I do not own Familiar Of Zero and this is is my first fan fiction story. That being said the Soviet Military in my fan Fiction will come from a different timeline but the equipment and methods will be as accurate as I can make (Though there may be errors). Without further to do let us delve into the world of Red Bear In Halkeginia!


Chapter 1: The Last Domino … Disappears?

July2,1995 09:00 Baku, On Board an unmarked cargo ship, Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic

Sergeant Anton Ulitsky

The inland ocean was cold as the sun began to peek over the horizon, the smell of the salty ocean wind wafted along the docks and ships. It wasn't much of a far cry from how it was during the winter, but unlike winter there was a few thousand men in camouflaged Battle Dress Uniforms along with a few thousand various other vehicles packed or boarding onto the decks of cargo ships and a few war ships. Above helicopters and jets circled, a few hundred cargo planes circled the area above like hawks waiting for a feast.

"Eh Ulitsky, why do you think we are here?" the young private with brown eyes and dirty blonde hair asked as he brushed off the back of his green, tan, and brown camouflaged pants. The older man chuckled and said jokingly ,"Mind your mouth, I could give you latrine duty for forgetting my rank."

The younger Private let out an irritable sigh as he glanced around the deck of the cargo ship at the other soldiers loitering around, and said slowly ,"Honestly we are out in the middle of nowhere and it looks like we are making an invasion fleet in the middle of our own god damned country's waters, some of the others are saying something about a possible revolt to the south west provinces..." he glanced around before lowering his voice and leaning towards the sergeant ,"I honestly don't want to raise arms against our own country folk, I mean aren't we supposed to protect them?"

The Sergeant seemed disgruntled and annoyed at the words, he eyed the Private with slight disgust ,"Have you forgotten that YOU fallow orders NOT the orders fallow you?" The private flinched a bit at the cold steel like tone of the man ,"I thought-" He was silenced by the senior who said "Just fallow orders and keep your chin up and you wont be shot." The Private let out a breath of relief and sucked back in a nervous gulp of air as his senior added in a low tone ,"At least not by us." he laughed and clapped the young mans back heartily.

A row of transport vehicles crested a hill, mounting onto a cargo ship through a hastily made port fallowed by various types of mobile anti-aircraft , Light Armored Vehicles, and Main Battle Tanks. Along the port many other cargo ships were loading ammunition crates along with rations, some barrels gasoline, and one seemed to be taking on what seemed like a giant metal umbrella of sorts.

North West Center of the Fleet, Caspian Sea 17:00

The fleet of cargo ships had already moved into the open waters , while on the bridge of one of the said ships two men talked in private ."Sir I believe that Shluz One is ready for the voyage, although there are a few who disagree." the man in a white lab coat said. Looking around the steel encased room an elderly man with a thick bushy mustache paced around and looked himself in the mirror, to him there was a monstrous killer with a heart of gold looking back into is cold heartless eyes. He looked at the uniform that it wore it was one that they wore with prestige and honor, yet he deserved none for what he was about to do. With a gruff and throaty voice he said ,"Proceed according to plan, I'll let the men know." at that the man in the white lab coat said with confidence and a salute ,"Yes Division Commander Razbaul!" and exited the room heading down the hall and up a flight of stairs into the open deck of the cargo ship which held the giant umbrella like object.

Twenty minutes later the Commander stood atop a podium and spoke into a microphone his voice booming through the loud speakers behind him ,"Brothers, today we are gathered here to free us of our chains of Capitalist Greed and Oppression. Today we will show them that they cannot push us around , they cannot cage us like wild animals!" a loud cheer echoed through out the crowd ,"Today we will bring equality and peace to the poor men women and children that the Capitalist have tossed away like garbage, they do not know any thing of peace or love ! We will bring the war-machine to its knees and remove its ability to oppress the people with one quick strike! Shluz One will be the one to remove the greedy monsters grip from the poor! Today Shluz will bring us to the east coast of the United States and we will gain victory over the oppressors!" a collaborative shout of 'Urrrrrrraaaaa' through out the giant fleet echoed out onto the open waters like a storm. Company and battalion commanders began to shout as the soldiers filed into their retrospective formations before all of them headed below deck, vehicles lined up as the air units began to close in on the fleet forming a tight vortex of steel.

A giant transport helicopter left the cargo ship with Shluz and began to land among the other ships delivering a few scientists in white lab coats onto other ships as they calmly yet briskly made their way to control rooms and other various command centers of the ships, many of whom warned the crew and passengers of the ships to lie or sit down in a bunk or other secure place to avoid injury.

