforce," Reinforce looked at Yuuno and blinked at him, "I was wondering something."

"What's your bra size?!"

"THOTH!" Yuuno went beet red and Reinforce put a hand up to her mouth and coughed, trying to fight off the laughter that threatened to burst out at that moment. "No, I wasn't wondering that! I swear!"

Reinforce shook her head. "I have no doubt, Yuuno, and I'm not offended... If you must know, Thoth, it's," she leaned in and whispered to Yuuno and Thoth, leaving Yuuno completely red-faced at that.

"Wow, you're even bigger than Signum, Vita and Suzuka."

Yuuno coughed to clear his mind, or at least try to, 'E-cup indeed' his mind couldn't help but remind him. "Um, no, that wasn't it, I was just wondering what we're going to do next?"

"For now, continue to train the rookies as you have been, though I'd like the training to pick up as soon as it can," Yuuno nodded at those remarks, "other than that, don't work them so hard that they pass out."

"Right." Yuuno saluted Reinforce who pointed towards the door. "Uh..."

"I think Nanoha's calling for you." Reinforce smiled as she walked away. Still, part of her wondered, just what was the point of that signal if there was nothing there. "Zafira," she nodded to the Guardian Beast as he stood up from where he was laying on one of the couches and walked over to her, "did you hear about the beacon that Rein, Yuuno, Arisa and Suzuka checked out?"

"I heard that it turned over nothing, if Arisa's rants were to be believed."

Reinforce nodded at that. "Yuuno said as much himself, what do you think?"

The wolf looked up at her. "I'm not sure what to think, I'll leave that to you and some of the others, but if I was to say, I'd say it was a distraction to keep us from noticing something else."

Reinforce frowned softly, if that was the case then... 'Who's hiding what now?'

(---)

Meanwhile, a couple of days later...

"You look like hell." He raised an eyebrow as he gently put the bag of stolen medical equipment down. "Get into a fight with a boar?"

"Something like that," she muttered as she twitched, 'Chaotic Blue, dammit, did Jail have to go off and be so dammed happy?!' It offset any negative emotions she would have gotten from Tre or anyone else.

Of course, she just had to run into Tre and Sein just as they were getting cleaned up from their activities that morning, didn't she? The two were practically glowing and so... Content and... Happy!

"ARRGH!" She yelled and slammed her fist onto the table while twitching. "Straight Kuma, you had BETTER not have given any information to those Bureau dogs!"

He raised his hands and grinned at her. "Hey, chill, Bevi..."

"That's Levi, you twit!"

"My bad." He rubbed the back of his head, "but you need to chill out, I told them nothing that can link us. Is there anything else?" He blinked as she tossed him a large manilla envelope.

"Not for awhile, payment's in there..." She trailed off and looked at him seriously. "You remember an old associate of yours?"

Kuma twitched slightly, he had an idea of who she was talking about. "Yes, I remember him. He wasn't that strong, but he loved to throw his weight around, he got kicked out of the Bureau for excessive force. Wait, you're not seriously thinking..?"

She grinned at him. "I'll need you two later. Take some time and enjoy yourself until then... I need time to prepare."

"Whatever..." He turned and walked out of the room. At least his legs weren't hurting too badly at that moment.

'Still, what would she want with a dangerous lunatic like him anyway?' It might not have been his concern, but he did have a few other mercenary friends out there, he knew of one that could keep the big jackass in check if he got out of control again and tried to attack civilians like he did last time.

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You can thank Kuroi Hadou for that wonderful image of Reinforce's boob size.

[mega1987]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

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"Oi..." Vita grumbled as she was laying face down on her bed. "Reinforce, don't you knock? I'm naked here!"

"One, you're wearing a hospital gown, two, I've spanked that ass how many times over the years? And finally, you've got nothing that I haven't seen already."

Vita snorted at that. "Yeah, you probably get to look at Hayate naked all the, OWW!" She yelped as Reinforce pinched her butt and twisted her fingers. "That hurts, oww!" She looked at Reinforce with tears in her eyes as Reinforce let go of Vita's butt. "Why'd you do that?"

"For one, even if I am doing that stuff with Hayate behind closed doors, it's none of your business what I have or have not seen." Reinforce crossed her arms under her breasts and closed her eyes. "And two, like I said, I care not if you're naked or not, I have to ask you some questions."

Vita grunted, but didn't move from her spot. "Fine, if you're going to ask, can you at least rub that lotion onto my back, legs and butt then? Feels like I got a sunburn."

Reinforce rolled her eyes, but opened up the back of Vita's gown and did as she was asked. "Rapidly healed skin does feel tight and itchy, huh?" She could still see the marks on Vita's back, legs and butt. "...Tell me something, Vita, you fought against one of them, huh?"

Vita let out a hiss of pleasure as the cool lotion was rubbed onto her butt. "Mmmmhmm... She had pink hair, this weird multi-colored headband, a blue body outfit and used swords... Kind of weird looking." The redhead closed her eyes as she felt Reinforce's fingers massage her rear end while working the lotion into it. "Feels nice..."

"Focus." Reinforce gave Vita's butt a slap, getting a hiss from the redhead. "Weird how?"

"Like they were meant to be thrown and not swung around." Vita closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensations of Reinforce's massage. "Anything else?"

"Did you feel malice from any of them?"

"No," Vita shook her head slowly, "some anger at me for hitting her, but I didn't think she wanted to cause me any real harm, but her anger was just some frustration, nothing compared to you when you're mad at me." Vita laughed softly and enjoyed the sensation of Reinforce rubbing the lotion onto the back of her legs.

"I see. How would you compare her to the rest of us?"

"Stronger than me," Vita muttered softly, "and tougher than Signum is, but I could beat her in skill, and if I wasn't bleeding, I might have been able to stop her without too much damage to either of us."

"You think she's not bad?"

"No," Vita shook her head again and sighed in delight as Reinforce worked on her other leg, "compared to Signum, Shamal, Zafira and myself when we were hunting Linker Cores down, no, she's not bad, just doing what she was asked to do, I think."

"Good to know." Reinforce patted Vita's butt before closing her gown and standing up. "What's your recommendation for her?"

"If you face her, go all out as soon as possible but avoid lethal strikes."

Reinforce nodded and left the room, smiling softly. Still, the fact that someone was able to injure Vita bad enough to put her in the hospital, even if she'd be out in a few hours at most, was worrying. As she walked down the hallway, she blinked as she saw Yuuno in the hallway. "Aren't you with Nanoha?"

Yuuno chuckled and rubbed the back of his heck nervously. "She just woke up, actually." Considering how flushed Yuuno became and how he was acting slightly nervous, Reinforce shook her head.

"I don't care if you had sex on the hospital bed, but I do need some information from you." At least Yuuno stopped looking so flushed at that point. "You, Rein Zwei, Arisa and Suzuka all went on a mission, but, I need to ask, did you find anything?"

Yuuno shook his head, a confused frown on his face. "No, we didn't. We found some sort of cave, but that was it. We couldn't go inside when Vita called for us."

"I see... Thanks." Reinforce frowned softly. If there was nothing there, why did the scanners pick up a weird signal near that area.

"Um, Reinforce," Reinforce looked at Yuuno and blinked at him, "I was wondering something."

"What's your bra size?!"

"THOTH!" Yuuno went beet red and Reinforce put a hand up to her mouth and coughed, trying to fight off the laughter that threatened to burst out at that moment. "No, I wasn't wondering that! I swear!"

Reinforce shook her head. "I have no doubt, Yuuno, and I'm not offended... If you must know, Thoth, it's," she leaned in and whispered to Yuuno and Thoth, leaving Yuuno completely red-faced at that.

"Wow, you're even bigger than Signum, Vita and Suzuka."

Yuuno coughed to clear his mind, or at least try to, 'E-cup indeed' his mind couldn't help but remind him. "Um, no, that wasn't it, I was just wondering what we're going to do next?"

"For now, continue to train the rookies as you have been, though I'd like the training to pick up as soon as it can," Yuuno nodded at those remarks, "other than that, don't work them so hard that they pass out."

"Right." Yuuno saluted Reinforce who pointed towards the door. "Uh..."

"I think Nanoha's calling for you." Reinforce smiled as she walked away. Still, part of her wondered, just what was the point of that signal if there was nothing there. "Zafira," she nodded to the Guardian Beast as he stood up from where he was laying on one of the couches and walked over to her, "did you hear about the beacon that Rein, Yuuno, Arisa and Suzuka checked out?"

"I heard that it turned over nothing, if Arisa's rants were to be believed."

Reinforce nodded at that. "Yuuno said as much himself, what do you think?"

The wolf looked up at her. "I'm not sure what to think, I'll leave that to you and some of the others, but if I was to say, I'd say it was a distraction to keep us from noticing something else."

Reinforce frowned softly, if that was the case then... 'Who's hiding what now?'

(---)

Meanwhile, a couple of days later...

"You look like hell." He raised an eyebrow as he gently put the bag of stolen medical equipment down. "Get into a fight with a boar?"

"Something like that," she muttered as she twitched, 'Chaotic Blue, dammit, did Jail have to go off and be so dammed happy?!' It offset any negative emotions she would have gotten from Tre or anyone else.

Of course, she just had to run into Tre and Sein just as they were getting cleaned up from their activities that morning, didn't she? The two were practically glowing and so... Content and... Happy!

"ARRGH!" She yelled and slammed her fist onto the table while twitching. "Straight Kuma, you had BETTER not have given any information to those Bureau dogs!"

He raised his hands and grinned at her. "Hey, chill, Bevi..."

"That's Levi, you twit!"

"My bad." He rubbed the back of his head, "but you need to chill out, I told them nothing that can link us. Is there anything else?" He blinked as she tossed him a large manilla envelope.

"Not for awhile, payment's in there..." She trailed off and looked at him seriously. "You remember an old associate of yours?"

Kuma twitched slightly, he had an idea of who she was talking about. "Yes, I remember him. He wasn't that strong, but he loved to throw his weight around, he got kicked out of the Bureau for excessive force. Wait, you're not seriously thinking..?"

She grinned at him. "I'll need you two later. Take some time and enjoy yourself until then... I need time to prepare."

"Whatever..." He turned and walked out of the room. At least his legs weren't hurting too badly at that moment.

'Still, what would she want with a dangerous lunatic like him anyway?' It might not have been his concern, but he did have a few other mercenary friends out there, he knew of one that could keep the big jackass in check if he got out of control again and tried to attack civilians like he did last time.

Spoiler for Comments:

You can thank Kuroi Hadou for that wonderful image of Reinforce's boob size.

Me: Well another conspiracy to another.... Welcome to the world of politics....

Odin: You can say that since YOU'RE not in the army, peon.

Me: BTW, Nanya... um... Where's this image about Ein?

Odin: Pervert.

Me: Can you blame be for being curious?

Odin: Hormones.

Me: GAH! Here you go with you single word answers... anyway do you a link to it? And We miss that multi-update of yours...

[Nanya01]

No link, but look up bust chart and Reinforce on Danbooru/Gelbooru.

...

That's the best I can do, really.

It's hard to do when they NEVER gave out an official bust chart for any of the characters.

[Kuroi Hadou]

Yeah, that was just a guess I made based on... personal experience.

[Filraen]

I'm surprised Reinforce would be willing to tell her bust size to Yuuno.

[mega1987]

Originally Posted by Filraen

I'm surprised Reinforce would be willing to tell her bust size to Yuuno.

I have said this before and I'll say this again....

DAMN!!!! YOU!!!! HAYATE!!!!!!! YOU'VE NOT ONLY CORRUPTED VITA BUT ALSO REINFORCE EINS!!!!!!

That's why, Filraen....

[relentlessflame]

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[biodude711]

Yay!
*Dons SCUBA gear and preps boat for the inevitable flood of BTF updates*

[ZeroXSEED]

Ummm.....

I guess the thread is too resourceful and precious to be closed permanently.

[mega1987]

Finally!!!! I can Read the updates on this thread!!!!! *dances like a lunatic.*

And Aki, DO try to understand why certain authors, let just say, beat the crap out of the protagonist using some antagonist.

You can't expect to win a war without losing some battles... Unless you like those GOD mode/Mary/Marty.....

Well... Since that's a bit out of my system... I need to join a certain group in preparation of the upcoming "Great Flood".

Mariemeia: Hey kid! The sub's ready to submerge.

Me: Coming!!!

Odin: See you guys after the "Great Flood".

*Enters the sub*

Val: Hey kid. We're ready to submerge.

Me: Alright then. DIVE! DIVE! DIVE!!!!!!

*the sub steadily submerges into the depths of the FFT.*

[Craxuan]

Let's start off with a HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! in this fanfiction thread just because. Good day everyone.

[Shigan]

It is: *takes deep breath* OOOOOOOOOPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!

Sheesh guys, I don't know what happened in here but please don't scare us like this. ^_^

And oh, happy new years!

[Nanya01]

You guys should thank Kuroi Hadou... He convinced me to come back.

Well, that and I know that there's people who like my fic, so...

This is for all of you.

Oh, and BTW, all of the Mini-arcs are up on FF.Net. 200 chapters. Go enjoy.

StrikerS 1-10

StrikerS 11

StrikerS 12


StrikerS 13

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 14:

On the outskirts of Cranagan, there was a meeting taking place, one of grave importance...

"Oi... Meister..." A small, redheaded girl with her hair done up into three pigtails, two on each side of her head and one in the back. "Tell me again, why are we doing this?"

Due rolled her eyes. "Because, Agito, we're trying to see if there are any Relics near here, at the very least, I know that there's a good food shop around here."

"Did we just come here for the food?" The last member, Lutecia, asked softly as she sat across from the fire that Due was attending and looked at Due and Agito. "I should be with..."

"Us," Agito interrupted her while crossing her arms and legs and frowning at the young girl, "if you say that you should be with Quattro, I'll give you such a wedgie that you won't be able to walk for a week!"

Lutecia just blinked and slowly nodded. "...Very well." The girl pulled her knees up to her face and started fidgeting slightly.

Due looked at Lutecia and frowned at her. She may not have found out everything that Quattro did, but the one thing she did find out, well... It made her wonder why Quattro would do that.

Technically, there was nothing wrong with being attracted to people of the same gender, Due would know, she had spent plenty of time in the arms of both genders. If anyone asked about it, all she would say is that being a spy was hard work some days. However, Due really wondered why Quattro would want someone so young.

"Lu," the girl looked at Due and blinked in confusion as Due pulled a towel out of somewhere and tossed it to her, "I'd prefer that you go and get some privacy before doing that." Seeing the girl stand up and run out, blushing, Due sighed and growled to herself. "Ugh..."

"Oi, Meister, shouldn't we just tell her the truth?"

"That we're worried something bad happened to Quattro?" Due looked at Agito. "Twisted, as Quattro might have been, she was more interested in science than she was in something like this." Due narrowed her eyes and looked at the fire. "Something about her changed, a long time ago..."

"You don't think that maybe she was possessed by one of those Mazuko thingies, do you?"

"Mazoku," Due corrected the device, "but, it's possible. But, I'm not sure, not like I can ask her, she'd deny it, and even if I confronted her in front of the doctor..."

"You could ask Lutecia." Agito ventured and then sweat-dropped as they heard Lutecia's voice from behind the bushes. "...Or we could wait."

Due twitched as she heard Lutecia's voice again and let out a sigh. Even if hearing the girl go off to do that was bad, it was at least better than hearing her whimper, toss and turn while crying because she wouldn't use her own fingers to get herself off. "Agito."

"Hmm?" Agito blinked at Due. "What is it?"

Due stood up and grinned at her. "I think it's time for a Unison again." Agito just tilted her head in confusion. "Because if I'm going to do some baking for Lutecia, I'm going to need some fire power."

Agito grinned and nodded. Sure, Due tended to make a mess and things sometimes exploded when she was cooking, but at least the end result was awesome and tasty.

(---)

While Due and Agito were planning on baking Lutecia some food, Jail was busy with problems of his own.

Jail frowned as he looked at the data. "Uno," his female clone looked at him in confusion, "something seems wrong here."

