Lord Voldemort was starting to think his current body was going to be dead soon. It just wasn't recovering after whatever took him out for several hours last week. There also was the annoyance none of his followers seemed to come to help him. Either in the past decade or even after what happened over a year ago.
Only that many them had gold and actually were at least useful as cannon folder kept Voldemort's hand on hunting them down when he finally had an acceptable body. Or he could kill them later anyway. He could do whatever he wanted with them once everything was in place. He really won't need them anymore at that point.
The fact the eyes on his body had turned red Voldemort liked. The weird build-up of fluid filled blisters around the eyes, veins were becoming very pronounced on the face, and the skin had turned the color brown was really strange.
Then Voldemort had to start fighting for control of his body as it started pulling in any and everything around it in the forest for extra mass. The extra mass molded itself around the body and the Mimetic Beast started to take shape.
It took the form of a massive snake, and it was very likely due to the influence of the wraith stuck inside it.
It had a white head, with red eyes and slits for a nose. With the reason it had those forced to fight for control of the powerful body with whatever sentience a Mimetic Beast had. Neither guiding force for the body wanted to share.
"Give!" Voldemort growled with an inhuman and deep voice.
The snarl he got back made it clear the other intelligence sharing this body completely and utterly hated him. Not that Voldemort cared what that beast felt.
With great rage and force of will Voldemort forced his will on this new and powerful serpentine body he had now. He had to get back to the United Kingdom and crush his enemies. Especially that boy that had gotten in his way twice.
The Mimetic Beast didn't care about Riddle's need for revenge and merely wished to destroy. He for lack of better term didn't need to leave the region he was in to do that and fought back for control.
No quarter was given nor asked for as the savage pair of beings clashed over their shared body. Neither would settle for anything less than complete control. Winner take all.
V-V-V
Harry still was dealing with the fact his being a wizard was not an issue with Londo Bell. It said so much about how weird stuff and incidents these people have had that they didn't care in the slightest.
It was just so strange. There was utterly no hysteria to his being able to magic, nor any disbelief at magic existing. It was just taken as fact and not something to be bothered about. It was something he could do and that was that.
On the other hand several people he worked with had psychic abilities, one person he knew was a time traveler from the distant future, and Harry had been told one their foes glued together the unbroken halves of a pair of mummies to create a minion. Plus a massive fleet of aliens had pop music beat them, and of course dinosaurs turning out to not be completely gone and having advanced weapons.
That and visiting two different realms of magic had shown them how weird things could be. Also they'd shown him what Lowe and Coop working together on a mech resulted in making. It was insane and he was sure just looking at pictures of Mega Zeta would make Hermione's head explode. Even more so if she got to see the Mega Zeta could do rocket punches like Mazingers or Megas. It was something only the Zeong had done and even there the lower arms were still attached by cables.
And there weren't even half dozen Zeongs. It made Harry wonder where the leader of Serpent Tail got the one he used in the Dinosaur Empire invasion. If even he knew where that Zeong had been discovered and made ready for combat.
Harry petted Snuffles. "Man I wonder if Ron and Hermione will ever believe me before I show them my Rezel or something."
Inwardly Sirius sighed as really his being considered a madman and murderer on the loose stopped him from changing back to his human form. Especially given that one guy that gave a smile that even Bella would be afraid of.
Padfoot inwardly snorted imagining a kid giving the Sorting Hat that sort of look and being told they could be in any house they wanted. It was to either laugh or cry or get really scared to be honest.
With Sirius admitting the same had to be done with it very likely that Wormtail had been hiding with what turned out to be Harry's friend. Really what were the odds of that happening?
Sirius had this feeling odds got weird when his godson was involved.
Then the alarms sounded.
"Looks like duty calls," Harry sighed and he got into his flight suit.
Sirius had a feeling he'd never get used to his godson rushing off into danger. Nor did he have any desire to get blase about that.
He feared what learning of this would do to Remus. He always was the overly emotional one of the Marauders after all. Sirius really hoped whoever married Remus was a very tolerant woman as otherwise he'd probably drive her insane in a few months.
V-V-V
As the Macbeth approached the Mimetic Beast Harry didn't need to get a headache to know this was really bad. Features he remembered being on the back of a man's head were now the face of this monster.
'Of course Riddle would get something that I couldn't just step on as a new form,' Harry thought to himself. 'And for Shin Getter to be in the shop as well.'
Not that the regular Getter was defenseless as Getter One pulled out a chain gun and fired instead of massive bullets missiles at the Voldemort Beast. Which said beast really didn't like at all.
Ryo took control of Mazinkaiser SKL and opened fire on the Mimetic Beast. The Alt Eisen joined in using the autocannon on one arm.
Harry's head started to hurt as the Voldemort Beast looked at his Rezel. Harry tried to not slam into anything, especially his team mates as it felt like a mech was shooting all their weapons inside his skull.
"POTTER!" the monster screamed.
"Looks like he knows you already," Ken Kaido remarked in Mazinkaiser SKL.
"Not that it matters," Tetsuya Tsurugi stated and then hit the Voldemort Beast with a Thunder Break.
The Mimetic Beast screamed out as a massive amount of electricity surged through it. Harry found his head cleared up after that. It was something he intended to remember for later.
Harry charged at the Voldemort Beast and shoved his beam saber into its chest. He wasn't the only one with that idea as Lt. Nanbu flew and put a revolver stake into the eye of the rampaging monster. A thick brown fluid came out of the wound.
