At a glance Edward and Danielle Granger were a normal couple. They were successful dentists and had an extremely intelligent daughter. And yet there was more to it than that. Even more than their daughter learning how to use magic and them not sure exactly how backwater the British Wizarding Society was.
They merely disagreed exactly how many centuries it was in various regards to various issues.
There was a secret they held from even their daughter Hermione. They were Observers for the organization Celestial Being. And so far Harry Potter was their best source into Londo Bell and its inner workings.
Neither Granger felt whatever was going on around Harry was not good for him. Nothing made sense and they were sure that Hermione left things out of what happened to her at school. They had a feeling it was things that would make them want to see Gundams burn Hogwarts to the ground.
Though they would be the first to admit their objectivity didn't exist when it came to the safety and welfare of their daughter. Or when it came to various major Observers who they had this feeling had their own plans over those that were the goals of Celestial Being.
They had utterly no trust in Alejandro Corner or Laguna Harvey. They felt the pair paid just lip service to what Aeolia Schenburg intended. Also Alejandro's assistant for some reason scared the hell out them. There just was something about Ribbons Almark that felt like a predator to the pair and they could not place why they felt that way.
Though right now they were looking at the messages Harry had sent their daughter in their office/study. He wrote to her often and didn't seem to be holding back much in his e-mails. Which also explained why their daughter was freaking out and worried about Harry.
"I wonder how many people that 'Auror' is giving these to," Edward mused. "Or if she really is an Auror in the first place."
"Or the fact it was in books and not in classes our daughter learned the name of their police force,' Danielle noted.
"It seems actually teaching the basics of their society is too much for them," Edward grumbled. "Especially the children are at Hogwarts most of the year."
"Honey they are a bunch of scared possibly severely inbred people," Danielle commented. "I doubt half of them could even understand not everyone knows their unspoken rules of their subculture."
"I do struggle to understand how with glamors, polyjuice and such they are so what you see is what you get," Edward mused.
"I think that mindset is a common human failing," Danielle admitted.
"Perhaps," Edward said after a moment.
"And there also is the fact that someone placed Harry in a terrible place to grow up," Danielle noted.
"Yes I am sure Major Zonvolt won't just make things up," Edward remarked. "Given it looked to be what we thought last summer when we met Harry."
Neither of them failed to notice how Harry's clothes looked and extremely large they were. Though they couldn't ask about it as everything went crazy with Lockhart and then getting to see two grown men get into a fist fight in a book store.
"And of course Hermione had no idea who to ask to have Harry stay with us for the summer," Danielle groused. "Other than she was sure her school's headmaster wouldn't allow it."
"She still has yet to tell us why her school's headmaster is that important in what the students do during summer as that Lord of the Light doesn't mean anything," Edward groaned.
"At least she didn't try claiming total pacifism," Danielle remarked with an eyeroll as she considered that whole ideal completely stupid and unworkable in reality.
Edward was well aware of his wife's thoughts on that philosophy. She never hid her opinion on it nor would ever want to.
"Anyway," he said to change the subject. "It seems that three person Gundam Meisters team might have done some good as Harry's information on Londo Bell is quite interesting."
"And telling how much magic Londo Bell has encountered so far," Danielle snorted. "Telling how it involves more with the time sects of magic users doing the hard work keeping magic hidden."
"And I don't like that this 'Lord Voldemort' or Tom Riddle is such a scary figure to the United Kingdom Wizarding subculture when Londo Bell beat him up,' Ed sighed. "For a society all armed with lethal weapons are not winning me over."
"I'm sure a Gundam Meister could conquer it in a week," Danielle stated. "And that is if they were taking their time."
"I have a feeling they will be a bigger pain to the plan than anyone," Edward grumbled. "Ok maybe other than Corner and his assistant."
"I say they'd be more as they depend on their wands to do things instead of sleight of hand and guile," Danielle mused. "It seems altering reality just requires a stick and some dead animal parts than any meditation and spiritual learning."
"And I of course am wondering what Hogwarts is actually training them for beyond perhaps as a trade school," Ed groused.
"Definitely not manners," Danielle stated. "I mean that'd actually be useful so of course won't do that. Turning matches into sewing needles is so much more needed than knowing rules of conduct."
"Quite," Edward said with a bit of humor.
"Says so much they don't have a class to teach how to write essays yet ask for them all the time," Danielle sighed.
"And they clearly don't know Harry Potter in the slightest," Ed noted.
"Why would they let the reality of who he is interfere with their preconceived beliefs?" Danielle snarked. "That would mean he was a sentient being and not some concept or toy they could praise or mock at their whims."
"And I do wonder if he is getting any money on all the things they make of him," Edward pondered. "I have a feeling if he is no one is telling him about that."
"It seems telling Harry things isn't as much fun as watching him stumble without a clue," Danielle said bitterly. "If their chew toy actually understood things he might not be quite as funny."
"Says so much when the Londo Bell is more reasonable guardians than his own family," Edward remarked as he rubbed his forehead.
"One of our enemies is more trustworthy with teenagers and they sent them into battle," Danielle grumbled. "What is the universe coming to?"
"Teaching that Ron Weasley boy some tact," Edward commented. "Though if Hermione starts dating that boy I will get a Gundam Meister to help put some fear into him."
"And check for any influence as love potions are something they make in the sixth year potions class in Hogwarts," Danielle stated sharply. "Like nothing can go wrong with teenagers or staff able to get their hands on that or make their own."
"If he does and treats it like a normal thing I remove body parts," Ed growled.
The pair then took a deep breath.
"Perhaps we should try talking via e-mails to Harry," Danielle suggested. "Given he is one of our daughter's friends and we are sorry for not having him over for the summer."
"And that can explain why we know about things he's mentioned in previous letters," Edward said in agreement.
"And also see what Hermione has not told us or downplayed," Danielle commented. "And even worse things that school should have told us but given we aren't magical don't seem to matter to them."
"Pretty sure if the parents knew what went on there the headmaster would be fired in seconds no matter how beloved he is by most of the population," Edward noted.
