As Harry laid in his bed he found it interesting how he was so good at activities he'd never imagined he'd do. Like flying a broom, playing seeker, slaying a giant snake that had death vision, and now piloting a giant robot. It made him wonder what else he could do well if he put his mind to it.
"I wonder if I should take up playing an instrument or maybe try my hand at painting," Harry mused as he petted Snuffles. "I mean I seem to learn how to do things pretty quickly and might be fun."
Sure he didn't consider himself some elite mech ace, but he'd heard of pilots who had far rougher starts as pilots. Judau Ashta's start was called even by himself to be embarrassing as he had his mobile suit flail about wildly all over the place.
On the other hand he'd been trying to pilot Zeta Gundam and that suit was set up to Kamile Bidan's personal tastes and preferences. Which definitely were unique and hard for anyone else to use. Harry did not look forward to seeing if he could do a better job trying to get Zeta Gundam going.
There was Hikaru Ichigo who had trashed a lot of vehicles. Due to the ship Hikaru was the skipper of vanishing into the depths of space there was a lot of money going around that they'd find the Megaroad got crashed somewhere thanks to him.
And there was Coop. The grandmaster of destruction either on purpose or by accident. To the point a team of superheroes called S-Force thought he was a villain because of the property damage he caused. There also was that time he dumped giant aliens that had been kept in a video game like device into the ocean.
So Harry was glad he avoided getting that sort of reputation. In fact he relished among Londo Bell he really didn't have any sort of reputation whatsoever. It sounded rather embarrassing to be honest.
Hedwig barked.
"I hope you are ok staying in this space ship all the time," Harry said to his snowy owl.
The owl looked almost annoyed with him, but that was it.
"I'm sorry I can't have you going around, but it this ship seems to be going around the planet and I don't know where I'll be next," Harry admitted.
Hedwig flew over and Harry had to get up and get his owl's favorite. It was rats and not bacon like some oddly believed. Harry would never try giving bacon to his pet as owls were not made to eat that.
Harry kept checking to make sure none of the rats were missing a toe as he really won't want to accidentally feed Scabbers to Hedwig. He knew that as much as Ron complained he did care about his pet. And given people had owls and cats as pets he wondered why anyone would want to take a rat to Hogwarts.
He also mused that dogs should be on the list as cats, toads, and owls won't eat dogs. At least not most breeds of dogs. It'd have to be a small breed of dog to be unsafe at Hogwarts with the cats and owls.
"Man my mind goes weird places," Harry muttered. And part of him wondered if Hogwarts would have been better if instead of having to fight giant snakes or possessed professors he could talk with Ron and the others about things like if dogs should be a pet at Hogwarts or what foreign dishes should be on the menu.
Harry wondered if he'd be a seer wondering what it'd be this school year he had to deal with. It always seemed to be something. He laughed imaging it'd be that Shu guy Masaki talked about having an alchemist showdown with Dumbledore. It would have to be an impressive sight and hopefully not involve him at all.
That made Harry wonder if he should tell the others about Hogwarts as they knew that one guy was an alchemist and they didn't really seem to care. Or the fact there were a pair of talking cats. Or the fact they fought an army of cyborg dinosaurs a few days ago. Or a lot of other strange things they had seen or battled.
A school of magic probably won't be that out there for them. Though Hogwarts was definitely not ready for a visit by people that were part of Londo Bell.
They were kind of crazy. Even by the standards of 'the greatest school of magic" which Harry really hoped wasn't true. As by his experiences he was wondering what the other schools could be if that was the truth.
Frankly it kind of scared him the nightmares the other schools had to be if Hogwarts was the best. And Harry wondered what those other schools were called and where he'd actually find that information.
It made Harry wonder if he was going to the Hogwarts Trade School of Magic as he didn't know anything really beyond Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, and the Burrow. He found that rather annoying. He wasn't expecting to know everything, but that was a rather limited. Painfully limited.
It made him wonder what he should know, but had no idea about because it seemed actually preparing Hogwarts students or telling them about the Wizarding World was too difficult for them.
Harry realized he'd had more time to think and ponder things on a starship between fights in an irregular military unit than he did at Hogwarts or when he was at the Dursleys. Once more Harry had to admit to himself his life was really weird when that was more peaceful for him and gave him time to be introspective.
He kind of looked forward to talking about this with Hermione. It'd at least be an interesting discussion. And that Ron probably won't have a leg to stand on in that conversation.
Harry then winced as he recalled his best friend wasn't even trying to live up to the goals he said he saw in the Mirror of Erised. Which left the Boy-Who-Lived at a loss as to how to get Ron on track with them. Of course the last school year they had so much happening to keep him from even trying to make Ron hit the books harder.
Plus Harry had lessons in even more so how useless Hogwarts teachers were in his second year there. The Chamber of Secrets thing and the monster he could understand to a point they had no idea so they were kind of lost and had even less free time than he did.
No, it was the fact they did nothing to help him when he could speak to snakes and everyone believed him to be the heir. Nothing to help him or that they didn't believe he did it or anything like that. And his house being his family was a complete joke and not a funny one either. By the definition of family the only one he had that he liked and to any degree trusted was Londo Bell. Harry had to admit he really hadn't had much luck on that regard.