"What? Did your subscription to Mad Scientist weekly get cancelled when you weren't looking?" Uno asked while walking over to him. "Huh, that is weird." She blinked as she took a closer look at the data. "The Saint's Cradle, huh?" She raised an eyebrow at him. "I don't know about you, but I don't think that a crib would be useful for showing Mid-Childa anything."

"It's a space ship." Jail frowned softly as he turned away from the control panel. "My research says that it should be on Mid-Childa somewhere, but..."

"Look, even if it was here, Dr., without a Kaiser, and, if I'm not mistaken, they're all dead, to power it, it's just a hunk of metal."

Jail looked at her and smirked, causing Uno to blink several times in confusion. "You remember that shroud I had Due steal?" Uno nodded slowly. "Even if the Saint Kaiser was killed, her DNA remained... That can be very... Useful, don't you agree?"

"Wouldn't the genetic markers have broken down over a few hundred years?" She then looked at Jail and grimaced. "Never mind, I forgot that you're even older than that."

"Don't ask me," Jail shrugged before turning around and looking at the data, "but still, I can't find the Saint's Cradle just yet. Who's out right now?"

"Cinque and Nove are." Uno looked at him, "should I put a call into them?"

"Please do, you know what to tell them."

Uno nodded as Jail left the room. "Nove, Cinque..."

"Un-nee!" Both Cinque and Nove said as their faces appeared on the screen.

Uno smiled at them. "If I could, would you two be willing to be on the look-out for the Saint's Cradle?" The two of them blinked in confusion, well, Nove blinked, Cinque was wearing her eye-patch, so blinking was a bit harder. "Sorry, I forget, you don't have all the data I do. Anyway, the Saint's Cradle is supposed to be something like a giant space ship that got buried in the ground somewhere on this planet. If you two happen to come across any space ships..."

"Would that count?" Nove pointed behind her and Uno felt like groaning.

"No, I don't think that small space fighter is what the doctor is looking for..." Uno frowned as she looked at it. "...Just what is that anyway?"

"I dunno, but I pushed a button and this holographic image of a small green Muppet thing appeared and started speaking weirdly."

Cinque looked at Uno, then at the ship. "The green thing is freaky, can we blow it up?"

"Permission granted." Uno smiled as Cinque ran to the ship and put both hands on the hull.

"Rumble Detonator."

"Ah, detonation of this ship, do, you should not." A voice that was old and slightly high pitched said as Cinque and Nove ran away from the ship. The silver-haired cyborg snapped her fingers and the whole thing exploded into thousands of pieces in an instant.

"Anwyay," Uno couldn't help but chuckle softly as she reformed the screen in front of Nove and Cinque, "if the two of you come across any space ships that are large enough to house all of us, then that is possibly what we are looking for."

The two of them saluted Uno and she shut off the screen before turning around and leaving the room. As she walked down the hallway, she stopped at Jail's laboratory and raised an eyebrow as he was working on that Knight Valkyrie Armor some more. "Doctor, just what are you doing?"

"I wonder, Uno..." Jail grinned at her. "I wonder if I can make a copy of this and give it to everyone."

Uno blinked and thought about her sisters wearing matching black suits instead of blue ones. "...That is probably the most stylish idea you've ever had. Why didn't you do that before?"

"I don't want to get just the look, I want the properties as well." Jail grumbled while looking at the material. "If only I knew what they used to make this with..."

"A thread and needle." Uno said as she held up a needle. "Of course, if you want, I can probably scan the thing rather fast to find out what magic was used on it. I was always curious, doctor..."

"Hmm?" He asked while not looking up from his work.

"Why make all the cyborgs women?" Jail fell down and Uno blinked at him. "Is that some skill from Al Hazard?" Jail looked up at her, annoyance written on his face. "Well, I think it's a legitimate question."

"Don't look into it too much," Jail said as he stood up, "I was ordered, by the brains, to create nothing but female cyborgs. Before you say anything, just remember that I was listening to them somewhat in the past."

"That's fine, so, just what are your plans?"

Jail looked at her through one eye closed. "To show Mid-Childa that the nightmare from ten years ago is far from over." Uno stared at him. "Even the might Saint Kaiser would not be anything to that being, Death Bringer..." He squeezed his hand into a fist tightly, "even if the world sees me as a villain, I would rather be a villain if it meant that I would never have to worry about that creature ever again."

Unseen to both, Mr. Snuggles hopped down from where he was hiding on the ceiling before leaving the room.

(---)

"Sette," the pink-haired cyborg smiled as she saw her cat and knelt down so that he could jump onto her breasts, "I worry a little about the doctor, he seems afraid of something that may not be real."

"There is no evidence that what he is or is not afraid of is real or not." Sette said as she stood up and scratched Mr. Snuggles' head. "Therefore, I must conclude that the doctor is possibly insane."

"What if he is right then?"

Sette stopped and thought about what she had seen around Quattro that one time. "...Then I would owe him an apology for being wrong."

Mr. Snuggles just purred softly as Sette scratched his head.

(---)

Elsewhere...

"So, what are we looking for?" Nove asked as she kicked a dead tree out of the way. "I mean, look for a space ship? We already found the Aluminum Falcon, but that was too small!"

"Nove, I'm going to take my eye patch off." Nove looked at her and nodded slowly. "I know it makes you nervous, but I find that even the doctor's advances to the eye patch does not match up to my new eye."

Nove nodded and took a deep breath. "No, I won't look away, Cinque." Sure, that eye was freaky as hell, but it was Cinque, and she was nice, even if she had a freaky eyeball.

Nove fought the urge to shudder as Cinque took her eye-patch off, revealing her eye that was black where it should have been white and the gold iris hidden. "Cinque, can... Can I do something first?"

Blinking, Cinque nodded and wondered why Nove walked up to her and gently grabbed her cheeks before looking at her right eye. "Nove?"

Nove didn't say anything for a few moments, before she sighed and hugged Cinque to her. "I'm sorry, that eye just looks too weird, but, even if it looks evil, it's still Cinque's eye," Nove smiled as Cinque hugged her back, "I'm sorry, Cinque, it just scares me."

"I know." Cinque buried her face into Nove's chest. "And I'm not angry or sad."

Nove let go of the hug and blushed as Cinque smiled at her. "Even if the eye is evil, it's Cinque's eye, so it's not so bad."

Smiling, Cinque looked around and had to admit, her new eye seemed to be able to anything that it needed to at the time. "...I swear, it's almost like this eye can do whatever is needed to help us out. If we were in a book, I'd say it could advance the plot for no good reason."

"Don't talk like that," Nove shuddered softly, "if you say that, then I might find out that this is all a dream and that something bad will happen when I wake up."

Narrowing her eyes, Cinque pointed off in the distance. "There's something over there."

"How can you..?"

Cinque looked at Nove's confused expression and smiled at her. "There's something different with the color in the air over that way."

Nove just shrugged and followed Cinque. When they got close enough to see what it was that Cinque had seen, Nove just stared and Cinque's eyes got big as she gasped at what she saw.

"A man that has pink hair and a pink face?" Nove sweat-dropped as the man, who was sitting on a rock, turned to look at them. He was wearing a white cloak over his body, but since his hood was down completely, the two of them could see his face clearly.

"Normally I would not be found unless I wanted to be found." He stood up and walked towards them, curiosity adorning his features. "However, you two managed to find me, impressive. My name, is Sirius, Shinzoku from the Lost Dark World."

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 15:

Nove's pupils shrank and she got in front of Cinque, her Gun Knuckle aimed right at Sirius' head. "You're a Shinzoku? That some sort of term for Mazoku where you're from?" She had some special bullets just for these kind of creatures. She doubted it would kill something like this, but if Cinque could get away, then she wouldn't have to use that scary power of hers.

"Relax." Sirius waved his hand and Nove's eyes widened and she blushed hard as her knees felt like giving out on her. "I have no intention of harming any of you. Mazoku are, for the most part, the natural enemies of Shinzoku." He narrowed his eyes as he looked at the two of them. "You two aren't normal, are you?"

Cinque's eye opened and a knife suddenly appeared in her hand as she jumped out behind Nove. "How can you..?"

"Interesting, you two aren't completely human, in fact, you feel..." He nodded as he looked at them, the redhead had managed to get her footing back. "Part machine, aren't you?"

Nove shook her head and tried to clear her thoughts. "So, you're some Shinzoku from a world that got no light or something and it exploded?"

Sirius blinked a few times before realization came to his eyes. "Ah, I understand, you're human, to you, a world is a planet. No, to me, the world is the entire universe. So, you could say that I'm from the Lost Dark Universe."

Both Nove and Cinque stared, wide-eyed at that. "...The whole universe?!" Nove couldn't even think of the sheer scope of power that would be needed to do something like that.

"When the creator..." He trailed off as he looked at Cinque's face. "...You..." Before Cinque or Nove could respond, he was kneeling in front of them while cupping Cinque's face. "...You've been touched by her, the Golden Lord."

"Hey!" Nove growled at him. "What are you..." When Sirius waved at her again and told her to calm down, her face turned completely red and her knees gave out on her, causing her to fall to her butt.

"The Golden Lord of Nightmares..." Sirius looked at her more closely. "...How is this possible? I thought only Lina Inverse and her children had the ability to use such a power, but you, you can use it."

Nove gasped a few times, trying to get her breath back. "Um... If you're not a Mazoku, you think you could do something for us?" The Shinzoku looked at Nove as she tried to stand up. "There's someone that we would like you to meet, he's been trying to prepare us against Mazoku for a long while now, do you think you could help him?"

"...Against high level Mazoku, there is almost nothing that any human can do, short of calling forth the Golden Lord and the Chaos She gives." Sirius looked at them frankly. "However, if he wishes to protect himself and you from Mazoku, I would not mind seeing him."

"I'll give him a call." Cinque said as she put her eye patch back on.

Nove was blushing hard and she looked at Sirius. "...Could you... Um, do that again?" He blinked at her and waved his hand at her, causing Nove to let out a small high pitched whine as she shook and fell to the ground, grinning stupidly.

"...Humans are weird." Then again, he was affecting her senses, and overloaded the ones that would make her the least angry. How was he supposed to know that she would react so... Strongly?

(---)

Quattro blinked as she walked past Jail's office and shuddered from the sheer elation that was coming from the room. She would have walked further on had she not heard Jail yell loudly.

"A SHINZOKU?!"

Quattro's eyes widened and she turned to look at the room. '...Impossible, if one comes here...'

'Calm down, you stupid fool, a half Mazoku like us can't be detected too easily, but even so, we should get out of here.'

'Good thing we have that hidden base, Master Levi.' Quattro said as she spun and ran out of the area.

The last thing she wanted to deal with was a Shinzoku.

(---)

Hours later...

Sirius looked around and narrowed his eyes as he saw the place. "...Something feels off."

Before Cinque could ask him what he meant, Nove had taken off to get a fresh change of clothes, and crashed into Uno.

Looking at Nove, who crashed to the floor, Uno raised an eyebrow as she saw Nove's flushed face, slightly damp outfit and the smell coming from her and looked at Sirius. "...Nove, he might be a man who's not the doctor, but that doesn't mean you have to put out on your first date."

"Didn't put out." Nove grumbled as she stood up and ran off, causing Uno to sigh heavily.

"I swear, between Quattro leaving for research and Nove smelling like Tre and Sein do when they're alone for more than ten minutes, I have no idea what today is." Uno rolled her eyes and looked at Sirius. "So, you're an actual god then?"

Sirius gave her a small smile. "Some might call me that." He stared as he saw Sette with Mr. Snuggles on her breasts, walk by. "...An Ancient Dragon?" Uno and Cinque both stared at him. "Even if it was tainted by a Mazoku, I shall never forget the feel of an Ancient Dragon. But I thought they were almost all killed off."

"You'll need to talk to the doctor."

Sirius just blinked at that and let them lead him to the room in question.

(---)

Seeing Sirius walk in after Uno and before Cinque, Jail had a grin that threatened to split his face. "A Shinzoku, a real Shinzoku, unbelievable!" He threw his head back and started laughing heavily. "Yeahahahahahahahahaeeesss! Take THAT, Death Bringer! Hahahahahahahaha! A Shinzoku!"

Sirius sweat-dropped and looked around the laboratory, before frowning as he saw a naked woman in a tube with long purple hair floating in a tube. "...What is wrong with her?"

Uno looked at the woman and sighed softly. "She was badly injured a few years ago, we're trying to heal her, but something..."

"Chaos." Sirius said, causing Jail to stop laughing and look at him in confusion. "I can feel that energy... It's keeping her from healing properly." He looked down at Cinque, who was looking away and the emotions coming from her told him all that he needed to know. "You caused this, huh?"

Cinque looked away, shame and pain radiating off of her. "Yes..." Her eye widened and she looked at him. "Can you heal her?!"

"I doubt I could, the only thing that can heal her for sure is the same power that injured her."

Cinque grimaced at that. "I... I'm afraid I can't." Such a power, it terrified her.

Before Sirius could say anything, two more people walked into the room. "Doctor..." The one with long hair blinked as she saw the guest. "...You are..?"

"...Another Ancient Dragon?" Sirius looked at the girl with long brown hair and reddish eyes. He turned to look at the one with spiky brown hair and green eyes. "...You look similar, but you feel more like a Golden Dragon."

"That would be my fault." Jail caught Sirius' attention. "Awhile ago, I got my hands on a tissue sample of a Gold and Ancient Dragon and used that to modify some of these girls, their DNA, which caused some unusual effects with them."

Sirius nodded and looked at the petite one with the very flat chest. "...Are you sure you're a girl?"

The girl's face flushed and she looked away. "Yes."

"Very well." He nodded at her. "Your names?"

"I'm Deed." The one with long hair said as she grabbed her twin and turned her towards the Shinzoku. "And this is Otto."

"I was told that you were trying to fight against Mazoku." Sirius said while not looking away from the twins, though, he could have sworn that they were blushing the longer he looked at them. "I think I can help you."

Jail just grinned.

This... Was going to be interesting.

You know what? I'm not going to link to previous parts until I get to the end of all these posts.

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 16:

Several days later, at the Riot Force, something unusual was happening...

'How did this happen?' Teana asked herself as she sat in front of a man that looked at her with contempt.

"You do realize that you have no rights in these proceedings, correct?" Teana nodded slowly as he looked at the recorder that was on the table. "And failure to answer any question will lead to automatic assumption of guilt and the likelihood of you being thrown out of the Bureau in shame."

"Yes." Teana's normally strong voice was weak sounding, even to her.

"Good, now that the niceties are taken care of..."

'Niceties? You practically tore me and Subaru away from breakfast to have this meeting.' Teana mentally railed, she couldn't believe that she was the subject of an internal affairs investigation. She had heard about them in the past, but to actually be a part of one?

It wasn't fun.

"During the last mission that you and Private Nakajima were part of," the man called up a small screen and Teana saw Sein pop through the floor to break her ankle before slamming Subaru into the train and taking off through the air, "your old roommate, this Sein person, appeared, shortly after two others appeared and managed to badly injure two of the Bureau's strongest magic users. She attacked two of her former roommates before grabbing the Lost Logia, which you were supposed to secure, and then managed to escape in the confusion."

"That's right." Teana said, gulping as the screen turned off and the man leaned in to glare at her.

"And how is that possible?! That was a top secret mission."

"I... I don't know." Teana shook her head and really wished that she had Sein's ability to phase through matter. If only she learned some sort of movement magic, but then remembered that these rooms were specifically designed to shut magic use down, so even if she knew movement magic, it would be useless.

"I think you gave her the information."

"What?" Teana looked at him in shock. "Why would I do that?! I don't know where she is now. And I just..."

"Enough with your lies." The man snorted and another screen popped up, this one showing a younger Teana and Subaru, though not by much, eating lunch with Sein. "It was a well-known fact that you and Nakajima were her roommates."

"Well, yeah, we were roommates, but she disappeared before we graduated and we haven't heard anything from her."