"It is a boarding school," Danielle said with a snort. "They always have a bit of trouble and that's without magic, and incredibly massive building, and what seems to be a small staff added into the picture."
"Just hope all the teachers from the third year are a step up from that potions instructor," Ed mused. "Reading between the lines he sounds like some angry manchild more than a mature adult. And having the same emotional maturity as his students is not a plus here."
The pair really were not impressed with Professor Snape. Nor with the professor that had a growling book as the class textbook and no mention of how to handle it for the class on magical animals.
The pair of Observers really hoped mankind evolving to be more mature and able to deal alien life that hopefully wasn't more messed up than them would mean the subculture of wizards and witches their daughter was part of grew up.
Or that Hogwarts was reduced to rubble in a brawl between Londo Bell and whatever force they were fighting. They could live with getting their daughter out of there and find somewhere better run. It was a toss up at this point which option they wanted to see come true.
V-V-V
As Fonse Kagatie watched Zanscare's first Amalgam made mech in action he wondered if Amalgam specifically got sociopathic individuals for leadership. Every single major member he'd met such as Mr. Iron, Mr. Silver, and were completely and utterly without remorse.
Fonse doubted the Zanscare use of death for failures won't do anything to those Amalgam leaders. They won't fear it and probably consider it exactly the same way they handle things. Without that fear Amalgam likely wouldn't have a reason to show any loyalty to the Zanscare Empire.
Fonse didn't think maybe being that fatal on failure would be a problem if they needed an officer who somehow managed to avoid being killed. That such an officer would take things very personally and make that clear to everyone.
He'd make sure they all were dead and there never would be a second chance given to anyone.
'If Amalgam wasn't important for our mecha I'd never deal with them,' Fonse thought to himself.
But they needed to as the Abidgor was the best mobile suit the Zanscare Empire had made before working with Amalgam and it was considered unremarkable by the test pilots. Though they did intend to reuse the elements of it that did work later.
So the Zanscare Empire was stuck with Amalgam as their supplier for the moment. Especially...they... controlled the alien factories around Jupiter and definitely did not sure with the Jupiter Republic.
Also watching the Zoloat in action was Rau Le Creuset. He had formed ties with Amalgam among other groups for his plans. Mentally he wrote off getting ZAFT to swipe the Zoloat as the smaller mobile suit was a lot more advanced even the G-Cannon SNRI was testing.
'I think LOGOS attempt to get the market Anaheim Electronics has would be easy to reverse engineer,' Rau mused.
Rau wasn't one to waste time and he was sure the Zoloat was using Whispered tech. Likely tech made Mr. Silver himself got his hands on given he was Whispered. Rau also had a feeling Amalgam knew he was the one to impress to get PLANTS funds for their weapons.
Much like they knew Fonse Kagatie was the one controlling the purse strings of the Zanscare Empire.
In the cockpit of the Zolat Leonard Testarossa smirked as Le Creuset and Kagatie were open books to him. He doubted they'd last all that long. Gauron might outlast them and he wanted to die in the battlefield and not in a bed due to his cancer.
Still they had their uses for Amalgam...for the moment anyway. Plus it had been fun to design transformable mobile suits, and just go wild on mech designs.
"I do wonder if anyone thinking the other designs are outlandish will be laughing after fighting them," Leonard thought outloud. "Probably not."
Mr. Silver also wondered if Tau Dragon was going to call Amalgam for mecha over Anaheim Electronics. That he considered a toss up with that genetically screwed up bunch. He also considered it odd Doctor Kinhara hadn't joined Amalgam given he had the right personality for it.
Leonard then inwardly shrugged as it wasn't a loss to Amalgam to avoid that egomaniac and his long term plans. Which even now were still playing out and likely to be an annoyance for Londo Bell and their allies.
'Perhaps it will be useful for Amalgam and maybe it won't,' Leonard mused before throwing himself completely into showing what the Zolat could do.
The smaller mobile suit had heavy armor and was a bit slower than it could be, but it also had high energy output and the beam rifle was extremely effective on the various bits of armor set up as targets.
Leonard smirked slightly as they unleashed a swarm of Mobile Dolls. This was going to be a lot of fun for him.
The Zolat quickly flew in and used the beam saber on the Virgos as they not equipped for melee combat. It also dodged heavy fire from Virgos expertly.
Leonard didn't pull his punches and sliced off the head of a Gundam colored Virgo. He then to show off he could cut it in half before it hit the ground.
Fonse liked what he saw. The Zolat definitely was going to be a worthy mobile suit for the Zanscare Empire, and likely was just the start of a war machine that could threaten the Earth.
V-V-V
The still out cold unknown was watched by Londo Bell. He'd been taken to the Geo Front instead of a military hospital. Though if it was because they were worried what he'd do when he woke up or they didn't really care if wreck NERV's stuff was left open.
Of course the chief scientist and operations officer for NERV's Tokyo-3 base found this all interesting and kind of annoying as well. It annoyed the operations officer even more than the maze that was her workplace. Once more she got lost and had to be escorted around.
"Well he's recovered from his wounds," Doctor Ritsuko Akagi noted. "Perfectly other than that scar on his face. Which given what he had recovered from I am not sure what could cause him to keep scars."
"Not sure why they wanted a man able to turn into an armored killing machine to Tokyo-3," Captain Misato Katsuragi grumbled.
She felt NERV had enough problems with the Angels and didn't need what Londo Bell decided to bring in to add to that. Or that Londo Bell felt NERV could watch over their unknowns for them without any complaints. Unless the complaint department for Londo Bell was Ryoma Nagare or Hayato Jin. No one was going to try disagreeing face to face with those two unless they were suicidal and didn't have any desire for their death to be painless and likely quick either.
"They told me they thought it might be him using an AT Field," Doctor Akagi mused. "Glad someone respects my skills. And it is a theory worth exploring."
"And a reason to get even more involved with our operations too," Misato remarked. "And remind us that the Children are seconded to Londo Bell."
