Angelia Johnson thought that being a witch would be the strangest thing in her life. She later got to meet Harry Potter and get to see some of the things that happened to him. She didn't think anything could top that.
Now somehow she was working on a device she had seen in...dreams? Visions? She wasn't sure but she felt it somehow was important. Especially for the youngest brother of Fred and George. Which was strange as she barely even knew Ron.
Not that she knew what she was making even was exactly. All she knew was it could be used in a Gundam to make it work like the three people she'd seen use it in her visions. Yet she felt compelled to try making it, and wasn't sure if she was using her magic in the making of this portable memory device.
She had no idea she was a Whispered, and how much many groups desired to have those. Or that they would do anything to get their hands on Whispered. Literally anything including murder a great deal of people.
Nor was she aware how lucky she was that Sousuke Sagara was not magical. Even though many in Londo Bell had worked with Urzu 7 and knew the man to varying degrees.
Hogwarts would not survive Sousuke intact.
Though were those that would like to see that happen and Hogwarts go down in literal flames from that.
Hogwarts reputation was not as high as those that graduated from it liked to believe. The sects of magic users that kept up with the times found it to be extremely backwater and giving them more work they had to do.
Angelia was unaware of this as kept up her work on a beyond bleeding edge computer with a data compression system that even in the distant future they'd be unable to translate it. She was following her visions or whatever for that and would actually be surprised at that.
She also had this feeling giving this to Ron at Ginny's birthday party would be the best possible time.
V-V-V
Nina Purpleton had no idea what to make of the work done to the Gundam Blossom. She knew of the Junk Guild and was not entirely surprised that one of them would have some unorthodox but workable improvements.
Harold "Coop" Cooplawski on the other hand was best known for somehow getting a giant robot he found in a junkyard functioning in very odd ways. He also was known for finding trouble extremely easily.
Lowe Gruele and Coop were known together in Anaheim Electronics as the consultant pair that worked on the Mass Produced Nu Gundam piloted by Sayla Mass. They also had other strange side projects they worked on.
Nina found Lowe to be an idealist mecha fanboy, and Coop to be an overweight gearhead. Not terrible to work with, but she wanted to keep it to small doses.
'Still I wonder what Anavel would have made of Megas,' Nina mused as that mech was extremely weird and unique. She knew her former boyfriend's opinion would be very detailed.
Mora was already looking inside the guts of the Blossom. She was the chief engineer on the five Gundams and she liked to take a hands on approach. Especially after people that weren't her or her crew did a major refit to one of those mechs.
Even if that work meant the Blossom won't risk blowing itself up using the main gun.
Nina and Mora were really annoyed that the Blossom was given to the WSO with such a fatal flaw still present. For moral reasons and their professional pride.
"So any idea if we'd be able to replicate this?" Nina asked Mora.
"I'd have to sort out what they did first," Mora replied.
"Yes those two are well known for their non-standard work," Nina muttered.
"It keeps them busy," Nina heard and was startled to see Kiva.
"So you are the woman from the future," Nina commented.
Kiva shrugged. "Not that everyone believes me, nor that I honestly care if they do or do not."
"A lot of people aren't as used to weird things as Londo Bell," Nina noted.
"Quite true," Kiva remarked.
"So even you able to tell what they did?" Nina then enquired.
"Not really," Kiva admitted after a moment.
"Can anyone?" Nina then asked.
Kiva once more shrugged. "If they can I haven't met them."
"And of course Coop had to destroy your mech and drones in that mess with the Glorft," Nina groaned.
Kiva doubted she'd be the last person to say that. Or the last to have wanted to find that technology and use it for their own projects. Projects that many of them Kiva won't want that tech used in.
That the Romefeller Foundation couldn't find her drones and use them in their Mobile Doll project was a good thing.
Nina then prepared herself seeing the pilot of the Blossom and the Gerbera as burly macho men. Or possibly one as a shorter guy with a massive ego with a weird hair style.
The pair of fresh faced ensigns that looked less burly than Mora were not what she was expecting at all. Though given they survived a mission with the Green Falcon Squad intact made it clear they showed promise and some luck.
"I suppose I should be glad fresh ensigns is a step up from WSO asking some teenagers off the street to pilot Gundams," Nina sighed. "And asking them if they wanted to be like Amuro Ray."
True Nina was a huge fan of the original Gundam, but reading about what the original pilot of said mech had gone through was chilling reading.
The pair saluted Kiva as WSO treated her as having the rank of commander. Which was her actual rank, but sorting it out with the brass was proving to be annoying for Londo Bell.
"At ease," Kiva told them.
"You sure it is safe for them to poke around my Gundam?" Chuck Keith asked as he was extremely worried. "I mean Coop…."
"Thank you for being worried about them," Nina commented.
"Lowe does his best to keep that sort of thing from happening," Kiva noted.
"That's not comforting," Nina noted.
Mora's choice of words as she tried to figure out what the pair had done to the robot weren't encouraging.
"That comes up a lot," Kiva sighed.
"This is going to be one crazy and informative day I can feel it," Nina mused. "And not just on the swear words."
"Though there will be a lot of those," Kiva stated.
Nina snorted. "I never had any doubts on that part."
Alvin Links wondered exactly what level of expressed interest in this would be acceptable for his cover.
James on the other hand couldn't disguise his interest in watching all this.
"Does anyone have any idea what Morgenroete had sent here?" Alvin then inquired as that was the other thing he was wondering about.
"It came?!" Lowe called out giddy as can be.
Nina rolled her eyes as she had a feeling that comeditor wanted one of one of their mecha field tested. She wondered if they also wanted the original parts back after Lowe replaced them in his custom work.
She would have to tell Mora and the others also to keep an eye on whatever insane things Lowe did to that mech as she'd seen the things done to his current unit.
"Though given Mora hasn't stop swearing yet might want to wait awhile to tell her about that," Nina muttered.
"Oh course as I have to check it out first and take it for a test drive," Lowe commented.
"And see about getting it to have an actual sword and not just beam sabers," Kiva stated.
"Of course as that would allow me to save energy and they're cooler anyway," Lowe said with a grin.
Nina inwardly wondered if everything on that mobile suit would be altered to be what Gruele considered cool or impressive.
'Then again maybe a better question is how long it'll take,' she then pondered with wry amusement.
V-V-V
Hermione was glad to be out of the house and away from the computer. Her best friend was driving her crazy with his life already having strange twists and turns before the school year started.
Hermione stopped at that and realized she was starting to get used to Harry's life being weird during the school year. She got a cold feeling in her gut as that was not a good thing in the slightest. If anything it was horribly demeaning to her friend and the near death experiences he had.
She then rubbed her forehead. "I just hope for the rest of the students what Harry goes through isn't their entertainment. Especially given Londo Bell won't be pleased."
Danielle sighed. "We are supposed to keep that inbred dump out of our minds while we are in New York City."
"Mum they aren't all that bad," Hermione said defensively.
Danielle just gave her daughter a look.
"Huh, they're testing a new mecha in a big way," Edward noted looking at his smart phone. "And from a company not one of the big names."
Danielle wondered if Celestial Being was going to crash it. Especially if it was that loose cannon trio that the only thing they'd done right is get Harry away from his relatives. That is if they weren't some bunch made to anger everyone and not really part of Celestial Being at all.
