Chapter 6 - Discoveries in St. Mungo's
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"Bla" speeches
Bla thinking
# Bla # Seraphim language
'Bla' telepathy
$ Bla $ Discussions with the shadow layer
/ Bla / Old Draconian
Ϩ Bla Ϩ Parsons tongue
₱ Bla Translated Pokémon language
[Bla] Pokédex entries
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St. Mungo's
London
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Miana rematerialized a few hundred yards from St. Mungo's and immediately set off for the hospital.
The way there was uneventful. A few minutes later, she stood in front of the building. No one had yet noticed her and so it was easy for her to activate her camouflage field and simply disappear for the human eye. That's what should make it a simple reason.
Two guys in red robes stood in front of the hospital doors. With the knowledge she had gotten from Anoth, she recognized them as Aurors. And something told her that it would be better if they did not discover her. For now.
Getting in to the hospital was easy. She just took advantage of another couple who was just entering the hospital and just walked with them through the door that had opened for the couple.
She stood in the lobby of the hospital and plunged into the magic that surrounded the hospital. There were some spells on the building but not one of them was able to locate her. Good. As long as she did not collide with anyone, she should go unnoticed.
Her goal was the archive room. She needed the files. They would at least be able to provide clues to their own doctors who were on the Ravager . At the same time, she would know where her targets were in the building. It did not take long to find the archive room. It was protected by some spells. Unfortunately, but only against human intrusion and house elves. She, on the other hand, as Drago-Seraphim, had free access.
Immediately she began to search for the files of the Longbottoms. Unfortunately, this project quickly proved fruitless. There was no file on the Longbottoms.
Strange. Thought Miana. You are being treated here but there are no files?
After looking around, she spotted a door leading from the archive to an adjoining room. On the door was the inscription "Limited Access".
Well that's interesting. She thought. Let's see why this door opens only for a few, huh?
She walked over to the door and felt already coming closer, that these spells were a little different than those at the entrance to the main archive. A closer analysis of the spell revealed that only the chief healer had access to this room. Or at least he or she had to be there.
This door can only be opened by the chief healer. Hmm. I cannot just tear down the magic without triggering the alarm. Well. Then we grab a chief healer.
With that she left the room to do just that.
As soon as she was back in the hall, she went in search of the chief healer in her invisible state. She suspected that she would find him in his office. A short time later she found the office and it turned out to be empty. The chief healer was nowhere to be seen.
But she spotted a note on his desk with a name that seemed familiar to her.
The resistance of the
Potters against the
Medication is
getting stronger.
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Expect instructions.
HBP
The text was under a charm, so that everyone else would recognize the note as a simple shopping list. But the eyes of the Seraphim were not easily fooled by such a simple spell.
The Potters ?! Miana thought as she stared at the sticky note without touching it in any way. And who is this "HBP"?
Then she noticed another note.
elimination command
approved.
1200 hours
Be there!
HBP
Miana's eyes flew to the clock on the wall. And when she saw the time she could no longer stop the swearing.
11:56
#Crap! # She cursed Seraphimian. She only had ten minutes left. # Shit on camouflage! #
With these words she raced out of the office and back to the archive. Once there, she immediately ran to the locked door, taking apart the spells that locked the door, only to discover that the door was mechanically locked. A courageous kick against the door eliminated the problem. As well as the door frame with it. It would not be long before Aurors stormed in here. She had to hurry.
Fortunately, the files were arranged in alphabetical order so she quickly found the files of the Potters and the Longbottoms and with them their room numbers. Another glance at the clock showed her that she had only one minute left. Now it was time to get up to speed. Bad luck for the Aurors. Every one of them who stood in her way would now require a room in St. Mungos themselves.
The first three Aurors storming the room were blinded by such a bright light that they could not see anything for a moment. Then they only felt how they made acquaintance with some very targeted punches and kicks. The end result was that they lay on the ground with shattered noses, bones and broken wands.
The Auror standing guard outside the door to the hall had the misfortune to face this door with full force in the face when Miana just kicked it off its hinges.
The next two Aurors stepped toward her in the lobby. They were the same two who stood watch outside. As soon as they saw them they began to fire curses on them. Miana, however, had already drawn her hardlight-sword and threw the curses away with it as if they were just annoying flies.
An attempted Incarcerus she answered with a flamethrower she fired from her free hand. The fired ropes did not even reach her because they already crumbled to ashes. Before the two Aurors could recover, Miana sent a lightning bolt that left both Aurors unconscious on the floor.
No sooner was this obstacle out of the way than she raced up the stairs. Another Auror surprised her as she changed the stairs. He learned how to take the stairs the fastest way possible. Miana did not even stop and just kept racing up the stairs. At the next landing there was another Auror, who she recognized as the same one she found in the Dursley house.
He tried to block her way with a conjured brick wall. A pointless endeavor. Miana took her Drago-Seraphim form at about 2m shoulder height and just plowed through the wall. The Auror must have realized that his wall would not be able to stop her and that if he had stopped there he would have had a very unpleasant acquaintance with one of the massive horns that graced Miana's head.
For a fraction of a second, Miana's planetary eyes met the eye of the Auror, then she turned back to human form and raced up the stairs without stopping for a moment.
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A few seconds earlier.
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Moody, who was also in the hospital right now, heard the noise coming from below. Curious, he took the stairs downstairs. When he heard the screams of pain, he drew his wand. Then he saw her. Another Auror was only one landing down. He could not look turn enough when the Auror was already flying down the stairs.
He did not need a melee. Every spell he fired at her was simply cut away from her sword like annoying flies. A quick idea later and Moody created in front of him a nearly 50cm thick brick wall in the hope that this would stop her. Just to see with his magic eye how she changed shape just to break through the wall as if it had not been there. He just had enough time to jump to the side.
As she kept running, Moody lay on the floor, staring after her. He still could not believe what he had just seen. This was a Celestial that had just literally plowed her way through the wall. Dumbledore will want to know about it. But he still could not leave here. Amelia Bones had just arrived. Along with several hit wizards.
It really was not hard to pursue Miana's way. They just needed to follow the destruction, as well as the whimpers of the mostly beaten Aurors.
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Back to Miana
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Miana continued to follow the stairs upstairs. Then she finally reached the fourth floor. Their targets were in rooms 415 for the Longbottoms and 494 for the Potters. the note was about the Potters. So 494 was her destination. After the numbering of the rooms to judgments this was at the very end of the corridor.
And right in front of that door, hidden under illusionary magic, were several guys who stank of Dark Magic. That could not mean anything good. The door itself was also hidden by illusion magic. Someone did not want to be disturbed there. Not that that would bring them anything. And they would also learn why within seconds.
Seraphim senses were not easy to fool. The senses Drago-Seraphim even less.
Miana was now running at full speed towards the assembled nine figures. The closer she came, the more she could sense that the source of Dark Magic was on their left forearms. So they were Death Eaters. Or as Miana called them: Death Cattle. Because they were branded like cattle. And behaved as if they had rabies. So they would be treated the same way.
They would be killed without mercy.
And that was exactly what she wanted to do.
In addition, Anoth's orders to the Death Eaters were clear. No mercy to these terrorists. If Death Eaters cross your way ... then kill them! Because each of them has earned his mark through downright heinous acts. Death Eaters do not deserve mercy. Once Death Eater always Death Eater. There are no Reformed Death Eaters!
