Openingsong: The walking dead of the Dropkick Murphy's.

My fourth story, I haven't thought that I would get done so fast. Well, I have it and I'll update asap. Bit of spelling corrections and line breaking.

Ichika had still sleep in his eyes when he walked back to the ISA monorail. It had been one hell of a summer. There were a lot of pleasant memories, but a lot of rather unpleasant memories. How'd he get out the hot bath alive was a mystery. The last thing he remembered before he fainted was that someone lifted him out the bath. He woke up in a room next to a little kid that he had seen before. He spend the rest of the day in tranquility. For some reason, Chifuyu had covered him up. Whatever the reason may be, he was lucky.

When he was walking to the railway, he heard an energetic voice. "Ichika, good morning."
"Rin, good morning." He reacted at the Chinese Representative Candidate, who was also one of his childhood friends. "How was your holiday?"
"Boring. Chifuyu-nee was out for weeks and I didn't get permission to leave town nor she told me where she was going. I haven't seen anyone else besides Houki."

Rin nodded. "True, Laura got back to Germany and took Charlotte with her. Charlotte could avoid her family that way. Cecilia was in Britain and I had to go back to China, but wait." Ling stopped in the middle of the road. "You and Houki were alone in your house." Shenlong began to glow dangerously, just like a killing intent. "We were only training. Chifuyu asked me to stay with Ichika for training." A calm voice said. The two looked up. "Thanks for the workout, Ichika."

Houki had her ribbons in her ponytails and greeted the two. "Good morning Houki." Ichika was glad she saved him from Ling's attack. "How was your holiday? You left after a few weeks, right?" She got a few blushes that he remembered that.

"Training and tournaments. What else would you suspect? By the way, Ichika. Do you know where Chifuyu-san went?" Ichika tensed up. "No, she left after the graduation. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, I met her on the airfield when I had an indoor flight for a training camp. She had an international flight. Unfortunately I didn't had the time to talk to her." Ichika lifted his head. "We'll ask on the academy." When they got at the ISA monorail, they saw a lot of women assembled. One of the plates there was a text. "We don't accept that our purity is tainted."

When the women saw the two girls, they withdrawn their offense. "Please go on", but a few women stopped Ichika. "Hold it right there." Houki and Rin turned around. "We do not accept that a man like you got in here to defile our angels. Get immediately away before we arrest you." When his two friends wanted to get him back, they were stopped. "Relax girls. We'll deal with this piece of filth."
"What was that?" Ichika was pushed back and almost fell, but he was caught. He heard of the fact that women would beat or insult men on the street, but it was the first time that he actually expercienced something like that. Well, he was the first male Infinite Stratos, so he missed the chance to catch a beating.

"Well, Kerlongsj wasn't too stupid to give us a ship. What about you, lads?" Ichika heard a loud voice and looked up. he saw the young boy who slept in his room on the onsen. "You, I remember you." Anaton raised an eyebrow, not knowing of where he should know Ichika from.

"That surprises me." He helped Ichika on his feet by offering a hand. Ichika was a bit shocked in how much power the boy had. He pulled Ichika up like it was nothing. "You women can let him in. You got orders to only let women in and Ichika Orimura and that's this kid." The women looked to him and then to a picture.

"Ah, sorry Mr. Orimura. We didn't know who you were. Please go on, but you boy." They turned to Anaton. "You son of a whore are not allowed in this monorail."

Anaton sighed. "Yeah, but I have to go to the ISA. I dislike the idea as much as you, but I have to." A large woman stood up. "If you think I let you pass, then you got the wrong idea." She cracked her fingers. The kid stood back.

"Bad idea threatening a boy who got a few strong friends." Before the woman could punch him, she received a punch in her face. A guy, mere three years older than Anaton had punched her in the face and she flew back, completely KO. "Thanks for the saving, Kashal." He was more short than Ichika, but he was sturdier built.

"If anyone else wants to threaten the kid, go ahead." The women had no idea what happened, but an idea began to form.

"Kill those two." Ichika and the girls could only watch, but a machine gun fired at the women. Just one half a meter the ground was torn apart by a LMG. They looked up and they saw a small airship. One of the guys had his hands on a machine gun. "Lads, we're not here to fight vermin. Get on the ship." The guys nodded and from two skateboards they got at the ship. "If you don't have a RPG-7, you let us pass before I torn you to shit."

When Anaton got next to him, he placed a hand on the shooter's shoulder. "Lad, you said it yourself. We're not here to kill vermin. Leave them. They're just furious because we're going to achieve something they'll never can do, but stay at the gun, Raton." The guy nodded.

"Understood, captain." Anaton walked to the ruder when he stopped and began to shout to Ichika. "You have question, Ichika Orimura and we got the answers. You'll get them on the artificial island." The boy took the ruder. "Power up lads. We're out of here." He turned the ship and flew away leaving the women behind.

