CHAPTER 12

WARNING: There will be Hentai! If you are uncomfortable, then skip tot he next section of the story.


Two days have already passed since the Wedding Panic, as the event was called on the news, had occurred. The remaining members of the Sarashiki family eventually recovered from their ordeal and hid in the IS Academy so as to conceal their presence from those who would find them. They at least coordinated in secret with the Japanese government so as to relay the events of what had happened and what to do in terms of counterattack. A lot of their resources were gone as were their family members that became part of the massacre. But thanks to some emergency holdings and secrets known only to them, they would recover but not as fast as they would hope.

Tatenashi was soon back to her normal mood in no time but to Raiden, and to herself, she wanted to make Phantom Task pay for taking everything away. She would have her chance at revenge and most of all, she wanted to rescue her little sister and be the hero Kanzashi envisions her savior to be. At this point, Tatenashi felt that Kanzashi would only ask for her sister to come get her. There were times where she had a nightmare of her sister captured by that was quickly repelled thanks to Raiden's presence by her.
Whoever was responsible for the Wedding Panic, her wedding that was destroyed, she would make them pay a thousand times over.
Luckily for her, she would get her answer today as she and the gang ate with everyone at the cafeteria with just themselves and no one else present. Except for Chifuyu who wanted to learn about the whole ordeal.

"So…Alexei Harvard was behind it all…?" asked Raiden to his boss who spoke to him on the phone on speaker. Tatenashi remains silent but her face shows an enigmatic look, most likely hiding something beneath.

Miriam Walker, on the other side of the phone, replies, "Yes. It seems he struck a deal with Phantom Task in a coalition effort to destroy the Sarashiki Family and take over their territory."

"You want me to put a round in the son of a bitch's head?" asked Raiden.

"As much as I would like to," Miriam answers sarcastically. "But with Phantom Task crawling around the area, we do not know how many men they have at their disposal."

"Then let's just take the fight to them and drive them out!" Ichika cried.

"We can't, Orimura," Chifuyu agreed with Miriam. "If we go in right now, we could already be dead before the operation begins. I understand how you feel, but until we know the whole layout of the area, we cannot proceed. In the worst case, collateral damage would be absolute considering how the nearest city is Sapporo."

Ichika grits his teeth and tightens his fists. He hates the waiting so much considering how the one girl he helped two years ago repair relations with her sister is now captured in enemy hands. It pains him so much for him not being able to do anything.

"…As much as I hate to admit it, Orimura-sensei is right," Raiden said. "We cannot rush in blindly without knowing a full tactical network of their operations."

"This makes me lose my appetite," Laura said bitterly.

"Laura," Jackson sternly reprimanded.

"I know. I got it already," Laura said.

Raiden goes back to his private thinking.

"There's…nothing we can do…"

"Well, the food was delicious. I have some things to do in the Student Council room, so everyone please continue your meal without me," Raiden said as he gets up and walks. But is hand is soon grabbed by Tatenashi who looks at him with her normal look. Pulling him down, she whispers something in his ear.

"Tatenashi? What is it?" Raiden asked in a whisper.

I... wish to talk to you," Tatenashi hesitantly replied.

"What's with this formality?" asked Raiden who was confused.

"Talking here lacks elegance," Tatenashi said. "When you are finished, could you come to my room in your wedding outfit? Please come and entertain the notion of speaking with me. Of course...you will come, right?"

A chill runs down Raiden's spine due to Tatenashi's voluptuous smile.

"I will be waiting," Tatenashi said as she takes her leave.

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Raiden asks to himself as Houki watches, wondering what will happen.


OP song: Suara – Musouka (For reference, look up on YouTube Utawarerumono Opening)

(Four loud bangs of metal are heard in four images in red. The first being the iron tessen; the second Cecilia, Rin, Laura, and Ichika; the third Tatenashi, Charlotte, and Houki; and the fourth being Raiden as he looks frontwards to the camera)

Kodomo no koro no yume wa iroasenai rakugaki de (Like the 1st opening of Infinite Stratos, it starts with the camera viewing the water as it moves forward before it views up to see the IS Academy until a flash of white)

Omou mama kakisuberasete egaku mirai e to tsunagaru (Ichika and the girls, in their IS, fly across the sky like the 1st opening before the scene changes to Raiden looking at the sky, viewing from the IS Academy campus as the camera zooms into him before zooming out, as the camera pans upwards with the leaves before it changes scene)

(Opening title is presented as Infinite Stratos: Kingslayer)

Sumiwataru sora hateshinai hodo aoku (Raiden is viewed on the rooftop with some sake)

Mujaki na kokoro ni mitasare hikareteku (Raiden is viewed closer before he turns to look at the camera with a smile)

(Houki is shown three times in three images, each image bringing her closer to the screen)

Yagate jiyuu ni tobimawareru hane o te ni irete (Tabane is shown with holographic butterfly wings as she flies to the moon and spreads her wings out, the glitter of light coming off as the camera pans outwards while her image turns to the camera with a smile)

Muku na hitomi wa motometeku (Miriam Walker is shown for a few seconds before the camera moves closer as it shows Akane Fujimoto's back behind her)

sora no mukou e ikitai na (Ichika flies across the sky as he comes down with Yukihira Nigata SCENE CHANGE Raiden is shown activating his IS Sovereign Spirit as he points his gunblade to the camera as if giving the signal to charge)

Tomedonai negai kara (Houki slices an ATLAS as she goes through the horde, slicing and dicing with her two katana swords)

hitotsu dake kanau no nara (Cecilia, with her Starlight sniper rifle, hits a ATLAS with a butt of her rifle before turning around and firing two shots to more incoming ATLAS chasing her)

Dare ni mo yuzuritaku wa nai (Rin slices a couple ATLAS in a spin before she fires another with her Shock Cannons SCENE CHANGE Tatenashi slams to the ground with her spear stabbed as a group of ATLAS are destroyed)

yume o tsukamitai to omou yo (Laura slices another ATLAS with her wrist blades as she grabs another with her cables and flings it up SCENE CHANGE Charlotte is seen prepping her sniper rifle, ready to fire at the ATLAS thrown to her before the scene changes to a brief white screen)

Kodomo no koro no yume wa (Raiden is shown at night viewing the IS Academy as the sakura blossoms flow gently in the wind)

iroasenai rakugaki de (Tatenashi and her little sister Kanzashi are shown underneath a cherry blossom tree looking upwards to the sakura blossoms while enjoying some sake)

Itsu made mo kakitsuzukerareta (Chifuyu, Yamada-sensei, Scott Stalker, Jake Jackson, and the rest of the IS Academy students are shown in front of their school as the camera moves right to left. SCENE CHANGE The villains of the story are shown as the camera moves from the lower left corner to its opposite side, mainly Phantom Task all the way up to the main villain whose image is obscured in shadow)

negau mirai e to tsunagaru (In quick time montage scenes, the Kingslayer is shown three times as the camera pans outwards with the quick time scenes in between as the creature roars with flames decorating the background. First quick time image shows Project Akuruka, the next ancient fossilized remains of a winged and spiked lion, the last one the Eternal Throne from the Vault and the IS Sovereign Spirit sitting on it while imprisoned in crystal. The last scene ends with an image of GRIEVER unleashing the satellite weapon Amaterasu onto the Earth as all turns white)

(The camera moves upward to show Houki in her shrine maiden outfit with the iron fan in her hands as she dances with sakura petals falling as the scene fades to black with the petals still falling.)


"Katana, I'm coming in," Raiden said as he enters Tatenashi's room, which is lit by only candles and moonlight. He wore his wedding suit, which had been sewn and cleaned, not leaving a single bloodstain on.

"Katana, where are you?" asked Raiden as he looks around.

"Over here," A gentle voice calls out to Raiden as sees Tatenashi by the balcony in her wedding dress, the same one form the Wedding Panic. "I am honored by your presence, Raiden Hataru."

Raiden becomes shocked at the beauty of Tatenashi's wedding dress, especially under the moonlight. It was free of all the dirt and bloodstains shown from the massacre days ago. He had no idea who the woman in the front of him is. Tatenashi smiles coolly in the beautiful dress as she leans against the railing. Her hair sways with the breeze and the fragrant scent of woman fills the air.

She has a completely different feel from usual. Quiet, and refined. But the ruby eyes she has, the light blue hair color with the rest of her outfit say it is Katana Sarashiki.

"…Katana?" asked Raiden for confirmation.

"Would it be anyone else?" asked Tatenashi curiously.

"No, but your dress. You look..."

"Because you come to speak with me, I must dress for the occasion. Are you saying this appearance does not please you?" asked Tatenashi.

"No... you look beautiful in it," Raiden then whispers to himself. 'Almost too beautiful under the moonlight...'

Raiden clears his throat slightly while the two sit down face to face on the floor.

"So, what do you want to talk about?" asked Raiden.

"You aren't one for impatience, you know? Please relax. I have prepared some fine sake for the occasion," Tatenashi said as she holds up the bottle in her hands.

"No, I know you worked hard on it, but let's leave that for after," Raiden kindly refused. "I want to get down to business."

'Why has Katana prettied herself up like that?' asked Raiden in thought.

"I see..." said Tatenashi as she sets down the bottle. "That is right...Then I will cut to the chase. I have something to ask of you. "

"Something to ask?" asked Raiden.

"My sister has been captured by Phantom Task... I want you to rescue her."

"Rescue Kanzashi?" asked Raiden. "Why would you ask that? Is it because you know I am not for one to simply stand by and wait?"

"I do not mind if you think of it that way," Tatenashi answers.

"I understand what you are trying to ask. I want to rescue her as much as you want... But you have heard directly from Chifuyu. I can't do anything. Even though we found out where Kanzashi was, I wouldn't exactly be given the green light to go get her. And even if I did, involving everyone else will be too dangerous. I take it you understand what I mean?"

Tatenashi smiles sadly. "Yes, I understand very well. "

"I see."

"Of course, I would not think of asking such a selfish thing."

