Chapter 11: Invasion


January 20th.

That was when it happened.

One hasn't happened since around four year ago, but they expected it.

They prepared for it.

One of them had seen it.

Another one had calculated it.

A third one made sure it happened.


Warning: A Gate is opening. Large-scale outbreak of Gates confirmed. Anyone in the vicinity of the Emergence Area, please evacuate at once.


"There are... 38... 39... 40 Gates! And counting!"

"Squads on duty deploy according to their Operators' instructions! Destroy all Trion soldiers! Don't let a single one outside the emergence area! Tell all off-duty agents! Every agent to the front to counter the threat! Battle commence!"


Kimura was already in her seat when she heard the alarms going off. She had been let out of school to work on some things for Border, so it was easy for her to be ready for the attack on the city.

"Everyone is close by each other. You all make sure to get to each other quickly."

"Why do I feel like you're directing that towards me, Kawa-tan~"

"Because you of all people will probably ditch just to see how things turn out in the end."

"Hey~ I dooooo care about the city though~ I feel quite offended that you would say such a thing to keep of all people~"

"Both of you need to be quite! Misó, hurry up and don't lag! Captain, I'm meeting up with you in a minute or two!"

"Right. Kawa-chan, we're relying on you to tell us where to go."

With that, the line went quiet.

Kimura nodded to herself as she looked at the screen in front of her.

She wished she could be out there and help them out, but she knew this is what she could do to help them now. If it helped in any way then it was fine with her.

"We will make it through this!"


Takaoto Mei let out a sigh when she stopped from her walk through the park as she saw the Gates open up and Neighbors coming through by the dozens. None of that seemed to affect her though as she simply stood there with her phone to her ear.

"Yeah, I know. It's pretty hard notto hear."

"Well, I guess Tora-san was right. You're gonna have to make your way to the base."

"I guess so... Oh well. I might as well get rid of the ones in front of me first. I'm just glad there's no one around right now."

"I just got the orders from HQ, so I'll be fighting for a while. Try not to causetoo much collateral, okay?"

"Can't promise anything. Anyways, even if you aren't given a 'playground' you should still go all out so you don't end up having to Bail Out."

"I know. Same goes for you. Good luck."

With that, the line went dead.

Mei let out another sigh as she put her phone away and pulled something out of her pocket.

She didn't really want to fight at the moment, but knew she would have to make it past the horde of Trion Soldiers before she could make it to the Headquaters.

"Well...I might as well get start."

The soldiers started charging at her, but she didn't seem to mind and simply lifted her arm.

"Trigger on."


"We shall now see what will happen. How will things turn out? Will Border be victorious or will the Neighbors? This will provide me with a good amount of information. I just need to wait everything out until it's all over."

Misó looked around at all the Gates opening up.

He had been eating for this moment. The moment where he would see a large-scale invasion that could get things going for him.

He saw a large amount of Trion soldiers going straight towards him. He brought out two blades and got ready for the long fight ahead of them all.


"Sensei, we just got orders from HQ, so we need you and the C-Ranks to help evacuate everyone else out of here. There are some headed this way, so we'll take care of them whole we go meet up with the rest of our squad."

Kotowari Takeshi stood with the other agents at the school. The school had to evacuate due to the current invasion, so the agents that were there quickly got to work.

"Sure thing. Just leave it to us. It's our job after all."

Takeshi nodded his head and turned around to leave, but was surprised when multiple Neighbors fell from the sky. There were multiple Marmods and Bados.

"There... There are so many of them!"

Inushiba, a rather pudgy student, along with most of the students, started sweating when they saw the Neighbors slowly making their way towards the ground.

"There's no way you lot can take on that many!"

"Just shut up and go."

Toby Awdry, a B-Rank Attacker shook his head as he turned to two other people. One was a boy with goggles while another was a girl with blond hair. Those two were Noah Shor - captain of Shor Squad - and Shana Lee of another Tsukiko Squad.

"Hey, you two better go and meet up with your squads. We B-Ranks aren't suppose to fight if we can't meet up with our squads, so you two need to go now. If me and Take are here then we should be fine to fight. Not to mention Shun is with us."

"Right. We'll leave these ones to you."

Noah and Shana quickly made their way through the Trion soldiers and towards the direction of their respective squads.

No wasting any more time, the two B-Ranks and single A-Rank quickly got to work while the C-Ranks and civilians started evacuating.

Midorikawa Shun and Toby Awdry ran forward with a Scorpion in hand. They both took on the same one and made quick work of it by slashing at it until it was down. They then split up to take on other ones.

Takeshi stood in place and put his hands in his pocket as three green orbs appeared by his head. He looked up and each orb shot out three green beams towards the flying ones. He managed to destroy some of them, but other dodged the attacks.

