Sirius was worried sick. Being left behind and unable to help Harry was the most agonizing thing he ever had to deal with. The waiting without any idea what was going on was slowly driving him mad. The situation was so dangerous in ways he was sure if he knew more he'd be even more scared and frightened for Harry's safety. Sirius knew that his godson was going into battle against someone willing to kill him and there was nothing he could do to stop it.
He could only wonder how Molly managed to deal with this. No wonder she had a clock to keep track of her family and what they were in. It probably was the only thing that kept her sane and able to sleep at night.
It made him wonder what the hands on that clock would be if her children were mech pilots. And she thought Fabian and Gideon got into trouble. It would nothing compared to what he thought the snippets of information he heard on a lot of things that sounded dangerous. And he was sure that it was all far worse than he was thinking. Aliens, dinosaurs and more out for conquest. And supposedly one of them could fire things Lily once told him things went into and were crushed by it.
He could imagine how scared James and Lily would be dealing with this sort of danger to their son. With him risking his life against things that could turn his old house into a bunch of kids hiding under their beds in terror. Remus would probably be beside himself and completely freaking out. Sirius hated that even being in that condition Remus wasn't here. Misery loves company and all. Also Sirius missed the sole living friend he didn't want to choke to death slowly and in the most painful manner possible.
Sirius knew he'd have to get back to finding Wormtail at some point, but right now he was going to take advantage of the fact he could get medical treatment and even dog food they were feeding him was far better than what he had been getting in prison. Sirius recalled Lily saying something about Azakan being nothing but massive human rights violations and was pretty sure it was.
Sirius had a feeling once he name was clear he had plenty of material for a tell all book about his experiences. Thinking about what he'd write in it helped calm his nerves a bit. Which was the best he could hope for right now. Frankly he would take that for now.
Only when Harry's golem returned and looked to be intact did Sirius feel relieved. From all he could gather this battle was for far more than thing he'd fought an entire war over. It made Sirius wonder if even You Know Who would be as feared if this sort of fighting was common. But now Harry needed him.
Harry nearly got knocked over by Snuffles. He was pretty sure if the dog was his proper weight he would have been taken off his feet. He actually looked forward to seeing his dog in the best health it could be.
"Glad to see you too," Harry said with a smile.
"Good job out there," Mu La Flaga said warmly to Harry.
Harry nearly froze as he rarely got praised for anything. Mu had this feeling he'd be tempted to let Ryoma break someone if he found out why. He had no idea Snuffles had similar thoughts.
Sirius was getting the feeling he should have run off with Harry out of country. Or broken out years earlier to raise Harry. He had a feeling Lily and James were less ashamed of him and more probably still in the afterlife wondering how everything went so crazy.
It all made him angry and sad that he couldn't comfort his godson like he wanted to. He then saw that one girl in pink and something about her put him on edge. Unlike the blonde with a similar sunny personality he could at least figure out why with this one.
The girl felt to him like Bellatrix if she had a sunnier personality. Which was actually rather scary to be honest. Perhaps he was being a little overboard in that comparison but that girl felt like she really enjoyed using her golem to fight things a bit too much.
Sirius was thankful she and a few others were the only ones to scare him like that. Even the Order of the Phoenix had some people like that so he wasn't worried about Harry's friends and comrades.
It did make Sirius wonder who Harry's friends were though. It was something he'd have to look into later. He hoped they were good and loyal friends unlike Peter was. The mistake of including him was one that he hoped Harry would be able to avoid. One that Sirius had a feeling had cost him and Harry far too much.
Right now he was glad Harry and safe and sound. That was the most important thing at the moment.
V-V-V
The weather in the Mediterranean nation of Riksent was pleasant and it was a perfect day to have a Gekiganger III convention. Cosplayers of the show plus people dressed like characters from Banblade and more roamed the old world streets. You could hear people talking about "Let's Gekiga In!"
It also made for the perfect cover for Gilliam Yeager to meet with Ryoji Kaji. Especially with the Second Child being a guest for the convention as an actual pilot of a real giant robot. If an Evangelion counted as a super robot or not was up to personal opinion. Something that was very mixed and the Second Child really like that very much.
"So has she hit someone that said a Mazinger unit or some other super robot is more awesome than Evangelion-02 yet?" Gilliam inquired as he was viewing the crowd on the streets below in a lawn chair.
Kaji chuckled. "If Asuka hasn't then she will before the con is over."
Ryoji wasn't sure who had gotten Asuka to be part of a panel with several actual mecha pilots, but he suspected Major Yeager had a very large hand in it. Yet if he couldn't prove that then NERV and SEELE wouldn't have much better luck. Still he was glad that Harold "Coop" Cooplawski, Ryusei Date, Kamile Bidan, and Koji Kabuto weren't able to attend this convention as he was sure that they'd definitely rub Asuka the wrong way or in Kamile's case she'd make fun of his name and things would not go well from there. As annoying new types always was a terrible idea.
Kaji had no idea that Gilliam would have put down money to see if Asuka would have developed a crush on Char if he was at the con. The man seemed to be able to do that, and Asuka wanted someone older than a teenage boy. However Quattro Bajeena, which was the current ID the Red Comet was using, had avoided the convention as well.
"Commander Ikari is afraid of Coop," Gilliam then remarked casually.
"The man is a walking disaster zone with his giant robot," Kaji noted. "I believe he once said no one gets to wreck his hometown other than him."
"And of course the incident he had dealt with causing a black hole on the Earth by creating a second one and the two ate each other," Gilliam mused.
"The whole S-Force incident," Kaji shrugged. "Even with that it was less insane than the whole Ultra Cadets one as they seemed to want Coop to deal with their problem when a lot of less property damaging mech pilots were around."
"I believe they were left a way to reach Londo Bell after one of them dated Goat," Gilliam said sounding extremely amused.
Kaji had a feeling he could ask his 'friend' if Goat and that Ultra Cadet named Sailor Galaxia were still together or not. It also made it wonder how someone gets the nickname like that man had. There had to be a story behind that. Hopefully it would be an amusing story.
"I can see Coop will be like those five were to you know who," Kaji noted.