"Then what…?"

Tatenashi then decides to reveal her trump card. "I will give you my entire self."

"You would sell your body for that?" asked Raiden.

"No," Tatenashi corrected him. "I said my entire self."

Raiden was confused. "Entire?"

"From a single strand of my hair, to my last drop of blood. Even my soul."

"What are you...?"

"A pact with the Kingslayer," Tatenashi revealed, shocking Raiden a bit.

Raiden soon thinks to himself. 'A pact? With the Kingslayer? That is new to me.'

"You understand what you are saying, then? What you want out of this?" asked Raiden.

"Yes."

Raiden had no idea what to say. He did not think Tatenashi would go this far. And spring up some deal that is connected to his IS, to the Kingslayer inside of him. Just what is she going off of from this, he wondered?

"Then if I told you to take your own life, would you do it? Even if others, your sister included, disagree?" asked Raiden.

Tatenashi smiles faintly and asks, "Is that your desire, Aruji-sama?"

"No. It is not" Raiden denied before he thinks to himself.

'She is serious. If I told her to die, she would kill herself right then and there. What could make Katana so serious about something...?'

Turning his head to Tatenashi, Raiden asks, "Do you have a reason to bind yourself to it then?"

Tatenashi remains silent and composed, still bearing her smile. This was unusual for her, according to Raiden, as she always responded to any question given.

But Raiden seemed content and respected her decision well enough.

"Very well. If you are prepared to go that far... then I will grant your wish."

"Then the pact is sealed," Tatenashi concludes, but for some reason, Raiden felt unsatisfied.

"And yet... I feel as if it is somewhat incomplete," Raiden said.

"Pacts are pacts," Tatenashi said. "A pact without payment would not be a pact at all. I have no intention of receiving charity. If you intend to do this, I will never be able to repay your kindness. Please...do not shame me so..."

"As long as you understand and fully accept..." Raiden said.

Tatenashi smiles as she approaches Raiden elegantly. "Then, Aruji-sama...no, Raiden."

"Hmm?"

"Please...make me yours."

With that said, Tatenashi kisses Raiden intimately, one that showed her true feelings of true love.

This kiss felt different to Raiden, like it was a kiss that held meaning and feeling behind it. All of her other kisses were casual and nonchalant, but this felt different to him. Is this what love really felt? For some reason though, he felt hollow.

Tatenashi lets go of his lips as she bears a face that looked like she wanted to confess something.

"Raiden…" Tatenashi catches her husband's attention. "I have something to confess to you about."

"Hmm?"

Taking a deep breath, Tatenashi begins to speak of her revelation.

"Those times we have had sex before… I only did them with you because I was thinking of your needs. When you came to the Academy, I saw what was present on your face: pain and loss. I was willing to do anything to instill happiness back into you, even if it meant selling my own body for that. I was just doing what Orimura-sensei asked of me by my own methods. And yet… and yet…"

Tears begins to form on her as she buries her face in Raiden's chest.

"Whenever we had sex, I felt pleasure but also pain. Like I was betraying myself and my own femininity. No woman should ever sell her own body to a man for his pleasure, but I only did it to make you happy. However…"

Tatenashi pauses to get her bearings.

"I've seen you fight and fight, always alone and yet you never give in no matter what you face. Yet you always come back with such injuries, and not just physical. I feel like I have failed you but at the same time, I wanted to mend those wounds of yours in any way possible. I then slowly realized what it all meant when my heart ached for you. I… I loved you!"

Tatenashi then looks up at Raiden.

"That's why… I want to make this night memorable for both of us. No casual sex. I want this done correctly. I want—"

Raiden kisses her so as to interrupt her with his confession.

"Katana… I've told you before haven't I?" asked Raiden. "You were there to comfort me in the first year and I will always be grateful for you. You showed me; no, you gave me; a second chance at life. And don't ever say you sold your own body just to make me happy. Such thought of that fills me with rage. Because I also love you and I also want to do this right as well."

Tatenashi smiles with a blush as her sad tears are replaced with happy ones. Raiden caresses her cheek and wipes away the tears.

"Raiden…"

"And besides, you smell nice tonight," Raiden sniffs at her neck which makes her moan a bit. This makes the blue cat twitch a bit in pleasure as Raiden nibbles her neck and ear lobe.

But then something changes in Raiden. The perfume he smelled on Tatenashi began to have something of an effect on his brain, the testosterone levels skyrocketing gradually. Soon, a primal animal begins to wake up inside him as he looks at Tatenashi, his new wife and mate. He just wanted to take her away and bring her in full bliss. He wanted to ravage her and fill her with his seed, every last drop and trickle of it.

He could not hold back any longer.

(HENTAI STARTS)

Raiden jumps onto her with his instincts kicking in. Tatenashi tries to resist but his paws were too strong, and the lion was already in heat. Throwing out logistics, his prize was growing fast as he too gets the blue cat, his new "wife", in heat. Their kisses intensified as Raiden aggressively begins tearing away her wedding dress like it was a candy wrapper. Luckily, there were no tears in the dress itself. Growling as he does, Raiden kept tearing away until she is fully bare and lying on her bed.

Tatenashi blushes naturally as she covers herself up, but Raiden is not taking any excuses. In his lion heat, he's not leaving anything to chance. He takes her arms away from her breasts as he massages and ravages her, instilling pleasure into her.

Knowing his cat all too well well, her nipples were perking out, due to him nuzzling and kissing her neck. In return, she licks her like a cat and soon nibbles his ear. Shivering from his tongue, Tatenashi lets him do as he pleases as she too tears off Raiden's clothes.

"Please, Raiden..." Tatenashi gets her lion's attention as she opens herself up. "Do with me as you wish."

Losing control, he immediately inserts himself into her core with his claws squeezing her breasts at a fast pace. Tatenashi moans and, sticking true to her words, she did not resist his aggressive play. She helps discard his clothes one by one, which removes his limiter to go more harder.

Tatenashi wraps her legs around him, which makes Raiden responds by spreading them far apart to get all the insides like it needs to stretch for a big race. Tatenashi arches her back in further pleasure as her hips synchronize with his.

After a few minutes of intense pleasure, Tatenashi squirts before him, reaching climax before him, and Raiden was not happy with that.

"You dare to reach a climax before me?" Raiden asked in something of a dark tone.

Under the influence of the perfume, Raiden reverts to basic primal instincts in the form of love. He gets more wilder and rougher

First came to smacks on the tush and then hair pulling. Despite her short hair, he was able to grab a handful and pull hard, not enough to rip it off but enough for her to feel immense pleasure.

Next came to her breasts as Raiden aggressively attacks them to get the milk. Tatenashi moans loud, but the blue cat slowly turns kinky to grind the lion's gears.

"Come on now. Is that all you have to show me, husband~?" Tatenashi kinkily asks. That did not sit well with the lion as he aggressively kisses her, muffling her voice as she begins to scream.

Raiden finds a way to give what the blue cat wanted with her being kinky. But he was unaware of the perfume she used, as he kept thinking it's regular perfume that just smelled very nice, not aware of its side effect of sending the male in a hypnotic state over the woman.

To Tatenashi though, she may have made a mistake as she didn't think her lion husband would start to become this aggressive. She may have either underestimated the perfume's contents of which she only knows or underestimated Raiden's lust when in this trance.

Raiden keeps thrusting at her in missionary but he stops midway. Tatenashi, somewhat angry and confused, wonders why Raiden stops his motion on the first hole.

"What do we have here?" Raiden asks as he was staring the 2nd hole. Tatenashi then realizes what he was about to do and pleads for him not to do it.

"No… Please… Anything but that!" Tatenashi pleads but it falls on deaf ears. Raiden does not like being played around like he's an idiot so in response to the defiance, Raiden smacks her right tush.

"HYAH~" Tatenashi yelps and moans. Sure enough it shuts her up to send her in pleasure briefly.

Without hesitation, Raiden immediately inserts her butt for the first time.

Tatenashi screams as it hurt at first for the cat. In all the time she had sex with Raiden, not once did he ever use her second hole. In fact, he would never do such a thing. Perhaps that perfume had a better effect on him.

"ROAR!" Raiden gives a lion roar as he feels a new feeling course through him.

The barbs and length on his shaft grew even more to the new walls as Raiden rams her hard and fast.

"AAAHHH!" Tatenashi screams out of control, thinking that Raiden will take it easy. But boy was she wrong in so many ways. Her thoughts of having her butthole impaled here mixed at best. Half of her brain enjoys it but the other half finds it painful and wants it to stop and switch to her primary hole.

Tatenashi tries to make a bargain to appease Raiden to not tear her butt apart, but Raiden is not playing games. His lion instincts kicking in to just simply mate with her from behind.

"Raiden! Please~!" Tatenashi pleads with her tongue somewhat hanging out but Raiden does not listen.

Pinning her face down, Raiden raises her butt upwards to hit the new spots. This spot felt new and alien to him, but he liked it a lot. She was so warm and tight around there,

Raiden stretches it with his claws, enjoying the new prize and smacks even harder.

"Tell me you like it," Raiden says in a dark tone.

"Ngghh...Ahh!" Tatenashi being bashful as she hides the blush on her face and trying to hide her kinkyness. She liked it but she did not want to admit it as she tries to retain her sanity from the lust.

"Say it. Say it!" Raiden demanded.

Every time Tatenashi denies it, the truth slowly reveals. Raiden increases his speed and his pride weapon grew stronger, clearly enjoying this a lot. He grasps at her breasts and kisses her roughly, halting her banshee screams. Raiden begins pulling, pinching, and flickering her nipples while her butt slowly forms from his rod. Raiden soon begins to switch between holes.

Tatenashi tries her luck again to have her first hole played only, but when Raiden switches between, the truth is revealed, her face evident when she screams for more.

"R-Raiden!" Tatenashi calls while in a spoon position, having her butt and first core impaled aggressively. "That's it! Give me more! Fuck me deeper! Harder! FASTER!"

