The situation was extremely tense for Professor Tarsan. Not that the man exactly blamed the Earth government for being unhappy someone got swiped off it without anyone knowing. Still it was better than dealing with the Bunker leadership as they didn't seem to want to kill him outright.
The alien weapon maker also was thinking about the possibilities of the Zero System with psychics. The ability to see the future was an amazing one. He kind of was surprised Gil Berg impressed Bunker enough to be resurrected by them.
'Given when they first met him they hated him because he was a cyborg,' Tarsan mused as he recalled having to grovel for his life with the leadership of Bunker over the team having left him.
Tarsan then looked over the...he wasn't sure what to call it. Prison cell? Hotel suite? He wasn't sure which as seemed to be treated like a VIP, but they also weren't letting him leave the system with his starship.
There also was that various groups seemed to wish to employ him. One group had the feeling they'd want to take the place of Bunker and be exactly the same. Given the mess he'd had with Bunker he wanted to avoid working with them. Ever. One massive mess was enough and he wanted to avoid dealing with people that'd try to kill him if they felt like it.
Inwardly he wondered what Miya's parents were and exactly how angry they were with him for understandable reasons. He just hoped that this didn't involve violence towards him. That won't be fun or pleasant for him.
He also was shocked that humanity had a Supervision Army gunboat crash on the planet and they learned faster than light travel from it. That humanity had roaming fleets of humans and Zentradi colonizing the stars also was beyond anything he could dream of humanity doing.
That a small scout ship had encountered the Galra Empire scared the professor deeply. Or had faced and beaten the Muge Empire many years ago. They also had beaten the Vegan Empire along with the last of the Fleedians. Or that the Fleedians survived a battle with a mind controlled force of humans in giant robots.
Mind control was favorite weapon of the Vegan Empire to weaken the planets they invade. They didn't have any real morals to speak of. Especially the military leadership.
Humans and Fleedians even defeated Lord Barados of the Vegan Empire. A butcher and sadist even Bunker didn't wish to fight head on. Which given how morally bankrupt Bunker was said a lot when they felt someone fought as dirty or dirtier than they did.
There also was the fact one of the Inspectors had been on this planet and an Earth made purple biomech on a rampage fought it.
He really wasn't surprised this planet was one the Zuvorg Alliance would check out. It was chaotic enough to worry them. Also the military technology would interest one of the extreme right power bloc leaders.
Professor Tarsan tried to remember the name of that other much larger Zuvorg Alliance unit. He really wasn't sure what their official name was. It was on the tip of his tongue, but he just couldn't recall it.
'I definitely am going to have to tell Alice and the others about the Zuvorg Alliance,' Professor Tarsan thought. 'And probably Earth's military forces as well.'
Especially the fact they'd have to find the more reasonable senators and such of the Zuvorg Alliance to discuss matters with. With the Inspectors they might find one or two willing to listen, but Wendolo didn't pick his forces for morality and free thinking.
If anything it was anything but those last two facts. Though perhaps one of the more moral officers of the Zuvorg Alliance had sent an undercover agent to get a ground level view of humanity. They also be someone for humanity to contact.
It was an easier problem to solve for the professor than who had sent what they called Meteor 3 to the Earth. Or figure out what the company Nergal had wanted his services for.
Professor Tarsan given Bunker wanted him dead wished to be aware of things that might try to kill him.
He was then driven from his thoughts as there was a knock on the door to his presidential suite.
Tarsan wondered who it would be this time.
The door opened and a middle aged man in a military uniform stepped through.
"Professor Tarsan I represent the WSO and we are in need of your services and that of Dangaioh," Commander Kojindani explained.
"Please sit down," Professor Tarsan stated after a moment and wondered if this one would be a better offer than any of the others he had already gotten.
V-V-V
Harry wondered if Sirius or Luna was talking with the other Londo Bell pilots as someone seemed to be very willing to inform them all about Hogwarts. Darkly Harry wondered if they got more information the muggleborns got when a professor visited them to tell them they were magical and about the wizarding subculture.
It certainly was more than he got. Which didn't explain why another professor went with Hagrid to meet him as that would cover anything Hagrid left out by not thinking about it. But Hermione had remarked magic users lacked any common sense so of course they won't do something sensible like that.
Or little things like mention one of the staff had issues involving being pranked by four people that happened to be Harry's father and his friends when they had gone to Hogwarts. It all made Harry think Snape called the wrong people dunderheads.
Harry found himself with company as he ate breakfast in the commissary and it seemed they wanted to talk about Hogwarts.
"Has anyone told you that the whole sorting hat and house thing sounds completely and utterly stupid?" Ryoma Nagare commented. "Nothing like screwing up little kids like using a character trait to turn them into four gangs."
Mio Sagura grinned. "They needed somewhere to put the heroes, villains, nerdy virgins, and people no one cares about."
Harry looked at Mio for a moment and then rubbed his chin. "There are days I think even the Wizarding World thinks that."
"And not value hard work?" Tetsuya mused.
"I think after learning how much the houses don't matter after Hogwarts they learn those things fast," Harry sighed. "At least I hope so as the Wizarding subculture finds way to let me down."
"I can see how they do that," Tetsuya said with a look of distaste.
"I wonder if Mrs. Weasley is going to wonder what she's paying for all her children to learn at Hogwarts," Harry groused. "As the family isn't well off but seem to be paying for a whole lot of nothing if the various classes that can be taken in year 3 don't measure up."
