A/N: Ok got fed up of trying to work out how to deal with Ayamine before the coup and delaying this story, so I've cut the chapter in half so I can post something for you guys, hope you like this, I'm keeping it reasonably light for now as the coup will be the darker bit. Please read and review this let me know what you think.
A/N2: Also please note some of my earlier chapters have undergone a bit of a rewrite to improve flow and the terrible punctuation of the first 2 chapters (Microsoft work is shit), any chapters with V2.0 have new content.
A/N3: Chapter 1 of my reboot of Imperial is up, though I know some of you know this, still if you haven't, check it out and leave a review, it's a bit darker than this currently is, but I think I hit up better than my last attempt.
Disclaimer: Muv Luv not owned by me.
Warning: Rated M for a reason.
V1.0
Shirogane's Room - 29th November
Takeru woke up at his usual time despite his late night, the sound of light breathing alerted him to the fact the two trouble makers were still asleep, checking himself he sighed in relief quietly at the fact he wasn't tied to the bed, slipping out from the sheets he headed for the sink to make sure there was no magic marker on his face, satisfied with the fact nothing had happened he changed into his training clothes and left for his morning routine.
The rhythmic sound of boots on ground and steady breathing were the only sounds to be heard on the near dark track, several lights illuminated the surrounding area and the occasional guard, though they knew who he was and left him to his run, Takeru liked the morning jogs the cold air helped bring himself out of sleep, though if he was tired he knew he could curl up outside in the winter and fall asleep and still wake up fine later.
Knowing the girls would be out until about 0630 hours and finishing up his 10k he started on his push ups and sit ups on the training ground, better to let them sleep and not rock the boat Ayamine was a bad riser and he had learned that the hard way, a gun to the face wasn't the best morning greeting to get used to, with the morning routine finished he headed back to his room.
Sneaking in he could see the pair hadn't moved, no bananas were present though Sakaki's top was slightly rolled up deciding doing nothing was safer for the time being, a quick shower and change while putting his dirty uniform in the wash pile and he headed off for breakfast, the girls would be out for another 20 minutes, Ayamine another 40, his walk to the PX had his mind now abuzz with yesterday's bad situation, Tama's father.
He knew well enough that she had sent a letter or two and in it some pretty damning stuff about the squad, he was expecting some form of retaliation, he wouldn't have been surprised if he had woken tied to the bed with a drawn on moustache and other weird pictures on his face being stared at by the entire squad, the fact nothing happened though showed they weren't ready yet as sleep was at least more important to the group.
Takeru's face twisted at another idea, they wouldn't prank him and would just let him wind himself up by jumping at shadows all day, though he would need to know about the incident for that to work, Tama would be the one to tell him if that were the case as she would be roped in as punishment and used as a double agent, Takeru filed that away for consideration for himself to use.
Arriving in the PX he noticed only one other person ahead of him, the officer uniformed figure with long brown hair that reached her waist in waves was deciding between the orange juice and the milk, Takeru grabbed one of the cartons startling her as he greeted the woman.
"Good morning Marimo-chan, you're up early, got a busy day?" Takeru grinned.
Marimo looked surprised by the arrival of the officer, she usually ate later than most since she handled a lot of paperwork so didn't know Takeru arrived early everyday, grabbing the juice she replied back.
"Good, good morning Shirogane, sir."
"Cut the sirs, I don't like them unless the Generals around, here have another juice on me." Takeru replied handing her another fortified orange juice, the more people who drunk it the less he would have to look at it.
Grabbing their breakfasts the pair sat down together to eat, it was a rare thing even for Takeru to eat alone with Marimo, the few times they had done so either Yuuko or the Valkyries had dived in, seriously it they were trying to get him together with a girl that was counter productive, even the spying was, Takeru heaved a sigh at this train of thoughts causing Marimo to perk up.
"Is, is something wrong Shirogane?"
"No, just thinking we've never really had time to just sit and talk alone, it's usually with a squad or group, I was kind of expecting them to barge in." Takeru smiled lightly.
Marimo blinked at his comment not sure what to make of it, she appraise the officer who sat eating his rice, he was too much of a mystery to really get a handle on, one moment he was calm and joking the next flying off the handle over the BETA, his one goal however seemed to be getting his squad back alive from a battle something she agreed with whole heartedly, she had lost her squad too and it tore her apart and though she had moved on now she knew it was still there in her heart waiting for a chance to rear its ugly head again at the slightest loss.
"So why are you up this early Marimo-chan, usually you get a late breakfast."
"Oh, I got an early meeting with the Captain to formalise my integration into the Valkyries, so I'm eating now." She replied getting a nod back.
"Ah, yes because I delayed you, sorry about that and thank you very much for the favour, I really owe you one on that, but might I ask how the day went?" Takeru hid a small smirk finding out some information now would help him later.
"Well, I now know Cadet Tamase has passive aggressive tendencies the letter alone proved that." Marimo put a finger to her mouth thinking about the situation.
"Hmm, so do we know what it said, what happened?"
"The arrival at the barracks set it off, Cadet Ayamine opened her mouth so Cadet Tamase shot her down."
"Bet that didn't go over well with Ayamine." Takeru laughed remembering the near expressionless face she held while being mad. "And then she blamed Tama even though she started it."
"Correct, Cadet Sakaki got chewed out by the secretary over being stubborn and like her father, that didn't go well either." Marimo put a wry smile on.
"Did he say anything about Ayamine?"
"No come to think about it, I guess with the scolding he didn't need to."
Takeru nodded at this he had never heard anything from his loops about Ayamine though he could probably guess her chest was involved in some way if Tama's fascination with them in the other world was any indication.
"Cadet Yoroi had her chest insulted and ran off, Cadet Mitsurugi, well nothing was mentioned except it was a forfeit of his life."
Takeru nodded chuckling. "Sorry I missed it, sounded like fun to me. Did she write about me though?"
"No, nothing at all, well nothing that was mentioned anyway, I doubt it was bad even with the track record." Marimo tried not to avert her eyes to hide the fact he was to be punished by the squad at some point.
"I see...nothing at all? I'm a little saddened by that, still anything about you?"
"No nothing I guess commanding officers get a pass." Marimo grinned at coming up with the lie, it would throw Shirogane off the future punishment too.
"I see...well I look forward to your report on it for me, it's being filed under F now though whether for funny or fiasco is debatable maybe both." Takeru shrugged with the chopsticks in his mouth causing Marimo to chuckle a little.
