Chifuyu sat in her office, her feet kicked up on her desk. "*sigh* In all the time I have been with the IS, never before has it given me this much a headache" She picks a file of her desk marked PFC Parker. She opens it and reads the different information inside it.
"You know if you really want to know anything about me you can just ask."
'Why is he still in my office, Oh yeah...I have to wait until one of his supervisors calls to let him go.' She thought. "Ok kid tell me this why are you here?"
"You being ranked higher than I, you have the authority to order me around."
"BEEP. BEEP." The communicator on the desk rang out. Chifuyu took her feet off the desk and tapped a green button on the device.
"Hello there!" A bubbly voice resounded off the walls of the room. "I'm Irene Fuller, the head scientist working on the Christof project."
'Oh great another Tabane type.' "Hello Ms Fuller I am Chifuyu Orimura Daniel's teacher."
"Oh yes the great Chifuyu, yes, yes we know of you isn't that right Daniel dear."
"I kind of go to school here and are you off your meds Irene?" Daniel asked.
"If it take them the blue jellies go away."
"Daniel?" Chifuyu shoots him a concerned look.
"Doc Herbert!" Daniel yells. Irenes image disappears of the monitor. A small struggle can be heard on the other end followed by a yelp.
A man appears on the screen. "Sorry I thought she already took care of this call."
"Herbert why am I on the ground!" a less than happy voice came over the mic.
"It's Daniel she called him." Irene rushed back onto the screen as Herbert walked away.
"Sorry, It a medical condition I have, an imbalance of chemicals." She started to apologize.
Chifuyu had both her hands covering her face. "It late over here and I would like to get something to eat can you please tell me what you want Daniel for and yes this is a secure line." She nearly growled out.
Irene cleared her throat, "Ok I am sending you the new software update to the Christof." Holographic screens began to open up around Daniel scaring him and causing him to fall over in his chair.
"Sorry." The screens deactivated one by one and slowly Daniel stood up. Suddenly a large one opened up point blank in his face and he slipped and hit the floor once more.
"You did that on purpose." he moaned.
"The jelles told me too. Ta Ta!" She ended the call.
"Daniel I think I just got an insight into the mind of an old friend of mine." Chifuyu mentally shudders. "You may now go back to your dorm or get dinner or whatever you do at this time." In a near whisper, "I need a drink."
Daniel reached his dorm after finishing up a quick meal in the cafeteria. He opened the door to be greeted by Ichika who was playing one of the games Daniel had brought from his homeland.
"What are you play there?" Daniel asked.
"IS Rising. It's very… interesting." Ichika responded.
"Oh that is a hard one."
"I'd say a normal soldier verses IS and winning, it had better be hard."
"What mission are you on?"
"The shadow of the rising sun."
"Good luck." Daniel sat down on his bed and changed into his night clothes. The sounds of gunfire came from the game as Ichika futilely fought off two Revives with just a shotgun. An Revive jumped next to him, but was blown away by an artillery strike that he had just called in.
"Two hundred people to take down four IS. Just wow." Ichika commented as the loading screen cited facts on fighting the IS. "Oh what are you doing this upcoming brake Daniel."
"Nothing, maybe wander around campus, read a new book, or test out my new software."
"I am going to my home and may drop by, a friend of mine, Dan's house, you can come along if you want to."
"Say no more to get out of this female infested nightmare and out into the world is like a dream come true."
"Though remember, this is not the Union and women take the more dominant role."
"Your point being?"
"True, true."
"So what is it like there in the land of cute girls." Dan asks the two. They are playing old games on a system from the late 2000s. The game was a hypothetical war against Russia. It was the second one in that series that told about this war.
"Hell on Earth." Daniel said. Ichika nods in agreement.
"You two are such liars, Ichika, your emails alone tell me you live in paradise." Dan rebukes. "Got any com tickets?"
"No." Ichika responds.
"Behind you!" Daniel laughs as he shoots Dan's character in the head. "Eh? you did not die." Dan runs up to Daniel's character and knife him.
"But you're dead." As Dan rounds a corner Ichika lets of a shot and kills Dan.
"And so are you."
"Allah o akbar!" Daniel jokingly yells blowing up the just spawned in Dan. The three break into laughter. Then the door gets kicked in and a not so very happy girl is on the other side.
"Will you keep it down in here if you are going to play online use your headset." She examines the room noticing that there are two other people in the room and one of them happened to be a person she had a crush on.
"Oh hey Ran what's up? How have you been?" Ran looks down at how she is dressed and quickly hides behind the wall next to the door to fix how she looks.
"Oh yeah bro that food you wanted is ready. Now I know why you wanted so much to eat."
"Next time could you knock now poor Ichika thinks you're rude or something." Dan receives a death glare from his little sister.
"Ah angry sisters something I never had…" Daniel sarcastically sighs causing the other two boys to laugh some more and provoke a blush in Ran.
"Lucky." The other two boys said.
"Ran we will be down in a few minutes to eat the food, ok?"
True to their word the three boys now were in the eatery section of the Gotanda house eating away at the meal Dan and Ran's grandfather finished making just a bit ago.
"They do not have anything like this back in the Union." Daniel says as he eats his way through a plate of food.
"Rin's family also had a restaurant here, but it closed down a few years ago."
"Hey how is Rin you said she is at the IS Academy as well."
"She seems well. I would be a bit lonely if she was not their." Ichika sighs.
"Hey you guys need anything else?" Ran asks as she walks into the room.
"No." The three say.
"Hey you changed your clothes." Ichika points out.
"Oh you noticed." She let off an awkward laugh.
