Molly Weasley wondered what in Merlin's name was wrong with a lot of people as it seemed every letter Harry talked about some child who was treated in ways she'd want to hex their caregivers to the point even healers at St. Mungos would scratch their heads and not be sure where to begin.
Especially with how this Canard Pars had been treated. That whatever enhancements had been made to Canard was too complicated for them to understand and they took their frustrations out on him. Also that supposedly he was a 'failed" version of what happened and no one knew where the success of it was. Yet those...people...acted like they'd be able to understand that better, but she doubted that. It darkly made her wonder who they would blame besides themselves as their fragile egos couldn't handle being unable to understand whoever the "ultimate coordinator" was.
Molly wasn't going to claim she understood what "genetic engineering" was, but she able to tell Canard had been treated as a thing and not a person. Canard also sounded like an understandably angry young man that considered his upbringing an extremely sore subject. Her heart went out to the "failed" Ultimate Coordinator for being treated in such a deplorable manner.
And there were the "Boosted Children" Harry had met. Some despite what happened turned out to be decent people. Only one of them seemed to get away and be raised by loving parents. Molly would admit she could have nightmares of Ronald being put through the same insane training as Arado and turned into something like those "Gaia Sabers'. And that her son could end up having their brutal and violent end.
Harry had been very forthright with the Getter Team and what they were like. Molly didn't want her children near Ryoma Nagare or Hayato Jin. They were dangerous men and they frightened her. That the only reason they piloted a Getter was that they were able to withstand the intense stress it put on the human body didn't make them good or noble people.
If anything Hayato Jin was anything but. Molly could not imagine He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named plotting to take over the Ministry one afternoon at Hogwarts when he was bored. Yet that more or less what Hayato tried to do before becoming a mech pilot. Hayato had admitted it was that or trying to work the stock market.
She also didn't want any children to be involved in brutal conflicts. She had lived through that when You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters tried to take over. She'd lost her brothers in one that seemed to be mild compared to the insanity Harry had gotten wrapped up in. Molly wasn't sure if this summer would validate what others had written about Harry in the minds of others or completely blow those books out of the water.
Of course she also was wondering what in Merlin's name was going on at Hogwarts as it seemed Harry was asking about things he should be learning at the school. How the laws were drafted and ratified, what the main jobs were, what the ICW did exactly, and who were the usual allies the UK had in the ICW among other things had been asked.
That she kept getting questions like that was worrying her. The muggleborns were of course completely lost if just being able to do magic was the extent of their education. She had no idea how they could be considered an acceptable status quo. Especially with Dumbledore who likely could bring information from all three of his positions to illustrate how this was a bad thing for Hogwarts, for the UK, and what happened to other countries in the ICW when they had these problems. It made her wonder how things had changed since she had been a student at Hogwarts or if she looked at her time there with rose tinted glasses.
Even worse to her was him asking exactly what the Hogwarts staff told parents about what was going on in it. As a mother of seven she had a sinking feeling there were incidents Harry was referring to with that question. It was a feeling she didn't like and something she wanted to know exactly Harry was referring to.
And she was pureblood mother who had worked along with her husband with the headmaster against the Death Eaters. If they weren't her anything than the parents of the muggleborns won't be told a single thing that happened to their children.
'I'm amazed many of those parents keep sending their children to Hogwarts if that is what they get,' Molly thought to herself. At this point it might have a miracle they even told her about what happened to Ginny.
She recalled Harry writing he'd do whatever he could help in getting Ginny to see a mind healer and pay the costs if he had to as whatever was in that diary was not something to sweep under the rug. Also that he was sure the mind healers that worked with Londo Bell won't bat an eye at what happened. They deal with things that weird on a daily basis.
Molly wasn't sure what sort of things they dealt with to make possession normal nor not sure she'd want to find out. It was up there with what she's seen in Harry's letters to Ron on if Dumbledore had known exactly what the Dursleys did to him and treated him.
Something that if true she could understand why Harry would want to kill Dumbledore. Something she'd hoped dearly was wrong as the implications to that were so disturbing and horrifying to her. She desperately didn't want that to be true and needed Dumbledore an example of what a Light and just wizard and leader was.
That he was more like a dark lord in actions would be even harder for her to take than anything else Harry had written about. None of that shook her core beliefs in the world as close to home as that would. All the other things were part of the muggle world and that place being completely insane were somewhere else to her. There was an illusion of safety as they didn't happen to her and other than Harry didn't involve her family and friends.
Dumbledore and things around him didn't have that luxury. If he was untrustworthy then who could be trusted?
That question haunted Molly and Arthur Weasley as they dealt with the fact that the world was a lot more insane and complicated than they ever imagined.
V-V-V
There were days the Hawk of Endymion felt like a test pilot for Anaheim Electronics as he took out for a spin one of the new mobile suits they'd received called the Gustav Karl. He could imagine Lowe and Coop wanted to take it apart and see about improving it in their usual chaotic manner.
The skies of Izu Base were clear and it was a bright and sunny day. Everyone was on guard in case Evangelion 00 did the same thing it did the first time it was activated and/or another Angel attacked.
If a third angel attacked that meant there was something specific that they wanted in Tokyo 3 over anywhere else on Earth. Which would lead to wondering exactly what that could be and how dangerous that something was to everyone.
Mu really hated hidden agenda crap. He was sure his old man had been up to his neck in those sort of things before his death. He then focused on more pleasant thoughts and activities. He pushed the Gustav Karl's exceleration to the limit.
