AN: I got some problems pointed out with this chapter on the other website I put it on so you may not want to read it yet. To be specific, apparently Nanoha is OOC. I'll either have it updated by Friday or it won't be updated at all though so if you want to read just the fixed version check then. I'm still posting this now because I did say I'd be updating every Sunday. UPDATE: This entire chapter and the end of chapter two is being redone. On Sunday, if I finish it by then, there will be a new Chapter Three. It will be almost entirely new content and this chapter will be deleted.

"Nanoha, that's your house down there. You missed it." Yuuno nervously laughs.

"I know. We're not going there."

"Then where-no. We're not going to the hive cluster."

"I thought I was the one kidnapping you?"

"Nanoha! This isn't funny."

"You wanted to reveal me to them."

"Yes, but they can help you! The TSAB isn't bad."

"Then why did Arf have such a bad reaction to them?"

"She's a criminal."

"You don't know that."

"They've been stealing the Jewel Seeds."

"Oh, right. I'm still not going back. Fate needs me to be her friend. Besides, government organizations are evil."

"That's not… you're not going to change your mind."

"Nope."

Nanoha finally reaches the hive cluster and lands. She reaches out through Raising Heart and takes control of all the Zerg there, forcing them to her will. She can keep Yuuno here, there is already a design to keep human subjects asleep and alive for long periods of time. Since she can't trust him that's the only-actually, there is another way.

"Yuuno. I know a way for me to trust you."

"How?"

"I can make it so you have limited access to the hive mind. That way I'll know for sure you won't tell anyone anything."

He looks around at the hive cluster and shudders. "Is it permanent?"

"Very." Nanoha smiles. Surely he'll agree, who wouldn't want to improve themselves-

"Please don't," he says in a small voice.

"Fine. Restrict Lock" Nanoha binds each of his limbs with a spell circle, holding him in place.

"Nanoha? Nanoha, what are you doing!"

"You'll be fine. I promise to finish sealing the Jewel Seeds, don't worry." She carries him into the hatchery and sets him against a wall. An egg slowly grows over him and fills with fluid, despite his shrieks. It finishes, and she releases the bindings. Nothing happens. Good! She walks out of the hatchery, content that he will be fine until this is all over.

"Takamachi Nanoha, you are under arrest for the kidnapping of a Bureau citizen. Please deactivate your device and you will get to defend yourself in trial." Chrono, the enforcer from earlier, floats just above the creep, pointing his staff at her.

"You go away! This is my home." She has her five Zerglings, other than Zrok, slowly surround him and move closer.

Chrono says nothing. He shoots several bolts out of his staff at Nanoha while the Zerglings pounce on him simultaneously.

"Protection." A pink half sphere blocks the attack. "Shooting mode."

Nanoha aims her staff at Chrono, who quickly rises into the air outside the range of the Zerglings.

"Divine Buster!" He doesn't quite manage to dodge the attack, and it breaks through his half-formed shield making him fall onto the creep below. The Zerglings pounce on him, tearing at his Barrier Jacket. He swings his staff around, hitting several of them and shooting his blasts at the rest. A blue spell circle appears under him, and the enforcer teleports away while the Zerglings regroup.

Three Zerglings unconscious. And he was unprepared that time. Next time he'll do better. That gives Nanoha one choice to keep her freedom.

She orders one of the larvae at the hatchery, worm-like armored creatures that serve to morph into other Zerg, to become an overlord. It curls up into a ball and forms a green cocoon. She orders the others to become Zerglings, creating six more in total.

A few minutes later it finishes. A balloon like creature emerges and floats into the air, spikes dotting it's top and claws hanging down. One of the few Zerg with psionic potential, it controls lesser Zerg such as Zerglings… and her. She had refrained from making one in fear it would control her, but hopefully Raising Heart will protect her.

She feels it take direct control over the Zerglings, the strain on her own mind lessening. It reaches out to her and she fights the control, establishing her own dominance over it. It doesn't fight, not truly having a mind of its own.

Nanoha smiles in relief. It was a risk, but a necessary one. Now she has a command structure, and the ability to control more Zerg. She can expand her hive.