Hermione looked out the hotel window and at New York City. She could make out the massive GAIL building in the distance. She then wondered if they'd get to see the grandson of GAIL's CEO cause tabloid or celebrity news folder again. Rod Balgia just couldn't stay out of trouble and the eyes of the press.
She then wondered if Harry or Londo Bell would be at the mecha test...and realized that if they were she definitely was going to make sure to have her wand on her at all times. Trouble and giant things with heavy firepower followed them too closely not to do that.
Which made her nervous on what sort of insanity would result from the showing off of the new mecha. With the worse part even the most insane things like an alien invasion hitting it weren't impossible.
With the part that worried Hermione being that for Londo Bell they'd just wonder what the alien species was. And if it was anyone they knew or Duke Fleed knew of.
Or if Coop somehow had annoyed them. Hermione nearly had a panic attack realizing how close to Jersey City they actually were. She was scared of Coop and Megas before Harry's letters. Knowing of the man on a more personal level through what Harry had written frightened her.
Not that Danielle and Edward blamed their daughter on that as frankly Coop scared the crap out of everyone in the Celestial Being. Admittedly it took fighting him to get that Gundam Trinity team to feel that.
Danielle inwardly wondered what the sound of that trinity getting the air let out of their inflated egos sounded like. Cooplawski, Zonvolt, Ray, Mass, and the Hawk of Endymion made that trio take a low profile and likely have to lick their wounds. She didn't even think about the whatever Child of NERV as she considered them mostly basketcases.
The mood they had now was a bit more downbeat and they hoped they were just being paranoid over mecha being shown off for the public with Londo Bell members attending it. Or being close enough for Coop to drop by with Megas.
Because if they weren't this vacation might end up with them getting to see Harry and all his allies face to face.
Ed mostly was worried his daughter would have a heart attack or stroke from all the crazy those people have follow them.
Danielle wondered if any other magic users were in town and they were going to have their wands on them at all times. She hoped so for their sakes.
V-V-V
Fleur Delacour was hoping they won't be next to the extremely annoying member of the Immortal 4th Team. It was be very hard for her not to throw fireballs at the man and be more of a problem to deal with afterward than she wanted to bother with.
The things she had to deal with due to her father being a Terran League admiral. She remembered when he was the commanding officer of Londo Bell during that whole Moon Wars mess.
'Papa was downing headache potions like they were sodas back then,' Fleur recalled.
He had to deal with the insane tactics of Londo Bell, the son of one of the PLANTs supreme council members trapped on the moon, Anaheim Electronics not happy those Invaders were getting in the way of them shipping out their mobile suits, the Meganoids out to "improve" humanity, the massive mess on the planet Arst, the Machine Empire, the Jaku Empire, the Demon Beasts, the Onigashima Organization, the Protodevlin mess one of the Macross fleets had stepped in, the Dinosaur Empire being up to their usual tricks, and Admiral Jamitov Hymem.
The final problem being one that her father was glad got himself killed. Something about getting backstabbed in a fatal manner by a now dead bunch of want to be rulers of the world.
No wonder her father didn't want to deal with Londo Bell anymore after that madness. Captain Noa was made of stern stuff to be able to put up with that and not go mad. It also made her wonder why he hadn't been made an admiral by now.
She also never wanted to see those Invaders ever again. Mere footage of them was nightmarish enough for her. Or seeing what Getter Rays had done to them or those they had possessed/infected.
She looked over the small seed shaped devices she was going to stick in her ears later. She hoped her smartphone had enough music to cover what was likely to be a long and boring pre show before they had the giant robots do something interesting.
Perhaps the Boy Who Lived would be there. He'd likely be a little boy, but at this point she'd take any real entertainment value. She was sure that any small talk would be welcome.
V-V-V
Asuka Langley Soryu utterly hated that she and her Evangelion were stuck in the Big Apple for some stupid mecha show. Especially for something she was sure her production model Evangelion could eat for breakfast.
She felt like she was some celebrity they managed to snag to give legitimacy to this whole dog and pony show. She wondered if that was what King Kong felt like.
Asuka blinked as she had the mental image of her Evangelion holding Kaji in one hand and swatting at planes on top of a building.
She rubbed her temples at that.
"Man am I bored when that starts coming to mind for me," she groused.
Kaji also was really busy and talking with that purple haired guy that always made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. She made sure to avoid that guy as much as possible.
Major Gilliam Yeager had that effect on people. He also wasn't impressed with the egomaniac hiding her insecurities.
"Think Misato as much of a slob when she was the Second Child's guardian?" Gilliam mused as the pair of intelligence agents noticed Asuka pointedly trying to keep her distance.
Kaji shrugged. "No idea. Though I did hear Londo Bell had to clean up her apartment and it was a group effort."
"She had to be glad she wasn't in a position Kai could show why he's called the demon instructor," Major Yeager remarked with a slight smile.
"I'll tell Asuka to avoid annoying him," Kaji groaned.
"And everyone else on the list for her to avoid doing that too," Gilliam commented.
Gilliam didn't need to use his gift to see that Asuka was going to be a pain in the butt to deal with. Nearly as much as Mr. Aiba who he wasn't sure if was Shinya or Tayaka.
Supposedly the man had made it to New York City, but it was unknown how far and fast his armored form could go.
Gilliam did not look forward to dealing with the Second Child and Mr. Aiba at the same time as the Bartol promotion.
He also didn't look forward to Asuka finding that out as she'd throw a fit.
"Now Kaji you did tell her to study or she'd be put in junior high right?" Gilliam inquired. "Even if she'd be dumped on your ex at that point."
Kaji chuckled. "I told her. She should be ready to deal with the local writing. Not sure if that'll keep the Supreme Commander from putting her in junior high though."
"Yes he has to play his power games with the most important force he has to keep the world safe," Gilliam noted.
Kaji shrugged.
"I just hope this isn't Commander Ikari's attempt to amuse himself," Gilliam stated.
Kaji was sad it was not that simple. Or an attempt to see what sort of girl the Third Child found attractive.
He also hoped nothing happened to Adam while this event was happening. Especially something involving it and Coop.
As anything could happen to the First Angel if it got into Coop's hands. And clearly there was nothing in the Dead Sea Scrolls relating to Cooplawski.
That the Dead Sea Scrolls were incomplete was an understatement. Almost comically so if Kaji was being honest with himself.
Though this forced stop left Kaji wondering where to keep Adam as the Angels now could feel it and track it.
'Really did they need Asuka here for this show?' he mentally groused. He had a feeling he was echoing her thoughts on the matter.
The odd thought of the 6th Angel being mistaken for one of those digitized criminals Coop had unleashed was oddly amusing. Kaji wondered how the thing got to Earth in the first place as Cooplawski had bought at a garage sale and tried to figure out what game system it could be for.
Reportedly Oz had no luck in trying to figure out that mystery and had their plans set back when those massive alien criminals came back into Jersey City with the tide.
The Romefeller Foundation, SEELE, LOGOS, and any other minor cabal figured it best to leave the game in Coop's collection as given he couldn't play it'd probably just sit somewhere in the man's game room.
'Somehow if Coop manages to digitize Lilith and put her in a videogame like that one criminal I won't be surprised,' Kaji thought to himself.
Kaji was also surprised someone hadn't tried to assassinate Cooplawski. Though he won't be shocked if it turned out to be like those mecha fights Coop had where something weird happened and defeated the assassin.
