Harry had to admit one thing as he walked out of a private potions lesson with Horace Slughorn and that was the man knew what he was talking about.
The man also knew how to teach that skill as well. Frankly something the current head of Slytherin and school potions master needed help with. A great deal of help with in his opinion.
Harry wondered why Major Yeager wanted to meet with Slughorn after the lesson ended, but was sure he'd find out soon enough.
He just was sure it involved him in some fashion as it seemed like everything at Hogwarts did to some degree. Which worried him as there were talks underway for reviving some magical tournament stopped because too many people died in.
'Now I can add international events to the list of things Hermione's statement on magic users having no logic to,' Harry inwardly groaned. 'I mean won't a quiz show be good enough?'
Inside the potions room Gilliam Yeager said "Seven."
Slughorn was so shocked and unnerved that he didn't do anything to Major Yeager. In fact he was so in a state of panic he didn't notice the spook leave the room.
Horace really hoped he won't get a visit by the Getter pilots.
Slughorn always made sure to know as much about people as he could and had looked up everything about Londo Bell and the various people in it he could. What he had learned was some very startling facts.
Frankly he did not want to make an enemy of the irregular combat force. Even less than he wished to make him one for the Death Eaters.
Londo Bell had faced far worse, and on a much larger scale.
Slughorn really hoped they won't hold him keeping silent against him. He also wondered if that major would have been a Slytherin or somehow able to hide that cunning.
V-V-V
Of all things Ron Weasley expected being in Londo Bell to be like he never expected for most of it to be calm and sitting around. Harry hadn't really talked about that much in his letters over the summer.
Though had mentioned a little bit parts that involved Major Kitamura and the others putting him through physical training.
Which was why Ron was busy lifting weights. It was literally the only thing about being Londo Bell that he was telling his mother. She won't mind him being put through physical activity and getting into better shape.
It said a lot that Finch was willing to let Londo Bell put troublemakers through physical training. Or that Hogwarts now had a workout room like was on military starships.
Ron wasn't sure what it meant that so many Ravenclaws had been punished as they were supposed to be the house of smarts. Ron guessed that it might just be book smarts and not on practice things. Which it seemed included not being berks to Luna.
What worried Ron was they seemed to think his calling her Looney was a good idea, and Ron never ever would think he was Ravenclaw material. Though that and learning other things such as Scabbers had been a member of his own house and betrayed the Light to become a Death Eater made Ron wonder if the house system even had a bloody point anymore.
There also was a split in Slytherin. As in those that knew how to keep their mouths shut and those that didn't.
Ron did get to see the latter a lot as members of Londo Bell forced them to do physical exercise. A concept they nor their house head really didn't want to do, but got forced to anyway.
Though seeing Malfoy pass out after a long work out did make Ron laugh. And something about one of the he was certain was time travelers looking embarrassed at Malfoy. Ron looked closely and had a good idea why the guy was so embarrassed.
"So…." Ron said to Scorpius. "You a Malfoy from the future?"
Scorpius sighed as he was doing sit ups. "Yes. I went back in time to atone for the sins of my family and stop my father and grandfather from committing a bunch of them."
"Ok, you I like," Ron stated after a moment.
Scorpius stared at Ron Weasley in complete and utter shock. He never expected Ron Weasley to ever say anything like that.
"I don't think my counterpart had newtype abilities or Harry opening his eyes to a lot of crazy stuff over a summer," Ron commented. "So I've learned to keep a much more open mind. And also remember one of my grandmothers was a Black and would hex me good if I talked about all Slytherins were evil and such."
"Ron I'll level with you," Scorpius said after a moment. "The giant golems and space colonies are less of a shock to me than what you just said."
"I also am imagining the looks on the faces of your father and grandfather on you being the black sheep of the family and wanting to do good instead of what they do," Ron remarked with a wide grin.
Scorpius had to admit that would appeal to a Weasley. It was the first part of this that made any sort of sense to him.
"So who is your friend?" Ron asked. "Full name please."
