Erio looked at the cat and had the urge to gulp as the thing glared at him. "Ah... Nice kitty?"
"You'll wish I was nice after I'm done with you."
Erio sweat-dropped and looked at Caro. "Isn't it usually a mad scientist who says stuff like that while petting his hairless kitty?" Caro could only nod as she stared at this weird development.
Teana felt her eyes twitching, this was just stupid! "Alright, I've had..." She trailed off as several pink beams started to surround them. "Wendi..."
Wendi grinned, even though she was still rubbing her side. "Heh, glad you remembered me, Teana..."
Teana bit her bottom lip. "That's it! I've HAD it!" Holding up her right hand with Cross Mirage, her eyes seemed to glow brightly as she called up her magic power. "Typhoon Shot!" Normally the spell was meant to be fired at someone in the form of a bullet, which would either explode just in front of a target, sending him or her flying away, or it would connect with the target and expand around the person, protecting them from attacks for a short period of time.
This time, Teana was using it to disrupt Wendi's attack as well as provide cover for the group. "Subaru, now!"
Letting out a yell, Subaru rushed through the wind, an electrical spell gathered in her right hand. "Mono... Volt!" Sure, a Digger Bolt was more powerful, but rushing forward with her hand crackling with lightning was rather cool, in Subaru's opinion. Subaru's eyes widened as Nove rushed forward to meet her and raised her leg upward, causing her gauntlet-covered left leg to smack into her right arm. "Nice move, but can you keep up? Wing Road!"
Nove looked up as Subaru took off into the sky and grinned. "I think so... Airliner!"
Subaru stared as Nove not only had her own magical road to fly on, but was also able to catch up to her. "Fast..."
"Faster than you!" Nove yelled as she jumped forward and started lashing out with a multitude of kicks that Subaru was hard pressed to dodge or parry. The instant Nove touched down on her Wing Road, Subaru lashed out with an upwards kick, sending the shorter redhead backwards and back onto her airliner.
Pulling her hand back, the gears on her gauntlet spun quickly as she punched forward, launching a sphere at Nove, who was forced to block it as Subaru was too close for the shorter girl to dodge the attack. "Revolver Cannon!" Subaru looked at the result of her attack and frowned in confusion as Nove flipped in mid air, created another Airliner and zipped forward. "Get back here!" Subaru took off after Nove as the two spun higher and higher into the air.
"Really want me, even if you know that you're too SLOW?!" Nove held her arm out and released several small canisters, all of which exploded and released some sort of clouds into the air of various colors.
Subaru frowned as wind formed around her arm. "What's the point of this? Diem wind!" She smiled as the cloud dispersed, what she saw coming right at her had her smile disappear.
"A..." Nove grinned as she rushed straight down in a diving kick, "distraction! SUPER! NOVE!!"
"Protection."
Subaru threw her hand up to create a barrier to block the attack and hoped it was enough, since she was off-balance otherwise.
"KIIIIIIICK!" Nove yelled out as she slammed her feet into and through the barrier, driving her wheeled feet into Subaru's stomach and sending the two rushing towards the ground at a high speed.
Subaru grunted as her back smashed into and through several Wing Roads and Airliners before finally stopping just a few feet from the ground itself. Grimacing in pain, Subaru looked at Nove, who was bending over to look her straight in the eye. "...Why, Nove..?"
"Because I promised to protect them." She said to Subaru, her voice soft as she got off of her older sister and knelt down, taking some deep breaths as she looked away from Subaru. "Because I care about my other sisters," she turned to look at Subaru, who was pushing herself up with her elbows, "like you care about your sister... And our mom."
Before Subaru could say anything, Nove pointed her Gun Knuckle at Subaru and blasted her with a red gas that had Subaru hacking and coughing while her eyes teared up. Standing up as she watched Subaru roll around on the Airliner they were on, Nove got a rather mischievous smirk on her face as she moved Subaru to a kneeling position, before reaching under the hem of Subaru's shorts, grabbing the older girl's panties and pulling up as hard as she could, causing them to dig into Subaru's crotch and butt-cheeks while yanking her rear end high into the air.
Nove had to fight the urge to grin as Subaru screamed even louder in pain. Sein was right, this was fun.
After all, she did manage to beat her "sister" in battle.
(---)
Caro, Fried and Erio all looked at the small, silver-haired girl, well, she wasn't shorter than they were, but she was still fairly short, and the small cat. "You two are?" Erio asked while adjusting his hold on Ragudo Mezzagis.