The pair continued to eat in silence, the atmosphere was quite pleasant and Takeru was reminded a little about his lunch date with Marimo in the old world when he had tried her cooking, it was good and his minor flirting had been back played by her before Yuuko had jumped in claiming they were an item, he had enjoyed to a degree the prep room visits, something about Marimo-chan in a devils type costume was always good, oh wait it was the extreme cleavage she totted from her ample breasts, something he had admitted he liked of hers, in front of her no less.
Marimo looked at the young officer, something about him always screamed 'I'm no ordinary man' the concepts and ideas he stated to her and the Valkyries had come from some incident but he hadn't elaborated on it, she wouldn't pry usually but needed to understand the reasoning behind them.
"Say Shirogane, may I ask you something?"
"Sure, but whether I answer is another thing." Takeru chuckled to Marimo's annoyed look.
"Your ideals seem a little extreme, I can understand to a degree, but I'm curious about how you arrived at that conclusion, I doubt it was just Kashgar."
Takeru put a lightly pained smile on, dredging up old memories caused problems anyway, more so when he began adding new information he had learnt later to them, but they weren't really secure here so he would have to be careful.
"It, it wasn't just my squad I lost, my lover was part of my squad too, her and our unborn child."
Marimo looked horrified by the way he said it, it was clear to her that they weren't in this world anymore, it was quite a surprise that he would get over that or allow others in, the question of how much pain he had gone through in his short life told her how he came to be who he was today.
"I'm sorry, usually I would say we should move past heartache and laugh when we look back, but I don't think that could ever be laughed at, I'm sorry I made you bring that back up." Marimo softly spoke guilt evident in her voice.
Takeru's mind went back to those early loops, the memories of sending his lover out into space, the goodbye that never really came, the memories of fighting on the doomed planet long after the rest of the squad died, those final moments of the human race going out not with a bang but a whimper.
The soldiers almost all dead and the remaining civilians cowering in fear as the BETA arrived, the overall stupidity as the human race fought itself to the end, just one of the reasons he needed to crush most of the countries around now a few high profile deaths to keep the masses safe, though a city or two might need nuking too, a small price to pay.
Something had never felt right however with the evacuation, back then, he didn't know it was part of the Americans ploy to get funding for their G-bomb centric attempt at world domination but he didn't like the idea of abandoning the world and had chalked it up to that, then it hit him at once in his final moments, both memories and an old concept from a sci fi show, deflectors, none of the ships had anything other than their armour, the chances of any one the ships making it out of the solar system were low.
Sure probes made it out, but they were smaller and didn't carry live cargo, it would only take a rock the size of a pea impacting something vital and thousands would die instantly, then there was the idea of the BETA, they were everywhere and again 100,000 people sent basically into the jaws of them, humanities last hope sent screaming to their deaths in terror.
His own lover and child sent out there to die, Takeru had used everything inside him to prevent himself from throwing up when he had worked it out, he could feel the tears building at that time but he wouldn't cry, his final memories of those loops had been happy ones even if they were only his death fuelled delirious mind making them up.
The final images were of his lover and their young...daughter, yes a daughter would have been nice, one with her mother's hair and his eyes an energetic girl, her mother would take her outside on the planet they settled and point at this solar systems star and tell her about him, and his daughter would wish him luck in his fight to protect humanity , his final moments had been like this nothing more than his imagination as he died, but he knew differently now, up there wasn't safe either, humanity needed Earth.
"Thanks, it still hurts now, but it's has become a dull pain, nothing more than a what if." Takeru replied slowly.
Marimo watched as the light had faded from Shirogane's eyes it was quite disconcerting to see the man whom emotions were often written on his face and usually grinning or glaring look so hollow, a protective feeling came over her briefly before she spoke.
"For what it's worth Shirogane I agree with you, we've lost too many people in this war, and the leaders haven't learnt, you would think 60 million dead in a matter of weeks would make them wake up and see we can't throw away lives."
Takeru nodded, Marimo had always drilled into the squad the most important aspect of a mission was coming back alive, it was her shot against the current educational curriculum and one of the main reasons she joined the army in the first place.
"So assuming we win this war, what do you want to do after it?" Takeru asked the young woman the light returned as if it had never left a light smirk on his face again.
"I want to be a teacher." Marimo replied with a mixture of pride and embarrassment.
"Nice, Jinguuji Marimo-chan, teaching the next generation, I like that I think it would suit your true nature."
"My true nature Shirogane?" Marimo asked confused but a little happy he said she would be suited for it.
"Underneath that ball busting drill Sgt, is a kind gentle person, I think had we not been at war you would be teaching children now." Takeru replied his chopsticks again hanging out of his mouth, Marimo smiled gently to him. "Of course should one of them step out of line you would kick the crap out of them."
"How, how did you know about that?" Marimo's face went sour and flushed red at the comment. "Oh Yuuko again."
Takeru chuckled as Marimo's face went through several emotions, he had managed to shift the conversation away from death and onto lighter subjects, it was a better thing too, he preferred to see her smile over being angry, she was after all someone he cared about, he had always liked her even in school, but when he had arrived in this world and seen her die and met his worlds version his breakdown had driven into him that she was as important as those of the 207th.
"So what about you Shirogane? What is your future plan?" Marimo asked trying to remove the blush that had risen.
"Well, I'm not sure, I have never thought about what I would do after the wars over." Takeru responded.
Takeru bumped his fist into his palm as an idea.
"Why don't we go on a date after the war, just us two and you can advise me on my future prospects, it will be the first step for you as a teacher too." Takeru's grin spread across his face.
"Shirogane, that, well, uh, I got nothing." Marimo again went red while Takeru chuckled.
"You know you can call me Takeru, instead of Shirogane."
Marimo blushed again at this, it was less an issue calling a younger man by his first name as long as an honorific was attached, thinking on it she decided to have some fun with the man who was teasing her.
"Ok, but only if you call me Jinguuji-san." Marimo smirked placing her hands in a steeple shape in front of her.
"What?" Takeru replied startled. "I can't do that, it makes you sound old."
"Then no Takeru-kun for you." Marimo chuckled back, happy he was implying she was young.
The pair continued talking about random subjects, the ideas behind the war and their personal reasons forgotten, both were good at suppressing the pain, as chuckling and teasing and flirting flew back and forth time was forgotten, it only stopped when Kyouzuka-oba-chan came over to tease the pair herself about making the soldiers now filling the PX jealous.
