"What are you saying Nanoha?" Fate was taken aback by Nanoha's weird speech.
The two young mages stood up on their beds to everyone's surprised glance. Their bodies flash their color of magic, their Barrier Jackets covering their child bodies.
"Master has ordered us to take your sister up to him." Nanoha hummed, her tone flowed smooth with a sadistic malice. The innocent child like face was transformed into something sinister, wearing a fake wide grin across her face she eyed the people around her with a disgusted look.
"And we shall obey." Alicia purred back, her childish brattiness was replaced with a more mature tone of evil. Her bright red eyes clouded and narrowed gazing down on everyone with spite.
"Alicia this is no time for your silly games!" Precia scolded her daughter pulling on her arm to get her to sit back down on the bed. "You need to rest!"
"I'll take care of the nuisance down here. You take you sister to Master." Nanoha eyed Fate out of the corner of her eye.
"Understood." Alicia replied back, the two girls seemingly oblivious to the world around them.
"What are you -" Fate screamed, feeling a rough yank on the collar of her Barrier Jacket. The bruteete mage easily lifting the blonde off her feet, plummeting Fate down to the bed head first. "Nanoh ah!" The older blonde was cut off as Nanoha sent a gut wrenching punch into her stomach, her mouth gasping open coughing. Her vision swarmed with blackness, slipping unconscious from Nanoha's blow.
"Nanoha-mama what are you doing!" Vivio bolted up from her bed.
"Here take her." The white mage emotionlessly threw the limp body to the bed across from hers'.
Alicia skillfully scooped her older sister up in her arm in midair, slinging her over her back. "I'm sure Master will be pleased."
Aqua sparks rained upon Alicia as she transported off Midchilda. "Till next time fair thee well."
"Alicia!" Precia lost touch with her daughter. "Come back here at once!" The purple haired woman yelled at thin air. "You..." She turned glaring at Nanoha. "Where did you take her?" She grabbed Nanoha by her collar, shaking her back and forth.
"She went on Master's orders." Nanoha pried off Precia's hands with little effort, her insane grin mocking the desperate mother.
"Now now don't be so angry at the girls." Scaglietti flashed on a monitor that appeared beside Nanoha. "As for your daughter she is right here with me." The screen panned to his left where Alicia was kneeling on the ground waiting to be acknowledged by the doctor with Fate firmly pressed to the ground by her younger sister, her red eyes glaring at Scaglietti.
"Return her to me!" Precia yelled into the monitor.
"Don't worry, I will return her to you unharmed when I accomplish my tasks with her." Scaglietti's face filled the monitor once more. "Until then sit tight Precia, we have a lot work to do." He closed the monitor on her.
"Don't you hang up on me!" Precia yelled at the air. "Give her back to me!"
"I suggest you settle down or I will have dish out some," Nanoha giggled in the middle of her sentence, bursting into a Scaglietti like insane laugh. "Divine punishment." The white mage hopped down off the bed twirling on her toes. "That goes the same for all of you. I'm making a list, checking it twice, you better be good, or the White Devil is going to eat you." She butchered the Earth Christmas song to make her point to the occupants in the medical tent.
"Nanoha-mama..." Vivio groaned, heart aching, that her mother was once again out of control.
"We need to restrain Nanoha right now!" Teana shot an order to the fellow mages in the tent.
"I don't think it is a good idea, she isn't thinking straight, who knows what she will do!" Erio shot back keeping a sharp eye on Nanoha's movements.
"Hey hey hey, that's not every nice, taking about someone behind their back." Nanoha flashed behind Teana, giggling, shoving Raising Heart's tip into the orange haired mage's back.
The gunslinger reflexively stiffened, she had not see Nanoha move behind her.
Raising Heart stabbed into her backside, pushing painfully on her spine while Nanoha hand yanked back Teana, pulling her back into the staff.
"I heard some trouble makers, was it you, or you? She swung her head back glancing at Erio. "Anymore talk about mutiny behind my back and I'm afraid I'll have to send this stick though your back." She twisted Raising Heart digging it in Teana a little more
Teana bit her tongue to keep herself from screaming in pain. Her eyes wide open and scared, looking back to see Nanoha's sadistic face looking back at her, with no trace of the kind instructor that she had come to know and respect.
"You've been warned. Don't let me catch you again." Nanoha threw Teana to the floor leaving her wheezing for air.
"Tia! Tia, are you alright?" Subaru quick made her way to Teana's side.
"I'm fine." Teana whined at her sore back, hobbling with some help from her partner onto a bed.
