UNITY FORCE MISSIONS: GIRLS' LAST TOUR
Final Chapter: Epilogue
DISCLAIMER: All characters in the story are not owned by me, save for my OCs.
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The news of Chito defeating a primeval, nigh-immortal being known as Sargeras in the Girls' Last Tour universe is spreading massive shock waves across the multiverse, not just within the very confines of Unity Force Academy. On one hand, some of the Unity Force have cheered on the noirnette's heroics, with some feeling jealousy over it, including Asta. But on the other, this particular event later becomes the subject of such rumours, as well as Chito experiencing the devastating physical detriments and toils of this feat that almost led her in a persistent vegetative state, had it not for the intervention of the Unity Force.
At the same time, Aloy, Erend, Strelok, Koyuki Himekawa, Kano Sazanami, Nemu Sanjou, Jima, and the Saw Monster later became official students of the Unity Force Academy.
While that happens, Shuka Hanazono later apologises to the PriPara idols, which includes others including her erstwhile rival Yui Yumekawa, as well as others including Nino Nijiiro and Michiru Koda. She profusely apologises over what she has supposedly done in the past, despite the fact that it was beyond her control.
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[U. F. Academy Infirmaries, U.F. Earth]
The next day, in the infirmaries of the Unity Force Academy, we see Shuka, Falala・A・Larm, Garara・S・Leep, Laala Manaka, Chito, and Yuuri lying down in their own beds, after suffering from severe exhaustion during the climatic battle that ensued in the Girls' Last Tour universe and in the abandoned Hellfire Citadel. Chito later wakes up, where she later sees two doctors appearing inside. One is slightly younger and the other is an elderly lady.
The younger female has a short-frizzy blonde hair and has purple eyes. She wears a lab coat over a brown uniform jacket, a white dress shirt, blue neck tie and a black turtleneck shirt, a brown office skirt, black pantyhose and brown slip shoes. This is Shamal, a soft-spoken, kind, and polite Wolkenritter who also works as a nurse in the infirmaries of Unity Force Academy.
The elderly female is a short, elderly woman with gray hair styled into a netted bun, a large syringe poking diagonally out of it to the left. She has a notably small nose and eyes which are usually drawn as two little dashes, and a long mouth with defined nasolabial folds. She wears a doctor's lab coat and a dress with yellow and red vest-like designs on either side, two yellow buttons, and a belt with a pink "R"-shaped buckle. She wears pink boots and has a helmet around the sides of her head, a purple-tinted visor joining it over her eyes. In addition, she walks with a cane designed like a syringe that she can also use for healing the injured. This is Chiyo Shuzenji, a nurse in U.A. High School in another world, who is known as the Youthful Heroine: Recovery Girl. She is known to be the possessor of a Quirk known as Heal.
Chiyo is mostly known to be the head nurse of the Unity Force Academy infirmaries, and is undoubtedly strict on her job, despite her compassionate and kind heart. She has no qualms on reproaching anyone who behaves foolishly, and Chito is already on her list.
Before that, however, Shamal proceeds to examine Chito for any injuries.
"It seems you don't have some major injuries sustained, Chito." Shamal sweetly said. "But you're still not allowed to go back into your duties as a hero, until you are totally recovered." She added.
Chito did not sustain a bout of severe injuries, but minor ones instead including fractures, after battling and killing Sargeras, a near-immortal and primeval being that was the bane of such planetary destruction in its wake, including the infamous destruction of the Magical Girl Raising Project universe, three years prior. It was through her newfound powers of Busoshoku Haki and the help of Unity Force that she was able to defeat him, a feat that no other hero in the history of time hadn't been done for several millennia, which is considered good news for the aspiring Unity Force hero. That is, until Chiyo steps in for a dose of reality check.
"While you may be a hero who is able to kill an immortal being, the unfortunate implications of this is you massively exhausting your energy reserves during that particular battle." Chiyo reproached, causing Chito to feel deep shame. "I've seen countless Pro Heroes who use their Quirks recklessly, thus injuring themselves in the process." She added.
"When I awakened this 'Haki', I felt this sudden surge of power that was beyond my own control, once again, and I was able to defeat Sargeras with the Judgement Hammer..." Chito added. "Falstad-sama told me about Sargeras and how he could not be damaged by any normal attacks, whatsoever." She continued.
"At the cost of your energy reserves getting depleted." Chiyo added. "Because of this, it is advisable that you should take a month-long rest or even a year-long rest from your heroics in the Unity Force, until you are truly recovered." She continued. "This daunting feat of killing an immortal will ironically kill any unprepared individual in mere moments..." She explained further. "So savour this moment and listen to my advice." She advised with a serious tone.