"Also that sport you play sounds like complete trash due to the seeker position," Ryoma added. "Completely screws up any reason to play the game."
"Please don't say that around Ron," Harry begged. "Given he'd complain and you'd try crippling him."
Ryoma chuckled at that.
"I notice you aren't disagreeing with him," Hayato noted.
"I'll be the first to admit the whole seeker position and such does weird and crazy things to the game," Harry stated. "But some people also play what is basically volley balls with iron balls. Or football with mecha that has your butt raised into the air. So odd sports aren't just a magic user thing."
"You did pretty well helping us fight the Dannar base in that game," Hayato noted.
"I just have no idea why Jack King and Mary King call the sport soccer," Tetsuya remarked.
Harry grinned widely. "Hey I enjoyed the Londo Bell vs. Dannar Base football match. Not sure why Hogwarts and other schools don't have any interschool tournaments."
"It'd just be a blood sport," Mio told him. "They won't understand nonlethal sporting contests."
"There's the fact I'm sure you're right," Harry said after a moment and was sure Mio meant even with things like skelegrow to deal with otherwise fatal injuries. "Also I am scared what you and Luna talking to each would do to the brains of anyone listening."
"I believe they'd just melt like dinosaurs hit with getter rays," Hayato commented. "Unable to take where such a conversation would go."
"On second thought might want to use it on whatever might try to killing me this year," Harry sighed. "Because if things keep going like they have for the last two years of course something will try."
Harry then realized most people would think that would be his godfather trying to do that. A man that wasn't coming near the UK and frankly had no reason to either. Not they won't know that given his mutterings they heard sometime before he escaped.
Mio's expression did not help. It looked like she somehow had a very good idea what was going to happen.
She'd read all seven of the books so she had a very good idea what was going on. This was far more amusing than the books or movies though.
"If such a thing happens I will hit it with my blade or Thunder Break," Tetsuya assured Harry.
"Also why aren't there a lot of kids born in that school?" Ryoma asked as a thought came to him. "Given the staff sounds like they barely can teach and a big castle for teens to find out of the way places to use for all kinds of purposes."
"Well there's a lot of people that get married right out of Hogwarts," Harry remarked. "And 7th years are adults so...yeah...I think they are left to their own devices."
"Not that they actually watch after children much either," Mio noted.
"No kidding," Harry agreed. "Then again not sure if it is just me. Though not sure if Hagrid would still have had a job if Malfoy went to his father on the whole sending first years into the Forbidden Forest hunting after something killing unicorns."
"I'm sure Major Kitamura or Captain Noa are going to be really unhappy," Hayato commented. "Given anyone trying to do that to their own children would end up shot at."
"If I have any kids they try shit like that I'll break their skulls," Ryoma growled.
"You'd also want to be the one hunting down whatever that was," Hayato said with a snort.
Ryoma gave the completely insane sociopathic getter pilot smile and nodded. Harry tried not to shiver in fear at that. Tetsuya nearly rolled his eyes as he'd seen that too often to care anymore. It also helped he could fight the Getters with Great.
"Also that house point system is merely to make kids peer pressure themselves into being good," Hayato noted.
"I'm sure you give one speech at Hogwarts and the staff will be lucky to keep any order," Harry commented with wry amusement.
"Sounds like they barely do anyway," Ryoma noted.
"And I doubt getting a degree in teaching is involved," Tetsuya remarked.
"It just seemed so magical when I first saw Diagon Alley," Harry sighed. "And when I first saw Hogwarts. Of course the sorting feast had me find out one of my classmates got thrown out a window by a member of his family and if he didn't bounce via magic he'd be dead."
Harry took a sip of water. "And somehow that didn't quite make the impact it should have on the world I and many others were entering. Or that was with a 'Light' family that was supposed to be one of the good people that were doing such a horrible act."
"So makes you wonder what those that are 'Dark' do to squibs then?" Mio mused.
"Pretty sure it is very fatal," Harry said with a look of disgust. "Even more so than what Neville's great uncle did."
"That whole world sounds very Brothers Grimm version of fairy tales," Hayato noted. "While it sounds like you were expecting the sanitized Disney versions."
"I'll agree with that," Harry stated after thinking for a moment. "And not sure why the Aurors didn't get involved. Especially one that is Professor Dumbledore's friend if he needed someone he could trust to deal with all the shite that's happened."
"Probably stupidity," Ryoma shrugged.
Mio didn't say it was because Mad Eye hadn't been created before the 4th book and the stories were not to have the adults act like anything other than a roadblock or annoyance to Harry as he was the hero. If they were useful than he won't have to solve everything and where the tension and dramatic drama be in that?
"Slightly less worried this year given the big menace turns out to be my godfather and he's not going near Hogwarts," Harry remarked. "Which leaves whatever pants on head stupidity people that shouldn't run a thrift store let alone a position of power will do."
"And oddly not get in trouble for this poor decision," Mio noted.
"I really would love to be able to take my Rezel to Hogwarts," Harry sighed. "Really what you just said makes me completely sure my godfather never would be the big problem and what they did to appear doing something is going to be far more dangerous."
"Makes you wonder why you go back doesn't it?" Hayato commented.
"Yes it does," Harry groaned. "Or why anyone goes to that completely insane school."
"Well if you need our help...and we're sure you will...call us," Hayato stated. "And we'll see about forcing them into the modern day."
"And possibly blow up some giant spiders?" Harry asked even though he was sure Hagrid would hate seen Agog and his children blown up with lasers and missiles. Or lightning in the case of Great Mazinger's signature attack.