Gilliam had to resist chuckling as the thought of those five Gundam pilots fighting Voldemort was amusing. Still they had been a massive thorn in the side of the Romefeller Foundation, and now that secret society was nothing more than a fading memory. The military arm of the Romefeller Foundation which was the Organization of the Zodiac or OZ had shattered and there was no one left to pick up any of the pieces. The only person who might have, Lady Une, had gone underground and no one knew where she'd gone. Even he wasn't sure where she was which said a lot.
"He is what he is," Gilliam stated. "I do look forward to seeing if he tries to be a cool older brother to the Third Child."
"I believe Doctor Yui Ikari never intended her Evangelion prototype to breath fire, shoot rocket fists, or have more firepower than a Zeong," Kaji said as he realized Coop would try to do that.
"He'd probably turn the Dummy Plug space into a turkey deep fryer," Gilliam said sounding very amused. "Or some other kind of cooking device."
"He would," Kaji agreed and didn't ask how Major Yeager knew of the Dummy Plug. SEELE, NERV and others had no idea how the man knew many of things he knew.
"So you think Evangelion-05 will ever be replaced?" Gilliam asked to change the subject.
"Perhaps," Kaji remarked.
"Anyone even sure what those mobile suits with corpses in them that wrecked Bethany Base?" Gilliam inquired.
"Not yet," Ryoji admitted. "Or what that one mobile suit that was their leader was. Personally I doubt Eva-05 blowing up in its face destroyed it."
"Yes a lack of any remains would do that," Gilliam said looking down at the crowd.
"And the fact that one of the Children got reassigned to Londo Bell afterwards shows how little anyone thinks of NERV being able to handle the Angels by themselves," Kaji sighed.
"So anyone taking the fact that Commander Kiva Andru being from the future means the Angels will be defeated?" Gilliam mused.
Kaji shrugged. "They aren't quite sure what to make of that. Other than probably a good thing Coop broke the time travel device as no one trusts him with the ability to do that."
"Of course I heard the Junk Guild still are trying to work out how he got his control set up for Megas to work," Major Yeager said with a bemused expression.
"No one understands how he got that to work," Kaji commented. "He's either lucky or more intelligent than even he knew he was."
"And if he somehow breaks through an AT field no one will be that surprised," Gilliam noted.
"I heard MAGI literally would put that under 'Of course he can as he breaks anything else' and not waste processing power trying to figure out how he did that," Kaji said with a bemused expression.
Neither men breathed a word of the possibly that Coop could be one of the Whispered. But both had heard of that term and it was scary to imagine if he was or was not one of those. However Mithril and other forces out to find the Whispered or take their secrets were also afraid of Coop. As would anyone of the insanity and chaos that Coop unleashed.
"And I have heard they are teaching Coop what the Evangelions look like so he doesn't accidently trash them as well," Gilliam told Kaji.
Ryoji chuckled. Ritsuko wouldn't be happy if an Evangelion got torn up by something video game controllers were a major part of how it was controlled. She took a great deal of pride in the Evangelions and that they were better than other nonorganic tech using mecha.
"Don't forget to ask that mysterious gourmet we know if you need the help," Gilliam remarked to Kaji.
"Or any of the other former Aggressors," Ryoji snorted as he knew exactly who that man really was.
"We are very willing to deal with problems," Gilliam stated.
Kaji was sure SEELE and Commander Ikari were considered that by Gilliam. Very big problems given their goals. Still at the moment they were the best choices he had if things went south.
"I'll keep that mind," Kaji said dryly.
"Good," Gilliam said with a slight smirk. "I might also show you how to hide that mobile suit you have as well."
"Advice from the expert," Kaji chuckled.
"Don't let your self loathing stop you from fighting," Gilliam then said looking Kaji right in the eye. "Let me tell you that I have far more than you have on that and I don't let that stop me or let me just give up."
Any retort or comment Ryoji Kaji had died in his throat as he realized that Gilliam was being completely honest with him. And that the former Aggressor had sins far bigger than his.
It was a humbling experience for the spy. One that left him without anything to say to be honest.
Gilliam turned and looked down on the crowd as he felt his message had been received loud and clear. And that perhaps Kaji and those of NERV that truly wished to defend the world would survive the upcoming Angel War. Plus all the other invaders, mad scientists, and whatever else that was around or coming.
V-V-V
Harry was doing something he'd wanted to do for some time yet never had a chance to do so. He was reading the various books Hermione had that wrote about him. It took a bit of work to get her to lend him these books, but Harry felt it was worth it.
One fact it didn't take him long to figure out even the textbooks just made shite up about him. No one knew how he survived that night and it was clear to him he was famous for surviving and someone made up a story that they all believed. Given people believed Lockhart without seeing if he could have actually done all he said he had made it easy for Harry to understand why all those stories were considered true.
Even if he had topped that by driving a giant robot and fighting aliens from the future on the moon.
It all left him wondering who was making money off of all the books, dolls, and such of him. Even if he was getting a cut of that money he'd still be embarrassed by it all. Something he doubted was happening. And of course not a single word of advice or such from anyone about that.
If that was a "everyone knows' thing then Harry had a feeling he'd want to go Nagare school of martial arts on people.
Harry rubbed his temples. "Bloody hell...I think I'll go to the gym."
He put the books away and changed into the standard exercise shorts and shirt most of the crew used. It didn't take him long to reach the gym and he saw the holographic "windows" that showed off various locations at random.
Harry was sure it'd confuse the hell out of Ron and other purebloods. He then remembered some of them had trouble understanding football wasn't a literal name for the sport. And the holographic display was way beyond a ball that could be shown to them and even a game could be played to show them how it worked.
Harry blinked when he saw in the gym Hayato Jin knocking the ears off practice dummies with one hit. He then went for the eyes, and on some of them the noses. The man had seemed kind of mysterious and cool in a way, but he also hadn't done that in front of Harry before. Yet this explained why Major Zonvolt included the pilot of Getter-2 as people he didn't want Harry to end up like.
There also was the fact that Hayato had such a disturbing and gleeful expression while he was knocking those body parts off. He enjoyed doing that to people.
