Disclaimer:

Series referenced include Guyver and Magical Lyrical Nanoha A's. This fic uses a fusion of these two universes. MADOX Metal Skin Panic is referenced by characters.

This author sees no part of ad revenue related to and this is written for fun rather then profit. The following fanfic intentionally breaks away from continuity to avoid issues related to plagiarism or excessive lack of originality.

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She felt now was the opportune time to go and do something special as a group, although no one else seemed to be interested in seeing it that way. Today was the last day of her and Tetsuro's second year of High School. Next year they'd be graduating and by necessity would have to be focused on getting into the best University possible. Simply put this was the last time the Sci-Fi club would really have the opportunity to do something like this.

"Come on guys, it'll be fun. It's like a completely different world in there." The first years looked uncomfortable. Even the reasonably physically capable ones like Sho seemed to just be trying to wait her out so they could go home.

"What do you think Tetsuro?" She asked turning towards the club president for support.

Tetsuro over the past year had started to become increasingly heavy. Although he wasn't yet at the point one could describe him as obese, his face was beginning to clearly show the effects of extra padding. Tetsuro wiped his forehead as his eyes darted around clearly looking for a way out.

She'd been the one who had helped him establish this club in the first place. Founding a club that wasn't simply playing into popular followings related to anime, manga, or playing just to popular Space Opera like Star Wars. Rather a club about Science Fiction and the various concepts and ideas associated with the genre. It was her that had helped to insure that he got their publication out every month, did the required paperwork, and otherwise insured that the club hadn't dissolved. And this is what it all amounted to.

This trip would involving spelunking with scuba gear in one of the less explored submerged cave systems which was noted for various strange creatures. It would be a real chance to explore the weird and the fantastical. There only problem seemed to be that no one else wanted to go.

"You can't force them to want to go, Natsuki. If they aren't interested, they aren't interested." Tetsuro said finally while dabbing himself with a towel.

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"Tetsuro, is this really okay?"

"You didn't want to go either, Sho."

"She seemed to have her heart set on it."

"She'll sulk and complain at us about it, but it's not like anyone is going to get hurt. You can't let yourself get pushed around just because someone else wants to do something Sho."

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The others had all ended up opting out. Natsuki Taiga could have went to a beach or spent the money that she'd saved up on a normal activity. That wasn't what she'd wanted to do, and club or no club she was going to do this. She'd spent too long planning this and figuring out how it'd all work to just give it up. She just wished she could forget about the others betrayal enough to properly enjoy this.

The headlamp's lance of light pierced the darkness revealing not only cave formations, but some of the unique wildlife that made caves their home. They skittered away to dark corners, many of them were able to sense light but not see in the conventional sense. She noticed another pool farther in that looked promising.

She tied off her guide cord on a stalagmite and cut it before starting another one near the pool. It wouldn't do for the only thing preventing her from getting lost on her way out to be severed because she'd only run a single string. Increasing the risk of it ultimately getting caught on something and snapping simply wasn't worth it.

She checked her watch and tank gauges. It had been about 45 minutes, and tank gauges were looking good. This next section was probably going to be it before she needed to turn around. As much as she enjoyed exploring these caves it wasn't worth getting trapped without enough air to get out.

She pulled out her handheld flashlight and slowly walked into the pool making a point to look out for dangerous wild life or rock formations, as she sweeped the high powered beams across the water. A small cave in greeted her when she was deep enough to submerge herself. She pulled out her diving knife and began working rocks out, and digging away at the dirt.

Once she'd cleared enough of it away she pointed her flashlight through the opening to see a much larger chamber with some large thing filling it. Her curiosity got the better of her. Whatever this thing was it wasn't like anything she'd ever heard about. She picked up the pace and cleared a large enough opening for her to squeeze through.

Whatever the thing was it was large and it's surface felt slick, leathery, and solid under her wet suit gloved hand. If it was some kind of creature it was clearly dead. There was no reaction to her presence and the cave it was in seemed to only be slightly larger then its massive bulk. She swam towards the bottom of the cave, and noticed that a large section of whatever it was seemed to have been torn away by something.

