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TSAB DOWNFALL: Halo War

The aftermath of the JS incident, this caused the formation of many factions, some believed that physical weapons were necessary; others thought that the usage of magic was still viable, but this led to an event that no one saw coming, or maybe they did ….

….. a coup de tat.

It succeeded, the TSAB council that took power passed a law allowing mass-based weapons, and it was passed in order to 'ensure the full safety of the TSAB, and the dimensions it protected.'

Then they did something even more unforgivable …..

…. They pardoned Jail Scaglietti, and gave him the job to continue his research into combat cyborg technology.

The Ace's, or rather, one of the Ace's, voiced disapproval at this, along with the Saint Church, and what happened next.

They were declared traitors and rebels.

It started a civil war, though it didn't last for long, they were hunted down through all the dimensions, fighting back as hard as they could.

It was to no avail, the Saint /churches forces were pushed far back, along with half of the members of the former Riot Force six, the enemy being led by three of the four Aces, then in one battle, the Ace that the Church had, was on a planet that was hit by multiple Arc-en-Ciels, destroying much of the surface.

She was believed completely destroyed.

The bureau began to secure the dimensions the dimensions, and said it was for peace and justice, but to everyone who thought really well, it was a blatant takeover and they knew it, but the Bureau had the Aces and power on their side, and any rebellion was silenced in a heartbeat.

It was a dark time, and people were wishing for a miracle, one they soon believed would not come, and soon despaired as the Bureau took control.

Though unknown to them …

….. their prayers would be answered.

Nanoha Takamachi, once known as the 'Ace of Aces', slowly got up from a sort of operating table.

Then she realized that she felt …. different.

Her muscles felt stronger, her mind thought clearer, and she felt many times better than before.

She looked in a mirror and immediately noticed that she was not wearing anything, but she then noticed that her muscles were more leaner and looked far stronger, and that her eye color had changed, and she had heterochromia, one eye was a darker blue color, and the other was green blue, and her hair had become white and was long on the back but had developed a split at the center, other than that it was her body, though she looked a bit younger and looked like she was 17.

She also noted that there was no hair on her more private areas of her body, and she ran a hand over herself, but this elicited a sort of sexual moan that caused her to think off ….

….. "Fate..."

She then found tears coming from her eyes and realized that she remembered the one she loved, of what had happened to tear them away from one another, to make them fight one another.

It was painful, it was awful, the one she loved was forced to fight her and how the fighting led to the trap and ….

"That's right, I should be dead, but what happened," she said to herself.

"That is simple, I saved you," came a sort of electronic voice.

Nanoha turned and saw a sort of spherical robotic drone with a single blue eye hovering near the entrance to what appeared to be a medical chamber.

"Greetings, I am 5671-Eternal Chapter, I am the naval command unit of this ship, the Light of Eternity Reclaimer," said Eternal.

"Reclaimer," said Nanoha, confused?

"The term given to humanity by the forerunners, my masters and makers Reclaimer, they selected your race to become the ones who will carry on their legacy," finished Eternal.

"I see, so are they like the Belkans and Al-Hazards," said Nanoha, though was not comfortable with it.

"Belka and Al-Hazard, two civilizations that had the technology and power to truly bring peace, but instead they destroyed themselves with it, a true shame," said Eternal, surprising Nanoha.

"What do you mean," said Nanoha.

"Do you have time for a story," asked Eternal.

"I believe so," said Nanoha.

"Then I shall tell you of how my people met the Al-Hazards and their destruction and of our own civilization."

Nanoha first found some clothes that had been made ready for her, which was a light Forerunner armor, with a cape that was split at the center and was white like her hair, and the armor was only on the legs, chest, forearms, and shoulders with the rest covered by a different type of lighter and comfortable black material that went over her whole body and she soon sat down in a large room in what appeared to be a spaceship, a very large one at that.

The it showed the history of when the Al-Hazards and Forerunners met …..

The Forerunners were a non-magical race, using powerful technology in extraordinary ways, and even created dimensional drives that could allow travel between dimensions, but sent only exploration fleets to study these new realms, and gain knowledge of the civilizations in these realms.

They met the Al-Hazard people this way …

Magi, the force that allows one to manipulate the realm of reality was an extrodibary ability in and of itself, and the Forerunners realized it's potential and saw how the people who had this power, the people of Al-Hazard, created advanced civilizations and allowed them to manipulate the very fabric of time and space, but they also realized another thing about the great power …..

…. It corrupts.

The Al-Hazards used the power to suddenly start a war with other civilizations and destroyed many worlds with it, and then in their most audacious bid, they attempted to create a power that would give them, in their own words …

… "The power of the Gods"

This of course went horribly wrong, and caused a massive distortion in time and space, completely destroying the home world of the Al-Hazard people, in fact it vaporized the planet to nothingness, and sent a shockwave that destroyed many of their colony worlds and spread the few surviving pieces of their technology to the far corners of the dimensions, with that Al-Hazard was gone.