"And have that weird La Gias pilot talk to us," Ritsuko sighed. "Even they don't know who SF Debris is or why she keeps telling the First Child to keep her clothes on."
"She says far weirder things to me," Misato groaned as she rubbed her forehead as she recalled those complete insane comments. "And given it seems talking pets are what they give mech pilots I don't want to visit La Gias."
"They let a mentally unbalanced person build the mecha from there we've encountered," Ritsuko noted. Which actually was true as the one who made them had a second personality/her twin sister inside her.
Misato avoided rolling her eyes at her best friend not believing in the La Gias mecha had magical spirits in them. At this point Misato wasn't going to rule out magic possibly being real. Also the talking animals Mio and Masaki had confused the hell out of Ritsuko. She wasn't sure how they could be made, but that animals were able to hold an intelligent conversation so the familiars were something she couldn't avoid being real. At least not after talking to five of them.
"And speaking of mentally unbalanced it seems the Jetalone 'mobile dolls' have been replaced by a 'tame' Getter," Doctor Akagi grumbled. "One powered by plasma energy and not getter radiation."
"And they didn't let Professor Saotome do the picking for the pilots?" Captain Katsuragi inquired. "Or that maniac genius Doctor Shikishima."
"Worse actually," Ritsuko commented. "Hayato Jin is doing the legwork for getting the pilots of this watered down Getter."
"People put a lot of trust in a guy who instead of playing video games went and tried to conquer Japan once," Misato noted. "Or something like that."
"Professor Saotome also took him under his wing as his protege," Ritsuko said shivering slightly. "In being a scientist and building Getters."
"Great," Misato said after a moment. "I just hope Asuka never tries annoying him or Ryoma Nagare."
"And who knows what sort of maniacs Hayato Jin will gather for a new Getter team," Ritsuko mused.
"At least _he_ won't be driving one," Misato stated sharply.
"He who?" Doctor Akagi asked. "There are a lot of men I don't want ever piloting a Getter."
"Coop," Misato replied.
Ritsuko went silent for a moment. The infamous pilot of Megas might actually be able to make MAGI burst into flames as it crashed. Or turn Third Impact into something so completely different than anyone planned or thought possible. She didn't think that force of chaos limited himself on what he could do.
"Yes he would be terrible to drive a Getter," the bottle blonde remarked. "Even though I am sure he loves that mech he has and doesn't want to pilot a Getter."
"Not sure how even he can use it," Misato muttered as she had seen the inside of the cockpit of Megas. She couldn't imagine anyone else able to control the extremely powerful super robot.
"I guess insanity," Ritsuko commented.
"I just hope Asuka doesn't try talking about how Evangelion 02 is better than Megas," Misato sighed. "There is no way that conversation would go well."
"The Second Child and many pilots in Londo Bell having a conversation would not go well," Doctor Akagi noted. "The factors as to why might be different but the end result would be the same and not what we need or desire."
"And the fact they'd all think she was like the pilot of Great Mazinger only even more arrogant won't help things," Misato said softly.
Ritsuko inwardly wondered how insane those two pilots meeting would be. Both arrogantly believing their mech to be a superior unit and their massive pride in their abilities as a pilot. There was no way it'd be peaceful or calm. They'd probably need a medical team to patch both of them up afterward.
"So exactly how insane is that whole world within the core of the Earth thing?" Captain Katsuragi then asked referring to what Londo Bell had learned from the masked captain of a giant dragon shaped ship. The Daiku Maryu if she recalled the name right.
"I think they believe it to be in the core of the Earth and is more like whatever ties La Gias to the Earth," Ritsuko Akagi explained. "It likely is a subspace pocket dimension than inside the planet like the Dinosaur Empire is."
"Just as long you explain to them their science is wrong and not me," Misato half joked with her friend..
"Of course there is the fact that Londo Bell was willing to trust a group without hearing the other side," Ritsuko mused.
"Rits the other side was invading the surface and tried to wreck a city," Misato pointed out. "That pretty much makes it clear who the good guys are in this."
"It still is another distraction from the Angels," Ritsuko groused. "And another reason to have NERV made nothing more than a part of Londo Bell."
The Dead Sea Scrolls were extremely incomplete and that threat after threat showed up showed that. Of course Ritsuko wondered what else they'd end having thrown at them as more and more changes were needed to make their plans work.
It made Ritsuko wonder what other military projects designed to deal with alien invaders were around and if finding out what they intended to fight would allow NERV to be ahead of the curve and take some measure of control. That would allow NERV to be able to take charge instead of Londo Bell.
Doctor Akagi nearly shivered thinking about what Professor Denton's message into space was going to bring. There was no way races that would destroy the Earth won't use it. That so far it merely had that Go-Lion team get to Earth wasn't encouraging. It made her instead wonder when the other shoe was going to drop. She imagined it to be an Evangelion sized shoe doing an orbital drop on them.
'Of course there's also that Galra Empire the Go-Lion talk about,' Ritsuko thought to herself. 'A barbaric despot and his star nation out to conquer if only for amusement.'
"And of course I'm not sure how Tokyo-3 got made where they are holding the Gundam Fight," Misato grumbled. "We didn't need that problem on top of Angels."
"Nor the fact that it seems the officials are counting killing Angels in their game," Ritsuko sighed.
"Really?" Misato inquired. "They want to include a threat to all human life as a target in their insane game?"
"Have you met some of those pilots?" Ritsuko replied. "Like the one that shoved his Gundam's glowing fist through Evangelion 01's head."
That was something that was hard to forget. And they still weren't aware who drove that dragon mech and what their problem was. It was something that annoyed Misato as it was hard to plan for things when no one had any idea why someone was attacking them with a giant robot. The fact they hadn't attacked again didn't help her nerves. When mechs and their pilots were quiet tended to be when they getting ready to cause the most trouble.
"In any case we got any idea who our sleeping beauty is?" Misato asked.
"Almost as he has a twin brother," Ritsuko Akagi admitted. "If he will admit which one he is I have no idea. Their family went missing exploring the outer solar system."