Raiden soon pins Tatenashi to the bed by the head while holding one arm.

"Admit that you like your butt ravaged!" Raiden roars to his new mate.

"Yes! Yes! Ravage my butt! Take it all! It's yours~!" Tatenashi screamed in bliss.

Raiden flips her on all fours, trapping the cat back to lion position, and stretches her butt with his claws to get every angle and pleasure. Finally, he reaches climax, dumping a huge load inside her 2nd hole and another in her primary.

"ROAR!"

"AAAHHHHHH~~"

Watching her primary and secondary cores covered in his load turned him on due to the perfume, but he wanted more and so did she.

"Grrr..." Raiden warms up as she nuzzles Tatenashi's neck. Then, he brings himself off the bed and in front of the exhausted blue cat and he brings his shaft over to her mouth.

Tatenashi consumes the sticky shaft before her, using her breasts to squeeze around. Raiden pets her soft blue hair but by knowing his weaknesses, Tatenashi goes for the orbs. Now the roles have switched with Raiden not admitting showing that his orbs being played is his favorite.

As Tatenashi consumes, she feels the shaft getting bigger but that did not deter her from stopping from going deeper, gagging in the process and feeling the veins on the shaft and the buildup in the form of pre-stuff oozing out.

Raiden takes the initiative action to not stand around like a statue and grips her hair gently to go deeper. The blue cat gags more, feeling the long shaft dig deep into her. Before long, Raiden eventually climaxes.

"Aaahh…" Raiden moans as Tatenashi moans and muffles, feeling his essence spray into her mouth and down her throat for a good whole minute. Soon, he releases from Tatenashi, covered in saliva and essence.

Raiden growls again as the blue cat suddenly jumps up into Raiden and takes control.

Gluing Raiden to his back onto the bed, Tatenashi grinds her core on his shaft. Tatenashi keeps grinding for a few minutes to get in the mood before she inserts into it.. Instead of taking it slow, she goes fast on him.

Raiden grasps her hips and thrusts upwards into her roughly. Their rough play lasted five minutes before Raiden switched prizes and aggressively went missionary

"Of all the girls, your tush was always the best," Raiden declares as he smacks it. Tatenashi's tongue hangs out of her mouth in pleasure as she smiles.

Raiden solely focuses on her second treasure as Tatenashi grasps his back and kisses his lips hard and lovingly.

Raiden inserts her first treasure with his claws, which are her weak points. Then came to fervently ramming in between the two holes. Her milk sprays out from her breasts and onto Raiden and herself, spilling all over. Raiden switches between holes, now falling in love with both of them

"Katana...!" Raiden ramming her prizes.

"Raiden!" Tatenashi screams in pleasure.

"Let's see what your butt says..." Raiden says as he gives another loud slap on the right cheek.

Tatenashi yelps in pleasure, yelling to Raiden to make his marks on her prizes. He soon grasps her breasts from behind and pounds her mercilessly

"Like that?" Raiden alternating her holes.

"HYA?!" Tatenashi on every hole switch. "Ahh, ohh, ugh~"

Not receiving actual answers, Raiden did not respond while he switches mercilessly. And asks again in a more darker tone.

"Do you like that?" Raiden asks.

Tatenashi yelps and screams in a frantic, bliss pace when Raiden inserts her primary hole with his claws while ramming her secondary. She was unable to answer in words but her face shows it.

"Tell me: what are you? Wife...or slave!?" Raiden ramming her back and forth.

"Wife!" Tatenashi trying to speak back.

"But you are also my slave. My property. And you belong to me forever!" Raiden bites on her shoulder as he nears climax.

He climaxes, but the perfume altered his senses to keep thrusting even while climaxing into her. Tatenashi likes it a lot, begging Raiden to not stop.

"Inside! You're filling me up inside! Please, more. Fill me more! AAh, ugh, ooh, AUGH!"

They go for one last climax together with Tatenashi being held up by Raiden, away from the bed. Raiden thrusts upwards even faster, still switching holes as their skin contacts grew louder and lewder like lions in heat.. Tatenashi yells in loud profanities as she wants her and Raiden to climax together

"Together. Yes. Please! Let's climax together…Raiden!" Tatenashi screams.

"You're mine! FOREVER!" Raiden responds in return.

Raiden squeezes and smacks her tush with all his strength, ravaging her prizes to the point he roars triumph. He slams her to the wall in an effort to go deeper. In his sadistic lion mode, Raiden plays her breasts and nipples harder. He also kisses and sucks her neck, leaving a small hickey of which she did not care for.

Raiden is determined to go deeper, but he was not seeing any effort as he pushes further and further into her. He stretches her prizes like he is pulling a rubber band to increase the lust.

"Raiden, Raiden! Please, stop! Ah, Aaah! Ah, no, Don't. Don't!" Tatenashi pleads to stop but is met with an even deeper thrust.

"Who gave you the right to speak, slave?" Raiden as he kisses her so as to shut her up. Muffled by his tongue that plays with hers, Tatenashi screams at his mouth but is soon replaced with moans of pleasure.

Raiden cannot stop switching holes due to her kinkiness and pure lust that made them sweat more like shedding body fat. He was loving this love session with his blue cat. Yet a small part of him wonders if Houki can be like that too but leaves it out as he nears climax one last time.

Finally, it was too much, as he emptied himself in her primary hole due to her screams of wanting a baby.

"Katana..." Raiden called out. "I'm gonna-"

"DO IT!" Tatenashi screams. "Do it in me! Shoot it all in me! Impregnate me! Give me a baby~!"

"ROAR!" Raiden roars his loudest.

"NYYYYAAAAAAAA~~!" Tatenashi screams in pure bliss as her climax mixes with Raiden and sprays all over.

Raiden kept emptying his tank for another minute, holding onto Tatenashi as he does. Tatenashi cannot stop screaming in pleasure, feeling the 'baby' ever slowly to form, her belly feeling like it is growing

Her butt feeling like it is growing at the same time. Tatenashi's core soon explodes due to overflowing the moment Raiden exits, but Tatenashi did not like it. Thus, she wrapped her legs around his waist to keep him inside he, telling Raiden to remain connected to ensure her 'baby' is ready. The two kiss passionately as their bodies soon relaxed back on the bed.

"Katana...this is the best." Raiden confesses.

"Yes... Yes it is..." Tatenashi agrees.

"How's your cores...?" Raiden asked, a small bit concerned which was quickly washed away.

"Like they were torn apart by your barbs," Tatenashi teasingly says.

"It can't be helped. You started this," Raiden justifies his defense.

"Now look who is talking..." Tatenashi says as she kisses him.

"Oh you talked a lot..." Raiden returning the kiss, gently massaging her cores.

"I love you...husband," Tatenashi says.

"I love you too...Katana," Raiden responds.

The two sleep soundly in each other's arms. In Raiden's mind, he felt that they both shed 2 lbs. But he focused solely on his new wife that he was glad to be a part of, giving her what she wanted as he brings his hand over to her stomach.

Sleeping soundly with his new wife purring in her sleep, their fingers interlocked with one another, never letting go of each other.

(HENTAI ENDS)


HOKKAIDO

Scott arrives in his IS to assess the mansion of Harvard, which looked like an abandoned castle of sorts but was really made to look that way. Waving a white flag of surrender, all of Phantom Task's Troopers that were stationed around the mansion held their weapons at him and remained on high alert, accepting his surrender.

After a scan of its energy readings, PHOENIX relays something to Scott.

"The barrier around the mansion is pure energy. It's unbreachable," PHOENIX analyzed.

"Yeah, I got that," Scott said before he saw Alexei looking at him from his window inside his mansion. "Plan B."

Alexei watched as he was dressed in a purple suit and carried with him some sort of scepter. It has a long golden grip handle and contained an encircled blue gem between platinum blades.

"Sir, the Mark II is not ready for deployment," PHOENIX said.

"Then skip the spinning rims. We're on the clock," Scott said as he drops down and deactivates his IS. Alexei opens the door for him to enter into the mansion. Scott could only glare a bit at Alexei as he walks before regaining his normal demeanor.

FLASHBACK….

"You want me…to go in and just surrender?" asked Scott to Chifuyu.

They were in her office conversing about the upcoming Operation IR, or Operation Infinite Redemption, a group effort to rescue Kanzashi Sarashiki from Alexei Harvard and wipe out the Phantom Task forces lurking out in the area. Approval of this operation came from Daisuke and Aiko, who practically begged Chifuyu to save their daughter by any means necessary, and the IS Academy school board, together with the Japanese government's approval.

"You are going to play the representative of the Academy," Chifuyu said. "We'll have your IS shipped to Harvard as 'tribute' to put it in his terms. Just keep him talking until we get everyone over there."

"And if things start to go south?" asked Scott.

"Then you have permission to use your IS for combat," Chifuyu said.

"Absolutely not!" Cecilia cried, concern for Scott. "If we just send Scott in, who knows what may happen to him. Send me in with him!"

"No!" Chifuyu said. "Stalker, as a Central Intelligence Agent, has more experience going undercover than you do. If we send in both of you, who knows what will happen? We don't want to entice Harvard or Phantom Task and give away our position."

Cecilia grits her teeth, but Scott places a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "I'll be fine, Cecilia. I've gotten the gist of this man's disposition, so I will be fine. Plus, my IS and PHOENIX will be there. No worries."

Cecilia didn't like it, but what Scott said was true. PHOENIX will be there to inform him privately, as well as the new IS he has been working on for himself.

"And where will we be, Orimura-sensei?" asked Jake.

"You will be on the frontlines with everyone except Tatenashi and Raiden. They will be the infiltration team who will sneak in around the mansion to grab Kanzashi and get her out immediately."

"So…we're bait, then?" asked Ichika.

"I wouldn't put it that way, An-chan," Raiden said. "You just need to survive and keep them busy. Think you're up for it?"

"Of course!" Ichika said with his left fist clenched. "I want Kanzashi rescued just as much as you."

