Harry woke up and groaned as he rubbed the back of his head, the sound of crashing and breaking ceramic could be heard beyond the door to the room he was in. "Harry," said Padma, sitting in a chair beside his bed, holding a taser that was sending a jolt to his body. "Are you ok?"

"I hurt those people…" muttered Harry as he stared at his hands. They sparked with red lightning for a moment before he sighed and put his head in his hands. "How could I do that?"

"You weren't in control," said a voice from the doorway. Harry glanced up and spotted Corporal Evelyn Carlyle coming in and handing him a glass of water. "From what the Commander has told me, Technomancy is more emotion dependent than normal Technokinesis. "You're what? 14? 15?"

"14."

"Right now your hormones are out of whack as your body goes through puberty. That means your emotions are being influenced as well. More aggression, shorter fuses. And for someone who helps people for a living, seeing those people gunned down meant you acted out of anger towards the ghouls and yourself for not being able to help the people who were injured and killed. Then you lost it as your magic started influencing your actions as you acted more like a weapon than a hero."

"I'm supposed to get a handle on Red Shift before progressing further with my magic."

"Red Shift?"

"It's the name we've given the sudden change in color for the lightning," said Padma.

"A bit unoriginal."

"They can't all be winners," said Harry as another crash could be heard. "Let me guess. Izzy?" Padma nodded.

"She saw the Commander, shouted 'You bastard' and went Blood Rage," said Padma. Harry shook his head before standing up and heading to the door.

"Where are you going," asked Evelyn.

"Stopping my mentor from killing a potential, if untrustworthy, ally." Harry went to where he heard the commotion and witnessed the former First Son leader get thrown into the wall by the door he walked through and embed into the wall. "Having fun?"

"Yuck it up," groaned the Commander. "And help me."

"Not just yet." Harry pulled up his phone and started recording as Isabel grabbed the Commander's leg and threw him up into the air with a snarl, her normal snowy hair tinted red as blood formed tendrils on the strands and struck out around her, namely when the Commander was close.

"You're enjoying this!"

"Immensely. Smile, Crowe!"

"You're a son of a…" Isabel slammed him into a suit of armor and shattered it as Crowe coughed and shook his head. Isabel screamed and shot forward only to be held to a wall as Harry hit her with an Electromagnetic Wave. Restraints forming around her wrists, ankles, and waist as they pinned her to a wall. "Where the hell did you learn that?"

"Comics." Harry walked over to Isabel and zapped her head, knocking her out. "You know all of that was deserved." Crowe sighed as he 'ate' fire from a nearby fireplace and seemed to heal.

"Yeah… I know…"

"You were her best friend and you lied to her about your death for decades. You were the love of her life…"

"I know!" Harry stared at him calmly as Elijah Crowe glared at him. "I know exactly what I've done to her! There's not a day that goes by that I didn't wish I could talk with her again! Where I could show myself to her without fear! I had my duty to uphold and a job to do!"

"You could've declined."

"This was my fate!"

"Fate? Don't make me laugh. Your fate is to kill innocent people?"

"You and I both know the bigots the First Sons killed under my orders would've…"

"Disrupted the plans Kessler had to shape the future, you told me."

"You're being calm about all of this."

"In wake of my outburst in Vatican City, I'm keeping myself in Machine Mind mode for the duration of speaking with you. Logical thinking is the only thing keeping me from killing you for putting Izzy through this. I need to speak with you before I take Padma, Izzy and my 'bodyguards' to Hogwarts."

"You're going through with it after all?"

"I have little choice. Will they be able to see Hogwarts at all?"

"Carlyle has taken a potion Kessler was able to gleam off of a vision that…"

"Gives her access to magic. That's Hecate. My birth mother's work to try and awaken magic in those with little or no magic. I'm aware of what it does."

"Kessler really has been watching you your entire life, hasn't he?"

"Considering I have a memory of him outside of the hospital I was born in? I'd say that's a yes." Harry Materialized the Blast Core and studied it before looking at him. "How does this work?"

"Simply run a current through it. The Element Zero, as you call it, will interact with your magic and evolve it further while the resounding surge of energy will unlock more of your magical potential, giving you a wider access to the spells you can learn and use without being exhausted."

"How many of these are there?"

"10. That's how many Wolfe and Kessler created before you killed him in Empire City." Harry thought for a moment before Digitizing it again as he looked at Elijah.