"Nice mass produced suit," Mu remarked. "And you sure what you are getting into being on the Macbeth?"
Mu heard an amused chuckle from one of the other pilots.
"Very sure," Kayru Su replied.
"Don't say I didn't warn you," Mu half joked.
Masato looked at the Gustav Karls Londo Bell was getting and for some odd reason they reminded him a bit of Zeorymer. He wasn't sure why that was.
"So think they managed to find everything on Zeorymer?" Harry asked Masato.
The timid teen shrugged. "I doubt we'll know until I power it up."
Harry then looked at the new mobile suits and wondered if these mobile suits had any interesting new features or abilities. They supposedly were standard mass produced mobile suit, but that didn't mean they were unable to have some new things on them.
He then chuckled as he really hoped when he got to Hogwarts or someone magical like Diagon Alley he could show members of Londo Bell magic. He wanted to fly around on his broom and show them the things magic could do. What had stopped him was he didn't want to get into trouble doing so.
He was sure that even if he did it in space on the MacBeth some ministry would complain. It also could become a conflict from there and someone with a giant robot would show up. It was all things he'd rather avoid dealing with if he could.
Harry then mused it was strange for his letters they just asked him not to mention what ship he was based off of. Who he got into fights with really bother the brass. He wasn't exactly sure why that was but he followed orders on that.
If Harry had asked part of that was because Coop and OpSec of any kind didn't go together at all. He was even worse than Ryusei was at the start of his military career, and the less said about the one time someone from the Order of the Zodiac tried to pilot Megas the better.
Rumor was they even were using a variant of the Zero system to try piloting Coop's mech. Coop removed the Zero system and put in a cooler. No one was sure what Coop did to the Zero system nor really wanted to ask him. He might actually remember and tell everyone what insane thing he had done to it.
Harry then saw the Nu Gundam and gasped as it'd been given an upgrade. More armor, missile launchers next to the head, the shield had a pair of mega particle cannons in it, and Nu Gundam was holding a massive gun. Supposedly the psychoframe and controls also were getting some fine tuning as well. They both it seemed were extremely powerful and sensitive.
Harry then looked to see if people had to keep Coop and Lowe from trying to inspect the upgrades. He had heard one of the technical officers that helped Amuro make the Nu Gundam had a crush on him and also found Lowe and Coop's work to be utterly insane. He knew sooner than later the pair would figure out the Nu Gundam's newest upgrades and enhance Ms. Mass's Mass production type Nu Gundam.
'I won't be surprised if that one test bed for Nu Gundam gear gets that upgrade from them too,' Harry thought to himself in amusement.
He then wondered if anyone was going to be the pilot of that unit. They had it used when the R-2 was in the shop for various upgrades but now it seemed unused. Harry considered it rude to ask Astronaige Medoz about that when the man had to deal with Coop and Lowe. The man had enough to put up with on a daily basis keeping track of needed parts and keeping the repair crew in working order.
The only thing Harry would bother that man about was some questions about what creating a mobile suit is like. It was something that Harry found interesting. He also was finding wand lore, the mind arts, and broom enchanting after he was able to get some books on those in the magical district of Riksent's capital.
Harry inwardly chuckled at having books on mecha, wandlore, mind magics, and broom enchanting all stored together with his school books in his trunk. He also wondered what to do with those Lockhart books as they were pretty much worthless and taking up space. Perhaps he could sell using his fame.
Darkly Harry wondered if he still was considered a Dark Lord or not by most people in the Wizarding UK subculture or if he was once more their golden boy. That he got treated as just Harry by Londo Bell felt so great to him. They didn't care about having survived the killing curse or being able to talk to snakes.
He was not going to put up with anything like what happened to him after they found he was able to talk to snakes. That massive betrayal showed him exactly how rational or able to think everyone at Hogwarts was. Nor was he going to trust the professors to be able to do anything as it seemed that was expecting too much out of them. Of course for some of them expecting them to teach was far beyond their abilities.
Harry mused if he could get that Slughorn Sirius had mentioned to tutor him. He didn't like using his fame, but it won't be so bad when it came to someone that enjoyed knowing famous people and had respected his mother's ability in potions. At least he knew what he'd be getting into with Slughorn.
'I wonder if that means Mum would have chewed out Snape even more for how he's acted,' Harry pondered. And the whole Marauders thing and Snape lowered his belief the professors at Hogwarts did anything right. It did also make him wonder what Malfoy's father would have done if he had been contacted about his son being sent off into the Forbidden Forest for a detention with just another first year, a dog, and a man with a snapped wand. A detention Malfoy didn't deserve unless being a tattletale was actually an offense at Hogwarts.
'Which given how Hogwarts was I won't be surprised if in Hogwarts a History that was listed as a rule,' Harry thought to himself.
It said so much that driving a giant robot was the most sensible and rational his life had ever been. No one expected him to solve all the problems and take being blamed for things without complaint. Really he wondered so often if the Wizarding World would treat the Getter pilots like that. Well the Wizarding UK subculture as Hara-Hara World didn't treat them like crap.
The thought of Snape wrecked by Hayato Jin or Ryoma Nagare was morbidly amusing to Harry. Not something he'd actually want to have happen, but given how much of an arse Snape was to him it was a normal fantasy. He was sure many people had wanted to see him humbled or worse in their fantasies.