"Says a lot when we know more about other star systems than anything beyond Jupiter," Misato mused.
"And sure to involve things that want to kill us all," Ritsuko muttered. "Because why won't it?"
Misato shrugged.
"Yeah that's kind of what I have to deal with every single day," Captain Katsuragi stated bluntly.
"That explains the heavy drinking to some degree," Ritsuko commented.
Misato had to resist sticking her tongue out at that.
Ritsuko then realized there was another problem with members of Londo Bell around. One that could be a nightmare for everyone. Or even worse cause MAGI to burst into flames trying to figure out what had caused it to happen.
"The last thing we need is the Evangelions customized by Coop and that Junk Guild friend of his," Ritsuko stated."Their creative and insane work might be somewhat acceptable on mobile suits, but Evangelions are far more complex and I don't want one able to go beserk and able to match Wing Zero in firepower."
"Everyone with an organic mech has been keeping them far away from their machines," Misato informed her friend. "That is the same fear they all have."
"Good," Ritsuko said relieved.
"Surprised you aren't trying to understand how the technology in Megas works," Misato commented.
"The supposed future technology?' Ritsuko said with bemusement. She like Misato didn't believe that Megas had come from the future. Though it did raise the question of why a giant robot was buried in a junkyard in New Jersey.
The pair then entered the commissary and saw a sight that Misato liked and Ritsuko knew Gendo would utterly hate. Shinji interacting with the various younger pilots of Londo Bell and clearly enjoying himself. Along with the younger pilots were the SRX team. The pair didn't even notice the female Section 2 agent that seemed to be keeping an eye on the Third Child.
Though they both wondered who gave Masaki Andoh directions as he'd been rumored to get lost on a guided tour. It might have been Koji Kabuto or Sayaka Yumi as were among group of teen pilots.
They also wondered who had dragged Canard Pars to this get together as the so called failed Ultimate Coordinator wasn't especially social. Doctor Akagi wondered exactly what made Pars a failure and what was considered a successful 'ultimate" coordinator would be like. Of course that also would require someone able to understand Doctor Hibiki's genetic modifications.
There also was Yuu Isami who was the son of a pair of imfamous scientists who studied the entity known as Orphan and part of the organization known as the Reclaimers. Plus he had a sister that seemed to want to be called something other than her real name. Of course her real name also meant "good child" so one could understand her forcefully wanting to be called a different name.
Ritsuko actually liked talking to Yuu as his knowledge of organic mecha known as Brain Powerds and Grand Chers was quite in depth and he had proven that those mecha were not Angel based at all. Whatever Orphan was it did not come from the Earth.
'It is a pity that Third Impact likely will happen before I could have a chance to study Orphan,' Doctor Akagi thought sadly. 'Though I think the Reclaimers sound more like a nuthouse than a functional society.'
The pair noticed the teens listening to Masaki as he was discussing things he'd come across as he tended to go around the world repeatedly to get anywhere. Even Kikunosuke Abashiri wasn't being snarky and just listened.
"And I keep seeing this big blue robot on an island that isn't on any maps," Masaki then said. "Not sure what it is to be honest."
"I'm sure we'll encounter it some time," Harry shrugged.
"Probably," Ryusei Date said as he also shrugged. "I just hope it or whoever pilots it is friendly."
"Yes it would not nice to not to have to find out first hand what it can do," Rai admitted.
"But we'll deal with it if it comes to that,' Koji Kabuto said with a grin.
Kaworu wondered if that was what the GAIL corporation called the Humanoid. He figured that probably was what Masaki had seen. It actually amused him that all that secrecy and power could not keep a Masaki away as he got lost and flew around the planet.
'And GAIL so arrogant in their power they are unaware SEELE knows all about them and their secrets,' Kaworu mused. 'I wonder if they feel they would do better than the Romefeller Foundation against Londo Bell and their allies.'
The Angel of Freewill found it very interesting that LOGOS, GAIL, Barton Foundation, and other powers didn't seem to care Londo Bell had managed to destroy the Romefeller Foundation. A power that once was incredibly influential and nearly controlled the Earth, and now was nothing more than a footnote in history.
True that the group of disgruntled and completely ditching the "total pacifism" nonsense space colonists called White Fang had been the ones to kill the leader of the Romefeller Foundation and start the rapid decline. But after that Londo Bell had a large impact on dismantling the Romefeller Foundation and the leaderless OZ. It was part of why Raidiese Branstein's brother Elzam still had to use an alias a year later.
'It is like they are trying to ignore Londo Bell and it won't hurt them,' Kaworu inwardly mused. 'I do hope I can see them burn to ashes before I unite with Father.'
"You really get around," Mari commented as Masaki's insanely bad sense of direction was well known. And also the whole La Gias thing as well.
"We live interesting lives meow," Kuro admitted.
"So is your owl going to talk as well?" Shinji asked Harry as he'd brought Hedwig with him.
"I don't believe she can," Harry shrugged.
"It won't be the first time an animal started talking," Rai stated.
"It never gets old seeing the shocked expressions meow," Shiro admitted.
"Why am I not surprised?" Aya Kobayashi commented.
"I never imagined such a thing could happen," Yuu stated.
"You get used to weird things after awhile," Sayaka said with a shrug.
"It's part of the job," Koji remarked.
"You are also are the pair who fights a guy who does insane stuff to his minions," Captain Katsuragi noted. "And who I never want to get his hands on an Angel or an Evangelion."
"The Reclaimers also don't want him to find a Brain Powerd or a Grand Cher," Yuu added.
"A wise decision," Kaworu noted. "I assume it came from the actual leader of the Reclaimers and not from the rank and file."
"Very likely that is true," Yuu admitted after a moment.
"I'd run him over with my bike before I let Doctor Hell touch Iron Z," Kikunosuke commented. "Same with Baron Ashura and Count Brocken."
"Is it true that Boss is your cousin?" Harry inquired.
