Origins

by krimmy2

Ichika was thought to have died five years ago, but has now reappeared live and well. Hiding a dark secret and suppressing his real identity full of murders and lies. He is fueled with motivation to seek out his love one who has been stolen from him. What actions will he be willing to take to save everything dear to him?

3. Don't cry

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This went into development hell for about three weeks. I literally finished this chapter at like 7:00 pm today (the 19th) I rushed some parts so it might sound very choppy (I might come back to this doc and fix some grammar later, so grammar Nazis be warned), and just to let readers know writing this stuff is hard, but it's fun.

Be warned author's creativity

Chapter 3

(Houki's POV)

The vice homeroom teacher, Yamada Maya-sensei, who introduced herself before, stood in front of the blackboard as she earnestly smiled at everyone.

"Everyone's here, right? Then let's start the SHR or student homeroom meeting," she said, lifting her hands up in a friendly gesture.

She has a petite figure, and doesn't look any different than a student. However, wearing clothes that didn't quite match her body made her look even more petite. And it looked ever more out of place with her large olive green eyes, behind her hazy glasses. Man, her breasts are big. How does she look so casual? I feel jealous. I can't believe she is wearing that outfit, I can practically see half of your pink bra you know. I yelled at her in my mind.

"Okay then, everyone, let's get along with each other over the next year~" she finished.

"Now, let's move on to self-introductions. Mm, we'll go by seating arrangements."

The class that I am placed in this year is class one. There are a total of 29 students in here, including me. I don't understand why they can't fit an even 30 in here because there is an empty desk in the middle of the front row.

The reason I am in this situation is because of my older sister, Tabane Shinonono. She is the creator of the IS or Infinite Stratos. The IS are an exoskeleton powered suit that were originally made to for outer space expeditions ten years ago. During the first month of these systems' release, a mysterious hacker sent over 2,000 ballistic cruise missiles towards all major cities in Japan.

That was when the first White Knight incident occurred. The IS neutralized 1,221 of the missiles with a sword and the rest were shot down with energy weapons, something no country in the world had the technology of producing. Since the IS had a faceless pilot and no allegiance, many countries sent mobilized weapons to capture or destroy it.

Their plans failed, the White Knight was able to fend off its attackers. Five years later a new White Knight this time revealing the pilot as a boy, but with no traceable identity. He appeared during another terrorist attack on the Second Mondo Grosso, which is considered the biggest massacre in history.

Not to mention how many times I had to move around and Ichika… I was never able to tell him my true feelings.

"..."

Yamada Maya-sensei's big eyes met with mines. "Um, Shinonono-san, can you introduce yourself, it's your turn." -smile

I stood up. "Hello, nice to meet you all. My name is Shinonono Houki. I hope we can spend the next year together as friends, um, that is all" I sat down and hoped that was good enough.

The door suddenly slammed open and I could sense a familiar aura. Yep it's Chifuyu, Ichika's older sister. She is wearing a black tight fitting skirt, and a formal suit that help show her tall and slim body line, which resembles someone who doesn't look muscular even after lots of training. In her left hand, she held a chip board and... Wait is that blood stains?

During the second Mondo Grosso, her life completely took a 180 degree turn. Apparently, Ichika was also at the tournament and was one the many casualties in the battle. There was no funeral, the only thing they could find left of him was some blood and a really tattered school uniform. The ambulance found her in the middle of the stadium out cold.

No prisoners were taken in, due to the terrorist having IS's they freely escaped. Along with the big crowd there, police couldn't tell whether the people were civilians or not, and had to let everyone leave.

I came to visit her the same night she woke up in the hospital. Every encounter we had when Ichika was alive always felt stern. She was always strict to him and almost never showed any companion to him besides maybe an occasional smile and pat on the head. Even so, I could still feel the love she had for him.

That night when Tabane and I opened the door to greet her, a man was already there talking to her, he didn't stay long, he left after giving her a little disc. We got over there and sat next to her. She wasn't as badly injured, but her facial expression showed everything, the sorrow, regret, and anger.

We never saw each other after that. I heard she retired a few days later and moved to Germany. Who would have thought that she would come back and become a teacher? She walked up to the front desk and prepared her speech.

"Everyone, my name is Orimura Chifuyu, and my duty is that for this one year, I'll be training you in the operations and controls of IS. Everything I teach, you have to remember, and understand. To those who can't understand, I'll teach them until they can. My job is to thoroughly train you during your first year, from the age of 15 to 16. You can dislike my attitude, but you still have to do what I say. Understood?"

But there weren't any awkward cries, but shrieks,

"KYAAA—! It's Chifuyu-sama, it's the real Chifuyu-sama herself!"

"I've always been your fan!"

"I came to this school from North Kyuushuu because I admired you, onee-sama!"

"I came all the way from southern Hokkaido!"

"I'm so happy to be taught by Chifuyu-sama!"

"I'll gladly die for Chifuyu-sama!"

Chifuyu-nee stared at the chattering girls with a disheartened expression. She sat down onto her chair and put her palm across her face. She sighed "Another year with a class full of idiots. Maya, did you pick these nuts or did the school board just decides to give me the crazies?"

Hey! That's a little mean, don't you think? I suddenly froze, mid mined. I could feel someone watching me. I looked and saw an uncomfortable sight. Chifuyu is staring at me, our eyes met for a few seconds before she pulled her head away and stood up again. "OKAY CLASS LETS GET STARTED!"

And so it begins.

-Several class periods later-

Uh, it's break time. That was horrible, she just doesn't give us any slack. I need to get some fresh air. Ah, it's nice out here on the school rooftop. The building is spectacular, the grass is green, and leveled perfectly it feels like a nice little park.

I went up to the rail guard to get a full view from above. Wow! You can see everything up here.

"It's pretty isn't it?"

"Hu?" I turned around, "AH! Orimura-sensei, what are you doing here?" She looked at me with a puzzled face and walked up to the railing too. "Probably the same thing you came up here for, some fresh air, right?"

"Uh yeah," I answered.

"You know, we haven't seen each other in five years, but for some reason I can still remember who you are just by looking at you Houki, but you really need to change your hair style." she said.