"What...?" Chito questioned Chiyo's advice in a completely nonplussed manner.
"Please, Chiyo-sama... Calm down for a moment." Shamal added quietly.
The bad news for now is that Chito has exhausted her energy supply so much that she has been warned by Chiyo not to overexert herself, as it can result in a sudden death if she pushes herself to her current limit again. This, of course, is unfortunate news for the aspiring hero, before Shamal steps in to reassure the clearly distraught girl.
"What am I going to do...?" Chito asked, almost to the point of tears. "Can both of you use this healing powers of yours?!" She exclaimed in front of Chiyo and Shamal.
"I can't use neither my Calming Heal nor Physical Heal on you, unfortunately, since healing you completely would mean sacrificing all of my mana." Shamal said remorsefully.
"What about you?" Chito asked Chiyo.
"No can do, lady." Chiyo bleakly said. "While my Quirk, Heal, is able to heal grave injuries, it is limited in its way, which is that it cannot heal more serious ones including brain injuries, severe broken bones, etc." She added with a sigh. "Not to mention, I cannot heal your severe case of extreme fatigue that easily. It's a lot more complicated in your case, and it would require me sacrificing a lot of my stamina." She added.
"I just can't..." Chito said regretfully. "I don't want to think of it." She added, before she turns her head away from Shamal and Chiyo.
All of a sudden, a loud, frustrated voice echoes inside of the infirmaries, revealing to be Zoro Roronoa, who is with Maya Tendo, Kanta Mizuno, and Hayate Ayasaki.
"And you're just going to give up and mope about it?" Zoro yelled while he questioned, causing weird looks to cast upon him, particularly Chiyo.
"Jesus, will you calm it down?!" Kanta exclaimed.
"Please refrain from yelling inside the academy infirmaries." Chiyo warned.
"Zoro-san?" Chito asked.
"I know that defeating Sargeras ironically dealt a huge setback into your physical health, but does that mean you're going to simply be put down by it?" Zoro added. "None of us were able to defeat that monstrosity, but only you could." He added.
"But still... Even if I'm widely regarded as a hero, can I still be one, after sacrificing much of my energy?" Chito questioned.
"It's a wise decision by Shuzenji-sama to take a lot of rest for now." Maya replied.
"I already told you that it will be a one-way ticket to sudden death if you exert yourself to your current limit." Chiyo added grimly in front of Chito. "Now if you excuse me. I have other patients to deal with." She later leaves.
"If that's the case, then what am I going to do as a hero?" Chito asked, before Shamal proceeds to step in.
"While you are still recovering a large amount of energy that you have lost, you can still go through your day-to-day activities as a hero and a student of the academy." Shamal added politely. "But you cannot use your powers beyond your current limit." The Wolkenritter suddenly added rather coldly, far off from her sweet and kind personality, as her cold eyes bore into Chito's.
"What's with the suddenly cold personality of her?" Chito thought. "She's unbelievably scary for a kindhearted person!" She added further. "Did I just lower my guard or what?" She ended her train of thought, when Shamal goes back to normal.
"Does that mean I'm still allowed to be partaking on missions?" Chito asked.
"Yes." Shamal said. "But on one condition..." She added. "I've talked to your friend Yuuri-san about this matter, and she will be keeping an eye on you, should you use your powers rather excessively." She continued. "For now, you should take a rest." She ended, before leaving.
"I'm sorry for causing this much trouble to you all..." Chito apologised.
"It's okay, Chito-san." Maya said.
"I know it's going to be hard, but it's better than sudden death." Hayate advised.
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[Grand Headmaster's Office, U.F. Earth]
Inside the Grand Headmaster's office within the famed Resolution Tower, we see Max Tennyson doing his paperwork about the recent mission the Unity Force went in the Girls' Last Tour universe, with his subordinates Tsunade Senjuu, Van Hohenheim, and Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing on his side. In front of his desk are Ichika Takatsuki, Rinon, Aloy, and five rather strange-looking girls discussing an important matter, with the Nora Huntress turning her Focus on.
The first girl is seen wearing a school swimsuit with a name tag on it, along with white thigh-high socks and a peaked cap. She has medium-length blonde hair in low twintails. She also has blue eyes framed with glasses. She is also seen holding a book that hides her curvaceous figure. This is I-8, who is also known as "Hachi".
The second and third girl are both identical twins, or so it seems.