"Albus Severus Potter," Scorpius said with a groan.
"Wow," Ron whistled. "Who did that kid get angry at them to end up with that name? And here I thought the kid would get strapped with Ronald or my middle name as….well his middle name. Never imagined that'd actually be a much nicer choice."
"You keep surprising me," Scorpius admitted.
"Good as I won't want to be boring or predictable," Ron joked as he kept up on pumping iron. He kind of enjoyed doing this.
Scorpius went back to working out and wondered if Albus was going to believe what Ron Weasley had said.
Ron had no idea even with his X-Rounder abilities that Sanger was watching him, and glad he wasn't what Gilliam had warned him that the boy could be. A jealous child lashing out at those that needed his support the most.
'That is the last thing Harry would need,' Sanger mused. 'He has had enough issues having to deal with the headmaster of this school possibly knowing exactly what was going on while he had been stuck with….them….'
The reputation of the Dursleys was more or less ruined now, and reportedly many children had come forward on it being Dudley who caused all that was said to be done by Harry. Evidence that the bad child was not Harry kept piling up.
Yet Sanger was sure that trio of Gundam pilots, especially the one to fire the radioactive laser, didn't intend to cause anything like that to happen.
Sanger wondered exactly how well trained and equipped that trio of pilots were given they hadn't been seen or heard of in the months since that attack. Reportedly even Gilliam hadn't heard anything.
"So any idea what we are going to do about the time travelers?" Wind inquired.
"Right now we are trying to figure out if they are so completely stupid and blaise with time machines," Sanger admitted.
"A power I won't trust even myself with and they lack the wisdom to use," Zechs noted. "Especially Scorpius and Albus."
"It worries me that we could find even more problems caused by magic users with the same sort of attitude," Sanger groused.
"Given we have enough problems with non-magical people or aliens wrecking things," Noin remarked.
"No kidding," Amuro commented.
"They make love potions in their sixth year potions class," Ken Kaido interjected. "That and the fact so many couples marry young as kind of scary."
"There are many things I could say on such potions and none of are ones to share in polite company," Wind stated.
"And of course no mention of them to the younger years or those not born into this culture," Sanger nearly growled.
Noin wondered which of them expressed their distaste on that issue to the senior staff of the school. It had to be extremely interesting and profanity filled.
Of course what the students did know seemed to be more rumor and hearsay than anything solid on anything not related to school material. Such as magic being bad on electronics, yet Harry had used a digital watch without any problems.
Noin wondered if the school always was this slapdash or had degraded to this point.
V-V-V
Harry had to admit it was fun to see the expressions of the Hogwarts staff as the school had been moved from Scotland to outside of Tokyo 3 as a way to get Evangelion 02 to where it was supposed to go.
The Statue of Secrecy pretty much was considered to be null and void by Londo Bell. And they were not afraid to tell the other groups they worked with about it. NERV being one of those other groups.
The student body was looking at Evangelion 02 being moved from the mecha bay in the school to a massive hover platform.
As Doctor Ritsuko Akagi looked at the school for magic with a bit of distaste. Though not for a reason one would expect out of the scientist.
"All that room for something a much smaller and more compact building could cover," Ritsuko muttered. "Possibly a standard school building with their ability to turn tents into portable houses would work."
At this point Ritsuko had seen enough on magic to believe they all were using some force to alter reality on the quantum level and not taking a no from reality. Which allowed it to fit into some level of science to her as there were a great deal of strange forces able to alter things.
She even had evidence to back up the incantations and wand movements being training wheels to make use of whatever force those magic users tapped into.
She also wondered if they were aware of what flying on broomsticks was intended to mean. She did not look forward to being the one who told them about that.
Misato was happy to see Asuka again.
"Glad for you to finally get here Asuka," Misato remarked.
"Glad to finally get here," Asuka commented. "Londo Bell wasn't too bad, and Hermione was ok."
Hermione wasn't sure how to take that comment from Asuka.
Asuka then realized telling Misato about her bust size increasing would be something none of the Hogwarts students nor many members of Londo Bell would ever shut up about.