Ichika looked through the windows where the guys waved at him. When they walked on, they met the rest of the group. Cecilia, Laura and Charlotte had their mouths at the ground. "What's up with you?" When they turned around, they couldn't believe that Ichika saw them like that. "Nothing, just eh" Charlotte had problems seeking her words.

"Looking to the ship that passed. Who were those guys?" Laura face palmed herself. "You don't remember them. Those were those hackers we talked about." Ichika had a dumb look on his face. "What are they doing here?"

"Ichika-kun, it isn't good to be curious" a mischievous voice said. The five girls and one guy tensed up. That voice belonged to Tatenashi Sarashiki, the Student Council President who began at her last year at the ISA. They turned around and saw the blue haired woman standing. Next to her was her little sister. "Go go good morning, Ichika." Kanzashi still wasn't used to talk to the boy.

"Good morning, Kanzashi." Charlotte reacted first. From all the girls, she could most get alone with Charlotte. "Have you also seen the ship?" Kanzashi tensed up. "What ship?"

"She means the hacker ship." Ichika passed the two. "Eh, shouldn't we get on the train?" Cecilia asked to the rest, jealous because Charlotte and Kanzashi took Ichika's attention. "What about your luggage?"

"We already loaded them. Let's go." They found an empty coupon where they could sit. Ichika went to sit on the window and Houki next to him. Kanzashi sat in front of him. Tatenashi went to sit next to Houki and Charlotte to Kanzashi. The rest of the girls scattered at the rest of the place. "Say, Houki-chan, did your breasts grew again?" Houki reacted by covering them up. "Senpai. That's inappropriate." Her blush reacted that she couldn't handle something playful when Ichika was around. "Anoh, Kaichou. Who were those guys?" Ichika asked to her. "I've seen the kid before."

"Well, before I answer that question, Ichika-kun, do you know where Orimura-sensei went?" Ichika looked up. "Chifuyu-nee. No, I don't know where she went to. Why do you ask?"

"Well, she passed the airport of Moscow, but didn't stop there. I said hi to here, but she didn't want to tell me anything." Ichika shrugged his shoulders. "I really don't know. She only left with the word Saluut."

"Saluut?" Laura repeated the word. "Is that weird? What does that even mean?" Rin asked to the silver haired girl. "It's Dutch or Flemish if you want and it's a way to say bye." Houki looked at her.
"Wait, Flemish. Like in the Flemish Devil?" Cecilia nodded. "Kerlongsj Orlejov. The leader of the hackers."

"Wait." Ichika put his hand in the air. "What does his name have to do with the fact that a ship of guys passed our stop and went to the ISA?" They all turned to Tatenashi who for some reason backed down. "Don't ask me too much. I only received a mail from Orimura-sensei stating that we going co-ed by accepting the best hackers from Flanders. One of those gangs are the Hell Hounds. I think you encountered the leader of them before, Anaton."

"You mean the kid that almost killed me and Ichika, not more then a year ago?" Houki turned to her companion. "Yes, he runs a special program, Hell's Fire, designed by Kerlongsj himself. In words of value, it is as much if more than your Akatsubaki, Houki-chan.

Before the gravity of the words even got through the girls and guy, Tatenashi continued. "Kerlongsj isn't as smart as your sister, but as nearly as skilled and strong as Chifuyu, but I think you all experienced that. And Anaton's gang is also special" The five girls remembered how easily he took them down at the end of the first semester.

Ichika nodded. "Now I remember something. That man helped through the second shift." Ichika's memories got back at the time that he was shot down by Madoka. Houki crossed her arms. "And the one who saved you from our wrath. He got you out the bath after you there you perv." Ichika sighed. "I told you, I didn't get there, because I wanted to, but wait? You say that Kerlongsj got me out?" Immediately, the girls got as red as a rose. "What?" The girls didn't find their words. They called him a pervert, but they took a good look on anything. They were not dissapointed.

"Eh, but Kaichou." Ling wanted to turn the conversation in another direction. "What do you mean, with his gang is special."
"I think that you'll get that on the academy, because I don't know it myself. The only thing I know from the hackers is just what I told you."

By what they heard they all got very impatient and they couldn't wait to get off the train. They saw the airship when they passed the academy. Ichika looked at it and he got lost in his thoughts.

It was his house for last year and for the coming two. He was finally reunited to Chifuyu, although it was not always fun. He thought back to Madoka and the things he didn't know from the past. What he couldn't know was that his future was going to be as rocky as his past.

That's for the first chapter. The next will come in the coming weeks. I'll see for it.

If you have read this chapter, I'm really glad about that. Could I ask you, even if the chapter didn't fell in your liking to read on. I know I'm asking a lot, but this story starts out slow. I just felt it essential to start with such a small start.

Just read on and decide later if this story isn't wort reading. Take it till the fourth or fifth chapter for full action.

Saluut.