The new leader of the hive mind makes a few more overlords and several more Zerglings, giving her a combat force of sixteen and several more for defense. She creates several drones, crablike creatures with wings out their sides which are the base worker unit and can transform into structures. She immediate sends the drones to start taking wildlife and plants to restore her biomass reserves.

She also creates Spine and Spore Crawlers all over the creep. The former have a spiked base, and in the center a long purple flexible body headed off with a large spike. The latter is tiered, like a brown armored giant cake, ending with an organic cannon barrel at the top to shoot targets out of the sky. They are static defenses, unable to attack while moving, but should serve to keep her safe. While Nanoha is here, they won't be able to find her family. They will be frightened that she disappeared, but she has no real choice here.

Still, she can't expand without risking discovery by people. Speaking of which, she should tell Honda she won't be at her house. She turns her phone on, and looks at the connection. Only one bar, she might not be able to get his reply. Oh well, that just means he can't order her around.

Nanoha: Some evil organization found me and I had to hide. Bad connection, won't hear your reply.

She clicks send and turns her phone off to save battery. That'll do it. Back to her thoughts from before, she needs room to expand… and there are several uninhabited planets nearby.

"Raising Heart. Teach me Dimensional Transfer."

She is woken up the next day by an energy pulse. A Jewel Seed just executed. She gathers sixteen Zerglings around her and Transfers, teleporting into the city, with her Barrier Jacket still on from the day before. The people around her yell in surprise before disappearing as someone sets up a barrier. She looks up at the now colorless sky, seeing Fate by a Jewel Seed.

"Fate!" She flies up to her friend and smiles.

"What do you want?" She seems to just now see the Zerglings below. "What are those!"

"Oh, those are Zerglings. They're friendly, don't worry."

"Get away from Fate!" Arf shoots orange bolts at Nanoha, making her fall hit into one of the skyscrapers. She quickly flies back out.

"Wait! Arf, I'm not here's to fight, just talk! The TSAB are here and I'd like to invite you to my hi-ome since they are fighting me."

"We're safer than your house could be."

Nanoha opens her mouth to argue when a green flash of might interrupts her. It's Chrono-and he has back up on the ground. Half a dozen men wearing black cloaks, metal plated around their chests, and holding black staves that end with two forked yellow tips with a blue orb between them.

"You're all under arrest for attempting to steal Lost Logia. Disarm yourselves and you will be given a chance to defend yourself in court."

"Hey, we found them first! You should be the one to stop." Nanoha argues.

"These Lost Logia create dimensional tremors. The safety of this and its surrounding dimensions are our responsibility."

Fate tries to seal the Jewel Seed. Immediately, Chrono shoots her with several bolts. Fate falls only to be caught by Arf. Nanoha orders her Zerglings to attack the Bureau forces while she charges Chrono. She makes several Divine Shooters, and they hit Chrono just before she does. He blocks her staff with his own and flips below her, shooting her feet. She spins away out of control for a moment beforehand stabilizing herself.

"Fire!" The TSAB men get in a circle inside a circle formation and fire blue beams at her Zerglings, quickly tearing several of them apart. They jump from above and all sides, tearing at the shields and Barrier Jackets. Whenever one mage gets injured he is moved to the inside circle, keeping any of them from too bad injuries.

Fate slams Chrono, scythe against staff. Nanoha takes the opportunity to seal the Jewel Seed but Arf tries to shoot her down, forcing her to dive to the side. She shoots Arf with several Divine Shooters, then quickly switches into sealing mode and takes the Jewel Seed.

Nanoha then switches into shooting mode. "Divine Buster!" She hits both Chrono and Fate, though the former manages to get a shield up first. Chrono shoots back, which Nanoha dodges. Suddenly, she gets a warning from her base. Pain. She looks through her Overlords at base and sees another squad of TSAB men shooting at her spine crawlers, just out of reach. She looks down to see her Zerglings here all dead, having only injured a few men, and the rest starting to shoot beams at her.

She quickly flies away only to be stopped by the edge of the barrier.

"I can't go through this?"