With the breakfast over Marimo left to deal with the squad transfer before she finished off as support for the next trial match and to watch Takeru's punishment which she knew what it was, Takeru headed for the hangers to prepare for the battle that would decide the fate of Ayamine and Sakaki, but he had to sign out the guns and weapons first.
Hiiragi Ruins – Late Morning
The 3 on 3 battle after the trial period had shown that both Sakaki and Ayamine could work together in regards to dealing with their issues sure some timing issues still arose but better not to destroy the bridge they had built, they could destroy that themselves, the battle had quickly and decisively shifted into their favour after Tama had missed them with her sniper shot and been taken down, with the battle over the squad were returning to the hanger.
"Good work today all, you're showing great improvement, nice dodge against Ayamine there Meiya, almost as if you knew it was coming." Takeru smirked earning a light blush off Meiya.
Ayamine's attempt at landing on Meiya's TSF had been disrupted when Meiya had dodged the manoeuvre but Takeru was right there to deal with her, coating Meiya's TSF in orange paint.
The TSFs closed in together as they reached a narrow intersection, the comm channels in Takeru's TSF suddenly changed to an full open one.
"Now." Called Ayamine as her TSF grabbed Takeru's unit followed by Sakaki grabbing the other side pinning his unit.
"Die Takeru." Yelled Mikoto.
Meiya and Mikoto's TSF fired a full mag of paint balls at Takeru's unit coating the front in luminescent orange, blinding the unit before the four switched so Ayamine and Sakaki could coat the back of Takeru's unit, Tama remained silent and out of the issue, the squad had punished her yesterday and told her more would follow if she warned their squad leader of the upcoming revenge.
"20701, extreme damage to left arm, right arm, cockpit, left leg, right leg, transmission, head and engine, unit destroyed." Marimo announced over the comms a smirk on her face.
'My revenge on you for this will come too Marimo-chan, the squad have walked into theirs.' Takeru thought, his flawless record in TSF trials now dropped him to the bottom at being hit with so many rounds making him seem like a rookie.
He thanked god that he had had that little talk with Marimo earlier and had suspected a ploy like this, though the overkill here was not expected, it had however seeded their downfall.
After the incident the 6 TSFs trudged their way into the hanger, Takeru's unit covered head to foot in paint. Parking his unit he stepped out to meet the collected combination glare/smirks from the girls, minus Tama whom looked like a mouse before a lion.
"You know, I think the mechanics are going to punish you for this, I hope that stated your sexually repressed jealously, and don't bully Tama too much, that's my job." Takeru pointed his thumb at his chest grinning at the now blushing girls.
"We, I'm not jealous or frustrated." Sakaki retorted.
"Class rep, the walls between our rooms are thin, you don't think I haven't heard? I know you've used me as fodder." Takeru chuckled again the girls collectively looked everywhere but at Takeru. "Wait I was right? Haha, damn you girls are easy to bait. Oh consider this my retaliation."
The girls tried casting glares at him but the blushes at being caught out ruined any chance the looks had at causing fear, not that he would have been afraid anyway. Takeru turned and headed for the changing rooms leaving behind the red squad a few moments later an angry head mechanic arrived on the platform.
"Excuse me, you're the 207th ain't you?"
The squad looked at each other realising this was his revenge not the teasing, being led away by the mechanic to clean Takeru's TSF, the muffled sound of laughing coming from the men's changing room could be heard, the group vowed to never again get revenge on Takeru again.
Yuuko's Office - Evening
Takeru walked straight into the office knowing the usual occupier wasn't there, most likely at the command centre or taking a rare nap, something she deserved after the late nights and completing Alt IV, usually the lights would flick on automatically due to the sensor though a secondary light switch was near the door, the sole light source coming from Yuuko's monitor walking over to the desk he could see it displayed a screen saver of Marimo in her mid-teens in some maid outfit standing next to an equally young Yuuko, Takeru made a note to get a copy of this image himself but for now the lack of light told Takeru all he needed to know, Sakon was in the room poking around most likely on the computer too.
Smirking in the darkened room, Takeru putting on an exaggerated air as he pulled an envelope out of his uniform marked for Yoroi Sakon's eye's only.
"What no Yuuko? Oh well I guess I can leave this letter on her desk, not like someone else will read it." Takeru announced before leaving it on Yuuko's desk turning around and leaving.
The moment he left a tall man in a detective style jacket and fedora and tan colours suit stepped out of the shadows and looked at the envelope, his eyes widening a little in shock before opening it and reading the contents, a brief glance at the closed door, before pocketing the note and going back to searching the room.
Brain Room
Takeru walked into the room seeing Kasumi as usual staring at the brain, the sound of the door hissing causing her to briefly look at him and raise her ears in acknowledgement before returning to her conversation.
"Hey Kasumi, you and Sumika ready for the transfer?"
Kasumi nodded slightly before a feeling of fulfilment covered him.
'Cat ears! Takeru-chan I'm not Tama.' The indignant cry of Sumika entered his head.
'Whoa, I refused that, not like I have a major Cosplay thing anyway, you're perfect the way you are.'
Silence was the only reply and the feeling left him though he came to the conclusion that she was embarrassed by his declaration to her over being angry and decided it wasn't something to worry about, she would be in a body soon and they could talk normally then.
The door hissed again to show Kasumi leaving the room, Takeru mentally said a 'see you later' to Sumika before catching up with the girl, his meeting with Sakon was due and he should have read the letter now.
Yuuko's Office
Kasumi entered Yuuko's office followed quickly by Takeru, the lights still not coming on though Takeru knew he only needed to flick the switch on the wall but deciding not to, heading to near the desk he could see the message had been taken and now it was only a matter of Sakon showing himself before things happened.
"Sensei~" Takeru called out knowing it would get Sakon's attention.
"If you're after the professor, she went to the command centre." A voice replied from near the door.
"It's a good thing I knew you were there or the next light source would have been muzzle flash, I would refrain from trying to sneak up on soldiers, it, it's a good way to shorten your life span." Takeru replied without looking back.
Kasumi quickly moved to hide behind Takeru as he put a protective hand on her shoulder to reassure her she was safe.
"I don't think we've met." Sakon replied ignoring the threat. "But you seem to know me."
"Seen any dames?" Takeru asked ignoring the comment himself.
"Excuse me?" Sakon was caught off guard by the reply.
