Hello everyone, AsherValentine here! God it's been so long. First of all, Happy New Year 2022! I was busy with my part time job and job hunting, not to mention preperation for the Chinese New Year soon. I'm almost burn out from to do the writing.
Anyway, senior readers, thank you very much for continue reading this story (even if it's not the best you read so far) and welcome to new readers, hope you enjoy it. Of course biggest thanks to my discord member that continue helping me (brainstorming etc).
Now on some reply some reviews I can answer:
1) I probably my sentence or readers misunderstanding about 'real-life', I am not implementing to 'real-life' tech or anything. What I mean is that the movement is sluggish for the first debut, after all Mobile Suit theory was scrapped for 10 years and even if OZ built the mobile doll in secret still a 'newborn' machine without sufficient testing. Baby steps theory.
2) Wing series mobile suit weapons has trigger, though about IFF not really sure if exist in canon. But here just gonna mention it has no IFF, if I'm Doctor T I won't expect anyone will loot the MD's weapon and used against them.
3) Some info refresh, The lab/factory underground of the IS Academy was built by Tabane as a makeshift research lab to learn about the MS Theory that she gotten 10 years ago. After she received what she want, she later abandoned it and ironically IS Academy was built on top of it ( I don't know who built the Academy in canon, if anyone knew?)
Without further ado, please enjoy.
As usual I didn't own anything except my OC.
Chapter 25: The awakening.
In OZ headquarters, Doctor T slams both of his hands onto the operating console after witnessing that his Mobile Doll forces dispatched at the IS Academy were all destroyed not only by a few IS, but also by the appearance of an operational mobile suit.
'This can't be happening! Did that wretched woman develop mobile suits with my stolen data in secret!? This is not how it is supposed to be happening!' Doctor T curses in his mind.
"Sir, we still have some reserved MD stationed behind! Shall we deploy?" One of the OZ soldiers asked,
"Deploy them all! I want that thing, and the academy wiped off the face of the earth!" Doctor T shouted the order. The OZ soldier operator gave orders to the reserved force to start the remaining MD. There's only one carrier staying behind to observe the operation to collect as much data as possible to improvise the MD in the future.
"Sir, we received orders to deploy the remaining MD." One of the carrier pilots reported.
"Launch all of them!" The carrier captain ordered the MD consist of 1 Aries, and 4 Leo(FT) are all armed with beam rifles (Short barrel) powered up and dropped from the carrier after the hatch opened, activating their thrusters towards the IS Academy.
Meanwhile, Back at front grounds of IS Academy, MS Fascinator stood tall in all its glory while surrounded by the destroyed wrecks of MD's Leo's & Aries. Inside the cockpit, Asher can't help but hear the thumping of his heart beating so fast from the adrenalin rush, and his hands are still shaking while clenching fiercely at the controls from his first real life and death battle.
'Damn it, I almost lost my consciousness. Where did I get all the sudden energy that is surging throughout my entire body? Also, I didn't expect the Seiken Zuki to be this powerful in real life, outside of gunpla battle simulation.' Asher thought while starting to relax as he released his right-hand grip on the controls and looked at his palm. He didn't expect to use the so-called 'martial arts that he learned during his younger days in his homeworld.
"Though I only train for a short time to learn a couple of moves. Hell, it was more like I was being forced to learn them. Urgh! Just remembering that annoying man who kept pestering me to be his disciple pisses me off!" Asher thought with an annoying sigh as he remembers the training that he went through that was more brutal torture than proper training.
(imagine Asher going through training that straight is out of the torture manual of Kenichi Strongest Disciple and Ranma ½ belonging to the two resident nutcases group, Ryozanpaku, and Genma Saotome as an example of what he went through).