Harry sometimes wondered how his coming to them appeared to the teachers. Was it as strange as it was to him? That they appeared to be useless or to simply get in the way. He was pretty sure Hayato would simply kill people that got in his way like that.
Harry went back to petting Snuffles. "Man I'd love to have a parental figure that cared. As it seems at Hogwarts if you don't have one they let people do anything to you."
Sirius had this feeling getting Harry to live with him would be insanely easy. And more and more that he was going to be really angry with Dumbledore and the others. As in trying to ram them with his motorcycle at full speed level angry.
Harry then looked through his trunk for something. It took a great deal of digging but he found it. Where he wrote down Hermione's e-mail address. Harry smiled as now he could e-mail Hermione as much as he wanted. And that was something he wished to do.
V-V-V
It was remarkably quick how Harry's e-mail to Hermione had gone from Hermione to Tonks and printed out for Dumbledore to read. And for it to confirm for Dumbledore that trying to get Harry removed from where he was a bad idea.
Albus knew that the group of irregulars that Harry was with at the moment were the kind to react to people appearing out of nowhere on their ship violently. Some especially violently and likely fatal to anyone that really annoyed them.
The good news was that Harry wished to go back to Hogwarts in the fall. He had no desire to stop his education, or let the current situation change that in the slightest. Though if what Harry had faced was normal he was going to go far beyond even the most out there Boy Who Lived adventure novel.
Not that it would stop the plans to take Harry back by force. Things had gone too far for a peaceful resolution with one very stubborn mind made up.
Albus didn't want think about the disaster he'd have to clean up as trying to take Harry away from his comrades and likely Cornelius being physically beaten at best. The worse case would be far worse and final than that.
It was likely something that would bring the Wizard World attention from the Terran League. The Statue of Secrecy likely would not stand up to such a close look.
Dumbledore feared it would lead to a group like Blue Cosmos after them. And seeing what magic vs. mecha would be like. A nightmare to end all nightmares would be unleashed on the Earth.
And all because Cornelius would want his glory and appearance of doing something!
V-V-V
Gendo Ikari, supreme commander of NERV, had a problem. Right as the time of trials would begin there was the Gundam Fight in his city. Which was something he considered one of the last things he needed as an annoyance.
When the VR simulation Burning PT wasn't enough there was the Gundam Fight which was to him a massive waste of resources with custom giant robots used to fight each other in cities and other places.
Though there was that 'village' in the Siberian Wastes designed to capture the mechs for study. Gendo found that made sense. Frankly it was the only element of the whole thing that made any sense to him about the Gundam Fight.
That they were able to legally do the whole tournament surprised Gendo. After all they had giant robots fight each other in populated cities. The Supreme Commander of NERV also hoped that the so called Master Asia and his student Domon Kasshu stayed far away from Tokyo-3 as their feats might cause MAGI to blow out something. The human body should not be able to do the insane things they were able to do!
MAGI literally was unable to predict what Londo Bell or their allies were going to do with all the x-factors they made. Something he was sure the military forces were aware of. And likely wanted to enjoy that group confounding someone else for a change. It didn't help matters when the closest military base to Tokyo-3 was used by Londo Bell fairly often, and considered by many the unit's Earth based headquarters.
Reportedly only Admiral Koichiro could read the Londo Bell after action reports and not get a massive headache. Hence why he was put in charge of Londo Bell.
Gendo was sure he'd be forced to deal with insane amounts of red tape after Sachiel hit Toyko-3, and Evangelion-01 would go on a rampage. Both events were vital to his plans, but he was sure any measure of independence he'd have from the military would involve paperwork and reports from Londo Bell. With he was sure forces working to tie NERV to Londo Bell as one of the associates of it like the Space Knights, Novice Noah, Preventers, and WSO. Plus Photon Power Labs, Saotome Labs, and such were allied with Londo Bell to make all the oddball forces that weren't mercenaries like Serpent Tail or SMS into effectively one force that could be watched and kept under control. Though Gendo wasn't sure where the League Militaire stood with them as Anaheim Electronics controlled them and they worked with anyone with the money to pay for their equipment.
If it didn't involve stepping into his domain even lightly he'd approve of keeping the various super robot forces, esoteric organizations, and ace pilots under a watchful eye and lumped together to keep from causing even more chaos and insanity.
But it did step into his plans and he didn't like that. And there was the fact he doubted the Old Men had a hand in it at all. Or cared that dinosaurs would disagree with them over what killed off most of their species.
The world had gotten a lot weirder since the start of the creation of the Evangelions. And likely even more than even the super robot fanboy Dr. Bian Zoldack would predicted or even wanted deep down. When your password was something from a giant robot anime and customized a giant robot for your daughter it was clear you wanted life to be like a giant robot show.
To say nothing of the fact the man helped fund work on a mech that could shoot black holes. Which if Gendo was honest didn't worry him nearly as much as the pilot of Granzon did. Su Shirakawa was incredibly intelligent, playing his game plan, and seemed able to read people and situations with a speed and ability that would make Sherlock Holmes green with envy.