From the middle of the fleet came a booming mono toned voice counting down "Five" the crew and soldiers of other ships lay or sat tense as they heard the seemingly heartless voice counting down to either their victory over Capitalist imperialism or to their deaths.

"Four" every thing seemed to be silent among the fleet the tension in the air so thick that only the sounds of the jets helicopters and cargo planes could be heard cutting through the thick atmosphere like a knife.

"Three" on the cargo ship in the middle of the fleet a few scientists were looking on a monitor, a few gasps of surprise and dread could be heard among the scientists as an error occurred a small blip among the many monitors which seemed to have a mind of its own adjusting altitude and graphical coordinates .

Tristain Academy of Magic, Tristain , Halkeginia

Juin 12 , 6058 12:00

"Is that every one?" A middle aged man with a bald head asked a group of second year students as he adjusted his glasses and leaned slightly on his staff. Most of the students were petting and coddling over their newly summoned familiars. A red headed young lady with a deep tan skin tone who was petting a salamander like creature stood up, and pointed to a crowd and said in a chirpy voice ,"The Zero hasn't gone yet Professor Colbert!" The said crowd parted laughing at the mention of said person, revealing a short, thin, and very red faced pinkette who was about to say something that would make a sailor run for his money before Professor Colbert said to her ,"Ah yes Miss Villiere! If you would please walk over to the summoning circle?" The young seemingly thirteen year old sighed and mumbled an embarrassed ,"Yes Professor." she held her head high and gripped her wand tightly in anticipation as she walked pridefully towards the summoning circle. She is after all, from a prestigious family and not only that but one close to the crown of Tristain.

With that thought in mind she smirked and raised her wand into the air waving it as if tracing a pentagon into the sky above. She chanted "Five elemental powers , I Louise de la Villiere call upon you.." The students around her silenced hearing the odd chant some even seemed almost encouraging , notably a red head next to her salamander familiar and a blue haired teen next to a dragon gazing curiously at the spectacle.

"To summon a strong, loyal familiar!" with a flick of her wrist an explosion occurred shrouding the area in dust and dirt many in the crowd of students murmuring words not to different from ,"Once a Zero always a Zero.", "As usual she screws up." and ,"Go home this is an academy for Magic NOT FAILURES!". At the realization that she possibly did fail her eyes were beginning to water, but before she could burst into full on tears a loud 'Thud' was heard and something along the lines of "Ckya Blyat!" with a few cracking of bones. Hope restored the pinkette looked to the equally small blue haired mage named Tabitha who was dusting off a book she was reading. The only response Louise received from the Bluenette was a small nod and a wave of her staff causing the dust in the air to be cast aside.

July 2, 1995 15:45 The Black Sea, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Sergeant Borislav Bojidar

Sergeant Borislav heard the count down as he lay in his bunk in the hallway the monotone voice could be heard "Three..." just then a green orb of light appeared next to his bunk and the count down seemed distant and much slower and deeper "twoooooooooooo" he curiously stuck a hand it which ended up with him being sucking into said anomaly, the other spetsnaz in their bunks didn't seem to notice the strange occurrence let alone the fact that one of their brothers in arms was sucked into the strange orb.

The next thing he felt was weightlessness and then the dreadful sensation of falling. It wasn't that he wasn't used to falling , being in the special forces in the great Soviet Union you were trained to duck and roll, or use a parachute . Yet because of the lack of parachute and the dust in the air obscuring his vision he was only able to yell out "Fucking Bitch!" after his body was slammed against the dirt and grass with a loud thud and audible cracks, possibly from the forearm which took the blunt of his fall.

Silence... that is what he first noticed. He lay there wondering 'Did I just fall into hell?' before the dust in the air was swept away like a blanket being torn from above him revealing a bright sun, medieval castle like walls, and a bunch of teenagers in a weird black and white uniforms . The females wore black skirts and the males wore black pants yet all of them wore white shirts and long black capes pinned together by a gold pendant with a star marking them as 'weird' in his opinion especially since they were laughing at a soviet spetsnaz! Off to the side a bald man was talking to a girl with pink hair in a heated discussion in a foreign language, possibly in french which he knew only one word and that was 'hello', at least his friend said it was. Knowing Ulitsky it could mean a bad word or something. With a deep breath and a prayer he said "Sot" and waved his left hand in bald mans direction. His right arm was rather flexible and even with his adrenaline from falling wearing off his 'training' to handle pain was kicking in. It hurt ALOT but he didn't show it at all except for wincing a bit when he initially tried to wave with his right hand ending up with his for arm dangling in an unhealthy position and a muffled yell of pain.