He had been able to extract everything from Moody's memories. And he absolutely agreed with Moody on this point.
Apparently the Death Eaters had noticed that she could easily see through their illusions and tried to stop her with the usual Death Eater tactics. The Avada Kedavra and the Crucio were the most represented. They were more than shocked when they saw that with their second sword, also a hardlight sword, which she had pulled out when she reached the fourth floor, and used it to just brush the curses aside as if they were annoying flies.
The hardlight saber sword looked disabled, as if it was just a grip. As soon as it was activated, however, the blade shot out like a broadsword shaped blade. It was completely constructed of hard light and could cut through almost anything.
One of the Avada Kedavra made it through her defense as one of the Death Eaters was smart enough to throw a table in her direction and hide the curse right behind it. Miana sliced the table in half. But could no longer avoid the hidden behind Avada Kedavra curse. It punched through her personal shields and sent her flying down the corridor. The Death Eaters thought they had won. However, two things now came in, wiping their grins off their faces. On the one hand, Amelia Bones accompanied with her hit wizards reached the floor and on the other hand, Miana stood up again and now seemed to be really pissed off.
Slowly Miana got up. She deactivated her hardlight sabers and put them away again. Then she began to transform. Less than two seconds later there was a very pissed off Drago-Seraphim with 2m shoulder height and a body length of about 19m in corridor. The Death Eaters now felt something they had not really felt for a long time. True fear.
They were now facing an enemy where they truly had no chance of victory against.
"You disgusting little maggots." growled angry Drago-Seraphim, her eyes lit up brightly. It happened even more than that. Her aura moved into the visible spectrum as she let it out. And the aura of a Drago-Seraphim was enormous. She was strong enough to destroy what she touched if she let her aura get strong enough. That's exactly what happened here. The aura was so strong that, on the one hand, the window next to Miana just burst and cracks in the floor, walls and ceilings began to emerge. In addition, her natural element also activated. With Miana, that was electricity. The result looked like Miana was surrounded by a thunderstorm that was constantly blasting.
"Did you really think that your ridiculous magic would really stand a chance against me ?!" She did not give them a chance to answer at all, because she did not expect one either. Then she let go of the loudest roar they had ever heard. In the narrow conditions of the corridor, however, this roar had the strength of a sonic cannon.
The effect was appropriate. The windows on one side of the corridor were torn out of their window frames as each door on the other side was torn from their hinges. Then the sound wave hit the Death Eaters. Some of them had erected shields in front of them only to find that they collapsed as soon as the sound wave hit them, and then they were thrown like toys against the wall behind them. Two of them even broke the door that led into the room, which was Miana's goal.
The hit wizards along with the Aurors and Amelia all held their ears. The roar was so loud that each of them briefly went deaf.
Then Miana attacked.
Faster than one could blink, Miana had traveled the distance between herself and the Death Eaters. What followed after that was the easiest way to describe it as a bloodbath. None of the Death Eaters survived this attack and it was questionable if they would ever find any pieces that belonged to the respective Death Eaters. Not to mention the identification, because from two of them, only a pile of ash was left.
The whole slaughter lasted only a few seconds, then Miana had already transformed back again and had run into the room. But even before she could enter the room, she first held the spot to her stomach, where she had met the Killing Curse. It had apparently done a little more damage than she initially thought. Immediately after, she entered the room and punched a guy who just wanted to give the person Miana assumed she was Lady Potter, a syringe with a poisonous green liquid, his nose into his brain. Before the chief healer, who was also in the room, could recover from the surprise, Miana had already marked both Potters with isolinear markers and they disappeared into a flash of light.
Just as that happened, the other Aurors stormed the room, only to see Miana jump out the window. What they did not know was that she wore a belt with a gravity manipulator. So the wall quickly became the floor. In addition, she reactivated her personal camouflage again. and so the hit wizards saw nothing as they looked out the window.
Meanwhile, Miana ran along the facade to her second destination. The room of the Longbottoms.
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to Amelia Bones
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She did not believe what she saw when she finally reached the fourth floor. The young woman in the futuristic armor they were pursuing had just been hit right in front of her eyes by a killing curse that seemed to come out of nowhere for her eyes. She was about to order her people to find out where the killing curse came from, when she noticed that the young woman was getting up again.
Then something happened that she had not expected. Of course, Animagus transformations were known. But this was something completely different. Because no Animagus is able to take the form of a Celestial. The Celestials were far too powerful. That is, someone who could take the form of a Celestial was a Celestial.
At the same time, that meant that the old masters of this world were back. Whether that meant something good or bad had yet to be seen.
One thing was clear. She was angry. Very angry.
And her anger was directed at something that was ... behind the wall?
At least that's what it looked like when Amelia peeked around the corner.
When she looked back at the Celestial, she did not believe her eyes. It was surrounded by a storm cloud, which was constantly sending out lightning, which made the narrow corridor feel as if the thunderstorm was in the middle of the corridor. Which was exactly the case when she thought about it that way.
If it was not clear before, that the Celestial was angry, then it was clear at the latest after she had talked.
"Your disgusting little maggots." There was a break in between as the storm intensified and her aura became visible, beginning to destroy everything around her. "Did you really think that your ridiculous magic would really stand a chance against me ?!"
Then she roared so loudly that Amelia had to cover her ears. She was just glad that this roar was not aimed at her. She could see the sound wave that caused her to roar down the corridor. Every window burst. Every door was torn off its hinges. And then the sound wave hit the end of the corridor and broke through the illusion. Behind it were now several Death Eaters visible, which were thrown around like toys. As well as another door. A door that should not exist.
Amelia knew this floor. Especially because Susan was here for several days with dragonpox. Her room was the one at the end of the corridor. There was no other door. Amelia was one hundred percent sure. And yet...
Then she attacked. Faster than she could blink, she had traveled the distance. What followed was not a fight, it was a slaughter. The Death Eaters did not have the slightest chance. Then she turned back into her human form, holding her stomach for a moment, the exact spot where the Killing Curse hit her, and disappeared into the room. Only now Amelia came out of her trance and followed her.
There were only pieces left of the Death Eaters. Here a head, there an arm, next to it a severed finger. And all of that was in a huge pool of blood. Really not a nice sight.
This However, raised a new question. When she coped so easily with the Death Eaters here. Why had not she messed up her Aurors like that?
She entered the room when she saw two flashes of light and also heard an emergency portkey activate, followed closely by bursting glass. The only person left in the room was the chief healer. And he stared at her with glassy eyes.
Amelia recognized the symptom immediately.
Imperious.
Amelia pointed her wand at him. "Finite Incantatem!"
"Huh ... what ... where .. where am I?" asked the chief healer as he got his senses under control again. "Amelia, why am I in St. Mungo's?"
"What's the last thing you remember?" Amelia asked the chief physician.
"I sat at my breakfast table, then I just heard the door open and then nothing. I just know how I woke up here again, what happened?"
"We are working on that." Amelia answered, turning to one of her hit magicians.
"She escaped." was his brief comment.