"I wondered how those two are doing right now?" Asher remembered that he used to train with his two fellow disciples was a guy with black hair and a girl with long red hair. The boy then saw Chifuyu and the others approaching the Fascinator along with Natasha who was landing the fighter plane that she was piloting close to the Fascinator (I'm basing off that this Raikiri prototype can do vertical landing), Asher can't help but sigh as no doubt that he had a lot of explaining to do as the underground entrance to the MS factory started reopening to accept them.
"Maybe it's time for me to reveal everything?" Asher thought heavily in his mind.
[OST start - BRING ON A WAR - Gundam Unicorn OST - Hiroyuki Sawano]
Just as Natasha has gotten out of the plane, however, a radar warning starts blaring loudly as she leaned back on the outside of her plane into the cockpit at her sensor screen to see what's going on, only to see with much dread, 5 unwelcoming blips with frighteningly familiar signatures heading right for them at fast speeds!
"Boy! We've got a BIG PROBLEM heading our way! There's a team of those giant robots fast approaching the academy and this jet is out of both fuel and armaments, I have no way to back you up now!." Natalia shouted frantically while directing the com-link towards the Fascinator.
"Oh, come on! Give me a break already! Since when have I become a shounen protagonist that has to suffer through this cliche set-up?!" Asher complained while wondering if the god is trying to make him suffer for their twisted amusement?
'Even so, I'm in big trouble right now! The only remaining weapon I have is the beam saber on the left shoulder and the machine is far from being fully prepped for live combat. At this rate-' While Asher is in deep thoughts, he saw that the team of MD is approaching towards the IS Academy faster than he expected.
"Look, something is approaching!" Charlotte pointed out,
"Wait, aren't those the same giant robots? There's more?!" Rin complained,
"Of all the times for a second wave to happen!" Natasha shouted as she is currently unarmored except for her current pilot suit.
"You three, hurry up and get out of here!" Tatenashi ordered as she prepared her half-wrecked, barely functioning Musha Uchigane.
"It's too late, they're firing! Brace for impact!" Chifuyu said while the OZ MD begin firing their weapons at the Fascinator. Asher can't risk dodging those shots as it will hit Chifuyu and others, especially Natasha who isn't in an IS right now and is entirely too vulnerable right now. With no other options, he maneuvers the Fascinator by posturing itself like a turtle while bracing for impact as a shield to protect the girls. Each wave of impacts from the beam shots started having an effect on the Fascinator armor plating as it started falling off with the left forearm being the first to be destroyed.
The MDs had stopped firing their weapons as they landed in front of the Fascinator location. Chifuyu and others have safely retreated into one of the closest buildings that were still near the Fascinator's position. She looked to confirm the status of the dark purple titan and was both shocked and horrified to see how badly damaged it suffered.
The Fascinator had lost its left arm, while the left side of the waist armor was just barely dangling before it falls on the ground. The Gatling cannon on the right forearm is exposed because the hatch is destroyed with the right leg armor being completely destroyed, exposing the mechanical parts, while the left knee armor is also destroyed. Lastly, the green visor was completely cracked and no longer emitting any light.
Unable to support the balance, the Fascinator kneeled with their left foot resting on the ground. At the same time, the visor had broken, revealing a mono-eye on the Fascinator.
'Urgh, I knew this was a very bad idea, I almost black-out! Is everyone still safe?' Asher thought worryingly as he quickly looks around at the monitors until one of the monitors zoom-in where Chifuyu and others have taken shelter in the nearest building. The boy sighs in relief that they're still alive, but he's in trouble now. Asher looked at the status of the Fascinator, his eyes narrowed when saw the damage report from it. He tried to move the right joystick trying to lift the right arm, but the machine was unable to exert any strength left to do like the command steadily. Also, while the girls have taken shelter in the building, it's still very much in the fire zone.
"Is this the end?" Asher muttered. For the MDs, it received commands to capture the pilot from Doctor T by ordering his subordinates. The elderly scientist wanted to know how exactly did the IS Academy build mobile suits which greatly deviated from his designs.