"In any case I'd feel safer having the Evangelion 02 close at hand around the test site," Gilliam stated.
"Expecting trouble?" Kaji half joked.
"No, but it'd be useful just in case," Gilliam admitted. "Also to see how much pride the Second Child has in her production model Evangelion is warranted."
Gilliam had no doubts in the Second Child being experienced in how her mech worked. He merely wondered how much the headstrong girl could back up her boasts.
"She's got skill," Kaji commented. "Not that there's a lack of people in Londo Bell with the skill to back up their egos."
"True," Gilliam muttered.
"Now if there isn't anything else I need to put my briefcase somewhere secure," Kaji said trying to sound calmer than he felt.
The unshaven spy hoped this whole test won't take too long and he could get going to Japan. Maybe that he'd have a chance to relax a bit.
V-V-V
Harry wondered if the Bartol promotion was like what he'd have to do in the wizarding subculture. As it seemed they wanted to show off some members of Londo Bell at the event. Though he didn't think the Getter team was going to be invited.
The last time anyone did invite them and let Hayato give a speech he managed to cause a riot to break out. Even the rather meek and mellow rugby team got into the swing of things from what Harry heard. Admittedly that was speaking to a Jindai High and not a mecha live test though.
Still thankfully they didn't need him to be part of the show in New York City. Ryusei looked eager to see what the Bartols looked like and what they could do as they sat in a lounge on the Macbeth. Even after seeing how much reality differed from mecha anime Ryusei Date still got worked up to see the newest mecha.
Harry had to smile thinking about a televised broom test and Ron being just like Ryusei. It was a really amusing mental image.
Ryo cleaned one of his guns as it seemed the Bartols were taking their sweet time showing up. As in they were about two hours late already and no one was sure how much longer they were going to stall for time.
"Looks like they're trying to be fashionably late," Ryoma Nagare commented as he had his feet on the coffee table.
"Or got cold feet," Mu stated as he was looking at something on a tablet.
"Those things could never beat Zeta Gundam," Kamile Bidan remarked as he was reading a medical text.
Harry was surprised that a Gundam pilot wanted to study to become a doctor. Still he could see why someone would want to save lives instead of take them.
It made him ponder what exactly he wanted to do after Hogwarts if his getting bigger and bigger adventures didn't cause the place to be destroyed first.
He wondered if Amuro could suggest any good schools for getting into engineering. And exactly how much credit being able to understand Lowe and Coop's work would give. Or maybe he'd be better off joining the Junk Guild as that might be fun.
That Sirius would support him not matter the decision was an alien yet very welcome feeling to Harry. He did wonder if he'd get a good chance to get the rat and Sirius clear this year.
Amuro Ray at this point was not even paying attention to the monitor and looking over upgrades to the Nu Gundam. Sayla was looking his shoulder.
"So any of Coop and Lowe's modifications messing with the psychoframe?" Amuro asked her.
"If they are it is so minor I can't tell," Sayla admitted. "So you aware that Warrant Officer Agi has a huge crush on you right?"
Amuro's groan at that made it clear he was aware of that.
"At least it isn't a newtype teen girl," Sayla teased.
"Aren't those always thinking they're in love with your brother?" Amuro remarked.
"To his embarrassment," Sayla chuckled.
Everyone then got to see what they supposed was the Bartols coming in and then everything went to hell.
"Huh," Hayato Jin said surprised. "Usually some mad scientist or wannabe world conqueror has their face all over the airwaves trying to inflate their ego at this point."
"Or crap about wanting to unite the world," Ryoma noted.
Captain Bright Noa's face then appeared on the screen.
"Everyone get ready to scramble. We are heading to New York City," he ordered.
Bullet ran the fastest as his girlfriend was one of those in danger. Hayato or Ryoma didn't have the chance to comment if Kusuha gave them her health drinks they'd give her back and say they were sorry.
Harry would agree that trying her health drinks was dangerous. Though for some reason he felt somewhat better and clearer headed after drinking one.
Ryusei was not far behind Bullet in hurrying to his mech. Kusuha and Lantooni had been at the mecha test.
Sanger hoped that Gilliam was alright as he'd be at ground zero for the mess that was unfolding. He also wondered who was behind this and what they wanted out of the chaos.
It came up a lot after all.
Ryoma and Hayato looked forward to breaking the new mecha in. And likely in half too just because they could.
Harry just hoped that when they got there that there would be people left to save. And that whoever was behind that didn't annoy Bullet.
Because if they did annoy Bullet while holding Kusuha they won't like the results. Or the pain he and Ryusei would cause them.
V-V-V
"Damn it! This was supposed to be an easy gig!" Bernard Monsha grumbled. "Sit on my butt for a few hours and maybe get some try out one of the units."
The obnoxious man dodged a missile strike on his Gespenst with ease. Whoever was piloting these things didn't know jack about mech combat. He then returned fire with his mega beam rifle and blew up a Bartol.
"Instead I got to fight the hunks of junk and our backup is a spook and a brat in an overgrown toy!"
Evangelion 02 gave the man a rude hand gesture in response.
Everyone was sure what she said in German to go along with that was not complimentary. Not that Bernard was going to put up with that disrespect lying down.
"Right back at you!" Bernard snapped.
South Burning wondered if Bernard had to do this with everyone they met. He then focused on the fight and unleashed the a barrage of energy blasts and missiles at the Bartols.
He then switched the F2W Cannon and yelled "Discharge!"
A wave of energy came out of the cannon and trashed the Bartols.
Asuka snorted as missiles slammed into her AT field.
"Yeah you keep trying that," she laughed.
Then things started going more poorly for Asuka as the Bartols started modulating their beam weapons to see which one would go right through the AT field.
Several of the Bartols then did a version of Great Mazinger's Great Typhoon and Asuka discovered the hard way that yes air went through an AT field. So the attack was able to knock her Evangelion back.
South Burning had a feeling Great Mazinger's pilot was going to be embarrassed that one of the attacks he had never used on Angels would work.
"Looks like your forcefield isn't everything huh?" Bernard said with a bit of amusement.
Asuka growled in frustration and took it out on the Bartols. She took them exposing a weakness in her perfect Evangelion as personal insult to her. Asuka introduced the Bartols to her smash hawk. The axe was about the size of a normal mobile suit.
Gilliam stayed out of the discussion and noticed the Bartols trying to adapt to their attacks. Yet it felt like in a way that wasn't the pilots trying something different but all using the exact same tactic with mechanical precision.
"Mobile Dolls?' Gilliam muttered as he needed to get a more hands on inspection of a Bartol.
Something that would need to be done after the fight. He just hoped there would be some intact enough for that. Asuka was demolishing any Bartol that got close enough for her to hit. Not that the Immortal Fourth Team was being gentle with the invaders as they showed why they were an elite unit.
"Really Bernard you want to anger that?" Chap Adel remarked. "I didn't think you were suicidal."
"Giving the kids mechs doesn't make them anything special," Bernard snapped back.
"Amuro Ray," Chap retorted as he fired the twin beam cannons on his Gespenst MK II with the Type C gear.
"Well he was there in the whole mess with the Zeon and then the Zentradi," Bernard said defensively. "I'm not sure that girl is old enough to have been born when that happened."