Nanoha remembered how Fate's 'mother', Precia Testarrosa was so intent on finding Al-Hazard to revive her real daughter Alicia, and now it turned out her effort was entirely in vain, as Al-Hazard was not even in existence anymore, it was gone completely turned into nothing but atoms and empty matter, leaving nothing but emptiness.

Then Eternal Chapter told her of the Forerunners and their end …..

The Forerunners were an alien race, and came into power after the species known as the Precursors, who were more advanced than even the Forerunners and the Al-Hazardians put together, and the Forerunners saw them as Gods for their power. The Forerunners soon spread out, using technology that was in no ways magic based, and used mass-based weapons of such an advanced design and function that it put the weapons of Belka and many of the weapons of Al-Hazard to shame, but instead of being destructive like the Al-Hazard people, they were a race that valued peace and justice above all else, and worked to aid evolving races to allow them to follow a path of Peace, free of Conflict, and devolved humanity to a point where they could work with initially war willing humans from square one in order to place them on the correct path. Then at the height of their power, they were in the process of disarming much of their weapons, and they saw that humanity had many of their own traits, and decided that should they ever disappear like the Precursors, then humanity would take up where they left off, as the 'Reclaimers'.

Nanoha saw the Forerunners as a truly peaceful race, and helping the whole Galaxy to true peace was the best thing she saw, and they seemed like the TSAB except they did their job right.

Then Nanoha asked, "How did they meet their end," losing her cheerful attitude.

"It all happened," started Eternal, "when the Flood appeared."

An exploration team was in the furthest part of the Galaxy and discovered an unknown parasite, and then all contact was lost with the team, then the exploration ship was found by a Forerunner scout ship, and there was even recorded data on what happened.

Nanoha was horrified and sick to her stomach by seeing the first encounter with the parasite, it attacked and tore apart the Forerunner team, and looked like squid like creatures with long and sharp tendrils, and they drilled these tendrils into the team, and to the sheer horror and revulsion of Nanoha, it mutated and twisted their bodies, turning the team into horrifying and twisted monstrosities and the Eternal explained that the Flood were hive minded and absorbed the knowledge of whoever they infected and mutated, and with that learned to pilot ships, use slipspace drives, gained knowledge in weaponry, and spread to many worlds, infecting the species and people, turning them all into horrifying mutated creatures. The Forerunners were unable to stop the Flood, and all their fleets had been taken in by the parasite, then they got the biggest blow possible when they tried sending an A.I named Medicant Bias to destroy the flood using an automated fleet that was able to resist flood infection, instead Medicant joined the Flood and turned on the Forerunners, which shocked Nanoha. This caused the Forerunners to enact a final plan, one that would ensure the destruction of the Flood, but at great cost.

The plan, was 'HALO'.

Seven rings, all with a diameter that made them as large as the Earth, were placed throughout the Galaxy, and then they were all activated. Nanoha saw with sadness and horror as all the races in the whole galaxy were entirely wiped out, and all flood forms that were not placed into stasis for study were completely destroyed, nothing survived, every race was gone.

Nanoha saw as the light from the Halo's wiped out all life, everything turning into atoms, all of it gone in a instant.

"Why, why did that have to happen, why did those monsters have to show up, why did all those people have to-," Nanoha was suddenly cut off.

"However, my people always have a plan for anything," said Eternal.

Then Nanoha was shown large ships coming from a massive structure that was outside the Milky Way galaxy, and they went through slip space portals and saw one ship land on Earth, and from large containers of some kind came ….. humans.

Nanoha was stunned and amazed as the ships soon released the native species of multiple worlds on their respective planets, all at their pre-historic era and from there the species would build themselves back up.

That was how it went, the Forerunners re-seeded all life in the galaxy, but it cost their own lives, the Forerunners saved the Galaxy, at the cost of themselves, in the greatest act of sacrifice that could ever be done.

"That is our history, and our legacy, one in which humanity was chosen to live up to," said Eternal, "and others like myself shall aid your races in this endeavor."

"There's actually something I wanted to ask, how am I still alive, what was done to me, and where is my device?" asked Nanoha.

"The first answer to that is that I had detected your signature nearby, this ship was in a special slipspace storage area within the planet you were on and detected your life-signs, then the attack occurred and much of your body was destroyed, except for your head, upper body, and your left arm, though you were partially alive afterward, but after teleporting you onboard and sending your body straight into medical, I activated the ship as per emergency protocols and used the destruction to disguise a slip-space jump into the space between dimensions."

"As for what was done to you, the medical AI repaired your body, though the threat of such damage happening again and detecting your magic signature caused the system to apply modifications to your body, first being Carbide Ceramic Ossification in which we grafted an advanced material to your bone structure, which is a specially modified and ultra-light metal that is the same as the metal off this ship, except that it was made to be used in an organic body, in short your bones are essentially and practically unbreakable."

This surprised Nanoha, who knew her skeleton was currently many times stronger,"go on."