'The things I have to put up to be reunited with Yui,' Gendo thought to himself. The insane tactics of idealists, psychopaths, Shu Shirakawa, Sanger Zonvolt, an overweight walking tidal wave of chaos, and moralistic heroes that he knew won't follow any plans was going to be really annoying.
Gendo made a note to keep the First Child away from these people. He didn't need her picking up weird habits from those people and they get copied into her memory back ups. Much like he worked to keep the First Child away from those plates, Grand Chers, and anything related to Orphan.
It won't surprise him if Orb's leader was willing to put aside his pacifistic ways and develop mecha of some kind to deal with the fact that the Orphan was very close to his island nation. A supposed ruins that were rumored to lead to doomsday for mankind kind of changed a person's opinion on weapons of war.
Also having the SDF-1 originally found its parking space on the Earth by that nation and the mess that happened after that also likely influenced that decision as well. That an island was ripped from the face of the Earth right next to Orb caused massive amounts of damage.
And Gendo had a feeling all of this would merely be the sort of insanity he was in for with Londo Bell around. He already loathed this situation.
V-V-V
"Leave it to Coop to find an ancient killing machine," Excellen remarked.
"It wasn't like we went out of our way to find it!" Jamie said defensively. Not that anyone really believed Jamie on that.
"Coop can't you even go on vacation without getting into trouble?!" Jun Huno asked as Londo Bell had scrambled to deal with a transformable killer robot with less processing power than their cellphones.
"Not really I guess," Coop admitted as R.E.C.R. considered them all to be like everything else his enemy.
"You're going to the scrapyard!" Ken Kaido called out to the big green robot with his usual psychotic smile on his face.
"We need to keep this away from the cities," Mu La Flaga called out in his Rezel Commander Type. "Only a moron would want to take a giant mech fight out of the desert and into a populated area."
"Hey even I don't want to wreck Vegas," Coop remarked as he fired his freeze ray at R.E.C.R.
"Stay focused people," Sanger ordered.
They all kept their distance from the power draining mech, and the Getter team kept from firing Getter Rays at it as they really didn't want to see if it could power itself on them. Or see if it liked being hit with lightning from a Thunder Break.
Kai Kitamura opened fire on the green robot with his Gespenst's shotgun. It seemed kinetic energy didn't count as absorbable by the rampaging mechanoid.
"You are all the enemy and therefore need to be destroyed!' R.E.C.R. stated as he didn't seem to even notice or care about the damage the buckshot had done to his armored exterior.
"He has a one track mind," Hayato Jin remarked.
"We break him into small enough parts and we'll be fine," Koji Kabuto commented.
"My kind of plan," Mari called out as she got into position to fire at the crude AI. She preferred getting close and personal with her foes, but she also preferred them to not be piece of junk robot either. It just wasn't as fun when they were robots and they didn't have any organic being of some kind driving them.
The VF-25G Messiah's SSL-9B Dragunov sniper rifle put a good sized hole into R.E.C.R. Mari grinned in a nearly Getter pilot style as she found that kind of fun. At least it was fun against tin cans like she was fighting.
Boss then took it as his time to shine as he shoved a fist of the Boss Borot into the hole. There was a groaning of metal. R.E.C.R. tried to get energy from the Boss Borot but it didn't have anything suitable.
The damaged robot managed to get out of Boss Borot's grasp,but the even bigger hole Boss left it was visible to all.
"Open Gate!' Ryoma called out and the Getter jets merged into Getter 2.
Hayato grinned psychotically and drove the massive drill arm into R.E.C.R. Metal was ground up and a thick black smoke came out of the processor of R.E.C.R. The drill was pulled out and then shoved right into that to make sure.
Sanger then beheaded the robot with his massive sword. Ken Kaido grinned ferally and shoved Mazinkaiser SKL's sword into the robot a few times as well.
Mari shot it a few more times with her sniper rifle. No one wanted this thing getting back up again. Harry and Mu helped out by using their grenade launchers on the prone robot. THey also didn't want this thing getting up ever again.
"So who wants to go on vacation in Vegas?" Coop asked as the wrecked green robot was left in the desert.
"Don't we have to follow a lot of things for getting shore leave?" Harry asked.
"Everyone in the command staff is kind of use to us doing weird things," Mu admitted to Harry. "And probably also consider this keeping an eye on Coop."
"I already asked and gained permission," Kiva spoke up. "As I had a feeling something like this would happen."
Harry figured you didn't have to be a seer to know Coop got into trouble, and called in for backup when he needed it. He then grinned as it'd be fun to tell Hermione about visiting Las Vegas.
After they left they had no idea that people working for Rondo Gina Sahaku quickly loaded up the fallen robot and took it for study. The robot's ability to absorb energy was very interesting to them. Perhaps it could be useful for the other projects the family was funding.
