The New Zero

"Richie, can you hear me?"

Static

"Richie, respond,"

None

"Richie, this is Red Alpha please respond!"

No response, she clenched her metallic fist tighter.

"Red Seven you better respond this instant cause if you don't then god forbid what I am going to do with you!" she yelled.

Static… then, "Cut me some slack cap," the voice said weakly.

"I am not going to listen to you complaining, I'm ordering you to move to the safehouse," she said firmly.

"No can-do cap,"

"Richie, this is not the time for heroics, you better move your ass cause I'm not going back and carry it for y-"

"I'm a lost cause cap… I'm running on reserve energy… my lower body's gone… bastards… took everything,"

"Red Seven… Red Seven!"

"It was… an honour… ca-"

A series of coughs came out of her end. Once the coughing stopped the one named Richie gave slight groan, through the speaker she could hear the sound of mechanics at work, the sounds of hydraulics and of course the unforgettable sound of a low and deep beep of a Ravager.

"Huh… came back to… take the… rest of me?"

The one Richie was talking to didn't respond instead heavy footfalls left her comm followed by Richie's last words.

"Go on and take it… DOWN IN THE DEEPEST PARTS OF HELL!"

The line between her and Richie was replaced by the usual static. She tried to re-establish the connection but all she got was the same static. Exactly nine seconds later an explosion echoed across the never-ending desert.

"FUCK!" she screamed in anger.

Reigning on her anger she looked at the unconscious person that was the cause of the entire ordeal, a girl with long pink hair, she wore unusual clothes that could be considered normal five hundred years ago, along that she also wore a black cape and on her hip was a short stick.

"You better be worth the fucking trip," she snarled.

She trudged on not even giving time to mourn for the loss of his entire team lest she wanted to join them.

It was that time of the year again, Springtime Summoning Festival; the time when the second years of Tristain Magical Academy finally summon their own servants or more specifically – a familiar. Most of the students were nothing short of excited! Excited in a sense that they will finally have a loyal servant that would cater to their every whim, and would perform to the best of their abilities. Aside from that they were also anxious, anxious about what kind of familiar they would get for it is said that summoned familiars were the ones that mirrored the master's personality and their affinity for something. That anxiety that most student had was over taken by excitement though so it didn't matter.

"I sure do hope that everyone is here. Now I know that you are all excited to summon your familiars but before we begin the festival allow me to repeat what I said yesterday," Jean Colbert said.

Groans from the class was the reply that he heard, he gave a smile at the youth's reaction, "Remember that the Springtime Summoning Festival is a tradition that has been practiced in this academy ever since it was discovered, anything going against this tradition will be faced with immediate expulsion but I know that you're all capable nobles and you would be able to complete the summoning without breaking this tradition. With that being said let us begin the festival!"

Once the first student was called the summoning began. The whole summoning went without a hitch, mages from the second-year class summoned a variety of familiars ranging from the domestic dog to Tabitha's outlandish dragon, though it was to be expected from her. Eventually the last of the students finally summoned their familiars.

"Is there anyone who hasn't summoned their familiar yet?" he asked the class.

"There is one Professor," the voice that belonged to Kirche said.

"Who would that be, Miss Zerbst?" he asked.

"Why it's none other than Louise!" she said with a smile.

Said girl flinched, uncharacteristically she shrunk behind her peers in an attempt to make herself invisible but it was not to be as the entire class parted exposing herself to her professor. The fire mage gave a calming smile and gave some encouraging words. Trapped between a rock and a hard place she had to choose the easier route and proceeded to the summoning circle.

Louise Francoise Le Blanc e La Valliere or more known around the academy as the one who couldn't cast a single spell, bearing the moniker of 'Zero'. For reasons unknown to her every single spell she had casted ever since she held a wand would always spontaneously combust. The most basic rule of magic is that when a spell explodes then it means that the caster had done something wrong; whether it was because of the lack of willpower, you they didn't picture the desired imaged well enough the result would always be the same, either a small spark or a big explosion but today that was going to change.

She took a deep breath and focused, "My servant that exist somewhere in this vast universe. My divine, beautiful, wise, powerful servant, heed my call. I wish from the very bottom of my heart and add to my guidance and appear!"

"Quite dramatic for my taste but then again Mister Guiche's incantation was much more dramatic than that," Colbert thought.

After all of that the spell that she had cast yielded the same results – an explosion. Cries from both the students being thrown off and their familiars panicked at the sudden but expected explosion. Fortunately, most of the students were a few meters away from the blast radius. Teases coming out of the mouths of nobles.

"As expected from someone with the moniker of 'Zero'!"