"I'm sorry I thought I had stepped into a Burnett novel for a second, was I off base? You dress the part and the overall atmosphere is right too."
Sakon continued to hold a light smile on his face, his usual ploy of keeping people off guard as he extracted information through random babble seemed to be employed by the soldier in front of him too, he recognised the soldier as one Shirogane Takeru, the man assigned to the 207th, he had read his file when he had been flagged up in the ministry, the question now was whether to continue playing verbal games or get to the point, for now he decided to continue his game.
"You're quite a good fake, almost real." Sakon stated as he walked closer.
"I made a wish with a fairy and became real, I was wooden before that. And get any closer and you will be looking at the ceiling but seeing nothing." Takeru smirked.
"Haha, very good, I can see why my son called you a reverse typhoon, calm on the outside and dangerous on the inside Shirogane Takeru."
"Your son who is like a daughter? Or daughter who is like a son? Because you seem to forget this point."
Sakon's face fell, the person in front of him seemed to know a lot more that he let on and was very difficult to get anything important out of, still battling against others minds was his job and hobby so he didn't mind too much.
"So you are the real one?"
"No, I'm the fourth hence the Shi in my name, Ichirogane, Nirogane, Sanrogane were the first three, I got brothers who are like sisters, or was it sisters who are like sisters I forget." Takeru pursed his lips and folded his arms in mock confusion. It was hard keeping up with this guy but delaying until Yuuko got here would prevent him from extracting anything from him and bullshitting was fastly becoming a talent of his.
Kasumi pressed herself in tighter to Takeru as the man walked a few steps further forward.
"You don't need to be afraid Yashiro Kasumi-chan. If you need a big strong man to cling too why not me?"
Takeru wondered briefly about that as he was while slightly shorter than Sakon he was now broader in the chest and shoulders than him and easily stronger.
"Great line Sakon-kun, why not just tell her you got candy in your car too." Takeru deadpanned earning a wince from the man and Kasumi trying to fill any remaining space between her and Takeru. "Nice suit by the way, Italian?"
"Why yes but I picked it up in London." Sakon paused as he looked more at Takeru who was now laughing. "Well played, I see you know your way around a conversation Shirogane Takeru."
"Repeating my full name Yoroi Sakon of the Imperial Ministry of Intelligence is not a way to go about a conversation, so tell me Yoroi Sakon of the Imperial Ministry of Intelligence what business do you have here or should I have you taken away in cuffs?" Takeru replied smirking the darkness making the expression more menacing.
"You know my name and job, and I was going to tell you I'm a subtly suspicious man." Sakon almost looked hurt.
"Nothing subtle about you, like father like daughter talking to either of you, it's like moving through tar." Takeru responded before the lights flickered on, Yuuko standing in the door way her hand on the switch. "Uh surprise Yuuko-Sensei, I caught us a troll."
Yuuko looked annoyed seeing the agent in front of her before walking over to the desk. Getting a greeting from the agent before she insulted his manners in return and asking him how he got in.
"Well the door just opened when I stood in front of it." Sakon put his hands up attempting to pacify the situation.
"Sure it did and I'm from the future." Takeru sarcastically remarked.
"Great now I got to deal with two smart asses." Yuuko rolled her eyes at the two men throwing the rhythm off the conversation, though Shirogane was most likely doing it to get at Sakon but she was still taking blast damage from it. "Now what did you come here for? It wasn't small talk."
"I was introducing myself to him, but he knew who I was."
"Then leave I got nothing for you today."
"You're ruining your lovely face by scowling, are you getting enough sleep? Hahaha." Sakon replied a grin on his face.
"He's right sensei, beauty such as yours needs rest." Takeru flirted.
Yuuko's eyebrow twitched, "You're both getting annoying."
Saikon continued his roundabout conversation with Yuuko who's eye now had gained a permanent twitch, the conversation continued to go nowhere before Takeru clicked his fingers deciding to get it back on track.
"Can we fast forward the byplay and get to the matter at hand I got stuff to do." Takeru interrupted the conversation tapping his watch much to Yuuko's relief. "So what does section two want with us today?"
Takeru knew exactly what it was, but needed to show Sakon he had some ins of his own, later issues would need Takeru showing Sakon that he was someone with whom information could be exchanged.
"I trust you're looking after my daughter?" Sakon addressed Takeru ignoring his earlier comment.
"Well it's give and take and you can decide yourself if there's meaning behind that, she was a great asset during our evaluation however." Takeru replied honestly going with Sakon's flow.
"Ok, stop, the pair of you, I haven't time to deal with this." Yuuko snapped. "What are you doing here?"
"Yes surely you don't have the time to kill, or is your department that short on work?"
"I'm afraid I can't tell you." Sakon replied before he went serious for a moment. "It's about the XG-70 deal, interested?"
Takeru almost snorted at how Sakon just let the topic out, even when Takeru was blind to the darker workings Sakon spilled everything to him, Takeru wondered if Sakon really was a good spy or not.
"A disgrace we have to go through a third party to get something from a member nation." Yuuko scowled though whether at using a third party or just because the pair in front of her seemed to be on a roll was debatable.
"Well it's not like that country likes the UN they just have to deal with it." Takeru replied earning a nod from Sakon.
"So we can get them all?" Yuuko asked Sakon.
"It would be difficult, it may be garbage to them but if someone wants it then it becomes valuable, and the country likes to take care of its appearance and interests over everything else."
"Yes because hoarding garbage is a good appearance to have, they are now up there with those that bottle their urine but on a planetary scale." Takeru put his thumb up in mock cheer.
"Hmm, I guess, but I doubt that image would be what other countries come up with." Sakon replied though nodding at Takeru's concept.
"So basically we can get them but we're being delayed by red tape and they want us to owe them for this as long as our plan is progressing." Again earning a nod from Sakon. "I take it a certain organisation is the one behind the delaying issue but for different reasons?"
"Can we get on with it this conversation is boring me." Yuuko replied to the two agent conversation.
"Oh, I can enlighten you about the dodo." Sakon went down a random path again.
"I'd rather hear about an all female Amazonian tribe myself." Takeru chuckled taking his own route.
"The pair of you quit it." Yuuko growled.
"He started it." Takeru pointed to Sakon in a faux belligerent voice before laughing again.
"There has been unrest in the IJA." Sakon changed the pace again, Yuuko frowned at the switch while Takeru smirked. "A study group has been formed to research new strategies but we believe it is a cover for a new faction."
