Mekibos found that there was a one major difference between humans and the Zuvong. And that was that humans were willing to use the weapons they made to fight nature and predators on each other.
It allowed humans to advance much more quickly than the Zuvong, and to Mekibos made them immature instead of savages. Especially as movements and things like the ideal of total pacifism showed humans were trying to improve themselves. Just that they had a lot of things overcome to make those changes.
What worried Mekibos was the fact his brother and a few others fit in far more with humanity than their own people. All of them proclaiming humans merely apes and unworthy to keep existing.
'I have this disturbing feeling they are protesting too much,' Mekibos pondered.
Plus there was the fact his brother or others won't combat the Galra Empire or Bunker directly and they were far worse than humanity.
Which left him wondering why his brother and others were really in this star system, and what really was going on.
It was worrying, and left him to wonder if he needed to do something to Wendolo's mech. Just in case.
He also made a note to look over everything in his own mech as his brother might get the exact same idea.
It would likely be more fatal to him than he intended to be to Wendolo however. Which actually disturbed Mekibos that the feeling his brother actually do something fatal to him.
It made him wonder if his brother cared about anything besides himself. It was a terrible thing to ponder about, but it didn't make any less true.
This planet was forcing his eyes open and he was seeing what his comrades were really like. Were his people as advanced as they said or was it just something they told themselves to try to make it true?
Were they really mature enough to be the one judging the standards of society for the galaxy? Was anyone really?
Mekibos had a feeling he wasn't ever going to be the same after this was over.
V-V-V
They waited in the dark. They wanted fresh air, sunlight, and clean air. One of their own was experiencing those things as he spied on the surface world and those that dwelled on it and beyond.
It soon would be their time to rise up and take back the Earth. Anyone currently on it would die.
They just waited for Archduke Gorgon to give the word and the Mycenae Empire would attack the surface world.
V-V-V
It was a little known fact that most of the secret groups out to defend from one alien threat actually were united and merely specialized. Doctor Bian Zoldark had never imagined that in his quest to defend the Earth he'd find aliens of many species that could name specific alien threats to the Earth.
Or that Klein Sandman was willing to provide a greal deal of funding for the Divine Crusaders. He also was one of that had given information on a specific alien threat to humanity. An alien threat lead by someone he knew very well as it was his brother in law.
Why the group was called the Divine Crusaders was easy to understand as the founder was a huge giant robot fanboy. He altered the appearance of his daughter's mech with relish and enjoyed the work he had put into it.
The DC also worked closely with the GGG, Mithril, and the Preventers. All three groups had similar goals to the Divine Crusaders. The World Security Organization was a bit more standoffish with the Divine Crusaders, but they were able to work together to stop threats. Londo Bell was for the most part a valued ally even if most of them weren't aware of that fact.
That wasn't to say everyone who was part of the Divine Crusaders or their allies was someone Vega would invite home to meet her family. Far from it. There were some very creepy and disturbing people in the Divine Crusaders.
Right now Vega was meeting with Shu Shirakawa and she felt he was one of the most manipulative men she had ever met.
Gilliam Yeager was more acceptable to her, but she had a feeling he also had his own plans. What those plans were she had no idea.
'Of course I had felt the same way about Ingram Prisken,' Vega thought to herself. 'And boy did that go bad.'
There were a lot of bad memories surrounded what Prisken had done. The SRX team went through a great deal because of all that.
Professor Mitsuyo Gou was thankfully much more pleasant to deal with. Vega also hoped Lagour or Kentaro was in good health as he was trying to blunt the Boazanian invasion in secret on his homeworld.
Frankly Vega didn't look forward to telling her son or Mitsuyo's sons learning they were half alien. That was not an experience anyone walked away from unchanged.
'That will all be messy,' Vega mused inwardly.
She then refocused on the issue at hand. Which was Zeorymer and its pilot Masato Akitsu. Or as everyone at the DC termed it 'Last Guardian's complete and utter mess we have to clean up'.
"We still aren't sure if all the various..issues..of the mech are resolved," Gilliam admitted.
"I hate everything around it," Vega nearly growled. "Those disgusting people that had raised Masato, to how thuggish Last Guardian operated, to that revolting scientist who got all this in motion likely to have a younger body to use."
"And that Tau Dragon hadn't used the profits of their juggernaut computer company to buy some islands or a space colony," Shu mused. "In fact they most likely would going to destroy it if events hadn't forced them to use their heads."
"How...childish and wasteful," Gilliam sighed.
"That's how Doctor Kihara wanted everyone it seemed," Vega groused. "All to appear to be the most grand manipulator and like I said get a new and younger body for himself to use."
"While in the middle of us having more important things to do," Mitsuyo groaned. "As dealing with invasions wishing to destroy the planet is what we need to deal with instead of Doctor Kihara feeding his massive ego."
"And I doubt anyone wants to know what he intended for Miku to be for," Shu commented with a his usual trollish smile.