"Amelia!" The call came from another hit wizard kneeling outside the door, watching what Miana had left of the Death Eaters. When Amelia came to him, he pointed to a severed forearm. On it was clearly visible a symbol. But it was not Voldemort's, it was a different one. Amelia, however, recognized it from her history lesson.
"That's Grindelwald's sign, but that's impossible."
"There is more." The hit wizard pointed to the torso of another man who still had both arms but no head and no legs. On the forearms, the black mark of Voldemort was clearly visible as well as the sign of Grindelwald on the other arm.
"What is going on here?" Her thoughts were interrupted as she heard a little further down the corridor the destruction of a window. "What the...?" Amelia and the hit wizard exchanged glances, then ran to the place where the window broke. When they opened the door they saw only three bright flashes of light. Then the room was empty. "What was that, or better, who was that?"
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Back on the Ravager
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Two flashes of light heralded the arrival of two bodies rematerializing in the opposite ward. Immediately the doctors were there and began the necessary analyzes. Only seconds later, three more flashes of light followed, and Miana and two other patients appeared on the infirmary. Only for Miana to collapse almost immediately. After a few seconds Miana scrambled back up and left the one section to enter the section where Anoth was currently staying.
Anoth had seen her collapse in the other ward. But he could not come to her because of the rune of life and her limited range of only about 20m. And a range in which they are the most effective of just 10 meters. He was stuck in the room right now.
As soon as she had entered the room, Anoth had already put her in an antigravity field and let her float to one of the couches. Whatever had happened to her. It had done some damage. Because even before she lay on the couch she had become unconscious.
Whatever that was, what had hit her. It had struck through her shields as if they weren't there. Her personal armor, on the other hand, seemed undamaged. Which probably was because it had already repaired herself. More would turn out the analysis of this.
Since Miana was no longer able to disable her own armor, Anoth took over. After a few taps on his holographic control panel, which formed over his left hand, the armor deactivated and was pulled back to the ablative generator, which released it and released the view of her bare torso.
The wound clearly showed that she had not only been cared for by the armored medical systems, but had also tried to heal the wound herself. When Anoth analyzed the wound, it soon became clear why the wound did not really want to heal. Parts of the magic she was hit with were still in the wound, causing further damage. After analyzing the remnants of spell magic, he also realized that a shield built on plasma had no chance to stop this curse. The damage was coursed through the reaction with the Seraphimian magic. It looks like the spell and there magic were a pretty bad combination.
Further analysis showed that a hard light shield, was very capable of stopping the magic. A personal hardlight shield was not just a shield but hundreds of small ones. They all had the shape of a honeycomb and formed a blister-shaped shield. If the AK met such a shield one or more of the honeycombs would fail. But the shield as a whole would remain active. The magic itself would not come over the destroyed hardlight honeycombs. And the failed honeycombs would be replaced within three seconds.
While Anoth was busy caring for Miana's wound, his AIs analyzed the sensor records of Miana's armor.
They could confirm Anoth's guess. The AK would not have come through a hardlight shield. This was confirmed as he analyzed the spell with the matrix board built in Miana's armor.
The matrix board was a very interesting piece of engineering. Everything can be calculated with mathematical calculations and equations. That also applies to the magic. No matter which form of energy was used. Each spell was broken by it into its mathematical formulas out of which the spell consisted. When analyzing the formulas of Avada Kedavra came out something very interesting. It could only be fired with one energy level. You could neither supply it with less energy nor overload it. If you tried to overload it, it would still only fire with one energy level. If you did not inject enough energy, absolutely nothing would happen. The matrix would simply refuse to build up. A definite weakness of the Avada Kedavra curse.
That was not all. A high-density hard-light construct, such as a saber-sword, could fling the curse around as if it were a baseball. That made Anoth come up with an idea. A shield as from the Middle Ages. Just out of high density hard light. Maybe he could also surround the armor with a layer of high-density hard light. But that had to wait for now.
First of all, he had to take care of Miana.
This, however, had come to itself again and had completely relaxed under Anoth's healing magic. That she lay practically naked on one of the beds disturbed her not at all. A sense of shame was a foreign word for Anoth's girls. An enemy will not look for your dignity. He will simply kill you. A rule the all of them knew. Shame had no place on a battlefield.
After a while, Anoth lifted his hand away from her wound. There was almost nothing left of it. Except that her skin was a little redder at the spot than the surrounding skin. With a wave of his hand, Anoth conjured a blanket for the already conscious again Miana and she took it and covered herself with it.
Just so she sat down cross-legged shortly thereafter. only to see the crimson faces of their guests. That made Miana only raise her eyebrow and smile with a little amusement as it clicked by her why her guests could now compete with a tomato.
"What happened down there?" Anoth asked.
"I'm not so sure myself." answered Miana, her eyes now on Anoth. "Getting into the hospital was a breeze, from then on I searched the archive to find out where the rooms were, and then the whole thing went down the stream. The files I was looking for were not in the regular patient records but behind a door in the archive that led to an adjoining room that could only be opened by the chief healer. So I made my way to the office where I found these two notes."
Miana showed Anoth a hologram of the two notes she had found in the office. And Anoth continued to read them aloud.
Who is "HBP"? Was the question that went through everyone's mind.
"The Potters?" that came from Lord Greengrass. "They are dead."
"Apparently not." said Xenophilius.
"What happened next?" Anoth asked.
"When I saw the notes and looked at the clock, I knew I had no time left, so I went back to the archive and broke open the locked door, as expected the alarm was sounded, but I found the files. The first Aurors who entered the room I blinded with sunlight just to knock them right out. The next one was unlucky enough to stand just beyond the door and two more tried to stop me for a short fight. Then I ran back up the stairs, where I met another Auror, and I threw him down the stairs, then another, who we already knew. He had a Glass eye, which was constantly watching everything and turning steadily, and he was completely scarred and missing a leg, instead he had a wooden leg."
"Alastor Mad-Eye Moody, we've met him before." said Anoth.
Miana nodded.
"In the Dursley's house."
"What happened next?"
"He created a brick wall in front of me, so I changed my shape to break through the wall, and then immediately turned back to human form to sprint to the top. At the top, I spotted a group of black robes hiding behind a low-level illusion spell. They must have noticed that I could see them, because they started to send curses against me, so I answered with my light saber and sent several of them back to them. "
"Why have you been hit?"
"My own stupidity?" Miana said with a shrug. "I did not expect one of them to throw a table at me and hide a Killing Curse right behind it - I should have avoided the table instead of slashing it in half."
"You played with them." she accused Anoth.
"Yes, as I said my own stupidity got in the way." Miana admitted. "But that much should be said, after they hit me, I stopped playing and I made minced meat out of them."
"What did you find in the room?"
"What?" Miana asked, as she had drifted away with her thoughts for the moment.
"The room. What did you find."
"Oh yeah ... . When I had fought my way past the black-robed figures, I entered the room, saw two people lying in bed, and another black-clad guy trying to give an injection to one of the two lying in bed. I punched his nose in and marked both of them and gave the signal for beaming, and jumped right out of the window and ran along the wall with the aid of the gravity manipulator, then I arrived in the room of the Longbottoms. I marked them too and now I'm back here. "
"Where are the files?"
"By the doctors." She pointed to the other part of the infirmary, where the doctors were already at work.