"So, they're preparing for a power play of their own?" Takeru asked though knowing the answer.
"We think so, yes."
"Yeah great just what we need a power vacuum in a front line country, and then a certain other country will jump in and a whole shit storm will come up." Takeru killed the conversation again. "I think we got a fleet heading here from there now quite convenient you would think they were behind it."
"True, it is unlikely that even the UN will come out unscathed either. The Anti-Alternative forces and their opposition both in the UN will join the fray too."
"Shame you can't do anything Sakon-kun, section two must be all bark and no bite." Takeru laughed.
"Yes, it's embarrassing, but we don't know who is behind it except they are in the Imperial defence and Internal Ministries."
Takeru suppressed a smirk, a part of his contact building would be revealing this to Sakon soon and keeping Yuuko in the dark.
"There are shadows of the agency that works for the country that prioritises its own interest above the world running around this country, though shadows are all we so far know about."
Yuuko smirked but she already knew this through Takeru but played the game anyway and dealing with them was under way. "I see so that's what the XG-70 is being delayed for by them, they want to get hold of my research and use it themselves after the events."
"You seem only concerned with your research Professor."
"Is that a problem?"
"No I only care about the future of this planet. In my own way."
"Then you should talk to Shirogane-kun here, he's got the same idea as you." Yuuko replied earning a nod from Takeru.
"So is there anything else you would like to share with use Sakon-kun that is directly related to these whispers of a coup or that country in general." Takeru worded it to keep Sakon from driving the conversation down a cliff again.
"Well there was the issue with the space command's orders to lock down a HSST and shoot it down should it go rogue, the orders apparently came from here." The man put a fearless grin on as he looked between the pair.
"Nothing to do with us, I mean we know nothing about Adams base, but you know what has this mysterious order caused in the way of ripples."
Sakon looked at Takeru as he maintained a level gaze, had it not been for the Adams comment Sakon would not have suspected him in this, it was too high level for his hand, but not above the Professors unless she did that on his suggestion or command, Sakon made a mental note to dig further into the files of Shirogane when he returned to his office.
"Well, the organisation is confused about the seemingly randomness of the order itself, I have heard they are now watching this base for any signs of plotting."
"Right because they in no way have a few dozen spies in this base already." Takeru replied sarcastically to Sakon's bitter smile.
With the conversation wrapped up Takeru showed Sakon to the door turning around he noticed Kasumi picking up an Easter Island head statue, allowing her to keep it since it was bug free.
"Oh Shirogane-kun, the filtration device arrived yesterday, we finished building it and checked it out, we can bring the 00 unit out very soon." Yuuko turned to the soldier.
Takeru nodded at this, it was good news for him that the primary reactor would no longer be used and would buy them more time, with this new information Takeru said good night to the pair before heading off to his next destination.
Hakuryou Tree
Takeru stood again overlooking the town, the cold winter air curling his breath, the light wind bringing down the temperature even more, through Takeru hardly felt the cold, his training allowed for a good amount of warmth through his muscles, his focus now was waiting on the spy himself.
"You came." Takeru spoke out to the darkness.
"You are very good at that, I see why the Professor promoted you so quickly, but my time now is short what did you need to see me about?" Sakon asked losing any civility he had earlier.
"I have information of you regarding the up coming coup, to fill the gaps you have." Takeru continued looking at the town before pulling out a large manilla envelope.
Sakon took the information and opened it looking over the sheet his eyes widened before he looked again at the soldier leaning against the tree.
"Oh lot of names here, and why colour code them?"
"The names in red are those we know are working for 'them' those in green are not, I want the red ones dead and the green ones safe, the names in red in the second box are those that I need captured preferably, though I'm not too bothered." Takeru maintained a level tone like he was talking about the weather not an assassination.
"How did you find this out? Not even my section has access to this." Sakon asked looking over a rough timetable.
"My sources are classified, though I don't have the man power to move my people, so I need to entrust this to someone else, that person is you." Takeru bluffed, he had no people really, just a few codes that he could make others jump with.
"This is over half the cabinet. I see so that's what their plan is." Sakon laughed. "I should be able to do this but why should I trust a dead man?"
"Because you and I both want the same thing, to protect this world and those we care about, your daughter is in both our spheres so we should meet around that." Takeru replied looking at Sakon for the first time.
"I would sacrifice my daughter for the world Shirogane Takeru-kun."
"No you wouldn't Sakon-kun, I was a father myself once, though my child was lost to me along with their mother, I would have given my life to protect them, I would never have sacrificed them for the world, though sacrificing the world for them is something I would have done, I know you would do the same for Mikoto, that's why you haven't told her your true occupation, it's to protect her from your enemies."
Sakon again was shocked by Takeru's reveal over being a father, but a small part of him was saddened to hear he had lost his child it was a link all parents felt.
"I see, I find it worrying that you seem to know so much about me and I know so little about you, I find myself at a loss, haha, maybe this is what others feel dealing with me." Sakon laughed again to Takeru's grin.
"Think you can get some people on this? I also need another favour that can be done with that one and a few words of advice for you too." Takeru cast a serious look at the old spy.
"Depends what it is, and I will need something back in return, but I want to hear yours first."
Pulling out another small letter he handed that to Sakon, the name on it was Prime Minister Sakaki Korechika on it.
"I want you to hand this to him it will have information for him only, if he listens to it, well, hopefully we will have less issues in the near future and maybe disrupt a few plans."
"And the advice?" Sakon pocketed the letter.
"Don't play all the sides, pick one and stay with them, you fuck around and you will end up dead, and that would make Mikoto sad, if that happens I will personally come to hell to kick your ass and drag you back up here to see her." Takeru shot a challenging look at him. "Support the Shogun, the UN here will win everyone else against me will lose."
"My, my you know a lot about what is going on Shirogane Takeru-kun, maybe you really are from the future."
"You remembered that? Well if I was what would you do about it?"
"Nothing Shirogane Takeru-kun, because if you were you would know what I was planning before I did it." Sakon tipped his hat as he turned away and headed off into the darkness. "I will remember those words, as for my favour, haha, I want to see cute grand-kids."
Takeru face palmed at this Sakon had gotten the last word in, if Tama's father had been the same he was on the road to fathering 2 women's kids at least according to their parents, heading back to the base he smiled at the work he had gotten done today, for now it was time to sleep.