"No, we will need to break out." Fate nods her head at Nanoha. Finally, she agreed to work together! Nanoha is just glad that she did.

"Right. Divine Buster." Nanoha switches to shooting mode and aims at the barrier. Chrono shoots at her only to be blocked by Fate's shield. Fate shoots several Photon Lancers back at him which he dodges and blocks with practiced ease.

Nanoha finishes her Divine Buster, breaking the barrier. The world returns to color and they can hear the surprised shock of people below.

"Fate, let's go!" Nanoha yells only to be met with a shake of a head.

"I can't. I'm sorry, but I have to get the Jewel Seeds. Photon Lancer." Fate shoots Nanoha several times, who just barely blocks the attack with shock.

Nanoha frowns. Her new friend isn't going to escape that easily. "Flash Move." Nanoha flies over to Fate, staff held forward. Fate holds up her staff to block Nanoha's only for Nanoha to transform her foot into sharp bone covered in spores and stab her in the leg with her foot. Arf shoots Nanoha off Fate only for Chrono to shoot Fate. Both girls fall to the ground surrounded by spectators, a drop of blood on Fate's leg sliding to the ground.

"Stop fighting! There are civilians here that could get hurt." Chrono plants his staff on the ground, and shifts to an unaggressive stance.

Nanoha frowns. What could he be doing? He hasn't left yet so he obviously still wants to fight them, but says he doesn't want to. She looks past him to where they were fighting. The Bureau mages are holding their staves up, casting some sort of spell.

"You're just delaying!" Nanoha quickly uses Transfer, teleporting away without being stopped due to being near a crowd. Fate and Arf do the same a moment later.

Meanwhile, the second squadron of mages had been slowly destroying her base. She had her remaining Zerglings circle them and attack from behind, but they just turned around and shot them, teleporting their few injured members out.

By the time Nanoha teleports in they have destroyed half her defenses, and she readies a Divine Buster. They quickly scatter, so she only hits one. She readies a dozen Divine Shooters instead. A few mages pick the injured one up and they all proceed to teleport out, no doubt not wanting to fight a stronger mage on her home ground.

The girl sighs, and drops onto the ground. She closes her eyes and begins ordering her base to rebuild. Larva from the Hatchery form eggs and morph into Drones. The Drones scurry about to find spots to morph into Crawlers. Other Drones carry in biomass from the forest in the form of wild animals and plants.

Nanoha bites her lips. This is extremely noticeable, people are likely to find her if she keeps this up. This will be a safe place for not much longer.

She needs to move. She orders several Drones and Zerglings including Zrok to move around her.

"Dimensional Transfer." A spell circle appears under their feet and they disappear onto another planet. The hive is replaced by green grass and healthy air. This is a nearby dimension she had scouted earlier, easy to get to and back.

Nanoha orders the Drones to collect some biomass and morph into a hatchery. It picks a spot on the field to morph and eats the biomass provided by the other Drones. It turns into a giant pink egg attached to the ground, spikes coming off it's side to deter any local animals.

While it's morphing, Nanoha browses the internet with Raising Heart. It seems with all her public appearances lately people are starting to suspect something is going on, though most people seem to think it's fake. There is a small group in America petitioning their government to make magical girls, but they don't seem to know what they are talking about. Several people are claiming that they're aliens, but got the details wrong. She isn't from Mars, and she's doesn't think the TSAB has a base there either. Someone is also claiming she's their missing child… nope, not her mom.

Nanoha frowns. She should probably tell her parents what she's doing.

"Can I call my mom from here with my phone?" Nanoha asks her staff.

"No, my master. Your phone won't have signals," Raising Heart replies.

"So I have to teleport back to call her."

"No, I can mimic your phone."

"Do that, I want to call my mom."

"Yes, my master."

"Hey, Mom?"

"Is that you Nanoha?" Momoko answers.

"Yeah. Um, so recently-" Yuuno did say she can't reveal magic. Or is that counteracted by everyone flying in plain sight? Better be safe. Time to explain everything without mentioning magic.