"Nanoha snap out of it!" Subaru pleaded to her role model. "This is just not you!"
"Girl. do you like to keep your mouth? If you do then shut up." Nanoha gave a death stare at the blue haired girl.
"My dear Alicia you have returned." Scaglietti turned to face her and Fate. His fingers twitched at this side weaving strands of binding magic around Fate.
"Yes Master, I have returned with Fate as you instructed." Alicia replied, her voice was filled with reverence like she was talking to royalty.
"Very well done, come here." Jail offered his hand to Alicia who took it gingerly. "You have done well, but first," A crack streaked across Alicia's cheek, throwing her head to the side, leaving an angry red throbbing mark on her cheek. "I must punish you for being a naughty girl, siding with our enemy; I thought I had taught you better."
Alicia's cold expression did not change even after Jail had slapped her across the face. "I'm sorry master." She knelt again before him apologizing. "My loyalty should never have wavered."
Hayate and Fate lay tied down by Jail's magic; watch their exchange, feeling disgust and pity for deranged scientist.
"Now for bring Fate to me I have prepared a small reward for you. How about a small father daughter activity?" Scaglietti pet Alicia on the cheek he had slapped. "But first my dear Commander, let's take care of that bothersome unison device shall we?" He snapped his fingers to the ceiling.
A hum of energy pulsed from the center of the room, AMF rippled out canceling out all magic in entire section of the space station.
With a small pop, the AMF forced Rein to ununison with her mistress. Floating above Hayate she was quickly tied down by more binding magic, that sprouted out from the wall, before she could fly off.
"Alicia our little activity is placing these microchips on our less than friendly guests here. When you do they will become one of us." Jail offered Alicia one of the two chips in his hand. "Show me your loyalty and place this on your sister and I will reward you."
Alicia took the chip in her hand like she was holding a holy relic. "I will obey." Alicia purred back, turning to face her sister.
"Alicia, snap out of it! You don't want to do this!" Fate croaked, still in pain from her abduction, pleading for Alicia to come to her senses. "Don't let a twisted man like Scaglietti take you over!"
Fate's sister kept walking towards her, deaf to Fate's pleads for her to come back, all the while the Doctor watched the two sisters with great amusement and interest.
"Doctor Jail Scaglietti, you seem to have an ability to surprise me every time we meet. But I suppose it should be expected of you." Hayate said to the Doctor, her head looking straight up at the ceiling, not bother to turn her head to look at him in the eye. "You surprise me on how far down you will defile yourself and others just so you can achieve your goals."
"But my dear, like you said, it is to be expected of me." Jail mused at Hayate's speech.
"Which is why I will have no problem ending your life with my own hands." Hayate chuckled softly.
"Lots of words for someone tied down to a chair is it not?" Scaglietti chuckled in turn, face palming his shaking head.
Hayate's white dress fizzled like a television receiving static, swtiching between her Barrier Jacket and the dress.
Without Rein unisoned to run the clothing assimilation program, the magic destabilized, reverting her cloths back into her sailor style Barrier Jacket.
"PURGE!" Hayate screamed at the top of her lungs, the white layers of her Barrier Jacket detonated against the red binds slicing though them like a hot knife on butter. The smoke cleared with Hayate standing at the doorway with only her black under vest.
"Impressive but there is still an absolute AMF, you can't fight me without your precious magic." Scaglietti burst out in an insane laugh.
"You're a persistent one I'll give you that!" Sette yelled behind her, throwing the boomerangs back at Signum who was hot in pursuit of Number Seven.
"Hold still if you don't want to die." Signum swished her snaked sword forward to chase after the combat cyborg. Laevatein's tip chased after Sette, slicing though hallway corners, hungry to get a taste of Sette.
Number Seven ignoring Signum kept on running deflecting away the snake blade with her boomerangs when it got too close. Her head constantly turning to look back for Signum's attack, randomly taking turns at each intersection in hopes to shake Signum off her tail.
Careening her head back once more, no longer seeing Signum's sword chase her, she relaxed for a second. Her relief was short lived as she went running straight into a dead end wall. Smacking into the steel with an echoing ring of metal.
"SHIT!" Sette shook off her blunder turning back to see Signum standing in her only route of escape.
"This is the end of the line for you. I suggest you get off." The purple knight sighed closing in on Number Seven.
"I don't think we have the strength to keep up this chase, so let's end it in the next hit." Sette panted sweating beads.
"So be it." Signum sheathed her sword, pumping in a cartridge.
