The Iron Symphogear

Quick note: I made a few miscalculations in the writing, I stated first that Taiso is 9 then 14. But the series states that Chris is captured and 2 years later, makes her appearance. Thus by this moment in the series. Chris is 14 years old, and Taiso is a year older than her. Thus Taiso is actually 15. I'm sorry for the confusion I may have made.

We are Taiso

I walk back home with the strawberry shortcake in my hands. Walking up to the door, I enter with no one at the front door, I head into the living room to see Chris watching the TV. Hmm? Here eyes are glued to the screen. Odd to see her glued to the screen like this. "What's on?" I ask walking up to her. She points to the screen. "... Just… look." I turn to see Terrorists attacking innocent people. I recognize them, it's the Ten Rings, the same Fucks that captured me. I start to feel anger well up in me, at the pain of such cruelty. How do these fucks sleep at night? I think to myself clenching my fist in anger.

Reporter: The fifteen mile hike to the outskirts of Gulnara can only be described as a descent into hell. This is the modern heart of darkness, simple farmers and herders from peaceful villages have been driven out of their homes. The land taken by warlords, Emboldened by a new found power. Villagers have been forced to take shelter in whatever crude dwellings they could find, in the ruins of other villages or here in the remnants of an old Soviet smelting plant.

On the TV clips of terrorists attacking villages, the sight alone pisses me off even more. "Recent violence has been attributed to a group of foreign fighters referred to by the locals as the Ten Rings." I gasp at the name. No way… It's them. The ones who held Chris and I… Bastards. They will all pay for Yusuf's death. I notice the name of the town, Gulmira, Yensen's home town…

Reporter: As you can see, they are armed and very dangerous. They are on a mission a mission that could prove fatal to anyone who stands in their way. With no political will or international pressure there's very little hope for these people.

"I-I need to go." "Wait where are you-?" Chris asks, but I simply placing the cake on the table I head down stairs, and when I enter my room I see Finé looking at my Mark 2 face plate that I had left on the table. "So you have improved the suit." Finé notes looking at the face plate, then to the suit set up behind her on the computer. I walk past her and up to my dresser. I open the dresser and inside the dresser is a black Kevlar under suit. "Yeah I did make improvements. JARVIS? Is the Mark 3 done?" I ask JARVIS as I take out the Undersuit off the hanger.

I Yes sir. It's ready for deployment. I

Taiso:(nods) Good. Get the Suit ready for use. I have somewhere to be with the suit.

Finé:(giggles) So you want to attack the Ten Rings, huh?

Taiso:(Pauses) Yeah. Those bastards captured me, Chris and killed Yensen. Don't even try to stop me. You can't stop me.

Finé:(Smiles) I never said I would. I've given JARVIS the coordinates to Ten Ring encampments. I look forwards to your Mark 3 test run.

"Look forward to it Finé." I say as I zip up my bodysuit and I walk up to my armor pad. "Because when I'm done with them. There going to be nothing but smoldering Corpses." I tell her as JARVIS tells me. I Beginning Armor Suit up. I

Guitar rift

(Taiso playing the guitar)

He is a man on a mission

(Iron man flying around, lands in front of moving train.)
In armor of high tech ammunition

(shows different powered armors)
Trapped on the edge of an endless game

(Shows girls in Symphogear)
His teenage life will never be the same

(Shows Chris, Finé, and Taiso)
In a dangerous world he does all he can

(Iron Man helmet closes up)
He's Iron Man~

(stands up electricity all over)
Iron Man~

(Energy charges up in left hand before spinning around and firing at the screen)

Chapter 4: The Mark 3 Test Run

I walk up onto the armor pad. The pad opens up as the shoes of the armor rises up, stepping into the boots, the arms rise up and add on the boots, and legs, Arms come in and screw the armor shut, arms from above come down from the ceiling, putting my hands in, the arms and chest piece are put on. The chest piece lights up the cover is attached on. The arms leg go and the helmet headgear is attached, then the rest of the helmet is attached. The mask closes up completing the armor. The Mark III is the first armor to feature a Red and Gold color design on it's armor plates. It's overall theme was based on a hot rod poster I own in my room. The armor's design is based mostly on the Mark II, with the exception of the color scheme and the capabilities of the armor.

Taiso:(Jets power up) I'm off. I'm going to save a friend's village.

Finé:(smiles) You said his name was Yensen right? He was in the same as you. Taken from his home and family.

Taiso:(Nods) Yeah. See ya Finé. I'm repaying a friend.(flies off)

We are Finé

Taiso flies off, so full of Revenge. I look at the Mark 2 Faceplate and the Mark 3 suit. I Is something the matter Miss Finé? I JARVIS asks me, I simply chuckle as head towards the

Location Change: Gulmira

As I survey the scene from high above, I see the Ten Rings fire a bombardment of missiles at the town's nearby mountains. They didn't show the extent of their weapons, but how did the steal all of these weapons? When I actually get to the village I see the Ten Rings men destroying homes, killing civilians, executing the men, and forcing the women and children to watch the horror. Amongst the chaos JARVIS makes note of one in particular man spearheading the attack. Giving orders to the goons. JARVIS brings up his file, and I immediately remember him, he's the one who made me endure 3 months of near solitude. Closing in on the location, a family is about to be taken away. But as the father is about to sneak in with them, a goon notices him and drags him away and puts him up against a wall along with a few other men.

Tasio:(grinding teeth) These bastards, killing innocents there's no point in killing them!

I Terrorist all tend to use Fear as a great weapon Sir. I

Tasio:(sighs) I know but it still pains me to see such acts.