V-V-V
Harry grinned as Las Vegas was a lot of fun. He couldn't gamble but he was able to enjoy the cheap food, theme park rides the various hotels had, visiting art museums with Captain Aya Kobayashi, and other such things being offered. It was things he never had gotten to experience before and he was loving it. So that he was unable to gamble was not an issue for him at all.
Plus Kyosuke Nanbu was doing pretty good at the gambling anyway. Seemed he always was good at playing the long odds.
Harry was surprised when a spacy looking blonde girl sat next to him as he watched Koji and Coop get their money's worth for an all you can eat buffet. And Coop probably showing why he was Lord of the Big Pants. Frankly Harry rather call Coop Lord due to that than call Riddle a lord.
"Hello Harry Potter," she said and Harry was shocked anyone here knew who he was.
"Umm...hi," Harry stated. "Don't expect to see people that knew of me here."
The girl smiled at him. "Daddy and I came to see if the alchemist singer Elvis was around. Just impersonators to be found. Guess he really did end up in a retirement home and fight a mummy."
Harry blinked as he wasn't sure what the proper response to that was. After a moment something came to him.
"And you are?" he asked.
"Oh I forgot to introduce myself," she said. "I'm Luna Lovegood."
"Nice to meet you," Harry said as he figured that worked. And realized he really needed to get to learn who was at Hogwarts better. He barely knew people in his year and below him in his own house. And others that made themselves hard to forget.
"Ravenclaw a year behind you," she then said as she could tell he had no idea who she was.
"I need to interact with more people," Harry admitted. "I'm in town with my military unit and we're on shore leave/expecting Coop to get into even more trouble again."
"What military unit?" Luna inquired. "And aren't you a bit young for that?"
"Well it's Londo Bell and to be honest I'm not sure what is or isn't normal half the time anymore," Harry shrugged. "They pretty much have the rank of volunteer ensign for people like me that seems to work. I also seem to be cutting it as a mobile suit pilot."
Harry then blinked and saw an oddly dressed man in robes. "And is that your father?"
Luna nodded and answered his unasked question. "In Vegas so many people dress different that no one notices or cares what you wear."
"They just look a little warm for this place," Harry told her.
"Those are daddy's robes that are designed to absorb sweat and keep him cool," Luna grinned.
Harry then noticed Luna's father was taking to Masaki...and also Kuro and Shiro. That surprised Harry far less than the fact Masaki managed to end up the same place everyone else had for lunch.
There also was a blue haired woman that got an autograph from Major Kitamura and was going around trying to get them from everyone else. Harry figured she was a fangirl of Londo Bell or something. It was something that kind of surprised Harry, but getting fans for being a mech pilot was better than for something he didn't remember doing. Or who knows what happened that Halloween.
Harry took a look at what Luna was wearing and it was interesting. Even by the standards of the people he knew. A t-shirt so orange that Ron would love it, aquamarine pants, little bright green Gundam head plastic earrings, and the weirdest pair of red shades he had ever seen.
"There were a pair of orange sunglasses but they didn't look like me," Luna said as she put her hands together in a pose.
Harry wasn't sure how there wasn't a professor besides Lockhart with melted brains if this was normal for Luna. Or Hermione as he was sure his friend won't be able to take this for long without something having to give.
The Boy-Who-Lived kind of liked it. She wasn't boring and acting like he was either a golden savior or a Dark Lord.
It was refreshing and given what his coworkers were it wasn't as out there as it could be to him. Harry hadn't even met the other Londo Bell ship captains and whatever mech crews they had. Or even most of the associates of Londo Bell.
All Harry could figure was that pretty much everyone that was part of Londo Bell and worked closely with them was unique and irregular. And he was sure the admiral in charge was different from the norm as well. Though he hadn't met or heard of who that admiral was, but there was no way they'd be normal.
It actually kind of comforted Harry quite a bit as it meant he had a place he belonged. That that place was with crazy mech pilots he wasn't sure what that said about him. Perhaps that he was a hero or maybe he was crazy. Or both.
"As long as you are happy with those glasses," Harry then stated. "And is there is something on my face?"
Luna appeared to be looking him slightly to the side.
She just smiled at him, and Harry wasn't sure what to make of that.
He just shrugged and wondered if the others would joke he got a girlfriend faster than Jamie could. The man just had no luck with girls. Even Goat had way better luck from what they said, and pictures of that Ultra-Cadet he took out to see a movie.
Though given how the Ultra-Cadets and Londo Bell met made him wonder how they had heard of Coop but none of the Macross fleets or Earth's other famous pilots. Still he heard now they kept in touch with Londo Bell in case of another disaster.
Harry then turned his head and noticed Luna was keeping a close eye on Kaworu. Maybe she had the same sense he had about there being something about that guy. Something that Harry wasn't sure what it was.
And that Luna also kept a close eye on Excellen Browning as well. Someone else that Harry just had this weird feeling about.
It made Harry feel slightly better about having those feelings about the two. Feelings of what he couldn't quite put into words. With him not sure why he had those feelings about those two.
Harry then got handed a piece of paper with Luna's e-mail address on it. He smiled and then wrote down his e-mail address on a napkin.