It made Harry glad that soon the Getter pilots would be testing a newer and more powerful Getter unit. Because so far only the third Getter pilot wasn't creepy. Musashi Tomoe actually seemed like a nice guy. Musashi liked to eat, was nice to people, and didn't seem to have the bloodlust of Ryoma and Hayato.
Harry shook his head and started pumping iron with some of the lighter weights. He was glad he'd been taken to the gym after his physical and shown how everything here worked. Frankly Harry felt that Hogwarts could use a gym like this. Wood especially would love a room like this. And maybe it'd let him burn off some of that manic energy he had as team captain.
Excellen then smiled at him. Harry had no idea what Excellen was going to say or do. She was very chaotic that way.
"Working to be big and buff for the girls?" Excellen giggled.
Harry blushed. He had no idea what to say to women and especially Excellen.
"You sure you are doing it right?" she then asked him.
"I think so…" Harry said and then showed her what he was doing.
"Looks right to me," Ryoma remarked. "Good thing you are keeping it to the light weights."
Ryoma was sure that Harry was nowhere near ready for fist fighting tigers and the like he'd been put through for training.
"Just following the instructions on the wall like Nurse Mizuha told me," Harry told them.
"Just don't drink any of Kusuha's health drinks," Excellen remarked dead serious. That Ryoma shivered in fear scared Harry.
Inwardly Harry wondered if they tasted even worse than some of the potions he'd been forced to drink at Hogwarts. Though given a man who shattered dinosaur skulls with his fists was afraid of those health drinks made him wonder if he really wanted to find out first hand.
The Boy Who Lived then realized what he'd just thought and felt was kind of normal already. And imagining Hagrid not happy with someone doing that to dinosaurs. And Hermione possibly growling at Ryoma over that.
And the Getter One pilot then killing Hermione as she annoyed him. In very brutal and gory ways at that.
Harry turned his thoughts back to working out as that was kind of disturbing. And not something he wanted running around in his head. There also was the fact that Ryoma would make those reality.
Still he wondered if he could have friends like this at Hogwarts besides Ron and Hermione. It was kind of fun actually. Though he'd keep in mind those that really believed he was the Heir of Slytherin and to be careful trusting any of them. He wasn't an idiot and won't blindly trust those that would treat one ability he had as meaning he was dark.
V-V-V
Hermione had several days to sleep on the fact that one of her friends was who knows where and up to his neck in trouble. As usual. It seemed to be the natural state of being for Harry. Which worried her as Harry had way too many near death experiences at Hogwarts.
Adding to that worry was that she wasn't sure what Dumbledore could do. Oh sure there was getting Harry away from whatever mech unit he was with, but beyond that where would Harry stay? The after was in this case likely more important than the rescue. His family were dead or getting there so someone had to take care of Harry.
No matter what Hermione mused the after to be she kept coming back to the feeling it'd all be set up seat of the pants.
It this point she wondered darkly if the wizarding world could plan and pull off a fire drill without it being a complete mess.
It was not comforting to her in the slightest.
And even with her respect for authority figures finding out the Minister for Magic literally did something to be seen doing something made it hard to hold in any regard besides contempt. And even more so as he actually said those words out loud. Where did they find that fool?
Of course she also wondered if people still were bitter about Harry being able to speak to snakes. She tried to recall if the teachers did anything about rumors being spread and dark mutterings and more during that. Or if they honestly believed those rumors as well. If they actually did anything she couldn't recall seeing it first hand.
The whole aftermath of the 'he 'talks to snakes" incident along with Harry being sent into the Forbidden Forest after getting Norbert away was making it so hard for her to trust in the authority figures of the Wizarding World. It seemed to be hairbrained idea after another. Like actually thinking was beyond them. It was all react and sort it out later with magic.
And if she was more paranoid she'd think the traps for the guarding the Philosopher's Stone were to test Harry. Given how effective the last two protections were and the troll against anyone else besides a powerful Dark Lord that the first three protections were to cause a thief to think it was all going to be easy and the last three protections to catch them off guard and stop them.
That someone would have to get into a school full of children to go after it was something Hermione wasn't considering. That as good as those defenses might have been it meant the thief got into Hogwarts and they had a great deal of hostages to use for any plan to force the teachers to hand over the stone.
And also the fact that Dumbledore left the Mirror of Erised out in the open and that had driven many mad and just staring at what it showed. Something that could have happened to anyone that came across it.
Still she wasn't exactly sure what anyone would get trying to find Harry besides a beating as groups of mech pilots tend to have someone trained in martial arts. Or use of firearms. Not people you startle, made demands to or treat in a condescending manner and expect them to take it. And the Getter Pilots that would likely be the last thing on Earth you do before Ryoma Nagare or Hayato Jin murdered you.
She would tell Auror Tonks about Harry's letters and visits and hope that things would go ok. And whoever Harry was with won't beat up the Aurors too badly. It was the best that anyone could hope for in this mess. She just hoped that she wasn't making a fatal mistake.
V-V-V
Paradigm City was a strange place. It was the city with no memories and the locals said it happened 40 years ago. Except it clearly did not happen 40 years ago, and something more had taken place. Figuring out what that was definitely was proving to be a challenge. And also why it looked so much like the still standing and intact New York City. There also was trying to figure out why the locals were so afraid to go underneath the city and what exactly was down in that area.
In this city that confounded the rest of humanity there was a man with a vital job. A man named Roger Smith.
Right now he was being hunted by a mercenary named Gai Murakumo. Who was leader of the mercenary unit known as Serpent Tail. Roger wondered where they found a Perfect Zeong. The largest mobile suit ever made was certainly in the Megadeus's size range, and heavily armed as well.
Beck was laughing at this. "So like how I outsourced for good help?"
"Certainly better than your combining robot," Roger remarked.
Beck frowned remembering that debacle. Getter his combining robot had definitely not been in the league of. It wasn't even a major attack from Big O that destroyed it in one shot.
Gai ignored the banter and focused on the fight at hand. The Perfect Zeong was a very powerful machine, yet given he was a combat coordinator and not a new type he couldn't use the psycocommu controls for the the arms to send them around by wire.