The two women standing face to face in a showdown, like the old cowboy movies, still and silent waiting for the perfect moment to strike.
Kicking off in unison they collided in blurs of blue and purple. Explosions rippled though the walls slicing up everything at the epicenter as the two combatants delivered their final blows, the pressure of the magic released rippled against the steel walls pushing it out of its rectangular shape into a sphere.
A heartbeat later the two exited the center fray both seemingly unscathed. The ribbon holding Signum's pony tail along with half of her long purple hair fell off drifting to the ground.
"Go...Sette said quietly.
"Peace is with you." Signum walked past Sette, a tear slide down her cheek. Hurrying off, she left Number Seven alone.
"Peace... a strange thing to say." Sette wheezed, collapsing to the floor for the last time.
"Spread out she has to still be in here somewhere!" A party of Belkans swarmed into engineering. Beams of flashlights waved back and forth like a light show shining into the darkest corners of the engineering stations.
"Let's see you deal with this little green bitch." Quattro laugh though her thoughts.
"Klaus Wind!" Shamal palmed the floor under her, dropping though a portal onto the ceiling crossbeam.
"On come on you can do better than just hide can't you?" Number Four taunted her some more.
"This section is clear."
"So is this one."
"Nothing here." The Belkans methodically searched every nook and cranny for the green knight.
"Let see if this works." Shamal pursed her lips concentrating on opening up a portal in front and behind a lone Belkan solider. Her hand eerie detached shot though the portal grabbing the collar of the solider. With a quiet yelp the soldier was yanked back into the portal where Shamal tied and gagged him to the ceiling support bar.
"One down..." Shamal spread her magic net around the room in search for more victims.
A warning light flash on Uno's piano ring of displays as she was working on one of the Belkan ships, which had its nose driven into one of the two Midchildian moons, monitoring the transformation of the moons into the planets which were almost complete.
Tapping the warning signal, a window opened up reading out data that was collected by the sensor that went off.
"Another transdimensional rift..." Uno sighed canceling the alert shrugging it off as background space anomalies due to her Doctor's experiment.
The same warning popped up again moments later along with another and another, fill up every screen with red flashing warning messages.
"One is a glitch... this many..." Number One accessed the entire warning log, her yellow eyes darting left and right reading though them with haste.
"It can't be...Uno accessed the aft view cameras bring up the blackness of space on her workspace. Dozens of TSAB ships exited from the rifts forming up on the other side of moons.
Tapping hundreds of letter in half a fraction, Number One calling up a COM to Scaglietti.
"Doctor!" Uno said panicked. "The TSAB fleet is preparing to counter attack!"
"It is not our concern." Jail shrugged it off. "Our Belkan friends will be the ones that will deal with the small trivial things. But if it comes to it I will drop the station on Midchilda."
"Ye... yes Doctor." Uno regained her calm after seeing her leader as calm as a sleeping baby.
"It seems that interruptions are the thing if the day." Scaglietti turned his attention back to Hayate. "If only you'd just cooperate and let me put his little chip on you, we can be spared a lot of pain and misery. Well you can be spared that is." He swiped his hands throwing more binds at the Mistress of the Night Sky.
Dodging Jail's spider web of bind would be impossible in the small space Hayate had, plus she wasn't half the swordsman that Signum or Fate was. With the AMF active it was getting to be quite a desperate situation for her as she could only use her staff as a crude melee weapon to cut though the binds.
"Stubborn as ever. I grow weary of our exchange. Alicia, take care of this foolish little girl." The Doctor pocketed his claw device in his lab pocket turning back to tend to Fate receiving a murderous glare.
Alicia charged past the Doctor without a second of consideration swing Iris down on Hayate. Like Hayate, Alicia's magic was suppressed by the AMF but her blade was not made of magic, much like Signum's Laventien, which made it just the more deadly to be hit by it.
Hayate was flung back from the impact of their weapons, Alicia obviously being much stronger from her cyborg enhancements. On the defensive, pinned back against a wall where she sandwiched between their locked weapons and the wall, losing the battle of strength, sparks flying in the middle of them.
"This won't hurt a bit." Jail tapped Fate on the forehead imbedding the chip under her skin.
The blonde hissed at Scaglietti though her teeth, her eyes burning holes though the Doctor with her glares of rage and fury. "You will regret the moment you laid hands on me!" She spat at him, her glare flattering as the chip too root in her.
"Now wake up my new toy to the new you." The crazed doctor laughed triumphantly.