"What ever you try the result would always be that same!"

"So much for that dramatic incantation,"

Kirche gave a laugh meanwhile the girl right beside her continued to read the book that was on her hands. While these happened, Jean Colbert was clearing his robes of dust and soot, once he considered himself clean he gave the entire class a stern look silencing all of them.

"You are all nobles and you are showing bringing a shameful sight if you continue this teasing," he said.

Once the whole class was quiet he turned back to the smoke that had gathered because of his student, he started to say the incantations for a spell that would clear out the smoke when all of a sudden, his old military instincts came in and screamed at him to dodge this instant. Not one to deny his instincts he did just that. True to his instinct's word something metallic came out of the smoke that landed just in front of his class.

Curiosity overcame the class as the ones nearest to the metallic object neared and had a look at what was thrown in their direction. It turns out it wasn't an object but a golem, it had the physique of that of a knight – large and tall, its entire body was black but upon closer look they could all see that the golem had some intricate lines that stretched all across its body.

"What is that?" one student asked.

"Probably a golem," another replied.

"Are you telling me that Louise the Zero actually summoned a familiar?" one said with slight shock.

"What are you all talking about?" a voice asked making all of the curious head turn.

Guiche walked towards the group, "This is Louise we're talking about, you know, the one who could never cast a single spell," he reminded.

The shock that was on the students eased, Guiche walked towards the lying down golem, "Besides, I doubt she would be able to summon a golem, especially when she can't even cast levitate," he said while kicking the golem.

The whole class gave a laugh, unbeknownst to them the lines that were on the golem glowed red and slowly traced itself all the was up to its head. A deep humming sound came from the golem. After Guiche was done gloating he turned around only to feel something cold that wrapped around his neck, he was lifted up the ground with ease. What came face to face with him was none other than the black golem.

"Unhand me this instant!" he said while looking at the now active golem.

It didn't respond instead it brought its other arm up and balled it to a fist.

"You would dare hit a noble!? I tell you my father is a gener-"

Guiche never managed to finish his sentence when the golem's fist suddenly split apart and what came out froze his blood – a sort of blade that gave a deep 'vroom' sound. Upon closer look, not just Guiche but the whole class could see that there were some small blades that were circulating around the perimeter of the blade. A scream from a girl came and that was more than enough to jog everyone from their shock. They all backed away as fast as they could from the black golem while leaving the young Grammont to his own.

"Mister Grammont!" Colbert yelled while already in the middle of casting a fire spell but even at this distance he knew that his spell wouldn't make it.

Guiche shut his eyes as blade closed the gap

A second passed and another and another eventually he opened his eyes to see something that surprised him; the arm that turned into a blade became nothing more than a stub. Suddenly he felt weightless, he gave a cry as his bottom hit the ground, looking up he got a good look at the now unarmed golem. The red lines of the golem suddenly flickered then the next thing he knew the golem had a bright orange diagonal line stretching from its right shoulder all the way down to its hip. The top part of the golem fell on the ground with a heavy thud frightening the young Grammont while the other half fell backwards.

He looked back up to see his saviour only to have his eyes open in shock. Her entire skin was a steel grey, she wore a white shirt that seemed to fit just right for her stature and some sort of pants that were the colour of khaki, she also had those intricate lines similar to the black golem but there was another feature he noticed, while the golem had a more linear form of body his saviour had more curves expressing that his saviour was a female but the most obvious feature that he saw which told him that the one who saved him was a female was the hair, or more importantly her pink hair.

"L-Louise?" he asked still trying to shake the surprise in his face.

Murmurs erupted from the crowd but they were suddenly stopped when the petite girl actually lifted up Guiche using the back of his uniform with relative ease despite her being shorter than him. Once he found his footing he gave a muffled scoff. He was about to give a cheeky reply about how saving him doesn't mean he'll stop calling teasing her when suddenly she he was pushed, harshly, away from the girl.

"How dare you push me!" he said while fixing himself again.

He looked up and to his shock there was another black golem but this time Louise was standing in between him and the golem, she crossed her arms forming an 'X' and raised is just in time to block the attack from the black golem.

Sparks flew was the golem's rapidly rotating blade battled for dominance with Louise's arms. Despite her short stature everyone assembled in the courtyard was rather shocked because Louise, the short-tempered, talentless, frail girl was actually holding against something that was able to lift Guiche up with ease. The struggle finally stopped when Louise shifted her entire body to the right while guiding the blade downwards. The golem over extended itself and stumbled only to reel upwards was Louise's knee slammed into its abdomen.