"But I can't give up." The images of the ruined IS Academy and the lifeless body of all students and teachers along with all his loved ones appeared in his mind from his last nightmare dream. As he maneuvers the Fascinator to sluggardly grab the beam saber on the left shoulder, it activates only to produce a dagger-size blade of green energy emitting due to low power.
"I won't let that nightmare turn into a reality! Even if I die alone!" Asher's pupil had started to glow in orange light, similar to the previous event. This time he noticed the GP base started emitting bright orange radiance that blinded him as it filled the cockpit. Outside of the cockpit, the Fascinator also emitted the same radiance on the entire frame causing the MD covered their visor to block the blinding light as their sensors started going haywire.
The Fascinator starts manifesting an ocean of orange particles coming out of it as not only the general battlefield was being covered in it, but it also completely engulf the five young women watching this sight as they were also blinded by its radiance, along with flowing into the entranceway of the MS factory completely filling the facility with orange particles as both the women and the facility started a transformation to the next level along with the pilot and AI of the Mobile Suit that was the source of the radiant orange particles.
[OST end]
[OST start- Zoids Chaotic Century Fiona's Theme Original]
Asher almost got blinded by the sudden light from the GP base inside the cockpit, his eyes widened when he saw a message appear on the monitor.
[You are not alone.] The orange particles envelop the Fascinator entirely, while a surge of orange particles acts as sparks to the inside machinery, recovering the loss of power into full capacity inside of the generator & battery.
[I will not let you die.] The beam saber that the Fascinator held was gripped tightly, while the energy blade that barely operated had returned into a normal blade.
[I will always stand by your side.] Inside the cockpit, Asher saw images of his gunpla battle moment and in his FC Revive.
[I will always protect you.] The mono-eye of the Fascinator started glowing in orange light, while it stood up by itself as its visor completely repaired itself. Along with this happening, the machine was completely regenerating itself as previously damaged and destroyed parts started reforming onto the machine as it regained full functionality, as if it was never damaged at all.
[The holder of the name Amethyst Wolf, Fascinator swears.] The orange particles that envelop the Fascinator had turned into a coating of the violet flames surrounding the machine. As the flames were covering the Fascinator, new parts started appearing all over the machine with purple crystalized parts started appearing all over the machine including the thrusters, giving the machine a much fiercer look while its appearances started changing, giving the appearance of the machine reaching its next stage of evolution and giving the casual eye the appearance of a proud wolf.
[That I will sink my fangs on all enemies.]
[OST end - Zoids Chaotic Century Fiona's Theme Original Start]
[OST start - Hicchuu, Tamashii, Sogeki! ~ MS Gundam Build Fighters Try (OST I) - [ZR]
The Fascinator let out a howl similar to a wolf while the main monitor in the cockpit showed a design of a wolf's head before it disappeared. Asher is unable to process the current phenomenon, however, as he was still too stunned with the light show until the boy just barely noticed that the MD's had started resuming fire at his location as the mass of orange particles has cut itself off from the OZ command center forcing the MD's to proceed with their previous orders in destroying the unknown mobile suit in front of them.
"Whoa!" Asher maneuvered the machine but unexpectedly, the reaction time and the speed were far faster compared to a few moments before, along with him not noticing orange particles were flowing out of the Fascinators thruster ports.
The Fascinator almost loses its balance, but Asher manages to keep it steady as it advances towards one of the MD Leo without getting hit. Once the Fascinator gets close to one of the MD Leo, Asher immediately maneuvers the right arm, delivering the beam saber directly thrusting into the torso before slicing it into two.
'This reaction speed and agility?!' Asher just experienced a familiar feeling. But the boy snapped out of his thoughts when the second MD Leo tried to tackle the Fascinator by using its shield to bash it. Asher maneuvered the Fascinator to spin its entire frame clockwise, while it steps in and reaches the back of the MD Leo, Asher adjust the grip of the beam saber into a reverse grip and pierced the MD Leo's torso from behind before the Fascinator pulled it out horizontally from the right, resulted in the MD Leo partially sliced apart from the torso and exploded behind the dark purple MS.