"I am Cinque," she narrowed her eye and held up a pair of knives in each hand.
"I am the cat that you tormented for ages!" Mr. Snuggles's eyes glowed red as ten inch claws extended from his paws while he stood up on his hind legs. "I must thank the doctor for this, now I know why you humans walk on two legs, it's much easier to move."
Erio gulped as he saw those claws, they weren't normal cat claws, and that was ignoring the sheer length of them, it was almost like they were metallic in nature. "Ah..."
"If you must know, boy... I am Mr. Snuggles!"
Erio and Caro both stared, pale as they saw the cat somehow take an offensive fighting stance against the two of them. "...Mr. Snuggles? Suzuka's cat that kept exploding?"
"No thanks to you and that other brat." Mr. Snuggles suddenly launched himself into the air as Cinque threw several knives at the children.
Erio jumped to avoid the knives, he had seen what they had nearly done to Nanoha, and swung his spear upwards to block Mr. Snuggles as the cat came down at his face. "Come on! We didn't mean to keep blowing you up!" When the cat narrowed his eyes, he gulped as it suddenly flipped over his blade and unsheathed claws out of his hind legs that were aimed right at Erio's face.
"Got you!" Caro cried out as she wrapped a chain around Mr. Snuggles's mid section and pulled him away from Erio. "Get her, I'll try and calm Mr. Snuggles down."
Cinque looked at Erio as he touched down near her. "Are we done playing around? I'd ask you to leave, but you work for the Bureau, so I cannot see you leaving at all."
"Why?" Erio asked her as he pointed his weapon at her. "Why fight us?"
"I fight for their future, not my own." Cinque tossed another knife at him and stared as his body seemed to blur before disappearing all together. "Where..?" Cinque's eye widened as she felt a metal blade touch her throat lightly before pulling away a few millimeters. "Nice speed."
"I don't want to hurt you." Erio said from behind her and pressed his body against hers. "But you need to stop before I have to hurt you."
"Hurt me?" Cinque suddenly smiled, moved her head forward, cutting her throat before she threw her head backwards to slam into Erio's face and force him to stumble backwards. Turning, her throat bleeding, Cinque tossed a knife right at his feet before snapping her fingers, causing an explosion that engulfed them both.
"ERIO-KUN!" Caro cried out, staring in shock as both Cinque and Erio were consumed by that explosion.
"I hope he can heal, otherwise he might just be hurt." Mr. Snuggles said, causing Caro to turn to him. The cat suddenly grinned and spun, shattering the binds he was in. The cyborg cat flipped a few times before landing on his feet and sticking his paws out at Caro. "Fried, you tried to eat me!"
"Kurrr...." Fried growled and leaned down to snort at Mr. Snuggles.
"...You do have a point, fine, I won't try to turn you into Dragon steaks, but you still shouldn't have tried to eat me!"
"Kurrr..." Fried opened his mouth and let out a gout of flame at Mr. Snuggles, who jumped over it and landed on Caro's face before using that as a spring-board to launch a powerful kick at Fried, knocking the Dragon over.
"Fried!" Caro gasped out as Mr. Snuggles stood tall where he landed.
"Oops, you missed... Almost had me there. That attack would have done the work... If I was paralyzed, deaf and blind."
"Bad kitty!" Caro pouted as she created an array that snapped around Mr. Snuggles, where several binds snapped up and pinned the cat to the ground. She looked over to where Erio was and gasped at what she saw.
Both Cinque and Erio were bleeding from several wounds, though Erio had a barrier up and Cinque didn't even bother.
"Why?" Erio gasped as he looked at Cinque as blood dripped off of her body.
"...You think this is serious?" Before Erio could answer, Cinque ran a finger over her throat and cleaned the blood off of it, causing Erio's eyes to widen in shock as he saw the flesh mending itself. "I can regenerate damage to my body." Reaching up, she pulled off her eye patch, revealing her black and golden eye to Erio. "But I doubt you can." Her eye briefly flashed as her blades took on a slight golden tinge to them. "And I doubt you can block this power."
Granted, with as little as she was using, it wasn't as powerful as what it was when she went berserk that one time, but it was still plenty powerful and could likely kill the boy if she wasn't careful.
"You can use grandma's power?!" Erio couldn't believe it, he thought only Arashi, Nanoha and Lina had that power, and he only knew of the power because he knew what it felt like.
Cinque could only stare at him in shock.