The ones who dodged the beams were being chased by the same beams and ended up colliding with each other, making them a big enough target for Takeshi to take down.

He took a sideways glance to see that a few Marmods were heading towards him, so he lowered the beams in the sky to one per orb before making a new orb that shot out three beams, destroying the oncoming Neighbors.

Meanwhile, Toby stood on a fallen Marmod while he looked around to see more coming his way. He put away the Scorpion in his hand and let out a sigh.

Multiple Scorpions sprang from his body and covered him.

He ran forward and moved his feet so he was spinning rapidly.

The Marmods were slashed up as soon as they came in contact with him. Some tried to back away, but he quickly headed for them and took them out.

Midorikawa took out his share of Marmods using his Scorpion and Grasshopper. He ended them quickly by going for their cores and moving from one to the other in a matter of seconds.


"The Trion soldiers have split into groups. They're heading into the city from all directions. They appear to be headed... west, northwest, east, south and southwest away from us!"

Sawamura Kyoko reported everything in a calm tone as everyone in the room saw the dots appearing on the screen.

They had prepared for this invasion and would retaliate in the appropriate manner. They wouldn't leg themselves be trampled over by their opponents.

"Split the squads into three groups. Send them east, south and southwest!"

"W-wait a second, Director! What about the west and northwest!?"

"Don't worry. We've got that covered. Jin and Amo are headed there."

Director Shinoda Masafumi spoke with no worry or doubt. He focused on what needed to be done at the moment and nothing else.

The PR director seemed to take this well as he calmed down a bit.

They all knew that those two would be enough to take out whatever got in their way.

"The other fronts are the problem. We can't let the rest of the Neighbors enter the city before our squads catch up. Kinuta-san?"

"I know. I worked with Fuyushima to make a plan."


In multiple areas, explosive shots were fired and large blades spung up from the ground.

The Trion soldiers that walked on the ground were quickly destroyed by these attacks. Some were able to move out of the way of the large blades while others seemed to keep moving regardless of the shots being fired.

That was fine though.

After all...

"Suwa Squad has arrived! We'll eliminate the Neighbors!"

"Suzunari-1 here! Combat initiated!"

"Azuma Squad has arrived. Commencing attack."


"Kazama, Arashiyama, Hatohara squads... Arafune, Kakizaki, Chano squads... All heading to their targets while eliminating Trion soldiers!"

"Good. Have them join up! They'll work together to defend the city."

"Wait... Oh... Takaoto Mei is heading to the base while taking out large amounts of Trion soldiers! Tsukiko Yuki seems to have made his own 'playground' and is also taking out a good amount of Trion soldier!"

"Those two... Fine. We'll leave those two be, for now. Once Yuki meets up with his squad they will also join up with the others."


"..."

Misó Epanástasi was crouched down in front of a fallen Bambster with a dull expression. He moved his hand across the shell of the Trion soldier before pulling put a piece of paper and placing it in one of the small cracks he himself had made.

"Hey, Misó. What are you doing!?"

The one who yelled at him was his teammate, Teikō Hitsugi. She and their captain walked up to the male as he stood up.

Misó turned to his teammates with a grin in place.

"Ah~ Sorry~ I just wanted to see something. We usually just leave things to HQ when it comes to these things, so I wanted to really check some of these out before we moved on."

"We don't have time for-"

"Hitsu-chan, it's fine. Kirai-kun is just curious, so we can give him a minute or two."

Oshiro gave a kind smile to his squad.

Hitsugi huffed and crossed her arms while Misó continued to grin.

He looked around a bit more at different ones while placing the same pieces of paper at the different hole that were made.

He stood straight up and looked over to his squad, Oshiro was continuing to smile while Hitsugi just let out another huff. It seemed that the two didn't notice what he was doing, which was exactly what he had wanted.

"This really isn't the time for this crap. We need to hurry up and get to the next area. We're in the middle of an invasion."

"She's right. And our captain doesn't seem like he can wait any longer."

Misó and Hitsugi looked over to see Oshiro looking around with a large of concern on his face. They both knew he couldn't stand not helping others out, so it really was best to leave right now.

"Alright, alright. Let's get going then."


On the battlefield with Azuma Squad...

The final Trion soldier in the area fell to the ground as Koarai jumped to the ground. They had all done what they needed to. Now they just had to go to the other squad and group up.

"Azuma-san, that was the last one," Koarai said as he turned to his captain.

"Okay. We'll go assist the other squads."

KRAKL

Hearing the odd noise, Azuma turned around.

The shell of the Bambster near the squad started to crack open. A large, white arm could be seen coming out as another followed and grabbed the bottom of the shell.

