Read or you will be subjected to a Rakan For-The-Hell-Of-It-Right-Hand-Punch!
-CHAPTER START-
New Ostia
As Asuna finally released her death-grip hug on Negi, pulled him to his feet, and started fussing over him, the others – Rakan, Chachamaru, Chisame, Yayap, Marie, Kaede F., Ahsoka, Usze, Teana, Zhal, Ako, and Shion – watched with varying emotions. Rakan's ensuing self-introduction to Asuna got most of said emotions switched over to either exasperation, amusement, or both.
Zhal Arum leaned his considerable bulk against a sturdy-looking pillar. Erohn, Kotarō, and Mai were accompanying Natsumi, Akira, Bear-Mama, and the wretched slaver on a separate ship; Bear-Mama, upon learning that Natsumi and Akira had wanted to see the tournament up close and be there for Negi, had gladly arranged a trip for herself and company, and since the two girls were technically under her protection and Tohsaka's ownership, they "had" to come along for the ride. She and the three Ala Alba members were there to make sure Tohsaka didn't try anything with them.
The Sangheili Ship-Master took a glance at Ako nearby. Every so often, the girl would subconsciously rub at her neck, due to the former presence of that damned slave-collar. The collar's self-destruction had gone off with half the explosive force of a human fragmentation grenade, judging by the drain on Zhal's energy shields when he protected the girl with his own body; had it gone off while still attached to her, it would've blown her head off. He suppressed a snarl. He glanced at the contraption presently worn on Ako's right wrist – a presently-inactive Sangheili-made plasma dagger, re-sized for her small adolescent human limb. He had insisted she keep it on her person whenever possible for self-protection. Being the hemophobic pacifist that she was, Ako had only agreed to it upon learning that the plasma blade's method of cutting meant there would be little or no blood loss for whoever it was used on, so slashing out someone's tendons or stabbing them in the shoulder would not result in her accidentally killing them.
"Hey! Guys!"
Everyone turned to the voice, seeing Setsuna, Konoka, Kaede Nagase, ODST Earhart, and N'tho Sraom approaching. N'tho walked up to Zhal and clenched a fist over his chest – the Sangheili military salute, which Zhal returned.
"So the gang's all here, eh?" Jack commented, and looked over at the setting sun. "C'mon, folks. Let's head into town. We got some things to discuss."
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Next Day
The monstrous bounty hunters looked quite confused as the little boy shrouded in a black, fiery aura appeared amongst them. When they decided to attack the kid, confusion turned to surprise as the boy effortlessly hammered them away. The bald humanoid was taken down for the count, as Negi unleashed a point-blank Byaku-Raishō into his gut.
"S-Sensei?"
Negi dispelled his transformation and briefly turned to face Nodoka, but what he was about to say was cut off as he narrowly dodged an attack from the cloaked hunter's sandworm summons. Negi then dodged several more strikes from the worms' tentacles, and called forth a Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens, merging it with himself via Magia Erebea, now appearing to be shrouded in white lightning.
"Agilitas Fuliminis {Shippū Jinrai} {With Lightning Speed}!"
With incredible speed, he dashed forward, downing the cloaked figure with a punch to the midsection. He then dodged the sandworms' strikes and leapt off of them and into the air, incanting his next spell:
"Locos umbrae regnans, Scathach, in manum meam det jaculum daemonum cum spinis triginta…"
As he reached the apex of his leap, he moved his arm downward as if throwing a spear… which is exactly what ended up happening.
"Jaculatio Fulgoris {Ikazuchi no Tōteki} {Lightning Spears}!"
The two spears of solidified lightning magic impaled the huge sandworms from above, pinning them to the ground.
"Woah!" the dome-headed, tailed bounty hunter observed the carnage. "That kid ain't half-bad! To think that I would be able to use my full strength for once… This'll be awes-"
Negi, however, was in no mood to play around, as the hunter found out when the boy flash-stepped behind him and smashed him in the midsection with a lightning-charged rising palm thrust, taking him out of commission. This left the skeletal, six-armed leader. Negi charged him, dodging his high-speed attacks with ease and striking back with his own, unavoidable blows. Eventually, he got the demon pinned, and unleashed a point-blank Jaculatio Fulgoris into his chest, taking him down.