"Really?" The man leaned in as the screen turned off, and for some reason, Teana felt really small as he looked at her. "Missy, you do realize that I have authority to, if I feel like it, lock you up until I get enough evidence to work a case against you, and unlike most people I investigate, you don't have any ties, you're just a grunt, no one special." He smirked at her and leaned back. "You really only got into this group because of your partner, and she only got here because of her mother, neither of you two are worth anything other than a body."

"That's..."

He snorted and narrowed his eyes at her. "Enough of that, tell me about her, this Sein."

"Well..." Teana trailed off as she tried to remember what Sein was like in the academy.

*Flash...*

"Gah!" Teana's pupils shrank as she felt a familiar set of hands on her breasts. "Sein! Knock it off!" She spun around, grabbed her towel and turned it into a make-shift whip, snapping it at Sein, who jumped away at it connected with her butt. As the girl howled, Teana rolled her eyes. "I didn't hit you that hard, shee!" It was bad enough that she had to share a shower with so many people, but between Subaru and Sein, her breasts and ass were incredibly sore from all the groping that the two of them did.

"Ne, Tea," Subaru said as she washed her body down next to the carrot-top, "we're supposed to have some time off after this, wanna head into town?"

"Not really." Teana, her face in a frown and her eyes closed, said as she washed her hair, only to growl as she felt a pair of hands on her ass again. "Subaru, if that's you..."

"Me again." Sein giggled as she let go of Teana's butt-cheeks and plopped down next to her. "So, time off? There's that neat amusement park that opened up in town and I wanted to..."

"I'm not interested." Teana frowned while keeping her eyes closed and scrubbing her hair.

"Pleeaaaase!?" Sein went to her knees and started begging Teana to come with. "It won't be as much fun without you."

"No." Teana twitched irritably.

"Come on, Tea!" Subaru grinned at her. "Think about how much fun we'll have! Rollercoasters, Ferris wheels, the games, the food, OOOH!" Subaru's eyes sparkled at that thought.

"Not interested, besides, that stuff's for kids, what," Teana yelped as she was pulled down to her butt and was forced to sit on the floor.

Straddling her naked friend, Subaru pouted. "Come on, Tea, we're not officially part of the Bureau yet..."

"Besides," Sein grinned at Teana, "all work and no play makes Teana a dull friend. If all you do is work, work, work, you'll have no energy for fun. Then you start to get fat and people think that you're lazy, even if you're a hard worker, you just don't have time, energy or any reason to do anything besides drop in front of your computer and television and shut your mind off."

Teana blinked a few times as the water washed the soap out of her hair. "...That is... Uh..."

"So, come on! Live a little!" Sein grinned at Teana as she and Subaru leaned in, both smiling brightly.

"Alright, alright! Fine! I'll go with you two." Teana's face flushed as she admitted that and yelped as Subaru and Sein cheered and hugged her tightly. "GAH! Come on you two, knock it off!"

*End Flashback*

"So, she was your friend, huh?"

"Well, yeah..." Teana twitched slightly at the accusing look in his eyes. "Even so, I never would betray my comrades like that!"

He laughed and Teana frowned at him. "What's so funny?!"

"That you think we're done." He grinned at her. "We're not going to be done until I find out the truth, and if you're wondering what truth that is, the truth of how she managed to find out about the mission in time to interfere with it."

"I swear, I don't know!" Teana paled as the man walked around the table and stood over her, forcing her to lean back. "I don't!"

"We'll see," was all that the man said to her.

(---)

Hours later Teana was finally allowed to leave the room, tears falling down her face as the man looked at her while she left. "Don't forget, Lanster, that you're going to be on desk duty, and no device, until I get this sorted out." The girl nodded, still trying to hide her tears.

The man shook his head and turned around, blinking as a screen in the room turned on. "...Colonel Yagami."

"I don't appreciate it when Internal Affairs thinks that my people are corrupt or are the reason that a mission went bad." The man blinked as the small, brown-haired woman seemed to loom ominously on the screen. "But when you make them cry, that really angers me. I saw the whole thing, sir, I shall be giving you and your partner a complete write-up over the whole thing."

He smirked at her. "Too bad that's all you can do." That smirk on his face died when she grinned at him darkly.

"You should be thankful that I don't take after the woman who was basically my foster mother growing up. If I did, I would have blasted you all the way across Cranagan by now." He frowned at her and she chuckled at him. "Think about it, good sir, at most, I'd get a slap on the wrist, especially if all it did was land you in the hospital for awhile."

"...You wouldn't."

"You're right, I won't. Can't say the same about others though." With that, the screen turned off, leaving the man staring at the screen before turning around slowly and sighing as no one was there.

(---)

"You really wouldn't do that, would you?" Reinforce looked at Hayate, who shook her head.

"No, I wouldn't, but if he thinks I would, that's just as effective, I think."

"What about Lanster and Nakajima?" Reinforce looked at Hayate, who smiled softly.

"I think some R and R would be just perfect for everyone right now. Pretty stressful around here."

Reinforce just nodded and smiled, that was a good idea.

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 17:

"You understand that you have no rights here, correct?" He asked the short-haired girl, who just nodded silently at him. "Good, now then, you also realize that any failure to answer these questions will lead to an automatic assumption of guilt and expulsion from the Bureau." She nodded silently, almost whimpering, "and I don't think I need to remind you that even though your parents and your sister are all in the Bureau and fairly high ranking, you do not have the same sort of allies they do."

Subaru nodded at him. "Y, yes."

"Good. Now, I'm not here to be your friend, pretend to be your friend or even attempt to be nice, I'm just here for the truth." A screen appeared in front of Subaru, showing the events of the train again. "Now, when your partner, someone you've known for at least three years now, was injured, how come you did not come to her aid? Instead you stood there and let a deserter take the Lost Logia and escape."

"I was in shock," Subaru managed to stutter out, "I never thought I'd see her again. And she shows up and..."

"A likely story." He snorted at her, "if anything, you were sending her data on the mission."

"No!" Subaru had a frightened expression on her face. "I would never..."

"Lost Logia sell for a lot of money, it wouldn't be hard to feign incompetence, allow a Lost Logia to get stolen from under everyone's noses and let the person sell it off for a large profit. Even if it was split five ways, a small Lost Logia could set a person up for years." He crossed his arms over his chest and narrowed his eyes. "Really, considering that your mother's a top investigator, your father's a major and your sister is a Sergeant, you would resort to such tactics just to get money."

"I would never!"

He snorted at her outburst. "You say that, but I'm almost certain that you're the one who sent her information. Or maybe it was your friend?"

"Tea would never do that!" Subaru protested and the man snorted at her.

"Right now, your so-called friend is telling my partner everything." He narrowed his eyes at her. "You might as well come clean and admit to what you did."

"What did I do?" Subaru asked and gulped as he walked around the table to stand directly above her.

"You know what you did, you gave that deserter information and she used that to not only appear at the train, but injure two of your superior officers!" Subaru tried to shake her head and he grabbed her chair and leaned in, shaking it. "You think I can't see it? Greed's a powerful emotion, but I wonder how you and your family would feel if you were forced to spend a few decades in prison for treason?"

Subaru just whimpered and shook her head.

"Then tell me about this Sein, it might save you, it might not, but just remember, you're no one important."

Subaru just gulped and nodded. "Uh huh..."

*Flash*

"Your mom and sister are really pretty and nice." Teana smiled at Subaru. "I can see why you look up to them."

Subaru rubbed the back of her head and giggled nervously. "Mom and Gin-nee taught me Shooting and Strike Arts to be strong, but I really want to be more like Yuuno-san." Subaru smiled softly. "He was so cool, put out that fire so easily, so maybe one day, I can be helpful to him."

Teana rolled her eyes and looked at Sein, who was walking a little bit behind them and smiling softly. "What about you, Sein? We met your sisters, what about your parents?"

Sein sighed softly. "You probably won't meet the man who raised me, he's always busy... But... I don't know my mom." Both Teana and Subaru blinked at her, this was rather unusual. "One day, I'll find her again, even if she's dead, I just want to find her one day, to see her and let her know how I'm doing." Sein then pointed at Subaru. "But, until then, I'll say that I'm jealous of Nakajima for having her mother still, but at least I have more sisters than she does!"

Subaru nodded and smiled. "Don't worry, I'll help you find her one day."

*End Flash...*

"So, in the end, you did promise to help her, huh?"

"But if she was looking for her mother, isn't that something a Bureau member should do?" Subaru gulped as he snorted at her.

"Your only mission is to do whatever your superior tells you to do. You don't have the power, rank nor leverage to get away with such ideology. Now, we're going to continue this interview and we won't stop until I'm satisfied."

Subaru just whimpered.

(---)

Hours later, Subaru left the room on shaky legs and unshed tears in her eyes. Each step had her shaking hard.

"Subaru," she turned to see her mother standing there. The two stood there for exactly ten seconds before Quint walked up to Subaru and pulled her into a hug. It was no surprise to Quint that Subaru hugged her back, started whining and broke down crying fully. "It'll be okay, Su-chan..." Quint said softly as she rocked her daughter softly. "You did nothing wrong, I promise that you'll be just fine."

After a few moments of crying, Subaru pulled back and wiped her eyes. "Thanks, mama."

Quint smiled and gently punched Subaru in the shoulder. "Go get washed up, I'll take you and Teana out for some ice cream, okay?" At least that got a smile out of Subaru. "I'll get Ginga, your father and the twins to join us, okay?"

"Sure." Subaru turned and left to go get cleaned up.

After she left, the smile left Quint's face and she turned, stopping the Internal Affairs officer as he was leaving the meeting room. "You didn't need to be so hard on a private."

"Ma'am, with all due..."

"Shut the hell up." Quint interrupted him. "Accusing someone of being a traitor is serious, and doing so without any real evidence..." She squeezed her hands into fists. "And I'm not saying that as a mother, but as a Bureau member." Turning away, the purple-haired woman started to walk out of the area. "Just so you know, you should be thankful that I'm here and not my eldest daughter, she's... More protective than I am of our family."

He snorted. "Ma'am, you don't scare me. You're barely half my height, and..."

The next thing he knew, he was back in the interrogation room, laying on his shoulders as he wondered what happened.

Quint just smirked as she lowered her leg to the floor. "And this little woman just laid you out, I'd shut up if I was you."

Oh yeah, that reminds me, one day while this thread was locked, I did update 4 times in one day.

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 18:

Hours later...

Teana, dressed in a white shirt and dark skirt combo, smiled lightly as she, Quint, who was dressed in blue pants and a light blue shirt, and Subaru, who was in a light skirt and blue shirt, all were meeting at a familiar park. "This is..."

"Where Subaru introduced you to me." Quint smiled at Teana. "I'm not going to press the issue, but I think after what happened today, you two could relax, and I don't know anything that helps more than ice cream."

Teana smiled softly and looked away, her face lightly flushed, "I don't deserve it, I..." She blinked as Quint squeezed her shoulder. "Quint?"

"What you do or do not deserve is not for you to decide." Quint shook her head. "Besides, Teana, regardless of anything else, I don't blame you for the failed mission."

Teana blinked and looked at her in shock. "You... You don't?"

Quint shook her head. "Stuff happens all the time. I don't believe in coincidence, so I don't think she was just there by chance. Lost Logia are, after all, very valuable items, so it wouldn't surprise me if that she might be working for someone who wanted them for themselves and found out about this one."

"What if she shows up again? Then more people will," Teana blinked as Quint put a finger to her lips, causing Teana to blush as the older woman pressed on her lips.

"Regardless, Teana, I'm sure that the truth will come out soon enough," Quint smiled and pulled her finger away from the teenager's lips and started to walk away. "I'll get some ice cream."

"I like strawberry and chocolate, mom! With sprinkles!"

Quint nodded and looked at Teana. "How about you?"

"Ah, uh... I think I'll try the triple flavor one."

"Sure." Quint walked off with a small sway in her hips.

"Ne, Tea..." Teana looked at Subaru and blushed as the girl suddenly hugged her.

"S...Subaru!" Teana's face was completely red as Subaru rubbed her cheek. "What's with you?! Stop it!"

"Sorry!" Subaru let go and stepped back. "But you looked so cute that I couldn't help it." Subaru beamed at Teana, who just groaned and buried her face into her palm.

Sometimes Teana wondered just why Subaru was so excitable all the blasted time.

It didn't take long for Quint to come back with lots of ice cream, even for Subaru's appetite, it was too much. Quint just winked at their confusion before jerking her head behind her.

"Gin-nee!" Subaru's eyes sparkled and she jumped from her seat to go and meet her big sister. "Dad! Aston, Cecilia!" The excitable teenager grabbed Ginga in a quick hug, before doing the same to her father and picking up her little brother and swinging him happily in the air.

Genya smiled as he watched Subaru play with her younger brother. "Ah, you must be Teana Lanster, Subaru keeps saying such nice things about you." He laughed when the girl blushed heavily.

"Dear, don't make me put this ice cream down and show you why I married you." Quint winked at him as she put the ice cream out for everyone.

"Mom, please," Ginga shivered at that, "there are people around, we don't need to give them nightmares." The last thing she wanted to do was accidentally walk in on her parents having sex again. Five times in the past year had been enough, thank you very much!

"Trust me, Ginga," Genya chuckled softly as Subaru took Aston over to the table, "when you find someone that drives you crazy, you'll probably be the same as your mother."

"Not likely." Ginga snorted as she sat down at the table. "Hello, Teana." She smiled at the girl across from her. "Nice outfit."

"Thanks, you too." Ginga did look nice in her short-sleeved gray shirt and dark jeans that hugged her legs and butt and really made her look like some sort of...

Ginga blinked as Teana's face suddenly went red and she shook her head. "Uh huh..." She had no idea what was going through the girl's head. It wasn't like she could read minds, even if she had telepathy, that didn't mean she could read a person's mind like some of those psychics claimed they could.

Other than getting Cecilia and Aston to try and calm down, and Subaru's near orgasm from eating ice cream, it was pretty quiet overall.

"Actually, Ginga, since you're here, I'd like to ask you something." Quint spoke up and Ginga looked at her mother in confusion. "Would you like to transfer over to the Riot Force?" Ginga blinked in confusion. "We're in need of more personnel," Quint smiled at her, "and you could use an Intelligent Device of your own."

"Really?" Ginga blinked at her mother. "I thought you weren't going to let me get one until I earned it."

"Trust me, Gin-nee, survive a week with the lunatics we have a trainers and you'll have it earned." Subaru said, causing Teana to nod emphatically.

"...They can't be that bad, can they?"

Teana shuddered, causing Ginga to blink at her. "I'm just a B rank mage and they're training us as if we were all at AA rank or higher."

Quint just laughed as Ginga sweat-dropped. "And Ginga, you're A rank, right? You might benefit from this as much as Subaru has."

"Uhh..." Ginga blinked and looked at her mother, Subaru and Teana, before shrugging. "Sure, why not?" It probably couldn't hurt at the very least.

"Not that we can do much right now anyway." Teana looked down, feeling all the joy leaving her as she remembered what had happened that day.

"You let Hayate and Reinforce worry about that." Quint spoke up, causing Teana to look at her tiredly. "No one is going to make you two miss any training, and if that dummy thinks he can just bully you and get away with it, you need to remember this," Quint grinned at her, "nearly everyone in the Riot Force is very... Protective of their friends and family, Teana." Not to mention explosive in power, but that wasn't something that Teana needed to worry about. "So, I'm certain that none of them care what happened."

"Wish I could share your enthusiasm." Teana looked down, sighing heavily. What did she do to have this happen to her? Her brother was killed, but people dismissed it as a suicide, Sein turned out to be a deserter and traitor and now she was in danger of losing everything, finding out who killed her brother and spending a lot of time in prison on top of it.

'...Why? What did I do to deserve this?' Teana could feel her eyes starting to burn and she tried to fight off the tears that were threatening to come. She didn't want to cry, not in front of everyone like this. 'Stop, dammit, stop... Stop...'

