Infinite Stratos IS Yuri
Three
"So... you bought matching cat pajamas and made Laura wear one?" Houki blinked.
Charlotte Dunois blushed faintly, "Yes."
"Then you made her meow and glomped her," Cecelia noted.
Charlotte went pinker, if possible. "It wasn't intentional!" she protested.
Houki sighed and sipped her tea before commenting, "I think you need to make a honest woman out of her."
"It's not like that!" Charlotte whimpered.
"Besides, Laura IS kind of focused on Ichika," Cecelia noted mildly.
Charlotte sounded just a bit regretful as she added, "Focused like a laser."
Houki raised a eyebrow at that, thinking Charlotte might be protesting a bit TOO much. "It is cute the way she calls Ichika her wife." she added.
"Makes you wonder how far she'd take that?" Cecelia offered.
The girls thought of some interesting sites they had visited after the sex ed lecture and shuddered. "I don't think I want to know," Houki decided.
"Oh yeah," Charlotte agreed.
Just then Ichika walked up to their table carrying his lunch tray. "Hello," he said pleasantly, then blinked as they all blushed. "What?" he asked, sitting down.
"Never mind!" Cecelia blurted out.
"Huh?" Ichika blinked, confused.
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Laura strode along, her school uniform crisp and her long hair flowing gracefully down her back. She was, of course, well aware of the girls following her. She was a former military IS pilot, after all. But they didn't appear to be a threat.
The girl up front, however, was hiding behind a tree, carrying something. Laura's training assessed her as a possible threat, but she would wait to see what she was armed with. A knife she could handle easily, but guns tended to be more problematic.
The pretty redhead stepped out from cover, "Bodewig-san?" she said nervously.
"Laura," she corrected a bit stiffly, "You're Akagi, yes? From my tactics clsass."
The girl brightened. "Yes! Uhm..." she pulled a box from behind her. "This is for you!" she offered it.
Laura and NEARLY drawn her knife, but restrained herself. "Uhm," she took the box as she said hesitantly, "thank you?"
"They are hand made," Akagi added, "I hope you enjoy them!" And with that she literally ran off, leaving a bemused Laura behind her.
'Cookies,' Laura noted, and ate one.
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"A girl gave you home made cookies?" Clarissa Harfouch blurted, the head of the Black Hare Squad in Germany and Laura's good friend talking with her on the phone.
"Yes," Laura confirmed, "what does it mean?"
"This is big, potentially," Clarissa said excitedly, "it could be a love or friendship flag!"
"Oh?" Laura asked.
"Yes! Home made cookies are IMPORTANT in Japan! You only give them to people who are important to you, like lovers or crushes," Clarissa explained.
"But I don't want a lover or crush," Laura said weakly.
"Then you're going to have to let her down easy," Clarissa said a bit dubiously.
The next day, Akagi blinked as Laura cut her off on the trail. "Laura-sama?" she asked.
Laura extended a bag with cookies in it. "I am, well, rather bad at this," she apologized. "Do you think we could be friends?" she asked.
Akagi took the cookies, squealed happily and then promptly fainted.
Laura blinked in confusion. "The cookies aren't THAT bad..."
Later that day, back in class...
"All right, who can tell me about the Iran incident?" Maya Yamada asked the class.
There was a long beat of dead silence.
"All right, Ichika. You answer it." Maya ordered.
"Aww," Ichika sighed. He stood, "Shortly after Iran recieved a IS unit, the chosen pilot went berzerk. She functionally waged war against the Iran military and government."
"Short, but accurate," Maya noted. She continued, "The pilot, Raina, had successfully concealed her intentions from her government, and once she got the IS unit, she attacked."
"Why didn't she just... escape?" one girl asked.
"She wanted to destroy the whole government," Maya said, "and the president had escaped. Sadly he hadn't counted on a IS system's sensors and her ability to find him. She decapitated the government AND the religious factions that had ruled the country. She then surrendered to foreign IS pilots."
"What happened to her after that?" Huang asked curiously.
"No one knows. She was found not guilty due to temporary insanity, it seems..." Maya observed.
Several students looked dubious at THAT too.
"Your assignment will be to study the social factors that were at play, and write a report on why you think she did it," Maya said calmly.
After class ended Ichika came up to Maya. "Uhm, sensei... why did they put someone in a IS unit in the first place?" he wondered.
Maya shrugged, "National pride? They certainly thought she was indoctrinated well enough to obey without question." She smiled bleakly, "They were wrong."
To be continued...
Notes: I'm not dead!
I like the idea of Laura being almost as inept, romantically, as Ichika. Also finally saw IS 2, will be working some bits from that in.
I always wondered what happened if a woman in a VERY repressive country got a IS unit. I'd expect all hell would break loose once the pilot realized how much power she'd have and that she could do whatever she wanted to.