(Iscariot Headquarters)

Alexander Anderson coughed into a handkerchief and winced as he spotted blood on it. "Fucking useless treatments…" The old man stood up and grabbed his cane to help him walk. While he'd stayed fit, the cancer was beginning to take its toll on him, and the treatments felt worse than the disease itself. He went to a computer and typed a command before the image of a woman appeared on it. "Dr. Benoit. Thank you again for your assistance in this."

"You're welcome, Father Anderson," said Sasha with a small grin.

"Should you really be working right now? Isabel told me you're due any moment."

"She shouldn't," said Zed of screen. "But that's my wife for ya, always pushing herself more than she needs to."

"Hush," said Sasha before turning back to the screen. "You know, we've been testing this stuff for a few months now. And we still don't know what it can do."

"We've found out here. I got the update a while ago from one of the labs. If you have some nearby, run an electrical current through it."

"Zed?"

"On it," said Zed off screen as Anderson started coughing again.

"Are you alright?"

"Bloody chemo. Its worse than the actual cancer," said the Judas Priest.

"Why didn't you ask Isabel to help?"

"She offered. I declined. The cancer's too far along. Heinkel seems to think it's this unknown substance that caused it."

"Oh, now you tell me."

"You knew the this is why I wanted Isabel to help with this. She's not walking around with a baby in her womb. At least I hope not."

"I know, and Isabel isn't seeing anyone. And she's not one for flings. So, I highly doubt she has a bun in the oven."

"Whoa," said Zed. "Sasha look at this!" Anderson saw a blue light reflect off of Sasha's face as she turned to her husband off screen.

"That's… gah!"

"What's wrong," asked Anderson.

"Sasha," called Zed as he rushed to his wife. She screamed in pain and behind her, a blue glowing orb surrounded a table and lifted it into the air before it was flung away.

"Zachry! Get your wife to a bloody hospital, now!" Anderson erupted into another coughing fit. He tapped a button on his computer again. "Heinkel! Get ahold of Isabel! Sasha is going into labor!"

"Father Anderson," said the German sharpshooter. "Pope Benedict XVI has just resigned. The College of Cardinals are meeting for a Conclave and you're being asked to attend. I'll get Isabel, but you need to hurry."

"Of all the bloody… tell the Cardinals I'll be right there. Though, why I'm being summoned is the real question." Anderson coughed once more as he left his office and an unknown symbol appeared on the computer screen. A black sun in front of a triangle holding a circle and vertical line in its center.

(Lyon Outskirts, 'Borrowed' Hellsing Jet)

Cindy turned around as the recue team carried Harry and Noir into the jet. She went to her son and look him over in worry. "They planted a device known as a Zip Bomb near them," said Isabel. "Dr. Simmons, here, was controlled to work for them. She made several devices to counter Natural Technokinetics." Cindy looked at her confused until she realized the implications. Dr. Simmons was No-Maj, with no knowledge of the Magical World. Mundane World terminology was required. She looked past them to see Cole helping a scarred man limp his way into the jet.

"Ruddy bastard," muttered the man. "The boy gave me the hint about attacks from any direction without so much as a gesture, and I failed to notice it."

"Auror Moody," asked Cindy. "Why are you here?"

"I was asked to help with the reconnaissance by one of the French Auror's working with Interpol."

"There's that term again," said Simmons. "What on Earth is an Auror?"

"Way to go," muttered Isabel.

"No use beating around the bush," said Moody. His eye, which had remained still in the presence of Dr. Simmons since he'd been woken up, once more began whirring about the place. Simmons stared at it in fascination.

"What on Earth…"

"One of you Technomancers head on outside. We've got company, a man is creeping up on us from the West."

"I'll go," said Cole. "I can't hold back the juice anymore while in here. Is it just the one?"

"Aye. And I think he's reaching for a communication device. Best get out there now." Cole nodded and ran outside. Isabel looked up at the lights of the jet as they flickered for a second, followed by a man's startled scream.

"Shouldn't you be turning power back on in the city," asked Padma.

"I told my dad how to do it," said Isabel.

"You're going to trust your father to not go for a walk if he gets bored," asked Cindy. Isabel stayed silent for a second before blanching.