"Teana..." She felt Quint slide into the booth next to her and the next thing that she knew, Teana found herself pulled into a hug as Quint rocked her back and forth. "It's okay, Teana." She felt the girl stiffen in her arms. "Let it out, it's eating away at you." Quint just grinned as she rubbed Teana's back. "And if anyone makes fun of you, they'll find out just how hard a Nakajima looks out for their friends and family."

It didn't surprise anyone that Teana wrapped her arms around Quint and started to softly cry into the older woman's shoulder. After what had happened that day, Subaru knew better than anyone how much Teana was in need of this.

[Nanya01]

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 19:

At an undisclosed location...

"How could this happen?!" Her eyes were wide as she started to hyperventilate. Grabbing her head, she let out a scream of frustration and knocked aside several vials of chemicals. "A Shinzoku?! GAH! I'm so fucking CLOSE!" Her blue hair covered her face as she tried to take several deep breaths. "I could get my normal body back, but I'm not strong enough yet. So close... So close!"

"Master Levi..." She turned to see a projection of Quattro walking about the room. "Might I suggest something?"

Levi looked at the cyborg and narrowed her eyes as Quattro adjusted her glasses. "What is it?"

Looking at the Mazoku that was currently using her body, Quattro smirked at her. "We have a situation where a Shinzoku is snooping around back at the base, and yet, if I'm not there, people might get suspicious of us."

Levi's purple eyes flashed and she panted heavily. "And what, exactly, do you propose?! If I take my leave of you, what's to stop you from betraying me the instant you get back? I'm nothing compared to a Shinzoku right now!"

"Master Levi, I wouldn't dare betray you, things are more interesting right now." Quattro smirked at her master and looked at the notes that were strewn about on the table. "Remember that plan you had for your 'dear sister'?"

Levi blinked and walked over to where Quattro was, before grinning. "...This could work... Yes." Her eyes gleamed as she looked at Quattro, before looking at the notes. "Yes, you'll be my little test subject before I give Fate what she deserves."

"And the best thing, master." Quattro grinned at her. "You can make sure that I don't speak, no matter what, so I can't betray you, and you get to keep that body."

Levi grinned heavily. "Well then, I better get to work..." She threw her head back and started laughing. "If this works..." The grin that appeared was so wide that it threatened to split her face in half. After all, she had a bone to pick with a lot of people, but Fate... She couldn't wait to see the look on that worthless clone's face when she finally realized the truth.

(---)

Elsewhere...

Dieci looked at the training area and sighed heavily. "...Another field of cows?"

"I added sheep this time, if they were real, we could have mutton chops!" Wendi grinned at Dieci as she looked at the destruction. "Wow, I can't match this on my best days." She pouted at the look Dieci gave her. "Hey, come on, it's not my fault that you make such awesome explosions! I wish I could get mine even half as awesome as you can get yours!"

Wendi grabbed her hover board and grinned. "You know..." Dieci looked at her in confusion. "I don't really need the board anymore, watch."

Dieci blinked as Wendi put the board down and she actually flew out to the center of the area as small targets started to appear. Before the brunette could ask what was going on, she stared in shock as her redheaded sister called up several pink balls around her, before launching them out in multiple directions with ease.

Grinning, Wendi nearly cheered as she didn't miss a single target, her teeth practically lengthened out as a final target, a tall pillar, appeared just in front of her. "Watch this!" Before Dieci could ask what was going on, Wendi opened her mouth and a thin, blue energy stream erupted from her mouth and split the pillar in half.

Wendi grinned, before her eyes widened and she grabbed at her throat. "GAH!" She fell to the ground and groaned as Dieci was there a moment later with some water. Quickly taking it, she drank it down and sighed as the pain went away. "...Otto?"

"Yes." Dieci nodded to her. "Otto has a similar problem when she uses that breath laser, water helps sooth your throat."

Wendi panted and stood up, her red tail hung limply behind her. "Ugh... It feels like my throat was completely dried out." When Dieci offered her another glass of water, she took it and drank it greedily. "Mmmmm..." Tears were pouring out of her eyes as her throat felt normal again. "Gah... How does Otto deal with it?"

"By not using it too often." Dieci suggested to Wendi, who just glared at her. "You are strong enough, focus more on your beams and you'll be more than dangerous enough. Leave that as a final option."

Pouting, Wendi crossed her arms under her breasts and huffed. "But I like the thought of shooting stuff from my mouth! It feels... Natural almost."

"Your body doesn't like you using it." Dieci pointed out as she walked off the training floor. "We should go meet the doctor's guest anyway."

Wendi shrugged and grabbed Dieci before flying up and out of the training area. "So, this guy," she said as she put Dieci down and walked out after her, the redhead's tail slowly wagging behind her, "what you think he's like?"

Dieci just shrugged and blinked. "...I left my cannon back there."

"Don't worry about it." Wendi grinned at her. "I know you think you're naked without out, but you're not." Not that Wendi would mind seeing Dieci naked, the girl was really pretty without trying most of the time.

"Oh, uh..." Dieci fidgeted, and blushed while looking back at the training area. "...I really think I should..."

"No!" Wendi grabbed Dieci and pulled her along. "You're going to get your cute face and butt out of there and meet the guy without your big cannon!"

"You two are loud."

"Mr. Snuggles!" Wendi smiled as she held onto Dieci. "Sette! How are you two?"

"We are fine." Sette said while petting Mr. Snuggles on the head, causing the cat to purr loudly. "The doctor has a visitor."

"He's right behind us."

Turning, Sette blinked as she saw Uno leading a man with pink hair and a white-pink face down the hallway. "This is Sette," Uno pointed to Sette, "Mr. Snuggles, her cyborg cat familiar, Dieci and Wendi. Everyone, this is Sirius, a god from another universe."

"...Another Golden Dragon?" Sirius looked at Wendi, before blinking as he looked at Dieci. "...You are similar to the small one, you have Chaos in you as well." When they stared at him in shock, he shook his head. "I have been in many battles, I will never forget the feeling of an Ancient or Golden Dragon for as long as I live. And having met the source of all Chaos, I recognize that easily."

"Well, other than Quattro, who's going to be out until tomorrow, and Due, who's with Lutecia and Agito, you've met everyone."

Sirius nodded and looked at the people in front of him more closely. "I cannot stay for too long. However, I do think that a few days will not harm anything."

Uno smiled and nodded. "The doctor would like that very much." Especially if he could help copy several pieces of the Knight Valkyrie Armor. Even if it wasn't perfect, it was a lot better for everyone than the alternative.

Honestly, Uno wasn't sure how future fights against the Bureau would go, especially if all of the Numbers were wearing armor that the Saint Kaisers themselves tried to emulate with their powers.

Such an event...

Would be interesting.

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The next morning...

Walking around the base, Erio blinked as he overheard some members of the staff talking. Even though he didn't know their names, he just felt compelled to listen in on what they were saying.

"Yeah, I know, I mean, an investigation... That can ruin you." The first one, a woman with long, light brown hair, spoke to her male co-worker.

"Been through one yourself?" The man was fairly tall and had sandy blond hair that was cropped at his neck.

"No, thankfully, but those two... Can't imagine what they did to deserve that." The woman shook her head. "You think they did something wrong?"

The man snorted. "Those two? I doubt it was anything here. Might have been from a previous squad, but they've been pretty good here."

"Yeah." She nodded at him. "Can't see those two doing something to get in trouble like that."

Erio blinked and shrugged before turning around and leaving. He liked Subaru and Teana, they were really cool people. He looked at his wrist watch and blinked. "Oh yeah!" He picked up his speed and made his way towards the lab. He needed to see Shari about his device.

(---)

"Nanoha..." Fate, in nothing more than black panties and a dark, semi-transparent nightie, rolled over in her bed and raised an eyebrow as she saw her roommate looking at a square box. "Those are..?"

"The Demon's Blood Talismans." Nanoha, in only a large t-shirt and panties, said as she ran her thumb over them, before shaking her head and putting it away. When Fate asked her what she was doing, Nanoha turned to look at her. "Fate-chan, don't you ever get the feeling that we're nothing more than monsters in human flesh?" Fate blinked at her, confused by the question. "I mean, you, myself, Hayate-chan, we're all so powerful, sometimes I wonder..." She trailed off as Fate, who she swore was in bed a moment ago, got behind her and hugged her.

"Nanoha, if you weren't powerful, you wouldn't have saved me, wouldn't have saved Yuuno, wouldn't have been able to save Hayate." Fate hugged Nanoha to her tightly and closed her eyes as Nanoha put the talismans down and closed the box before leaning back against her.

"Fate-chan, I... I don't know, sometimes I think that the reason so many weird things happen is because we're so powerful. If we weren't..."

"We'd be dead." Fate pulled Nanoha away from the dresser and over to the couch. "What brings this up?"

"...What right do we have to bring those four into our world?" Nanoha asked bitterly as she let Fate hug her. "Those four, Erio, Caro, Subaru, Teana... They didn't need to be part of our world. We should have found some other people, AA to S rank and taught them, instead we're going to shatter four innocents and expose them to what we've gone through."

"Nanoha," Fate sighed and made Nanoha lean back so that she was resting against Fate completely, "I was never innocent, I lost that when my mother took the whip to me the first time... And then, finding out that my sister was corrupted and turned into a Mazoku... And what about Hayate? Or Yuuno? You're just like us, you were born into the magic, even if you didn't know it. Even Erio and Caro were born into their magic and were born to live dangerous lives like we have. What's the real problem, Nanoha?"

Nanoha sighed and moved so that she was sitting on Fate's lap and could hug the blonde closer. "It's something that mom told me once. That the more people you have in your close circle, the more dangerous it becomes for everyone. Fate-chan, think... When I first started, I had to deal with you and Yuuno-kun dealt with Arf. Mom eventually dealt with Precia-san, but it wasn't too bad, right?" Fate nodded slowly, wondering where Nanoha was going with this. "After you came back, we had to deal with Hayate-chan's family and eventually your sister and Death Bringer."

"That's the nature of things." Fate smiled at Nanoha. "If we were alone, we wouldn't have attracted their attention, but we did, and we wouldn't have survived if we weren't together." When Nanoha looked up at her, Fate had to fight the urge to kiss her. 'Dammit, just why do you have to be my sister?' Images of others flashed through her mind and she fought the urge to groan. 'Dammit, I blame you, Hayate and you, Thoth Driver, for this!' She mentally yelled, knowing that they wouldn't hear her.

"Fate-chan?" Nanoha blinked as Fate took a deep breath.

"Nanoha, regardless of how we got here, none of us made it here alone." Fate smiled at her. "Having more people is risky, I know, but," Fate put a finger to Nanoha's lips to keep her from saying anything, "so is having less. You're not invincible, Nanoha, no one is. Train up the others so that they can fight along side of us and not have to worry about being a burden."

"Thanks, Fate-chan." Nanoha smiled and surprised Fate by leaning up and giving her a kiss on the lips. Before Fate could respond, Nanoha got off of her and went to get dressed. "I might need those Talismans, but I think that they'd be better suited for someone else."

Fate twitched, her face completely red as she touched her lips. "...Nanoha... Why did..?"

Nanoha turned to look at Fate with a confused expression on her face as she started to put on her training pants. "...What? Didn't like it? Next time I'll make sure that Yuuno-kun kisses you instead, okay?" She giggled as Fate's hair stood completely on end while her face turned three shades redder. "Oh, and Fate-chan..." Nanoha had a very wide grin on her face. "Yuuno-kun is a very passionate kisser."

"HUH?!" Fate stared at Nanoha, steam practically coming out of her ears. "You, you, you..." She pointed a shaky finger at her sister, who stuck her tongue out at Fate.

"Yes, we did kiss, he's quite good at it." Nanoha smiled while turning away and getting dressed. She didn't want Fate to see the blush that came to her cheeks as she thought about the other things Yuuno was quite good at.

Fate really didn't need Nanoha to tell her much else, her mind was already working overtime and imagining the two of them doing a lot more than just kissing each other.

As she finished putting on her training shirt, as she was going to spar with Signum that morning, Nanoha blinked as she heard a thump. Turning around, she stared as Fate was on the floor, twitching and grinning like mad. "Fate-chan..." Nanoha sighed before deciding to leave her like that. It would be for the best. "Raising Heart..."

"Yes, my master?"

"Make sure to lock the door when I leave."

"Alright." Her device said as it flew around her as she put her shoes on for the day.

(---)

Elsewhere...

Regius looked over the reports he was given and narrowed his eyes. "Well then..." He looked at Auris. "These are accurate?"

"There are at least five different accounts of what happened and all say very similar things, though some are more anger-laden than others."

"Very well, it's time to have that conference then." Regius grabbed his papers and left his office, his daughter following behind him.

It was time to deal with those limiters and some of the rules more closely now.

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 21:

Later...

Looking at the assembled members of the Bureau council, Regius was glad that this was one of the few meetings that was behind closed doors. Mostly because there was only a few high ranking Generals and Admirals that could pass decisions down, and something like this needed some backroom dealings to happen. Certain things just weren't meant to be aired out in public, after all.

"Ladies and Gentlemen," he spoke to everyone, getting their attention, "it has recently come to my attention that, as many of you probably know, there is a competing, criminal element searching for Lost Logia on Cranagan," Regius had a good idea of who it was too, "as such, certain things are in need of change if we are to combat this threat."

Allowing that to sink in for a moment, Regius leaned forward and continued to speak. "The newly formed Riot Force isn't your usual policing force. They were always intended to deal with threats that no normal mage or knight group could possibly hope to combat. That two of their best operatives ended wounded because they were constrained on a ridiculous level against an unknown enemy of at LEAST S Rank only shows that the current control system, while useful on normal mages, its a call for disaster or worse for members of this new unit. A unit, I might remind you, that was created to avoid the problems of red tape and be able to scramble quickly to a new threat."

Taking a deep breath, he continued on, "however, this incident left a very clear message. There are forces in the background that are, for some reason, gathering Lost Logia and other worrisome material, and they have shown to have operatives on the order of AAA to S Rank at the very least. Had those operatives gone up against a fair majority of the Bureau, we would not be here talking about this in a civilized fashion, but rather trying to place blame upon one another for deaths in the field. And so, if you all are ok with this, I will order an increase in the mass production of Shine Swords to all Ground Forces, and the deployment of the current reserve of Blaster Armors to the Elite TSAB Air Units on call for an emergency, while increasing the ratio of production of Blaster Armors. Any objections to this?"

When all he heard was a negative response, Regius nodded. "Before we go, however, a report landed on my desk this morning, concerning the activities of Internal Affairs. Concerning the matter of the incident that landed the two operatives of the Riot Force in the hospital was, in part, because of someone who, from my information, left the Bureau before graduating the academy, I am sad to say that I am greatly irritated with the way that Internal Affairs dealt with the matter of the deserter. They were expected to try to find the truth, if one of the Privates had been supplying her with information, only to have the officers in question attempt to enact a witch's hunt on two young recruits."

Regius took a deep breath before continuing. "Not only were they deeply screened before joining the new unit, but they also have a record of excellent service for the Bureau, in addition, one of them is the daughter of not only a known TSAB officer known by her integrity and service to the forces, and all but an insult to her, but also a renowned Colonel who leads his own division. While corruption should be investigated fully, we must do so with the thought that the people we are investigating are, in fact, people who may or may not be in a bad situation."

"What are you suggesting then?" One of the members spoke up and Regius looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Aren't you the one who's always harped on justice?"

"Indeed, but I am not so stupid as to think that people do not have skeletons and ghosts in the closet. Whatever happened between the two privates and the deserter happened, and it needs to be investigated, but remember, sometimes what you see is not always what you get. Remember that."

(---)

"I'm surprised," Auris said as she followed Regius down the hall after the meeting was over, "I thought you'd want to give those two a commendation."

Regius looked at his daughter. "Auris, there are times when pursuit of justice is, in itself, a criminal act." He then gave her a small grin. "Besides," he leaned in and whispered quietly, "I think that those two showing up is because of some... Dirty laundry."

Auris's pupils shrank and she nodded slowly. "Very well." That was probably something that was better left alone. "What are you going to do about the Internal Affairs investigation?"