PX - 30th November
Takeru sat with his squad eating breakfast, it was unusual for him to be eating this late, but he wanted to check that the squad were in good stead after yesterday's clean-up operation, the mood was slightly sombre, and more than once Takeru had caught a light covert glare from each of the girls including Tama no less, Sakaki and Ayamine were now back in their rooms too, allowing Takeru some freedom in expelling any built up stress, though he had yet to do that as he had been too tired the night before.
"So, gotten the pattern data changed yet?" Takeru asked the assembled girls.
"Hmm? No, there is a lot of data to deal with so the stances are still like yours." Sakaki spoke. "It feels weird."
"Well it shouldn't be too much of an issue, the training now should help overwrite the stance patterns with your own."
"The close quarters moves too." Ayamine chipped in.
"Why's that a problem? Your style is similar to mine, it should be almost second nature." Takeru looked confused.
"But Takeru, it's kind of like trying to learn master's moves while only on the novice stuff." Meiya reproached him.
"Shirogane is Mitsurugi's master." Ayamine added getting a blush from Meiya.
"Then I'm your master too Ayamine, you will learn one day to obey me."
"I will not submit...Master."
"Still my TSF feels like Takeru now." Mikoto folded her arms without looking at anyone.
"That is one hell of a talent you have Mikoto, did you even hear any of the conversation?" Takeru looked quizzically at the girl next to him.
"Well his data is used as a base, so it would feel like we were inside him." Sakaki muttered blushing.
"Oh my." Ayamine looked surprised by this.
"Why are you shocked by that? It was the wrong way round to be innuendo, it should be me inside you." Takeru realised his mistake at this comment.
"Buy me dinner first." Ayamine replied while all the girls blushed.
The sound of Takeru's head hitting the table repeatedly was heard around the PX.
"W-well it should go away after we get more data of our own, it is no different than when humans pick up each others habits." Meiya broke the odd atmosphere before Takeru shuddered visibly. "W-what?"
"Well I was thinking about what it would be like if anyone else had Mikoto's personality here." Takeru grimaced.
"Hey~ what does that mean?" Mikoto shot a disapproving gaze at Takeru.
"Oh so you heard that." He replied wryly.
"Tell me~." Mikoto almost wailed shaking the officer.
"So we need to prevent that at all costs." Takeru ignored the girl banging his fist on the table to prove a point.
"That was cruel Takeru-san." Tama smiled lightly while still blushing from earlier.
"Still that could be a problem, we might get Takeru's personality, we might start sneaking out late at night." Sakaki smirked.
"Night crawling." Ayamine took another jab. "Sometimes he doesn't return either."
"So you've all been spying on me when you should be asleep, something you want to get off your chests?" Takeru folded his arms an eyebrow raised at the girls.
"My top?" Ayamine smirked despite the blush.
"Public nudity is not condoned. Though I am as guilty as anyone else." Takeru muttered the last part remembering Mikoto and himself in the hangers.
The sound of a minor commotion in the canteen caused Takeru to look over to the counter noticing the time he smiled, it should be around now, grabbing his cup he slowly brought the hot tea to his lips as the building began to shake slightly, everyone else froze up except Takeru who continued drinking, Meiya followed suit a moment later most likely remembering it too, Earthquakes would happen now for a while, Mt Tengen was beginning to become unstable and the eruption would be soon.
"Just a long period Earthquake, nothing to worry about." Takeru replied to the unasked question.
"How do you know that?" Sakaki looked at the calm officer.
"One of the UN stations has been registering some magma flow issues around a volcano, trouble is some squatters are nearby, they asked for a UN squad to evacuate them, this squad was on the short list for the mission, but I turned it down." Takeru replied not looking up from his rice.
"What? Why? We could have done that."
"True, and some field experience would have done you some good, however issues with teamwork were abound and I had a mission with potential delays so I decided you should continue dealing with your training first."
All but Meiya looked downcast by this, memories of the pair being assigned to his quarters showing her that this had happened before a small amount of jealously came from this, though memories of her sneaking into his bed showed she wasn't innocent of this either at least memory wise.
"So what's the plan today then?" Ayamine asked.
"Well, two other squad got time in the town today, so I think some time on combat course S is required, so far I'm the top of that list followed by the Valkyries let's see if the 207 can hit the top 5, I'll be running command for this, Sakaki your squad leader for the mission, let's build up some more data."
Hanger
Sitting in the cockpit of his TSF Takeru began a quick check of the systems and gear inside the chair, all the systems were showing themselves to be within the parameters Takeru had set for his unit, though it was generally frowned upon to customise a unit due to mistakes that could be made by the mechanics during a tune up Takeru had had his custom set to work better in close range by 25%, the cost came at a 5% reduction in run time and 11% increase in wear and tear to joins but close range fighting was his speciality.
The sound of something clanging next to him caused him to look over the side of the seat, a large extinguisher had fallen from the hatch it was stored in, getting up from his seat he opened the flap to see the broken clip, shaking his head he grabbed the extinguisher and left the cockpit to see the head mechanic.
"Ok I need that extinguisher secured, this is the second time it has fallen from its bracket and the last thing I need is during a hard turn is it coming free and taking my head off, I heard that's bad for your health." Takeru spoke to the head mechanic. "Also I need to increase the pressure in the joints, here are the figures."
Takeru handed over the form a small scowl on his face as the powder extinguisher had again come free from its housing in the seat, so far only that one not the CO2 or acid neutraliser had come loose and the risks were too high not to fix it, looking down he noticed a hammer by his feet picking it up he began walking off only to see Meiya walk over to him.
"Need something Meiya?"
"Ah no, I was just wondering what you were doing with that hammer." Meiya decided not to tell him she was looking for him.
Takeru smirked inside, he knew exactly what he could do with the hammer and get more revenge at the same time on the squad.
"I was doing percussive maintenance on my TSF...you done yours yet?" Takeru asked nonchalantly.
"Percussive maintenance? No I don't think we have learned that yet." Meiya scowled at the term.
"Right, right, I knew there was something I forgot to teach you girls, ok then I will show you then I will get the others here let you get a start on it." Takeru nodded, behind the girl a few of the engineers smirked at here the term. "Follow me."
Takeru walked to Meiya's Type-97 TSF.
"So what do I do?"
"Ok you take this hammer and tap on the armour of the unit." Takeru hit the leg armour and a solid bang resounded. "You keep this up on each part of the armour until."
Takeru hit an area he knew was hollow an echo came back.
