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xMulticrossover/Magical Lyrical Nanoha : Destination Cross Dimension
Sona was having a strange day. Well actually now that she thought of it, she could say it was only a strange night but...
It was morning.
And clearly the last thing she remembered was being in the Council Room doing both her duties to the school and as a devil. In fact she remembered a powerful desire... a powerful wish echoing through one of the flyers. So strong that she thought it prudent to answer it herself for whatever it was, only to find herself in the most unlikeliest place.
It was open field. A sea of green no matter where she looked. Not mention the bright sun hanging in the sky.
She found the whole thing odd and worrying. Not to mention, whoever sent the summons weren't there. She sighed, and theorized that some foreigner must have picked up one of their fliers and tested it for fun after leaving Japan. Still the fact that she felt no instance of long range transport meant something else. Taking out her phone she was about to call her Queen or even Rias only to find:
"No signal?" She muttered out loud. An odd prospect considering the digital age she lived in... though it mostly contributed to her worry if anything else. In fact she feared that she might have walked in into a Khaos Brigade plot and began to scan her surroundings accordingly for any treachery. But there was none. Whether it was the land or sky, there was no one. Not only that there was absolutely nothing at all. No chirping birds, buzzing insects, barking dogs... or wolves. No nothing.
A sense of foreboding then latched into the maiden's heart and disregarding any form of secrecy, unfolded her wings and flew into the air. And what she found there made her heart sink even more.
She found the sea of green encompassing the whole of the land, with very little trees in plain sight. Moreover, no animals were spotted once again... but that was not important. No the most important thing was the large blobs of grey, black and again mostly green in the horizon. Her heart sinking further, she flew in that direction.
Her suspicions were proving correct upon getting close to those large blurs. And upon landing, she almost fell to her knees as she eyed in horror the sight before her. Those tall dilapidated buildings, those stores, the broken and grass ridden road... in fact the whole place looked like something out of a post apocalyptic work after the humans died out and nature ran it's course. But worse of all, Sona knew that place. For why not, it was where she lived up there in the world above. Where she found the majority of her peerage. Where her most cherished place existed...
"This... can't be real." She said, rather shakily. Her mask of neutrality shattered and her eyes began tearing up. Immediately she began pinching herself, hitting herself with her own magic and even slamming her head into a nearby wall. But no matter how she bled, the view stayed the same. The environment stayed as it was. And the destruction remained as it is. She was getting desperate, her thinking was marred with fear and she began futilely working her phone, calling everyone she knew. But no one answered, absolutely no one did.
And finally she dropped her phone to the ground, useless as it was and began to run. And nowhere did she go. Picking no direction, thinking nothing but escape from this nightmare. But in her quest to flee, she only found more heartache. And in her confused run, she found herself staring at the place she never did see wrecked.
It was Kuoh. Or what was left of it.
Wordlessly the distraught young woman walked into the ruin without thinking. Her heart and mind screaming her flee as she did so, and yet continued her march into further heartbreak. The first thing she found was the broken down building of the Occult Research Club. And entering it, she found herself nearly screaming herself hoarse in denial as found the dusty and moss invaded club room filled with evidence of her friends. The peerage of Rias Gremory. In fact the pictures of the happy group, despite dusty with cracked frames were still there. Objects like the paintings and what nots the individuals of the group received from their contracts but weren't able to bring home was also there. Heck Koneko's hidden snack pile was there despite being expired for a long while.
Staring at them made her heart break even more, but despite that her body moved mechanically... walking towards a place she knew that she couldn't bear to see.
Minutes weren't long enough to the young woman as she found herself staring at the jarred double doors that lead to the student council room. Her heart already broken and her body moving all but on her own she opened the door. And just like her friends room, the council room still had evidence of her existence... her peerage's existence...
She fell to her knees, scoping up from the grassy broken floor a peculiar set of glasses. Glasses that she was certain was not hers but familiar nonetheless. Tears freely flowed from her eyes and again with mechanical like steps wen around the room and inspected the items there... and found something that dried her tears.
They were paperwork. Paperwork done and signed by her. But the dates on them were incredibly peculiar. In fact she remembered before dropping her phone that the date was older than the date listed in that particular document. In fact it was listed a few months later, she presumed just before she and Rias and their Queens graduated.
But she was swept away before this... then...
"Ah... as I thought. Even the smallest evidence would calm you down. Truly the way you hold onto hope is admirable." Was the voice of a man... a particular man she had come to know for the past few days as he announced his ambition to all.