"Looks like little Harry has his own arch nemesis," Excellen remarked with a grin. She then introduced the Voldemort Beast to her OX Tongue sniper rifle.
A pair of breast missiles then slammed into monster and it forced the Mementic Beast and Voldemort to work together if they didn't wish to be beaten to a pulp by all the giant robots. Ego only went so far in the face of a beat down.
Suddenly a trio of daggers pierced the hide of the Voldemort Beast.
A jet black mech almost seemed to be shaking its head.
"You're not the one!" the pilot of said mech yelled.
"Should have figured he'd show up," Ryoma said with an amused smile.
The Blade Gainer or Menage Black as it was codenamed was definitely not an unknown to the forces of Londo Bell. Given their usual assignments they came across him more than any of the mecha operating from one of the Earth Bases.
"So whose turn is it to try asking him to join Londo Bell?" Bullet asked as he fired on the Voldemort Beast with the very phallic G-Impact Cannon of the Huckebein Mk II.
"Why are we bothering as he doesn't seem to want to join anyone?' Ryusei Date inquired. "The over a dozen replies of no should make that clear."
"Because a rogue mech worries people," Sanger noted. "No matter how much he merely wishes to destroy the monster that took the woman he loved."
"His last name isn't Ahab is it?" Excellen joked.
"It is not," Kyosuke commented. "And keep your attention on the giant rampaging monster Excellen."
"Whatever you say dear," Excellen giggled as she opened fire on the Voldemort Beast.
With Voldemort Beast focused on her it gave Diana A a chance to pull the triggers on her breast weapons and spray the Mimetic Beast with Meltron M-3. Given the substance melted anything other than Super Alloy Z, and the Gundamium Alloy (aka Gundarium Theta) that only a handful of mobile suits were made of and the Mimetic Beast was not made of anything so sturdy had the acid inflict incredible damage to Voldemort Beast.
Even Diana A's pilot, Hikaru Makiba, winced seeing flesh melt like that. Then said flesh started growing back.
"That's not good," Harry muttered.
Then Megas cupped its hands together and fired off a blue ball of energy with a massive eight ball in it. The Voldemort Beast had a confused expression before the attack slammed into it.
After that confusing attack, Aphrodite A fired the Iron Cutter Breast Missiles at Voldemort Beast. As Voldemort Beast went after her Masaki went for the big guns.
"Cosmic Nova!" Masaki yelled and green lances of light struck Voldemort Beast hard.
Voldemort screamed in pain. Which was something he hadn't done when the acid melted his flesh. It also made Harry feel pretty good.
The Alt Eisen then introduced Voldemort Beast to the Claymore missiles it had. A tree nearly hit the Alt in response. However Kyosuke didn't flinch or show any fear at a tree flying past his personal trooper.
"Ready Amuro?" Sayla then asked.
"That I am," Amuro replied.
The Voldemort Beast got to eat Fin Funnels as the pair used those and then along with Mu Flaga, Kamile Bidan, and Judau Ashta showed Riddle why messing with a wolfpack of new types was a horrible idea. Their speed and ability to know where the others were was beyond anything Voldemort or the savage mind of the Mimetic Beast could track.
The Mimetic Beast looked more like swiss cheese than a monster with laser weapons used for most of the wounds inflicted, but the ones that hadn't were bleeding the brown fluid. No one wanted to have whatever that was touch their mechs.
The scary part was that Judau had not used the head based high mega cannon of Double Zeta in that beatdown. He was saving that for if they really needed it. Just because he could do two shots instead of one with the unit still meant he had to be careful with those.
"NO!" Voldemort yelled. "I WON'T LET MERE MUGGLES DEFEAT ME!"
"Tch, and I thought we knew people with no indoor voice," Ken Kaido remarked as Ryo switched control of Mazinkaiser to him.
Suddenly the serpent-like Mimetic Beast changed and turned into a more dinosaur like creature. It grew arms, legs, spikes, horns, and looked enraged.
"Looks like he wants to play," Ryoma said amused.
"Given I'm sure Harry beat him up a few times without a mech he's a pushover," Hayato snarked.
The pilot of Blade Gainer heard the comm chatter but didn't pay any attention to it. Ken really didn't mind that Londo Bell kept wanting to recruit him, but he had more important things than fighting every alien or weird thing to hit the Earth.
Still it was a Mimetic Beast even if it wasn't the one he was looking for. That this one could talk was strange, but it should be dead soon enough. Ken knew Londo Bell and their forces well enough to know they'd help him put this thing down for good.
Blade Gainer then barely avoided a punch from the Mimetic Beast. Given the hand was glowing Ken figured that would really mess up his mech. The ground the Voldemort Beast hit exploded and sent stone, and dirt flying everywhere.
Tsubasa Yuki in a GM Sniper EX let Voldemort Beast have it a scaled down long range beam rifle. A large and ghastly hole went right through the Mimetic Beast. It wasn't stopping or even seeming to hurt Voldemort Beast and that worried her.
Then things got weird as the Voldemort Beast was struck with a Getter Beam. The body of the Mimetic Beast got very flexible and fluid-like as it twisted in shapes an organic being was not meant to be. The inhuman screams that came out of the beast made it clear those hurt even more than they appeared.
"Ouch," Harry muttered.
"Looks like no matter what this Mimetic Beast is he reacts just like the other ones," Hayato remarked.
Getter One instantly flew away from the Mimetic Beast as he tried to attack them. What shocked Harry was the Voldemort Beast then throwing wandless magic at the Londo Bell forces. That at this point he didn't even care about the secrecy of magic and just wanted them all to die.