Now this is a surprise, she still remembers me, well, of course she remembers me, and I've met and talked with her several dozen times. And what's wrong with my hair style, your hair is exactly the same too. "Oh, and congratulations on the world kendo championship, I saw on the newspaper that you got first place." Chifuyu added.

There is no more talking between us.

The wind is timid and gave off a little blow tousling my hair which is in a twin ponytail. I don't know if I had a death wish or something, but the moment seemed right to ask her the question that has always been bothering me.

"Do you miss him?"

She turned her head to face me. Oh man, she's going to throw me off roof, I knew it!

Ding-Dong-Dang-Dong.

Oh thank god, break is over, I can run away now. Just when I turned around and was about to run the other direction-

"Every day."

I stopped and turned around "What?" I said in a dumbfound manner.

"I miss him, there hasn't been a day that has gone by where I don't think about him." Silence… "Now, get back to class or I will mark you tardy."

"...Thus, the basic operations of IS have to be guided by the country. If no permission is granted, we have to pursue criminal responsibilities..." Yamada-sensei continued with her lesson ever so eloquently, "I know this is the first day and all, but we would like to take you all to the outstate arena, so all of you can get a better look at how an IS is used and controlled." She added.

"KYAAA—! Does that mean we are going to be able to wear the IS and move around with it!" One of the girls screamed.

"Quiet down!" roared Chifuyu, "None of you will be able to use one until you learn the basics, we are heading down to the arena now to show you the many things that an IS unit can perform."

Stillness.

Yamada-sensei decided to break the ice and blurt out, "Well you heard her class, let's get GOING!" Running up to the door, then opening it for the students.

This academy is huge, buildings along with dorms that are built here go onwards and never seem to stop they are almost like skyscrapers. The class and I are walking to the huge arena built for testing IS capabilities plus new units and often times, to battle each other.

The arena itself is pretty big, I have seen and went in it several times. It's about a fourth of a mile long, and has enough seats to fill in at least 3000 plus people. They really like the colors white, blue, and black which is literally what most of the building here are colored and painted.

The designs look like a mixture between a football stadium, and an arc bridge. There are fancy metal loops here and there, and the sky above is actually an energy force field. There are long steel cables that hook up into a triangle which suspend the entire gym structure into an oval like shape.

This school is near the ocean and is connected to Japan like a little peninsula. We are connected to Japan by a long train way, the school is so massive, the first thing someone would see when they come from the east is this school.

When I walk around here by myself, the scenery here reminds me more of a stroll in the country side then an actual school. No wonder students from all across the world come here to study the environment is pure, fresh, and peaceful.

We stopped several yards away from the opening entrance. "Okay we have arrived, I will take you around and show you the place and equipment stored here, Orimura-sensei can't be here because something urgent has come up"

"WHAT!? Where is Chifuyu-sama!" all my classmates squalled, Oh my god how annoying can these people get?

"AW, don't be so disappointed, she will be meeting up with us shortly." Yamada-sensei said before gesturing all of us to come along.

As we walked onwards Yamada-sensei began her lecture. "Well class we are at the storage room where all the IS's that belong to this school are held. We have a total of 50 units here."

One of the girls raised her hand, I think her name is Kiyoka Aikawa "Uh, Yamada-sensei, I have a question."

"Yes"

"Well I was wondering, if there is only 467 IS cores made why are there so many IS around the world?" hum that is actually a good question, I don't even know, yeah why is that, I thought to myself.

"That is a good question Kiyoka-chan, well as you already know there is 467 cores, but they are separated into groups. There are three groups, specials cores that allow the IS to read and adapt to the pilot. Regular cores, which are made out of stable energy which can be harnessed in order to activate other IS's. That is why there are so many IS's in the world. And finally Grand cores that chose the pilot, these kinds are very special, they act like regular cores, but when it settles with a pilot they actually submerge into the pilot's mind almost like becoming one. And once that happens the IS will only ever be piloted by that person."

"So the special cores are like the ones the representative cadets have right?"

"That is exactly right"

"And the regular cores are powering the ones that are stored in this school, and used for training?"

"Um hum"

"So what about the grand cores Yamada-sensei?"

"Well… that's a hard one you see we really don't understand the reason why, but they chose only seem to choose certain people. We only have a little information on these kinds of events by constant testing and observation."

"So you mean there are people out there that can pilot and IS with a grand core?"

"Yes, but this phenomenon has only ever been recorded once, and we still don't know why the core did so.

"OH REALLY, WHO, WHO!" my classmates screamed in anticipation. I too, am eager to hear the answer.

"YOU'RE TEACHER CHIFUYU ORIMURA!" Yamada-sensei said in joy. My ears began to blister as everyone besides me not including Yamada-sensei stared to scream.

"OH MY GOD, I KNEW IT!"

"YEAH! Chifuyu-sama really is the queen!"

"I don't deserve to be her student!"

"Okay, okay, calm down everyone and let's continue on with the tour, if we don't hurry we'll miss the upperclassmen demonstration." Yamada-sensei said trying to tranquil everyone back to normal. "Everyone let's get going!"

(NORMAL POV)

The corridors are vast inside the arena, if the place wasn't an arena people might have thought that the structure is actually a military base. There are 5 levels in the arena, bottom stage where combat and training is held. Second stage where IS are lunched from, the third and fourth stages are bleachers and seats for viewers, and the fifth department, which is a deck above that serves as a valance and security quarter.

Inside the fifth department, there is a high security room that only staff can enter. The front door way is made out of steel and over layered with a ballistic material. The hallway that the room was made in is no different from the other hallways inside the arena.

Each of the walls are a light peach color, the floor is made out of a thin sheet of marble, which is a pure black, and several rooms that look like a work place. As the hallway gets longer the walls have now changed into pure metal, with reinforcement pillars that are half way showing out of the wall, giving the place a more dynamic then plain view.

Chifuyu came out of the elevator. She walked up to the security room and placed her hand in the center. A green laser dragged down and scanned her hand, then checked her eyes, before she entered in her ID. The little dots on the side turned form a bright read to a charisma green.