The next thing Borislav knew he was smacked across the head with the bald mans staff. He grumbled and muttered ,"Next time I see Ulitsky I am going to give him hell."He let out a sigh as he rubbed the bump that formed from the thick piece of wood colliding into the rear of his head.

Louise de la Villiere

Louise couldn't believe what she summoned, a commoner of all things, couldn't it have been a dragon or manticor like her mothers? The thought of her mother drained all the blood from her face, what would her mother think if she found out she summoned a commoner as a familiar?! Albeit an oddly dressed one... She would be disowned and looked down upon as a lesser mage! Or worse.. she would be classified as a commoner rather than a mage! She turned to Professor Colbert as her peers jeered and laughed behind her pointing at her and her 'Familiar' and asked ,"May I PLEASE preform the ritual again Professor Colbert?" to which the older man replied in a reprimanding tone ,"Now Miss Villiere the familiar summoning ritual is sacred, you can't summon another familiar because it is heretical, you don't want the church knocking down your door do you?" Louise shuddered and said ,"Fine I-I'll finish the ritual..." at that moment the person she summoned decided to wave at Colbert with his left hand and say "Idiot!" to which Colbert walked over to the man and whacked him behind the head with his staff.

The strange man muttered something comprehensible as Colbert said to Louise ,"It would be best to complete the ritual now Villiere before he does something rather dangerous ..." he added under his breath ,"Or idiotic... again."

Louise nodded and said with downcast eyes and a sigh of defeat ,"Yes Professor Colbert." With that she walked up to Borislav and knelt next to him, waving her wand in a similar manner as when she summoned him. " I , Louise de la Villiere proclaim you as my familiar." she kissed him on the forehead to which he replied in some form of gibberish, finishing the contract.

Borislav Bojidar

Borislav blinked in surprise as the little girl walked up to him , knelt and kissed his forehead. It would have been heart warming with out the fact that he was trained to kill people and the only thing he was thinking about was gouging the man with the staff with said object. Along with the fact that his right hand felt like it was barbecuing. Realizing that his right hand was in excruciating pain he let out a painful hiss and lifted his right arm to see what was happening to his hand. Yet due to the fact that it was broken in the fall his forearm bent in an odd angle causing him to let out a loud ,"BLIN BLIN BLIN BLIN!" the sound of bones cracking even more was heard throughout the large courtyard causing Borislav and many of the students to wince in disgust along with a few vomiting onto the green grass. After his explicit rant he let out a calming breath now noticing the pink haired girl and the bald man coming back from a near by tower built into the seemingly ancient walls, fallowed by a pair of people who seemed to be wearing all white nurses uniforms, except they held wands instead of sharp needle like objects, which in a sense relived him and in a lesser tone confused him.

He stared in wonder as they knelt next to him waving their wands , causing some water to float out of a pair of canteen like leather bags at their waists. Yet he drew away when the water it self neared him. In response one of the nurses said something to try to reassure him, the little pink haired girl behind them huffed and turned her head saying something he didn't comprehend to which the nurses began to talk to her as they once again tried to get the water closer to his fractured arm, causing her face to redden seemingly out of embarrassment and scold them lightly in the same french like language. They ignored her as the water floated to his arm and glowed, making the pain in his arm numb like his own heart. Borislav then heard the sound of many ruffling capes above and wondered if they unfurled a flag of some kind only to look up and scream ,"FUCKING BITCH THEY'RE FLYING!" his left hand pointing at the levitating students heading towards various towers withing the building complex. His right hand ,now repaired by some sorcery, holding the back of his head in disbelief as if trying to keep his head from exploding, which it probably would have. His left hand was pointing towards the strange witchcraft.

Louise De La Villiere

Noticing her now familiars arm bending at an odd angle she went to the nurses leaning against one of the court yards walls near the void tower who 'coincidentally' decided to fallow her here, they looked at her with questioning glances as she briskly walked up to them along with professor Colbert. One of them asked the young looking pinkette ,"Whats wrong milady?" to which she said ,"My familiar needs help he has broken an arm." the two nurses raised an eye brow to each other as if to ask 'Do you believe her?' they both decided they didn't until one of the most renowned professors who was fallowing the short thin pinkette said to them ,"It is true, her familiar is in plenty of pain, if you could please assist?" at the mention of her being true the young pinkette said hotly to professor Colbert ,"Of course I tell the truth, do you doubt my word as a noble from a prestigious family such as house Villiere?" at that the professor gave a rather guilty look as the nurses rushed past them toward the sound of an audible crack.