Big O got rocked by a mega particle blast from the mouth of the Perfect Zeong. The fact there wasn't a hole through the Megadeus made Gai wonder what exactly the local mecha was made of.
"He's pretty good," Roger muttered.
"Money," Dorothy stated. "Gai Murakumo is only loyal to money."
"Think Beck will be insane enough to stiff him on payment?" Roger mused as he managed to grab one of the forearms of the Perfect Zeong and applied pressure. There was the metal crunching and the five mega beam cannons in that hand were made useless.
"The correct question would be if Beck has enough money to afford him and this mobile suit in the first place," Dorothy commented.
Roger didn't have a chance to reply as the Big O was blasted with the mega beam cannons in the other hand and forced to let go of the Perfect Zeong.
Beck watched the battle with glee. He had no idea why he was given a lot of money and that mobile suit to do something he'd pay others to make happen, but he wasn't complaining.
He had no idea Liberian Works wanted to make their own copies of Roger Smith, but needed more combat data to make that happen. That it included the original of one of their agents was only an amusement to them.
The pilot of Big O was good enough that they wanted his information on file. They wanted to be able to create their own carbon human copy of Roger Smith.
The Perfect Zeong was still holding its own even with a crushed hand. Beck had no idea if his check bounced that Gai would see if he could bounce...out of a window. Or at least enjoy if someone offered to pay him to do so.
The Big O was starting to show damage and even that was amazing as the Perfect Zeong could destroy Doms, GMs, and Zakus like they were made of wet cardboard. The Megadeus was far superior to those mass produced units.
Big O unloaded with an energy blast from the eyes. The blast knocked the Perfect Zeong back several feet.
Gai answered back with another blast from the mouth of his mobile suit.
Liberian Works had no idea that the original for one of their finest creations also was in Paradigm City and also watching this fight.
He had many names but the one he was known best as was Char. No one had ever asked him what name he prefers.
Char, or rather Quattro Bajeena as he was currently calling himself, had heard rumors of the Liberian Works and they were working on making a copy of him. Something that frankly disturbed Casval as he felt just one like him was enough for the universe. And he knew this clone or whatever the Liberian Works did exactly would have all his negative personality traits.
Of which he inwardly had to admit he had plenty of, and it was likely this clone would also have them amplified. And some Zeon faction using that clone as a rallying point. Which likely at this point wouldn't help anyone besides the Zeon factions at this point.
Char sighed as he knew he'd have to work with Amuro to combat that. It wasn't exactly something he considered very appealing. Not in the least the fact the White Devil used to date his sister.
He then chuckled for a moment for his sister to have a boyfriend with that name given she named her cat when they were children Lucifer. Plus it was better musing that than if he'd be missing an ally or two as Roger Smith and the leader of Serpent Tail still clashed.
Suddenly the ground started to rumble and buildings started to shake uncontrollably. After that was when a massive sphere covered in tubes burst onto the surface. A thick smoke started billowing out of all the various tubes and made the air thicker and a great deal warmer.
The Dinosaur Empire had come to Paradigm City as the vanguard of their taking back the surface world.
Which would leave one to wonder if they knew the Getter Team was busy with the new unit known as Shin Getter and unable to respond rapidly to this. Or perhaps it was just luck on their side.
Gai had a feeling this was going to get ugly as Dinosaur Empire forces came en masse into the city. And that he might have to save this city to make sure he got paid. At least that was how he was rationalizing it in his mind.
"This isn't good," Roger Smith muttered. He hoped Londo Bell was going to show up soon as the Dinosaur Empire seemed to be sending everyone for this. Roger won't be surprised if Emperor Gore himself was here watching this as it happened.
The Mechasaurus army was a dinosaur lover's dream as it had T-Rexes, triceratops, and more represented. Though they'd likely wish to do so from a safe distance as the Mechasauruses were heavily armed and dangerous.
Roger was very wary to see Gai firing on the Mechasaurus horde instead of him, but realized he really didn't have much else for help dealing with the rampaging dinosaurs right now. Not that was very reassuring.
"I really hope help that I'm sure won't shoot me in the back gets here quick," Roger commented. "Or it will be the ruins of a city without memory."
V-V-V
Harry had to admit it was never a dull moment with Londo Bell as he and the others got ready to fight dinosaurs out to retake the world. He blinked as there was still one pilot for Getter around. Thankfully it was Musashi.
There also the one Evangelion pilot from the Moon had something about him that put Harry on edge on a deep level. Which given Ryoma, Hayato, Ryo, and Ken didn't do that said a lot to Harry.
Though the fact that Evangelion had a dual chainsaw for a weapon probably didn't help matters much. It looked be be made to shred anything that it hit. And it looked like they wanted to see what did to a Mechasaurus.
'You find the most insane ways to wreck mechs around here,' Harry thought to himself. 'Wonder if Coop is going to work to make something that.'
He hoped he'd remember the boxing style he'd been taught. It was used by a man who seemed to end up with driving a "Zombie GM" and one that now was taught to Londo Bell's trainee pilots. It didn't suit everyone, but it worked quite well for those that could pull it off.
As much as the mechanics having to fix the damage afterward utterly hated it as it involved taking blows,but working to make it hit nonvital areas instead. So they tended to have a lot of work to do if someone was successful at the fighting style.
Harry just wasn't sure if that fighting style would suit him. Hogwarts to his knowledge didn't each teach fighting styles or even how to really fight. He didn't include Lockhart's dueling club as that was a joke.
He then shook his head as he brought up various menus on his Rezel. It still felt amazing to Harry that he been given this mobile suit to pilot. Plus Harry didn't mind the mech was still the standard blue.
It seemed to Harry his life kept turning into ….he wasn't sure what to call it. Phases? Eras? Thankfully it seemed this one he had weapons to fight back, people not holding him back to deal with pests, and back-up if things got crazy.
"Let's show the Dinosaur Empire how humans do things!" Ken Kaido called out.
Mazinkaiser SKL was definitely ready to trash some Mechasauruses. The two pilots of it definitely lusted to destroy to wreck some cyborg dinosaurs. They loved showing everyone why they were hell.
