Erica's POV
We were going on a school wide mission to an island north of Alaska to get a magic tool. The island was home to a magic tool lab run by witches, but something happened and it blew up, causing a strong magnetic field to be created, which could hurt us terribly. The longest we can be in there safely is 20 minutes. Damn, FUN! But the boat ride wasn't as so. Yuki and Suki would be pretty much puking the whole way over, if they weren't in fan form.
"As you know our mission here is to acquire the magic tool Brew, You were briefed on the battle plan a few days ago. Does everyone remember?" Ms. Marie was steering our ship.
"We do." Maka was ready, Black*Star wasn't.
"While Sid's squad moves to head off Arachnophobia, we'll make for the center of the island's magnetic field, where Brew is lying dormant."
"However, Marie and I will be the only one's to enter the field itself. The rest of you are not to set a foot inside the field. You will stay outside awaiting our return. This may be the biggest battle you've seen. Remember, you were chosen because you are the elite of all one star meisters. Fight well, don't prove our choice wrong." Everyone seemed ready after Dad's speech. I was pouting. I wanted to go into the field. I could handle it.
We landed and were ready to go. We made it to the center of the island and the magnetic field looked more like a tornado.
"The magnetic field." No shit.
"It's a big one alright." No Shit!
"Marie and I are the only ones continuing on from here. Remember the instructions I gave you earlier. Stay put until we get back. Listen Kim, we should be back in 20 minutes. If not, use Jacqueline to send a signal to the rest of the academy troops. Then follow the tracks left by Sid's group, meet up with the other troops and get off this island." Kim nodded.
"But professor, What will happen to you and Marie if you are left behind? Arachnophobia will be in there too. Shouldn't we go in with you? You guys might need our help."
"More people only means a bigger battle and the bigger the battle the longer it's going to last. Too long and both sides will be trapped inside of the field. I would've thought the situation was clearly obvious, certainly to a student the top of her class anyways."
"No need to be worried. With Marie and me working together it won't matter how many enemies we encounter, we'll be out five minutes or less. With that said we're off."
"Wish us luck everybody." And in the field the went.
"Well, there they go." I sat on the edge of the field, watching and waiting.
"Hey, you okay Erica?" It was Suki.
"I guess. I just wish they'd trust me enough to go in with them. But recently, Daddy won't talk to me. It feels like it's all about Marie recently." I felt a deep thud in my chest. "I wonder what's worse. Having Kid hate me or Daddy ignore me." I felt a few tears run down my face.
"Don't cry Erica. Not cool girl."
"Please Yuki, not now." I closed my eyes and felt a hand on my shoulder. It was Kid.
"Don't worry too much about it Erica. They'll be back soon. Okay?" I nodded.
"I guess you're right." I stood and joined the others in a circle around Jacqueline. "Well, I know Jacqueline's a really good weapon, but I'd be a little pissy being used as a stove."
"I don't mind. Really I don't."
"Jacqueline is so warm." No shit Maka.
"I should start charging for this." Kim, you'd be fucking rich! Killik Rung pulled out a candy bar and it pushed Black*Star over the edge.
"Is that a chocolate bar?" No Black*Star, it's a carrot. "Killik, be a pal and share some of it."
"Sorry, there's only enough for, me." Bull shit, there's two more behind you're back.
"Liar! you have more I saw it." And they started fighting over it. Pathetic.
"How long has it been now? They said they'd be no longer that five minutes." Kid pulled out his pocket watch.
"They still have 15 minutes to go." I sneezed. "Erica, I have a question?"
"Yes?" I turned to Kid.
"Why are you wearing what you usually wear?"
"I'm not, see, long sleeves and I'm wearing jeans."
"Yet your mid-drift still shows." I shrugged.
"But not as much as usual, and my cleavage is covered more too."
"Didn't Stein sass you for that?" I shook my head.
"He hasn't noticed me at all really. The last time he took notice of me was because I had a meltdown and Spirit needed to bring me home." I sighed and felt myself tear up a little.
"Professor Stein's and Ms. Marie's wavelengths just vanished." Maka said.
"You've been able to sense their soul wavelengths even in a magnetic field that strong?"
"The static is loud. I can only get a spark here and there, but I can tell something isn't right." Maka started to focus again. I sighed. I didn't even bother trying to find their wavelengths. What kind of daughter am I? Not a good one if I'm not checking on my father to make sure he's okay.
"Alright, then I'll go in and check it out." Oh hell no! If I can't, you can't! "Since I'm a grim reaper my body shouldn't be affected too much by the field."
"No Kid, it isn't safe to go alone."
"Come on."
"In that case we'll go too."
"Yeah."
"What about the professor's orders, he was very explicit."
"I can't come or there won't be anyone to send a signal." And then we were ambushed. Killik decided to stay behind with his team and the rest of us went into the field. We made it through to a sunny forested area and it felt like summer.
"Man you guys move fa-" Maka looked around. It didn't seem like there was anything wrong with the laboratory, considering it was still STANDING!
"What? When we were looking in from the outside the building's looked completely destroyed. Now it's whole. I still can't sense the Professor's soul, or Ms. Marie's. Maybe they went inside the Pyramid."
"Hey, look up there in the sky." We looked and it was the old Lord Death. And he looked pretty beat up.
"That's impossible."
"But he's always said he can't leave the city."
"It's Lord Death."
"No, it's not." I said.
"What do you mean Erica?"
"She's right, look. He doesn't seem right some how."
"That's how my father used to look back before he started the academy. Things were a lot different then. I still don't get what's going on. Why is he here?" Then Death went into the building. " Come on, we need to hurry and find out what's happening over there." And in that direction we went. We got to the path before the pyramid and a bunch of witches were going inside, none of them seemed to notice us.