"You find a sound like that, you mark this area with chalk and move on when you find all the areas that are weak you get the engineers to replace the marked armour." Takeru marked the spot the sound had come from before handing the hammer to her. "Ok I will get the others better now than say a few days."
Meiya nodded as Takeru left a grin on his face that only widened as he heard Meiya hammering her TSFs leg.
PX
"So where is Mitsurugi?" Sakaki asked.
"Dunno." Takeru looked away as the group minus Meiya were taking a break, Takeru picking up the bean bags and juggling them since his Shogi partner was busy.
"SHIROGANE!" A yell resounded around the room before the person stomped over standing behind the guy in question.
Tilting his head back to view the girl his vision was partly blocked by her impressive breasts her stern and brightly lit red face only adding to her usual beauty her arms on her hips balled into fists ready to swing at a moments notice.
"Yes Mitsurugi?" Takeru grinned.
"There is no such practice for the TSF, I was just finished with both legs when I was told by another Eishi."
"Both legs? Wow most people realise before they finish the first one, usually the laughing mechanics give it away, points for perseverance though." Takeru's grin widened.
"What happened?" Ayamine asked.
"This 'person' told me we would learn percussive maintenance and showed me how to do it only to find out it was a trick, the last hour I have been hammering my TSFs armour and marking areas with chalk, it looked like a failed noughts and crosses game." Meiya fumed glaring again at the boy.
"Consider this revenge for painting my TSF orange, now I need to think up something for the rest of you." Takeru looked at the rest of the squad as apprehension filled their eyes.
"But, but, but we cleaned your TSF Takeru-san." Tama gulped.
"True but that was retaliation for the fact, this is escalation, it might come today, or tomorrow who knows?"
Takeru grinned evilly at them, he wasn't going to do anything he had stumbled onto the best way to get back at them, paranoia, they would be jumping at shadows for weeks now and all he would have to do is keep reminding them of it.
Lab - Evening
Takeru sat at one of the desks in the lab, there was nothing for him to do and he had seen this a few times before, so staying out of the way was the best thing for him to do. Lt Piatif was supervising the technicians as they ensured the device was ready, Sumika's brain had already been set into the heart of the device all that was missing now was the body.
"Lt Shirogane." Takeru looked up to see Piatif looking at him steadily her hand to her ear piece as usual. "The 00, I'm sorry Sumika's body will be here soon, the assistants will be asked to leave before her uncovering can I ask you help with the final part?"
Takeru nodded, the Lt's switching names must have been due to his glare, when the body took form it wasn't a 00 unit then it was her then.
The door opened and two men in lab coats wheeled a 2 meter cylindrical tube in on a sack truck, leaving the object in the room the pair left and on Piatif's orders the rest did too. As the final tech left the room Yuuko entered a triumphant smirk plastered on her face as she walked over to the tube.
"Well Shirogane-kun today we make history, hahaha." Yuuko laughed.
Takeru felt a small chill down his spine, Yuuko had gone Dr Frankenstein on him, all that was required now was a lightning storm and an 'It's alive' comment and everything would be set. Yuuko pulled off the cover revealing Sumika floating in the liquid, the bottom half of the tube was metallic hiding her most intimate part though only reaching her navel, Takeru's eyes however focused on the thing lazily swaying behind her that seemed to be connected to her back.
"Sensei, is that a tail?" Takeru looked at Sumika's face seeing a pair of ears poking out her red hair. "Is that dog ears? I thought I said no to that." Takeru rounded on the mad scientist.
"My, my Shirogane-kun you said no cat modifications not dog ears I will have her saying 'Wan' too soon, fufu." Yuuko looked over at Piatif whom remained impassive at the spectacle though looking like she was heavily repressing a laugh of her own.
Takeru however looked like he was having an aneurysm, he was pacing the floor and his eyebrow was clearly twitching in annoyance.
"Sensei, remember this girl will be the $1 million girl after this, do you really want this, the novelty will wear off, and I will most likely have a permanent palm print on my face." Takeru was almost yelling now. "Remove it please for both our sakes."
"Oh? But if we get tails and ears for the rest of your squad we can integrate her with them flawlessly and I know you want a tail for Cadet Tamase."
"Why yes I, no it won't work and Lt stop laughing." Takeru was freaking out over the danger he was in with Sumika to bring any anger to the blonde officer that was now no longer hiding her chuckling at his plight.
"Ok Shirogane-kun, wheel her back out and I will deal with it." Yuuko continued to smirk.
Takeru moved to the tube containing the Inumika or was Suminu better? Looking at the body he noticed she was missing her legs, the genitals were there but nothing lower, Takeru turned to look at Yuuko who was herself laughing at him.
"Relax Shirogane-kun, during creation some parts were defective, we used them to test the creation process, so I decided to use them for this, you can use her how you want, she might not be functional but she has all the right parts.
"What? That's practically necrophilia I ain't doing that." Takeru growled.
"Tsk, so picky." Yuuko folded her arms looking mock annoyed.
"I'm not going to take being called picky for saying something reasonable." Takeru noticed Piatif was nodding in agreement with him on this. "So what do we do with this one?"
"Move her into that room behind you the real one is in there too."
Takeru hefted the large container on the truck, it had taken two techs to move her but he was a soldier not a scientist moving heavy loads was easy, he quickly shifted the idea that Sumika was heavy away from his mind as it would lower his life span.
Entering the room he could see the large tube with a fully intact Sumika floating in it waiting, next to it Kasumi watching her, this answered Takeru's question as to where she was during this, shifting the tube off the truck he carefully moved the real one onto it and wheeled her out.
"So what was that all about?" Takeru questioned Yuuko.
"It was to see your reactions, which I can say was entertaining to me." Yuuko giggled watching Takeru have a fit that seemed quite out of place on the usually cool and calm soldier plus a little revenge for yesterday's meeting with Sakon was due. "Ok Shirogane-kun, lock the tube into the slot in the floor and step back."
Takeru nodded and manually moved the tube into the recess on the floor, the resounding click as it locked in place before moving back to the desk, Kasumi moving to one of the computers as Piatif and Yuuko moved to their stations.
"Shirogane-kun, ready to bring Alternative IV to the world?" Yuuko asked theatrically to which Takeru and the others nodded.
"Beginning now." Yuuko's firm voice announced as the three furiously typed away at their keyboard.