"Nothing, nothing will turn up." He started to walk again and she followed him, "still, I'm going to give Yagami the okay to allow those two to continue on their missions," he didn't need to look to know that his daughter was surprised by that, "provided that they're in a group mission for now. I've got enough pull to turn this into probation for them."

Auris nodded and mentally bit her lip. 'You've changed, father... And I think it's for the better.'

"Make sure to give Zest a call, Auris." She blinked at that. "What is he up to right now?"

"Currently, he's working with the Navy on dealing with an active Lost Logia not too far from here," she adjusted her glasses, "it's not one that's too dangerous for him, but it was a little beyond the level of the group that was there. I'm rather surprised that he volunteered to help out."

Regius smiled grimly. "We're all part of the Bureau, Auris, no matter what, we're all part of the Bureau, and we all need to do our part to save lives and protect the sky."

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 22:

Later that week...

Hayate looked at Yuuno, Fate, Arisa and Quint. "I just got confirmation from Regius, until the Internal Affairs investigation is over with, both Subaru and Teana are on probationary status." She gave them a slight smirk. "The only thing it means is that they have to be supervised under most circumstances." She looked to her side and nodded at Reinforce.

"As to the problem with Limiters, right now, the limiters have been mostly lifted, however..." Reinforce sighed softly. "We're still under them, however, they were lifted so that none of us can be stronger than AAA right now. Even so, every one of us has been given total authority to have the limiters lifted at any time during a mission for the duration of the mission."

"However, doing that," Hayate linked her fingers in front of her face, "will, of course, require that you write up a very detailed report over the very reason why you did it."

Arisa rubbed the back of her head. "Um, why am I here? I mean, I'm not under one."

"Which is only because Holy magic is harder to scale properly than normal magic." Reinforce reminded her. "Anyway, there are rumors of a shipment of various illegal goods, including Lost Logia, running through Cranagan today."

Fate blinked at that. "...Normally that would be kept very quiet, unless it was a trap, so, how did..."

"Vita got the information, and, no, you don't want to know who or what she did to get that information." Reinforce gave Fate a pointed look and the blonde nodded, blushing softly. "Anyway, the stuff's pretty hush-hush, and Vita even commented that she got lucky with getting the information."

"Speaking of which, where are they today?"

Hayate sighed at Quint's question. "Part of the reason we gathered you here today. Nanoha and Zelgadis are, unfortunately, forced into a meeting with several trainers, Vita, Signum and Rein Zwei are together on the northern side of the planet right now... So, we're down a few staff members at the moment."

"Before you say anything, we wanted you four to do this mission anyway." Reinforce spoke up. "So don't think that you're only being used because we don't have others. We want you to take Teana, Subaru, Ginga, Erio and Caro out on the mission with you, if something goes wrong, the four of you are less likely to destroy the city than the others are."

"Why don't we use those dimension fields?" Arisa asked, scratching her head and blinked as she caught Quint shaking her head. "Uh... I miss something?"

"Those fields are to be used on less advanced worlds where magic isn't as well known." Quint started to explain. "However, on worlds such as Mid-Childa, the usage of a dimension field indicates that there may be criminal activity going on. After all, you could easily kill someone in a dimension field in cold blood, say that it was self-defense and most people wouldn't know the difference."

Quint nodded as Yuuno, Fate and Arisa all looked disgruntled at that. "They were abused in the past, it's just better for everyone if they're not used like that again."

Arisa grimaced and nodded. "I guess so."

"Anyway, the shipment's expected to move in a couple of hours, I want you four to brief them on the situation, handle it as you see fit, but don't hesitate to unseal the limiters if you need to." Hayate looked at Fate, who nodded at her. "Just remember that even though we have the authorization to do this, there was still a lot of problems with getting this cleared."

They nodded and left as Hayate dismissed them.

"Something wrong?" Reinforce looked at Hayate.

"I think if a mission comes up that needs more firepower, I might just take it myself. I need to get out of here once in awhile." Hayate stood up and stretched. "I swear though, if there are more missions with those 'weird signals' that turns up nothing, I'm going to start ignoring them."

Reinforce looked at the mission documents. "Perhaps I can go to one in the future? If it's just something like an old computer system or something, it won't take long for us."

Hayate nodded and turned to Reinforce. "...What's the rest of the day look like?"

"...Until they leave on their mission..." Reinforce trailed off, she knew that look on Hayate's face. Sighing, she pushed a button on the desk. "Hold all calls for the next two hours, and do not let anyone in here unless it's an emergency."

"How bad of an emergency?"

"There better be a zombie breakout at the very least, or you're in trouble." Reinforce turned off the intercom and pushed another button to lock the doors. "I think our schedule just opened up."

The next thing the tall device knew, Hayate was in her arms and they were laying on the couch. 'This is one way to burn off stress.' Reinforce mentally commented to herself as Hayate had a hungry, almost needy look on her face.

Reinforce mentally shrugged as clothes started going everywhere. After all, they could be replaced easily enough.

She stopped thinking when Hayate kissed her on the lips, and any other thinking went out the window for the next couple of hours.

(---)

Elsewhere...

"How do you like the body, Quattro?" Levi smirked as she saw Quattro walking around, her steps a little stiff and a little uncertain.

Rolling her shoulders, Quattro had to admit, this new body was rather interesting. "I'm surprised you put so much effort into it." It was actually nice to feel air going into her body without someone in the background of her mind.

Levi just grinned at her. "Don't forget, that body's only temporary for now, should it be destroyed, you'll end up back in this body." Quattro nodded at her and adjusted her glasses. "I made sure that you still have access to your abilities..."

"Hey!" Both Levi and Quattro turned to see Straight Kuma walk in with another man, this one was wearing a dark tank top, black pants and boots, his had blond hair that was fairly curly and a savage grin on his face. "Wow, my female boss got a cute co-worker!" Kuma grinned as he looked at Quattro. "Not bad, though if I was you, I'd wear my hair down, it would look better."

Levi just snorted at him. "Don't even try it, Kuma, who's this?"

"I'm George Tetsunami, I prefer it when people call me Tetsunami, it's better than George, in my books!" The man grinned as her as he pulled out a weird looking gun and spun it around a few times. "I hear that the pay is really good for this job."

"Only if you or one of the women that shows up, can secure the Lost Logia and get them away from other forces." Levi looked at Kuma, who had hobbled up to her. "He's a lot weaker than I thought he was. What took you so long to get back to me?"

Kuma shrugged and his eyes narrowed behind his pink shades. "Had to get his specialized device from storage, and even with my speed, that wasn't easy."

"Cry me a river." The Mazoku snorted at him. "Listen and listen well, in a few hours, there's going to be a major shipment of various illegal goods in the city. I need the two of you to stop the shipment from getting to the downtown area and get the materials for me." She grinned at them. "You'll be joined by three others." She tossed Kuma a few pictures. "Their names are Due, Lutecia and Agito. There may be others as well, but you will work with those three to secure the Lost Logia."

"I'll be heading out now." Quattro smirked as she left the building. "Oh yeah, should I send those things in?"

"Just one, I want to test how good it is with the AMS." Levi grinned and then looked at Tetsunami and Kuma again. "There will be, later on, a rather large mechanical being that will show up, I suggest you clear out by then."

Kuma grinned at her. "Regardless, it looks fun." He looked at the people in the images.

"Oh, and Kuma..." Levi looked at him as Tetsunami left the room. "That purple haired girl is mine, don't try anything with her."

Kuma merely raised an eyebrow, but nodded and left.

Levi just smirked and turned to look at a small laptop. Turning it on, her smirk turned into a grin as she worked on the program. Even if they failed, she had a back-up plan in store.

Seeing two figures appear on the screen, she wondered if she'd need them today or not.

(---)

"You get that, Asuka?" Kuma said to the third person waiting by his car.

The third member, a man with short brown hair nodded as a green sphere floated out of Kuma's hands towards him. "I got that," he turned to look at Tetsunami as he looked around, twitching slightly, "and you, Tetsunami, keep yourself under control today, got it?

Tetsunami just grinned and spun his gun around a few times. "Between my magnum, your balls and Kuma's speed, there ain't anyone who can deal with us."

(---)

Two hours later...

Looking down at the traffic, Yuuno turned to the rest of the group. "Okay, our information points to those semi trucks coming this way as the ones carrying the shipment. Arisa and I will stop the trucks, Teana, Subaru, Ginga, I want you three to get the drivers out of there, Quint and Fate will deal with them and Erio and Caro, I want you two to open the trucks after the drivers are out, got it?"

They nodded and Yuuno smiled at them. "Alright, let's do this!"

A few moments later, Teana smiled as the plan was moving along just perfect, no one was interfering and all the semi doors were opened up. "That everything?"

"Not quite." A female voice spoke up and Teana turned to see a thin woman with blonde hair, and a rather sharp weapon on her hand, wearing a blue body suit, a younger, purple haired girl in a black dress that showed off the top part of her breasts and dropped just enough to preserve her modesty, if one was looking right at her, instead of up. Teana had to admit, at least the girl's purple panties seemed to work for her.

Teana felt like smacking herself, why did she have that thought right now? Clearing her head, she saw the final member, a small creature with wings sprouting out of her back, red hair done up into three pig tails, and her outfit was rather skimpy, a small skirt around her waist and some sort of bra over her chest.

"You're outnumbered." Teana pointed up at her as Ginga and Subaru jumped to the top of nearby semi-trucks.

"I wouldn't say that, Tiyana." A familiar male voice said from behind, causing Teana to spin around and glare at the person who said it.

"That's Teana!"

"My bad!" The man grinned as he stood beside a rather... Unusual pink car. "But I think that the three of you are outnumbered here."

Teana turned her head and saw a rather solidly built man with a gun pointing at Subaru's back and another man with eight green balls of light around him. "...Well, damn."

"Teana-san, Erio-kun and I are in position, if things go bad, we'll help."

"Thanks, Caro." Teana had to admit, having a summoner really did make things somewhat better. "Even if you out number us, you can't win. After all, don't you think that there's others here too?"

"Lutecia," the blonde haired woman said, catching everyone's attention, "call Garyuu."

Lutecia nodded and Teana felt the bottom of her stomach drop out from under her as some sort of black, humanoid creature appeared next to Lutecia. "...She's a summoner too?"

"Garyuu?!" Teana turned to see Quint staring at Garyuu and the young girl, completely pale. "...You're Lutecia?!"

Due looked at Quint and narrowed her eyes. "You..."

"You're still alive?! I thought you were dead! We all thought you were dead!" Sure, she looked way too old to be Lutecia, but if that was Zest's daughter...

"Call up Jiraiou," Due whispered to Lutecia, knowing this could get out of hand quickly unless something was done.

"Jiraiou," Lutecia said calmly and several large horned beetles appeared around the group, "I suggest you leave now."

"We'll deal with the large summons." Fate sent to the group.

"Don't hurt them too much." Quint shot to them. "Lutecia, please, if that's you..."

The small device growled and floated in front of Lutecia. "My name's Agito, the mistress of fire, and you better leave Lutecia alone! She doesn't need more crap from people like you!" She snapped her hand out and a gout of flame erupted at Quint, who was forced to dodge out of the way.

Quint dodged out of the way and held a green gem in front of her. "Snap Calibur, let's go." A flash later, and Quint was in a light purple one-piece body outfit, a sleeveless vest covered her shoulders, while light colored leggings went from her feet up to her knees, leaving her thighs exposed. On each hand, a metal gauntlet with gears just over the wrists, and the back of the glove extended backwards towards her elbows while her feet were covered in armored roller blades with similar gears over her ankles.

Due blinked and looked at Quint, her eyes wide. '...That's just like Nove's...' She looked at Subaru, who had jumped down to deal with the guy with the eight points of light, and Ginga, who had jumped down to deal with the man that had the gun, '...Those two are type Zeros...' She snorted to herself. "Dammit, doctor, you really had to have us fight against Nove's family, didn't you?"

She turned her head as she saw a young boy with a rather weird looking spear land on the trailer that she and Lutecia were on. "Lutecia, you better use your summons to..." She trailed off as she saw a fairly small, though compared to the boy in front of it and the girl riding it, it was big, white Dragon, appear behind him. "I'm not one for front line fighting myself, Lutecia, you and Garyuu better be able to handle them, I need to help Agito out. She might be small, but her power's better for Unison."

Lutecia nodded and watched as Due jumped down and shifted forms, losing a few centimeters in the process, until she resembled a Saint Church nun. Who, Lutecia wasn't sure, but the woman had short pink hair and was wielding two tonfas.

Lutecia turned to look at the boy and the girl and pointed at them. "Garyuu."

Her insectoid summon sprouted wings and rushed at Erio, who frowned and rushed at him.

(---)

Quint had to admit, she underestimated this device. Unison devices by their very natures were rare, but there was something awfully familiar with this one. "You're pretty strong."

Agito grinned and sat cross-legged in mid-air. "Of course I am!" She suddenly stood straight up and held her arm in the air as fire swirled into an unusual shape. "Try my heat cannon!" Agito grinned and Quint's eyes widened as she saw that.

Not for the move...

But for what it looked like... A giant clawed hand with a cannon on top of it.

"Now I remember..." Quint quickly created a barrier to block the stream of fire that was launched at her. 'She's that device that I tore out of that thing.' If there were more coincidences today, Quint wasn't sure if she could handle it. Turning her head, she blinked as she saw someone she didn't expect to see out there. "Sister Schach? What are you doGAH!" Quint winced as Schach suddenly rushed up and slammed her side with those Tonfas of hers, knocking Quint into the side of a building.

"Agito," the one who looked like Schach said to the small demon before her form shifted and gained a little bit of height in the process, "let's go."

"Heh!" Agito grinned and shot into Due. "Nice trick, boss! Unison in!"

Due closed her eyes as her body was engulfed in flames, when they died out, she opened her eyes, which had changed to a blue coloring while her hair became red and yellow. "Now then," she held up her metal claws, which erupted into fire, "shall we continue?"

Quint rubbed her mouth and smirked at Due. "Well, didn't expect this, you're that spy that was in our group years ago, huh?" Standing up, Quint started chuckling at Due. "Seems like the past never truly leaves us? Let's go!" She yelled while rushing at Due, all of the gears on her gauntlets spinning at once.

This next part...

I couldn't help myself with the puns.

I really couldn't.

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 23:

Subaru narrowed her eyes at the young-looking man as the eight energy spheres rotated around him. "What is your purpose here?" She squeezed her gloved fist and narrowed her eyes at the man as he looked at her calmly.

The man raised his right hand up. "My name is Asuka Tackibana. And this is nothing more than a job for me."

The next thing that Subaru knew, the energy balls started whipping out at her body. Batting aside three with her right hand, she quickly created a barrier with her left hand that blocked three others before the last two went around her barrier and slammed into her legs with enough force to knock her over. "GAH!"

"Don't think that just because my treasure balls aren't large they aren't powerful." Tackibana said as the six balls that Subaru had knocked aside flew back to spin around his right hand. A small grin came to his face as he launched two straight at the downed Subaru's head. "Don't worry, this will only hurt for a moment, then it will all be over."

Subaru watched as the balls flew right at her face. "Sorry, but I'd rather not get slapped in the face by these balls." Throwing her hands up, she grinned as Tackibana stared in shock as she grabbed his ball and squeezed hard enough to crush them in her palms.

"You... Crushed my balls..." Tackibana stuttered out and took a step back as Subaru got to her knees and knocked the balls off of her legs so she could stand up properly. "...You monster."

Subaru stared at him in mute horror. "...I did what..?" Her mind went over what he had just said before shuddering. "Eww! I don't even know where those things were!"

"You..." Tackibana growled as his balls started spinning around him quickly. "I'll make you pay for that!" He snapped his hand out and the remaining six balls lashed out in random patterns towards Subaru.

"Wing... Road!" Subaru called out and took to the skies before staring as those balls were not only capable of moving into the air quickly, but they were capable of keeping up with her with ease.