Harry wondered how Snape kept his job, but was sure Professor Dumbledore and the others would say a lot of dragon dung to avoid the fact he was a petty childish man who might be brilliant at potions but couldn't or won't teach them very well. And at a core subject needed for some important jobs so that made it even worse.
Harry finally had been able to learn about the major jobs and what was needed to qualify for them. Something he'd have wanted before picking classes for his third year, but of course Hogwarts being efficient was like Coop not being hungry. It was something that just didn't happen.
The Boy Who Lived wondered if Hermione had any idea how on the mark she had been on wizards and logic. And how bad offering Hermione her own mech would be. Harry really didn't see her being one for piloting a giant robot.
Harry then was shocked out of his thoughts by seeing Astronaige embrace one of the pilots who who joined the Macbeth crew along with the new gear for the Nu Gundam and the Gustav Karls. Harry hoped the pair had good luck on their relationship. He had a feeling they needed all the good luck they could get with how weird things got for Londo Bell.
Harry then noticed Kaworu was glaring at Shin Getter as it was undergoing some maintenance. Shin Getter didn't seem to care what the Evangelion pilot was doing. The Fifth Child aka Angel of Free Will was not a concern to it.
"Yeah I don't know what to make of that thing too," Harry admitted to Kaworu.
"Yes it is quite strange," Kaworu remarked. "Almost to the point of lunacy."
Harry shrugged. "Professor Saotome doesn't exactly do things normal ways."
"And this Shin Getter being his masterpiece in that," Kaworu noted with wry expression. Really did that lilium even know what he was messing with or even care if he did? Kaworu won't be surprised if it was either case.
"You get the feeling it is looking at you too?" Harry whispered like Shin Getter might actually hear them.
"All the time," Kaworu sighed. Which the Angel of Free Will mused it might actually be doing.
Masato looked up at Shin Getter and shivered. It was so creepy to him. Zeorymer didn't scare him that much and it was a mech no one was sure how it worked or what booby traps it had.
"Yeah that feeling," Harry commented to Masato.
"They don't let Coop and Lowe work on it do they?" Masato asked softly.
"I think it creeps even them out," Kaworu remarked.
"That says so much," Masato gasped. "And it scares me."
Harry patted Masato on the shoulder. Masato smiled slightly.
Kaworu then wondered what that lillium shaped robot that followed Masato around was doing. He knew the instant he met Miku what she was, and frankly didn't care. Or care what Doctor Akitsu made her for besides being a part of Zeorymer. Given what that lillum would be willing to do might turn even his stomach.
"So did they tell you about the videos they showed me?" Masato nervously asked Harry.
"No," Harry admitted. "But I take it was nothing good or pleasant."
"I was made in a lab," Masato said softly.
Kaworu wondered when Last Guardian would have told Masato that fact. Before or after he piloted Zeorymer and killed someone? Really Gendo Ikari wasn't this bad with his own son and he treated Shinji as a pawn in his plans. Which said some very disturbing things about Last Guardian and how they operated before being shut down by Gilliam Yeager and his allies.
Well officially they still were in operation, but so far it seemed merely in name and their actions had gained them no allies. Plus their base reportedly was so rigged with explosives that a sneeze could cause a chain reaction that would blow up the entire base.
"You are my friend and this doesn't change that," Harry said extremely forcefully. He then noticed Masato's expression.
"Sorry," Harry added. "Let's just say I've had people turn on me for stupid reasons and I don't ever want to do that to other people."
"Right," Masato said after a moment but appeared touched by that declaration.
"Of course the mother of one of my friends from school probably would want to adopt you and Canard," Harry mused. "And likely Shinji, Masaki, and everyone else that's a teenager without parents."
"That is not a surprise," Kaworu stated. "If she actually cares about other people and their wellbeing."
Masato had a look of shock at all of this. He also had to admit Shinji's father while not dead didn't exactly do much for the Evangelion pilot.
Harry then turned to Kaworu. "So you ready just incase things go bad in Tokyo 3?"
Kaworu nodded. "I always am."
Sirens then started to blare and everyone had a feeling that yes things had gone bad in Tokyo 3 again.
"Here we go again," Harry muttered as he ran toward his Rezel. He recalled Anaheim Electronics wanted to upgrade an offshoot of Jegans to be like his Rezel. He wished them luck on replicating whatever Lowe and Coop had done and making it work on the Jestas.
Harry also hoped they were quick enough to help Shinji. That hope ended up dying a horrible death.
V-V-V
Misato Katsuragi found herself having an odd problem as Hayato Jin leaned against the doorway to her office. She didn't need this right now as there was an operation to plan for and to avoid thinking about how Shinji looked when they had to get him out of his Evangelion.
The horror that her actions nearly killed him as if she'd pulled the trigger herself...and the cold feeling that her commander might not have cared what happened to his own son.
"So pressure cooker, deep fryer or oven?" he inquired.
"Eh?' Misato asked and sounded confused.
"Which of those three was what the LCL acted like when the Third Child was shot by that Angel before we got here?" Hayato Jin asked once more.
"I have more important things to do than answer questions from a sociopath," Misato snapped at him.
"Nor I believe to take into account each of the Angels has had some sort of energy weapons," Hayato shot back. "And figuring having him right in front of it was a good way to him blasted."
"And you are such a tactical genius Hannibal Lecter," Misato growled.
Hayato Jin's response to that was cut off by screaming and seeing a naked man beating up Section Two agents. It was extremely surreal to Misato. To Hayato Jin he'd seen a lot weirder than that.