"Good." said Anoth. "Then we should soon be told by them what's wrong with them." After a short break, Anoth continued. "That brings me to the other problem we still have, going through all the memories I've assimilated, and I think I know who could help us with our other patients here." He points to the beds where Harry and the others are sleeping.
Anoth turned to the others. "We can bring them to the Gringotts goblins as soon as they wake up, and they should be able to help us remove the spells and runes that lie on them."
"What brings you the idea?" Miana asked.
"Gringotts employs a number of high-level Cursebreakers, and they should not only be able to remove the runes, they should also take the spells with them."
"I had not thought of that." admitted Lord Greengrass.
"How do you even know about it?" This question came from Xenophilius.
"I was lucky enough to get the complete memories of a certain Alastor Moody and a Mundungus Fletcher."
"When do we leave?" Miana asked.
"Tomorrow morning." Anoth answered. "We'll take one of the Dropships down to the planet's surface."
"Will the Muggles not see that?" Lady Greengrass asked.
"Hardly, the ships all have cloaking devices." Anoth answered. "They will not be able to see or hear them, and please stop using this degrading word. Call them" mundane or nomage ", not" Muggles. " With these words, Anoth called one of his Draconidesses out of the Shadow Plain.
The others were all so startled that the dragon lady that had emerged out of nowhere and they jumped in shock. It intensified a bit as the dragon lady extended her wings and grinned at them, showing her sharp teeth very clearly. Just to fold her wings right back on her back.
"Why did you call me?" she asked. "You woke me." she complained directly.
Anoth just rolled his eyes. "Selena, can you show the guest quarters to our guests?"
Selena yawned in response and told the others to follow her. Shortly thereafter, they had left the infirmary. Only Xenophilius remained behind.
"You still have not told them what rank you're wearing."
"Do you want me to give you a heart attack?"
"You could tell them quietly."
"They'll get it out soon enough." Just then, one of the doctors entered the infirmary and stopped in front of Anoth. Anoth nodded to him and signaled that he could talk.
"We have completed the initial examination."
"And what did you find?"
Wordlessly, he handed the pad he held in his hand to Anoth. Anoth immediately began to review the data.
"Well, the parents of Hermione Granger are healing." Then he came to the section about the Potters and Longbottoms and his expression changed abruptly. "It looks like someone wanted them to stay in a coma." he finally said as he looked through the data. "And not because of brain damage."
"You recognize what is in them?"
"Yes, it's a potion that keeps someone in a comatose state." said Anoth.
$ We need to get the ingredients before we can brew the antidote. $ Kira spoke up. She was the Alicorn, who usually brewed the potions, and of course she had long since analyzed the recipe she needed as an antidote to the potion under which the Potters and the Longbottoms were. Thanks to the knowledge of Mundungus, who had stumbled upon the recipe at some point. And since Anoth had taken in his memories in itself Anoth now knew about it. In addition, all that Anoth knew his shadows knew too.
$ And we'll get them when we get to Diagon Alley. $ answered Anoth.
$ A few of the ingredients we only get from Knockturn Alley. $ That made Anoth sigh.
$ Then we make a little detour as soon as we are there. $ He did not sound as carefree as he did. Anoth knew that Knockturn Alley was dangerous. Going in there usually meant one thing above all else. Trouble.
$ We probably will not have much of a choice. $ Kira agreed.
"How do you want to remove the potion?" Xenophilius asked. "Is the medical facility here able to do this?"
"Theoretically it should be able to do that. Yes." confirmed Anoth. "Unfortunately, this potion has the property of becoming unstable when exposed to one of the commonly used energy fields to remove foreign matter from a body."
"And what do you mean unstable?"
"Boom." The answer came this time from Miana.
"Yeah, boom, it could explode." confirmed Anoth.
"Not a nice thought." said Xenophilius, who really did not need the mental picture.
"No, it really is not." said Anoth. "That's why I'd rather brew the intended counter-potion than try to remove the potion mechanically." With that, Anoth turned back to Miana. "How do you feel?"
"I'm alright, do not worry about me."
"Can you pick up our last few guests?"
"Yes." confirmed Miana, who had already gotten up again and put on her armor again. Shortly thereafter, there was a flash of light and Miana was gone. As soon as she was gone, Anoth and Xenophilius began talking about the most diverse creatures. Including the Nargles. A being who lives in another space-time phase. It is not really to be seen, heard, felt or touched. It looks a bit like a little snake with a fur collar. Therefore, this being is also jokingly called "lion's snake". They were small. Not more than two inches.
Anoth could take a hand full of them into their dimension. Much to the pleasure of Xenophilius.
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Longbottom Villa
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Of course, Miana with her luck was unlucky. As soon as she was within sight of the villa, she spotted more guys in black cloaks tearing down the wards of the villa.
Or at least they tried.
"Them again?" growled Miana. "This time I will not play with you." With these words, she brought out her light saber sword as well as a hard-light plasma gun. They had not noticed her yet. Which was probably because they hid behind a few illusionary spells and thus felt safe. Too bad for them because the eyes of a Drago-Seraphim could not easily be fooled by such magic.
Hard-light plasma weapons always fired explosive projectiles. The hard capsule kept a small amount of plasma under extremely high pressure. When impacted, the hard capsule usually pierced its target before it dissolved and released the plasma. The result was a pretty sizable explosion. In addition, these weapons could also be overloaded. The longer the trigger was pressed the larger the amount of plasma and the more enormous the subsequent explosion.
That's exactly what she did. She held the trigger of her hard-light plasma gun. The light that emitted the gun became brighter by the second. When she finally fired her weapon was ready to self-destruct. Their target was a group of eight of those black-clad idiots. The projectile hit right in the middle of the group. The ensuing explosion killed five of them. The last three were not only set on fire by the plasma but also thrown around like toys. They remained burning a few meters from the explosion site. A few well-targeted plasma pulse shots ended their suffering.
This left only two groups of four figures each. These two groups looked around in surprise. Something had just finished the other group and no one had realized what it had been.
Now Miana went on the direct attack. Taking advantage of the confusion, she appeared in one of the two groups seemingly out of nowhere. They did not have the slightest chance of reacting to her when Miana's saber sword put an end to their lives. Even before the other remaining group had a chance to react, she covered them with a hailstorm of plasma projectiles. They were dead before they knew what had just happened.
"That was ridiculously easy." mumbled Miana. With these words, she deactivated her sword and put the sword, which was now no more than the handle, away again. The pistol followed shortly after. "And what's next?" she murmured as she turned toward the villa.
Slowly she headed for the edge of the wards that surrounded the villa. She raised her claws and let them assume an ethereal form, which she then led into the multi-layered wards. After a short analysis, it was clear that the wards were intentions based. Friends could easily pass through. Enemies on the other hand ... well ... there were certainly more pleasant ways to die.
With this knowledge in mind she simply walked through the wards. Since they recognized her as a friend, they did not do anything. The property was enormous. Miana needed several minutes to get to the front door. On the way she passed through several more wards. All intention based.
She was just reaching the front door, when she saw from the corner of her eye several flashes of light on the edge of the first protective barrier. And this time there were a few more than the first group. Looks like they've sent reinforcements. I should hurry up a bit. She knocked on the door and waited patiently.
