Edited 27/6/17: Correcting spelling and grammar errors. Also, Linimal should be Liminal, only just realised this after 11 chapters, oops.


It had been a week since Blare and Kasumi joined MON's Bravo squad, and things were progressing smoothly. The squad had spent most of the past week training alongside Squad Alpha, and everything was going great. Well, except that Blare and Kasumi were still cautious of one another for the most part, but their joint punishment provided by their human squad captain was quite the bonding experience, despite the horrors that the internet provided. Still, the squad mates got on well enough for the team to function properly.

In that time, Yuuto had managed to follow up some leads involving a group of goblins, led by a hobgoblin, that were stealing cars and motorcycles in the Shibuya Ward of Tokyo, though there was also human involvement. It seemed that the criminals had organised a vehicle black market in one of the more run-down areas of Shibuya, and it was up to MON to stop them. Both Alpha and Bravo squad were assigned to the task, seeing as this was going to be Bravo squad's first official deployment, and that they had no idea how many people were involved in this black market. Feeling that there would be more humans involved than they initially planned for, Kuroko decided to involve herself in the operation personally, as well as have police back-up if needed. She had plenty of combat training, plus she wanted to see how Squad Bravo would fare on the field.


It was the middle of the night when they commenced the operation, and the team found themselves at a large run-down warehouse, the building that was being used to house the stolen vehicles. At the back entrance, two human thugs were stationed to guard it, both armed with an AK-47.

'This job fucking blows, why do we have to stand guard?' The short, black-haired man complained audibly to his partner.

''Someone's got to keep an eye out for the cops. The boss has a good deal going with those midgets, and he doesn't want anything to put a stop to that.'' The taller brown-haired human replied to the other man's grumbling.

''But this part of town is fucking dead! What's the point in standing out here when there's no fucker to- ''

Their conversation was cut short as the pair were hit with tranquilizer darts simultaneously and fell to the ground, rendered unconscious. From either side of the gap in the fence only thirty feet away from the back entrance, Kuroko and Yuuto came around the corner, armed with silenced tranquilizer guns, accompanied by both Kasumi and Doppel, all wearing the MON uniform, apart from the nude doppelganger. Yuuto had finally had his stitches removed from the cut he sustained when he fought Gaku Takahashi, and it left a small scar under his right eye. The small group made their way to the door as Kuroko and Yuuto shifted the unconscious thugs out the way.

''Can't remember the last time I got my hands dirty like this.'' The raven-haired woman reminisced with a smile on her face as she bound the short man's hands behind his back.

'You don't seem to be all that upset by that statement.'' The blonde agent replied with a hint of sarcasm as he did the same to the taller thug.

'You wound me, Bishie-kun.' Kuroko retorted in mock disgust, brushing her long ponytail to one side. ''I'll have you know I'd rather do this than be confined to my office doing paperwork any day.''

''Don't you already shovel off all your paperwork to the rest of us?'' Doppel voiced her complaint with a wry smile before receiving a light chop to the head from her superior.

'At least it distracts you from pulling pranks in the office.' The human woman replied in an annoyed tone.

During the short exchange, Kasumi was examining the lock on the door, her face expressionless the whole time.

'Kasumi, you think you can break in without alerting anyone.' Yuuto asked the empusa as she continued to stare at the lock.

''Shouldn't be a problem, Senpai. This is nothing for a trained Shinobi.'' The ninja replied flatly as she pulled a lock-picking kit from one of her pouches. She then proceeded to fiddle the lock with her tools as Kuroko got in contact with the rest of the team.

'This is Raven to Walker, come in Walker.' She transmitted down the comms through her earpiece.

'Walker here.' Zombina replied in a hushed tone. 'Titan, Cerberus, and I are ready to breach on your order.' The zombie, as well as Tio and Blare were waiting just outside, ready to siege the building.

'Confirmed.' Kuroko replied before contacting Manako. 'Observer, do you copy?'

'Observer here.' The monoeye replied in a meek tone. ''I'm in position and ready to fire on your command.''

'Roger that. All units, stand by.' She concluded before returning her attention to Doppel. ''Alright Copycat, you're up.''

'Fine, fine. Hold your horses.' The doppelganger replied as her long, silver head started wrapping around her body.

In mere moments, Doppel took on the form of a young girl with short red hair and blue eyes, long pointed ears with a looped earring pierced part way up her left ear, and two large horned sticking up through her hair. She was wearing a messy white t-shirt with blue overalls worn on top, as well as a pair of brown work boots.

''That oughta do it.'' Doppel said in a snarky high-pitched voice, full of confidence.