The big metal door gave off a humming noise and shifted to the side. Chifuyu proceeded to walk in. In the room are about a crew of ten computer and surveillance workers. The entire room is really eerie and low lit. On the ceilings are lights that gave off a faint orange glow and little cubicles were the staff monitored the place on a computer.

In front of the room are two main computers, and a wall sized screen that showed the whole arena floor. "Okay people tell me what is going on" Chifuyu said in a soft yet demanding tone.

"Yes ma'am, the global senate has some business to tell you." A girl in the left hand side said.

"Put them up the screen"

The dirt ground and aerial view of the arena suddenly zapped off and is replaced by people in a meeting room. They all went quiet as Chifuyu stood up a little closer to show herself to the people on the other side.

There are over a hundred people, each of them from a different country. All of them are sitting in rows with a long curved desk, and in front of them are little holograms that translated the conversation. In the back of the room, there is a giant symbol that has seven triangles connected together and a crescent that showed a star. Chifuyu recognized the place, it's where the head of defenses from all countries meet in order to plan operations.

If there are that much people there, the situation must be important.

"Good evening Miss Orimura" the center speaker said while giving a little head bow, the man talking to her is the defense organizer of Japan, Akihiko Hiroki. Chifuyu nodded her head too and crossed her arms, starting the conference.

"Miss Orimura, all of us in here know that you are a great military tactician, and we are in need of your help. After several months of continual searching we have finally detected the Kokkaku group's hideout."

"The Kokkaku, they are extremist group that attacked America two years back, and the ones who started a recent trend of IS hackings and gang wars in Japan, am I correct?" Chifuyu asked.

"Yes, in the last 36 hours American and British government hackers have located their position. The base is mapped on an unknown island several miles from Japan. The place is uncharted and we have little information about the setting or environments there. Countries have been notified to send their defense commissioner here for a plan of action. So far the Americans have sent a navy seal team of forty, and we have sent twenty of our own counter terrorist division."

"And you think that is enough to stop them?" Chifuyu said in a disappointing tone.

"Our satellites have monitored and detected only several dozen body counts, we think that they are not heavily armed, we also think that this is one of their many hideouts then actual base." He said confidently.

"You underestimate you enemies, how are you a hundred percent positive, that you guys have the upper hand. What are you plans, do you even have one?" she said in a scolding manner.

"We need your guidance, our team leader is on right now and we need you to direct them."

"Get them out of there"

"What?" a confused Akihiko said.

"Get them out of there, you have no idea what you are up against, no clue to what your opponents can do. You are risking the lives of everyone sent there." Her words hit the group of people hard.

"I think we can handle it ma'am"

A little box appeared on the bottom corner of the screen. The person that is in the other box, is male, he has a western accent, and is wearing a camouflage helmet with a scarf covering his nose and mouth. "I am the commander James Randy, our team has the will power to get us through, we have a plan to surround the area and have a main group attack the front lines to force them out."

Chifuyu thought to herself a second before replying to him. "Your plan is childish and simple sloppy even. But if you are really going to go through with it make sure you create a big distraction, this will give you time to sneak in to surround them from behind, and also rush your opponents out in a hurry leaving most of the fight in the outside."

"Thank-you ma'am" the man waved his hand to signal some troops over, before his screen shifted to a first person view.

"What a bunch of idiots" Chifuyu pointed her head at the right computer operator. "You"

The girl jolted and turned to face Chifuyu. "I need to attend to my students, inform me immediately when problems have occurred, and I mean serious problems. I don't care if someone got shot, even killed, inform me when the chances of them winning are below a zero."

Chifuyu uncrossed her hands and walked out of the room.

(Arena)

"Okay class this is the IS you will be working with this year." Yamada-sensei said as she walked up to a training IS.

The training IS doesn't have any portable forms. They are in a block like shape when not used. The colors are simple grey, black, and a shade of worn green. Its bulky, mostly the leg area, the place almost resembles a metal Victorian era dress. There are multiple armor plates and groove designs.

These IS are made for practice, and are very not that high tech. The training IS has relatively nice armor, if you were in a fight it would save your life. Due to it being made for training, it can take hits well and is one of the most efficient. It comes with a training katana that is 8ft long and has the ability to use almost any IS based weapons. One of the main reasons these units are used in IS academies around the world is because they can train students to use any sort of weapons or types of combat.

"Unfortunately you guys won't be able to pilot these for the next week or two. And that ends our tour." Yamada-sensei concluded.

"Aw, already."

"Yeah isn't there anything else that you can show us Yamada-sensei?"

"I want go up the bleachers again, the view is so nice!"

"Everyone we are heading back to class now!"

We all turned around to find Chifuyu looking at us with stern eyes. "Chifuyu-sama!" all the girls ran, besides Maya and Houki, and clustered around Chifuyu like a pack of hungry birds.

"Chifuyu-sama, is it true that you process the only grand IS core?"

"Yeah, can we see you wearing the IS?"

"Is the IS your Kurazakura, I want to see it!"

Chifuyu made a face the looks like a parent changing their baby's diaper and began to back off. It was no use, they kept coming. "STOP IT RIGHT NOW!" she roared. Everyone became silent. Chifuyu put her hand up to her mouth and faked a cough, "Now that everyone has quiet down, let's go back to the class" she said in a threating voice, while making a vicious gleaming face.

No one said a word, "Ah, I still need to finish something before we go" Yamada-sensei broke the silence. "And what is that Maya?" Chifuyu said now relaxed.

"Well I did promise them a demonstration, and well I sort of did say you will be presenting it."

Chifuyu gave off a haunting face, and then eased. "You people really want a demonstration right? Fine I will give you one. She walked up to the training IS and touched it. The block of metal vaporized in a heavenly glow and suited up Chifuyu. Chifuyu look down at Yamada and cracked her knuckles.

A loud scream could be heard from across the arena, as Chifuyu chased Yamada around the place with the training IS.

(Back in the class)

"You are now all excused." Said Chifuyu, taking her clipboard and exiting the room herself, a little ring and vibration started to shake her left pocket. She picked up a little see-through device and out popped a little hologram reading "URGENT COME QUICKLY" flashed on. *grumble.