"It literally is the only way he'd be able to get a girlfriend," Vega commented.
"Or any female companionship," Gilliam noted. "Well perhaps Eldy Mitte would like him."
"There are buildings on fault lines more stable than her," Shu noted.
"Great another problem for later," Mitsuyo muttered rubbing her temples.
"And they are letting her working on an AI?" Vega sighed as she could tell nothing good was going to come from that.
"I'll handle it when it gets dangerous," Shu said with his usual smirk.
"So was it you that did that to Doctor Ozunu?" Vega asked. Given the man's Idealants Project was to make androids that were superior to humans and to lead.
"Oh the amount of people that wished him dead is extremely large," Shu stated. "And I can not take credit for it."
Vega was not comforted by that in the slightest. Neither was Professor Gou. If Shu didn't do it than who did?
"So exactly is being done with the Org siblings?" Vega inquired.
"That is a good question," Gilliam admitted.
"So no one has any idea?" Mitsuyo grumbled.
"Correct," Shu replied.
"Exactly how human are they?" Vega mused. "As in would Algeron do anything to them?"
"I believe we'd need to know exactly what that is first," Mitsuyo commented.
It said a great deal that even the "experts" on it really weren't entirely sure what Algeron truly was. Which worried them as how dangerous it was. The Bottom World amusement park incident only highlighting that to them.
"So anyone got any idea what that other being that showed up at Bottom World is?" Vega stated.
"Well given all the things that live on Earth and beyond…"Shu replied and shrugged. "It is a rather large list of beings it could be. Though I do believe Devilman was busy that day."
Vega never imagined her life would include supernatural beings like demons being real. Yet she had at one point met Devilman so she couldn't claim he didn't exist.
"Going to a problem that we have some idea what it is," Mitsuyo stated. "The call aliens to come to Earth for friendship."
"So we all agreed on Doctor Denton's message into space will lead to us having even more problems to deal with?" Gilliam asked.
There was no word of disagreement on that.
"I do not fault his desire to want to make friends and his earnest want to make peaceful contact," Vega sighed. "Just that there are races out there you never want to meet or have to deal with."
"Better child-like wonder instead of neurotic crazy," Mitsuyo remarked. "At least he isn't purposely trying to be a pain in the butt of everyone."
"And so far all that have answered that call were the Go-Lion pilots," Gilliam noted. "With it being how most of them came home."
"But I doubt that will last," Vega sighed. "Sooner or later something very bad will show up using that signal to find the Earth. And who knows if the Divine Crusaders and Londo Bell will be enough to handle it."
After a moment Gilliam spoke up. "And there also is the matter of NERV."
"Supreme Commander Ikari is up to his own plan, and those old fools he supposedly works for have their own planet ending agenda," Shu commented with a smirk.
"You sure it is planet ending and not merely to increase their pocket books like that rich boy cabal?" Mitsuyo inquired.
"Completely certain," Shu informed them as they all knew about LOGOS.
Though the issue in dealing with LOGOS and Ikari was having to wait for the right moment as to not cause an even bigger mess dealing with them. For Shu it was making sure a...guest...who met with LOGOS was unaware he knew about him and was on to him. It made getting the drop the alien much easier when they didn't know someone was on to them.
White Fang had no idea how well they played into the Divine Crusader plans to deal with the Romefeller Foundation. Or how given they were former followers of the idea of "total pacifism" gone violent and militant amused Shu.
The only left from the OZ War was the Barton Foundation which for some reason felt they were hiding their recruitment of troops well. And reportedly that they believed they had a banner to unite the world. Why anyone would think Trieze Khushrenada's daughter had the right to rule anything made them wonder if Dekim Barton was getting senile. It was an idea that held no weight.
The fact he had backed the research on those five Gundams and was making a mass produced mobile suit based off the Heavy Arms was something they worried about. Also the fact they had a new armor called neo-titanium to make said mobile suits out of and it was claimed to be nearly as strong as gundarium theta but much easy to produce.
Frankly all of them really rather be focusing on alien invasions instead of rich businessmen with armies of mobile suits and an axe to grind. Vega especially rather be worrying about her son than that.
Still they couldn't ignore the homegrown threats to the Earth. Especially those that wished to use Celestial Being for their purposes. There was no doubt in their minds that Alejandro Corner was up to something. Though it seemed whatever that something was won't be quite as destructive to all human life as SEELE's plans.
"So any signs that Nergal has found much from the Martian re-tech beyond their ship designs?" Vega asked.
"Not yet," Mitsuyo replied. "I don't think their mecha interface is from that re-tech. And it is different than the ODE System as well."
"I wonder how the live exhibition of that will go," Gilliam mused as the mech the ODE System was used were supposed to be part of a line of new mobile weapons.
"It'll be another company trying to get a piece of that mecha pie," Vega sighed. "It seems everyone wants a slice of it."
"I just hope those Bartols measure up," Mitsuyo remarked.