"We added an enhancement to your muscle tissue, and even placed powerful Nano-technologic muscle tissue to your mainstream muscle tissue, thus giving you the strength to lift objects three times your own weight, and when you use your magic, this effect can be doubled if not tripled, and your running speed should be increased by a rather large margin for a regular human."

"Finally, your eyesight was enhanced to the point where you should even have natural night-vision, and we implanted nano-technologic neural pathways in the parts of your brain that were damaged, which should not only allow for better focus and better thinking, but should also provide you with a raw boost of intelligence, and also one final thing, we also placed special enhancers in your body that should boost your magic power and allow you to process and use your magic without the aid of a device, and speaking of your device."

They were teleported to a sort of laboratory and Nanoha saw her device, or what remained of her device, on a zero-gee repair field. It was in small fragments, and completely dark, showing no signs of working at all.

"Unfortunate, it appears your device used all its power to keep you alive in the attack, the AI core has been destroyed and all systems are completely gone, I am sorry, but I must also tell you, the effects to your hair and eyes was caused by the attack, your own linker core has been heavily altered and due to the modifications, has modified itself and thus you appear to have become the second to use it," finished Eternal.

"The second, of what," Nanoha said confused.

The second to use a style of magic my masters brought into existence, and thus named, Forerunner-style magic," Eternal said, causing shock to appear on Nanoha's face.

"What!"

"Forerunner-style was created by my creators after the spent many, many years studying magic itself, and found out that it could be altered and manipulated in multiple ways, and that the styles known as Belkan and Mid-Childan follow only set paths and no others due to the fact that your devices are incapable of entirely high aspect and truly complex calculations which keep the magic energy focused its single area of expertise, but the Forerunners were able to use their technology and with the usage of enhancers, strengthening of the body, raw boosting of intelligence, and also a device containg a more high-grade AI it is even able to allow a low-rank mage to be capable of using high-level abilities, and the modifications allow the body to handle magic energy at a level that is many times that of a human body, even the magic you believe is unsafe is now no longer a problem for you, and the higher thought capacity and higher intelligence can allow for calculations that are many times that of a human mage, in short, you are a Forerunner-type mage, Reclaimer."

Nanoha was stunned, she was shocked, but she also wanted to know one thing, "can you somehow repair raising heart," she asked.

"Yes, enough data remains to reconstruct the AI program, but I am afraid it will have to be fitted on a Forerunner-made device, which we currently have, the AI will be re-made to become a higher-level AI, and unfortunately most of its magic data was destroyed in the blast, and another problem," said Eternal.

"What?"

"There is only one Forerunner device that exists, and it was made with the purpose of being a weapon of powerful and focused attack power, and I am afraid that the ability for you to use magic non-lethally, was taken from you in the attack, your magic has been set to become lethal, and only lethal."

That phrase got her, and she then got the full weight of those words, her magic was permanently set to kill, she didn't like killing, and it was something she saw magic as ….

Then she remembered what her ideas got her, how her unwillingness to kill caused the opposing side to fail, what caused many of the allies she had to die, and what caused her to become what she currently was.

She died then and there in the attack, and she knew that she was no longer Nanoha Takamachi, she was no longer the girl who saw peaceful fighting and safety as the solution anymore.

She needed to be stronger, she needed to fight harder, she knew that the old ideals of wasting her magic with stunning would not win the war, but she also knew …..

"I need help," she said.

"We are heading for the home dimension of my masters, and shall meet with other Reclaimers in the real- wait, there is a signal coming from one of our shield worlds, we are linking a portal now," said Eternal.

Nanoha followed Eternal through the rather massive ship, and arrived at a large portal that was on the wall and activating.

Then from the glowing light, a seven foot tall, fully armored humanoid being holding an assault rifle came out, and it looked right at Nanoha, then the figure, female, asked.

"Who are you."

Nanoha knew that she was no longer herself in the physical sense, and then decided on what to say:

"My name, my name was Nanoha Takamachi, now-"

A panel emerged, and on it was a sword, a deep blue energy pulsing through it, and it its hilt was a glowing jewel, pulsing with forerunner writing, and was a double edged blade that was half Nanoha's height, and was made from a metal that was even stronger than the armor of the ship itself.

Nanoha grabbed it and then sent it into its inactive form, and it became a bracelet on her right arm with a cross in it, and then she finished by saying:

"My name is Nova, and that is all."

Others had come out, and Nova (formerly Nanoha), explained everything, the TSAB, the Civil War, their want to rule the dimensions, all of it, and Eternal Chapter backed her up by showing them the data from the Dimension about the TSAB and the threat they used to the dimensions, and Eternal also mentioned their arrival.

They exited slipspace, and arrived near a world, with ships of a blocky configuration and ships of bulbous design were together, side by side, and then the system updated based on data it gathered and informed them of the location.

Earth, Sol System, hub of the Alliance of Free Systems.

Year: 2580