Pained howls echoed from Fate, screams of agony pierced the steel walls, snapping Hayate out of her battle. Fate ripped though her binds, clutching her head as if she was suffering a most painful headache. Her legs thrashed liked a drowning swimmer, kicking, knocking over chairs and tables.
"FATE FIGHTS IT!" "Hayate screamed over the pained cries Fate was sending out loud though the station. "DON'T LOSE YOURSELF TO SCAGLIETTI! THIS ISN'T WHAT YOU WANTED! FATE!" Her fight was also another losing battle, her head inches away from Iris's sharp gleaming blade.
Fate's screams came louder coursed though out hallways. Her last and loudest scream came, fling her head up like a breeching whale she collapsed to the ground silent and still. Empty red eyes lay blank, with tears, staring into space
"You are a most interesting character of subject my dear Fate." Scaglietti picked her up in his arms, lifting her onto the sofa. "I guess serving me was something you could really never accept. And you fought against my will most entertainingly." He smiled with glee petting the blonde's forehead. "Now I have the entire Testarossa set in my collection. I believe it's time to add the Yagami set as well."
Nanoha paced around the medical tent restlessly, throwing glares at the people held hostage by her.
The detachments of Section Six watched her closely for any sign of an opening.
"Give my body back to me!" A voiced yelled inside Nanoha's head.
"Who the hell are you?" Nanoha yelled back in her mind agitated and annoyed from her boring guard duty.
"I'm Nanoha! And that body is mine you're controlling!" The voice yelled back.
"Funny cause this body is mine as well Nanoha." Nanoha laughed at her other self. "I'm you."
"No can't be me! I would never do anything like this." Inner Nanoha scoffed.
"Oh I am your dear little self, I am what you discard so easily, your hate, anger, all your negative emotions are me." Outer Nanoha replied smugly.
"I express myself just fine thank you. I don't pent up my emotion and my thoughts never would have made me do this!" Inner Nanoha spat disgusted at what the other Nanoha said.
"Oh ya, getting mad at yourself? Not a good sign, maybe you need to see a shrink." The dominate Nanoha teased. "But these are your darkest and deepest thought you wouldn't want anyone to see, you don't even want to see them youself. Let me make this simple for you. Our precious Fate, if anyone hurt her, you'd go after them, rip them apart, tear their arms and legs so they could never hurt her again. You would do all that without mercy. I know that much of you."
"I wouldn't do –" The voice inside protested.
"You wouldn't would you? Come on be honest with yourself. You suppress me all the time, putting on a brave face ever since you where little, remember your father? How he made you suffer all those day alone. Don't deny it I know because I am you." Nanoha played out the emotions of memories of the past to the Nanoha inside.
"NO NO NO NO NO! I won't listen to this! I refuse to believe you!" The Nanoha inside cover her ears screaming."
Just because you understand why doesn't mean you can forget. I am your fear your anger, the most honest part of yourself, let yourself go to me instead of putting up that fake smile if yours day in and day out." Nanoha beckoned, tempting the other Nanoha to give up resisting. "Instead of trying to save the world, why not turn it upside down together, destroy it all, destroy everything, until there is nothing left, no sadness, no nothing. Become the monster everyone see and treats you as."
"I won't bend to you! I have things and people to protect! I won't let you have it your way!" Nanoha screamed back in agony.
"My head." Nanoha took a misstep falling to one knee clutching her head, panting from the scream inside her aching head.
"If you won't listen then BEGONE!" Nanoha tried to force her other self back down. "The thing is the Doctor's program likes me better, and now you're the one being suppressed."
"Are the modifications to our weapon complete?" Admiral Chrono lined up his fleet, inching their way to Midchilda.
"Fleet reports condition one, we are ready." His second in command reported.
The enemy Belkan fleet broke their orbit turned to face the TSAB fleet, blockading the path to the planet. Additional ships completing their orbits, raced from the other side of the planet to join the defense fleet, small stars of engine flares dotted the black surrounding the blue green marble planet, rounding the planet disappearing behind the intense light reflected by Midchilda.
"It's as you predicted Admiral, their fleet is moving to protect HQ." The viewscreen zoomed in on their captured HQ in the center of the Belkan formation.
"Arc-en-ciel fire wave one." Chrono dispatched his fleet into action.
TSAB fleet moved into action, with at least forty ships they greatly outnumbering the Belkan fleet. But this time, they had more than just a handful Arc-en-ciel capable vessels, and they came with a few surprises for the Belkans.
White barrels extended from the bow of eighteen TSAB capital ships. The usual white glow encompassed the bow as magic gather at the end of the barrel into a great sphere of diabolical energy ball of destruction.