"Huh looks like he's in the mood to leave and possibly get a pair of pants," Hayato Jin remarked extremely calmly.
Captain Katsuragi boggled at that. She then got her sidearm out. She could try to understand how Hayato could be so calm about this later.
Hayato got out of her way and looked amused in a psychotic way. Did she really expect that gun to do anything?
Still Misato raced after the naked man who was making Section Two look bad. Hayato Jin moved at a more sedate pace by comparison.
The naked man then stopped for a moment and a crystal of some kind appeared in his hand.
"Tek Setter!" he yelled and the pair got to see a man transform into a human sized mech.
Blade made his own way through the confusing layout of NERV's base and soon was outside of it. He then took to the air and felt pure hate at whatever it was he was looking it. Memories of beings like it came to his mind. And along with those memories was a deep and utter rage against the being.
The Angel of Might hesitated for a moment, and that proved to be a fatal mistake as Blade's shoulders popped up and energy built up.
"Voltekka!" Blade yelled and emerald antimatter beams erupted from shoulder weapons and went through the AT field like it wasn't even there. The same went for the flesh of Ramiel. Or at least what might be called flesh of the strange geometric shaped Angel.
Then the antimatter beams hit the core and that was that for Ramiel.
In the distance what looked like a well dress heavy set older gentleman in a suit with a pipe watched.
"Radam and them?" Polonaise stated. "Never expected to see them at the same time on one planet."
It definitely was going to make things very interesting for the Zondar. He was sure Pizza was going to enjoy that challenge.
The other powers making plays for control of this world not so much.
V-V-V
Shinji Ikari gasped as he woke up. He didn't want to be shot by a giant laser beam ever again. It was horribly painful and the second time that had happened to him. He also didn't want this to be some odd numbered Angel thing that happened to him.
"Hey Shinji," Harry said sitting in a chair next to the bed. "Man this feels weird as I'm usually the one in the bed injured."
"Huh?" Shinji asked as he was confused by that statement.
"My school has a very dangerous sport and people have tried to kill me," Harry sighed. "And the professors about as useful as plastic silverware against an army of mecha."
"That's even more insane than me piloting an Evangelion," Shinji admitted.
"I don't think most people could take what happened to you and not be in better shape," Harry remarked.
"It felt like I was being burned alive," Shinji said softly.
"Hayato Jin actually asked Captain Katsuragi about that," Harry said after a moment. "He was wondering how LCL reacted to extreme heat."
"He's kind of scary," Shinji muttered.
"Try very scary," Harry commented. "For good reason given what he can do to people."
Shinji didn't say anything to that. He had a feeling that Harry wasn't kidding about any of that stuff.
Harry shrugged. "You won't believe half the shite I've been through if I told you."
"I'm just a normal person," Shinji stated. "Not a coordinator, or newtype, or anything like that."
"You have been willing to get into Evangelion 01 despite all that has happened," Harry said looking Shinji in the eye. "You got bigger balls than most of the people I know from boarding school."
"Really?" Shinji asked.
Harry nodded. "They'd likely just wet themselves and run off like cowards."
Shinji wondered what they had done to get Harry to sound so bitter when talking about them. He liked Harry and Harry was a really nice person. There had to be a lot of jerks at boarding school whatever its name was.
"So what killed the Angel?" Shinji inquired.
"That would have been the one guy we brought in from a space colony," Harry replied. "Seems he also can shoot antimatter beams at things. I think one of the Space Knights nicknamed him D-Boy."
"D-Boy?" Shinji said surprised.
"Dangerous Boy," Harry snorted. It was a better nickname than the one the Wizarding World had given him.
Shinji wasn't sure what to make of that. Then again since he came to Tokyo 3 that seemed to be standard for much of his life. If it wasn't for Londo Bell he'd probably go crazy or run off as it seemed that applying pressure to him was all NERV did.
"Huh," Shinji muttered.
"Of course the fact there was this other guy like our D-Boy we saw on the space colony makes everyone worried they call can shoot antimatter beams," Harry noted.
"Yeah that would be terrifying," Shinji remarked. "And what happened to D-Boy?"
"He's gone underground at the moment," Harry told his friend. "He might be in Tokyo 3 or he could be trying to get off planet for all we know."
"Which means I can't just let him deal with the Angels," Shinji groaned. "I have to keep fighting in a giant robot that feels pain and in a cockpit full of something that smells like blood."
"Mari actually likes that smell," Harry commented.
Shinji gave him a look at that. "Really?"
Harry nodded in confirmation. "Yes really."
Shinji wasn't sure how to take anyone liking that smell. That was just not right to him. Then again Ryoma Nagare had commented she was a lot like him under a candy shell. Which was extremely disturbing on many levels.
"You just work on getting better," Harry then told Shinji. "I just hope next time we can get here fast enough to watch your back."
"I know you guys always have my back," Shinji said softly. He didn't hold what happened against them. They couldn't just teleport places after all.
Harry smiled hearing that. Inwardly he planned how to get the others to help Shinji even more as it seemed this place didn't care at all about him. And Harry wasn't going to let anyone go through the same sort of crap he had to go through.
Harry was shocked when the door opened and Rei Ayanami stepped through. He had heard of her and how everyone mocked her lost history being so blindingly obvious something was up that it made NERV look foolish for trying that tactic.
He also recalled that saying that to her face annoyed her enough to drop her emotionless mask.