Meanwhile, the new arrivals with their black cloaks and robes were trying to tear down the wards. Unsuccessful, mind you.
She was torn from her thoughts as a wand was pressed down her neck. Miana slowly raised her hands to show that she did not want to hurt her. Then an icy voice sounded to her ear. The voice of a woman.
"Give me a good reason why I should not kill you."
Because you could not do that? was Miana's first thought that shot through her mind. "I'm not here to fight you."
"Oh, yes, why do your people attack the wards?"
"They are not mine and they are actually why I'm here."
"And that would be?" The wand did not leave her neck. No, on the contrary. He was pushed even harder on the back of her neck.
"I'm here to take you to Neville and get you to safety."
"And what about those?" she did not need to see her hand to know who the question was.
"I do not know who they belong to, I've had dealings with them in St. Mungo's when I pulled out the Potter parents, just like Alice and Frank Longbottom, they're all in a safe place." I can hardly tell her about the Ravager . Miana very much doubted that if she did that she would believe her. "Our initial examination revealed that someone wanted to keep all four in a comatose state."
"Does that mean James and Lily live?" The voice sounded more than surprised.
"Yes, Alice and Frank are also on the way to be healed." Before Miana could react she found herself in a hug.
"They live, they live." Miana somehow managed to turn in the embrace and tried to calm the now crying woman. Miana wondered why she just believed the woman like that. This question cleared as she looked to the right. There hovered a small luminous sphere in the middle of the air. A short analysis later and Miana could hardly resist a grin. A lie detector spell. Clever.
This little ball of light turned red by a lie and green when the truth was said. The enhanced version could even detect half-truths. These were marked when the sphere turned yellow. In this case, however, it was just the simple version. In most cases, that was completely enough.
It took a while until she calmed down. The first question she asked Miana had expected.
"Where are you?"
"They are on the Ravager, which is currently in high orbit around the planet, well beyond the reach of Apparition (about 2,000 km) or Portkey (about 25,000 km)."
(Values are for someone with the magical core of Dumbledore, most of them are about half.) Ritual-created portkeys usually have a significantly higher range, ranging from 25,000 km to 450,000 km in extreme cases.)
"In orbit?"
"Above us." Miana pointed upwards. "Very far above us."
"And you bring me there?" Augusta Longbottom asked, still staring up at the sky and trying to find the ship. Without success.
"I think we have not introduced ourselves yet, my name is Miana."
"Augusta Longbottom." was the answer she gave without looking at her. Instead, she continued to stare into the sky. After another two minutes of silence, she finally gave up and turned back to Miana. "Um ... where exactly is the ship?"
"It is disguised." was Miana's flat answer.
"Oh..."
But before they could go any further, there was a sound reminiscent of cracking glass. The attackers had brought down the first barrier. And that much faster than expected.
"Maybe we should hurry up a bit." Miana said as she noticed that the attackers were advancing to the Secondary Barrier. "How many house elves are there?"
"Two."
"How long would they take to pack everything?"
"Sispy! Foddy!" exclaimed Augusta.
With two loud cracking noises, two small figures with rather big ears appeared.
"How can Sispy and Foddy help?" came the squeaky voice of the small apparently female house elf.
"How long would you need to pack everything in the house - furniture, pictures, books, everything."
Sispy considered for a short time before she answered cautiously. "About four hours."
Augusta turned her gaze back to Miana.
"We do not have that much time." was Miana's answer. "In one hour at the latest, they will have broken through the last barrier." Miana started to walk and leave as she considered a solution to the problem. Then she remembered something they had done a long time ago. The salvage of an ancient temple from a planet threatening to fall into its sun.
That was the solution.
And now, as she thought about it, she remembered the mission again. After all, she was the one who led the ground team.
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Mendaros System
Mendaros 4
about 2,500,000 years ago
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Mendaros four. The inhabitants of this planet had long ago wiped themselves out in one of the many senseless wars that had taken place in this world. Now the planet was about to be destroyed.
The Seraphim found the planet only a few hundred years ago. Long after the native species disappeared. Their archaeologists had dug up entire cities and found only ruins. Most of the planet's archaeological treasures have been salvaged from the dying world to be able to study in peace. The temple complex was the last remaining archaeological find to be recovered.
"See that you get the transport amplifier set up! So slowly it gets really uncomfortable!" Miana called one of the engineers.
During one of the last wars that had taken place on the planet, such powerful weapons were used that the planet's orbit became unstable. So the planet slowly but surely approached his sun and was about to fall into it.
The surface temperature of the planet, which now looked more like a desert instead of a living world, was now almost 100 ° C and it was increasing by the minute. Miana could see the sea as it boiled and slowly evaporated. Her time window was quickly closing.
The sun dominated the entire horizon. And this enormous fireball on the horizon was growing minute by minute. The lifetime of this planet could now be measured in hours.
They still had a good 30 minutes to recover the temple. The planet itself had perhaps two hours before it would pass into the fires of the sun. Once a live-giver has become the annihilator.
It was 20 minutes later when the message from the engineer's leader arrived that the last of the transport amplifiers was in position. And that was really fitting, because the frequency of earthquakes and their intensity increased. Only the stasis fields were the reason that the temple still stood. But that would not be the case for much longer. In addition, the temperature had climbed to over 350 ° C. And the temperature rose faster and faster. Miana was happy to carry her armor in this moment, protecting her from the enormous heat.
"Miana to the Lakosta, we're done with the preparations, all ready for transport."
The Lakosta was a supply freighterof the military. Equipped with high-performance transports and huge cargo holds, the ship was able to accommodate the temple complex, which took up two square kilometers of land. The ship was accompanied by three Seraphimian Aurora classes that served as escorts.
At the moment, the four ships were in geosynchronous orbit above the temple. Always ready to leave the dying planet.
"Understood, get ready for transport." the message came back from the van.
The tips of the transport amplifiers began to light up in light blue. Then each of the amplifiers emanated, until they finally connected each of the amplifiers together. No sooner had that happened than the light turned bright white and it seemed to put an energy carpet on the temple. Shortly thereafter, there was a flash of light and at the place where the temple was just seconds before was replaced by a hole in the ground.
"All right, Temple is safe on board, the team is ready for immediate transport." came shortly after the message of Lakosta .
"Miana to Lakosta, ready to beam." A flash of light later and the members of the team were safely aboard the Lakosta . They found themselves in the same hold, where the temple had been beamed onto a custom construct, which now took over the service of the foundation.
Miana turned to her team.
"Good work everyone, the round tonight is on me. She saluted her people, who also saluted her. Then they spread around who knows what to do. Miana, on the other hand, made her way towards the bridge of the ship. As with almost all Seraphim ships, it lay deep inside the ship. As soon as she got there she turned to the captain of the Lakosta .
"Captain, leave the orbit and go to the edge of the system."
The captain nodded and then turned to her helmsman. "Lieutenant set course for the edge of the system and also inform our escorts."
"Aye aye."
A short time later, the small fleet left orbit and found itself after a short Warp flight on the edge of the system again.
"We are in position." reported the helmsman.
"All sensors point to the fourth planet, we'll stay until the planet is destroyed and collect as much data as we can."
The captain turned to her people at the science station. "You heard her." she only said. What she got back were calls of "aye aye.". Then the captain turned to Miana with a raised eyebrow.