"Rizverim!" She shouted in hate and disdain, but stopped from attacking him when she saw his visage. In front of her was not the same smug, arrogant and ambitious devil she had faced. Instead she found a weary old man with sad dead eyes, incredibly gray hair and wearing something akin to rags. "Rizverim?..." She tried again, this time confused as she said so. The man nodded though and motioned her to sit down.
"I'm glad it worked... and honestly I was afraid I failed when you didn't show up where I thought you'd be." He apologized, much to the young woman's shock. "Still it gave you enough time to see what this poor old fool has done." He lamented again surprising her.
"You've done?" She muttered, then slammed her hands onto the old table nearly crushing it from the force and it's age. "You've done! IS this the result of your mad ambition?! Your desire to unseal Trihexa?!" Again he nods, very remorseful too.
"Indeed. This idiot of a fool had wits, power and the tools to hold that idiotic dream. A dream as you can see that turned into a veritable nightmare that wiped every living being in this world apart from this fool and nature that survived the calamity I have foolishly unleashed." HE said with a far off look that once more calmed the young woman down.
"What happened?" She asked. And with it, the old man regaled her a tale of a fool and his unknowing minions enacting something that shouldn't have been done. To do something nobody has an idea of what could happen.
"To be honest, I was the textbook devil. A devil that humans based the majority of their beliefs what our kind was. And worse with my age I should have known better." He shook his head. "Everyone gave it their all to beat me, but I sacrificed everything for a fervent dream that shouldn't be... or at least wasn't thought of enough. The result was as you see."
"How? You said that you announced to us your plans and it's near completion, your triumph at unsealing Trihexa and even stealing the rest of Ophis power. But... you never have elaborated what have ended everything?" Intellectual and observant as always, the young Sitri asked the missing elephant that was left out in the story.
"I have succeeded. Succeeded in opening a rift, a rift that the Great Red came out of... and to my miscalculation... or should I say my obsessiveness went further in that. The result was the entry of something... something beyond our imaginations. Beyond even the likes of Great Red, Ophis and Trihexa..." Sona could not help but gasp.
"Are you telling me that you have called forth something the likes of all three of those could not defeat?!" Rizverim winced and nodded.
"Indeed. 'Twas not my intention but I guess that's true." He shook his head. "But, those things were far from what everyone could comprehend. In fact the only things they could be compared to was the beings often called the 'old ones' or the 'ones from beyond' from those stories from Lovecraftian lore."
"Lovecraft? As in Cthulhu and such?" Rizverim nodded. A pained expression flashed from Sona's face and then deep thought before she nods. "I supposed you called me here to prevent you from making that mistake am I right?"
"No... not just that. I want you to be able to finish my past self so it would never happen... Or that's what would like to say." He then turned away... "Because it would not be that easy."
"I am already forewarned. That is enough." Rizverim still shook his head.
"That's not that simple as it sounds. Do you know of the thing called the 'Akashic Record'?" The man asked, Sona nodded immediately.
"I have come to know of it. But isn't it a theoretical meta physical device?" The man nods.
"Indeed. But it's real. This old man has come to see it." He then turned solemn. Sona frowned as well.
"Considering it's theorical power, I believe you sought to rewrite the past but then you summon me... no..." Sona realized why. If the man did find the powerful record and still resorted to summoning her then that only meant one thing.
"Indeed. That event will come to pass no matter what I do nor would anyone else does." The man shook his head again. "But I found a loophole... though it is only in theory, and in truth summoning you and such all hangs from that."
"A theory?" Sona asked and tried to guess what it was. But in the end decided to let the man explain.
"Supposedly, we have someone... someone not of this dimensional plane when that happens. Someone not tied to laws that binds us in this universe?" He asked.
"I see. So in theory that person might be able to alter or even prevent that disaster." Rizverim smiles and puts on the table a large suitcase, a large traveling bag and some contraption she has never seen before.
"Yes. That it was I had created and perfected this device." He told her as he patted the boxy unknown device. But from what he said she could easily guess what it was for.
"So it's a dimensional travel device?" The man nods. "And you ant me to recruit someone to help dealing with the problem..."
"Not just someone... but an army. A whole group of individuals powerful enough... cohesive and trustworthy... Friends that would not even think twice to help our world..." Sons stayed quite as the man stumbled upon his words.
"I still do not fully trust you... but... from your eyes alone I see the truth." She closed her eyes. Then opened them with a burning question upon her lips. "Still.. why me?"
"Because of who you are." The man began. "I men look at you speaking to me so casually, calmly and even cautiously despite what transpire before." Sona acknowledged that.
"That's true. But anyone else could be able to do so as well. In fact why not Rias or Sariaog or better any of the four Satans?" She queried seeing them good candidates as well.
