Infinite Stratos Plot Bunnies Collection Ch 5
Chapter 5: The Phantom Task Arc – Hunt the Truth Challenge
AN: I hope that after World Purge-Hen OVA that the author's Izuru Yumizuru new IS arc focuses on Ichika trying to learn more about his twin sister which leads to Ichika to find Madoka and find out the truth for himself. While Infinite Stratos does have its problems, one of the major problems I had with Infinite Stratos is that Ichika now knows he has a twin sister and he's not following up on that. Other anime characters would demanded the truth or set out to investigate themselves from such revelation, but Ichika doesn't even bother to press Chifuyu for answers. He just carries on like life is normal and the fact that he has a twin sister has no meaning to him. That pisses me off a lot about Ichika since it goes against some sacred anime law that a brother should care, worry, or show some concern about his imouto or onee-san. How does it make sense that he worries about Chifuyu onee-san who is the strongest person in the IS world but shows no interest or concern for his twin imouto Madoka? It just doesn't make any sense! I came up with this open-ended plot premise to explore what it would be like for Ichika to go on a journey to look for Madoka and discover shocking truths about Madoka and perhaps the Orimura family's darkest secrets that is somehow tied to Phantom Task.
Unlike most of my story ideas, it is not as large or extensive as I thought it out. Thus it is very open-ended in that anyone is free to add in their own stuff from their own imagination to the story idea. You're are more than welcome to adapt this fanfic idea and it's probably the easiest compared to my other fanfic ideas. The history and origin of Phantom Task is an interesting concept to explore since there's so little information on the organization itself. Maybe it's some ideological organization like Celestial Being. Or an anti-NWO resistance group like Katharon (Gundam 00) or the Black Knights (Code Geass). Or a powerful PMC strong enough to challenge the world's superpowers and threaten world stability like the Atlas Corporation (Call of Duty), Artemis Global Security (Tom Clancy H.A.W.X.), or Militaires Sans Frontières and Outer Heaven (Metal Gear Solid series).
Plot Premise:
Ichika really wants to know the truth about his Madoka, his mysterious twin sisters who resembles Chifuyu, but since Chifuyu refuses to tell him anything he sets off on his own to look for Madoka and demand the truth from her. In his quest for answers about his family's origins, Ichika end up missing for a while and the focus switches from ISA POV to Phantom Task POV as Ichika is captured by them. In his captivity he ends up bonding with some members of Phantom Task and gets to know more about them; that despite their twisted wickedness they do have some good traits inside them and had their soft moments. For example even though Squall appears heartless and cruel at times, she is really motherly and dreams of being a mother and having children. Autumn of course truly loves Squall and dreams of being married to her.
And maybe Kanzashi ends up defecting over to Phantom Task and has a close friendship near-romantic bond with Ichika, both of whom had respect for each other. Kanzashi initially joined with Phantom Task to try to gain Ichika's freedom by playing an agent for their side. However her reasons change as she finally grows a backbone to challenge Tatenashi for the position of Sarashiki clan head and when Ichika convinces her that Phantom Task isn't as evil as they thought the organization was. So when Tatenashi was officially chosen to be heir apparent and following Kanzashi's exposure as a Phantom Task agent, she officially sides when offered a better deal by Phantom Task in hopes of one day proving the entire Sarashiki clan wrong with her own strength, will, and power by defeating Tatenashi on battlefield so that they would have to recognize her worth and value. The fact that Phantom Task has Ichika in their custody was added bonus to initially collaborate with them.
Madoka reveals to Ichika that the reason she hates Chifuyu and wants to kill her is because Chifuyu abandoned her and worse of all separated Madoka from Ichika - that's many years they been separated from each other and it really hurts her a lot as she doesn't know if they could ever have that strong sibling bond they had before their separation. Ichika then struggles with mixed loyalties over which sister should he side with - the ever distant powerful onee-san whom he has no hope of catching up to, or the imouto who is in need of his love and bond in this present moment. Ichika would end up getting involved with Phantom Task in order to protect his imouto, each time he partakes in their missions he would become closer to Madoka and starts to lean more towards Phantom Task rather than trying to escape and get back to ISA. In a plot twist ending of the arc would be a Phantom Task mission gone FUBAR and Madoka would have nearly lost her life to Iris Calling and Natasha Fairs in there is units Silver Gospel and Fang Quake if Ichika didn't show up and fought them off on Phantom Task's side for the sake of his precious imouto who loves him and needs him more; thus he would become an official member of Phantom Task and inevitably the enemy of ISA and his former harem.
Bonus points if Ichika upgrades to new Phantom Task custom Infinite Stratos unit to replace the inefficient Byakushiki.