"Sounds like fun," Ryoma chuckled.
"That is something I have to agree with Ryoma on," Tetsuya admitted. "As much that pains me."
Ryoma rolled his eyes at that. Like Tetsuya was a paragon of sanity and restraint. That massive inferiority complex he had involving being a Mazinger pilot and being replaceable despite the fact he'd trained longer on being one that almost everyone else had on piloting a mech was really telling. Plus his needing reality to hit him in the face when his ego got out of control involving Great Mazinger and he having to top others.
'With reality being someone's hand,' Ryoma recalled.
"And Coop is going to try to find the car roaming the forest isn't he?" Harry mused.
"Of course he is," Mio snorted. "Why won't he want to find a flying car to fix up?"
"Oh that," Ryoma said. "The whole flying car thing in the UK from last year. Barely noteworthy as everyone thought someone shoved an antigravity unit into a car again for some reason."
Which explained how Harry and Ron didn't get in huge trouble breaking the Statue of Secrecy as it seemed people made cars fly enough for it to be just something people rolled their eyes at and moved on.
Admittedly in this case they were completely wrong on how the car flew,but Harry wasn't going to complain how the incident got buried. Though he was kind of annoyed no one actually could be arsed to tell him these things. There were days he felt "your house is your family" meant "I'm an overworked single parent who doesn't care what you do as long as I am not disturbed or bothered' and that really annoyed him. He also wondered if the other houses got told the same load of crap.
It was something he needed to ask Luna at least to find out what the Ravenclaws got.
"I really do wonder the Aurors would even know you had conquered Hogwarts before you assaulted the Ministry Hayato," Harry stated.
"Doubt it greatly," Hayato said with a bemused expression.
"Really doubt there are a lot of Slytherins that could understand the sort of ambition and cunning that requires," Harry noted. "I could have ended up in that house. Supposedly it'd make me great the sorting hat said. Wonder if he also felt the complete and utter mess that'd cause would entertain him for years to come."
"Well if he's bored we can see if we can wire him to a giant robot," Ryoma mused. "I mean the Pasture King has a dog drive it and rumor is Master Asia made a giant robot for his horse to drive too."
"Coop and Lowe would do that just to show it was possible," Harry noted. "And Lt. La Flaga thought he made the impossible possible."
"On the battlefield and not in ways that make other mecha designers get headaches trying to sort it out," Mio giggled.
"Oh," Harry said after a moment.
"Yeah, watching Anaheim Electronics try to understand what those two do to Sayla's Gundam is amusing," Hayato chuckled. "They pretty much are listed as consultants by this point."
"They don't have any Gundams in the Gundam Fight do they?" Harry asked as he won't be surprised if they had done that.
"They didn't have enough free time before this one started to do all the paperwork and such," Ryoma commented.
"That's...worrying," Harry admitted.
"It is something we are all thankful for," Tetsuya remarked. "Though somehow I doubt they'd go for some of the extremes others do on national stereotypes."
The fact that one of the proposed battlegrounds for the Gundam Fight was in Orphan is also rather worrying," Hayato mused. "The leader or rather governor of that massive organic ship made it clear he wasn't going to allow them access to it."
"Has Yuu ever met that Governor that people talk about interacting with the outside world but never having any pictures of?" Harry asked.
"He uses that like a superhero would use a domino mask," Mio remarked. "So Yuu has no idea who the guy is."
"Well that really worries me," Harry admitted. "The leader of the Reclaimers being pretty much anyone. Especially after seeing the psyche profiles on who they got to live down in Orphan."
"Yeah it's the island of misfit toys," Ryoma agreed.
"Which they utterly hate being called," Hayato noted with amused smirk.
Harry could only imagine what the UK Wizarding World got for a nickname. He wondered how well Malfoy would take having a nasty nickname given to him. Somehow Harry doubted Draco could take what he dished out at all.
He also wondered why Malfoy hadn't given Ron the nickname Moron. It wasn't exactly that much of a stretch, but Malfoy also wasn't that imaginative. Scarhead seemed to be the most inventive he was on disparaging nicknames.
"I really wonder if my school nemesis will survive any of this," Harry thought outloud.
"Depends if he annoys anyone that'd kill him or not," Mio shrugged.
"That would require to understand there are people he shouldn't annoy," Harry noted. "Which it seems the teachers give him free reign unless of course they go on a power trip. Then he gets as hard as everyone else."
"And he was one of your friends too," Mio noted referring to Hogwart's groundskeeper.
Harry nodded. "I did my best to keep Hagrid from getting fired and he or someone else thinks sending me to deal with something killing unicorns in the Forbidden Forest is a good idea. I was just a first year at that."
"I guess we'll have to see where the graveyard of dead students is," Ryoma stated. "As anyone with an idea like that will get someone killed sooner or later."
"If they didn't use their memory charms to alter everything to avoid getting in trouble," Tetsuya said darkly and they could tell he didn't like those magics at all.
"And supposedly werewolves live in the Forbidden Forest," Harry sighed as he tried to change the subject. "Haven't had the chance to prove or disprove that in my various trips into the place."
"So how exactly does the transformation of werewolves go?" Hayato inquired.
"Sirius said it was like that one scene in American Werewolf in London where they have an extremely painful altering of their body," Harry informed him. "So they have that once a month and being spit on people when they are normal."
"And they wonder why they are so angry," Tetsuya said as he rubbed his forehead.
