Kagiju Tales

by Cole Tyger

a fanfic that introduces the then new characters of Mazin-kaze and Jura to the ranks of the K-girls of Neo Monster Island contains 4 main chapters A New Wind, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, and Heavy Metal

2. Chapter 2

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

It has been two months since Jura has come to live with the Mazinger sisters.

She has made herself a part of the household, helping out with the cleaning, and cooking. She has also befriended Megan, and can sometimes be found in the school library reading, as she continues to bring herself up to speed on how the world works.

Kaze has gotten a part time job delivering Pizza's for Shirow's, and has managed to anger all the other delivery people by getting bigger tips than the rest of them put together.

Zoe is still keeping her night job hidden from the others, while managing to keep the peace around the house.

And Maizy….. has made a few new acquaintances, and has managed to use one of them to infiltrate spy cameras into almost every dorm room and apartment of every K-girl. Needless to say, is getting more hits per day than all but the most popular international porn sites.

"So what is everyone doing….this….afternoon…." Maizy trails off as she enters the kitchen, and gets her first look at Kaze.

Kaze just blushes redder, and attempts to hide behind her hair.

"Alright, I'll bite," Maizy says, looking back and forth between Zoe and Jura. "Why has she been turned into a cat girl?"

"She lost a bet," Zoe smirks over her cup of coffee.

"Do I even want to ask?" Maizy asks with a raised eyebrow.

"I smoked her in Halo 2," Jura grins, as she moves up behind Kaze, and starts rubbing one of her blue neko ears, making the larger girl purr.

"How did you learn to play the game well enough to waste a combat programmed cyber doll?" Maizy asks, surprised.

"She lucked out with her partner," Kaze mutters darkly, despite the feelings of pleasure Jura's attentions send through her.

"Details? Please?" Maizy asks, completely lost.

"It was a team death match," Jura begins. "Kaze ended up with a pair of new people, and some of the guys from school on her team. I had a few more new people on my team, as well as Cockroach17."

Maizy grins like a loon at that. "No wonder you managed to stomp her. With the mystery champ on your team, she didn't stand a chance."

"Tell me about it," Kaze grumbles.

"Let's go," Jura tells her with another scratch. "We need to drop by Darcy's before School."

"Why?" Zoe asks.

"Because some one needs some clothes that are altered for her tail to fit through," Jura grins.

"But she doesn't have a tail…." Maizy starts, only to trail off as Kaze stands up, and she gets a look at the long blue tail dropping out the bottom of Kaze's mini-skirt.

At Maizy's look, Kaze just nods, "Yeah, she got to pick out my clothes too."

"The mini-skirt and tube top really set off the tail and ears, don't they?" Jura grins wickedly.

Kaze's tail twitches in irritation, so Zoe asks, "Where did she even get a tail? And why did she react when you scratched her neko ears?"

"Dad," Kaze mutters. "There was more in that "make-up kit" than just the stuff to change my skin tone and hair color. The pervert had tails and ears, and even a few "toys" in there. Even different optics for me," she adds, leaning in close so that they can see her catlike eyes.

"Oh, you enjoyed playing with all that stuff the first time out, and you know it," Jura grins at her.

"That was before I got stuck wearing it all out in public," Kaze growls as she turns to leave.

"You shouldn't make bets, if your not prepared to pay the bill," Jura grins as she follows.

"I still think you would look better in the French Maid outfit as you clean," Kaze shoots back with a leer.

"Who knows? You may just get your wish one of these days," Jura answers, as she closes the door behind them.

"Well, you have to admit, they keep it interesting," Zoe grins as she puts her cup in the sink, and gathers up her stuff to leave.

"No argument there," Maizy agrees, silently wishing that everyone would leave so she can go check over the footage from her hidden cameras and start editing things for her website.

"I'll be late getting back, so try to avoid destroying anything today, alright?" Zoe says with a smile at the old joke.

"Bah, like it would be worth the effort to blow up anything around here," Maizy retorts, smirking despite herself as Zoe leaves. "God, we sound just like a real family," she realizes in wonder.

"Do I really have to stay like this for a week?" Kaze whines as they enter Darcy's shop.

"You where the one who made the rules for the bet," Jura reminds her.

"Sneaky underhanded Godzilla, set me up, just can't prove it," Kaze mutters under her breath.

"What brings you girls in so early today?" Darcy asks, as she just appears out of the racks.

Jura lets out a startled "EEP!" before she can stop herself. "You like to make people jump, don't you?" she demands, as she turns to face the seamstress.

"You girls can level the town if you put your minds to it," Darcy answers with a grin. "So I have to keep you guessing."

Kaze's snicker reminds Jura of why they are there.

"Anyway, Kitty here, needs some tailoring to a couple of outfits, to accommodate her new tail," Jura tells her.

"That's not funny," Kaze sulks, clearly not happy with that name.

"What did you get into?" Darcy asks, taking her first good look at Kaze, and noticing the new ears and tail.

"I lost a bet," Kaze grumbles, making Darcy laugh out loud.

"Remind me to stay clear of any poker games you girls might have," Darcy says, as she tugs Kaze back toward the fitting rooms. "Now then, you know the drill. I'll need to measure you so I can get the hole in your britches placed properly."

"I think you just like running your hands over naked girls," Kaze shoots back with a smirk.

"Could be. Of course, I'd never admit it, even if it was true," Darcy responds, pushing Kaze into the fitting room before her.

"This isn't funny," Kaze says, annoyed at the jingle of the bell at her throat as she walks.

"Sorry, but when Darcy suggested it, I couldn't resist," Jura grins, flicking the bell collar for the heck of it.

"You know what happens to me when you put a collar on me!" Kaze blurts out.

"Yes I do," Jura agrees. "That's why I asked Darcy to put it on you. Since you can't have two owners, it wouldn't trip your programming to have her do it."

"How did you figure that out?" Kaze demands.

"You think I've just been reading manga when I'm in the library?" Jura snorts. "Megan has been helping me find all kinds of useful things to read."

Kaze just growls in frustration as they enter the school grounds.

"Get a move on, or we'll be late!" Jura tells her, as she breaks into a run, her tail brushing Kaze's leg as it flashes past.

"This is going to be a long day," Kaze mutters as she increases her pace a bit.

She makes it to class, just before the final bell.

"I'm getting really tired of being called "cute" all the time," Kaze growls as she and Jura sit at one of the outdoor tables eating the lunches that Jura had made them.

"You made the rules. Loser has to wear what the winner wants them to for a week," Jura reminds her again.

"Do you know how weird it feels to have to go through the day with a tail?" Kaze blurts out.

"No, I have no clue how it feels to go through the day with a tail," Jura answers her, the sarcasm thick enough to walk on.

"And I've had to put up with people petting it, and wanting to scratch my ears in every class! It's driving me nuts!" Kaze continues as if Jura hadn't spoken.

"But you're just so damn cute!" Jura tells her, reaching over to scratch her neko ears.

"Hmmm," Kaze groans, before she can stop herself. "Knock that off," she snarls, slapping Jura's hand away.

"Hey," Jura yelps, shaking her stinging hand.

"This isn't nearly as much fun as you seem to think it is," Kaze growls.

Before Jura can say anything else, their table is surrounded by Cessy, Mina, Meo, Ebi, and Organna.

"Can we scratch your ears?" they chorus as one.

"Sorry girls, but she's spoken for," Jura tells them.

"But she's so cute!" they chorus again.

"Maybe later," Jura tells them as she takes Kaze's hand and leads her off.

"Ohhh," the five groan in unison before turning and going their separate ways.

"I'm beginning to see what you're griping about," Jura admits.

"Then you'll let me out of the bet?" Kaze asks hopefully.

"Not quite. You won't have to wear it to school again, but you will have to wear it around the house for the rest of the week," Jura tells her.

"Then get it off me," Kaze orders.

"I said "again". You still have to go through the rest of today," Jura tells her, her voice leaving no room for argument.

"You're heartless," Kaze groans.

"That's not what you said last night," Jura reminds her as she pulls her head down for a kiss.

"God, this is great! At a thousand yen a download, My account is growing faster than I ever expected," Maizy gloats as she checks her bank balance. "At this rate, I'll never have to work a real job, ever!"

"Ah've come for my moofinth," someone behind her says, with a horrible lisp.

"Aggy, I could kiss you," Maizy grins as she turns around. "The footage from the camera you put in Dizzy's place is one of the hottest things going right now."

"Good. Dithy'th a bith, tho it therth her right," Aggy returns, the little Dizzlet displaying a spiteful grin.

"Come on, I've got your payment downstairs," Maizy tells the smaller girl, leading her down to the kitchen.

"All thethe are for me?" the little aggregate asks, her eyes wide at the stack of muffin boxes that Maizy has acquired for her.

"You did a great job for me, and I always pay my debts," Maizy tells her.

"But I can't carry all thith thtuff by mythelf!" Aggy tells her. "It'll take me all day to mooth it!"

"Where do you want it?" Maizy grins as she starts bagging the pile.

"You're going to help me mooth it?" Aggy asks in surprise.

"Aggy, one thing you're going to learn when you deal with me is, I always stand by my friends. And given how much help you've been, how could I think of you otherwise?" Maizy tells the Dizzlet.

"Thankth, Both!" Aggy cheers.

"Now then, where am I flying all this stuff," Maizy asks with a grin.

"Watcher four to base," a man in a utility workers uniform says into a hidden mic as he pretends to work on a power transformer near the Nagai mansion.

"Go ahead four," a voice responds into his ear piece.

"So far, intelligence seems to be accurate. There are two Mazinger Cyber Dolls in residence. Additionally, there appears to be a third mechanical in residence, as well as what has been identified as a K-Girl," the man informs his controllers.

"Have you acquired any visuals for us?" the controller inquires.

"Stills only, but I don't dare risk that kind of a transmission this close to them," the watcher replies.

"Understood. Return to base, and we will send out another, to keep from arousing their suspicions. Mazingers are notoriously dangerous when they find out that people are taking an interest in them," control tells the man.

"Roger that, I am returning to base," the man says as he finishes his supposed repairs, and packs up his truck, before leaving the area.

"You going to wait for me at Shirow's, while I run the deliveries?" Kaze asks, as she and Jura leave their last class.

"Megan has some more stuff for me, so walk me to the Library, and I'll pick it up, then I'd be happy to wait for you," Jura tells her.

"I can't believe that you and the bookworm get along as well as you do," Kaze says, her tail twitching as they go.

"Don't let her hear you call her that," Jura smirks, as they enter the library.

"Why? What can she do to me?" Kaze asks, curious.

"The last guy that called me a bookworm regretted it about an hour later," Megan scowls as they walk up.

"What did you do to him?" Kaze asks.

"Annihilated his team, and blew his head off with a shotgun," Megan returns, then smirks at the shocked look on Kaze's face.

"You WHAT?" Kaze squawks.

"It was his last re-spawn, so he was done," Megan grins.

"Re-spawn?" Kaze trails off, before it all falls together for her. "You! You're Cockroach17!"

"Keep that to yourself," Jura hisses at her.

"You're right Jura, she is smart, and the ears and tail make her adorable," Megan smiles.

"You DID set me up!" Kaze snarls.

"No, she didn't," Megan tells her. "She just told me that she had to beat you when the teams were randomized and we ended up together."

"I can't believe you would think I would cheat to win a stupid bet!" Jura snarls in outrage. "Just for that, you get to keep bringing the tail and ears to school too!"

"But! Damnit!" Kaze snarls as she turns and stalks out of the library, everyone shushing her in her wake.

"Well, that could have gone better," Megan adds dryly.

"We'll sort it out later," Jura tells her, suddenly sounding very tired. "What did you have for me this time?"

"This," Megan says as she hands over a single book.

"The Art of War?" Jura squawks in surprise. "You know I don't like to fight!"

"That's the point, lizard," Megan smirks. "As easily as you absorb things from these books I've been giving you, with this, I'm hoping that you'll learn enough that you'll be able to think your way around the problems, before fighting is the last resort."

"You really think this will help?" Jura asks.

"Yes I do. Plus, it will make you more dangerous in Halo," Megan grins.

"You are terrible," Jura tells her.

"I know. Now you better go catch up with her, and make peace," Megan tells her.

"Right. Thanks again for your help," Jura agrees, taking the book and rushing after Kaze.

Chapter 2

"Are you going to talk to me? Or just sulk," Jura asks as she walks home behind Kaze, enjoying watching her tail twitch with each step.

Kaze acts as if she can't hear a word Jura says as she continues home.

"You can't keep ignoring me," Jura tells her, only to have Kaze continue the silent treatment. "Well, I guess we are actually going to get some sleep tonight, then."

Kaze simply enters the house, and slams the door in Jura's face.

"What the hell is going on with you two?" Maizy demands, after Jura opens the door.

"She thinks I set her up to lose the bet, so she's mad at me," Jura tells her.

"Well lock her down in slave mode or something until she cools off. The whole damn room shook when she slammed the door," the smaller Mazinger complains as she heads toward her own room.

"I heard that!" Kaze snarls from upstairs.

"Might want to keep your smart mouth impulses under wraps for a while, until this blow's over," Jura says, giving Maizy a pat on the shoulder as she moves past her.

"No joke," Maizy mutters.

"You are frightening your sister," Jura says as she enters their room to find Kaze had flopped face down on their bed.

"I'll apologize to her later," Kaze mutters, still refusing to look at Jura.

"Will you please talk to me?" Jura asks, sitting on the bed, and putting a hand on Kaze's shoulder.

"I may love you," Kaze tells her. "But I don't like you very much just this second."

"I'll…I'll be downstairs," Jura whispers, tears running down her face. She fumbles the doorknob as she leaves.

"Well, well, well. It appears that their test subject survived whatever destroyed the lab," A woman's voice comments as several shadowy forms look over copy's of the pictures that Watcher four took.

"Yes Ma'am," One of the other shadow's agrees.

"I would like to know how the subject came to be living with the Mazingers," another adds.

"As would I," the woman agrees. "But for now, we need to spread our net a bit wider. I want surveillance teams to begin tracking the other so called "K-Girl's" and learning their habits. Of particular importance are any juvenile targets, since they will be far easier to control than the older ones."

"And if we are discovered?" the second male voice asks.

"Then I will personally take to the field, with my special unit, and remove any obstacles from our path," the woman answers. "Zoe managed to derail my plans over the course of our last encounter, but with what I've taken from her, things will be far different this time out."

"As you command," the others chorus.

Zoe enters the house just as Jura comes tearing down the stairs, and dashes toward the back of the house. The sound of the back door slamming reaches her, signaling that Jura is now out in the grounds behind the house.

"What's going on," she asks, on a private radio channel with Maizy.

"From what little I know," Maizy replies, "a misunderstanding that led to a major blow up."

"Jura just ran out the back, in tears," Zoe tells her.

"And Kaze was mad enough when they got home that she slammed the door in her face, with enough force to shake half the house," Maizy adds.

Zoe sighs as she takes her things up to her room. "Which one do you want?" she asks, making it clear that the two of them are going to have to help fix this.

With a sigh, Maizy replies, "I'll take the lizard. Being friends with Zuki gives me a couple of aces that I can use."

"How's that?" Zoe asks, as she heads toward Kaze and Jura's room.

"Both of them where raised in a lab, and experimented on until they escaped. While Zuki is terminally happy and cheerful, I can't help but think that if she had stayed in their care as long as Jura had she would be in the same shape," Maizy answers, as she opens up her bedroom window, and drops to the ground with a thud.

"Alright, then I'll take the cat," Zoe tells her, before adding, "Leave a channel open between us, so that we can keep tabs on how things are going."

"You got it," Maizy says as she begins her search for Jura.

"Kaze? Mind if I come in?" Zoe calls as she knocks on the door.

"You're not going to leave if I say "no", will you?" Kaze asks through the door.

"Nope," Zoe answers with a small smile.

"Then you may as well come in," Kaze answers.

"Would you like to talk about what happened?" Zoe asks, moving over to lean against the wall while Kaze stays on her bed.

"Jura? I know you're out here," Maizy calls, making her way across the grounds, checking near all the biggest trees, and anything else that could give the Godzilla girl a hiding place.

She finally finds her, curled up into a ball of misery, her knees hugged to her chest, and her tail wrapped around her.

"Jura?" Want to talk about it?" Maizy asks, her voice so gentle that most who know her wouldn't believe it.

"Go away," Jura hiccups, her face buried against her knees.

"Sorry, not going to happen," Maizy returns, gently smoothing some of Jura's hair back from her face as she sits next to the bigger girl.

"And I can't make you go either," Jura says, with a sobbing laugh.

"Tell me what happened," Maizy gently orders.

Tears still flowing, Jura tells the little cyber girl everything that went on with the both of them today, up to and including Kaze's final comment.

"You ready to listen to me? Or do you have more crying to do first?" Maizy asks her.

"Why?" Jura sniffs.

"Because I think I can help you understand why Kaze went off like she did," Maizy tells her.

"And because you thought she had cheated in an online game, one where I'm pretty sure cheating is damn near impossible, you thought it was okay to break her heart like that?" Zoe asks, shocked at what brought this all out.

"I didn't break her heart. I just needed her to be away from me for a while," Kaze returns in a sulky voice.

"Hello? Are your chips fried?" Zoe asks, knocking Kaze on top of the head. "You are the main source of stability in that girls' life! She is in love with your shiny silver ass, and doesn't care who knows it! When she passed me downstairs, her face was covered in tears. Now how do you suppose that happened?" Zoe demands.

Zoe's blunt revelations clear some of the anger haze from Kaze's mind, bringing her face up to stare wide eyed at Zoe.

"And the light finally comes on," Zoe mutters shaking her head.

"What have I done?" Kaze whispers.

When Kaze makes to get up, Zoe puts a hand on her shoulder and pushes her back down on the bed. "Hold it!

"But I have to fix this!" Kaze blurts out.

"First you need to shut the hell up and listen for a while," Zoe tells her, her eyes flashing.

"I didn't think about that," Jura admits. "When she called me a cheat, I just wanted to get even, and taking back my earlier promise was the first thing that I thought of."

"And breaking your word was the final straw, given how much Kaze disliked going out in public as a catgirl," Maizy agrees.

"I never meant to hurt her! How can I make this up to her?...I'm so confused…." Jura finally admits.

"Welcome to the real world," Maizy tells her with a gentle pat on the shoulder.

Jura can't help but make a small laugh at that. "It was definitely simpler to be a prisoner," Jura admits.

"You say something like that again, and I'm going to hit you," Maizy tells her, her voice suddenly very cold. "Hard."

"I didn't say I wanted to go back to it," Jura reminds her.

"That's good. It makes it less likely that I'll have to beat some sense into you," Maizy smirks, getting a small smile out of Jura in return.

"You got your head screwed on right now?" Zoe asks.

"Yeah, I think so," Kaze answers her. "Thanks mom."

Zoe is so shocked at that, that she shuts down her comlink. "What did you just call me?" she asks, her voice shaky.

"Mom. Is it really that big a surprise? Maizy thinks about you the same way, although I'm sure she would see me slagged before admitting it," Kaze tells her.

"But I'm not…I can't be…." Zoe says, sinking down to sit next to Kaze on the bed.

"The professor built all of us, even if Maizy finished the Job on me, but without you, and the program that you dumped into us, neither Maizy or me would be who we are. We would just be robots, not people. He may have built us, but you, you brought us to life. Last time I checked, a good definition of Mother was "one who gives life". Add in the fact that you are the one who keeps the house operating, not to mention keeps the peace between us all….yeah, you're the Mom," Kaze unloads on her.

"I had no idea…." Zoe mutters in shock.

"If it makes you feel better, I'll stick with the sister thing," Kaze smiles.

"Thank you. It's a lot easier to deal with. I know how to be the most experienced sister, but being a Mom…I don't think I'll ever be ready for anyone to think about me that way," Zoe admits, still shook.

"Your call sis," Kaze tells her, her smile getting wider as Zoe recovers from her shock.

"Go tell her what you need to," Zoe orders, feeling like she's done a better job with her sisters than she ever could have hoped.

"You ready to deal with this now?" Maizy asks.

"I….I think so," Jura answers her, before pulling the smaller girl into a hug. "Thank you. I know that you didn't have to step in like that."

"Hey, I live here too you know," Maizy smirks back at her. "I'd be a fool if I didn't want you two to make up as soon as possible."

"Thank you," Jura tells her again, releasing her, and letting her hair fall forward over her face.

"Heads up," Maizy tells her, before taking two steps and lifting into the air to fly back to the house.

"What?" Jura asks, shaking the hair out of her eyes.

The sight of Kaze crouching over her takes her breath away.

After staring at each other for a few moments, they both say, "I want to apologize."

"Mission accomplished?" Zoe asks as Maizy re-enters the house.

"You had a doubt?" Maizy smirks.

"With the both of us on the job? Not really," Zoe smiles.

Chapter 3

"What's going on? Where am I?" Jura wonders, as she looks around the utter blackness surrounding her.

"This is the Realm of Dream, child," A kind female voice echo's out of the darkness.

"Why can't I see anything?" Jura demands as she spins around and looks in every direction.

"Because child, you need to give a form to your surroundings. Until you do that, you will continue to float in the void," the voice answers her.

"How do I do that?" Jura asks, becoming more confidant thanks to the voices kind tone.

"Imagine a place that you want this realm to resemble, and it will," the voice tells her, sounding as if she's is coming closer to Jura with each response.

"Like this?" Jura asks, closing her eyes, and imagining the school commons.

"Exactly," the voice answers.

When Jura opens her eyes, she is standing in the center of the commons, or at least appears to be. Looking around, she asks, "How come I still can't see you?"

"Because I have just now managed to find you through the void," the voice answers directly behind her.

Spinning around, Jura is startled by the sight of her visitor. Clad in a brightly colored kimono, the woman is slightly shorter than Jura. A shawl is draped over her head, hiding her face in shadows, while she steps closer to Jura on bare feet.

"Your kimono seems familiar, but I can't place where I've seen the pattern before," Jura says, her brow wrinkling slightly as she racks her brain.

"All will become clear later," the woman says, her gentle tone never wavering.

"Why are we here?" Jura finally asks.

"Because I have come to warn you," the woman answers.

"Warn me about what?" Jura demands, suddenly feeling worried.

"About this, and more," she says as she wraps a gentle arm around Jura's shoulder, and guides her to look at a certain point.

"NO!" Jura screams as she sees the sights her guide has to show her.

Maizy, laying non-functional, most of her body destroyed.

Kaze, buried under a pile of rubble, only a arm, and mangled wing visible.

Zoe, laying face down in a water filled crater.

A shadowy female form, armed with a large shield, standing threateningly over Maizy's friends.

More shadows, one who seems like a bulkier version of Kiryuu, and another with wings hanging off of her arms, and several more that remind her of Zoe.

"These are just some of the things that your future holds for you," the woman tells her, sympathy filling her voice at Jura's reaction.

"No! This can't happen!" Jura tells her, pulling free of her grip.

"Unfortunately, this, and more, is in store for you, and those you care for," she answers sadly.

"No!" Jura weeps, dropping to her knees.

"You have the power to prevent most of it from occurring," she says. "That is the point of showing you these horrors."

"What do I have to do?" Jura asks, still shook from what she's been shown.

"Choose," the woman answers simply.

"What?" Jura demands in confusion.

"You will have choices to make as the time of these events comes closer. Much the same way that a sword can defend or attack, your choices will have power. Whether they are for the best, or are purely selfish, they will affect how these images come to pass, if they do," the woman tells her.

"And if I blow it?" Jura asks, sure she doesn't really want to know.

With a sigh, the woman once again turns Jura to face the future.

Scenes of war, humanity's death, and the enslavement of the newborn Kaiju-morph race are what await her.

"NOOOO!" Jura shrieks as she jerks awake, then breaks down into tears again.

"Jura, what's wrong?" Kaze demands, turning on a light as she sits up and pulls Jura closer to her.

"A dream. A horrible, horrible dream," Jura gasps, hugging Kaze for all she's worth.

"You know dreams aren't real now, right?" Kaze asks, petting Jura's hair.

"This one was different from that last one you helped me with," Jura tells her, her breathing still a little ragged.

"Tell me about it," Kaze tells her, helping her sit up, and lean against the headboard of the bed.

Jura proceeds to share the entire dream with Kaze. "And that was when I woke up," she finishes.

"Damn. No wonder you freaked out," Kaze mutters in sympathy. "But still, it was nothing but a dream."

"What's that then?" Jura asks as a glowing moth, the size of a baseball slowly fans its wings on the footboard of their bed.

"Jeez, where's the bug spray?" Kaze mutters, as she looks around for something within reach to throw at it.

"Don't you dare," Jura tells her, as she holds a hand palm up out to the moth.

Gliding forward, the moth lands in Jura's hand. Immediately after, it turns into a swirl of energy.

"Much like a sword, power is nether good or bad. It is all about the choices in how they are used. Take this, as a reminder," the woman's voice echo's through their room. When the energy swirl dissipates, there is a small crystal amulet in the shape of a sword in Jura's hand.

"That…..shouldn't be possible," Kaze whispers, awe struck by what just happened.

"That's why the patterns on her kimono where familiar," Jura realizes. "It's like she had wrapped herself in her wings."

"What do you mean?" Kaze asks.

"I know who the woman was," Jura tells her, wide eyed by her realization.

"Who?" Kaze asks.

"We need to go talk to the Mothras in the morning," Jura tells her.

Chapter 4

"Morning," Jura yawns as she enters the kitchen.

"Where's Kaze?" Maizy asks, wanting to make sure that they are not fighting again.

"Right here, squirt," Kaze growls, pushing through the door behind Jura.

"You two look like hell," Zoe tells them.

"It was a rough night," Jura tells her.

"Wild sex?" Maizy asks, with a raised eyebrow.

"Nightmare," Kaze tells them, shaking her head at Maizy.

"Well that's no fun," Maizy mutters, disappointed that she won't have anything to add to her site.

"Are you planning to hang out with your friends today?" Jura asks her.

"Nah. Since it's supposed to be such a nice day, it seems like all their families have decided to go to the beach for the day," she answers.

Jura and Kaze look at each other, before turning to Zoe with a questioning look.

"That doesn't sound like a half bad idea," Zoe admits. "All those in favor of a trip to the beach, raise your hand," she says, being the first to raise hers.

"We're in," Kaze adds, as she raises her hand.

"But we are going to have to swing through town first, and stop at Darcy's. I don't have a swimsuit," Jura says, raising her hand as well.

"Crap. Neither do I," Kaze adds.

"It's unanimous. And just wait here a sec, I've got something for all of you," Maizy tells them, as she dashes out of the room.

Moments later, Maizy returns, with three small packages.

"This one's yours," she says, handing Jura the one with the silver bow. "And this one is for you," she continues, handing one with a black ribbon to Kaze. "And last but not least, yours," she finishes, handing Zoe the last one, with a crimson bow.

"What are these, and where did you get the money for them?" Zoe asks.

"One, open them and find out, and two, none of your business," Maizy smirks.

"What is this?" Jura asks, pulling out what looks like a pile of fine silver chain.

"Your new swimsuits. My sisters are some of the hottest women on the planet, and I'll be damned if you're not going to look the part," Maizy tells them.

"I'm one of your sisters?" Jura asks, confused.

"Yeah, by marriage," Maizy shoots back with a smirk.

"Come on, let's go see how they look," Zoe orders, barely able to keep from laughing.

"I'm not sure I like this thing," Jura mutters as she checks herself over in front of the mirror in her and Kaze's room. "This is the first time I've had a thong on, and it feels weird," she complains. "What do you think?" she asks Kaze.

"Uh….what was that? I wasn't paying attention," Kaze returns, her eyes glued to Jura's body, where the silver highlights her breasts, and …lower.

"Kaze! You're….wow," Jura says, turning around and getting her first good look at Kaze. While the suit designs are nearly identical, the black colorization of Kaze's works as well with her silver skin as Jura's does with her darker colors.

"So I take it that you two like how the suits look?" Zoe asks, posing in the doorway, her crimson suit looking just as good as Kaze's.

"Um, yeah," they both reply, going back to staring at each other.

"Throw something over top of them, and let's go. Maizy is going to skin us all if we take much longer," Zoe tells them, laughing as she returns to her room to do the same.

"Where did you get these suits, anyway?" Zoe asks Maizy as the group flies toward the beach, Jura being carried by Kaze.

"Where do you think?" Maizy shoots back. "Darcy made them. I found some clips online from a game, and showed them to her. She said that if she had the dimensions of the girls that it shouldn't be too difficult, just time consuming."

"So how did you get my measurements? Darcy's never measured me up for anything," Zoe asks.

"I swiped a download of one of your old maintenance readouts. Since your sizes never change, and even Darcy could tell that it wasn't faked, she ran with those," Maizy explains. Then she laughs and adds, " 'Course, she also complained that it was a shame that the rest of the girls in this town couldn't just give her that kind of info to work from."

"I bet," Zoe answers with a grin.

"There's the beach!" Jura says into the com headset that they had built for her to use.

"Spot any other K-Girls down there yet?" Maizy asks, turning her attention to the beach.

"A pink and purple blob with wings and blond hair. Must be Dizzy," Zoe reports, pointing.

"Then it's a good bet that Ebi is down there too. Dizzy would never come to the beach without bringing her," Jura adds.

"I've got a big spot of color over here," Kaze calls. "Yup, I've found the Mothras."

"Is there room near them for us?" Zoe asks, banking over for a look herself.

"Yes, the regular people seem to be giving the K's a wide berth," Jura adds.

"Then let's say hello," Maizy grins, dropping like a stone, and buzzing right over the top of their beach umbrella's.

"Maizy!" Zoe yells, landing at a respectful distance.

"I was just saying hello," she grumbles as she lands next to Zoe, and drops the bag of towels and beach toys she was in charge of.

"I give up," Zoe mutters as she shakes her head. Laying down the two umbrellas and the chair backs she has. (the chair backs are just something that you spike into the sand and they act like the back of a lawn chair while you sit on your towel.)

"Some days I wonder about you sis," Kaze says as she sets Jura on her feet, and taps her chocker, changing from her armor to the cut offs and tank top she has on over her suit.

"This, from the cyber Amazon," Maizy smirks, tapping her own choker and changing from her uniform to the shorts and t-shirt she has on over her own swimsuit.

"Behave, both of you," Jura tells them, setting the cooler down, and collecting the towels and umbrellas to set them up.

"Maizy!" Immomu yells as she runs toward her friend.

"What's up worm?" Maizy calls back with a big smile.

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" Immomu yells as she tackles Maizy.

"Simmer down kid," Armorra says, plucking Immomu off of Maizy. "And for the record, that wasn't very funny," she adds to Maizy.

"I'm sorry," Maizy mumbles, shocked at how badly her little joke backfired on her.

"Apology accepted," Mina tells her, as she and Meo join the others. "So what brings all of you out here today?"

"Well, someone mentioned that half of the school was going to be hitting the beach to enjoy this great weather, so we thought we'd get in on the act," Zoe says.

"Welcome to our little part of it," Meo grins, sweeping an arm around them at the open space between them and the nearest other group. "It appears as though the regular people don't want to get too close to us, unless they have to."

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Zoe grins. "Enjoy the space while you can, 'cause my money says that by about two o'clock or so this place is going to be packed."

"You're probably right about that," Meo agrees with a smile.

"Well, our stuff is set up!" Jura calls as she moves toward the group, the Mazinger parties gear all laid out behind her. "And now, I'm going for a swim!" she grins, pulling her t-shirt over her head, and kicking out of her safari shorts, before dashing for the water, and vanishing.

All the Mothras blush as they get their first look at Jura's suit…What there is of it.

"That's…" Meo begins, at a loss for words.

"Quite a daring suit," Mina fills in for her.

"Damn," is all Armorra can add, comparing her and her sisters more conventional swimsuits to the one the Godzilla girl has on.

"Actually, you can blame Maizy for our suits," Kaze grins, as she and Zoe strip out of their shorts and shirts as well.

"At least you have the builds to pull them off," Armorra says, shaking her head.

"True, not everyone would be able to wear such an outfit, and maintain their dignity in the process," Meo agrees.

"Well, I just plan to enjoy soaking in the sun for a while," Zoe says, pulling out a pair of cheap sunglasses. "I love not having to worry about getting sunburned," she adds with a grin as she heads toward their stuff.

"Well, I'm going after Jura, and later on, we would like to talk privately with you three," Kaze says to the moth girls.

"Why?" Mina asks.

"Something happened last night that has Jura more than a little freaked out, and she's hoping that you might be able to shed a little more light on it for her," Kaze cryptically answers.

"Why us?" Meo asks, her brow furrowed in confusion.

"Who else on this island is more connected to Mothra than the lot of you?" Kaze tosses back over her shoulder, before dashing at the water and diving in.

"This should prove to be a most interesting conversation," Meo says, her sisters nodding in agreement.

"I can't believe I can breathe underwater!" Jura gushes as she and Kaze emerge from the surf.

"You damn near gave me a heart attack," Kaze tells her. "And I don't even have one!"

"Well, not a physical one anyway," Jura says with a sly grin. "But I don't have gills, so how can I do that?" she asks, going back to the previous topic.

"We think that it's somehow related to how quickly our bodies can regenerate damage," Gina tells her.

"Huh? Gina? But when did," Jura sputters as she looks around. It's then that she discovers that while she and Kaze where exploring underwater, several others had arrived at their stretch of beach.

"Jura Lady! Gimme hugz!" Zuki squeals as she flies in at Jura.

"Oof! Hi kiddo," Jura gasps, as Zuki gives her one of her patented back breaking hugs.

"Hello to you too, Super Maizy!" Zuki giggles, before taking off to meet up with Maizy, Immomu, and Nuri once more.

"Wow. Looks like all the K-girls are congregating around this part of the beach," Kaze says as she looks around, spotting Mega-lass near Zoe, and Gigi helping built a fire pit with Megan and Giganna.

"Too bad we don't have a volley ball net," Gina sighs.

"Ask, and you shall receive!" Jura laughs, as she rings some of the water out of her hair.

"Hey, Titania!" Kaze calls waving to the ruby skinned blond.

"How did you know we needed a net?" Gina asks, her dark blue bikini making her skin seem to glow.

"A little spider told me," the blond answers, her white suit a stark contrast to her skin color, as two more k-girls walk up behind her.

"Crystal!" Gina nearly snarls.

"Truce. I'm just here to enjoy a day at the beach like the rest of you," the SpaceGodzilla girl says as she holds up both hands in a peacemaking gesture.

"I invited them, so everyone behave," Titania says, a subtle warning in her voice.

"It's not like you own the beach anyway," Kumi adds.

"That goes for you too, legs," the blond adds over her shoulder, catching Kumi's response of sticking her tongue out, then offering up a wide grin.

"Peace?" Gina asks, holding her hand out toward Crystal.

"For today at least," the blue saurian answers, giving it a shake.

"I'll take it," Gina grins at her sister for the first time in a very long time.

"My god, I've got enough footage already to keep the site going for a year!" Maizy grins to her "crew".

"Let's play!" Zuki cheers.

"I've got an idea," Nuri says with an evil little grin. "Gimme a second," she says, before she dashes toward Giganna.

The Gigan girl tips her head down as she listens to Nuri for a few moments, then stands up and begins searching over the K-girls assembled so far.

"Volleyball game!" she calls out, loud enough for everyone to hear her. "Lizards vs. the bugs! Now let's get that net set up!" she orders, heading toward Titania to help her get things together.

"Who's going to ref?" Armorra calls back.

"I will!" Maizy volunteers.

"Want to make some sand castles?" Immomu asks Zuki.

"Sure!" the little green lizard girl enthuses, before they grab their buckets and shovels and head closer to the waterline.

"You are a genius," Maizy whispers to Nuri as they watch the older girls set up the net.

"I know," Nuri agrees, buffing her nails on her one piece suit.

"You going to join in?" Zoe asks Jura as the three let the others set things up.

"Only if you robots are planning to take on the winners," Jura shoots back from her position on her belly, while Kaze rubs lotion onto her back.

"I think we can be persuaded to do that," Zoe grins, sliding her shades back into place as she leans back into her half chair.