"Where are the others?"

"I… don't have them."

"What?"

"Kessler didn't give me the one I had. I found it with Sebastian before Grindelwald outed me. Luckily, both Wolfe and the other Blast Cores are safely hidden away."

"Where?"

"I'm not at liberty to say."

"More cloak and dagger bullshit…" Harry went to Isabel and pulled her off of the wall as Padma came over to him. He looked at Elijah. "I take it your men have a means of contacting you?"

"They do."

"Then keep your orders to them coming and location known at all times. You go silent, I'll help them along to save you. Update twice a week."

"Since when are you giving orders?" Harry simply stared at him before thunder sounded outside and lightning struck directly in front of a window behind Harry, making everyone but him jump. "You know, Kessler pulled that same trick when he saved me."

"I know. I have his memories." Harry looked at Evelyn. "Who's coming to with us?"

"Me and two others," said the soldier, looking nervously at the boy in front of her commander.

"Just three of you?"

"They're the only three I have left with magic," said Elijah. "I think Kessler preferred this because now, you can have someone you trust to watch them if you don't trust them."

"You mean the other woman who won't hold back from actually killing you?"

"That was holding back," exclaimed Evelyn.

"Yes," said Elijah, Harry and Padma as the first winced at the thought of Sam finding him.

"I'm not looking forward to that reunion," muttered Elijah before starting to walk away. "Have fun at school, kid."

"Oh yes, because a girl trying to kill me, a replica of my dead birth mother and impending doom are loads of fun," said Harry. "Padma, do you have your phone?"

"Yes," said Padma. "Isabel Apparated us here. Said it's Elijah's family home in Texas."

"Which means we're not too far away from DMT." Harry grinned as looked at Elijah.

"Oh, I don't like that look in your eyes."

"Crowe!" Elijah glanced back and grunted as Harry Head Shocked him, knocking him unconscious. Harry pulled Padma's phone from her pocket and grinned as he dialed up Sam's phone.

"What are you doing?"

"Scheming."

"What's going on, Short Stack," asked Sam as she answered, recognizing Padma's number.

"Brace yourself, Sam!"

"Harry? What…?" Harry Forward Charged Sam through to their end and the old soldier clutched her stomach as she keeled over and heaved.

"I said brace yourself." Sam shook her head and stood at full height.

"Harry. What the hell?!"

"Found someone you'd like to see."

"What?" Sam turned around as Harry pointed behind her and Elijah started waking up.

"Fucking bastard that kid," muttered the former Commander.

"Son of a… Ghost?!" Elijah paused from getting himself off of the floor and looked up, seeing Sam.

"Fuck…"

"What the hell?!"

"Sam Russo," said Harry. "Say 'hello' to the former Commander of the First Sons, Elijah Crowe. Kessler faked his death and altered your memories from Vietnam." Sam turned from Harry to Elijah and growled before pulling out her side arm and aiming right for his head.

"You son of a bitch!"

"You can kill him later. Like it or not, we need to work with him against the current Commander, Gellert Grindelwald." Sam turned to Harry; weapon stilled trained on Elijah who was staring down the barrel. "He's going to be fighting the First Sons following his chief replacement and three of his soldiers are going to act as my 'bodyguards'. Considering we don't trust them…"

"You need me to keep an eye on them." Sam sighed before lowering her gun. "Harry, we need to talk about this later."

"And we will. When Isabel wakes up and we're back at Hogwarts. For now, we need him alive. He has crucial intel and knows how the First Sons operate. He did train them after all."

"Can I shoot him?"

"Once in the leg." Elijah glared at them and exclaimed as Sam fired off a shot into Elijah's thigh.

"Ah! Fuck," exclaimed Elijah. Harry turned to Padma.

"Did you bring a burner," he asked.

"I did," she replied before handing it over.

"Corporal Carlyle, gather your men so we can go."

"You are scary," said the young soldier.

"I learned from a solider who fought in Vietnam and a vampire. Of course I'm scary." Harry stood beside the soldiers and chained stunning nonlethal lightning between the seven of them after dialing the Bunker phone and Charged them through, leaving the burner behind to smash on the ground.

The Hogwarts Technomancers turned to the phone as Luna held it towards the Landing Zone and blinked as Harry and Padma came back with some extra people. Draco blinked as he recognized the eyes of one of them and sparked red before aiming his wand at them. "First Sons," he shouted. All at once, several metal wands aimed at the three soldiers and two assault rifles aimed back at them.