What Asuka called Bernard involved the word Alt so they knew she called him something old. Likely nothing good.
Alpha Bate wisely stayed quiet and shot a Bartol with a shotgun. It seemed even with their improving ability avoiding all the buckshot was difficult. He did wonder what the point this was as usually by now someone was claiming responsibility and what they wanted.
The silence was weird and extremely disturbing.
On the ground Fleur had pretty much kicked the Statute of Secrecy to the curb as she had a bubblehead charm up to keep any of the gas the Bartols had dropped. That anyone that breath were out cold due to the gas made it clear that she didn't want to take her charm down any time soon.
The Bartols also looked like they wanted to take people, but the Evangelion's axe had ended that plan before it could start.
Also it seemed that rude member of the Immortal 4th Team was proving he had some measure of skill to back up his….everything. Which frankly shocked Fleur completely.
'Maybe I should learn to pilot a mech,' Fleur mused. Being a Burning PT champion of France as well meant she knew how the controls of a Gespenst were set up which had to help in some minor regard.
She also had a feeling the Boy Who Lived likely was going to show up along with his upgraded Rezel. Though at this point she'd welcome the Getter team to deal with the rampaging mecha. She remembered two of them frightening her when she was younger.
Fleur then looked to see her father trying to establish contact with the wet fleet ships that had transported the Evangelion.
Jean-Luc Delacour grumbled as the ships were sticking to defending New York City over helping in the fight, and not going to listen to some "space boy" over a wet fleet admiral.
There was an urge to let his wife turn into a bird and throw fireballs at them. It would be so tempting to do that.
"They better hope Londo Bell gets here soon," Jean-Luc muttered.
He also wondered where Megas was as he'd usually be here from Jersey City by now. Then again Coop did tend to travel to other star system when he felt like it. So he could be in Tokyo 3 all the way to where some of the Macross colony fleets were.
And right now they needed all the help available and that included Coop and his insanity.
V-V-V
Chaos was the only word to describe what the test site looked like to Harry. Crushed vehicles, smashed buildings, and people all over the place that only knowing they were sleeping instead of dead made it vaguely less creepy.
The Bartols tried to cut their losses and run for it. They ran into the weapons of the MacBeth head first.
"They ever say how many Bartols had been made?" Amuro then pondered.
"Supposedly a handful of prototypes," Gilliam replied. "Given that was more than a handful I'd take anything we were told to be false."
"Of course," Sanger remarked to his old teammate. "And I am sure that includes if the listed main manufacturing plant actually had anything to do with making them."
"We still need to check," Gilliam noted. "If our enemy was overconfident or not."
"Check the city," Sanger then called out. "See if there were any that got past the naval forces."
"On it," Harry called out and was flying through the Big Apple.
Thankfully the Gespensts, Evangelion, and naval ships had kept the Bartols too busy to wreck havoc on New York City.
The streets were pretty empty and Harry managed to see someone he didn't expect to see. She hadn't said anything about going to New York City on vacation, and he figured it'd be something she'd talk about at least once.
"Hermione?" Harry called out using his Rezel's speakers.
Hermione looked up at her best friend's red custom mobile suit.
Harry was sure that Hermione was firing off a lot of questions really fast, but he couldn't hear her. He also had a feeling she was out where it could be dangerous due to him and the adventures they had.
He then noticed one of the other people on the streets was the mysterious "D-Boy" as he got dubbed. Harry wasn't sure if he should talk to the man or not.
"Hey guys I found one of my friends...and D-Boy," Harry then called in.
"Try to pick them both up," Sanger ordered. "As that might be the most safe place for both of them now."
Harry wasn't sure what that meant until he checked and it seemed the Bartols were attempting to attack around the entire planet.
"Merlin…." Harry said softly.
The Bartols were even trying to get into Jaburo!
It was going to be one of the really crazy days. And yet Harry felt kind of excited. He was actually doing something important and people respected him for things he did.
Though he wasn't sure if that'd help talk to a man who can turned into a human sized mech and his friend into coming with him.
Harry rubbed his forehead and landed his Rezel on street as gently as he could. He hoped D-Boy didn't run for it as they could use the help of someone able to shoot antimatter.
It didn't help they didn't have an official name for D-Boy as Harry had no idea what to call the man to be honest. That would make things a bit more difficult and he didn't want to insult the man in any manner.
Harry then put one of the hands of his mobile suit on the pavement.
"Ummmm….Hermione...you the guy that can turn into an armored guy," Harry called out with the speakers. "You want to go somewhere safe?"
Takaya Aiba looked at the red Rezel for a moment.
"Will this get me back into space?" he then inquired.
"...Sure…" Harry said as that was a promise they could keep. At least to one of the Lunar cities or one of the space colonies.
This worked better than Takaya had hoped as he had this feeling he'd need to swipe a small spaceship to get back into space. Finding one not well guarded was a problem as he wanted to keep something of a low profile.
And in his heart because he didn't want to drag anyone else along for what he had to do. He was going to have to kill his family and friends. It was something he was resigned to having to do.
A task that he didn't want have anyone else watch him perform.
His having to deal with those...beings...like the one he destroyed before leaving Tokyo 3 was not as heart wrenching a task so he won't mind Londo Bell being around for that.
Hermione was unaware of the internal angst of D-Boy and climbed into open hand of the Rezel.
Tayaka also got into the open hand as he had a time limit for his transformation to a Tekkaman and he was sure he'd need every second of it.
Harry opened the cockpit doors and let them in once the hand got close enough. It was a very tight fit for all three people in the cockpit.
"Harry James Potter what is going on?" Hermione demanded.
"It seemed someone made an army of those Bartols and they're invading cities around the planet," Harry admitted. "Though they seem to be leaving Orphan alone."
"It is at the bottom of the ocean," Hermione noted.
"And it seems Jersey City is also being avoid," Harry said checking.
That the Bartols didn't want to mess with Coop wasn't a shock. Though Harry considered it funny as Coop was out of town.
"So you want my help with this and to keep your friend as out of harm's way as possible?" D-Boy remarked.
"Yep," Harry replied.
"You better get me into space when this is all over," Tayaka snapped.
"We can get you into space," Harry retorted. "Don't worry about that part. Just worry about dealing with an insane huge army of mechs."
"I have worse to deal with on my own," D-Boy snarled.
Harry just left it at that as he had the cockpit doors close and took off for the Macbeth.
Hermione wondered if leaving her parents in the chaos to help Harry was really the best idea she ever had. Or if they'd ever stop teasing her about this.
V-V-V
Koji Kabuto had a problem. A massive problem that confounded even him. Something even weirder to him than Doctor Hell's generals.
"...Did Coop or Lowe design the mech my brother is piloting?" Koji asked as he stared at a monitor in complete disbelief.
"Probably," Gilliam admitted after a moment.
Koji just groaned as the baseball themed Mazinger style mech was using a giant baseball bat to help the Mazinger Army and others defend a major college in Japan from the Bartols.
Hermione stared at Harry as the world was under attack and for Londo Bell the oddest part was the younger brother of one of the pilots got an extremely odd mech to pilot. That something minor in the grand scheme of what was happening got the most attention from them.
Harry just shrugged and it didn't make Hermione feel any better. And she then realized that she could get a mech made by Lowe and Coop for her own use. She didn't know how to feel about that or if she even wanted one.