Belkan ships responded just the same as before, spreading out their fleet, a blue AMF dome barrier pulsated from the tip of the silvery coned ships, daring the TSAB to fire their salvo of Arc-en-ciels at them.
Together the TSAB fleet released their salvo in once go. In the vacuum silence of space the magic burst out the barrel in a thin concentrated beam of magic instead of the usual ball of compressed magic.
The Belkan fleet raced forward to meet the attack, closing the distance between the two fleets so they can strike with their limited ranged missiles after they absorb the TSAB attack.
White beams of concentrated energy streaked though contrasting black space clashed into the Belkan AMF barrier.
The entire TSAB fleet held their breath as they watched their attack impact against the AMF. Would their modification work or fail? They didn't have to wait long as the white compressed magic stalled on the AMF for a split second before punching though the magic interference device gutting the Belkan ships from bow to stern.
Eighteen gutted Belkan space vessels lost power drifting in space falling behind the rest of their fleet in the charge. Small tiny flare of engines peeled off the ridges in the silver superstructure. Escape pods hastily launched with the surviving crews. The Belkan ship detonating into clouds of flaming wrecked twisted metal and vaporized atom clouds from the damages taken to the energy core, while other parts of the wreak were sucked into the space distorting Arc-en-ciel projectile.
"Sir, eighteen of our vessels have been sunk!" The Belkan bridge crew aboard Stalrik's crew was in a panic. Red pulsing warning lights and alarms only added to the confusion on the command deck. "Search and rescue have accounted for some of the life pods."
"Order the fleet to scatter and attack at flank speed, we can't keep taking these loses." Stalrik ordered in a collective calm. "We must not panic, or show fear in the face of our cunning enemies!"
"I am receiving a message from the surface; it appears that our forces have surrendered?" The COM officer cocked his head quizzically, puzzled by the report sent by their ground team.
"Surrendered?" Stalrik bolted up from his seat, storming over to the COM station. "What is the meaning of this!"
"I don't know Sir, there is a lot of interference with the signal but something about the Heirs of Belka and Shutra appearing before them and ordering them to stop..." The COM offer reported hastily flipping though the report again.
"Never mind that, get me a shuttle and an escort team, I am heading down to the surface." Stalrik roared over the panicking bridge crew. "Lieutenant Commander you are in command of the fleet."
"Ro-roger!" His crew stammered as he stepped out of the bridge heading for the launch bay.
"What in blazes are you doing down there Eva..." Stalrik growled to himself storming down the corridor to the aft end of the ship to the shuttle launch bay where a team of elite guards stood ready for his appearance.
"Cohmandeir Stalrik has left the ship sir. Your orders Sir?"
"Have our ships regroup and get into sphere formation. Keep our ships off their lines of fire and surround their fleet." The newly appointed acting Commander took in the situation. "Keep our ship moving and out of their range, we can't afford to lose the Belkanius."
"Confirmed hits on all eighteen targeted vessels Admiral." Chrono's crew cheered seeing their newly modified weapon work so spectacularly.
"Serve up another salvo when ready." Chrono gulped in a huge serving of air after holding his breath for what seemed like eternity.
"Engineering reports that we have only one more salvo before the Are-en-ciel magic compression system will probably breaks down, we might two if we are lucky."
"Only one more salvo huh..." Chrono mused, as it would give them a two to one advantage of the Belkans, and that is only if they all hit.
"Charging will require another ten fractions, Belkan fleet have entered conventional weapons range and closing. They are moving to bracket the fleet; we will be surrounded in seven fractions." CIC gave him the new.
"Have our flanks pull back into arrow formation, we are charging right though them, and then we will turn our backs to the planet and reengage. Have our lesser ships protect the Arc-en-ciel capable ships at all costs." Chrono responded to the Belkan fleet.
"Fleet confirms, and moving."
Belkan vessels split open their formation, some going above, other below while the rest flanked the TSAB fleet from the sides. Their missile bays opened up exposing the launch tubes where rounds of missiles rocketed out in steamy clouds of exhaust.
Hundreds of exhaust streamers left the Belkan formation as they began to encompass the TSAB fleet. Fireballs lit up the space between the two fleets as point defense and flak from the TSAB fleet intercept most of the missiles plunging their way into their formation.
"We will clear the Belkan formation in three fraction!"
"Our ships are taking one hell of a pounding! They won't last long in there!"