"Don't think that just because you have air superiority that I can't stop you." Tackibana made some quick motions with his hands, which the balls quickly followed. He smirked as he watched Subaru try and block the balls, but seeing as they rushed from all sides, some hitting her on the left side, before one hit her in the small of her back, and another one hit her on the right side of her face, it was impossible for her to block all of them. He let out a small laugh as one smashed through her Wing Road, causing her to fall straight onto it, before she flopped down onto the ground.

"Oww..." Subaru grabbed her stomach and tried to stand up. "...That hurt."

"Give up then?" Tackibana slowly walked to her as he recalled his balls to his side. "Or I can keep pounding on you until your bones are nothing more than dust."

"No, I give up." Subaru got to her knees, still clutching her stomach with her left hand.

"Well then," the balls around his arm formed a line before a crystal layer formed around them, resembling a short sword, "this won't take long at all, don't worry, when it's done, you won't feel," he raised his arm up, "a," and started to swing down, "thing." He grinned as his weapon neared Subaru's head.

The only warning he got was a small smirk from Subaru as she suddenly grabbed his weapon and squeezed, stopping him cold. "You fell for it."

"What?" Tackibana stared as she stood up with a rather nasty grin on her face that actually had him worried. "I had you beaten! You gave up!"

"Oh please." Subaru grabbed his sword from his hands and squeezed so hard that there was a cracking sound from his weapon. "You really thought I gave up? Those things didn't hurt at all, to be honest, but letting you drag this fight out would be bad, so I had to make you think that you were winning."

Tackibana could only stare in mute horror as she crushed his remaining balls with her hand, causing it to fall to the ground harmlessly before turning to dust. "...You crushed my balls again."

Subaru looked at her hand and shuddered. "Eww! Eww! I'll need to boil my hand in bleach when I get home!"

"You do know that I can make more, right?" Tackibana blinked as Subaru rolled up to him. "Uh..."

"I think it'll be hard to do if you're out cold." Subaru grinned before slamming her right fist into his head and sending him flying across the field until he crashed into a building, where he slumped against the ground, completely out of it.

A couple of moments later, Subaru snapped some binds around his body. "That'll keep him still if he gets back up." Looking at her gloved hand, she shuddered softly. "Eww... I feel dirty from that fight."

(---)

"Well, I have to say that I never expected to have to fight such a lovely woman like you." He grinned while looking his opponent over. "In fact, why don't you just step aside? I know a good place we can..."

"Forget it." She narrowed her eyes at him. "There's something about you that I don't like. Ginga Nakajima, and you're under arrest if you don't have a really good reason for being here."

"George Tetsunami," he pulled out a gun and smirked at her, "and I think you shouldn't worry about why I'm here and worry about what I'm going to do to you if you're not careful." Grinning, he pulled the trigger and Ginga was forced to create a barrier as a fairly powerful beam struck it. "Ah ha! But how long can you keep up with me and my magnum?"

Ginga closed one eye and smirked at him. "If they're as weak as this, I'm not to worried about a quick shot like you. I've seen your type before, talk big, put up a good show, but then you run out of steam after only one or two shots and go so fast that it leaves a girl unsatisfied."

Tetsunami grinned at her as he continued to fire at her. "Ah, but if you think I'm good now, you'll just love my Big Magnum."

Ginga sweat-dropped before finally having enough and dodged out of the way of his next shot. "You know, that almost sounds like a come on."

"Really? I wouldn't know," Tetsunami grinned as he squeezed the trigger and a rather solid beam of energy rushed out towards Ginga, "then again, you've only had to deal with the warm-up shots that can't help but rush out."

Ginga's gloved hand spun around as an energy sphere appeared in her hand. "Revolver... SPIKE!" Punching forward, she grinned as her attack blocked and nullified the energy beam that was launched at her. "If those are your warm-up shots, then I'm not too worried about anything else you might have, you're probably just shooting blanks."

Tetsunami growled and Ginga stared as his whole body started to glow brightly before a large gun, a very large gun with a revolver chamber and a long barrel appeared behind him. "Impressed with my Big Magnum?"

"...I've seen bigger." Though, Ginga would admit that it was still pretty impressive, just not to this guy.

"Really? But I can fire shots from this thing all day, and I never have to worry about getting worn out or leaving nothing but a giant mess behind," Tetsunami grinned as he held his hand upwards, "because that's all that it does!"

"I bet!" Ginga was looking at the thing and didn't think it could move very fast, but it probably didn't need to. "You know that I can just get you from the sides or behind right?"

"I'd like to see you TRY to get a shot in from behind!" Tetsunami grinned and pointed behind Ginga, who turned her head to look and paled as she saw several people who were fairly far from the battle field, but could still get hurt if something went flying right at them. "After all, I don't have any protection on and this thing is fully loaded and ready to fire. Can you let yourself live if even one of them gets hurt?"

Ginga turned to him and growled. "You..."

"Now then! Wind good! Humidity fine! Fire!"

Ginga's gauntlet started to spin as light blue energy covered her hand. "Freeze... Cannon!"

Tetsunami blinked as his bullet was frozen and then shattered instantly. "Impressive! Too bad for you," he jumped to stand on the top of his gun and crossed his arms over his chest, "that I can fire more than one shot!"

Ginga stared as a second bullet seemed to materialize out of nowhere before she was recovered from the first shot. Grunting as she tried to hold off the shot, she had to grit her teeth as the bullet was able to not only crack her gauntlet, but send her tumbling back several feet at the same time.

"Ha ha ha!" Tetsunami laughed even as he saw his bullet had fallen to the ground harmlessly. "You really think that you can stand up to my thick, hard magnum with that puny little fist of yours?!"

Ginga shook her head to clear out any cobwebs and stood up. "Yeah, well at least this puny little fist is more satisfying to me than your big magnum is!"

"Oh really?!" Tetsunami smirked as he fired another shot. "It's thick," he smirked as Ginga had to block that one with her shields, "it's hard," another shot fired and Tetsunami's smirk turned into a rather perverse grin as he saw Ginga struggling to keep up with his multiple shots, "and it's coming to get'cha!" He roared as he fired several more shots almost simultaneously, bombarding Ginga and kicking up a cloud of dust in its wake.

When no more bullets came out of his Magnum, Tetsunami jumped to the ground and smirked as he recalled his gun. "How do you like my Big Magnum now?"

When the dust cleared, Tetsunami stared as Ginga was not only standing, she barely looked hurt, sure there was some blood running down from the cuts on her face and her outfit was filthy, but she looked ready to go still. "Like I said before, my puny little fist is more satisfying to me than your magnum is," Ginga grinned at him, "at least my puny little fist doesn't run out and fail to perform at critical moments."

"You..." Tetsunami took a step back and pointed at her. "Fire!"

Ginga just smirked as all she heard was a click. "Looks to me that you're out of ammo, how... Typical of a man, always getting your guns off and never thinking of a woman."

Before Tetsunami could retort, he found himself quickly bound up so tightly that he let go of his gun device out of reflex.

Snorting as she saw Tetsunami's larger gun disappear, Ginga quickly cast a sealing bind on the gun before turning and rolling away. "Just stay there, oh, and by the way..." She turned to look at him before giving out one final parting shot, "I've had better from my own sister before."

(---)

"Gin-nee..." Subaru stared at her sister's appearance as she saw her two minutes later. "What happened?"

"...Let's just say that I didn't appreciate his Big Magnum... How about you?"

"...His balls were annoying." Subaru muttered.

The two sisters looked at each other and shuddered.

[Nanya01]

Spoiler for Blood That Flows - StrikerS 24:

Erio looked at the slightly older girl and narrowed his eyes. "What are you doing here?" His only answer was the black armored person moving towards him. Running forward, he swung his spear right at the black being and could only stare as a spike extended from its arm and drove into his blade. "Caro, stop her!"

Nodding, Caro looked at the girl, who calmly stared back at her. "Please, who are you? At least tell me that much."

The purple haired girl said nothing and held up her hand and Caro gasped as a large sphere of fire appeared in her hand. "...A fireball?"

When the fireball seemed to start to shrink and smaller fireballs erupted from it, Caro let out a small yelp as she was attacked with something similar to a Burst Brondo. Her barrier was able to hold up against it easily enough, thankfully. "Fried! Blast Flare!"

A circle appeared under her as a stream of magic went to her Dragon. Fried's eyes flashed before he launched a powerful fireball at the other summoner.

Caro felt her stomach drop as the other girl easily blocked it. "That..."

The girl pointed a finger at her and a purple blast rushed at Caro, overwhelming her barrier and pushing her and her Dragon away from the truck.

"Caro!" Erio cried out, catching the girl's attention. Before she could say or do anything, he snapped a wind spell out that caught the girl by surprise, sending her flying off of the truck and towards the water. However, as Erio turned to look at the summon, he recieved a kick to the jaw so strong that his teeth rattled.

Garyuu swung his fist forward, fully intending to take Erio down in one strike, but stared as the boy got his hands up and blocked the strike with a quickly created barrier. He zipped backwards before rushing to the side and grabbing his mistress, who was hovering just above the water. "I am fine, Garyuu." Lutecia gave him a pat on the head. "Thank you." She looked up and her pupils shrank. "Watch out."

Garyuu zipped to the side as a white beam bisected where he had been just a moment ago. Quickly snapping to the side, he tossed Lutecia up before charging down with a strong kick, forcing Erio to jump off of the semi truck to avoid getting his head knocked off. Getting into a crouch, he shot forward and slammed his fist into the side of the truck.

"Listen! I don't want to hurt..." Erio was forced to twist out of the way as Garyuu tried to take his head off, "okay! I'm sorry for shooting at your mistress! Can you calm down!?"

Above them, Lutecia slowly floated downwards, though, anyone who bothered to look up would have had a good look at her underwear. "Garyuu..." She whispered softly and looked at Caro who was riding on the Dragon's back. Holding her hand out, she shot several purple beams at Caro and Fried, the latter flying up to avoid the shots. "I wonder if Otto will be mad for me copying her?" True, it wasn't the same as the cyborg's ability, but it was as close as Lutecia could get on her own.

Caro stared as a purple sphere shot up at her and quickly encompassed her and Fried. "...Fried, Blast, AHHH!" The small summoner screamed out in pain as the sphere seemed to explode, energy lashing out at her from all angles to fast and hard for her to put up a barrier. "NNNNGAAAAAHHH!" Tears formed in her eyes as she and Fried screamed in pain from the bombarding energy. 'No more. No more. NO MORE!' She screamed to herself as tears fell out of her eyes.

Lutecia stared as the energy turned from purple to a light blue and the summoner girl was surrounded in a sphere of water. "...What is that?" It didn't feel like Mid or Belkan, or even Levi's magic. In fact, if Lutecia was to place it anywhere, it felt completely opposite of Levi's magic.

If only she knew what it was.

As Lutecia touched down softly by a tree, she gasped as Garyuu slammed into the ground next to her, a crackle of lightning covering his body while Erio flew up to meet Caro, who was slowly coming down to meet him.

Erio narrowed his eyes at the opposing summoner. "Caro," he whispered while holding Ragudo Mezzagis in front of him, "got any attack spells?"

"A few." Caro looked at him. "But I'm better with Fried..."

Erio grinned at that. "Well then, how about..." Before he could finish the sentence, a green light filled the air and forced him to look up as a large beam came crashing down at him. Swinging up his spear, he grunted as the energy of the beam was blocked by the spear.

"Erio-kun!" Caro gasped as she saw him being pushed through the roof of the semi-truck.

"Worry about yourself." Caro gasped as binds snapped around her and Fried, causing them to fall to the ground. Turning her head, she stared as a brown haired girl with a red blade in each hand looked at her. "Just give us the contents of the truck, and we'll be on our way."

Erio grunted and swung his weapon down, causing the energy to dissipate fully. Standing in front of him was a short, boyish-looking person with spiky brown hair, green eyes and was wearing a skin-tight black outfit. "You're outnumbered."

Erio narrowed his eyes and grit his teeth. This didn't look good.

(---)

Meanwhile...

Due grimaced as she blocked a kick, sending her flying back into one of the semi trucks. "Nnngh... Dammit."

"You're not much of a fighter, huh?" Quint looked at the shorter blonde, who looked at her and smirked.

"I'm a spy and assassin, I'd get into places that people shouldn't get into, get information any way possible, and I mean any way I could, torture, friendship, even sleeping with the target, whatever it takes to get information, and then, when I got what I needed, I eliminated the target." Due smirked at Quint. "So, yeah, I'm not much of a fighter, I'm better at killing people when they least expect it."

"If you're not much of a fighter, turn into someone who is!"

Due grimaced as she heard Agito's voice in her head. "Even if I do that, my skill level doesn't increase just because I turn into someone who can fight."

Quint looked at Due. "So, tell me, what does Jail want with these items?" Seeing Due narrow her eyes, Quint nodded and adjusted her body "He wants them, what for, and why are you using Lutecia for it?"

"Whatever Jail wants with them isn't my concern," Due snorted as she swung her arm up, a wave of flames rushing out towards the other woman, "however, I will not let you take Lutecia for your own deeds."

Quint narrowed her eyes at the blonde. "Then tell me what you want with my god child. If anything, you should give her to me so we can help her."

Due hesitated. Giving Lutecia to a Bureau member would be a way to get her away from Quattro, but at the same time...

The image of Lutecia's naked mother floating in a tube, unknowing of everything that was going on around her.

"As much as I'd like to let you have her, there's someone else that I need to answer to, and you aren't her."

Quint's pupils shrank. "...You... Are you talking about Megane?" That was too much to hope for, but it was the first thing that came to her mind.

Due slammed her palm down onto the sidewalk and a layer of smoke appeared between her and Quint. "Even if I was, that isn't for you to worry about right now."

Quint covered her eyes and frowned softly. "Where did you go?" Thrusting her palm out, she nearly cursed as the quick burst of wind was enough to clear the smoke away, but not fast enough to keep her opponent from escaping.

She turned to where Erio, Caro and Lutecia were and blinked as two new opponents appeared near Lutecia, both were black body outfits, one looked almost like a boy with short, spiky brown hair and a petite frame who stood in front of Erio, while the other one was a girl with long brown hair and she held a blade in each hand and was pointing them at Caro.

"Well, this can't be good." Quint muttered to herself.

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Teana jumped out of the way as the man she was facing suddenly grinned, jumped backwards and sent his pink car flying right at her. "Aww, come on, Tiyana, I never get to see if my exploding car bomb can do the damage I think it can do." Kuma pouted and held up a hand to block Teana's return shots. "Huh, that's interesting."

"What is it you want?" Teana asked as a tire rolled up to him.

He grinned at her. "Oh, I just want a few items in that truck, nothing more, nothing less." He raised his foot so he could bounce the tire before kicking it up. "Really, I don't want to be here too long." He tilted his head. "I suggest you get out of here soon as well, I'd hate to see something happen to someone as lovely as you are, Tiyana."

"It's Teana." Teana narrowed her eyes at him and snapped her left hand out, the gun in it shifting forms and becoming an energy dagger.

"Huh, you didn't do that last time." Kuma raised an eyebrow. "Alright, guess I can have some fun for a little bit." The tire landed behind him as his whole body started to glow. "Radical Good Speed Wheels Unlimited!"

Teana covered her eyes as dust was kicked up. When it was done, Kuma had boots on his feet that were light pink in color. "What the heck is that?" She stared as he smirked at her.

"Oh, just a taste of my real power. To be honest, Tetsunami, myself and Asuka are all mages who were born with rather flawed Linker Cores. While none of us are lacking magic ability, we were, because of this flaw, forced to do one thing with our magic and do it well." He shook his head, "but unlike those two, I overcame that limitation."

"Why are you telling me this?" Teana held her blade in front of her as Kuma stood straight and bounced from foot to foot.

"Well, for one thing, I don't want your report to be incomplete, and for another," Teana stared as he suddenly turned and ran fast, before turning around and rushing right at her, "I want you to realize that you can't win!" He jumped forward, his foot extended and grinned as it slammed into a barrier she created. "Not bad, but considering that I'm barely putting anything into this attack..." He seemed to get confused for a second as he tilted his head. "Well, I don't know what that says, but I really find you to be interesting, Tiyana."