"A favor I owe one of the eggheads." said that only.
"Ah ..." the captain said, then turned to the main monitor. Less than an hour and a half later, it was to be seen how the planet first lost its atmosphere only to be slowly torn to pieces by the gravitational forces of the sun, which then fell directly into it. Less than ten minutes later, the fleet went into hyperspace and left the system completely.
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"Yes, that will definitely work." she mumbled as she looked at the building, which was somewhere between the villa and the castle in size. "The hangars of the Ravager are big enough for the building." With these words, she activated the communicator. "Miana to Anoth."
"I hear you, what's up?"
"Can you move a building into one of the hangars of the Ravager ?"
"Please what?"
"I want you to take the whole building up to the Ravager."
"So I understood it then."
"How long will it take?"
"With the scans and preparing the foundations ... 20 minutes." the answer came back. "I'm sending down some transports and engineers with a Dropship, the wards around the building are interfering with our scanners."
"Got it, Miana over and out." With that she ended the radio traffic. Only seconds later, she heard a landing ship approaching its position, landing only minutes later. In this case it was a simple gate ship (Puddlejumper). As soon as the ship landed, the tailgate opened and four engineers came out together with several boxes.
"Where are we needed?" asked the leader of the small engineering squad as he stood in front of Miana.
"I think you already know what to do?"
"Yes."
"Then to work."
There was another crash. Now there were only two barriers between them and the attackers. Whoever these people were. They sure worked quick.
first the activation of the death runes. Then the fight in St. Mungos. Miana could not shake the feeling that they literally hung on her tail when she picked up the others. And now this.
Slowly but surely they got really annoying.
And that was not even what really bothered her at the moment. Rather, it was the fact that the speed with which they broke through the protective spells increased significantly. At current speed, they were through the last barrier in ten minutes.
And then there was the possibility that the Tonks family was also under attack. And Miana was stuck here. Nice crap.
Speaking of the Tonks ...
"Miana to Anoth." Miana spoke into her radio.
"I hear you, what's going on?"
"I have one more target to pick up, you know that, right?"
"Yes."There was a small break. Then Anoth understood what Miana wanted to say. "I'll send another team down to pick them up, Anoth End. "
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Aboard the Ravager
High orbit around Planet Terra (Earth)
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"Teams Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta Emergency Response! Teams Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta Emergency Response!" Toned it through the ship. "Report to Hangar Four right now! Report four in Hangar right now!"
An alarm sounded through the ship and the members of the said teams dived to the armory to equip themselves and found themselves shortly thereafter in the hangar four. Each of the teams had a dedicated Junkubus class landing ship.
The use of these medium-sized Dropships for these small five-member teams seemed completely over the top. However, considering that these teams were usually sent to where the fighting was fiercely raging, they could use the tremendous firepower of the Junkubus classes.
A short time later, the four teams climbed their four 50m long, 10m high and 36m wide Junkubus classes and were on the way to the planet. During the flight, they received further instructions.
Teams Alpha and Beta should go to and support Miana's position. Teams Gamma and Delta should go to the indicated navigation point to evacuate the Tonks family. Notably Andromeda Tonks and her husband Ted Tonks.
Miana's guess was soon proven correct. Two of the outbuildings on the Tonks family's site were already in flames when they landed, causing dense black smoke to rise into the sky.
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200m away from the house of the family Tonks
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The Junkubus classes landed fully camouflaged and almost noiseless in a meadow near the house of the Tonks family. Flames were already hitting the two outbuildings in the sky and flashes of light in different colors could be seen. The attack was still in full swing.
The leader of the Gamma team was the main commander in this mission. And he ordered his people to approach their destination as quickly as possible, but unnoticed. To achieve this, the entire team activated the camouflage built into their armor. Only seconds later, none of them could be seen with the naked eye.
As the two teams quickly approached their destination, the two Junkubus classes lifted of from the ground and were now ready to provide air support if requested.
A short time later, the two teams had reached the border to the property and could easily make out 24 figures. They all wore jet-black robes and had their hoods pulled deep over their faces. Below were white masks painted with strange patterns.
"Team Gamma to the north side Team Delta to the south side No one fires until command given." the leader spoke in his radio. The green light of the second team confirmed that the other team leader had understood the order and brought his team over to the other side of the house. Another flashing of the same lamp told him the other team was in position.
"Fire!"
Before the wearers of black robes had a chance to react, more than half of them were dead on the ground. Killed by precise shots of the plasma weapons of the two teams. The fight ended when one of the two teams called fire support for a few of the entrenched enemies. A brief salvo with one of the Railgun Gattling guns of the Junkubus class reduced them to nothing but fine red mist.
The last two remaining after these short fire exchanges apparated away. They were in such a hurry that one left a finger and the other left half of his right leg behind.
With a few hand signals, the two teams agreed to approach the main building. The main building was undamaged while the other buildings were going down in flames. Which raised the question of why they had not noticed the noise out here.
The answer to the question came as they approached the building. Because suddenly they heard roar from inside the building. The strange thing was the roaring in the middle of the sentence began. The leader of the squad took a step back and all that was left was the crackle of the blazing flames. One step forward and he could clearly hear the screaming.
Then he realized. The building was surrounded by a sound barrier. Nobody in the building heard the noise out here.
His grin under the helmet of his armor would now be send the Cheshire cat running for the hills.
Very beautiful. He thought as he silently approached the house.
A few hand signals later and both teams split up. One took over the front door the other team the back door. With a flashing green light in their displays, both teams opened the doors. The back door had to be cracked before. But since the castle was very old, that was no problem at all. The front door just needed to be postponed. The lock had been blown out the way the door looked.
Anyway. Both teams silently entered the building.
On the lower floor, they encountered two enemies. Both were killed quickly and silently by cutting through their throats.
After the ground floor was secured, both teams quietly went up the stairs. There they found another guy wearing these black robes.
He sat back on one of the chairs with his feet on the table in front of him and was asleep.
A slit throat later and they were on the second floor in front of the door behind which the noise came from.
With a few hand signals the leader gave the one team to understand that they should get ready to blow the door to the room. While the other team prepared to make their way through the thin wooden wall.
Two powerful explosions echoed through the house. One tore the door with the door frame away while the second tore a two-meter hole in the wooden wall.
The black robe wearers in the room had no time to react, because they were already dead on the ground only seconds after the explosion. Her two targets were unconscious on two chairs where they had been tied up. The ropes that held them were severed only seconds later and they were on their way out of the building when a radio message came in.
"Ground team here eagle eye 2. More enemy forces have just teleported into the area and have started wildly firing around."
No sooner had the radio contact ended than a wall exploded next to the ground team and several people dressed in black robes came through and immediately began firing spells at both teams. both teams immediately jumped into cover.
"Fire free! Send them back into the howls where they crawled from!" the leader roared into the radio before he himself began to shoot down the attackers with his plasma weapon.
Outside, there were now numerous impacts to hear, mainly from the Railgun Gattling weapons, which fired their deadly loads on the enemy forces. The heavier weapons were not even needed for this type of enemy.
Still, that was definitely overkill. Because those who were hit from the weapons were reduced to fine mist.