And it seemed the Mimetic Beast body gave them power as levitation charms lifted massive trees like they were toothpicks, and cutting curses turned the trees they hit into kindling. As Harry turned his Rezel into waverider mode and flew around the trees he had the odd thought if someone was going to try to bother Riddle about using magic around muggles.
"DIE!" Voldemort screamed.
"Well he's a stunning conversationalist," Excellen remarked.
"He's usually more verbose. Guess losing makes him take it out on everyone," Harry said before realizing he'd just commented.
"Oh good you're learning," Excellen beamed.
"Enough of this," Koji yelled and Mazinger Z flexed. "Breast Fire!"
The red energy blast hit the Voldemort Beast right in the face. Mazinkaiser SKL joined in using their Inferno Blaster. Great Mazinger went for another Thunder Break, with Diana A, Venus A, and Minerva A giving the Mimetic Beast their optic Photon Beams for good measure.
Voldemort got more and more furious as his new body was shown to have limitations, and unable to crush Potter and these others with him. The lack of use of his right eye with a stake driven into it made that point inescapable for Riddle.
Riddle was learning there was a difference between a populous that didn't seem to understand they had lethal weapons on their person, and fighting a military unit even as irregular as Londo Bell. Also he wasn't the weirdest thing they had faced so they weren't impressed at all.
In his Evangelion Kaworu shook his head as this was one messed up Lilium they were fighting. One that likely had done unspeakable things to his AT Field to survive after the physical death of his body.
Kaworu instead of his dual chainsaw went for dual-wielded a pair of hand bazookas and let the Voldemort Beast have it. The attack definitely worked better than any time anyone would do that against one of his brothers. The holes left in the center mass of the Mimetic Beast went completely through it.
Sanger unleashed the Hyper Blaster of the Grungust Type 0 on the Voldemort Beast as he didn't want that brown sludge touching his sword. One could never be sure if it still would be alive even after the Mimetic Beast was defeated after all as no one was sure even after the first war with Mimetic Beasts won what the creatures were exactly.
Rai unloaded on the Mimetic Beast with his beam rifle. He really wished the R-2 he usually piloted was in working order to fight this threat as the Nu Gundam Pre-Test Type just wasn't the same.
Rai let loose with the Mega Beam Rifle on the Voldemort Beast and tried to aim into the holes already made to do even more internal damage. He wasn't sure if it hurt the Mimetic Beast more, but it seemed as good a tactic to use as any.
In the Hyperion Gundam Mai Kobayashi turned the lightwave barrier into a sword of light and cut through the legs of the Mimetic Beast like a chainsaw through butter. Though to the disgust of Londo Bell said legs tried to reform back onto the main body.
"We're going to need to clean the Alt really well," Kyosuke remarked as he saw that. He had no idea that Excellen flying close to him scared the Mimetic Beast off the Alt.
The Mimetic Beast could tell what was an even more predator, and what most of her was definitely wasn't the same these other people. It was something far worse and disturbing. Something not of this world to say the least.
Ken didn't let the attempt for the Mimetic Beast to reform bother him. He had Blade Gainer draw its sword. The blade then started to glow as he charged Voldemort Beast. The blade cut through the Mimetic Beast as easily as the lightwave barrier sword had.
Harry wondered how much more of this Riddle could take as his body looked completely wrecked now. It was covered in cuts, open wounds, and wounds caused by laser weapons. Plus of course the holes through it made by various weapons as well.
Megas then hit the Voldemort Beast with the ice blaster and covered the Mimetic Beast in a thick layer of ice.
Ken powered up Blade Gainer and a massive burst of wind came out of the torso of the mech and sent the Mimetic Beast flying into the air. Ken once more attacked with his glowing sword and this time it was enough and destroyed the Mimetic Beast.
With a dark cloud which the wind attack had sent flying vowing revenge on all of them. His pride and massive ego demanded no less.
V-V-V
Harry found his debriefing on Voldemort to be really weird. Then again Captain Noa, Admiral Misumaru, Captain Enfield, Captain Minase and Commander Webley all treated this like it was normal.
It was only Captain Lee Linjun who didn't believe this. He literally glared at Harry.
"Are you fucking with me?!" Captain Linjun snapped at Harry.
"Captain Linjun," Bright Noa said forcefully. "After all the things Londo Bell has been through is this really the strangest thing you have heard? Even discarding Coop and his adventures."
"But really magic users and a hidden society?" Lee asked. "With it sounding like they most of them won't know a computer does….even with memory altering magic they sound like be unable to avoid doing something that would be uploaded to the internet."
"From what the Lovegood family has told us there are sects that keep up with the times," Noa remarked.
The expression of surprise Harry had at that really worried everyone. In that they just learned of this and knew more than someone who had been at a school for magic for two years now.
"There are days I think Hogwarts is just a trade school," Harry admitted as he their expressions. "That or Binns is supposed to teach this stuff in History of Magic and he just is stuck on the Goblin Wars and such."
"And Bryson's Well and Hara-Hara World are complete unknowns to them;" Captain Bright mused.
"They don't get out much do they?" Admiral Misumaru commented.
"I won't know sir," Harry admitted. "My tour of duty has been the most travel I have ever done. And I really need a bigger group of people to ask about what they do over their summers."
Harry wondered how he was going to tell Hermione about all this. And if she'd be willing to believe him on any of this given every day it seemed things got more bizarre. Honestly he had no idea if Ron would even understand any of this.
Captain Minase looked like he wanted a drink. Then again those that knew him were those that knew that was a pretty common thing with him. Still he never imagined he'd learn of something this weird.