Kikunosuke nodded. "And of course I know his real name, but he likes being called Boss."
"And amazed that pile of scrap he has even worked," Ritsuko mused. "Before those two maniacs got their hands on it to improve it."
"Coop and Lowe do good work," Koji grinned.
"We are sure he's not a Child like us right?' Arado Balanga stage whispered to Seolla in reference to Shinji.
"No he isn't," Seolla Schweizer sighed as she had to tell him yet again.
"Oh," Arado said after a moment. "Then why would anyone want to refer to pilots like that after what happened to us?"
"Don't look at me," Misato groaned. "I didn't come up with the name."
"Nor did I," Doctor Akagi informed them.
"I never heard of you guys before meeting you," Mari remarked. "Had no idea those Gaia Sabers were also called Children."
"You'd think they'd have known to not annoy the Getter team,' Seolla muttered.
"Very sure I shouldn't be eating when finding out what they did," Harry noted.
"Pretty much," Arado agreed. "Even I didn't want to eat when I found out."
"Given the small fortress of plates you have around you makes that sound even worse," Misato noted.
"I have a friend that enjoys eating," Harry said looking at the plates. "Not sure he could eat quite that much but he probably could eat as much as Musashi. He also rather have visited Las Vegas than Egypt."
"Just as long as he didn't try to beat Coop and Koji," Aya remarked.
"You needed a strong stomach to watch them eat," Rai noted.
Koji just shrugged at that comment. Sayaka groaned softly.
"You didn't have to agree with them so easily you glutton," Sayaka muttered.
Seolla gave Sayaka a commiserating look. She knew her pain extremely well.
Mio grinned widely at Captain Katsuragi. Misato wondered what insanity would come out of the teen pilot's mouth this time.
"I'm surprised you haven't tried getting a talking cat of your own," Mio commented.
Misato had no idea what to say to that. The other Londo Bell pilots just ignored it as Mio was kind of strange even by their standards.
"Is it true that they will try to reactivate Evangelion 00 soon?" Canard asked. "So I can make sure my Hyperion is ready to fight it if it goes crazy again."
Doctor Ritsuko Akagi barely avoided making a face at that. Somehow she wasn't surprised the Londo Bell forces knew about what happened in the Evangelion 00's first test. She also knew they all considered the First Child's history being erased and lost to be a load of crap. She was thankfully they hadn't figured out what the First Child actually was.
'Not that I expect them to actually care in the slightest what she is,' Ritsuko mused.
"What?" Shinji gasped in surprise. "They have another Evangelion on site?"
"They really don't tell you anything do they?" Canard remarked.
"Not really," Shinji sighed. "I've learned more through Londo Bell than with NERV."
"I know the feeling," Harry said sympathetically. He felt the same way with Sirius teaching him things about the Wizarding World than Hogwarts had. At this point Sirius wondered what all those galleons paid to go to Hogwarts went to.
"For your information yes we are reactivating Evangelion 00," Captain Katsuragi nearly snapped. "Though we don't believe there will be any problems."
"This time," Canard remarked. "Surprised you haven't tried getting that nutcase Saotome Labs has to work on Evangelions."
Doctor Akagi looked him dead in the eye. "Over my dead body are they letting Doctor Shikishima look at the Evangelions let alone work on them."
Canard smirked at that. "At least I won't have to worry about what insane weapon of the day he's made being bolted onto an Evangelion."
"I'd rather have Doctor Shikishima look over you than those idiots that I doubt could figure out genetic enhancements that 'raised' you," Ritsuko then noted. "Him I expect between making new weapons to get how to replicate Doctor Hibiki's work. Or at least that nut would understand what he was looking."
Canard went very silent for a moment. Everyone tensely hoped that he won't try stabbing her with any utensil he could get his hands on. Kuro and Shiro ran under a table to get out of the way. Harry also wondered if he was going to tell Mrs. Weasley about another teen mech pilot she'd want to adopt.
"Maybe they should have asked him for help then," Pars nearly growled.
Captain Katsuragi wondered if the hot headed leader Katrina Tarask of Octo Squad was a good or bad influence on Canard. And also if Londo Bell tried to gather every single teen with a mech into their forces. It won't surprise her if that was the case.
Shinji silently wondered if he'd keep seeing people that topped him in having things suck for them. At this point his father being a manipulative jerk was not the worst thing. Which actually disturbed Shinji a great deal.
"So they going to give Penpen a mech?" Masaki then asked. "I mean they let a dog pilot Pasture King."
"I thought that was a rumor," Misato admitted after a moment.
"We've seen it in action," Kuro commented. "It is real."
"I was kind of shocked as well," Canard added as he recalled the time Octo Squad worked with Texas Mack. That was a kind of a crazy day for him.
Yuu just shook his head. The Reclaimers never had an animal try to pilot a Grand Cher. Which said a great deal about the Pasture King mech.
"We aren't giving Penpen a mech," Ritsuko said sharply. The Americans had to be insane thinking having the King family dog pilot the horse mech partner for Texas Mack was a good idea.
'Then again they also went for a cowboy theme mech in the first place,' the bottle blond scientist mused. 'Sanity was not a requirement or they wanted something that was as out there as a Gundam fight mobile suit.'
"That's...out there," Harry said as he took in a dog drove a mech. "Even by my standards. I mean a dog driven mech?"
"People do strange things," Yuu Isami commented. "Some way stranger than others."
"Sounds interesting to me," Kikunosuke remarked.
"After some of the things that happened at Paradise Academy I can see why you won't be surprised by that," Kaworu noted.
Harry wondered if that place could top Hogwarts in crazy.
"Now do any of you have any idea why Londo Bell is dumping people that can become human sized war machines on us?" Captain Kurasagi asked.
"Would you rather have him in the hands of someone else?" Kaworu inquired. He knew SEELE and Supreme Commander Ikari were such control freaks that they won't want anything like that where they couldn't see it.
"Not really," Doctor Akagi replied. Who knew what any organization would do with such a person. Or how much they'd enrage him and learn first hand what Mr. Aiba could do. Though rumor was the Space Knights intended to get involved.