"Pretty sure Mendel or some other abandoned colonies could be found and turned into where werewolves could live," Ryoma noted. "The first one they could just dump any tainted air into space if they were worried anything still was living."
"Of course most of the idiots making werewolf lives terrible wouldn't know what a space colony was," Harry sighed. "Or what being in space or on the Moon does to werewolves."
"Oh yes the people ignoring there are various cities on the Moon," Hayato said with a dark laugh.
"Or that I can ask Kaworu about pictures of his flat he has in Copernicus City," Harry mused. "Or I think his vacation pictures he has being in Von Braun would be equally shocking to them."
"Of course they won't understand that," Mio commented. "That would mean they are living under a rock and humanity is moving on from them. And even more so other magic using sects are doing the same."
"Or that you can get to a magical realm though video games," Harry snorted as he was sure Malfoy won't be able to understand what a video game was let alone it was used to pick a champion to save a magical world.
Which thankfully Londo Bell helped keep said champion since it was Coop from demolishing the place himself.
"They got no chance of understanding Coop," Ryoma stated with a grin. "Or me. Or Hayato. Or frankly anyone else in Londo Bell."
"Or that fifty years ago a cyborg fought magic using...something," Harry noted. "Aliens, humans...whatever the Jama Empire or Kingdom was exactly."
"Beyond being a threat to the Earth," Tetsuya commented.
"Also we have heard there's a rat missing a toe that needs to be dealt with," Hayato said with dark amusement.
"Yeah he lead Riddle to my parents, framed my godfather for murder of over a dozen people, and my life being total shite," Harry nearly growled. "He needs to be alive to stand trial. But do keep in mind they can regrow broken bones."
Ryoma and Hayato found that extremely interesting. Harry had a feeling Wormtail was going to think being shot out of a cannon at a super alloy wall would be less painful than what he'd have done to him by the Getter pilots.
'I wonder it is wrong to not feel bad about that,' Harry thought to himself. Any sympathy for Peter Pettigrew he could have was dead. He could just not forgive anyone for willingly doing the sort of thing that man had done.
He didn't think it made him go dark to not turn the other cheek on murderers like Wormtail. Of course he also was becoming a soldier and could battle much more shades of grey foes than a betrayer and terrorist.
'Of course I was got branded as dark given I could talk to snakes,' Harry inwardly mused. 'Finding they throw that label around like that and the teachers can't seem to do any better makes it lose any power over me.'
Harry did wonder if anyone really expected him to act like that hadn't happened. It seemed they expected him to forget anything non-magic related that happened in the halls of Hogwarts. Or to not be wary of the DADA teacher given what happened the last two.
However given what Sirius had told him Harry had some level of trust in Remus Lupin not trying to purposely harm him. Though explaining to the man Sirius was not the traitor was going to be a pain in the arse if he acted like the typical Hogwarts professor.
It really made Harry wonder if those professors had any idea they were chipping away at even Hermione's ability to look up to them. And of course Minister Fudge proving equally as damaging to Hermione's belief in authority figures as well.
Harry rubbed his forehead as this summer since Londo Bell gave him plenty of time to think about all the boneheaded things various authority figures had done at Hogwarts. Either the ones that worked there or the ones that visited to annoy Dumbledore or everyone around them.
"You know you get the same expression when you think about Hogwarts of wondering why you bother with that crap?" Ryoma commented.
"Well I got to see a lot of shite first hand," Harry noted. "Overworked teachers, idiot politicians, slimy rich men who wanted to kill everyone 'impure' and got away with attempted murder. And I'm also wondering what insane things happened before I started going there."
"I'm sure I can get that information out of people," Hayato stated.
"Good," Harry groaned. 'I seem to find I need to do that every year."
That definitely would save on time if he got all the necessary background information at once instead of in bite sized chunks. It was so completely and utterly annoying to have to deal with a mystery over the school year and school work. And people doing stupid things that sidetracked him while working on both of those.
Really was Hagrid having something not made of wood to hold a dragon in too much to ask? Or next time he suggested Harry go somewhere not be in the Forbidden Forest as nothing good ever wanted to meet him in there.
"And we will have to deal with the last one," Tetsuya said forcefully. "We will not let anything like that go unpunished."
That put a smile on Harry's face. And mentally made him wonder what Dobby was up to. He wasn't quite sure what to make of a crazy being trying to protect him,but he could say the house elf at least had his heart in the right place. Now if he'd be a bit less crazy in helping out Harry had no idea. Or even where Dobby was or what being fried did to be honest.
Harry nearly frowned as covering what house elves were was of course not something Hogwarts did as that'd make sense. It was starting to become really old that there was so much for them to cover on magic in the first two years that they just didn't.
He then focused on that he had help to deal with Malfoy senior. He doubted the man would take it well to be considered some small fry or his wealth meant nothing to a large group of people with heavy firepower.
Plus the fact that Draco was going learn the hard way his father wasn't this be all end all power broker and kingmaker. He was more likely to be just broken into tiny pieces. Also he might be on fire.
The fact was he a big fish in a small pond, but Lucius Malfoy was tiny fish in a huge pond to Londo Bell. And no better than Blue Cosmos in the eyes of many. Which made it worse for the man as Londo Bell couldn't go and hunt down Blue Cosmos, but he likely was a much different story.
And that nearly got a member of the team killed in his actions likely were going to make it personal for Londo Bell. Though Harry wasn't sure if locking Malfoy senior in a room with Mrs. Weasley to give him a personal howler delivered right into his ears and let her do whatever she wanted to the man would be less painful.