'The joys of having to deal with people who have gutter minds,' Asuka inwardly groaned.
"I heard you had problems with some of the students," Misato chuckled.
"Just the inbred brats," Asuka noted. "I swear some of them seemed to think just because their families had magic and keeping to a small genepool made them better than everyone else."
The looks being given by the those various students by Ken Kaido, Ryo Magami, Ryoma Nagare, and Hayato Jin kept them away from using their wands.
"Of course part of the reason I didn't go with the Sorting Hat's suggestion of Slytherin was due to the fact that Malfoy here lived down to what Ron and Hagrid told me about the house," Harry stated.
"Yes a talking magical hat," Asuka remarked. "Putting people into houses where they had to conform to one personality trait due to peer pressure."
"Shut your mouth you stupid mugg….ahhhhh!"
No one was surprised the loudmouth pureblood was struck by Ryoma. And he seemed to be holding back as the bones weren't shattered by the force of his blow. The student did fall to the ground.
"You'd think they'd learn to stop doing that in front of the Getter team," Remus groaned.
"I'm just amazed he's still breathing," Misato said after a moment.
Ryoma shrugged.
"On behalf of Hogwarts I am sorry," Remus spoke up. "Manners is something they don't teach at the school. Or to know your audience when you speak in public."
"And you have no idea how happy it makes me for someone to admit that Professor Lupin," Harry said with a bemused smirk.
"So you are the Remus Lupin that Harry told Shinji about," Misato commented.
"And I take it you are the person Londo Bell needed to clean out all the trash in their flat," Remus chuckled.
Misato barely was able to avoid asking if the DADA teacher had 'yes I am a werewolf' tattooed somewhere on his body. His name just screamed that.
"I hope it doesn't need them to do that again," Asuka groused.
"Or enough from for all your junk," Hayato noted.
Asuka glared at the man, but that was all she did as she liked her face and body the way it was.
Harry was bemused most of the Ravenclaws and Slytherins were shocked Asuka did even that. They were that afraid of the pilot of Shin Getter Two and with good reason.
It was then the alarms sounded.
The Hogwarts students ran for safety in the castle.
"And here we go again," Ken snorted.
V-V-V
Things had not been going great for the pilots of Dendoh.
Hokuto still felt they should have left this job to the Getter team as were experienced mecha pilots and used to dealing with invading forces. Something he had made clear when he was introduced to the leader of the group fighting the Gulfer Empire.
Vega had not been pleased and referred to the infamous trio in words he knew his mother would never want him to utter.
The problem now was to get a robot or save a bunch of people. With the two pilots of Dendoh wanting to do the other task. With a mech that it needed both pilots working in unison to actually do anything.
"We got it," Koji Kabuto called out as Mazinger Z, the Boss Borat, and Robot Junior safeguarded those that needed it.
Boss was happy at this point the author actually was including him in the freaking story again.
Orge got a Getter tomahawk to the face.
"Welcome to Earth," Ryoma Nagare stated. "Now eat Getter rays!"
Shin Getter blasted Orge with a Getter beam. The burst of radiation battered the alien mech.
In the backseat of Megas Kiva got to work trying to figure out what exactly they were fighting.
"That mech using the same technology base as the Dendoh," Kiva stated.
"Good to know before we break it," Ken Kaido commented.
Voltes V fired the literal arm cannon at Ogre. The alien mech slammed into the ground from the massive artillery shell exploding.
Orge then got run over by Mazinkaiser SKL on their massive motorcycle. There was a loud crunch as that happened.
Ron wasn't sure what to make of that. Still he used the rapid fire Jegan beam rifle on the alien mech. With his enhanced reflexes he found speed and a high rate of fire to be better for him than one big and powerful blast.
Harry was busy firing the mega beam launcher at Ogre. The massive blast knocked the mech around a bit.
The alien mech and its pilot had Londo Bell between them and the Data Beast.
The Dendoh reached the Data Beast first and suddenly the two became one.