"And I've got a favor to ask of you Kaze," Jura whispers.

"And what would that be?" she answers the same way.

"Um, I know you don't really like it, but would you please wear this for the rest of the day?" Jura asks, reaching into her shorts pocket and pulling out Kaze's cat tail.

"Going to have to give me a better reason than please," Kaze tells her.

"How about if you get to be the mistress in the bedroom whenever you wear it for me?" Jura offers. "That way I can repay you however you want."

"Oh, I think you've just made the deal of your life there, little girl," Kaze tells her with a knowing grin. "If you make this a permanent thing, I'll even stop complaining about wearing them in public."

"Deal," Jura agrees, sitting up to give Kaze a quick kiss.

"It's a good thing these suits are tail friendly," Kaze jokes as she spins around to give her back to Jura.

"I noticed that too. I'm not sure if that's a coincidence, or on purpose. We'll have to corner Maizy and sweat the answers out of her," Zoe answers, her head leaned back and her eyes closed.

"Yeah, right. You'd have better luck getting the info from a rock we find on the beach today. Maizy doesn't give up anything she doesn't want you to know," Jura shoots back as she firmly presses the silver end of Kaze's tail to the base of her spine, and holds it there for a few moments. As she watches, Kaze's human ears melt back into the sides of her head, while up top, two neko ears poke through her red mane, until they reach their full size.

"That is still one of the weirdest feelings I've ever had," Kaze mutters, referring to the shifting.

"Maybe, but damn they make you adorable!" Jura grins, unable to stop herself from reaching up to scratch them.

"OOoooo…..You…You better stop, before we have to leave, and find someplace private to continue," Kaze tells her, her eyes rolling up in her head at how good it feels.

"Oh, alright," Jura pouts, using a face she's mimicked from some of the things she's seen on T.V.

"Oh dear god. Who in their right mind taught you to how to do that?" Zoe demands.

"Kim Possible," Jura answers with a wicked grin. "Maizy and her friends had one of the American channels on one day, and that show was on. Nuri made the comment after they saw it and how she used it that if they could master it, then they would be able to get away with anything, as far as those with a weakness for "cute" are concerned."

"Still doesn't explain how you learned it," Kaze interjects.

"They had to practice on someone. So I got to practice on them too. Guess who got it first?" she tells them with a triumphant grin.

"Heh, it's always fun to hear about one of their escapades that doesn't cause trouble, but still blows up in their face," Zoe smirks.

"Teams! Time to Play!" Giganna calls out, telling them that the net is finally ready.

"Good luck," Kaze tells Jura with a quick kiss.

"Thanks. I think I'm going to need it," Jura answers as she heads toward the growing groups.

"You're going to play aren't you?" Kumi asks.

"Wasn't really planning on it," Crystal answers, stretched out on her beach towel, barely covered by her black bikini, and enjoying it as her body soaks up the heat, and more importantly, some small traces of Cosmic Radiation.

"Oh, come on! It will be fun!" Kumi pouts.

"I'd be stuck on a team with my sister, and other people who I've either tormented, or flat out beat the snot out of. Can't see it as working out very well," Crystal returns.

"Not even with me on your team," Titania says, suddenly blocking all Crystal's sun.

"You cheat," Crystal mock growls at Kumi, while letting her eyes drink in the sight of Titania in a wet, white, swimsuit.

"Learned from the best," Kumi grins, as she grabs Crystals hand and tugs her to her feet.

"Let's go," the blond agrees. "We can show the bugs how the lizards play the game," she grins, then sticks her tongue out at Kumi.

"Oh, you're goin' down for that, Blondie!" Kumi taunts back.

"You're both nuts," Crystal tells them, unable to keep a smile off her face.

Meo, Mina, Armorra, Mega-lass, and Kumi, face off against Gina, Jura, Titania, Crystal, and Anji-lass on the opposite sides of the net.

"Alright, Listen Up," Maizy calls to them from her air born vantage point, over the court. "You are free to use your powers, but only on your own team, not against the others, and NOT ON THE BALL. Do I make myself clear?" she asks, grinning.

"What's the point of letting us use our powers then?" Crystal grumbles.

"Figure it out," Maizy smirks,, before flipping a coin and slapping it down on her wrist. "Call it!" she orders the two teams, still keeping her hand over the coin.

"Tails!" Kumi calls out before anyone can stop her.

"Judge?" Maizy calls as she hovers over to Megan, and reveals the coin.

"The bugs get the ball!" Megan calls out, as Maizy jets back to her vantage point.

Then she opens a com channel to her computer at the house, and starts a live feed of what she is about to witness.

"This is going to make me a mint!" she gloats to herself as she prepares to record the game.

The game rapidly becomes serious, as Crystal uses her telekinesis to help offset the fact that most of the opposing team can fly. It only takes one crater inducing spike from Crystal to convince the others that attempting to block her isn't exactly a healthy idea.

The bugs counter, by letting Mega-lass run net defense for them. Between her and Kumi, it takes serious work on the lizards part to get the ball to the ground.

After about two hours of solid standoff, the lizards hit on their winning combination. After Gina had gotten a face full of sand in her dive to prevent a point, Jura bumped the ball straight up. Crystal responded by tossing Titania up after it. The spike that resulted ended up with Kaze chasing the ball down with her flight pack after the impact. The bugs put up a valiant effort, but they just are not able to stand up to the raw power on the other side.

"And that's game!" Maizy calls out as the last point is tallied, grinning like a loon.

"We call Winner after lunch!" Zoe yells.

"You've only got two, since the little one is the ref," Giganna reminds her.

"Then what are we? Rust stains?" Katsura smirks as everyone turns to see that the other set of mecha sisters have arrived.

"Team Mech vs. Team Lizard, after lunch!" Giganna calls out.

"This is going to get messy, isn't it," Jura asks, not directing it to anyone in particular.

"Probably," Anji agrees.

"Thought so," she sighs, shaking her head as she goes over to set up her groups lunch.

"So what did you wish to speak to us about?" Meo asks, as the moth sisters come up to Kaze and Jura.

The pair share a look, before checking on the rest of their party, causing the Mothras to wonder what is really going on.

With Zoe over with Kiryuu, and Maizy off with the other juniors, Jura sighs, and says, "Have a seat. This is going to be a little hard to swallow."

After everyone is seated, Jura starts her tale, from the moment she woke up in her dream surrounded by the Void, and takes them through it, step by step.

"I agree, it was a horrible nightmare, but what makes you believe Mothra was involved?" Mina asks.

"After she woke up, and woke me up in the process, we found a moth the size of a baseball on the footboard of the bed," Kaze informs them.

And when it fluttered to my hand, it changed into this….swirl of energy, I guess you'd call it. When that faded, it left this in my hand," Jura says, showing them the crystal amulet.

"While I agree that makes it more likely…." Mina starts, only to be interrupted by Meo.

"Is this the first time you've been visited in your dreams?" the Mothra Leo asks.

"Yes. Has it ever happened to you?" Jura returns.

Meo nods, causing Mina to gasp. "You never mentioned it to us!" she says, trying very hard to keep her voice down.

"Because it was a personal message for me," Meo answers her, a small smile, taking any sting from the words. "Mothra appeared to me as a human woman, dressed in a kimono, patterned after her wings, with the most amazing blue eyes. Her hair was white, but not from age, since she was clearly a youthful beauty. Or so I thought. Anyway, she led me through several questions about why I had been so depressed at the time. Eventually I confided in her about my feelings for Des, and she told me that I should trust my instincts and look beyond outer appearances. Then she assumed her true form, and left me with the order to follow my heart."

"I always wondered how it was that you found the courage to ignore all of us and hook up with her," Armorra finally breaks the silence.

"Yes, that much is now clear," Mina agrees.

"But back to you, I believe you should take her warnings and instructions seriously," Meo tells Jura.

"Who am I to ignore a message from the Guardian of the Earth?" Jura returns with a wry smile. "I just wanted to make sure I wasn't cracked up in the head or something."

"No fear of that, at least not yet," Mina smiles.

"What do you mean by that?" Kaze asks.

"From the sound of things, it's time for the second volleyball game. Anything could happen," Armorra smirks.

"If I could, I would like to examine the amulet while you are busy," Meo says.

"Sure," Jura agrees handing it over.

"I shall take good care of it," Meo assures her, as Jura and Kaze get up to join their respective teams for the game.

"One last thing," Mina calls to them as she and Meo also rise.

"What?" Kaze asks as they pair stop and turn back to the moth girls. Needless to say, Kaze is taken completely by surprise when she is tackle/glomped by the pair.

"You did say "some other time," Right?" Mina grins at Jura, as she and Meo scratch Kaze's neko ears, making the silver woman purr in pleasure.

"So I did," Jura reluctantly agrees, trying to suppress the flashes of annoyance and jealousy that spark inside of her as she watches the Mothras turn her girlfriend into a giant humanoid housecat.

"Come on you two, they have a game to play," Armorra says, causing her sisters to reluctantly leave Kaze to go to the game.

"Awe…." They chorus as they reluctantly let her go.

"Let's go," Jura says, as she tugs Kaze to her feet and leads her off. Once they are out of earshot of both groups, she adds, "And you won't have to worry about wearing the ears and tail out in public anymore."

"Why is that?" Kaze asks, surprised by the sudden turn around.

"Because I've just discovered something important about myself," Jura answers her. "I just realized, that I don't like to share what's mine."

"I love you too," Kaze smirks, planting a kiss on top of Jura's head as they move to opposing sides of the net for the game.

"Challengers get the first serve!" Maizy calls out, as she drops the ball into the waiting hands of Katsura. "Rules are still the same, Powers are only allowed on your side of the net, and not on the ball. Now let's see what you all got!"

Things start off with a bang, as Katsura's opening shot skims right over the top of the net, and nearly parts Gina's hair as it shoots through a hole in their defense.

"Katsura, I want to win too, but try to avoid taking anyone out, will you? This is supposed to be fun, not an excuse to start a K-fight," Zoe tells her lovers' older sister.

"If you insist," the original Mecha G girl responds as the ball is passed back to her so she can serve again.

Once again her serve is aimed to just barely clear the net, but this time it's meets a bit of additional resistance.

"Not this time!" Jura says after leaping up and smashing the ball back at Zoe's feet.

"OW!" Zoe complains, rubbing at the underside of her breasts, where the ball and bounced up and smacked her.

"Looks like the new one came to play hardball," Katsura murmurs to her sisters.

"Take it easy on her," Kiryuu orders the other two, as they get ready to receive Gina's serve. "Jura doesn't like to fight, so don't start anything with her."

"I heard she beat the tar out of Gabrielle twice, and got Cyganna, Dizzy, and even Crystal," Sumegi counters. "That's a pretty impressive list of wins for someone who doesn't like to fight."

The conversation switches to the radio band, so that they can continue without interruption as they play the game.

"The first time she beat up Gabby was an accident," Kiryuu tells them. "She was just regaining consciousness when Gabby said something that sent her into a berserker state. If she had been fully awake, I doubt it would have happened."

"And the rest?" Katsura asks, clearly not happy that the newest G-girl at the school has such poor self control.

"Bear in mind that this is third and forth hand, alright?" Kiryuu tells them. "But the rest of that stems from Gabby looking for some payback, and being willing to enlist help to pull it off. She got Dizzy and Crystal, as well as Kumi and Donna, to keep Kaze occupied, while she and Cyganna went after Jura. Apparently, those two put her through the mill, before she got mad enough to start fighting back. Gabby got tail slapped halfway across the commons, and Cyganna made the mistake of underestimating her opponent, and got short circuited for it. Dizzy and Crystal had Kaze on the defensive, after she had taken Kumi and Donna out of the fight. Then Jura hit their fight like the big G hitting a suspension bridge. First she blasted the pair into a wall, then went toe to toe with them both, while Kaze ran Donna, who she had hurt far worse than she had intended, to the nurses office. The rest is nothing but hearsay, but the story goes that Jura made a few threats, nearly chocked Dizzy to death, and managed to impress Crystal enough to get the baddest bitch in the school to leave the pair in relative peace."

"So what are the chances that she will flip out again?" Sumegi asks, as Gina power slams a shot through their defense, earning her team yet another point.

"I would say, very low," Kiryuu answers, leaping up and stuffing an incoming shot back down on the organic side of the net, nearly popping the ball on Anjji's head.

"Nice interception!" Kaze calls out, earning her a smile from Kiryuu.

"And what do we know about Zoe's larger sister?" Katsura asks.

"Aside from the fact that she's got the raw power to knock Dizzy cold in a fair fight?" Sumegi returns.

"How can you have a fair fight with Dizzy? She always calls out the swarm," Katsura scoffs.

"Well, Jura helped her with the swarm, and then she dropped Dizzy like hot slag," Kiryuu tells her.

"Impressive," Katsura concedes. "Anything else?" she asks.

"Yeah, if you hear her say "Mazin-Go", I suggest you get the hell out of her way. It seems to do other things as well, but when she says that, a face guard slides into place from her helmet, and the marks on her face light up with power," Sumegi tells them. "After she said that in her first fight with Dizzy, she pretty much took Dizzy down with just two punches."

"Damn, I didn't even know she was that freaking strong," Kiryuu admits, her surprise taking her attention off the game long enough for Crystal to power a shot in at her feet.

"And that's game!" Maizy yells, slightly disappointed at the mecha teams showing. "At least I got more footage for the site," she grins to herself.

After a few more hours of enjoying the beach, some of the others slip away, either to head home, to find a quiet spot for themselves, or to get ready for further plans.

"Hey, most of us are going to hang around for a while yet and have a bonfire. Are you two going to join us?" Zoe asks, as she flops down on her towel after a swim.

"I'd like to, but I'm feeling pretty wiped out," Jura admits. "I think I'd rather go home and get some sleep."

"Darn, and I wanted to stick around," Kaze says glumly.

"I can always fly her home for you," Maizy offers.

"If she can carry me, it would be fine," Jura agrees. "There isn't any reason you should miss out on the fun just because I'm tired."

"Zuki and Gigi have already left, and Imo's taking a nap, since her sisters are planning to stay for a while yet. And I'm pretty sure Nuri and her sister are heading out soon too, so I don't really have much reason to hang out either," Maizy says. "So if you are willing, let's see if I can lift you."

Maizy ignites her flight pack, and moves to hover behind Jura as she stands up. Jura raises both hands, and Maizy gets a good grip, before attempting to lift her clear of the ground.

"No good," Maizy mutters, releasing Jura to drop back to the ground. "I was starting to red line things, and could only get her a foot or two off the ground. No way that this is going to work."

"Well, I suppose I'll just have to follow Immomu's example, and take a nap here," Jura says.

"I could ask Mega-lass if she'd be willing to help," Maizy offers. If she can take you, I know I can carry Nuri."

"No. I'll just sleep here, and go home when Kaze is ready to go," Jura tells them.

"You sure?" Kaze asks, not wanting any resentment or anything to crop up again.

"Positive," Jura smiles at her. "Now why don't you go start their fire for them, before someone who doesn't have a heat ray makes a mess."

"Girl sleeps like a rock," Kaze mutters as she and Zoe land back at the house.

"Just put her to bed and join her, I'll get everything put away," Zoe tells her.

"Thanks," Kaze says, taking Jura upstairs and undressing her. After slipping her into bed, Kaze undresses herself and joins her. "Looks just like a big baby when she's asleep," Kaze grins, before she pulls the blanket over them both and lays back. Jura rolls over and snuggles up against her, before she can fall asleep. "I love you too, pointy ears," she grins, laying a kiss on Jura's lips, and closing her eyes.

Chapter 5

"Impressive. I look forward to the time that I can bend the lot of them to my will," the Commander grins, watching surveillance footage of the K-girls beach party. "It will be most pleasurable to crush the will of this one, and this one," she adds, as Gina and Crystal appear on the screen. "Forward a copy of these to my personal terminal. I wish to review them…..in detail," she orders.

"As you command," the tech answers, already entering commands to complete her orders.

"Alright class, we have a pair of new students joining us today," Mandy addresses her homeroom class. "Kera? Sera? You can come in now," she calls, loud enough to be heard out in the hall.

Two mecha girls enter at her summons, one a blond clad in blue armor, and another with purple hair, clad in black armor.

"Great, just what the place needs, another pair of robots," Gabrielle growls under her breath.

"Zip it, or I'll set your tail on fire!" Katsura hisses behind her.

"Enough!" Mandy snarls, her eyes flashing red for an instant. Turning back to the new pair, she says, "You two can take the seats over there behind Jura and Kaze."

The new girls nod, and take their seats, while Mandy returns to her desk, and the class returns to the semi-organized chaos it normally is before the students move out to their first real class of the day.

"So what brings you two to this madhouse?" Kaze asks, as she turns halfway around to face the new girls, Jura mirroring her actions.

The twins share a look, before Sera answers, "You wouldn't believe us if we told you."

"At this school? Try us," Jura grins.

Kera grins, and says," A trans-dimensional worm hole opened up and let the cyborganic monster we were hunting escape into this world, so we followed it. The resulting battle destroyed the machine that created the wormhole, trapping us here. Since the Government was behind the machine that caused the problems, they offered to put us up, and enrolled us here so we could get acclimatized to this world."

Kaze and Jura look at each other for a moment, before turning back to the twins.

"We've heard stranger," they answer.

"You're joking I hope," Sera says, shock on her face.

"Try this one," Jura says, giving an abbreviated form of her own life story.

"It's a good thing their already dead, or I'd enjoy taking them out," Kera mutters.

"Agreed," her sister adds.

"I think you two are going to fit in just fine," Kaze smirks.

"Thanks….I think," Kera says with a wry smile, just as the bell rings.

"What's your first class?" Jura asks.

"English, of all things," they answer together.

"Let's go. We'll show you the way," Kaze says leading them off.

"Someone is getting lazy in the office," Kaze mutters when she gets a look at the twins' schedules.

"You're kidding….." Jura asks her, while the foursome walks toward their next class.

"I knew that we had all the same classes together," Kera says, gesturing at her sister.

"But you mean that we have all the same classes at the same times as the both of you?" Sera finishes for her.

"You got it," Kaze confirms.

"Well, at least it gives us plenty of time to become friends," Jura smiles.

"Yeah, you two will have to dazzle us with some of your powers at lunch," Kaze agrees.

The twins share a look, before Sera says, "I suppose we could show you the drones that become our battle armor."

"Drones?" Kaze asks.

"Little remote controlled vehicles," Kera adds. "The set I normally use can also combine together into a sky board."

"Sky board?" Jura asks.

"Flying surfboard type thing," Sera explains. "My sister is a bit of a show off," she adds with a little smirk.

"Ah, you're just jealous that I've got more skills than you do, and that my armor is stronger," Kera shoots back.

"You forget, little sister, that I have more power than you do, and you got the more powerful augmentation armor to make up for it, just as I got the armor with more built in weapon systems to offset the fact that you're combat skills are a bit better than mine," Sera returns, not giving an inch. "When it's all said and done, we are fairly equal in powers."

"Truce, you two. This is our next class," Kaze butts in.

"Well, I know one thing for sure," Jura giggles. "There is no way anyone can dispute that you two are sisters."

"No kidding," Kaze smiles as the twins blush.

"We'll go claim a spot, while you two get your lunches," Jura says as she and Kaze head outside, leaving the twins in the lunch line.

"Well, at least we managed to make a couple of good friends on our first day here," Kera smiles as they wait.

"Yes. It will make getting used to this place a lot easier," Sera agrees.

"DIZZY SWARM!" Musume yells as she burst through the lunchroom doors, bare seconds ahead of the horde.

"What…." Sera starts.

"The hell is going on?" Kera finishes, the both of them staring in shock as the lunchroom becomes a ghost town in the space of seconds.

First they hear the rumble of hundreds of tiny feet. Then the doors are thrown open again as the horde of pink and purple Dizzlets charge in, eating everything in sight, bowling over the twins, and hurling the both of them out through the windows overlooking the commons.

The twins pick themselves up off the ground, just in time for a part of the swarm to gather together, fusing and finally standing at her full height.

"More new people," Dizzy growls, sweeping her bangs back off of her face. "Well, I guess it's time for orientation. I'm Dizzy. I run things around here. And unless you want to get a lot worse than what just happened to you, you will do as I tell you, and otherwise just generally stay out of my way."

"She runs things around here?" Crystal mutters darkly, plotting to put the blond in her place later.

"Seems like someone is more than a little full of herself, doesn't it?" Sera asks her sister.

"You said it. I wonder if she has the juice to back up that ego?" Kera agrees.

"See for yourself," Dizzy returns, before a blast of micro oxygen blows up the ground in front of the twins.

"Powerful," Sera admits, double checking the power of the blast.

"Yeah but her aim sucks," Kera smirks.

"True. Shall we show her?" Sera returns.

"You two? Show me? Please," Dizzy snorts, her swarm chittering and giggling behind her.

Both girls bring their hands up to their foreheads, fingers resting next to the gems in their headbands. As one they call out, "Graviton ARC!"

The resulting purple energy blasts catch Dizzy in the chest, and blast her back into the lunch room.

"Should we help them?" Jura asks, wanting to go back up her new friends.

"Not yet. So far they just evened things up with Dizzy. Dizzy doesn't know that there are our friends yet, so let's give them a chance to stand on their own, before we go throwing our weight around," Kaze tells her.

"I don't like leaving them to face the swarm on their own," Jura tells her.

As if summoned by her words, the swarm erupts from the lunchroom like a tidal wave, rolling over the twins before they can react to the threat.

"Let's see how you like the beating you're about to get," Dizzy sneers, finally re-emerging from the lunchroom.

From within the swarm, the twins' voices ring out.

"Elgo Flame!" Kera calls, a globe of green energy forming around her, forcing the swarm back, before lifting her into the air.

"Elgo Formation!" Sera calls, a globe of dark purple/black enveloping her, and lifting her up near her sister.

"Well, that's a new one," Kaze says, her sensors un-able to make heads or tails of the energy reading she's getting.

"What are those?" Jura asks, pointing at several flying specks that are making a beeline for the energy globes encasing the twins.

"Look like model jets," Kaze says, before they dive into the energy globes, and are lost from sight.

The globes hang in the air for a moment, causing even Dizzy to wonder what's going on, when they suddenly explode, the shockwaves forcing the swarm back.

The much transformed twins then land, and square off against a slack jawed Dizzy.

"Flame Empress, Sol Gravion!" Kera says, as her shoulder cannons drop into position, aimed at Dizzy.

"Goddess Sigma Gravion!" Sera adds, bringing her hands up and clasping them, her forearm cannons centered on Dizzy's chest.

Dizzy throws up her hands as she turns away, ranting, "That's it! I've HAD IT! Who the hell keeps giving these new kids these insane powers and transformations! One of them claims she's a freaking goddess now!"

She keeps going in this vein for a while, storming back into the school, until Ebi finally manages to calm her down.

"That was impressive," Jura says as she and Kaze come up behind the twins.

"Heh, yeah," Kaze snickers. "I think you've managed to give the most active bully in the school an inferiority complex."

"Is this normal?" Sera asks, gesturing toward the damage.

"Yes and no," Jura answers, smiling.

"Again? This time with the help files on?" Kera asks, her cannons raising back to their stand-by position.

"The daily damage is normal, but Dizzy backing down, rather than the fight lasting until one side or the other is hammered into the ground is rather different," Kaze grins.

"What have we gotten ourselves into?" they ask each other, causing Kaze and Jura to burst into laughter.

"What? Why am I just now finding out that the government attempted to recreate the Dimension Tide?" the Commander demands, her voice dropping into a silky purr.

"The experiment blew up in their faces, and our spy onsite was one of the casualties," the messenger answers, gulping audibly as he stands at attention in the Commanders quarters.

In more ways than one, since there is a pile of body's in the commanders bed, and like herself, they are all female, and lack pretty much anything resembling clothes, other than a few pieces of cloth or leather that do more to draw attention to the body than they do to cover it.

"Why didn't he report sooner that they where even considering resurrecting that project?" she demands.

"Unknown at this time, ma'am," the messenger answers.

The commander growls under her breath for a moment, before snarling a single name. "Cyra?"

"Yes Mistress?" a golden draconic form asks as it extracts itself from the pile on the bed. "What would you have of me?"

"Take this fool, and find out every detail you can about what has been going on with this matter, then report back to me," the Commander orders. "Oh, and be sure to maintain a low profile. I don't want your inquiry to tip our hand about project "K". Clear?"

"Cryssssstal," the golden dragon answers, drawing out the word just so she can make the messenger fidget uncomfortably.

"Then get to it. I will reward you….personally…later. Since I know how much you dislike to share," the Commander adds with an evil little grin.

"Yes Mistress," she answers. Grabbing the messenger by the collar of his uniform, and lifting, she stiff arms him out the door, his boots unable to touch the floor.

"Now, where were we?" the Commander grins, rejoining the others on her bed.

"So what do you guys do for fun in this town?" Kera asks, as she and her sister walk through town with Kaze and Jura.

"Well, there is Queen Ghidi's, if you want to dance and stuff, a couple of karaoke places, an arcade," Kaze rattles off.

"There is also a very nice park, if you just want to go some place quiet and enjoy yourself for a while," Jura adds.

"And if you have someone special, you can just find some place with some privacy, and screw their brains out," Kaze grins, which gets wider as Jura's cheeks burn.

"Are you two….." Sera trails off, unable to come up with a way to ask the question without seeming rude.

"Lovers? You bet your shiny silver asses we are," Kaze answers, draping an arm over Jura's shoulders, and pulling her close.

"Behave yourself," Jura says, giving her arm a swat, but unable to keep the smile off her face in reaction to Kaze's words.

"You know, normally I'd have at least a dozen questions for you after an answer like that," Kera tells them, a smirk on her face. "But for the life of me, I can't think of any I'm actually willing to ask you two."

"Good. You may learn tact yet," Sera says with a long suffering sigh.

Kera responds by sticking her tongue out at her sister, while Kaze and Jura snicker at her.

"Well, as much fun as this is, I need to get to work," Kaze tells them all.

"What do you do?" Sera asks.

"She's the best delivery girl Shirow's Pizza has ever had," Jura tells them.

"How's that?" Kera asks. "There must have been others who are just as good."

"How many others do you think can deliver anywhere in town in under twenty minutes?" Kaze shoots back. "With me, Shirow's never has to make good on their "Delivered within a half hour, or it's free" guarantee."

"You're too big to be able to move that fast," Kera scoffs.

"Maybe you should show them the real MazinKaze," Jura tells her with a warm smile.

"I think I will," Kaze agrees, tapping her choker.

In an instant, her School uniform is replaced with her battle armor, the raised sides and central spike on her helmet making her appear even taller.

"Whoa," Kera says, taking a step back from the suddenly very imposing Kaze.

"How are you able to do that? We need to call the drones and say the activation phrases in order to transform from our regular armor to our battle forms," Sera asks. "You went from not having any armor at all, to full combat readiness in less than a second!"

"She's just that good," Jura grins.

"Tell you what. This weekend, I'll share that little secret with you two," Kaze tells them with an impish grin. "But for now, I've got to fly. See you at the house!" she says to Jura, before igniting her flight pack, and boosting into the air.

"Damn….She's pretty fast," Kera mutters, her internal scanners registering Kaze's speed until she is out of their line of sight.

"Jealous?" Sera grins, giving her sister a nudge.

"Nah. She might be fast, but the Gradius is still a much cooler way to get around," Kera shoots back.

"Well, I'm going to head for home," Jura tells the twins. "We'll catch up with you both back at school tomorrow."

"We wouldn't miss it," Sera assures her, before the twins go their separate way, leaving Jura to wander home by herself.

"I wonder how long it will take them to find someone?" Jura mutters to herself as she walks toward the mansion.

"God, I don't know which one of them I'd like to have more," Kera mutters as she and her sister continue to explore the city.

"Behave yourself," Sera orders her. "I would like nothing more than to have some quiet time to get to know Jura better, but we are not going to do anything that could ruin our new friendship with those two."

"I know, and I even agree," Kera tells her. "But just think about it for a minute…What could she do with that tail?"

"I have," Sera answers with a wicked grin, before walking off.

"Hey!" Kera yells at her, rushing to catch up.

Chapter 6

"Mistress, I have come to give you my report," Cyra announces, after knocking on the commanders door.

"Enter," is the muffled reply.

"Mistress, I UMPH!" Cyra is interrupted as she stumbles and a gob of something sticky muzzles her.

Cyra's eyes glow brighter in rage as she spins around, only to take a shot to the gut that knocks her backward.

"I'm disappointed in you Cyra," The commanders voice tells her, but it comes from someone who's silhouette looks much like Kumi's.

"That's enough Spyra," the Commander orders from the doorway.

"As you command," Spyra answers, her voice returning to its normal silky purr.

"Out." The commander orders, her eyes locked on Cyra, where she hangs entangled in Spyra's web.

"MMPH!" Cyra tries to speak.

"I am disappointed in you though. My most capable lieutenant should be prepared for anything, even in the secure confines of our bases," the commander tells her, her voice going from stern to seductive. "I suppose I'll simply have to punish you for this failure of alertness, while we wait for the webbing to break down so you can give me your report."

Cyra closes her eyes, and lowers her head as much as she can in shame. She holds completely still as the Commander removes what armor can be removed from her body.

"I really should have made sure that those fools had done a better job of incorporating the technology into your poor body," the commander mutters as she fondles Cyra's revealed breasts, causing the trapped cyborg to moan in pleasure, despite being muzzled.

"Don't you have anything else to say for yourself?" the commander demands, as she continues to make Cyra writhe in her bondage.

Unable to speak in her own defense, the draconic cyborg uses her tail to speak for her, as she uses it to pleasure her mistress.

"Oooh, much better my pet. Much better," the commander chuckles, enjoying the sensations that Cyra is able to give her with her actions.

The next day proves completely uneventful for the new friends.

That is until their last period science class with Milenna.

"Alright class, how many planets exist in this solar system?" Milenna asks from her post at the front of the classroom.

"Nine. Everyone knows that," Giganna says, not bothering to raise her hand.

"Wrong," Milenna says, before waiting for another to answer.

Megan raises her hand.

"Anyone besides Megan? I already know that she does her homework," she comments dryly.

Jura finally raises her hand.

"Yes Jura?" Milenna acknowledges her.

"Since they downgraded Pluto to being a moon, there are only Eight known planets in our solar system," She answers.

"Nice save," Milenna says with a small smile. "But yes, that is accurate, at least as far as the rest of the world knows, there are only eight planets in this system."

"Why did they suddenly change that anyway?" one of the human students asks.

"I really have no idea why they suddenly felt the need to redefine the parameters of what is a "planet" as what is not," Milenna answers, looking down at her notes. When she looks back up, the swirling purple nimbus of energy that has replaced the rear wall of the room causes her to blurt out, "What the bloody hell is that?"

As the class turns to look, a body is ejected from the vortex, slamming into the center rows of the students, knocking several to the floor as his momentum is spent before slamming up against Milenna's desk.

"I really wish these things would just set us down gently, instead of ejecting us all the time," the man mutters, rubbing at where he had hit his head.

"Oh shiiiiit!" a female voice screams as her body is ejected from the purple swirl of energy, just before it vanishes.

"OOF!" The man grunts, as she slams into him.

"Why can't these damn portals just let us walk out of them like we walk into them?" she demands, rolling off of the man.

"Leona, if I had an answer for that, I wouldn't have to play landing pad for you all the time," the man wheezes, trying to get his breath back.

"What the fuck was that?" one of the other human students yells, causing the pair to look up and see the class for the first time.

"JEZ-us! What kind of world did we get dumped into this time?" the red headed woman snarls as she leaps to her feat and draws a sword.

"Stay back, I don't want to have to hurt any of you," the man orders, assuming a martial arts stance as he and the woman go back to back.

"You, hurt us?" Giganna says in shock. "Dude, what the fuck have you been smoking?"

"Enough! All of you, settle down!" Milenna snarls from the front of the room.

The door to the class is thrown open as several more K's burst in to see what all the commotion is about.

"What is this, monster high or something?" the man asks, trying to keep track of all the possible threats at once.

"Save it for later Cole, after we get out of this mess," Leona tells him, bringing her sword up and preparing to fight.

"Stop!" Jura yells, rushing forward and standing in front of the rest of the class, her arms outstretched.

"Jura!" Kaze and the twins calls, rushing up behind her and making ready to defend her if needed, Kaze's armor appearing as she moves.

"Everyone, just calm down!" Jura tells everyone.

"Where are we?" Cole asks, not relaxing in the least, but at least willing to talk rather than fight.

"Neo Monster Island," Milenna tells them.

"And just where the hell is that?" Leona demands.

"Near Japan," Kaze adds.

"Okay, that is finally something that I recognize," Cole says, lowering his hands slightly. "Now, why are the humans, demi-humans, and robots all together like this? And where on this Monster Island are we exactly?"

"The answer to both of those questions is the same," Mandy says, having finally made her way through the crush at the door to step in front of the newly arrived pair. "You are currently standing in Milenna's science class, at Daikaiju High School."

"Ease up Leona," Cole tells his partner. "I don't want to have to beat up a bunch of kids if we can help it."

"How can we be sure that they won't jump us?" Leona demands.

"Because if we had wanted to, we would have blown you through the wall," Giganna smirks, the glow she was building behind her red visor like sunglasses fading away as she stops charging her energy blast.

"Try it, and you'll find I shoot back," Leona counters, pointing a hand at her that is suddenly glowing with power.

"I said, calm down!" Cole snarls, slapping her hand down as he turns on her. "If you have someplace private we can talk, it would be a big help toward keeping things from blowing up on us," he adds over his shoulder to the teachers.

"My office is this way," Mandy says, glaring over her shoulder until the door and hall clear out.

"You are all dismissed. I need to join this meeting," Milenna adds to the class as she follows the other three out.

"Never a dull moment around here," Megan says.

"That was a new one, even for this place," another of the human students smirks.

"Don't you ever do something like that again!" Kaze snarls at Jura when she suddenly goes limp and falls back into her arms.

"Is she alright?" Kera asks.

"Looks like the adrenalin rush left her a little light headed is all," Sera responds, running a medical scan on her.

"I had to," Jura tells Kaze. "I'm the only one is this class with a healing factor."

"Which wouldn't have done you a damn bit of good if the hellion with the sword had cut your damn head off," Kaze tells her, pulling her into a tight hug.

"…I hadn't thought about that possibility," Jura says in a sheepish voice, causing the rest of the class that hadn't left behind the teacher to burst into laughter.

"If she's going to play hero like that, she needs a better costume than the school uniform," Kera grins.

"We all need better costumes than the school uniforms," Sera counters. "These things are stupid looking. I hate sailor suits."

"Let's go. After this, I think we need to introduce you two to the best seamstress in town," Jura says, slowly pushing out of Kaze's arms and back to her feet.

"Don't scare me like that again," Kaze whispers in her ear, as she swaps her armor for her uniform again.

"Choices," Jura tells her, the single word a grim reminder of things.

"Hey Darcy! We have a couple of new victims for you!" Kaze calls as they foursome enter the shop.

"I do hope she's joking," Sera says, shooting a nasty look at Kaze's back.

"Darcy is the owner, and the main source of K-girl apparel. Without her, those of us that can't exactly wear normal human clothes would be stuck wearing something like a toga," Jura tells them.

"There's a nice visual," Kera grins, as she pictures Jura in a toga.

"Not while I'm still able to make clothes," Darcy says, appearing from the racks behind the girls, and making Kera and Sera both jump.

"And she manages to scare another pair," Kaze smirks.

"Well, now we know what she meant by victims," Kera smirks.

"Yes," Sera agrees, shooting an annoyed glance at both Kaze and Jura.

"Clothes for the new girls I take it?" Darcy asks, giving the twins a slow walk around, and getting rough estimates by eye."

"Well that IS the main reason people come to see you," Kaze returns.

"True," Darcy grins, before turning to the twins. "Alright you two let's get to the changing rooms, so I can get you measured up."

"We are identical twin robots," Sera tells her. "Can't you get by with just one of us?"

"No. Now march," Darcy answers, pointing toward the back of the store.