She swam over to it, and after peering in with her flashlight to check whether it was safe swam in. As she entered she realized there were dim lights, and she was in a chamber that was clearly only a small portion of whatever this thing was. There was definitely an organic feel to the whole thing but there was no sign of organs or rotting. Looking around she noticed something that looked kind of like a heart valve, and swam towards it.

She touched it with her diving knife prodding it with the intent of getting an idea just what she was dealing with when it abruptly opened. The next minute was a blur as she was sucked through various chambers. It occurred to her that the thing might be trying to eat her, but nothing she'd seen so far lined up with that.

Her back slammed into a wall, and she heard a hiss. She checked her gauges which confirmed her fears that her reserve tank was leaking, and of course her primary had been mostly depleted on the way in. It took he a second to realize the water level was dropping, and that she was in a well illuminated chamber.

She noticed there was a small dais with things studded into it that looked like they might be some kind of control system. Maybe something like they occasionally talked about on the tech shows where you put your hand on it and it allows you to control it by your thoughts. It was a stretch but she was hemorrhaging air and trapped. Exploring options beat waiting around for her air to run out.

Pulling off her glove she touched the metal object that might be a control panel. When nothing happened, she applied a some pressure just to make sure it wasn't a contact issue. There was a clear and distinctive click. She looked around to see if it had done anything.

She caught sight of something out of the corner of her eye, and pulled her knife. Turning towards it, she was confronted by a mass of tentacles. She immediately threw herself to the side and started rolling in an attempt to dodge. She wasn't about to wait around and see if there was any truth to what they said about tentacle monsters. Unfortunately her dodge wasn't clean, and one of the tentacles managed to grab onto her leg.

She rolled into a crouch and tried to cut herself free, but the knife wouldn't bite into whatever these things were made of. She might as well have been using a butter knife. She glanced up and noticed the main body hadn't been idle. She met its lunge with a kick from the already entangled foot, which it just latched onto.

She responded by trying to stomp it into the floor. That didn't seem to phase it but she wasn't going to go down without a fight. Striking upon another idea she looked for the metal thing, which she quickly found as it was crawling up her leg. She grabbed it tried to pull it off. It seemed like she'd won when pulling on it pulled the creature off with it, but then it latched onto her head and chest.

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Amy looked over her read outs, there seemed to be an abnormality in the dimensional readings. She adjusted the scanning patterns to look at the source more closely.

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Natsuki blinked. What had happened? It took her a while to take in her surroundings, her vision was weird and there seemed to be something skittering around in the back of her head. She slowly recognized the room with the dais, but it was like she was looking at the entire room at the same time and simultaneously looking at what was beyond the room. It was an unnatural perspective, and there was more to it then that. She could swear she was perceiving various energy fields including some rather powerful ones directly below.

She wondered if there was some way to get there and as if in response to her thoughts a hole opened in the floor. Uh-huh. Memories of how she'd got here made her decide it was a prudent time to take an inventory of herself. Checking the obvious led her to find that her pelvis was now covered in corded muscles that looked suspiciously like that tentacle thing, and what looked like red armor plates.

Huh? It looked like several organs had been replaced with something else entirely. Most notably it looked like her chest was now some kind of gelatinous substance. It occurred to Natsuki that she was literally looking inside herself, and that whatever this thing was impregnation was clearly not on its list of objectives.

She exhaled and noted the resultant stream of bubbles, and that she was breathing fine despite her rebreather being nowhere to be found… Huh. She stuck a hand out. Maybe it was like those supersuits concepts that you sometimes saw in Sci-Fi.

She almost fell backwards in surprise when an orb of energy actually crackled into existence in her palm, thankfully diffusing in her surprise. Okay, so the thing hadn't tried to rape her, and was actually some kind of Sci-Fi supersuit that gave her enhanced perception, the ability to breathe under water, and high energy weapons. Was there anything else it could do?

