Bloom Soldier AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
"You okay Bloom? Those two guys still bugging you?" Stella asked looking at her friend worried as the red head stood next to her in the Virtual Reality Chamber, waiting for Palladium to pick who would be going first for midterms.
"I have traded phones with Ediltrude because they're terrified of her and I now have an escort consisting of either Ms. Faragonda, Ms. Griselda, Madam DuFour, or one of the witch teachers anytime I leave the school because somehow they always know and try to come find me." Bloom said dryly and causing Stella to frown slightly along with Bloom's other dorm mates.
"Isn't that considered stalking?" Stella asked looking at Tecna who frowned and began messing with her wrist computer to look up the laws on that in Magix as Palladium explained the options and asked for a volunteer to go first.
"Alright then since there are no volunteers let's do this in Alphabetical order so Bloom? You're up first." Palladium said before Tecna could finish looking up the information and making the red head groan slightly.
"Great. You're making me break a war law." Bloom said dryly and making everyone blink as they looked at her.
"Which one?" Musa asked almost amused at Bloom's response to being picked first.
"Never be first, never be last, and never volunteer for anything." Bloom said immediately and making everyone snicker a bit. That sounded like them during practical lessons. No one wanted to go first or last and no one ever volunteered.
"Sorry but it'll have to do. Now which option would you like?" Palladium asked smiling at the red head who sighed.
"Well…I'd be more likely to just break the witches' jaws with some punches so that's out. Reviving a planet I guess, not like there could be any conditions harsher than what I've already survived." Bloom said with a snort as she headed for the door and making Palladium nod with a frown.
"Kiko! I thought I told you to stay in the dorm!" Bloom said scolding her bunny when he hoped out of her bag as she searched for the seeds and all she had packed. She just shook her head fondly as one of the three things keeping her sane hopped away happily to explore the virtual reality planet.
"Look at the pixie trying to bring back her planet." Icy taunted as she and her sisters arrived behind Bloom, Stormy grabbing the girl by her hair to keep her from moving.
"Oh great the three rejects. Come to sabotage my tests I presume." Bloom said unbothered by the grip on her hair as she didn't even bother turning to acknowledge them visually, instead still planting the seeds.
"Stella go get Miss Griselda and Miss DuFour now!" Palladium ordered the blond who took off immediately as Palladium tried to get Bloom out of the chamber but he was being blocked by something. How had they gotten into the system?
"What is going o-I'll call Ediltrude." Griselda said looking angry about being fetched without warning in the middle of class, before seeing what was going on through the monitor. Those three seniors were getting on her nerves with their constant attacks on Bloom.
"Ediltrude you don't happen to be missing three senior witches who have a strange obsession with a certain Dragon do you?" Griselda asked her wife as she opened her phone and hit the main emergency contact button, her wife answering her phone immediately upon seeing who was calling.
"I'm looking through the monitor of the VR system and watching them as they mock and get ready to attack Bloom. Seems they sabotaged her midterms." Griselda said after a moment and earning a loud snort from across the line.
"See you in a minute." Griselda said smiling slightly as she hung up, she and Ediltrude never said goodbye. It was bad luck.
"Ediltrude's on her way over here now." Griselda said and sure enough less than a few seconds after she was done speaking did the witch in question show up, Griffin in tow.
"Why the heck are the so obsessed with boss?" Ediltrude asked wrapping her arms around Griselda and pulling her close protectively on reflex as she stared through the monitor as the witches finally grew bored of verbally tormenting Bloom, who wasn't bothered by their words, and instead grabbed Kiko.
"Uh-oh. If they hurt the rabbit then they'll be dead." Ediltrude said her eyes widening as she watched what was going on in the chamber while Palladium and DuFour were trying to get through the fire walls.
"What do you mean?" Griffin asked frowning as she saw Icy toss the rabbit towards a chasm, Bloom breaking free of Stormy's grip on her hair with wide panicked eyes as she tried to grab Kiko.