''It's a good thing we apprehended that Gozlin girl beforehand. Should make infiltration a lot smoother.'' Yuuto replied, still amazed at how the shapeshifter could effortlessly change form, and even perfectly replicate someone's personality and mannerisms.

'Yeah, your squad did a great job tracking her down.' Kuroko said, just as Kasumi succeeded in unlocking the door.

''We're in.'' Kasumi stated as she pushed the door open, and took a moment to scan the room beyond it.

Beyond the doorway, was a small break room, with chairs and table scattered about, with a counter top at the left side of the room.

'All clear.' The empusa stated before the team made their way in.

''I'll go on ahead.'' The disguised Doppel said as she made her way further into the warehouse.

The doppelganger ventured further in, until she reached the auto shop proper. It had several cars, either raised on service lifts or grounded as they were worked on by a fair number of goblin men and a few human mechanics. Just past the auto shop, several other cars and motorcycles were parked in an internal storage area, with several armed humans and goblins keeping watch on their stolen goods. In the far corner of the auto shop, A black-haired human dressed in green cargo pants and a black hoodie, was talking to a tanned-skinned hobgoblin, who stood at least a foot taller than all the goblins under his command. The hobgoblin had dark crimson hair and beard, and deep green eyes, wearing blue overalls that was covered in oil and grease. Apart from being taller than the goblins around him, he was also far more muscular and toned in general, and the average goblin was quite strong compared to humans already. This was one liminal that was not to be taken lightly.

'You want what?!' The human exclaimed in disbelief.

''You heard me, Kai. My boys do all the heavy liftin' around 'ere, so a 70/30 cut seems more than reasonable.'' The hobgoblin replied with a grin on his face.

''Don't fuck with me, Harik! You midgets would still be peddling shitty trinkets if not for me!'' Kai responded, still infuriated by the hobgoblin's terms.

Suddenly, Harik raised his arm and slammed it into the nearby work bench, effortlessly crushing it under his immense strength, which caused the human to flinch, all anger replaced with shock and fear.

''I don't think you have much say in the matter now.'' Harik continued as he lifted his arm from the remains of the work bench.

Doppel made her way to the pair, now convinced that they were the people in charge of this smuggling operation. During that time, Kuroko, Yuuto, and Kasumi moved into position, out of sight of the criminals until they were ready to spring the trap. As Doppel closed the distance, Harik turned to face her with a perverse look on his face.

''Well, ain't it my best girl.'' He said with a massive grin plastering his face. 'What took you so long?' The hobgoblin continued as he put his arm around his 'so-called' lover's waist.

''Had to make sure I wasn't bein' tailed, Boss.'' The fake Gozlin replied, internally feeling disgusted by the hobgoblin's BO.

''Damn humans think they can dictate our way of life, but we'll show 'em, Babe.'' He said as he placed his hand on her ass.

Doppel gave a slight nod to signal she was ready to strike. With that, Kuroko made the call.

'Breach.'

Without warning, a small explosion came from one of the walls in the storage area. As the dust settled, the armoured figure of Tio strode through the hole with her riot shields raised. Close behind her, Zombina and Blare followed, rushing in to help their comrade.

'THE FUCK WAS THAT?!' Harik shouted before realising that he had long strands of silver hair wrapped around him.

He looked back to see that his lover had transformed into a short dark-skinned woman with golden irises and black sclera. She had a smirk on her face as her hair tightened around the hobgoblin.

'Have a nice trip~.' Doppel said in a sing song tone as she used her silver locks to hurl the hobgoblin into one of the cars behind them.

Harik landed hard in the back seat of the white Saab 9-3 convertible, dazed by the force of the landing. Meanwhile, Kuroko and Yuuto moved in and started taking down the armed humans that had made their way into the auto shop with their tranquilizer guns. Kasumi had started neutralizing some of the armed goblins with her bolases from the ceiling of the auto shop.

'The hell is this?!' Kai exclaimed at the doppelganger in a panicked state, in which she responded by transforming some of her hair into a blade and pointed it at the man.

'You stay right there, I had to put up with getting groped to get to you.' Doppel replied, a smirk still evident on her face.

Just then, several goblins leapt on top of her in an attempt to subdue the doppelganger.

'Got you now, Changeling!' One of the goblins exclaimed victoriously.

While Doppel was distracted, Kai used the chance to escape and made his way to the convertible Harik landed in.

'Get the fuck off me!' Doppel yelled as she used her hair to ensnare the goblins, and throw them across the room.

Without delay, Kai started the car and drove off into the storage area.