The third MD Leo tried to use its beam saber to intercept it as it charge towards the Fascinator and swing its beam saber down towards it, but the Fascinator once again did the clockwise spin and beheaded the MD Leo. The Fascinator then turns its back towards the rear of the MD Leo and thrust the beam saber on the torso area before it cleaves it into two in a similar manner. When the third MD Leo exploded, the last MD Leo and MD Aries fired their beam rifles rapidly at the Fascinator.
'This movement, this speed, it's all too familiar!' Asher adjusted the joystick and press the right pedal, commanded the Fascinator to activate the thrusters which responded in an explosion of orange particles behind him, and charged towards the remaining MD's as he dodges all the shots and uses the beam saber to deflect the shots as it approached with similar to wolf movement that shouldn't have for heavily damaged mobile suits.
The MD Aries transform itself into flight mode and levitate itself while the last MD Leo continues to fire its beam rifle. When the Fascinator closed in, the MD Leo immediately toss the beam rifle and tried to grab the beam saber from the shield.
"Too slow!" Asher shouted as the Fascinator thrust the beam saber into the MD Leo's head. Before Asher tried to pull out and deal the finishing blow, the MD Aries fired its missile towards its direction.
"As if I'll let you!" Asher proceed to maneuver the Fascinator to pull out the beam saber from MD Leo's head, as MD Leo tried to grab the Fascinator, the dark purple mobile suit horizontally slice the MD Leo into two at the torso.
As the upper body falls into the side and before it starts to explode, the Fascinator raised its mechanical skeletal right leg and kicked the MD Leo's decapitated upper torso towards the incoming missile from above and exploded.
"No way!" many of the girls can't help but shout at it, as who would've thought to kick the upper body of the MD 'corpse' like a soccer ball just to intercept the missiles. The MD Aries was unable to locate the Fascinator due to the explosion's smoke. Asher took this chance for the Fascinator to dash towards the IS Academy tower while preparing to activate the thrusters.
As it reaches the tower, the thrusters of the Fascinator activates at full capacity causing it to gain a massive speed boost along with leaving a tsunami of orange particles in its wake, as it steps on the tower's ledges. Asher then maneuvers the Fascinator to wall run upwards on the tower's wall to gain some height while the MD Aries is still unable to locate it, curtsy to all the orange particles still very much hanging in the air.
When he almost reached a certain height above the MD Aries, the MD had finally located it. As the MD Aries raises its altitude and prepares the chain rifle to shoot at the Fascinator, Asher decides to gamble as he activated the Fascinator thrusters to full capacity once again along with him unknowingly producing the flame aura around its body as all the purple crystalized parts started emitting flames as they all glowed brightly, giving the Fascinator the illusion of a giant wolf engulfed in hell flames to those who were viewing it at a close angle.
The Fascinator use the IS tower's wall as a springboard and kicked off into the air above while dodging the shots fired by the MD Aries. Asher then control the Fascinator to raise the beam saber and arched it backward before being thrown with velocity fast enough to plunge into the MD Aries torso.
After it threw the beam saber, Asher maneuvered the Fascinator activated the thruster one last time, and dived towards the MD Aries with the appearance of a flaming meteor.
"Jigen Haoh Ryu, Seiso-Geri!" Asher screamed as the Fascinator deliver a dive-kick with the force of a meteor with the Fascinator being engulfed in orange flames towards the beam saber on the MD Aries torso and both MD Aries and the Fascinator crashed on the surface, as a crater happened on impact, causing both shockwave and smoke to enveloped a certain part of the IS Academy.
[End Soundtrack - 03 - Hicchuu, Tamashii, Sogeki! ~ MS Gundam Build Fighters Try (OST I) - [ZR]]
"Hoh-hoh? I didn't expect a previously badly damaged robot to be able to move like that." Tatenashi said with an amused tone.