"Keep the fleeting going, have the damaged ships stay under the shadow of the capital ships, we must make it across no matter what." Chrono gritted this teeth, pray that his insane plan plays though to the end.
Missile detonation rocked the ship jolting everyone around in their seats, shaking the bulkheads, and sending sparks flying out from overloaded systems.
"We are clearing the Belkan formation! We have lost no capital ships but we lost four escorts." CIC reported as the panoramic view screen show clear space ahead of them.
"Dispatch our marine landing parties on to HQ, then turn the fleet around, it's time to drive these Belkans off our planet!" The Admiral sighed in his head, counting himself lucky that he only lost four.
"Sir we have a problem, there is an AMF on the station, we can't teleport our marines until it is destroyed."
"Launch our fighter squadron and have them take care of it!" Chrono groaned at another complication.
"We are coming about, all our ships report ready to fire."
"Then by all means, FIRE!"
"Now is our chance!" Teana yelled as loud as she could to everyone in the tent.
Nanoha fell to her knees, struggling with a head splitting headache, grabbing her head screaming at the top of her lungs.
Every mage in the room threw themselves at her from every angle, grabbing on to a body part to subdue the rogue girl.
"Get off me!" Nanoha screamed, shakily standing up under the weight of nine mages, shaking herself like a wet dog, flinging some of them off her back.
"Don't you dare hurt my friends!" Nanoha yelled louder to her outer self, trying to stall her so the others could take her down.
"Subaru take Raising Heart away from her!" Teana cried out loud over the screams of the other mages being flung off Nanoha's body.
"Ri-right!" Subaru abandoned holding down Nanoha's legs, assaulting her arms that were flailing like a octopus with hers staff beating down the mages that held her down. "I'll be taking this!" Subaru pried at the white mage's fingers trying to get to her staff.
But Nanoha's grip remained firm even against Subaru's cyborg strength.
"Use Vibrations Shatter!' Teana ordered, before she lost girl from Nanoha's bucking and was hurled off careening into a bed.
"But but that would really hurt Nanoha!" Subaru kept on fighting with their deadlock of strength.
"We don't have a choice!" Erio had hugged himself on Nanoha's waist, and he was loosing grip fast.
"But -" Subaru shook her head unwilling to hurt her teacher.
"Eva what were you thinking! Surrendering to Midchilda." Starlrik growled furiously to the ground troop Commander standing at rigid attention on the other side of his oak desk in the Commander's tent.
"It was an order from Her Majesty herself. We follow the blood line of Princess Olivie. Her heir has appeared before us and ordered us to stop." Eva stood stiff in her office, beads of sweat rolling down her forehead as she answered her superior's questions.
"I don't believe it. Where the lost bloodline is, they are anywhere but here!" He roared infuriated.
"Cohmandeir, if you won't believe my words then please believe your eyes. I will show you the heir to our princess." She dropped to one knee. "After you have seen then I will accept whatever punishment you ask of me."
"Lead the way." Stalrik controlled his temper following behind Eva, making their way to the medical tent where they had housed all of the mages.
As they got close, shouts and screams could be heard from inside the tent.
"What is going on in there?" Eva rushed ahead and flung aside the flap. "What is this...?" She trailed seeing everyone throwing themselves and getting thrown off Nanoha.
"Eva help us restrain her!" Vivio yelled over the scuffle.
"Why?" Eva stood frozen at the door.
"No time to explain!" Vivio yelped, getting thrown across the tent at Eva.
"What is this madness!" Starlik roared into the tent, looking to Eva then Vivio, seeing her green and red eyes, the mark of Belkan royalty. "You- you are..." The elderly man stuttered in surprise.
"Yes she is." Eva said quietly.
"So you're the one that betrayed the Doctor." Nanoha growled at Eva dragging her pile of mages with her as she took a step to the tent entrance.
"What is wrong with her?" Eva stepped back seeing Nanoha in a deranged state.
"She is being controlled by the Doctor!" Someone in the body pile yelled.
"Master has tasked me for those judging those that betray him, the sentence is death. Prepare yourself Eva!" Nanoha screeched throwing the last of the mages off her back, charging her staff like a spear at the Belkan Commander.
"Eva watch out!' Vivio stepped in front to block Raising Heart, but it never came. A bear like shadow, covered the two girls for a second.
A painful grunt came from above them from the gruff man.
"Are you two alright?" Stalrik coughed looking down on Vivio and Eva.
"Wha- what did you just do?" Eva saw a small glint of gold though Starlik's back.