"It's a bunch of witches." No, really?
"Doesn't seem as if they can see us here though."
"Take a closer look. They're bodies are blurred. It's just a hunch, but what I think we're looking at is the past. Maybe when the explosion happened it sealed the events of that day within the magnetic field, and what we're seeing is them played out again. But I wonder, with my dad showing up like that and the witches acting afraid, something seems off. Was what really happened here really an accident?" Maka looked around then froze.
"What's the matter? You see something?"
"That looks like-"
"Yeah no doubt about it, that's Arachne." We watched a little meeting between Auntie Arachne and one of the guards, talking about Mosquito. And something about Eibon's blueprints. Which kinda got to Kid.
"Eibon again." Auntie Arachne seemed to turn and look directly at us. Freaking almost everyone out. Then she talked about how they tricked Death here and were going to blow up the pyramid and Brew along with it.
"What is going on here?" I thought it was clear. They are blowing up the building. We started looking for Daddy and Marie.
"There they are."
"We've been looking for you guys. Are you alright?" I stopped. The madness. It was getting to him.
"You four? What do you think you're doing here?"
"I told you to stay out, You disobeyed me." I felt my heart break. I had never seen Daddy like this, or hear him like this, especially not to me.
"It's been 20 minutes since you came in here. You need to get out."
"What about Brew?" Marie shook her head.
"We haven't been in long, We'll still be safe for ten minutes. We can look for the tool."
"Let's go."
"Hurry and get out!" The other three ran ahead. I couldn't help but stare at my father and cry a little bit.
"I-I'm sorry Daddy!" And I ran ahead with the others.
"Hey hold it! Get back here now!"
"We already disobeyed orders, we might as well go all the way."
"You okay Erica?" I shook my head.
"Where is this thing anyways?"
"Disobeying orders. What am I turning into?" Maka said.
"That's what I've been asking myself since I was born."
"There's a gate up ahead. Huh, someone's there. Is it part of the past?" It was Mosquito, he turned towards us and we stopped.
"It seems like he's noticed us. He looks familiar I think I seen him somewhere before."
"Could that box he's got be what we're looking for?"
"I expected to run into academy agents. I didn't think they'd send three meisters straight from there play pens and Lady Arachne's niece."
"All you have to do is hand over the box you're carrying old man. Do that and you can be on your way."
"Old man huh? Don't underestimate me. Little brat."
"Consider my offer, have you looked at your body lately?"
"My body?"
"You're beginning to blur, you can't afford to stay in the field much longer. We've still got ten minutes left though. We won't even have to fight you, you'll become a memory before long. All we have to do is prevent you from leaving the magnetic field, and the rest will be taken care of for us."
"That's true, this old body can't handle more than 20 minutes." He took off his hat and put the box into in. "It's alright though, that can be fixed. Shaving off a few years should give me plenty of time. 400 perhaps? No no, 100 should be enough." And with that Mosquito became 100 years younger, and pretty much quadrupled in size.
"Holy shit. That's a big bug."
"Go ahead, call me old now! This is how I looked 100 years ago! This body should buy me an extra ten minutes. So now we're even."
"Ew, his torso's inflated so much that his legs are dangling in the air. Does that look right to you?"
"None of it looks right to me."
"Not really an improvement."
"If that was 100 and this scene was 800, imagine what he looked like then."
"I don't really wanna." Then Mosquito's nose twitched and the battle really began.
"You four look quite tasty, I bet you have delicious young blood." Ew. Then someone randomly appeared.
"Who is this guy? Another memory? Just when things were about to get interesting too."
"We should be careful."
"He's here, Eibon." Kid got irritated again.
"What did you just say?! Is that really, Eibon?" Then he walked away.
"Do you recognize him Kid?"
"No."
"Time's running out guys, we're down to less than ten minutes here. We can't afford to mess around here anymore! Let's get him!" And with that Black*Star launched himself. "Hand it over gramps. I may not know exactly what's going on here, but I know that tool is ours!"
"Hey, Eibon's getting away! Come on Black*Star!"
"No time for that Kid, this show is ending in ten minutes, we've got to prioritize!" This is all coming from Black*Star? What the fuck? "Ten minutes is barely enough time for a star like me to make an appearance." Never mind."You're pathetic! You think making yourself a few years younger and a few pounds heavier is gonna help against me? Don't make me laugh. Hey!" Soul told us Black*Star was right and Maka went to fight.
Liz and Patty had to sass kid a bit, but he got moving. Then he started fighting. I decided to just use fans and hurl giant gusts of wind at Mosquito that sliced him and propelled Maka and Black*Star. Kid backed up by shooting. Unfortunately for us, it did nothing to him. Then we got our asses whooped. Then Soul decided to help us to help Maka with our Soul Resonance links. In other words, he played the mother fucking piano, and Yuki was ecstatic! And then we all resonated together. And kicked Mosquito's ass.
But for whatever reason, Soul didn't chose to use me and have me resonate with Yuki or Suki. It felt off, along with the power he gave us. I kept trying to help, but I seemed to only get in the way, so I stayed out and helped when I could, which wasn't much. In the end, Maka finished Mosquito with Genie Hunter.
However, Black*Star noticed that his head popped off and ran away. We were going to go after him, but instead we left. I felt really bad too. KilliK and Ox came and got us. Then the place went boom and we left the field.
"We've failed. I'm sorry. The enemy got Brew." Marie looked like she was about to hit all of us, but decided against it and just hugged us and began to cry. I managed to avoid it and went straight to Daddy. He wasn't looking to good.
"Daddy, are you okay?" He just nodded. Like always. Then Sid and the other's got us. Sid ended up giving Daddy a piggy back ride on the way back to the ships, then Sid gave Maka a mirror to call Death.