"I'm sure the Compatible Kaiser, Straybird, and Freebird would able to easily defeat them," Shu said with his usual smirk.
"I just hoping the entity that came with the first one is a good idea," Vega said softly.
"It will be," Gilliam Yeager assured her. He knew that entity from before coming to this dimension and not many were more brave and noble than Warrior Roar.
Even though that meant that Warrior Roar's enemies were turning their eyes toward this dimension.
Enemies there were in the same class as the emperor of the Muge Empire. Gilliam definitely didn't look forward to them showing up at all.
V-V-V
Harry was enjoying being with Sirius in Riksent. It felt so good to spend time with his godfather. To sip sodas and get the Hogwarts shopping done. It was really relaxed and didn't feel like a chaotic mess.
They were able to go at their own pace, and Harry didn't have this overwhelmed feeling. He was able to take his time looking over books not on the school book list and think about if he wanted to get them or not.
Harry wasn't turning into his friend Hermione on books, but he still enjoyed being able to go at his own pace in the stores and see what caught his eye. He'd found wandlore and broom construction were really interesting and really wanted to see what other interesting books were for sale.
Plus no one was giving him the insane amount of attention like he got in Diagon Alley businesses once they were aware he was there. It just made him feel so uncomfortable. And for some reason he imagined having a bunch of dogs with their leashes tied around his waist as a way to keep people at bay. It amused him and he wondered if it'd actually work or if someone would throw a stick for the dogs to fetch.
"I just hope Ron doesn't mind I went for runes over divinations," Harry mused.
"Pup given the things you wrote about in those letters I doubt you changing an elective will mean much," Sirius noted.
Harry took a sip of his soda. It tasted extremely good. Likely even more so as it was a warm summer day in Riksent.
"Though I am not sure how well telling him if he wants to be Head Boy he needs to do more than the easy classes like he put it," Harry sighed. He remembered what Ron had seen in the Mirror of Erised and really wanted his friend to make those a reality.
Though Ron's desire to want to take the easy classes won't help to become Head Boy. Harry was sure Ron could get the other part of his desire. Ollie won't mind making Ron part of the team and Ron becoming captain of the Quidditch team was something Harry could easily see happening.
It annoyed Harry now that he was able to think about how Ron was wasting his chance to make those desires possible. Harry couldn't get his family back like he desired. And he definitely didn't consider that Resurrection Stone he read about in a book on Wizarding World mythology to be good enough. Not that he had any idea where to find that object if it was real.
'Of course not sure if I would have the same desire now,' Harry thought to himself.
Or if it won't include his parents, Sirius, and some other things. Such as Remus Lupin who Sirius had told him about. He wondered if any Londo Bell teammates would be included in what that mirror would show.
"Sirius you ever have a friend that desires to be Head Boy but doesn't want to put in the work?" Harry asked. "Because I don't know what to do."
"Well that's not an easy thing to deal with," Sirius admitted. "As you can't force someone to do all the hard work that requires."
"I had a feeling that was the answer," Harry sighed.
Sirius patted Harry's shoulder. "You want your friend to reach their dreams. That's a good thing."
That made Harry feel a bit better. He'd have to write to Ron about that and he hoped Ron understood. It also felt good to finally have an adult he could talk to about these things. It was something his friends might have taken for granted.
"So the plans for the department store going along alright?" Harry then inquired.
"Going fine," Sirius grinned. "And plans for a Diagon Alley location if the first one does decently."
"I hope it does well," Harry stated.
"Trust me this whole thing will drive my thankfully late mother crazy," Sirius chuckled. "A muggle idea backed by Black money would drive her up the wall. Might just tell her painting to watch it happen."
"I'd put some Potter money into it if you need more backers," Harry told Sirius.
"All I want you to do Harry is spend some money at the pizza place that will be in the Hogsmeed location," Sirius remarked. "And get some nicknacks that catch your eye."
"That sounds like fun," Harry grinned.
"Plus make a fool out of Fudge if he tries to arrest me when I'm still in Riksent talking by mirror," Sirius chuckled.
"I still don't like how he arrested Hagrid to be seen doing something," Harry groused. "And I doubt he ever apologized in any manner about it."
"It takes a big man to admit they are wrong," Sirius noted. "And you could fit Fudge into a thimble."
Harry laughed at that joke.
"Oh and they want me to test some new glasses at the Burrow," Harry grinned. "Basically working as a cell phone and like a pair that a mech pilot assigned to Riksent has that can analyze information and retrieve data."
Sirius chuckled. "Oh the things the Marauders could have done with glasses like that in Hogwarts."
Harry still wasn't sure what to make of his father and friends pranking people in school. He wondered if that also was why his mother had been so annoyed with his father before he matured.
Sirius sighed and never imagined this would be the touchiest subject he and Harry would have.
The fact someone very bitter over that was a teacher at Hogwarts now definitely helped in that, along with how Harry's own cousin had "Harry Hunting" as a sport.