The mech pilots that weren't hotblooded merely prepared their mecha for combat. Captain Scarlet Hibiki was making sure the Wingle was fully prepared for this. She was the commanding officer of the Green Falcon Squad, which also included Mazinkaiser SKL aka Death Caprice Squad as part of it.
'Those GM IIIs better hold up,' she thought as that was what the rest of her squad had for mechs. So far most of Londo Bell had survived working with Ken and Ryu. Now it was time to see if the rest of Skull Force could ditch the 'dead men walking' reputation.
Graham Aker checked to see if his Flag was ready for what was clearly going insanity. Lowe Gruele had done some work on the mobile suit to make it stronger and even faster. He knew that he was going to need it. He also was glad the other Flag he had that was made to go into space was getting the same upgrades.
Amuro made sure all everything on his Gundam was ready to go. Despite all the danger and insanity being part of Londo Bell had...he had to admit this was better than the option of being basically under house arrest and watched liked a hawk for likely the rest of his life. And it was nice to have Shayla around even if neither of them were exactly sure what they had now. Or if it was anything beyond a deep friendship.
In the Venus A Jun Huno wondered why the "Mazinger Angels" as they were called kept getting perverts for weapons designers as one of them had basically breasts with triggers under it to fire acid from the frankly nipples. She found it to be a bit much to be honest. Even if the acid could eat through most metals. Really did everyone have to keep making breast based weapons for Venus A and the others?
Everyone also wondered how well Getter would be piloted with just one person. Especially given the Dinosaur Empire would want to destroy it first and foremost. Not that they exactly liked Londo Bell much given all the help they'd given the Getter team to stop the rampaging dinosaurs.
The Macbeth then shook and mechs started launching. Harry wished he had time to pull up some texts on various dinosaurs so he'd know what was turned into a cyborg and trying to kill him. Also he thought the ones with wings after them weren't dinosaurs technically.
Not that it mattered much as a pair of Getter tomahawks sliced through the cyborg Pterodactyl's head with ease.
"Do they pressurize the blood on those things?" Ken Kaido remarked as a massive burst of blood hit Mazinkaiser SKL.
"Maybe they do," Graham Aker mused as he opened fire on Mechasaurus army with his linear rifle.
"Eat Photon Beams!" Koji Kabuto yelled as he blasted a cyborg Giraffatitan.
Cybuster fired caloric missiles at the Dinosaur invaders. Then a sword was driven into the mechasaurus trying to sneak up on the Lord of Wind.
"Nice try!" Masaki remarked. "But it'll take more than that."
"I think they're going to try," Mu remarked as he fired his beam rifle at a swarm of flying mechasaurus coming right at them.
"Let them try!" Ken called out with a wide and predatory grin.
Coop let out a shout and slammed his head into a massive button on the dashboard of Megas. Massive missile launchers the size of the F90 Gundam came out of the back of Megas and unloaded a seemingly infinite supply of missiles on the Dinosaur Empire forces.
"And of course now our units would be heavily damaged," Raidiese "Rai" Branstein muttered as he was definitely not in the R-2 at the moment. He was instead in of all things the Nu Gundam Pre Test Type.
Rai never expected to ever be using the prototype of the Nu Gundam, but found it worked pretty well. He just had to make sure not to overheat it like a fool would. Also it was better than a Huckebein to drive as he really didn't look forward to piloting any model of a mech that testing the original had him lose a hand. Sure he had a metal replacement hand, but he didn't enjoy having to get one in the slightest.
"Just in time," Roger remarked as he drove the Big O's fist into a massive cyborg Utah Raptor that was much bigger than any fossils had shown it to be. The piston-like elbow of mech came in and Big O's fist went right through the Mechasaurus.
"Judging by fossil records this Dinosaur Empire is species from all eras of Dinosaurs," Dorothy noted. "Some long dead before the later ones came into being."
"Guess no one told them that," Smith noted with a slight smile.
Venus A fired the finger missiles at several mechasaurus. She then followed that up with a photon beam, and then her boob missiles. Sayla watched Jun's six as they fought the Dinosaur Empire.
"So do dinosaurs count as birds to Tetsuya?" Sayla inquired as she gunned down several mechasaurus. The pilot of Great Mazinger being afraid of birds was something they had discovered.
Jun shrugged. "Not really."
Boss Borot then decked a cyborg Giganotosaurus into the ground. The mech then did a muscle man pose.
"Wonder when Lowe will get a mech of his own?" Sayla mused. "Given the success of his work on my mech, Darleen and Boss Borot he definitely knows how to improve mecha."
"Sooner or later I'm sure," Jun remarked as she put the Venus A's fingers into the wide open maw of a T-Rex and fired missiles into the mechasaurus before it knew what was happening.
In a Hyperion Aya Kobayashi was using the beam submachine gun and the beam knife bayonet it had to full effect. She kept use the Armure Lumiere force field, and the beam cannon the mobile suit had to a minimum as they were massive energy hogs on this prototype unit. Plus she was sure the pilots of the first two of the trio of units were going to put those two things through their paces. She had to worry about surviving this fight rather than try her luck with an untested mech sized force field, and a really big cannon. She also wondered why this mech so many beam knives beside the one attached to the beam submachine gun. Which was four of them plus the one that was on the submachine gun. It was a bit much to her.
Mari had a wide smile on her face as drove her Messiah's combat knife into the throat of Pterodactyl mechasaurus. Sanger put the Evangelion pilot right next to Ken, Ryu, Ryoma, and Hayato on his list of people to tell the new recruits to not emulate.
Sanger also recalled what Gilliam had told him about the Third Child having utterly no training and the self esteem of a broken vase. He was going to have to fix that one, much like Gilliam had told him he would if he ever ran into Harry Potter.
The sword that severs evil had no idea why his former Aggressor comrade wanted him to train those two so badly, but after meeting Harry and seeing how he had done in combat he felt he'd made the right choice.
Speaking of Harry was attacking a T-Rex with his beam saber and wondered if calling out chesto was considered something Major Zonvolt did or anyone could do that. So he kept from calling it out for now. Still the beam saber cut through the mechasaurus like a chainsaw through butter.