Asuka rubbed her temples. A baseball themed giant robot. A freaking blue, yellow, and red baseball themed giant robot being used by the younger brother of one Londo Bell's more infamous members.
Was Tokyo 3 going to be as crazy and weird as this!?
She hoped not.
Though she did get to see Evangelion 01 and Evangelion 00 along with various Gundams fighting the Bartols on one of the monitors. So she could see at least they had some idea of what they were doing in the cockpit of a mech.
"So anyone have any idea what this is all about?" Asuka then asked. "Or where to go to smash the factory they are making all those things?"
"So far any leads from Wong Heavy Industries have gone up in smoke," Gilliam stated. "Literally as the listed main plant exploded when it was raided."
"Though I am sure you have information we can use," Captain Bright Noa remarked.
Gilliam nodded. "Indeed I do as Wong Heavy Industries was contracted by the Terran League government to restore an asteroid factory plant. It didn't have a real name so we are dubbing it Hellgate."
"Any idea why they wanted to take people?" Kusuha asked.
"That we are unsure of and the Second Child made recovery of any unit from the New York battle...difficult," Gilliam noted. "However we did manage to get one."
On a monitor they saw various people in full biosuits and a saw cutting into what should be the cockpit, but it lacked one.
The saw easily went through the laminated armor and a fluid came rushing out along with a naked woman that had been held in place by hooks. She dangled like a macabre puppet out of the cockpit.
"Well this just got much more disturbing," Hayato Jin said after a moment. "I guess we were due some sort of body horror this week."
No one was sure why D-Boy growled in anger but they were sure it was not a pleasant tale. Or that frankly he'd want to tell them.
"This explains what they want people for," Kyosuke stated.
That Excellen was too disturbed to even try to make a joke said a great deal.
"They are going to want to nuke Hellgate when they find out about that," Ryoma remarked.
"That does without saying," Preventer Wind noted.
Bright was sure at most they'd have hours to deal with this once word hit the brass.
Hermione was busy puking into a trashcan. Harry now remembered that Hermione hadn't seen some of the insane things he had. Which included burning a possessed teacher to death via touch.
That no one really cared that he brought one of his friends into a meeting like this said a lot of Harry. Or maybe they thought she was the newest of Londo Bell's volunteer ensigns. One of the Go-Lion pilots was actually younger than he and Hermione were.
Kusuha, Seolla, Arado,Latooni Subota, Lune Zoldark, Canard Pars, and Koji Tetsuya were aghast at what nearly happened to them.
"So anyone have any idea why this is happening?" Kamile inquired.
"The chief designer of the ODE system is one Professor Wilhelm Von Jurgen," Gilliam Yeager stated. "He used to be part of the EOTI until the death of his family in the Muge invasion."
"People have lost their minds and did insane things for less," South Burning commented.
That statement hung in the air and lingered.
"So what are we waiting for?" Bernard exclaimed. "Let's go break Hellgate and Jurgen's horror show!"
"I can't believe I am agreeing with him," Asuka muttered.
Kaworu wondered what the good professor was trying accomplish. Besides annoying him as being another side mess that needed to be dealt with.
Akira Kogane clenched a fist.
"The time for words is over," he proclaimed. "We know what we have to do so let's do it!"
"I'll inform them Captain Noa," Admiral Delacour stated. "You have enough work ahead planning the assault."
One didn't have to be the infamous Iron Lady to figure out that the brass was going to give Londo Bell one shot and then use nuclear missiles to wipe the Hellgate from the face of the universe.
"Thank you admiral," Bright Noa said with honest relief.
"Just get all those people back safe and sound," Jean-Luc said softly. "My daughters could have ended up in those things and that frightens me."
Bright nodded as the same thing could have happened to his children. And he was sure that would fill his nightmares as much as Admiral Delacour's in that position would fill his.
On the other side of the room Harry got Hermione some napkins.
"Thanks," Hermione said softly after cleaning her mouth.
"This job and what I had to do in the first two years at Hogwarts is no for the weak of stomach," Harry acknowledged. "Not that anyone at Hogwarts understood that."
Hermione had nothing to say to that. The things Harry had gone through were horrific.
"I'm sure we could tell the Immortal Fourth Team and the Second Child of the Evangelion pilots about it and they'd just need some evidence," Harry said with a touch of bemusement.
"Harry the Statute of Secrecy is…" Hermione started.
"Something they barely even mention," Harry interjected.
Hermione sighed as her friend had a point. She really hoped things improved in their third year and the electives they could take at Hogwarts. She'd be surprised to find that Harry too hoped for that.
He just wasn't holding his breath on it actually happening.
"Be careful Harry," Hermione said softly.
"I try," Harry told her. "I really do."
Hermione wasn't sure if that made her feel better or not.
Still she knew Harry would do his best to save people. He and Londo Bell specialized in doing that.
V-V-V
Hellgate looked ominous as the Macbeth crew. It was like a massive blood covered skull in appearance.
"For someone that has been trying to keep a low profile that is rather obvious," Tetsuya noted.
"And ominous," Harry added.
"You see one evil genius lair you have seen them all," Excellen joked.
Gilliam had a camera zoom in on the cargo bay of Hellgate. They saw a lot of the various containers the Bartols had used to transport people. The Bartols were moving the containers into Hellgate quickly and effectively.
"Pretty sure the only reason this worked is that even with new space colonies in L4 they still are much more spread out than it was back before it became the Thunderbolt zone," Amuro commented.
Those old enough to remember how it got that way winced.
D-Boy tried to recall if he had passed Hellgate in that escape pod. He won't forget something that looked like that. It was way too ugly and memorable to be forgotten.
"If the professor has a cat in his lap when see if I'm not going to be happy," Katrina Tasker growled.
"And this would be different from the usual how?" Hayato Jin inquired.
She glared at him while Russel wasn't sure if he wanted to get in the middle of that to be honest.
"Enough," Captain Noa called out. "We only have three hours to deal with this."
"They want us to leave anything intact?" Ryoma asked. "Besides all those that the Bartols took."
"I'm sure they'd want the plant still usable but what they want and what they get on that I leave up to all of you," Bright remarked.
They all understood that Bright didn't care what shape the plant was in as long as they dealt with the threat. That and rescuing all those taken were what was important.
D-Boy grabbed his crystal.
"Someone have a pair of pants in my size when I get back," he told them.
"That's an interesting request," Masaki noted.
Tayaka gave him a hard glare.
"Let's just do this," Mari said with a wide smile.
Something about her worried Asuka. There was something not right about that Child. She just had a gut feeling the sweetness went only so far.
Then came the warning sirens as the Bartols had noticed they were there.
"Tek-setter!" Tayaka called out and they got to see him change. Once more he transformed into his armored Tekkaman form.
Instantly things were not good as the Bartols were able to dodge fire from the Macbeth.
"Never use the same attack twice!" Ratsel ordered. While he might no longer officially be a major everyone followed his orders.
"Good thing I got plenty of weapons to choose from then," Isamu Kurogane quipped. He then proved this point by showing off the shoulder lasers, the dorsal missiles, claws and fangs on the Bartols.
Tsuyoshi Seido attacked the Bartols expecting the same from him using the Lion Blade. The boomerang was held in the lion's mouth.
"Weren't expecting that were you?" Tsuyoshi remarked.