Harry just wondered if they'd record the expression on Malfoy Senior's face with him being told they didn't care how much money had or what. The man probably never had anyone tell him that in his life.
"Plus I might be able to use him as a test pilot for my Getter," Hayato Jin commented. "Though not sure if cleaning out the cockpit and fixing the damage to the Getter jet would be worth the time set back. Be easier if I just killed him with my bare hands."
"How is that Getter going?" Harry asked to change the subject.
"Still in the prototype stage and I have a list of possible pilots," Hayato replied with a slight smile. "Going to need to test them and how they handle pressure."
"And they are giving you free hand with that?" Harry questioned.
"Pretty much," Hayato nodded.
"And here I thought Oliver Wood was the worst person to train under," Harry muttered as Hayato was going to be a whole different level of sadist. He prayed for the people that caught Hayato's interest to pilot his plasma powered Getter.
They were going to need it. Really Harry didn't even want Malfoy to train to be a Getter pilot with Hayato running it. Or even Snape for that matter.
Hayato found that actually pretty funny. And he was slightly off as the first recruit probably won't have that big of a problem. Those after her likely would though.
V-V-V
Thomas Kreiger was completely shocked at what he had learned via looking into the minds of Liberian Works scientists. It was a project he didn't even think was possible or being kept from happening by the ICW.
Some of them were going beyond the cutting edge and into the supernatural. They were using the DNA of demons, werewolves and more to work on ways to enhance humans. And it seemed also working Blue Cosmos or Logos to use this to create superior versions of what they called the Extended or Biological CPUs.
He did have to chuckle slightly at demons calling science a form of magic. He could see that given the sort of things Liberian Works especially Doctor Hell did.
The man put together the unbroken halves of two mummies and was able to create a living being named Baron Ashura for Merlin's sake! That was why those so-called "Angels" in some circles were thought to be Doctor Hell having altered Mimetic Beasts or Brain Powerds in his lab. It was incorrect but still was something that could have happened.
Thomas mused darkly that this wraith likely was going to use a ritual to regain a body using the flesh of a follower, blood taken by force of an enemy, and the bone of a father. Doctor Hell or the Liberian Works likely would be able to come up with some very interesting additions to that.
Such as some demon DNA. Or perhaps some DNA of the Red Comet to give some newtype abilities. They were nothing if not inventive.
It made Thomas desire to have had more Ravenclaws into experimenting and going far beyond what was normal or acceptable to expand the boundaries of magic. Plus the fear of Death Eaters that did things that no one was sure what they were trying to do would be useful.
And perhaps give Rookwood more people to talk with. Maybe he'd have people to bounce ideas off of and make things that topped the unforgivables.
It all made Thomas wonder if series of cyborgs had been created as the original mecha pilot Shiiba Hiroshi was a cyborg. He won't put it past these scientists to do that.
It amused Thomas that the wraith was going be in for even more surprises than he got fighting Londo Bell. It served that embarrassing relic and reminder right to find out how much the statute of secrecy was becoming a joke.
Thomas knew the times were changing and a Slytherin did their best to do the same. And by this point he had a feeling those that belonged in Slytherin and those that begged the sorting hat or just had too much raw ambition (and none of the cunning) was something everyone was going to find out.
It honestly made Thomas wonder how many children of his followers (at least using his for simple terms) would survive that upheaval.
V-V-V
Professor Gleif looked at the pair of mecha he had built. The Rushbird and the Straybird were ready to be piloted now. Even more important Haruno and Alice were ready to be part of their units. He even had some ideas on who he wished to use those mecha.
He just hoped they would be prepared for the trials ahead. The world would need the power of both mechs to survive. Terrible things were on the horizon, and that was beyond the ones everyone knew about.
Forces that were not coming with benevolent desires.
Professor Gleif also hoped Haruno didn't annoy someone that'd disassemble her as he knew she could be arrogant at times.
He hoped that Kisaburou's grandson also would understand why there was a giant robot made for him and Roar. Professor Gleif also prayed the world would survive the coming of Roar's foe that he had chased across dimensions.
V-V-V
Remus Lupin found it nice to meet with old Order of the Phoenix members. It had been some time since he'd seen Molly and Arthur. Plus he also wanted to get a grasp on what exactly the previous DADA teachers had covered, and deep in his heart some news about Harry and how he was doing.
He felt he could use some good news for once.
Though rumor was all those Harry Potter novels were complete garbage and it wasn't magical castles, magical portraits teaching forgotten magic, and wonderous adventures as a childhood for Harry.
It was something Remus knew not to be a rumor as Hagrid had told him about basically having to find Harry, give him his letter, tell him he was a wizard, and get him away from Lily's sister. Lily's now dead sister whom Remus did not miss at all.
The vague amusement of seeing a pair of kids who looked up to the Marauders really didn't help Remus feel better given that Harry had been treated not very well by his own flesh and blood. It was another thing to damn Sirius for having caused. Like the death of Peter, James and Lily wasn't enough for him. Harry's childhood had to be completely ruined by that traitor's actions as well.
"Thanks for helping me with this," Remus said with complete honesty to Molly and Arthur as he focused on something less morbid. "Curse or not on the DADA position things have been a complete mess with the high turnover rate."
"I can see how that would make things difficult," Arthur agreed.
"You don't even want to know much junk the last guy left behind," Remus sighed.
"Tragic what happened to Lockhart," Molly Weasley sighed.