"Pilot Ikari, Volunteer Ensign Potter," Rei stated calmly.
"Ensign Ayanami," Harry commented respectfully. "Or do you prefer pilot?"
"Pilot please," Rei said after a moment.
"So what brings you here?" Harry inquired.
"A very strange man come to the Geofront," Rei explained "He been working on a positronic rifle and his gaze is very...disturbing."
"From Saotome Labs, has metal bits and is a crazy mad scientist?" Harry asked trying to figure out which mad scientist had been called in.
Rei nodded.
"Isn't he that guy we talked about the other day?" Shinji mused.
"Probably," Harry admitted. Professor Shikishima was rather unique thankfully. The Solar system likely won't survive there being an army of that man.
"Think anyone will teach me how to use a rifle?" Shinji sighed.
"I'm sure someone in Londo Bell can do that," Harry assured him. "Given everyone here seems to be under the belief you are like Pilot Ayanami here and have years of training."
Rei took that as a backhanded compliment.
"Thanks," Shinji groaned as he tried to sit up.
Harry handed him a new and folded plugsuit.
"We can leave if you want to put that on," Harry told him.
Shinji quickly checked under his blankets. "Oh."
"Yeah," Harry remarked.
"Can you give me a minute?" Shinji asked.
The pair walked out and Harry looked at Rei. She looked a lot better than he had heard as it sounded like she was wrapped like a mummy.
"So any idea if they are getting closer to having a new Evangelion for Mari ready?" Harry inquired.
"That is not something they inform me of," Rei replied.
Harry shrugged. "I just asked as Mari really wants to pilot an Evangelion instead of a variable fighter."
"Understood," Rei said softly.
An awkward silence then set in as Harry had no idea what to say and Rei wasn't one to start a conversation.
"Oh hey Harry," Masaki called out as he came out from around a corner. Sans Kuro and Shiro Harry noticed.
"So exactly how many times have you gone around the Geo Front?" Harry asked.
"I have no idea," Masaki admitted sheepishly.
"Yeah he can get lost that easily," Harry told Rei. "He's gone around the world several times trying to get places."
Masaki grumbled at that truth. Rei didn't know what to make of that.
"Once Shinji gets dressed we can go to the commissary and I hope you can join in Rei," Harry said.
Rei pondered that as she had been ordered to keep a close eye on the various Londo Bell junior members. This would work as the easiest way to do that.
"That is acceptable," the First Child stated.
"Good," Harry remarked.
Of course then was when Shiro and Kuro found Masaki and Rei just stared at the pair of familiars. Reading about them being able to talk didn't completely prepare the half Angel hybrid for seeing it in person.
Harry shrugged. "Things get weird for us."
"That is so," Rei noted. Perhaps even her origins won't shock Londo Bell. Not that she'd want them to be informed of that of course.
The First Child just hoped that Londo Bell won't fight and discover things that made her look mundane as what that meant would be disturbing. Though some part of her actually wanted that to be true.
V-V-V
Getter radiation was a strange thing. No one was entirely sure what it was or why it caused dinosaurs to become a puddle of muck. Something SEELE had studied to see if those puddles were like LCL.
The results were inconclusive. It some respects it was like LCL, and yet there were a great deal of differences. Somehow it figured getter radiation would do that.
Getter radiation also had no universal reaction from humans. When combined with the Dark Mark things got even crazier. For Wormtail it was having a mutating effect. No one knew what it would do to his human form.
For others they had much different effects on their bodies and minds. For Walden Macnair it was like a spiritual awakening to how the cosmos worked and why things happened. It was a revelation to him and one he was eager to tell others about what he had learned. Whether they wanted to or not.
The executioner from the Department of Magical Beasts was honestly scaring people with his talk of this energy belong life and being a program that knew what it was made for. What his talk did was cause everyone that knew him to wonder if he'd been replaced by someone using Polyjuice and badly impersonating him for some unknown reason.
The question was why anyone would want to even do that. Yet even after having it proved via healers and aurors that it actually was Walden no one was sure what in Merlin's name had happened and why. So everyone just considered he'd gone crazy and oddly enough less violent than before.
Of course Macnair got the better deal as the minds of the Carrow siblings were just completely and utterly gone. They couldn't handle what they saw and it basically burned their brains out. They had been checked if someone had cursed them into that condition and they were clean of any such spells.
The other Death Eaters would be worried if they had any idea what was going on thanks to their leader getting into a fight with a Getter. Or even what awaited the being that they served and feared as the Jama Kingdom had been frozen in time due to the first mecha pilot Shiiba Hiroshi and the power source of his mech Steel Jeeg.
They didn't know Voldemort had gotten beaten up by Londo Bell and they didn't really consider even his Mimetic Beast body that special. He was not the be all end all threat the British Wizarding World believed him to be. He was just another person with a grudge and some level of power. That they ran into Ken again was more memorable to them.
And yet all Severus Snape could feel in his quarters at Hogwarts was a dull headache that Potter was going to be even more insufferable this school year. And that now giant robots, alien invasions and more would be involved so the changes of Potter destroying Hogwarts had become much higher.
Snape had no idea the centaurs were completely freaking out in the Forbidden Forest over what they had seen the future to bring. Nor had Snape seen a glowing white featureless figure briefly appear over Hogwarts.