Asuka was glad she'd gone with a different weapon than her smash hawk for this. She doubted it'd really even work against the Bartols now. Which annoyed her as she liked using that axe on things.
"I wonder if the Angels will be as big of a pain in the butt," Asuka muttered as she got to see the Bartols adapt and be able to avoid Kaworu's double chainsaw with ease.
Asuka then found her pallet gun was no longer being effective against the Bartols. They with what looked like ease now dodged the massive bullets.
"These things are even adapting to newtypes," Harry gasped as the Bartols were dodging attacks from Mu, and all the other newtypes.
Ryusei flung a gun at one of the Bartols and blasted it with another gun. The explosion took out several Bartols as they never expected anyone to do that.
"A few down, a lot more to come," Ryusei commented.
Sanger growled in annoyance as the Bartols started to be able to dodge his massive sword.
Lune wasn't doing much better as the Bartols managed to dodge a cross smasher. She barely avoided being hit by the built in beam saber the Bartols had.
D-Boy was shocked they were able to dodge him and his attacks.
"Psychodriver Field on!" Aya Kobayashi stated.
"Tronium Engine, full drive!" Rai Branstein yelled.
"Variable Formation," Ryusei Date said with a grin.
With that the trio of robots became one.
"The ultimate invincible Super Robot is here!" Ryusei exclaimed eagerly.
Bartols flew back at that.
"Hi-Finger Launcher!" Ryusei then yelled and fired off a barrage of energy bolts at the Bartols.
The fist of SRX then glowed and it went right through a Bartol.
"We can't let them show us up," Isamu remarked. "We're five times the super robot that combiner mech is."
"Do it as we need more to throw off the Bartols," Sanger said as he avoided a chainsaw attack from one of the Bartols.
"Let's Go-Lion!" Akira Kogane called out.
Bartols flew at the merging lions trying to stop this merger, but found the electric field around them as they came together was not for show. Circuits fried as electrical energy surged through the remote controlled mecha.
Go-Lion then unleashed a barrage of laser bullets from the mouth of Green Lion. Then came a barrage of missiles out of the feet aka the mouths of Blue Lion and Yellow Lion.
Asuka had no idea Go-Lion and the lions that it was made of had so many attacks before this mess. Still they needed something that would completely turn the tide.
D-Boy felt his time to fight coming closer and closer to an end. He couldn't risk becoming a savage killing machine with no direction.
"Hey where are you going?" Katrina snarled as Tekkaman Blade flew away.
"Looks like he's going back to the Macbeth," Canard noted.
"Think he has a time limit or something?" Rastel mused.
"That is entirely possible," Sanger admitted. "Something he could have shared with us earlier."
"Like he really is that impressive," Asuka said dismissively.
"He blew up an Angel in one shot," Harry snapped at the Second Child. "After said Angel turned Shinji's cockpit into an oven. You won't do any better taking a shot like that to the face."
"The Third Child isn't much either," Asuka said in a huff as Bartols tried to get through her AT Field.
"At least he isn't an ego driven brat," Ryoma mused.
Asuka barely avoided telling the Shin Getter One pilot to say that to her face as she remembered who she was talking to. Ryoma frankly would kill her if he felt like it.
"We need more chaos," Kai Kitamura commented as he found the Bartols able to dodge many of the attacks his Gespenst had.
"Then you got it," Coop called out as Megas showed up with the Green Falcon Squad and a red mobile suit.
It was almost funny to Harry to see the Bartols react to Megas with very human reactions of complete and utter panic.
"You guys go ahead," Coop grinned. "I'm going to have some fun kicking these cans!"
With that Megas flew into the biggest swarm of Bartols and never used the same attack twice. Ice rays, matter disintegrators, lasers, wrestling moves, missiles and more struck the Bartols.
"Well looks like he'll be having fun," Koji grinned.
Asuka just stared for a moment. "And they let him drive a mech?!"
"No one else can pilot it and he's actually pretty good when you stuff broken," Sayla noted.
"It is just anything else that he's not good at," Mu added.
Asuka the paled when she realized that Coop loved fighting giant monsters in Tokyo 3. She'd have to work with him the rest of the Angel War.
And that likely she'd also see Devilman several times as well.
"Tokyo 3 is going to be a madhouse," Asuka grumbled.
She then got to see once they got inside the Bartols didn't have much room to avoid the blades of the Grungusts or the weird spear of that one guy who turned himself into a small mech.
"Not that will be much different than things are now," the Second Child admitted weakly.
"I can handle this," Lowe stated as he used the beam sabers to impressively disarm the Bartols.
"Good luck," Mu told him as they flew in deeper into the depths of Hellgate.
"What the…" Bullet gasped as it looked like massive mushrooms in a chamber that you could fit the Macbeth inside.
Lune then growled as she saw in the middle of it with a Bartol tied to a massive spire was a Valsion.
"Where did you get that?" she nearly snarled as seeing a version of her father's mech here was extremely offensive.
The good professor looked up at that. He was relieved that force of chaos was still busy outside. If anything Megas scared him. Wilhelm von Juergen wasn't sure if Londo Bell was any better than Coop.
WIth that the Valsion unleashed a cross smasher at the assembled force and Bartols threw themselves at the invading force.
Evangelion 02 slammed into the Bartols and Asuka tried to crush them against the walls with her AT field.
"I have had enough of….you!" Asuka growled.
The Hyperion took the cross smasher head on and Canard's mobile suit nearly ended up knocked on its butt.
"Ok avoid those and don't try taking them head on," Canard remarked.
"I could have told you that," Lune commented.
"What is this all about?" Kyosuke demanded to know.
"Mankind is too frail and fractured," Professor von Juergen stated. "Too much loss and unable to work together. With the Ode system we can become one."
"So basically he wants to roll up and take us all with him to hide from things?" Harry nearly snapped. "Hey professor I'm sure my life was way more shite than yours and I'm still going."
Harry then got out a mega beam saber and started hacking the crap out of Bartols. All this because one man felt he could force what he wanted on everyone. He had enough of dealing with that, and with Professor von Juergen he could make a very pointed disagreement.
"I got somewhere to put this beam saber," Harry called out. "Want to guess where?"
"Well looks like someone wants to put down the mad scientist," Excellen remarked.
"Then I believe we need to get the Valsion out of his way," Koji called out.
The Valsion then got the Rust Stream and Rust Hurricane. Rust formed all over it at that.
Lune grinned and yelled "Cross Smasher!"
The weakened copy of her father's mech couldn't take it and exploded.
Harry's mega beam saber easily cut through the spire and the Bartol.
There was a flash of light as all the information went off into space.
"I really hope we don't have to deal with that later," Harry muttered.
V-V-V
Harry had to admit wearing the suit again felt a bit uncomfortable in the extremely warm summer evening, but it was something he had to do. He was sure some of his comrades were around to make sure he wasn't attacked as he did this.
He walked up to the grave of his parents and it took a moment to gather his thoughts. And deal with the fact that possibly one of the three brothers from the tale Death and Three Brothers was buried in this cemetery as well. Sirius had been shocked that Harry hadn't read The Tales of Beedle the Bard. So Harry got a copy in Riksent and enjoyed the book.
He just had no idea that anything in was based on real people. Seeing an ancient Peverell tombstone, and possibly one for Ignotus Peverell himself made him wonder exactly how much of that myth was true.