"So an archeologist who lost dangerous artifacts like in Indiana Jones needed my help to recover them but a girl wanted them too so I fought her then the not-space police came but were evil so we had to fight them and now I'm at my hive preparing to fight them. Can I skip school for a few days?"

"Um." Momoko stays silent for a moment. "When will you be back? Is the agency okay with this?"

"Oh, in a week or two? And I told them about it." Nanoha considers it for a moment. That sounds about right, at this rate the Jewel Seeds will all be collected by the end of the week. Then she just has to make Fate accept her friendship, get the TSAB to leave, and get the agency to accept that she's a mage now.

"Alright, I'll call you in. Good luck on your adventure! Don't get hurt while flying!"

"Thanks mom, bye!" Nanoha hangs up. The Hatchery has finished morphing and creep begins to spread across the field, killing the grass. Nanoha has the other Drones start morphing defenses and a Spawning Pool then teleports back to her main hive.

A few hours later Nanoha, bored, looks at the news. Some political scandal, more rerun soon of her last fight, a pop idol made some sort of announcement, a fight between a giant robot and Chrono, the Emperor's cat got stuck in a tree-wait. Chrono is fighting a giant robot? Must be an a Jewel Seed.

Nanoha gathers several Zerglings and teleports to the fight. She has her Zerglings go after the Bureau mages–it looks to be a mix of the two groups earlier–and flies after Chrono herself. He has currently almost demolished the robot which seems to be a mishmash of parts made from a car factory, which isn't just behind it. She can see the actual Jewel Seed is in the factory, possessing the machines which hold the ruined roof up. Several workers are still inside, and would surely be crushed if someone made a barrier, taking the machinery with it.

She pauses in the air for a moment. She should try talking first, she learned that from her parents.

"Chrono! Stop trying to take over this world and kidnap me, you don't have jurisisti-jurisdiction!" Nanoha smiles, hopeful they will give up. Chrono seems to just look at her in confusion.

"You kidnapped a Bureau citizen." He shoots Nanoha several times.

"It's for his own good! And mine. But he's still my friend!" She shields herself and shoots a dozen Divine Shooters back.

"If he is your friend then turn yourself in! With his testimony you could avoid charges." He blocks them and points his staff at Nanoha, charging it for an attack.

"I'll never fall for your tricks! I know how this goes, Divine Buster!" Nanoha shoots him before he finishes, but he dodges. Instead the robot is destroyed, cars flying everywhere.

He shoots Nanoha in turn which she attempts to dodge, but one hits. She creates Divine Shooters and charges at him but he evades them and their staves clash. They push against each other, both determined to win. Then he shifts his grip, making hers slide and she loses her balance. He fires at point blank range and she is thrown away.

Nanoha takes stock of the situation. She's injured, her Zerglings are almost all dead, and Chrono is winning.

"I'll stop your evil deeds next time! Transfer." Nanoha teleports out. Once at her hive, she wonders why Fate didn't show up. Her infestation won't complete for a while yet, so she should be acting as normal. This is the first Jewel Seed since she arrived that she didn't show up. Perhaps she was getting a different one? If she did then she probably got it fine. Fate's strong after all.

Nanoha walks around her hatchery, biting her lip. She had thought it was a good idea to keep Yuuno trapped before, but now she feels guilty. He's already been stuck in there for a while, and she doesn't know for sure when she will be able to let him out. She could just let him out now, but he'd surely go to the TSAB.

There really is only one solution here. She'll have to infest Yuuno with the partial infestation she developed for Fate. All her instincts are telling her to infest him anyways. She communicates with the hatchery and has it inject the spores into his blood. With the hatchery monitoring the process, it shouldn't take too long.

That doesn't mean she can be complacent though. She teleports to her other-world hive cluster and orders that hatchery to evolve to a lair. Lairs are much larger, and give her access to more essence which means she can make better Zerg to use.

She has several of the larva morph into Drones and Zerglings and pairs them off. The Zerglings hunt the local wildlife while the drones pick up the biomass and bring it back to the hive. A few hours later she has one Drone morph into a Roach Warren.