"Well…it's not widely known but there are only three things keeping Bloom sane and not lost in her instincts. It used to just be two but ever since about two weeks ago it was three." Ediltrude said wincing as Bloom missed the bunny by mere centimeters, quickly speaking an incantation to protect the poor rabbit.
"One of them is the rabbit." Griffin said bluntly, making Ediltrude nod.
"Yes, the other is me as I served with her, and the final one is her mate. Those girls are in for it now." Ediltrude said shaking her head with a slight cringe at the thought of how postal Bloom was about to go, and only barely noticing DuFour's head whip up at the word 'mate'. Did Bloom know? Well DuFour did kind of snarl it out that day Bloom killed the troll but she didn't think it had been explained to the red head.
"Aww pitiful pixie couldn't protect a simple pet." Stormy taunted as she grabbed Bloom's hair again, this time in a tighter grip while Bloom's body trembled in rage.
"You just made a big mistake." Bloom growled out, her voice a literal growl that surprised all but Ediltrude. Bloom pulled something out of her boot, showing a simple but sharp knife that she used to slice her hair off so that Stormy no longer had a grip on it.
Stormy fell backwards, off balance now that the hair she had been holding had been severed from the red head. In an instant Bloom had twisted around and drove the blade in her hand into Stormy's stomach, making the witch let out a small scream as she was pierced by the blade.
"Stormy!" Her sisters shouted horrified and shocked, quickly turning angry. Darcy threw magical blasts to get Bloom away from her sister as Icy flew over and tried to ice over the wound. There was the sound of a broom handle snapping and Icy screamed in pain as she fell forward, a bleeding hole in her back.
"That pet bunny, Kiko, was helping keep me sane and in control. You three…just…killed…him…" Bloom punctuated each of the last three words with another sharp cracking sound that made the students cower and flinch as Icy screamed in more pain as new holes entered her body.
"Icy! I'll kill you Bloom!" Darcy shouted angry as she saw her sister finally disappear in a puff of smoke, leaving bloodstains on a horrified Stormy and the ground.
"Huh didn't know she was packing a gun on her but I'm not surprised." Ediltrude said not really phased by the sight of the weapon. Truthfully…she really wasn't surprised at the sight of the weapon, she was more surprised that Bloom even used it. Her commander had been fonder of knives and hand to hand combat, especially using her fire powers in conjunction with them, but she didn't skip out on gun practice.
"You think those pitiful illusions can fool me or scare me? Bitch I was in a war. I was betrayed by the girl I loved who was in my squad. I was being held captive, tortured, and raped by the enemy for a month thanks to said traitor, and I saw the rest of my squad except for one get executed by the traitor and her sister all for the sake of some stupid ideal of despair! Your pitiful illusions are nothing compared to that." Bloom sneered at the illusions witch and making Ediltrude go stony faced while the students and even the other teachers looked horrified at what she had said.
"W-What?" DuFour whimpered, hoping to the dragon it wasn't true. Please someone tell her that her mate didn't go through that because DuFour hadn't been there to help her!
"Boss used to date that traitorous bitch we told you about. Everyone thought they were truly in love and Bloom genuinely did care for Mukuro to the point of calling it love. Mukuro…well we call her a traitorous bitch for a reason." Ediltrude said stone faced and flat toned.
"She and Bloom were sent on a recon mission because Mahiru and I were in medical. Bloom was reported MIA and Mukuro came back saying that they had been ambushed and Bloom bought her time to escape. We believed her and went to rescue our Major despite being ordered not to by some prissy General she had offended a few weeks ago. We were all ambushed and Mukuro revealed herself to be a traitor. Her sister…they planned ironic executions for all of us, the others were made to go first since they were Mukuro's upper classmen or a former classmate from the same school in Japan." Ediltrude began to say as Bloom shot Stormy just to put the girl out of her misery, showing a little bit of compassion at least. Something it looked like Stormy had noticed before she had faded into smoke.