"I've never seen this style of fighting from Asher-kun before, it's kind of scary," Charlotte said as she felt something uneasy after watching how Asher seems so used to fighting like that. Especially when she saw a glimpse of a wolf from the Fascinator.
"Yeah, like he's been possessed by an animal. At least he didn't fight like a penguin." Rin tried to joke a little, but no one was paying any attention to it.
"Heh, that boy won? That boy never disappoints in surprising me." Natasha smirks as her interest in the pilot that defeated her Silver Gospel just keeps getting higher and higher.
"Asher..." Chifuyu muttered as she recalled the memories when Asher told her about his origin how he used to play a game called Gunpla Battle where players 'pilot' the plastic model and fight each other.
"We need to rescue him now. After all the impacts he's been through, his body is probably at its limits." Chifuyu then activate the Musha Uchigane thruster and headed towards the crash site while the smoke slowly dissipate. The students activated the IS and followed Chifuyu behind while Natasha just followed behind in a run.
Meanwhile, at OZ hidden headquarters. Doctor T slams both hands on the table angered at the fact that a single mobile suit destroyed all of the MD Forces sent to the IS Academy. Even worse, when that huge burst of orange light blinded them, it also cut off all connection to the MD's making them blind to what happened to them besides their apparent destruction moments later alongside any footage of what happened after that light show.
"Sir! We have finished the analysis of the enemy mech!" One of the OZ soldiers handed out an analysis report captured from their spy drone that had done an analysis of the machine before the connection was cut off from the orange light. After Doctor T finishes reading, he could feel his blood vessel might be popped and spill out his blood while he tore the analysis paper before he grabbed the collar of the OZ soldier.
"Are you telling me a piece of junk that's no different than a statue was able to destroy my perfect Mobile Doll?! Do you think I'm senile because of my age, you punk?!" Doctor T shouted at the poor soldier, the young man can see the bloodshot eyes of an elderly professor due to rage, before Doctor T throws him away.
"No-no, this time there's not enough data for anti-mobile suits combat. But thanks to the current situation, even if another country may have developed a mobile suit in secret, they still have no advantages over my Mobile Doll." Doctor T muttered when processing his thoughts, he can treat this loss as an investment for his next plan. He admits that he never thought there would be someone who would be building a mobile suit other than him.
'Still, it does pose the question if it's possible there are other mobile suits built-in secret. It will just be an advantage in the long run for me to gather more data and improve the MD operation systems even further.' Doctor T grin, as losing a few MDs is not a great loss for him in the long-term.
"How's the operation progressing?" Doctor T asked,
"The carriers will be approaching the target point shortly, so far no one noticed our advances." OZ soldier reported,
"Good, although we lost some MD and our plan for the IS Academy didn't go as planned, it's not a big loss really. After all, everything has just begun." Doctor T grin,
Back at the IS Academy, Asher is currently in trouble. After he destroyed the last of the Mobile Doll, the Fascinator finally gave out as that last overcharged Seiso-Geri jammed the cockpit doors. Now, he's trapped inside the cockpit even though he tried kicking it open as hard as he can, it's a futile effort.
"Urgh, it's no use. I can't kick it open. AIDA isn't there like an emergency switch or something to open it up?" Asher slumped back on the pilot seat as he caught his breath from the continuous kicking.
"Negative, I will take note and will implement in the future," AIDA replied from the GP base, still inside of the cockpit console.
"Provided we can get out of here. Just what the hell is going on here? All of a sudden Mobile Dolls start appearing, and it's the exact same ones from the Gundam Wing series. Of all the things, the so-called prototype is the Tallgeese of all things and OZ? Am I in the After Colony universe?" Asher tried to think, but he was too annoyed trying to make sense as he stroked his hair from frustration. There are just too many weird things that happened to him all in rapid order with little time to get used to the changes.