Bright Noa took it all in stride as he was used to scary things. Plus that embarrassing thing of people believing he could pimp slap unruly teen pilots into shape. Still he made use of that reputation if he did find himself in that sort of situation.
Lee Enfield to Harry was a surprise as she was younger than a lot of the various mech pilots and such. Well the nonteenager ones anyway. Still she seemed nice to him even with not really saying much in this debriefing. At least if she wasn't sure what to make of this she wasn't being a jerk about it like Captain Linjun.
"Well at least if we remember this it means it happened or something," Captain Linjun muttered in annoyance.
Harry was glad to not have to deal with that guy as captain of the ship he was assigned. He seemed like a massive berk.
"From what the Lovegoods told we more or less are exempt due to learning about magic and not causing a panic or a Blue Cosmos style witch hunt," Bright noted. "We leave them alone and they leave our memories alone."
"More or less?" Captain Enfield inquired.
"Some groups cast memory altering magic first and never ask questions," Bright stated. "They really aren't liked much by the more with the times sects I have been told."
"And Harry here is a major celebrity," Commander Webley noted.
"I hate it," Harry sighed. "One year I'm a golden boy and the next I am a Dark Lord in training since I can talk to snakes because only Dark Wizards do that."
"I thought snakes didn't have ears, but it probably is magic," Admiral Misumaru said with a shrug.
Harry nodded. "Yeah that's pretty much how I guess it works."
Lee sighed and rubbed his forehead. If any of this magic crap was true it seemed they'd found a student from some backwater dump of a school. And it seemed like a typical day for the others.
V-V-V
Gilliam Yeager wondered if "Supreme Commander" Ikari had any idea how little he was trusted. It was enough for the intelligence officer to be assigned to Izu Base to keep an eye on the whole situation. Admittedly Gilliam was not given a very big office, but it had all he needed so he wasn't complaining.
Heero Yui and Wing Zero were the sledgehammer for this operation while Gilliam had a few daggers available to him as well.
Case in point as what looked like a female Section 2 agent walked into his "office" as it were. She looked like a nondescript government agent in pantsuit, tie, and shades. Yet Gilliam knew that Selena Recital could hid as a man and NERV would be none the wiser.
"Its starting," Selena stated as she took off her sunglasses and got her pink hair out of a bun.
"So the 3rd Child is coming to Tokyo-3," Gilliam mused as he leaned back in the cheap plastic office chair that came with his work area.
"Si," Selena said and nodded. "Which is odd as the other pilots had been training for years."
Major Yeager sighed. "I'm fairly sure this only makes sense in Commander Ikari's mind."
Selena snorted. "So nowhere really. Figuras."
"He's the one with the shell company that does the picking of pilots," Gilliam noted.
"Why?" Selena asked. "If he's the one running the thing why would he need a shell company he owns doing that?"
"Likely to appear impartial," Gilliam noted. "With everything to the contare."
Selena groaned as this looked to be as annoying as that time she spent time among the Reclaimers. The intel she gathered on them proved Orphan was more home to a cult or where a bunch of messed up people gathered as they didn't have anything better to do.
That NERV had a similar vibe was not a compliment. The Third Child was likely to not impress the Second Child and she'd probably need Ryoma Nagare or Hayato Jin telling her to knock off putting him down. Or at least Major Sanger telling her that.
Gilliam nodded. "Yes this is going to be a mess unless the 5th Child is called in as support. He seems to be the most sane of the Children."
"Not like that's hard," Selena remarked. "That's like being more sane than Ryoma Nagare or Hayato Jin."
Neither of those bloodthirsty men was a paragon of sanity. Yet Gilliam doubted the various Children would be as effective as the pair were at fighting threats to the Earth. Also the Children had utterly no espirit de corps at all.
The only ones to even know of other pilots by name was the pair that were in Londo Bell and that was only because they'd met and worked together fighting the Dinosaur Empire invasion of Paradigm City and other threats to the Earth. Before that they never had even heard of each other.
Even the various Earth Bases had the pilots at least know of the other ones working at the other bases. NERV on the other hand seemed more like Gendo Ikari's personal toy to play with. With Tokyo-3's Geo Front being that even more so than the others as it was where he lived and made lair.
"To be perfectly honest the First Child is in no shape to pilot anything," Selena noted. "Also all computer records of her are gone. Likely any physical copies are destroyed as well."
Gilliam raised an eyebrow. "Do they think such an amateur move would do anything but draw attention?"
"Somehow I doubt logical planning and sanity ever were part of the thought process," Selena said playfully. "Just like it was with the Reclaimers."
"At least Evangelions don't have the cockpit in the crotch like Brain Powerds and Grand Chers," Gilliam noted.
"I got to see Grand Cher pilots stick their heads out to talk to each other," Selena stated. "Words fail me to describe how loco that looked. Really I can't put it into words."
"In any case," Gilliam said to get them back on track. "I need you to keep an eye on Shinji Ikari. Don't break cover unless you have to. "
"Got it," Selena said with a grin. "Also want me to try to recruit people over to Londo Bell while I'm at it?"
"Only if you can and avoid being caught," Gilliam replied.
That caused Selena to laugh.
"Trust me when I say Section 2 couldn't find their own nalgas with both hands let alone find me," she remarked.
"Just don't get overconfident," Gilliam told her.
Selena nodded. "Got it."