Kera laughs, while Sera shoots a glance over her shoulder that clearly says she blames them for everything she's about to endure.

"I still don't understand why I had to take off all my clothes and armor," Sera mutters, her face still burning in embarrassment.

"Just let it go," Kera tells her, as the foursome continue toward the mansion.

"Darcy does that to everyone," Jura tells her.

"Yeah, she says it's the only way to ensure that we don't give her any B.S. like "adjusting" our measurements," Kaze adds.

"She did it to the both of you as well?" Sera asks.

"Yup," Kaze nods.

"Darcy's is where Kaze and I met for the first time," Jura says blushing in memory.

"Yeah, because someone was too sheltered and innocent at the time to know that she was supposed to go into another fitting room," Kaze grins, causing Jura's blush to increase in intensity until it burns as red as Sera's.

"Wait. You mean to tell me that the first time you saw each other…" Kera says, grinning.

"I was nekkid as a newborn," Kaze answers. "Of course, she soon evened that score up."

"You got her to strip for you?" Kera says in awe.

"Not quite," Jura admits. "I was there to be measured, just like what you two got today. Unfortunately I wasn't really used to wearing clothes, and needed her help to get undressed."

"Wait a minute. Why wouldn't you be used to wearing clothes?" Sera breaks in.

"Who dresses their science projects in pretty clothes?" Jura returns in a bitter voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot what you've been through!" Sera apologizes. "You act so normal, I have a hard time putting the current you and your past together."

"I have my new family to thank for that," Jura returns, beaming at Kaze.

"Think the others will be home?" Kaze asks.

"I don't know. I didn't ask them what their plans where for today before we left," Jura answers.

A loud crash, followed by a squeal of glee answers at least part of Kaze's question.

"Sounds like Maizy is home at least. And Zuki is with her," Jura says, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Who are they?" Kera asks.

"Well, Maizy is my little sister, but only in terms of size," Kaze says.

"She is actually the prototype that Zoe and Kaze are based on," Jura adds.

"So this Zoe is the middle sister?" Sera asks.

"And much more," Kaze confirms. "Zoe has actually been alive the longest of the three of us. She's a retired war hero/superhero. And without the A.I. activation program that she dumped into both me and Maizy, neither of us would be here."

"You forgot that Maizy was the one who finished building you," Jura adds.

"Boy, your family is put together even weirder than ours was," Kera mutters.

"Oh, and if Zuki tries to hug you? Dodge." Jura says, as she opens the door.

"Jura lady! Gimme Hugz!" is the last thing the group hears, before Jura is knocked off her feet by a little light green bundle of energy.

"UFF! Hi Zuki," Jura gasps, struggling to breath as Zuki gives her one of her crushing hugs.

"Sorry," Zuki says as she quickly releases Jura after hearing a loud "pop".

"Zuki! How many times do I have to tell you to be careful!" Maizy says as she runs out to check on Jura.

"Just…Gimme a minute," Jura gasps in pain.

"I didn't mean to hurt her! She's never broken when I hugged her before!" Zuki cries, nearly in tears.

"Everyone calm down," Jura says, the strain gone from her voice, as she sits up. "Come here Zuki."

"I'm sorry!" Zuki cries again dropping to her knees next to Jura.

"I know little one, I know. You just need to be more careful with your strength," Jura tells her, giving her a big hug.

"Never a dull moment," Kera says, as they watch the Godzilla girl get up after what would have been a permanently crippling injury to anyone without Regenerator G1 in their makeup.

"Actually, this is pretty normal," Maizy tells them with a smirk.

"And you must be Maizy," Sera says crouching down and offering her hand. "Nice to meet you."

"Nice to see that there are a few people at that school with some manners," Maizy smirks as she takes the offered hand and gives it a shake. "Maizy, the oldest, if smallest sister of the group."

"I'm Sera, and this is my twin, Kera," she responds with a smile.

"Yo," Kera adds with a wave.

"I see you are the diplomatic one," Maizy smirks, earning a laugh from Sera.

"I think I'm going to like you," Sera tells the little Mazinger.

"Heh, we'll see," Maizy shoots back.

"Come on, let's go inside," Kaze says as she offers a hand to Jura to help her up.

"So the pair of you are from and alternate Dimension?" Milenna asks, still attempting to wrap her formidable intellect around the concept.

"How is that even possible?" Mandy asks, intrigued.

"Well, in one of the realms, this warlord managed to gather enough power to himself that he gained the ability to travel the realms, collecting knowledge and technology. Eventually he started conquering worlds, and then entire realms, before moving on to the next one," Cole begins to explain.

"He eventually ended up in my home realm, and his arrival broke open the protections that kept other portals sealed. We figure he was laying his ground work for about a year before Cole arrived," Leona adds.

"So you are not both from the same "realm" as you call them?" Mandy asks.

"No. My home was a lot like this realm. Minus people like yourselves that is," Cole answers.

"My home on the other hand, is a lot more… low tech," Leona adds. "But we made up for it in other ways," she finishes, several balls of light appearing around her hands, and floating up toward the ceiling.

"How did you do that?" Melinna demands, unable to figure out where the energy that Leona had just released had come from.

"Magic," Leona answers.

"No, I'm serious. Where did that energy come from?" Melinna says.

"So was she," Cole tells the alien teacher. "Her home realm has powerful creatures that will share bits of their power with those with the natural ability to call upon them. They call the ability to wield those powers, and the effects that they create, magic."

"So she is some kind of witch?" Mandy asks.

"No, and if anyone calls her that outside of a Q and A session like this, you can most likely expect some collateral damage as she vents on whoever does it," Cole says.

"If you need to classify my powers, call me a mage. Or a Sorceress," She adds with a feral grin.

"Don't forget part dragon," a third voice adds, with an echoing quality to it.

"What was that?" Milenna demands, wildly looking around.

"That would be Frost. She's the ghost that gave Leona a whole bunch of abilities that no one in her realm had ever seen before," Cole answers.

"You expect us to believe in ghosts, as well as magic?" Mandy asks, arching an eyebrow of the pair.

"Frost? Quit being rude, and introduce yourself properly," Leona says.

"My apologies. I am Frost, Dragon of Ice," a chibi dragon says as it appears and lands on the table between the teachers and the visitors.

"Well, this is certainly an interesting development," Mandy smirks, her own draconic side instinctively knowing that this isn't a fake.

"You believe this?" Milenna demands as she turns to her fellow teacher in surprise.

"What other powers do you have, little one?" Mandy asks Frost.

"To be honest, I'm not so little," Frost smirks back. "But since the illusion of my true form won't fit within this chamber, I'll simply assume my second most used form," the spirit adds as the chibi dragon hops off the table, rapidly growing, and taking on a human appearance. When she turns back to the teachers, she looks like a washed out copy of Leona, dressed in white, with white hair and pale grey eyes, contrasting sharply with Leona's crimson mane of hair, and bright blue eyes.

"My powers grant her the ability to appear, and speak to others, without her needing to possess my body," Leona says as Frost walks through the couch and its occupants to stand behind them.

"I don't know how to deal with this one," Milenna mutters to herself, one hand massaging her forehead.

"Show them your last trick," Cole tells her.

"You first," Leona returns, leaning back and crossing her arms under her breasts.

"Alright," Cole agrees with a sigh. Standing up, he adds, "And there were a few other dangers in these alternate realms that I wasn't exactly prepared to deal with, since I found my way through a portal more by accident than design. In some of these other places, supernatural creatures are quite real. I had a run in with what can only be called a were-tiger."

Cole's body suddenly bulks up, while his hands, legs, and head all shift to a far more beastial appearance.

"As you can see, it left more than a minor mark on me," he says, his voice having dropped to a bass growl. "This form was originally that of a more conventional tiger," he adds, his huge canine teeth gleaming in the added light from Leona's mage lights. "An additional adventure resulted in my beast forms being altered to that of a Saber Tooth," he finishes his comments by shifting to his final form, that of a saber tooth tiger the size of a horse.

"Holy!" Milenna says as she and Mandy nearly fall over the back of their couch to put more room between themselves and the clearly dangerous animal Cole has just become.

"Relax girls, he really is just a big pussycat," Leona laughs, as Cole lays down with his head resting on his paws.

"Is he safe to be around?" Mandy asks, clearly still unsure.

"Yeah, he's safe. I think one of the reasons that his beast form is so big is so that there is enough room in his cat skull for his normal sized brain," Leona says, kneeling next to him and scratching his ears.

"Your turn, Dragon Lady," Cole thinks at her.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Now change back and move the table out of the way. You know how much room this takes," Leona answers him out loud.

"In case you are wondering, we have a low level psychic link. When we are in fairly close proximity, we can communicate telepathically. Makes it a lot easier to communicate when I'm in beast form and can't form words," Cole tells them, after shifting back to his human form.

"You do realize that you are hitting us with a lot of information, all at once, right?" Mandy asks them.

"Even I'm having trouble, and I'm linked to the mainframe on my ship," Milenna admits.

"Then this one is going to blow your minds," Leona grins as Cole tips the table up against the wall. "I call upon the power of the Dragon!" she calls out, her head tipped back.

A frigid wind blows through the room, making her cloak and hair dance, before she is engulfed in an orb of white light so bright that no one in the room but Frost is able to look at her.

Within the globe, Leona's body undergoes massive changes. Spikes grow from her knees and elbows while horns grow from her shoulders, and from the sides of her head, sweeping back away from her face. As her hand and feet reconfigure, her spine triples in length, her new tail thick and muscular as that of one of the G-girls. While her tail forms, wings grow from her shoulders. The final change is when the silver scales cover her body, and her hair vanishes beneath the dragons head helm.

Spreading her wings, Leona destroys the globe from within, revealing her new form to the stunned teachers.

"Well, there are no worries about her fitting in around the school if she looks like that," Mandy comments when she can form a coherent sentence again.

"Why is it that all K-girls would rather be naked?" Milenna asks, shaking her head over what she's been subjected to since these two had arrived in her classroom.

"Clothes are a snap," Leona answers, as the helm just seems to flow from her head and into the rest of her body, revealing her crimson hair. With a snap of her clawed fingers, clothes form around her body.

"Try something a bit more like my style, babe," Cole tells her, smirking at the filmy garments that have appeared on her body.

"Okay," Leona answers a pair of jeans and modified t-shirt and leather jacket form over her body.

"God, don't let Darcy find out you can do that. She'll have a fit!" Mandy smirks.

"Who is Darcy?" Cole asks.

"The seamstress who specializes in making clothes for the girls we have here that can't wear regular clothes do to their more than human features," Milenna explains.

"Such as tails, horns and spikes?" Leona smirks with understanding.

"Exactly," Mandy confirms.

"Alright. I trust that we have passed the interview, so what do you suggest we do now that we've been dumped here?" Cole asks.

"Well, you are fairly well off in being able to adapt to our world, since it is so similar to your own," Mandy says.

"Tell me child, what is twelve multiplied by seven?" Milenna asks Leona.

"Umm….I don't have any idea?" she answers, shooting Cole a dirty look for keeping her from stealing the information from his mind.

"If you are willing, we can allow you to enroll here, and learn with the rest of our students," Mandy tells her.

"Any suggestions on where I can find a job? Call it a hunch, but I'm betting that things are not exactly free in this world, any more than they are in mine," Cole asks.

"Well, aside from your shape shifting abilities, what else can you do?" Milenna asks him.

"Well, I know at least a half dozen forms of martial arts, does that count for anything?" he asks.

The teachers share a look, before they turn to him as one and say," Gym teacher."

"Gym teacher?" he repeats, surprised.

"With those kinds of skills, you have what it takes to keep up with all the students we have here, both the humans, and the K's," Mandy answers.

"And what if I don't want to become a student?" Leona demands, annoyed that she would be treated like a child, while Cole would be a teacher.

"Well, I could always lock down your magics, and leave you locked up at whatever home I can afford for us on what I'll make as a teacher here," Cole answers, his raised eyebrow telling her to stop being difficult without saying a word, either out loud or in their link.

"Fine, you win. I'll be a student," she growls, not particularly happy about having her hand forced like that.

"Then it's decided. You can have the weekend to get acquainted with the town, and you will both start on Monday," Milenna says with a sigh of relief.

"One request," Mandy says as the newest arrivals at DKH prepare to leave.

"Yes?" Leona asks for the both of them.

"Could you stay like that? It will make it easier for you to fit in with the students. Most of the wholly human students are martial artists, and I really don't want you fighting with them with your sword," Mandy explains.

"Only while I'm in the school right? I don't have to stay like this for the entirety of our stay do I?" she asks, definitely not happy over that prospect.

"I think that will be fine," Cole says, shooting the senior teachers a look that clearly says don't push it any farther.

"Agreed," Melinna agrees for the both of them.

"Then we will see you on Monday," Cole says.

"Wait a moment!" Milenna calls.

"Now what?" Leona demands, clearly getting mad.

"Here, this is the address of the apartment building where some of the other teachers live. I can send word ahead, and have them ready an empty apartment for you," she answers, handing over a slip of paper.

"Thank you," Leona grits out, carefully plucking the paper from the aliens hand with her talons.

"Until Monday," Cole says, holding the door open for Leona, and waiting until her tail has cleared the door before stepping out himself.

"You sure this was a good idea?" Milenna asks.

"It's better than letting them run rampant without being able to keep track of them for most of the day, isn't it?" Mandy answers, collapsing back onto the couch.

"Yes, but not by much. And I'm not particularly happy about the fact that I can't identify the energy that girl wields," Milenna answers.

"Look at it this way. As long as she's a student, you can study her, and her powers. Just like you do the others," Mandy tells her.

"Well, there is that at least," Milenna finally agrees, as she prepares to return to her own office before returning to her ship's quarters.

"Just try to avoid making either of them mad at us. It's just a hunch, but I get the feeling that if they put their minds to it, they could do more damage than having Godzilla reawaken and choose this Island to serve as his main arena for facing all comers," the dragon woman says.

"Funny. I was thinking the same thing," the alien smirks, before closing the door on her way out.

"I need to get laid. They just don't offer enough perks to go along with that kind of stress," Mandy mutters as she gathers up her things so she can go home for the weekend.

Chapter 7

"You ready for this?" Cole asks, as he and Leona appear in the hall outside Mandy's office.

"Like I got a choice in the matter," she growls back, her tail lashing in annoyance.

"I thought we were past this," he sighs.

"Just because you screwed my brains out all weekend to take my mind off this, doesn't mean that I have to be happy about going through with it," she shoots back.

"Guess I'll just have to keep doing that until you get over it," he says with a smirk.

"Humph. We'll talk more about how annoyed I am over this after the day is over," she says as she reaches out and bangs on the door.

"Enter," Mandy calls from within.

"Morning," Cole says as they enter.

Mandy just stares at them for a few moments, before saying, "The two of you don't actually think that your clothes are acceptable, do you?"

"What's wrong with them?" Cole asks, looking down at his jeans, t-shirt, and leather jacket.

With a long suffering sigh, Mandy explains, "Unless you are actively teaching your gym class, you will be expected to dress in a respectable manner, not like the students do once they leave the school. And you my dear, will be expected to wear the school uniform while you are here," she adds to Leona.

"I blame you for this," Leona says to Cole as she zaps a button down shirt and suit jacket onto him.

"That's the best I'm going to get out of this for him, isn't it?" Mandy asks with a sigh.

"Yes," Leona tells her. "Now what does this damn uniform I have to wear look like?"

"Take a look," Mandy says, showing her some official forms that display a picture of the female school uniform.

"…..For the record….I do this under protest," Leona growls, as her clothes change to mimic the school uniform.

"Now that that is out of the way, would you like to lead us to our classes?"

"Actually, I'll be taking Leona with me, since she will be in my homeroom, and I have a guide coming to show you the way to the gym," she answers.

"You wanted to see me?" a K-girl with blue/grey skin and short white hair asks as she peeks around the open door.

"Yes, Sora. I'd like you to show our new Phs. Ed. Instructor to the Gym, and show him around a bit. I've already cleared it with your instructors, so you need not worry about being late," Mandy tells her.

"Alright," Sora agrees.

"Mr. Tyger, if you would be so kind as to go with Sora?" Mandy asks.

"Sure," he agrees, standing up.

"This way, sir," Sora says, leading the way.

"I'm going to kill him if he tries anything," Leona mutters darkly.

"Just a bit possessive aren't you?" Mandy asks with a sardonic smile.

"We're married, it's my right," Leona shoots back.

"…Didn't see that one coming," Mandy mutters under her breath as she stands up. "Well, let's go. I'll introduce you to the class. Oh, and here is your schedule, and map of the campus," she adds, handing over the items.

"Well, at least thanks to Cole I can read this," Leona says as she looks them over.

"I think you will get along pretty well with the other new students we've had lately," Mandy tells her as they move through the halls.

"We shall see," Leona mutters, a she follows along behind the elder dragon woman.

"Class? We have another new arrival," Mandy announces as she enters the classroom.

"Another robot?" Gabby growls.

"Leona?" Mandy says, before Leona enters the room.

"Wow. She's a definite hotty," one of humans says loud enough for her to hear, but not for her to identify the speaker.

She visibly bristles, as Mandy says, "Enough. Leona? There is an open seat in front of Kaze."

"Alright," Leona says with a scowl, moving to the seat she's been assigned.

"Welcome to the school," Jura says as she sits down.

"Thanks," Leona mutters.

"I can't shake the feeling that we've met before, but I'm positive that I've never seen a silver dragon k-girl before," Kaze says.

"It would most likely be due to the fact that I was ready to play slice and dice on golden eyes here when we arrived in that classroom," Leona says, tipping her head backward over her chair to look at Kaze and Jura upside down.

Both of their eyes go wide at that, but their outburst is cut off when Leona puts a finger to her lips, before mouthing "later".

"What is your first class?" Kaze asks, her voice no longer as friendly as it was.

"Who wants to bet it's English? Kera smirks from behind Kaze.

"Ten yen!" Giganna accepts.

"How did you know what my first class was?" Leona demands, sitting up and spinning around.

"Looks like you lose this round," Sera tells Giganna, as she takes the coin from the Gigan girl and flips it to her sister.

"And in response to your question, there seems to be a rather large lack of imagination when it comes to how the schedules have been arranged for the newer students," Jura tells her. "The four of us have all the same classes at the same times," she adds, gesturing to Kaze and the twins.

"Then it will most likely be five," Leona smirks, showing them her schedule.

"Yes it will," Kaze confirms.

"Then let's go. We will show you around, and you will tell us what happened after Mandy and Milenna led you and the other guy out of the class," Jura tells her.

"I think that's the part I hate most about this kind of travel. Always so freaking many questions to answer," Leona says, standing up and joining the foursome as the class empties out.

"So that is what they had planned. A pity that the project blew up in their face," The commander says as she and Cyra recover from the dragoness' "Debriefing".

"Yes, Mistress," Cyra answers, barely able to move after what she's been put through for the past few days.

"It really is too bad that your organic parts can't keep up with the rest of you during these marathon sessions," the commander smiles at her most loyal pet.

"What would you have of me?" Cyra asks her.

"You will be accompanying Spyra on her next mission," the commander says, climbing out of the bed.

"And my part will be?" Cyra inquires, as she slowly drags herself toward the edge of the bed.

"Back up. She will be doing some infiltration, and you will provide support for her if things go wrong," the commander answers. "I don't expect there to be any problems, but it would be foolish to not have some form of contingency in place."

"Understood. We will leave, as soon as I can stand without falling on my face," Cyra tells her with a wry grin on her face.

"Yes, you do that," the commander agrees with a smile.

Cyra enjoys the sight of watching her mistress don her own armor, before leaving her alone.

"I need to get something to recharge my system before I go," Cyra mutters. "I wish they had replaced more of me with the new parts," she says a she reaches down and starts attaching the parts of her armor.

It takes her the better part of a half hour to put herself back together and manage to move without staggering.

"So we get to go exercising after we finish eating, so we can get sick, huh?" Leona asks as she takes her tray of questionable food to sit with the others.

"Well, only you and Jura will have to worry about that," Kera tells her as they maneuver through the lunchroom.

"Yippee," Leona mutters before her tray goes flying as she is tripped. Picking herself up off the floor, she spins around and snarls, "Okay, who's the wise ass?"

Several of the rougher girls can't help snickering at her, and what is happening behind her.

"You, are going to pay for that," Crystal snarls in fury as she disgustedly wipes the food off of herself.

"Oh shit," several voices mutter around her as the blue saurian stands up and hurls her table across the room to smash against the wall.

"Why me?" Leona asks, looking up and waiting like she actually expects an answer. She is taken completely by surprise when she is grabbed by a giant invisible hand, and hurled through the window and out into the commons.

"Do we have what it takes to stop Crystal?" Kaze asks.

"Yes, but given what we know about Leona so far, does she need our help?" Kera answers.

"It doesn't matter. She was set up, and we need to try and make sure that she doesn't get beat up too badly by Crystal," Jura tells them.

"Then shouldn't we be out there?" Sera asks, pointing toward the hole where Crystal is floating out to continue her attack.

"Move!" Kaze orders, the foursome leading the charge outside as the others follow.

"Nice. I wish someone had warned me that there was a telekinetic around here," Leona grunts as she picks herself up from where she had landed.

"I don't normally make a habit of getting my hands dirty teaching you new people how things work around here, but you've earned a special lesson," Crystal snarls, food still matting her hair and staining her uniform.

"I don't suppose it would help to say that I was sorry, and that someone tripped me, would it?" Leona asks.

The crystal spires that rise from the ground around her serve as an adequate answer.

"Well, I guess if we are going to fight, then I'm going to have to win, just so I can get a little respect around this dump," Leona tells her.

"That's a laugh. Some little generic K-girl who isn't even based on one of the true monsters of the world, beat me?" Crystal sneers. "As if that's even a possibility," she finishes, punctuating her scornful remark with a corona beam.

The blast hits Leona in the side, leaving a nasty scorch mark across her ribs.

"My turn," Leona growls, holding her hand out, palm up, before clenching her fist.

Spires of ice erupt from the ground, their points aimed to do critical damage to Crystal.

"How do you like that, Bitch?" Leona snarls.

"You might almost have some real power in you," Crystal admits, the ice shattering as she smashes her arm through it. "But I'm afraid that today isn't going to be a good day for you," she concludes, grabbing Leona in a telekinetic grip again, and slamming her into the nearest tree.

"You are beginning to piss me off, Blue," Leona growls as she gets up, one hand on the tree trunk to steady herself.

"The baby has fangs, but does she know how to use them?" Crystal laughs, her shoulder crystals and horn sparkling as she prepares another corona beam.

"Digger Bolt!" Leona snarls, her free hand stretched out toward Crystal.

The lightning bolt that hits her in the chest takes Crystal completely by surprise.

"Damn, that one's going to leave a mark," someone says off to the side, as the foursome watches Leona's counter attack.

"Crystal's not going to let her walk after taking a shot like that," Kaze says.

"How is Leona? She's taken a couple of hits by now I'm sure, and my vision isn't on the same level as the three of you," Jura says.

"She has a nasty scorch mark across her ribs, and looks like she's been slammed around some. Other than that, she's doing pretty good," Kera informs her.

"That hurt," Crystal grunts as she stands back up. "Take this!" she snarls as she unleashes the most powerful corona beam the crowd has seen her use.

"Ah, crap," Leona mutters as she dives out of the way, the beam burning a track along her tail. Flinging a hand out at Crystal, she pelts the SpaceGodzilla girl with dagger like shards of ice.

"Oh, would you knock off those stupid ice attacks? I can survive the vacuum of space, there isn't any way your little cold attacks are going to have any effect on me at all," Crystal tells her, uprooting one of her spires and sending it like a spear at Leona.

"Cole, I have a little problem, and need some assistance," Leona calls in her mind.

"Where are you?" Cole says out loud as he leaves his office by the gym.

"I'm in the commons. But I don't need you to fight my battles for me, I just need you to release the limiter," she thinks at him as she dives clear of the shattering spar.

"Why do you need your full powers?" he asks, unaware of several teachers staring at him as he talks to himself.

"Because, just like our luck normally runs, I managed to get in a fight with someone who is practically immune to my ice powers at this level. I need to jack things up, fast, or I'm going to get my tail burnt off!" she sends back to him.

"Just make sure you don't kill her," is Cole's sole response before concentrating on the chocker around Leona's neck.

"Oh, yeah," Leona grins as she feels her magic surge to its full power. Her hair changes color to an almost translucent red, while her eyes loose all detail and simply become a flood of color. "Time to play," she smirks as she leaps into the air, and just stands there, not using her wings or anything, simply standing ten feet off the ground.

"Am I supposed to be impressed?" Crystal calls up, lifting herself into the air as well.

"Digger bolt," Leona smiles, casting another lighting bolt at Crystal, being careful to keep it at the same level as the last one.

"Oh, no. Not this time," Crystal sneers, turning so that the blast hits her shoulder crystal.

"What the?" Leona says in shock as Crystal absorbs the blast.

"Here, you can have it back," Crystal tells her, as she releases the energy back at Leona as a corona beam.

"I don't think so," Leona grins back at her, an invisible shield blocking the beam.

"Crystal makes a face at her as she says, "Moderately impressive. But can you keep this up?"

Then she unleashes several more corona beams in rapid succession.

"Definitely." Leona grins back as her shield intercepts every blast. "And I think I've finally figured out your weakness."

"That's funny, since last time I checked, I didn't have any," Crystal retorts, sending several spires at her from behind.

"Well, you see, everything you've done so far has been to keep me at range so you can use your distance attacks on me," Leona explains, her wings opening to display the blue membranes between the ribbing, before she shoots skyward away from the spires. "So I'm betting that you can't fight worth a damn up close!" she sneers as she comes in to punch Crystal in the jaw.

"Guess again!" Crystal yells, grabbing Leona's outstretched hand and spinning her around in mid air before throwing her into the ground hard enough that she is in the center of an impact crater.

"K-rist! Is she okay?" Kaze demands, as everyone watches Crystal land gently, then strut over to look down on her win.

"Hell if we can tell," Kera answers.

"Ever since she started standing on air, she's been putting out too much energy for us to read. She keeps blinding our scanners," Sera explains.

"Is she still doing that?" Jura demands.

The both nod.

"Then she's still okay," she says with a sigh of relief.

"You still alive?" Crystal smirks as she stands at the lip of the crater.

"Never better," Leona answers, her wings blowing the rising dust and smoke from her impact away, revealing her answering smirk.

"Oh goody. I haven't had this much fun in some time," Crystal grins, energy leaping from the remaining spires to her shoulder crystals as she charges up for a big blast.

"Sorry to disappoint, but I'm done playing," Leona tells her, jerking a hand up at her.

Crystal reacts as if she's been slapped, suddenly unable to move.

"Wha.. What did you just do to me?" Crystal demands, struggling to make her body obey her orders.

Leona arches an eyebrow as she ascends the side of the crater. "I would have thought it would have been obvious to you. You're not the only one who can control objects with her powers," Leona smiles.

"You, are a TK as well?" Crystal grits out, still fighting to be free.

"Only when I'm able to access my complete powers. Since I have a hard time controlling that much power unless I'm actively using it, my husband and I keep it locked down most of the time," Leona tells her, as she clears the rim of the crater to stand face to face with Crystal.

"Little young to be married, ain'tcha?" Crystal smirks, now fighting with words, since she can't break free of Leona's magical hold.

"Things work a bit different in my home realm, but that's not really any of your concern," Leona tells her, walking slowly around her captive.

"Let me out of this hold, and I'll make it worth your while," Crystal tells her in her most seductive voice.

"What is your name anyway?" Leona asks, standing behind her and shaking her head.

"Crystal. Gina and Kiga are my little sisters," she says, just in case it means anything to her.

"Haven't met them yet, but I'm sure once news of this trick gets around, I won't have many problems with people wanting a piece of me," Leona tells her, using her grip on Crystals body to pose her like a doll.

"Wait! What are you doing?" Crystal demands as Leona forces her to cross her arms behind her head, and puff out her chest.

"Hmm…. The uniform is going to have to go," Leona mutters, snapping her fingers and turning Crystal's clothes to dust. All of them. "Much better," she smirks as she takes another tour around Crystal inspecting her.

"This isn't funny!" Crystal says, blushing in embarrassment, more because she is completely at this girls mercy than anything else.

"Oh, I agree completely. Attempting to beat the shit out of me because someone tripped me to send that tray of food at you isn't funny at all. Having to call for help so I had enough power to defend myself against you isn't funny in the least," Leona tells her. On the other hand, your punishment isn't going to be funny either, but I think "Awe Inspiring" is a worthy goal. Don't you?"

"What are planning to do to me?" Crystal adds, renewing her struggles to free herself.

"I thought I'd help you live up to your name. I think you'd make a beautiful diamond statue. Especially in that pose," Leona answers.

"NO!" Crystal yells, uprooting all her remaining spires and sending them at Leona.

"You really don't have any choice in this matter. And you brought it on yourself when you attacked me," Leona tells her, causing all the spires to shatter with a gesture.

"You can't do this!" Crystal cries as her body freezes into immobility as it is transformed from organic crystal to colored diamond.

"Sure I can," Leona tells her, giving her solidified rump a good smack.

"Please! Don't do this!" she pleads as the effect climbs up her body.

"Oh stop it. This is only temporary," Leona tells her, sealing her lips together in a seductive smile, and forcing her face to relax before the effect freezes her features like that. "And now, to make sure my point gets across to the rest of them."

"What's going on?" Jura demands.

"I think the fights over. Crystal is just standing there, posing," Kaze tells her.

"Something weird is happening," Sera says.

"The energies out there are still fluctuating," Kera adds.

"The Fight is over. You can all come out and see now," Leona's voice echo's across the commons to the crowd.

"What have you done!" Kumi shrieks when she gets a look at Crystal.

"I'm making a point," Leona calmly informs her.

"You bitch!" Kumi snarls, preparing to rip Leona apart.

"Do you really want to join her like that?" Leona asks, pointing past the advancing spider girl at her frozen lover.

"Leona, what have you done," Jura asks, on hand covering her mouth as the foursome finally arrives.

"I turned her into a statue," Leona tells them.

"Leona…." Cole snarls as he shoves his way through the crowd.

"She's not dead, and she will be back to normal in a few hours," Leona tells him before he can say anything else.

"Limiter Restore!" he growls, cutting her power level back to what it was before.

No one notices as her hair and eyes return to normal.

"Who is her roommate?" Cole asks the crowd.

"I am," Kumi answers, tears running down her cheeks.

"Take her back to your dorm. She should be back to normal in a few hours or so," he tells her.

"How do you know that?" she demands, barely able to keep from screaming at him.

"Trust me, and take care of her. If she gets broken while she's like this, she will never be the same again when the spell wears off," he tells her.

"Not much chance of that. There was a reason I chose Diamond for what I was changing her into," Leona says with a smirk.

"Zip it," Cole snarls, pointing a finger at her. "This was hardly necessary to win a stupid schoolyard fight!"

"I beg to differ," Leona shoots back, energy crackling in her eyes as she stands up to him. "You see this hole? I made that when she slammed me into the ground!" She points back toward the main building and adds, "That one? When she threw me through the damn wall!"

"That still doesn't give you the right to do that to her!" Cole snarls back, his voice getting deeper as his temper frays.

"Should we say anything?" Kaze mutters.

"Do you really want to get between them?" Jura answers.

"I think it's time we had a talk in private," Cole grits out, grabbing Leona's arm, just before the pair of them vanish.

"Where did they go?" Sera asks.

"They're gone! I can't pick them up on my scanners at all," Kera adds.

"One thing's for sure," Jura says as she stares after Kumi, as she carefully takes her lover's frozen body back to their room.

"Yeah. Things have just gotten a lot stranger around here," Kaze finishes for her, getting nods of agreement from the rest.

Unbeknownst to the spectators and combatants, this latest spectacle has a pair of additional viewers.

"This couldn't have happened better if I had planned it," Spyra tells Cyra, as the pair stand in the shadows near the edge of the schools roof.

"What are you talking about?" Cyra demands, annoyed that they are too far away for good audio reception to go with the enhanced visuals.

"This is my third run through this place, gathering what information I can without being detected," Spyra explains. "But during my first run, I discovered the perfect cover identity."

"Oh yeah? Going to have the Mistress enroll you?" Cyra smirks.

"Stop being a twit," Spyra counters, pointing to the yellow and black form that is currently ranting at the silver fighter.

"Damn…..Did they know about her when they built you?" Cyra asks, getting her first good look at Kumi.

"I don't know. And at this point, really couldn't care less," Spyra answers.

"So why haven't you just drugged her and gotten a disguise made that will let you imitate her?" Cyra asks, giving the silver dragon and blue saurian girls closer attention.

"Because her lover is the blue one," Spyra explains. "And as you've just witnessed, she is quite powerful. She's also an empath."

"Ah. Yeah, it would kind of blow your cover if she touched you and instantly knew that you are not her pet spider," Cyra says.

"Exactly. But after whatever the silver one did to her, I'm willing to bet that she's going to be either weakened, or just flat out of it for a while," the purple mech answers.

"So what's the plan? This is your mission, I'm just here as backup," Cyra asks.

The purple mecha spider girl gives her a truly malevolent grin and says, "Call the base. Inform them that we will be needing a transport, and team of keepers. We will be "collecting" a pair of subjects as soon as darkness falls."

"And if they resist?" Cyra asks, grinning back at her.

"Red Geisha wants her test subjects alive. She never said anything about bruised, battered, or bloody," Spyra answers her.

"I was hoping that was going to be your answer," Cyra says with a feral grin of her own as one of her forearm blasters extends from its housing for her to inspect.

"I heard that Leona's going to be out for a week, while she is punished for what she did to Crystal," Kera says as she joins her sister, along with Jura and Kaze, at the front entrance to the school.

"More to the point, how did she do that to Crystal?" Kaze wonders. "Crystal is arguably the toughest K-Girl here. She and Kumi regularly take on greater numbers, and come out on top. I survived a fight with her when she was helping Dizzy, mainly because she was having more fun playing with me than she would have had destroying me."

"The only reason I was able to make her stop that day was the fact that I managed to completely blindside her," Jura admits. "And you are right, she wasn't really fighting, it was more like a cat tormenting a smaller animal. I still don't know why she dropped the fight when I had her like that though. Between her and Dizzy, they could have given me just as much, if not more trouble than they did you."

"I've heard that besides her ability to move things with her mind, she also possesses the ability to read emotions when she touches someone," Sera says. "Perhaps she felt something when you grabbed her, and was willing to just let the matter drop because of that?"

"Makes about as much sense as any other reason we've come up with for the way that fight ended," Kaze says.

"Enough about this," Jura says, shaking her head and making her blue hair dance. "Crystal will recover, and Leona is out of the loop for a week. What we should be thinking about is the fact that the school festival is only a month and a half away!"

"So?" Kaze says, with a belligerent shrug.

"So, what are we going to do for it?" Jura demands.

"You want to be part of it?" Kaze says in surprise.

"Why is that so strange to you?" Jura demands, her tone saying that Kaze had better watch how she answers.

"It's just that unless you are playing soccer, you like to stay behind the scenes for the most part," Kaze says, praying that she doesn't screw up and piss her off. "It just kind of took me by surprise that you wanted to play a part in the fair is all."

"Well, I may not like to draw attention to myself most of the time, but we really should do something to help out with the fair," Jura says.

"Do we have any talents that we can actually turn into something usable for the fair?" Kaze asks, stopping and looking at each member of the group.

"Well, our father insisted we learn how to play musical instruments," Sera admits. "The hard way too, not by just downloading how to do it."

"What can you guys play?" Jura asks, surprised to find that her newest friends can play music.

"Guitar!" Kera says. "I can make a six string squeal for mercy!"

"So that's what you call it. I always thought you were trying to build up a big enough feedback loop to blow out the windows," Sera smirks at her sister.

"It's better than what you play, windbag!" Kera shoots back defensively.

"There is nothing wrong with playing a saxophone," Sera retorts in a lofty voice.

"Well, well, isn't this interesting," Kaze grins. "I'll need to do some asking around, but I think I may just have an idea for what we can do for the fair."