It made Sirius not exactly unhappy those that had hurt Harry got killed. Though he doubted that Celestial Being group would expect a thank you for that.
"The fact that Snape had been one of Mum's friends is what really is weird to me," Harry then admitted. "And how oddly no one it seems wanted to actually mention that fact."
"So is me finding out I pretty much have to go from square one on anything magical with you," Sirius commented. "Not blaming you as it seeming trying to overwhelm you and pat you on the head after you nearly get killed is the way of things."
"I really should have done more to learn," Harry groused. "Look things up and…"
"Brew polyjuice to go undercover?" Sirius said with a smile. "Got to say even James and the rest of us never tried to do that."
"Someone had to do something and Malfoy seemed to best lead we had," Harry shrugged.
"And also right family...just the wrong Malfoy," Sirius noted.
"Sirius are you supposed to take any punishment by the teachers and that's the way it always has been at Hogwarts?" Harry then asked.
"They actually said that to you?" Sirius asked.
"Actually Hagrid said that to Malfoy and that time all Malfoy had done is tattle on us being out late to actually help Hagrid stay out of trouble," Harry explained. "And Malfoy senior was on the board of governors."
"And you are wonder if Hagrid would still have a job if Lucy had his way?" Sirius commented. "And fairly sure the answer is Dumbledore would have to pull Hagrid's fat out of the fire especially if this was the Forbidden Forest incident."
"I mean I like Hagrid but Merlin is having a power trip when punishing the students part of being of working at Hogwarts?" Harry groaned.
"It shouldn't be," Sirius told him. "But neither should any of the stuff that happened to you have taken place. Especially sending in first years with Hagrid and his dog after something killing unicorns."
Harry looked relieved at that.
"And I am also glad that you are making friends," Sirius said warmly.
"Thanks," Harry said softly. "Though not sure what Ron and Hermione will feel about Masato, Shinji and the others."
"And that Hime girl you send e-mails," Sirius grinned. "Or maybe that Lovegood girl."
Harry blushed at Sirius's light teasing.
"It isn't like that," Harry protested.
"Yet anyway," Sirius remarked. "Be nice for you to find a girl that doesn't care about your fame."
Then a man on a motorcycle drove past at high speeds with a trio of women with glowing hair running after him.
"Harry why are a trio of blondes chasing after one of your coworkers?" Sirius then asked. "With hair that can cut through anything?"
"Those are androids," Harry stated and pulled out his wand. He wasn't sure what killer robots counted as for the Statue of Secrecy, but he wasn't going to let Koji get killed on his watch. Plus there was the fact that it was likely Doctor Hell was invading Riksent.
The Gamia Qs were too focused on their mission to even notice Harry. In fact the only other Londo Bell pilots programmed into them to watch for were Hayato Jin and Ryoma Nagare. Mostly because those two had broken previous Gamias with their bare hands.
"Reduco!" Harry yelled and a Gamia looked like a sledgehammer got taken to her torso.
Harry was just glad he'd pulled off a spell he'd just read about. He then did his best to avoid being sliced up by the very annoyed killer robot.
What looked a giant stone statue then came crashing down close to Harry. Doctor Hell definitely was up to his old tricks and causing trouble.
Harry snorted as he was sure any owl with a letter to complain about using misusing magic would be shot down. He then barely avoided being cut apart as the Gamia Q had easily gotten up the fallen mechanical beast.
"You are not Koji Kabuto,but clearly part of Londo Bell," the Gamia Q remarked as her hair started to glow. "You still need to die."
The android then barely avoid being cut in half by a redheaded woman with a sword. Harry had no idea who she was. Though he had a feeling he would see her again after all of this was over. He just wondered what she'd be piloting.
"Get to your mech," Sho Tachibana told Harry. "I'll handle her."
"Thanks," Harry called off as he ran off.
A fourth Gamia Q head went flying past, and Harry saw Sanger Zonvolt's sensei. The older man looked somewhat amused.
"I might want one of these to spar with," Rishu Togo chuckled.
Harry was sure a lot more people were going to be added to the kill on sight list to the next batch of Gamias.
There then was a massive explosion as Coop was trashing a whole horde of Mechanical Beasts. A Doublas M2 head hit the ground in front of Harry.
"I hope I can make it back to base," Harry muttered as it was dangerous not being in his Rezel when Coop was fighting anything.
Then things got worse as the Iron Army was invading. Backing them up was the Iron Cross Corps and Harry got moving even faster than before.
"Merlin.." Harry muttered. "They're pulling out all the stops."
Harry then blinked seeing a blue skinned man in roman armor whose lower body was a tiger...and he was attached to the back of the tiger and not the front. He wondered what in Merlin's name Doctor Hell did to that guy. Or why that guy would let Doctor Hell do surgery on him when everything he touched on the operating table ended up really weird.
He had no idea that Doctor Hell's insane medical surgeries were not involved in the creation of Archduke Gorgon. It did however get Harry to run even faster to get to the military base where his Rezel was.