He wondered how much Luna and her father Xeno could tell him about that. He had a gut feeling they had at least a passing familiarity with the Deathly Hallows lore. It just was too interesting for them not to.
"Hi Mum and Dad," Harry managed to get out as he focused on the task at hand. "Being the Boy Who Lived is not all it is cracked up to be. They seem to forget that means the two of you are dead and for my professors there is no one to call them out on their shite."
Harry sighed and took a sip of water from a water bottle he had on him. The water still felt cold to him which was good.
"Really since you left my life went to hell," Harry went on. "I got treated like a house elf while people told made up stories about my life. I was a hero when they wanted one but when they found out I could talk to snakes I was dark and evil."
Harry then took another gulp of his water as he was sure he wasn't going to stop once he got going.
"They told me nothing and I don't know why I bloody put up with it," Harry admitted. "Maybe I thought it would eventually get better. Or I was a glutton for punishment. In any case it wasn't until this summer things got really good even if they are completely insane."
Harry then talked about the various adventures he had over the summer. He left out Sirius as he wasn't sure if anyone was listening and usual wizard MO would be to do something stupid and get the man killed. Or think they knew better when they knew nothing and get Londo Bell to have to burn down a few buildings to rescue him.
Harry frankly rather avoid having that happen. Or after Lockhart really be close to anyone willing to alter memories because they could. Something that rather scared Harry in that no one even hinted such a thing existed beforehand at Hogwarts.
Once he finished Harry noticed there was someone else in the graveyard. He looked older and more worn than he had in the pictures Sirius was able to get. Harry wasn't sure exactly how Sirius had gotten them, and frankly wasn't sure if he wanted to ask.
Harry had a feeling if Remus Lupin tried to take him away from here he'd better do it fast or he'd be on the ground in pain.
"How...how much did you hear?" Harry asked shyly.
"All of it," Remus admitted. "And I believe one of your bodyguards has a gun on me."
"I do," Ryo Magami commented from behind a tree.
Harry tried to figure out what to call Remus.
"You used to call me Uncle Moony or at least tried to," Remus supplied.
"Well Uncle Moony it is nice to see you again," Harry said after a moment.
"It is good to see you again too Harry," Remus commented warmly.
Both of them broke out into wide smiles at that.
"Really it is great to see you again," Harry remarked.
"They'd be proud of you," Remus stated. "Worried, frightened about the whole Londo Bell thing, but it'd go better than what happened at Hogwarts to you."
"Hagrid?" Harry asked.
Remus nodded. "Yeah he's who told me about your first two years at Hogwarts. I am worried what things he left out."
"You have any idea if they'll still think I am dark and evil due to being able to talk to snakes?" Harry tried to not snap.
"If they do I'll do what I can," Remus stated. "Which likely will be more than anyone else as they follow Dumbledore's lead...and for a great man he sure can do little."
Harry nearly smiled hearing how the great Dumbledore could get his own close followers to be annoyed with his actions.
"You are going to want to study on spells to deal with Dementors Harry," Remus sighed. "That's the great plan to deal with Black."
Harry didn't like hearing how much like a curse a man that should have been an uncle him stated the last name of his godfather. Though given he was thought to be the traitor he didn't say anything about it. He'd need proof first.
"Looks like my teammates will have to watch my six," Harry noted. "Given soul sucking monsters around children is insane."
"And those I talk to about it have no idea why Dumbledore is doing nothing," Remus admitted. "Given it'd not take much more than a few words with various people that have relatives that will be at Hogwarts to drop on Fudge like a massive sledgehammer."
"He also thought it was a good idea to hide the Philosopher's Stone at Hogwarts in a corridor he told the entire school the first night to avoid on threat of death," Harry commented.
"Merlin on a bike with flaming monkeys," Remus stated. "Your father and our friends would looking at that within the week if not that day."
"And it seems Dumbledore decided to take a broom flight to get the Ministry when someone tried to get it," Harry said with annoyance. "Like he didn't have any faster way to get around. Like pretty all of them besides walking."
Remus could tell Harry was being honest with him. He was getting extremely worried no one was actually doing anything right at Hogwarts.
"So shite DADA teachers before me, the headmaster showing poor judgement," Remus groused. "And the Professor Snape treating you like you were James in his class."
"And everyone seeming to think that I need to be the adult with that professor," Harry grumbled. "Well other than Hermione's parents. They don't like him very much."
"Really?" Remus groaned. "Lily would be extremely annoyed about that. In that you had to be the bigger man with a professor."
"Good," Harry stated. "As I'd be worried if my parents won't be worried or hate that I nearly got killed repeatedly at Hogwarts, and also the teachers doing nothing after I was found out to be able to talk to snakes."
Remus sighed. "Harry I have to tell you they've been shite for decades. Black almost got Snape killed and he wasn't thrown out."
Harry made a face at that. That was the sort of actions that likely helped on the 'Sirius went evil' school thought take hold. That was definitely going to make proving Sirius's innocence harder and frankly Harry was getting tired of being dragged into things and no one explaining the history that was important.
"You have no idea how much work I have to fix as DADA teacher," Remus commented to change the subject. "Unlike Lockhart especially I want to teach."
"Thanks," Harry said softly. "You already have done far more."
"Also I am going to use a creature that shows your greatest fear at some point in the class," Remus informed Harry. "So if I don't have you or other students do it before the others it is because I have a feeling your fear will be one that will scare everyone."
Harry chuckled softly. "Oh Voldemort is not my greatest fear. I'm not sure what that is."
"At least you are being honest," Remus admitted.
"Though I really rather not have people see a creature bring my nightmares to life," Harry admitted. "Because I've had some weird ones and I really don't want other people to see them. Ever."
The things his own supposed allies did to Harry in those dreams disturbed him. He just was glad it never involved Londo Bell unless they showed up and slew what was harming him.
Harry shook his head and tried to think of something more pleasant.
"I don't think I'll bring in anything like that," Remus told Harry. "And pretty sure using that at Hogwarts would teach me far more than I ever wanted to know about the students."
"No kidding," Harry said a slightly bemused look.
Remus then sighed and felt very old.
"I am not sure if James and Lily will ever forgive me for not ever trying to contact you. Especially when you started going to Hogwarts. Even more so after I helped Hagrid get those photos."
"I don't blame you," Harry stated forcefully.
Remus gave Harry a tired smile at that.
"Also due to...personal reasons...I had to find work in the muggle world," Remus commented. "And I had to be like a spy and learn more about the world than natives. I didn't want to stick out and that included learning about Londo Bell and their exploits."
"So know what they can do," Harry grinned.
"And that if Black tries anything he is a dead man...and Hogwarts might be turned to rubble in the crossover," Remus nodded.
"Actually surprised he wasn't given the DADA job," Harry remarked. "They tell you Voldemort's face was on the back of the head of my first DADA teacher."
Remus just stared at Harry and hoped he was joking. He had this sinking feeling he wasn't in the slightest.
"Merlin," Remus muttered. "Is someone trying to see if you can actually do the things they wrote about you in those children's books?"
"I think I topped all those my first time in mecha combat helping stop the Moon from smashing into the Earth," Harry said sheepishly.
"People will never disbelief those books about you being truth," Remus sighed.
"Somehow I figured as much," Harry groaned. "Got to ask the others how they deal with it."
"Other than Hayato Jin and Ryoma Nagare," Remus begged.