When that is done, she orders several Roaches to be made. It is a black and purple armored quadrupeds with two additional claws on its top, spikes littering its back. Its head is surrounded by the black armor and can spit green acid which instantly eats away anything it touches.

She orders her new Zerglings and Roaches into battle groups, ready to fight at any moment. She has one of them, a group of ten Zerglings and three roaches, come with her as she teleports back to her original hive to get Yuuno.

It is chaos. The TSAB mages are all attacking the hive cluster, beams of energy going everywhere. All the Zerg she had here are dead, mindlessly driven to attack uselessly by the Overlords. If she had made a queen to strategize and actually control the hive… but no matter.

She has the Roaches she brought with her head to the outer layer of her remaining defenses and spit acid at the mages. Meanwhile, the Zerglings sneak off into the forest to preform a flanking maneuver. The Roaches' acid hits the mages' shields and flies off, eating into the ground and nearby trees.

"Surrender! You are currently under arrest for attacking and attempted murder of an officer of the law! No one has gotten hurt, so if you surrender now you may get reduced charges."

"You're not going to get me dissected in a lab!" Nanoha flies to the hatchery and goes inside. She can feel her roaches being torn apart and her Zerglings being spotted, barely reaching the mages before being destroyed.

She has the cocoon with Yuuno open, the partial infestation process complete. He looks the same as before, except she knows if someone were to look at his back they'd find a part one millimeter thicker: the symbiote. She's reflects that if she was a true geneticist she might be able to avoid that, but it's an acceptable trade off anyway.

"Er, uh. What's happening? Why do I hear so many voices? What is this!"

"Shhh Yuuno I'll explain later, come with me now."

His eyes open wide as he realizes what happened. "I said not to infect me with your virus! Turn me back!"

"Technically it was spores carrying a virus and that's impossible. Let's go!"

They've already destroyed enough defenses to reach the hatchery unopposed. If they come in, Yuuno will know it's them.

"That fighting outside… it's the TSAB, right?"

Or he'll guess anyways. Nanoha frowns. He is being difficult, and she isn't skilled enough in Dimensional Transfer to teleport someone else against their will.

"Blaze Cannon!" Chrono stands next to the hatchery and shoots a large blue beam at it, incinerating the walls.

"Wide Area Protection!" Nanoha creates a large shield protecting her and Yuuno from the blast. She has only one choice left to her now. She reaches into Yuuno's Psi connection and yells into it. He doesn't have Zerg biology so she's can't directly control him, but there is a next best thing. She sends a signal that is nothing but a very loud scream, causing him to blink, having lost his train of thought. She grabs him and pulls him to the middle of her remaining defenses, not even near the hatchery anymore while telepathically calling to him.

"Yuuno teleport to these coordinates!"

"No!"

She had hoped that would work. She does have one option left though.

"See how they're destroying the hive? They hate me and us! If you go to them they'll just kill you."

"Or they will remove my connection to the hive that you put in my neck."

"Exactly! Which would kill you."

"I think I'm going to take my chances."

Nanoha starts to panic. He isn't listening to her! The Bureau is getting closer!

"I am your Queen! You will obey!" She falls upon Zerg instincts. She floods his connection with her thoughts and he cries out. She sends nerve signals through the connection to directly control his body while activating Dimensional Transfer. Unable to resist, he disappear from that world with her teleportation, and they appear in her new, and now only, hive cluster.

She lets go, and Yuuno collapses like a puppet with its strings cut. Nanoha just stands, relieved that they got away and are no longer in danger. Yuuno gets to his knees and slowly rises.

"What did you just do?"

"I used the link and forced you to come with me. You don't understand–you needed to!"

"I don't think so. Look, Nanoha, this has gotten out of hand. You kept me trapped in that thing for who knows how long–"

"Only a few days."

"And then when I get out I discover you mind hacked me!"

"Spine, actually. I figured you would want to keep your mind. And you do! I had to put a lot of effort into making you obey, you know."

"That's not much better."

Nanoha lets out a breath. He clearly doesn't understand what a gift she gave him and how bad governments are. She'll have to get him on her side another way.