Chifuyu arrived at the room, and entered. The noise and chaos made a little tingling effect down her spine. "Did all of them die?" she said seriously.

"Miss Orimura, you arrived just in time. The Kokkaku have several IS and are escaping!" yelled the girl at the right. "We have lost nine men, and the Americans have lost twenty three, the hide out is sieged, but they have escaped with something important." Another girl added.

Chifuyu shook her head, and grabbed the ear piece form the first girl and yelled into it. "Okay tell me what, happened!"

The solider on the other side replied, "We have the base, two black IS took out most of our men, they flew off with a small crate towards Japan!"

"God damn it, you and you get a satellite up and scan the area for two moving objects!" Chifuyu yelled out the commands, while pointing at the girls up in front.

"I have readings, two black IS's are heading… they are heading this way!" shouted one of the girls.

"Damn it, give me the speakers."

…

Houki is outside relaxing from all the work, the salty ocean breeze and timid weather felt really nice. She looked onto the horizon, there are two objects flying, she wasn't the only one to notice it either, several other students walked up to the area around her and started talking about the two things also.

"ATTENTION ALL STUDENTS, WE HAVE AN INCOMING IS THREAT HEADING TOWARDS OUR WAY, RETURN TO YOUR DORMS IMMEDIATELY!" the school speakers and alarm blasted out.

The students are all in a rampage, hundreds of girls ran into their building complexes and hid in the school. Several teachers including Yamada began to operate their IS units and fly over to the ocean side to get ready for battle.

"I need you to get the navy right now, give them the coordinates of the IS and tell them to shoot there!" Chifuyu ordered.

The two IS's were just several miles off shore, the teachers all aimed their high powered sniper rifles at the fast approaching targets. "Okay fire at will!" Yamada-sensei shouted. Hammering sounds of gun fire and noises similar to the cracking of whips echoed across the school grounds. The black IS's tried to get avoid the ongoing fire, but couldn't due to holding onto a silver box.

Yamada aimed her rifle at the front IS and took aim, a beam of energy shot out and sailed towards the IS. An explosion light up part of the sky, the fireball expanded from every direction, before turning into black smoke. The remaining IS still strapped to the cargo is only several hundred feet away.

"Everyone back out now!" Yamada yelled. The black IS crashed into the school, all the students in the first story felt a great thud before shifting a few inches back. From outside, the IS had destroyed the wall, presenting a crater on the side, about twenty feet tall and wide. The IS took a step out and a giant crack ripped up the wall shattering several windows.

Rubble and derbies lay scattered around the ground. The IS shook its helmet like it is trying to find something, and then spots the box. It ran towards the box and lifted it above its shoulder. "Stop right there!" someone yelled.

Yamada held out here huge rifle and pointed it at the IS, "Don't move, or I will be forced to take action." The IS paid no attention to her and proceeded to fly off. A blistering crack of energy hit the IS, and pierced through it shoulder. More streams of energy came at the IS, dodging most of the projectiles and headed to the ocean.

The IS flew faster away, and stopped several yards from the shore line, before hugging the crate and plummeting down into the blue water. A massive form of light vaporized the water and sent it erupting out into the air. Smoke hovered around the place, as bits of IS started surfacing, and floating out of the water, onto the shore.

Yamada and other teachers flew to the shore line to observe the wreckage. "Maya, give me the report on the current situation." Chifuyu asked through Yamada's is communication device. "I think the coast is clear, there are bits of IS resurfacing, I think we can bring them back to the lab for a full scan and report."

Yamada walked into the shoreline in order to gather some of the material. A silver box, the size of a car seat washed up. The box is dented and scrapped in every corner, the explosion must have caused the damage. Yamada walked up to the box and picked it up. Numerous amounts of burnt and soaked paper fell out.

"Get that commander, I previously talked to back on line." Chifuyu commanded. The screen shifted from the defense commissioners to a head shot of James. "Have you searched the entire hideout yet?" she asked.

"No, we are rounding up the last bunch of enemy personal onto the rafts. We will be heading in, in about five minutes."

"Where will you be taking the captives?" Chifuyu asked.

"We will be bringing them to Japan for the time being." James answered.

The five minutes seemed to never end, as everyone watched the remaining soldiers load up several dozen people into their military rafts, anticipation grew inside them like a monster eager to jump out.

The camera switched to first person and a pair of hands holding a M16 started to move closer to the base. Several troop moved besides the door entrance, before giving each other and busting the door open with a kick.

The hide out was enormous. There are hallways everywhere, rooms, complexes, and staircases that went on and on. "Most of their weaponry must be held in here." James said as he unlocked several doors full of rifles and explosives.

"Hey, look what we got over here."

The soldiers turned around and entered into a big holding room. Three black IS's were strapped onto the side walls, with their cockpits opened. There are still three spaces empty. "We need to find a way to bring them back for inspection."

The soldiers began to make their way down. The hide out is mostly underground, there are many stairways down, and two elevators. James pointed at three others and gave them a down hand gesture. He pointed at four others and directed them towards the elevators. He too began to moving down the stairway.

After several minutes of searching through rooms and storages, the group met up with each other and headed down a dark hall way. The shot was something close to a horror movie, there is litter on the ground, and some lights flickering on and off. Due to the first person perspective, everything they were watching felt too real.

The soldiers got close to a metal door. One of them walked up to it and tapped. "The wall must be at least five feet worth of steel and ballistic material. We don't have enough fire power to open it."

"Hey, there is a security thing on the side."

The object was the size of an I pad, and has a bullet hole in it. "Do you think you can open it?"

"I will give it a try." The man opened the object and started tapping in numbers, and plugging in a hacking device. After several minutes, the guy turned around and shook his head.

Chifuyu checked her phone. Yamada is calling her. "What is it Maya, I am busy." "Um, Miss Orimura, I have looked over some of the material scattered on the shore, and we found some security codes, that I think might be of us."

"Well, you have some perfect timing, tell me what are the codes."

There is a little rustling, and then Yamada's voice came back. "24, 4, 26, 9, 7, 34. M" Chifuyu didn't respond, she closed the phone and began to sweat a little. She looked over the numbers in her head, the first three numbers are her birthday, and the last three, is the date she found Ichika. This can't be a coincidence, but what is the M.