She willed herself up and she felt her feet lose contact with the ground. So flight was on the table. She decided to hold off trying to will herself to change appearance until she wasn't in this... Wait, if this was a Sci-Fi suit did that mean this was actually a starship?

Well there was something that looked like a thruster assembly, but the portion torn out of the ship went right through it and it looked like there was other damage. That looked like it was from something that had been shooting at it, while the torn off section looked more like it was from a crash. Natsuki let herself settle to the ground and rested an arm against the wall for a moment to help fight the vertigo.

Maybe the energy source down there would give her some answers? She walked over to the hole and willed herself down, finding herself in a large chamber with a various dim lighting panels and a pair of large orbs mounted on daises on the roof and floor in the center of the chamber. The source of the energy seemed to be the orbs, which seemed to be the only thing keeping the ship alive.

She floated over to them.

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The discrepancy had resolved itself into a solid confirmation of a dimensional engine, when the sensors had focused on it. It looked like they'd missed it before because of the limited amount of power it had been drawing fell within tolerances for background dimensional disruption.

Then alarms had started going off. Some code began flashing on the screen. She quickly flipped through the manual on her second monitor, but didn't find a match.

As she was trying to figure out how that could be, someone called out that the Captain was on the bridge. She immediately joined her coworkers in standing and rendering the proper salute.

She just barely heard Captain Lindy say, "So this is one of those worlds." Captain Lindy walked over to the Captain's chair and tapped several controls canceling the alert.

"Stand down." She ordered before leaving the bridge.

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Once Captain Lindy reached her quarters she opened a secure communications channel.

"Admiral Graham, we have a problem."

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"Arf did you hear that?" Fate asked from within Arf's enclosing embrace. After what had happened with Mother, Arf hadn't let her sleep alone. Captain Lindy had offered them quarters, but she'd chosen to stay in the brig.

"It sounded like an alarm." Arf noted.

"Maybe Nanoha's in danger." Fate said quietly, separating herself and picking up Bardiche.

"I'm sure they can handle it." Arf said quietly. Ever since Fate had taken an interest in Nanoha, that seemed to be the only thing she talked about or thought about. Even when she was trying to be comforting it didn't seem to really reach her.

Fate pulled on the uniform that her Mother had created for her. She paused on her way to the door and touched Arf comforting on the arm before continuing her silent march towards the bridge.

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"So what was the alarm about?" Chrono asked.

Amy looked at him sideways.

"If I buy you lunch will you tell me what the alarm was about?" Chrono asked after a minute.

Amy smiled, and tapped a few keys bringing up the relevant screens. "We're picking up readings of an active starship class dimensional engine in this vicinity. That activated an automatic alarm nobody seems to be familiar with."

"A starship?" The indicated area on the map was a hill. What was that kind of technology doing on this planet, and why would someone bury a starship and leave the engines active?

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She'd been able to interface with the ship, but all she'd managed to learn was that the communication systems were offline, and that it had been carrying some kind of cargo before it had crashed. The logs beyond those directly related to damage reports and warning messages were either wiped or locked out. As she had already inferred the logs indicated that the original crew had abandoned it after getting attacked and crash landing.

The ship's energy reserves were fully charged, but there was no way that it would ever be spaceworthy again. There apparently was some kind of dimensionally transcendent engines that were still intact, but with the reserves already full the lesser units in the Control Spheres were maintaining emergency power.

As cool as finding an alien starship was, there wasn't a lot to do with it in its current state, and with this suit she could easily come back. She decided it was time to leave and see just what the suit could do.

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Chrono appeared near the "hill." Up close he could tell that it was more of a small mountain then a hill. Rock was clearly in evidence. Now that he was actually here he wasn't quite sure what to do. According to Amy the ship was _under_ the mountain. He decided to send out a few seekers, on principle.

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It was a lot faster and easier to navigate the caves when you were basically navigating a 3 dimensional map of the cave system with something that could just glide through water. It made it so easy it almost took the fun out of it. She chose to exit through the sea side entrance she'd entered from, although her scanners revealed more options.