"What confused me the most is that orange particle light thing, I have a feeling I had seen it before but I can't remember it. Not to mention all of a sudden, this thing starts moving and reacting much faster than before." Asher frowns as he's trying to remember.
"By the way, AIDA. Did you write those messages early? I mean, you can speak." Asher asked when he remembered some weird message that appeared on the monitor previously.
"Negative, that was not done by me. It was a newly formed sentient entity coming from your GP Base when the Fascinator suffered heavy damage." AIDA replied,
"Huh? Sentient entity? What are you talking about?" Asher reaches out to his GP Base as he tools it out, the device emitted a soft orange glow before the screen display turns blank and shows a message on the screen.
[It was me, partner.]
"Uwaah! Asher can't help but toss the GP Base into the air from surprise and tries to catch it before it falls over. Once he caught it, he stared at the message in the GP Base with fear expression.
"It's not possessed by a vengeance spirit or anything right?" Asher asked as he tried to laugh it off, but another message appeared.
[I am not, and I have no desire to harm you. Why would I harm my partner after being together for 12 years?]
"Huh? 12 years?" Asher asked with a questioned look.
[We will continue the conversation later, AIDA has informed your mates outside to rescue you.]
"Huh? Mates? Oi, what the hell does that mean?! No, wait! What are you?!" Before Asher could've got his answer he heard some sound outside and something is trying to tear open the cockpit.
"Extend mode! Chesto!" Rin's voice can be heard outside and he saw a purple beam blade piercing almost reaching for his skull if any closer before pulling out and trying to cut the surrounding cockpit lid.
"Son of a-!" Before Asher finishes the cursed word, he saw several mechanical arms trying to pry open the cockpit lid. When it's opened slightly, he was greeted by light before he saw familiar faces of Chifuyu and Charlotte next to each other with Rin and Tatenashi behind them with Natasha trailing behind them, finally reaching them at the foot of the MS.
"Asher-kun, are you alright?!" Charlotte asked, with small shed tears forming in her eyes, worrying about the boy's well-being.
"We're here to pick you up," Chifuyu said as she reached out her IS arm to him as Asher just grabbed it without a word and was carried bridal style in Chifuyu's arms. He wanted to protest being carried like this again, but he's too tired to make any retort.
"I believe that we would need a thorough explanation regarding this," Chifuyu said as she and the other girls looked towards the currently grounded Fascinator currently crouching with remnants of the MD Aries around it in the crater caused by Asher.
"Yeah, I got it. Although, I'm surprised to see it as well at first." Asher said,
"Orimura-sensei!" The group heard and saw Yamada-sensei running towards them.
"Yamada, what are you doing here? Though, good timing. Take this idiot to the infirmary, god knows what damage he had this time." Chifuyu said,
"There's trouble, OZ is currently initiating global invasion around the world!" Yamada-sensei's words had shocked them. Asher can't help but fear the result would be a catastrophe. '
If this OZ is similar to the Wing series, I doubt the current military forces can withstand the Mobile Doll assault. Doctor T...who is he?!' Asher can't help to think if this Doctor is someone from his world or...?
Meanwhile, in the USA in a secluded headquarters base. The person in charge received a signal of several unknown carriers approaching the west coast of America.
"This is HQ. Sand Bravo, we're reading several unknown carriers in your sector, please clarify." HQ asked,
"Very funny, station. That's a big negative, over." "Sand Bravo replied,
"Sand Bravo, be advised, running diagnostics scan for malfunction." The HQ said,
"The skies are clear, station. You got yourself some phantom dots. Over." Sand Bravo replied,
"Zulu-X-Ray-6. Signs in your sector some 20 bogeys, please advise." The HQ asked,
"Negatory station. The scope is clear. I don't know what to tell you. Stellar interference? Heavy sunspot activity today." Zulu-X-Ray-6 replied,
"Siera Delta, uh...we may have a minor ACS fault here. Do you have anything on your scope?" HQ asked,
"They everywhere!" Siera Delta shouted,
"Siera Delta, repeat!" HQ asked again, raising his voice volume showing worries.