"Teana!" She snapped at him and pointed Cross Mirage at him. "Variable Bullet!"

Kuma's eyes widened and he leaned back, causing the bullet to fly just inches past his nose. "Hey! You almost shot my glasses!"

Teana just stared, how the hell did this guy lean back with both feet off of the ground?

"These glasses are expensive!" He pushed off of her shield and frowned as he flipped in mid-air and slid across the ground. "I mean, really! Do you know how hard it is to get glasses like this?!"

"...You're completely insane, aren't you?" Teana couldn't help but stare at him as he tilted his head back and forth.

"Well, we're all a little crazy, little missy." He smirked at her. "If you want to fight in the big leagues, you've got to shrug off what you think reality is and accept that what you see is not always what you get." Standing straight up, he started spinning and twisting around as Teana shot at him. "You probably think that I'm a freak, huh?"

"That thought did cross my mind." Teana had to grit her teeth in frustration, why couldn't she hit him? He was barely moving. "Nnngh! Crossfire... SHHOOOT!" Several balls of energy surrounded her and her finger slipped to Cross Mirage's trigger and she started to squeeze it. "Take THIS!"

"All right! That's more like it!" Kuma did a backflip before rushing forward at such speeds that his body seemed to change colors. "Shocking Burst!"

Before Teana could react, she found his foot deeply planted into her stomach, driving her away from him and causing her to bounce off of the pavement a few times and crash into a dirt pile.

"Good..." Kuma muttered as the energy around him dissipated. He then looked at the semi trucks before rushing towards the first one and broke through the roof top, dropping into a nearly empty truck. "Nope, not this one," he muttered before turning and kicking forward and crashing through the side and into the second one, "huh, nothing here..." He narrowed his eyes and rushed out and through the trailer door before smashing into the third trailer from the front, shattering the truck's engine and the wall as he kicked forward. "Either someone gave out faulty information or..." His eyes widened behind his sunglasses. "We were all set up." It was possible, all of these trucks were completely empty. "...But who could set up everything?"

(---)

"Drat, I was hoping that it would take a little longer before someone got into those trailers." She sighed heavily and hit a button. "Is everything ready to go?"

"Yes. Just give me the word."

"Do... Wait," a small smile came to her face, "not yet, let's see just how things turn out here."

"Very well."

(---)

Teana groaned as she shook her head to get the loose dirt off of it. "Oww..."

"Need a hand?" She looked up to see Arisa standing above her, offering her a hand. "Looks like you've got a tough one."

Teana nodded and groaned, clutching her stomach. "Ugh... I feel sick." Looking up, she glared as that crazy man erupted from the third trailer, did a spinning flip in mid-air and landed on his feet not too far from them. "You..."

"Well, I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed that I came out here for nothing." He huffed, looking annoyed. "Well, almost nothing, I got to see the lovely Tiyana again," he ignored her when she corrected him, again, "and another very lovely woman." Standing straight, he bowed to them. "It's probably the best part of actually being a mercenary, all the lovely women I get to see."

Arisa narrowed her eyes and held out a hand, a flaming sword materializing in it. "I suggest," she said as blue wings appeared out of her back, "that you just give up."

He smirked at her. "Sorry, but I can't do that. See, I've got this thing called morals, and they're quite pesky, and part of them means that I can't just give up." His shoulders shook as he laughed to himself. "After all, what kind of man would I be if I just gave up all the time?"

Arisa smirked back at him. "I can appreciate a man like that." Teana stared at her, aghast. "After all, someone who can't man up and do what's needed is no man at all."

"Exactly! Exactly!" Kuma laughed and stomped his foot onto the ground. "Even if you've got your sights on another man, you have to recognize that a man with no conviction is no man at all. And without conviction, a man lets others control his life and without control a man has no destiny and without destiny there's no reason to live, so, I've got to do my job, even if it forces me to go up against a pair of lovely women like yourselves."

Teana looked back and forth between Arisa and Kuma and shuddered. "...You're both completely insane, aren't you?"

Arisa turned to her and grinned. "Teana, you'll understand someday as well." A flap of her wings had her floating upwards before she shot out at Kuma at high speeds. "Let's see what you got!"

"Oooh!" Kuma turned and started running, grinning as Arisa easily caught up to him and was able to keep going with his running. "Impressive, I've never actually met anyone who can keep up with me before."

"I'm even faster than you think." Arisa grinned and shot off like a cannon shot in front of him.

Kuma looked surprised, before furrowing his brow. "First of all, you're not flying very well, and secondly, you think you're faster than me, to tell you the truth, that's what really pisses me off!" A second burst of speed suddenly had Kuma rocketing down the street after Arisa.

Watching the two of them race, Teana stared, her eyes wide and a cold sensation ran through her body. "What am I doing here?" She asked herself, before shaking her head. 'Brother... I'll make you proud of me.' She thought to herself as she called up several balls of energy again. "Crossfire..." There was a sudden kick-up of dust and a small explosion from where the two had disappeared to. 'Did they just break the sound barrier?' It wasn't unheard of for fast mages to move that fast, but it wasn't exactly common either. "SHOOOT!" This time, she didn't bother taking her time until she had a good lock, she just hoped that she could hit that jerk and avoid hitting Arisa at the same time.

As they raced back to the battlefield, Kuma had to duck under and twist around several strikes that Arisa sent his way. "I have to admit," he lashed out with several kicks, which were reflected by a powerful gust of wind each time, "that I'm somewhat impressed. No one's ever forced me to use this level of speed before."

"You should try my friends, they always force me to go as fast as I can." Arisa grinned before she and Kuma were forced to look forward as several shots came barreling down at them. "That idiot..." Arisa growled and snapped a wrist up, the ground snapped up and formed a wall to block the shots heading her way.

"Wow, you could have used that to stop me," Kuma laughed as he danced around the beams and shot forward right to Teana, who cast a barrier around her as she saw him coming at her. "You're too slow!" Teana stared upwards as he raised his foot upwards before slamming it down, shattering her barrier with ease before he drove a knee into her stomach, causing her cough up some blood.

"Ughhhh..." At least he didn't use much strength with that blow, though the speed was still incredible and she found herself staggering back before falling down and clutching her stomach.

"Listen, little missy, at this level, only the freaks of nature can survive, if you're normal, you're likely to get hurt." He grinned at her downed body before putting something into his pants pocket. "I'll keep these for now, maybe you'll learn to create better and faster defenses the next time we fight." He ducked out of the way of an ice spear that Arisa tossed at him. "Come on, that's not really nice."

Teana didn't hear what Arisa shot back at Kuma. Those words rang through her head constantly. Well, that and the sudden realization that it was rather breezy under her skirt. 'Only... Wait a second...' She blinked and her face turned completely red as she stood up. "That..." She trailed off as she saw Kuma bouncing off of the walls and vehicles. "...What the..?"

"Oh, come on, I barely did anything!" Kuma yelled as he danced around Arisa's swings. A beeping sound came from his watch and he grimaced. "Sorry, miss, ah..."

"Arisa Bannings." She narrowed her eyes as he suddenly stopped and bowed to her.

"Miss Alisa."

"Arisa!"

"Sorry, I'm not too good with names." He rubbed the back of his neck. "But, I'm sorry, but it's time for me to leave, and I suggest that you do the same."

"What are you..?" Arisa stared as he seemed to split into four before a powerful gust of wind kicked up, a loud boom was heard in the air and the ground itself broke up as a trail of glass was left in his wake. "...I couldn't even see him move." She hated to admit it, but he was probably playing around with her and Teana. Turning, she flew back to Teana, who was rather red faced while tugging on her skirt. "...What's wrong?"

"...He stole my underwear."

Arisa stared at her and she nodded, causing the blonde to groan. "Great, just great, anyway..." She trailed off as something caught her eyes. Looking up, she stared and paled as a signal appeared in the sky. "...What is that?"

Teana could only turn and stare in shock. "...I have no clue."

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Erio looked at the boyish-looking enemy in front of him. "You..."

"Surrender, I do not wish to harm you or your friend." The girl with long hair said as she pointed her blade at Caro. When Erio growled at her and gripped his spear tighter, she sighed softly. "Otto, deal with the girl, I will handle the boy." She snapped her fingers and Erio found himself wrapped up in binds.

"You..." Erio growled at her. "Damn you."

"Caro! Erio!" Subaru yelled as she rushed towards the young children, Ginga and Quint right behind her. "Stop!"

"I would listen." A male voice spoke up and the two that were in front of Erio and Caro looked up to see Yuuno and Fate, the latter with Bardiche in Zambar form, looking down at them with narrow eyes. "I'd hate to have to hurt you too badly because you harmed those two."

"...Deed, take her, I will go against him." Otto said as she floated upwards, followed by Deed.

Lutecia watched them float upwards to meet their opponents before looking at Caro, Erio, Subaru, Ginga and Quint. "...Garyuu, are you okay?" She had other concerns on her mind other than her enemies at that moment. When Garyuu nodded his head, she smiled at him. "Good boy."

"Garyuu, that is you, isn't it?" The insectoid summon turned and looked at the older woman as she walked towards Garyuu, her hands held up in front of her. "It's me, Quint, you remember me, don't you? I was your mistress's friend."

Lutecia looked at Garyuu as he took a step backwards. "...You know her, Garyuu?"

"Yes, he did." Quint smiled at Lutecia. "Because I knew him, and your mother." Lutecia looked at her, her pupils shrinking as she digested that. "Please, Lutecia," Quint held her hand out to the young girl. "Come with me. I can help you."

Before Lutecia could answer, several pink bolts bombarded the area around her, kicking up a lot of dust in the process. When the dust settled, a redheaded girl wearing a black body suit, a red thin belt or something around her waist, was next to Lutecia. Her red eyes sparkled in mirth as pink spheres surrounded her, Lutecia and Garyuu. Her hair was done up in a ponytail that was pressed up against the back of her head as she grinned and leaned against a board of some sort. "Hey, Lu..." She narrowed her eyes as she saw Ginga make a move. "Ah ah ah..." She waggled a finger, "I wouldn't try anything..."

"Wendi..." Quint looked at the girl, who looked at her, blinking in shock. "What the heck, is everyone I've met in the past going to show up or something?"

Wendi bit her lower lip. 'Maybe we should have had Cinque come in instead?' And where the heck was Due anyway?

(---)

Meanwhile...

Otto grimaced as her opponent easily blocked her Ray Storm. Granted, it wasn't her strongest ability anymore, but it was still a little worrying to see her taller adversary block it so easily.

"I don't know what you're playing at, boy, but..."

"That's a girl, boss."

Yuuno blinked and looked at Otto, tilting his head. "...You sure?"

"No Adam's apple. If she wasn't wearing those pants, I bet that outfit would be just as tight on her as it is on that other cute girl."

"Leave my sister out of this." Otto said, narrowing her eyes at Yuuno and Thoth Driver.

"Boss, it is every man's dream to get two cute sisters after you at the same time, do it."

Yuuno just palmed his face and sighed as the girl twitched and glared at him. "Regardless of my device, I do respect women a lot more than that. Unless you and your sister both would want to do that, I wouldn't ask that of you."

"Good, because I do not like your device." Otto said, her face red as she fumed silently.

"Listen," Yuuno held up his hands to try and keep her calm, "I don't really want to fight, but you were threatening someone who I look at like a daughter. But, tell me, what do you want right now? If it's something that we can help with, the Bureau would be glad to help you. Or at the very least, my friends and I would help you."

Narrowing her eyes, Otto brought her hand up to her face. "I am sorry, but I doubt that you could help someone like myself."

"Hey, boss, how come she has a tail?"

"What?" Yuuno blinked and looked at Otto's waist, his eyes widened as the thing he thought was a belt suddenly unwrapped from her waist and stuck out. "...You're a Dragon?"

"Ray Slice." A thin green beam rushed out towards Yuuno, forcing him to throw a hand up to block it. Grimacing at the strength of the blow, he looked at his device.

"Thoth!"

"On it boss, Reflect."

Otto stared as Yuuno tilted his barrier slightly and her shot was reflected right back at her, though slightly to the right as the beam missed her by only a few centimeters. Her body trembled as she looked at him with fear in her eyes. "...You could have..."

"I didn't want to." He said, his eyes narrowed as he looked at her. Between the glint on his glasses, the scar on his face and his narrow eyes, Otto really was scared. "Listen, again, I don't want to hurt you, but you need to stop before I have to."

"None of us really have a future, we lost that chance. No one will accept most of us for what we are, just remember that."

Uno's words were harsh, but Otto knew that they were true. Taking a deep breath, she tried to remind herself that she had a very durable piece of armor on. "I am sorry, but I do not have a choice." Before the smaller girl could say anything, her head throbbed and she clutched her skull, groaning. 'What, what is this?'

(---)

Deed grimaced as the blonde she was facing was not only fast, but also incredibly strong. 'It is almost like facing Tre one-on-one.' It really was too, every time that Deed tried to make a move, her opponent was either behind her, at her side, or in her guard, smacking her with her large blade.

"You're not too bad." Fate said as she watched Deed's movements. "A little too reliant on how tough you are, but you do not leave too many openings in your style."

Deed closed her eyes. "Unlike most of my sisters, I am not too special, however, I recently discovered a unique ability of mine."

Fate blinked, wondering what the girl was talking about, before staring as she suddenly split into three other replicas of herself. "...What is this?"

One of the clones swung her blade out at Fate and a wave of lightning shot at her. Spinning, Fate blocked that with Bardiche, but grunted as a blade beam struck her back. "Bardiche, status."

"Yes, sir. All four are the same, no differences."

"Great." Fate grimaced and held a hand up. "Dimension Thunder!" At full power, this spell was strong enough to nearly destroy even a Bureau ship with a single shot, as her deceased mother, Precia, could have done many years ago. However, Fate wasn't aiming to kill her opponent, so she put only enough power to cast the spell and nothing more.

Fate watched as all four clones covered their bodies as the lightning struck them from all angles. "I do not wish for this fight to continue."

"I was thinking the same thing." Fate stared as not only were the four copies of her opponent not out cold, but they were also completely unharmed from that attack, other than some singe marks on their skin.

"Very well," Fate ran her hand across the flat of her blade, causing it to glow white. "You leave me no choice, Dimension Zambar." She still didn't want to kill anyone, but she didn't know if she could afford to hold back too much against this girl who could clone herself.

A blast of cold air struck out at Fate from behind, forcing the Ace to spin and cut upwards to diffuse the energy. Turning to the side, she swung outwards, cutting through a blast of wind as she looked at the clones with her eyes narrowed. "You cannot hope to win like this." When one of the clones suddenly looked afraid, Fate gave a grim smile and turned to slash the one across from that copy in half.

Deed stared and trembled as that Zambar sword turned from white back to yellow. The reason she was afraid?

That woman cut through the Valkyrie body armor with ease. If Deed's state of mind was more calm, she would have realized that it was because of how large the sword was, and that Tre's own blades could do similar effects.

But seeing a clone get chopped down so easily, it didn't sit well with the cyborg, who gulped as Fate spun and pointed Bardiche Zambar at her face.

"Please surrender, I do not wish to harm you for real."

Before Deed could answer, her head throbbed and she was forced to grab at the top of her skull as she groaned in pain. 'What is this?'

(---)

Sighing as she saw what was happening on the screen, Levi felt the urge to take off a pair of glasses and wipe them down.

Never mind the fact that she didn't have glasses to begin with, she still felt the urge to do so.

"Worthless Dragons." She muttered to herself. 'What's the point of giving you those nanites if they activate when you're stressed out?' Oh well, she could have Quattro fix things later. "Quattro..." She said, grinning as she heard Quattro's voice in her head.

"Yes, my master?"

"It's time..." Her purple eyes flashed as she connected her mind to Lutecia's. "Lutecia..."

(---)

Lutecia gasped softly. 'Master Levi?'

"Good girl, now, I need you to create a summoning sigil... Oh, about twelve feet into the air for me."

"Yes, master." Lutecia said as she closed her eyes and focused.

"Wendi, what is..." Subaru trailed off as she noticed Lutecia's summoning circle appear under her.