The guardian spirit of the Earth could tell a force just like the defeated Machine Empire was coming. And there was a threat that would birth a new guardian of the Earth to fight it as well. Yet those were just the tip of the iceberg on what was coming.
For a moment Eldoran looked at Hogwarts and a plan came to mind for him. Now was not the time, but soon enough he could turn it into reality.
If Londo Bell knew what he was planning they'd just groan and think Eldoran was up to his usual tricks once more.
V-V-V
To say Ali al-Saachez and Gauron had a unique relationship was like saying the Grand Canyon was a large hole in the ground. The pair of sociopathic men considered each other a friend. If one was on the other side during a job than they'd kill the other but it'd just be business.
The pair were in a bar in Moralia and behaving themselves. Then again Ali was part of the PMC Trust as Gary Biaggi and he wanted to keep his job for now at least.
"So how are the kids doing?" Ali asked as they were playing pool.
"They're doing great," Gauron replied amused.
"Good," Ali commented. "So have to kill any of your coworkers?"
"Thinking about it," Gauron shrugged. "Some other Misters seem to think I'm one of the rank file."
Ali chuckled as that was a really good way for Amalgam leaders to end up dead. Then again it seemed like the others were just like him. It made him wonder how that company stayed around without everyone murdering each other when they were in a bad mood. Which it seemed with all the backstabbing and double crosses was every single day.
"There are days I wonder how that company is still around," Gary Biaggi admitted.
"I think the accounting, sales, and manufacturing departments stay out of the powerplays," Gauron remarked after taking a sip of his beer.
"So they busy fighting Anaheim Electronics instead of each other?" Ali half joked.
"Pretty much," Gauron commented. "And anyone else trying to take a piece of that mech production pie."
"Good luck on that," Ali mused.
"Well that SRNI seems to be ready to take a bite out of them," Gauron noted.
"It'll take more than some government development group to hurt them," Ali countered.
"Probably," Gauron admitted. "Though it is a sign people are tired of their selling to everyone crap and using loopholes and scapegoats when caught."
"And people say we're bad," Ali snorted. "At least we don't hide behind legalities."
"I'd get bored in a week if I tried to be a lawyer," Gauron stated before putting a handful of honey roasted peanuts in his mouth.
Ali smirked at that. They both knew they reveled in the worst impulses of humanity and loved war. Those total pacifism idiots would call them monsters and abominations but they didn't care. Of course White Fang showed what happened when the first generation of those got disillusioned and bitter. It actually made Ali laugh when he found that out.
The pair of mercenaries did whatever they wanted and enjoyed themselves. Anyone that got in their way they'd deal with easily enough.
"So the Barton Foundation offer you work?" Ali inquired.
Gauron laughed. "Yeah like I'd work for them. They'll probably get killed fighting that maniac with a car for the head of his mech."
Neither man wanted to fight Coop. They had a feeling that if he actually took this all serious he might be as dangerous if not more so than they were. And they followed their feelings very closely.
They wondered if Londo Bell got that same feeling from the pilot of Megas. They expected Hayato Jin and Ryoma Nagare to have them as frankly they were cut from the same psychotic cloth.
"So any luck finding that one guy?" Ali casually asked.
"Not really," Gauron sighed and Ali was glad his friend didn't go into detail.
"If I hear anything I'll tell you," Ali assured his friend.
"Thanks," Gauron said and had a drunk expression. Though in this case the man had been knocking back a decent local brew so he probably was actually drunk to some degree.
"Though I have gotten a job that's interesting and I think they'd want to hire you as well," Ali mused. "Some group called Tau Dragon."
"If it is who I think that is then I definitely want to get in on the fun," Gauron said bemused.
V-V-V
Jua-Ma, and Al-Van wondered if their faked records were incredibly good or merely that they didn't look closely at the background of those that joined the Green Falcon Squad. Fu-Lu Mu-Lu had been assigned to some other Earth combat unit. They weren't sure where and figured they'd be able to ask later.
The pair were now part of the Earth combat unit as "James Darby", and "Alvin Lunks" respectively. Which beat having to work in some human theme park like the one named Bottom World that was under construction. Both knights felt it'd be beneath them to not be in the middle of the battlefield. Though there were rumors of another amusement park being more than it appeared to be and a defense against some other alien invaders.
Even now the Fury weren't aware of the full extent of various groups made to defend against alien invaders that Doctor Bian Zoldark was involved with. It kind of was annoying to them. Even more so the secret groups he wasn't involved with that could be around and whatever mecha they had at their disposal.
Alvin Lunks looked at the altered so called Mass Produced Double Zeta and wondered what mad men worked on it. It wasn't a Fury design, and he wasn't sure what it honestly was. Supposedly the new engine was a copy of one from a very odd mech.
He also saw one of the FAZZ prototypes being fitted with a beam saber. How anyone wouldn't think to include a melee weapon for a mech was beyond him. It was something he'd have fixed right away.
Alvin then saw something that he blinked and then realized there might be something worth being on this mission. And also the fact that his mentor had a son with a human woman that should be a teenager now. Not that he wished to go so far with the woman that caught his eye, but to be aware genetically speaking the Fury and humans were extremely close.
And probably also really close to Zentradi as well given human and Zentradi hybrids were also known to happen. Al-Van then sighed as trying to explain the relationship between the Protoculture and the Fury was rather messy and complicated. And that wasn't including talking about the Supervision Army.
All details the Fury didn't want to go into. Even those that liked humanity didn't really want to have to talk about that.