"I'm looking at some flight carriers over 1-95! How the hell did they get through?! Wait, something is dropping?!" Siera Delta stops with a siren alarming can be heard from the other side of the communication, a loud noise seemingly a landing impact can be heard.
"What the fuck is that thing?! Argh!" Siera Delta went silent after that, the HQ heard a sound of weapons fired before it went silent.
"Damn it!" The HQ open communication to all stations,
"All stations, be advised- satellite surveillance has been disabled. SOSUS and Pave Paws array are inoperative at this time.
And...done! Ok this time the chapter is shorter and I can't help it as I have no idea how to make it longer. But in my opinion a good plot is not based on words number but the description, how I wanted to describe and express the current situation. (Which I hope is not horrible, I'm not skilled writer). I mean there's no point to write longer if it's confusing or roller coaster.
SORRY IN ADVANCE IF IT'S A DISSAPOINTMENT. T_T
So I think this length is suitable at the moment, since it really depends on the story flow.
Probably readers already know what the orange particle is especially if you watch Gundam Build Fighter, thats the true identity of it. How Asher got it will be revealed in very later chapter. (This ride is still long and I try to speed up as much as I can).
I hope the battle scene is fun to read/visualize, though it does reminds me of Barbatos Lupus Rex but is not.
As for the end part, I shamelessly use from a certain FPS game with slight changes, I let the readers guess where is it from. Hint: Wolverine is a stage/mission name.
And below is a not from one of my discord member who help out.
Editing, Beta Writer and Notes done by Dragoon725 Notes (Thanks for feedback!)
- Natasha still has her Silver Gospel IS on her but since it was in such a bad condition, not to mention they were focusing on nursing her back to health, it was decided that the Silver Gospel wouldn't be touched until the pilot regained consciousness since touching and going through a top-secret IS could cause an international incident which is why Natasha couldn't use activate it at all since while she still had it, it was in no condition to be used at all
- The Raikiri Prototype wasn't able to retreat due to the fact that seeing how this was a still in development prototype and how all of sudden the attack was, it wasn't fully fueled or supplied at the time of the attack and after the destruction of the first wave of MD's, Natasha would see no reason to stick to the skies which is why she landed near the Fascinator as the carrier carrying the backup MD's were stationed beyond normal radar range. Also, I don't believe that you actually personally fuel a machine that is still very much in development at all times unless they were doing performance tests since one small incident could accidently blow up the entire machine which would be a major waste of resources which is why they would keep them empty of fuel unless it was needed.
- As for what happened to OZ and the world, I'm having it where the Arista Particles that came out of the Fascinator, due to its denseness caused an effect that is similar to GN Particles or Minvosky particles. What happened is that it completely jammed the MD's and spy drones connection with their home base meaning that while OZ did know of the destruction of the MD's, both OZ and the world as the broadcast was also cut off cause of the particles had no knowledge of either Asher or the Fascinators evolution which is why OZ believes that the Fascinator is still in its previous state when it rolled out to fight the MD's. Otherwise, OZ would've sent a lot of other forces besides the MD's if they believed that the Fascinator was a Wing Zero-class threat which also means they had no awareness of its growing threat as otherwise, it wouldn't be just flight Leo's and Aries littering in the skies but also Taurus and Virgo's way ahead of schedule.
- Its also on purpose as if OZ doesn't know that the Fascinator has literally evolved and gain one heck of a makeover, they won't suspect that it was capable of doing a counterattack as the last footage before Asher awakened his own evolution was the Fascinator barely standing at all.
- Asher's Seiso-Geri in both appearance and power would basically look like Sanji's Shooting Star Soba Kick when he was fighting Page One from One Piece
That's all for now, and thank you for reading. Happy Chinese New Year, and stay safe. Ciao.
Now I have to crack my head for next chapter drama.