Harry missed seeing Great Mazinger use a Breast Burn on Archduke Gorgon.
Not that he really needed to see that as he needed to get to his mech, and help stop Doctor Hell and his forces. He also hoped Sirius was ok, and would be safe in the middle of the madness.
Harry then got to see those F50-D Guntanks in action. He wasn't sure who was manning the transformable artillery mobile suits, but it seemed Lowe had fixed the need to manually go outside the Guntank to load the cannons. Which was a good thing as anyone that exposed likely would get shot by the Iron Masks and Iron Crosses.
A black mech then seemed to come out of nowhere and sliced through Mechanical Beasts. Harry knew it was the Deathscythe. It seemed Duo Maxwell was living in Riksent after the OZ war was over.
A Taurus then flew past and was giving the Deathscythe cover figure. Harry figured that was Duo's girlfriend Hilde.
However Harry had no idea who was piloting the dark grey Gundam that also was helping them out. He'd never seen the Delta Plus before.
The pink/red Huckebein looking mech Harry knew was called an Exbein,but no idea who the pilot was. He also knew there was a rumor the MK III Huckebein had been shelved until they could prove one of the engines in Megas worked better and safer than the Tronium drive.
Plus the fact that there wasn't exactly a lot of Tronium to go around, but the engine being tested in the oddly named Mass Produced Double Zeta Gundam could be made without limited exotic parts.
Harry did however know the Sandrock on sight so seeing it cut up Doctor Hell's mecha was a comfort to him.
It won't be quite as comforting to him if he knew that there were those that wanted Quatre's head for his blowing up Junius Seven space colony during his Zero system induced rampage. Doctor Hell gave them a chance to be aware of his movements now.
One Athran Zala would love to meet Quatre. With Zala in his mobile suit and Quatre not in his Gundam.
Harry then got shocked when Koji stopped his motorcycle in front of him.
"Get on!" Koji called out and Harry didn't need to be told twice.
Harry could feel the wind going through his hair as Koji burned rubber.
"Maybe later I can see if my broom is faster than this," Harry remarked.
Koji chuckled. "That sounds like fun when someone isn't shooting at us."
"Of course I also have to get Sirius's motorcycle that can fly back," Harry mused. "Not sure how magical you got to be to make it work."
"Something worth checking later," Koji agreed as he dodged enemy fire.
Harry wondered if he could grow his sideburns to be like Koji's. Sirius still wasn't sure Harry's tale of regrowing his hair in one night was accidental magic, or metamorphmagus ability or both. In any case Harry was sure Koji would find it flattering and amusing.
It was a pity that not many at Hogwarts would get the reference. Well unless something stupid happened and Londo Bell showed up to stomp it into the ground. Harry wasn't ruling that out given his last two years at that boarding school.
Harry wasn't surprised to see Kikunosuke Abashiri moving really fast on her motorcycle. She was as much of a daredevil as Koji to be honest.
Koji grinned and tried to top the pilot of Iron Z as they avoided danger. Harry wondered if this feeling of worry was what Hermione got seeing him on his broom.
He honestly didn't like it at all.
It also made Harry want to say he was sorry for putting Hermione through that sort of feeling and doing so several times a year.
Harry then felt Koji's laser pistol as they did a hairpin turn and wondered if he could get one of those. It might come in handy to have one when he played seeker if something trying to kill him again.
Admittedly Dobby wasn't trying to kill him, but Harry mentally considered that close enough. Also made a note if something happened while flying this year to quit the team as it was getting really old. Plus the fact the Hogwarts staff couldn't even be arsed to try to figure out what happened or if they did didn't ask him any questions as that'd be sensable.
For a place that once felt like home to Harry, it now sure felt like he wondered if the teachers could do anything right.
Harry then mused exactly how many pieces Hogwarts would be if Koji's brother Shiro was the one that had ended up going there.
"Hey Koji exactly how effective is a rust hurricane on stone?" Harry inquired.
"Nowhere as good as on metal but still pretty nasty," Koji replied. 'Better to use a photon beam or breast fire on the stone covering of the Mechanical Beasts."
"After all everyone has said about Hogwarts would you want your brother to go there?" Harry then asked.
"No," Koji said forcefully. "In fact there's a beating pool when we'll be called in to save you from whatever is trying to kill you this year."
"Thanks," Harry grinned. "Glad to have someone that actually would be of help for that."
"You took out a giant snake and saved the school and they did jack," Koji groused. "And that's after they turned on you for a stupid reason."
"Trust me I've been thinking about all that a lot this summer," Harry admitted. "After working with you guys and no Dursleys to go back to ever again has made Hogwarts look really bad as a boarding school."
Koji chuckled. "Oh and there's a betting pool on us turning that castle into rubble. I figured that was what you really were asking about my rust hurricane destroying."
"It is," Harry grinned. "I almost pity the teachers given none of you will stand by and let be walked all over like they do to the student body."