The human bounty-hunter attempted to pull himself up… only for a Dark Magic Death-Glare from Negi to send him cowering back on the ground. Negi then let out a slight wince as he dispelled Magia Erebea, returning to his normal form.
"…You're damn strong, kid."
"I… apologize for being so rough" Negi said to the weakened demon. "But against people of your kind, I couldn't hold back."
"Well, you would need something on this level to actually stop me. Such incredible power at so young an age… You are extraordinary."
"Negi-sensei~!"
A few seconds later, Negi got his first ever close-up look at a girl's breasts, to Nodoka's mortification.
"Negi!-! What the hell was all that?-!"
And then Asuna came running up.
"You have got some serious explaining to do, brat!"
The Paru-sama then flew in, with several spectators – Haruna, Konoka, Kū Fei, Kazumi, Teana, and Chamo – waving to Negi and Asuna.
"That was incredible, Negi-kun!" Haruna shouted. "…But why'd you have to end it so soon? I was just about to try out this baby's weapons systems!"
'That power…' Teana thought to herself. 'I had my Sharingan active, but… there is no way in Hell I'll ever be able to use that technique… Magia Erebea…'
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Later, back at the hideout
"WHAT?-! DARK MAGIC?-!-!"
Asuna's response to Negi's new technique was predictable. The whole group - now with the addition of Haruna, Nodoka and her treasure-hunter friends, Kū Fei, Chamo, Rex, Cody, ODST Cpl. Reiss, ODST Cpl. Miles, ODST PFC Kamiya, ODST PFC Enders, Unggoy Spec-Ops Ledan, Unggoy Heavy Flipyap, and Unggoy Major Kazar – winced away from the ki-enhanced force of her shout.
"Asuna-sa-"
"Absolutely not! I forbid this! Seal it away! Get rid of it!"
"I can't! It's a part of me now; also, I need all the power I can get to protect you girls and beat Fate and find my father and-"
"Damnit, you brat! Stop trying to put every single responsibility in the worlds on your shoulders! You're 10 years old!"
"It's my fault we're all in this! And because of that, I'm gonna be the one to get us all out of it!"
"Kagurazaka."
Asuna turned to Chisame.
"This wasn't some childish, instinctive decision. Negi-sensei put a shitload of thought into the choice of taking up this power."
"I was the one who taught it to him" Rakan added in. "And I wouldn't have done so if I didn't think he could handle it."
"Besides, Asuna" Negi said. "This is Eva-san's technique. She's been using it for centuries, and it hasn't hurt her. So I'm sure it can't be that danger-"
"You're lying."
"…Huh?"
"It's always easy to tell when a kid is lying. …Fine. If this is how you think is the only way you'll be strong enough… I can't stop you. And if – no, when – this backfires on you, I'll… I'll be there to save you. I'll go to the depths of Hell if I have to. Just… please, stop refusing to rely on others for help. We know you're strong; we know you have a hero complex, a saving-people thing, we get it. But there is a reason we all threw ourselves into training: so you wouldn't have to take on every single challenge alone. So you wouldn't have to divide your focus in a fight on protecting us… and so that if anything happened to you, we wouldn't be helpless without you watching over us. Please… start accepting our help once in a while."
"…Okay. I'll try."
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That evening, everyone gathered aboard the Paru-sama, in a room that was enchanted in three major ways, one of them permanent: first, the room was permanently made into a 'bigger on the inside' space thanks to a spell from Jack Rakan. Second, Charon and Cross-Mirage combined their processing power to cast a special Barrier-Field encompassing the room, altering the passage of time to a rate similar to Evangeline's Resort, except to a far faster degree. Another temp-spell courtesy of Konoka and drawing power from the ship's power core would prevent people within its area-of-effect from feeling the effects of tiredness. Lastly, an adjustment would allow all those present capable of it to sense the energies displayed in the footage as if they were really there.
All this was done with one "simple" purpose in mind. A scrying spell created by Dr. Halsey and based off of an existing TSAB spell could delve into the past, showing 'recorded' video and audio of events. Another, much simpler spell could add appropriate background music to strengthen the impact of things seen & shown. The result? Everyone present (Negi, Kotarō, Rakan, Chamo, all 3-A students present, and Gamma Team) was going to see the histories of the various realms Teana & company had been to (with the exception of Ahsoka's, though only because everyone present already knew most of it, thanks to six of Class 3-A's "Movie Fridays" in a row showing the Star Wars Trilogy, while non-3A personnel had found out through other means), followed by Teana & her team's exploits.