'Link! Go after them!' Kuroko shouted as she took down another thug. 'Shadow and I can handle things here!'

'You expect me to keep up with a car?!' Yuuto yelled at his superior.

''We've got back-up coming, trust me!''

'Right…' He responded before making his way out the warehouse.


Moments earlier…

''Heh, it's like a shooting gallery in here!'' Zombina yelled at the top of her lungs, enjoying every second of the fire fight with the goblins.

The zombie was laying down fire against the goblins in the storage area, taking them down with rubber bullets. Tio closed the distance with a small group and smashed her shield into the ground, sending them flying. Blare was in a middle of a mob of goblins, swatting them with her claws as they closed in on her, sending them flying into the nearby cars. The last goblin standing was about to strike her with a wench, when she swatted it out of his hands, before placing a clawed hand around his head, and slammed it into the ground.

'Nighty night!' The hellhound exclaimed, panting after the frantic fight.

Suddenly, her ears twitched as she heard a car engine revving. She looked to the side to see a car racing towards her. In an instant, she leapt to the side, with the goblin in hand, narrowly avoiding getting hit by the vehicle barrelling through the storage area and out through the open shutters.

'Holy crap that was close!' Blare shouted, just as Yuuto came racing into the storage area.

'Cerberus! You okay?!' He yelled as he made his way to her.

''I'm fine, but that asshole is getting away!'' She replied to her squad captain, pissed off that she nearly got run over.

'Alright, stay here and help the others.' He said calmly before getting in touch with Manako through his earpiece. 'Observer, do you have an eye on a white Saab convertible?'

''Affirmative, it just broke through the police barricade, and it's heading south towards the shopping district. Unable to get a shot from my current position though.'' She replied meekly.

'This is Condor, I have eyes on the target.' The voice of a young woman came through full of confidence. 'Commencing pursuit.'

'This is Neith, on route to your location, E.T.A thirty seconds.' Another woman called through in a reserved manner. 'Link, rendezvous with me outside the front entrance.'

'Copy that, Neith.' Yuuto responded, thankful for the sudden back up as he ran towards the designated rendezvous point.

As he reached the roadside, he heard a motorbike engine blaring in the distance. Not long after, the vehicle turned the corner and raced towards his location. The motorbike ground to a halt in front of him, and he saw that the rider was wearing the yellow and black MON bodysuit, though her jacket only had short sleeves, and her arms from the elbow down were covered in bandages, with patches of lightly tanned skin showing through the gaps in the wrapping. She was also wearing a crash helmet which obscured her features from him.

'Get on.' She asked in an impatient tone as she revved the engine of her bike.

Yuuto merely nodded as he got on behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. Satisfied, the rider, only known as Neith, revved up the bike again and sped off down the road that the criminals had gone.

''Smith didn't mention you or Condor in the team briefing.'' The blonde agent said, trying to satisfy his curiosity.

''She was expecting them to attempt a getaway. That's why we're here.'' The woman explained as she raced down the deserted street to catch up with their target. ''At least we get to see some action now.'' She continued with a hint of satisfaction.

'Fair enough. I take it you got a plan to stop them?'

The rider nodded silently as she raised a hand, and miraculously, the bandages around her arm came to life as they seem to slither and coil around her appendage.

''I'm a mummy if you haven't already guessed.'' Neith stated pridefully as her bandages became still.

''Okay, that's pretty cool.'' Yuuto complimented her, impressed by her abilities.

'Flattery will get you nowhere.' She replied in a playful tone, which caused Yuuto to blush in embarrassment.

''Anyway, where's Condor at?'' The human decided to change the subject before he could get teased again.

'Look up.'

At her request, Yuuto did so. It was hard to see anything in the night sky, but her did vaguely make out the shape of what looked like a large bird. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the figure was also wearing the MON bodysuit. He could tell that the agent was a Harpy, most likely that of the Raptor subspecies.

''Eyes up front, Link. We're going in hot.'' Neith said in a commanding tone to get his attention.

Yuuto looked forward, seeing that they already caught up with the white Saab convertible with Kai and Harik in it.

He reached for his earpiece. 'Condor, Neith and I are about to make contact with the target. Prepare to engage.'

''Copy that, Link. Those idiots won't see me coming.'' Condor responded in a prideful tone.

Back in the car, Harik regained consciousness to find himself laid flat in the back of one of the stolen cars, currently being driven by Kai at dangerously high speeds.

''The fuck is goin' on?'' He asked the human groggily.

'Fucking feds found us out!' Kai shouted as he narrowly avoided a few oncoming cars. 'Those shit stains are on our tail now!'