Which to Ritsuko was basically Londo Bell moving the guest over to hands they trusted a lot more when the time came. Though given what Gendo intended to do was actually pretty wise.
"Anyway," Sayaka stated to change the subject. "Will the Glory Stars be on hand for the Evangelion activation test?"
"We might as well invite Wing Zero and the Gundam Fight group if we do," Misato commented. "Though the test is not being held near the windmill that one of them is hiding as."
"The Gundam Fight is odd," Harry commented. "Like they consider making their Gundams as strange as they can possible be and still be effective in combat."
"I know someone that really enjoys it," Shinji admitted. "Kensuke is kind of...obsessed with military gear, mecha, and more."
"So if you told him you knew Ryoma you'd need to give him a bag to breath into?" Canard asked. "Or met Koji here?"
"Or you," Shinji admitted to the coordinator. "You are a member of Octo Squad and actually famous in Londo Bell fan circles."
Canard looked shocked he was considered famous. Though he bitterly mused that the true Ultimate Coordinator would be more famous if he was driving a mech as part of Londo Bell. Which confused him that Kira Yamato was not really doing anything out of the ordinary. If anything Carard was rather jealous of success of Doctor Hibiki's project was living a normal life and not having been told he was a failure. Though it was odd he was an engineering student like Amuro Ray had been.
'Why did that one guy want me to kill Kira Yamato when he's not actually doing anything that'd rub in my face how perfect he is?' Canard mused. 'At this point I'm not even sure if Kira would know he is the Ultimate Coordinator. Hard to become the real Ultimate Coordinator when killing the real one when the guy wouldn't have any idea what is going on.'
Canard doubted killing someone who didn't even know about the whole thing would make him feel any better or whole. It also lead to wonder if even if Kira Yamato did know if killing him would make him feel any better.
"Really he knows that much about us?" Mari asked.
"He's knowledgeable and very..excitable," Shinji sighed. "I think Coop had to pick him up for the last Angel fight, but I'm afraid to ask. He'd probably tell me way more than I ever wanted to know about Coop."
Ritsuko almost broke into a cold sweat thinking what a Coop trained or befriended Fourth Child would cause in Evangelion 03. She'd seen the reports on S-Force and having to deal with the mess Coop had left there.
Though part of it was the fact the holographic mentor of S-Force and that S-Force member unable to speak anything that could be understood on Earth appeared in Misato's apartment and told everyone.
'That...man… just worries me,' Ritsuko thought to herself. 'And what might happen when he gets bored and starts attacking everyone.'
The thought of Coop turning evil scared her deeply. It could be possibly the worst possible event to happen to them all. All that power and someone focused on destruction instead of it happening by accident was frightening.
She just hoped they'd all be killed by Third Impact before something that horrible could be unleashed. Better to be dead then killed by Coop gone the way of several members of the Getter team.
Misato was unaware of her friend's dark thoughts and sat down with the teen pilots. She hoped Canard would behave himself as she was sure he'd be on her before she could draw her gun. She had nothing against coordinators, but this guy had a few screws loose and able to cause a lot of damage if he wanted to.
"Now is it true that the Second Child is about as crazy as Canard?" Kaworu inquired.
"Hey!" Canard snarled.
Captain Katsuragi sighed. "Asuka is not easy to work with. Especially people that don't think much of her production model Evangelion."
"She doesn't think that thing can beat Megas does she?" Harry asked.
"Rits and I just had a similar conversation about that," Misato admitted. "Somehow I'm sure she gets that a lot."
"Seriously does she think she could fight Coop and win?" Masaki inquired.
The silence they got was worrying. Extremely worrying. Misato frankly wasn't sure if Asuka would believe that or not. She hoped not dearly as Megas could go through an AT field due to having some sort of shielding in it.
"I don't think I could fight Coop and win," Shinji said softly.
"You aren't insane," Mio remarked. 'Unlike evil Abe who runs this place."
"So the Commander gets that joke and I get worse," Misato grumbled.
"Evil Abe?" Shinji said trying to understand.
"He was reconstituted in an evil log cabin," Mio joked.
"Right," the Third Child said after a moment.
"You have no idea what she's talking about either do you?" Yuu commented.
"Pretty much," Shinji said in agreement.
Mio didn't seem really to mind they were confused. If anything she was reading a shonen manga with a smile on her face. Harry tried to think what Mio and Luna have a conversation would be like and it just gave him a headache.
Harry had no idea what the other reading material Mio like to get was.
Kaworu was working hard to avoid glaring at Mio as he still desired to kill her first when he showed his true colors to Londo Bell.
Phones then rang and Harry got to see a giant rock had come out of the ground and a giant skull shape ship landed and letting out monsters.
Kaworu barely avoided turning paler as he really didn't need the problem that stone and that force represented. It was something he rather stayed sealed away and not being a problem for him and his plans. Though it seemed his desires were not being listened to on that.
Yuu got a bad feeling about the whole thing. He doubted Yuu Brain was going to like this any more than he was. And that there would be yet another problem to drive Orphan into the background which was likely how the Reclaimers would want it. At least the ones that understood getting Londo Bell's attention was counter to their goals.
Doctor Akagi wondered what logic defying mess just hit the Earth this time. She also pondered what weird giant robot or robots that would be made part of Londo Bell because of this. Because of course there would be more giant robots joining Londo Bell because of this.
Misato just looked and wondered who this bunch was. Besides being trouble of course as that much was obvious from the destruction they were causing. The dragon/insect themes of the mecha looked menacing and their actions were to wreck everything.
"And please follow me Masaki," Harry stated. "We need your help and not you lost and finding that blue robot a few times."
"Fine," Masaki muttered.
V-V-V
Londo Bell hauled ass to the latest disaster zone and found a giant mech on hand having trouble with a dragon themed similar unit.
Ryu Doruku learned the hard way to not ignore those other units as his bio armor got nearly run through by a massive sword.
Sanger was impressed that someone dodged that.