Granted, this combination of spells allowing the entire huge block of footage to be viewed in one sitting would probably never be used again, despite their various individual applications, due to the difficulty in pulling them off; In fact, it was only because they were on/in a world made of magic that they were able to do this at all. Fortunately, however, the footage itself could still be reviewed in more "normal" situations.
(AN: Can you see me grasping at straws in feeble, half-assed, superficial justification attempts that are solely ways of attempting to find an excuse to be able to do this?)
And so, everyone settled down for the long haul. First came the origins of Nanoha Takamachi; everyone marveled at the then-9-year-old's raw power, felt shock and horror at Precia's cruelty, watched in awe the epic battles between a pair of preteen magical prodigies, and the various revelations and conflicts that ensued afterward… including the thoughts of the apparently-mad woman as she fell into the Void: "I never notice these things… until it's too late…"
None of RF6 had been told of Fate's past; for Teana, it explained a few things about the blonde's personality. …She also wondered how the impulsive, gung-ho, 'blast 'em all and let the Bureau sort 'em out' Nanoha of youth had become the lying, manipulative, backstabbing, power-fearing woman who'd betrayed her.
Then came the Book of Darkness Incident. Hayate's ordeal, the well-intentioned extremism of the Wolkenritter… and the manipulative betrayal of one of the Bureau's most esteemed Admirals (Teana had Mirage take down a reminder to track down the now-retired Graham and… "have words" with him…). Those who could sense the energy of the abomination that was the Book's corruption were left in awe and fear at the dark power. Rakan, meanwhile, thought it felt disturbingly familiar…
After the aftermath of that case, the footage switched to something wholly different: a brief history of the United Nations Space Command, followed by a more in-depth look at the devastating Human-Covenant War. The emergence of the Spartans, the shocking truth behind the Prophet Triumvirate's reasons for orchestrating the war, the exploits of Preston Cole, the Spartan-3 program, and ending with the Battle of Sigma Octanis.
Next was the history of the universe that the Zerg and Protoss called home. The viewers saw the fall of the Confederacy, the reveal of Arcturus Mengsk's evil with the tossing aside of Kerrigan, the rise of the Terran Dominion, the rebirth of Kerrigan as the Queen Of Blades, the coming of the Overmind to Char, the vicious infighting amongst the Protoss even as their world burned. They watched Tassadar's final sacrifice, and felt as he somehow channeled ki/chakra, magic, the Force, and the Void through himself all at once, becoming the cataclysmic bolt of energy that slew the Overmind. They watched the evacuation of Aiur, the betrayal of Judicator Aldaris (and his subsequent death at Kerrigan's hands), the purging of Zerg from Shakuras, the arrival of the UED, the death of Stukov and betrayal of Duran, the capturing of the new Overmind… The counterattack of Kerrigan, which left the Overmind permanently ended, the UED force shattered, Raszagal and Fenix dead, and Mengsk in power. …They saw as Zeratul uncovered a truly horrifying secret, orchestrated by the thing calling itself 'Samir Duran', whose mere speech made a painful throb in the heads of those viewers who could sense energies; Rakan immediately identified him as a Lesser Daemon.
They saw the backstory behind the Sol Confederacy and its descent into corruption… and the resulting war in which the Phoenix League rose up and curb-stomped them; the life and times of Mel Johnson; the Second War; the betrayal of Smythe and Dragovich, the latter naming Duran as a trans-dimensional "sponsor"; the campaign on Aspatria; and other happenings.
Much time was spent on the life of Naruto Uzumaki, starting with… well, to avoid an extremely lengthy explanation – they watched the episodes of the show, more or less, starting from Episode 1 of the original series and going all the way up to Naruto's departure with Jiraiya to start 2 ½ years of training. Naruto's plight struck a chord with Setsuna; the depravity of Orochimaru brought disgust and fear to many of the viewers; Teana got to finally see how her younger cousin Sasuke fell to darkness; and the battles against the Sound Five, followed by the epic clash at the Valley of the End, brought awe.