"What?" Jura demands, not understanding how this information can be used for the fair.

"I'm not going to say until I find out one way or another if it will work or not," Kaze answers. Then she calls Maizy on her built in com system.

"What do you want, you damn giant?" Maizy answers.

"I need you to talk with Imo and Nuri," Kaze tells her, ignoring her comments.

"About?" Maizy asks, wondering what Kaze could possibly want from her friends.

"I need to know which girls at the school know how to play musical instruments," Kaze says.

"Why?" Maizy demands.

"Because I've got an idea, and I need more info before I know if it will fly, or crash faster than a wing clipped 747," Kaze answers, before explaining the short version to her smaller sister.

"This could be fun. I'll help, but only if you agree to listen when I make a suggestion. Fair enough?" Maizy tells her.

"Agreed. And thanks squirt," Kaze grins, cutting the channel off before Maizy can vent her ire at being called a squirt.

"Is the van in position?" Spyra asks into her internal comlink.

"Affirmative," the driver answers.

"Containment team?" Cyra asks the same way.

"Locked, cocked, and ready to rock. Any of the others sticks their nose out of their room, they are going to get tanked up on enough tranquilizer to knock down a bull rhino," the squad leader answers.

"Then we are now operational. Strike team is moving into position now," Spyra tells them all, as she and Cyra slink out of their hiding place in the dorm basement.

"You sure this will work?" Cyra asks on a private channel, so that they can communicate while maintaining their silent movement.

"The odds are really high in our favor," Spyra answers. "But I'd be a complete moron to think that nothing could go wrong. That's why we called in the extra team."

"Well, so far so good," Cyra says as they make it to the ground floor without being spotted. "Which way?"

"This way. Their dorm is at the end of the hall. And just for our added benefit, they regularly make any others assigned to this area so miserable that they don't stay long," Spyra informs her partner, her grin shining in the darkened hall.

"That's why I like working with you. You leave very little to chance, and do your homework on your targets," Cyra smirks, her golden armor standing out like a beacon compared to Spyra's purple plating.

"Thank you," Spyra replies, her grin widening at the compliments. "Show time," she warns Cyra as she knocks on the door.

"I'm ..going to ….lock her…inside one…of my spires…and then shatter it….and her," Crystal growls, her speech coming out slowly as her body continues to revert back to its normal state.

"You just take it easy. You're not in any shape to do anything but recover from whatever the hell that bitch did to you," Kumi tells her lover, helping her to sit down, now that she can move again at last.

"I ..hate …feeling …like this," Crystal admits, her words coming slightly faster as the effects of Leona's spell finally run their course. "You know how those old women move, like they are afraid of making any sudden moves because they might break? That's how I feel. My reflexes are so slow right now, it would probably take two minutes for my leg to hop if you hit my knee with that stupid little rubber mallet!"

"Just relax, and let yourself recover," Kumi whispers in her ear, trying to massage Crystal's shoulders.

"Thirsty," Crystal says as she reaches out a shaky hand toward a glass across the room and tries to call it to her. When nothing happens, she clenches her fist and slams it down on the arm of the chair, barely leaving a mark. "Damnit! And on top of it all, my powers aren't working yet, and I'm weak as a kitten!"

"Just relax," Kumi soothes. "I'll get it for you. And I'll help you plot that bitches downfall too. You've got a week to recover. She's going to be out that long."

"What happened to her?" Crystal asks as Kumi leaves her to go get the glass.

"Right after I got there and found out what she had done, that new teacher, the guy with the black ponytail? Well, he showed up and started yelling at her, and she started yelling right back. I swear, you would have thought they were married the way that went at it. Anyway, he grabbed a hold of her, and they both just vanished. Poof, there one second, gone the next. I heard while you were still frozen that she was out for a week, serving her punishment, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean," Kumi tells her.

A hard knock on the door interrupts Crystal's next comment.

"Probably one of the teachers come to check that you did thaw out," Kumi says as she moves to the door.

Kumi barely gets the door open before she collapses like her bones had turned to jello.

"Nighty night," Spyra says into the comlink as her spider limbs shoot forward as the door opens. In less than a second, all four hit Kumi in the torso, each hit pumping in a significant amount of drugs meant to knock her out quickly.

"Sure you didn't over do it?" Cyra asks her as she steps past the collapsing spider girl and into the room.

"Positive. Her own natural toxins make it harder to use this kind of stuff on her, but after spending the time to raid all their medical records, I managed to get this mix figured out for her. Now be a dear and handle her lover," Spyra returns.

"Delighted," Cyra answers, her tail twitching in anticipation.

"Kumi!" Crystal snarls in rage, as she forces herself to move.

"Oh, still feeling a little out of it? That's too bad," Cyra says as she steps over Kumi's body to confront Crystal. "For you that is."

"Who are you, and what did you do to her?" Crystal demands, as she tries to channel enough energy to fire a corona beam.

"I didn't do a thing to her," Cyra grins. "And you don't need to ask so many annoying questions!" she finishes, rocketing an uppercut into the point of Crystals' chin.

In her weakened state, Crystal is sent flying across the room by the blow, and is out cold when Cyra moves over to check on her.

"How's yours?" she asks Spyra.

"Sleeping like a furry baby," the spider bot answers with a grin.

"Mines out like a light too. Let's get them to the van, and into their restraints. I don't want this one waking up and getting her powers back before we have her locked up in the containment area," Cyra orders.

"I thought this was my mission?" Spyra asks, annoyed that she's being ordered around.

"It is, and as soon as we finish what I just said, it will be a complete success," Cyra answers, scooping Crystal up off the floor and slinging her over her shoulder.

"Oh, all right," Spyra answers as she lifts Kumi and leads the way toward the back of the dorm where their transport is located.

"Any problems?" the squad leader asks when they arrive at the laundry room.

"No." the mecha girls answer.

"Hurry, we need to get gone, and get Spyra equipped with her disguise so she can come back and keep tabs on this lot," Cyra orders.

"Yes Ma'am," the squad leader says as one of his men opens the door, and another rushes out to open up the van.

In a matter of seconds, the strike team boards the van, and they calmly drive away.

And no one noticed a blessed thing…

Chapter 8

"So what do you have?" Kaze asks Maizy while they wait for Jura finish up in the bathroom and come down stairs.

"Not much to be honest," Maizy answers. "Most of the Mothras know how to play the piano, but Meo is the best of the bunch on it." Then she smirks and adds, "She's good enough that she's been giving lessons."

"To who?" Kaze asks.

"Lara," Maizy grins.

"You're joking right?" Kaze says in shock. "The most heavily armed girl in school is taking piano lessons from Meo?"

"It's not that strange," Maizy shoots back. "They are friends after all."

Shaking her head, Kaze just asks, "Any others?"

"Yeah. A certain skater also happens to be a fair hand with a pair of drumsticks," Maizy tells her.

"Des knows how to play the drums?" Kaze asks, just to be sure.

"How many skater punks do you have at that school?" Maizy shoots back.

"A few of the humans are into it, but I think Des is the only K that thinks skateboards are cool," Kaze answers.

"Unfortunately that's all I've got for you," Maizy tells her.

"That's alright. It actually takes care of what we will need to fill in the gaps" Kaze says thoughtfully. "If they are willing, that will give us a drummer, at least one keyboardist, a guitar, a sax, and a pair of lead singers."

"You're going to make Jura get up there and sing?" Maizy demands, giving her sister wide eyes.

"You bet. It was here idea that we do something for the fair, so it's only fair that she has to be up there with the rest of us," Kaze answers.

"I hope this one doesn't blow up in your face," Maizy mutters.

"Get her into the observation chamber, and strap her down! Move it!" Crystal hears as she is roughly dragged by her armpits down a hall, her legs and tail dragging the ground behind her.

"Still can't move," she thinks, as she tries to force her body to obey her.

"Hurry it up! The control room says she's waking up!" the voice from before shouts.

"Hope I can do this," she thinks blurrily as she focuses what concentration she can muster. Un-noticed by anyone, small green sparks trail off of the crystal formation on the tip of her tail, vanishing as they hit the floor.

Before Crystal can congratulate herself on seeding her route with her crystals, she is slammed down into a chair, her tail yanked out the back, and her arms, legs, and neck locked in place with metal cuffs. Then they lock another cuff around her tail, effectively trapping it against the side of the chair.

"Who are you people?" she slurs, wondering if she has a concussion from that golden robots punch.

"None of your business, freak!" A new voice off to her right snarls, delivering a vicious slap that actually knocks the blind fold off of her face.

Looking around with blurry eyes, Crystal is able to count three distinct blobs of color around her, most of each blob is army green, with smaller blobs of flesh tone where she imagines a head would go, and a another blob of crimson off to one side.

"Must be some kind of arm band," she thinks, not ready to risk getting decked again just yet.

"Let's go. The commander wants this room sealed," a second new voice adds, moving away toward the door.

"Right," the shouter form the hallway says as the other pair follow the first out the door.

"Kumi, what have we ended up in this time?" Crystal thinks, before oblivion reclaims her.

"Why can't I get the twins off my mind?" Jura mutters to herself as she scrubs her face hard enough that if she was human she would be giving herself rug burn. "If Kaze knew about that dream I had last night, she'd blast me with her eyebeams!" she thinks, remembering how she had imagined both twins, a pair of strap-ons, and herself as the filling in the sandwich. "God, knock it off you damn fool!" she growls at herself, splashing cold water on her face. "I need to get Kaze alone later, and have some fun," she decides as she dries her face and heads down to find the others before they leave for school.

"Let me out of here! Where's Crystal! Why are we here!" Kumi rants at maximum volume, lashing her body back and forth on the table, attempting to break free of the restraints holding her down. "Let me UP!" she finally screams in frustration, before settling down to rest for a bit.

"Finally worked yourself out, huh?" A snide voice says from directly "above" Kumi.

Craning her head back against the table, Kumi manages to catch a glimpse of a spider like shadow backlit by the lights in the hall way.

"Un-strap me from this damn table, and I'll show you a work out," Kumi snarls.

"Sorry, but that would be rather counterproductive to my plans," the voice continues as the speaker moves deeper into the room.

"What kind of sick joke is this?" Kumi snarls as she gets her first good look at the speaker.

"Isn't it obvious?" Spyra asks, completely done up in her disguise. "I'm you," she finishes in a perfect imitation of Kumi's voice.

"It will never work," Kumi grins back. "I can't wait to see you try and get close to Crystal. She'll rip your head off."

"I suspect you are right about that," another voice says as the table Kumi is strapped to begins to rise up, before tipping down at the foot, leaving her leaning back at roughly a thirty degree angle. "But as you can plainly see, she won't be much of a threat to our plans."

"What. Have. You. Done. To. Her!" Kumi screams in outrage as she sees Crystal on a monitor on the wall. Her head is covered by a silver mesh that only leaves her face clear, and she is cuffed hand foot and tail to a futuristic chair that appears solid enough to hold the SpaceGodzilla girl, even if she was conscious, which she isn't judging by how her head is hanging down.

"We haven't done much of anything to her yet," the second voice says as she steps into view from behind the table. Her crimson armor and golden helmet make her silver skin shine all the brighter in the dim lights.

"Who the fuck are you? Zoe's evil twin?" Kumi spits at the new comer.

"Something like that," she says with a smirk.

"I do believe I have everything I need, Commander," Spyra says, still using Kumi's voice.

"Good. Make sure you keep an eye out for any of the children. I have an annoying feeling that these older ones are going to be rather difficult to train," the commander answers.

"Perhaps Cyra could be of some assistance? She does have that trick with her voice….." Spyra suggests with a shrug.

"I'm going to enjoy watching you both fry," Kumi snarls at them, only to have her double lash out with one of her spider legs in a vicious smack that snaps her head to the side.

"You are not to speak unless spoken to," Spyra tells her without turning around.

"Who says," Kumi mutters, a thin trickle of blood leaking from the corner of her mouth.

"Your new mistress. The Red Geisha," Spyra informs her.

"And who is that supposed to be?" Kumi asks, one of her standard smirks forming at that name.

"That would be me," the commander says as she turns away from the monitor to face Kumi. "And you will behave, or I will start removing parts of your anatomy that you would rather keep attached."

"With what?" Kumi shoots back, just now noticing the odd little shield that Geisha has attached to her right arm.

"I'm just as strong as Mazinger Zoe," she snarls in response, grabbing Kumi's left arm, and starting to squeeze. When tears of pain start to leak from Kumi's eyes, she finally relents. "But the brute force method is something that I have underlings for. I find that this does a better job of cutting problems down to size," she adds as she steps back, a energy blade erupting from between the shield and her arm, shooting forward past her hand.

Kumi's eyes lock onto the blade as she brings it in close enough to her leg to start singing her fur.

"I think it's safe to say that you've finally got her attention," Cyra smirks from behind her.

"Damnit! I'm supposed to be the sneaky one here! How did you manage that?" Spyra demands, slipping out of Kumi's voice for a moment.

"With you so intent on the show, it was easy," the golden dragon answers, stepping out where Kumi can see her.

"Spyra, would you like to get us started before you leave?" Geisha asks.

"Of course," she answers. Kumi shrinks back as much as she can from her double as she stretches one of her spider legs forward, and lays the tip against the inside of Kumi's elbow, right above the vein.

"What are you doing?" Kumi demands, a sinking feeling in her gut.

"We plan to convince you to join us. Don't worry, soon enough you'll think it was your own idea anyway," Spyra tells her, one of her injectors shooting out and dumping it's load of drugs into Kumi, before retracting back into its armored housing, all in less than a second.

"Back to your new assignment," Geisha orders.

"Yes, commander," "Kumi" salutes, before leaving the room.

"And as for you," Geisha says as Kumi's head starts to loll and her attention jerks back and forth. "Cyra has a few things she wants to tell you."

"That I do. Listen well spider legs, because you will want to hear everything I tell you," Cyra says as Geisha leaves the room, the shifting harmonics of the sonic weapon in her voice working with the drugs roaring through Kumi's system to make her extremely suggestible.

"Kim wants to know why new teacher thinks he can order Kim to leave snacks in Kim's locker," Guy Kim Odo growls, actually becoming annoyed for the first time many of his fellow students can remember outside of one of the knockdown drag out super brawls that occasionally happen around the school. "None of other teachers ever ordered Kim to do that before."

"What do I have to do to get you to follow my directions?" Cole asks, really wishing he could just hit something and make his headaches go away. Or at least pass them on to someone else, through his fist.

"Well, you can always fight him," Sora tosses in from the side.

"No I can't," Cole returns. "He's a student, and I'm a teacher. I lay a hand on him, and there will be hell to pay. And lately, they've been looking for a chance to even the score with me," he adds the last under his breath.

"Then call it a ….demonstration," Giganna smirks. "He wants to see what you've got, and you want him to actually listen to what you tell him to do. I think the rules will allow for a little demonstration of what the two of you are capable of."

"Kim is going to rip this guy's head off," Kaze says, shaking her head.

"Don't bet on it," Sera returns. "He wasn't afraid to get in Leona's face, even after what she did to Crystal, remember? I think he's got more than you are giving him credit for."

"Why does everything around this place have to end up a fight?" Jura wonders out loud.

"To keep us from getting board?" Kera smirks, getting groans from the others.

It takes several more minutes of convincing, but eventually Cole relents. While the rest of the class moves off the field and into the stands, he and Kim face off.

"The rules are simple. First one to land ten solid body blows on the other wins. Sora is going to act as Ref, since I doubt the rest of us can stay out of Kim's way," Giganna calls, acting as M.C. of this little event. Then she vacates the field to the combatants, and starts taking bets.

"Whenever you two are ready," Sora grins.

"For the record, I still think this is a bad idea," Cole says, bowing to Kim before taking up a ready stance.

Kim is actually surprised by Cole's actions. "You study Martial Arts?" he asks, mimicking the bow, and assuming his own stance.

"You might say that," Cole answers with a wry smile, his eyes cold as he studies Kim's form, and wonders what kind of moves the boy has.

"Ready? FIGHT!" Sora yells.

Kim doesn't waste any time, exploding into action with a rushing jab aimed at the center of Cole's chest.

Cole brings both arms up in a cross block, but the blow still knocks him off his feet, and several feet away.

"Is Teacher able to continue?" Kim asks.

"Damn kid, you hit like a freight train," Cole mutters, rubbing both arms to get some of the stinging feeling out of them, before climbing back to his feet. He calmly walks back toward Kim, and gives him a second bow, before adding, "Nice punch. But don't expect to land many more of them."

"Kim thinks Teacher talks big," the saurian boy says, halfway through delivering a roundhouse punch.

Cole just drops below the path of travel Kim's fist follows, and delivers a solid jab of his own to the boys midsection.

"Oww," Cole mutters shaking his hand, while Kim staggers back, covering his gut. "What the hell are your abs made of? Concrete?"

"That's one for the ponytail!" Giganna calls.

"Obviously, Kim has underestimated new Teacher. Time to fix that," he says, launching himself into a flying kick aimed at Cole's chest.

"Guess again kid," Cole says, spinning out of the way. "That move only works in the movies, or when the other guy can't see you coming."

And the follow up tail smack as Kim flies past takes him completely by surprise.

Picking himself up off the ground, Cole gives himself a good shake, muttering, "After all that time with Leona, I should have seen that one coming."

"Teacher isn't taking Kim seriously. Kim is best fighter in school!" the boy says, launching into a series of punch combinations with a kick thrown in now and then to mix things up.

"Oh, I readily admit you are good, Kim," Cole answers, ducking, dodging and weaving as he back peddles from the boys onslaught. "But you know what they say : There is always someone who knows something that you don't."

And with that, Cole grabs Kim's incoming punch, and pivot/throws him deeper into the field.

"Teacher is quick, Kim will give him that," the boy says as he starts back to the fight. "But speed can't always win the battle!"

"Neither can raw power, all by itself," Cole answers. "That's why you need to find the proper balance."

"There is wisdom in that," Kim admits, unloading a sweeping kick that can snap off a phone pole.

"So you do listen, when it makes overwhelming sense," Cole smiles as he leaps over the kick, and lashes out at Kim's chest with one of his own.

"Your turn to fly!" Kim yells as he grab's Cole's foot, and launches him as he had done to Kim.

No sooner does Kim release him, then he vanishes, and Kim is knocked on his face as Cole's kick connects with his back.

"Two for the Tyger!" Sora announces.

"How did Teacher do that?" Kim demands, turning his unwanted dive into a summersault that returns him to his feet.

"What did I tell you earlier?" Cole smirks, preparing for whatever Kim has up his sleeve next.

"Did you just see what I did?" Kaze asks, shocked as their teacher is thrown in one direction, vanishes, and reappears behind Kim, turning the momentum from the throw into the force to deliver a flying kick that knocks the strongest boy in the school on his face.

"We saw it. Damned if we know how he did it, but we all saw it," Sera answers her, getting nods from both her sister and Jura.

"If Kim does as Teacher asks during class, would Teacher be willing to teach Kim new techniques?" he asks, relaxing from his stance.

"I can show you. Whether or not you can learn them will depend on your current level of abilities," Cole answers him.

"Martial Arts Club, after school," Kim nods. Then he calmly walks over and stuffs all his snacks back into his bag, and places it in the stands, before returning.

"Now then, shall we get back to Class?" Cole calls to the rest, causing them to empty out of the stands.

"You seem…..different than the others. Like you are something I may have run across in the past….." A blood red K-girl with black striping says to herself, as she peers through an observation window at the still unconscious Crystal. Then she grins widely, revealing a mouth full of needle like teeth, before licking her lips and adding, "I bet you would be a lot of fun to "play" with."

"Best leave that one alone. Mistress has plansss," another voice says, coming from above the first girl.

"You dare give me orders, Korgha?" the first snarls as she spins and looks up at the bat girl hanging upside down from the rafters of the warehouse that the RBA has converted to their purposes.

"Never Ezra," she answers, well aware of just how dangerous the other is. "Passing along information, so that you do not do something that would result in your being punished again. You are always so….difficult to speak to after the commander orders you to remain in the sealed room for days at a time."

"….Yes….It takes me a while to recover from being cut off from everything…."the white manned girl agrees, her posture stiffing in recollection of her past punishments.

"Then you will leave her in peace?" Korgha asks, dropping down to hover above Ezra's head with slow flaps of her arm/wings.

"For the time being," Ezra agrees. Then she offers up a malicious grin and adds, "I plan to ask Geisha if I may "play" with this one when she is no longer of any use. There is something about her that calls to me, and I wish to see what she is capable of, before I rip her heart out and feast upon it."

"So glad to see that you did plan to ask first, rather than simply acting on your impulses like you normally do," Red Geisha adds sarcastically as she nears her servants.

"Mistress," Both k-girls say, as they drop to their knees.

"Rise," Geisha orders them. "I wish for the two of you to begin patrolling the area around the base each night. Korgha will provide most of the "legwork" from the air, with You, Ezra, backing her up if required. You are not to engage any one without my express orders, unless they are openly assaulting the base, or our tanker/transport ship. I don't want a string of bizarre and brutal murders drawing unwanted attention to our location."

"Yes mistress," Korgha says, her weak legs, unable to propel her into the air without the assistance of a massive downbeat from her wings. Once airborne, she immediately heads out of the building, managing to fly through the doors at full speed, and not grazing anything on the way through.

"As you wish," Ezra says, clearly not happy at all about being forced to reign in her impulses.

"Cheer up, my sadistic pet. If you fulfill this assignment well, I may give you your desire, and let you play with dear Crystal for a time when I finish with her," Geisha says, running a finger along one side of Ezra's jaw, before stroking her forehead horn with the other hand.

"Thank you," Ezra grins, before nearly skipping out after Korgha.

"There are days I wonder if that control chip works at all on her….." Geisha mutters, before turning her attention to Crystal. "And I would very much like to know why you have yet to awaken my pretty one. Perhaps your spider friend can shed some light on this," she says, tapping a finger against her pouting lips. Then she smiles, and adds, "Provided that Cyra has managed to properly mould her."

"Glad you guys could make it," Kaze says as she invites Meo, Des, and Lara into the house, and leads them out back where Jura, Kera and Sera await.

"Well, with your mysterious message, how could we refuse?" Meo returns.

"Yeah, it's not often you Mazingers invite people over," Des adds.

"Hey! Maizy invites Immomu, Nuri, and Zuki over all the time!" Kaze shoots back.

"Fine, you bigger Mazingers never have people over," Lara smirks.

"Then explain Kiryuu," Zoe counters, as the group walks past the living room, where Zoe and Kiryuu are keeping each other company on the couch.

"Face it you two, you've lost this argument," Meo tells her companions with a gentle smile that robs her comment of any venom it might have possessed.

"And after all, we did invite Jura to live here," Kaze adds, as they emerge into the back yard, and move over toward the large tree that the others are sitting under.

"Yeah, but I thought that was just so you could have wild sex whenever you wanted," Lara shoots back.

"I'd be insulted if that didn't happen so damn often!" Jura grins, earning laughs and smiles from everyone.

"So, back on topic. Why have you asked us all here?" Meo asks.

"I'd like to know that one myself," Jura adds.

"You haven't figured it out yet?" Kera asks in shock.

"Figured what out?" Jura demands.

"Kaze's plan for the school fair," Sera answers.

"How do we figure into that?" Des demands.

"Well, the little sister network says that you three know how to play keyboard and drums," Kaze answers, pointing at the appropriate people when she names off instruments. "Added to the guitar, sax, and vocals, we already have, I plan to have the lot of us form a band to play for the fair."

"You want us to build a band?" Lara asks, shocked.

"This could be fun," Des grins. "What kind of music did you have in mind?"

"A bit of everything. At least one instrumental piece, a touch of American country music, some of our own pop, and a lot of good old fashioned Rock and Roll," Kaze answers.

"So what part would I have in all this?" Jura asks. "I can't play an instrument."

"Which is why you will be singing with Kaze," Sera answers.

"I'm supposed to sing?" Jura asks, shocked.

"Yup. I figure with a little practice you can shatter glass," Kera adds.

"Well she certainly has a good start on that, from what I hear out of that room on a semi-nightly basis," Maizy smirks as she drops down on the meeting, her flight pack retracting as her boots hit the ground.

This comment even gets a grin out of Meo, while Jura's blush burns hot enough to be visible against her dark skin.

"So what did you want sis?" Kaze asks her smaller sister.

"You did agree to listen to my suggestions, if I helped you figure out who else might be willing to get in on this little scheme of yours," Maizy returns.

"Well, DO we have a band?" Kaze asks, turning back to Meo, Des, and Lara.

"I'm not as good as Meo yet, but I'm willing," Lara answers.

"I'm in," Des grins.

"As am I," Meo adds. "I can't have both my student and my lover be involved in this without me, now can I?"

"Excellent!" Kaze grins, while the twins high five each other.

"You expect me to sing, on a stage, in front of the entire school?" Jura mumbles, looking shell shocked.

"Well, what have the lot of you decided on for songs, and other stuff?" Maizy asks, ignoring Jura's little problem.

"Not much of anything," Kaze answers. "I've got a few songs I really want to do, but there is plenty of room for everyone to add to the list."

"Do we have a name yet?" Lara asks.

"I have a suggestion for that," Maizy says.

"What you got, Maizy," Des asks, well aware of the smaller girls reputation for mayhem when she's been called a kid, or shrimp, or the little sister, or any other pet semi derogatory name.

"Well, it's a little off the wall, but given the fact that you have mech girls, and magic," Maizy begins. "I think you should go with Technomancer."

"You know, I like the sound of that," Sera says in surprise.

"As do I," Meo agrees.

"All those in favor?" Kera asks, looking back and forth over the group.

Everyone but Jura raises their hand, until Kaze grabs her sleeve and lifts.

"Looks like we have a name," Des grins.

"So now let's work out the song list," Lara grins.

"You expect me to sing in front of people…." Jura mumbles again.

"Hey! Wake up!" Kaze calls, snapping her fingers in front of Jura.

"How am I going to pull this one off?" she mutters, shaking her head before glaring at Kaze and snapping, "What?"

"We want you to help us pick songs," Sera tells her in a gentle voice.

"And after we have the songs, we will help you work on your stage fright," Meo tells her.

"I hope this works," Jura mutters, as Kaze lays out the songs she most wants to do, and asks the others to toss in suggestions.

"I can't believe I let you talk me into getting up in front of the entire school, and singing," Jura mutters again, as she and Kaze get ready for bed.

"It was your idea that we do something for the fair," Kaze reminds her.

"I figured we would do some silly carnival stall or something!" Jura retorts.

"That's what you get for not giving me anything to work with other than, "we should do something for the fair." ," Kaze shoots back.

"So this is all my fault?" Jura moans.

"Well, I'll take a little blame, since I knew that you would most likely not want to sing," Kaze tells her. "But since I'll be right there with you, and our friends will be backing us up, I thought you would be able to handle it."

"I don't know if I can do this," Jura admits. "And I wasn't much help in picking out songs either. Other than an inspiration that is."

Kaze snorts on a laugh, before grinning and adding, "Yeah, I think me singing "Chrome" while referring to you as the girl in the song is going to be a riot."

"Gee, thanks a lot," Jura growls, throwing a pillow at Kaze.

"Relax, pointy ears. Tell you what, you sleep on this, and if you still think you can't do it, then I'll do the singing solo, and we will find some other way for you to help. Deal?" Kaze says, in a gentle voice, trying to calm Jura down enough that she will be able to sleep.

"All right. But the next time you blind side me with something like this, I'm going to get even by saying that thing that starts with an "S" and making you do whatever I want," Jura returns, a defiant gleam in her eye.

"If not for the fact that I'm sure the bastard put in a command that won't let us hurt him, I'd kill him for all the trouble his programming causes me," Kaze grumbles as Jura snuggles up against her.

"Nothing to keep me from slow roasting his butt for you," Jura grins up at her silver lover.

"Now that is a thought that makes for a pleasant dream," Kaze grins, before reaching over and killing the light so Jura can sleep.

"Kumi? Kumi, can you hear me?" Geisha asks.

"Yes….Mistress….." Kumi answers, her voice a dull monotone.

"This is the best you could do? After an entire day to work on her?" Geisha demands, turning to Cyra for an explanation.

"Her will is amazingly strong," Cyra answers. "As is her devotion to the blue one. The best I was able to do is get her to this state where she is able to answer our questions without any hesitation. To make matters worse, we won't be able to continue to use the drugs on her indefinitely without causing damage to her body, her mind, or both. At least that is the doctor's pronouncement. And given that you wish to enslave them, that is counterproductive, correct?"

"That is most vexing," Geisha agrees. "Have any other methods of programming showed any alternatives that are worth investigating?"

"Only one, and the information was provided by Spyra," Cyra answers. "It seems that our little yellow friend here is quite a bit more sexually active than her partner is. It might be possible for me to combine the drugs, the sonic lure, and some mind blowing sex into something that will allow us to place commands in her mind that she will obey without question after the drugs wear off."

"Chances for success?" Geisha demands.

"Fifty/fifty at best. At least until we know more about her," Cyra answers.

"You may try, but for now, her willingness to answer questions is sufficient for my purposes," Geisha allows. Turning back to Kumi, she says, "Kumi? Crystal still hasn't woken up from when you arrived here. Do you know what might be wrong with her?"

"Last fight….magic…drained all her energy," Kumi mumbles. "When she could move…..said her powers where gone."

"That was one of the reasons Spyra felt it was the best time to strike and capture the pair of them," Cyra adds, confirming the story.

Geisha simply nods, before asking, "What can we do to give her enough energy to wake her up, but not enough that she is able to break free?"

"Crystal …absorbs…radiation…from space. She …. makes….. crystals that….. collect it….. for her. When she… needs to feed… she absorbs….. the energy from them," Kumi answers.

"Where are we going to get such crystals, if she isn't awake to create them?" Geisha mutters in disgust.

"She… has several… in our…. dorm room. In the….. flower pots," Kumi answers.

Geisha and Cyra look at each other in stunned shock for a moment.

"It can't be that simple," Cyra says.

"Tell Spyra to bring them back anyway. I want her awake, so I can start testing her limits. I knew that she could absorb ambient radiation, she is part Godzilla after all. That was why I had her placed in that shielded cell. But this is going to make a far better method of keeping her healthy enough to be useful. Once we have her awake, we can have her make more crystals that we can take outside her cell and charge, so we can continue to feed her," Geisha orders.

"Yes Ma'am," Cyra answers.

"Now then my oh, so helpful little spider, please tell me the best ways to stimulate your lovers body," Geisha whispers in Kumi's ear after Cyra leaves. "I want to know how to make her howl in pleasure, and beg for more."

"Oh, what now?" Jura moans, as she once again finds herself floating in the void of the dream realm.

"Now, It's time we had a talk little one," a deep male voice answers her as she is suddenly on her feet, and surrounded by what can only be described as a throne room.

"Who are you, and why have you called me here?" she demands, looking around the huge chamber for the speaker.

"You have no idea how glad I was when you finally put those shit heads who had stolen you, then raised you as a lab animal, in their place," the man says as he sits up from his spot on the enormous throne. Standing up, he then jumps off the seat, flipping twice before landing within reach of Jura.

"You still haven't answered my questions," she reminds him, crossing her arms under her breasts and taking a step back from him.

"You're better, but you are still a long way from where one of my children should be," he tells her with a smirk, crossing his own arms over his chest and looking down at her from his impressive height.

"How can you claim to be my father!" Jura demands, her voice nearly shrieking in outrage.

"Child, I don't share blood with you," the man answers. "I share spirit. Years before you were born, a magic spell was worked that sent the true rulers of your world into the deepest of sleeps, and splintered their spirits. In the years since, those splinters have started bonding with children as they grow within their mother's belly's. For some odd reason, they seem to mostly choose girls, but I never really cared about the why's and what fore's."

"How do you share spirit with me? If your story is true, then all those who received those "splinters" are girls," Jura shoots back.

"Splinters have to come from a tree. It's a law of nature," the man smirks back.

Jura remains silent as she just stares at him, memorizing everything she can about him, from his long black hair, to his combat boots. Taking in his leather jacket, jeans, and t-shirt, she finally asks, "Why do you look like an American?"

"Actually child, you chose this form for me, or rather your subconscious did. So I guess the question would be, why do you think of me as an American? What is an American anyway?" the man returns, his face becoming puzzled with his last comment.

"How old are you?" Jura asks.

"As old as the planet. While that spoony moth kept herself busy with defending the humans, once they evolved, and the other living things of the world, I saw to making sure that this world remained mine, and free of outside interference. I've allowed some other creatures to live, but others have come from far away, and have paid the price for thinking that they could simply stake their claim to what is mine," the man answers. "Unfortunately, thanks to the humans tendency to get into things they shouldn't, several additional creatures had been created, due to their tampering with the basic elements of life, and applying what they had discovered to the flesh that they had managed to collect after one of my avatars "visits". I believe that your people call these creatures Space Godzilla, and Biollante. "

"You know Mothra?" Jura blurts out in shock, most of the rest of his comments going over her head.

"Heh, you might say that. Actually it's her fault that I was able to contact you," he admits.

"How?" Jura asks.

"When she gave you that warning, and showed you what could happen, she "left the door open" for any of the rest of us that are like this to contact you as well," he explains. "Most of my children can't hear me, but on the other hand, most of them embrace what their splinter gives them, and are confident enough in themselves that their own personalities drown out anything I could add."

"So how am I different?" Jura asks, warming up slowly toward the stranger.

"Well for starters, you were stolen from your parents shortly after you were born, and taken by those bastards that you squashed flat when you broke free of them," he answers. "And I have to admit, even I was a bit surprised to find one of you little ones who was able to stand shoulder to shoulder with us ancients."

"I turned into a monster that night," Jura mutters, disgusted over all the lives she inadvertently took when she escaped the lab.

"Child, you where tortured for most of your life, and you finally fought back. You may regret that they died, but I say the bastards had it coming! For the first time in your life, you had embraced what you are, and used it to set yourself free," he tells her. "But that is the reason that I summoned you here. You need to be careful when you do that. If you lose yourself when you are like that, you will become a true monster, and as unstoppable as that which you resemble."

"You mean to tell me that if I use that particular ability, I run the chance of becoming as bad as Godzilla himself?" Jura demands in wide eyed shock.

"I wasn't bad. I just didn't give a damn about the humans," the man returns with a smirk.

"You?...You are the spirit of Gojira?" Jura asks in a shocked whisper.

"Yes child, and I've been here as long as the planet has had things living on it, just as Mothra has. Down over the years, I have had many avatars that I've used, even going so far as to copy Mothra's form to create the beast Battra, with the last, and most powerful, being the beast that you know by the names Gojira, and Godzilla," he answers.

Looking into the mans eyes for the first time, Jura is surprised to see that they are the same honey brown as hers, and much like when she loses it, his have flames literally dancing within them.

"How do you stand it? Being so powerful?" she asks in a small voice.

"Child, it turns you into a rampaging beast," he answers, all pretence of joviality forgotten. "The main advantage you have over the beasts that I used for my avatars, is that you have a brain that is capable of more than being pissed off when things invade your territory. I'm pretty sure the bug already told you this, but I'm going to anyway. Your powers and abilities, even that one that scares the crap out of you, are not good or bad. It's all in how you use them. Just remember, that while giving in to the beast within can help get you through some difficult situations, losing yourself in the rush of power will most likely result in you destroying that which you hold dear. By all means, use your powers if you need to, for you should never be afraid of who and what you are, but don't let your powers use you."

"Gojira, what little I know about you always paints you as a nearly unstoppable force of nature. How are you able to be so calm, and why do you appear to me as a human?" Jura asks him.

"For the most part, my spirit has been separated from the sleeping form of my avatar by a spell, to keep the beast from running amok. I blame that sneaky sea snake of a guardian dragon for that. Make sure you ask your teacher how her giant pearl is. And as for my appearance," he says, a devilish glint in his eyes. "Until now, you haven't been ready to see me as I am in the waking world," he says, his voice remaining the same as his body grows, and bulks up, his tail and dorsal plates appearing. Suddenly, Jura finds herself floating near the beast's head, his eye bigger across than she is tall.