Harry then put the beam saber away and fired his beam rifle to try giving the Green Falcon squad a hand. The several already blown up GM IIIs made it clear they were not doing so well against the Dinosaur Empire.
Captain Hibiki wasn't sure to be embarrassed or relieved a 'volunteer ensign' aka 'kid they found that piloted a mech pretty well and legally need to call them something for the paperwork' was helping save her squad.
One of said members drove the business end of a beam lance deep into a cyborg Triceratops. Lt. Tsubasa Yuuki didn't intend to die here. She then let loose with the hip mounted missile pods to make sure the mechasaurus was dead.
"Think she might last a while?" Ken asked Ryo.
"Perhaps," Ryo Magami remarked as he took over and opened fire on the cyborg Spinosaurus trying to sneak up on them. And then showing the Dinosaur Empire that the bottom of the ammo clips were razor sharp as Mazinkaiser SKL slashed the still organic eye on said Spinosaurus. There was a massive amount of blood from that spread everywhere.
Minerva X fired the breast missiles and in the cockpit Maria Fleed controlled the mech with the helmet she wore on her head and her telepathic powers. She looked at the Evangelion 08 and could feel something odd about the man inside it. Was he from another world? Or someone unique like so many she also worked with?
Given how much weirdness Londo Bell had seen she kind of wasn't sure exactly what it was or if it was a combination of things.
"Any idea when Shin Getter will be ready?" Major Kitamura asked Captain Bright.
"Unknown at this time," the experienced captain of the Macbeth admitted. "Doctor Saotome is rushing the process but who knows if they will show up."
"Probably with a last minute grand appearance," Kai remarked as they'd both seen plenty of those. He then introduced a cyborg Ceratosaurus to his personal trooper's shotgun.
Mechasaurus were not fond of the buckshot that said rifle had. Nor were they found of Great Mazinger using the thunder break attack on them.
The Big O fired out a massive energy blast at the mechasaurus army from its eyes. It still didn't seem to be enough as the Dinosaur Empire seemed to have an endless supply of cyborg dinosaurs. Then to Roger's surprise he found he had aerial support for a FLAG.
Graham had a determined look on his face as he took aerial mechasaurus forces out of the sky. He caught a few by surprise by transforming his FLAG into flight mode. Which while it wasn't hard with a variable fighter, with a FLAG doing that in a fight usually was considered completely insane. Graham Aker did it like it as easy as breathing.
The Nu Gundam was a near blur to the mechasaurus forces as it attacked. Amuro wondered if the Dinosaur Empire had a title for him like the Zeon forces calling him the White Devil. He then blasted a T-Rex with chainguns that was about to attack Harry's Rezel.
In his Tallgeese Preventer Wind(among other IDs he had) was glad he didn't have to fight Amuro Ray. A feeling that got deeper as the Nu Gundam unleashed its funnels and lot up close and personal with a swarm of Mechasaurus that were about to rush Getter Three. He then decided that Amuro shouldn't have all the fun and attacked with his heat rod and beam sabers.
Getter Three threw mechasaurus at the Tallgeese III. Metal and flesh didn't stand up to the melee weapons of the mobile suit.
While in the Arblade Ryusei Date was firing the G-Railgun and hoping he and the others were keeping the mechasaurus army contained. This city had enough problems as it was and didn't need an army of dinosaurs wrecking it to be added on top of that.
Ryusei was shocked when Gai took down a mechsaurus that had snuck up behind him. Gai confused Ryusei quite a bit in how he'd stab in the back someone that was a friend the day before if that was what his contract required. It made it hard to make of what the Serpent Tail leader would do each time you encountered him.
In his Evangelion Kaworu wondered why the dinosaurs hadn't died out. They and the demons were supposed to have their existence come to an end. Still it didn't stop him from cutting an Allosaurus's head off with his dual chainsaw. There were sparks and a burst of blood from the open wound. He then punt kicked the dead mechasaurus at his still living comrades.
Also something about this city was off to the Angel of Freewill. And he had no idea what exactly it was. Or if he really wanted to look all that close at it to be honest. He felt the same way about Getter Rays. Also there was just something about Mazinger Z that felt odd to him.
Kaworu then saw metal fists fly through the air and go through several mechasaurus. Mazinger Z if he was not mistaken. Or at least Mazinkaiser SKL.
He had been right the first time and Mazinger Z took the fight to the enemy and clearly was working towards the forward base of the Dinosaur Empire. Which everyone in Londo Bell was sure that Emperor Gore would be found.
Gai kept on surprising everyone by still giving cover fire to various Londo Bell units under attack with his Perfect Zeong. They weren't looking this gift horse in the mouth as they needed all the help they could get keeping Paradigm City from being turned into a forward base for the Dinosaur Empire. Especially help with a great deal of heavy firepower.
What the Alt Eisen's stake revolver did to a mechasaurus was extremely gory. Lt. Kyosuke Nanbu showed no expression on his face as a opened fire with his mech's autocannon at the cyborg SuperSaurus that was charging at him. He then fired his claymore missiles at the mechasaurus for good measure.
A massive foot then came down on the head and neck of the massive dinosaur. Megas gave the Alteisen a thumbs up. Kyosuke said nothing, but went back to work fighting off the invaders with a slight smile on his face.
Getter Three was busy slamming Mechasaurus troops into the ground, and firing Getter missiles. Musashi grinned as he got to show everyone what he could do. Ryoma and Hayato got to have all the fun and show off.
"Come and get it!" he called out defiantly.
"Oh they want to be friendly," Excellen remarked as she sniped several armored stegosauruses with chain guns and missile launchers that were charging at Getter 3.
"Friends we really don't need," Mu remarked as he used a beam rifle to help give Getter-3 some cover fire.
Sanger gutted a T-Rex and then fired off a blast from his mech's chest. "Forward!"
Boomerangs sliced through a Giganotosaurus as Honey Kisaragi used her Cutey Honey mech like she was born to do so.