Remus didn't have the heart to tell her Lockhart's notes and such were self serving and complete and utter shite. Literally nothing he left behind was of any use beyond throwing into a fire for fuel.
'Well maybe those essays from male Ravenclaws demanding to know he did all he said he did and really what spell did turn a werewolf back to a human,' Remus mused. Those were actually really interesting and rather amusing.
He could imagine Lockhart if his brains hadn't been turned to mush won't be able to tell what the last part was. James had never come across such a spell and if they heard of it they'd try to find it. So it was something Lockhart had made up in his books. Which called into question exactly how much if anything the man actually had done.
Remus would bet on it being pretty much nothing in them was done by Lockhart. It made him wonder why Lockhart hadn't been taken aside and told his books were being labeled as fiction unless he proved some of what he did.
"Even so," Arthur said dragging Remus out of his thoughts. "He didn't seem to be much of a teacher. Even Percy found his classes to be a waste of time."
"In any case," Remus said quickly. "I need to figure out exactly what the students will need for their OWLs or NEWTs. I have a gut feeling I am going to need to cram at least two years of material into one year."
"You probably are right," Arthur sighed.
"And I am sorry on behalf of Hogwarts for having galleons wasted on such lackluster teaching," Remus sighed. "And on the next mess."
"Next mess?" Molly inquired sharply.
"In his infinite….wisdom...Minister Fudge has Dementors guarding Hogwarts from Black," Remus groaned. "And Dumbledore in his infinite wisdom doesn't seem to have anything planned to deal with that mess."
The pair of parents stared at Remus hoping he was telling a morbid and unfunny joke. It soon was clear this was no laughing matter. It also helped take a wrecking ball to the image of Dumbledore as having incredible political power and statesmen skills. Neither parent really felt getting various statesmen, movers and shakers, and just a lot of parents to demand Fudge get his head out of his arse and do something sane to safeguard their family members going to Hogwarts would that hard. Not when it was a completely insane measure like Dementors.
This was just complete and utter madness. It also made them wonder what Dumbledore actually did with all his titles.
"And we all know exactly how Harry's associates will take this," Remus commented. "And perform various experiments with Dementors like if they are invisible to various sensors on mecha, and exactly what the internal structure of a Dementor is."
"And were they going to inform the parents of this or is this supposed to be a surprise?" Molly growled.
Remus shrugged. "I work there and Hagrid is the only one to be willing to talk about things."
"Hagrid never could keep a secret," Arthur chuckled as frankly it was laugh or cry about the complete and utter insanity he'd just heard.
"And Hagrid was the one that told me Harry can talk to snakes or nearly got killed several times over the last two school years," Remus said with it clear he was trying to not lose control. "Things that make Sirius Black after him look like business as usual for him it seems."
"I don't recall anything like this happening when any of us were at Hogwarts," Arthur remarked sharply. "It makes me wonder what in Merlin's name is going on there now."
"I got half a mind to send a howler about this," Molly nearly yelled.
Remus and Arthur knew it'd be to more than one person. More like starting at the top with Dumbledore and working her way down from there.
"Which explains why Harry handed over his vault key to Molly and other things," Arthur sighed.
"...Are they even teaching anything besides magic?" Remus asked after a moment. "As you don't give vault keys to people."
"Not from what Harry has written in his letters," Molly sighed. "He wanted to know what nations are allied with us in the ICW, what the ICW does, what the various jobs are, and things you'd think they'd teach the muggleborn."
"So basically things Binns should be teaching in History of Magic," Remus groaned.
"Harry wrote that the one time Binns became animated was when he talked about the Chamber of Secrets," Arthur noted. "Didn't believe it was real but that he had passion as he discussed it."
"Interesting," Remus commented.
"I keep trying to remember what I learned at Hogwarts with every letter from Harry," Molly admitted. "And figure out what has changed as this is making me wonder what they are actually doing there."
"And I am not going to disagree on that," Remus groused. "And I have no why Se...Professor Snape is let rant and sneer like he does. I mean the other teachers don't even comment on that when he gets going."
"A question I doubt anyone will get answered," Arthur sighed.
"Unless they let those...those...insane men ask," Molly said rubbed her forehead. "I just hope none of the students think Hayato Jin is someone to emulate."
"Of course I have had to add demons to something to cover in my classes," Remus noted. "Given Devilman and other demons clashing with the Getter team and the socalled Mazinger Angels among others."
"It says so much when to muggles the alien has become the familiar," Arthur mused. "And magic not completely heard of if it involves Londo Bell."
"And talking cats and an animal that I looked up and you'd swear was from the Quibbler," Remus snorted. "Then again even Xeno Lovegood might wonder if you were pulling his leg talking about the duckbilled platypus."
"...That would have to be one very strange animal," Molly said after a moment.
"Only mammal that lays eggs in the world," Remus told her. "And it has a few other odd traits besides that."
The pair were speechless such a species existed on the Earth. And they had the Lovegoods as neighbors so they had heard some whoppers of strange forms of life on the Earth. They also were surprised Xeno didn't have a few of that odd muggle animal as pets.
"Merlin," Molly whispered.
"I still am not sure if what Harry is up to will make people believe the various books about him more or if it will be less," Arthur admitted.
The thought of what James, Lily and Peter would think of Harry's working with Londo Bell was bittersweet to Remus. A could have been that will never be.
Remus focused on the issues at hand.
"They'll believe what they want to believe," the current DADA professor commented. "Given they've flip flopped from hero to Dark Lord over the last two years. Not sure what the current thoughts on him are though."