There was an extra incentive for Orge to withdraw as a Megas sized giant monster showed up and went on a rampage.
"Who is that guy?" Ginga Izumo asked confused.
"Trouble," Kyosuke remarked.
"Let's give him some trouble of his own," Excellen half joked.
The massive monster showed its armored "wings" could encase the entire thing and it rolled at high speeds at Megas.
Coop kicked the giant monster away.
"Well….that happened," Koji Tetsuya stated after a moment.
However the monster got up and roared in rage.
The Voltes V team then felt a bit weird seeing another five vehicle combining robot showing up.
"How many speciality mechs are people working on?" Ron asked in surprise.
"A lot," Major Gilliam Yeager replied.
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me," Ron muttered.
Megas fired the freeze cannon at the giant monster and covered the "shell" in ice.
"Rocket Punch!" Koji called out and Mazinger Z's fist slammed into ice covered armor the monster hid in.
Everyone else with a flying fist attack also helped and the frozen shell shattered.
The new mech merged and hit the monster with a giant spiked yoyo with an energy "string".
Clouds then started to form and Great Mazinger let the monster have it with a thunder break.
The new mech then put it's hands together and they became a gun and fired at the monster. The attack staggered it.
While the giant monster was off balance, Koji Tetsuya let loose all the guns of the G-Gunner.
Then the new mech fired massive chainsaws from its back at the monster and they torn into it and showed the "flesh" was merely a cover for the giant monster as it was just a giant machine.
"Ok that was impressive," Harry commented as he'd never seen something quite like that before.
Things then got extremely strange as the new mech that looked a lot like Voltes V fired off a burst of wind at the giant robot. The giant monster was stuck in the air. Then the mech had the arms come together and a massive blade come out before it started to spin.
The new mech then flew at the giant monster as it spun and blade end first struck it before flying through it.
"Well that was interesting," Rastel noted.
Watching this from a hidden base a humanoid hawk-like being had this feeling taking over the Earth wasn't going to be very easy.
'I'm going to have to be more cunning,' Garuda thought to himself.
The invasion of the planet required that.
V-V-V
Things were very crazy at Hogwarts as for the first time in a long time if not ever the students were going on a field trip.
They were going into Tokyo 3 and getting to see what the city had for sights and places to visit.
To say many Purebloods had culture shock was putting it lightly. They had no idea a city like this could exist. And they hadn't even seen the fact the city could be turned into a fortress yet.
Londo Bell members like Captain Bright Noa were sure they were going to learn that sooner or later.
Kaworu was recording all of this and hoped the video footage survived Third Impact as he was sure Father would find this all extremely funny.
Rei Ayanami found herself being used a tour guide and ordered to keep a close watch on all these magic users. She did her task with the same stoic nature she showed for most things.
Harry was bemused at how shocked and quiet Malfoy was. He also hoped he wasn't imagining the smug amusement of some of the other Slytherins at Malfoy.
Harry also noted the similar expression his...son had as this entire city was beyond what he expected.
Ginny walked over to Harry and seemed to be in one of her bolder moods around him.
"What were we thinking on having Severus as a middle name?" she asked. "I mean William would be a much better choice for the middle name or even the first name to be honest."
"Yeah I can see using your brother's name," Harry agreed. "And I certainly like the guy way more than our Potions teacher."
"Even in my pretending to marry well...you...I never imagined to name any children after the teacher that my brothers didn't like," Ginny admitted.
"Trust me I'd rather have been playing with you and Luna instead of...yeah," Harry groaned.
"The fact you are not as insane as the Getter pilots is amazing," Ginny stated.
"I know," Harry commented softly.
Harry wondered how Dumbledore would try to double talk his way out of leaving a kid on a doorstep one cold night.
That was something that won't stand with Londo Bell. Something he was sure Dumbledore was well aware of.
A thought then came to Harry.
"Oh and I got ask...did they make all kinds of crazy stories about Dumbledore?" Harry inquired. "Like I got."
Ginny shook her head.