"My Godzilla," she whispers in awe, understanding for the first time what all those who have faced this beast in the past have felt in its presence.

"Remember my worlds little one, and take care. Good luck with changing the destiny that you have been shown," the man's voice says, as Jura begins to float away.

Once Jura is far enough away to see Godzilla's entire form, he lets loose a bellowing roar, that follows her all the way back to the waking world, where she finds it coming from her own mouth.

"Jura?" Kaze asks, shocked awake by her roar.

"These dream messages don't make for a very restful night," Jura offers with a sheepish smile.

"You had another one?" Kaze asks.

"Yes," Jura answers. "This one was a personal warning."

"About what?" Kaze demands.

"About losing control of my powers," she admits. "He told me that I shouldn't be afraid of my powers, or using them, as long as I make sure they don't use me."

"What does that mean?" Kaze asks, not really getting it.

"Trust me, if I ever need to take things that far, you will understand," Jura tells her with a weary sigh. She leans back, and is asleep before she even realizes it.

"Kumi? Do you have a moment?" Mandy asks as she finds the spider girl leaving her dorm room.

"Not really," she answers, carefully slinging a back pack over her shoulder.

"Crystal has been noticeably absent the last few days, and I wanted to make sure there was nothing wrong with her that could be linked back to her fight with Leona," Mandy tells her, hoping that the spider girl will talk to her enough that she can get some answers.

"Crystal left for a few days, and I don't expect her back until this weekend," Kumi tells her. "She felt humiliated by that little bitch, and left to get herself back together, once she could move under her own power that is."

"Do you know where she is? I'd really like to speak to her," Mandy asks.

"She hasn't informed me. Once a day she calls me to let me know she's alright, and that's about all I know about her whereabouts," Kumi tells her.

"That doesn't sound like her at all," Mandy mutters, stroking her chin as she thinks over the information.

"If you will excuse me, I have an appointment I'd rather not be late for," Kumi tells her, her tone making it clear that any attempts to gather further information will be ignored.

"Next time she contacts you, please let her know that we are worried about her?" Mandy asks as Kumi brushes past her.

"As you wish, but don't expect to hear from her unless she wants to talk to you," Kumi tosses back over her shoulder, before turning the corner and heading for the dorms exit.

"That will be fine," Mandy mutters, disturbed by Kumi's behavior, but unable to figure out why.

"Hmm. You and the alien bitch are going to be problems, I can see that already," Spyra growls under her breath as she leaves the dorm building and heads for town. "But first things first. I need to get these to the Mistress as quickly as I can," she adds, gently patting the backpack, and the crystals contained within.

"You two are going to be late!" Zoe bellows up the stairs, her voice loud enough to rattle the windows.

"Tone it down some, would you?" Maizy grumbles, moving down the stairs. "At least show me enough respect to go up to their room and yell at them. It's not fair to keep getting me up when you yell at them."

"Sorry. But you don't need to sleep until noon either," Zoe shoots back.

"Who said I wanted to?" Maizy growls. "I'd just like to wake up on my own again, rather than have someone's yelling waking me up all the time. And last night's little sound effect was a new one. Wonder what Kaze did to her to get that out of her."

"I didn't get back till late, so what are you talking about?" Zoe asks as Maizy moves past her toward the kitchen.

"Jura, roaring loud enough to make me jump out of bed and check the window to see if the house was about to be stepped on," Maizy mutters. "I swear, it sounded just like the sound files we have in the Kaiju database. Nice job on getting us a copy of those rather highly classified files," she adds with a smirk.

"I still have people willing to do me a favor or two," Zoe smirks back, as she grabs a bowl for Maizy while the little red head hops up and snatches a cereal box off the top of the fridge.

"Thanks," Maizy says, grabbing the offered bowl, and pouring some of the cereal in, before returning the box to its place.

"So, do you know exactly what those two and their friends are up to? Kaze is playing things close to the chest, and Jura just kind of freezes up when you ask her about it," Zoe asks.

"They are planning to put together a band for the school fair," Maizy answers, having poured milk on her food, and starting to eat.

"Jura, part of a band? In front of that many people?" Zoe returns in shock. "Did Kaze flip her chips?"

"They'll work it out. Kaze has actually shown a fairly good grasp of what they will need to pull this off," Maizy answers.

""Hit it first, and sort out the medical bills later," Kaze? Our sister is actually planning ahead for something? It's the end of the world," Zoe deadpans.

"What do you mean you're not going to classes today?" Kaze demands, hands on her hips, and towering over Jura.

"I would have thought the statement was self explanatory," Jura returns, her tone saying volumes about what she thinks about Kaze's tone.

"I'm sorry, but with all the weird stuff that's been going on with you, I worry, ya know?" Kaze tells her, in a much softer tone. "And to be honest, these "visitation" dreams that you have been having are freaking me the hell out."

"Join the club," Jura chuckles, giving her lover a hug. "But it's nothing like that. I just want to get some practice on the songs we have settled on, and see if there are any that I want to add to our play list."

"So you are going to go through with it?" Kaze asks with a relieved grin.

"I'm going to give it my best shot. I may not particularly like being the center of attention, but I can't live in fear of it either," she answers.

"That's my girl," Kaze smiles at her, before kissing the top of her head.

"Get my homework for me, will you?" Jura asks as she grabs some comfortably baggy clothes for working around the house, and her MP3 player. "You did load the bands song list into this thing for me, didn't you?"

"Crap! I knew I was forgetting something," Kaze answers, as she plucks the little device out of Jura's hand. It only takes her a moment to send over the files to the machine, before handing it back. "The play list is "Technomancer: Live!" Good luck."

"I think I can handle learning the words and timing. It's the performing part of this little project that I'm not so sure about yet," is Jura's answer, as she leaves the room to go find a room far enough from the other occupied rooms of the house that the band can practice without completely annoying the rest of the residents.

"I love you, pointy ears," Kaze says to her back as her tail vanishes around the corner and out of sight.

Maizy leans against the door frame and grins as she watches Jura lose herself in the music, dancing and singing to her headphones. Jura just finishes up singing along to "Hurricane Tonight" when Maizy lets out a shrill whistle that can penetrate the music being dumped directly into Jura's ears.

"Jeez! Are you trying to scare me to death?" Jura squawks, a hand on her chest as she pulls off her headphones.

"Sorry," Maizy grins. "But I thought you might want to know that you have some fairly stiff competition for Fair night. The Y.O.G. trio are planning to perform as well."

"Well, crap," Jura mutters, sinking down to sit on the floor of the mostly empty room. "How are we, a bunch of amateurs, going to be able to compete with a real band like them?"

"Well, for starters, you guys are only going to have one or two songs that are their style of music, right?" Maizy asks. When Jura nods, she continues, "Then you guys will just have to make sure that the rest of the show is something that those three can't touch."

"But how do we do that? They are an established group, have a real backup band, special effects, the whole deal! We can't match that…." Jura rants, trailing off as something sparks in her memory.

"Can they do magic? Can you guys have Meo do anything flashy?" Maizy asks.

"I don't think so. Meo has to concentrate on her spells in order to use them, and that would be counterproductive to her playing," Jura answers, a sly look forming on her face.

"You have an idea," Maizy states.

"Yes I do. I have an idea for some special effects that they can't touch, and maybe a way to make sure I can handle being on stage at the same time," Jura answers her.

"So? Don't keep me in suspense! Spill!" Maizy orders.

"First I want you to call Kaze. I need to know Leona's address, so I can go ask her if she will help," Jura says.

"You want help from the one who was able to turn Crystal into a statue? I know I suggested magic, but isn't that a little over the top?" Maizy blurts out.

"She has a whole host of powers. I'm just hoping that some of them will be something that will help us put on a better show than the trio can," Jura retorts.

Maizy is silent for a few moments, before she says, "Kaze was just getting out of Mandy's class, so she asked her if she knew where Leona was staying."

"So? Did she get the address?" Jura demands.

Maizy pulls a pen from somewhere and writes the address on the back of Jura's hand, where the red ink glows like a golden sparkle when the light hits it right.

"How did you do that?" Jura asks, rotating her hand back and forth, marveling at how the ink is completely invisible against her skin unless the light strikes it just right.

"Just something I happened across while I was bored one day a while back," the little cyber doll answers with a smirk. "But I do think you should put some real clothes on before you try to go visiting."

"Ewe. Good point," Jura agrees, after looking down at her current outfit.

"I'm spoiled," Jura mutters to herself as she finally arrives outside of the building where Leona and Cole are staying. "I'm way too used to Kaze flying me around. It took me two hours to get over here. Hell, schools out by now!" she adds as she enters the building and looks for the proper apartment.

"God, I hope we figure out what we are supposed to be doing in this world soon. Before I give in to the urge to knock some sense into a few of those kids," Cole mutters as he appears in the main room of the apartment. Moving to the bedroom, he smirks at the muffled squeaks of laughter that he can hear before he opens the door.

Tied to the bed, Leona twists back and forth as she is tortured by three feathers that move back and forth over her body, tickling her unmercifully.

Cole collects the feathers and places them back into a small wooden case, that just vanishes as he turns back to his captive. "So, have you learned that turning people into statues just to make a point won't be tolerated?" he asks as he pops the enchanted gag from her mouth.

"I…..have been…..Beaten….Raped…Whipped…and put under mind control…and THAT is still the cruelest torture that I've ever been on the receiving end of," she gasps, sweat glistening on her body.

"You haven't answered my question," Cole reminds her in a gentle voice.

"You win. I'll play nice, even with the ones who want to smear me across the lawn," she answers.

"Good," Cole tells her, un-knotting the ropes around her ankles.

"But," she adds, "I want you to let me stay at full power. I promise that I won't do anything like that last trick, but some of them are dangerous enough that I will need the extra kick to keep myself in one piece."

"I'm going to hold you to that vow," Cole tells her, as he starts on her wrists.

A knock at the outer door interrupts him after he gets her left hand free.

"Looks like you'll have to finish releasing yourself, while I go see who's at the door," he tells her, making sure to close the door behind him.

"Never fails. As soon as we get ready for some fun, something happens," she scowls as she works on the bindings for her right wrist with her left hand and teeth.

"I hope she's willing to help us" Jura thinks, as she waits for Leona to open the door.

"Well, isn't this a surprise. I wasn't expecting work to follow me home," Cole smirks after opening the door and finding Jura standing there.

"Oh, I was looking for Leona," Jura tells him, a bit surprised to find Cole.

"Make yourself presentable, you have company," Cole thinks to Leona. Then he steps aside, saying, "C'mon in. She will be out in a few."

"Alright," Jura answers shyly, carefully moving past him into the small apartment. Moving away from him, she asks, "How long have you known each other?"

"It seems like forever," Cole answers in a wistful tone. "But I guess it's only been a couple of years, real time. It gets a little confusing, since time doesn't run at the same speed from realm to realm."

"What do you mean?" Jura asks, completely lost at how time can "run differently" than she is aware of.

"Look at it like this," Cole says, attempting to explain in the simplest terms he can. "We will use this world as a guide. Now, if we where to jump to another world, it is possible that while it would feel like time was moving normally to us while we where there, and say we where there for a week, when we jumped back, it's possible that only a few seconds, or more than a year, could have passed in this world."

"That is…wow. How can you keep things straight when you jump like that? And how often do you change worlds?" Jura asks, amazed that they haven't gone nuts from that kind of thing.

"As often as the portals open in front of us," Leona answers, stepping out of the bedroom, dressed in a pair of jeans, and a t-shirt.

"What happened to you? You look like a human again!" Jura blurts out.

"I am a human," Leona answers with a scowl. "The wings, horns, and tail are part of what I call my Dragon Armor. The teachers asked that I stay that way during classes."

"Well, it did let you fit in with us a little better," Jura admits. "And none of us really recognized you when you joined the class."

"Well, enough of the small talk," Leona cuts off any further questions from the godzilla girl. "What brings you to find us?"

"Um, I didn't come looking for you both," Jura admits. "Just you, Leona."

"So what do you want?" she returns.

"Your help. Can you use your magic to make people see things that are not real?" Jura asks.

"You mean like this?" Leona asks, as duplicate Jura's appear on either side of her.

Jura's eyes nearly bug out of her head as she stares at her duplicates. "That is amazing!" she finally says.

"Actually, that is incredibly simple," Leona returns. "What I did to Crystal, that was much more difficult to pull off."

"And if you ever do it again, I'll make sure that you don't ever forget what happens when you break a promise," Cole reminds her.

"….Do I even want to ask what's been going on with you for the last week?" Jura asks.

"I've been a little tied up," Leona returns, causing Cole to nearly choke while trying to keep from laughing.

"Well, I came to ask if you would be willing to use your powers to help us out with our project for the school fair next month," Jura admits.

"What are you planning?" Cole asks.

"Kaze, Kera, Sera, Des, Meo, Lara, and I are going to be putting on a concert," Jura tells them. "But I just found out that another group has the same plan, and they are a real singing group. If we don't want to come off like a bunch of wannabes, we need something that will make us even more memorable than the Y.O.G. trio is."

"So you want me to throw around illusions, while the rest of you play and sing?" Leona asks.

"Exactly. With those kinds of special effects, this will be one fair that the school won't soon forget," Jura smiles.

"She'll do it," Cole says.

"Don't I get a say in the matter?" Leona snarls at him.

"Actually, no, you don't. I'm forgoing the last two days of your punishment for the Crystal incident, in exchange for you helping …..what is the name of your band?" Cole asks.

Jura offers a wry smile, before answering, "Kaze's sister came up with our name, actually. Since we have both mecha girls, and now two magic users with Leona, she came up with Technomancer as our name, and the others all liked the sound of it."

"And what kind of music are you planning on?" Cole asks.

"Here. There might be a few new additions, but this is the bulk of what we've decided on so far," Jura answers him, handing over her music player.

"Oh, this is going to be good," Cole grins as he scrolls through the music list.

Leona shoots him a scowl, and he winces as she lays into him through their link. He hands Jura's player back to her while he reasons with Leona, all without saying a word out loud.

"Alright, I'll help you. It does sound like fun," Leona finally tells her. "When, and where do you guys usually meet to practice?"

"At the Nagai Mansion. That's where the Mazinger sisters and I live," Jura answers. "If you can fly us there, we should arrive just after the others do."

"I take it I have your permission to go?" Leona shoots at Cole, her look telling him that she's not done with him over this yet.

"Go for it. I'm really looking forward to what the lot of you come up with on this," he answers.

"I have one more…..personal….request," Jura admits, blushing hard enough that they can see it against her dark hide. "The idea of being up in front of all those people freaks me out. Can you put a spell on me or something so that it won't bother me?"

"I think I can help you out with that," Leona grins, as she holds out a hand. At first, nothing is happening, then, a glow starts to form in her palm. Next it brightens for several seconds, before fading away, revealing the new object in her hand.

"What is that?" Jura asks, stunned at how Leona just creates things out of nothing more than her will, and the energies she wields.

"Nothing much, just a little trinket that will help you face your fears when you wear it," Leona answers. "Now, give me your arm."

"This is a bad idea," Cole thinks at her as she slides the silver onto Jura's arm, and up past her elbow, resting it between her bicep and her shoulder.

"Relax," she sends back. "The only enchantment on this is a little something to make it resize itself so that it will always fit. The only magic it has for doing what she wants it to, is her belief that it does it."

"So this will help me with my stage fright?" Jura asks. "I don't feel any different."

"Good, otherwise it would mean that I did something wrong when I created it," Leona tells her. "Just wear that, and trust in it, and you will be fine. It only works if you believe in it. And even then, only for you performing in public. I refuse to make something that will give you courage, without any rules, because if you don't have any fear, then you are stupid, and end up getting yourself, and others hurt."

"Oh, believe me, I've got more than my fair share of things to be afraid of," Jura returns, thinking about what the spirits of the great monsters have passed on to her in her dreams.

"Then the both of you had better get going, before the others decide that you won't be joining them," Cole says. "I need to go back to the school anyway. Kim and Sora are expecting me to show them some of the more advanced things I can do."

"Right," Leona says, as she lifts herself and Jura into the air with a thought.

In the space between heartbeats, Cole is just gone.

"How does he do that?" Jura asks, as they float out the doors to the tiny balcony.

"I really don't know," Leona admits. "But it makes him one hell of a hard target to hit in a fight."

"No doubt," Jura agrees, as Leona lifts the both of them high enough that all the nearby buildings are at least twenty feet below them.

"Which way?" Leona asks.

Jura points in the direction of her home, and Leona puts them in motion, making the trip that took Jura two hours, in under five minutes.

"I expect good news," Red Geisha growls as she enters Cyra's "work room".

"Then I'm afraid you are going to be disappointed, Mistress," Cyra answers her. "Kumi is still showing remarkable willpower against any programming method I can devise. The only new bit of data I have managed is to discover she is deathly afraid of fire. I can no longer safely use the drugs, without them causing her heart to over exert itself and explode. I…..I'm sorry, my Mistress, but I have failed you on this."

"Yes you have," Geisha returns darkly. Cyra drops to her knees, waiting for her punishment, when she adds, "But not through lack of effort on your part. I believe we need to fall back on a slightly less advanced way of breaking past her stubborn devotion to her lover."

"How?" Cyra wonders aloud.

"First, we go visit Crystal, and record a nice long interview with her. Then we will see how things go from there," Geisha informs her, leading the way out of the chamber, leaving Kumi's unconscious form tied to the bed.

"Hrrrrrrrr…..Oh, My head. Kumi," Crystal mutters as she comes around, only to come up short as she tries to move and discovers her restraints. "What the fuck is going on here," she snarls, her eyes snapping open.

"Welcome back to the land of the living," Geisha smiles at her as she backs away, a depleted crystal in her hand.

"Where am I, how did you get one of my energy crystals, why am I tied up, and where is Kumi?" Crystal demands. "You can answer in any order you wish," she adds, while she takes stock of herself. "Not good. Still weak, and my powers are still nearly gone," she thinks.

"Oh, the spider was right, she will be fun to play with!" Geisha grins at Cyra.

"Indeed," the cybernetic Dragon agrees with a smirk.

"Oh, I owe you," Crystal snarls at Cyra. "No one sucker punches me and gets away with it."

"And how exactly do you plan to do anything about it?" Geisha asks. "It's not like you can just step over here and pay her back, now is it?"

"What have you tin terrors done with Kumi?" Crystal demands.

"Oh, she's around here somewhere. Who do you think supplied the crystal we used to revive you?" Cyra grins.

"You bitch, what have you done with her?" Crystal roars, as she struggles to stand up from her chair.

The electrical discharge from the chair, and the mesh covering her head whiplashes her back and forth in her restraints until the current is shut off.

"I would suggest you refrain from attempting to fight your way free of that bit of furniture," Geisha smirks. "Any attempts to use your mental powers, or your strength, will result in another dose like that."

Once her muscles quit spasming, Crystal growls, "I'm going to get out of here, I'm going to find Kumi, and I'm going to take great pleasure in ripping you apart, one circuit at a time."

"Bold words, from someone who couldn't even put up a fight when I knocked her out with a single, half hearted, punch," Cyra taunts.

"And all over her pet spider," Geisha adds.

"Kumi isn't a pet, you tin platted bitch. And she would never betray me, any more than I would her," Crystal snarls, her anger only partially real, as she realizes that in addition to shocking her into helplessness again, their little trick added energy to her reserves.

"Perhaps you should turn around and take a look at what we have to show you?" Geisha suggests, before the chair slowly begins to rotate, so that Crystal is facing a monitor screen imbedded in the wall.

"What, you Mazinger wannabes planning to torture me with your home made porno films?" Crystal smirks.

At least until the picture becomes clear, showing Kumi telling them anything they ever wanted to know about her.

"What. Did. You. Do. To. Her?" Crystal demands, her voice gone deadly calm.

"Nothing much. A few drugs, some mind blowing sex, and knowing all the best places to rub that tight furry body of hers," Cyra laughs. "Since you claim to love her, you really should take better care of her needs. She was practically begging me to fuck her brains out, once we strapped her down the first time."

"I am going to kill you all," Crystal tells them. "I am going to make it my life's mission to see to it that you, you silver skinned bitch, and your little gold flunky are disassembled, and whatever parts I don't slag in the process get used to make a fucking toaster!"

"I think she needs some time to herself," Geisha tells Cyra with a laugh as she heads for the door.

"Didn't you have one more thing you wanted to do?" Cyra asks, before Geisha can activate the controls for the door.

"Oh, right," she agrees, sending a signal to the chair.

Crystal screams, arching her back as both lower openings of her body are violated by the chairs built in equipment.

While she sits there panting, Geisha adds, "In a few moments, they will start up, and help you relax into your new life. But I will warn you now, if you try to use your powers, the shocks will be sent through those as well. Since nothing in the file we have on you indicates you enjoy that kind of thing, I would suggest you behave."

Then the two cyber beings leave, sealing Crystal within the shielded observation chamber once again.

"Did you get everything you needed?" Geisha asks, as they head deeper into their makeshift base.

"Oh yes. Give me a few moments with a mixing board, and Kumi will believe that Crystal doesn't give a damn about her other than as an "asset" that she can use," Cyra answers her.

"Excellent. Once her will is broken, it should be a simple matter to make the programming stick. Then we can use her against Crystal," Geisha says, thinking out loud.

"The programming won't be quick," Cyra cautions. "It will take a minimum of a couple of weeks, once we convince her. And she is a particularly stubborn spider. I have no way of predicting at this time how long this may take."

"I understand. Just make it a quickly as possible," Geisha acknowledges. "You have until the end of the upcoming school fair that Spyra mentioned. I plan to begin "acquisition" of as many subjects as I can after that point in time."

"Yes Mistress," Cyra tells her with a deep bow, before rushing off to begin her work of twisting Crystal's words into a message of hate.

"You're LIEING!" Kumi shrieks, after viewing the pairs "interview" with Crystal, complete with the new audio track.

"Oh, no. As you can see, I was right there the entire time," Cyra smirks, as Kumi just seems to shrink in on herself.

After several minutes of nothing, Cyra asks, "Kumi? Would you be willing to co-operate with us?"

Kumi just continues to stare straight ahead, shiny streaks from her silent tears tracking down her face.

"Hello? Anyone home?" Cyra mutters, snapping her fingers in front of the spiders face, trying to get a reaction. When she still doesn't react, Cyra turns her scanners on her captive, and is relieved to find that she is still alive. "Well, shit. Looks like this plan worked a little too well," she mutters, preparing to go give Red Geisha the bad news.

"You guys sound great!" Maizy and crew cheer after watching Kaze and the others practice.

"I didn't recognize most of those songs," Nuri adds. "But I couldn't help wanting to dance along to them!"

"Sounds like we've got a bunch of winners then," Des grins, rapidly twirling the drum stick in her right hand as she stretches out her legs behind her drums.

"I think that the song, "The Right Kind of Wrong" fits you two perfectly," Immomu tells Meo and Des, earning a blush from her sister.

"So did we. That's why we added it to the play list," Kera grins.

"Would you like to see some of the other things we have in mind for the show?" Leona asks as she pushes away from the wall where she had been leaning while letting the music shape some ideas for special effects.

"Like what?" Zuki asks.

"Like this!" Leona tells her while whipping an arm out toward the older girls.

"Oh. My. God…." Nuri whispers as a bright flash fades from around the band members, leaving each of them radically changed.

Kaze, Lara and the twins have all been changed into humans, while Des, Meo and Jura have been changed into Mechanized versions of themselves.

"So what do you think?" Jura asks, as she turns around, her tail making a metallic scraping sound as she drags it across the floor.

"Do these illusions not make us live up to the bands name even more than before?" Meo asks, her gleaming silver white body setting off her brilliantly patterned wings.

"I think that without Leona's magic, the band wouldn't have a chance, despite how good we sound together," Des admits, her new robotic appearance by far the most fearsome of the bunch.

"Oh, I don't know about that," Leona returns, her own form having changed to appear as if she was a living ice sculpture.

"I wish I could duplicate however it is you do that," Maizy admits, no small trace of envy in her voice.

"Sorry short stuff, but I can't teach it to you," Leona tells the smaller cyber girl, while the members of the band revert to their normal forms.

"Don't call me that," Maizy growls.

"Can you teach us?" Zuki squeals.

"Sorry kiddo, but the only one of you who has the potential for magic is Immomu," Leona tells them. "And somehow I don't think her sisters would like it if I where to teach her most of the spells I know. You K-girls cause enough damage as it is, you don't need my magics to help make it worse."

"How much worse could your magics make things on this island?" Nuri asks.

"Nuri, my mother knows a spell that can destroy the world if something goes wrong when she casts it. Her trademark spell, and one I get a kick out of using as well, causes an explosion that can leave up to a half mile wide crater," Leona tells them.

"Whoa….." Lara says with a low whistle. "You may be even more destructive than me."

"Well, having never seen you in action, I can't say one way or the other," Leona tells her. "But I can definitely make a big mess when I need to get my point across."

"Regardless of who is the most destructive person in this room," Maizy smirks, "The facts remain that you guys sound great, and her magic effects will make you a massive hit at the fair."

"Now as long as the rest of the world agrees with your assessment," Sera says with a wry smile.

"She what?" Geisha snarls before blasting Cyra across the room with a Photon Beam.

"She…She's gone catatonic. The lights are on, but she's not home anymore," Cyra gasps, slowly struggling to her feet.

"Damnit all….." Geisha growls, starting to pace while she quickly sorts through options. "Recall Spyra. We will use her to try and get to Crystal."

"As you command," Cyra answers, before limping out the door.

"Perhaps I should have done more research on these girls before starting this operation," Geisha muses to herself. Shaking her head, she continues, "No matter. This operation will be completed within days now, and not even Zoe will be able to stand against me this time."

"So what are you planning for the last song?" Sera asks Leona as the group moves down the hall to their last class.

"That's the one based on this guy, right?" Leona returns, a small image appearing over her outstretched hand.

"Yeah, that's the one," Kera answers.

"A series illusions of the others, surrounding the concert, while he comes up behind the band. The others will bow their heads in respect, then he will yell just as the song finishes, with the others joining in, before they all transform into a golden mist and blow away," Leona tells them.

"The crowd is going to go nuts," Kaze grins.

"Just make sure that we warn people about everything being an illusion. The last thing we want to do is scare them all into stampeding for the exits," Jura reminds them.

"Point," Leona agrees.

"Is everyone on for practice today?" Kaze asks.

"Lara and the others didn't say anything about skipping out on us today," Kera answers.

"Good, cause we've only got two more days, before we do this for real," Sera adds, as the group arrives at their last class.

"And we are going to stand this school on its ear," Kaze declares with a huge grin as she enters the class, the others filing in behind her.

"You wanted to see me?" Kumi asks, once Red Geisha decides to acknowledge her presence.

"Yes, Spyra. I have need of you, and your disguise," Geisha tells her.

"Problems getting the original to play your game?" Spyra asks, twisting Kumi's features into a malicious smirk.

"We seem to have broken her," Geisha admits. "So we need you to play the spiders part while we work on her lover."

"Alright. It's getting tiresome fending off the pushier teachers who want to get in touch with Crystal," Spyra admits, dropping her use of Kumi's voice.

"I trust you've given them enough bullshit to keep them from realizing what we are up to, until it's too late?" Geisha asks, one eyebrow raised, and an evil smirk on her silver face.

"My sudden disappearance may raise a few flags, but I doubt that they will figure anything out until after the strike teams start collecting them," Spyra answers. "Oh, and here are the Children. Several of them seem to be friendly with the Mazinger prototype unit."

"Excellent work, as usual," Geisha grins, quickly reviewing the files on Maizy's friends, and the other K-juniors who have been identified.

"So what am I supposed to do with her?" Spyra asks, calling up an image on a wall screen, displaying Crystal still trapped in her chair.

"Play it by ear. I want you to make it seem that Kumi is now a loyal member of the RBA. Other than that, it is up to you," Geisha tells her.

"Oh, this is going to be fun," Spyra announces, returning to using Kumi's voice.

"Don't fail on this. I'm already more than a little annoyed at Cyra's failure," Geisha warns her.

"Just give me a day or so to catch up on what you've been up to with her, and I will see what I can do. Oh, I'll need a uniform. One tailored to be as sexy as possible," Spyra answers. "Kumi wouldn't wear anything less."

"I'll have it started while you collect your data. You can have it fitted while you review," Geisha answers with a nod, sending the orders out.

"Are we all set for the fair?" Maizy asks her friends, as they listen to the muted thunder of the older girls rocking out in their "studio" upstairs.

"Gigi lady says I can go with you, as long as we promise to stay out of trouble!" Zuki cheers.

"My sister gave me the okay to join you guys too," Nuri adds.

"Mina said it was alright, as long as we didn't miss Meo, and the others, playing," Immomu tells them.

"Well, since I don't think Ghidra trusts the triplets that far, it looks like it will just be us as a group for the fair," Maizy tells them.

"What about Battamei, and Musume?" Nuri asks.

"Battamei is going with her sister," Immomu tells her.

"I think Gina and the rest of her crew are going to be showing Musume around," Maizy adds.

"Then it looks like we have our group. What's the plan?" Nuri asks.

"For starters, we'll check out the stalls and stuff that everyone else is going to be putting together for the fair, then we will enjoy the rocking sounds of Technomancer," Maizy answers, a wide grin on her face.

"So we all meet here, then head to the fair?" Immomu asks.

"Sounds like a plan," Nuri agrees.

"YAY!" Zuki cheers, flying around the room with a huge grin on her face.

"This is going to kick untold amounts of ass," Maizy smirks.

"So how do I look, Commander?" Spyra asks, still in her Kumi disguise, and wearing a Red Bamboo Army uniform that is more playmate costume than uniform.

"Hmmm, careful Spyra, or I may have to ravage you here and now, and to hell with Crystal," Geisha smiles.

"Be a shame to waste all this work though," Cyra adds from across the hall.

"True. Remain here Cyra, just in case. Spyra, Do what you can to rattle her self confidence, and certainty in her spider," Geisha orders. "I'm going hunting. Make sure the force field containment area is prepped and ready for my return. I plan to have several subjects to store in it for a while, until we can arrange more specialized containment for them."

"As you wish, Mistress," Cyra answers, dropping to one knee.

"And now, It's time for me to get to work," Spyra grins, Kumi's voice dripping with malice.

When Spyra opens the shielded door, the three of them hear Crystals' moans of pleasure.

"Do enjoy yourself, but be careful. She is more dangerous than she appears, I'm certain of it," Geisha says, before turning, and leaving the pair alone.

"Well, I see you've been enjoying your stay," Kumi smirks as she deactivates the vibrators that have been keeping Crystal too distracted to do much more than suffer under their erotic onslaught.

Crystal hangs limply from her restraints, panting, as she slowly recovers from what she's been going through.

"Here, drink," she says, putting a straw to Crystals lips.

Crystal greedily sucks the cup of water dry, then pants, "Get me out of this damn chair, and we can get the fuck out of this hellhole."

"Why would I want to leave?" Kumi returns with a grin, causing Crystal to snap her head up and stare at her.

"Have you lost your mind? They kidnapped us, and you're joining them?" Crystal blurts out in shock.

"What can I say? After you said all those nasty things about me, and the amazing sex, I just couldn't turn them down any more," she smirks.

"I never said anything bad about you," Crystal retorts. "I told them you would never betray me, and that they could go fuck themselves!"

"Really?" Kumi returns dryly. "Then how do you explain this?" she asks, as Crystals chair/prison turns to face the wall screen, and Cyra's doctored tape of their "interview" plays out, leaving Crystal slack jawed in shock.

"That is not what I said when I woke up!" Crystal snarls in outrage.

"Why don't I believe you?" Kumi asks, moving up behind Crystal, and draping herself across the chair, but being careful to not touch the blue saurian.

"I have never lied to you Kumi, why would you doubt me?" Crystal demands.

"Because I think being turned into a statue changed you more than you are willing to admit," Kumi retorts.

"Really," Crystal growls, becoming suspicious.

A quick flash of telekinesis causes Kumi to fumble for balance, and brush Crystal's right shoulder spire, before the resulting electric shock rips through her body.

"That was a foolish thing to do," Kumi says while Crystal screams in pain.

"Maybe….." Crystal gasps after the current is turned off again. "But then again, it worked just as I expected it to."

"You shove me off balance, and nearly get shocked into unconsciousness again, and you say it's all according to plan?" Kumi asks in disbelief.

"Drop the act, bitch. I know you're not Kumi," Crystal tells her.

"What makes you say that?" Kumi asks in surprise.

"The fact that you don't feel anything like her," Crystal snarls, her horn starting to glow as power arcs from her shoulder crystals to it in preparation for a corona beam.

The resulting shock lasts far longer than the previous ones.

"I'm going to leave you for a while to think about what you've done," Kumi tells her, reactivating the vibrators before leaving the shielded chamber.

"That was entirely too close," Cyra tells her after the shielded room is resealed.

"No shit," Spyra snarls. "If the security program monitoring her was a half second slower, she would have broken out of there, likely slagging me in the fucking process!"

"Calm down. Give her a few hours to bounce on the toys, and try again," Cyra tells her. "With any luck, between the shocks and toys, she will either forget that she discovered you're a fake, or more likely, hang on to the hope that the next time you go in there, you will be the real one."

"I hope you're right about that. I hate to fail a mission," Spyra snarls.

"Almost," Crystal thinks as she lets the chair control her body. "Almost have enough power now to break out. Just need a little more, then I can activate the crystals and leach the power systems of this place. That should give me enough power to level this dump, and find Kumi."

The next day passes in a blur for everyone involved with the fair. The members of Technomancer spend the first half of the day running through their performance, and helping Leona work out some last minute details on her illusions. Maizy and her friends spend the day bouncing around the stalls that the other students at DKH have set up, as well as spying around for anything that would help boost hits to Maizy's web site.

"Is everything in place?" Geisha demands.

"Yes, Commander," one of her human subordinates answers. "Several strike teams are ready to spring their traps, and your personal strike team is online and prepared to deploy at a moment's notice."

"And the children?" she asks.

"The group that we have been tracking is short several members, but the prototype Mazinger, and another three have been under observation since they met at the mansion. We can move on them at any time," the man answers.

"I'll be seeing to their collection personally," Geisha tells him, a self satisfied smirk on her face.

"Well, are we ready?" Leona asks, as they sit backstage, listening to the Y.O.G. trio singing their little idol hearts out.

"You know, I like almost all kinds of music, but that stuff is best taken in small doses," Kaze says, referring to the audio assault on her sensors.

"Yes, I think we are as ready as we are going to get," Jura answers Leona, giving her silver armband a rub for luck.

"I can't wait," Des grins, drumming on a table top with her hands.

"I'm with you," Lara agrees, adjusting the collar on her Chinese style dress.

Meo eyes her girlfriends leather pants, red tank top, and spike studded biker jacket, before giving her skirt and blouse a tug, saying, "I simply hope that this doesn't take too much out of us. I for one would like to celebrate a successful conclusion to this endeavor."

"An after concert party sounds good to me!" Kera agrees with a grin.

"Nah, I'd rather unwind after we're done," Sera disagrees. "I just can't see a party of any kind as a way to relax after what we are about to do."

Kaze grins at the metallic twins, and their identical but for color pant suits. "I swear, you two disagree on everything, just out of spite."

They give each other a serious look, before turning back to Kaze and saying, "Not on everything."

"Oh? Besides being friends with us, what else do you two actually agree on?" Jura asks.

"I think that this point will require a demonstration," Sera says, as the twins stand up and move toward Kaze and Jura.

"What do you two have in mind?" Kaze asks, as Kera stops over her, while Sera mirrors her sister over Jura.

"Oh, nothing much," they say in unison, as they both take a seat in the lap of the one they are standing over, and proceed to kiss them deeply.

Kaze and Jura both go wide eyed in surprise, staring at each other, before giving each other a nod, and returning the twins kiss.

"Daaammmn," Lara says as she leans back in her chair.

"Give you any ideas for later?" Des asks Meo, getting the moth girl to blush in response.

"About this time, I'd offer to throw ice cold water on them, but Jura would be the only one to really be effected by it. And they would then need new outfits," Leona smirks, her words functioning much like what she suggests.