"Good point. I'll be back." Isabel Disapparated away, leaving Simmons looking startled.

"Where did she go," she asked. "How did she do that?! Who are you people?!"

"That's going to take a bit of explaining," said Harry with a groan. Cindy turned to him surprised and saw that Padma and Su were feeding him and Noir electricity.

"Harry," she exclaimed as she hugged him. Harry hugged her back slightly and shook his head before turning to Dr. Simmons.

"That Zip Bomb was ingenious, Dr. Simmons."

"So were those mechanical tigers," said Daphne.

"I'm sorry, mechanical what now?"

"Those," said Daphne as she pointed outside of the jet. Cindy and Harry made their way to the exit and saw the two tigers standing guard at the ramp.

"I miss all of the fun stuff."

"You and me both," said Cindy.

"Fighting those things wasn't fun," said Daphne. "I'm lucky Holly got to my Blizzard in time."

"Speaking of," said Luna. She turned to M. "Where's the helmet?"

"Right," said Harry. "Of course you'd see that I need a new one. I'd fix the old one, but the whole thing was smashed, even my magic wouldn't be able to fix it without my lab."

"I'm sorry," said Dr. Simmons. "Did you say 'magic'?"

"I did. My mom will inform you on more of the subject. Right now, we need to get back out there."

"You're not going anywhere," said Cindy. "You're staying here."

"Mom, now's not the time to argue. The Commander is here in Lyon. If we can apprehend him, we can stop the First Sons here and now and postpone Revelation Day until we know the whole world is ready, not just most of it."

"Harry, he's beaten you twice now. Once at Singapore, once here."

"I'm not beaten. He surprised us, but he's lost that ability now. I need to stop him."

"You need to rest. We don't know what that thing did to you."

"Mom, people are being hurt and killed out there! I have to stop this now!"

"You're just a child! This isn't on you!"

"Kid," said Cole as he came back in. "Listen to Cindy. You're injured, you're out of this fight."

"I'm fine!" Harry's arms sparked up red and the power in the jet flickered once more.

"You're angry. You're too distracted to fight properly. It's like with me with Trish. You need to calm down."

"Calm down?! While we're here arguing, the First Sons are out there hunting my people down! My friends are all out there! I need to be out there too!"

"Harry," exclaimed Daphne. The young Technomancer turned to her. She took his hand and ignored the shock she got when she did. Luna turned to M and whispered something to her as Daphne looked Harry in the eye. "Please listen to them. Luna described the pain that Zip Bomb put her and M in. And Dr. Simmons said that you forced yourself to Reboot to counter its effects but that it looked like you were using your powers to do so. Which means you forced your mind to undergo an extreme amount of pain to force yourself to pass out. That's dangerous, Harry."

"Daphne, you can't expect me to leave them out there without backup. They'll be killed!"

"And you'll make a difference?!"

"I've fought them before! This is my fight!"

"Now," said Luna. She and M aimed their wands at Harry and shot bolts at him. Instead of the normal blue lightning, however, the bolts were green. Even more surprising, Harry exclaimed as he was shocked.

"What did you do," asked Cole as Harry panted slightly.

"Positive energy to counter the negative energy his anger was giving off. Green lightning is a natural occurrence in lightning storms. You just never see it because it's inside the storm. Positive energy to negative energy. And because Harry was exuding nothing but negative energy, he was shocked." Harry shook his head as his eyes shifted to pure green with white circuit outlines and another Kessler Node activated.

"Green lightning. A rarely seen phenomenon, but when it is, it is awe inspiring. When we get hit with it, however…" Harry saw an image of Kessler getting hit with green lightning. His arms sparked up with green electricity and mechanical devices around him sparked brightly until they began moving as one. "If we are angry, we are shocked much to my surprise. It unlocks our latent mechanical mastery. For one who already has a small mechanical control, the results are more potent. You can hear the Voice of the Machines, as well as increased healing magic and giving you a further step to fully acquiring my lightning. Phoenix tears may have given you a brief taste, but this will be more of an appetizer, my Apprentice. And when your Magical Binds are fully gone, I wonder what will happen…

Harry blinked and shook his head. He opened his hand and saw his lightning sparking green, briefly turning white, and turning to a greenish-blue hue. "Brilliant…" Harry turned to Noir and sent a Healing Pulse throughout the jet. Noir gripped her head slightly, the block placed on her with the first Zip Bomb she encountered before working with Harry.