Raiden was convinced, but Ichika's conviction paled before his and Tatenashi's as this operation was a personal matter for the both for them on many accounts.

"How many forces are we even expecting?" asked Charlotte.

"And how can we punch through their frontlines without getting injured in the process?" asked Laura.

"Allow me yahoo~" Tabane suddenly pops out and into the room via holographic projection.

"Nee-san?" Houki was surprised. "How are you—"

"I'm a-okay~! Thank you for the concern, Houki-chan!" Tabane hugs her little sister like a bear. Normally, Houki would be embarrassed of such a thing, but due to recent events for both sisters, perhaps it was best for Houki to just accept this as she just sighs in reluctance. Tabane seemed to be in full health, at least for the time being.

Raiden could not help but chuckle a bit to himself.

After letting go, Tabane then reveals her offer of assistance.

"I got just the person to keep you all in check," Tabane said as she crops up a holographic projection of a white angora rabbit in purple pixels, who pops up in Tabane's arms that she holds up. "Say hello to Tabane's Authentic Little Intelligence, or as I like to call, TALI. Now, TALI-chan, say hi!"

"Greetings everyone," TALI bows her rabbit head, somehow.

"You built an artificial intelligence, Nee-san?" asked Houki.

"Why, of course~!" Tabane exclaimed. "TALI can hack into any network and satellite and keep a watch over the world. She keeps me informed of what is going on."

"Looks like PHOENIX has competition with another AI," Raiden quips to Scott.

"Yeah, I got that. Thanks for the compliment," Scott sarcastically says. "PHOENIX, what do you say?"

PHOENIX remains silent, obviously having no comment.

"I think your bird has gone mute," Rin smirks, getting a chuckle from everyone.

Chifuyu clears her throat to get everyone's attention.

"Anyway, with Tabane's AI keeping watch from above, you all should be able to get a layout of the forces. Take what you have learned from your training and apply it to the battlefield. But remember this: you are not soldiers fighting a war. You are students of the IS Academy granted permission by the board and the government to retrieve one of your students since you all have the most experience of dealing with Phantom Task. But just because you have an IS means that you can still potentially harm the soldiers. So in other words, no killing! Is that all clear?"

"Yes!" Everyone says. Everyone except Raiden, Jake, and Scott, who technically consider themselves soldiers.

"We begin this operation in the morning tomorrow. Get some rest."

Everyone soon departs back to their rooms.

END FLASHBACK

Alexei walks in through the door towards his living room, which included a bar and windows that covered the entire wall to look outside. It also contained a large wooden crate that was delivered to Alexei about two days ago as an offer of tribute to him.

"Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity," Alexei arrogantly said. But Scott was undeterred as he continued to walk.

"Ah, actually, I am planning to threaten you," Scott said with arms behind his back like he is in a pacing mood.

Alexei chuckles. "You should've left your IS on for that."

"Yeah," Scott said as he descends down the stairs. "It's seen a bit of mileage, and you got the, uh, glow stick of destiny." Scott soon walks over to the bar to pour himself some bourbon. "Would you like a drink?"

Alexei was unmoved by the request. "Stalling me won't change anything."

"No, no. Threatening," Scott clarified. "No drink? Are you sure? I'm having one."

Alexei walks over to the windows of his mansion as he oversees his forces.

"The IS Academy is coming. Nothing will change that," He says as he turns to face Scott. "What have I to fear?"

"Ever heard of the Avengers?" asked Scott as he pops open the bourbon. "It's what they call themselves. It's sort of like a team. 'Earth's mightiest heroes'-type thing."

Scott pours the bourbon into a cup about half way.

"Yes, I know them," Alexei responds with a smug.

"Yeah. It takes us while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But let's do a head count here. The brother of the Brunhilde, the Orimura boy; a super soldier, a living legend who kind of lives up to the legend despite his blind sight."

As Scott continues his monologue, he sneakily puts on two bracelets from his pocket, one for each wrist, that, unknown to Alexei, respond to the new IS in the shipping container that was brought here to Alexei's room.

"A man with breathtaking anger-management issues who turns into some sort of demon. A German soldier born as a test tube baby, a motherless French girl, a kid from China, a samurai shrine maiden who lives up to both roles, a noblewoman from England, a couple of sisters from a well-known family, and you, big fella…you've managed to piss off every single one of them."

"That was the plan," Alexei said.

"Not a great plan," Scott mentioned as he comes forth from the bar. "When they come, and they will, they'll come for you."

"I have an army," Alexei said.

"We have a Ripper," Scott retorted.

"Oh I thought the beast had wandered off." Alexei said as he heard of Jack the Ripper and his tenure on Omega.

Scott clarified. "You're missing the point here. There is no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it."

Scott drinks his Bourbon as Alexei comes forth with his scepter, clearly insulted and threatened by Scott as was the boy's intentions. However, without his IS, Alexei felt this was perfect for him to be rid of one IS pilot. And quite frankly, he had enough taunting from Scott.

"How will your friends have time for me when they're so busy fighting you?"

Powering his scepter, Alexei points it and has the tip land on Scott's chest, making the Canadian flinch in response, but all that was heard was a "Ding!" and the scepter's power died down. Confused, if not shocked, Alexei tries again but is met with the same result. Unknown to Alexei, Scott has a phoenix pendant wrapped around his neck, which was where the scepter's point ended up, but for some reason unknown to Scott, the scepter died down upon contact with the pendant. Strangely enough, this pendant belonged to Scott's mother.

"This usually works," Alexei remarked.

"Well, performance issues, it's not uncommon. One out of five…" Scott joked.

Alexei clearly had enough and grabbed Scott by the jaw before he tosses him to the side.

"PHOENIX, anytime now," Scott said as he gets up, only to be choked again by Alexei, clearly and slowly descending into a maddened state.

"You will all fall before me," Alexei said.

"Deploy!" called Scott at the large wooden crate which powered the IS. "Deploy!"

Scott was soon lifted and thrown out of the window, crashing through it and falling, making him yell a bit in the air before he adjusts himself vertically for his IS to come forth from above.

Alexei turns around and moves out of the way as the doors to the crate open up violently due to the IS charging forth, crashing through another window, and opening itself up. Laser beams were locked onto Scott's bracelets as the IS came forth to his form and covered him up from head to toe.

His new IS, Phoenix Mk. II, was almost like his original IS but with some changes and additional weaponry. Instead of steel like all other IS though, the armor was made completely of titanium inside and out. Given of that, the armor had such strong durability, able to take a hit from even a tank shell being fired at him.

The one big change was the ridding of the feathered wings as Scott felt that it gave too much weight. Instead, he relied on the flight of his IS solely on flight stabilizer repulsors built inside the arms and feet of the IS. They were connected to a prototype reactor built on the chest of the IS to produce energy, projecting energy into space. The chest repuslor, or unibeam, also acts as a propulsion system and weapon. The propulsion system allowed him to reach speeds equal to, if not faster, than the fastest fighter jet on the planet.

Most of the new Phoenix was largely the same but the design was fit to make it more human and less bulky, therefore taking away some of the weight for more maneuverability. The same colors of orange and secondary dark red were still there but there was also a small shade of gold plating with some silver plating on the helmet and thigh armor parts respectively.

In terms of weaponry, Scott ditched the L1A1 assault rifle and simply adopted a more quicker approach by implementing onto the shoulders a sliding gun that can switch from shoulder to shoulder. He kept his two colts, Sally and Mustang, into the confines of his armor on his hip which can be deployed out for him to perform a quick draw. It also came equipped with lasers in the form of a triple barrel mounted on the left arm which fed off of the suit's main power supply and can be used several times. There was also a missile launcher mounted in the left arm, along with numerous guided micro projectiles housed in the right and left shoulder pods that are refueled thanks to Tabane's ingenious usage of installing nanotech into the IS. Side-winders were also located inside the thighs for air-to-ground attacks when flying horizontally over a target.

As for a new melee weapon, Scott redesigned Orthos Prime to resemble a double-bladed sword that resembled a naginata to provide better speed attacks and better throwing distances. It was lengthened to around 27 inches with 14-inch stainless steel blades on both ends. It also came with a 4-millimeter-thick 2-tone silver & black with silver finished under grinding line, followed by black nylon fiber with black 550 paracord wrap. It also includes 600d nylon sheath & is a two-piece can be connected to one thanks to a small neodymium magnet on the ends that connect. The weapon was stored on Scott's back.

As Scott's body is wrapped up in his new IS, his helmet covers him up just in time for him to get a visual of how close he is to the snowy ground. Using the flight stabilizers in his hands, Scott halts his fall to the ground before he shoots back up with stabilizers in his feet to fly back up to Alexei, who sees him coming right back up.

"And there's one other person you pissed off," Scott said. "Her name's Chifuyu."

Alexei attempts to fire his scepter, but Scott was quicker as he used his repulsor on his right hand to hit Alexei dead on the chest and send him flying back to the floor, making him lose his scepter as it falls to the ground outside the mansion. Alexei attempts to get up but sees explosions in front of him far from the mansion.

"Sir, we have incoming IS!" called one of the troops.

"Looks like that is my que. See ya!" Scott says as he flies towards another part of the mansion's compound. Alexei, enraged, calls out to his forces.

"All forces, attack! Kill them! Kill them all!"

Back up front of the battlefield, all personal IS pilots begin their assault.

An explosion occurs as Cecilia and Houki propel forward in their IS. Cecilia provided cover for Houki as the samurai girl chops down incoming Phantom Task ATLAS coming straight for her. One of them managed to try to get to her side but she chops its head off with Tsuki-no-monto. Cecilia is grabbed by another from behind but she headbutts her rifle on its head and fires back before deploying her BITS.

An incoming truck came by and tries to fire at the two girls, but Rin comes in from on top and takes out the gunner before flying forward to one of the towers and taking it out with her Shock Cannons. With Souten Gagetsu at hand, she deflects incoming ATLAS mechs charging at her.

