Qualidea Code 99 Commence
Theme song for Commence: AGAIN - Yui

/WARNING, Violence & gore./

Maihime yawned as she stretched and walked out of the room, feeling tired. She was rubbing her eyes as she walked to the kitchen, "Morning..." She said as the voice of a girl replied back to her, "Good morning, Hime.". Maihime's eyes widened at the sight of Hotaru having some tea in the dining room. "W-What are you doing...? W-Why are you here? I thought.." Maihime became slightly delusional and mad for a moment as she then ran back into her room to check her calendar and saw that it was the 20th of May instead of it being 5th of August. She would run through the pile of clothes and her cupboards and dressers to find her phone and as she did, there was no picture of Shan and her together. "Hime..? Are you alright?" Hotaru asked as she was worried about Maihime while she was standing in front of Maihime's room.

"Was it all a dream..?" Maihime mumbled to herself as Hotaru tilted her head in confusion as Maihime would then turn to Hotaru and yelled, "Tell me, who is Shan V. Merkava?!", Hotaru was in shock as she was worried about Maihime, but she spoke as she was ordered to and replied, "Shan V. Merkava is a killer of the worlds and is the most powerful man that had existed, he was in our history textbooks, why do you ask?". Maihime got quiet slightly as she scrunched her hands into fists as she then closed the door shut in front of Hotaru and changed into her uniform. In a few minutes time, Maihime walked out of the apartment quickly, "H-Hime! What about-...Breakfast..?" before Hotaru could finish her sentence, Maihime ran out of the apartment quickly. "Was I having a dream for that long or was I hallucinating?! Or did time went back on its own?!" Maihime thought to herself as she was walking around Kanagawa as she looked really angry.

Outside of Umihotaru, Shan was at the spot where he first appeared as he specifically remembered the train coming by as Shan would then jump up to the roof of Umihotaru and look at the city and noticed the armored train was heading to the city. "An altered timeline? Excellent, now that time and space has been altered, the death of Utara Canaria has been confirmed recently, so now Ichiya Suzaku should not have the will to fight." Shan said as his bright green eyes glared into the city, "You think the Queen would still remember you?" Sakamato asked as Shan nodded, knowing that Maihime would remember him. "Have you located the Unknown hive?" Shan asked as Sakamoto replied back, "Yes my Lord, we have successfully eradicated all of the Unknown within the time of 13 hours of battling, their numbers were great but they were still no match for us." Sakamoto said as Shan smirked, "Good, now return back to the Spirit realm and inform everyone, and I mean everyone that we will be attacking the three cities tonight. We're gonna have an all out invasion that no man has ever seen or heard of before in their life," Shan said as Sakamoto then flew up into the air with her strike and disappeared into the clouds.

"Asuha-chan! Kasumi!" Maihime yelled as she was running towards them as the students of Chiba were exiting the armored train. "What's up, Ohime-chin?" Asuha asked as she was sucking on a lollipop, "H-Have you seen Shan-chan? Or a tall young man with dark pink eyes and white hair?" Maihime asked as she was breathing heavily from running as Asuha shook her head, not knowing who Maihime meant, it was then the short white haired girl got teary as tears started flowing down her cheeks, Asuha began worrying a little with Kasumi as well. A few hours had passed as it was evening, Maihime felt depressed, knowing that everyone only knew Shan as a myth or a legend from the history textbook. Hotaru and Asuha were trying to cheer Maihime up as they were in the council tower with Kasumi as well but with Ichiya nowhere to be found there. "Well, I'm sorry to say this but maybe you should read less of those Mangas you kids like to read so much." Asanagi stated as Maihime was enraged with what Asanagi said as she got up from her set and wanted to attack Asanagi but was pulled down by Hotaru and Asuha. It was then the alarm could be heard as all of the quickly get ready for war but after 30 minutes of waiting, nothing came to attack them as the moon could be seen and everyone thought it was a false alarm.