"How about I make it up to you? I can improve your body a bunch. I can make it so you don't need to eat or sleep and I could make your skin tougher or I could amplify your magic a little or–"

"I think you're missing the point."

Yuuno's wrong, she isn't missing the point. He is, he just won't understand how much better Zerg are than human biology. This isn't probably why, she reflects, all the previous viruses to infest humans targeted the brain and used psychological warfare to make them submit. She will have to come up with a better plan.

"We can't afford to fight each other either way. The Jewel Seeds are still out there and need to be sealed. How about I make you a bed in the Lair and we can keep discussing this later. As long as you promise not to teleport out."

"Alright. But I'm not sleeping in the Lair, and you have to promise not to go into my mind."

"Right." He doesn't have to know how difficult it is to control him.

The same time, one dimension and 10,850 km away

Nine people enter a moderately lit room and sit down at a circular but large white table, comfortable seats for each of them. It is a rather plain room, solid beige sound-proofed walls on all sides and no decorations of any sort anywhere. Even the lights are a simple eight circles in the ceiling above the table.

"Let's start right away. May the Japanese representative please begin," the American states plainly, a broad muscular man with short brown hair and dark skin.

"Of course," Kimura, a short, skinny, green haired man says, "we have called for an emergency meeting between the signees of the Paranormal Accords of 1992 due to a critical discover: access to other dimensions."

"And you have proof of this?" The German representative, a blond haired woman asks.

"Indeed. You are, of course, aware of the subject of Paranormal Activity 0285, correct?" Nods greet him from all around the table. "The bugs placed on her reveal a meeting between her and what seems to be an alien."

"More of the 0285 creatures?" The French representative, a short black haired man clarifies.

"No. Our observations make him appear to be a human who turns into a ferret, and he appears to have given her 'magical powers', direct quote, by giving her alien technology to fight alien technology that went out of control." The room grows silent as he finishes.

"Is this a joke?" The Brazilian representative, a short muscular man with dark hair asks. Kimura was afraid this would be the reaction. Luckily, he came prepared.

"I'm afraid not. We do have, of course, the recordings." He pulls out a small device from his pocket and presses a button, playing the recording of Yuuno meeting Nanoha for the first time. For a time it plays just static, right after she repeats several of Yuuno's words back to him, before eventually returning to sound after the presumed battle is over.

"Why is a part just static? A fault with your machines?" The British representative asks.

"No, it appears when the subject uses her magic her clothes change until she is finished. Since the recorder wasn't destroyed, we suspect it was placed in an extradimensional pocket like most of their tech seems to be based on. We have since corrected this problem by placing the recorders elsewhere and now can hear her even when she uses magic."

"Have you managed to get copies of the device she is using?" The American asks.

"No. I'm afraid her contact was unable to make her come in after the initial report. She has since stopped talking with her contact, and the recorders cannot send us information while she is in another dimension."

"Humph, you should get better control over your people," the Indian representative suggests. Kimura internally scoffs, but makes no outward reaction. The girl believes she's Japanese, that'll be enough to make her fall in line. They haven't cultivated a positive relationship with her for years for nothing. In any case, he isn't going to be too forceful at her, as that will only drive her away.

"She will report back in line. In any case, we have managed to hear the equations, which is the basis of the technology they call 'magic', for their 'Interdimensional Transfer spell'. We already have scientists trying to find principles that should allow us to make use of it."

"You should share these equations with all of us," the Indian suggests. "We could do more research than you alone."

"We shouldn't spread it too far. We don't want others getting their hands on it first and using it against us," the American says, giving Kimura a glance. He will want the information no matter how this meeting goes. Kimura sends a glance back but internally frowns. The Americans think they have far too much power over the rest of them.

"I suggest we take this information told and reconvene tomorrow. This is a rather important decision," the Canadian representative suggests.

"I second that motion," the Italian representative says. The other representatives quickly agree.

One by one, they leave the room, shutting it closed behind them.

AN: In this, I'm afraid I've broken a rule of modern fantasy. Magical attacks happen in full view of everyone and nonmagical people are going to actually respond to it and in a way that isn't stupidlyantagonistic.