Gilliam then mused as Selena left if that one secret society that a leaving scientist had completely and purposely altered what would be their current leader and mech pilot enforcers to be psychological disasters was going to strike soon. He made a note if that happened to talk to the pilot of the mech the Japanese government had.
Especially because the boy would be fighting psychologically scrambled people that would hold him responsible for things he had no part in, and had no moral restraint. From the reports the boy was much like the Junk Guild in terms of morals and he was fighting people that was not a good thing. Plus who knew what other little surprises Doctor Hihara had left behind.
He won't be surprised if the 'good doctor' had done a lot more to stack the deck in favor of his plans. The only problem was Gilliam had no idea how big a pain in the butt Doctor Hihara and his schemes would turn out to be for keeping life going in the Solar System.
V-V-V
Molly Weasley had no idea how Luna Lovegood had gotten in touch with Harry, but the strange girl had brought her several letters. One for Ron, one for her, and one for Dumbledore.
Needless to say Dumbledore had gotten his letter within minutes after it had been delivered to the Burrow. And given Harry had written one specifically for the man with many titles she let Ron have his with no issue.
Molly now was reading her letter and noticing the various pieces of paper were very white and thin. And the letters looking like they'd come from a typewriter. And all that wasn't even close to as strange as the content of the letter.
Giant things made of metal used by muggles to fight their conflicts, one of them killing Harry's family for likely no reason at all, and now Harry sending his summer in even more danger than before. It made her wonder exactly how many different danger signs she'd need on the family clock for this.
She'd wanted so badly to take Harry away from that and have another safe holiday at the Burrow or send a howler for putting a child in danger. However she was very sure Harry was not joking like Fred or George when he said that might end up having the more...insane pilots show up at her doorstep. They won't be over for tea that's for sure.
Las Vegas had sounded like a place that as long as you didn't gamble would be a fun and cheap time. And meeting the Lovegoods there explained how Harry knew them. It was a pity they had been traveling when Harry had stayed at the Burrow last summer. Molly was sure that Xeno and Luna wouldn't desire to stare at Harry's scar.
Or if they did it'd be to see if some weird animal was living on it. They were kind of strange like that.
What worried Molly was the detailed descriptions of the various things Harry had battled. She'd dropped the page that covered him battling a giant You-Know-Who and was even more shocked to find out it had been defeated. With the man who finished off the giant monster sounding like a lone knight looking for a love trapped inside a beast.
Ken's tale being the most understandable to her as the others involves things like Getter Rays or being what happens when humans live in space, or finding a giant robot under a pile of trash in a junkyard.
Molly was glad with one thing. Harry didn't intend to end his Hogwarts education for this madness. Though she was kind of worried what Hogwarts was teaching these days when Harry asked where to learn about how the government worked or more of the history since random Goblin Wars and Giant Wars were all that was covered in History of Magic. Or things like art, what the major jobs were, what sort of vacation spots there were, what relations with other magical nations were, and where besides Diagon Alley the major shopping centers were.
It made Molly very annoyed that Harry hadn't heard a single word about any of those things. It looked like they'd take Harry aside for seeing what career he wanted in his fifth year and he won't have the slightest idea on what jobs there even were!
Or he'd end up backing and working at the joke shop that George and Fred wanted to have. Frankly Molly wanted them to work at the Ministry. However she'd take the job shop over them working for this Londo Bell. It was just so dangerous and she knew Harry was not a liar.
If anything she was sure he was downplaying the dangers and how insane some of his coworkers were. Which scared her as how mad many of them already sounded to her. The Getter pilots especially were disturbing.
That Harry also was worried about Ginny's well being at least warmed her heart. Even if it didn't lead to the big happy Weasley family like she hoped, at least Harry was sincere in wanting her to get help in dealing with that insane mess.
While up in his room Ron was trying to take in what Harry had wrote about. And he was a bit jealous that Harry got to go somewhere that had cheap food and all you can eat buffets. Egypt was interesting, but no one pointed out any all you can eat buffets to him.
However he wasn't sure what to make of the rest of the letter. It was making those books about his friend look tame. A clash of metal giants..and Ron wasn't sure if he really wanted any part in that. Especially when Harry wrote about what happened to Green Falcon Squad and how they only had two survivors.
That had poured cold water onto Ron's fantasies of doing what Harry was doing. Ron did not want to die despite what some might think of his actions. He wanted to live, and play for the Cannons.
He also hoped he won't be going to Harry's funeral and it had to be with a closed casket. Ron was sure that if Harry died in combat they'd be lucky to have more than bits and pieces of him. If that much was left at all.
It also made Ron have a feeling not all adventures would be like ones in Hogwarts where there was food aplenty and warm beds to sleep in.
He wondered how long he'd be able to handle not having those before he snapped or ran off. And he honestly didn't like having to admit that about himself. He completely and utterly hated it, but he knew it was true.
And he was trying hard to disagree on that, but he just couldn't. He barely was able to imagine what not having food and a bed to sleep in was like. So he doubted he'd be able to take it well for very long.
This was something about himself he really didn't like learning. A part of himself he wasn't sure how to change, but had a feeling it'd be a good idea if he did.
He wondered why Harry said they should find music of a band called Fire Bomber and it probably should help Ginny a lot. Something about the songs helping deal with things like that. It made Ron wonder if there was a record store close to them.
V-V-V
Harry found himself in a very weird position. Getting fitted for a suit as the old ally from Mimetic Beast Wars kind of wanted everyone in civilian suits instead of Class As at his wedding. The groom wanted to keep it civilian.
