Minerva: Recording started 29-2-MC 0074
Kha is airborne in Jaegerform outside the Silvana over Lake Lovecroft. They are testing a new weapon system.
Sakura: Misaki! Hurry up! I dying to start!
Kha: Who’s Misaki?
Sak: It’s E’Jaedinea’s AI’s name. We just decided it the other day.
Kha: And that’s okay with you?
Mis: Ano… It’s a nice name, and Jaedinea is a mouthful in human tongue so…
Kha: You yield to Sakura and she’ll climb all over you.
Cha: (Joins the radio chatter) She already has.
Kha: Hi Chacha.
Cha: Hi. Now stay out of trouble you got that, Sakura? This is going to be a live recording of the test to be downloaded into you you know, so if you don’t want to be stuck with me and Auntie for debugging again, behave yourself.
Sak: Yes, Chacha! Wii~~
Kaempfer: I’m launching, Meister.
Kha: Okay position yourself over there… Nice.
Min: Are we all set?
Kha: Where’s Nagato?
Headless suit of armor “stares” back from the distance.
Kha: How does she do that without a head in real life is a big question… Minerva, Captain, test subjects ready.
Kyla: Roger that. CC, is the scenario loaded into the holoprojector?
CC: It’s loaded Captain.
Kyla: Got it. All personnel, stand by!
3 Ship AIs: Standby ready!
Kyla: Commence Test Serial 163-D!
(raises and points dramatically while yelling)
ULTIMATE UNISON, SHOUNIN!
CC: Roger! Releasing limiter on mana charge laser… Complete!
Min: Zaku 1-3 Core Release sequence initiate!
Cha: Unison systems all green!
CC: (raises fist) Program…
(slams into holo generated on her console) DRIVE!
Mis: Ano… Assemble Drivers, install! Ejecting…
(Linker Core ejects and shapes into a translucent girl spirit)
Kaempfer: Letting go.
(Jettisons device and Knight Armor)
Nagato: Variable Formation.
(jettisons armor and glowing Core transforms into a one-colored version of her digital avatar)
Kha: Unison reaction, activate!
(starts glowing as spare addons to his armor fire off) Tausend Kreuz,
Bankai!
Sak: (dissolves her Unison device knight armor and turns into spirit-like form like the other AI and screams)
YOOSHA!!! ULTIMATE UNISON!
Kha disappears into a blue transformation bubble as he summons a massive swirl of mana as Tausend Kreuz twirls away. He floats in a crucifix pose, like how he does in henshin. The 3 AI “spirits burst in one after another and circle around him as they continue charging their individual Unison systems with his mana. Once complete, they turn into shapeless energy and plunge into the shining mage, Sakura fusing first after embracing his arm, Nagato through his chest, and Misaki coming from below.
Cha: Kor Fuzion complete!
CC: Activating Armor Slaver! Zaku 1-3 responding…
Kha somersaults backward into the transfigurating ZAKU and lock himself in as it turned to a strange looking piece of metal.
His car Canberra speeds down the street on autopilot as Firehawk thunders into view.
Min: Right on time! Stage 2, Stage 3, Armor Slaver activate!
Firehawk folds in half and transforms into what looks like a headless upper torso. Canberra hit the jumpjets and flies over the Lake, hood flipping down into shins, exposing the thighs, butt folding outwards into lower arms. Firehawk’s hull plates shifted into shoulders and upper arms as the car docked to form the waist and lower torso. The lower arms slid upwards and docked to the upper with the loud “clunk, clunk” of the elbow joint connecting.
Cha: Stage 2 and 3, Fusion complete!
Min: Core Block, join-laser activate! Mana Laser fire!
With that, the back of Firehawk broke up like a device changing modes, exposing a crevass. Kha’s “Block” flies in and fires blue mana beams that guide it in. Once it slammed into place with a bang, the Silvana’s mana charging laser fires. Inside, Kha’s brightens as the master-slave console boots up, displaying the letters Z.A.K.U. before cursors shoot off to the right spelling the words as “Zodiac Automated Kreuz Unison” and appending “Complex”. Meanwhile, the various spaces left by the transformation were being filled device-style, blocks coming together, clamping into place. The feet slide out and part; the hands spin out like a drill; the bald head popped out, and with that parts gathered and slammed into place, forming the helm and multi-bladed V-fin.
Kha: Sakura! Assemble Tausend Kreuz!
Outside, the Armed Device’s core grew, and grew. Then, like when she was smaller, she crackled blue lightning as it drew parts of her complete self together. The trigular halves of the her spearhead, attracted by the lightning, clanged audibly onto her face, followed closely by the covers for her horizontal vents. Her cylindrical neck extended out from the spearhead, and the 16-cartridge Metal Storm barrel block slotted into the gap on the neck below spearhead as the pistol grip, positioned at right angles to the plane of the spearhead, glided along the groove and locked into place just under the vent covers with a puff of sparks. The tail end of the cross clunked into a smaller triangular joint that hid another smaller beam emitter within its pinched halves.
Kha flexed a little, and Stahlmut reached out and grabbed the spear.
Sakura: DAI-
And swung it up to its shoulder.
Sakura: -STAHL-
Before lashing with so much force that it released a massive pulse of mana that caused the water behind it to explode into temporal geysers.
Sakura: -MUT!!!
Kha: Since when was there a Dai in front of “Stahlmut”?
Sak: Yare, yare! A good super robot must have a 3 syllable name.
Kyla: How is it?
Kha: Looks good, everything’s stable. The mana laser provided the power needed to complete the extensive armor transmutation as planned, and Stahlmut doesn’t look like he’s going to fall apart any time soon.
Sakura: For the last time, its
Dai-Stahlmut!!!
Kha: No need to shout when you’re IN me!!! Okay whatever, Dai-Stahlmut doesn’t sound too bad.
Cha: I don’t believe this! The output of the machine is way above expected… In fact, it far exceeds the parameters set! Must be all that divine power infused into the system.
Sak: Wii~~ Once we’re in this we’re invincible!
Kha: Man I can’t stop grinning…
Sophia: Well Captain I see you’re having fun. Let’s see, that took… 3 mins? In which the enemy would’ve pounded your individual butts to pieces.
Kha: …
Sak: Hey!
Mis: Na…
Nag: I see 70% probability of this procedure being impractical.
Sak: Not you too!
Art: Sofy, Sofy… You must appreciate the beauty of things sometimes you know. This means a lot to the Captain after all.
Kha: Well… In a while, this is a dream come from true, from since when I was little…
Sof: I’d rather you use that form than this hulk when it really comes down to it.
Kha: But if I do so, you’ll be in danger! I cannot have you take the risk!
Sof: (momentary dere reaction, then gets tsun to cover up) Gah! Don’t say I didn’t warn you, Baka!
(storms off)
CC: That’s a wrap. Remember Kha, this Unison mode is very complicated and energy consuming to activate, so you can only do this with the Silvana in range, got that?
Kha: Roger out. Let’s go celebrate with some dinner, shall we? I think I owe Sofie an apology somehow.
Art: (shrugs) So says the one who said “You yield to her and she’ll crawl all over you.”