Below her, Jake, in his IS Storm Ghost, was busy using his High Frequency Blade to chop down and cut out the Troopers and ATLAS. Jake then moves forward and drags a poor Trooper by the foot and throws it to a squad of Troopers firing at him.

Speaking of his IS, it was a full body-armored IS with small telltale signs of Charlotte's IS in terms of leg armor, but it was mostly custom made by FEISAR. He carried on his right shoulder an HVR, or High Velocity Railgun, an eight-foot long jet-black barrel connected to a mechanism at the back of his IS to hold it in place and move, along with a two-inch thick power cable at the end of the weapon for additional power.

(Author's Note: If you want the description of Storm Ghost, check out Storm-Ghost's story The Devil amoung Angels: Return of the Ripper chapter 4)

Moving between trees, Scott passes by Laura who lands with her hand sabers impaled on an ATLAS soldier. Soon she fires, one shot of her Puzirushi at an ATLAS, destroying it before Charlotte uses her Shield Pierce to knock one large chunk of shrapnel over to a group of Troopers. She then uses her shotgun for close combat as she moves through the forest like a skier. Everyone keeps moving forward, like a blitzkrieg, plowing through the enemy in an attempt to reach for the mansion where their friend Kanzashi was being held at.

Ichika flies forward to take out a few Troopers with his Particle Cannon. He then sees the mansion in sight and goes straight for it, hoping to infiltrate in and either go after Kanzashi to the rescue or Alexei for payback.

Unfortunately for Ichika, all he got was a THUD as he rammed into the building revealed to be protected by a barrier.

"Shit!" cried Ichika.

"Language!" reprimanded Jake as he flies. "TALI, what's the view from upstairs?"

"The mansion is protected by some kind of energy shield," TALI said from the satellite above as she scans the layout of the battlefield. "Phantom Task's technology is well beyond any other knowledge we've encountered."

Rin lands from above on top of one of the Troopers. She then swipes away one with her Souten Gagetsu blade before she turns around and fires her Shock Cannons at another.

"Which means Phantom Task must have some sort of power source not too far," Rin said. "Otherwise they couldn't mount this defense without it." Rin throws her blades and retrieves it magnetically before she moves to the side to let the blade hit an ATLAS soldier preparing to ambush her.

"At long last," Cecilia said as she fires away her Starlight sniper rifle and deploys her BITS.

Charlotte moves forward and throws a grenade at a truck, disabling it, before she uses her Shield Pierce to knock out one Trooper and then utilizes her knife to cut down two incoming ATLAS drones after her.

"'At long last' is lasting a little long, guys," Charlotte said as she fires her shotgun behind her towards an unsuspecting Trooper busy at the turret.

Laura ducks down from an incoming rocket as it hits a tree. Sensing another artillery behind her, she turns around and fires her railgun at it, destroying it to smithereens.

"Yeah. I think we lost the element of surprise," Laura said.

"Wait a second. No one else is gonna deal with the fact that Jackson just said 'Language'?" asked Scott as he takes down Troopers by the stairs with his repulsors.

"I know," Jake begrudgingly said as he lands before he lifts up a damaged truck and throws it at another incoming one, which crashes and explodes and destroys the Troopers inside. "Just slipped out."

Ichika runs to cover behind the trees from enemy fire. He sees a bunker in front of him firing away, which makes him pop out from cover and carefully fire a charged Particle Cannon shot from his left hand. But before Ichika could fire, an artillery shell hits near his position from behind, throwing him off balance from the shockwave and making him miss his shot.

Dazed for a little bit, Ichika stands back up to get his bearings, but the bunker was now behind him and had a clear line of site. An M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper soon pops out from on top of the bunker and fires at Ichika's side, grazing him and bringing him down to the ground. Ichika screams and groans from the shot.

"Ichika!" cried Houki as she sees her childhood friend down. Houki calls out to the others on the comm. "Ichika's hit!"

Houki rushes to her childhood friend and pulls him back safely. She looks to assess the wound and sees that Ichika's side was pretty ripped up from the bullet. Although the wound was not fatal, Ichika needed to get emergency help and fast.

"Somebody want to deal with that bunker?" asked Houki.

"I'm on it!" Cecilia said as she deploys her BITS to divebomb into the bunker to take out the troops. She then fires from above a propane tank inside the bunker which causes it to explode and destroy it. Her BITS return to her side.

"Thanks, Cecilia," Houki said as she puts Ichika's arm around her shoulder. She rallies up with Charlotte.

Jake goes in with his HF blade and cuts down a swath of Troopers and ATLAS in his way.

"Scott!" Jake called out. "We really need to get inside for the infiltration team!"

"I'm closing in," Scott said as he moves into the compound. He gets hit by a stray grenade launcher, making him land on the ground before he eventually lands and uses his arm repulsors to blow away a couple of Troopers.

"PHOENIX, am I closing in?" asked Scott as he blasts another away.

"Do you see a power source for that shield?" asked Scott as he flies through a steel gate and engages with another battalion, blasting away with his shoulder gun.

"There's a particle wave below the north tower," PHOENIX says.

"Great, I want to poke it with something," Scott says as he rams through a truck. Flying upwards, he gives a couple of blasts with his repulsors before he launches a salvo rocket that goes underneath the mansion and hits the power source for the barrier, destroying it and bringing the shield down.

"The drawbridge is down, people. Infiltration team is good to go," Scott said.

Jake retrieves his sword from the ground as Laura comes down to meet with him, though right after she pulverizes squad of incoming soldiers.

"You okay, Jackson?" asked Laura as Jake reaches up with her.

"I'm good," Jake answered. "Of all the bases Phantom Task has, I've never seen one on this scale. In fact, this is the first."

"Ichika's hit pretty bad, guys. We're gonna need evac," Charlotte said as she calls for an emergency Groundbridge for her, Houki, and an injured Ichika to get through.

"Houki can get Ichika back to the Academy. The sooner we're gone, the better," Laura said as another incoming wave of Phantom Task forces arrive. "You, me, and the others best stay and secure the perimeter until the infiltration team gets Kanzashi."

"Copy that," Jake acknowledged before he and Laura turn to see the forces approaching.

"Looks like they're lining up," Laura noted.

"Well they're excited," Jake said.

Soon, both he and Laura line up their High Velocity Railgun and Purizushi .80 caliber heavy railgun respectively and fired at the same time. The two bullets soon combined together to form a single bullet that cuts through the single line of Troopers and takes out even a heavy-duty ATLAS armed to the teeth.

"Secure Kanzashi," Laura said as she takes to the air.

"And for gosh sake, watch your language!" Scott quipped, but he was actually serious.

Jake could only sigh in frustration and annoyance of being called out for that.

"That's not going away any time soon," Jake said.


Raiden crashes through a window to meet a big squad of Alexei's guards who fired at his IS with their AK-74 assault rifles, but the bullets merely bounced off. Inside the IS, Raiden could hear the bouncing like pellets.

"Guys, stop. We gotta talk this through," Raiden pleaded nonchalantly but nobody listened. He then decides to use some new tech on his IS to take care of the goons.

Having rid of the Pride Cub BITS for this new weapon, Raiden manipulates electrical nanobite particles around his IS and zaps all the guys with his hands, bringing them to the ground. His new weapon was the same as Tatenashi's IS but instead of manipulating water like hers does, his manipulates and creates electricity, if not channels a bit of his Akuruka power.

"It was a good talk," Raiden quipped.

"No, it wasn't," said one of the down goons.

"Shut up," Raiden said as he zaps him again and puts him out of commission.

Tatenashi soon joins in with him through the crashed window.

"I'll keep watch. Get on it," Raiden said as he covers Tatenashi's back. Tatenashi meanwhile gets onto a computer and, seeing all of this data and information regarding the Wedding Panic and of Phantom Task's latest operations, contacts TALI.

"TALI, make a copy if you can and send it to Orimura-sensei at the Academy. And get me the layout of the mansion. I want to know where Kanzashi-chan is," Tatenashi said.

"Jake, status?" asked Raiden on comm.

"We're locked down out here," Jake answered as he pulls his high frequency blade out of a destroyed ATLAS.

Tatenashi soon looks over the room. "I know you're hiding more than files, Alexei." She said to herself. "Raiden, give me an IR scan of the room."

Raiden does so as he scans the room with his IS. "The wall to your left, Katana. I'm reading steel reinforcement and an air current."

Tatenashi heads over to the wall and pleads with herself three times to be a secret door. She pushes it and sure enough, it was a secret door leading underground. Both Raiden and Tatenashi descend down, hopefully thinking this is where Kanzashi is at.

A few minutes passed by before they found, at the end of a long hallway, a steel door that was tightly locked.

"Raiden…Kanzashi is behind there," TALI called out on the comm to both Raiden and Tatenashi, making the latter sprint for the door and bang on it several times.

"Kanzashi-chan! Kanzashi-chan!" called out Tatenashi.

"Who's there?" asked a timid voice from behind.

"It's me! It's Tatenashi!"

A few seconds of silence followed. "Onee-chan?"

"Yes! It's me," Tatenashi as she tries to pry open the door, but it doesn't budge.

"This door is reinforced steel. Kanzashi, how do we open it?" asked Raiden.

"Alexei," Kanzashi answered. "Alexei has the key."

"On it. Katana, stay here and be on guard. I'll go get that wedding crasher," Raiden said as he uses his IS to fly down the hallway and back up the stairs to go look for the boy.

BACK UP TOP

Alexei watches the battle raging from outside. And much to his damaged pride, he was losing. He told all of his soldiers, guards even, to go outside and repel the enemy. Unfortunately, he was no strategy expert and his anger only made him more deranged by the minute. He clutches his stomach from the blast Scott gave him, which hurt a lot.

In his desperation, he looks to see if he still has the key to Kanzashi's cell, which was wrapped around his neck like a necklace. He had not spoken to his childhood friend for two days given that he had been a bit busy, much to his chagrin.