Goat gave her a hand, and a cannon much like a certain custom Zaku II used. The tank cannon turned mobile suit gun worked like a charm on the mechasaurus forces. It also embarrassed Green Falcon squad a guy in a mobile suit made out of spare parts was doing better than them. Even if it had just before this battle been given a full armor upgrade like that Gundam number 7 the Junk Guild member had gotten his hands on was supposed to get.
"How is this happening? How can a pile of scrap driven by a junk yard owner do better than us?" Captain Scarlet groused as she used the rapier-like sword the Wingle had in one of the breasts to fight invading horde in the city. It cut through the metal and dinosaur flesh with ease.
Goat didn't hear her as he used the various sub generators and propellent tanks in the full armor add on to his still female shaped Darleen was not slower and less agile, but instead had more offensive power. It also didn't hurt Darleen also had a magnetic coating on the joints and motors. It was an underused way to increase the speed of a mobile suit and basically an experiment to see how effective it really was.
The mobile suit made of GM I, Zaku, Leo, and such parts actually was a decent custom mech that was everything the pilot wanted.
There was then a massive explosion as Megas blew a massive hole in the Dinosaur Empire's forward base with a left arm covered in beam weapons.
On said structure General Bat wondered how many that mech humanity had. One was more than enough in his taste. And he had no idea which of those units were single special units and which ones were mass produced at a glance.
The ones like that odd one with flame painted onto it however even to him seemed odd and he hoped that meant only one of them existed.
The structure then shook again as a large red mobile suit attacked it. Sayla, Kamile, and Amuro could instantly tell who the pilot of that mobile suit was. Or at least one of the two pilots.
"Getter Beam!"
Getter Queen was red...and white. Also it had a great deal of pink as well. Its attack with Getter Rays also was a devastating as that of the Getter unit to the Dinosaurs. They turned to puddles when hit by it.
And then a massive red unit known as a Nightingale opened fire on structure with a massive mega beam rifle. Sayla could feel that her brother was the pilot of that unit.
The second pilot of Getter Queen smiled and was glad to see Casval again after it had been too long apart for them.
Double Zeta then fired its head cannon at the Dinosaur Empire base. Inside it Judau was glad Coop and Lowe had managed to increase the power the Double Zeta had so it could stay in the fight after doing something like that.
"Getter change!" Musashi Tomoe called out and recombined the Getter jets into Getter One. "Let's Double Getter Beam them Michiru!"
"On it!" Michiru Saotome yelled as the two units started to glow at the their Getter Ray emitters.
"FIRE!" they both yelled as red beams slammed into the Dinosaur Empire structure.
Anything organic hit by the beams started melting like super heated cheese.
Then came Shin Getter One on massive black wings. Everyone knew it was a newer, meaner, and likely more powerful Getter.
In the cockpit Ryoma Nagare smiled like a shark that saw a crate full of baby sheep floating towards it.
He then called out "Stoner Sunshine!"
A massive ball of Getter energy formed in the hands of the mech, and then he hurled it at the Dinosaur Empire structure. A massive explosion rocked the city without memories. They likely weren't going to forget about that memory.
The effect of the attack made anyone even thinking questioning the name of the attack silent. Even Musashi looked impressed by the attack.
There was a crater in the ground where the Dinosaur Empire forward base used to be. Everyone was sure General Bat and Emperor Gore got out of there while the getting was good. As did Gai Murakumo in his Perfect Zeong as the massive mobile suit was gone as well.
"You're not dead?" Hayato Jin then asked in surprise seeing the original Getter was still functional. A rather battered and with some parts of the internal structure visible in a few spots but still able to fight.
"I had good help," Musashi remarked. "Still I'd drag all those dinosaurs to hell if I had to!"
"We're sure you would," Ryoma commented with amusement.
"And probably need to eat while you were dragging them," Hayato half joked as it seemed every time they launched for battle Musashi was eating.
"Hey I get hungry," Musashi shot back.
"Like Coop," Hayato remarked. "Or Koji."
Nearly everyone got a laugh out of that.
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In the depths of Albania Lord Voldemort or Tom Riddle as was his birth name did feel good. The body he'd managed to possess was starting to go bad for reasons beside his possessing it. He had no idea what they were as even the force fighting the threat didn't know the cause of the Mimentic Beasts as they called them.
But now the cruel and sadistic sorcerer was in a time bomb, and one almost ready to go off.
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Chapter notes
Mu La Flaga is an ace pilot nicknamed "The Hawk of Endyimon" and also a newtype. Not sure how he was one in the Cosmic Era universe, but he was. In this universe he pilots a REZEL Commander Type.
The country of Riksent is from Super Robot Wars OG and ruled by royalty that can see the future to some degree. The current Princess is the strongest one of those they have had in a long time.
Gekiganger III is from Martian Successor Nadeciso and is a "show within a show" that is a giant robot anime. Not sure how giant robot animes are still popular when they are a real thing, but it is a cult favorite. And also the basis of the society of the Jovian Lizards. And in the show they watch Martian Successor Nadeciso. Yeah it's kind of weird.
Banblade is another mecha anime show, but this one is from Super Robot Wars OG. Ryusei Date is a fan of this show.
"Let's Genki On!" is a catchphrase from Gekiganger III.
Major Gilliam Yeager was seen in the last chapter and is a reality hopping man who has gone by many names and been a villain and hero. He was a member of the Aggressors with various other people who have been introduced in the story, and one who has yet to show up. He's also a government intelligence agent so it makes sense he'd know of at least Ryoji Kaji.
Ryoji Kaji is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and he is a secret agent who frankly I doubt anyone but himself knows exactly who he is working for. Also not exactly in a healthy mental place however much he hides it from everyone. Something that applies to most people that work for NERV to be honest.
Asuka is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is the pilot of Evangelion-02. Like everyone at NERV she's a total mess with a very massive ego. It covers up her own fragile sense of self worth. Also takes personally people not thinking her production Evangelion is the best. In a universe filled with Super Robots it really is not.
Coop is from Megas XLR and all the stuff talked about by Kaji and Gilliam happened in various episodes of the show.
Ryusei Date is from Super Robot Wars OG and is a fanboy of giant robots (Super Robots especially) turned mech pilot. He wishes to help people but has learned war is more than what they show in his animes. He also is a member of the SRX team.