"Thanks," Harry told her. "Though too bad I can't e-mail Ron. Somehow I think even explaining e-mail to him would require several hours and a lot of things before even getting to it."
Luna shrugged. "Yes I know how Ronald can be. I'm friends with Ginny and live close to them."
"Really?" Harry said surprised. "I won't have minded meeting various neighbors around the Burrow last summer as long as it wasn't to just stare at my forehead and treat me like I was some new conversation piece."
"Oh my father and I were out most of last summer," Luna explained.
Harry picked up no mention of Luna's mother and didn't pry. He had a feeling it was something to just leave alone. If Luna wanted to talk about then she would.
"So any idea if Koji or Coop will win?" Harry asked to change the subject. "Jamie has told me overeating just makes Coop less hungry and I'm also told Koji is a glutton."
Luna pondered that. It was an interesting question as both men had piles of plates around them now and their friends cheering them on.
"They certainly are evenly matched," Luna mused.
"That they are," Harry grinned. He wondered if anyone of his team mates were betting on this. And who Lt. Nanbu would put his money on. That probably would be the actual winner of this contest.
"One takes a strong stomach to watch this," Rai commented and Harry wondered how long he had been there.
"We both know a big eater," Harry admitted. "One of my friends."
"Though I am sure Ronald would love to try being Lord of the Big Pants," Luna grinned.
Harry also grinned at the mental image of Ron trying his hand at chess tournaments and at speed eating contests. He knew his friend would enjoy those a great deal.
"That level?" Rai asked as there were stacked plates all around Coop and Koji now.
"Probably not Coop's level," Harry admitted. Thank Merlin for that as the pilot of Megas didn't appear to be stopping any time soon.
"I think Coop is in a class all his own," Rai mused. "Thankfully."
"Even I can't eat that much," Musashi noted as he'd been just enjoying some food at the table next to the one Harry and Luna were using.
Then came something that made Koji and Coop stop cold in their tracks in eating. Kusuha Mizuha walking into the buffet with what looked like several water bottles full of a health drink. Harry figured he had to do it given after skelegrow it was hard for her feared drinks to top that in foul and terrible taste.
Harry walked over to Kusuha. "I'll try one of those."
The rest of Londo Bell looked like Harry said he'd eat a handgrenade. They all had a feeling that might taste better. Even the fangirl getting their autographs had a similar expression and clearly had heard of the infamous health drinks.
Kusuha smiled hearing that and handed Harry one of the water bottles. Harry drank it.
Harry later would admit that was a mistake. And it tasted like he drank grass. At least at first and then it got bad. Extremely bad.
Harry wasn't sure what happened next as he then blacked out with shouts sounding like they were far off in the distance.
V-V-V
"Ugggggggggggggggg," Kei Katsuragi groaned as he tried to figure out what he did last night. And then had the realization that he hadn't been drinking or picking up ladies last night. He'd been on a mission.
And the reality altering bomb he'd been making work had gone off in his face! Oops. Which made Kei really hope all evidence of that was gone as he was to stand down before that would mean he'd get court martialed. Plus also was really embarrassing and something he never wanted to get out.
"Ok next time I'm told a bomb is busted I won't look it over and try to make it work," Kei muttered as he sat up.
He then wondered where he was. The room he was in screamed wealth and expensiveness.
"Ah Mr. Katsuragi," Kei heard behind him and turned to see a well dressed man with purple hair. Hair about the same shade of purple as Kei's.
"Umm...hi," Kei said not sure what else to say. As he was sure the guy wasn't behind him when he looked around.
"Oh where are my manners...I am Klein Sandman and welcome to my humble castle," the very hammy man called out.
"Castle?!" Kei said in surprise and soon got to see his host had tons of maids. What his girlfriend Tina didn't know won't hurt him.
Klein smiled and wondered exactly how his guest would take being twenty years out of time. And the father of a young woman.
Though he also wondered what was keeping his brother in law. He seemed to be running late. Not that having more time to prepare was a bad thing at all, but he had a feeling Hyugi ran into the Radam's staging ground in this system.
Beings able to shoot antimatter blasts would slow down any invading fleet that had the misfortune of running into them. It'd be more amusing to Klein if it wasn't merely two feral dogs fighting over the same bone.
Plus that cyborg and his annoying cabal with their 'Time of Trials' utter nonsense about to start as well. Such a petty little group. One would think they wanted to have their "pawn" beat them. Or they thought they could turn his killing them into part of their becoming gods.
However that still was better than the Reclaimers. Klein was prepared to have a swarm of psychologists go down to Orphan if need be to deal with that disaster in the making. There was enough work to be done already thank you and breeding ground of crazy didn't need to add to it. Klein doubted if anyone actually told the Reclaimers that it would go over well.
Klein did have to admit to himself that humans would scavenge and try to get working any starship that landed on the planet was a bit amusing. Though Orphan and a Supervision Army gunboat were not what he expected to find a parking space on the Earth. However that Meteor 3 as they called it was something he expected.
However the use of the technology in it in a way to minimize the devastation in the Vanishing Trooper Incident and yet make it seem like humans had blindly used it was a very big surprise.