The second girl is known to be cripplingly shy, as she is seen holding within the third girl. She has brown tsurime eyes and short black hair with bangs that come down between the eyes, and a single long strand on her left side (contrasting with her sister-ship's right). I-13 wears a school swimsuit with "イ１３" emblazoned over her hip. Over this, she wears a serafuku-style shirt with a large cut-out for her chest. On her head, she wears headphones with a hat shaped like a submarine's bow. On her arms, she has a miniature submarine sail strapped to her right upper arm, and partially fingerless gloves on her hands. Metal rings are on her thighs, and she wears toeless high heel boots whose heels are ship keels. This is I-13, a Type-AM submarine, who is known as Hitomi.
The third girl, on the other hand, is forceful, energetic, and is somewhat childish. She has brown eyes and short black hair with bangs that come down between the eyes and a single long side-lock on her right side. I-14 wears a school swimsuit with "イ１４" emblazoned over her hip. Over this, she wears a serafuku-style shirt with a large cut-out for her chest and a neckerchief. On her head, she wears headphones with a hat shaped like a submarine's bow. On her arms, she has a miniature submarine sail strapped to her left upper arm. Unlike her sister's, hers has an open hanger and launch catapult. She also wears partially fingerless gloves. Metal rings are on her thighs, and she wears toeless high heel boots whose heels are ship keels. This is I-14, who is also a Type-AM submarine, who is known as "Iyo".
The fourth girl wears nought but a school swimsuit with a name tag on it. Other equipment includes a cannon on her right thigh and several torpedoes around her. She has long blue hair in triple-tails, secured with white ribbons and tiny ship parts. She also has red eyes with star-like flower-shaped pupils. She is also seen holding her torpedoes in a way that it goes between her breasts, which are sizable for her frame, much to the confusion of the higher-ups.
The fifth and final girl has long light brown hair styled in a two side up and brown eyes. Wears a new school swimsuit (as opposed to all the other submarines who wear old school swimsuits), a sailor collared short sleeved green jacket, two-toned hairband, and sandals. She carries her machinery like a backpack. This is I-26, who is known as Nimu.
Altogether, they are a moe anthropomorphism of the namesake World War II-era vessels, known as a kanmusu, or Fleet Girls. They just came in from another world, just a few minutes ago, later arriving at the Harmony Tower's Multiverse Portal, with the motivation of joining in as Unity Force Academy students.
"So you're saying that this unknown killer in Aloy's own world was responsible for this 'massacre'?" Max asked.
"Aloy-san said to me that before she was whisked away from her home world, she saw this kind of holographic message from this unknown killer within her own Focus." Ichika said.
"Killers?" I-19 asked.
"In her own world...?" I-13 questioned.
"That definitely doesn't sound right." I-14 added.
"The strangest thing, though, is why she has that device on her ear." I-26 said. "Is that device certainly from the future, yet you wear something of a tribal clothing?" She asked in front of Aloy.
"Probably something only the people in the future can have." I-8 said.
"Best if I show it to you all what I'm referring to." Aloy said, before she takes the other Focus out that she salvaged after the events of the Proving Massacre.
Proceeding to scan the other Focus with her own, she later initiates a data connection between the two Focuses, before proceeding to interact with the holographic interface. A slight electrical shock later emitted from the Focus, causing her to quickly flick it and drop it on the floor.
"Damn it!" Aloy said, as she fanned her pained hand.
"What's going on, Aloy?" Max asked.
"Something wrong?" I-13 questioned.
"Are you okay?!" I-14 exclaimed.
"Aloy-san, tell me what's going on." Ichika said.
"I'm okay, but don't worry about me." Aloy responded, before pressing one of the buttons within the holographic interface.
Aloy then begins playing the first video hologram with the killer and the masked man, as well as the target imaging system that she saw earlier.
[PLAY MUSIC: Horizon Zero Dawn OST - Ruins / Bunkers Theme]
"All commanders: halt excavations, and proceed at once to the mission point. Avoid all contact with Nora savages - but if you are seen, kill every witness. Target imaging attached. Do not fail." The killer from the recording said, before a holographic map of what looked like a mountain with four red blips is to be seen. But murmurs slowly ensue inside.
"Nora savages?"/"Target imaging?"/"Excavations?" I-13, I-14, and I-8 respectively questioned.
"This seems troubling." Max said.
"But he looks way, way, way too tribal even for us." I-26 remarked. "But how did he manage to create a holographic message that could be only achieved by modern technology that not even fleet girls like us be able to do so?" She questioned further.
"Aloy-san, can you check what the map is all about?" Ichika asked, before Aloy proceeds to do so.