"Chisa Yukizome the former Ultimate Housekeeper and best undercover operative in the unit…she was the most cheerful and motherly one of our group…she was brainwashed into committing suicide right in front of us." Ediltrudes voice turned flat, dead, mechanical, just like Bloom's had when she explained to Stella and Musa why she became a soldier.
"Seiko Kimura former Ultimate Pharmacist, team medic and secret weapon. Able to use her pharmaceutical drugs to give herself super human strength, speed, agility, and several other abilities. She was fed sweets, something she couldn't eat because of the medicine she needs to take for her illness. She slowly died from it and she was in a lot of pain." Ediltrude's voice cracked a bit but recovered quickly while Griselda held her wife close.
"Sakura Oogami, ultimate Fighter and in Mukuro's class. Was the physically strongest of our team and a great tactician. Always looked out for us but was always quiet, she was usually Kimura's guard as the medic. She was made to fight machines, ones that just wouldn't stop getting back up and coming at her until they finally dogpiled and crushed her." Ediltrude watched but didn't really see as Bloom shot at Darcy until she ran out of bullets, the illusion witch doing a good job of dodging most of the bullets aside from one or two that grazed her and caught her in the leg respectively.
"Peko Pekoyama, ultimate Swordswoman, and the sword specialist of the team. She could cut five bullets in half in one slice of her sword…she was attached to some wires and made to fight machines with swords. She moved like a puppet as she cut the machines down but more and more kept coming. Mahiru Koizumi managed to escape her bonds…or maybe they had let her out on purpose I don't know for sure, and had gone to help Peko by taking out a robot that was trying to sneak up on her. Peko cut through the robot and accidentally cut Koizumi too…Peko's strings were cut mid swing and so she stopped fighting and just held Koizumi and apologized as she was impaled by the swords of at least twenty robots." Ediltrude said not noticing how all of the people around her were pale white and slightly green, terrified and disgusted with the ways they had killed.
"Mahiru Koizumi, Ultimate Photographer, expert at recon and the one to always keep our spirits up whenever she could. She didn't blame Peko for the cut and instead wore it with pride for the last few days she was alive, they had to space out the executions to prepare them and 'instill us with despair' as the bitch put it. Mahiru was dropped into a room designed to look like a street next to a scrapbook. Opening it she noticed that there were pictures of her in the room…flipping through it she never noticed the person coming up behind her until she saw the final picture of her lying dead in the street. A camera began to shoot and she went to throw it away but by then it was too late…" Ediltrude trailed off as Bloom tackled Darcy and began to beat her face in with her hands that had transformed into flaming claws by now.
"They were planning to put me in a dark room for my execution, because of my power with shadows and darkness…but whatever they were planning to do they didn't get a chance to put it into action." Ediltrude said watching as Bloom savagely decimated Darcy in a way similar to a feral Kimura.
"Why not?" One freshman fairy asked weakly and looking a bit sick.
"Because Bloom had broken free of her captors and found me. She had been searching for us, wanting to warn us that Mukuro was a traitor…but it was too late for the others. She got to me just before they managed to execute me and saved my life. That's one of the reasons why I'll follow and protect her anywhere and from anyone. She saved me and gave me a chance to come back home to my family. Griffin may be my employer, best friend, and sister-in-law but Bloom…she's my boss and the girl I would gladly adopt as a baby sister. She knows it too, that's why I'm one of the ones keeping her sane…out of our whole squad…we're all that's left and if she can't rely on me…who can she rely on?" Ediltrude asked as Darcy finally faded and Bloom stood up panting heavily but still having enough energy to throw her head back and let out a roar of triumph, grief, and anger.
"Kiko?" Bloom asked weakly as she collapsed from over using her magic just as Palladium and DuFour got through the system, causing Bloom to see the rabbit laying in front of her sleeping. Bloom smiled weakly as the door to the VR room busted open and Ediltrude and DuFour came rushing towards her.
Bloom could only think of one thing to say before she passed out.
"You silly rabbit. Stay away from the Trix."