"...!?"

Once the something came out of the fallen Bambster the squad could see exactly what it was.

"What's that?"

There, standing in front of Azuma Squad, was a Trion soldier that had a bulky build, with wide shoulders and long, large arms with three fingers and no thumbs, and also short but thick legs which ended on long two-toed feet. It had a long neck ending in a head roughly resembling a rabbit head. The interior of its mouth was black and it had a green eye inside. It also had black stripes running through its shoulders until its hands, with black shield-like shapes in the sides of its shoulders, and the sides of its torso are also black. It also has a lizard-like tail.

The whole squad was quick to put up their guard and prepare for an attack.

"Is it a Trion soldier!? I've never seen one like it before."

Loud sounds could be heard coming from the distance.

Azuma took notice of this.

"We can't just stare at each other like this. We're too close..."

"Azuma-san, to fight the other! We'll take this-..."

"Okudera!"

"!"

Okudera quickly turned around and jumped back just in time to dodge a punch from this new Trion soldier. He couldn't do much though as the same arm came back and swatted Okudera away like an insect.

Okudera flew threw multiple buildings, destroying each one, before finally stopping once he didn't have enough force to his forced flight.

"Okudera! Respond!"

"I... I'm fine... I think.."

Koarai didn't take kindly to seeing his teammate get send flying and jumped up with his sword ready to strike.

"Koarai, don't! It wants us to split up! Wait until Okudera comes back!"

It was too late though.

This new Trion soldier that had swatted Okudera away like a bug grabbed Koarai before his attack could connect, it smashed him into the nearby wall afterwards.

"Let go, you...!"

Koarai tried to free himself by stabbing into the new Trion soldier.

It grabbed his arms.

As easily as taking apart a plastic doll, the new Trion soldier pulled with little effort and ripped Koarai's arms off.

The new Trion soldier's chest opened up with six insect leg-like tentacles folded out and circle around its newly captured prey.

"Koarai!"

Azuma brought up his gun and fired a shot from the most powerful Sniper rifle - the Ibis.

It had no effect when the new Trion soldier soldier brought up its arm to block.

"AAAAAHHH! AZUMA-SAN!"

Thinking quickly, Azuma lifted his Ibis once again. This time, however, instead of aiming at the new Trion soldier, he aimed at his own teammate and fired.

Trion body limit exceeded. Bail Out.

Koarai quickly turned into light before flying off towards the Border base and landing on the mat in Azuma Squad's room.

Azuma kept his rifle up in order to defend himself. He started to speak while keeping an eye on the new Trion soldier.

"Shinoda-san, Azuma here! We've encountered a new type of Trion soldier! It's over three meters tall. A bipedal humanoid. Small, but powerful! It's trying to capture out agents. Everyone take caution. Over."


It didn't take too long for the agents at a certain school to end it.

Kotowari Takeshi, Toby Awdry and Midorikawa Shun had taken out the Trion so,doers that had surrounded their school. It wasn't too hard for them, but they had to use Trion that could have been better spend.

They gathered together as orders came in.

"So there's a new model, huh? Sounds interesting," Midorikawa said as he looked around. "Looks like we need to regroup to take them all out."

"Go on ahead, Shun," Toby said with a small sigh.

"We'll go see how the evacuation is going. After that we'll regroup as told. You need to go and get together with other A-Ranks."

Takeshi looked around with a careful eye, but still didn't find anything. Three green orbs floated around his head like guards protecting an important person.

"Alright. You two try not to get beat by those new models."

With that, Midorikawa took his leave with a wave.

"That mutt. Who does he think we are?" Takeshi got a thoughtful expression on his face as he put a hand on his chin. "But they did manage to take out someone from the Azuma Squad, and Azuma-san himself is saying to be cautious... They must be dangerous then..."

"Ah, don't worry about, Take! We're different from other squads."

Toby patted Takeshi on the back, yet he also felt a little worried about what could happen.

"When we regroup with Yuki and Suzume we'll help out around, so no need to worry."

"Don't forget, Yuki-senpai is an A-Rank now. He won't be helping us out as he wants."

"Oh, whatever. We can still handle-"

KRAKL

The two froze for a second before slowly turning around. That's when they saw a bipedal creature with features different from anything they had seen before. It was a Trion soldier that had a bulky build, with wide shoulders and long, large arms with three fingers and no thumbs, and also short but thick legs which end on long two-toed feet. It had a long neck ending in a head roughly resembling a rabbit head. The interior of its mouth was black and it had a green eye inside. It also had black stripes running through its shoulders until its hands, with black shield-like shapes in the sides of its shoulders, and the sides of its torso are also black. It also has a lizard-like tail.