"That's true. But they , your peers does not have your superb intellect and your will of steel. As for your elders, they do not have the ability to grow. And believe me, as someone who still could be called a child you would be able to handle things far better than those older than you." Again the young woman acknowledged that, but still held reservations... not to mention she did fully believe his explanation. Nonetheless...
"Very well. I doubt I have a choice in the matter anyways." She shook her head.
"Honestly you do have a choice but I give my thanks for accepting." He then pushed the objects on the table to her. "Apart from the Dimensional Transfer Device, I give these to aid you. The suitcase contains special Evil Pieces and the card suits that our kind and the angels use to reincarnate people. Along that is.. well I believe they are Azazels attempt to do the same. The bag contains many objects and such that would aid you like money and clothing along with my notes for my device." The young woman nods and accepts the things given to her.
"Also I already programmed some destinations on that machine that are similar to ours so that you would have an easy time." Sons checked the device and watched the screen display numbers... coordinates o f the places the man mentioned.
"Alright. But before I go...I want to see the fate of my home. The fate of the underworld." Rizverim frowned at that.
"Are you certain. For the pain you will feel at that sight will be immense." Sona gulped but hooded all the same. He sighed. "All right. Give me a minute to get a transport circle ready.
The way to the underworld, the train she often used was gone the man told her. In fact he informed her that they were only a few entrances left intact... but made no mention of the state of the underworld. This as for a good reason. In fact once they got there...
"I'm ready to go now." The young woman said with tears in her eyes and cracks in her heart. The man was right, she shouldn't have asked.
"Alright. If you want to go immediately just open the device, pick a coordinate and press the accept button and you-" The man did not finish as his audience did not deem to linger any loneger. Considering the home she was born into and raised was nothing more than large cavern filled with derelicts and deadly miasma, a far cry from what she remembered made her want to leave immediately.
Leaving only a man who looked up and stared at a broken noose on a crag near their position.
"For this old man to rely on someone else to correct his mistakes... how pitiful." He said with a smile. "But I had no choice, for I could not leave this plane of existence as much as I want to. For it is the cursed reward given to me by those hateful beings from beyond. So here I stay, hope and pray that the young Sitri achieves victory. It is the only thing I could do... so I ask... god speed young Sitri, godspeed..."
Next chapter
Sona could only berate herself as she materialized in some abandoned alleyway. Upon her distress she had immediately went for an escape, and without thinking immediately used the transfer device supplied to her by a man she admitted to barely trust despite what he had shown. Slumping on the nearby wall not caring if it would dirty her uniform or not, the young woman curled into fetal position for a few moments as she digested the sight of the future of her home. It was beyond what she could imagined, in fact it was beyond what she could stomach. The sight of the wreck that was once her home and several hundreds of thousands of devils, reincarnated or not could not leave her.
It made her want to vomit.
Her sister along with the other four Satans, a group that included Rias ever powerful brother had made the underworld as structurally sound and defensible as they made it as homely as possible. Heck the attack from Annihilation Maker's monsters just proved it. Other than that, the underworld has a large amount of people willing to defend it, alongside many allies that their faction they have gained alongside their other biblical counterparts that she had thought that at least the underworld survived. But seeing it nothing but ruin, to the point that it was unrecognizable was too much to bear.
'If such calamity has befallen my home, I could not imagine it for any of the others.' She thought, knowing full well that any force that could turn her home like that would be able to trash even heaven or any other hidden sanctuary. She sighed, calming down her heart and drying her tears. Now she wanted nothing more than to be home in bed, dismissing the whole thing as a dream. But with the bag and suitcase with her, just proved that it was no dream. She sighed again.
"I should take a look in this world before I judge the whole situation." She muttered to herself and began preparations for a lengthy stay.
Sona was pleasantly surprised on how easy it was to get accommodations. It was either the landlord of the apartment complex she rented was a nice man, pitied her considering the stuff she carried or a pervert. Either way, with few papers of identification she was actually banking on some mental manipulation to get an apartment. Speaking of which, she needed those papers sorted out as without identification and such she doubts that she would be able to do certain things, like going into school. Something that she knew she would need to do, apart from the fact that she liked learning anyways.
"Apart from those, I would need a new phone." She muttered with an annoyed tone. Annoyed considering the fact that it was her fault that she lost her phone. "Another thing is a way to investigate this world without being overly suspicious or being accused as an eccentric." A thing which was probable, as she doubted she would stumble on to something supernatural, magical or the sort by accident. And all of these she has to do alone, which was bad in her current situation.
She sighed and then eyed the transfer device, wanting nothing more than to go back home and forget the whole thing. But she was not a person who does thing half-done nor does she backs off on a challenge.