Neither parent disagreed with him on that.
"In any case I have a feeling by the time I get done I will be swearing at the night sky," Remus sighed.
"I don't doubt that," Arthur commented. "Merlin this has become a mess."
This was all something that needed fixed.
"I am going to do my part to resolve this and just hope with your help and those of your children if someone else takes over next year they can keep it going," Remus stated.
Remus wasn't sure if he could beat the DADA curse or not, but he definitely was going to do what he could in a year to put Hogwarts back on the path of being the greatest school of magic.
Harry deserved no less than the best education he could get.
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Ritsuko Akagi would never imagine she'd be glad to see the mysterious Professor of the Junk Guild. And yet that was the case as Harold "Coop" Cooplaswki and Lowe Gruele were working on the S2 Engine for Evangelion 04.
The whole thing made more surreal by the fact that Mari Makinami was being assigned the pilot of the Evangelion for this test. And possibly afterward if whatever insanity was sure to be unleashed by the pair was something she survived.
The Professor looked amused. "And no one commented the principles behind the S2 Engine were the same as a photon torpedo from Star Trek?"
Ritsuko thought for a moment and realized that actually was correct. Which explained why MAGI believed it would cause a Sea of Dirac to destroy the entire area...at least before Coop got involved.
Now anything was possible. Completely and utterly anything.
The bottle blonde scientist felt that she was way too close to the experiment with Coop's added x-factor. The Macross Frontier colony fleet might be far enough way in her mind thought it'd just be barely given what Coop could cause.
When a man managed to turn a mecha's weapon from a powerful energy weapon to shooting black holes by accident Ritsuko felt you didn't want to be in the same sector of space when he played with matter/antimatter reactions.
"And they want them to play with it?" Ritsuko commented.
The Professor shrugged. "Commander Andru has been trying to keep them from doing something stupid."
"I won't trust a crackpot saying she was from the distant future to keep those two out of trouble," Ritsuko stated.
The Professor gave Doctor Akagi an amused look at her not believing Kiva. Ritsuko did not find it enjoyable.
There also was a tenseness in the air as everyone expected someone or something to attack the base. Be it Doctor Hell or his minions or some alien species or some other force. Which to be fair usually did happen to them.
It vaguely amused Ritsuko how incomplete the Dead Sea Scrolls were. They weren't kidding on now being a time of trials, but they sure didn't mention a lot of things that were to come. Frankly Coop really should have been mentioned given the amount of chaos he got caught up in and caused on his own.
The only bit of Londo Bell's chaos she was willing to get pass was the pair of talking cats the Cybuster pilot had as they were cute. Even in her head Ritsuko had to admit it was petty, but she liked cats and they were adorable.
"And there also is Yuu as well," The Professor then noted. "He's looking over the Brain Powerd research being done here."
"Hard to believe the reason they called Brain Powerds instead of Powereds is because the expert on them had a typo and it stuck," Ritsuko remarked. "And that he is even smarter than the Second Child."
"And younger too," Professor mused.
Suddenly the alarms for the NERV base went off as a swarm of strange monsters attacked. It said a lot when instead of panic Londo Bell was more concerned who they were after and why. They also noticed all the invaders had horns on them.
"Keep them away from the S2 Engine," Sanger called out with the massive blade of his Grungust ready to strike any invaders that got close enough to him.
Rastel Feinschmeker opened fire on the invaders with the photon rifle of his Huckebein.
"Man those things are ugly," Ken Kaido muttered as he hacked into them with the Ganzanto.
Koji Tetsuya popped up the shoulder mounted laser cannons on the G-Gunner and let loose on the invaders.
"Huh," Harry said as the monsters went directly for Shin Getter. "You guys got any idea why they are so angry at you?"
"Nope," Ryoma replied as he drove a tomahawk through what looked like a giant spiked ball with a head on it.
"Not to my recollection," Hayato commented.
"I never seen these guys before," Musashi shrugged.
Mari grinned savagely and let the invaders have it with a pair of handheld bazookas.
"Finally I get to do this again!" she called out.
"That girl worries me," Sayaka muttered as she used the spear her mech had and avoided being struck by the massive drills one of the invaders had for hands.
"No kidding," Harry agreed as he used a mega beam saber to slice into the various invaders as they tried to attack him as they made their way to Shin Getter.
"Sanity is not a requirement for selection," Kaworu admitted with a sigh as he used the dual chainsaw.
"Starting to think that's only a requirement for the army," Excellen Browning remarked as she blew the head off what looked like a giant robot's upper body on a missile.
"I can't say you are wrong on that," Yuu commented as Yuu Brain moved like lightning and struck the various monsters.
Especially when they saw Megas leap off of the building they were safeguarding like it was the top rope of a wrestling ring and give one of the giant monsters a hurricanrana.
Harry was amazed someone actually could get a giant robot to do something like that.
Unknown to them all there was a second unit that the Hyakki Beasts were looking for. Emperor Burai was annoyed there wasn't a bright orange Nero among the Londo Bell forces.
"We must be too early to find the founder of the Asuno line," the horned oni growled and remembered there was another species in this time frame. One that looked down on those without horns and were trying to invade the Earth. The Boazanians if Burai recalled correctly.
Given the massive horns he had Burai wasn't going to have any problems on that front. And however much he didn't want to lower himself to deal with others they might be of some use. The Getter team and Ron Weasley weren't going to just kill themselves for him after all.
