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Standing in the middle of the arena watching what was best considered chaos. He heard through the radio that once again the tournament that they were in was once again going to be cancelled due to circumstances beyond his control. It was a reoccurring pattern that seemed to have taken over his life. Only once had he gotten onto the arena in some sort of official match and not had some sort of outside enemy attack. What made this one stand out more then the other ones to date was the fact that a gap appeared to have been torn of hole in the air above the stadium.

Chifue's voice could be heard over the loud speaker, "All units move into defensive positions. NOW!"

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How did it end up like this.' crossed Ichika's mind as he dodged through the arena. Earlier in the month the IS Academy had came to the conclusion that their students needed more combat experience. To solve this issue they created a new large in school tournament, to be honest it was a free for all, king of the hill, last man standing kind of deal. Last man standing really didn't apply because he was the only guy, meh semantics. It was basically treated like any other in school competition for the most part until the rumor mill got a hold of it like usual.

He had only caught small snippets of the rumor due to their slightly more lax secrecy on this one he had herd these words at different times 'boyfriend', 'Lover', 'Message' and the phrase "Winner gets to". Now most people considered Ichika slow and some even went so far as to call him an idiot, which needless to say he was not. After deducing were the all the rumors were pointing he ran as fast as he could to get some training in. There were just six main complications with this problem and all of them had a double XX chromosome set.

All of the available suits were being borrowed and this is including a couple of those old powered armors. It was thirty seconds to start and the blood lust, or maybe it was just lust, was apparent. Everyones focus seemed to be divided between just taking him out and taking out everyone else which might be the only reason he was able to dodge all of the attacks up until now.

Maneuvering to try and make a dash into the sky to stop all the bombardment he was getting he caught notice of what appeared to be a black slash in the air followed by a short burst of light. Dashing off to investigate he caught the sight of what looked like a twenty something looking women wearing a billowing long sleeved shirt with a vest and loose slacks falling from the sky, their glasses remained on and their hair was pulled back into a ponytail at the base of there neck. Flying as quickly as he could he went straight for them barely noticing when he was hit by a barrage of gunfire forcing him away.

Red lights flared in front of him warning him of an unexplained intrusion onto the battle field and that all units were to take defensive action. Looking back at the person they were twenty feet from the ground when they righted their free fall and then landed in three point stance left hand out. Standing up he noticed that her glasses had a slight amber tint to them. Frustration and shock grew on her face as she looked around at the people surrounding her. The guns and blades pointing at her just making her more on edge until she spoke "I need to speak to a guy please tell me there is a guy here."

Chifuu voice could be heard over the loud speaker "What is your purpose here you have five seconds"

"I just need to speak to a guy that is all please just tell me I can."

"All units please capture the intruder please don't do anything permanent."

After hearing the order every one attacked at once. A burst of light emanated from the center as the first girl was thrown back into the crowd as her IS was disabled the intruder was reaching into her vest and grabbed what appeared to be her chest but as their hand came out from vest it fell flat and in her hands were a grenade and another orb that was changing shape into a short rod. "You will never take me" she screamed out as the grenade left her hand and exploded.

The formation in front oh him was starting to bulge right around this point as he saw Houki and Rin getting pushed back by the mad women, their attacks were coordinated but they were getting pushed back by the shear ferocity of their attacker until she suddenly broke free and made for an opening trying to dash past me.

Thats when she evaluated me yea thats a good term for it, like actually looking at a person and not just running on the idea that they were all the same. After understanding dawned on their face as she tripped. Flipping over and landing hard on her back. In a whisper they spoke, "Your a guy, a male. I am not alone." There was a moment of silence as everything was taken in what was this person talking about. "So question, why is your belly exposed is that a thing or something?" Any further comments were stopped by a large book flying through the air and nailing them in the forehead knocking them out cold.

"Everyone pull back the containment unit should be here shortly"

Well looks like I am keeping up the ruin every school event streak' alive, was not the only thought running through Ichika's mind.

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Waking up in a medical examination was not a new experience to him, nor was it a new experience for him to be wearing nothing but an examination robe and his watch (glancing at it he could see the marks were they had tried to cut it off), and he would like to say it was a new experience to be surrounded by women staring at him, but he could say it was a new experience to have a guy looking over him.

"Why are you here?" Asked Chifu.

Trying to force his head deeper into the pillow, "I was trying to avoid some people for a month or two, so I shifted my location. I had no idea I would end up in this facility or that I would be witnessing any military operations."