Kamile Bidan is from Zeta Gundam and yes that is his real name. A newtype like Amuro and Char and not a man to make fun for his name. He is a man and he'll prove it with his fists if he has to.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is the pilot of the mech the anime is named after and probably can match Coop blow for blow on eating, is a badass and calls out his attack names. He is one of the elder statesmen of giant robot pilots and Mazinger Z is one of the trinity for Super Robot Wars. Getter Robo and Gundam are the other two.
Char or Quattro Bajeena or Casval Deikum is from the original Gundam series and one of the last men anyone should want to fight. He also seems to inspire strong feelings in girls much younger than him. Though that has turned sour on him and that wasn't a good thing for anyone.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo and yes he can remove parts of people's faces like that with his fingers. Getter pilots were not hired for their sanity.
Musashi Tomoe is also a Getter pilot however he was originally created for the anime which was no where near as dark as the original manga. Hence why he's not a deranged psychotic killing machine like Hayato and Ryoma are.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars OG and is a bubbly and playful woman who is also an extremely good sniper with her own personal mech. She also is a member of the ATX team.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo and yes he has shattered dinosaur skulls with his fists. And is a martial artist and killing machine.
Paradigm City, Roger Smith, Dorothy R. Wainright, Big O, and Beck are from the anime Big O. Which had a series ending that made everyone's belief that 40 years ago something removed everyone's memories not true.
Gai Murakumo is from Gundam SEED Astray and is the leader of the mercenary group Serpent Tail. As said above his loyalty is to who is signing his paychecks and will stab in the back someone who yesterday was an ally to him. He is a Combat Coordinator and escaped from that project.
Liberian Works is a group that can make clones of people if they have enough combat data. They also have incredibly advanced technology to alter a human body and no one knows exactly what their endgoals are.
Dinosaur Empire is from Getter Robo and they are one of the main villains for the Getter team. And yes this is basically
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is the pilot of Evangelion 08...and also the Angels. So there's a good reason Harry should have this feeling there is something not right about the guy. And yes a dual chainsaw was a weapon planned for the Rebuild movies, but it was used in one of the mangas by Eva-08 so it definitely got included for this story.
Ken and Ryo are of course Ken Kaido and Ryo Magami from Mazinkaiser SKL.
Zombie GM is the name of the completely fucked condition the main character of the One Year War set Gundam manga We are Federation Hooligans left his mechs in. He was a professional boxer before becoming a mech pilot and used his boxing style of making blows nonfatal and blunting their damage. So his mobile suits despite looking like being only good for scrap metal actually still were working.
Captain Scarlet Hibiki is the commanding officer of Ken and Ryo. Not that means much as usually anyone working with the pair end up dead one way or another. In fact in Mazinkaiser SKL one of the Green Falcon Squad refers to them all as redshirts. She survives the Mazinkaiser SKL manga.
Graham Aker is from Gundam 00 and given the heroes of that series are well terrorists to be honest makes Graham one of the few people from the show able to work with Londo Bell. He's an elite pilot in a mech that is greatly outgunned by the Celestial Being Gundams and he still manages to give them a run for their money. Mechasaurus troops are not in the CB forces league.
Amuro Ray is of course from Mobile Suit Gundam and the original pilot of a Gundam. He has the nickname the White Devil and is one of the last people you'd want to get into a mech with.
Sayla is of course Sayla Mass and also from Mobile Suit Gundam and Char's sister. She might not have quite the reputation Amuro and Char have, but still you won't want to mess with her.
Jun Huno is from Great Mazinger and not someone to take lightly.
Cybuster and Masaki Andoh are from Super Robot Wars OG.
Raidiese "Rai" Branstein is from Super Robot Wars OG, and part of the SRX team. The team has three combining mechs. Well if they weren't in the shop. He did lose a hand piloting a Huckebein (re Gundam replacement for the Super Robot Wars OG material) in what was termed the Vanishing Trooper Incident. So yeah he's not really keen on piloting another one of those.
Boss and the Boss Borot are from Mazinger Z. A robot literally built out of scrap metal, but one Lowe has worked his magic on to improve. Exactly how much he has improved it is unknown.
Aya Kobayashi is another member of the SRX team. Normally she is in the R-3 but for this she is driving the Hyperion from the various Gundam SEED Astray mangas.
Mari Illustrious Makinami is from Rebuild of Evangelion and frankly is Ryoma Nagare with a candy covering.
Major Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is the Blade that Severs Evil! Also called the Blade that Pierces Evil as there's exactly a 100 percent concrete translation of a lot of this stuff to English.
Lt. Tsubasa Yuuki is a member of Green Falcon Squad and the only survivor of it in the Mazinkaiser SKL anime.
Minerva-X is from Mazinger Z. Well this version and it being piloted by Maria Fleed is actually from the manga Mazinger Angels. That manga and its follow up Mazinger Angels Z is a major influence on this fanfic.
Major Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars OG.
Captain Noah Bright is from Mobile Suit Gundam and been captain of many ships. Here he is skipper of the Londo Bell ship the MacBeth.
Preventer Wind aka Zechs Marquise aka Milliardo Peacecraft from Gundam Wing and the Char clone of that show. Here he is the Preventer liaison for Londo Bell and of course takes part in combat alongside them.
Lt. Kyosuke Nanbu is a member of the ATX team and pilots the Alt Eisen. He is stoic, but a gambler and always willing to take the long odds. Not a man to get on the bad side of as he will end you.
Honey Kisaragi is from Cutey Honey and in Mazinger Angels piloted a Cutey Honey mech. So yeah she's here.
Goat is from Megas XLR and his mech is the previously mentioned Darleen 2.0. Plus it seems his mech has a full armor mode based off the 7th Gundam's proposed but never made full armor mode. Also it has magnetic coating of the joints and motors like Gundam "Alex" and the main unit of 7th Gundam (the full armor and other add-ons never got to production for it).
Getter Queen and Michiru Saotome are from Getter Robo, and the mysterious second pilot of Getter Queen is from Gundam.
Mimentic Beasts are from Godannar.