The streetlights from the bridge were destroyed as everyone could feel the tremor of something approaching, along with the sound of monsters roaring, screeching and breathing heavily, this then worried the students as they thought the Unknown became somewhat more vicious but they then heard screeching and roaring from the skies as well as there was lightning flashing within the clouds as roars of thunders could be heard. Millions of Strike Witches were flying around the city buildings, harassing the students with their speed and numbers. Kasumi then gave the command of the Chiba students to attack at will as Hotaru led the students of Tokyo in replacement of Ichiya and attacked the witches along with the Tokyo students. Maihime and the other Kanagawa students looked at the dark bridge and could not see or detect anything but it was then, giant crocodiles and salamanders appeared from the edges of the roads that were close to the sea and started attacking the students. The students were afraid but they forced their way and attacked the amphibians, as it was then, hundreds to thousands of dinosaurs came out of the darkness of the bridge, crushing some of the students, biting their bodies off. This alone was a full scale attack by Shan's army as he was standing on the roof of Umihotaru, watching everyone fight as the Symphogear users were standing beside him as he would then jump down the building and run straight into the the city with the users.

"Why the hell are there dinosaurs and witches attacking us?!" Asuha asked as she yelled loudly and noticed her brother was pinned down by a Velociraptor as Asuha then shot its head and helped her brother up. "Those witches belong to Shan-chan, then maybe the dinosaurs too...?" Maihime said as she noticed multi coloured lights from the darkness of the bridge as it was Shan and the Symphogear users. "Hime! How are you?" Shan asked as he got close to Maihime as the girl would then hug him tightly, "What is going and what happened? Why can't no one remember you?" Maihime asked as she was worried as Shan then looked down at Maihime but did not smile but patted her head, "This is a restart of time, this city will never survive on its own without the help of the Cretaceous Army, you should know that there will be an end." Shan said to Maihime as she just closed her eyes and nodded, it was then Shan's head was pierced by a sword as it was Hotaru who stabbed Shan right in the head. "H-Hotaru-chan?!" Maihime yelled as was confused greatly. Shan did not flinch or twitch as he grabbed the sword with his hands and pulled it out of his head and tossed Hotaru and her sword to the side as the wound on Shan's head then healed as the man would then look at the Symphogear users and pointed right at Hotaru, then all of the male and female Symphogear users then charged towards Hotaru and started beating her up but Hotaru managed to counter all of the Symphogear users except Kazanari Tsubasa.

"Let her come to me then, Tsubasa." Shan said as Tsubasa bowed to him and took a few steps back as Hotaru ran and jumped towards Shan as her body was badly wounded and she was injured but before the tip of her sword could hit Shan's face, Shan's mechanical claw tail grabbed Hotaru's face as the girl was struggling to get out of his grip. "Hime, I would do anything for you as I love you more than the world itself, would you please stay by my side as I promised to stay by yours." Shan said to Maihime as the young short girl fell for him like the first day they met as her face was bright red as she would then tip toe up to Shan as the man would then squat down to her slightly and they kissed on the lips gently. "Then I'll join you but let everyone else live, if you can promise me that.", Maihime stated as she looked up at him as Shan would then nod slowly and threw Hotaru down lightly as then look to the side and noticed Asuha and Kasumi were standing and watching as their eyes were bright green. "Excellent work Sakamoto. Now let's all retreat and head back home." Shan said to Sakamoto as she would then alert everyone as a giant portal appeared in front of Hotaru but she was too injured to even crawl or speak out to Maihime, The whole army of witches and dinosaurs then went inside the portal along with the symphogear users and a few of the students who were killed during this battle had their wounds healed and their eyes were turned green, they then followed Shan into the portal as Maihime was holding his hand as she looked back at Hotaru and smiled and waved goodbye to her, as they all disappeared, Ichiya arrived and noticed a few survivors as he went to Hotaru and helped her up. "Rindou! Rindou! What happened?!" Ichiya asked but Hotaru passed out as he noticed more than 70% of the students of all three cities had, were gone and there only a few left as he also noticed Asuha and Kasumi, along with Maihime were gone. "What the hell is going on..?" Ichiya said to himself quietly..

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