"Holly," called Harry who stood back as a wall of hard light erected between the two groups. The half elf girl stared at the wall and the two groups lowered their arms, all except for Draco who instinctively maneuvered between the former First Sons and Pansy, still resentful for what happened in Lyons. "They are no longer First Sons. The situation has changed since Lyons and this pertains to the Elven girl who is now attending our school." Harry went to her and removed her hood, arms sparking with energy to prevent her from attacking him. Harry noticed an indigo shade in her Circuits as their magic reacted to each other and tilted his head slightly. "Have we ever had any indication of ingido circuits pop up?"

"None," said Hermione. "Unless Tonks decides to try and change her color."

"Thought so…" Harry stood away from her before turning to Sam and Blasting the rifles out of the soldiers' hands. "Holly will lead the way to the castle's guest rooms, Sam. Please keep an eye on them."

"Want me to get Boss to her room?"

"No. She'll rest here. We had beds installed in the Bunker just in case someone fell asleep in here again." Harry shot a look at Luna who stuck her tongue out. Harry waited for the soldiers to leave before magnetically moved a chair behind the half-elf and one behind himself. He sat down and gestured for her to sit as well as Holly projected herself onto his shoulder. "Now then, Thorny…" Harry ignored the glare from her as he controlled several monitors to show his face around them. "Let's talk."

"Is he using Machine Mind right now," asked Pansy.

"Not that I'm aware of," said Padma.

"Good. Luna?" The two girls swatted Harry on the back of the head.

"Ow," exclaimed the First Technomancer as he glared at them.

"You're not the Architect," said Luna as she deactivated the screens, making them instead show Grumpy Cat. The elf stared at the screens in confusion before looking at the children in front of her. Harry drained the two in retaliation and Draco shook his head.

"It is a wonder we ever get anything completed in here," he muttered.

"I've gotten used to it," said Blaise before heading to the exit. "You converse with the Knife-Ear, I need to check on Lily." Both Harry and the half elf glared at him at the term as he walked away.

"Go comfort your girlfriend, Zabini," said Pansy. "She needs you right now." Blaise nodded before closing the door behind him.

"No flare for the dramatic, I swear," muttered Harry as he stood up. "Fine. I'll stop if only to spare my brain any damage from everyone."

"Too late," said Lena with a grin.

"Miss," said Holly as she floated in front of the girl's face. "May we know your name?"

"It's Arya," said the half elf. "Arya Saintwalker."

"Saintwalker," asked Pansy. "As in Blue Lantern?"

"You and I are the only ones who would know that reference," said Harry.

"Miss Saintwalker," said Holly. "You mentioned your Sanctuary was destroyed. Do you know what it was?"

"No," said Arya. "I woke up and found my village on fire. Several people were trapped in their homes and my mother tried her hardest to stop the monster that attacked us, and it killed her. When my guards got me outside, we were confronted by these men in odd masks."

"What did they look like," asked Harry.

"Like that." Harry turned to where she was pointing and saw the rubberized suit Hermione and the other normal mages had to wear when assisting in the lab and the Technomancy tests regarding their electrical prowess.

"First Sons. They wore those suits in Empire City when me and Cole fought them. Insulated from our electrical discharge and making them harder to fight at range. Their tech suits replaced them, but we saw some still using them on occasion."

"Who are the First Sons, Child," asked the Fairy that arrived with Arya.

"Terrorists," said Holly. "They've been attacking the No-Maj public for years. It seems after their major defeat in Lyons' France, their objective shifted to the Hidden World."

"It's more like the new Commander wants a war," said Harry. "Gellert Grindelwald has taken control of the First Sons from the former Commander, Elijah Crowe."

"Wait," said Gred. "As in…"

"Isabel's dead best friend, Elijah," finished Forge.

"Kessler faked his death," said Padma. "Recruited him to help progress things for the First Sons back in Vietnam."

"How old was Kessler," asked Millicent.

"Older than we originally thought," said Harry. He looked at Arya. "A man working with the First Sons, a criminal of the Human Magical World, Barty Crouch Jr., is the one who created what we've called the Monster of Abominations."

"It's a genetic abomination," said Miranda from the entrance. "According to Harry, when he encountered it a little over a year ago, it wiped out a clutch of Storm Dragons."

"How," asked Arya.