"I don't know what 'target imaging' is, nor I can't tell about what the map is all about, but the next thing I saw... It sent a chill down my spine." Aloy said.
"What do you mean?" Ichika asked.
The second video recording plays out, where this time it shows a holographic recording of Aloy.
"Who says I'm like other Nora?" The holographic Aloy asked to no one, but possibly to another person.
"Then I soon found out that Olin was able to see me through his Focus." Aloy revealed.
"Olin?" Ichika asked.
"Who is that?" I-13 asked.
"Some suspicious person whom I just met before this event known as the Proving, where I soon found out from Erend that he lives in Meridian." Aloy said. "He also had a Focus, but that's not just about it." She continued, before another hologram of a person appears. "This person from this hologram suddenly appears, whom I don't know who she is." She added.
"You're just one of the many mysteries in the Unity Force, Aloy." Max said.
The video then continues playing, where the rest watch.
"Then make it quick. I'm heading in." The female hologram spoke.
"Hold for Identiscan." The synthetic voice responded.
"You need to stop listening to Ted and start listening to me." The female hologram replied.
"Then it struck me..." Aloy said.
"What? How and what?" I-26 asked.
But their questions are later answered, when they see two DNA holographs of the two holograms being superimposed into one single DNA hologram. What said on the holograph reads the following:
"99.47%"
Which is then proceeded by the following graphical message:
"TERMINATE
38°50'26" N 105°02'39" W"
"These are latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates." Ichika pondered, before she checks through her tablet, as she inputs the following coordinates. "And it is directing to Pikes Peak, Colorado." She added.
"Colorado?" Aloy asked in confusion. "I don't know what's going on... Since I don't even know if the image I saw from that video was my own mother, and why I was targeted, just because I looked like her." She added. "After that, the Matriarch Teersa told me I wasn't born from a person, but instead she told me that the All-Mother Mountain was my mother." She ended.
"Huh?" Ichika said, with murmuring slowly ensuing.
"I don't know, but your story seems to be extremely unusual." Integra said.
Later on, the final video recording plays out, which takes place in the same general area as with him, except the mysterious masked man in grey tuxedo is now seen with the killer and a group of cultists, as well as Anders Benoit and some of his mercenaries.
"To any so-called heroes around the multiverse, especially the Unity Force. I'm Black Matter, and this is our message to all of you so-called Unity Force 'heroes' playing hero. I have warned you all about the rest of you perpetrating this kind of childish game and the grave consequences of doing so. There are only one true heroes in this multiverse, and that is us. The rest of you are nothing more than pathetic obstacles hindering the way for the Anti-Multiverse Corps, and how we impose law and order. Should you try to fight, and we'll make your death and decay of your pathetic 'heroic' organisation happening within our grasp." Black Matter warned rather threateningly, albeit calmly, before the video ends.
"Black Matter?" Aloy asked. "What was that mysterious being doing in my own world, along with his own people, who is with the mysterious killer?" She questioned.
"Several weeks ago, I found some findings regarding to this mysterious 'Black Matter', but his identity is still a mystery." Tsunade added.
"Not to mention, the Anti-Multiverse Corps." Van added. "That's something we have never heard or seen before." He continued in suspicion.
"We now have known who this Black Matter is or his own Anti-Multiverse Corps." Integra said. "So your job is to keep your eyes peeled for anything suspicious." She added.
"What about me? How can I go back to my world with Erend?" Aloy asked Max.
"Until for sure, Aloy, we are still unable to locate you and Erend's world." Max added. "So why not-" He continued, but all of a sudden...
"-spend my time here in Unity Force Academy?" Aloy added predictably.
"For now, yes." Max said.
"Then me and Ichika will be taking our leave." Aloy added, before she and Ichika leave, as the only students remained are I-8, I-13, I-14, I-19, and I-26.
"That story was something that we have never heard before!" I-14 exclaimed. "It was rather wild!" She added.
"Could you calm it down?" I-13 advised.
"Alright, you can introduce yourselves to us." Max said with a smile on his face.
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[Anti-Multiverse Corps Base]
Later on, at the office of the Anti-Multiverse Corps Base, in another Earth, we see Hiroshi "Black Matter" Takagawa sitting on his office watching around the monitors, while doing the usual job of "overseeing" the multiverse, when in fact he plans out and order his own villainous organisation to target another universe, right after witnessing the events in the Girls' Last Tour universe. We see Benoit, Black Matter's second-in-command, and two male individuals arriving at his office.