A boy rushes to his father, and they embrace, the father tells his son to leave. The ring leader grabs and pulls the boy away, and orders one of his goons to shoot him. No! No more blood of Innocence! Not as long as I'm here! "JARVIS. I'm going in." I say as I fall down. Landing on the ground, the area goes silent.

Tasio:(stands straight, voice distorted) I know you can't see my face. But this is payback...Big time.

Goon:(in fear) AHHHH~!

A goon shoots wildly at me, I smack him onto the top of a building. I turn around and blast another with my repulser. Turning to my right I blast another away, I turn to my left and I blast another goon across a few boxes of missiles that had been set up. I turn around again to blast the one's holding the women and children but they hold guns to their heads, yelling and threatening to kill them. I lower my hands and deactivate the charge on the repulsors. "JARVIS lock on to all enemy signatures." I mumble under my voice.

I Yes sir. I

JARVIS Locks on, and from my shoulders pops out Riot Control. Firing at the Terrorists it knocking all of them out. "And that's that." I say as the Riot Control shooter returns into my shoulders. I look around for the head goon… Where is this fuck? He's hiding somewhere. Activating my scanners I find him behind a wall, trying to call up reinforcements. Oh, no you don't! You wont get a chance! Walking up to it I punch straight through the wall, I grab the man and pull him out. "He's all yours." I blast off into the sky, Flying over the rest of the village I them unloading military equipment.

I Sir. Incoming. I

Taiso: Huh?(blasted out of the air) Agh! Crap!

I fall into the ground creating a crater in the process. I get up and out of the crater, there in front of my face is a tank. A Tank?! Really? A military grade Tank that the US would use? "Ok how the hell did they get their hands on of all things?" I ask as I stand up from the crater the tank fires another shot and I barely dodged it raising my arm up. From my hand comes out of missile launcher. The missile fires hitting the Tank. "Kin~!" I turn around and start walking off, a few seconds and afterwards the tank explodes. I walked up to the terrorist encampment and all of the terrorist start opening fire on me your bullets don't do any damage. Lifting myself up into the air charging systems in my HUD. They lock onto the nearest missile launchers, I blast them with my repulsors. The explosions destroys their encampments, I look around to see if their are any survivors to see that there are none.

Taiso:(sighs) And that's that let's go JARVIS. Let's go home.

I Understood sir. Plotting a course back home. I

Location change: Finé's home

Landing back in the Garage, I get onto the armor pad and the arms get to taking the armor off me. Oh, man suiting was easy, but removing is harder than I thought. I should work on that. "So. How was it?" Finé asks coming into the room. She smiles looking at me. "I think I did good on protecting a friend's home." Plus the Mark III did much better than I expected. I'm quite amazed myself of the performance it showed. "Mark III did good for it's first test run." Finé I nod in agreement, it's then the sound of steps rushes down the stairs, and stops at the opened door.

Chris:(Gasping) I came back as soon as I saw the news- W-What the? A-Are those bullet holes?

Taiso:(turns to Chris) Oh… Hey Chris…. Let's be honest, this is not the worst thing that you have walked in on me on.

Chris: Why didn't you tell me!?

Taiso:(tilts head) Weren't you the one who told me to not disturb you when you eat?

"..." Yeah that's what I thought. I get a book tossed at me. "Idiot!" I manage to dodge out of the way of the book. Oh crap...I pissed her off. She stomps off in anger. "Oh my, how troublesome this has become for you Taiso-kun." Finé teases me, as I sigh. Great… This is going to be a pain. The chest piece is taken off, I lose a bit of balance. "Whaa~!"

Time skip: 4 days Location Change: Aronia de Takazawa

"So….Why are we having this?" I ask, with both me and Chris sitting with Finé at the table. I don't remember anything great happening to warrant this. Finé smiles as she notes. "It's the success of your mark 3 and a commemoration for Chris." Finé remarks as she takes a sip of her wine…. "I see…(leans over to Chris) I think this is just an excuse to come out here." I whisper to Chris, with her nodding in agreement as my observation.

Finé:(looks over) I can hear you. And no we aren't here because of that.

Taiso:(sits straight) So then what?

I ask as Finé slides us a file. Grabbing the fire I open it up and inside I see a report on my family's prototype laser system. Oh? Wait its being modified into a giant laser cannon?! "What?! When the hell did they get this?!" I exclaim, Finé sighs. "Well… Since Takumi industries went under all of its property was taken." Shit. Why didn't I remember that? Of course the company's property would be taken. Our company has tech decades ahead of other companies. Of course it would be a hot topic to buy it's technology stock. The thoughts crossing my mind of what other possible technology could have been taken.

Chris:(confused) What's this about a joint operation between two divisions?

Taiso:(looks at file) Hey… Yeah. Division 2 and Project: RVB reconstruction?

Finé:(nods) Division 2 is Japanese Government's Symphogear division. And Project RVB reconstruction is a project that is trying to develop weapons that can battle against the Noise. I hear they have been using your tech for a starting point.

Taiso:(looks down at plate) … I see. Then I guess it's time that Chris and I to make our entrance.

Finé shakes her head. She points to me and says. "No. It's time for Iron Man. To make his appearance." Iron man? Really? I let out a sigh. "Finé, the armor is made out of a Gold Titanium Alloy. Not Iron." Finé just sighs. "I just think you should give it some sort of name." Oh… I also get the feeling, people are going to just jump to iron, anyways. Now that I think about it Iron Man does sound cool. Like a superhero's name! "Wipe that stupid grin off your face." Chris points out. "Urk!...Sorry." I say to her.

End of chapter 4