"Overpowered the mother," said Harry. He rubbed his temples as the emotions bubbled to the surface. "She was so afraid of the Monster, so angry at the people who abducted her and her clutch. When the Monster started massacring her hatchlings, she tried to break free of her cage, tried to kill it. The pain she felt from its flames, from its maw and claws, she'd never felt anything like it before." Arya took a step back as Harry's arms sparked with red lightning. "It was… Monster doesn't even come close to describing that… thing. The former Commander commissioned that thing to be created, the current more than likely made a show of trying to fight it off, didn't he?" Arya nodded. "And labeled me as the creator of that thing as it flew off. Fucker…" Harry's Circuits flashed orange for a brief moment before he resumed control of his emotions and switched to Machine Mind. "Grindelwald will likely try to pull the same trick on the other Sanctuaries, unite them under his flag to start a war with the Mundane and Wizarding Worlds upon the time of Revelation Day."

"What is Revelation Day?"

"When Magic will be revealed to the Mundane World," said Miranda. "And when the Sanctuaries would be revealed to the entire world. All this because the latent radioactivity in the world is slowly increasing."

"What is that," asked the Fae.

"A result of learning more about the world," said Harry. "Radiation is basically the emergence of electromagnetic waves or subatomic parti…" Harry stopped as the two stared at him in confusion. "It's a form of energy that acts as the exact opposite of Magic. A naturally occurring Anti-Magic."

"Such a thing is impossible!"

"Have your people ever been to outer space?"

"What is that," asked Arya.

"The space between the Earth and the Moon and beyond."

"You mean the stars?"

"And everything around them. That's outer space. Any magic that goes beyond the atmosphere, the area containing our breathable air and just beyond the clouds, is destroyed. Was there a Sanctuary in Japan, near the cities of Hiroshima or Nagasaki?"

"There was one," said the Fae. "But they went silent…"

"Let me guess, 68 years ago?"

"How did you know that?"

"One of the weapons of the Mundane World," said Holly. "Emits radiation. The Magical Families in both cities were killed by the radioactive fallout and their wards, their magic, was completely wiped out. Investigations to find out what happened were conducted by Harry's mentor, Isabel Daniels, the woman sleeping in one of the cots in this facility. They showed how deadly radiation is for Magical beings. It's already very deadly for the Mundane World and even more so for those with large amounts of magic." Harry pressed typed in a command and showed the two the fallout of both Japanese cities, particularly the shadows of those left behind by those caught in the initial blast and burned into the rubble and pavements.

"That is how intense the heat from the bombs were," said Harry. "The country I call home, the United States of America, dropped one bomb per city in order to stop the war we were in."

"That's why I've never liked you humans," said the Fae. "All you care about is war."

"The Elves aren't free of bloodshed either," said Miranda. "Or should I point out the extinction of the only nonmagical race, the Orcs?" Harry noticed Arya shift uncomfortably at that. "And if I remember correctly, it wasn't just the Elves that contributed to that, Fae."

"You know not what you speak of, child! The Orcs were dangerous! More savage than you humans! They hunted all of us, dragging us to their caves, making us disappear and more than likely forcing us to breed new Orcs! They always kept coming back with new monstrous forms! They wiped out the Dwarves, you know! We weren't about to be next!"

"So you engaged in war. The only option. Well the alliance Japan was part of would've stripped most of the world of their inherent freedom and turned them into either slaves or worse. The entire world was fighting against the Axis Alliance."

"And America was fighting on two fronts," said Harry. "In Germany and in Japan. In order to stop the war, we needed to stop Germany, but we couldn't do that so long as Japan was a threat to us. They'd already attacked one of our military bases even though we were not part of the war. We were trying to stay out of it. Then we were dragged in. And if we hadn't dropped the bombs first, Germany would've and wiped out Empire City. Then the nation's capital. Then whatever cities were likely to be a sign that if we didn't stand down, they would wipe us out. We were reluctant to drop those bombs. Hitler and his Nazi regime would've done so without a second thought."

"The loss of lives to prevent the loss of lives is not a good excuse," said the Fae.

"And genocide isn't a loss of lives," asked Miranda.

"That's enough," said Cindy. "To get back on track, with Radiation, Magic could be effectively destroyed. But the same man who gave you your resistance to iron has found a way to evolve magic and possibly grant it to the rest of the world while also giving them a resistance to radiation like the Technomancers you see before you. Which you most likely have as well."