He also learned that Goh Saruwatari was one of the best pilots for the anti-Mimetic Beast forces, but the man basically had shut down after losing his girlfriend in the final battle of that war. He really hadn't piloted his mech much since then, and never in combat.
Though Harry really wondered if they were kidding on the Dannar Base uniforms for the women as there had to be no way they dressed like that. Or at least willingly. At least he hoped not willingly as were some crazy skin tight and skin showing outfits.
He was sure seeing almost artistically shown thigh, cleavage, and other things would turn every male teen in Hogwarts brains to complete mush. Then he got the horrible mental image of it doing the same thing to Snape.
Which Harry had to admit still wasn't as bad as that insane smile Ryoma could do. That thing was nearly weaponized by the Getter One pilot. Even that Sirius Black bloke didn't look as crazy in his pictures.
Though Harry wondered why they were in Riksent for this and not the space colony of Londenion where they had just been for his debriefing. He was sure the place had decent stores for getting a suit on it.
He turned to Ryusei and asked him that.
Ryusei laughed nervously. "Well Princess Shune has a soft spot for Rai since he rescued her and we get rather good deals in the country."
It amazed Harry that he was part of a group of heroes. Saving princesses, fighting dragons, and more were part of what they did..and people at least gave them some credit for it. Harry didn't want to do things merely for the glory, but some thanks would be nice.
Still he wondered why he was being invited to this wedding. Was the groom's side having an open invitation for Londo Bell. It seemed that way and Harry wasn't sure all of his teammates could sit still that long.
He also wondered what Major Zonvolt will wear to the wedding. Or if his suit would have a sword with it. Same with Mr. Kaido or Ken he prefered to be called given he preferred to go around with an open vest and pants.
In any case this was going to be an interesting wedding. Even if a giant monster or giant robot didn't attack it just because. Though Harry hoped that didn't happen it seemed the rest of the group were having their mechs close by just in case.
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Sirius wasn't sure what to make of Kuro and Shiro watching him. Or that there were a pair of talking cats around and no one had any issues with it. They took Masaki and his familiars being around just a normal part of Londo Bell. Of course Londo Bell and normal were two things that didn't mix well.
Of course Sirius also wondered what those weird metal orb things were. Hero or something and they seemed smarter than they looked. Like some of them could pilot one of the giant metal things.
If that did happen he won't be surprised in the least. They'd certainly do a better job at it than he could. Lily sure never mentioned anything like this and once more Sirius was sure if he wasn't listed as an escaped murderer no one here would blink if he changed back to his human form.
He also was sure that Kuro and Shiro were aware he was not a normal dog. Now how to explain this and not get killed by the crazy people on this ship he still hadn't quite worked out. It was a very important part of any plan that had him still be breathing.
And not just for getting his revenge on Peter as it was clear that Harry hadn't been told anything. It almost seemed like a game of telling his godson as little as they could and as late as they could. Shite he intended to put a stop to once his name was cleared. The part that worried him was this was just the snippets he heard from Harry by accident. How angry was he going to be after the full story came out?
Padfoot whined softly. This was all so frustrating. He was sure Dumbledore was a busy man and trying to keep Harry alive, but Merlin when Harry hanging out on this ship and being part of the military was the best thing to happen to him something had gone wrong.
"You can talk to us," Shiro assured Snuffles.
Padfoot shook his head.
"No?" Kiro said not surprised their other four legged roommate clearly could understand them and shake his head.
"Looks like we'll be playing twenty questions given he can at least answer yes and no questions," Shiro sighed.
Sirius had this feeling if he changed back to human it'd be right when someone would come in and try to kill him first would show up.
The door then opened and Masaki came in. It shocked Kuro and Shiro as Masaki could get lost on a guided tour. Behind him was Rai, and a girl that Sirius had never met. He wasn't sure as she had finery that would make a rich pureblood feel jealous, sun kissed looking blonde hair, and wide blue eyes.
"You can come out Sirius," she told him. "Ryoma, Hayato, and Ken won't kill you."
Snuffles didn't look sure of that.
Princess Shune sighed. "If you don't come out you will see far more of Harry's friends than Harry."
That was enough to make Sirius change back to human form. The various medications, grooming, and more Sirius had gotten as a dog made him look far better than he had been before. His resemblance to his wanted pictures was that if he changed his hair color and eye color no one would have even guessed who he was. However his clothes still were foul and looked horrible.
Sirius noticed his transformation didn't get much reaction as he expected.
Rai shrugged. "We've seen a great deal of insane things."
"So I gathered from all the things my godson has had to deal with here," Sirius chuckled.
"Godson?" Masaki said in surprise. He then glared at Sirius as it was clear Harry needed the man, and he was not there.
Sirius sighed. "Let's just say I did something stupid, ended up in prison without a trial. Of course Hagrid already took Harry from me so I didn't have anything to think about besides revenge."
Rai raised an eyebrow. He was sure this story was going to be an interesting one as well as tragic.
"Come," Princess Shune said with the command of a monarch. "There is much we need to do."
Sirius was sure nothing would be quite the same ever again.
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Harry wondered why he was being escorted to the royal palace. His thoughts got what was going to happen and why kept getting weirder and weirder as the trip went on. Yet he never doubted he was being given an ancient magical giant robot that looked like a Mazinger unit to save the world thought was at least possible. Though he wasn't sure why in that scenario they'd want him to pilot it instead of a super alloy mecha pilot.
He barely noticed when he got lead into an opulent sitting room.
It got weirder when Princess Shune Hausen looked at Harry for a moment and then frowned.