"We get that rat and I'm sure your godfather will come with us to help," Koji laughed. "He'll probably like the show."
"Yeah but let's deal your foes before thinking about dealing with mine," Harry remarked.
"We can't let the others have all the fun," Koji agreed. "Also I'm sure that time I worked with a giant sized Kekko Kamen will be a lot weirder than Hogwarts."
"No offense Koji but you have met some really weird people," Harry commented.
"I'm a mech pilot allied with Londo Bell," Koji snorted. "It is part of the job."
Harry once more felt that he belonged with Londo Bell. And some of them had stories way stranger than his.
Which given how strange his stories were kind of also worried Harry a bit.
V-V-V
On the bridge of the Macbeth Captain Bright Noa wondered if his children believed half the things he talked about. He knew being part of Londo Bell had lead him to see and experience a lot of insane things.
Baron Ashura, Count Broken, Archduke Gorgon, and more just were another day at the office for him. Which made him wonder if his son Hathaway would have to deal the same sort of problems at some point.
Bright then focused on dealing the mess Doctor Hell was causing and if there was some sort of ancient ruins that he'd want to plunder re-tech from like Barbados.
No one wanted to see Doctor Hell having even more ancient weapons to use in his dream to take over the world. The ones he had already frankly were bad enough. Plus there were rumors he'd met with the supreme commander of NERV.
Bright then saw Grozier units being deployed. The blue mecha looked to be fully loaded and ready to cause a lot of destruction.
"Fire on those Groziers," Bright ordered.
The Macbeth unleashed a hellish assault on the ships and the explosives inside the mecha went off. Massive and blinding explosions went off over Riksent.
"I hate those things," Bright muttered.
No one on the bridge disagreed with him on that. Frankly none of them liked those massive bomb mecha Doctor Hell had.
Bright smiled slightly as Mazinger Z, Iron Z, and Harry's red Rezel joined in the fight.
Then he saw Fairlions launch and wasn't surprised as Princess Shine wasn't one to let anyone wreck Riksent if she had a word in the matter. Nor was he surprised to see the SRX team giving them support fire.
That Getter Queen also was helping the Fairlions was a bit of a surprise, but at least this was a welcome one. Though Bright could swear some of the movements Getter Queen was making in combat were familiar to him.
'Going to have to figure who the female newtype co-pilot of that is,' Bright mused. Especially given it seemed to be someone they already knew.
However that was a mystery to solve another day. Right now there the Gool and more to find and deal with. Where Doctor Hell was commanding this invasion from was hidden for the moment.
"Finally," Koji remarked as he smashed Mechanical Beasts with Mazinger Z's super alloy fists. "Time to show them what I can do."
Using a mega beam saber Harry hacked up a Toros D7.
"So any idea what they are after this time?" Harry asked over the comm.
"That is a mystery," Sanger admitted. "I am sure Count Brocken or Baron Ashura will be chatty once we find them."
"Or that guy merged with a tiger?" Harry asked.
"Archduke Gorgon," Koji informed Harry. "And yeah I'm sure we can get it out of him too."
"And yes we all consider him really weird," Sayaka assured Harry as she nailed a Garada K7 with photon beams. Where the photon beams hit started to heat up and bubble.
Ryusei Date then sliced the Garada K7 with a T-Link sword.
The Fairlions then flew in and to Harry it was like one mind in two bodies as the pair of mecha savagely shredded the Mechanical Beast with their blades. He knew he never wanted to mess with the Fairlions.
Harry then blinked as he saw the Exbein throw a shuriken like weapon that struck a Grogos G5 before it could take anyone into the balls it had covering itself.
"Well that's a weapon I've never seen before," Harry admitted. "Though it seems everyone needs to have some weird new weapon."
Arrows then hit the lightwave barrier of Canard's Hyperion. The Gokyun U5 kept trying to break through with a single minded determination. Not that it did any good.
"Alloy X arrowheads are useless against me," Canard Pars cackled.
"Think Coop and Lowe will want us to gather those for some project of theirs?" Harry pondered.
"Probably," Koji agreed.
A Kingdan X10 tried to cut the Aphrodite A in half and Sayaka easily moved out of the way and shoved a spear through the Mechanical Beast's head. The Kingdan then got kicked through the torso by the Venus A.
A Ghostfire V9 tried to wrap its chained wrecking balls around Harry's Rezel. The mega beam saber cut through the chains like they were made of butter.
"Got to say I'm glad my Rezel got an upgrade," Harry grinned and then sliced the Ghostfire in half.
No one was sure if a regular beam saber could cut through a Mechanical Beast as easily as that. Plus the robot had fuel for the head based flame thrower that had to make it a bit easier to destroy.
Rio Mei Long tested how durable Mechanical Beasts were by using the beam swords of the Exbein on Mechanical Beasts as did Keyru Su with her Gustav Karl. Katrina Tasker joined in using the Jet Magnums of her Gespenst.