She bobbed to the surface finding the difference in fluid mixture to be a minimal issue a surprisingly minimal issue. She noticed an energy signature moving towards her and looked up dumbly at a floating blue orb. It didn't feel like anything she'd encountered so far. It was like a humming in a band she hadn't encountered yet. She had to wonder if this was something that was always there and she could just nor perceive it before. Now about changing appearance...

Natsuki looked at her arms after willing changing her appearance for a while. Nothing. Huh? Maybe it was something you could take off like a power suit. Hopefully this thing wouldn't involve a repeat of MADOX's plot.

"Freeze in the name of the Time and Space Administration Bureau. You are wanted as a person of interest."

Natsuki blinked. A boy that couldn't be a day over twelve was hovering over her in a black trenchcoat, and giving a standard police spiel.

"I'm sorry, who are you supposed to be?" Her voice sounded strangely synthetic. Maybe that was a setting somewhere...

"I'm Enforcer Chrono Harlaown."

"Of the Space-Time Administration Bureau?" Natsuki deadpanned. Much better.

"Yes."

"And what gives you authority to administer space-time?"

The boy paused.

"And if you're an Enforcer, what do you enforce?"

That left him thinking about it.

"And why are you doing this when you look like you're 11 years old?"

"I'm Fourteen!"

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Amy looked back towards the teleporter to see a women in scuba gear with a duffel bag and shoulder length hair appear next to a very quiet and docile Chrono. His apprehending her for questioning hadn't exactly gone according to plan.

"Wow, it's actually a working starship." She said, gawking.

"Welcome aboard, I'm Captain Harlaown of the Asura. I hope you enjoyed your conversation with Chrono."

"You really shouldn't let him do that, he might get hurt."

Chrono bristled.

"He's actually rather capable." The Captain soothed.

"I don't suppose you have somewhere I could change? I've been wearing this wetsuit for over an hour, and it's soaking wet."

"I'll have one of my staff show you to quarters, and provide you a change of clothes."

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The most amazing part to her was that when she'd asked about the shower they'd told her not to worry about using too much hot water. In all the Sci-Fi stories she'd read that had ever brought it up had indicated that hot water would be a scarce and rationed resource. The blue haired woman had been nice enough to even be willing to repair the air tanks, when she'd mentioned they were damaged and rentals.

Based on what she knew of apartments from her uncle that meant that they either only had a few people on the ship, or more then enough ability to heat water for the crew. Or maybe they were just being nice. The shower stall was not much different from what she was used to beyond the use of some kind of projected touch screen controls. After a moment she figured it out and had a nice stream of hot water.

Come to think of it she was on a starship, and the water was falling down… She shut off the water, this called for experimentation.

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"Uhm… What are you doing?"

Natsuki looked over to the door where the blue haired woman stood looking uncomfortable. "I'm experimenting. I'm trying to figure out how the artificial gravity works."

"The keel maintains a steady artificial gravity field of 8.8 within a tolerance of 0.2." The blue haired woman offered.

"Oh. I thought it felt lighter." She'd been trying to time it with her watch, but while there had been indicators gravity was reduced versus Earth she hadn't been satisfied with the quality of her results. She wondered if the keel being the source meant that the crew was pulled down in planar fashion like Star Trek, or whether it was more like 2001 where the quarters were curved and the crew was pulled towards the center.

"I brought you a change of clothes. I was going to just leave them on the bed while you were showering. Sorry for walking in on you."

The door snap hissed closed.

But how did that work with the engines? Any kind of engine appropriate to an interstellar starship would involve propelling the ship and her crew at extremely high accelerations. Were the quarters arranged like the early space capsules where the direction of thrust was down, or was it like the space shuttle and most Sci-Fi where the engine was behind them?

"Does this ship use some kind of inertial dampening system, or does it use some kind of portal-rift technology to bypass the need?" Natsuki turned towards the door.

Wait, where did she go?

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Captain Lindy watched Aoi walk back to her station. She was clearly embarrassed and unsettled. Oh?