Meanwhile, the team went to the secondary collection point for exfiltration. The secondary exfiltration point was located about 2 kilometers from the property in a clearing in a nearby forest. There they were already expected by the second Dropship. It circled the clearing and would land as soon as they entered the clearing.
As soon as they were out of the house, they were already running towards the secondary landing zone. Ted Tonks and Andromeda Tonks, who were still unconscious, were transported in a somewhat uncomfortable manner. At the moment it did not matter because they were primarily concerned with getting out of here. Any injuries could be handled on the Ravager .
Not even a minute later they arrived at the landing zone but not without being followed. Whoever these robe bearers were, they were stubborn. So much you had to leave them.
"Gamma one to Dropship. Have reached landing zone but we are being persecuted. Request Fire Support."
"Roger that." the answer came back. "The weather report said that there should be hail today."
"Then let it hail!"
"Will be done Attention Impact Nearby!" With these words, the Dropships pilot fired two rockets into the forest, killing more than two dozen of their pursuers in one fell swoop. Directly afterwards, the Railgun Gattling guns opened fire.
A deafening, thunderous, booming sound filled the clearing as the weapons fired their deadly charges.
While the Dropship mowed down the attackers (significantly increasing the clearing), both teams had hurried to the back ramp of the second now landed ship and entered it via the open ramp. As soon as they were on board, the ramp closed again and the Dropship took off.
As soon as the first ship was in the air, the second ship broke off its attack and joined the first one. Seconds later, both activated their cloaking devices and were gone.
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In a nearby British military base
radar surveillance
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A soldier sat in front of one of the radar screens and monitored the air traffic. Today, only a few takeoffs and landings were scheduled, so it was a quiet day for him today. The next landing was only about an hour away, which made the soldier sink into his thoughts.
That ended when the radar reported two unidentified contacts. But as suddenly as the two echoes appeared on the radar screen, they disappeared again.
"Strange." He ran the recording back a few seconds and then replayed it. There were definitely two unknown contacts on the screen. If only for a few seconds.
He watched the radar screen for several more minutes but the signal did not reappear. So he wrote a report sent to his supervisor where it then just disappeared into a filing cabinet.
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Ravager
In high orbit around Terra (Earth)
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The Dropships quickly rose to the higher atmospheres. They had left clouds behind them for a long time and so slowly the blue disappeared from the sky and was replaced by the black of space.
The Ravager was invisible to the naked eye. But the instruments of the Dropship knew exactly where they were. On the way there they flew only a few kilometers past the Russian space station MIR .
(Little history lesson: The construction of the MIR began in 1986. The re-entry took place in 2001. The construction of the ISS began in 1998. And since this story begins in 1994, the MIR is still fully in operation. The MIR was about 30m long and just as high and The Junkubus Dropship is 50m long, 10m high, and 36m wide, making it larger than the MIR space station.)
A few minutes later, both ships floated in through one of the open hangar doors and the blue-shimmering force fields that prevented the atmosphere from escaping the hangar deck into the Ravagers' interior . As soon as they had passed the force fields, the ships turned 180 ° and landed on the hangar deck. The ports of the Dropship began to open even before the ship had completely landed. Meanwhile, the hangar doors closed again.
On the deck they were already awaited by several paramedics, who received the two Tonks parents immediately and make their way to the infirmary, where they arrived only about a minute later. Thank the vans within the ship.
As soon as they arrived at the infirmary, both were placed on treatment beds and examined by the doctors. After a short time, they were found to have been tortured. But they had no injuries that were untreatable.
Anoth looked around. A question crossed his mind. We have Harry Potter here, Nymphadora Tonks, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom and Daphne Greengrass. That would be six. They are all members of the Alteran Council. But this raises another question: who is number seven?
The Seraphim Council and the Alteran Council each consisted of seven members plus one Council President. Here mainly the matters were discussed which had to do with the alliance of the two, at that time still great powers. Also here the military operations were discussed.
This system no longer exists in this way today. It has been replaced by a huge Galactic Council. The key, however, has remained. For the Seraphimian Intergalactic Empire was a dictatorship even then. Anoth could decide everything if he wanted to, but instead many of the decisions in the Grand Council are made to give others some degree of co-determination.
In addition, the planets were, to some degree, self-governing. The ruling self-government was governed on the one hand by the basic laws that applied to every planet, without exception, and a whole series of guidance laws that a planet could take over but could not necessarily do. That could have many reasons. Type of Colony (Farm Colony, Mining Colony, etc.), Population Density, Climate, Where the colony is located (On a planet, on a large asteroid, it is a space colony) etc.
Anoth had nothing else to do but wait and hope that the enemy down on the planet did not know who the seventh member of the council was. After the memories I have of this guy with the scared face, I hope that Gringotts has the answer to the question of who our seventh member of the council is.
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Miana
Longbottom estate
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The engineers were ready to put the transport amplifiers around the building in position. There was only one barrier left between them and the attackers. It was only a matter of time when this would fall as well.
"We're done!" came the call from one of the engineers. Mina wasted no time and immediately contacted Anoth on the Ravager .
"Miana to Anoth."
"I hear you."
"How does it look on your end?"
"The foundation is finished, we are just waiting for you here."
"We're here too - shit!" Anoth heard a noise in the background like breaking glass. "The last barrier has just collapsed!"
"I've heard."
"We'll take the Puddlejumper. Get the building up."
"I'll do it, Anoth end."
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Ravager
In high orbit around Terra (Earth)
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"Anoth to bridge."
"Here is Ashiasa." the voice of the Khajiit came back on the bridge.
"Start transport process as soon as you can have a transporter lock with the Longbottom estate."
"I'm already doing it." came the voice of Ashiasa, who was on the bridge at the moment and was serving the transporter.
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Ravager
Hangar 3
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The Sinlontarra that was otherwise in Hangar 3 was not there. Instead, a rack had been erected there, which would soon serve as a foundation for the building, which would be teleported there in a few seconds. The Sinlontarra, meanwhile, had moored to the outer shell of the Ravager .
Seconds later, the hangar shone as the entire Longbottom building, including the two basement floors, was teleported into the hangar. Immediately after, Ashiasa was heard on the bridge cursing.
"Fuck!" she growled. "I brought up some uninvited guests." Immediately, Ashiasa's voice was heard throughout the ship. "Hangar Three Security! Hangar Three! Secure the building! "
When this announcement came, many of the security forces aboard the Ravager had question marks floating over their heads.
Which building?
These question marks evaporated when they reached the hangar. They saw the building that had been beamed up. They also realized that they were already fighting. A few of the crew had pulled their weapons and had taken cover behind various boxes. Two crew members lay dead or injured on the ground. From a distance, that could not be determined exactly.
Now the systems were in use which repaired either the ships in the hangar again, if they were damaged, or could also build completely new ships. In this case, however, they built something much smaller. Barricades, which served as fire sponges for the security guards. These were used immediately.
As soon as the leader of the security team was in cover, he linked himself with the internal sensors of the ship with the help of the neural interface to take a look inside the building.
At the same time, the ship's internal security system had also been activated. All access to Hangar 3 had been sealed off with force fields. The security guards could easily cross these force fields. The enemy, on the other hand, was stopped by them. In addition came ceiling, floor and wall guns that were activated throughout the hangar area. Not enough, all the wall plates went to the side and released the view of Phaser strips and launch tubes for minidrones. The top of the whole formed heavily armed and armored drones flying around the hangar.