The hobgoblin looked back and saw a motorbike pursuing them.

'Not for long.' Harik said with a sinister grin as he pulled out an assault rifle that was conveniently left in the back seat of the car.

'Hold on tight!' Neith warned her passenger, getting ready to start evasive manoeuvres.

Suddenly, several bandages shot from her jacket and wrapped themselves tight around Yuuto and pulled him close to her, causing him to gasp in surprise. As Harik began to open fire, she swerved from side to side, narrowly avoiding the storm of bullets being fired at them, Yuuto holding on to the mummy for dear life. The gun fire stopped as the hobgoblin had to reload his rifle. Noticing this, Yuuto radioed to Condor once again.

''Condor! Target is reloading! You're good to go!''

As Harik was reloading, a shadow loomed over him. He looked up, only to see a yellow talon lunge towards his face.

'AAAAHHHHHH!'

Hearing the scream of the hobgoblin, Kai glanced at the rear-view mirror and saw a young woman stood atop Harik. She had short silver hair and azure blue eyes, and had large grey wings with black primary feathers, covered in black and white spots, as well two large yellow talons with black claws for legs. She was wearing a yellow and black sleeveless bodysuit, with zips on the sides of the jacket and the trousers. She looked up at the rear-view mirror to meet his gaze, her eyes filled with fury. The man's heart skipped a beat before the woman took off with Harik in claw. In that time, Neith was able to pull alongside the car. Once she matched her speed with the car, she raised her arm and shot bandages to it to secure themselves next to it. Before Kai could react to them, Yuuto raised his tranquilizer gun at the man and shot him. As the man lost consciousness, Neith unravelled the bandages from around him, allowing the agent to jump into the car.

''Hold it steady, I'm getting him out the driver's seat!'' Yuuto shouted from the back seat, to which the mummy merely nodded at him.

Neith wrapped more bandages around the vehicle as Yuuto pulled the criminal out the driver's seat, into the back seat, before taking the front seat and grabbed the steering wheel.

'You good?!'

'Yeah, you can let go now.'

With that, Neith unravelled the bandages from the car. Once separated, Yuuto slammed on the brakes and brought the vehicle to a halt. The mummy made a U-turn and made her way back to Yuuto and pulled up next to him.

'Nice work, Neith. That was some sick driving there.' Yuuto complimented the mummy.

Once parked, Neith pulled her helmet off, as long, silky raven hair dropped down to the small of her back, and strips of linen bandages covered her face, apart from her mouth and her deep green eyes which stared back at his.

'Thanks. But please, call me Raia.' The mummy replied with a smirk as she stretched her hand towards him.

''Sure thing, Raia, I'm Yuuto Kazama.'' He said grasping her hand with his.

'LET ME DOWN, YOU BITCH!'

Yuuto and Raia let go of each other as they saw Harik being carried towards them by the silver-haired raptor harpy.

''Well, if you're sure.'' The harpy replied with a sinister grin.

Condor flew over the car and dropped the hobgoblin from a twenty foot drop into the back seat of the car on top of the unconscious human, before making a sharp turn back to the car, and landed softly on the front passenger seat.

'Hey, Yuuto was it? Do you mind shutting that guy up for me?' She asked the blonde agent with a look of annoyance on her face.

''Oh, you're gonna pay for this, you piece of chicken sh- '' Harik was interrupted from finishing his threat as a tranquilizer dart embedded itself into his neck.

'Alright, Harik. Be nice and stay quiet for a while.' Yuuto said in a teasing tone with his tranquilizer gun pointed at the hobgoblin.

'You… Motherfu…' The drugs finally took effect as Harik lost consciousness and fell on top of Kai in the back seat.

''Aww, don't those deadbeats look cute together.'' Raia said sarcastically.

'Thanks for that, Hotshot.' Condor said to Yuuto while giving him a wink.

'No problem, he was doing my head in too.' He replied as he holstered his gun. 'I should be thanking you for getting him off our backs earlier.'

''No biggie. The name's Kesrtia by the way, but you can call me Kes.'' She replied as she stretched her wings up to loosen her muscles.

'As in Kestrel? I thought I recognised that wing pattern somewhere.' Yuuto responded as he looked her wings over.

''Heh, didn't take you for an ornithologist.'' Kestria teased the human with a smirk on her face.

'Hey, you two can flirt later once this job is over. Smith is probably waiting for us at the warehouse.' Raia interrupted the pair with a mischievous smile on her face.

Yuuto's face flushed red while Kestria lowered her wings and giggled to herself.