"Those bastards," she muttered, her voice giving off a heavy French accent. Harry chuckled slightly.

"I was right." Noir drained him slightly

"Silence, toi." She flicked his nose for emphasis. "We don't have time for this. Lyon is in danger."

"Right," said M. "Try to keep up, Second Rate."

"Harry," said Cindy. "You're not…"

"Mom, what do you expect me to do? I can't just sit back while they're in danger. I need to help them. If I don't we're looking at a lot of trouble."

"Tonks and Lena have just encountered the Commander," said Luna as she turned to them. "He had another Zip Bomb on him, but Tonks' physiology helped her break free as she shifted her mind to counter the device and her body to slip out of her restraints."

"How did he create another one," asked Dr. Simmons.

"He's resourceful," said Harry. "How's Izzy handling the power situation?"

"We're halfway done," said Isabel over a radio. "Me and Dad restored power to half the city now, but we ran into a problem, more of those tiger things were guarding the last plant. Dad took care of them, but they're tough."

"How much of that did you hear," asked Harry.

"All of it. Holly has me on open coms. Cindy, this is all hands on deck. My who knows how many Technomancers were killed in the first strike. With Power being restored, the First Sons are bound to step up their attacks to try and stop resistance. Harry has experience fighting them, he can relay information on how they act to the people out there who are fighting back against the First Sons. It's either that or have them all running blind as the First Sons pick them off one by one."

"Dammit…" said Cindy.

"Mom," said Harry. "Please."

"…Fine, but I'm going with you all. I'm not going to sit on the sidelines while you're in trouble. I'm going with you. And don't worry about me lagging behind. I can beat Cole when it comes to climbing, you know."

"Really?"

"Don't bring it up," said Cole. "Who else is going?"

"We'll stay here and protect Dr. Simmons," said Padma. "I'm afraid I'm going to be rubbish in a fight. My aim isn't like the others, but I can use tech to protect us better than anyone besides Harry."

"And I have better healing magic," said Millicent. "We can stay back."

"Should we really be using those words around her," asked Daphne.

"She'll learn soon enough," said Luna as the Seer turned to Dr. Simmons. "Sorry, ma'am. We need to leave you here for now, but when we get back, we'll explain everything. For now…" Luna placed two fingers to the confused and frightened scientist's temple and sent a small jolt to knock the woman out. She and Harry caught her and placed her into one of the seats before reclining it. "Harry, what does that helmet of yours do?"

"It's a prototype upgrade with a preloaded data file holding items I've Digitized. Spare parts, amplifiers, and…" Harry pulled on the helmet and Circuit lines traveled up his arm to the helmet before the Tesla Staff Mk. II appeared in his hand. Luna saw the helmet had a more draconic style to it rather than the eagle design of the Hayabusa.

"Taking the dragon obsession a bit too far, Harry," said Daphne.

"Shut up. Dragons are cool." Harry aimed the staff outside and at one of the tigers. A small bolt fired at the mechanical beast and its eyes turned green. Harry grinned as he saw through the tiger's eyes and moved beside it. He turned to Luna and M. "How did you two generate green lightning?"

"We just focused on positive energy to send to you in an attempt to calm you down," said Luna.

"Positive energy to negative energy. Need to keep that in mind. Holly, please." Luna removed Holly from her helmet and handed it to Harry who plugged it into the prototype helmet.

"6 Terrabyte storage space," asked Holly as she appeared on his visor. "It's so roomy in here. How on earth did you manage it?"

"Kessler's design. I managed to unlock more and more of his personal tech designs."

"Harry, I'm starting to worry about that. He Uploaded so much information into your head as well as the Nodes, what if he gave you more than just information?"

"You're worried he uploaded a copy of his consciousness into my mind to act as a virus, aren't you?" Holly nodded to him. "Then I'm counting on you to keep an eye on me. You know my behavioral patterns. If I alter them in any way, tell Izzy and incapacitate me. For now, let's go save Lyon."