"And just how long have you two been hiding these feelings?" Kaze smirks, as Kera leans back from her with a goofy grin on her face.

"Since we first met the two of you," Sera answers, finally giving Jura a chance to get some much needed air.

"Then why haven't you said anything before now?" Jura blurts out, once she has caught her breath.

"Oh, c'mon! Like we would take a chance of messing up our friendship? We'd still be keeping it a secret, if you hadn't given us that opening," Kera tells them.

Kaze and Jura just look back and forth between themselves and the twins for a few moments. Kaze is about to say something, when Leona breaks in.

"Sorry to interrupt, but from the sound of things, the trio is finishing up," she says, altering her clothes from a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, to black leather hip huggers, and a silver lame top. "So now," she grins, "It's SHOWTIME!"

"We will talk more about this later," Kaze tells the twins, while Jura just nods in agreement.

"Good, 'cause like the magic girl said, it's time to get this show on the road!" Des says, so full of excitement that she raises her fist as she finishes her comment and leads the way out of the room they have been using to wait in.

"So how do you think these guys will do?" Angi-lass asks out loud as she and the rest of the crowd wait for Technomancer to take the stage.

"Oh, I think they will surprise you," Zoe grins, as she and Kiryuu lean into each other, arms around each others back.

"But can they top the show that the trio just gave us?" Sora asks, Gigi nodding in agreement.

"I hope they are at least as good," Musume adds.

"Hope that whatever they have planned is something I can dance to," Titania tosses in, as they wait for the band to take the stage.

"Trust us. You are all going to love this," Maizy says as she, Immomu, Nuri, and Zuki move through the crowd to stand near the older girls.

"I hope you are right. I'd hate to see them flop," Gina tells them, as the MC announces that the next show will begin in five minutes.

"Everyone ready?" Kaze asks into the mic/headset that everyone is wearing.

"One minute until we start," Leona answers.

"Ready to rock," Des answers.

"Good to go," Kera adds.

"Same here," Sera agrees.

"Let's do this," Lara answers.

"I am prepared," Meo tells them.

"Showtime," Jura announces, right before the MC announces that they are on.

The crowd goes silent as the Lights go out over the stage, and slowly come back up as the bands first selection begins, the drums and keyboards blasting out the opening, before the sax joins in, but the crowd starts to murmur when they notice that there is no one on stage yet.

(First Song: Invitation to the Charm of Darkness – Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors OST)

"Time to kick things off," Leona grins, as she starts her part of the first act, illusions of the Mechanized Jura, Meo, and Des, along with a ice clone of herself floating down out of the sky, each of them carrying one of the humanized mecha girls in their arms. As they land, they stand the others back on their feet, then gather into a group, each of them with a hand stretched into the center. A glow starts with their hands, then steadily becomes incredibly bright as Lara's keyboard takes over with a portion of the track that sounds more like the brass section of an orchestra. Meo comes back in with her more conventional piano sounds as the glare vanishes, along with the illusionary forms of the girls. As soon as Sera's sax starts up once more, a series of smoke puffs go off around the stage, leaving a band member working their instruments over in its wake.

As the music wraps up, Kaze and Jura appear, and finally Leona, standing on a smaller stage above Des's drums.

"Hello, Neo Monster Island!" Kaze calls, both arms out stretched as she leans forward over the edge of the stage, while Jura waves at everyone.

"We hope you like what you've seen so far," Leona adds.

"And we promise, that this is just the start of what we hope to be a hell of a show for you all," Jura finishes.

"SO LET'S DO THIS!" they all call out together, to an answering roar from the crowd.

(Second Song: Pour Some Sugar On Me – Def Leppard: the Vault)

Kaze and Jura work together with the opening to the song, setting things up perfectly for the instrumental opening to follow. The pair continue to prance around, singing to each other as much as they are to the crowd, as Leona magically creates pyrotechnic effects in time to the music. With the lull in the lyrics appears, they stop and stand to either side of Kera, as she works over her guitar. Clowning around a bit they act like they are amazed at how she's making her fingers dance over the strings, then they return to singing, as the rest of the band offers backup vocals for them.

As the song ends, Kaze takes center stage, and motions for the cheering to settle down enough for her to be heard.

Once the crowd dies down enough for her to continue, she says, "Time to introduce everyone! For those of you who don't know us, back on drums, we have the demon dragon herself, DES!"

A separate spotlight, kicks on, and pins Des in its glare as she stands up and waves, before taking her seat and setting off a little drum rif for the hell of it.

"Next, we have the first of our keyboardists. The Mothra Leo, MEO!" Kaze continues.

The spot moves from Des, to shine on her lover, who drags one hand up and down the keys, while waving to everyone with the other.

"Next up, we have her partner in crime and keyboards, the girl with more guns than even she knows about, the MEGAS herself, LARA!" Kaze adds.

Moving across the stage from Meo, the spot pins Lara in its glare as she points both arms up into an open part of the sky, and seemingly cuts loose with a massive number of energy blasts of various colors (all supplied by Leona's illusions).

Jura takes over with the next set of intro's.

"Making her guitar scream for mercy, and making the rest of you scream and cheer, we have KERA!" Jura announces, as the spot moves from one mecha girl to the next.

Kera gives a little rif of her own on her instrument, before she lets it hang from its strap and waves to the crowd.

"And since you can't have one without the other, over on sax, we have her twin, SERA!" Jura continues.

Once the spot finds her, Sera raises her instrument over her heads so that it's gleaming shape catches as much light as possible and throws it out toward the crowd as she waves.

"And next up, we have one of the most unpredictable girls around, The Silver Dragon herself, LEONA!" Jura finishes up her part of the introductions, as the spot moves to shine on Leona.

Leona decides to ad-lib a bit as she takes a few steps forward in her human form, before suddenly transforming to her more recognizable Dragon Armor.

Leona takes over from there, adding, "And last, but certainly not least, we have our singers! First, we have the mastermind of this little group here, the latest model of Mazinger, KAZE!"

Kaze hams it up a little, blowing kisses to the crowd, as she gives them a deep bow with her arms stretched out to her sides.

"And finally, we have one of those quite ones that you where always warned to keep an eye on, JURA!" Leona finishes up, as the spotlight jumps from Kaze to her dark skinned lover.

"And together," Des, Meo and Lara add.

"We Are," Kera and Sera pick up.

"Technomancer!" they finish in unison, to the delighted roar of the crowd.

"I'll give them this," Gina says loud enough for those around her to hear. "They know how to work the crowd."

Everyone around her can't help but agree, as the opening notes of the next song start.

(Third Song: The Monster is Loose – Meatloaf: Bat Out of Hell III – The Monster is Loose)

The music begins slow, with Des working a heartbeat into the minor tones before the keyboards start working in earnest, and Kera gets things rolling. Surprisingly it's Jura who takes the solo to start this one off, the others joining in as backup on the chorus.

While the others do their thing, Leona adds to the mood and tone of the song by manipulating the lighting, making it almost murky, and offering up glowing eyes here and there around the stage and above the crowd.

Jura lowers her head as her solo section drops into an instrumental that dies down into a much slower pace, before she and Kaze pick up the next part as a duet, with the others backing them up on the later parts. When the pace picks up again, Jura leads, with Kaze and the others backing her up as they work through the final repetitions of the chorus.

The girls take a few moments to recover, before kicking into the next song.

(Forth Song: Right Kind of Wrong – LeAnn Rimes: Coyote Ugly OST)

The song starts off with a few simple notes, before things pick up, with both Jura and Kaze working the lyrics, with the others adding to the chorus for them.

In a change of pace, Leona causes illusions of Meo and Des to appear in front of the others as the song plays out, making them act out some of the song, with Meo standing alone later in the song, looking up as the lyrics seem to reflect how she's thinking, before Des reappears near her, and suddenly you can see that she's reached a decision and runs for the darker girl.

"Is everybody having fun?" Kaze calls out, while the others get themselves ready for the next song.

The crowds roar becomes near deafening as they answer, "YES"

"Then let's change the pace a little," she grins, as something a little slower starts to play.

(Fifth Song: How Do You Talk To An Angel? – The Heights)

The music is kicked off by Kera this time, as Kaze solo's the lyrics to start.

Leona keeps up her current theme of band members, as she show's an illusion of Kaze standing well below a version of Jura with a pair of angel wings sitting on a ledge above her.

When Sera and Kera take off with the instrumental part, the real Kaze shoots Jura a wide grins, before they all work the chorus into a slow die down of the music.

(Sixth Song: Trust – Vandread OST)

They don't wait long, before launching into the next number, with Kera leading the way while the keyboards back her up, before Kaze and Jura launch into the lyrics.

This song reminds several in the crowd of the Trio's music, although with a bit faster pace.

Jura and Kaze each step back to leave an un-obstructed view of the others as they handle the instrumental stretch in the center of the song, and again at the end when Kera gets a chance to rock out before the closing. While this is going on, Leona contents herself with simply shooting out colored lights at the crowd, saving the flashier effects for later in the show.

Giving everyone else a chance to catch their breath, Kaze works the crowd a bit more, "You all still havin' Fun?" she calls out, getting a thunderous agreement in return. "Great! This one is for all the lovers in the crowd, so enjoy!" she concludes as a slow orchestral build up signals the beginning of the next song.

(Seventh Song: I Don't Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith: Armageddon OST)

Kaze and Jura team up again to turn this into another duet, giving each other goo-goo eyes as they pour everything they have into this one. The crowd goes nearly silent as they work, shocked at the amount of emotion the girls are pouring out for them all. Several couples find themselves resting heads on the shoulders of their significant others, or pulling them into easy hugs as they slowly rock in time to the music. When the music finally dies, the crowd explodes into applause, taking several minutes to finally settle down enough for the girls to start the next number.

(Eighth Song: T.N.T – AC-DC: Live)

Des leads them off this time, with the others adding their voices to her drums and Kera's guitar. Kaze takes complete control of the vocals on this one, while Jura just moves with the beat, clapping her hands in time. Every time Kaze says "T.N.T." Leona sets off another illusionary explosion, and when she says, "Just watch me explode!" Leona follows through with one of them going off right under her feet, just to have her move through the flames and continue the song, until they get near the end, when Des and Kera go on an instrumental rampage, before cutting things off with a flourish.

(Ninth Song: Chrome – Trace Adkins: Greatest Hits)

Their next song starts off with Des, Meo, and Lara, and a distinct country music tone, as Meo and Lara adjust their keyboards to give them the instruments they will need for this one. Leona on the other hand, just grins and decides to add a few things to what they had all planned for this one. Once again, Kaze is in complete control on this one, while Jura blushes furiously while keeping time with the beat. As the song describes the woman in question, and her preferences, Leona tosses out illusions of Jura, Kaze and the twins, with the illusionary Jura completely captivated with the mecha girls shining skin. All of the girls can't help but grin like maniacs during this number, as they all join in with "Her favorite color is Chrome."

(Tenth Song: Heavy Metal (Taking A Ride) – Don Felder: Heavy Metal OST)

The slow build up on the next song gives Kaze a break for a few moments, before she and Jura need to begin, while the others get some mileage out of their instruments. Once their queue comes, it doesn't take long for them to start crooning the words, most of the focus for this song being the instruments, rather than the vocals. Leona keeps things low key on this one as well, mostly pinning several colored lights on Kera as she covers the involved guitar work the song requires.

(Eleventh Song: How Crazy Are You? – Meja: Dead Or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball)

Jura provides background vocals for this one while Kaze handles the lead, and the K-girls in the crowd cheer when Kaze alters the words slightly so that there is no mention of a man in the song. Leona, knowing where the song was pulled from, Throws out an illusionary four on four volleyball game with the band members as the song plays out.

(Twelfth Song: Kung Fu Fighting – Kung Fu Panda OST)

Leona grins as Kaze and Jura lead this one off, before the others join in with their instruments. As the music begins, she creates illusions of all the well known fighters from the school, and unleashes them on each other in a hand to hand free for all, Only to have them all stop and bow in respect as an illusion of Jackie Chan appears in time with his mention in the song, before they all go back at it, only for the lot of them to vanish as the song finishes.

(Thirteenth Song: Hurricane Tonight – Kinuko Ohmori: Bubblegum Crisis Complete Vocal Collection)

"That was AWSOME!" Sora cheers after watching herself fight along to the music on the last song.

"I think it's safe to say that the Trio have officially been blown out of the water tonight," Gina agrees.

"Kim wants to know why Teacher not on stage with rest of us for that fight," the boy asks, dropping his head to rest it on Gina's shoulder from behind, while she and Anji lean into each other from the side.

"Don't worry about it, and just enjoy their show," Titania and Anji tell him at the same time, then grinning at each other as the fast paced music signals the start of the next song.

Des and Kera again lead off, with the others joining in on vocals, before the song starts in earnest. Kaze and Jura duet this one as well, while the rest of the band covers background vocals. Leona concentrates on moving lights, and highlighting specific members as this one plays out, mostly when the song gives them a chance for a minor solo.

(Fourteenth Song: The Touch – Stan Bush: Transformers The Movie)

A simple four note lead in is all the warning anyone gets before Kaze and Jura swap off lines in this song while, according to plan, Leona tosses out illusions featuring Zoe, and several of her exploits. As points in her life are brought back to life along with the music, Kiryuu grins at her lovers shocked expression, and promises herself to congratulate the group on the planning for this one.

(Fifteenth Song (and finale): Godzilla – Blue Oyster Cult)

As the drums and keyboards vamp in the background, Kaze steps forward, and offers to the crowd, "Okay folks, we've got something special planned for this one, so no one panic alright? It's all part of the show." And with that little warning out of the way, she nods to Jura, who turns back to the others and offers a thumbs up, signaling Kera that at the next spot she can jump in, to kick the song off. Once again the song is a duet for the most part, but the subject matter gets to each and every student of DKH.

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible snarl
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down

Leona's magics are pushed to her limits on this one, as she creates life sized illusions of the great monsters around the concert, each of the great beasts staring at the stage with rapt attention.

Helpless people on a subway train
Scream for God as he looks in on them

A wave of fear goes through the crowd once they realize that the monsters are there, and that they are surrounded.

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

The fear dissipates somewhat when they realize that the monsters heads are bopping along with the beat of the music.

Oh no, they say he's got to go, go, go Godzilla

Yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go, go Godzilla

Yeah

The monsters begin to roar in agreement, but somehow never manage to overpower the music and lyrics.

Oh no, they say he's got to go, go, go Godzilla

Yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go, go Godzilla

Yeah

After this, the members of the band each take a turn saying "Godzilla" over and over again, before Kaze makes a muted announcement (so it sounds like it was coming over a radio) signaling Godzilla's approach to the concert, while the others continue to chant the beasts name.

Oh no, they say he's got to go, go, go Godzilla

Yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go, go Godzilla

Yeah

Once again the other monsters roar in agreement, without disrupting the song.

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Godzilla

As the girls sing this line, the King himself finally appears behind the stage.

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Godzilla

This time, the beast takes in the appearances of all the other monsters.

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Godzilla

The other monsters all bow their heads respectfully, lest the King get it into his head to start a rumble with them here and now.

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Godzilla

The great beast acknowledges the mob of monsters with a nod, and they all start to dissolve into golden sparkles as they fade away.

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Godzilla!

With the forceful delivery of the final word, the King throws his head back and roars out his dominance over all, before joining the others in dissolving into a cloud of golden sparkles before vanishing completely.

"Thank you! You've been Great!" Jura calls to the crowd, before Leona's illusions make it appear that they too dissolve and fade out like the monsters before them, leaving the stage empty, and the crowd roaring for more.

"Let's go girls," Maizy says as the crowd realizes that no matter how much they cheer that the band isn't coming back.

"Why didn't they come back out for an encore?" Nuri asks.

"Because they didn't plan for things to go this well," Immomu answers her.

"Give the worm a prize," Maizy agrees. "But seriously, we need to start heading back home, otherwise your keepers will never let us out alone after dark again."

"Sad, but true," Nuri agrees, while both Immomu and Zuki nod.

"Then let's head out. We'll walk Immomu and Nuri home first, then we can fly to your place Zuki," Maizy tells her green friend.

"Alright," Zuki agrees with a grin, happy that she doesn't have to say good night to her friends just yet.

"I wish I had my wings already," Both Nuri and Immomu mutter at the same time, making Maizy grin.

"Don't sweat it girls, we'll make it with time to spare," she tells them, as she leads the way toward the nearest exit to the campus.

"Well girls, I do believe we can call tonight a rousing success!" Leona smirks as the band collects back in their waiting room, to rest for a bit before attempting to leave.

"I must agree with that," Meo smiles.

"You are all welcome to come back to our place, to kick back and relax after this," Kaze tells them all, while Jura nods in agreement.

Then she shoots the twins a look, and adds, "And don't think you two are off the hook yet either. You still need to answer for that little stunt you pulled before the show."

"Oh really? What did you have in mind?" Sera asks, while maintaining a straight face.

"You'll find out soon enough," Kaze says.

"Oooh, mystery punishment! I can't wait," Kera giggles.

"Well you guys can have fun, but I'm going to head for home. I've got a kitty waiting to take care of me when I get there," Leona tells the group, before ducking out of the room.

"I'm going to head out too," Lara adds. "No offence to you guys, but after all this, I need some solo time."

"None taken. See you on Monday?" Jura asks her.

"You can bet on it," Lara answers, before leaving as well.

"So how about you two?" Kaze asks Des and Meo.

"We plan to go find a quiet place where we can unwind…..together," Meo states, a faint flush coloring her fuzzy cheeks.

"Yeah, we'll hook up with you guys at lunch or something," Des adds, as she helps Meo to her feet, and leads her out.

"Well, it looks like it's just the four of us," Jura says out loud.

"Whatever can we do to celebrate how tonight has gone?" Kaze asks, the sarcasm thick enough that she could club someone with it.

"Oh, I think we've got more than a few suggestion," Kera grins, while her sister adds a smiling nod of agreement.

"Then let's go. Between your flying surfboard, and Kaze's speed, we should make it back to the mansion before anyone else even realizes we've left the campus," Jura tells them.

Not another word is spoken as the group moves as quietly as they can to an exit, and immediately take to the sky once they get outside.

"Ah, here comes my prey now," Geisha smirks as she watches the foursome approach from her concealing shadows. "Everyone into positions! Take no action without my express order!" she silently orders through her com system, receiving several responses before she turns her full attention back to Maizy and her friends.

"I still think they should have kept another couple of songs that they could have used for encore material," Nuri says as they move down the sidewalk toward her and her sisters home.

"Kaze isn't all that great at planning ahead like that," Maizy answers. "To be brutally honest, I'm actually kind of surprised that her plan for the band went as well as it did."

"Super Maizy does things before she thinks about them?" Zuki asks.

"Like a certain bundle of green energy that we all know and love," Immomu adds to her friend with a grin, making Zuki blush slightly at the compliment/criticism.

"Well, now. Isn't this an interesting little group. Didn't your parents teach you that it's dangerous for little kids to walk around alone after dark?" Geisha asks from the shadows. She grins as her words make the juniors bunch together, while Maizy finds her in the shadows with her scanners.

"Why don't you step out here where the rest of us can see you," Maizy snarls.

"Alright," Geisha answers good naturedly. Nuri and Immomu gasp in surprise when they see how pretty she is, with her crimson armor setting off her silver skin.

"Now then, what the fuck do you want?" Maizy demands.

"Why the lot of you of course," Geisha answers. "And don't bother trying to call for help, I've already jammed your communications array."

"Guys, I'm going to distract her, you all make a run for it," Maizy growls to her friends.

"We're not leaving you!" Nuri hisses.

"She's right, they won't be leaving you," Geisha agrees, right before both Nuri and Immomu fall to the ground, out cold. Little feathered tufts sticking out of the sides of their necks the only clue as to what had happened.

"Zuki! Get out of here and find my sisters! NOW!" Maizy roars, launching herself at Geisha.

Taken off guard, Geisha actually goes down under Maizy's surprise assault. For a few moments anyway.

Having never heard Maizy talk to her like that before, Zuki launches herself skyward, intent on returning toward the school in hopes of finding some help. She barely clears the rooftops, when she feels a sharp pain in her shoulder. She suddenly feels sleepy, and passes out seconds later, crashing into a rooftop pigeon coop, destroying it, and releasing the birds to freedom. A single blinking red light shines from the dart imbedded in the girls back.

"Impressive, prototype. You are one of the very few anymore that has managed to surprise me," Geisha admits, after throwing Maizy across the street.

"Oh, you'll find that I'm just full of surprises," Maizy shoots back, before unleashing her Photon Beams.

"You'll need to try harder than that, little one," Geisha smirks, as her own Photon Beams meet Maizy's head on, and over power them, pushing them back until they slam into Maizy, and knock her into an involuntary back flip.

"So where did you get your tech?" Maizy growls, as she slowly pushes herself up off of the wall the last shot had slammed her into.

"Why from dear Zoey of course!" Geisha answers in mock surprise that Maizy hadn't figured it out. "We where such good friends after all."

Taking this last little bit of information, Maizy makes the leap to identify her attacker.

"So you're the Red Geisha. Zoe's right, you are a stuck up bitch," Maizy grins, as she unleashes everything she has at her opponent.

"Cute," Geisha snarls, as she knocks Maizy's rocket punches away, where they imbed themselves in a nearby wall. Maizy's beam attacks simply splash off of Geisha's armor, much to her shock. "My turn," Geisha snarls, as her energy blade flares to life, and she slams it into Maizy's gut, ripping it sideways, and free, in a spray of mechanized gore.

Maizy's eyes flicker twice, before she collapses, totally inoperable.

"Has the last one been tagged?" Geisha demands into her com.

"Affirmative. We can pick her up any time we wish," comes the answer.

"No, we leave that one. She is my invitation to Zoe to come out and play," Geisha returns with a feral grin, before ordering the support crew that finally appears to gather up the children, and Maizy's remains, before they return to their base.

"I think this is the first time we've been in here," Kera says as she looks around Jura and Kaze's room.

"Maybe in person," Jura answers, "But you've been in here before. At least in my head."

"You've been fantasizing about them?" Kaze asks, her voice oddly neutral.

"Once. And it was a dream that I just couldn't get out of my head," Jura admits.

"Then I think this is the perfect time to play it out," Kaze tells her with a smirk, before leering at the twins.

"I couldn't agree more," Jura grins. "Kaze, You will need to go get one of the big stuffed chairs from the living room."

"Alright," Kaze nods as she leaves to acquire the furniture.

"And as for the two of you," Jura grins as she beacons them closer, and whispers her fantasy to the both of them.

The face splitting grins the twins display are ample evidence that they like this plan.

"That's odd," Kiryuu mutters, as she and Zoe sit together in the park, staring up at the night sky.

"What's that?" Zoe asks, taking her attention away from the night sky, where she had been mentally connecting stars to make a constellation of Kiryuu's face.

"I just started picking up a positively ancient military beacon. This code has to be more than 15 years old," the mecha dragon tells her lover. "I've never even seen something like this before, and they told me that I had every code ever used in my database."

"Let me see," Zoe tells her. After Kiryuu tells Zoe the proper frequency to tune into to, Zoe goes rigid in surprise.

"What is it?" Kiryuu demands.

"It's an old Shogun Maidens homing beacon," Zoe tells her.

"Do you know which member of your old team it is?" Kiryuu asks.

"That's the weird part, lover. It's MY I.D.C!" Zoe answers.

"Your identification code? We have to go check this out now," Kiryuu states.

"No argument from me," Zoe agrees, as they both climb to their feet. "What's your bearing on the signal?" Zoe asks, as she moves several meters away.

Kiryuu answers her, and Zoe compares those numbers to what her own systems tell her from her location. "Let's see now….If we triangulate our two sets of readings, we get….."

"Isn't that the same couple of blocks that Mega-lass and her sister live in?" Kiryuu asks, making her own comparisons.

"Yes….And given that Maizy was out with the other kids tonight, I think we should go," Zoe tells her, her flight wings deploying. "Now!"

Zoe launches herself, and then loops back with both hands hanging down, so that Kiryuu can leap up and grab her hands, and add her own limited boosters to her flight pack, making the best time they can toward the signal.

It only takes them a few moments to travel the distance. Arriving in the general area, the signal leads them directly to the rooftop destruction Zuki caused. Moments later they find Zuki herself, still out cold.

"Her vitals are good, she's just out like a light," Kiryuu confirms as they gently extract the girl from the wreckage.

"And she's been tagged like some kind of damn animal," Zoe snarls as she gently works the barbed dart tip out of Zuki's shoulder. Carefully examining the dart, she finds that it has a memory chip in it.

"What do you make of this?" Zoe asks, handing Kiryuu the dart, and taking Zuki into her arms.

"I don't know. It will take me a couple of minutes to decode it, if it's not encrypted too deeply," she answers.

"Work as we search. The tracks from her crash say that she was coming from that direction over there. Let's find the other kids," Zoe orders, before stepping off the building.

"This isn't good at all," Zoe mutters as she looks over the scene of the small battle between Maizy and Geisha. "The street is melted, Photon beam tracks on all these walls, that impact point on that one…..Oh, no…." she moans, as her eyes find the stubby tubes sticking out of another wall.

"What are they?" Kiryuu asks, reaching up and pulling them free. When she sees the hands pull free of the wall, she knows exactly what she holds.

"Maizy's arms," Zoe confirms, a tremor in her voice.

"Whoever did this, knew what they where up against," Kiryuu tells her, resting a reassuring hand on her lovers shoulder.

Then they notice the puddle of mech fluids, at the same time that Kiryuu's systems finish decoding the memory chip.

Before Zoe can move to take a closer look, Kiryuu sends her the data from the chip.

"It's a video file. And it's not good news," Kiryuu tells her before Zoe plays it.

"Hello Zoe," Geisha smirks. "If you want to know where to find your prototype, I suggest you come down to the docks tomorrow evening at seven o'clock. Oh, and do come alone, won't you? It would be such a shame if I was forced to destroy anyone who was foolish enough to accompany you," she finishes, before the message loops again.

"I'm going to rip her cyber brain out, and see just how many volts it can take before it turns to slag….." Zoe snarls in fury.

"I realize this is weird coming from me, but you need to calm down, and deal with the current situation first," Kiryuu tells her, bringing her attention back the sleeping child cradled in her arms.

"You're right. First thing we need to do is get Zuki checked out, and back to Gigi. Then I'm going to track down that crimson bitch, and make her regret the day she ever decided to take over the Red Bamboo Army," Zoe answers, the glare from her optics glowing more and more intense as she goes on.

"You get her to the school. I'll call Milenna, and let her know that you are inbound and what is going on," Kiryuu tells her lover. "Then I'll get a hold of everyone you asked to back you up if something like this happened."

"No, I'll be going alone. I don't have a choice if I want to find out where Maizy and the others are," Zoe tells her.

"Who said we where going to go with you?" Kiryuu shoots back with a grin. "I plan to arrive with the cavalry about ten minutes or so after she springs whatever twisted trap she has in mind."

"I can live with that," Zoe answers with a weak grin as she launches, and heads to the school as quickly as she can.

"So, your plans are proceeding as expected?" one of several shadows asks from a monitor.

"Yes. I rid myself of Mazinger Zoe tomorrow evening, and finish collecting the subjects after that," Geisha answers.

"Very well. We must be moving on to our next project, but look forward to your support when we are able to return to this world," a second shadow tells her.

"I understand. I would like to thank you again for your assistance in adapting and improving upon the Mazinger Technologies that where subsequently incorporated into my body. And for the ability to keep my opponents from ever achieving a true victory," she answers.

"Having this world under your control when we return will be thanks enough," a third, and distinctly mechanical sounding, voice announces, before the transmission is cut off.

"Oh, it will be. And I plan to have an army of k-girls, with the powers of the ancient monsters under my control as well. Then I can take your remaining secrets, and dispose of you all, as I plan to do with all the humans, save a small number that I plan to keep to breed more slaves," She mutters to herself, while staring at the blank screen.

"Immo! Immomu, wake up!" the voice orders insistently.

"Just a little longer, Mina," the caterpillar girl mumbles as she turns away from the voice.

"Damn it, we don't have time for this!" Nuri snarls, as she reaches down and gives her friends right nipple a violent twist.

"Yeee-ouch!" Immomu yells as she comes awake and slaps Nuri's hand away. "What was that for?" she demands, while rubbing her chest.

"I needed you awake, so you could help me," Nuri tells her.

"What's going on?" she asks, rubbing her head. "Last thing I remember was that voice on the street."

"We've been kidnapped," Nuri answers her. "And I don't like the way things are going at all," she adds, fingering the metal band around her neck, and glaring at the shimmering green dome that is surrounding them.

"We've been collared?" Immomu asks in shock, as she fingers the band around her own neck.

"That's not the worst part," Nuri adds grimly, as she points to something near Immomu's lower half.

"Maizy!" Immomu yells in surprise, horrified at the condition of their friends body.

"That's why I needed you awake," Nuri tells her. "I think we might have a chance, if we can get her back online."

Immomu curls around herself, holding Maizy securely within the arc of her body, as she takes a closer look at the cyber doll's ravaged midsection, and notices the additional damage done to her after her battle.

"Nuri…..Her eyes….." Immomu whispers.

"They must think we can get her back up and running too. So they took her most obvious weapon, and her ability to aim whatever other ones she still has," the little meganulon girl agrees, just as disgusted at what's been done to her friend as Immomu is.

"Let's get to work," Immomu says, as she gently lays Maizy out on her back.

"I hope what little she's taught us about emergency repairs will be enough," Nuri adds, as she begins to carefully poke around within Maizy's ruptured abdomen with a single claw, desperately looking for the specific parts Maizy told them to connect if she was ever knocked off line.

"Well, it looks like Zuki will be just fine," Milenna says to Zoe, the Mecha G sisters, and Gigi.

"But why would anyone want to do such a thing to the children?" Gigi demands, desperate for some reason that makes sense for someone to want to hurt the kids.

"Because the person responsible for all this, is a sadistic bitch, with delusions of god hood, and a goal of wiping out the human race, so she can rule the world," Zoe answers, her voice sounding disturbingly cold to everyone who knows her.

"And someone you used to call a friend," Katsura adds, the sympathy in her voice unmistakable. Something that anyone she's ever fought with would never believe her capable of.

"Yeah, she used to be part of my old strike team, back in the military. Back when I was a "super hero". When the war was over, and they shut us down, we all got retired, whether we wanted to stop serving or not," Zoe says. "She took it personally. Felt like the humans in charge had just discarded us, because they didn't need us anymore after we'd saved their asses. She ended up as a hooker in America. She managed to hook up with the terrorists of the Red Bamboo Army, and after joining, she killed the old commander, and took over. Now she rules, and she has enough resources to do pretty much anything she damn well pleases."

"Not anything. Not on our turf," Katsura returns, the whole notion of going so completely against her original programming is so alien to her that she is angered by the concept of it.

"She's right. This bitch may have the rest of the world by the balls, but this is NMI. We don't take shit from anyone, and we've got the power to back that up," Lara says, as she, Mia, and several others file into the room.

"Do you have any idea where they may be keeping My sister and the others," Mega-lass asks, barely able to keep herself from tearing off to search the island on her own.

"No, not yet. Geisha wants to meet with me in….another three hours," Zoe answers. "I hope to be able to get her to spill the location as we fight."

"You must have faith," Mina says, placing a hand on Mega-lasses shoulder. "Our sister is missing as well, as is Zoe's. You must believe we will find them alive and well, for without hope, we have nothing at all."

"We may also get some help from the kids as well," Kiryuu adds, drawing everyone's attention to her. At all their looks, she smirks and adds," C'mon, you know as well as I do that when it comes to that bunch, the only time they are not in the middle of something is when they are asleep."

"She does have a point," Milenna adds with a wry grin, helping lesson some of the tension in the room.

"I'm leaving now," Zoe tells them all. "I'm going to do some searching, as I work my way to the docks."

"I'm going to go search as well. Call me if you find anything," Mega-lass adds, as the pair get up and prepare to leave.

"You can count on it," Milenna tells them both, with several nods from the others.

"Hey, I just noticed," Lara says looking around the assembled players. "Where are Kaze and Jura?"

"So, what do you have planned to do for your next performance?" Cole asks Leona as the pair cuddle up on the roof of their apartment building.

"You mean aside from screwing your brains out?" She asks with a smirk.

"Yeah, besides that," he laughs.

"Well, for that, you would have to ask the rest of the band," she starts to say, only to be interrupted by the appearance of a portal not three feet away from them.

"I don't get it," Cole admits as they stand up. "We haven't even found any of the normal things we usually get pulled into a realm to deal with, and it's time for us to move on?"

"Maybe what we are after has moved on itself?" Leona offers, as she changes their clothing to their standard traveling gear.

"That's as good a guess as anything else," Cole admits, moving toward the portal.

"Just a second!" Leona blurts out, as she quickly waves her hands, creating a message, and sending it on its way.

"What was that?" Cole demands, watching the message fly out of sight.

"Just a little note to tell the others what is about to happen to us, and that they shouldn't expect to see us again anytime soon, if ever," Leona tells him, as she moves up toward the portal.

"Ready?" Cole asks, holding out his hand.

"Like you need to ask," she shoots back with a grin, as she puts her hand in his.

The portal collapses into nothingness moments after they step through.

"How are we doing?" Immomu asks Nuri as they try to bring Maizy back to life.

"I don't know. How long have we been at this?" Nuri asks.

"Most of the day," Immomu answers, looking at her watch. "It's almost seven."

"Mmmrrrrr….Bzzzz…..Wha….What happppppppennnnnned?" Maizy groans as static bursts through her voice.

"Maizy!" the bug girls cheer as they both hug their severely damaged friend.

"Since I he, he, hear you both, and mo, mo, most of my systems are down, I'm go, go, going to go out on a limb and say I ble, ble, blew it when I tried to stop her," Maizy says, the damage making her talk like Max Headroom. "Whe, whe, where are we? I can't see anything."

"We are trapped in some kind of energy dome," Nuri tells her, while Immomu props the cyber girl up against her lower half.

"What kind of shape am, am, am I in?" Maizy asks, not really sure she wants to know.

"Your arms are missing, and your optics have been smashed," Nuri tells her.

"And whatever happened to you in the fight, nearly ripped you in half," Immomu adds sadly. "Your hips and legs are barely attached to you anymore."

Maizy actually smiles at that. "Then the bit, bit, bit, bitch screwed up," she stutters. "My left boot. Sec, sec, secret panel in the bottom."

Nuri quickly moves down and finds the panel, and pops it open. "What is it?" she asks, as she brings what was in the compartment back up by the others.

"My special emer, emer, emergency beacon. I made one especially for myself. One th, tha, that can't be jammed, like my, my, my normal one can," Maizy answers.

"How do we use it?" Nuri demands, excited that they can call for help.

"Pu, pu, pull the pin. When the button pops up, hit it," Maizy answers. Then she finally gets some kind of reading on her condition. "Ah, ah, ah, crap, ap," she adds.

"What's wrong?" Immomu asks, while Nuri activates the beacon.

"I ne, ne. ne, need to shut down," Maizy tells them. "I'm on bat, bat, battery power, and need to conserve it, it, it, as long as I can."

"And if you stay online?" Nuri asks, suddenly deeply worried about her friend again.

"I'll die," Maizy deadpans, before she deactivates herself.

"We should have done this, weeks ago," Kera grins, as she looks though Jura and Kaze's video collection.

"I couldn't agree more," Kaze smirks, from where she has both Sera and Jura cuddled up against her.

"Jeez, you two sure have a lot of Jackie Chan movies," Kera mutters as she looks through the titles. "What's "Vampire Effect" about? Besides vampires that is."

"Put it in the player, and you can find out," Jura tells her, a contented smile on her face.

"Then you can make us popcorn," Sera adds.

"Cancel that. Everybody up, Now!" Kaze orders, as she pushes past Jura and Sera to climb off the bed.

"What's going on? What's wrong?" Jura demands, getting up and grabbing for some clothes.

"Did we do something wrong?" Sera asks, climbing off the bed herself.

"Maizy's in trouble," Kaze tells them.