Burai also wondered how Mars was habitable without the locals getting something similar to cancer. It quite odd to him for it have humans living on it and all doing fine. Or even living on it so openly for that matter.
He then shook his head as that really didn't matter right now and focused on using his horns to control the Hyakki Beasts. Shin Getter had to be destroyed!
A goal the Getter team was not making easy as Shin Getter was a lot more powerful than what the Hyakki Beasts and Emperor Burai were expecting. There also was the fact that Emperor Burai had rushed things to catch his foes off guard and he was paying the price for that.
Then came the massive blast from Nu Gundam's main gun. And then another as Sayla Mass's Mass Production Type Nu Gundam had a hyper mega beam rifle as well.
"I want one of those," Mari called out with a wide smile as she stabbed one of the invaders with a prog knife.
Hayato chuckled. "Think she's one of yours Ryoma?"
Ryoma shook his head almost sadly. "She can't be."
No one wanted to ask why he felt that way.
Jun then let the invaders have it with a barrage of finger missiles.
Then came a cry that would make many a foe spoil themselves.
"Double Harken!" Duke Fleed called out as he launched himself and Grendizer into the fight.
In the Minerva-X Maria smiled as her brother had returned from working with one of the Macross fleets to see how fixable and habitable Fleed was.
Now Duke was back, and Grendizer was slicing through the invaders like they were nothing.
In Megas Jamie looked to see if Kiva had any reaction to Grendizer. Like if the Fleedians were something she knew of.
Her expression didn't change in any manner. Jamie knew her well enough to pick up on when things annoyed her, or she was happy, or completely and utterly enraged. This lack of anything worried him more than if she started swearing.
'What happened to Fleed that it is forgotten by her time?' Jamie found himself wondering. 'And to a lot of other things like Gundams?'
He had no answers and that worried him a lot. Even more than things around his friend Coop usually did.
Coop then slammed his head onto a massive button and unleashed a massive swarm of missiles at the very ugly invaders.
"Getter beam!" Ryoma then called out and unleashed that which Emperor Burai feared. The burst of radiation smashed any of the invaders that still were standing.
Emperor Burai realized that this war was not going to be easy even if it was before the Getter Emperor came into being. He was going to need to prepare much better and gather allies. And turn people into Oni to increase his forces.
V-V-V
Takaya Aiba knew he had to get back into space to take the fight to the Radam. Though he really didn't want to explain how he got back to Earth after being considered lost in the outer Solar System. And also didn't really have any ID.
And he honestly wanted to find a pair of pants that could survive him transforming into a Tekkaman.
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Harry knew it was a terrible idea, but Ginny's birthday was coming up and he had to get her something. And also visit her with a Londo Bell psychologist as he didn't want to let Ginny down. No way was he going to let Riddle win any fight and that included any taint and psychological scars he'd left behind in Ginny.
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Chapter Notes
Professor Tarsan is from Dangaioh. He transformed the four pilots of the Dangaioh into what they are today. He had a change of heart...plus the people he was going to supply the weapons wanted to kill him.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He is a badass and a psychotic.
Mio Sagura is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is the pilot of Zamzeed, likes shonen manga, and breaks the 4th wall.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Getter Mazinger. He's a very prideful and determined man.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He's a complete psychopath.
Professor Gleif is from Super Robot Wars L. He built the Straybird and Rushbird.
Ritusko Akagi is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. The chief scientist of NERV's Tokyo 3 branch and one of the few having any idea what Gendo Ikari intends to do, and also SEELE's plans.
The Professor is from Gundam SEED Astray. She is the leader of the Junk Guild team Lowe Gruele is part of.
Coop is from Megas XLR. He is a walking source of chaos.
Kiva is from Megas XLR. She is from the future and found out the hard way Coop made Megas so he is the only person able to pilot it.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is a badass and no one sane should want to cross swords with the Sword That Pierces Evil.
Rastel Feinschmeker aka Elzam von Branstein is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is a badass, and the guy who watches Sanger's back.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. A psycho who loves using melee weapons.
Koji Tetsuya is from Godannar. He's not quite as badass as the two guys he's named after, but still he tries. Also he's immune to the Insania Virus somehow.
Musashi Tomoe is from Getter Robo. He's insanely brave but not a psychopath.
Mari Illustrious Makinami is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He's Ryoma Nagare with a sweet candy shell.
Sayaka Yumi is from Mazinger Angels. A hot headed girl with a great deal of skill as a pilot of a mech.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is the Angel of Freewill Tabris...and Mio is the one he wants to kill first when the time comes.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is a skilled mech pilot, but also very happy go lucky.
Yuu Isani is from Brain Powerd. The son of the two head scientists for the Reclaimers and likely one of the least crazy people from Orphan. Which says a great deal given he pulled a gun on his parents on his birthday.
Emperor Burai is from Getter Robo G. He is the first of the Getter foes from the future that the Getter Emperor scares the crap out of.
Jun Hono is from Great Mazinger. She is the pilot of Venus A and not someone to take lightly.
Duke Fleed is from Grendizer. He is an alien prince working to defend his adopted world, and has an incredibly powerful mech.
Maria Fleed is from Grendizer. She is Duke's sister and is part of the Mazinger Angels.
Jamie is from Megas XLR. He is Coop's cowardly friend, but there is more to Jamie than even he knows.
Takaya Aiba is from Tekkaman Blade. He is Tekkaman Blade and not a guy you want to mess with. As anyone that can survive an orbital drop or a nuke to the face is made of some very stern stuff.