Alexei soon hears a loud thud coming from the doors to his living room. He reaches over to grab a Saiga-12 and approaches the door fearfully and slowly. Another two to three thuds was heard before Alexei gets close enough. His hands felt heavy with the shotgun at hand and he was shaking.

In a raging scream, he fires and unloads all 12 rounds to the door, making holes in them. The thuds stop as Alexei checks to see if his trespasser or trespassers were dead.

Soon, the doors busted open and propelled Alexei far back, making him lose his shotgun in the process. Alexei crashes into a wall and sees, from the smoke, Raiden approaching him in his IS.

Alexei had enough of this whole charade as Raiden approaches him fast.

"Enough!" cried Alexei as he gets up, making Raiden stop. "You are, all of you, beneath me! I am a god, you dumb fool. And I will not be bullied by-"

Raiden had enough and takes Alexei by the leg before he smashes him to the ground behind him once. Then the slams him in front of him to the ground twice. Lifting him up again, Raiden slams him again to the front before giving a final slam to his right on the same crater he smashed him the first time.

Alexei not only looks so injured, but also in a state of shock as he does not move nor speak from his position. Seeing he is knocked out in a way, Raiden drags him by the leg.

"Puny god," Raiden mutters in mockery as Alexei whimpers in fear.

DOWN BELOW

Tatenashi stands guard but there was no one coming. Yet still, she kept watch. She lost her little sister and she was not going to lose her again. Footsteps were heard down the stairs but Tatenashi sees it to be Raiden, dragging Alexei by the foot.

"Key is around his necklace," Raiden said as he rips it off and tosses it to Tatenashi, who immediately unlocks and opens the steel door gate. The prison cell was surprisingly luxurious in that it was simple and clean, for it contained a nice bed, a reading book shelf, a clean bathroom, and lights. But on the floor and sitting down was Kanzashi, dressed in a simple but beautiful blue wedding dress.

The two sisters look at one another in bewilderment.

"Onee…chan…?" asked a timid Kanzashi.

"Kanzashi-chan…"

The two sisters soon approached one another at fast speeds and bear hugged each other. Screams of joy were heard next as the two did not want to let go. Tatenashi was thankful were sister was alright and safe and Kanzashi was just glad to see her older sister.

"Did he hurt you? Are you alright?" asked Tatenashi. "It's okay, Kanzashi-chan. You're safe now."

"I'm fine, Onee-chan. I just… I want to get out of here," Kanzashi said as she looks at her sister.

"We will. Give me a minute, okay?" Tatenashi requested as she soon turns to Alexei, who sees what has happened.

"My… my… my army… my army… My… My…" Alexei timidly said.

"Abandoned to the end. That is what Phantom Task does when they find someone of no use to them anymore, boy. Pitiful," Raiden coldly says.

Alexei, his mind now reduced to lunacy, begins to chuckle to himself.

"How pathetic… man… Kill me… Come on, kill me!"

But before he could say any further, he was tackled to the ground by an angered Tatenashi, who proceeds to beat him mercilessly with just her left fist.

"You want to escape after causing so many deaths?!" Tatenashi asks as she beats the poor boy with her fists of vengeance.

Each punch pounded his face hard for every sentence she speaks of.

"This was for my family, whose reputation you've ruined! For my home that you destroyed! For my wedding that you ruined! This was for Raiden, my beloved that you attempted to kill! And this…This is for my little sister, whom you kidnapped to be your slave!"

Tatenashi gives one last punch that cracks Alexei's skull, sounding like the room had quaked.

Alexei's face was bloodied up and bruised as Tatenashi angrily punches him. She was about to give him one more punch to end it all, but a gentle hand stops her. She initially thought it to be Raiden but, to her surprise and Alexei's, it was Kanzashi, who looked distressed at the situation.

"Onee-chan! Please! That's enough," Kanzashi pleaded as she hugs her sister to calm her down. The raging aura of Tatenashi soon subsides as she slowly hugs her little sister back, grateful to have her back as tears pour down her slowly.

Raiden lifts up Alexei and keeps him in check with his gunblade as he asks Kanzashi one question.

"Kanzashi, what do you want to do with him?" asked Raiden.

Kanzashi soon approaches her childhood friend and traitor. Alexei kept his face of psychosis as his mind was now filled with fear and madness.

"What, you came to laugh at me?" asked Alexei. "You must hate me for what I did at the wedding. Doesn't it make you feel good to see me ruined by your vengeful older sister?"

*SLAP*

Alexei's left cheek stings as Kanzashi slaps him hard, like she was extremely disappointed and hurt by him.

"…Ah?" Alexei was shocked, confused even as he slowly turns to see Kanzashi with tears forming from her eyes.

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"Idiot…" Kanzashi said. "Why… why can't you understand? I never needed anything because I had everything… Not pretty clothes… not expensive jewelry… not elevated status… If I can't live in luxury, that is okay… I am okay even with being poor…" Kanzashi's hands soon turned into fists and start to shake as she keeps her head low. "Just… living with everyone… With just a little happiness, I am alright. Just that would have been enough, but…"

Kanzashi soon raises her teary eyes to Alexei.

"Alexei… don't you remember what you said back then?" asked Kanzashi. "You were clumsy… but innocent and kind… I like you…"

Alexei was shocked. "What…?"

"Why…?" asked Kanzashi as tears roll down her eyes. "Alexei, you idiot…"

"I… I…" Alexei stutters over his choice of words. "I just… wanted… to be with you… For you… to be happy…"

"By ruining everything?" asked Kanzashi. "By destroying my sister's wedding? Aligning with Phantom Task? That's… not happiness… That's… not happiness at all…"

Alexei felt stunned at the sight of Kanzashi crying before him. His pride was now utterly shattered by the tears of a young girl that he loved most.

"Then… what… what have I done…?" asked Alexei, which felt like an insult to both Raiden and Tatenashi as they kept their cold glares at him, the latter comforting her sister by placing her arms on her shaky shoulders.

Kanzashi soon pulls out a napkin from her dress and wipes some of the blood off of Alexei's face tearfully. Alexei doesn't even move.

"Kanzashi…?" asked a stunned Alexei.

"I… I don't hate you, unlike my sister…" Kanzashi said as tears continued pouring down her. "I can't hate you… Back then… you used to call my sister 'Onee-chama'…"

Kanzashi then had one last thing to say.

"Goodbye…"

With that, Alexei takes a step back, then two, then three, before he finally runs away and makes a dash out of the ruined mansion of his home, forever leaving his childhood friend, their childhood bond now utterly sundered.

Outside in the forest, far from the battlefield, Alexei ran as far as he could. He was still in bewilderment as Kanzashi's words ran through his head. She had just spared his life and banished him from her presence. It was at least better than jail or execution by her older sister. But still, he could not help but wonder why such a fate was presented to him by the one whose life he had destroyed.

"Kanzashi…" Alexei said as he walked throughout the forest. "I…I…"

Retaining a little bit of his shattered pride but barely, Alexei proclaims, "I will find a way to fix this… trust me… no, it will end no matter what…For you, that is the least I can do…"

Suddenly, Alexei felt something warm on his chest. He didn't even notice it as he looked down to see what was causing the strange warmth. A large blade pierced through his stomach as he looks in confusion.

"…Eh? What's…this? Something… stabbed me…Eh?"

Alexei soon falls to the ground lifelessly as the blade is extracted out of him roughly.

"Why…?" His vision becomes blurred as he barely sees someone walk in front of him. Whoever the attacker was, he couldn't make the figure out. But the last thought, or rather last image in his mind before he passed out, was the blue haired girl with glasses and ruby eyes. The one who had just forgiven him and sent him away.

The one he made cry out of sorrow and pity for his fallen state.

"Kan…za…shi… Kanzashi…"

One more swing of the blade has his head decapitated swiftly, thus ending the last of the Harvard family. Stepping out of the forest's shadow was Rain Meusel, with a partially deployed IS of her Hellhound V2.5 and holding a sword bathed in crimson fire.

"I know what it's like to lose," Rain said. "To feel so desperately that you're right, yet to fail nonetheless." Rain soon picks up the severed head of Alexei, with his shocked expression present, before tossing it far enough for predators to come smell it. "It's frightening, turns the legs to jelly. I ask you to what end? Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same. And now it's here. Or should I say, I am."

Rain Meusel smiles as she watches some wolves approach the body. With that, she begins retreating back into the shadows of the cold, dead forest. As she flees, she calls out to someone on the comm.

"Send in the Whale."

MEANWHILE

Tatenashi, Kanzashi, and Raiden make their way down the hallway leading back up top. With Kanzashi secured, along with the perimeter, the operation was finally over. Or so the three would like to think.

"Raiden…"

A small whisper echoes for Raiden's ears only as he turns around to listen to the voice. Tatenashi, with Kanzashi in her arms, take notice.

"What's wrong, Raiden?" asked Tatenashi.

"I thought I heard something," Raiden answered.

"I didn't hear anything," Kanzashi said. But after she said that, a small rumble occurred. Then, between Raiden and the Sarashiki sisters, a huge metal door separates the two and slams down to the ground hard, catching them off-balance.

"Raiden!" called out Tatenashi.

"I'm okay," Raiden says but he then hears a giggle from his side and sees another secret door open to his right, leading down to some more stairs.

"Katana, get your sister out of here. I'll find my own way out," Raiden called forth. But Tatenashi was not convinced, thinking that the situation he is in now could be a trap.

"But Raiden—"

"Just go!"

Raiden admitted to lying on that last sentence. Having heard the giggle and his name called, he knew someone was calling for him. And he had to attend to it alone.

Frustrated, Tatenashi carries on with her sister in tow. Raiden meanwhile descends down the stairs before the door wall behind him slams shut, making him continue on in the dark.


A loud shaking was heard from the mountain-side as everyone turned to see parts of the mountain crumble. Then, one side of it explodes as a loud roar was heard afterwards.