'Right, you take the lead, Raia.' He replied as he recomposed himself.

With that, the mummy put her helmet back on and raced off the way they came. Yuuto made a U-turn and sped off after her, while his harpy passenger turned on the radio to alleviate their stressful car chase.

'You like Visual Kei?' Kestria asked the human.

''I don't mind, have what you want on.''


Sometime later, back outside the warehouse, Smith had gathered Yuuto, Raia, and Kestria, while the other MON agents were rounding up the goblins, and the police were arresting the human criminals.

''Bishie-kun, I'd like you to meet your new squad mates.'' Kuroko said with a massive grin as she gestured towards the mummy and raptor harpy standing next to her.

''Didn't we have a conversation about letting me know about important things in advance not one week ago?'' Yuuto asked with a pained expression on his face and an annoyed tone to his voice.

'Oh, come now. You know how busy I get with all the homestays to manage and paperwork to fill out, not to mention managing all the MON agents.' She replied in a cheery tone, which only served to annoy the young man even more. 'Anyway, Officer Ogawa just arrived. I need to go tell him how we did his job for him again. See you later.' With that, Kuroko walked off, leaving Yuuto and his new squad mates to stare at her in disbelief.

'I swear she does this just to wind me up…' The blonde agent trailed off as he hung his head in defeat.

''C'mon, Hotshot. At least you've got a couple more badasses to help you out.'' Kestria replied with a cheeky grin as she nudged her elbow into the human's side.

''Well, I can't complain about that.'' He responded as he lifted his head up to meet her gaze.

Suddenly, Yuuto felt several strips of linen bandages wrap around his waist, before being tugged backwards into the grasp of a certain mummy, who draped her arms over his shoulders, and pressed her cheek against his.

''No need to act all shy around us, Medjay. We're practically family now.'' Raia whispered seductively into his ear, as she pressed her breasts against his back.

'Seriously, why do I get given all the weird nicknames?' Yuuto thought to himself as his cheeks burnt bright red.

'Raia, do you have to cling to our new captain in public like that, or are you that desperate for attention?' The harpy asked teasingly to her.

''Kes, I haven't felt the warmth of a man in nearly four millennia. Cut an undead girl some slack.'' She replied as the bandages around Yuuto tightened.

''Hey, do you mind loosening up a bit? I can't breathe.'' The human said as his face slowly turned blue.

'Oh, sorry.' Raia's face turned red with embarrassment as her bandages uncoiled from Yuuto and let him go.

'Thanks for that.' He replied weakly as he tried to catch his breath.

'Senpai, you seem to be very popular with liminal women.'

The trio looked to their right as they saw Kasumi staring at them expressionlessly. Behind her, Blare was running towards the group, shouting something about being left out.

'I just wish I knew why.' Yuuto replied before sighing to himself.

'I could think of a few reasons.' Kestria stated in a sultry voice.

Blare finally reached the group, her flame lashes flickering to life upon seeing Raia and Kestria. 'New squad mates?' She questioned Yuuto with an annoyed look on her face.

'Blare, Kasumi, meet Raia and Kestria.' He replied while pointing his thumbs at the mummy and harpy respectively.

'Sup.' Kestria said while waving a wing at the hellhound and empusa pair.

'Hope we get along.' Raia said with a curt nod.

''It's a pleasure to meet you both, I hope we get on well.'' Kasumi replied with a smile and a bow.

'Yeah, yeah, nice to meetcha…' Blare said unenthusiastically.

'Blare?' Yuuto said, not impressed with her half-hearted introduction.

She sighed to herself before speaking up. ''Sorry, still pissed about nearly getting run over earlier. If Stud says you're alright, then I've got no problem. No hard feelings?''

''Don't worry about it, Blare.'' Raia said with a sincere smile.

''Well, that's sorted at least.'' Yuuto said, relieved that his squad mates didn't try to rip each other apart this time round.

'Hey! Bravo!'

The group looked over to see Zombina shouting and waving at them.

''Smith says we're done for tonight! You guys can head back now!''

'Thanks Zee!' Yuuto shouted as he turned to his squad. ''You heard the lady. Let's head home.''

With that, the squad headed off towards their transport home, another job well done.


A/N: And here's a double whammy of new OC's, the oh so popular Raptor Harpy, and the somewhat elusive Mummy with the ability to manipulate her own bandages. Had to have an excuse to add a character that likes bondage, but without her having to be an arachne, not that I have a problem with them, just wanted something different. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed the new chapter. Follow/favourite/review/suggest ideas if you wish to do so, and thank you all for reading.