She pressed her hand to her ear, activating a commination device. "Hey can you hear me?" she asked James, the camera nodded. "Okay I need you to walk over there and type in these numbers. 24, 4, 26, 9, 7, 34. M"

"Um, ma'am there is no alphabetical key, to the lock."

"I just type in the numbers!" Chifuyu snapped.

James startled a little bit, and walked up to the box, the sound off little rings echoed through the corridor.

Chifuyu was now sweating a bit more, and was really afraid to see what will happen. The box gave off a little beep sound. The red bar above the box flashed ACCESS DENIED. Chifuyu held a deep breath, and sighed in relief, but was a little disappointed. Do these numbers have to do with me or Ichika? She though.

"Well I guess we will have to come back." James stepped to the side and turned around.

The box suddenly shifted shapes, like a transformer, and popped out a keyboard. James turned around, and when to look at it again. "Ma'am, what was the last thing you wanted me to type in again?"

"M…"

He looked at the board and pressed M. Nothing

happened…

"Yeah, still not working" he replied.

"Hit the Enter button stupid." One of the soldiers commented. "Okay, whatever" he pressed the button.

The read bar turned a bright glowing green. The doors started to move, making something close to a nails to chalk board screech. Some smoke puffed out of the middle, where the doors slid apart, making a hissing noise.

The men turned on their helmet lights, and slowly crept into the room. The place was big, only the computer lights shown through the darkness. They walked in a little closer to see the screens. The computers were showing a heart monitor, and test ratings. They were all in a state of zero.

"Get closer to the middle, and see what is there" commanded Chifuyu.

They walked in closer to a testing tank, it is hooked up to the computers, and resembled something close to the thing Logan got out of in x-men. The water inside wasn't ordinary, it gave off an abnormal blue glow, and there are several tubes that are hanging off onto the side.

James walked closer and stepped on something that made a splashing sound like a puddle being stepped on. It was some of the blue liquid inside the tank.

A pair of red eyes turned on in the distant shaded part of the room.

"What the fu…" the giant thing ran at James. He ducked and jumped to the side while pointing his gun at the figure and began to shoot at it.

Lights flashed uncontrollably across the room. Gunfire that cracked like thunder, and the profanity of men started to burst everywhere.

"OH MOTHER…" one of them men ran at the thing, but was thrashed across the building instantly. The lights turned on, and the soldiers can now see their opponent. It's a black IS, and the same model as the kind inside the storage room.

The IS hovered to the side and drew out a giant blade. It swung and sliced one of them men in half. Blood fizzled out like a fountain, staining the wall and round.

The people watching this are in disgust. Several staff members turned their head the other direction and snapped their eyes shut, or aimed their mouth at the garbage can and started barfing out their lunch.

The IS materialized a gun and shot at the other men, a kinetic sound pulsed came out of it and vaporized several men. They disintegrated, and then exploded, blood and guts painted every inch of the room. Organs are hanging on the ceiling, and partials of blood clung around the air.

James looked around the room. Chifuyu didn't look away, she kept her eyes straight at the screen, this started to give her memories of the Mondo Grosso, and she began to breathe hard and troublingly.

The IS turned its attention to James, and one last men next to him. It started to approach them. The IS raised its hand pointing the gun at them.

The shot didn't come. A figure ran out of nowhere and punched the gun. Instantly the gun snapped into pieces, a little fireball caused shrapnel to fly everywhere. Stunned, the IS lifted its right arm holding the blade, and brought it down onto the figure.

Something that sounded like a hammer smashing hard into a hollow steel pipe rang into the ears of the soldiers, and everyone that was watching the scene. The blade broke in two, and met the ground.

The IS tried to grab the figure, but the figure moved out of the way. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" The figure screamed, while punching the IS dead center in the head.

Blood ruptured from the cavity of the helmet. The figure pulled its hand out of the helmet and turned around to face the two men. The soldier on the side took aim and fired, all the bullets hit an invisible force field, when the figure lifted its right hand. The figure ran up against the man and punched him in the head, knocking him out.

"What the fu…" a fist met the commander's head killing the camera's connection.

"What the heck happened?"

"Ah! We have lost connection!" shouted one of the staff members.

"Get them back online!" several commissioners screeched at their tech managers.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAMN CONNECTION! SOMEONE GET THE SCREEN BACK ON!" yelled Chifuyu.

"Miss Orimura, we can't all our systems are perfectly fine, it's the soldier's camera that is the problem" one of the staff said. "UHHH!" Chifuyu let out a loud grunt.

(Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean close to Japan)

"We have all the captives aboard, and heading towards the east coast of Japan." A soldier spoke into his device. Waves splashed in into the raft, as they headed into the ocean.

Three fourths of the captives are girls, and the other fourth are men. One of the captives held a snarling gaze at the soldier. "You want to stop staring at me, before I shoot your face off." The soldier wiggled his gun to show off a little.

The captive staring at the man is a girl. She has medium length brown hair, and has a scar that ran eye down to here check. She gave the soldier a little grin, the soldier tilt his head, "A mother fucker!" he aimed his gun at her.

A metallic hand wrapped his head. An agonizing scream could be heard met with the crunching of bones. Blood splat out in every direction spraying the captives, and other soldiers…

Several miles back at the mostly deserted hideout, down in the last floor of the base, faint plopping noises could be heard as blood dribbled down onto the floor. James blinked several time to adjust his vision which is still blurry from the knockout. He is on the ground lying down on his belly with something covering his mouth, and he could sense that someone else is in there with him.

"You have three seconds to tell me where she is"

"And if I don't are you going to kill me you fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaa!... You broke my god damn hand you mother fucker!"

"I am telling you now, if you don't tell me where she is you will not see the end of this day."

James got his concentration back. In front of him is a boy and he is breaking the limbs of a girl that is pilot of the enemy IS. He is strapped down onto the ground by some rope and wires. He twisted his arms and legs, but couldn't get himself free. His pocket knife is missing, and there are no weapons near him.

"Ah! You mother… don't swallow that, uh-h" The boy interrogating the girl tried to pull something out of the girls mouth, but it is too late as her eyes rolled upwards and foam started to drip out of her mouth.