Takeru held his breath as the lights dimmed and the tube began to bubble furiously, Sumika's untamed hair began flowing around her, the pale glow of the tubes liquid giving her an ethereal divine look, the sole sounds in the room the tapping of keys by Yuuko and the bubbling of the liquid.
"Transfer at 20%." Yuuko announced.
The transfer was quite quick in regards to the amount of information that would be in Sumika's mind, the colour of the liquid changing from a clear blue to a clear green announced the transfer was almost half way done.
"Transfer at 50%."
Takeru rung his hands, though maybe he was impatient, it was hard not seeing her but being able to speak to her, the tube changed to a clear yellow when it turned purple it would be done.
"Transfer at 80%." Yuuko announced again. "All signs green, body is activating, everything nominal."
The liquid turned purple much to Takeru's relief and began to drain out the bottom sink a gurgling sound as the last of the liquid was drained, Takeru grabbed a towel from the desk nearby and rushed to the girl, the tube opening as a still unconscious Sumika fell into Takeru's arms as he covered her with the drying cloth.
"Takeru-chan?" Sumika mumbled slightly as she pushed herself further into his chest. "So warm."
Takeru let a soft smile appear on his face as he looked over at Yuuko, the look of both pride and relief on her face at the trouble free transfer, and Kasumi whom could be seen wanting to come over to see the girl she had spoken to many times though her mind, beckoning her over with his hand the small girl padded over and hugged the red head, before Takeru pulled the small girl into a group one.
"Thank you Kasumi-chan for being there for her." Takeru whispered earning a small smile from Kasumi.
The next hour was spent running checks on Sumika to ensure everything worked as she retained cognitive functions, for the most part she was quite stable though a few fluctuations were spotted though chalked up to minor trauma caused by the transfer, after the checks were done a uniform was brought out and she put it on, Takeru averting his eyes to give her less to complain about.
The bow was tied to her hair finishing off the usual Sumika look though with an officers uniform, the rank denoting a 2nd Lieutenant like himself, it wouldn't be too odd for her to wander around now on the base. The final part of integrating Sumika on to the base was the creation of an ID card, not that she needed it and a back story to add credibility again this would do little to those that could dig deep enough into the database.
"So what now?" Takeru asked Yuuko while the four sat in her office.
"For the next few days she will stay down here in one of the rooms, we need to be sure nothing happens and she will need purifying, after the coup happens we can move her up to the Valkyries barracks, the room will be the one next to yours when you transfer.
Takeru nodded to this. "That's next to Kazama's right? And I'll be next to Kashiwagi?" Takeru asked earning a nod from Yuuko.
"We'll get some stuff to add to her room later, it's better if she integrates sooner rather than later so as to not arouse suspicion with any spies." Yuuko cast a look at the two. "I'll inform Isumi that Kagami is a new tech and will be helping the squad out starting in about a week."
Takeru nodded, "What about the PX can she be seen there or not until after the coup?"
"Hmm, not yet no, I don't want to risk anything until after we deal with our problem." Yuuko stifled a yawn showing she had indeed been up for several days by accounts.
"Well you've done good sensei so I think you need some well deserved rest."
Yuuko smiled tiredly. "Oh is that an order Shirogane-kun?"
"If it has to be." Takeru grinned back. "I need you at your best for the coup we got a few days of quite now."
"Fufu, so commanding, very well I will take your order, try not to stay up too late yourself." With a wink Yuuko left the office for her room.
With nothing to do Takeru, Sumika and Kasumi all left to set up Sumika's temporary room, the room itself was similar to the officer's quarters he had and must have been made for those working on more secret projects like him, grabbing some clean bedding the three worked quickly in setting up a liveable room for Sumika for the next week or so.
With it over Sumika and Kasumi both sat on the bed while Takeru as usual sat at the desk, his leg crossed over the other looking at the pair.
"Anything?" Takeru asked Sumika whom closed her eyes.
"Nothing, no bugs or cameras." She replied.
"Well, here again, like Deja vu really, oh wait it is." Takeru chuckled.
"Takeru-chan, you need to stop this, you're killing yourself." Sumika pleaded.
"Yeah, Yuuko-Sensei over there said the same thing, then we need to be ready, we need to prepare, but I'm going to have to do things that are not good, if this is to be it."
Sumika nodded sadly. "I know, I did this to you."
"No, no you didn't, I made this choice, if I was the person I am now back then I would still choose this path, if anyone is to blame then it's the BETA and only them, they came here, they attacked this town, they created the original G-elements all on them, not you, never you." Takeru placed a hand cupping Sumika's face.
Sumika's face brightened slightly, the feeling of Takeru's large calloused hand, a man's hand, of someone who worked hard. "Takeru-chan." She whispered.
"Sumika, I need a favour only something you can do, and Kasumi I need you to keep this a secret from Yuuko-Sensei, it's not against her but I need to keep her from controlling me or I won't be able to change things and this will never end."
Kasumi nodded slightly as her ears flapped, Takeru petted her head lightly earning a small blush from the girl.
"Ok Sumika, I need you to create a hidden bank account for me, somewhere that few would think to look but at the same time somewhere where a large amount of money wouldn't stand out, we know the coup is coming in a few days, when it is in full swing and everyone is committed I want you to steal all the money you can from both the CIA and the IOA filter it around the world and move it into my account, we are going to need money for later."
Sumika nodded, she knew with her new artificial body she could hack anything as long as she wanted to, to do what Takeru wanted would be easy for her, and would help set the stage for further work, money was needed first, money and allies, power would come from them.
The sound of a cute yawn brought the pair out of their collective plotting, Kasumi rubbed her eye with the back of her hand, Takeru checked his watch it was late and had been another long day.
"Well, it's late I'll take Kasumi back to her room and see you tomorrow." Takeru announced before he and Kasumi stood up heading for the door.
The feeling of something tugging on his uniform causing him to turn, Sumika had grabbed his sleeve looking down a little.
"Say Takeru-chan, can you stay here tonight?"
Takeru smiled a little at her, "Sure, but I'm going to take escort Kasumi first, and I'll be back soon."
"K, Goodnight Kasumi-chan."
"Goodnight." The rabbit girl replied being lead back to her room.
A/N: So this is where the lemon would be, now I haven't even begun to write it yet as I'm dealing with other RL issues at home and can't really bring myself to write lemons in work, still I MAY write them depending on how I feel, if they do my archive of your own profile will have them inclusive of my story so check it out at some point, though only 2 chapters of this and imperial are up.
Still thanks for read.