(Tour de Crédit Lyonnais)

The Commander stood atop the Tour de Crédit Lyonnais and looked over the city completely before turning his head to the skies as a massive storm cloud moved in. "Sir," said one of his Lieutenants. "They've gotten another plant up. Power's been restored to 75% of the city. Our men can't seem to stop them, they've got some sort of monster with them! We keep getting reports of…"

"A blood sucking monster, I know. Subject is known as Alucard, or Dracula if you prefer."

"You didn't tell me we'd be going off against a fucking vampire!"

"Truth be told. I was hoping that crimson fucker would stay away from here. We weren't ready for him yet. But it seems hope only lasts so long against fate. Pull your men back from the streets. They're following a pattern. Fall into one of the remaining power plants, set up Riot Control. And tell the other lieutenants not to engage the Technomancers with that storm incoming. We don't need them getting a power boost in all of this."

"Sir," came a call over the radio. "MacGrath and Delacour are loose. The automatons are gone as well."

"Find them and capture them. The Beacons need to be on our side."

"Yes, sir!" The Commander stared at the storm clouds and grunted before Apparating away.

"Lieutenant. Change of plans. Have your men set up Riot Control but send them out to the streets. Hunt down MacGrath and bring him and the masked girl to me alive. The other Beacons will follow after their leader and friend. When you obtain them, bring them to this rooftop."

"What about you sir?" The Commander unloaded a magazine from the .45 auto he kept as a side arm and loaded a specially marked one.

"I'm going for a walk…"

(Streets of Lyon)

Harry sniped away at the Artificial Technos down at street level as M and Noir divebombed them and Daphne blasted away with Ice Blasts, freezing them in place long enough for her friends and M to get their shots off.

"You guys work well together," said Cole behind Harry.

"M adapts well, Noir has been working with Interpol fighting them since they arrived here, and me and Daphne have been training together," said Harry. "We're almost to Blaise's GPS coordinates, what do you want to do?"

"Find this Commander and get some payback for last time. Time to see if he can handle the Amp to the face. By the way," said Cole. "I hear you have an upgrade for me?"

"Yeah." Harry took hold of the Amp and Dismantled it before adding coils to the shaft and hooks to the prongs before putting the weapon back together and extending out the prongs before they hooked onto a barrel left on the roof. "These upgrades to the Amp can give you a longer range for melee attacks. While not as long as your Lightning Tether, the Amp's Extension Coils can reach out and latch onto nearby enemies to pull them into melee range or nearby objects to hurl them at enemies. This also comes with a theory. You could potentially fire Lightning Bolts or other variants from the prongs of the Amp for more precise and powerful hits."

"I'll give it a try. Oh yeah, figured out a new spell to use on enemy fighters. I call it Data Purge. It's not like a normal one on a computer. Generate lightning in your arms and pulse it out around you with the same power behind it as an Overload Burst. Any enemies within reach become disoriented and panic as they see their allies with guns. They start firing at the people they presume are immediate threats to their lives."

"So it zaps their memories for a short amount of time before they restore. That's slightly evil."

"Hey, if it means me and civilians aren't in the line of fire for a few moments, it's necessary."

"I suppose."

"Get to your friends, kid. I'll wrap things up with these assholes."

"Got it." Harry sent an Ice Bomb in the air before hitting it with a Lightning Bolt and making it turn into snow. The children on the ground and in the air turned to it before heading back to the roof as Cole Thunderdropped down to the First Sons below. Harry turned to the girls as they got to his level. "Cole's going to mop these guys up. Let's get going." They nodded and started following Harry to where Blaise and Lily had set up a treatment area with local emergency services. M paused momentarily as her phone's call tone started up. She brought the phone to her ear.

"M," she heard her employer speak up before static sounded.

"Mr. Harper," she asked.

"…Stor… head…" She winced away from the phone as a blaring sound emitted from her phone before it exploded in her hand. She shouted out in surprise and pain as she gripped her hand. Harry rushed over to her.

"What happened," he asked.

"I don't know… but my boss just called, and my phone suddenly exploded. I need to get back. I think something is wrong."

"We need you here."