What came forth was unlike any other. It was some sort of floating whale or shark-like creature with large teeth. It was encased from head to toe with huge amounts of metal armor and lots of artillery guns as weapons for bombardment from above. From the midsection of its body to the tail end were its metal "dorsals". As another one of Phantom Task's crazed experiments, this was probably their trump card to send against them. How they had made this beast is entirely unknown, like this was from some science fiction movie. Strangely enough though, the Whale was heading south towards one destination, Sapporo. (Author's note: For reference, it is the Chitauri Leviathan from Avengers.)

The Whale passes over Jake, Rin, and Laura as they watch it from the ground.

"Scott, are you seeing this?" asked Jake on the comm as Scott flies by the side of it from a good distance.

"Seeing. Still working on believing," Scott said. "Where's Raiden? Has he shown up yet?"

"Raiden?" asked a confused Jake.

"Just keep me posted," Scott said. "PHOENIX, find me a soft spot."

The Whale's right fin plows through some large trees as it heads south towards the city of Sapporo.

"Everyone, that thing is headed straight for Sapporo. Keep it away while we send out the order of evacuation," Chifuyu called out from the Academy.

"TALI!" Tabane calls out to her AI.

"Yes, ma'am," The AI infiltrates into the city systems and puts out the call.

"Scott, we'll try to distract it," Cecilia called out as she fires away on the armored beast, along with her BITS, but neither her rifle nor her drones manage to even penetrate through.

"What the-?" a shocked Cecilia was surprised.

"That's titanium, you British bimbo. Let me show you how it's done!" Rin said. She then comes straight from the sky with her Souten Gagetsu and goes for a impale attack on the gargantuan monster, but her weapon only makes a dent in the armor.

"Wha-?" Karma is a bitch for Rin as she is shocked as well. Before long, the Whale takes notice of her presence and deploys its ion blaster weapons to fire back at her. Because the monster was like a battleship, Rin had to play fighter pilot.

"Ara, Rin-san. Looks like your weapon needs some sharpening. Or did you think you can penetrate that titanium shell?" Cecilia boastingly asked.

"Oh, shut up shut up!" cried Rin. "I just—"

"Hey, quit the bickering, you two!" cried Laura as she uses all of her cables to wrap around the monster. Using some new magnetic clamps that deploy at high speeds, Laura tries to stand her ground and slow down the monster. Using all of her strength, she tries to stand her ground before Jake comes in to help her by pulling on the cables.

Unfortunately, the creature realized it was stopped and fires at the two with its blasters underneath its belly. Jake covers Laura as the two are covered in fire and the cables soon snap. The Whale continues its journey towards Sapporo, which was only 5 miles away.

Scott flies around a corner of the mountain, right in front of the gargantuan animal, and unloads flares in order to catch its attention. The trick worked as the Whale turns a full 180 around to pursue the Phoenix IS pilot. Scott turns around to see his result.

"Well, we got its attention," Scott said. "What the hell was step two?"

Scott soon flies as the Whale pursues him.


Raiden felt like he was walking through an abandoned apartment for miles on end in its hallway. Every step he took, he knew he was getting closer and closer to seeing who had been calling him. Whoever it was, a small part of him hoped it was nothing important but then again, he does not believe in haunted ghosts. As Raiden walks, he could not help but feel like he is walking into a trap.

One that would be intended for him alone.

Raiden enters a large room that contains a large spiral staircase. He finally walks up a series of platforms in the form of a spiral leading to the top where, at its middle section, laid the one person who had been calling him.

Squall Meusel, his old mistress and former handler. She had her back turned on Raiden yet sensed his presence.

"At last, you have come…" Squall says with a smile before she turns around to meet her pet. "Having abandoned your friends only to satisfy your own desires."

Raiden was undeterred by such a thing. "I only came to fulfill a promise. It's because of them that I cannot allow myself to back out," Raiden soon deploys his IS and draws the gunblade. "I know that I am not alone. That is why I can fight by myself!"

Squall seemed amused. "Hmm. Interesting. Then fight you shall."

Footsteps were heard behind Raiden as Autumn approaches in her IS.

"Yes, against the two of us," Autumn clarified eagerly, ready with her spider pincers.

Squall then asked, "Will you still continue this path, my little Raiden?"

"This is better for me," Raiden said. "If I can defeat both of you, then it will make it easier for them. My path may be a lonely road, but I still fight with my friends together!"

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Autumn gets ambushed by Tatenashi in her IS, making Raiden turn around and see her to his surprise.

"Who ever said this path was yours to walk alone?" asked Tatenashi as she turns around with a smile.

"Katana! What are you doing here?" asked Raiden.

"What? Can't the wife come to her husband's aid?" asked Tatenashi teasingly. "Just leave this bug to me, ok?" She winks at Raiden before she turns to face Autumn.

'Still not willing to listen...' Raiden soon turns around with a bit of a smirk. 'But I can live with that.'

Facing his Mistress, Raiden prepares himself. "Thanks for waiting. Now..."

Squall soon activates IS and asks, "Shall we dance?"


The Whale had reached Sapporo after it broke off of pursuit from Scott. It was already starting to decimate the city and only half of the people were evacuated from the airport. But that was also where the Whale was going for. If it reached the airport, then nobody will make it out in time.

The personal IS pilots were not having much luck either. For all there is weaponry, none of it could stop the monster, not even Jake's IS.

Scott flies to the left side of the Whale after it crashes through a building. He attempts to use one of his lasers on his left arm to attempt to cut through the armor, but it doesn't even penetrate through.

"Sir, we will lose power before we penetrate that shell," PHOENIX advised, making Scott stop and fly way front of the Whale.

Soon, Scott turns around and prepares to do something very risky.

"PHOENIX, you ever hear the tale of Jonah?" asked Scott as he prepares the side-winder missiles by his thighs.

"I wouldn't consider him a role model," PHOENIX answered as he fears Scott is going to do what he fears will do.

Diverting power to his thrusters by his feet, Scott spear-dives into the Whale's mouth intentionally. He could not exactly feel what the creature's inside contents were like, but they were sure disgusting. As Scott traveled inside the beast though, he unloaded all of the missiles and parts of the Whale soon begin to explode bit by bit.

Finally, Scott reaches the tail where the last of the missiles explode, propelling him far back and in a damaged IS. The Whale comes down and crashes as Scott flies through a glass wall of a bus stop before hitting the back bumper of a car right on his head before he lands on the ground roughly. Talk about rough landings and bracing for impact which he did not account for.

Scott struggles to stand up as Cecilia comes by. And she was not happy.

"What the hell were you thinking?!" asked Cecilia angrily.

Scott was confused. "Uh…how to bring down the belly of the beast?"

Cecilia was not amused as she rams a fist on top of Scott's head with a loud gong going off.

"OW!"

"That was reckless!" cried the British girl.

"Well, our weapons could not penetrate that titanium shell, so I had to bring it down from the inside!" Scott attempts to justify.

PHOENIX soon pops up in front of Scott as a flying bird. "If I may give you the damage assessment sir, your IS is depleted of all missiles, life support critically weakened, sensors scrambled, and thrusters are out of commission. In terms of physical injuries, three lacerations on the skull, head trauma, bruised sides, and mild concussion."

"Overall?" asked Scott.

"Overall, a two to three-day recovery at the infirmary," PHOENIX added.

Scott did not like that but perhaps this was the price to pay for it.


Raiden repeatedly makes several attempting strikes at Squall only for her to dodge easily or even block the attack with her shield. Raiden had enough and decided to take more drastic measures.

"How is this!?" asked Raiden as he flies up in the air in a spin and deploys his lascannons, preparing to fire at his Mistress. Unfortunately, Squall anticipated this and uses her tail to strike at Raiden from below him, grazing his optic sensors.

"Enough!" Squall cries as she incapacitates Raiden and immobilizes him with her tail by grabbing ahold of him. She slams him to the ground and then to a wall before sending an electric shock over the boy and squeezing down his rib cage hard.

The last slam knocks Raiden out of commission with Squall finally calming down her pet. She wanted to make her attack clear that though Raiden is powerful and fast, he is no match for her, even in an IS.

"Foolish boy," Squall said as she brings Raiden over to her slowly and strokes his cheek. "Everything is all an illusion." Squall then sets up a trap with her IS, which procured four tail arms from out of the back of her IS. Seems she made a few improvements to her Golden Dawn IS as of late.

"Raiden!" Tatenashi cries out before she dodges a spider leg from Autumn.

"Your hopes, your friends, your dreams, your life itself..." Squall said as her mechanical arms come into position. "Shall fade."

Raiden wakes up immediately and sees the mechanical arms come after him. Using his gunblade to hold one off, Raiden deploys an ion blaster on his left hand to blast at another arm to stun it. Raiden does the same to the other arm holding his gunblade, leaving them stunned and allowing Raiden to use his strength to escape the main tail claw grasping him. Raiden breaks free and takes to the air and sees the tails come back around before he manages to whirlwind with his gunblade and drive them back. Raiden then takes a bucket full of oil, throws it in the air for the tail ends, and switches his gunblade to gun mode and fires at the tank.

An explosion occurs and after the smoke clears, Raiden and Squall are left standing with Raiden panting and Squall retracting her arms. Soon, all four arms are displayed behind Squall as she faces her former pupil.

"So you would rather die hard," Squall noted amusingly as she procures her shield.

"Your threat to the IS Academy is coming to an end, Mistress!" cried Raiden as he changes his gun mode to blade mode on his gunblade and points his gunblade before charging at her.

Squall uses her range armaments to fire at Raiden. Raiden dodges a few, but a majority skid close to him as it makes him propel back a bit. Raiden gets his bearings to see a claw strike at him before Squall comes up close to strike him. Raiden initially misses the first strike but Squall, using her mechanical arms, strikes Raiden from the side and pushes him through a wall, destroying it.

Raiden gets out of the way of another claw and uses his lightning to strike at Squall up close, but she deploys her shield to block the attack, even though it forces her back somewhat. Raiden flies around, dodging and firing back at Squall who does the same, the interior of the tower being destroyed from their shots. One of the rubble stones nearly hits Tatenashi and Autumn as they dodge and resume their battle.