"They might actually be a challenge," Ryu mused. He had no idea Sanger had the exact same thoughts on the matter.
In the Liger Ken Taiga was actually glad for the help. Not that he'd ever admit that out loud to anyone if had any say in it. That he wasn't sure if Liger could even tap into communication systems to talk to them also made it easier for him to avoid having to say anything on that matter.
"Liger Slash!" Ken called out as he used a sword to attack the Maruyo Doll.
He didn't have much better luck than Sanger as the Maruyo Doll dodged to the left and out of the way of his sword.
"Fool this…" Ryu said as he felt something that should be long dead. Devilman slammed the bio armor mech into the ground.
"Figures this bunch would come back," Devilman remarked. "Especially now."
"A devil helping the humans?" Ryu gasped in surprise.
"I get that a lot," Devilman admitted. He then blasted Maruyo Doll with a blast of energy from his hands.
"Rocket Punch!" Koji called out and hit the Maruyo Doll in the face with a rocket fist.
"It doesn't matter how many of you there are," Ryu remarked with a slight smile. "I will destroy you all!"
Ryoma snorted in amusement at that bravado. He was going to enjoy beating the crap out of that guy.
Yuu Brain blasted one of the insectoid minions with an energy blast from the blade it had as a weapon.
"You don't like them at all do you Yuu Brain?" Yuu asked.
The Hyperion then slammed into the dragon-like bio armor with the force field up. The sword of the Maruyo Doll did nothing as it struck the force field.
"Nice try," Canard laughed.
Ryu growled at that and tried harder to break the barrier. Yet no matter what he did the barrier would not falter.
Harry found himself fighting a weird hairy mech sized being with a normal human sized face on top of a mouth with sharp teeth massive fangs. He was sure it was a higher ranking being than the insectoids. He was sure a normal Rezel would be completely outmatched. Thankfully he had no ordinary Rezel after the work Coop and Lowe put into it.
Dor Army was indeed one of the four generals and quite annoyed that more than that one bio armor was fighting against them. Humans actually were able to fight them and were not losing.
Dor Army then tried to crush the red mech attacking him, and it easily moved out of the way of his attack.
Harry responded by introducing Dor Army to his pretty much standard mega beam launcher. He never used the lighter beam rifle to be honest. Though he was aware that weapon could also be used as a beam saber.
"You will have to do better than that human!' Dor Army growled.
Harry got out one of the mega beam sabers and Dor Army thought perhaps he should avoid taunting the humans as he saw the massive blade of light.
Harry managed to avoid calling out chesto like Sanger would as he sliced into Dor Army with his mega beam saber. Yet whatever the being was he was made of stern stuff and not cut in half by the Coop and Lowe amped up weapon.
Still Dor Army intended to avoid being struck by that weapon ever again. The wound it left hurt and was to leave one nasty scar he won't forget.
'Yet why does that blue and flame covered mech scare me far more?' Dor Army pondered.
Speaking of Coop, Megas then leaped off the massive stone to bodyslam the Maruyo Doll.
"I need to do something like that," Ken Taiga remarked in awe of how completely awesome that looked to him.
"Get off…" Ryu growled trying to lift Megas off his bio armor. Yet Megas didn't budge an inch no matter how much he tried.
Megas then got up and Ryu was blasted with the twin cannons on Russel's Gespenst. As Ryu tried to gut the Guncannon-like version of the Gespenst he was struck by a pair of tomahawks by Shin Getter 1.
To follow that up Rai used the cannons on R-2, and Aya gave him cover fire with the R-3. The Maruyo Doll weathered the attack and Ryu was getting more and more frustrated by his performance.
Iron Z hit the Maruya Doll with a Breast Fire. Kikunosuke grinned as it knocked the bio armor back and nearly off its feet.
Sanger then let loose on the Maruya Doll with the chest based Hyper blaster of his Grungust Type 0.
Amuro Ray in Nu Gundam showed the invaders why it was a bad idea to invade Earth as he sliced through Dragon Knights like they were made out of warm butter.
"Change Getter 2," Ryoma called out and the trio of planes reformed into Shin Getter 2.
Hayato then moved like lightning and shredded the Dragon Knights with Shin Getter 2's massive drill. He gleefully enjoyed his work.
"We're going to need something stronger to deal with all this," Ryu snarled. Who knew humans would have something effective? Also the one unit that had changed forms was kind of creeping him out and he wasn't sure why.
Kaworu then attacked Maruyo Doll with his dual chainsaw. He wondered if he was overestimating how dangerous this bunch was without their sealed leader around to make them more powerful. He revised that as the Maruyo Doll's sword was able to block the devastating chainsaw.
"Not bad," Kaworu remarked.
The Dragon Knights were not as impressive as they were crushed by the leader of Octo Squad with her made for melee and Jet Magnum attack Gespenst. Katrina Tarask smirked as she tore through the insect-like forces.
"And they want to make Octo Squad bigger than three units," Sanger noted.
"Not sure that's a good or bad thing," Amuro admitted. "Nor am I sure who else they'd add to that unit."
"I can hear you," Katrina growled as she violently crushed more Dragon Knights.
Russel focused on watching his CO's back and giving her coverfire. It was pretty much second nature for the man by now. He would wonder who would be made part of Octo Squad later. He also avoided Arado's Huckebein coming through.
It said a lot that Coop and Lowe hadn't done any upgrades to Arado's mech. Even they weren't quite sure what he'd cause and do.
Masaki was used to seeing that and let Dor Army have it with a Cosmic Nova. The general screamed in pain as the green beams of energy struck him. Seolla then shot Dor Army in the head with her g-railgun.
Dor Army's human sized face was missed by the shot, but there was a nasty wound where she hit him.
Jushin Liger punched Dor Army in the face and knocked him to the ground. Ken wasn't going to let Londo Bell do all the work.
Dor Army then was struck with rocket punches from Iron Z and Mazinger Z.
"We need a bigger army," Dor Army groaned in pain.