"My boss…"

"I'm sure he's fine," said Daphne.

"Someone like him would probably hide and wait things out if things were looking bad," said Harry. "We need to stop the First Sons here and now. Harry looked up as he heard thunder in the distance and spotted a mass of storm clouds heading towards Lyon. "And it looks like fate is on our side. Massive powerup incoming."

"That's odd," said Holly as she appeared in front of them all. "The weather report for Lyon didn't predict a storm coming." Harry frowned as he looked at the incoming clouds.

"Wanna say something else, Second Rate," asked M. Harry turned on his helmet radio.

"Is anyone near the storm right now," he asked.

"Me and Pansy are at the edge of the city closest to the storm," replied Draco.

"Holly says its unusual. I need you two to investigate."

"We'll get some locals to take over search and rescue," said Pansy.

"Alright. Blaise, we're on our way to your position."

"Hurry up," said Blaise. "Locals just told me that there's helicopters in the area. If they get close we can't defend the triage area."

"I see them," said Noir. "I'll intercept." Harry nodded as the masked girl grew her techno-organic wings and took off after the nearby helicopters.

"Will she be alright," asked Daphne.

"She'll be fine," said Luna. "We need to get moving." Harry looked down at the streets as he saw Cole and Lucy tag team an Artificial Technomancer with Cole zapping the frozen man and causing the ice to shatter and knock the man unconscious.

"We could use some help here," called Tonks over the radio. "Lena is down. Knocked out by one of those tiger things. Me and the locals can't get close, it just keeps draining us."

"Tell them I'm on my way," said Daphne. "I can freeze them long enough to get other's away."

"We'll go too," said Harry as Holly shrank and appeared on his shoulder. "Holly can reprogram them."

"Me and Lovegood will get to your friends at the triage area," said M. "Until I receive word from my employer, I might as well help you."

"No, never mind that it's only what a decent human being would do," muttered Daphne.

"I'm only here because I'm following orders to help Harry. I couldn't care less what happens to anyone else."

"You're bad at lying, you know," said Luna as she pressed a button on her pack. Harry watched as a hose extended from the pack and into her hand. She aimed past Harry and pulled the trigger. Harry turned around and spotted a First Son had gotten to their level and was now stuck to a wall with web.

"Is that…" started Harry.

"Acromantula webbing. There's a giant nest of them in the Forbidden Forest."

"When the hell did you… never mind. We need to hurry." The girls nodded and the group split up with Luna and M heading towards the triage center in the northern part of the city.

"Do you know Ionic Shift," asked Luna as she landed down at street level a block away from the triage area.

"Ionic what?"

"That's a no then. When that storm comes in, I'll give you a crash course. Basically, it shifts you from one variant to another. Harry discovered it when fighting a masked Aquamancer a few months ago."

"Masked Aquamancer?" Luna noted M's thoughtful silence but put it aside as they got to their destination just as Lily caused a Pulse Wave to heal multiple people at once.

"Nice job, Adder." Lily nodded to Luna, a smiling emoji appearing on her visor.

"Welcome to the party," said Blaise as he set up a turret. "Make sure your visors are set to the same frequency as this turret. Otherwise you'll get hit with tranquilizer darts."

"Aren't First Sons wearing Kevlar," asked M.

"I designed this to target specific areas the Kevlar doesn't protect. My darts don't puncture skin hard enough for a large needle. Just enough to get to a nearby vein." Outside of his view, M and Luna shook her head when she sensed they were about to bring up their first encounter in Lyon. Blaise turned to them. "This site hasn't been on their radar as much as the others, namely because we don't make a lot of noise. Unlike some people."

"Whoo," sounded George and Fred over the radio.

"What are those two idiots doing," asked Luna.

"They modified one of those tigers to fly," came Lily's text reply.

"Of course they did." They heard explosions from the radio and more whoops of joy as well as a mechanical roar. "Would you two stop drawing attention to yourselves?!"

"More people attacking us means less attacking the civilians," shouted George.

"That's all well and done until they start threatening civilians directly to get you down to their level. Play this smart." She shut off her radio and growled. "Idiots."

"But they're effective," said Blaise. "If anyone can cause mayhem and get away without dire consequences, it's Gemini."