"What does it look like?" Starlik wheezed. "Protecting the heir to Princess Olivie and my daughter." He chuckled coughing up blood on his great gray beard. "I trust you judgment so I feel confident to entrust the future of our people to you and the little princess."
"Now hold her still my dear Alicia." Scaglietti took deliberate steps to Hayate watching her with glee.
Alicia had grabbed on to Hayate's staff pushing Hayate firmly against the wall, while she pushed back with all the strength she could muster like a weight lifter on a weight bench.
"Close your eyes and it will be all over." Jail cooed soothingly, his finger raised to tap the trapped girl's temple.
Small trembling shudders rumbled under their feet, which was nothing much to be concerned about. A heart beat everyone in the room was bounced off their feet by an aftershock.
Black smoke immediately choked the corridors following the ground rocking event that had sent the Doctor tumbling back.
Hayate jab her knee in a gut crunching hit as Alicia's weight lifted slightly off Hayate when she lost balance.
The green clad mage didn't bat an eye at the hit, but the effect was the same, doubling over, Alicia stumbling, backing away from Hayate.
Following up on her knee jab she pushed herself up on the wall, bucking a kick Alicia farther away from her.
Jail's displeasured clicking of his tongue came from the room as the mad scientist came hurling back at Hayate.
Magic tingled in Hayate's linker core, feeling magic renter the space station.
"Rein!" Hayate ducked under Jail's charge, pushing past the insane Doctor to get in her office. Pain raced down her back from Jail's claw taking swipe as she made her way past the doctor, up cutting the binding ropes that held Rein to the wall.
"UNISON!" The two girls melded together, basking each other's warmth.
"Are you alright?" Hayate checked on the smallest member of her family.
"All systems go mistress." Rein chimed back happily to be reunited with Hayate.
"One on two, that's at little unfair isn't it." Jail growled menacingly, his insane demeanor was no longer present. "Which is why I have my little own set of girls. Alicia, Fate come here." Jail snapped his finger at the girls. \
Alicia limped over, the pain in her gut must have been excruciating but she didn't show it. Fate on the other side sank though the sofa though a transportation portal, reappearing behind Jail. "Now be good girls and take care of your former friend."
On his cue Alicia bent her knees ready to pounce at Hayate.
Fate however, stood swaying behind Scaglietti, seemingly ignoring his command.
"Fate, you want to be a good girl for me don't you?" Jail turned to face the older blonde.
"Fate, don't fall into his hands. You promised you would put him behind bar again." Hayate said carefully.
"It's too late." Jail stroked the blonde's long hair. "She is now completely under my control. Surrender to me and I will spare your planet."
The two Testarossas stood side by side guarding the mad Doctor from the black winged, white clothed mage.
Fate murky blank glaze had changed into a blood lusting red hue. From her looks she clearly did not remember her second closest friend.
"Girls teach her what happens to people that go against me." Jail threw his head back, laughing his signature melody of chaos and insanity.
"Subaru!" Teana screamed for her friend.
"HAI!" Subaru screamed her way across the tent, crying with a pained expression. "Vibration SHATTER!" The rollerblade mage's eyes shone yellow, grabbing on to Nanoha's child hand, gripping them with all her might.
Twin blue magic ribbons swirled in each of her hand. "DIVINE BUSTER!" Subaru hand's exploded in a brilliant flash of blue, breaking Nanoha's cyborg enhanced hands, making her lose grip on Raising Heart.
The white mage howled in pain as her hands were crippled by Subaru's overwhelming power, but her hand still defied the damage gripping on to Raising Heart
"Divine..." Nanoha gritted her teeth, chanting her attack spell though her teeth, determined to blast Eva full in the face with compressed magic thought Stalrik's body. "Bus-"
"RAISING HEART, STOP! PLEASE LISTEN TO ME! DON"T FIRE!" Nanoha begged to her device to no follow through with the attack.
The staff stuttered for a second, hearing the voice of it's owner. Scaglietti's loyalty program inside Raising Heart churned at the sudden revival of the original program. "Yes my master." She interrupted the flow of magic though it's body, slowing down the rate it gathered magic, prolonging the charge.
Scaglietti's program dove in quickly trapping the leaked program, sealing it down away again before it could cause more trouble.
"STOP NANOHA!" Subaru screamed, tears flying off her face, tearing Nanoha's staff off her crippled hands, snapping Raising Heart's handle in the process.
"Looks like you got me..." Nanoha staggered back, her hand dangling down useless to cast magic. "Forgive me Master. I have failed."