"How can you tell?" Kera asks, grabbing her clothes and tossing Sera hers.

"Distress beacon," Kaze answers. "Here, take a listen," she adds, as she routes the signals added audio through her speakers.

"Zoe, if you're picking this up, then I am in way deeper shit than I can get myself out of. You know that I would never call for help unless things where bad. Well, I'm calling for help. You do the math," Maizy's voice rings out, before the message repeats, and Kaze turns off the feed, concentrating on locating the origin of the signal.

"I suggest we dress for a fight," Jura tells them as she grabs the toughest clothes she has.

"I couldn't agree more," Kaze says as she touches her choker and dons her armor.

"We'll change once we get outside," Sera tells them. "Wouldn't want to trash the house with the elgo fields."

"Appreciated," Jura smirks as she pulls on a leather jacket over her red t-shirt.

"Let's roll," Kera says, opening the balcony doors.

"Follow me," Kaze calls, as she grabs Jura and launches skyward.

"So nice of you to come, Zoe," Geisha says as Zoe lands behind her on a warehouse rooftop.

"You didn't exactly give me a choice in the matter," Zoe shoots back. "Where are the kids?" she demands.

"You didn't honestly expect me to tell you, just like that, did you?" Geisha smirks over her shoulder at her.

"Not really, but it was worth a try," Zoe answers, drawing her sword.

"I won't allow you to stand in my way this time, Commander," Geisha tells her as she turns around, the lowering sun glinting on her golden helm.

"You're still holding a grudge over the fact that I was named commander of the Maidens, over you," Zoe shakes her head in disbelief.

"I was always better suited to command than you where," Geisha snarls.

"Nah, you're just a legend in your own mind," Zoe smirks, before lashing out with her Photon Beams.

"Not bad, Zoey," Geisha grins, bringing up her shield to catch the blast. "Now try one of mine!" she snarls as she fires her own Photon Beams, catching Zoe off guard, and knocking her off her feet.

"When did you get my weapons?" Zoe demands, scrambling to her feet, and bringing her blade up.

"Remember when I had your mind disconnected from your body?" Geisha returns, as the pair slowly circle each other. "I took the opportunity to duplicate everything you have."

"So now you think you can hang with the big kids?" Zoe asks, as she moves in to remove Geisha's head with her sword.

"Oh, more than that," she returns, as she catches Zoe's sword with her energy blade, sparks cascading from the point of contact. "Much more," she sneers as she forcibly disengages their blades, and kicks Zoe in the gut.

"You've been practicing," Zoe growls, before smirking at the signal she suddenly picks up. "And now I don't need you anymore."

"Oh? Planning to abandon the kiddies to my care?" Geisha smirks back.

"No. But Kaze and Jura will be picking them up," Zoe answers, as the crimson "V" on her chest starts to glow. "Fire Blaster!" she calls, as the heat beam flares out and engulfs Geisha.

"Impressive as ever Zoe, but it's just not enough," Geisha tells her, deflecting the heat blast skyward with her arm shield.

"Then maybe we can tip the odds?" Kiryuu asks, as the mecha girls, the Mothras, and Gina's group start popping up on the nearby rooftops.

"Zoe, I'm actually impressed!" Geisha tells her with a grin. "I never thought you would abandon your honor to bring reinforcements."

"Time's change, bitch," Zoe answers. "After dealing with enough people like you, I've learned to stack the deck in my favor."

"Too bad for you, but I've always run with that plan," Geisha smirks, as her support team suddenly throw off the stealth cloaks that had been concealing them.

"Jamming cloaks? I thought they had all been destroyed in the war!" Zoe sputters in surprise, first at their sudden appearance. Then she snarls in outrage when she gets her first good look at them. "You cheap copycat bitch!"

"This is not going to be pretty," Mia mutters, facing off against a duplicate of Zoe clad in golden armor, instead of black.

The others all echo that sentiment as they prepare to fight the other duplicates that they face.

"She's in there?" Kera asks, as the foursome lands on a rooftop across from the warehouse that Maizy's signal is coming from.

"Yes. And I don't like the fact that she isn't answering me," Kaze returns.

"Zoe knows that we're on this, but she seems to be in the middle of something," Jura tells them.

"Then I guess it's up to us," Sera says, she and her sister clad in their Gravion Armors.

"Then I guess it's time to knock," Kera grins, leveling her shoulder cannons at the door.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Korgha says, as she and Ezra appear behind the foursome.

"Although I would enjoy it if you want to resist coming along quietly," Ezra adds, leering at the group.

Sounds of distant thunder signal Zoe and the others mixing it up in earnest with Geisha and her duplicate Zoe's.

Korgha begins the attack with her sonic shriek, while Ezra rushes Jura.

"Korgha will stop your friends, while I feast upon you!" Ezra snarls as she slams into Jura.

"You talk too much," Jura grunts, matching her strength against Ezra's

"Anyone got anything that will counter this?" Kaze grunts in pain, as the sonic barrage causes random power shorts to spark through her and the twins.

"Can't focus enough to aim," Kera mutters, as a shower of sparks shoot from her neck.

"Let me try," Sera growls, reaching toward her leg, as sparks erupt from her shoulder. A panel moves, and a handle slides up to a point that Sera can reach it. Grasping it, she snaps her arm toward Korgha, while snarling, "Graviton Viper!"

The purple energy lash catches Korgha by surprise, forcing her to cut off her sonic assault in order to dodge.

"This is all that one of the highly regarded "Godzilla Girls" is capable of?" Ezra grins, her needle fangs showing. "I will enjoy feeding upon you."

"Eat this," Jura snarls as her spinal plates flash.

The radiation blast knocks Ezra three buildings away, before she lands.

"Finally! A worthy Opponent!" Ezra snarls in glee as she returns to her feet. She charges back at Jura, firing off eyebeams as she leaps from one building to another.

"Kiss this!" Jura snarls as she soccer kicks a revolving ventilation fan at Ezra.

Ezra just grins wider and ducks her head, her horn glowing with power as it shears the metal globe in half. "My turn!" she snarls as she leaps above Jura, and bathes her in flames from her mouth.

"Why do I always get the hard cases?" Jura wonders to herself as her clothes start to burn.

"Need to be careful. These are powerful opponents," Korgha thinks as she maneuvers for another attack, deftly dodging everything that the mecha girls have thrown at her so far.

"Swarm attack!" Kaze calls out, her forearm armor starting to rotate. "Turbo Smasher Punch!" she snarls, as her forearms launch toward Korgha.

"Double Graviton Pressure Punch!" Sera calls, her arms launching as well.

"Sol Drill Bit, Soul Spiral Crusher!" Kera adds, her arms also launching.

"Gah!" Korgha snarls in unpleasant surprise, repeatedly dodging the rocket punches, until Kera's regular flying punch manages to tag her in the back of the head, knocking her to the rooftop at Kaze's feet.

"Nappy time for you," Kaze growls, her re-attached arms appearing monstrously huge to Korgha as she reaches down and cracks her across the head again, knocking her out.

"You are strong, but you lack the instincts needed to see you through this," Ezra snarls, before sinking her fangs into Jura's shoulder as they grapple with each other.

Jura screams in pain and unleashes her shockwave, the energy more than Ezra can deal with as it knocks her away from Jura.

"An interesting attack," Ezra growls, smoke curling from her burnt mouth.

"I don't like to be bitten," Jura snarls back.

"Too bad for you," Ezra smirks, blasting Jura over and over again with her eyebeams.

"I, am getting really tired of you," Jura growls, before unleashing another radiation blast that catches Ezra in the face, and slams her into a rooftop power transformer. The detonation is enough to knock her out.

"You alright?" Kaze asks, as Jura jumps back to the other rooftop.

"I'll live," she answers, what few wounds still visible fading from her body as the others watch.

"Then let's go find the kids," Kera says, her shoulder cannons once again locking on to the front door.

"Sounds like these guys just pissed off the landlord," Crystal thinks as the sound of the front door being obliterated penetrates into her cell. "Yeeeargh!" she screams as she tries to use her powers again, making the chair rack her with pain as the electric shock comes again. Once the convulsions stop, she concentrates on herself, not attempting to use any of her overtly offensive powers, rather sending her horded energy to the seed crystals she had managed to plant when she was brought into the building.

"I think our rides here," Nuri smirks as they listen to Kera open the front door.

"I wonder who it is?" Immomu adds. "I wish we could see through this stupid dome."

"Don't sweat it, worm," Nuri tells her friend with a smile. "As long as we've got this," she adds, picking up the beacon, "they will find us. I just hope that we can get her fixed up before she runs out of power," she finishes with a worried glance at Maizy.

"Okay, so do we do this nice? Or messy?" Kera asks, as she leads the way in through the smoking mess that used to be the front of the warehouse.

"Split up," Jura says. "We can search faster that way. And don't blow up anything unless there is no other choice. We don't know if the kids might catch any of the splash damage."

"Here is the beacon freq. Let's hurry," Kaze adds, as she sends the information to the twins.

"There they are! Open Fire! Get them!" the guards yell as they pour around the corner and catch sight of the foursome.

"Tornado Power!" Kaze roars, blowing the lot of them into the wall, where most of them are either knocked out, or drop their weapons and retreat.

"Let's go!" Sera orders, as she and her sister go one way, while Kaze and Jura go the other.

"There you are," Crystal whispers to herself as her mind finally makes contact with her seed crystals. Slowly, she starts feeding her energy through the link, making the crystals grow from specks of dust to foot long spikes, piercing the power conduits and gaining access to the buildings power grid. Crystal then reverses her earlier efforts, allowing the energy flowing into the crystals to be directed at her. Unfortunately, the power is still kept from her by the shielded room.

"What the hell?" Kaze snarls as a blast of green lightning nearly fries her as she starts around another corner.

"Looks like something is in there, and they want to keep it that way," Jura adds as she peaks around the corner, watching as the bolts impact against a heavy door, leaving several shallow craters blasted in the surface.

"Suggestions?" Kaze asks, as Jura leans back behind cover.

"Get them!" several guards yell as they come up behind the pair and open fire.

"You take care of the goons, and let me worry about the door," she says, as she dives around the corner.

"You boys are really starting to annoy me," Kaze growls, turning to face the guards, and rising to her full height. Several bullets bounce off her chest plate, before she unleashes a Photon Beam that leaves a molten trail across the hall, micrometers from the guards feet.

"AHH!" the ones at the front scream, before forcing their way back, causing the others to turn and run as well.

"Wimps," Kaze smirks, before turning back to follow Jura.

"Let's see how tough this door really is," Jura growls, as her spinal plates flash. The blast of raw power causes the door to glow yellow/white, but isn't quite enough to burn through it.

At least not until the next lightning blast hits it.

"Yes!" Crystal cheers as the door starts to glow from the energy hitting it. When it suddenly starts glowing white, the heat within becomes nearly unbearable, even for her, but her next power feed burns through the door, and completely recharges her. The next one she feeds into the chair, shorting out its systems. "Finally!" she snarls, as she stands up, using her strength and TK powers to rip herself free of the restraints.

Jura barely manages to dive out of the way, as the door is blown off of its hinges from the inside.

"That was entirely too close," she mutters, as the smoky gloom is illuminated in crackling bursts by more of the green lightning. "What the hell did they have locked up in there?" she wonders as a silhouette appears in the gloom, back lit by the green energies.

"Well, well, well. I know for a fact that you are far too much of a good person to be involved with these bastards. So why are you here?" Crystal demands, after levitating herself through the smoke and catching sight of Jura.

"They kidnapped Nuri, Immomu, and Maizy. We came to take them home," Kaze tells her as she stomps around the corner.

"How did they get you?" Jura asks, shocked that they could imprison someone as powerful as Crystal.

"They hit us while I was still recovering from what that little silver bitch did to me," she snarls in return. "They still have Kumi in here somewhere."

"You go ahead, and hook up with the twins," Jura orders Kaze. "I'm going to help her search for Kumi."

"Who asked you?" Crystal snarls, more out of surprise than anything else.

"Drop the "Tough Girl" crap," Jura tells her. "You are scared shitless that something has happened to Kumi, same as we are about the kids. We are all on the same side here, so let's team up, and make these bastards regret having ever contemplated the idea of fucking with us."

"I knew there was something about you that I liked. You should let this side out more often," Crystal smirks.

"The next time we end up attacking a terrorist stronghold to rescue kidnapped hostages, I'll invite you along," Jura shoots back with a smirk of her own.

"You part of the team now?" Kaze asks the blue saurian.

"Looks that way," Crystal tells her, looking up at her armored face. Crystal's expression softens just a touch as she says, "Good luck on finding the kids."

"Same to you and your spider," Kaze returns, griping Jura on the shoulder, before dashing off down the hall, the sounds of gunfire echoing back in her wake.

"Ready?" Jura asks her new partner.

"They've had us for I don't know how long. Payback is long overdue," Crystal tells her, floating off down the hall, forcing Jura to trot to keep up.

"You have got to be kidding me," Cyra snarls as the first reports reach her.

"What the hell is going on?" Spyra demands, ready to rip the alert speakers out of the walls.

"We are under attack! And they are already inside!" Cyra tells her, her forearm blasters extending.

"How did they get past the guard dogs?" Spyra growls.

"They are tearing through the troops like a chainsaw through jello. If they are lucky, Korgha and Ezra are just out cold. Otherwise, they are dead," Cyra tells her. Then she orders. "You stay with the spider. I'm going to go check on Crystal and the brats."

"Hurry. Geisha will be incredibly pissed if they get away," Spyra tells her.

"No shit," Cyra growls, dashing out the door.

"What the fuck is that?" Kera demands, as they find a large room, with a green energy dome in the center. Emitters spaced around the edge of the dome beam energy up to a central point, where it falls back down as a curtain of energy.

"Judging by the reading I'm getting, it's where they are keeping the kids," Sera tells her.

"How do we get them out?" Kera asks, quickly making a lap around the dome.

"Take out the emitters," Sera orders, the cannons on her forearms unleashing purple energy bolts.

"On it," Kera agrees, the drill mounted on her left arm spinning up, and then bursting into flame as she dashes around the other side of the dome. It only takes a few moments for the pair to disable the energy prison.

"Zoe and Kaze must be bringing the place down around their ears," Nuri smirks as they feel yet another explosion vibrate through the floor of their prison.

"You don't think Jura would let them come after us alone, do you? Our sisters are probably out there too!" Immomu tells her, just before the dome drops.

"You two alright?" Kera asks, once she can see them.

"Oh, god," Sera gasps, being the first of the two to see what's left of Maizy.

"Who are you?" Nuri demands, jumping up to stand between her friends and the two armored warriors.

"Nuri, It's the twins, I recognize their voices," Immomu tells her, before turning her attention to their rescuers. "We need to get Maizy back to her house as soon as we can. She shut herself down after we got her awake, so she could conserve her emergency batteries. We need to get her home and hooked up to the repair machines, or we will lose her for good!"

"Get a hold of Kaze! Now!" Kera orders her sister, while kneeling to gather the little cyber girl into her arms.

"She's this way," Crystal says, after they pause at another intersection of halls.

"How can you tell?" Jura asks as they move off again.

Crystal's smirk actually grows into a grin as she says, "A little something you said to me during our last meeting, got me to thinking about playing with my powers a bit. So I used them to grow Kumi a pair of incredibly detailed earrings."

Jura can't help but grin at that.

"And since they are made out of my crystals, I can track them," Crystal finishes, as she brings them up short, then floats back down the hall to stop in front of a door they had just rushed past.

"She's here?" Jura asks.

"Yes," Crystal answers.

"On three?" Jura asks as her spinal plates start to glow.

"On three," Crystal agrees, energy arcing back and forth from her own plates and shoulder crystals.

Once their countdown hits the magic number, they both unleash their powers on the door before them, nearly liquefying it before they blow it out of their way.

"Avon calling!" Jura calls through the smoke, before leaping through.

"I don't recall telling you that you could come in," Spyra snarls, her spider legs shooting forward to hit Jura in the chest as she flies through the smoke, pumping Jura full of enough drugs to kill a lesser K-Girl.

As Jura hits the floor in a twitching heap, Crystal floats through the smoke and snarls, "I don't recall asking for your permission, fake." Then she telekinetically slams the disguised robo-spider into the wall.

"Oh, pooh. I guess I'll just have to kill you and take my chances with the Commanders displeasure," Spyra returns with Kumi's voice.

"Highly doubtful," Crystal retorts, unleashing her Corona Beams on Spyra, torching her disguise, and revealing her true appearance.

"Thanks for ruining my clothes. Do you have any idea how long it takes to make something like that?" she demands, before blasting Crystal with Photon Beams.

A prism like crystal shield appears in front of the redhead, splashing the beams in several directions, but not letting a single erg of power through.

"I swore that I was going to enjoy destroying the lot of you," Crystal tells Spyra, her tone deadly calm. "Time to collect on my first payment."

"I think not," Spyra retorts, before she opens her mouth wide, and unleashes her most powerful weapon.

The blast actually manages to knock Crystal back several feet, despite not breaching her shield.

"What the fuck was that?" she demands, firing another corona beam.

She is less than happy to see that the energy is gathered by a gem that rests where spider-bot's belly button would be if she was alive.

"Tasty," Spyra grins, before firing another blast from her mouth cannon.

"Fuck you," Crystal snarls, as she lands on her feet and bull rushes the robot.

"Can we? I did want to play with you, but you where so uncooperative," Spyra answers, her spider limbs coming up around her into attack position.

"It wasn't an offer," Crystal growls, spinning into a tail whip.

Spyra dodges that easily, just as Crystal had expected. When the spider leaps into a back flip to avoid the tail, she grabs her in a Telekinetic grip, and slams her face first into the wall.

"Sucks when all your ranged weapons are mounted on your face, and you can't look at me, doesn't it?" Crystal sneers as she calmly walks up behind the trapped robot. Drawing her hand back, she slams her fist into Spyra's back several times, until she finally cracks her armor enough.

"That all you've got?" Spyra sneers, thinking that Crystal has given up.

"You're already dead. You just don't realize it yet," Crystal tells her, releasing her grip as she goes to check on Jura. After finding a steady pulse, she turns back to Spyra and growls, "You have ten seconds to tell me where Kumi is. After that, I'll finish tracking her down myself."

"As if," Spyra snarls, firing several blasts of Photon Beams at her.

Crystal gives Spyra her most malicious smile as the beams are deflected, then she concentrates on the tiny seed crystals that she had forced through the cracks in Spyra's armor. "Die," she orders, as she force grows the crystals within Spyra's body.

"Wha?" is all Spyra has time for, before the crystals rupture her power core, and rip her body apart.

"Told you so," Crystal smirks at the head resting at an angle atop the tallest point of the new formation. Then she continues into the next room, and upon seeing Kumi, wishes that she could destroy Spyra again, only taking the time to make it hurt more.

Jura slowly drags herself to her feet and stumbles through the door, in time to see Crystal lay Kumi down on a flat sheet of crystal, and then force grow it into a cocoon that completely covers her, except for a very fine grid in front of her face.

"Good, your mobile," Crystal says, not bothering to look at Jura.

"What happened? It's all blank after I jumped into the smoke," Jura says.

"You got blindsided by the one that was impersonating Kumi," Crystal tells her, finally looking away from her encased lover.

"What's wrong?" Jura demands after seeing the tear streaked face of the toughest girl in the school.

"They did something to her," she whispers, unable to make herself say it any louder. "She's alive, but….I can't feel her in there. Not at all. I….I'm afraid I've lost her," she adds, the silent tears continuing to flow.

"Like hell," Jura growls, forcing herself upright, and moving to get a closer look at Kumi. After taking in the wide eyed stare for a few moments, she turns around and starts toward the outer door. "Let's go. I'm sure Meo can help her."

"Why would she?" Crystal demands, levitating herself and Kumi, and floating after Jura.

"Because this was done to her against her will. Because it's horrible, and should have never been allowed to happen in the first place! Because she is a Mothra. Because she is a healer, and it would kill her to leave her like that without at least trying to help her," Jura snarls back, surprising Crystal.

"Can you find the others?" Crystal asks.

"I'm about done playing nicely," She says, not bothering to answer. Instead, her plates start to spark and flash, before she totally slags doorways through at least five walls, making sure to keep her aim high enough to not hurt anyone on the floor.

"It really is a shame you don't like the way we play. You would make a great addition to our side," Crystal tells her, a very faint and tired smile on her face.

"Sorry, but I've got my own team to play with," Jura answers, with the same kind of smile as they start through the new doors. They find the twins shortly after Kaze does.

"We are getting our tails kicked!" Angie yells to Gina as they continue to fight a losing battle against the mechanical clones of Zoe.

"No kidding!" she yells back, giving one of the copies a blast of radiation that erases her from her boobs, to her knees.

"You and the Mech's are about the only ones making any kind of headway, and that's debatable!" Titania adds, throwing every piece of rooftop junk and equipment she can lay her claws on at the golden versions of Zoe.

"Hold on. We must win!" Kim orders, his blows knocking the robots back, but only succeeding in superficial damage, that begins repairing itself shortly after they stop moving. Moments later they climb back to their feet, and charge again.

"Why don't you do something useful for a change?" Angie snarls at him as she ducks one of the clones punches, and tail sweeps her off her feet.

"They won't stay off him long enough," Gina answers for him, Grabbing the one Angie had knocked down, and throwing it at one that is about to get a hold of Titania.

"We need backup," they all growl together.

"We will stop you," Zoe snarls, only to be brought up short as Geisha's energy blade shears through her sword.

"Your friends can't help you," Geisha gloats. "Soon they will belong to me, and shortly after that, I will use what I learn from them to make my army into a force that no country in the world will be able to stand against.

"Over my burnt out power core," Zoe snarls, facing off with Geisha once more.

"I can live with that," Geisha smirks, holding one arm up, pointing into the sky as storm clouds begin to roll in from out of nowhere.

"It's not possible," Zoe whispers, stunned into helplessness as she can only stare in shock at what Geisha is doing.

"Oh, but it is," the Crimson Warrior sneers, before shouting "Thunder Break!"

Lightning arcs down from the sky, hitting her outstretched arm, and bouncing back and forth between the twin horns on her helmet, before jumping to her other hand as she points it at Zoe.

The Lightning bolt takes her in the gut. Even Zoe's abilities to channel electrical energies can't cope with that much raw power, so when it hits the bolt knocks her from the sky.

A scream of rage, and a fiery streak coming toward the fight, signal that it's not over yet.

Not by a long shot.

"ZOE!" Kiryuu screams as she watches her lover fall. Suddenly her optics go red, and for the first time since she had come online, her inner beast, and her cyber brain are in complete accord.

Kill the one who hurt Zoe.

As three of Geisha's copy Zoe's rush her, her chest plates open, and energy begins to sparkle across the front of the central crystal. The copies all leap at her as she arches her back to aim her weapon up at the hovering Geisha.

The star shaped energy burst flashes out, though the copies, and continues up toward Geisha. The copies shatter when they hit Kiryuu, but Geisha isn't willing to play the mecha dragons game.

"Fire Blaster!" Geisha calls, unleashing the heat beam from her suddenly glowing shield.

The intensity of the hot and cold blasts colliding knocks everyone off their feet, and nearly crashes Geisha herself.

"You'll not be getting another shot like that," Geisha snarls after regaining her stability. Jetting down toward Kiryuu, Geisha blasts her repeatedly with Photon Beams, until she falls. The damage, combined with the power drain of using the Absolute Zero Cannon leaves her unable to continue.

"Who's next?" Geisha smirks.

"Nice job guys," Kaze says as she enters the kid's prison area. She stops cold, and pales when Kera turns around and she sees what's been done to Maizy.

"She was trying to protect us," Nuri tells her, tears in her eyes.

"Do you two know how to hook her up to the repair equipment?" Kaze asks, her voice suddenly gone cold.

"Yes. We've helped her before when Zuki has hugged her," Immomu tells her.

Turning to Sera, she orders, "Take them back to the house. Hurry, and get her hooked up."

As Kaze turns her back, tears start to slide down her face, memories of everything the little cyber doll had done for her running through her mind in the space between heartbeats.

"What are you going to do?" Kera demands, shocked that Kaze isn't going to see to her sister personally.

"Finish her fight," she snarls as she turns back to face them, the marks on her face glowing redder than her chest plate. Without another word, her battle mask slides into place as her wings snap out, and she launches herself through the roof at full afterburner, just as Jura and Crystal arrive.

"What's going on?" Jura demands, but stops short, before rushing over to Kera so she can get a good look at Maizy. "Oh, god. She's been nearly ripped in half!"

"And now Kaze's gone off to find the one who did it to her. And I don't think she's planning to take prisoners," Sera tells her.

"Good. That means I won't have to track that silver skinned bitch down myself and punch her ticket," Crystal growls.

Spinning around on her, Jura asks, "Can you take the kids back to the Mansion? You can put Kumi in one of the empty rooms and stay with her."

Caught off guard, Crystal answers, "I could if I knew where it was. I've never cared enough about you guys to find out."

"We can lead you," Immomu tells her.

"Yeah, we fly with our sisters all the time, so we can guide you," Nuri agrees.

"Please," Jura begs.

"Alright. But why can't these two do it?" Crystal asks, gathering everyone she will be taking into her telekinetic grip.

"Because I need them to help me go after Kaze," Jura answers.

"We need to hurry!" Nuri urges everyone. "Maizy's time is running out!"

"Let's go," Sera orders as she grabs Jura, while Kera launches, smashing Kaze's hole bigger on her way out.

"Our turn. You two sit on the crystal, and keep her steady," Crystal orders, maneuvering them atop of Kumi's crystal cocoon. Then she lifts them all clear of the warehouse.

But instead of leaving right away, she just hovers there, until Immomu demands, "What are you waiting for?"

"Just tying up a loose end," Crystal answers, just before crystal spires erupt from several places within the building, continuing to grow until the remains of the building collapses around them. "Now we can go," she finishes, moving them along as quickly as she can.

The kids can only stare in shock at what they've just seen.

"Mazinger Blades!" Kaze snarls as she flies toward the battle. Twin sword hilts extend from her shoulder guards, and the blades appear in a burst of light as she pulls the hilts free. "Now to…What the hell?" she pulls up in surprise. "Multiple Zoe's? But their colors are wrong." Then she sees that they are attacking others from the school. "Game over for the copycats," she snarls, diving into the battle blades first.

"C'mon! Come get some!" Des snarls as she stands protectively in front of Meo, Bathing the copy Zoe in front of her in flames.

To little effect.

The robot continues through Des's assault, and delivers an uppercut that deposits the Ghidorah girl to nappy land, behind Meo.

"DES!" Meo screams as she watches her lover soar over her head in slow motion. She is by her side before she stops bouncing, and the moth girl is relieved to find that Des is still alive. Then she gives the robot a look that no one who has ever met her would believe she was capable of.

One of complete hate.

"You hurt Des!" she snarls, energy blasts erupting from the three little marks on her forehead, each one staggering the robot back a few steps.

The fight is ended abruptly when a large object lands behind the copy, and twin rips appear in its body, going from shoulder to crotch on both sides of its head. After the copy collapses into three distinct pieces, Kaze stands back up from her landing crouch.

"You alright?" she demands, as she picks her next target.

"Yes, but Des, and several of the others are hurt," Meo answers her, as she returns to her lovers side.

"Patch them up as best you can," Kaze tells her, as she starts to move off.

"Wait!" Meo calls to her.

"What?" Kaze asks, looking over her shoulder.

"It's Zoe. She's down on the street….somewhere," she answers.

"How? Who did it?" Kaze demands, her facial marks starting to get even brighter as she finds out that she may have lost both of her sisters tonight.

"Her," Meo tells her, pointing up at where Geisha is hovering over the battle, enjoying the sight of her small army of Copies beating back the K-Girls.

"Then it's time to ruin her night," Kaze growls. Then she is gone in a burst of flight exhaust.

"Good Luck," Meo whispers after her friend, before turning her attention to healing Des.

Kaze is a force of destruction that the copies simply cannot stand against. From the moment she returns to flight, she is ripping through the copies as if they are constructed of balsa wood and tissue paper, instead of the very same materials as Zoe is. It only takes her a few moments to finish her rampage through the copies, easily demolishing more than a dozen, before she boosts skyward, for her meeting with the Red Geisha.

"So another challenger appears before me," Geisha taunts as Kaze comes within range of her voice.

"I don't know what you did to Zoe, or why you tried to kill Maizy, but you are going to pay for it," Kaze snarls, bringing her swords up into a "x" stance in front of her.

"Oh, look, someone thinks she's a Mazinger," Geisha smirks, mistakenly assuming that Kaze is some other mecha girl playing dress up.

"Laugh this off, bitch!" Kaze roars, boosting forward so quickly that she nearly manages to take Geisha's head with her first slice, before she can dodge.

"Can't afford to toy with this one," Geisha thinks grimly to herself as she uses every trick she's ever known, several of which Zoe herself taught her, to keep Kaze from carving parts off of her.

"What's the problem? Afraid to stand and Fight? Or are you only able to do that against little girls, or when you have overwhelming numbers on your side?" Kaze snarls as she continues to attack.

"Foolish girl, your mouth has just signed your death warrant!" Geisha snarls back, her energy blade erupting from beneath her shield, and coming down to rip through both of Kaze's swords, and leaving a carbon scar on her shoulder, but failing to do any real damage to her armor.

"Well, at least now I know how you managed to take out Zoe," Kaze growls, smashing her arm against Geisha's as she moves back for a little room to maneuver.

"Oh no, that was just the prelim! This is how I took out that stupid, stuck up, cyber cunt!" Geisha screams as she calls down the lightning once more. "Thunder Break!" she cries as she directs an even bigger charge than she used on Zoe, right into Kaze's chest plate.

Kaze uses the distraction of the lightning hitting her chest plate to close the distance between them. When the river of electrical destruction finally plays out, she snarls right into Geisha's face, "News flash, bitch. I'm not playing Mazinger. Maizy and Zoe are my sisters, and you are going down for what you've done to them. Turbo Punch!" she finishes her forearm armor spinning up to speed as she smashes her fist into Geisha's face, sending her tumbling from the sky to crash into a rooftop some distance from the battle between her now greatly outnumbered copies, and the K-girls and their reinforcements.

"This is going to hurt," Katsura thinks as one of the copy Zoe's is about to rip her head off with a punch that she is too depleted to counter. The sudden onslaught of lightning and flames comes as just as much of a surprise to her, as it is to the copy, who is eventually blown clear of Katsura's location by the energies unleashed. "Who?" she gasps weakly as she turns to see who it is that saved her.

"I can't believe that Milenna actually threatened all of us if we didn't come out here and help," Kazira growls in annoyance, her hand still smoking from the amount of energy she had just unleashed.

"She is one of the few capable of making good on any threat she might offer, and be able to counteract any sort of revenge we may attempt in response. She is not one to anger lightly," Bai Xiong returns, smoke rising in wisps from the corners of her mouth as she answers Kazira.

"I don't care why you're here," Katsura breaks in. "Thanks for the save," she finishes, moving off to find Sumegi, and offer tactical advice to her "little" sister.

"Well, shall we find another one of these gold plated toasters to slag?" Kazira asks with a feral grin.

"For someone who is complaining so much about the need to come, you seem to be enjoying yourself," Bai tells her, looking at her from the corner of her eye, so the Ghidora girl can't see her ever so slight smile.

"May as well make the best of it," Kazira answers with a shrug as she spreads her wings and leaps up. "Now, let's go find something else to smash, so that the nights not a complete wash!"

"Jeez, five of you, all for little old me. You shouldn't have. No I'm serious, you really shouldn't have," Lara mutters, continuing to blast away at the copies, while every few minutes another display within her vision reports that yet another of her weapons has either been depleted or destroyed by the copies.

Suddenly laser bursts, followed by lightning, and finished off with a napalm bomb clear the area around her of threats, while from above a smirking voice calls out, "Looks like Miss Firepower bit off more than she could chew."

"Gabby, if not for the fact that you four just saved my ass, I'd cluster bomb you for that," Lara smirks back, waving at Giganna, Megan, Cyganna, and Gabrelle as they fly past to finish off their targets.

"You're going to pay for that," Geisha snarls as she kicks herself free of the rubble her landing caused.

"I really doubt that," Kaze growls back, stalking across the rooftop toward her.

"Fire Blaster" Geisha yells, bringing her shield up in front of her body, before the heat beam erupts and bathes Kaze in its power.

"Here, let me show you how that's done," Kaze tells her, not inconvenienced in the slightest by what is one of the most powerful attacks a Mazinger possesses. "Fire Blaster!" she snarls, the crest on her chest glowing for a moment before unleashing a heat beam far more powerful than Geisha's. It only takes a second for Kaze to overpower Geisha's beam. Geisha dives to the side, and manages to survive, but she screams in agony as her shield arm, super heated by Kaze's assault, warps and deforms under her weight, becoming little more than a twisted lump below the elbow.

"Kaiser Sword!" Kaze calls, causing the golden emblem in the center of her crest to seemingly float free for a moment. Suddenly the emblem is the centerpiece of a huge, ornate sword that Kaze reaches out and wields in one hand. "And now, It's time to finish this," Kaze growls, grim purpose in each step as she closes on Red Geisha.

"Photon Beam!" Geisha yells, focusing her energies on the sword, only to have them do little more than warm the metal.

"Don't bother. The swords you destroyed before where little more than duplicates of Zoe's blade. This one is all mine," Kaze tells her, raising the blade and preparing to destroy Geisha.

"If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than your puny cyber brain can conceivably imagine," Geisha smirks at her, despite her condition.

"Sorry, I've seen those movies, and you're no Jedi!" Kaze snarls, first beheading Geisha, and then slagging her, and her parts, along with the warehouse, with her Fire Blaster. "Now to see if I can find Zoe, and let her know about Maizy", Kaze thinks, as she turns away from the water front.

"Don't say I didn't warn you, little Mazinger!" Geisha's voice rings out, followed by the sound of metal being warped and torn on a massive scale.

"What the Fuck!" several people, Kaze included, yell in shock as they turn toward the noise, and end up watching as a tanker ship at the docks is destroyed from the inside out.

With a flash of a colossal blue/white energy blade, and the shriek of torn metal, Red Geisha returns to the battle, this time armed with a one hundred foot tall super robotic body!

"How do you like me now?" she laughs, her left hand sliding into her arm, and her entire lower arm becoming an energy cannon that she points at the defiant K-Girls.

"Kaiser NOVA TACKLE!" Kaze bellows. The command sets her power booster to its highest setting, resulting in shimmering energies becoming visible over her entire body as a flaming corona. In a blazing streak, she smashes herself into, and through the side of Geisha's energy cannon, ruining the weapon itself, but doing little to damage Geisha's massive new body.

"I think it's time you had a time out," Geisha snarls at her, back handing her like a fly as she comes around again, and sending her on an uncontrolled tumble through several buildings, where she finally comes to a stop, only to have a much abused wall crumble on top of her unconscious form.

Only her left forearm is left free of the debris.

"Oh my god," Jura whispers as she and the twins watch the final parts of the battle play out during their approach. When Kaze is smashed like a tennis ball, Jura is barely able to keep from screaming. As they approach her crash area, she snarls at Sera, "Land. NOW!"

Sera and her sister share a look, before dropping from the sky, and letting Jura go pull Kaze from the rubble. "Stay with her, I'm going to go find Zoe," Sera tells Kera, before dashing off.

"Hurry," Kera radios after her. Then she goes to stand behind Jura as she slowly pulls the crystal dagger from her neck, snapping the thin, yet incredibly strong chain holding it.

"I was hoping that these damn visions would never come true!" she snarls as tears flow freely down her face. "First Maizy, now you," she continues to talk to Kaze's inert form. "That means that Zoe is around here somewhere face down in a crater full of water. I've failed to keep this all from happening. Somehow I had the chance to stop all this and I blew it," she growls, while Kera quickly passes on the information about Zoe. "But like daddy said, I'm not going to be afraid of my power. It's time I accepted it all," she adds, turning a hateful look on Geisha, where the giant is toying with the other K-girls, by peppering the area around them with a Gatling cannon concealed in her shield.