"Figures he'd actually control his public image in that way," Harry grumbled.
Ginny then wondered exactly who if anyone let people write stories about Harry. It honestly didn't seem fair to her for everyone to already believe him to be one thing. Especially when in her mind the person he was frankly was a bigger hero.
And before Londo Bell she wondered Harry actually had people able to help him and not mess up.
Besides Hermione and Ron of course. Though they weren't "adults" which to Ginny was starting to feel a bit like it was merely physical age than anything else. Maturity seemed to be rarer than sanity among magic users.
'Though if Mum worked at Hogwarts things would get fixed extremely fast,' Ginny mused.
Ginny then had the odd thought of Londo Bell hiring her mother as the history of magic teacher and started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Harry inquired.
"Oh the thought of Londo Bell getting my mother hired as the history of magic teacher," Ginny replied impishly.
Harry snorted.
"It'd beat Binns, very sure she'd think about taking it with all of you out of the house most of the year, and it'd freak out the twins," Harry noted.
"Plus they do things like that," Ginny commented.
"They tend to remove things that get in their way," Harry stated. "One way or another."
"And very sure if someone said their was a troll in the dungeons for Ryoma Nagare that'd be the perfect punching bag or sparring partner," Ginny said with a smirk.
Harry shrugged. "Probably."
"And is it true he blocked a sword with the palms of his hands?" Ginny inquired eagerly.
"He did and said it cut up the palms of his hands so he doesn't recommend anyone else try it" Harry responded.
"And yet somehow that man is a more trustworthy individual than Lockhart," Ginny said after a moment.
"He doesn't lie on what he is, and actually has a girlfriend," Harry stated. "I met her at a wedding for another pilot. And boy did that wedding go crazy with a Mimetic Beast attacking."
"Looking at….Albus...I wonder why we hadn't taken him to London or such," Ginny commented and tried to change the subject.
"I got no idea," Harry admitted. "His grandfather won't mind going out with Albus on a day trip."
Ginny smiled at that as she was sure her father would love going out in muggle London and such.
Though she was sure if Londo Bell showed up there would be aliens invading or Dinosaurs or something.
"So Ginny...you want to pilot a mech?" Harry then asked.
"You and Londo Bell intend to turn Hogwarts into a school of magic and mecha don't you?" Ginny remarked.
"Probably," Harry said with a shrug. "I mean it worked well for them so far as I've done a decent job and Ron's taken to it really well."
"...I...I…" Ginny sighed. "I am not sure about piloting a giant robot."
"That's ok," Harry assured her. "Not everyone does."
"It scares me that Mum considers you having one the only reason she is ok you are still going to Hogwarts," Ginny said softly.
"Yeah Hogwarts being a safe place is a joke," Harry sighed. "I just wonder what danger was between the Marauders graduating and my first year."
Ginny took he meant besides the whole war that happened and happened in the halls of Hogwarts.
"Just seems like my father and his friends were let run wild," Harry groused. "And our potions teacher taking that out on everyone else."
"Not that I can recall, but I didn't hear about what happened to you the year before I got to Hogwarts as it happened either," Ginny admitted.
Harry wasn't surprised in the slightest. Dumbledore hated having people know what really went on in Hogwarts.
"So how are you enjoying this field trip?" Harry inquired.
"It has been interesting," Ginny stated. "And nice to meet that Shinji you mentioned in those letters to Mum and Ron."
"Yeah he's been kind of stuck here to defend it against giant monsters," Harry shrugged. "And very sure your parents would be unhappy with his father."
"What about his mother?" Ginny asked.
"Well she was the test pilot for Evangelion 01 and whatever happened to her made it so she somehow turned to sludge," Harry explained. "Like a dinosaur hit with Getter radiation."
Ginny winced at that.
"And from what I've been told Shinji was out of this city in a week of that happening," Harry noted. "With him coming back here recently due to his father needing him to pilot a giant robot."
"Yeah my parents would have words at the least with a man over his actions involving his son," Ginny said sharply.
They then saw Wing Zero fly past in jet form.