Forgetting the predicament , much to Colbert's relief, they fallowed the nurses in a brisk pace the many of the students were leaning on their familiars seemingly about to vomit, some have turned away or already did empty their stomachs onto the grass. A very small amount were laughing at the commoners predicament. Upon seeing the students puking or picking on the poor man Colbert said to the class ,"Alright students class dismissed, head back to your dorms there's nothing to see here." at that the students either seemed to deflate or rapidly oblige trying to keep their stomachs from getting rid of their food.

The healers were having a grand time poking fun at the Villiere child saying that she ,"Hired a commoner" to be her familiar to which Louise fumed and proclaimed that ,"I would rather have an ant than a commoner as a familiar!" they ignored her as her familiar looked at his now healthy arm in amazement, and then looked up as a shadow of a student passed overhead. He seemed to pale a bit as he pointed to the students and said in a seemingly surprised voice, "Cyka Blyat Oni Letyat!". The nurses decided to leave in an attempt to get away from the crazed man. The professor decided to leave as well, saying something about an 'experiment' he had to keep an eye on.

It was at that moment that Louise noticed that her familiar was staring dumbfounded at a window that was open, apparently to allow students to levitate through them. She sighed and said ,"Not only do I get a commoner but I get some back water no name and no brain." she sighed in exasperation. She then took his hand and began to try and drag him to her dormitory, which failed due to his muscular physique and heavy weight , which was mainly muscle. She let out an irritated breath and looked up to the clear blue sky ,"Why do I have such a confusing familiar..." she tapped him on the shoulder and waved her hand in a 'Come Hither' motion. To which he thankfully complied.

Date/Time:?On Board an unmarked cargo ship Location:?

Sergeant Anton Ulitsky

Most crews and soldiers on board the ships walked up towards the decks in full gear after the transition taking only a few minutes to assemble, only to break formation to look towards the setting sun, they knew that there was a time difference and was told that when they were going to be 'delivered' to the capitalist shores. They did know one thing, and that was that America wasn't a floating piece of land. That did raise more than one question, the most important one though was 'Where Is Here?'. Many mouths were agape ,in the distance there were wooden ships that seemed to float towards or around the island one of which turned towards the fleet of ships and cargo planes circling over head. A crew of anti-aircraft gunners ran to their duel Kord machine gun mounts , a type of automatic anti-aircraft used against low and slow flying planes. The crew of said mount began to load the rounds into the chambers and ready the weapon. On board other ships similar events began to occur, soldiers began to prepare RPG teams on the decks, AA crew members began to mount their respective guns , and soldiers began to ready for confrontation. In the bridges of the cargo ships commanders began to relay messages between them the main priority was to protect the Shluz , most of the ships surrounding the cargo ship with the umbrella like object as scientists began to fiddle with the said object trying to see what went wrong and how they could reprogram it so that they could make it back to their familiar world.

Juin 12 6058 , 17:00 Albonian Time , RRS Soaring Eagle , Albionian Skies, South East Of Albion

Captain O'Brian

"Sir there is a fleet of strange ships in the waters below!" exclaimed a young twenty or something year old white haired youth from the mast of the Glorious Soaring Eagle , he was a scrawny fellow with a telescope planted into his eyes. " They also have metal birds sir!" said another man from the starboard side , which the ship seemed to be tilting towards due to all the personnel going to one side. Captain O'Brian was a well fed and charismatic leader one that most say the glorious Cromwell chose by hand to command the ,at the time, biggest ship that the Reconqueastan rebellion had. Sure it is now out classed by the Queen Mira that was captured not to long ago but it still had one of the best crews which more than made due for its smaller size and smaller armaments.

The Captain said to his crew ,"Well then, lets see if they are royalist scum or not, signal the Harold and Rubie to fallow course, and prepare for a fight." Just then the man at the mast of the ship said ,"Sir the metal birds are retreating!" to which the captain replied with a worried tone, ," Lets hope that they aren't coming back then." The Soaring Eagle then changed course and headed towards the strange fleet of water ships, fallowed by two smaller frigates.

Date/Time:? An unmarked cargo ship Place:?