"Sera just found Zoe!" Kera blurts out, shocked by the fact that she can literally see fire in Jura's eyes.

"Good," Jura answers her. "Now I need you two to go help the other girls, and keep her distracted while I get to the water. I'll take it from there," she orders, while she bends down and gently places her amulet into Kaze's hand, and carefully wraps her fingers around it.

"But, how can you think you can take on that all by yourself?" Kera demands, pointing at Geisha.

"Trust me. Now GO!" Jura orders as she sprints away from Kera and toward the nearest pier.

"Damn K-girls, they're all insane," Kera mutters darkly as she calls her sister, and they both fly toward the other girls. Kera unleashes her strongest attacks, while Sera calls the still operational mecha girls in the group to pass along what little she knows about Jura's plan.

"Oh look, more targets," Geisha laughs as she stops shooting at the trapped K's for a moment, and turns her fire on the twins as they head toward the others.

"Graviton NOVA!" Kera yells, as a gravity lens forms in front of her. When the energy from her shoulder cannons and head beam pass through it, the energy is magnified, by several orders of magnitude. The resulting beam is almost as large as Geisha's face, and manages to scorch her appearance, as well as knock her off balance.

The other K-girls waste no time is helping out, the massed attacks from the remaining girls just enough to tip the balance, and send Geisha crashing into the harbor, raising a small tidal wave that almost manages to collapse the damaged buildings the girls are fighting from.

"If she wasn't pissed at us before, she sure as hell will be now," Gabrelle mutters, getting several nods of agreement as Geisha picks herself up out of the harbor, and takes a threatening step toward them.

The glowing, boiling waters behind her go unnoticed, except by the k-girls she is so intent on taking out of the fight.

Hitting the end of the pier, Jura dives forward and swims as quickly as she can toward Red Geisha's position in harbor. Once she finds her titanic crimson legs, she dives toward the bottom, and retreats within her mind.

"So it's finally time is it?" her shadow self smirks as she appears in the mindscape.

"You already know the answer to that," she shoots back.

"True, but I do like forcing you to admit it," the darker part of her mind laughs.

"This isn't funny," Jura snarls at herself. "That crazy bitch is going to kill, or worse, everyone! I'm the only one that can take the fight to her now. And I need you to do that."

"Is this going to turn out like our last deal? The one where we became partners, rather than you on the outside and me always trapped?" her dark side demands.

"I've kept to that deal. You know damn well I don't like to fight, and that you revel in it. After those last few brawls, no one is crazy enough to start anything with us, so you haven't had a chance to come out and play. But if you'd quit bitching, I'm not even planning to force you to tone things down for this! I WANT her totally destroyed, and that is right up your alley," Jura tells her.

"That it is," her dark side agrees.

Instead of taking each others hand this time, Jura draws her darker self into a hug.

Jura's eyes snap open again (barely a few seconds have passed) as a blue glow surrounds her body. She lets out a scream as the energies intensify to the point of it actually causing her pain. Then she starts to grow as the energy crackles back and forth across her body. By the time she erupts through the surface, and the process stops, her scream has devolved into a roar.

The roar of the King of Monsters himself.

"…The HELL is that?" Armorra calls, pointing to the spot behind Geisha where the harbor is glowing and the water is starting to surge upward as something huge underneath rises faster than the water can flow out of the way.

Several jaws drop in mingled shock and horror as they all hear the distinctive roar ring out, and more join them when they realize that this time, the leviathan is one of their own.

"I hope she's not still made over that little ambush I pulled on her," Gabby mutters under her breath.

"Jeez-us, jacked up, monkey fucking k-RIST!" Giganna yells in surprise when she gets a look at the bright colored hair. "I don't know what the girls been eating, but I wish to hell she'd share!"

A streaking flash of rainbow colored light announces the arrival of two more players in this little drama.

"You alright, Lyrai?" her older sister asks.

"Just a little tired, Pyra," the brightly colored moth girl answers as her appearance becomes less streamlined, and more like that of the other mothras.

"Oh, crap! It looks like we're too late!" Pyra snarls in disgust, as she catches sight of Geisha, and the newly super-sized Jura.

"No, there's something different going on! Their fighting! That red bitch isn't in control!" Lyrai cheers as Jura unleashes a radioactive blast that would have done Godzilla himself proud, managing to burn off Geisha's left arm with her opening salvo.

"Looks like we might just pull this off after all kid," Pyra agrees, angling them toward a touchdown with the other gathered k-girls to watch the fight.

Then things get ugly. At least for Geisha.

"And now it all becomes clear," Geisha smirks at Jura. "I had wondered how you managed to survive something that destroyed that lab so completely. I just never thought that it was you that had destroyed it. Your file was rather repetitive about you disliking violence," She finishes, turning her gatling cannon on Jura.

Jura roars again, this time in pain, as the shots force her back a staggering step. Her injuries heal almost instantly, as her healing factor is almost the equal of Godzilla's own at this size. Before Geisha can prepare her next attack, Jura unleashes her own, her spinal plates flashing as she calls the power from within, and unleashes the radioactive blast.

"Gah!" Geisha yelps in surprise, as the raw power of the beam takes her left arm off several feet below her shoulder, leaving a molten stump. "It's a good thing I ordered them to leave out the pain sensors when I ordered them to build this body," she thinks. "But I can't believe that I'm being defeated! And by this!"

Geisha moves in on the attack, her energy bade appearing, as she drives it into Jura's gut, causing the G-girl to roar in pain once more.

"Didn't like that very much, now did you," Geisha snarls, reveling in causing pain to her opponent.

Jura's answer is to grab Geisha arm, and force the blade away from her. Geisha is shocked as Jura pulls the arm sideways, rather than removing it to do the least amount of damage. Then she sees that everything in the blades wake is healed almost as soon as the blade is past. Before she can add any of her other weapons to the attack, Jura unleashes her bio-electric shockwave. At point blank range, Geisha takes the full force of it, energy arcing across her form as she struggles to reroute her systems to compensate for such a massive and direct power surge.

Jura doesn't give her time to recover as her plates start to glow once more.

"Oh shit! Everybody DOWN!" Gina orders, knocking as many people as she can reach flat on their bellies as she sees the glow on Jura's back shift from blue to red.

Geisha is finally ready to return to the battle when Jura ends it. Her Spiral Fire attack blows Geisha's head apart, then proceeds to melt her body in half, from neck to crotch.

Once Jura stops the beam, the water rushes back in, and a bank of fog grows around her from the super heated water and metal.

After taking a second to make certain that her foe is indeed down for the count, Jura throws her head back and roars in victory for several minutes.

"Owww. Who dropped the building on me," Kaze mutters, as her systems start coming back on line. Rolling over to get back to her feet, she's surprised to find that Jura left her amulet with her. "She hasn't taken this off since we told the Mothras about her dream," Kaze whispers to herself, wondering what the hell is going on. Jura's roar catches her attention immediately, and when she sees what's become of her lover, she suddenly understands everything that Jura had hinted at. "Oh god, please don't lose it baby," Kaze whispers, checking to see if her flight pack still works. Finding that it's good enough for short flights, she takes off, just as Jura takes a step toward land.

"Hot damn! Chalk one up for our side!" Cyganna grins, completely forgiving Jura for taking her out so easily when they had fought.

"Oh, no. She isn't going to do what I think she's going to do is she?" Megan asks, clearly scared.

"What are you talking about?" Sumegi demands, turning away from Jura to look at the Megalon girl.

"She's about to pull a Godzilla on us!" Gabby yells, as Jura starts moving toward the shore.

And right toward the assembled k-girls.

"Looks like it's our turn," Sera tells her sister over their private channel.

"I really hoped we'd never need to do this," Kera answers. "And I never wanted to have to do it against a friend, let alone a lover."

"I know, but if we don't do it, then she's going to level half the town, if we're lucky, and there's really no guarantee that she's still in there. We haven't heard a word out of her since she popped up over there. Just roars," Sera reminds her as they take off and stop at a point midway between Jura and the others.

"WAIT!" Kaze yells on every radio channel she can access, as well as with her voice amped up to the point that several remaining windows (there aren't that many survivors among them at this point) explode form the volume.

"Glad you're still alive," Kera grins at her.

"Please tell us you have a plan," Sera says, in a pleading voice.

"I'm the plan. You two are the backup," Kaze says as she flies past them making a beeline for Jura.

"Why do I suddenly think our plan was better?" Kera asks, looking more worried by the second.

Going as quickly as she can, Kaze stops and hovers directly in front of Jura's nose, just far enough out that Jura can see her without crossing her eyes.

"Jura, I know you're still in there somewhere," Kaze tells her, when the Kaiju sized k-girl stops and regards her for a moment.

"Come on girl, we don't want to have to fight you," Kera says, moving up next to Kaze.

"Please Jura, Come back to us," Sera adds, coming in on Kaze's other side.

"I told you two to back me up," Kaze snarls across the radio.

Jura tips her head to the side, as if thinking about their words, before roaring in their faces.

"You're letting the power use you! Fight back! Take back your control!" Kaze yells after she manages to stabilize her flight.

Jura stops again, and seems to think about that. Then her back begins to glow.

"Damnit! You have the POWER! It's your CHOISE! Are you going to come back to us? OR LIVE AS A BEAST?" Kaze roars as she jets right up between Jura's eyes and slams the crystal dagger into her flesh.

There is a blinding flash, and both Kaze and Jura are falling toward the harbor when they are both snatched out of the air.

"So nice of you to drop in," Kera laughs as she gets a better grip on Kaze's armpits.

"Nice work," Sera adds, cradling Jura against her as they turn back toward the assembled k-girls.

"I'm just glad it worked," Kaze admits, relieved to see Jura back to her normal size.

"Me too. Thanks for the wakeup call," Jura adds in a tired voice. Before she passes out, she whispers "I love you."

Sera grins at that and passes it along for her, before they land.

"This was not one of our better days," Cyra mutters, deftly maneuvering a souped up speed boat out of the other side of the harbor and toward open sea, where she has arranged an air lift for them.

"Agreed," Red Geisha admits, sitting up and throwing the cloth that was concealing her body away. "What where our other losses?"

"The warehouse is a total loss, all the prisoners escaped or where rescued, the tanker is totaled, as is your super-sized body, and Spyra was wrecked. I've got her head hooked up to some car batteries to keep her going until we can transfer her brain into a fresh body," Cyra answers. Then she jerks a thumb at the bloody and bandaged pair that are still out. "And these two seem to have run into the same pair that gave you so much trouble."

"How did you manage to come through unscathed?" Geisha demands.

"Pure dumb luck," Cyra mutters bitterly. "I left Spyra with Kumi when the attack started, and went to check on the kids. They had already busted up the containment dome and had three mechs in there who's power levels made me look like a tinker toy. I turned back to get Spyra, and found that Crystal and the blue haired one had found her while I was gone. I salvaged what I could, and took off before they noticed me. Found a pickup not too far away, and after stealing a few batteries for Spyra, I went looking for the other two. Found them beaten and bloody, so I threw them in the back, and headed for the docks. We got there in time to see you bring the big one out to play."

"Ah, so you saw that brutal defeat," Geisha says dejectedly.

"No offence ma'am, but that wasn't a defeat. It was a slaughter," Cyra tells her. "I'm just glad that trick with the burst transmission works."

Geisha is prepared to vent her ire at Cyra, until her last comment. "Yes, beaming my mind into a waiting cyber brain/new body is an excellent way to keep surviving," she agrees in a smug voice.

"About the only thing it looks like we are going to salvage from this besides information, is that they are all going to think you're dead," Cyra admits, trying to put the best spin on things she can, given the circumstances.

"Yes. I'll let them think that for a while. After we have a new plan, and have replaced our losses, we will remind them that red bamboo is very difficult to get rid of!"

"Yes ma'am," Cyra grins, the prospect of revenge lighting her mood as much as it does Geisha's.

"How are they doing?" Gina asks Meo as the moth girl leaves the room where Crystal put Kumi.

"Better," Meo answers. "Kumi is finally responding again, so I hope that she will make a full recovery."

"As much trouble as they cause me, I'm glad that the damage wasn't permanent," Gina admits.

"As am I. Now, I need to find my next patient," Meo agrees, before nearly falling on her face.

"Oh no you don't!" Gina tells her as she catches her. "It's time for the doc to recharge herself, before she drops from exhaustion," she orders as she slings one of Meo's arms over her shoulder, and guides her to another room.

"Got your roommate here," Gina calls as she bumps the door open with her hip.

"Good. I was starting to wonder if she was going to ignore me until I was skating again," Des grins from her place in bed.

Gina helps Meo over to the bed before leaving, the sounds of the lovers making out following her as she closes the door.

Gina starts down the stairs to the main floor, when Kera catches up to her.

"How are you holding up?" the mech girl asks.

"Little tired, but I can keep going longer than most of them. How are the repairs coming in the basement?" Gina returns.

"Kaze was all patched up shortly after we got back," Kera tells her. "We figure Zoe will be back online any time now. Maizy is the problem."

Gina winces at that. "Yeah I heard she got busted up pretty bad," she admits.

"They almost didn't make it in time," Kera admits. "Another five minutes, and she would have been lost. As it stands, they still don't know if they can save her body or not."

"At least she has the option of getting a new one," Gina reminds her. "If not for Kaze and Jura, there would be a lot of us in body bags right about now."

"Don't forget the others that came to the rescue," Kera reminds her. "If not for Milenna and Zoe sharing an open channel, you never would have gotten that backup when you needed it so badly."

"True, although I'm trying very hard to forget that part," Gina smirks at her. "Owing the bully brigade pretty much sucks."

"Have you had a chance to rest yet?" Kaze demands as Gina and Kera enter the basement.

"I wanted to check on these two first," Gina tells her, looking in on Zoe and Maizy.

Zoe is laid out like a corpse, with a few wires running from her platinum hair to a nearby monitor.

Maizy is worse off by far, but Megan and Milenna keep comparing what they are finding within her ruptured body to the few notes that Kaze could find in the computer on "Ryoko".

"Take it easy," Gina whispers, putting a hand on Kaze's shoulder. "If those two can't put her back together better than ever, than no one can."

"Thanks," Kaze tells her, offering up a tired smile.

"No problem. How's our little titan doing?" Gina asks.

"Tired. Apparently that little trick drains almost all of her energy. She's going to need a couple of days of rest, and a nugget or two of the heavy stuff," Kaze informs them. "But our ever thoughtful teacher made sure to bring about a half dozen care packages over with her. So that means there are enough for you to recharge too," She adds, forcibly placing one of the radioactive containers in Gina's hand.

"Thanks," Gina nods. "I think I'll go find where the room Titania and Angie are sleeping is. And thank you again for offering up your place so we could keep everyone together until we are back on our feet."

"Don't worry about it. We have enough other things on our plate," Kaze answers, her attention going back to Maizy once again.

Kera and Gina share a look, before turning and heading back up the stairs, leaving Kaze to stand her vigil alone.

"How's it going in here?" Kera smirks, as she sticks her head into Jura and Kaze's room.

"I've felt better," Jura tells her with a faint smile from the bed.

"And I'm beginning to enjoy this show. Who knew that they could make a cartoon about an action movie actor so entertaining?" Sera adds, sitting in a chair near the bed.

"Yeah? What's it called?" Kera asks, opening the door wide enough to enter.

"Jackie Chan Adventures," Sera answers, grinning at Kera's reaction.

"I should have known," Kera groans rolling her eyes.

"You expected otherwise?" Jura smirks.

"Well, at least we know that you're feeling better," Kera smiles.

"How are the others?" Jura asks, her smile fading behind her concern. "Your sister won't tell me anything, other than both Zoe and Maizy made it to the repair bay before their backups gave out."

"Well, Kaze is already back up to full power," Kera tells her. "I'm still amazed at the amount of raw power that girl has. Anyway, she's downstairs with the others. She's pretty much said that she's not leaving them for anything less than another emergency."

"Sounds like her," Jura smiles.

"Zoe has been repaired, for the most part. We're pretty much just waiting for her software to recover from the power surge Geisha dumped into her," Kera continues. "The egg heads expect her to wake up any time now."

"That's good to hear," Sera adds. "How is Kiryuu doing?"

"Katsura took all three of them back to the SDF base for repairs. We haven't heard anything since they left, but I expect them all back soon enough. Those three where designed to fight K-Girls after all," Kera answers.

"And Maizy?" Jura nearly chokes, images of the little robots shattered body flashing through her mind.

"That's the not so good news," Kera admits. "The two M's down there are still trying to sort out what little they could find on her original construction. But at the moment….It's looking like they are going to have to build her a completely new body. And that is going to take them a while. But on the plus side, Crystal did manage to get the kids back here in time to save her mind, so she will still be herself when she finally gets to come back online."

"That's something at least," Jura breathes a sigh of relief, not able to imagine the mansion without the pint sized terror running rampant.

"Come on, Cheer Up! Or we will molest you until you can't help but smile!" Kera threatens, earning her a smirk from her sister.

"Somehow I don't think that is anywhere on the list of things Milenna said she was allowed to do until her strength returned," Sera retorts, crossing her arms over her normal armored chest plate (as opposed to her Gravion armor).

"Party Pooper," Kera shoots back, sticking out her tongue, before grinning at Jura's laughter.

"Thanks you two. I needed that," she smiles, leaning back against the head board.

She is asleep before she can even realize she is that tired.

"Urk! Owe. Anyone get the I.D. of the Kaiju that stepped on me?" Zoe groans as her systems begin coming back online.

Kaze is by her side in an instant, quickly drawing her into a hug.

"Thank whatever gods you want to name, I am so glad that you're finally back!" Kaze tells her.

"Last thing I can remember…Geisha has my weapons! We have to find her and stop her!" Zoe blurts out, as the final moments before she was knocked offline come back to her in a rush.

"Easy! Take it easy, and listen," Kaze tells her, forcibly making her lay back down on the table. "First off, you are in no shape to go out picking a fight with anyone, let alone the bitch that blasted you out of the sky with your own trademark attack," Kaze continues, smirking as she adds, "And anyway, I cut her fucking head off, and slagged her with my fire blaster."

"Good," Zoe grins.

"Of course, then she somehow came back, this time in a giant body. Smacked me around like a tennis ball," Kaze continues, enjoying watching Zoe's eyes widen in shock.

"Please tell me that she is gone, and that body was destroyed. And be honest while doing it," Zoe begs.

"Jura blew her head off, then slagged the remains," Kaze grins.

"Jura? How did our little wall flower get the power to take down something the size of a super robot?" Zoe asks.

"Well, the jury is still out on the how she does it, but it seems that Jura has the ability to grow to full Daikaiju size," Milenna tells her, leaving Megan to keep working on Maizy. "Unfortunately, her mind seems to devolve as her size increases. After she defeated her opponent, she was about to go on the standard Kaiju rampage through town, when this nutcase, and her two friends got in the way. I'm still not sure about everything that happened, but it's too much of a coincidence that Jura reverted to normal, right after Kaze punched her between her eyes."

"I didn't punch her," Kaze whispers. "I just reminded her of who she really is."

"As long as everyone is alright, I'm not going to worry about the details of how it all played out. At least not for a while," Zoe tells them. "How are the kids?"

"Nuri and Immomu are fine, and none the worse for wear from being snatched like that," Milenna tells her.

"And Maizy?" Zoe demands, Milenna's avoidance of mentioning her not having gone unnoticed.

"You strong enough to get up now?" Kaze asks in response.

"How bad is she?" Zoe demands, sitting up and unplugging herself from the monitors.

"You'll need to see for yourself," Kaze tells her.

"How long do you two plan to keep us here?" Pyra growls at Giganna and Gabby.

"We aren't keeping you here at all," Giganna retorts. "Milenna asked that you stay until she or Mandy could come and talk to you."

"And Gina thought it might be a good idea if someone kept an eye on the both of you, since none of us knows anything about either of you," Gabby adds in her most surly tone. "Aside from you obviously being Mothras."

"Pyra, Calm down. You know full well that you would do the same things in their place," Lyrai tells her.

"Doesn't make it any easier to deal with," Pyra grumbles, before returning to sit on the bed with her sister.

"Giganna, do you mind if I steal Gabby for a while?" Cyganna butts in, leaning around the partially open door.

"YOU!" Pyra snarls, leaping back to her feet, as flames cover both of her arms.

"Um, did I say something offensive?" Cyganna asks, confused about Pyra's reaction.

"I destroyed you once, monster, and I'm damn sure I can do it again!" the fiery Mothra declares, as she begins advancing across the room toward the cybernetic monster girl.

"I don't know what the bloody hell you're talking about buggy, but I never back down from a fight! Bring it!" Cyganna calls back, reaching over her shoulder for her blades.

"Oh, shit," Giganna mutters, quickly hitting the speed dial on her cell phone.

Megan absently answers her phone, "I'm a little busy right now, could you call back in a few hours?" She suddenly give the little hunk of plastic and circuitry her full attention as Giganna quickly tells her what's going on. "Crap, crap, crap," she mutters as she quickly moves away from Maizy, and toward the room where Zoe is recovering.

"Is she really that bad?" Zoe asks, near tears as she opens the door.

"Problem upstairs!" Megan blurts out when the door opens in front of her. "The new Mothra's are picking a fight with Cyganna!"

"What new Mothra's?" Zoe demands.

"On it," Kaze says, immediately contacting the twins over the radio.

"She's so cute when she's asleep like that," Kera grins, as she and her sister stand together watching Jura.

"Yes she is," Sera agrees.

Both sisters jerk in surprise as Kaze contacts them with news of what's going on.

"Move!" Sera hisses urgently, pushing her sister ahead of her as they rush out the door, while trying to avoid waking Jura.

"You talk a good fight, for a moth. Do you really think you can take me?" Cyganna taunts, clashing her blades together as she and Pyra circle each other.

"Can't you stop her?" Gabby demands of Lyrai.

"I'm the little sister. She barely listens to me when she's calm, no way in hell she's going to listen to me right now," Lyrai answers.

"This is not going to make Zoe very happy when she wakes up," Giganna mutters, shaking her head in disgust.

Then the door is ripped off of its hinges by the twins arrival, grabbing everyone's attention.

"I strongly suggest that the both of you calm the fuck down, and behave," Kera tells them both.

"Yeah like she's going to listen to a mech over me? Please," Lyrai smirks, as the flames on Pyra's arms grow more intense.

"I've been challenged, and I'm not going to back down until she's bleeding on the carpet!" Cyganna growls, not taking her eyes from her opponent.

The twins give each other a brief nod, before blasting both of the girls with their head beams. When both Cyganna and Pyra give them a look that clearly demands, "What did you do that for?" Sera tells them coldly, "We asked you politely to behave. You refused, so we had to insist. If you continue to try and wreck this house, we will be forced to take more…forceful…measure to keep the peace."

"That won't be necessary, ladies," Kaze growls as she enters the room behind them, towering over everyone there. "Because if they don't knock this shit off right this second, I'm going to use their skulls for maracas!" she snarls, managing to keep her voice to a level that is clearly heard in the room, but doesn't bother any of the others currently recovering in the house.

"Who do you think you are?" Pyra demands, getting back to her feet, and stomping up to Kaze. Then backing up several steps so she can look her in the eyes without twisting her neck so badly.

"Me? I'm no one special, really," Kaze tells her. "But since I live here, My family got busted up pretty badly last night and are just now starting to recover, my girlfriend is in a room a few doors down, also recovering from saving all our asses, and you where invited along at my request, I suggest you show a little respect. Before I kick your ass out….Through the wall," she finishes, leaning down until her face is level with Pyra's.

Pyra takes a good look into those steadily brightening eyes, and nods, "I can do that." Then she turns on her heal and moves over to the bed, resuming her seat.

"You going to give me any lip?" Kaze demands as Cyganna picks herself up.

"She backed down, that's enough for me," Cyganna answers, removing her blades and storing them in her harness. "This time."

"Make a note," Kaze tells her as she turns her back on the group. "While you are a guest here, there will be nofighting. I don't care if you want to go out to the back corner of the property and kick the shit out of each other, but the first one to pick a fight under this roof is going to answer to me. And I won't be playing nice."

And with that last word on the matter, Kaze leaves them alone once more.

"C'mon, before you get into any more trouble today," Gabby smirks, grabbing Cyganna's arm and dragging her out of the room.

"Wow. That was different," Lyrai says into the sudden silence.

"My god," Zoe whispers in shock as she gets her first look at Maizy's remains.

"It's not nearly as bad as it could have been," Megan tells her. "Her mind is intact, we just had to remove it from her body. Just to make sure that nothing bad happened while we worked on her."

"Where is she?" Zoe demands.

"I set up this to keep her mind occupied if she came back online while we are working," Milenna explains, pointing Zoe toward a strange stand hooked to a monitor. Supported by the stand, is the contents of Maizy's braincase.

"She's still off line, but the monitor will turn on automatically, and a program is all set up to keep her busy while we keep working on the repairs," Megan adds.

"Your sure she's still in there?" Zoe asks, worried still.

"Yes. Immomu and Nuri wouldn't leave her until I got here, and they made sure to inform me that when they finally got her hooked up to the life support, the readings indicated that she still had a few minutes to go before her backups gave out. Unless something happened between the time she shut herself down to conserve power, and the time the kids got her hooked up, she is still in there," Milenna tells her.

Zoe lets out a sigh of relief at that. "Alright. How are the repairs coming then?" she asks.

"That's where we start hitting the snags," Megan admits. "We have searched, with Kaze's help, and we just can't find what we need to restore her to the same little cybot she was before."

"Can't you modify things that would work for me and Kaze?" Zoe asks, shocked that after all she's been through a lack of spare parts is what is keeping her sister from returning to them.

"To some extent we already have," Milenna tells her. "Kaze found us some spare optics, but we had to slightly adjust them so that they would work with her systems. But things like this linkage here," she says, pointing out an interface point that has been removed from Maizy's upper arm. "There is nothing else like it in the house. I'm afraid the best we are going to be able to do is use parts from this one, and the one in the other arm, and hope that there is enough between the two to recreate a functional one."

Zoe takes a deep breath, before letting it out. Then she calmly asks, "So what do you suggest? I want my sister back."

"I suggest that we restore what we can, and modify what we can't," Milenna tells her.

"Alright. Tell me what is too damaged, or lacking parts, to repair, and I will help design replacement components for her. I may not be the Professor, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let her go like this," Zoe tells them.

"Um, if I may," Megan shyly butts in. Then she slides a paper with the blueprints to a new mechanical arm over. "I, uh, drew this up once we found out that we'd only be able to restore one of her arms to its old functionality."

Zoe looks over the design with a critical eye, before asking, "Where did you get the idea for this?"

Megan gives her a little smile and answers, "I overheard some of the freshman talking in the library a while back about a game character who could absorb the powers of defeated enemies and use them himself. They even had some pictures, and I took a quick look as I walked past. While I don't think we have a chance of giving her that "power mimic" ability, I believe we can make her new arm into a multi-purpose tool and weapon for her."

"And you can make it look just like her old arm?" Zoe asks.

"No," is the immediate answer. "I was planning to revamp the armor on her old arm to match the appearance of the new one."

"Will it affect her "rocket punch" weapons systems?" Zoe asks, crossing her arms under her breasts.

"It shouldn't, but until she is back online and we have a chance to test fire, I really can't say for certain," Megan answers.

"What kinds of things are you planning for the new arm?" is Zoe's next question.

"Um, I was hoping to leave that up to you and Milenna," Megan answers.

"I'll need to give it some thought, but I think I can come up with some things you will approve of," Milenna tells Zoe.

"I have a few ideas myself. I think we should both make a list, then hammer out the details," Zoe tells her.

"Agreed," the teacher nods. Then she adds, "Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem to be taking this far better than I would have expected you to."

Zoe gives her a smirk, and answers, "You're forgetting about my past. I've been in war, and I know just how well most plans hold up once you run into the enemy. While I can't say that I'm happy about finding out that we can't just fix her, I can't fault either of you for offering to do your best to bring her back to us."

"Why don't you give us a list of the equipment that is too damaged to be repaired, and we will see about redesigning new stuff for all those systems," Kaze adds, as she rejoins them.

"Get everything sorted out?" Zoe asks.

"Yeah, and the only damage was to the door to that room. I'm calling it a win," Kaze answers. "Oh, and I really think you should go talk with those two as soon as possible," she adds to Milenna.

"I'll get right on that," the gel like alien responds, her sarcasm missed by no one.

"Actually, go ahead and get it out of the way," Zoe tells her. "We can start working up alternatives, while you deal with whatever it is, and then we can work out the details when you return."

"Alright. If you would lead the way?" she says to Kaze, who merely nods, and leads her back up to the room with Pyra and Lyrai.

"How long do you think this will take?" Zoe asks Megan.

"I don't know. The stuff you guys have down here is amazing, but even with Milenna I can't see this happening in less than a month," the Megalon girl answers.

"Sooner than I was afraid of," Zoe tells her. "So what else needs to be revamped, replaced, or just flat scrapped and something new put in to replace it?"

It takes closer to three months to bring Maizy back on line.

"Oh, man. I feel like crap," Maizy groans. "Wha?" she mutters when she is suddenly surrounded by cheering.

"Welcome back," Zoe tells her as Kaze helps her sit up.

"Maizy!" her friends squeal as they barrel in and glomp her.

"Hey guys," she smiles at them. Then her last few memories come back to the surface. "What happened? How long have I been out?" she suddenly demands, turning to her sisters.

"Easy, hotshot," Jura tells her, reaching past her friends to lay a reassuring hand on her shoulder and give a little squeeze. "You've had one long nap. But we needed to get you patched back together. Everyone is fine, and you managed to save these two, even as wrecked as you where. You did good." Jura adds, moving to stand behind Immomu and Nuri.

"How long?" she asks again, suddenly not really sure she wants to know.

"It took us three months to get your act back together," Zoe tells her.

"And don't worry about whatever project you've had going on the computer," Kaze adds. "Nuri has been over here every day, with the exception of the week after the attack, keeping things going for you."

Maizy turns back to her "crew" with a smirk. "She has, huh?"

Nuri just smirks back and nods, tears of joy in her eyes at having her friend back again.

"My systems don't feel the same as before. So what did you change?" Maizy demands, turning back to her sisters.

"There where a few problems with fixing you," Zoe admits. "So we repaired what we could, and replaced what we couldn't. Unfortunately, we had to do a lot more of the second than I'm really happy about."

"You've only got one rocket arm now," Kaze tells her, pointing at her left.

"So my right is just a regular arm?" Maizy asks, lifting her right arm up to her face for a closer look, while attempting to access whatever might be in there.

"Not hardly," Jura smirks.

"What gives? It's like I can make it move, but I can't even scan it's systems?" Maizy growls.

"That would be because I locked your new systems, so you wouldn't accidentally trigger any new weapons before we could tell you about them," Zoe informs her.

"Still don't trust me?" Maizy smirks. "Never mind. When are you going to let me start learning what I can do now?"

"Tomorrow," Kaze answers.

"We figured you'd like to get caught up with your friends today," Jura adds.

"Works for me," Maizy grins, then tries to run a systems check on her flight pack. "Awe, man…..she slagged my flight pack too?"

Jura shoots both Kaze and Zoe a look, before looking back down at Maizy.

"Hold on. I'll enable that one for you. Just watch yourself, cause it isn't anything like your old one," Zoe tells her, sending a set of signals to Maizy that unlocks her ability to access her flight pack.

Maizy lets out a low whistle as she gets her first look at the systems and capabilities of her new gear. Then she shoots Kaze a smirk, and says, "And you thought I was hard to catch before?"

"You're welcome," Jura smirks at her. "Kaze, Sumegi, and I did the design work for you on that."

Maizy is about to thank her, when her look suddenly darkens and she growls, "You let the anime freak design some of my new parts?"

"Careful squirt," Kaze growls back at her. "She made a suggestion, and showed us something, and we thought it was a good enough idea to check into."

"But…But…she's an anime freak!" Maizy blurts out. "You like anime Kaze, but I swear they used that stuff to program her!"

"Maizy, trust me. Once you get the hang of it, you'll like it better than your old one," Zoe tells her. "And you where all excited about it until you found out Sumegi was involved."

"….fine. Let's go girls," Maizy says to the other juniors as she hops off the table.

After the three head upstairs, Zoe, Jura, and Kaze share a look, before they all break into giggles.

"God, I didn't realize how much I missed her!" Jura laughs.

"Heh, I couldn't agree more," Kaze grins.

"It's like we've been running at half power or something," Zoe agrees. "It's nice to have the family back together."

"It's nice to be part of a family," Jura agrees.

"The place wouldn't be the same without you either," Kaze tells her, pulling her into a one armed hug.

"So what's first?" Nuri asks after they make it to the main floor.

"First, I'm going to go see what that anime freak convinced them to install in me," Maizy growls. "Then I want to see what's been happening with the site."

With no warning, she spins, and hugs both Immomu and Nuri.

"And I want to thank you two. You didn't have to stick with me while I was crashed like that," she adds.

"Yeah, like we could just abandon your projects while you where stuck being a paperweight? After you got so badly busted up trying to keep us safe? I think you need to go back down there and have them check your head again," Immomu tells her.

"Thank you, no," Maizy smirks, leading the way out to the back yard.

"You ready?" Nuri asks her, as Maizy takes a couple steps beyond them.

"Now or never," Maizy mutters, as she activates her flight pack.

"Heh, I knew she wouldn't be able to resist," Kera says over her shoulder as she watches the three juniors from an upstairs window.

"She's testing it out?" Sera asks, getting up from watching one of Jura's movies to join her sister.

"There's our little angel," Kera grins, making sure to patch her last comment through to Kaze and Zoe as well.

"Maizy….They made you an angel," Immomu gasps, awed at the two seemingly feathered wings that erupted from her back when she brought her flight pack online.

"Not quite," Maizy tells her, staring at her shadow as she flexes her new flight equipment. "But I think I'm going to have to owe Sumegi an apology if this works the way it's supposed to."

"Well, quit screwing around, and try it out!" Nuri orders her with a grin.

"Don't mind if I do," Maizy grins back over her shoulder, raising her new wings to their fullest extension.

With a massive downward thrust, Maizy leaps into the sky.

"Damn. Zoe was right, I am going to need to practice with this new gear," Maizy thinks as she takes in just how quickly she had ascended with what she thought was minimum power. "Let's see what else these things can do," she grins as she suddenly curls the wings around her body, dropping like a stone. Her friends yell at her to pull up long before she actually does, barely skimming the ground as she climbs back into the sky. Maizy then starts weaving between every tree and statue in the yard, pulling moves that she had never been able to with her old flight gear.

"This is awesome!" she enthuses as she lands back by Immomu and Nuri.

"How can you keep those big wings inside of you like that?" Immomu asks as the wings retract back within her.

"That is one of those things that you just don't worry about," Nuri tells her.

"She's right. If you think about it too much you get a headache," Maizy agrees. "Now that I've had my test drive, let's go see what you've been doing with my web site."

"How are things progressing?" Geisha demands as she enters the command chamber of her hidden headquarters.

"About as well as can be expected," Cyra informs her. "We are slowly replacing the Golden Guard that we lost back on the island. Spyra has declared herself fully operational once again, and the other two have long since healed their damages. We have begun construction of another "Titan" for you, as well as taken steps to proceed with your current plans."

"Show me," Geisha orders, moving over to the bank of monitors, as Cyra pulls up the images displaying the construction of another super robotic body, before switching to scenes displaying several containment cylinders, each with a uniquely designed mechanoid within. "Excellent. If I can't defeat Zoe and her family by myself, then I will simply have to call on my old allies to assist me," she says with a malevolent grin.

"It might be a good idea to get a picture of her face, when she realizes that her old team has turned against her," Cyra smirks.

"Oh, I couldn't agree more. It will certainly be one for the scrap books," Geisha tells her, before turning to leave. "Find one of the humans to continue monitoring things. I have…need….of you."

"Yes, Mistress," Cyra grins.

And that is where I'm going to stop this one, before I go and change things too much with characters that DON'T belong to me

Next time out, will be "Tales of a Future Past" as I enlighten you to the world that Pyra and Lyrai are from.