"Harry you really are surrounded in your homeland by buffoons or perhaps bakas is the best way to put it," she said sharply. She wasn't sure how she got to see Harry's future without Londo Bell helping him, but she had to inform Harry that as it seemed every adult was unable to do anything right.
"I get that feeling as well your highness," Harry said respectfully as she drove him from his getting more outlandish by the moment thoughts.
"A great wrong has been done to you and your legal guardian," Princess Shune then stated. "Leaving you in the hands of those unfit and your godfather thrown into an interstellar rights violation prison without a trial."
"So am I going to have to break him out then?" Harry asked as he was sure he and his allies could do that.
Princess Shune smiled. "He already broke out and hid as a dog. The one you took in and cared for."
Harry winced. Given the shape Snuffles or rather his godfather had been in when found him that explained why he hadn't fought that much to take the medication and vet visits. He knew that he needed those to get better and recover.
"Given you can see the future I got to ask," Harry admitted. "Is my life every really going to be normal?"
She shrugged.
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me," Harry said rubbing his forehead.
"Also everyone in your homeland seems to think you will be able to solve their problems for them," Princess Shune said with a very annoyed expression. "For free and without complaint no matter how they treat you."
"The urge to have and Mr. Jin have a discussion with them is very high," Harry grumbled. "And maybe Mr. Kaido as well."
"They would enjoy that," Princess Shune commented.
"Probably too much," Harry shrugged. "Hence why urge and not something I intend to do."
Princess Shune nodded. "You can come out now."
Harry blinked seeing what he believed was that insane man on the news looking completely different. Like he'd been dressed in decent clothes, given a shower, shave, and haircut.
He also looked like he still was on the road to recovery, but Harry had a feeling he didn't want to see what this man looked like just after escaping prison.
"Harry," Sirius said choked up. "I wanted to tell you before, but you know some scary people."
"It happens when sanity is not a requirement for mech piloting," Harry tried to joke.
"I'm sure you got told I am your godfather," Sirius said hopeful before sitting down.
"And that a great wrong was done to both of us," Harry admitted.
"No kidding," Sirius muttered. "Thanks to that rat."
"Rat?" Harry asked.
"You ever seen a rat missing a toe?" Sirius asked. He was fairly sure Harry knew whatever name Peter was being called at the moment.
"What does Scabbers have to do with this?" Harry asked in confusion.
"So that's the name he's answering to now," Sirius remarked. "Well he's an animagus like me. Named Peter Pettigrew. Also known as Wormtail. I thought he was my friend along with Remus and your father James."
"You….you knew my father?" Harry gasped and realized given this was his godfather of course he did.
"He was like a brother to me," Sirius said warmly. "Also a cousin. Let's just say all the pureblood families are related to some degree or another. Also knew your grandparents as they left me stay with them after I couldn't stand being around my Dark family."
"No one ever talks to about any of them," Harry grumbled. "Hell they don't even act like my parents died on Halloween."
"Trust me," Sirius told Harry looking him in the eye. "Once my name is cleaned there is going to be a lot of things I'm going to discuss with Dumbledore and the various teachers."
"Even Snape?" Harry asked.
Sirius's expression made it clear he was not going to correct Harry on not calling him a professor.
"They got him teaching there?" Sirius said in shock. "And he wasn't run out by parents given I doubt he put to bed any issues."
Princess Shune glared at Sirius. "Issues you and your friends caused."
"I...I…" Sirius sputtered. "Ok fine. I've given him reasons to hate me to his dying breath and beyond. And I won't care if he did. But kids like Harry that had nothing to do with it that's something else."
"You and dad were bullies?" Harry said shocked.
"More like a war going in the halls of the school," Sirius said quickly. "One that both sides gave as good as they got."
Harry didn't look very happy with that response and that hurt Sirius. Padfoot realized that not everything he did at Hogwarts was going to be seen the same way by Harry. And that perhaps having them looked at with a different set of eyes and questioned might change his opinion on them as well.
Harry then sat down. "Do you have any idea why Voldemort wants me dead?"
Sirius winced. "Harry he intended to make saying his name mean his minions were going to show up."
"He what?" Harry asked confused.
"He intended to put a trace on use of his name to find those that were against him," Sirius explained.
"A what?" Harry asked.
"Merlin what are they teaching you," Sirius muttered. "No wonder you aren't sure about Hogwarts."
"Well we can call him Tom Riddle given that's his real name," Harry stated. "Well the version of him in a diary said it was."
"I don't think I'm going to like this story," Sirius said after a moment. "And to answer your question there was a prophecy made and You-Know-Who heard the first part of it."
"Then why won't Dumbledore tell me that when I asked him?" Harry inquired.
"He tends to play things close to the chest," Sirius explained and shrugged. "He's been in politics for so long it probably comes naturally."
"Did they tell you?" Harry then asked.
Sirius shook his head. "They didn't as if they died and you lived they wanted me to take you and act like one hadn't been made and hope that allowed us to beat it."
Harry shrugged. He doubted the wording would involve a chosen one beating the dark lord a bunch of times would make the dark lord stop taking over the world due to embarrassment.
"It is pretty much nonsense," Princess Shune informed them. "Nothing but vague talk of a hero with a power the dark lord knows not, and involves vanquishing said dark lord. Not kill but beat."
"Ok…" Harry said not sure what to make of this.
"And your headmaster believing the power he knows not is love," she remarked.
"I'll stick to having a mech and allies with exotic weapons like Getter Rays," Harry said after a moment. "I'd put more stock in Cybuster being able to kill him over love."