Division Commander Razboul

The elderly commander sat on the bridge of the Cargo Ship 'Shluz' with a group of bickering scientists, many of whom were pinning the blame on the others as if their lives depended on it . He just got the news from a few scouting jets that there was a bigger land mass to the south and that it seemed like there was many open fields that the cargo planes could possibly land on. He gave permission to do so and that if they were to contact natives to try to make negotiate with them. The Commander sighed and pinched the ridge of his nose and said in a calm and collected voice, "Don't worry about getting court marshaled let alone shot." the room began to become less tense at the mention of not being shot but there was still some heated discussion between the scientists. He then continued ," I am more worried about the flying ships than any thing else, I don't want my men to die here so try to boot the system back up." many scientists nodded and one even mentioned his mother and how she would," Tear the blin" out of him. The general said "You friends, should try to fix this mess, I will attempt to communicate with the natives." At that he stood up and walked out of the room, a few of his personal guards fallowing him out of the room. One of the scientists blinked and asked the others ,"Since when were they here?" The group of scientists decided to try and reboot the system which always ended up with a rainbow of colors that Shluz emits.

The general had a small bridge like structure extended to the next ship and walked across , one of his sub-commanders giving him the microphone from his speech, which was surprisingly still connected and functioning . He tapped the mic softly getting an echo from the ships speakers. He looked up at the approaching flying ships and said in Russian ,"Hello, we would like to discuss our predicament with you and seek an agreement."

Juin 12 6058 , 17:30 Albonian Time , RRS Soaring Eagle , Albionian Skies South East Of Albion

Captain O'Brian

The captain heard the strange language coming from the ship and mused 'Rub'Kali merchants, but brushed it away when he saw the strange cannons it had, they were too long to load like regular cannons unless you had a ladder or brought the gun down, guessing that it is an unconventional design he said into an enchanted cone like object ,"Hello , surrender your goods to reconquesta and you will be pardoned for being so close to the holy Albion, the rightful kingdom of the glorious lord Cromwell."

The same voice said in a strange rough accent "We will not comply, we seek only to get back to our home land." The strange object on one of the ships which looked like an umbrella a noble woman would use on a hot day began to glow a faint blue. Captain O'Brian said in a stern voice as the ships began to turn to their sides exposing the massive armaments of cannons to the potential threat ,"Do not attack us we are not afraid to fire upon you." the reply he got was ridiculous ,"We are not attacking you and if you do fire on us we will retaliate!" the strange metal object began to glow red and green as captain O'Brian said "FIRE!" with a loud thunder like roar all of the ships cannons fired onto the possible threat sinking the ship almost instantly. Many people jumped off the sinking ship just as all hell broke loose.

Commander Razboul

His eyes widened as he turned around to see the burning Shluz , many of the scientists were on fire or jumping into the waters below, soldiers began dropping rope ladders towards the scientists as the Anti Aircraft guns began to chatter, sending high explosive and armor piercing rounds a few thousand rounds a second into the hulls of all three opposing ships, which at the realization of how great a threat they were, began to peel off and head back towards the floating piece of land, one of the two smaller ships exploded, presumably from the fires spreading to the ammunition storage and the other small ship groaned in agony next to the giant ship until it finally split horizontally in half the last survivor, the bigger one limping away slowly.

One of Razbouls Sub-commanders went up to him and asked ," Comrade Commander, shall we give chase?" to which the Commander sighed and said ,"No, Our main Priority is to find and bring back the survivors of the Shluz." already the soldiers were blood thirsty , their only way home was destroyed and many of the people that could possibly take them home were killed , only about five head scientists were recovered out of twenty. There were also the engineers of the project of which thirty out of one hundred and seventy were retrieved. After three hours of searching the floating wreckage that was left from the tragedy the fourteen other cargo ships began to head south in an attempt to regroup with the airborne division and air corp.

Captain O'Brian

The shocked captain looked at the bodies lay a strew on the deck , out of the hundred or so sailors that manned the vessel originally only forty or so survived the bombardment from the other ship. Body parts and organs seeped from every crevice and the holes on the deck showed where the strange cannonballs pierced the ship from underneath and through all of the decks , floors, and ceilings of the cabins underneath. He didn't know of any cannon that was able to go through more than three wooden floorboards let alone seven! His shock turned to pure blood thirsty rage as he looked up and found the torso of the spotter dangling from a rope around his arm hanging like a freshly slaughtered pig from the mast of the Soaring Eagle. He didn't know the lad personally but he knew his father that died fighting the royalists. He had to once again go to the lady of his house to let her know of another loss the family gained. He looked around the ship and noted that he would be doing that a lot along with a lot of recruiting.

Captain O'Brian then looked back to the distance where the enemy ships were circling where the ship that he personally shot under used to be and saw a a red flag on one of the ships... it bore a gold hammer ,sickle and star.