She wasn't done however, at the soles of her feet a loud humming sound suddenly made itself known around the courtyard, that loud humming became a loud but short explosion which propelled her knee upwards sending the golem at least three hundred feet above, while that golem was above she immediately placed her feet back on the only this time placing further away making her form lower. She brought her right arm up on her face, the class was stunned again when her arm suddenly split and made a circular shield big enough to cover two thirds of her body.

The deployment of the shield proved to be a smart choice as the sound of lightning suddenly cracked from the cloud of dust that formed from her failed spell, the sound of metal hitting metal at high speeds resonated from Louise's shield, she didn't stay on the same spot however as she used her legs to push against the hail of bullets that was peppering her only protection. Surrounding her screams from the class entered her ears as they tried to dodge the bullets that were ricocheting from her shield, a chance presented itself when the sound of clicking reached her ears, disassembling the shield she placed both of her hands behind her with her palms exposed, similar to earlier a short explosion came out of her palms which launched her towards the one responsible for shooting her at great speeds that the smoke that accumulated had split because of her speed. The gap between her and the golem became smaller and before the golem could shoot again its arm had already been held by her.

Louise gave a war cry as she swung the golem and threw it at the class' direction, girlish shrieks echoed the courtyard as the thrown golem was closing in on them, Guiche was about to bring up an earth wall when all of a sudden, the golem that Louise had kneed collided with the golem that she threw, then the next thing that happened were too fast for anyone to process even for the retired veteran. One moment Louise was at the place from where she threw the golem then she was now just face to face with Guiche with a blade that protruded at the top of her arm extended. The two golems that collided with each other split into four pieces a bright orange rim was seen where Louise had most likely sliced on.

Louise exhaled, steam coming out of her mouth and in between the lines that make up her body. She stood up properly this time while disengaging the blade. She looked around the class hoping to find the person she was looking for. She looked behind to see Jean Colbert standing still in shock, "Mr. Colbert!"

This seemed to jog the man from his shock, "Um yes, what do you need Ms. Valliere?"

"Evacuate everyone from this place right now," she said.

"What do you mean?" he asked with confusion.

"This courtyard isn't safe anymore,"

"But you have already defeated those golems," he reasoned.

The reply he got was silence, curiosity came over him as he looked at the place where she was staring at – the bodies of the golems.

Suddenly the sound of something rattling made itself known throughout the courtyard, Louise clicked her tongue, "I knew it, everyone get behind me!" she commanded.

Either they did it out of fear or subconsciously they followed her order, all eyes were now glued to the destroyed golems; the three golems slowly but surely collapsed but the way they collapsed was similar to when someone poured acid on a thin surface and the acid would start dissolving the area where they were split. When all the bodies had finally collapsed what they saw were black sand. The sand began to move further away from the entire class, when all of the black particles finally was far enough it began to rise up and started to take form.

First the legs were almost as big as Tabitha's dragon but it didn't stop there the legs stretched to the point where it was half of Kirche's body, the body of the forming golem was next; it had a more wider waist but still retaining the linear form that it had when it was still a small golem, this told Louise that what she will be fighting was more focused on strength rather than agility, the arms were next the left arm formed a menacingly long blade that easily dwarfed any sword that the school's armoury had, the other arm was formed into a claw like hand that was suitable for grabbing her lithe figure. Finally, the head that was formed from the sand was bulky telling her that slicing the head is a no-go, Lines connected all the way to the chest area telling Louise it's weak point.

Its eyes finally light up and locked with Louise, the girl in particular snarled, "Just my luck, a Ravager,"

The Ravager reeled back and gave a loud hum that was equivalent to a beast's roar. It echoed throughout the academy grounds. Meanwhile Louise unleashed her arm-blades then did one last thing that surprised the entire class large grey things protruded from her back which gave hum while also giving a light pink glow, with this she started to float.

She gave a look at Colbert, "Evacuate everyone from this academy, I'll buy you guys some time!"

With a burst of speed, she charged the Ravager while giving a war cry.

A/N: Well what do you guys think? I'll be straight here, I've always wanted to make my own world. While making crossovers is nice there's always that one thing that's limiting me so I decided to make my own world. By the way that entire conversation at the beginning? It has some relevance. I you guys are still having some trouble picturing what Louise looks like then I'll happily tell you: she has the body of Alita after she donned on her newer and stronger armour, her arm blades are similar to that of Alisa along with the wings on her back, there's more about Louise than what I'm describing you by the way. If you want to know more then I urge you to read this as the world where Louise got reversed summoned is an original (Well as original as I can make it)

Anyways I hope you all enjoy this chapter and with that I bid you all adieu!

Peace~