Then could easily tell that it was the new model they were told about and got ready to fight.

Takeshi shot out five beams while Toby ran forward with Scorpions covering his body.

The new model dodged the beams and rushed at Toby. It landed a punch on the brunet and didn't seem fazed by the blades. It quickly rushed at Takeshi, ready for another strike.

Takeshi took one of his hands out his pocket and out it in front of himself. Another orb appeared, but this one just stayed in one place. He jumped back just as the New Model came in contact with the orb.

The orb exploded and caught the new model in it, yet even that didn't seem to effect it much as it continued towards Takeshi.

Seeing the attack coming, he quickly teleported behind the new model as it passed by where he was.

He let out more beams as Toby came up from the side with a single Scorpion in his hand.

The new model blocked the attack from Toby and brought up both it's arms to block the beams.

It started moving forward while blocking the beams.

When it felt that the beams were starting to break it apart, it moved to the side, letting the beams hit the building.

Toby managed to teleport to its underside and land a slash on its stomach area before being slammed to the ground the one of its arms. He didn't have time to get up as it grabbed him by the head with a tight grip.

He couldn't see, so he couldn't use Teleport.

The new model's mid-section opened up and six insect leg-like tentacles came out and went for Toby.

"Crap!"

Takeshi shot out more beams, but they were just deflected by the New Model as it continued what it was doing.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

"!?"

Takeshi went a little wide eyed when he saw the new model let go of Toby and jump away so it didn't get its eye destroyed by some shots. He ran over to check on Toby before looking over to see a girl standing there with her legs shaking and a pistol in her hand.

The girl was their age with black hair. Her overal appearance was that of a princess from a fairy tale. Even as she wore the standard C-Rank uniform she looked rather beautiful. She was Taiyōko Hoshi.

The new model changed his target from the two B-Ranks to the C-Rank who seemed too scared to move at the moment. It charged at her while dodging the beams Takeshi had shot out.

"Taiyōko, move!"

"Trigger on!"

Someone came down from above and tried to land a hit on the new model, but it blocked the attack.

The person jumped back and stood in front of Hoshi.

"...Sensei..."

A man stood there with a Kōgetsu in his hand. His attire was a gray track suit with white and black lining. This older-lookin man was the teacher of Takeshi, Toby and Hoshi - Akasora Chishi.

"I know I said I would help out with the evacuation but Taiyōko here decided to come and help you two out. Not to mention you two were seeming to have a hard time."

The look in his eyes turned hard and he looked at the New Model. This seemed to have a great effect as the New Model took a step back.

"It's a teacher's job to help and protect his students, so I hope you don't mind if I joined in the fight for a little bit, Masafumi."

"Not at all. I just hope you didn't get rusty."

"So insulting. Oh well."

Akasora started to walk forward while the new model found its new target and started running towards Akasora.

"Senku Kōgetsu."

The two got closer to each other.

Akasora continued to walk forward.

In a single instant, that none of the students could actually see, the new model was sliced into five pieces. Its arms were at its side, its legs were under it and its head and mid-section lay on the ground.

Akasora stopped walking and looked down at the new model.

"Don't go after my students, you damn thing."

Takeshi and Toby just looked at their teacher with wide eyes.

They had never seen him do something like this. His movements were far beyond what they had seen Yuki do. So much so that they weren't able to follow his movements at all.

"Man... Maybe I am getting a little rusty," Akasora said as he moved his arms.

"Nicely done, Chishi. You may not be in Border anymore, but I need you to-"

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Just leave it to me."

Akasora let out a sigh as he turned to his students. He saw they had awestruck expression and let out a sheepish laugh.

"I said I was in Border... Never said I didn't keep a Trigger."

"That was amazing, Sensei. I figured you were strong, but this..."

Takeshi wasn't too sure on what to say, so he just trailed off.

"Like I said, Masafumi and I are good friends. Not to mention that I was the one to train both your captain and Oper... Ah... Opps. Guess I'm not suppose to tell you that... Sorry."

He got a serious look on his face that made the three of them also get serious.

"Taiyōko, you need to get back and help with the evacuation. Kotowari, Awdry, you two should go regroup. If you come across any more of the new model, just run until you meet up with someone else."

"Yes, Sir!"

"Um... Sensei... What are you going to do?" Hoshi asked, looking at her teacher nervously.

"I'm gonna go help out as well. Now let's get going."


"Looks like this area is clear now..."

Mei looked over the destroyed area with Neighbors here and there with.

"Maybe I did go a little overboard... Oh well."

She stood up from the new model she was crouching on and jumped down before walking away.

"I should go find Yuki before he causes even more damage than me."