It was the sort of stress test that Doctor Hell rather not get to see performed on his weapons. The beam weapons couldn't cut through them as easily as the much more powerful mega beam saber, but super steel was definitely not any more beam saber proof than any other normal material.
Kikunosuke Abashiri chuckled and used a Rust Hurricane on an Abdora U6. The ornately headed Mechanical Beast turned to rust.
Evangelion 06 easily was able to destroy the Mechanical Beasts using the AT Field, a Desert Eagle like handgun, and the dual chainsaw. Kaworu inwardly was amused as SEELE considered Doctor Hell nothing but a minor annoyance with his dream for ruling the world.
Something they clearly never had said to his face as Doctor Hell would have reacted violently to that remark.
Tabris also was aware that SEELE was underestimating the "good" doctor and Archduke Gorgon for that matter.
'No matter how powerful they think they are in the end the they are just lillium with attitude,' Kaworu thought to himself.
Though Kaworu wasn't sure what that emperor Archduke Gorgon followed was exactly. Which worried him as a lot of things seemed to be appearing that he wasn't sure what they were or were things he'd rather never came back again.
Really his plans to become one with Father were getting more and more complicated by the day. It bothered Kaworu greatly.
'I'll just have to adjust and hope for the best,' Kaworu inwardly sighed as he shot the head off a Demos F3.
Unaware of Kaworu's thoughts Yuu Isani was also battling Mechanical Beasts. He actually was glad for this as the Reclaimers were being quiet. Said quiet made Yuu worried as that likely meant they were planning something. Something that likely did not mean good things for the rest of the planet.
Plus he was still shocked that the captain of the Novis Noah was Jonathan's mother. Which given how Jonathan took Ryoma Nagare's taunts (and the fact he used Momma's boy as a taunt) made clear the relationship was extremely strained.
Which was made weirder to Yuu given his sister and Jonathan were...Yuu just didn't want to think about it. Especially now in the middle of a fight. Or that his mother and Jonathan did the same thing. Yuu knew that his parents had a more business-like relationship than a normal one but he never wished to find out everything.
The fighting of stone giants and killer robots actually was soothing to Yuu. At least it made sense to him.
'What does that say about my life when this is when I can understand it best?' Yuu mentally sighed.
He then saw Mari enjoying using the Evangelion 04. It seemed they'd have to pry the mech from her cold dead hands, and she actually had a higher sync rate than the previous pilot.
Also that a pair of SMS pilots were being assigned to the MacBeth. Not that it made Yui feel better as Evangelion 04 was slicing up Mechanical Beasts with a prog knife.
Fluids colored like blood covered the blue and white biomech. Mari seemed to revel in it.
"...You know every time you do things like that we want to Ryoma Nagare to submit to a paternity test right?" Sayaka asked Mari.
"Yeah," Mari shrugged. "He's not my father though."
The silence made clear how that didn't help them feel better. Nor having the first sound being Ryoma laughing in amusement.
Then things got worse as united Mechanical Beasts attacked. Improved versions taking the best of various models. The actual name for them was Garadoubla MK01.
Supporting the Garadoublas was the Ghost Mechanical Beasts. Massive blue dragons that were metal and plant, Hawk Y2s, and Elephans y3s all rushed in to attack Mazinger Z and the rest of Londo Bell.
"Looks like he's breaking out the good stuff," Hayato Jin noted.
"So let's just break them!" Koji called out. "Photon Beam!"
The energy beams erupted from the eyes of Mazinger Z and slammed into an Elephants. Metal heated up but that was all that they did.
"Oh boy," Harry muttered as that was bad.
The ears of the Elephants that Koji shot at then fired off a heat ray. Mazinger Z barely avoiding the blast.
"Guess he wants to show you up," Ryoma remarked.
Jun let loose on the ears of the Elphants with finger missiles. The Ghost Mechanical Beast really did not like those, and charged at the Venus A with chest tusks out.
"Chesto!" Sanger called out and cut through the head of the Mechanical Beast with his sword.
Sayaka picked up one of the Alloy X arrows on the ground and threw it through the ear of another Elephants and smiled as it easily was able to destroy it.
"Looks like even Doctor Hell's own creations aren't immune to those," she remarked.
The Hawk Y2s started launching missiles at Londo Bell.
"So they wish to play rough then," Tetsuya remarked and then let loose with a Thunder Breaker.
In the limited AI of the Ghost Mechanical Beasts they had programmed what Great Mazinger could do and could predict to a point. The nimble eagle mechs tried to dodge the lightning attack.
Coop and Megas were a different story as Doctor Hell had no idea if anyone knew all the attacks Megas had. Massive cannons came up and turned out to be railguns and fired metal at high speeds.
"Anyone got any idea what those balls of metal are made of?" Amuro Ray inquired.
"Nope," Coop relied with full honesty.
