Author note:

This story is based off the popular Bubblegum Crisis anime series. Like my other stories this is going to introduce a team of new characters with the Knight Sabers that are going to throw Genom for a loop. I'll try to focus on all characters instead of just one however I'm still a novice at this, so it won't be perfect. I must warn you, I've never actually seen the series myself, however I've been to several net sites and read plenty of fanfictions so I have a general idea of what I'm doing; personalities, jobs, yadda yadda yadda...

And no offence intended, but if you have a problem with me I don't care in the least. On the flipside if you have anything interesting to say send your mail

Now on with the story!

Bubblegum Crisis:

Tech Wars

Chapter 1

The battle was not going well. Sylia, Linna and Nene were buried under a pile of debris leaving Priss all alone to fend off the boomer. At the edge of the battle field the AD police stayed at a safe distance and waited for the battle to end. Lt. Leon McNichol watched the lone Knight Saber try to kill the boomer before her since her companions had been buried under a building. 'I hope they're okay.' he thought.

The police didn't even notice the figure rushing toward them until it was right on top of them. It leapt up and landed on top of one of the equipment vans with a loud "Clang!" They all turn toward it and draw their guns at the intruder. The figure just ignores them as it stands up and stares at the battlefield, crossing its arms in front of itself. Leon gets a good look at it and sees that it's someone wearing a combat armor. Decidedly female the armor was colored primarily green with gray on the backs of the arms and legs and going across the stomach, around and up the back. The helmet was more angular than those worn by the Knight Sabers, like something you would see on a mobile suite. The glowing yellow eyes gave him the shivers though. "Identify yourself," he said to the figure.

She paid him heed this time and turned her head slightly to look at him. She regarded him for a moment before speaking. "My name is of no concern of yours," she said in a distorted voice, though it couldn't keep the decidedly feminine voice from being noticed. She turned back to the battle and inside her helmet she winced when she saw the blue Knight Saber getting beat down, her weapons had been damaged or depleted earlier the battle; it was a highly advanced military boomer that had gone out of control. The others had yet to extrict themselves from the wreckage. The boomer managed to get in behind the Knight Saber and grab her, one arm around her midsection and the other around her neck. It began stretching her, trying to rip her in two. 'Well, guess it's time,' she thought wryly. She jumped off the police carrier and deftly ran into the frey. "Hey, tin man," she shouted, "heads up!" It looked over in time to see her jump up and throw a hard kick to its head. It lost its grip on its victim and was sent flying through a car and into a building.

Priss heard the shout but could neither hear well nor turn her head, she felt like her body was going to be torn apart any second. Then the pressure was gone and she was stumbling forward trying to regain her balance. A pair of strong, yet gentle arms came around and supported her while she regained her breath and balance. Finally she turned to thank whichever one of her friends had saved her. Instead she found herself staring into the face of someone else. "Are you alright," came the distorted voice. It took her a moment to find her own voice. "Uh, yeah. Thanks," was all she could come up with.

The other nodded and headed over to start digging out the others trapped beneath the rubble. Before she could, though, Sylia burst out and staggered forward. The stranger was at her side in a second to help. "You okay," she asked Sylia. She was about to say something when a roar broke out across the battlefield. They turned and the rogue boomer shot out of the debris of the wall it had been buried under. The stranger turned to Priss, "Would you hold her a sec please?" Priss came over and took Sylia from her.

The armor garbed stranger walked out into the center of the road and stared at the boomer as it advanced on her. She held up her arms in a guard position and made ready to fight. The boomer obviously didn't like her very much and charged her. Inside her armor she smiled wickedly and engaged her built in weapons. On the outside of her arms long silver spikes shot out about the same length of her forearms. The boomer didn't stop as it charged and in one swift thrust she put a spike through the boomer's exposed neck directly through the spinal relays. It had obviously been damaged when she had kicked it into that building. She drew back and the boomer collapsed like a rag doll, spilling its yellow body fluid all over the ground. 'Well that was easy,' she thought dryly as she retracted her spikes. 'Damn boomer didn't have enough intelligence to make it a descent fight.' But then she thought that it was also because the blue Knight Saber had worn it down before she stepped in.

She walked back over to help the other two with digging out the other two Knight Sabers. Sylia and Priss looked over as the stranger silently began removing pieces of debris. The stranger showed no interest in speaking to them as she dug so for the time being they respected that and continued to dig. Priss and Sylia managed to extract Linna and a few seconds later the stranger hauled Nene out. She supported the slightly injured girl until one of the Sabers came to take her and went silently on her way.

"Hey, wait a second!" someone said. The stranger turned around and saw the white Knight Saber take a few steps toward her. She regarded the other group's leader calmly as she waited for the other to speak. "Thank you very much for your help," she said, "But I'd like to know who you are, if you don't mind telling us." The stranger considered for a moment before turning away and starting off. She stopped, however, and over her shoulder said, "My name... is Tech. I'll be around if and when you need my assistance." And with that said she continued in her way and disappeared into the shadows.

Sylia and the others watched Tech vanish leaving more questions in her place. But for now they were questions that could wait 'till later, for now it was time to head home. Sylia activated her comm. link and called Mackey with the truck. Priss walked over to the mostly intact boomer and looked at it, "Hey Sylia, you want it?" Sylia examines it and nods, "Yes, we'll load it up in the truck." They gathered up Linna and Nene and place them in the truck, then Priss came out and retrieved the boomer for Sylia. Moments later they left the scene as the AD police came in to clean up.

Sylia removed her helmet and placed it next to her as she began thinking. She leaned against a weapons crate, arms crossed. Priss came up silently and leaned against another crate next to her as she stared down at the slightly shorter woman. "Uh oh, I know that look," she said. Sylia started a bit when Priss spoke and stares at her a second before what she said register in her brain, "What do you mean 'uh oh'?" Priss laughs a little, "I know that look. You know something, don't you?"

Sylia contemplated for a second before speaking, "It's not so much something I know, as something I remembered." Priss and the others looked confused so she elaborated, "In my father's database I found references to something similar. However the data was incomplete, as a matter of fact all the information in the database seems to be in bits and pieces. On further examination I found them to be key components from the diagrams; I figured it to be some sort of security protocol set up to keep the entire database from being stolen. Aside from that I also found lone components from other things that were the key components to other projects. It was these that I modified for use in our hard suites."

Lina spoke up, "So the person who wore the other suit tonight..." Sylia nodded her head, "May very well be the possessor of the other half of the database."

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Well, that's it for this chapter. Don't worry yer' heads off too much though, we'll see who's under the helmet in the next chapter of BGC: Tech Wars.