'Still that is what makes this planet so much fun,' Klein thought with a smile.
V-V-V
Harry came to hearing "And he literally drank those of those things?! Willingly?!"
"Yeah we can't believe he did that," Harry heard Ryusei Date comment.
Ryusei really wondered how anyone could even think of drinking his friend's health drinks. Then again he also was the first person to ever have had to try one of those unholy things. And they hadn't gotten better since then. They probably had gotten even worse as time went on to be honest.
Harry then managed to sit up and saw a wide array of expressions. Shock, horror, awe, and more.
Though Harry wasn't sure it was all for him or the fact that Luna was sniffing one of those 'health drinks".
Sanger snatched the bottle for her hand. "You do not want to drink that foul concoction."
Harry chuckled softly. "Yeah it tastes really bad."
Everyone who had the misfortune of drinking one of those health drinks shivered and wonder how Kusuha could not get those things took down nearly everyone who drank them. With the few it didn't being special in some manner.
"So you feeling alright?" Mu asked. "No longer feeling crazy?"
"Even I think what you did was insane," Ryoma admitted.
"Well I don't intend to do that again," Harry said and looked to see where he was.
It was the sickbay on the Macbeth. He was surprised that Luna had come with him to it.
"She wants a La Gias mech," Sanger noted sounding like he really didn't want her anywhere near Londo Bell's usual madness.
"I always wanted to ride in a spirit powered mech," Luna admitted.
"Not sure how she knows about La Gias," Mu shrugged. It was less a matter of it being secret as it was that the place tended to give the brass headaches when it came up.
Snuffles then leaped into Harry's bed.
"Ok I'll not drink things that scare everyone," Harry said as the dog had a worried expression. Snuffles seemed to be a very expressive in emotions dog.
"And we're sure it still won't sink into her how bad those things are," Ryoma sighed. "I mean one of those things managed to take down Coop!"
Harry blinked as that said a lot given the things Coop had eaten and kept going. Ryusei looked sheepish. He never imagined his long time friend could create things that could be classified as weapons when they were younger. Now it seems to be something she did easily. Frighteningly easy.
"So how long was I out?" Harry then asked. "And anything crazy happen?"
"About that…." Mu said with a nervous laugh.
"What happened?" Harry asked a bit sharply. With this bunch it could be anything.
"That is an interesting story," Ryusei admitted.
"What. Happened."
"They asked Daddy about Hogwarts," Luna told him. "Not by name but wondering about the boarding school we went to."
"Oh boy….." Harry sighed as he was sure they'd believe it and had seen enough weird things to not discount magic out of hand.
"It won't be the first time we encountered magic," Ryoma admitted. "Not after that time Coop got a video game that sent us into that dimension."
"And that is why the King Sccasher game is not to be used ever again," Sanger said sounding slightly amused. "No matter how much the Lovegoods want to explore the Hara-Hara World it is a gateway to."
Harry saw Luna pout at that. He wondered if she had heard about that game and other world long before now or not.
"And why most admirals won't want to get our reports," Ryusei said with a shrug. "Well that the whole Bryson's Well incident."
"There's a lot of stuff that you guys have done that I need to read about isn't there?" Harry asked surprised at how it seemed Londo Bell was topping even him in crazy experiences.
"Yeah pretty much," Ryoma remarked.
"Still it has explained what that unknown substance in your blood is," Sanger admitted. "That is dealing with the snake venom that should have killed you painfully in a minute."
Harry realized these people and the rest of Londo Bell probably were the closest thing he had to peers. And that likely learning all this will not really change things much as he doubted they'd look at him any differently.
He found he really liked that feeling. That he was just Harry, that guy who piloted a Rezel, to them. And it made him smile thinking about having one of these guys sign his permission forms. Sure beat having to try to get his aunt or uncle to sign them.
Harry then frowned as that reminded him of his family being dead. He felt bad about how much he liked that his life had gotten better with them dead. Did that make him a bad person for feeling that way? Or just made him human?
"Nice job," Ryoma said and got Harry out of his thoughts. "On the giant snake."
"Thanks," Harry replied as he was sure Ryoma was being sincere on that.
"Of course if I had to put up with the same shit they gave you I'd have smashed some heads in," Ryoma remarked.
Harry had a feeling Luna told them everything. And that she knew a great deal about at least his last year in Hogwarts. Which made a lot of people look very bad. And he could imagine Snape being nasty to Major Zonvolt or Ryoma or Merlin help me Hayato Jin and they give Snape a few new openings.
"Also that it seems that some escaped prisoner is after you," Sanger then stated.
He then sighed. "Ryoma is doing that psychotic smile of his again isn't he?"
Harry and Snuffles nearly wet themselves at the raw insanity of Ryoma's smile and the look in his eyes. He looked like he was going kill people just because he felt it'd be kind of amusing.
Ryusei and Mu pointed were not looking in Ryoma's general direction.
"What?" Ryoma said. "I look forward to meeting that Sirius Black guy and crashing him."