"Why do you call them that," asked M.

"Their inseparable twins. It fits. Pretty much all of us have a codename based on the constellations. The Divination students started calling us that after Luna's Seer abilities became more known throughout the school."

"Why?"

"We just went with it," came Lily's reply. "Incoming!" Blaise looked up and spotted grenades soaring towards them. Lily stood in front of the triage area and sent out an Overload Burst, knocking the grenades away from the wounded and emergency vehicles. Blaise sent a few Lightning Bolts towards the incoming First Sons and Luna Charged into a nearby powerline to move behind the terrorists. M turned on her portable generator and took to the air before firing down at the First Sons after Materializing an assault rifle as Lily helped move the most injured into ambulance vehicles.

"This is gonna be a long day," muttered Blaise as he lobbed a Shock Grenade at the terrorists.

Harry turned to Daphne as they moved to Lena and Tonks' position. "What can I expect from the tigers?"

"Limb ripping, electricity draining tails, heating coils to overcome our Cryomancy. It's like they were created specifically created to combat you."

"Well, there's a flattering thought. Also horrifying to think about how they knew about Cryomancy. I haven't used it much." Harry looked up as the helicopter Noir had taken on started falling from the sky. "Crap baskets…" Daphne turned to it just as the entire craft started turning blue before it was absorbed by a very exhausted looking L'ange Noir as she landed on a nearby roof. "You ok?!"

"Oui," she replied. "J'ai juste besoin d'une minute pour recharger."

"Well, you did just Digitize an entire helicopter."

"It was that, or let the people down below get crushed like ants!" Noir drained a nearby roof light and sighed. "At least I will have a new toy to take apart. Where on earth did they get an attack helicopter?"

"Where did they get any of the equipment they use? We've been trying to answer that question for a long time." Harry looked up at the storm. It was closing in on the city at a rapid rate. Harry turned on his radio. "Draco, Pansy, how far are you from the storm?"

"Storm is still a few miles away from the city, but we found a telescope to give us a better view."

"There's no rain," said Pansy. "Doesn't rain normally fall from a storm like this?"

"Not necessarily," said Harry. "What about the clouds, what do you see?"

"Hold on." Harry looked at the storm and thought he'd heard a roar in the distance over the thunder.

"Please don't be what I think it is…"

"All I see is lightning. Wait…"

"What is it?"

"I thought I saw a shape in the storm from the lightning… I think it was just my mind playing a trick on me."

"What did you think you saw?"

"I thought I saw something with wings flying in the storm."

"Dammit…"

"What's wrong," asked Daphne.

"Pansy, Draco, fall back to one of the triage zones. Get the word out to the locals for some of the Technomancers to act as lightning rods for the storm coming in. If it's just lightning, we don't have to worry about Malfunctions. At the first sign of rain, have everyone get inside, but I doubt there will be any."

"Quoi," asked Noir.

"I hope I'm wrong this time. But if I'm not, we need to find a way to lure a storm dragon away from Lyon without too many people seeing it."

(Akagi Industries)

Danzo was going over the latest sales report when his niece ran into the office. "Uncle! The ship! Harry's ship! It started up!" Danzo looked up at her and shot from his seat. The two ran to the lab and saw the ship hovering in the spot where they'd just completed building the first design of the ship.

"What the hell happened," he muttered. "Is there anyone in there?!"

"It's empty," called one of the technicians. "It just booted up!" Danzo watched as the magically concealed retractable roof opened up.

"Yamada! Close it up!" Up in a booth a man under the Imperius raised a gun to his head and fired just as the ship activated an unknown cloaking device and left the building, the blast back knocking everyone off of their feet. Danzo and Sakura looked up at it as it flew straight up, its outline leaving a hole in the clouds above as it left the troposphere to the stratosphere. "What the hell just happened?"

(Author's Notes)

Sorry this is taking a bit longer than normal. Again, with my mom working from home, I don't have as much time to write as I used to. I'll try and dish out as many updates as I can, but I can't give you an estimate as to how much that would be. Please bear with me. Also, sorry there wasn't much action in this chapter, I was saving it for the next one. Until next time, Y'all!