"Let's get things done."
Once more, she was rather surprised at the fact that it was incredibly easy on arranging her papers... no matter how non-existent most of the information on them are. In fact she left the government building with a confused expression and chalked it all up to luck. Shaking her head, her next destination was a nearby shopping district for clothes and a phone before going off and applying for a school to attend to. The former took only a few minutes, not really looking much for clothes only taking necessities as she did not know how long she would stay. Shopping for a phone proved rather difficult as the technology of the world she has came into was rather young. In fact when she looked at the date of a recent magazine she found that she was in 2004. A far cry from the year she lived in.
"Nearly ten years." She muttered as she eyed the phone in her hand. And old thing to her eyes, considering it was one of those 'clamshell' types that looked odd ten years later. Nonetheless it was the most modern thing in that year and she did not hesitate picking it up and paying for it along with the usual subscription and the like. Considering it took some time to pick it and daylight was burning she didn't take time in looking up for a school to 'transfer' to. "This shouldn't be hard."
It wasn't. In fact considering the city she landed in is within Tokyo, finding a good suitable school was easy. Heck she even already had a uniform. Still the next few parts was not. Mainly surveillance and investigation that would lead to find out what kind of world she was currently in. At that time she went back home, changed into more proper clothes and out again... this time into a nearby shopping center for her dinner.
After that she had finally examined the contents of the travel bag given to her.
She was already aware of the money within it, consisting of various currencies around the world and few neutral dresses like a few shirts and such. Other things like a bar or more importantly several bars of gold that she was surprised she did not feel the weight of, along with other precious accessories like rings and bracelets. Items to barter or pawn she guessed. Apart from that was notes and journals from Rizverim himself along with those of Azael, Ajuka and countless others. In them were mostly research notes and blueprints, which to her guess would enable her to understand the items that reincarnate that was given to her.
Another discovery was thumbing through Rizverim notes was the coordinates home. And not just back to that post-apocalyptic world, but to her time as well. She found that altering a few numbers, mostly decimals would affect the chronological entry into a world, making the thing a veritable time machine as well.
"So I could go home anytime I want to..." She shook her head, already she had accepted being there and it was counterproductive to go back on her decision. "Though this does mean that I could scrounge up some reinforcements when needed." Still she wanted to play solo for a while and see it there was anything of to note in this new plane... as Rizverim called it. At the same time, she was digging into his notes and several more of the notebooks to find the veracity of Rizverim's account about the future of her home world... which was hard considering the bag was apparently enchanted/magical or something as it held far more things than it should. Including a brand new laptop and touchscreen phone that made her shake her head. It's not she could use them in public considering the technological level of the world.
Seeing that she would not find anything more in that front she opened up the suitcase instead. There she found 6 sets of evil pieces 4 full card suites that heaven uses and a large box containing small figures of people with tags on them, she assumed that this was Azazel made for his system on reincarnating Fallen Angels. It was weird though, as the thing seemed to be like those figures for table top games. In fact having each figure tagged with things like Knight, Archer, Engineer and so on and so forth made her think that Azazel was slightly drunk when he made these. According to Rizverim's notes, the figures were made using the technology of the Evil Pieces and his long research into Sacred Gears. In fact Rizverim noted that it was possible that each would grant a person abilities akin to the figure it symbolizes.
Honestly that fact made her raise her brow considering the advantages the person getting resurrected would be much more numerous if it was true. And considering Azazel did make a lot of crazy things like a Gender Bending ray, it was quite possible that what Rizverim has noted it true.
Speaking of the man man her frown. She still needs to go through her conversation with him in her head as she remembered a lot of holes in that talk. One of them being the man's discovery of the Akashic Records...
She shook her head as it was getting late. She had to get up early tomorrow to see her new school... And honestly she had a lot of things to get use to while she's at it.
Sona could not help but stare. The day was going fine with her waking up early, getting ready for school, getting to school early, her introduction to her homeroom teacher up to the point of her introduction in class...
"Eh? Is there something on my face Shiratori-san?" She shook her head, it was that she was just remembering earlier yesterday that she thought it impossible to just stumble on something... mostly supernatural; but despite the young woman looking at her being normal she knew she was a very big indicator of where she was. If her sister was here she would be incredibly estatic.
"Nothing Takamachi-san... nothing..."
Next chapter
Sona after getting hammered to her head the dimension she got into, she did not remain idle. It helps that it seems that the Takamachi she befriended introduced her to her (Miyuki) family and there she met and confirmed that the little Nanoha was yet to become the 'White Devil' and remained the oddly mature little girl that search for her lot in life.