The first male is an adult male, apparently middle-aged in his early-40s. He has dark brown or black hair plaited into cornrows on the crown of his head, with a short ponytail at the back. The sides and back of his head are clean-shaven. His eyes appear to be a light brown or amber color. He is tall, with an imposing, very solid build. His regular outfit consists of a black and faded red armored chest piece that is crossed on the sides, with an upside-down power symbol on the front, and a ring of what appeared to be .50 Cal ammunition around the neck. He wears gloves on both hands, along with a pair of dark green pants, boots, and a faded red, jagged-edged cape. This is Helis, who is infamously known by his epithets as The Terror of the Sun" and "Stacker of Corpses". He is a leader of a militaristic cult known as the Eclipse. He also happens to be Rost's killer during the Proving Massacre in his world.
The second male beside Helis is also middle-aged, but he is mostly in his late 40s and has numerous scars all over his head. He has a platinum blonde hair that is tied into a ponytail. His right eye is completely scarred, but his left eye is still functional, which contains a sharp blue eye on it. He also has a tattoo of a Novgorodsky cross in his left palm with the phrase Vincit qui se vincit (He conquers who conquers himself). He wears a black buttoned shirt with the logo of two red roses that form into a cross, as well as a sword that runs within it, which is also followed by a phrase "palma non sine pulvere" (No reward without effort). He is also seen wearing black denim pants and black shoes. He has a combat knife that is sheathed. He is also seen smoking a cigarette within his mouth. This is Roger Bernick, a 45-year-old former researcher from the United States, who was in fact a mercenary.
"What brings you two here?" Benoit asked, before he and Hiroshi turn their heads in front of the two villains.
"Speak up, Mr. Bernick and Mr. Helis." Hiroshi simply ordered.
"We're here to bring some news, boss." Roger said.
"What news?" Hiroshi inquired.
"It seems that the Nora Huntress has managed to get our message from one of the Focuses she took during the events of the Proving Massacre." Helis added.
Of course, this news alone displeases Hiroshi.
"What?" Hiroshi questioned. "You mean she was alive? How? How did this happen? How did she survive the Proving Massacre, while you only witness your Eclipse army getting massacred by a lone individual?!" He asked in utter disbelief.
"That I can't tell." Helis said. "The last time I did was to stab that Nora girl by cutting her throat after she unexpectedly encountered me during the conclusion of the Proving Massacre." He added. "All of a sudden, another Nora savage, whom turned out to be that girl's mentor known as Rost, suddenly attacked me, where I did the honours of killing that wretch, before I killed both of them with explosives." He continued in confusion. "Not until I found out that she was alive, when I got a strange notification from the Eclipse Focus network at around 5:40 P.M. about her being alive after the explosion." He ended in annoyance.
"Damn it..." Hiroshi responded.
"What is the plan, Mr. Takagawa?" Helis asked.
"Helis." Hiroshi looked at the cult leader. "If, in the meantime, you manage to make contact with those Nora bastards, rally your Eclipse and kill them." He added. "I want her sorry excuse of a tribe to be dead, and she will see the result of how I deal with impudent, no-good 'heroes' in the multiverse." He added.
"There is a Nora traitor, who is a mole for the Eclipse, and his name is Thush." Helis said.
"Thush?" Hiroshi asked.
Helis then adds. "Thush acts as the second-in-command of the Nora's War-Chief." He revealed. "I'll contact him through the Focus network in clandestine terms and plan out the first phase of information gathering, once everything is sorted out." He added.
"Excellent." Hiroshi said. "Contact me once everything is ready." He added, before he sees Helis leaving.
"What about me?" Roger asked.
"It seems that we have a potential universe to be targeted for the Corps in the very future." Hiroshi said. "However, you need to stake out the entire world first, before we can start targeting it." He added.
"What is this world?" Benoit asked.
"It's known as the Pretty Cure universe." Hiroshi introduced, before he shows it to Roger and Benoit. "This world, while it may look like a normal world, it is not." He added.
"And that is?" Roger asked.
"It is home to some of the most capable magic users in this world known as the Pretty Cures." Hiroshi added, as he is seen drinking wine. "But they will never know what truly awaits for them, once we are within their doorstep and unleash chaos." He added, before he laughs maliciously.
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OUTRO
[ENDING THEME: overtuRe - Roselia]
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The characters that appear in this chapter (in order):
Chiyo Shuzenji from My Hero Academia
Shamal from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I-8, I-13, I-14, I-19, and I-26 from Kantai Collection
Helis from Horizon Zero Dawn
Roger Bernick is an Original Character
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A/N: This story is inspired by the ideas of someoneStupED, XP4Universe, and Tamama900. That was one of a ride for the first mission fic of the series. Now it's time to head back to the Stories!