The same applied with explaining how the Fury were related to the Zuvorg Alliance. If anything they were even more embarrassing to the Fury than the Protoculture.
Al-Van was sure the Inspectors were around and going to make his mission complicated to say the least. And he doubted even telling them he was Fury would do anything to keep them from trying to kill him.
The only thing Al-Van took as a good thing was that Jua-Ma was looking over one of the FAZZ units now that it had a beam saber with approval. Which was great as he and Jua-Ma were going to be pilots of two of the units.
Al-Van wondered if this would cause Jua-Ma to improve dramatically as there won't be the ability to freeze time on these mechs. The one overwhelming advantage they had won't be available and they'd be forced to get by on their wits, skills, and likely some measure of luck.
It was something undercover Knights had to do and not every single one of them had survived that. Some just could not adapt to lacking that ability.
'Which says so much about some of our squires and such,' Al-Van mused. 'None of it complimentary about them.'
If humanity ever had an equalizer for temporal manipulation then they might be able to fight the Fury head on with it on equal terms. Al-Van was sure that could end them.
Alvin Lunks then shook his head and focused. He then walked over to the vision of beauty he'd seen.
"So you part of Green Falcon Squad too?" Al-Van inquired.
Calvina nodded. "So you one of the FAZZ pilots?"
"Yeah I'm Alvin Lunks," the Fury Knight said to introduce himself. "I really hope to avoid being a redshirt."
"Calvina Coulange and trust me everyone who has survived more than one mission on this time wish to do the same," the White Lynx commented.
"So it is even worse than I heard?" Alvin sighed.
"Pretty much," Calvina agreed.
"Great," Alvin muttered.
"Just do your best," Calvina stated.
"Why would I do any less?" Al-Van asked confused.
Calvina tried to figure out if he was telling a joke or not. So she mentally just shrugged.
"Not everyone does and some here seem to want suicide by whatever tries to kill us," the White Lynx grumbled.
"Then they shouldn't be in this line of work," Al-Van commented.
"No disagreements here," Calvina said in agreement.
"And I'm sorry if James says something that annoys people," Alvin sighed.
"Just make sure he doesn't annoy the Mazinkaiser SKL pilots," Calvina stated. "Really we try to avoid talking to them if we can."
"Yeah I have heard of them," Alvin stated. "Good at fighting and not much else."
"They're psychotic," Calvina said after a moment. "Just like the Getter team."
"Yes that's what I heard," Alvin nodded. "Skilled at war, but not the sort of people you want to meet on the street."
Al-Ven knew of knights like that. Many who wished to destroy life on the Earth and try over again.
"So you need someone to show you around?" Calvina inquired.
"That would be nice," Alvin replied.
Then sirens started making noise.
"Here we go again," Calvina muttered.
V-V-V
There was a building sense of annoyance by many on yet another alien species coming to Earth to wreck things. The Muge Empire, Boazanians, Zentradi, Glorft, and many more were remembered. Now some new race that didn't even answer who they were was attacking.
Various groups checked to see if it was the alien threat they were set up to face and came up negative. The foe they were set up to fight had not come just yet.
The Crash Squad was among those sent out to deal with this new invading force. Just like had been sent to fight the Boazanians when they had attacked.
The invaders appeared to be robotic in nature and relentless in nature or programming. They also were destroying anything that got in their way like defensive satellites, starships, and various mecha.
On Earth Londo Bell, the WSO, and their allies like the Mazinger Army, Texas Mach, and the Allied Robot Corps were sent in to fight the alien threat as came planetside. With many annoyed they weren't part of the space bound vanguard to battle them.
In Japan the Getter team was able to stay somewhat close to home for this fight.
"So any idea if some group is set up to fight them?" Ryoma Nagare inquired as Shin Getter One drove an axe through one of the invaders.
"Probably," Hayato shrugged.
"Figures,' Ryoma grumbled.
"I just wonder what we've done if anything that's bothered them," Musashi mused.
"Have you done anything to bother them Coop?" Amuro inquired as he dodged an attack.
"I've never seen them before," Coop replied as he blew up several invaders. "So it isn't me this time."
"That you know of," Hayato commented.
"True," Coop remarked as he drove his fist through one of the invaders.
"Hey that's not that one girl with the WSO on that motorcycle is it?" Mu inquired as they saw someone driving down the road on a motorcycle.
Kiva looked over something with a holographic screen. "Given she is busy on the other side of the planet, I'd say no."
"So who is that then?" Harry asked as he cut one of the invaders in half with his mega beam saber.
"I'm sure we will find out," Kiva remarked.
"I just hope it doesn't involve something trying to kill us," Jamie stated quickly.
Ryoma chuckled. "Of course it likely will. And I'll shove Getter Beams somewhere uncomfortable on it."
No one took that as being a joke. He was being completely and utterly serious.
He also usually did a great dealing doing that to anything that they face. Most things in the universe did not like being hit with getter radiation even if their reaction was not as extreme as that of the Dinosaur Empire.
Tetsuya sliced up one of the invaders with a sword. Jun struck down one of the invaders trying to sneak up on him with a barrage of missiles from the fingers of the Venus A.
"Lt. Flaga you get the same feeling that for us a mega beam launcher is always necessary?" Harry asked as he used that on the invaders.
"All the time," Mu admitted as he used his REZEL Commander Type's grenade launcher on one of the invaders.