"Ah! God damn it… ah-h!" The boy seemed to let his rage out on a tray holding surgical tools as he threw it across the room. "Hey you, I know you are awake so don't try to pull anything stupid."

James rolled his head, scraping the ground and looked at the boy. The boy stood over him, from James' viewing perspectives he felt like an ant about to get stomped on by a giant human foot. The boy is probably in his mid-teens, he is wearing a black leather jacket, underneath it a white t-shirt, paired up with blue jeans and a pair of black and white stripped Nikes. The boy slowly crouched down, he has black hair that covered his fore head and some strands that went down to his neck.

The boy's hand grabbed James' blond hair, gripping it tightly in with his leather glove, "Ah, ah, ah!"

"Quit your squirming, hum… good I didn't hit you hard enough to give you a concussion." He let go of James' head. The boy got back up "Uhhh!" he stumbled a little bit and coughed up some blood, spilling the red liquid on the ground. The boy stood straight and peeled off his leather glove on his right hand.

Several pieces of metal bolts and plates fell out of his sleeve vaporizing into the air just before they hit the ground. James looked dumbfounded at the boy's right hand, it's robotic. His hand looks like they are cladded with finger joints and bits of armory, there is some blood trickling down his elbow. In some places there is missing armor mostly around the knuckle area and blue lights are flashing faintly in-between the cracks.

"Don't worry I am on your side" The boy said as he stared down at James, "I bet to know a little about me" the boy slipped his leather glove back on. He walked up to James and sat down right next to him.

"Well I guess I will go first, I think am around 15, last time I checked a calendar it was the year 2045 so it think it's been five year, uh has it been five years?." James nodded his head.

"… well moving on, those people that you are after, they have someone I would like back. So here is what's going to happen I am going to free you and help you get out of here, you don't do anything stupid or I'll snap your neck, are we on the same page."

James nodded.

The boy got back up and cut the wires tied around his arms and legs. James gradually stood up, he himself is a good 184cm (6'0) and the boy is probably three inches shorter than him. James looked around, and spotted his M16, the boy walked forwards to the black IS, if James wanted to overpower the boy this would be his chance.

James crept up behind the boy and lunged at him. The boy lifted his hand up cuffing James' neck perfectly and flipped him down on the body of the black IS. "WHUUUU" James' head felt dizzy, and something hard is pressing into his throat. The boy's foot is pressing down tightly on his Adam's apple, giving James little room to breathe.

"I told you not to do anything stupid, and this is what you do." The pressure on James' neck got more suffocating. "I didn't really mean break your neck, but if you really want it that bad I can do it." James' face is now cherry red. The boy lifted his foot off James and wrapped his hands around his neck.

"Do you want to die?"

James couldn't answer because he is still fighting for air. "Oh, I shouldn't squeeze that hard" James' gasp for a second filling his lungs and huffing before felling more some pressure again. "Well do you?"

"No cough* cough* please don't kill me"

"I not going to kill you I am no murderer, but we're both going to die if you don't stop waste my time. Do you see that computer over there? Well when you were out a program was activated to blow the place up we have like three minutes, so are you going to help or not?"

"Yes! Just get your fucking hands off me!"

The boy let go and dragged James off the IS. "Go over to that guy and get him up, we need to help him too." James saw the unconscious soldier and ran to him, SLAP* "Get up man!" no response. James checked the soldier's pulse, he's alive.

"Uhhhh!"James lifted the soldier up like a sack of potatoes and turned around. "What the hell" The boy is in the black IS and is moving the joints around like he is warming up for something. "WAAA" James almost let go of the man on his back. "How the hells are you controlling that, are you not a boy."

The boy responded by making a dumb face, "well am special, now get your ass over here before we blow the hell up!"

James dashed over there. "What are you going to do?"

"This"

A massive riffle suddenly vaporized in the boy's hands, he pointed it at the ceiling and began to fire shots that look like streams of white lights. James threw the soldier to the ground and ducked covering his head with his arms. Rubble and some dust fell on top of James.

"What the fuck do you think you are doing!?" yelled James

"Well as you can see, I am saving you and making a fast exit."

The boy made the weapon disappear and walked up to the two men. The boy held the unconscious soldier in his right hand, and made James hang on to his left. "Okay this is going to get a little bumpy."

The black IS shot out of the building like a rocket, "I don't know how much power this IS still has left, so we better hurry and reach some land quickly." They flew with great speed the force pushed the water away, seemingly splitting it in a half. "

James turned his head to look at the fast disappearing base. It's late in the afternoon now and the sun is only half up. Suddenly the far distant lit up in a mushroom cloud, and a shock wave blew the IS off course.

They fell into the water.

"WWUUUUHHHH!" James floated back up and thrashed around. He took in a deep breath and plunged down again. He spots a body sinking into the darkness. A black object ran across the water and picked the two back up, and shot to the surface.

"HHHUUUUAAAA!" James swallowed the air. His lungs hurt from holding his breath. James held onto the black IS so he wouldn't sink back down. He then began to hurl water and food out of his mouth, across the black IS's armor.

"Ah! That is nasty man you got yourself all over me." The boy clamped his mouth and nose with his hand in disgust.

There are sounds of cracking in the far distant. The boy turned his head, he spots several little dots lighting up on fire, and leaving a high trail of black smoke covering the sky.

"Come on, we might be too late to save your comrades."

Parts of several rafts slayed on top of the water and swayed there as the currents slowly drew them away. The IS got closer to the burning objects, the heat from the flames dried the soldier and boy almost instantly.

Bodies of fallen soldiers, and captives floated soullessly around the water. The boy hovered around the destruction looking for any survivors, but all of them were dead.

"I am going to drop you guys off at a hospital there is nothing I can do for them"

James held his emotions back in, these people that are now floating corpse were once his best friends. He made a choking noise as he tried to say a few words.

"Yes you can"

The boy looked at James. "Huh?..."

"You can do something for them"

"What?"

"You can find the people that did this and kill them…"

Back at the IS academy

"We have lost all contacts with the troops and captives"

"They seem to have disappeared four miles from the shoreline."