"I looks nice are you going on a date?" He asks.
"I am not dating anyone." She nearly roars. She stomps off out of the room.
"What with her." Ichika asks.
"Is he always like this." Dan asks Daniel.
"No normally he is worst."
"Ok boys, I got a favor to ask from you." Ms Yamada asked as she checked on the boys in their room. The two boys were playing a game and Houki had stopped by earlier to watch them. Daniel sat on the floor in front of his bed and Houki was snuggled up to Ichika as the lay facing the TV on the desks opposite the beds.
"What do you need?" Ichika asked. He shifts and sits up and gives the controller to Houki.
"It about this room, would you be able to house one more person?"
"Found another male IS pilot." Daniel asks while keeping all focus on the game which Houki was now dominating him in.
"Er yes… How did you know?"
"Oh I understand," Houki says, "You would not put a girl in this room. Right Daniel?"
"Sure let's go with that answer."
"Well will you?" Ms Yamada gave off a pleading look.
"I don't care." Daniel said.
"The more the merrier!" Ichika agreed.
"I get out my cot out." Daniel tossed his controller to Ichika who continued the game.
"Thank you! Thank you, just imagine a boy and a girl sharing a room how awkward that would be." Ms Yamada smiled as she walked out of the room. "Hello Miss Alcott." Cecilia entered right after and sat down on top of Daniel's bed.
"So what was that?" she asked.
"You'll find out in the morning." Daniel answered.
"Ok class I would like you to welcome our new student." Ms Yamada announced.
The new student stepped in, he was a slender and kind looking man.
"Hello my new classmates I am Charles Dunois." He said in a French accent.
'The translator seems to be doing accents as well, I never noticed that before.' Daniel thought. 'Oh yeah that was in the patch notes for the update, explains why everyone had sounded so strange lately.'
The girls in the class where in what the two boys thought as awe at the boy. Granted he was light on the eyes, but the two saw nothing special with him. Ichika and Daniel exchanged looks of amazement. This one said to the two on simple word 'girls'.
Then the class tensed up and Daniel saw that Ms Orimura had walked in and was whispering to Ms Yamada.
"Ok class," A stoic Orimura started, "We're going to the field for joint practical training with class two. Orimura, Parker you two know your way around here show Dunois to your changing room. I want all you out on the field before I get there. Boys go!"
Ichika grabbed Charles while Daniel lead the way out. "Ok Charles we need to make this fast." Ichika said with urgency.
"My I ask why?" Charles asked. A crowd had formed behind the as they walked.
"It's the boys." a girl yelled.
"There's the new one."
"Daniel is here too you never see him about."
"If you two do not mind." Daniel asked.
"What? What are you going to do?"
"This." He teleported them near the lockers leaving the girls dumb founded.
"Awww. Daniel's too good of a magician."
"No you idiot it his suit, it's just so awesome."
"It ok Charles. We understand you never changed in front of other people before. Daniel and I will turn around." Ichika tried to console the other boy.
"Sorry Charles, I've been doing this since I was five so I thought your request was strange."
The two boys had quickly changed into their personalized training ware which was more for sports less than piloting an IS. Charles shocked that they had basically worn their exercise clothes under their uniforms was slowed in changing his.
"Are you done." Ichika turned his head to see a fully IS suit clothed Charles.
"Good let's go before we need an exorcist on you sister." Daniel said to them.
"She not that bad."
"She is worst than Sergeant Cortez." Daniel shivered as he mentioned the name.
"Cortez?" Charles asked.
"Charles do ask him he will curl up in a ball a cry it's terrifying."
"You three took your time!" Chifuyu growled causing Charles to hid behind the other two boys.
"With all do respect," Daniel started. Ichika placed his hand over Daniels mouth to shut him up.
"Do you want to be castrated?" Ichika whispered.
"I have diplomatic immunity." Daniel said triumphantly.
"*sigh* Get in line you three I have not time for this." Chifuyu face-palmed. "Ok Alcott, Huang since you have your own machines I am sure you'll volunteer."
"Yes ma'am" The two begrudgingly walked up to the front.
Daniel whispered to the girl next to him, "What's going on?"
"A practice IS battle." she responded.
The two girls were suddenly energized to fight after a inaudible comment from Ms Orimura.
"It seem we must fight."
"Ya it was going to happen eventually."
"Oh you two will not be fighting each other." Chifuyu snickered.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh!" a scream could be heard coming from the sky. As it came into view it was a green IS, one used by the teachers. A Maya Yamada piloting it. She was yelling for people to watch out. Though like a deer in the headlights Ichika looked up in shock as it came barreling down in his direction. It hit him head one as a plume of dust went into the air.
"Owww." Ms Yamada cried. She for some reason could not move like a heavy force was on her. Ichika was no where to be seen. A glow appeared as Ichika's IS deactivated and he flopped onto her chest.
"Um Ichika?" Ichika coming to his senses gropes around trying to figure out where he is. His mind reboots when he grasps at something soft yet oddly firm. Realizing where he is he jumps up to almost get hit by a shot from one of the two girls that were preparing to fight. Ms Yamada jumped up a took the hit for him having the IS's shield take the damage.
"Are you ok Ichika?"
"Yes." A still stunned Ichika answered
"*sigh* Maya do you know how much it costs to fill these kind of holes?"
"Yes, I help out filing these reports ma'am."
"Oh yeah girls she use to be the Representative Candidate for Japan."
Up next a battle for Earth (not really)
The EDP is engaged in an Interstellar war if you have not picked up on that. What happens up there will change what happens on Earth