"How were you able to keep up with our ISs." She was now standing right above me staring into my eyes trying to get me to back down. She seemed to be twenty something and made of steel. The people behind her seemed to be backing away except for the one guy who while slightly panicked but, appeared to be holding himself better then all the girls behind him.

"I was able to keep up with your whatever you called them by using an exo suit."

"Last question for you from me for now. Why were you dressed in drag when you appeared."

"It was a disguise that allowed me to stay alive for a long time, with very little incident. Before you go I have a question would it be possible for me to hide out here for a while, and sense this place looks like a school would it be possible for me to sit in on the some classes in return I will help a few people around here."

"You have no grounds to make demands with the you are in position." After she finished I started to form one my favorite dueling rods in my hands. 'I love nanites.'

"I can still get out of here and defend myself we'll enough. I have a thing for learning and teaching, this way you can keep an eye on me and I get to do what I enjoy. My first student would be him if it is allowed."

"I will have to discuss it with some people but we will see what we can do." With that I withdrew the rod back to its original location. "Ichika you had a question you wanted to ask." She said referring to the guy standing behind her and to the side. So that was his name.

It took him a moment to gather his breath then he spoke, "What did you mean you are no longer alone."

"I meant exactly what I said Ichika. I can explain more latter, for now though that is all I can say for now. O and for the record my name is Chris I am twenty three and you won't be able to find my data even if you actually tried."

"Well ok then, do you want anything from the cafeteria."

"No I am fine, thank you for the offer and I am guessing I will see you tomorrow."

With that Ichika and his group walked out of the room leaving only Chifu looking over Chris trying to figure out his intentions before she stood and walked out of the room.

Watching her walk out the thoughts ran through his head. Well its a better place to take a break then where I was, I wonder how long it will take them to try and track me down this time and at least I got myself out of a jail sentence

Over in the cafeteria Ichika was also thinking. I hope he isn't planning on training me to use one of those old powered armors they are a pain to use and a whole different level of less efficient then an IS, I will admit that some of them are fairly cool looking kind of like those metal suits that Knights used to wear but they were extremely impractical compared to an IS.

Whatever it was he was at least getting another person to be around without all of the girls around him trying to kill him for some reason. I mean they honestly acted like they could be interested but half the time they would almost explode and try to kill him. Though Laura did have an odd habit of crawling into his bed while he was sleeping and calling him her wife. Though that could be explained by the fact that she was raised to be a super soldier. (Yea while he isn't an idiot social interactions with girls will never be his strong point.)

While Hoki and Rin could be reasonable sometimes (mainly Hoki) they were apt to quickly and seemingly randomly resort to violence at the drop of a hat (mainly Rin) making him sometimes wonder if they were still girls. That couldn't be right though they liked showing off in their swimsuits. Girls did normally go through mood-swings though but he doubted they were normally as drastic as those twos.

Charl was more reserved but was always calling him a pervert for some reason. She was a good friend and the way they usually talked he felt like it would stay like. As it was it would be highly doubtful she wanted more then that and who was he to push?

Cecillia was interesting to around, yea that was a good word for it. She always tried to act better then him and it was an honor to around her and she went and acted all clingy when he tried to leave because she apparently didn't want him there. Then there was the super clinginess when another girl was near him.

Kanzashi was fun and she did say that she liked him. The thing was he was half way convinced that he might have been the first guy she had ever meet and that it would just be a simple crush that would be over quickly.

Tatenashi was Tatenashi and that should about cover that subject.

He was in a pickle a sweet pickle considering all the girls around him but a pickle non
the less. He couldn't count the number of times he had walked into the hall way and caught girls in just there underwear. He was losing count of the number of times they had asked him if he liked it. The idea of starting a conversation on anything instantly got derailed no matter who he talked to outside of teachers. He had almost considered the fact that he had been sent to hell.

His only saving grace was that he could leave once a month or so and go and talk to Dan. He honestly at this point could say that he loved that man in the most heterosexual way.

Chris was an interesting variable to say the least.

"Ughh. Hey Ichika I still can't figure these chop sticks out."

"One second." He said as he slipped his right arm behind her back to help her hand hold the sticks.

Looking up at the faces of five other girls he realized. 'Yea this is going to be a long day.

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So this is story number two we will where this goes could be interesting.

If you have any comments, ideas or suggestions for improvement just leave a review and I will get to it soon as I can.

Hope that you all have a good day.

Without Wax,
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