"Miss Orimura, there is incoming readings of several IS units heading towards the school."

Chifuyu gritted her teeth. "Get all the students to the dorms, seal all entrances, and I need all the teachers to get ready to defend against the incoming units."

The arena is completely empty. The wind blew the light brown dirt around making little dusk clouds. In the posts on the top of the arena and launch decks are positioned the teachers. They held their places ready for the approaching IS's.

Yamada is in her Raphael-Revive pointing her 51 caliber assault rifle 'red bullet' towards the shore. The firearm and its ammunition were made by an American company called Claus. As it's practical and extremely reliable, it became a main essential model that many countries have come to use, and by far her favorite.

Suddenly her scouter picked up a moving object, multiple objects. She wasn't the only one either because the other teachers have also begun aiming into the blue horizon.

The IS's are golden, and look like imperial guards with full body armor. Normally, the IS will only deploy armor over only a part of the body, because there's no need to have a full armor. The defenses are all done by the energy shields, so the armor appearance is meaningless. Of course, there are defensive IS that can carry physical defensive shields, but even with that, an IS without even 1cm of skin revealed is something really rare.

They moved with great speed as they made their way to the IS academy. Yamada's index finger sat on her trigger with ease, as she took a deep breath. Time slowed down in her mind making seconds look like milliseconds, she takes a moment to adjust her wind gauge and lock onto one of the golden IS's.

She let go of a very deep breath making a slight whistling noise. The trigger moved back a millimeter as her finger pressed into it.

Out of nowhere a gigantic backwards mushroom cloud ruptured through the center arena celling taking out all shield protections. Red and blue energy waves submerged back into their reactors leaving the arena completely defenseless.

"Wh-What's going on...?"

A black smoke ball appeared right in the middle of the arena. Yamada pulled her attention away from the incoming IS's and pointed her riffle at the black clouds. Suddenly the sound of gun fire echoed across the arena. Bolts of light big and small shot at the arena, everywhere the bolts hit massive explosions ripped chunks of the arena off and threw the debris everywhere.

Return fire could be seen as the other teachers began firing back at the incoming IS's. Energy beams shot across the place whizzing around front and back. The teachers came out of their positions and flew at the golden IS's. Loud explosions rang into Yamada's ears as she began to aim and fire at the golden IS.

BOOOM!

She hit one of them, a little fire ball burst open its chest place sending the IS down into the ground. The arena sounded like it is caught in a middle of a thunderstorm as more golden IS's were shot down.

"Something is not right we got them too easily."

The several dozen teachers hovered across the arena waited to see what was about to happen. Suddenly the golden IS rose back to their feet and began heading towards the command center.

"What the heck!"

"Shoot them down"

The hammering sound of gunfire continued as the teachers attacked the golden IS's. Yamada took aim and shot off the head of an IS, but it kept going like nothing happened.

"What the, there is no one piloting them"

"They seem like they are unmanned!"

"Just keep shooting we can't let them reach the command center."

Yamada who is high above the arena thought to herself, what they trying to get? ...The things from the crate! They must be after the things in there! She concentrated her engines and rocketed towards the command center.

"Miss Orimura, Yamada-sensei is heading to close to the danger zone aren't you going to tell her to stop?"

Chifuyu just kept her eyes on the screen while reaching over and poured herself a cup of coffee. "Since she wants to fight, why don't we just let her do so?"

"W-WHAT, MISS ORIMURA! HOW CAN YOU CASUALLY SAY SUCH A THING!?"

"Calm down, you're anxious because you lack sugar." Chifuyu took up a spoon of fine grained white powder and dumped it in her coffee.

"...Erm, Miss Orimura, that's salt..."

"..."

Suddenly stopping the spoon that's pouring salt into the coffee, Chifuyu puts the white pieces back into the container.

"Why is there salt here?"

"Who, who knows...? But there's the oversized label 'salt' on it..."

"..."

"Ah, so you're worried about her aren't you? No wonder you made such a mistake-"

"..."

An irritating silence, a really irritating silence, feeling that something bad may happen, the girl averted her eyes away from Chifuyu and focused on the screen.

Chifuyu walked up a little closer to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "Oh, yes-"

"Azami, please drink this coffee."

"Huh? I-Is-isn't that the one you poured salt in..."

"Here."

Facing the coffee being forced onto her, the girl can only weep as she accepts.

"I-I'll take it then..."

"The coffee is hot, just gulp it down in one go."

THERE'S A DEVIL HERE!

Before Chifuyu could enjoy the moment of agony another staff member shouted her name. "Ah Miss Orimura there seems to be another incoming IS unit"...

The black smoke in the middle of the arena suddenly got bigger like something was about to get up. Yamada and rest of the teachers watched in shock as the smoke dissipated and revealed a greyish looking IS. Its arms are abnormally long, all the way till below the waist, and there's no neck, shoulder or head that can be seen.

It too, has full body armor.

Besides, the large size of the IS means that it's not a normal one. Including the arms, the frame of that thing is over 2m long, and probably the jet propulsion nozzles all over its body are used to maintain its position. Its head reveals sensors that aren't arranged properly. There are also 4 holes on both sides of the forearms.

"What are you?"

The IS moved its bulky arms at the teachers. The 4 holes began to light up with a purple light. Infrared laser rapidly fired out of the holes aimed at the teachers, hitting several of them. The golden IS's began to move further away towards the safety of the grey IS.

Yamada would not slow down, she chased after the golden IS. The grey IS noticed this and began firing at her. Yamada swiftly dodged all of them spinning around the air and proceeded to chase after the IS's.

"All most there!"

BOOM! The grey IS flew straight at her, Yamada couldn't react in time as an enormous fist smashed into her side making her crash into a wall. Yamada has never felt such tremendous pain before especially wearing an IS. She laid stomach side on the ground pushing her upper body up with her hands "Cough* cough*" a few drops of blood came out.

Her legs felt limp and her head a bit dizzy. She looked up and saw the colossal IS standing above her. It is dark now and only the stadium/arena lights gave off any visibility.