Then came a focus on Midchilda, starting with the formation of Riot Force 6. Teana left the room. It showed the political rivalries within the TSAB, the training of the Forwards… the Hotel Augusta Incident, followed by the White Devil Incident that resulted in… divided opinions amongst those watching (though even the people who felt Teana had been somewhat in the wrong still agreed that Nanoha had gone much too far in response). It showed the ugly falling-out between Teana and Nanoha, and the younger girl's subsequent departure aboard the Starshot.
Having covered the 'back-stories', the footage then switched to the UNSC's universe, starting with Teana's arrival in it. Teana came back in the room, only to leave again once Noble Team showed up, as the heartache from their deaths was still too much for her at this point. The group watched as Reach, the bastion of the UNSC, fell. They saw and felt Teana's heartbreak as first Jorge, then Kat, then everyone else died with her being able to do anything about it.
"No wonder she doesn't talk about her time with them…" Mai muttered. "It's still too painful for her…"
Teana came back into the room for good as the footage covered the events on Halo-04 – the emergence of the Flood, the discovery of the Halos' true purpose, and the catastrophic destruction of the megastructure. Then came the long, hard road back to Earth, dealing a tremendous blow to the Covenant Navy in the process. The trial of Thel Vadam; the Prophet of Regret's stumbling upon Earth; the Battle of New Mombasa; the Covenant's attack on the Threshold Gas Mine; the events on Halo-05; the exploits of the Arbiter in the snowy Containment Zone and his betrayal at Tartarus' hands; the emergence of the Gravemind (whose mere psychic presence left Negi, Kotarō, and all of Gamma except Teana paralyzed with fear due to its foulness and potency); the outbreak of the Covenant Civil War; the killing of Tartarus; the emergence of Teana's optic bloodline; the events of Onyx. The fight to reclaim Earth; the activation of the portal; the brief attack by the Flood; the journey to The Ark; the toppling of the Covenant, the fulfillment of Thel and Teana's revenge; the rescuing of Cortana; and the destruction of Halo-04-2 and of the Gravemind's physical form. The arrival and truncated histories of Shion, Kaede, Marie, and Mai (whose tale left most of the viewers nauseous, disgusted, horrified, and such); the events on the barren desert world Crassus; and the departure of Gamma from the realm.
Next was the brief stop-over in Ahsoka's realm, and the ensuing resurrection of her, Rex, and Cody.
Then came the arrival in the Koprulu Sector; Shion's passing of the Shadow Walk and becoming a Dark Templar; the freeing of Tychus Findlay; the brutal resurgence of the Zerg; the various exploits involving colonists, psychic soldiers, and assaulting the Emperor's public image; the re-emergence of Zeratul, and the shocking revelations and absolutely horrifying predictions that came with it; the gathering of the Xel'Naga artifacts and the discovery of their purpose; and the assault on Char, leading to the purification of Kerrigan.
Then, the footage switched to something not involving Gamma Team. Instead, it showed Naruto's return to Konoha after his training; the fight between Gaara and Deidara; the rescue mission gone wrong; the fight against Sasori; the power of Naruto's anger; the brief mourning of Gaara, which left many in tears, followed by Elder Chiyo's sacrifice; the introduction of Sai, whom some of 3-A, referring to his personality and powers, called "the Anti-Haruna"; the events at the Heaven-and-Earth Bridge – Naruto's rage, Orochimaru's power, and the terrifying might of the Fox Daemon; the clash against Sasuke, and the reveal that the darkness had all but consumed him by this point.
It then returned to Gamma Team, showing their bizarre empowerment in slipspace while approaching their next realm; the introduction to the Phoenix League; the reveal of Shion's past; the attack of the Greater Demon, and the resulting awakening of Teana's Mangekyō Sharingan.