"So how is our guest settling in?"

Aoi looked mortified. "She seems to be settling in well, Captain." She said in a reassuring fashion her face didn't quite show.

"Did something happen?" She asked gently.

Aoi mumbled something she didn't quite manage to catch well enough to decipher.

"It's okay if you don't want to talk about it."

"I walked in on her when she was jumping up and down in her quarters, trying to figure out how the artificial gravity worked."

"That doesn't…"

"She'd just stepped out of the shower."

Oh.

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Natsuki made her way to the cafeteria following the engineering crew when they said it was their lunch break. Apparently this ship was powered by something they referred to as "Magic" with main drive power coming from some dimensional principles she hadn't really understood beyond they were taking energy from a higher dimension and channeling it into the ship. Apparently it was actually a rather dangerous as if it wasn't properly regulated it would turn the ship into a fine mist of subatomic particles spread across the solar system. So they currently were keeping it offline except for short spurts, because apparently this region of space was dimensionally distorted.

After Natsuki picked out a meal she noticed that a child with long blonder hair was sitting alone, except for a red haired woman with furry ears and a swishing tail at a table far away from everyone else. Hmm.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" She said while putting down her plate and sitting down next to the red haired animal woman.

The red head looked like she was about ready to bear her fangs and growl at her. The younger blond looked up and didn't really seem to see her before turning back to picking at her food.

"So what are you in for? I apparently found something I wasn't supposed to."

The red head looked at her coldly.

"Do you know Nanoha?" Came a quiet voice from the direction of the blond.

The red head immediately turned towards the blond and started to reach towards her in a comforting fashion.

"It sounds like she's someone who's very important to you."

"She… saved me." The blonde's voice was once again quiet. The red haired animal woman looked at her pointedly, clearly not appreciative of her butting in like this. Screw her.

"So who's your friend here?"

"Would you leave?" The red head growled baring some rather pointy teeth.

"Arf." The blonde said quietly, looking at the red head and touching her arm in a comforting fashion. The red head calmed down looking towards the blond. She was getting a rather odd vibe off these two.

"How about I ask the Captain about you see Nanoha, when I go see her?"

The blonde looked at her with a grateful expression.

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"Would you like some green tea?" The Captain asked.

The Captain's personal quarters had a very classic Japanese feel. Natsuki wondered if it was an example of convergent development or whether it was a case where they'd been studying Earth culture. That in turn begged the question of whether her quarters were like this because she was trying to create a more comfortable environment.

"Thank you very much."

"Sugar?"

Sugar with green tea? "You must be thinking black tea, green tea doesn't need any sugar."

"Is that so?" The Captain asked while dropping a sugar cube into her own mug of green tea. There was no accounting for taste.

Natsuki took a sip of her own unadulterated cup of green tea. It actually was properly made cup of green tea, which removed the best excuse she had for the Captain's decision to... sweeten green tea. "It sounds like Fate would appreciate it if you let her meet with Nanoha."

The Captain smiled slightly. "Those two have been through a lot. Did you hear the story?"

"No, her friend was being rather protective."

The Captain chuckled. "Arf's very loyal."

There was a pause while the Captain seemed content to nurse her mug of tea. "I got the impression you didn't call me here just to offer me some tea. It's very well made by the way."

"Could you tell me about what happened down there?" The Captain asked seemingly more focused on blowing on her tea then her.

"So this is where you take my official statement?" Natsuki closed her eyes for a moment. This was the part she'd been trying to avoid. As much as she'd managed to pester that boy about it, it sounded like these people were rather sure that they had jurisdiction and the power to back it up.

"Please don't think about it like that. This is strictly off the record." The Captain said comfortingly. Natsuki noticed the subtle way the Captain's grip on her mug tightened. She'd been afraid of that. It looked like this was going to be more of a MADOX plot afterall.

She explained how she'd been spelunking in a submerged cave, and how she'd found the ship. She mentioned how it had sucked her in and she'd ended up encountering the creature that had turned into the suit. Speaking of which that pair of growths on her back were starting to feel rather sore, and she was starting to feel kind of tired.