The IS blocked the lights giving it no texture or detail, Yamada thought that maybe death himself was about to take her. The IS lifted its arms up and made two giant fist, bringing them down on her in a gorilla like fashion.

Yamada closed her eyes tightly in fear of being in hit.

A great loud earth-battering sound wave shot across the arena sending more dust clouds up into the air.

…

Yamada didn't feel any pain, instead she felt like someone is carrying her. Blink* Blink* she opened her eyes and saw that she was several feet above the ground and is flying at a constant pace. She sees something that looks like a black IS hand holding her, wrapping its fingers around her shoulder and thighs.

Yamada turned her head up wards …

"Hey are you alright?"

Yamada's eyes widen like an excited dog as she made out the person that saved her. "Hey! Can you hear me! Are you alright!?

No words could come out of her mouth as she is too stunned to say anything. The person that saved her is a boy, he has a handsome face and with streaky jet black hair giving him the most elegant manly look.

She began to feel hot inside and could tell that her face is blushing like crazy. "Y-yes" Yamada said in a beyond shy voice. The boy gave off a little smile that made her heart jump around her chest. She imagined herself being saved by a prince and being carried like this many times, but now that it's really happening she never wanted this moment to end.

Unforchantly for her the boy stopped and lowered down to the floor. He gently laid her on the ground. She is still a bit dizzy, but made out the boy to be wearing a black IS, a much damaged one.

The boy took his left hand and ripped off the armor protecting his right hand. The armor made a thud sound as it fell. The boy gazed closely into his right hand and it began to light up in a spectacular blue light.

An oversize fifteen foot claymore vaporized into his hand. The claymore glowed a ripe blue, even though it is made out of pure energy the blade is covered in designs and elegant details that resembled flames.

The boy placed the bottom hilt in his left hand, and flew straight at the golden IS's. Catching up to the first IS he swung the claymore down slicing its armor with ease, the metal looked like paper being cut by scissors as the IS fell into two pieces and blew up.

He spun around and cut two more IS in half. The black IS jumped up into the air and came back down stabbing straight through another IS's chest plate.

All the teachers could see was a blur of blue, before the remaining units blew up making fireworks like explosions and sending gold pieces across the arena.

The black IS turned to face the grey IS.

The blue claymore suddenly died, and the boy got down to his knees coughing blood up. The teachers and Yamada didn't know what to do, but stare form a distance. Strangely enough the grey IS didn't attack.

The boy got back up and pointed his right metallic hand at the IS. "I WILL FIND HER, YOU WILL NOT STOP ME!"

The grey IS stood solid for a moment like it was trying to compute his words and then aimed its hands at the boy activated its lasers. The boy looked unfazed and put himself in a charging position. The lasers shot out of the four holes and converged into a giant stream of energy.

The force and power behind the blast caused the ground of the arena to look like it is splitting in two and mercilessly headed at the boy with unstoppable momentum disintegrating anything that lies between them.

The boy charged at the laser and collided with it.

The laser sunk the boy's legs down into the patch of earth caused them to scrape through the ground. Everyone teachers, staff members, even some students began to gawk with jaw dropping effects due to what their eyes were seeing.

The boy is literally holding the laser in place not letting it budge.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Parts of the IS armor began to disintegrate and melt. Bits of the lasers bounced out of place and created more destruction hitting bleachers and other parts of the arena. The boy began to walk forwards pain snakingly as he groaned in agony. Blood began to drip down every time he took a step making a trail.

"I NEED MORE POWER!"

The engines on the black IS came to life and stared to push the boy onwards, "AHHH! THIS ISN'T ENOUGH MORE! MORE!" Now the boy is in a full on sprint, the unstable laser began to shoot beams in every direction.

The boy rammed into the IS, lifting it off its feet and into the ground. A vast explosion wiped out the middle of the arena. People living near the IS academy woke up from a sound that out matched even an earthquake and saw a ball of light growing and expanding out of the school.

…

The teachers hovered down to the battered terrain. Metal pieces are scattered everywhere and exoskeletons to the golden IS's are smoldering a red hot color.

"What the heck just happened?"

"Who was that boy, how can he control an IS?"

The teachers talked to each other as they looked around the ruin arena. A little rustling could be heard near a pile of beaten metal, they all materialized their weapons and pointed them at several hunks of metal that started to flip around. Out popped a bloody boy.

He took a few steps and fell face to the ground.

-Back in command center-

"Miss Orimura what just happened?"

"Miss Or… hey where is she?"

The staff looked around the room, but she was nowhere in sight. The clicking of heels could be heard across the hall as Chifuyu ran into the elevator and punched the lowest floor button. Chifuyu looked like she's on the verge of tears as she waited to reach the bottom floor, she couldn't stop her body from quivering and the butterflies in her stomach to die down.

Bing*

The elevator door opened and she sprinted outwards to the crowed of battle worn teachers. "where is he!?"

"Um we took in into the infirmary, he is…"

"Uhhhhh!" Chifuyu turned around and sprinted towards the school.

The room is a small cramped space separated by curtains with another with two beds next to each other. There is a window to the side, and some medical equipment.

The door suddenly busted open and a sweating Chifuyu walked in. Her expression is showing worry, happiness, and excitement all mixed together. Her hands are shaky and she could barely walk. There are bloody towels and wrapping paper in the trash and ten medical bags with tubes running up to the bed.

She got a little closer, lifting her trembling right hand she pushed aside the curtains. There lies a boy, with tubes in his arms, and bandages covering his chest and face. Chifuyu got even closer and slowly peeled off several bandages off his face.

She stumbled back a little and stat down into a chair two feet away from the bed. Chifuyu began to snob, tears ran down her cheeks as she placed her hands up to her face covering herself likes she is embarrassed and cried out one word…

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"Ichika"… Chifuyu kept crying and wouldn't stop, her face became a little bit more red every second. Thank god there are no cameras in the room and the door is lockable.

Something soft touched her check wiping away her tear drops. She pulled back, shocked and slowly put her hands down to her lap.

Ichika couldn't see due to all the bandages, but sensed that someone was crying from his left hand side. He knew the soft touch of skin, the warm of it and instantly recognized who it belonged to.

"Don't cry Chifuyu-nee…"