"You go with that," Sirius commented and shrugged. "In any case I'm staying in Riksent for the time being. Political Asylum and all that."
"And you can come and visit him whenever you want Harry," Princess Shune said warmly.
"I do want you to live with me," Sirius said to Harry. "I'm sure I'll find a nice flat in this country."
"I'd love to do that," Harry said instantly. "Though I kind of also like being in Londo Bell and deal with the stuff trying to…"
"I get that," Sirius shrugged. "And pretty sure given all the bizarre stuff that comes up needs someone to deal with it."
"Of course there's always the military base in Riksent," Princess Shune noted.
She then left Harry and Sirius to bond and get to know each other better. Perhaps they could avoid Sirius not being in Harry's life much and Harry knowing nothing of the world he was thrust into.
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Avoiding the Radam and Zeravire war in the outer solar system were five lion shaped mechs. Four the pilots were from Earth and wished to see their homeworld again. The final one was a princess looking for Earth's help against the evil empire out to take over the galaxy.
Go-Lion had hit the solar system.
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Chapter Notes
Mimetic Beasts are from Godannar. No one is sure where they are from exactly other than they are alien to the Earth. Unknown to the forces that fight Mimetic Beasts is the Insania Virus that causes transformations of things like people into Mimetic Beasts.
Lowe Gruele is from Gundam Seed Astray. He is part of the Junk Guild and enjoys customizing mechs.
Coop is from Megas XLR and customized his own robot. Not someone anyone should mess with.
Mega Zeta is rather large hint at something that is included in this story.
Serpent Tail is Gundam Seed Astray. They are a mercenary unit and one to be careful around as they will attack someone who the day before had been a close ally if their contract today calls for it.
Dinosaur Empire is a foe from Getter Robo.
The Macbeth is a Guantánamo Class stealth space combat carrier. The ship class is seen in Macross Plus, Macross Seven, and Macross Frontier. It uses one of the suggested names for the Macross.
Getter is of course from Getter Robo with Ryoma Nagare, Hayato Jin, and Musashi Tomoe as the pilots of the three forms. Ryoma and Hayato are psychopathic killing machines. Musashi just knows no fear.
Ryo Magami and Ken Kaido are from Mazinkaiser SKL and are pilots of the mech with the same name as the anime.
Kyosuke Nanbu is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation and pilot of the Alt Eisen. He is not afraid to play the long odds.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger and pilots the unit with the same name as the anime. A no nonsense man, and not one to cross in a fight.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations. She is a very bubbly person, yet there are secrets to her even she is not aware of.
Ken is from Godannar. Pilot of the Blade Gainer and he is out to find the Mimetic Beast that absorbed the unit the woman he love piloted.
Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He's piloted a lot of mechs and one of them is the Huckebein.
Ryusei Date is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation and he's a mech fanboy living the dream. And finding reality and the dream aren't exactly the same thing.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation and is a pure badass.
Hikaru Makiba is from Grendizer and piloted Diana A in Mazinger Angels.
Masaki Andoh is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation and using the magical mech Cybuster.
Sayla Mass and Amuro Ray are from Mobile Suit Gundam. Both are new types and not someone to take lightly.
Kamile Bidan is from Zeta Gundam. Also a new type and not some to take lightly.
Judau Ashta is from Double Zeta Gundam and his Gundam has a massive cannon in the head.
Tsubasa Yuki is from Mazinkaiser SKL. One of the two surviving members of Green Falcon Squad, and her GM Sniper EX is from the same source as the Mega Zeta.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is the elder statesman of hot blooded heroes that call out their attack names.
Kaworu is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The Angel of Freewill and actually one of the enemies of NERV. Still somehow likely the most psychologically stable of the Evangelion pilots.
Rai is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations and part of the SRX team.
Captain Bright Noa is from the Universal Century Gundam timeline. He has worked with Amuro Ray since the beginning. Memetic for slapping the whiny teen out of young pilots that fall into the cockpit. Though that's not exactly the entire truth of what happened.
Admiral Misumaru is from Martian Successor Nadesico and a bit flighty. Though his morals are very in line with most of Londo Bell.
Captain Enfield is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is 18 years old and captain of a starship. She's a bit unsure how that happened, but trying her best.
Captain Minase is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is a hard drinking and experienced captain. He has a granddaughter and he likely has socks older than some of the mech pilots.
Commander Webley is the XO of Enfield's ship, but served for many years with Captain Minase. An experienced XO and a bit weird so he fits in with Londo Bell perfectly.
Captain Lee Linjun is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He frankly is a jerk. And a pretty poor judge of character. And also ended up vanishing from Super Robot Wars the Inspector anime after the first few eps, but his line is one he said in a different context in the anime and it made me laugh so I had to use it here.
Gilliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He's a dimension hopping man of mystery and not someone to ever underestimate.
Selena Recital is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is a master of disguise and can fool even highly secure and paranoid organizations even by pretending to be a man.
Orphan, Brain Powerds, and Gran Chers are from Brain Powerd. Yes the cockpit for those organic mecha is in the crotch and pilots have stuck their heads out to talk to each other. It is definitely something that needs to be seen to be believed.
Tau Dragon is from Hades Project Zeorymer. Gilliam isn't kidding that someone made the leader and her mech pilot enforcers into psychological disasters.
Princess Shune is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is the most powerful psychic her family has ever seen. She is able to see the future.
Go-Lion is best known in the United States as Voltron. Lion Voltron to be even more exact. As a child of the 80s there is no way that I'd have them sit out this party.