"I want you to know that we're here to help you." She paused. "Would you like to call it a day?"

She was starting to feel a little woozy. She blinked as she realized a hand was pressed against her forehead.

"You're burning up, let's get you to the infirmary."

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"How's she doing?"

"I think she'll be fine, Captain. It looks like it was some kind of passing flu or immune response."

Headquarters had ordered that the girl be extradited to Midchilda as soon as possible, and were scheduling a fleet to retrieve the ship when the dimensional distortion was projected to settle down enough. Unlike most Lost Logia these artifacts had no association with Al Hazzard. As far as most personnel were cleared to know this other civilization didn't even exist. There were stories about these things in the record of Velka, but based on the reaction from the top brass her suspicion that this was the first time TSAB had encountered something like this seemed justified.

It didn't take much imagination to know what they probably wanted her for.

"The tissue samples you asked me to take have been put in cold storage, as ordered."

"Good."

"Is there something wrong Captain?" The ships doctor asked.

She shouldn't say anything about it, but if she didn't talk to someone about this to some degree she was going to explode.

"We've encountered a secret project and something that's going to be turned into a secret project in as many months. At least the worst Fate has to look forward to is being monitored for the rest of her life. This girl's liable to just disappear into a lab somewhere and have all records of her existence deleted."

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"It looks like you're coming around." Natsuki looked up to see a woman in a lab coat smiling down at her.

The presence in the back of her mind was twisting and turning in agitation. "I don't think we've met."

"I'm the ship's doctor. You had us worried for a while there." She seemed to be genuinely concerned, and not the source of whatever it was that the thing in her mind was agitated about.

"This girl's liable to just disappear into a lab somewhere and have all records of her existence deleted." A voice that sounded a lot like the Captain's whispered in the back of her mind. The presence in the back of her mind flared in warning. What was that supposed to mean?

Suddenly she found herself experiencing suit vision of a scene where the Doctor and the Captain were talking.

"Natsuki." The doctor asked gently her voice clearly concerned.

"Huh?" Natsuki blinked

"It looks like you zoned out for a moment. Are you feeling alright?"

"I guess I had little relapse." She said sheepishly. Saying anything about what had actually caused her to lose touch with her surroundings probably wasn't a good idea considering.

"If you want to rest some more, feel free to stay here." The doctor offered.

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"So how does the transporter thing work?" As much as she'd pestered them about everything else it if anything should be surprising that she hadn't asked about that yet.

"It uses a form of dimensional transfer. Using magic we're able to take something from there and bring it here or vice versa. While more powerful mages are able to handle dimensional transfers by themselves it's very useful for the rest of us." Amy explained.

"So how do you control it?"

"Well you have someone open up the proper program like this." She opened up a w indow on her screen. "And then you just select your coordinates and tell it to send by clicking here."

"What happens to the last person on the ship? Is there some kind of timer so they can program it, and then just wait on the pad."

"When we're pulling into drydock we do something like that." Amy opened a menu where time delay could be set.

"So it's like this?" Natsuki dialed it at five seconds back where she'd been picked up in the first place.

"Yeah like..." Natsuki dove for the transporter booth. She wasn't sure if the supersuit could breathe vacuum or survive re-entry but this way she wouldn't have to.

She saw the tech turn confused in her direction just before the thing energized. She sighed in relief as she smelled the familiar smells of the ocean surf. It had worked. She willed the supersuit back to herself.

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"Status report." The Captain demanded as she walked onto the bridge.

"Natsuki has teleported to the surface, and is currently fleeing by water along the coast. Our sensors have focused on the area and we're maintaining a solid lock."

Aoi could swear she heard the Captain cuss under her breath.

"Chrono, go see if Fate's available."