"...That's a big summon." Wendi said as she looked up into the air.

"And that's why we're going." Wendi turned to see Due and Agito, though the former was clutching her ribs while trying to grab Lutecia. "Sorry about disappearing, but that woman down there hits pretty damn hard, broke a couple of my ribs." She looked up at Otto and Deed. "Dammit! Wendi, you grab them, I'll get Lutecia, Agito, get us out of here."

Agito saluted Due and a Belkan triangle appeared under her. "Ready when you are, Meister."

Up above, Wendi grabbed Otto and grinned at Yuuno. "Sorry, but you can't have her, and I don't want to stick around when that thing shows up." She pointed at the summoning circle and Yuuno could only blink as, by the time he turned back, both Otto and Wendi were already over to where Fate and Deed were.

"...She's fast."

"Bet she's like that with more than just flying, boss."

"Not now, Thoth." Yuuno grumbled as he saw Wendi grab Deed and rush both Otto and Deed back to Due, Agito and Lutecia. "What is..." His eyes widened as five gadget drones came out of the summoning array, followed by the largest humanoid machines Yuuno had ever seen.

Shortly after the machine was summoned, Wendi, Due, Agito, Lutecia, Deed and Otto all vanished in a flash of white light.

Even though he was the tallest person on the field, the machine was more than twice his height, pure white in color, wide enough that it took up most of the street when it touched down, its feet were very jagged and its hands looked like knives, on its right arm was a large cannon while its face reminded Yuuno of a shark for some odd reason.

When the eyes flashed red, Yuuno gulped. When the Gadget Drones suddenly split into two and tubes came out of them, only for one gadget drone to latch onto each arm, one to each leg, and one to the chest while the other half latched onto the thing's back and a bubble suddenly appeared, six feet in all directions from the thing, Yuuno wondered what the heck was happening.

One thing was for certain, it wouldn't take long to find out.

Dark part incoming.

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The first thing that the robot did was turn to face them more fully and it then pointed its cannon at them.

"Move!" No one was sure who yelled that, maybe it was all of them, but a moment later there was a giant pot hole in the street.

"What the heck?!" Erio yelped as he flew upwards.

"Photon Lancer, full auto fire."

Swinging Bardiche Zambar down, Fate watched as her projectiles slammed into the bubble that the thing had around itself. Her eyes widened in shock as the projectiles fizzled out shortly after hitting it. "What the?"

"Just hit with everything you got!" Yuuno said while creating a thick lance of ice and launching it at the machine. Most everyone followed suit, launching various projectiles at the machine and kicking up dust in the process.

Arisa was the only one who didn't fire at the thing. Her eyes narrowed as she watched the others finally stop attacking. "...I don't think it's dead!" A moment later, a beam lanced out of the dust, causing the dust to swirl to prove Arisa right and forcing Arisa to create a thick barrier of rock from the ground. When the ground started to crack and give way, Arisa dodged to the side as the beam tore through where she was a moment ago.

"Arisa!" Yuuno turned to see that she was okay before looking back at the Megah, staring as there wasn't even a scratch on it.

"Well, if magic doesn't work..." Ginga trailed off, creating a Wind Road under her and getting above it.

"Ginga! Wait!" Quint called after her daughter, who let out a yell and dove straight down on her Wing Road. Her eyes widened as the Wing Road disappeared the instant that it touched the bubble.

"Take this!" Ginga yelled as she went through the bubble and gasped as her clothing started to dissolve. "AAAAH!" She tried to punch at the thing's head, but found that it, despite its height and bulk, was incredibly agile, as it suddenly took a couple of steps backwards before swatting her out of mid-air, causing her to cry out in pain as she hit the pavement and bounced off of it a couple of times as she slid down the street.

"Gin-nee!" Subaru stared and grit her teeth as the thing turned to her. "You..."

"Aim for the chest! The core to these things are there!" Quint called out as she held her hands to the side. "Subaru, distract it for a few seconds."

"I've got a clear shot at its back." She heard Fate's voice speak up, causing her to nod as she and Subaru shot Revolver Cannon shots into the barrier, to completely no effect.

"Damn." Quint muttered as she saw Fate zip in low. "Get him!"

Just as Fate was about to enter the bubble, the thing turned and with speed that shocked even her, it stepped forward, reached out and grabbed her blade with its non-cannon arm and held her up. Fate stared as the thing quickly crushed her blade and then smacked her out of the field as well, causing her to crash into a building with only the clothes around her chest, arms, waist and feet still intact. "Damn, that field's dangerous." It was almost like anything that was made out of magic fell apart the instant that it was in that field. "Bardiche, are you okay?"

"Yes, sir, no problem."

Fate smiled softly. "Good boy."

She watched as Erio and Caro both took shots at the thing. One thing that interested her was that the Spear of Light's energy beams were able to get to the mechanical creature, even if all they could do was touch the thing's armor, at least they could get to it. "Which means you just need to overwhelm it." If she was by herself, it wouldn't be too hard, just launch her stronger attacks into the field until it exploded, but her strongest attacks were a bit too dangerous to use with a group of people around her.

She narrowed her eyes as the thing outright ignored Teana, Subaru and Quint and focused on Erio and Caro. "...Can it learn?" Fate felt the urge to shiver and blinked. "Wait, is it getting colder?" Looking down, she stared as Yuuno held his hand up and breathed out slowly, her breath heating the air around her. "Well, that answers that."

On the ground, Teana really wished that her skirt wasn't so short. Even with the ability of her field to moderate temperatures around her, the sudden decrease in heat was quickly reminding her that she didn't have any underwear on anymore and that she didn't like it when it got too cold.

Yuuno grinned as he saw frost starting to form on the ground. "That's it, just a little more." He could see the thing was starting to slow down, even if it was just a little bit, plus it was aiming at Caro and Erio, both of whom where small, mid-air targets.

The next thing he knew, the Megah reached down, grabbed a car and threw it right at him.

"SHIT!" Yuuno lost his concentration for making it colder and created several barriers to block the car that was thrown at him.

"Boss, is that thing hovering now?"

Yuuno looked and stared, Thoth was right about that, as the thing's feet were several centimeters off of the ground. "I'm open to suggestions!"

"I got one!" Arisa flew right at the thing and swung her flaming sword right at it. "Let's see you handle a taste of this!" Cutting horizontally in front of her, Arisa grinned as the flames cut into the bubble with no problem and continued on without dissipating, at least until the Megah suddenly turned and batted her flame sword, causing it to flicker out completely. "...This thing can, EEEK!" It pointed its cannon at her and fired a quick shot into a hastily created ice barrier that Arisa threw up as she tried to fly away from the field. When the ice shattered, she was certain that she was going to get blasted into pieces. Had a green barrier suddenly appeared, she may have found that to be the truth.

Yuuno grunted as he held his hand up. "Any other suggestions?!"

"Dug Haut!" Teana called out as she shot the ground several times around the Megah and grinned as spikes shot up from the ground straight at the target. Her grin faded as the spikes slowed down and stopped just as the tips of the spikes touched the Megah, creating a painfully loud grinding sound as the Megah moved forward and shot at Teana, who just barely dodged the initial shot, though she was hit hard by most of the debris, cutting into her back and sides with ease.

"Thunder... Rage!" Fate called out from her position in mid-air, turning her magic into lightning and letting it loose. She wasn't sure if it would work, but she had to try something. Plus, she used more than three times the amount of magic that was needed for this spell in hopes of overloading the bubble and hitting the machine.

A tight smile came to Fate's lips as the lightning struck true, hitting the machine and causing it to jerk before it fell to one knee and hunched over, the bubble disappearing as it did so.

"Did I get it?" Fate asked as she hovered down for a closer look.

Arisa suddenly got a chill up her spine as she looked at it. "Fate, look out!"

Before Fate could ask what she meant, the Megah reached up with its left hand and grabbed her leg, pulling her down in front of its arm cannon.

The next thing any of them knew, a blade had extended from under the arm cannon and imbedded itself into Fate's stomach and out of her back.

The blonde's eyes widened and she let out a rather pained gurgle as blood escaped her lips. The Megah swung its arm down and Fate was forcibly removed from its blade as she landed on the street with a sickening splat.

"Fate..?" Arisa stared as Fate twitched and spasmed, blood pooling out around her. "FATE!"

Even as Arisa screamed, the AMS was reignited around the Megah, which retracted its blade and stood ready to crush its enemies.

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"Fate!" Yuuno rushed to the blonde's side and put his hands over her wound. "Don't you dare! Don't you dare die on me! Resurrection!"

Fate twitched and spasmed as Yuuno's healing magic worked through her body.

"Come on, Fate! Don't you dare die on me!" Yuuno had to bite his lip to keep himself from grinding his teeth. "Think about what Nanoha would do if she found out you were dead!" The resurrection spell was the most potent healing spell known. While it could heal almost any wound and injury in a matter of moments, but wounds that were harsh enough to either kill or nearly kill a person in an instant took longer to heal.

Erio glared and balled his hands into fist. "You..." A dark aura suddenly surrounded him as he shot down, his eyes practically glowing red. "DIE!" The Spear of Light turned dark in color as Erio zipped into the bubble, the field shrinking as he did so, however, it was not enough to stop his attack as he cut through the Megah's left arm, detaching it from the main body in one strike. Turning, the redheaded boy was about to strike at the Megah again when the Megah's left leg struck out, smashing into Erio and sending him flying into a mailbox down the street.

The Megah pointed its arm at Erio and fired a powerful stream of energy at the boy as he tried to get up, but failed, and as the beam connected with his body, it turned into a pure white dome that kicked up wind and dirt and knocked the loose pieces of pink automobile to get tossed around.

Quint growled and, with tears in her eyes, spread her arms to the side. "Earth... And SKY!" One hand started glowing yellow while another one glowed red. "You're going to PAY for that!" Screaming as she forced her hands together, a powerful whirlwind was kicked up that barreled right at the Megah.

Subaru had to turn her head away as the roar of the technique nearly overwhelmed her hearing. Chancing a look, she gasped as the Megah wasn't paralyzed from the attack, and used its remaining arm to tear into the tornado and take a few steps towards Quint.

"AHHHH!" Quint rushed forward, letting out a scream as she pulled her hands back while rushing forward as hard as she could, breaking through the bubble, she could feel her magical strength ebbing fast. "Take... THIS!" She screamed, took to the air and slammed her knuckles into the Megah's chest as hard as she could. A grin came to her face as she saw her knuckles pressing into the Megah's chest, causing cracks to appear. Quint let out a scream as the Megah grabbed her and squeezed hard as it spun and threw her into a tree.

Turning its head, it pointed its arm cannon and fired, the beam of energy lancing out and slamming into Yuuno's back, tearing up his cape and outfit and causing his back to bleed horribly before he created a barrier to block the shot.

"Dammit! I can't focus on healing her and defending myself at the same time!" Yuuno growled as he tried to hold off on the attack.

"I got you covered!" Teana yelled out as she fired several shots into the ground, causing several stone and asphalt spikes to shoot up and hold up the the beam that was aimed at Yuuno.

The Megah turned its cannon to the side slightly, hitting a parked car near Teana, forcing the vehicle to explode and knock her off of her feet.

Subaru growled as she saw that. "You... Just DIE ALREADY!" A red sphere appeared in her right hand while a blue sphere appeared in her left hand. Slamming them together, she held it out in front of her with her left hand while a blue sphere appeared around her right fist. "Flame SPHERE BREAKER!" Punching forward, an oblong-shaped ball of red energy raced outwards, slamming into the AMS and exploding with such force that the Megah was forced to stumble forward.

Turning, the Megah pointed its cannon at Subaru and fired a beam right at her. The girl rolled out of the way and another blue and red sphere appeared in her hands before she slammed them together and, charging up energy in her gauntleted fist again, fired another Flame Sphere Breaker.

Arisa looked at Ginga, who was helping her mother out of the tree. "Ginga, come here!" She ignored how Teana was bleeding at that moment and put her hand on the ground. "How strong are you?"

Ginga blinked at the question as her mother rolled up next to her. "Pretty strong, why?"

"Can you throw a three meter pole of solid metal into that thing?"

Before Ginga could ask what she was talking about, the discarded metal that was the remains of several cars on the street came together before compacting and then stretching into a long pole. "Can you throw that? I need to concentrate."

"Better hurry." Quint said as she helped Ginga pick the pole up. "I don't think Subaru can keep that up much longer.

Her words rang true a moment later as the Megah suddenly put on a burst of speed and extended its blade again, this time stabbing into Subaru's leg, causing the blue-haired girl to let out a scream as she fell to the ground, clutching at her leg as the Megah recalled its blade and pointed its cannon at Subaru fully.

"What are we waiting for, mom?!"

"A clean shot, we only get one chance at this!" Still, Quint was as worried as Ginga was. "Dammit!"

Up in the sky, Caro looked down at the battlefield. "Stop it..." She squeezed her eyes shut tightly as the image of Fate getting stabbed in the stomach came to her. "Fate-san..."

Fate smiled at Caro as the younger girl had her pinned to the ground while holding a pillow over her head. "You win."

"Yuuno-san..." Tears were falling out of her eyes at that moment.

"Hey, Caro, um, apparently you got adopted into my clan." Yuuno chuckled and Caro blinked, before grinning at him.

"YUUNO-PAPA!" She screamed and glomped onto his legs, crying happily.

"Erio-kun..." She balled her hands into fists as lines appeared on her gloves.

Erio stared as Caro started crying as she dropped her ice cream onto the ground. "...Want some of mine?"

Caro sniffled and nodded, smiling as he ended up giving her his ice cream completely.

"Dragon Soul Summon..." Caro muttered and Fried let out a chirp of confusion as a summoning sigil appeared on the ground not too far from the Megah.

"LEVIATHAN!" The small girl cried out as a loud, high pitched lizard-like roar was heard. Out of the summoning sigil, a black, snake-like creature with a blue head and red wings appeared. It was easily four meters in length. Taking one look at the Megah, it opened its mouth and let out a powerful stream of water.

"Fried! Blast Flare!" Caro cried out, her hair fluttering in the air.

The white dragon let out a roar and a red beam of energy blasted out, slamming into the bubble as the Leviathan's water slammed into the other side. "Triple... Overload... BOOSTER!" Caro cried out as loudly as she could, several more lines appearing on her gloves as she fed as much power to both Fried and Leviathan as possible.

Both of her summons' eyes glowed before their beams increased to more than double their size and managed to slam into the Megah from both sides.

"NOW!" Ginga and Quint yelled at the same time as they threw the metal stick through the air, slamming through the Megah's back and through it's chest.

Arisa's eyes flashed blue as she aimed her hand into the sky, snapped her hand into a fist before snapping it down, causing a large and powerful bolt of lightning to slam down out of the sky, crashing into the AMS and the metal pole that stuck out of its chest.

The Megah jerked and spasmed from the forces slamming into it. The remaining arm, the legs and even the head exploded as it fell backwards and jerked a few more times before crackling and exploding, leaving only a small box behind in a pile of parts.

Panting, Quint looked at Teana, who was starting to get up and hobble towards her. "Teana, do you know how to do sealing magic?"

Teana nodded and blinked as Quint helped her out. "What do you need?"

"You need to seal something into your device for now." Quint said as she rolled slowly over to the debris. Putting a hand up to her ear, she radioed back to base. "Quint Nakajima to Riot Force, we need a medical pick-up, now!" She looked up as Fried brought a rather exhausted Caro down to the ground. "Multiple injuries and exhaustion, plus something potentially valuable, get out here now!"

Teana blinked as Quint stopped right at the box, knelt down and punched it with all her might, tearing her fist into it and pulling out a mess of wires. "What are you..?" She trailed off as she saw a small female body in Quint's hand as the latter opened her hand.

"Ask questions later, seal her now."

Teana nodded and tapped Cross Mirage against the Unison Device.

"Sealing." Her device spoke out as the girl disappeared into a flash of light, being sealed into her device.

Teana looked at her device and then at Quint and wondered how she knew about the Unison Device in that machine.