Sona ever the thinker and strategist thought on how she could use this to her advantage. However she also took consideration of her situation considering who was the person who led her there. It was folly after all to completely trust the man considering his actions as of recent (back in her proper timeline), but it was hard to distrust him as she was there on another world. His goal he announced after all was to find another world for his own and his men to conquer. And yet he didn't think selfishly... or did he? t was hard to tell.
To be all honest, she wanted someone else to confer to. One of her own. Tsubaki's presence would have been nice and so would Rias'. But despite knowing she could, that she could return and take even but one of them in this journey. She didn't. To her, this was a trial that was thrust into her. A trial that seemed shady but incredibly important.
"I'd rather not burden anyone else with this." She muttered to herself and instead held up the notes about her situation, the equipment she was given, the things she expected and so on and so forth. Speaking of equipment, she had checked the 'revival' items she was given. She is familiar with the evil pieces, though she must admit that it was the first time she had gotten hold of the king piece. Well from what she knew she these were produced back in the early days of the evil pieces and did nothing much boost the power of one granted with it. However the boost could evenly small as 10 she believe to a 100. It was a dangerous thing and such banned and was stopped from being produced a long time ago. Considering Rizverim is an old devil this shouldn't be surprising, but to give her that...
She shook her head and proceeded to the next item. The deck of cards for the Brave Saint system of the Angels. She frowned and scrunched her brow to remember what she knew about it. Too little she feared. She knew the Angels used them to reincarnate beings... mostly humans... and maybe only humans to become angels. In any case they come with the same Agelic powers and that they seem to follow the rules of card games to power up, meaning that they relied on teamwork... But that was it. Rizverim had detailed notes about it but she has yet read about them thank to her fascination of the last group of items.
Her earlier reading of what Azazel has made to repopulate his kind was staggering as it could endow people with various abilities and the like. And apparently this was because he took the best of Evil Piece system and the research of the Fallen on Sacred Gears that enabled him to do so. In the Evil Piece system the person endowed with a piece was granted specific abilites/power ups like the rook getting superhuman strength and knights having speed, Azazel's system took that to another level as each figure did grant the one endowed with the knowledge and abilities from what the figure described. Knights for example were given strength, fortitude, the knowledge of cavalry that included horseback riding and fighting on top of one, a mage was given various basic elemental spells, cantrips and arcane knowledge. It was like those job systems on video games. Better in that like Sacred Gears they will evolve depending on the user giving him more abilities like a Knight becoming a Paladin granting holy magics and healing and said mage to become an archmage that bestows more magics or a sage that increases focus on magics dependent on nature...
She snickered at the same time saluted the man. Azazel never did things half baked. Any further study however was interrupted by her own stomach much to her embarrassment. She had forgotten that she did this whole study just after getting home from school and finishing whatever school work she had, and completely forgetting dinner.
"I'll eat out." She said with a frown.
She sighed as she walked back from the family restaurant she had went to eat at. It was embarrassing to forget to feed herself, but she was all so caught in her own thoughts she had forgotten. She was lucky that it was not that late otherwise she doubted that she could anything to eat... unless she succumbed to eating instant foods which she knew would be detrimental to her-
"A crash?" Something loud and most likely unnatural was wrecking havoc as her senses had caught trouble. Beginning to move, she found it a good idea as she flew high enough to spot the source but not enough to cause trouble. There she saw what she had expected to happen sooner or later. She had got there in good timing as the world began to change color, signifying the barriers that many of character's put up had been made. "So... this should be Yuuno's doing I believe." She said as she recalled the favorite anime of her sister.
"So... I was this close." She said eyeing the falling tree and the leaping ferret right into a certain brunette's arms. "Now... should I watch or?" She needed to decide. Whatever action she will take now will dictate the strategy she would use in her stay in this world. "I should get close... on the ground at least." Dropping onto a street not far from the action, she sprinted hoping she would make it for whatever she might do.
Well easy to say she made it. Made it just in time to watch a real life magical girl transformation. She blushed.
'Fancy lights and everything...' she blushed further. 'And my sister wants to fully experience this nakedness and all.' She noted that despite her standing in view behind the girl and ferret they didn't notice her. That was unsurprising considering what happened. 'In a few minutes... no seconds is a time to act. Decide Sona! Decide!' She mentally shouted to herself as the young girl proceeded to look to and fro (but not to where she stood surprisingly) confused at the transformation and subsequent outfit change. 'DECIDE SONA! DECIDE!' Her mind shouted as the confused girl backed into a wall with their indistinguishable foe making an assault. Now pinned, this was the time. The time to act. 'NOW SONA! NOW!' Gulping, Sona moved. She hoped this was the right decision.