"That is not possible," said Arya. "Magic is sacred. You can't just give it to people."

"You can," said Harry, not paying attention to Lilith as she entered the Bunker, looking for Miranda. "My birth mother spent majority of her time learning about magic. She spent a significant amount of time studying the effects of potions and was intent on making a means of bridging the gap between the Magical and Mundane Worlds in the event that Magic is ever revealed."

"Um," said Miranda. "Harry?"

"In a bit." Harry typed another command and the formula for Hecate appeared on the screen beside him. "She started the initial formula for Hecate, named after the Greek goddess of Magic, and I completed it at the end of my first year here."

"You never told me that."

"You were working with Harper. Now, you're not. You can be trusted."

"And I couldn't before?"

"I couldn't be sure before. But now I can." Harry turned to the two from the Sanctuary. "We tested it on our groundskeeper, Argus Filch. He was born with the unfortunate fate of having little to no magic. But now? Over a year later, he is gradually starting to use more and more of the magic that Hecate granted him. It hasn't gone away, and it hasn't diminished. We've spoken to him about it, no adverse effects and if he ever loses his magic, he'd be fine because he finally had a chance to actually use it."

"Harry," said Luna as she spotted Lilith looking over the formula.

"This is astounding," said the Fae.

"Kessler," continued Harry as he ignored the others trying to get his attention. "Being a Seer, saw the formula and possibly saw the effects of adding what we call Element Zero to it. It essentially evolves magic. It's how he created Technomancy and how we're able to control and create magic compatible technology."

"This could also be used to advance genetic mutation," muttered Lilith as she went over the formula as element zero appeared on the screen. "Mostly appearing as a sense of kinetic control and mass distortion…" Harry blinked and shifted to look at Lilith who was looking over the composition of Element Zero. "Added to other potions… proper shape shifting not limited to Polyjuice or Metamorphmagus genetics, perhaps…"

"Mum," asked Miranda.

"Sorry… what?" Lilith turned to Miranda as if coming out of a trance.

"…What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I… don't quite remember. I was looking for you for something but for the life of me, it escapes me…" Harry stared at her for a moment before standing up.

"I think that's enough discussion for today," he said as he adjusted his tie and cleared his dry throat. Cindy and Holly looked at him in worry and Harry started for the exit. "I need something to eat, and then I plan on getting to bed. We've all been up past hours while I was dealing with the incident in Rome. I'll tell Blaise and Lily to head back if they haven't already."

"Harry," said Miranda.

"No." Harry turned to her and glanced at Lilith before turning back around and walking away. Holly flew in front of him before he exited the Bunker.

"You need to speak with her eventually," she said.

"Not while that fake is in the room. I'd have to stay in Machine Mind the whole time and I need to vent with her."

"You should consider you both even. You kept Hecate from her."

"That was different. It was to keep information out of Harper's hands. She was following orders from a man she should've known not to trust after Lyons."

"She can hear you, Second Rate," said Miranda.

"You were supposed to." Harry glared at her, lightning sparking yellow. "This…" He discretely pointed at Lilith. "Is not as light as keeping Hecate from you. This affects me in more ways than one, namely psychologically. Harper knows how to manipulate and distract. I did some digging on him. He was special ops. Managed to get ahold of some tech as well as forbidden magical artifacts he's been using and has gotten his funds for your little organization through a lot of illegal channels. It's a wonder Kessler needs him at all."

"Robert was always precise when recruiting," muttered Lilith, drawing Harry's attention to her.

"What did you say?"

"You're referring to Robert Kessler, right? First Sons of the Human Expansion?"

"How do…"

"I… remember him being… odd… staring off into space at times before going about his business."

"Mum," said Miranda. "How do you know Kessler?"

"Hmm?" Harry noticed that Lilith's eyes lost some of their color when Miranda started speaking and nodded to Holly to make a note to keep this recording. "Who's Kessler?"

"That's twice. What's going on?"

"Maybe her old stomping grounds are triggering a synaptic response," asked Hermione. "Bridging her unconscious memories and her conscious mind?"

"Her emotions are most likely tied to this place," said Cindy. "If nothing else, perhaps the familiar setting is slowly bringing her memories back."

"Which means it might take some time before she remembers everything," said Miranda, slightly worried. The words 'including her death' being unspoken but implied. Harry frowned before turning away.