Raiden comes up close again to attack and this time, he was able to feign a thrust attack from his gunblade in favor of lightning from his hand, which hits and pushes Squall back towards a pillar near her. She dodges out of the way from Raiden's ion blasters before he goes to pursue her.

Raiden blocks one of her mechanical arms with his gunblade before Squall attempts to use her tail weapon to grapple Raiden again. Raiden dodges and circles Squall, trying to twist her arms somewhat. However, one unsuspecting arm grabs Raiden and pushes him to the wall. But Raiden breaks free as the two soon go air to air in battle, each trading strikes. Everyone one of them was either blocked, parried, or dodged.

Squall is flung back by Raiden's gunblade as Raiden goes to finish it but Squall miraculously dodges in a flip before she counters with her tail. Raiden repeats again as does Squall.

"You look exhausted, Raiden," Squall said. "Time for a break."

Squall soon feigns a strike from the tail and uses her shield to push Raiden back, crashing through a pillar and destroying his lascannons in the process.

Using one of her arms to hold Raiden by the waist, Squall soon uses the other two to hold Raiden's arms while her tail gets up close and personal to Raiden's face. Soon, the tip of it enters into Raiden slowly as Raiden feels it but contains his pain.

"Oh, my dear Raiden," Squall said as she caresses her pet's face. "If you want to truly want to prove yourself to me, you need to be the kind of man who can make the hardest decisions."

Squall starts to get in the mood as she breaks open Raiden's lion jaws, exposing his lower jaw before opening a small section of her mask for her lips. She takes hold of her lion's jaw and inches her way closer and closer as her lips and Raiden's touch by the edge, ready for a kiss.

"I couldn't…agree…more!" Raiden said as he diverts power to his chest repulsor cannon and fires away at Squall, propelling her far away and damaging her IS severely.

Raiden halts the beam from his cannon and flies over with whatever power is left to his Mistress to see her still alive and standing, but her mask was only half broken and her IS damaged.

"Someday, you too will know," Squall said. "The thirst for revenge that can never be reclaimed!"

Squall soon fires a hole in the roof where, together with Autumn, they flee and retreat. Raiden can only watch, a small part of him wondering when the next time he will face his Mistress. He deactivates his IS with the battle now over.

"Raiden!" Tatenashi calls out as she runs to Raiden, making him turn around to meet her.

"Katana, I had it under control," Raiden said. Tatenashi could only smirk happily.

"But I would've missed my fun without fighting beside you," Tatenashi whines in a cute way.

'She is not one to listen anyway,' Raiden thought to himself before he turns to face Tatenashi. "I owe you one, though."

Tatenashi then kisses Raiden on the cheek and smirks, "More than one."

Raiden could not help but be amused as he and Tatenashi comes close to fondle with one another. Raiden's hands descend slowly to Tatenashi's butt as the cat wraps her arms around his neck. The two were ready for a kiss to make up for the Wedding Panic.

But…

"What are you two doing?" asked Houki with her eyes closed in a downward and annoyed expression. She had just stepped out of the Groundbridge portal to arrive, only to find an unpleasant site.

"Uh…Houki…" Raiden sheepishly says as he lets go of Tatenashi. "Glad you could join. We were just about finished and—"

Houki partially deploys her IS and pulls out Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi as it glows red.

"Uh oh…" Raiden sweat drops from behind. Luckily for him, rescue arrives as Tatenashi giggles.

"Now, now, Houki-chan. How about we all take a break from this?" asked Tatenashi but all she gets is a glare from the fox as her aura burns brighter and her hair flares up.

"You two…" Houki goes to attack but is caught by Raiden's hand. Houki is shocked, not because Raiden caught her sword but rather that he was so up close to her and grasped her lower back with his other arm to hug her.

Houki struggles against the lion's grip as he smells and licks her neck, to her surprise as she yelps.

"Houki, you smell nice," Raiden lustfully said. "The sweat glands turn me on."

"What are you—HYAH?!" Houki yelps again as Raiden sucks on her ear lobe. Houki felt her urges climb her, but now was not the time for such indecent activity.

"Cut it out…RIGHT NOW!" Houki chops Raiden's head hard and knocks the poor boy out, making him fall back to the floor.

Houki slides down to the floor to collect herself before she finally figures out what caused Raiden to act strange. She takes a smell off of him to sense some sot of perfume with a smell that could hypnotize someone into this state.

Houki looks at Tatenashi, thinking of her to be the culprit, but she was already long gone and went into the Groundbridge portal. Houki could only scowl at the blue cat yet a small part of her felt a bit wet of what Raiden did. She could only look and shake her head at the knocked-out lion, wondering why he is so easily seduced by that slut of a cat.


Morning came up two days later as everyone was gathered at Haneda Airport to see someone off back to Hokkaido.

"Thank you, Raiden. It was fun while it lasted," Tatenashi said.

"Well, that's good to hear from you," Raiden said as he and Tatenashi had a bit of a laugh.

Turns out that Tatenashi's time with the Academy was now up as she had to return with her family to rebuild what they had lost. Although she wanted to stay with Raiden as his new wife, she knew her family had to come first since it was going to take a while for them to recover from the Wedding Panic. Kanzashi will be staying at the Academy to finish up her education and be with her friends to recover from her ordeal in her very brief time as prisoner.

"Kanzashi-chan," Aiko came to hold her youngest daughter's hands. "Come visit us during your weekends and your breaks when you're available, okay?"

"I will!" Kanzashi said happily. Aiko then turned her attention over to her new son-in-law and whispered into his ear.

"Raiden, I want you to also come visit with your new wife and really think about being part of the family," Aiko said. "If you do that, then we'll write off the Wedding Panic."

Raiden was caught a bit off-guard at that remark, blushing a bit. But Daisuke Sarashiki soon turned his head over to the blind boy.

"Listen, you vile wretch!" Daisuke commanded. "Don't get a big head just because you rescued my daughter and beat back Harvard and Phantom Task! We already have plenty of weapons at our disposal capable of bringing you down! We also have LOKI, THOR, and our strongest weapon, ODIN—"

Aiko had enough of his banter and grabbed him from behind to drag him off.

"Yes, yes. We're leaving, Husband," Aiko reprimanded as Daisuke repeated that last phrase of his last line.

"Yes, ma'am!" Daisuke regretfully composes his normal demeanor under his wife's glare.

Tatenashi soon turns back to meet her eyes on Raiden.

"Raiden, we were only together for a short time, but thank you," Tatenashi says as she extends her hand to him.

"Of course," Raiden says as he grasps her hand. But the next moment turned to shock for everyone else as Tatenashi pulls Raiden to her and kisses him firmly on the lips, inserting her tongue briefly into his mouth. Raiden was completely caught off-guard.

Charlotte's jaw dropped as she snaps, Houki grits her teeth in bewilderment, Kanzashi was even more shocked, Cecilia gasps loudly, Rin was surprised, and Laura was caught off-guard. Even Ichika turned away from the act to his embarrassment. The only two unaffected were Jake and Scott who were wowed by that notion.

"O-O-Onee-chan is k-kissing Hataru-san?!" Kanzashi asked in complete shock.

Tatenashi lets go of Raiden as she runs to the door of her plane gate. She turns around to happily wave at Raiden.

"I'll definitely come and see you again, Husband! Really soon!" Tatenashi cried out. Seems like she picked up her mother's charm of calling Raiden her husband now.

With that said, she boards the plane as everyone returns back to the IS Academy. Everyone was back to their normal and usual routines as Raiden and Houki were on the usual rooftop of the Academy.

"Welp, they're finally gone now," Raiden said as he was watching. Except Houki had her head down and back turned away from the view, trying to compose herself. But she backs away from Raiden a bit for some odd reason.

"What's wrong, Houki?" asked Raiden as he notices.

R-Raiden," Houki stated. "You don't remember what happened when you went to Tatenashi-san's room, right?"

Raiden was caught off-guard a bit. "I told you already. It's like, uh, I remember the whole operation taking place, but I don't have any memories before that."

"Then, that's good. For both of us," Houki sighed in relief.

"Both of us?" asked Raiden. "Myself aside, you don't have anything to worry about!"

Wrong move for Raiden as he soon turns to see Houki scowl at him.

"You do remember!" Houki cried.

"Oh, come on! What do you want me to say?" asked Raiden in defense of himself. "Look, compared to me, who was forced to act like I was in some stupid anime, you had it easy—"

Houki soon bashes her fists on Raiden as he cowers a bit from her.

"H-Hey! Get off! That hurts!"

"Raiden, you're so repulsive!" Houki cried. "How dare you be her boy toy!"

Raiden gets away from her but is immediately confronted.

"What did you two do in her bedroom?" Houki demandingly asked. "And… When you told me I smelled nice, even though I was covered in sweat, I—"

Houki gasps to herself at the realization of what she had just said as Raiden stood confused.

"ARGH! What are you making me say!? Raiden, you idiot!"

Houki partially deploys her IS to take out Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and attacks Raiden, the blind boy screaming in pain comically.

Everything was over and would soon return back to normal in no time.


Author's Note

Whew! This was a fun one to write as it was another big battle but on the scale of Avengers this time. A lot of Avengers reference used in this I know. And I bet many of you are angry for the Whale being referenced to the Chitauri Leviathan from Avengers but come on! Who would ever hate adding something like that? Next you'll tell me there is an IS with the power to harness the Infinity Stones with the Gauntlet.

But anyway, enough about Avengers. This chapter took a while to make but I nonetheless had fun writing it, especially the hentai scene. With Tatenashi now out of the picture, all that is left is Houki to have her go with Raiden in terms of hentai. But who knows when that will happen? Next chapter though will just be comedy. No fighting, no destruction or wedding massacres, no action sequences like Avengers. Just pure comedy at the Academy because that is what the anime is about.

To make it lcear, this is still a OC x Houki story.

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