Then an alarm sounded.
"Here we go again," Harry groaned. "Now what is it?"
"Have fun Harry," Ginny remarked.
V-V-V
Gendo Ikari recalled that the 6th Angel was supposed to be a leviathan of the sea in the Dead Scrolls.
All he could say that thanks to Londo Bell, the ODE Incident, and more was that whatever you could call the 6th Angel it sure wasn't a sea creature. If anything it looked like someone made a sculpture of a stylized clock as a bipedal being.
At least it was bipedal before Wing Zero blew one of the legs off.
Evangelion 02 shoved a sonic glaive through the core of the Angel and that was that.
"This is the power of a production model Evangelion!" Asuka called out.
"And Wing Zero," Canard Pars remarked with the arms of the Hyperion crossed.
Asuka glared at the member of Octo Squad.
Canard wasn't impressed in the slightest. He didn't care that he stepped on Asuka's toes.
"Are you two done?" Denzel Hammer stated in a way that made it clear that was an order and not a request.
Asuka tried to ignore the Glory Stars as they hadn't done in the short fight.
"Just as long as she doesn't think her mech is better than Grendizer and Shin Getter," Canard commented. "Or Megas."
"Look just because I am proud of my mech doesn't mean I am so foolish to think it is as powerful as those three," Asuka snapped.
"I wonder sometimes," Canard muttered.
Asuka rolled her eyes. Like Pars had a leg to stand on for proper human behavior. And if he was the mold someone tried to make an Ultimate Coordinator she doubted they had much success.
Denzel Hammer was able to avoid groaning at dealing with the pair of teenagers. Though it was only barely.
And that was when to the shock of everyone the Dinosaur Empire invading Tokyo 3.
"And here I hoped we'd hurt them enough they won't want to fight so soon," Sanger commented as he sliced the arm off a mechasaurus.
Excellen sniped a winged mechasaurus and set it slamming into the ground.
"Oh they'll wish they did that boss," she remarked.
Toby Watson used a beam bazooka on a cyborg T-Rex. The head of the mechasaurus exploded and Toby was glad to be using a weapon that had more than one shot.
The Zephyranthes used the jitte on the beam saber to strike a two headed quadruped dinosaur. The organic head and the metal ones fired off bursts of energy at Setsuko Ohara.
Setsuko dodged, and Denzel sliced both heads off with a massive beam blade.
"I need something like that for my Evangelion," Asuka muttered as she speared a flying mechasaurus.
Heero let the invaders have it with the twin buster rifles. Only getter rays could have been more devastating to them.
"I really hope Hagrid doesn't get made we're doing this," Ron muttered as he opened fire on mechasaurus with the shoulder mounted laser cannons of the Nero.
The Utahraptor on steroids mechasaurus screamed in pain and then knocked the Nero to the ground.
Ron got to see the inside of the mouth of the Dinosaur Empire...he honestly wasn't sure. Were they a mech or a sentient being? Or both?
Hogwarts had not prepared Ron Weasley on what a mechasaurus counted as.
The Nero suddenly fired into the open mouth. The mechasaurus dropped over dead.
"Nice job," Ryoma commented as he beheaded another of the two headed mechasaurus type with a getter tomahawk.
Ron wasn't sure if he liked that compliment or not. Though he was much more happy having Harry and his other mecha piloting friends watching his back in this mess.
Canard unleashed a barrage of fire from a beam sub-machine gun. The expression on his face as he did that was not one most people would want to see.
Canard was not exactly the most mentally balanced person.
The invading Dinosaur Empire then saw clouds start to form and the sky get dark and stormy.
"Tetsuya really enjoys doing that," Harry muttered.
"Drama queen," Asuka muttered with many wondering if she was aware of the pot calling the kettle black.
Lightning struck down mechasaurus units at what seemed like random.
Evangelion 01 and 00 launched into the fight. Though even Rei was surprised to see Robot Junior beating on a mechasaurus with a giant baseball bat.
"That unit makes no sense," Rei commented.