Which frightened Sirius as this guy was looking for a fight, and likely kill him. For fun at that. It gave him another good reason to stay as Padfoot and keep a low profile.
Though it did give him ideas if he could get Harry to see the truth who to have help parade Peter around to show he was still alive. Even if it was likely with at least one leg broken. It was a fun day dream for Sirius.
Harry was relieved in that for once he was getting vital information ahead of time and not right before encountering the guy after him. And given this was a wizard likely won't have his own mech.
"Also there is a wedding coming up," Sanger said to change the subject. "Not sure how many of us are invited but an ally of ours is getting married."
"Hope it gets him out of that funk he got into," Ryoma mused. "He used to be something, but once he lost her he just shut down."
Harry got a feeling there was a long story behind that. One likely had a bunch of giant robots also involved. Still he'd never been to a wedding and it probably was going to be interesting. Even before it was likely force would attack it.
That seemed like what happened when a bunch of mech pilots got together.
V-V-V
Shinji Ikari stared at the message. A one word letter from his father and a picture of a woman in a swimsuit. He really hoped said woman wasn't to be his step mother and his was some massive mind game by his father.
His pessimistic nature made him feel he really shouldn't get his hopes up on that.
V-V-V
Shu Shirakawa passively watched message that was being broadcast into deep space on repeat.
"Hello, Hello. Friends and neighbors I have not seen yet.." the message started on this repeat. "This is the one who wants to contact aliens as a friend."
Inwardly Shu sighed as this man clearly had no idea how dangerous space was.
"I am a representative of the third planet of the Solar system called 'Earth'," the message went on. "Matthew Denton!"
The message ended this looping of it with "Please respond to this message."
Shu wondered who was going to answer this interstellar call, and how bad it was to be.
Neither men had any idea what was going to answer that call with conquest. Though Shu won't be surprised at that wasn't anyone that wished to spread friendship and universal brotherhood.
V-V-V
Gilliam Yeager smiled slightly as he saw three and not two Gundams be unloaded at Izu Base or Far East Base as some called it. The military base was being used as the primary base for all mechs that would be on-hand when the Angels attacked Tokyo-3. It literally was the closest base to Tokyo-3 and one Londo Bell used extensively.
The Physalis, Zepthyranthes, and Dendrobium Stamen were being driven the test pilot team Glory Stars and Gilliam had a feeling Masaki meeting them would be amusing.
Of course there also was another surprise he had ready for the Angels, SEELE, and NERV. One he was sure that they'd hate.
"You are a hard man to find," Gilliam noted to the man watching him. "Though given the mess you made Heero Yui I shouldn't be surprised."
Heero said nothing to the intelligence agent.
"Right," Gilliam sighed. "To the point then. There will be invading giant organic beings out to destroy the world coming to Tokyo-3. A boy is being sent to pilot one of the giant robots able to take down the energy field these invaders will have and he's completely untrained. Frankly he is more like chewing gum to many in command of this little conflict. We are going to need all the help we can get. So what do you say?"
"Mission accepted," was Heero had to say.
V-V-V
Chapter Notes
Judau Ashta is from Double Zeta Gundam and yeah he didn't exactly have an impressive start with Zeta Gundam.
Kamile Bidan is from Zeta Gundam.
Hikaru Ichigo is from the original Macross and better known in the West as Rick Hunter.
Coop is from Megas XLR and is a chaotic force.
S-Force is the Megas XLR pastiche/parody of Super Sentai, Battle of the Planets/Team Gattachaman, and Voltron. They clashed with Coop thinking he was evil instead of just destructive in his fights. He then trained them and their mentor considered the team completely ruined because of that.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo and is a psychopath able to destroy people using his literal fingertips.
Gendo Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is a very messed up person and a crap father. Leader of NERV and working to reunite with his wife in Evangelion-01 instead of save the world.
Gundam Fight is from G Gundam. Only without the nation of the winner being the ruler of the world for about 4 years.
Burning PT is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations and is a VR simulator contest. The cockpit for the game is the same as that of a Gespenst. Likely on purpose as it was also used to recruit pilots. Ryusei Date was recruited after a major Burning PT tournament.
Master Asia and Domon Kasshu are from G Gundam and can do things that would be normal in a super martial arts anime.
Admiral Koichiro is from Martian Successor Nadesico.
The Space Knights are from Tekkaman Blade.
Novis Noah is from Brain Powerd. They study the organic engines of the Brain Powerd which are organic mechs. However they are far beyond the Reclaimers who have been studying those for many more years.
The Preventers are from Gundam Wing and an organization to deal with large scale threats to world peace.
WSO is from Mazinkaiser SKL and a worldwide government organization with cutting edge technology. They have the Skull Force as their military unit.
Photon Labs is from Mazinger Z and the home base of Mazinger Z and various allies.
Saotome Labs is where Getter Rays are researched and also the base of operations of the Getter team.
Serpent Tail is from the Gundam SEED Astray side material. A mercenary unit that no one sane really should mess with.
SMS is from Macross Frontier and is a private security force.
League Militare is from Victory Gundam and is a private force funding by Anaheim Electronics. They also are very willing to put into use any units and equipment they salvage from their battles.