Kayra Su found all this talk weird. Londo Bell definitely was much less formal than the regular Earth Defense Forces. They won't have this sort of banter on military communication channels and definitely not have officers join in.
'Then again most officers aren't like Major Zonvolt,' Kayra mused as she saw the Sword That Pierces Evil shredding invading forces.
Karya remembered believing her boyfriend had been making things up. Now she knew he had been leaving things out.
"Chesto!" Sanger yelled as he cut one of the invaders in half.
'Well at least Major Kitamura is normal,' Kayra thought to herself.
She then got to see the hyper mega rifle of the upgraded Nu Gundam in action and the weapon might be equal to Wing Zero's buster rifle.
"Keep that weapon away from Coop and Lowe," Kai told Amuro.
"You think I won't after seeing that?" Amuro asked in surprise.
"Good point," Hayato chuckled.
"Hey is that a giant robot rising out of a building?" Harry asked as he saw something off in the distance.
"I think it just put two people into it," Hayato commented. "Looks like it intended to pick the pilots."
"And that's some ugly mecha penguinish thing," Coop remarked.
Then came a strange sight as after several minutes as after some learning how to drive the two mecha pilots literally started walking past the giant invader. A reaction that had the red crab-like robot completely dumbfounded.
"I'm not sure if that is smart or cowardly," Mu admitted.
Ryoma then chuckled as he got to hear whoever was telling the pilots what to do complaining on their desire to let Londo Bell deal with the mess. They learned it was called Dendoh as whoever was instructing the pilots said it was a warrior.
Harry instantly was in Waverider mode and giving them cover fire as the pair in the Dendoh as whoever was instructing them on how the mech worked.
Once they got that down Dendoh easily destroyed the red invader.
"Huh and I was hoping for some fun," Coop grumbled.
"Well given there's an army of those things coming you get your wish," Kiva stated.
"Good," Ryoma grinned as he threw himself and Shin Getter One into the brawl.
Inside Dendoh Ginga Izumo and Hokuto Kusanagi were in awe to see the Getter team kicking alien butt. Though Ginza knew his mother won't want him to ever emulate a Nagare.
"Do we have any swords or beams or yo-yos or such?" Hokuto asked.
"You can do something like a Thunder Break," Vega admitted. Hokuto had no way of knowing that was his mother.
Londo Bell gave them time to learn how to do that and Dendoh rocketed into the air with the invaders after it.
Electrical energy lanced from the turbine like parts on Dendoh and destroyed the invaders easily. The mech then dropped like a stone and fell into a shaft that came out of the water.
"Ask Gilliam?" Amuro asked Sanger.
"I'll ask him," Sanger replied.
"Is this how things normally go?" Kayra inquired Mu.
"Pretty much," Mu said with shrug.
Kayra just stared at him and Mu gave an amused grin.
"Welcome to Londo Bell where every day is crazy," he told her.
V-V-V
It was a barely noticed event. A spaceship crashing in the Arctic. Inside the crashed ship were minds focused on revenge. The Glorft had no idea what they had caused humanity in despair and recklessness to find and reawaken.
In this time frame they might be able to stop Shin Getter from reaching its destiny, and possibly humanity even creating the ultimate weapons besides Getters. Plus deal with the ancestor of a dynasty of mecha pilots.
Yes the brains of aliens thought Ron Weasley was going to die along with the Getter pilots.
V-V-V
Chapter Notes
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He's a sociopathic badass.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He's a sociopathic badass.
Mu La Flaga is from Gundam SEED. A newtype and skilled mech pilot.
Kayru Su is from Gundam Char's Counterattack. Dating the chief engineer on the Macbeth hasn't prepared her for the insanity she's going to be part of.
Masato Akitsu is from Hades Project Zeorymer. A shy and timid teenager who is at the center of a dead man's plans involving a giant robot and a secret society he messed up on purpose.
Coop is from Megas XLR and is a walking force of chaos.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is actually one of the forces NERV was supposedly set up to fight.
Shinji Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. A shy and meek person and center of plans for various groups wanting to alter the human race.
Misato Katsuragi is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She works for NERV and actually wants to destroy the Angels.
D-Boy is from Tekkaman Blade. A Tekkaman and wishing to save the Earth.
Rei Ayanami is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She is half angel and pilot of Evangelion 00.
Masaki Andoh is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He can get lost easily and pilots the Cybuster.
Ali al-Saachez is from Gundam 00 and he is a psychopath that enjoys all that is dark in human nature.
Gauron is from Full Metal Panic and he is a psychopath that enjoys all that is dark in human nature.
Jua-Ma, and Al-Van are from Super Robot Wars Original Generation and both members of the alien race known as the Fury.
Calvina Coulange is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is an expert mech pilot.
Musashi Tomoe is from Getter Robo and he is brave and not a sociopath.
Amuro Ray is from the original Gundam series. He is an elite pilot and newtype.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He is a very arrogant pilot, but also backs it up with his ability in Great Mazinger.
Jun Hono is from Great Mazinger and is also a badass.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is a pure badass and the Sword that Pierces Evil.
Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is happy married and has a daughter. Also can kick a lot of butt in the production model mech he uses.
Ginga Izumo is from Gear Fighter Dendoh. He's a kid heavily into martial arts.
Hokuto Kusanagi is from Gear Fighter Dendoh. He's a very smart kid that is unaware his mother is from outer space or involved in a force working to stop the Gulfer Empire.
Vega is Hokuto's mother and part of a force working to stop the Gulfer Empire.