Ch 9 Oscar Mike

"I need a medic!" Kodai yelled, as he ran thru the halls of the Yamato, holding Minerva.

He ran into the sickbay, where the doc was waiting.

"Hold on. What's the hold up?" Sado asked.

"Doc, she's been shot." Kodai said, trying to hook Minerva up to an MRI machine.

"I don't see any damage. No wounds, nothing." Sado said.

"Trust me. Run a scan on her. You'll find out. I'll be on the bridge. Let me know what happens." Kodai said.

Minerva experienced a massive headache, and a damning pain in her chest. She remembered little, except seeing the red stunners, all 4 hitting her. As she slowly regained consciousness, more things filled her memories. Gunshots. Lots of them. Plenty of screaming.

Minerva fully awakened, asking where she was.

"Where the hell am I?"

"Miss, stay calm. You're on the Yamato. Kodai brought you in. He seemed desperate." Sado said.

"Well, if your friend was shot in front of your eyes, wouldn't you run to the nearest hospital for help?" Minerva asked.

Sado shut up, and ran several tests on Minerva.

"You're lucky to be alive. I'm seeing massive neurological damage, and what seems to be heavy blows to your chest and upper stomach. You're lucky to be alive." Sado said.

"How long will I be here?" Minerva asked.

"I don't know. I'll need to run more tests, but you should take it easy for a while. I've seen soldiers with lesser trauma die because they pushed themselves when they shouldn't have. Don't push it." Sado sternly said.

"Okay." Minerva said. Laying down on a bed, she wondered how long she'd be on the Yamato, and if those at the school were wondering where she was.

At the bridge, Kodai was wondering what to do next. By taking Minerva under his custody, he made himself an enemy of the ministry of magic.

Enemy of the state. What was said about the KGB? You speak against them, you speak against the state, or something like that?

Whatever it was, Kodai knew he was walking into a bad situation. He gathered a manifest of the supplies on the Yamato. If war was to break out, he'd have to be ready. He had a super battleship, two mini subs, and 15 fighter jets. He decided to scrap the subs, keep the torpedoes on the Yamato, and turn the subs into additional aircraft. He had fighters, but needed a small, and fast bomber. After going over different designs, he made up one choice. The Tu-22.

"Take the mini subs, and convert them into Tu-22 bombers. As much as we can make." Kodai said.

"We can only make one at best." Aihara said.

"Then make one. I'll listen in on the school." Kodai said.

Several days later, Kodai found out that Harry wanted to talk to Sirius. He recorded the whole thing, but while listening, he noticed that Hermione had good points. Both Sirius and Voldemort were wanted men. Fudge had guards all over the ministry of magic. Something didn't seem right. The two of them couldn't have snuck in the complex without being seen. Kodai grabbed his cloaking suit, and headed into the castle, hoping to find Harry and talk him out of the plan. Unfortunately, he got caught. By Dolores Umbridge.

Shit.

"I ain't telling you anything." Harry said to Umbridge, which earned him a slap.

"That's pathetic. You're nothing compared to Voldemort." Harry said, egging the headmistress.

Just then, Snape walked into the room.

"You needed me, headmistress?" Snape asked.

"Yes. I'll need your Veritaserum. I want to interrogate him." Umbridge said.

"I'm all out. It'll take at least a month to create another batch. Of course, if you wish to poison Potter, I cannot help you." Snape said.

As he left, Harry made one final plea.

"He's got Padfoot. He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden." Harry said, pleading with Snape to help him.

"What's he talking about?" Umbridge asked.

"I haven't the slightest idea." Snape said.

"Very well. This is an issue of Ministry security. Yes." Umbridge said.

"What are you talking about?" Ron asked.

"The Cruciatus Curse will loosen your tongue." Dolores said, grabbing her wand.

"That's illegal." Hermione said.

"What Fudge won't know, won't hurt him." Dolores replied, putting away a picture of Fudge.

"Harry, tell her!" Hermione said.

"Tell me what?" Dolores asked.

"Tell her about the weapon." Hermione said.

"I know all about the warship. What else is there to hide?" Dolores asked.

"There's another weapon. Dumbledore's most powerful weapon. It's in the forbidden forest." Hermione said.

Kodai followed Umbridge, Harry, Hermione, and Ron into the forbidden forest. Either Dumbledore had really had something in the forest, or Hermione was bullshitting Umbridge. Kodai didn't know what he wanted to be more true.

"Kodai, what's going on?" Sanada asked.

"I have no idea. Hermione says that Dumbledore has a weapon in the forbidden forest, but I think she's bullshitting Umbridge." Kodai said, turning off the comm.

They arrived deep into the forest, and saw nothing.

"Hello!?" Hermione asked.

Nice one Hermione. Lets broadcast our position to every creature in the forest. Nice one. I like it. Kodai thought.

"There's nothing here. In fact, I think this was a set up." Umbridge said, pointing her want at Hermione said.

"No. It's here." Hermione said, trying to stall Umbridge. Where the fuck are the centaurs.

Then they came. Around a dozen or so centaurs came. Kodai was surprised. They looked like half-man half horse creatures out of Greek-Roman mythology. And they were armed with bows and arrows, but Kodai had good reason to give caution. It was a dozen creatures, with the intelligence of humans and strength of horses in one, against him.

And Umbridge had the stupidity to attack one of them, causing the rest to attack her. They grabbed her, and galloped back towards the forest, with Umbridge screaming. Kodai figured they'd do the job of killing her. One less problem for him to worry about.

"How are we getting to Sirius?" Kodai asked, de-cloaking.

"How do you know?" Harry asked.

"I got the whole school bugged for survailence. I want to help." Kodai said.

"Alright. You can come. But we still need to figure how we're going." Ron said.

"Why do you think I asked?" Kodai replied.

"What's going on?" a soft voice asked. Kodai turned towards the voice and pointed his AN-94 rifle at the voice. Luna, Ginny, and Neville appeared.

"We need to get to the ministry of magic. Of course, we have no idea right now." Kodai said, lowering his rifle.

"We'll use thestrals. They're coming right now." Luna said. Kodai saw 7 thestrals heading towards them.

"Wait, those mad horse things? The ones you can't see unless you've watched someone snuff it?" Ron asked.

"I guess so, because I'm seeing seven of them." Kodai said, slinging his rifle and approaching one.

"You've seen someone die?" Ginny asked.

"Yeah. In one battle, I saw tens of thousands of enemy soldiers bite it. Doesn't help my conscious any more since I pulled the trigger on every one of them." Kodai said, sitting on a thestral.

"Lets get going." Harry said.

The group of seven headed towards the Ministry of Magic. Towards Voldemort.