They did not fire directly at the building. However, if the intruders left the building, their lifetime could be calculated in seconds.
This was confirmed when two of the intruders stormed out of the building, they were immediately welcomed by not only the automatic guns of the drones but also the Phaser banks in the walls. There was not even any ash left of them after it.
That would be two less. Thought the leader of the security people. Let's see how many of you are still in the building. It was not long before his mind's eye saw a three dimensional semi-transparent image of the building. He could make out a total of fourteen intruders within the building. Six of them were on the ground floor. Four in the first basement and the rest in pairs on the first and second floor of the house.
After a moment's thought, he ordered two of the drones to position themselves to fire stun grenades into the building. These shells fired a pulse that made anyone who were hit faint. Range of the impulse was only about five meters.
While the drones were taking positions, the security guards were ready to storm the house. As soon as this had happened, the drones fired the stun grenades into the ground floor as well as the first and second floors. As soon as the grenades detonated, the ship's sensors confirmed that ten of the invaders were lying unconscious on the ground. Only the four remained in the cellar.
Seconds later, the first security guards reached the stairs into the basement. At the end of the stairs, they could hear voices that they could understand through their update of their Universal Translators.
"What's going on up there?" one voice asked.
"No idea." The answer came from a second voice.
"Probably McCarty is doing his usual nonsense." came the third vote.
"When's McCarty not doing any nonsense?" came the fourth and last voice. This clearly female.
Suddenly the four downstairs heard a strange sound. As they looked in the direction of the stairs, a ball of some kind was rolling down the stairs and stopped right at their feet. One of the four kneeled down and picked up the ball and looked questioningly at the others as soon as he got up. The last thing he saw after that was a white flash. Immediately, he and his companions were welcomed by the darkness.
Fortunately for the four, the grenade he'd picked up was just a stun grenade. One of the security guards had let one of them roll down the stairs. As the grenade detonated it gave up a bright flash of light, followed closely by four dull thuds.
When the security guards arrived downstairs, they only needed to tie the four up.
"Situation under control, intruders in custody." said the leader of the security people finally in the radio.
"Confirmed. Deactivating internal defense." Came the reply from Ashiasa, who was still on the bridge of the Ravager.
The automatic turrets drove back to their dwellings and the flaps above the minidrone launchers, as well as those over the Phaser strips, closed again. The force field which blocked the exit from the hangar was deactivated. Only a few of the heavily armed drones circled around the hangar. But these, too, returned to where they had come from.
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Prison tract of the Ravager
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Minutes later, the security guards found themselves in the prison wing again. There they were already expected by Miana. She had returned to the Ravager a few minutes after the alarm had sounded .
"LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU FREAKS!" exclaimed Vernon Dursley, who was standing with his head in an angry red in front of his cell door. He had only just regained consciousness.
Miana, who had returned only minutes before, had no nerves at all for the guy and so she just pressed the trigger for the knockout gas and just sent him back to sleep.
"Go back to sleep!" Miana growled, then turned to the security guards. "So these are our uninvited guests, so let's go, right?"
Now, for those who had captured them, the standard treatment for prisoners began. The first step was the complete disrobing. Until they were completely naked in front of them. This was followed by the removal of jewelry and any kind of piercing. As well as the removal of camouflaged holsters and the like. House rings or lord rings were also removed. Even if the magic of the rings tried to fight it. Against Miana it was useless. If she wanted it off of them se got it off of them.
Miana was very accurate in this point. With the fact that she herself was a Drago-Seraphim and could see through almost any illusion, as well as the help of two of her Three-Eyed Wolves, where the third eye, which sat on their foreheads, represented the Eye of Truth, which could see through any kind of illusion, nothing remained hidden.
As soon as that happened, Miana switched to a view that allowed her to see the flow of energy. That way she found by two of the prisoners under the skin implanted portkeys, which were removed on the spot.
When all this was done the prisoners first were branded with a seal on the back which prevented them from using their powers. Then they were put into simple prison overalls and literally thrown into single cells. There, they would come back to consciousness in an hour or two.
With a few headaches, considering several of them had face planted with the wall or floor of their cell. Not that any of the crew of the Ravager gave anything on it.
When Miana came to the infirmary, she saw Anoth sitting on the floor. He leaned against one of his two arcanona and seemed to doze. Anoth looked like he'd been wrapped in a dense fur ball, for the arcanona had wrapped her nine tails around Anoth so that only his head was visible. Miana knew that Anoth was in fact not dosing. Anoth had long noticed that she had come to the infirmary.
"I see our "guests" have been stowed away." Anoth told her when he sensed that she was standing right in front of him. With which he opened his eyes and looked at her.
"Yes, only that our cells are slowly running out."
"I already have that solved. I ordered to build a prison station, which should solve our space problem."
"Alteras class?"
"That's way too big, I think a Tantalus class is quite enough."
The prison stations of the Tantalus class were anything but pretty. Constructed in the form of a simple cuboid with the size of 90m x 90m x 180m, they nevertheless offered enough space for up to 10,000 prisoners. All in single cells. Most of the interior was vacuum. The space occupied by the cells was comparatively small.
The cells themselves had the shape of a cube with an edge length of 3m inside. From the outside they were about 3.5m. this was because each of these cells was equipped with an independent life support system.
There was only one way for the prisoners in or out. And that was over the hangar bay, which was just big enough to hold a ship the size of a puddle jumper or a Lemura class. Beaming was impossible, since interference generators prevented that. Also, the shell was made of a material which interfered with the detection sensors. Sensors could hardly penetrate the material.
The cells themselves were moved with a crane system inside the station. There was no catwalk to the cells. Also, the cells were not connected. Between each of the cells was only vacuum space While the cells themselves were moored in a sort of shelving system from which the cells also derived their energy.
Outbreak?
Extremely unlikely.
Especially when you consider that the prison was usually installed in a large-scale minefield with heavily armed defense satellites that allowed only a very specific flight path to the station. Was deviated from it the weapons immediately opened fire. If the mines did not kill you, the satellites took over.
"Tantalus class, well, where do you want to place it?" asked Miana Anoth, who had nestled a little deeper into the Arkanona fur.
"I'm thinking of the asteroid belt." Anoth answered. "The asteroids in it are big enough that we can build weapon platforms on them and realizing a minefield there would not be a major problem either."
"That's right, the place is almost made for it."
"That's what I mean, too." Anoth said. "Because if the situation continues to develop as it does now, we will need the cells." Surely he could also place them in the cells of the Sovereign . However, there was no reason for Anoth to waste the space, if he could just as easily leave them in a rather easy to set up and to guard prison station.
And if they broke out, only the mercilessness of space would await them.
"When do you think the station is finished?"
"The construction of the station itself was supposed to be almost finished. The laying of the minefield and the deployment of the defense satellites and so forth should be completed in two days at the latest." was Anoth's answer to Miana's question.
"What are you going to do now?"
"If everything goes as I hope, we'll go to Gringotts tomorrow, and when that's done we'll see."
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A/N: Chapter 7 has over 46.000 words. That will take a little longer to translate. So stay tuned.