Kiva was already scanning them to find out. She wasn't sure as Lowe and Coop had done a great deal of work on Megas. It kind of scared her and shocked her someone from this time frame was able to do that.
Which explained why she need to check what those "bullets' where.
"Just super steel," Kiva commented.
"Good to know," Amuro noted.
Russel merely unleashed the massive cannons on his Gespenst.
"Anyone found the Gool or Saluud?" Rai inquired as he knew they found that they found Doctor Hell or one of his generals.
"Hidden so far," Lantooni stated.
"You'd think they don't want us to beat them up," Judha remarked as he fired on a Hawk Y2.
The Getter Queen then flew off.
"We got an idea," Michiru Saotome called out.
"And that is?" Amuro asked.
In the second cockpit the pilot concentrated. She had to try to filter out the threats around her to find the right one. What worried her is Evangelion 06 and its pilot also counted as a threat to her newtype senses.
Casval would term him "another Ingram" and proof NERV completely sucked at recruiting people. Even the sane one was wrong in some manner. It was going to be a problem that would need to be dealt with later.
Right now she had a job to do and a country to save. At least one of Doctor Hell's generals had to be close at hand watching all this. She tried to find that using her newtype abilities in ways she'd been perfecting since the Space War as it had become known.
Suddenly she could tell where the Gool was. Which cloud it was hiding as. The Getter Queen opened fire on hidden Gool with a Getter beam.
"Everyone attack!" Sanger called out, and let loose with a final beam.
The cloud disguise was destroyed as they went after the Gool. Count Broken tried to keep his cool as an army of mecha came at him.
Then Megas went Super Destructor mode and fired. The unholy barrage shredded the Gool.
"Even in a fanfic I still get treated like crap!" Count Broken called out as the Gool exploded.
"So anyone even thinking he's dead?" Jamie asked.
"Not sure he's got enough left to be considered human or killable anymore," Tetsuya remarked.
"Isn't that true of anyone Doctor Hell has as a general?" Kamile Bidan remarked as he fired Victory's beam rifle at an Elphants.
No one said anything else to that statement.
"Let's save Riksent from Doctor Hell!" Koji called out.
Harry just hoped this wasn't a sign he couldn't even go shopping without something insane happening. That would get very annoying extremely fast.
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It was almost creepy how nearly silent and pitch black the factory floor was as machines assembled Bartols. Still it was on schedule, but no one knew the creator of the ODE system had their own ideas for what the test would show.
V-V-V
Chapter Notes.
Mekibos is from SRW OG. He is the only one of the Inspectors that is not a murderous maniac.
Bian Zoldark is from SRW OG. He is the head of the Divine Crusaders. He also is a massive giant robot fanboy.
Vega is from Gear Fighter Dendoh. She is an alien from outer space, and also the mother of one of the pilots of Dendoh.
Shu Shirakawa is from SRW OG. He's super smart, and cunning. Not a man to get in the crosshairs of.
Gilliam Yeager is from SRW OG. He is a mysterious man, and an intelligence officer.
Mitsuyo Gou is from Voltes V. She is the mother of three of the five pilots for the team, and pretty sure her husband is dead. She is one of the scientists that made Voltes V and run the base Big Falcon.
Gamia Q is from Mazinger Z. Typically they come in packs of three and are androids with razor sharp hair.
Sho Tachibana is from Getter Robo Go. She's skilled with a sword and not one to take lightly.
Rishu Togo is from Super Robot OG. He's the sensei of Sanger Zonvolt. He's a man you don't want to mess with.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is who the mold of a hot headed mecha pilot was forged.
Kikunosuke Abashiri is from Mazinger Angels Z. She fights to win.
Bright Noa is from Mobile Suit Gundam. The original starship captain out of their depth and he's gotten a lot more experienced in weird stuff since then.
Sanger Zonvolt is from SRW OG. He is the Sword That Pierces Evil! He is pure badass and ham.
Sayaka Yumi is from Mazinger Z. She is part of the Mazinger Angels.
Ryusei Date is from SRW OG. He is a mecha fanboy living the dream...and finding out reality isn't the same as the dream.
Canard Pars is from Gundam Seed X Astray. He's very bitter and not someone to mess with.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He's also the Angel of Freewill.
Yuu Insani is from Brain Powerd. He is a former Reclaimer.
Mari Illustrious Makinami is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She's Ryoma Nagare with a candy shell.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He's a psychopath.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He's a psychopath.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He's a badass.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. He's the original Gundam hero and not one to mess with.
Kiva is from Megas XLR. She intended to send Megas back to a major battle so Earth could win it. Things have not gone as planned for her.
Lantooni Subota is from SRW OG. She's shy, but has a crush on Ryusei Date and he's making her more hot blooded.
Michiru Saotome is from Getter Robo. She's not a deranged maniac.
Judau Ashta is from ZZ Gundam. You don't do anything to harm his sister if you value your life.
Kamile Bidan is from Zeta Gundam. He is not a man to get into a fight with over his first name.