Next was Gamma's arrival at Konohagakure; the reveal of Shion's and Mai's status as Hosts (Type-1 and Type-2, respectively); the incident involving the Type-2 Jinchūriki named Sora; the emergence of Hidan and Kakuzu; the ill-fated battle at the bounty outpost; the tragic, drawn-out death of Asuma, which left nearly everyone openly weeping ('helped' by the music); Shikamaru's revenge against Hidan, and the reveal of Naruto's devastatingly powerful new technique against Kakuzu; the 3-Tails Incident; Sasuke's disposal of Orochimaru; the explosive confrontation between Sasuke and Deidara; the reveal of Madara Uchiha; the climactic battle between Sasuke and Itachi… and the terrible revelations that followed, along with Sasuke's complete fall to darkness that said revelations caused; the epic battle between Jiraiya and Pain… and the old sage's heroic death (Chamo and Rakan mourned the loss of he who was both a proud & honorable warrior… and a fellow pervert); the devastating invasion of the Leaf Village by Pain; the reveal of Naruto's extraordinary new power (now able to actually sense it, Ahsoka and Shion were very intrigued by the fusion of ki/chakra and the Force)… and how it still wasn't enough; the Fox's apocalyptic power… and the Fourth Hokage's safeguard; the defeat of Pain, and the enlightening conversations with Nagato that followed. It finished with the reveal that Madara had personally murdered Teana's parents and had then forced Pain to kill her older brother, and then with the celebrations in Naruto's name and the Starshot's departure.
"…And that's when we came here" Teana simply said to the little audience when the footage was finally over, and the passage-of-time-alteration spell disengaged. "…Any questions?"
The questions and comments lasted most of the rest of the night.
Kilometers away, Yūna and Makie came out of the little time-space bubble that had encapsulated them and allowed them to see the whole thing.
"I knew Lanstar was hiding some good stuff from us…" Yūna muttered.
Akira, Natsumi, and Bear-Mama came out of a similar 'bubble'; alone in a cave a long ways away, so did Anya. After processing what she'd seen, Anya prepared to go to bed on the bunch of straw she'd gathered. Suddenly, she heard a noise from the mouth of the cave.
"Hello?" she nervously called out. "Is somebody there?"
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Next Day
"…You heard Asuna, Fate. My answer is no."
The silver-haired boy briefly closed his eyes in thought. "Very well…" He opened his eyes and directed a cold gaze at them. "Then we are done negotiating."
Two stone spears shot out of the ground at great speed at Setsuna and Teana… who cleaved them in half with their swords.
"Don't take me lightly, boy" she said, and then summoned her Artifact – eight magical daggers shot forth at Fate. The boy picked up the Eagle's Decree sitting on the table and used it to deflect the blades, tossing the tool away afterwards.
"Dear me, Kagurazaka…" he said with a small grin. "You always persist in interfering with my plans at crucial moments. …However, I must thank you. In truth, I am glad that crude strategy was a failure. It would have been too boring to simply steal his son's free will, catching him in a simple trap. Finally, the two of us are truly enemies – rivals in deciding this world's fate. My wish has been granted."
Negi struck first, his body brimming with power. Fate, recognizing Magia Erebea, narrowly dodged and then flew upwards, incanting his opening spell:
"Ο Μονολιθος Κιων Του Αιδου {Ho Monolithos Kion Tou Haidou} {Stone Pillar of Hades}!"
Instantly, a large array of massive stone pillars appeared floating high in the air over the crowds of people. Negi leapt upwards towards Fate, calling forth an Incendium Gehennae and merging it with his Magia Erebea, taking a form wreathed in dark-red and black flames.
"Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio {Gokuen Renga} {Tempered By Hellfire}!"
Fate parried and countered Negi's opening strike, slamming him into one of the airborne pillars below. He blocked and dodged several more hits… until Negi displayed an unexpected burst of speed and landed a crushing blow to Fate's stomach, sending him flying. Meanwhile, the pillars began to fall. Asuna, with a wave of her sword imbued with her Anti-Magic, dispelled all but one, saving the crowds. The last one careened towards a school class on vacation… only to halt, redshift, and collapse into an infinitesimal point, winking out of existence. Teana then de-activated her Mangekyō, mentally thanking Kakashi-san for teaching her Kamui,and was about to leap into battle to assist Negi when another foe made her presence known.
"I've been waiting for this moment with such unbearable anticipation… senpai."
"Tsukuyomi…" Setsuna snarled.
"Ahh, these weeks feel like they took forever. To have such delicate meat dangled right before my eyes, and be able to do nothing but wait… Ahh~… I can't wait any longer! Setsuna-senpai, if you don't satisfy me, I might… I might have to carve up all these dolls around us after I'm through with you…"
'This girl…' Teana thought, '…is totally unhinged.'
At Setsuna's insistence, Asuna leapt away, heading in the direction of the fight between Negi and Fate. Setsuna then drew her blade and charged Tsukuyomi, who countered and flipped away… and narrowly dodged a dismemberment strike aimed at her legs by Teana; Mirage Longsword's blade kept going, slicing through a streetlight, leaving the cut edges glowing hot.