"Yes you do," Devilman mused before punching Dor Army in the massive head wound he had.
Dor Army let out a screamed in pain.
"I don't think we'll need to merge to deal with this," Ryusei commented as the R-1 was shredding Dragon Knights.
Coop slammed his head on a massive button and fired off a barrage of missiles. Dragon Knight parts flew everywhere after that.
Mazinkaiser SKL took advantage of the confusion and destruction Megas caused and opened fire with the pair of pistols.
Ryu growled as this wasn't going well for them. That devil and his allies were stronger than they imagined.
A blue light then struck the floating stone and in a flash of light it was gone. Like it had never been there in the first place.
"Getter Beam!" Ryoma called out and struck the massive skull shaped ship the invaders were using.
"No point in making it easy for them to get away," Hayato noted.
"Agreed," Sanger remarked.
Sayaka let the massive skull shaped ship have it with iron cutter missiles. Nu Gundam then unleashed hell with its funnels on the skull ship. The Maruyo Doll made a break for it and tried to keep Londo Bell from doing further damage to the skull ship.
To say the invaders ran with their tails between their legs was an understatement. Dor Army growled as he was going to get revenge for this defeat.
"Another day, and another new volunteer ensign for Londo Bell," Ken Kaido remarked as he looked at Jushin Liger.
"Me?" Ken Taiga gasped.
"Pretty much," Harry remarked.
"Wow," Ken said in surprise as he wasn't sure how to take that.
"I wonder if those losers will be as easy next time?" Ryoma grinned in his usual savage way.
"I'm sure they'll want to do better given the beating their egos took," Hayato noted.
"True," Ken Kaido agreed. "They were rather pathetic."
"They won't try to make that mistake next time," Sanger stated. "And they will be far more angry."
"Fun," Ryoma chuckled.
Harry had a funny feeling Ryoma also wound enjoy fighting man sized spiders. Which also would make Hagrid cry.
V-V-V
Euzeth Gozzo considered who he had been before reawakening unimportant beyond his being able to teleport was extremely useful.
Yet even with that power he was unable to find them. The accursed SRX team existed but he was unable to find the Originator. The one called Igram Prisken. Nor was Bet Balshem anywhere he looked.
What happened to them? Where were they? He needed answers and pawns to use.
Euzeth Gozzo teleported away in frustration.
V-V-V
Chapter Notes
Alejandro Corner is from Gundam 00 and is an Observer for Celestial Being. Given he plans on killing all the Observers in the series the Grangers right to not trust him at all.
Laguna Harvey is from Gundam 00 and is an Observer for Celestial Being. He supplies the Gundam Trinity with their gear and intends to sell a mobile suit able to fight them. He gets killed in the series by a psychopath.
Aeolia Schenburg is from Gundam 00 and is the founder of Celestial Being. Thought dead, but he's really been in stasis for a very long time.
Ribbons Almark is from Gundam 00 and is a very angry and vengeful being.
Fronze Kagatie is from Gundam Victory and the true head of the Zanscare Empire. He is from Jupiter and likely behind the Zanscare Empire's policies on defeat as the Jupiter nation he is from is exactly the same on matters.
Rau Le Creuset is from Gundam SEED. A clone that wishes to see the world burned to cinders and humanity dead.
Leonard Testarossa is from Full Metal Panic. He is codenamed Mr. Silver as one of the major figures in Amalgam, and is also one of the Whispered. Like all major Amalgam members he's got no morals to speak of.
Ritsuko Akagi is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and is very deep in the plans of Gendo Ikari.
Misato Katsuragi is from Neon Genesis Evangelion and the only high ranked member of NERV actually trying to do their stated mission of saving the world.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He's a brutal psychopath and badass.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He's a brutal psychopath and badass.
Coop is from Megas XLR. A force of chaotic nature that is never to be used for subtle tasks.
Masaki Andoh is from Super Robot War Original Generation. Can easily get lost, has a pair of talking cat familiars, and pilots the Cybuster.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He's pretty much the mold many super robot pilots was made from.
Sayaka Yumi is from Mazinger Z. She wonders how she puts up with all the insanity some days.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED X Astray. He is a supposedly "failed" Ultimate Coordinator, yet no one has ever figured out exactly in what way he is that from the success.
Yuu Isami is from Brain Powerd. His family has issues, and he wishes for a giant organic being to not rise and end all life on Earth as it leaves the planet.
Kikunosuke Abashiri is from Mazinger Angels. Pilot of the Iron Z and very willing to fight dirty to win.
Ryusei Date is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is a mecha fanboy living the dream and finding out reality doesn't always match the dream.
Raidiese "Rai" Branstein is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is pilot of the R-2 and has a metal hand.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is one of the Angels NERV is supposed to fight, and likely the most together Evangelion pilot.
Mari Illustrious Makinami is from Neon Genesis Evangelion Rebuild. She is Ryoma Nagare with a candy shell in personality.
Kuro and Shiro are Masaki's familiars.
Aya Kobayashi is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is the pilot of R-3.
Arado Balanga is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He's hard to kill, eats like he's a got a black hole for a digestive system, and fights with the grace of bull in a china shop.
Seolla Schweizer is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She's a sniper and works with Arado. They were trained to work together and she puts with him at times.
Shinji Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. A bit of a weenie, but also neck deep in weird forces that wish to change the world.
Mio Sasuga is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is the pilot of the Zamzeed and she's also able to break the 4th wall.
Katrina Tarask is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is leader of Octo Squad and is high strung and always ready to beat the crap out of people.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is the Sword that Pierces Evil and is pure awesome.
Ken Taiga is from Juushin Liger. He is a brash hero that is still learning the ropes.
Devilman is from Devilman. He's worked with the Getter Team, Mazinger Angels, and various other mecha heroes.
Amuro Ray is from the original Gundam series. He is the supreme newtype badass.
Russel Bagman is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations. Part of Octo Squad and the closer you look the more you wonder how sane he is.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He likes to use swords and get up close.
Ryo Magami is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He likes to use guns.