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Natsuki had a sneaking suspicion they were tracking her while using the suit, but that it probably wouldn't be so easy for them once she disengaged it. Separate from that but still relevant was the issue that if she was seen flying or running around while wearing the suit it wouldn't go unnoticed. Her plan was to jet to Tokyo, and find some discreet place to pull herself out before disengaging the suit. There was enough urban sprawl and witnesses that she should be able to lose them before catching a train back home.

A light green energy bubble formed around her. That wasn't good. While she was debating what to do to try to break it the suit's sensors identified the source. The Captain had decided to come down personally, which also meant that there was no way she was going to get away cleanly.

She pointed a palm towards the bubble. She might as well at least see what it'd do. The energy sphere came to her call, and she fired it at the bubble wall. The sphere tore through the bubble like it wasn't even there, and warped the energy away causing the bubble to burst and explode. The Captain didn't manage to avoid the spray of sea water.

"So there's truth to the legends." The Captain whispered in a low voice Natsuki doubted she'd normally have been able to hear.

"It doesn't have to be this way. I don't want to hurt anyone, just let me go."

The Captain regarded her for a moment, before frowning slightly. "I'm afraid it wouldn't matter if I did. If I don't bring you in it will simply fall to someone else who won't be as understanding."

Her sensors detected an energy pattern forming behind her. It was a portal which moments later the boy appeared within and began charging an attack. She swung an arm up as she turned around not quite coherent of what to do beyond attempting to counter the attack with another attack.

The energy sphere jumped into being, and the child's blue bolt was released. She fired the sphere at his attack, and when the two met the blue bolt was bent and warped out of the way while the energy sphere continued onward. The child tried to dodge, but he was too slow in coming to grips with what had happened. She willed the sphere dissipate just in time to avoid killing him.

Energy patterns formed around her. She turned just in time to see the spinning light green circles before the chains lanced out and wrapped around her. The child meanwhile was recovering. She felt the presence in the back of her mind starting to offer her possibilities. Possibilities however that would leave both of her assailants dead.

"Stop this."

A laser blast erupted from her forehead creating a line of molten glass and weakening the energy chain enough her tugging at it was able to easily break it. The boy through a trio of energy hoops she expected were more binds. She managed to blast one of them, but the other two managed to get around her before she could safely fire thanks to the awkward positioning.

"Stop it!"

"We've got her." The boy declared triumphantly as more binds snagged around her. Her sensors could detect though that the bindings were struggling to hold her.

She detected something incoming it was on a similar band, but she was having a hard time making sense of what she was detecting.

"Is that your friend?"

"What are you..." The kid never got to finish the sentence as something blew in, and smacked him with the back of its sword, sending him skidding across the landscape. The Captain soon met a similar fate as her defenses proved to be no match. Their spells however did not dissipate, apparently they really had not wanted her to get loose.

"The last time I encountered something like you during the height of Velka." Visually the source it appeared to be a woman in what looked like a stylized outfit with a sword and reinforced bracers. Spectrally on several bands things weren't there that should be, and on others things were different in ways she was at a loss to even begin to try to explain.

"Absorption." Another bizarre pattern that was now hovering next to the thing that looked like a woman declared.

Natsuki could feel herself being drawn into what was visually a deceptively understated book. She tried to struggle but the bind, and the containment the thing that looked like a book were exerting on her refused to yield.

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Fate transferred in. The Captain and Chrono were laying next to each other on their backs. As she drew closer she could see their breathing was labored, and their presences felt faint.

"Arf, get them back to the ship."

Author's Note:

This story starts at the beginning of the summer before the events of Guyver, and while the Asura is waiting for the Dimensional Distortion from the Testerossa Incident to settle down enough to leave. In practice that means they haven't successfully breached the ship at Relics Point yet, and Gregoles are actually a new and high end Zoanoid model. Needless to say HyperZoanoid processing techniques just beginning to be conceived.

MADOX is a single episode OVA that was the first Anime titles imported unedited and with subtitles as an option by one of the first companies in the industry, AnimEigo. For those who never saw this classic OVA it involves a guy more or less unintentionally stealing a government power armor he can't figure out how to get out of, and then getting hunted down when the government find out where he is because they want it back.