"Aw, a heat blade?" Tsukuyomi said in a disappointed tone. "You're using a sword that won't make any blood when it cuts someone? You're no fun. …Then again, besides playing with senpai, maybe I can see if your blood is as red as those pretty eyes of yours…"
"Shut up and fight" Teana said in a low, serious tone.
"Gladly~! Ooh, I'm actually having a threesome with Setsuna-senpai and a sexy newcomer!"
'Why do I feel like Batman fighting the Joker?' the redhead thought to herself as Setsuna came in with a falling-leaf strike that Tsukuyomi barely dodged.
Elsewhere, a barrier dimension shattered when placed against the raw awesomeness that was Jack Rakan, freeing him, Konoka, Chamo, and Kaede Fuyō from its prison and leaving its creators utterly defeated. At the same time, Mai disengaged from 'Shirabe', having bought Kotarō enough time to get the injured girls away. Granted, she could have flattened the dryad girl had she used any of the Hachibi's power, but something about the girl made Mai not want to seriously hurt her. As such, upon sensing the dog-boy's shadow-teleport, Mai threw down a smoke-bomb and then let loose a chakra-enhanced burst of speed as she roof-hopped away from the fight faster than the violet-haired girl could hope to keep up with.
A few minutes in, Tsukuyomi started thinking that, perhaps, taking on two high-speed swordswomen at the same time wasn't too good an idea. While she felt she could almost-certainly defeat or at least match either of them on their own, both of them at the same time were proving too much for her, their thrusts and stabs overwhelming her, leaving her increasingly-tired body writhing and twisting as it dodged and danced.
Then the alien girl showed up, her lightsabers igniting and striking at Tsukuyomi, who channeled ki through her blades to block the particle-chainsaw weapons.
"Teana!" Ahsoka shouted. "I'll help Setsuna from here; go help Negi!"
After a brief moment's hesitation, Teana nodded and leapt away, making due haste towards the battleground that was the river in the center of the district. Teana arrived just in time to witness an Agilitias Fulminis modeNegi stop Fate from killing Nodoka, who clutched her now-petrified Artifact against her chest. As the two boys traded threats, Teana decided that now was as good a time as any to test out her newest technique…
Fate narrowly dodged as Asuna's sword strike from above shattered the ground where he was standing less than half a second before. And then a rain of swords preceded the arrival of Jack Rakan. After several seconds, Fate decided that now would be a good time to fall back. He sent the telepathic signal to his various compatriots (though he sensed reluctance to disengage from Tsukuyomi, even though he could clearly sense that she was presently in over her head), and attempted to form a water gateway… only for several bright orange binds to snap into place, holding him fast.
"A pure-magic bind spell…?"
"Forsaken…"
All heads turned to face the source of the voice, seeing Teana bracing herself, feet firmly planted on the ground, both Mirage Pistols held close together as a red-orange sphere of raw magical energy gathered in front of them, an orange Midchildan magic circle at her feet.
"…Buster!-!-!"
The large, destructive wave/beam of magical energy smashed into the stone shield-wall Fate had instinctively conjured. The wall lasted less than a second and only absorbed about a third of the blast's power before being destroyed; the rest of it hit Fate dead-on, sending him flying into an old, abandoned building, which promptly began to come down on top of him. As the falling chunks of stone sent up a large dust cloud, a figure could be seen leaping out of the cloud, landing on a rooftop nearby. Fate – his suit torn, one arm clutching at his side – glared at Teana.
'This girl…' he thought to himself. 'To unleash such a potent attack, to deal to me not-insignificant harm with one strike… she may prove to be as dangerous as Negi-kun…'
This time, his water-gate teleportation spell was successful, as Fate retreated to see to the next stage in his Master's plans… and to tend to his own wounds.
With their foes driven off and the imminent arrival of Ariadne forces, the heroes made their own quick retreat, bound for Haruna's ship.
-CHAPTER END-
Yes indeed, Teana now has an answer to the Divine Buster. …Well, actually it more or less is the Divine Buster, in terms of power level, magic type, effects, and even energy signature, just with a different name, but Teana's hate-on against Nanoha is strong enough that she's lying to herself about having anything in common with her.