"Where is your spunk now chibi knight?" Tre struck her elbow into the red knight's gut, knocking the wind out of her.
The two had been battling furiously since they met. The section of offices and crew quarters had been totally trashed by their combat, sliced open with rippled gashes while others where peppered with dents and holes.
Vita's red bunny hat was missing from her head along with chunks of her Lolita red dress that masked the blood gushing out from her wounds. Even though all the damage, Vita's azure eyes remained bright and angry.
Number Three had suffered less damage than her red opponent. Nicks and cuts littered her cyborg bodysuit exposed small bits of skin but no serious damage was taken by her from the red knight.
"This is nothing. It's just a scratch." Vita huffed leaning her cracked hammer, playing it tough.
"The Doctor will prevail; there is nothing more you can do for your mistress." Tre took another potshot at the exhausted knight with her arms. "
Leaping back the blades on Number Three's blades grazed against Vita's Knight Armor, slicing open the corset. "You are weak in closed area combat."
"Hayate won't lose." Chibi red knight gasped for air clutching her chest. "She promised us, and I won't lose either."
"Your stubbornness will be the end of you." Tre sighed, swiveled one eighty delivering a kick to Vita's side, sending her crashing through a door.
Coughing out a splatter of blood, Vita defied her legs that now felt like jelly, standing up once more to face Tre. "Have at me!" Chibi red knight roar, smashing her hammer down in the ground sending a wave of red though the deck plating.
Tre leapt back, bouncing off a wall, somersaulting up into though a hole in the ceiling above to the next deck floor.
"Your attack won't-" Tre began another mid-battle lecture, but Vita had already gone. "Running away now, it's too late for that."
Vita hobbled as fast as she could down the corridors. "I can't win. I can't win." She cried to herself, her leg was bent the wrong way which meant it was most likely broken. "Ohhfmm! What the hell?" Vita fell face first in to the deck landing in a heap, gritting her teeth to keep herself from screaming in pain as her leg crash down with her.
Looking back she saw she had tripped on mess of down black power cables.
"Oh..." Vita grinned picking up the end of the split power cable with a negative sign and a pin protruding out of the connection.
"Who would have thought that luck would smile on at a time like this." Crawling she dragged the negative power line into a small maintenance station inside closet sized room. "Let's see what you got for me." She banged the access hatch with Eisen, breaking the panel off, tossing it in the corner with a clattering bang.
In the mess of computer chip there lay a intact power line.
"Perfect..." Vita reached in and disconnected the arm thick black cable, taking out the pinned end of the conduit plug out of the service hatch. "Ugh." She sat back down leaning on the wall taking a breather, staring blankly up at the ceiling for a few moments. "Back to work." She sighed taking a deep breath.
Using Eisen she chipped away the pin of one of the plugs leaving a sparking empty hole in the connector.
"There you are." Tre slide open the door to Vita little closet. "There is no place left to run."
"You're right for once, there is no place left to run." Vita looked up at Number Three towering above her.
"You ready to give up?" Tre tried once more.
"Nope, but can you fulfill one last request?" Vita chuckled.
"What?" Tre cocked her eye.
"Can you go... die in hell?" Vita jammed the two plugs together.
~*~~Flashback~~*~
"Listen carefully Vita, we all know you're a mage but all naval personnel must know the basic of ship maintenance." An engineer lecturer stood in front of her and a few other navy trainees in a cramp maintenance station full of electronic equipment.
"This is a class one power conduit." The instructor indicated to a black hanging power line as thick as her arm inside an open service panel. "The section connectors here," He pointed to a circle like plug with a rod in the middle with a negative sign on it and the other end which was just a hole. "They can sometimes get loose and it will be up to you if you're nearby to reconnect them. If you don't the ship's power grid can fail. Understand?"
"Yes." The trainees answered with enthusiasm.
"Yea." Vita yawned at the technical mambo jumbo.
"Last important thing, if you changing the connector pin never forget that you've taken the pin out of the negative end and plug another negative in thinking it's the positive connector. Cause if you do, that will be the last thing you and everyone around you will ever do..."
~*~~Flashback end~~*~
"Hayate, I'm sorry."
Not expect that were you? ^^;; That's chapter ten, not the last chapter I was hoping to make it to be, but one last chapter to go and that's it!. I am planning a part 2 continuation, something that some of you asked for since chapter one a "slice of life" story of the events after Re:Encounter. Depending on how these last two chapters are received I might or might no do one.
Next time, the conclusion on Re:Encounter. Coming Soon!
Thanks for reading! See you next time.
- FateSkyFire