New Start

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Here we go! New arc, ready to go!

"Nanoha-chan! Fate-chan! Yuuno-kun! Hayate-chan!"

The four kids each blinked and turned towards the voice. "Arisa-chan!" Nanoha smiled happily as she saw her and Suzuka waving as they walked up to them. "Suzuka-chan, hi!"

Both girls smiled at the group and Arisa knelt down to give the puppy form of Arf a pat on the head. "How is everything going?"

"Pretty good." Nanoha smiled at her. "The dreams have been coming less often, and I don't shake when I'm trying to call up some magic." Whenever she thought about what happened almost half a year ago, she started to shake horribly, though her psychologist did say that was normal, so she didn't feel bad about it at least.

Arisa and Suzuka nodded, they had heard about what had happened. It sounded weird, magic, demonic creatures, mental and physical torture of their best friend, alien worlds, star-ships that sounded like something out of Star Wars.

Yet, for some reason, it made perfect sense.

"How about you, Hayate-chan?"

The wheelchair girl smiled at them. "My legs work again, but I can't walk on them for very long, my muscles are weak and the last time I tried to walk too far, I fell flat on my face." Not to mention that her legs wouldn't work the following day, still unused to being used at all. "My therapist said to take today and take it easy."

Fate was about to say something when Nanoha's cell phone started ringing. Blinking, she opened it up. "Yes? Uh huh... Mary wants to see me and Hayate-chan? Huh? okay, I'll tell them, bye."

"What?" Everyone blinked as Nanoha smiled softly.

"Mary said that she has something to show us, she's waiting for us all at Lindy-san's place."

The kids all blinked at her in confusion and Nanoha shrugged, she had no idea herself.

(-)

"Ah!" Lindy, in casual clothing, smiled as she saw Yuuno, Nanoha, Fate, Hayate, Suzuka and Arisa at her door. "Welcome. Oh, Hayate, you don't need to get up."

"I've been sitting all day, Lindy-san." Hayate said as she slowly got out of her wheelchair, her legs wobbled slightly as she slowly made her way to the living room, Yuuno, Fate and Nanoha around her to make sure that she didn't fall down. "I'll be okay." She smiled and gasped as she saw Reinforce in the room. "Reinforce!" Her eyes lit up in happiness even as her legs started to buckle under her. "I haven't seen you in almost six months!"

The silver-haired woman blushed softly even as Hayate stumbled forward, the only reason that she didn't fall completely down was because Fate grabbed her and helped her walk over. "I am sorry, master, I asked Mary to help me with something and she needed me to stick around for six months."

"But first!" Mary smiled and held out a small box, before opening it up. "I believe someone wants to say hello."

"Hello, my master."

Nanoha's eyes sparkled as she saw the red gem in the box. "Raising Heart!" She was about to take a step forward when the thing suddenly grew wings and floated towards her. "What?"

Mary laughed at the looks everyone had. "She wanted some modifications to her design so she could help you more."

"But, this must have taken a long time, how did..." Nanoha blinked as Raising Heart floated right to her hands.

Mary laughed at her confused look. "Once the tech people heard how this was a device that made the wannabe destroyers of the universe cringe in fear, they were more than willing to ensure that the frame got repaired and reinforced, all systems put back in, and any extra additions that she wanted, we were able to get into her."

"Like what?" Nanoha blinked as Mary laughed again. "What?"

Mary shook her head. "Don't worry about it, but your device is fully set up to give you full support in the future, Nanoha."

"Hey." Everyone turned to Arf as she nudged Reinforce. "What's with the blanket?"

Reinforce blushed, but gave Mary a dirty look. "This is all your fault."

"Yes, yes, blame the mad scientist." Mary rolled her eyes. "Anyway, remember how I asked to scan your Linker Core right after the events on Mid-Childa?"

"I still say that you went too far." Reinforce muttered and Mary rolled her eyes some more. "Right after the fight against Death Bringer," she mentally sighed as she saw Nanoha flinch and tremble slightly before Yuuno grabbed her shoulders and caused her to calm down, "I asked Mary to create a new Unison device, one that could fully support the Guardian Knights where I could not."

"Why not?" Arf asked as she jumped up onto the chair. "Aren't you supposed to be able to bond with them?"

"Reinforce told me that she was worried that what she had gone through would make it hazardous for the Knights if she bonded to them." Mary then frowned softly. "That reminds me, where are they?"

"They all got called on a mission last night." Hayate pouted. "They'll be back by tomorrow, but until my legs work properly, they're not letting me out on missions."

"I thought it was because mom threatened to blow them up if they sent you on a mission before your legs were better." Nanoha chuckled softly as Hayate nodded. She really didn't think her mother would do that, but apparently they all had seen what Lina had done to the Garden of Time and none of them wanted to have that happen on Cranagan.

"New device?" Suzuka asked softly. "What new device?"

"HI!" A small figure popped out from under the blanket. She was wearing a small blue outfit, had long silver hair, a hair band like Hayate's and her eyes, when she opened them, were blue. "I'm Reinforce Zwei, Tome of the Azure Sky, here to give the Guardian Knights support when I can!"

"She's so cute!" Arisa gushed as she looked at the little thing.

"Um, how did you make her?" Yuuno looked at Mary. "Shouldn't this have taken a couple of years?"

Reinforce gave Mary a dark look. "She cheated. Unison devices aren't meant to become pregnant."