Anaheim Electronics is a company that makes Gundams and other UC era mobile suits. Their company is set up so it can sell equipment to any side in a conflict and claim whoever did the selling if caught did it without anyone knowing. They really hate that other companies have government contracts on mecha.
Bian Zoldark is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations and after studying METEOR-3, the Macross, and possibly Orphan suggested that aliens were coming to invade the Earth. Given the main guns on the Macross he was believed. Doctor Zoldark is also a huge super robot anime fanboy.
Shu Shirakawa and Granzon are from Super Robot Wars Original Generations. A super genius with various degrees and also an alchemist. Granzon is his mech and it can shoot black holes. Not something you want to mess with.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations and he is a badass who uses a massive sword and a massive mech to kick a lot of ass.
Grand Chers, Orphan, and Plates are from Brain Powerd. Grand Chers are organic mechs, and come from Plates. Which are big enough for Megas to use like Captain America's shield. Orphan is an organic spaceship that ended up at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And ground zero for a group of scientists and generally messed up people calling themselves the Reclaimers. Literally no one in the Reclaimers is what one could call psychologically balanced in the slightest.
Orb is from Gundam Seed and is a made up nation in the South Pacific. Right around where Orphan is, where the Macross landed and METEOR-3 landed. So they probably do have a good reason to build their own mech combat force.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations and is a sniper and a very open person.
Jame is from Megas XLR and is Coop's cowardly friend.
Jun Huno is from Great Mazinger and is a bad ass.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL and is a badass and uses swords and melee weapons.
Mu La Flaga is from Gundam Seed and is basically a newtype. Not a man to cross.
Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations and has a wife and daughter. Don't call him old. Also can get the most out of a mass produced unit, and is extremely skilled.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo and is a killing machine. Not someone anyone should mess with.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is the pilot of Mazinger Z and a badass. He also can eat somewhere close to Coop's range and is also a chef.
Mari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is basically Ryoma Nagare with a candy shell in terms of personality. She appears sweet and nice, but in a fight wants to rip and tear her enemies apart.
Boss is from Mazinger Z and he drives a giant robot made out of junk. Lowe Gruele has worked to improve the Boss Borot.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo and he's an insane killing machine.
Kiva is from Megas XLR. She is from the future and intended to use Megas to win a major battle humanity lost with it. The robot ended up a lot further in the past and modified by Coop in ways he literally is the only person able to pilot it.
Rondo Gina Sahaku is from Gundam Seed Astray and an Orb noble with dreams of conquest. His getting something that can drain energy is a bad thing. Very bad.
Aya Kobayashi is leader of the SRX team and enjoys visiting art museums in her spare time.
Lt. Kyosuke Nanbu is part of the ATX team and he enjoys playing the long odds in a bet. And he tends to win them as well.
Masaki Andoh is the first original character for the SRW franchise and pilots a magical mech known as Cybuster. His pair familiars,Kuro and Shiro, are talking cats.
The woman with blue hair getting an autograph from Kai and the others is Aqua Centrum from SRW MX and Second Original Generation.
Goat and the Ultra Cadets are from Megas XLR. And yes Goat has dated one of the Ultra Cadets.
Kaworu is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He's actually one of the Angels NERV is set up to fight, and yet somehow is more sane than the other actual pilots of the mecha of that series.
Rai is part of the SRX team and had one of his hands replaced with a metal one as he lost it in the test of a new mech that is called the Vanishing Trooper incident.
Musashi Tomoe is from Getter Robo and is insanely brave instead of being and insane murder machine.
Kusuha Mizuha is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations. A childhood of SRX member Ryusei Date, and the girlfriend of ATX member Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield. She also makes health drinks that scare people.
Kei Katsuragi is from Super Dimensional Century Orguss. He was the one to set off the bomb that caused some of the merging of dimensions into this Super Robot Wars universe. While in a world he can tell is Earth, he still is twenty years for him the future.
Klein Sandman is from Gravion and is a 400 plus year old alien working to save the Earth from his brother in law and his forces. He also is a massive ham.
The cyborg and his annoying cabal is SEELE from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Ryusei Date is part of the SRX team and is a huge fanboy of super robots. Though he has learned that the shows and games aren't exactly true to life.
The King Sccasher video game and Hara-Hara World are from NG Knight Lamune 40.
Bryson's Well is from Aura Battler Dunbine.
Shinji Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He's going to get the SRW treatment of his character in this story.
Matthew Denton is from Heroman. Yes he did send a message into space in hopes of friendly aliens getting it and taking to humanity. The aliens that got the call are definitely not friendly.
Gilliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations. A dimension hopper and an intelligent agent he not one to be messed with. Here he intends to make sure Gendo and SEELE don't win.
The Physalis, Zepthyranthes, and Dendrobium Stamen are all mobile suits from Gundam: Stardust Memories.
The Glory Stars are from Super Robot Wars Z and are actually mobile suit test pilots.
Heero Yui is from Gundam Wing. Not a man anyone sane should mess with. Ever.