Prologue
Four months after the Neuroi hive was destroyed and the havoc created by the Warlock Machine was forgotten another hive seems to have opened up south of their base. And the girls of the 501st have answered the call to defend the world against the Neuroi and defeat them again, but this time the Neuroi seem to be a little smarter than before but for the girls they might get a little help.
Ch1
An Unexpected guest
"Hurry, Hurry" Mina yells, this is the third attack this week. Mio Sakamoto over the intercom yells "It seems that the Neuroi flying right for us, their trajectory seems to be a bit off, At their current trajectory they will pass over us by a few miles". Miyafuji asks Mina "What does that mean?" Mina replies " It means nothing", facing the group of girls she says "Barkhorn take point with Yeager and Luchini""Miyafuji, Bishop and Perrine watch our six, and the rest follow me". The Girls take formation and start to fly out. Miyafuji turns to Lynette and asks "Why do the Neuroi keep coming so very often" she replies "I don't know, but its worrying me, and it must also worry Mina as well why else she would be so frantic about this". The girls fly out in formation in the direction of the Neurio, Eila yells "something's wrong, Sanya is acting different"
The group turns to Sanya and she has a very discouraging look on her face and doesn't look well at all. Mina yells "Keep in formation be ready to anything", Sakamoto over the intercom says "the Neuroi should be right in sight shortly". Perrine yells" I see it, its massive, it must be the size of two city blocks" Hartmann yells" the bigger they are the harder they fall" as she run's full speed towards the Neuroi. Mina yells "Hartmann get back here" as the rest of the group tries to catch up. As Hartmann reached the Neuroi she opens fire, the impacts of the Magical bullets can be heard for miles. During this a military vehicle traveling towards the 501st base hears the impacts of the bullets and the driver stops. A man gets out and grabs a case and bag out of the back. The man tells the driver to keep heading to the base he will catch up. With a sound that can only be described as a Rocket engine going off but with less sound heads towards the sound of the nose as the driver of the vehicle continues down the road. The girl's start to get into attack formation as the Neuroi starts to attack, the beams of energy from the side head straight for the group, the girls deploy their shields and continue with their attack. The Neuroi lets out a terrifying screech and mina yells "hold your fire, someone must of hit the core" as the Neuroi starts to break apart into three pieces. But in an instant the three pieces mould themselfs into three distinct ships and spread out with incredible speed. Mina yells "It's a trap".
As the three ships start to surround the girls and Barkhorn yells "no Neuroi has done this before" as she fires her weapon. Miyafuji goes onto her intercom and yells" Sakamoto-san what do we do "Sakamoto grabs the intercom and yells" Fallback and regroup!! NOW!!" as the Neuroi all fire at the same time at the girl's. All they could do is put up their shields in a circular formation while the Neuroi starts to circle them and fire's continuously. Bishop yells "What do we do, they got us pinned down" Barkhorn yells " we need to keep moving" as she gun's her striker unit towards the sun trying to get away from the Neuroi's grip. The three Neuroi all shoot a beam in the air as Barkhorn leaves the group and the three beams converge and head straight for Barkhorn. Mina yells "Gertrude!!" as she is casts a shield and get's hit by the beam. The force of this beam is even making her start to decrease in altitude and she starts to breathe heavily from the effort it is taking to stop this attack. As Barkhorn is stopping the Neuroi's beam attack one of the Neuroi fires another beam and it grazes Barkhorn's shoulder and she starts to fall. Perrine yells " Barkhorn!!" as she dives to catch her. The rate of speed that the two were falling was immense not including that they were in combat. Perrine grabs Barkhorn and yelling "Wake up! Please wake up!!" as she lay's motionless in her arms. The group surrounds the two and casts their shields to protect them. Perrine looks towards Miyafuji and yells "Save her, You have to", as Miyafuji comes towards the centre of the group. Shirly yells " Better do something quick we don't have very much time left here" as Lucchini yells out from exhaustion. A sphere of light comes from Miyafuji's hands as she starts to cast a healing spell, Miyafuji yells "Hold on" as she starts to concentrate.
During this the Neurio start's to fire another energy beam in the sky convirging above the girls and fires right were Miyafuji and Barkhorn are. Miyafuji lets out a scream and mina yells " Miyafuji!!!!" out of desperation as the group braces for the impact of the beam. After a few seconds the girls open their eyes and out of nowhere a small two foot shield comes between the Girls and the beam. All the girls are amazed that they are saved but Lucchini says "who's shield is that?" and the girls look towards the direction of the base and see a man with his hand out towards the Girls and is flying in a striker unit, carrying some kind of Gatling gun with a case of ammo coming from his backpack with a long back glove on his left hand. The man is tall and has a stern expression on his face.
(Look at a picture Guile from street fighter, that's what he looked like when I first thought of him just with shorter hair)
He twists his palm towards the sky with is fingers half clenched, a small green orb forms in his palm and he points it at the girls. A green sphere barrier forms around the girl, The Neuroi start to fire as the shield absorbs some of the energy. Miyajuji says "this is a healing spell" as the girls all face her. Mina faces her and says "what do you mean a healing spell" Miyajuji responds "i dont know but this is definitely a healing spell look at Barkhorn her wound is starting to heal" As the group stairs at her wound. The Man wastes no time in responding to the attack flies towards the three Neuroi and point's his gun at them. The three Neuroi all fire their beams at him as three shields with the same size appear around him. Shirley thinking to herself "who is this man??, and how does he have a striker unit, and another thing how can he fly??, But looking at his legs it's a completely different design. and it's hard to tell from this distance but it seems that he can bend the striker unit in half, but that's impossible no one can bend their knee while wearing the Striker unit. But the propulsion also is different his seems to use some kind of rocket based propulsion, just like the Warlock we fought against"
The man fires his gun and still heading for the Neuroi blow's a hole where the core is. "The force and power of this strangers gun is remarkable" says Mina. After a few short minuets the three Neuroi are all destroyed and the girls are all left there hovering wondering what just happened, Who this man is, and where did he come from. Barkhorn has regained awoke and is able to fly on her oun as Miyafuji is healing her. The stranger heads towards the girls and they ready their weapons. Mina notices this and says "lower your weapon's he's not the enemy" and the girls comply. Mina confronts the stranger and asks "Who are you and why are you here?" The stranger salutes Mina and says "I'm Griffin a Major in the Army, I'm from the United States and I'm here to assist you in defeating the Neuroi" All the girls seemed shock at his response and distance themselfs from him. Mina replies "Support? How can you use magic, your male, there hasn't been a make magic user in Decades." Griffin repels " well I am one, I'm what you would call a Warlock". All the girls point and arm their guns at Griffin and ready themselfs.
Confused he replies "have I said something wrong?" Mina replies with a stern face "we've met a Warlock before and he almost destroyed the entire base and its fleet", Griffin replies "I've heard about that, nice work by the way" with a smile on his face. Perrine whispers to Barkhorn "Should be trust him" she replies in a faint voice "He saved us from the Neuroi that's good enough for me". Mina faces Barkhorn and thinks for a moment, and she replies "very well we shall call your superiors and see what their story is" Griffin nods his head in agreement and the group flies back to the back. All the girls are wondering who this man is and where did get that strange striker unit.