"Hey they aren't so bad to me," Harry admitted. "Then again they see me as a comrade and I haven't done anything to make them angry at me. They've been easier to deal with than everyone at Hogwarts frankly."
"Harry you have no idea how much that statement scares me," Remus muttered.
"It scares me too," Harry said softly. "I thought Hogwarts and the Magical World would be different than what I had before. And in ways that weren't more lethal to me."
"Your house is your family," Remus sighed. "Those are hollow and meaningless words to you."
Remus wasn't sure he'd ever be able to look his former head of house in the eye anymore. Some lion she turned out to be.
"Yeah I needed to network more, but yeah that didn't work out like that," Harry sighed. "Oh and got to ask if they let anyone have the DADA position."
Remus rubbed his forehead. "Yes after Lockhart I can see how you can wonder that."
"Was there stuff from DADA professors before him still laying around?" Harry inquired.
"There were some things," Remus commented.
"Figures," Harry remarked.
"A lot of useless trash from Lockhart," Remus groaned.
"So did he use the same test for all seven years?" Harry felt he had to ask.
"Some of those were actually amusing," Remus grinned. "Well depending on the snark of the answers given."
Harry snorted. "Yeah I can see that."
"I'll try my best not to be like the other professors on things like safety," Remus declared. "Because that is the right thing to do, and also to avoid a lawsuit as dear Merlin it is remarkable they managed to avoid that."
"Memory charms perhaps?" Ryo spoke up.
"I hope not," Remus sighed. "I really hope not as that would mean utterly any form of order would be gone if memory charm and pray was what they did."
"Of course I didn't know those existed until Lockhart tried to use them on me," Harry noted. "And pretty sure if he ever gets out he's a dead man walking."
Remus was not going to deny that Harry's allies were not going to be gentle with the fraud.
"And I take it you aren't aware of all the house elves at Hogwarts?" Remus inquired to change the subject.
Harry gave him a blank look.
"I'll make that something I teach all the years about as having one show up for my class is extremely easy," Remus said as he rubbed his temples. "Or get Hagrid to cover it in Care for Creatures."
"They are letting Hagrid teach a class?!" Harry gasped. "Though the feral book thing makes sense with that."
Harry's eyes then widened as he could imagine the insane things Hagrid would bring to the classes. And Dumbledore and the other teachers not caring what deadly beasts Hagrid brought as he was a professor now.
"You have met his odder pets then," Remus commented.
"Including the giant spider he has roaming the Forbidden Forest," Harry stated. He really only called Agog by his name and not what he was to his parents.
Remus stared at Harry again. "Oh for Merlin's sake am I teaching at a school or someone's social experiment?"
It was getting to the point Remus wondered if he was let go to Hogwarts merely because they felt it'd be interesting.
The DADA job was looking less and less desirable by the day even before the school year started.
"I will not be shocked if Black turns out to be the least of my problems,' Remus groused.
Harry really did wish he could tell the man Sirius was innocent but he'd need the rat for that. He hated waiting but maybe he could get Peter soon.
V-V-V
Chapter notes
Nina Purpleton is from Gundam 0083. She built at least two of the Gundam Development Plan Gundams.
Coop is from Megas XLR. He is a force of chaos and enjoys having Megas.
Lowe Gruele is from Gundam SEED Astray. He is part of the Junk Guild and loves working on mecha.
Mora Boscht is from Gundam 0083. She is the maintenance chief on five Gundams of the Gundam Development Plan.
Kiva Andru is from Megas XLR. She came from the future to get Megas back, and found it something she could not control anymore.
Chuck Keith is from Gundam 0083. A test pilot, and finding himself in way over his head.
Al-Vin Lunks aka Alvin Lunks is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is working undercover and is part of the Fury. How this species relates to humanity and the Protoculture and other humanoid alien species is something the Fury don't really want to talk about.
Bright Noa is from the original Gundam series. He has captained many ships, and seen a whole lot of insane things working with Amuro Ray and Londo Bell.
Asuka Soryu is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She is the very arrogant pilot of Evangelion 02.
Ryoji Kaji is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He's a spy that no one is quite sure whose side he is working for.
Gilliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. A mysterious spy from another universe with a power within him that he fears.
Takaya Aiba is from Tekkaman Blade. He doesn't want to let people get close to him.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He is a psychopath and not someone to mess with.
Ryusei Date is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. He is a mecha fanboy living the dream and finding that reality is different from the shows.
Ryo Magami is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He is the ranged weapon pilot of Mazinkaiser SKL.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He is a psychopath and not one to cross.
Mu La Flaga is from Gundam SEED. He makes the impossible possible and is a newtype.
Kamile Bidan is from Zeta Gundam. Don't make fun of his name. He also is an incredible mobile suit pilot.
Amuro Ray is from the original Gundam. He is the first Gundam pilot, and his life has never been the same since.
Sayla Mass is from the original Gundam series. She is the sister of Char and an able mecha pilot in her own right.
Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield is from Super Robot Wars OG. Not someone to take lightly.
Kusuha Mizuha is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. She is sweet, but has a will of iron. Also she makes health drinks that could take down nearly anyone.
Lantooni Subota is from Super Robot Wars Original Generation. Shy, but Ryusei is working to make her more hot blooded.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is pure badass.
Bernard Monsha is from Gundam 0083. He is a member of the Immortal 4th Team. He is also a hard drinking, womanizing, arrogant man. Yet he is skilled in the cockpit of a mech.
South Burning is from Gundam 0083. He is the leader of the Immortal 4th Team and not someone to cross.
Chap Abel is from Gundam 0083. He is part of the Immortal 4th Team and frankly of the easier ones to get along with.
Alpha A. Bate is from Gundam 0083. While not quite as much of a jerk as Bernard he's not exactly the nicest person either.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is the mold in which super robot pilots had been made.
Kyosuke Nanbu is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is an expert mecha pilot and always plays the long odds.
Wind aka Zechs Merquise aka Milliardo Peacecraft is from Gundam Wing. He is the Char of that series and all that entails.
Lune Zoldark is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is the daughter of the founder of the Divine Crusaders and has a mech that looks like a girl wearing armor.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED X Astray. He is rather bitter and angry. Then again he also was treated like trash by people that couldn't understand the Ultimate Coordinator upgrades he had.
Akira Kogane is from Go-Lion. He is the leader of the team. He's known as Keith in Voltron.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He is an extremely skilled pilot, but his social skills sometimes are lacking.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is a flighty woman and a skilled sniper. Yet she has a secret even she doesn't know.
Katrina Tasker is from Super Robot Wars OG. She has two modes excited angry and furious angry.
Masaki Andoh is from Super Robot Wars OG. He has the Elemental Lord Cybuster and also an extremely bad sense of direction.
Mari Illustrious Makinami is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She has a sweet candy shell but inside she's just like Ryoma Nagare.
Ratsel Feinschmecker is from Super Robot Wars Original Generations.
Isamu Kurogane is from Go-Lion. He is the pilot of Red Lion. He's called Lance in Voltron.
Tsuyoshi Seido is from Go-Lion. He pilots Yellow Lion and is called Hunk in Voltron.
Aya Kobayashi is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is one of the SRX pilots.
Rai Elzam is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is one of the SRX pilots.
Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is able to make a mass produced Gespenst fight like a high end custom mech.