Mary laughed at the stunned looks everyone had. "Yes, well, I think you can blame yourself and that weird energy that makes up part of you. Sure sped up the work needed to make her."

"Um..." Hayate blinked as Reinforce Zwei floated towards her and smiled.

"Hi, daddy."

Hayate's eyes rolled up into the back of her head as she fainted dead away.

(-)

Fate looked at Reinforce, then at Zwei, then at Hayate. "Um... How..?"

"Using Hayate's Linker Core, we were able to basically take data from it and Reinforce's Linker Core and merge the two together to make Reinforce Zwei's Linker Core." Mary explained as they had Hayate resting on the couch.

"You can call me Rein!" Zwei smiled happily "I want to be good friends with all of you!"

"Hayate's not even 10 years old and has a child of her own, and she's the father?" Arisa looked at Hayate before throwing her hands up. "Argh! You magic people throw everything out of whack!"

Lindy giggled softly. "Now, now... It's not Hayate's fault that this happened. Reinforce wanted it, though I'm sure she didn't want it like this."

"Mouu... Mommy! Daddy fainted on me!" Zwei turned to Reinforce, who sighed softly.

"Rein, stop teasing daddy." Reinforce deadpanned. "It's not normal for girls to become daddies after all."

The little unison device pouted. "I thought daddy would be happy to see me though."

Reinforce sighed softly at the look her miniature blue-eyed "child" was giving her. "I never gave her a warning, I was curious as to how she would react."

"Mouu..." Reinforce Zwei pouted at her "mother". "Okay, okay. Do you think the Guardian Knights will like me?"

"I'm sure." Reinforce nodded at Zwei, who threw her hands in the air and cheered.

"Um, Lindy-san." Suzuka spoke up, getting the older woman's attention. "No offense, but, I was curious, why are you still on Earth?"

Lindy chuckled at the girl's question. "Well, I do like it on Earth, so I thought no one would care if I stayed."

"Plus you probably want to keep an eye on us, huh?" Nanoha spoke up, giggling as Lindy balked at that. "It's okay, mom said that she'd be more surprised if someone wasn't trying to make sure that we were being watched at all times."

"You're... Rather astute." Lindy sighed, but nodded the point. "Considering you, your mother, Fate, Yuuno, Hayate and her family, not having a Bureau member here watching over such powerful and skilled magic users would be incredibly irresponsible." And it wasn't like it was hard to get back to Mid-childa from Earth anyway.

"So, I never did find out." Arf looked at Lindy from her spot on the chair. "What happened to Chrono anyway?"

Sighing and shaking her head at what her son had done, Lindy explained to the group. "He got a reprimand for breaking several laws and rules."

"But he..."

"However," Lindy interrupted Nanoha, "because of what he did and the results, our bosses were pretty lenient on him, he only had to serve a five month leave of absence."

"Uh..."

Lindy chuckled at the blank looks. "Basically, he was forced to spend five months away from the Bureau without pay."

"Oh." The girls nodded.

Lindy smiled at them, though she was slightly worried.

If Chrono didn't keep on his toes enough, Amy was going to drag him into bed with her.

(-)

Hayate groaned as her eyes slowly opened up. "Ugh... Did I..." She trailed off as she saw the small girl floating in front of her. "...I guess I didn't..."

"Hi, daddy." Reinforce Zwei smiled at her. "I'm here to help the Guardian Knights where mommy can't."

Reinforce rubbed her head, wondering why she had such a troublesome child. "What Zwei means is, I'm worried that the Chaos that touched the two of us would have negative effects on the Guardian Knights and I asked Mary to help make Reinforce Zwei so they could have a Unison device help them."

"Oh." Hayate sat up and looked at Zwei. "So... You're my daughter?"

"Yep, yep!" Zwei grinned at her "father". "You can call me Rein or Zwei, it's up to you."

Hayate nodded and looked at Reinforce, who shrugged, then at Mary, who shook her head. "Don't look at me, she's your daughter." Really, this was a lot of fun.

Nanoha was about to say something, when her cellphone rang. "Huh?" Answering her phone, she nodded. "Uh huh, uh huh, yeah, Raising Heart's finally fixed. What? Sure, okay, bye mom." She hung up her phone and looked at Yuuno and Fate with a confused expression. "Mom wants to see us about something."

"You better go then." Lindy nodded as Nanoha, Fate, Arf, and Yuuno left, with Arisa and Suzuka following right after them. "I do have a question, Mary."

"Hmm?" The scientist looked at Lindy. "What?"

"If Reinforce says that she doesn't want to unison with the Knights because she's worried about what happened after she came into being, and with how Zwei came into being, how can Zwei unison with the Guardian Knights and Reinforce can't?"

"Even if she was born from the two of us, she seems to lack the Chaos energy that Hayate and myself have." Reinforce spoke up. "Or, at the very least, it doesn't manifest with her powers as much as it does with mine or Hayate's."

"Right, the two of you have black-tipped gold wings, don't you?"

"Yay!" Rein threw her tiny arms into the air. "I'm helpful!"

Hayate stared at her for a few moments, before giggling, grabbing Rein out of midair and hugging the tiny girl to her. "Welcome to the world, Reinforce Zwei."

Rein smiled and hugged Hayate tightly as best she could even as the others smiled at the heartwarming scene.

What? I can't use my idea from the Omake files and incorporate it into a fic somehow? When I wrote that Omake, I intended to use it in a fic somewhere, somehow. I figure, why not now?

Rein Zwei! Ain't she so cute?