"I don't think that stops them," Asuka remarked. "Same with Dannar Base and not forcing people to wear something some pervert made."
"And she hasn't ever seen Doctor Aoi send buttons on her clothes flying," Hayato noted.
"Don't get me started on her," Asuka groused. "Why she dresses the way she does confounds me."
Kaworu said nothing and carved up any mechasaurus that got too close to him with the dual chainsaw.
The Angel of Freewill nearly broke out laughing seeing he had sliced up a giant version of a raptor subspecies that in another reality would be named after Draco Malfoy.
That Mio Sasuga did break out laughing told Kaworu a lot. He'd still kill her first when the time came.
Mari didn't see what was funny as she enjoyed slicing up the invaders with a prog knife.
Ken Kaido was having a similar fun using the Ganzanto.
Amuro was old hat at dealing with the Dinosaur Empire and unleashed a barrage of missiles from the shoulder missile launchers.
Mio had her familiars attack the invading forces and even they still found a ball of light hitting them with a massive paper fan extremely weird.
Shinji worked hard to focus on fighting and not the gore that many were causing as he fired a pallet gun at the invaders. Unlike with Angels the weapon was extremely effective on cyborg dinosaurs.
Noin showed that a Taurus was no joke in the hands of a skilled pilot as she used a beam saber and beam rifle against any Mechasaurus that tried to deal with the "weaker" unit.
Of course they'd regret it if they did managed to hurt her as Wind also was cutting through the invading force with a pair of beam sabers. The speed at which Wind did this showed why he had the nickname 'The Lightning Count'.
Kai Kitamura also was proving to be devastating to the Dinosaur Empire as he showed them what he could do with a Gespenst.
Harry wondered why the Dinosaur Empire even showed up. He'd be even more worried if he knew General Bat was watching for a secure location and hoping this battle would keep the user of the Zero System from noticing what was happening elsewhere.
'Soon we can rebuild our emperor and unearth that alien spaceship to learn all the secrets it holds," General Bat thought to himself. 'And finally all of humanity and their allies will fall to our might.'
Plus there was his other plans that could help ensure that as well. The only question was how to make sure the Getter pilots were not around to ruin the ruse for one of them.
General Bat pondered that as Londo Bell was busy with the distraction.
V-V-V
Harry had no idea what was going to happen at Care for Creatures. At this point he just hoped Hagrid didn't bring a dinosaur to the class as they'd likely try to kill them all.
He also noticed Malfoy trying to have some semblance of his ego and annoyance. Like Hagrid hadn't sent him on a detention to deal with something hunting unicorns two years ago. Or perhaps purposely do something to get at Hagrid.
Harry then snorted as he realized Malfoy didn't have the sort of cunning for that.
He then noticed Ryoma Nagare hanging around.
"Hello class," Hagrid called out as they got close to the pens he standing around. "Now everyone get out their books."
Books that Hagrid had noticed many were taped shut or held from biting in many ways. Only Harry wasn't fighting with his book or had it bound.
"Arry how did you…" Hagrid asked.
"Major Yeager told me to pet the spine to make it more docile," Harry replied.
Hagrid made a note to include that in the book description for his classes as it seemed no one had any idea about that.
Though the books stopped fighting as Ryoma literally glared at them. It seemed having someone that could scare them stiff stare at them also worked.
"Right," Hagrid stated. "Let me introduce meself. I am Professor Hagrid and I love animals. Do what I say in class you'll be fine."
Harry then got to see one weird animal called a hippogriff. It had the front legs, wings and head of a giant eagle and the body, hind legs, and tail of a horse. It also was a creature not as famous as the pegasus or griffin.
"This a hippogriff and his name is Buckbeak," Hagrid explained with a smile. "They are a very proud and if you show them proper respect and everything will be fine."
Harry nearly groaned as he was sure someone was going to do something stupid.
Hagrid then showed them how to give a hippogriff proper respect.
Harry went first when Hagrid asked for volunteers to do that and bowed to Buckbeak. What shocked Harry was next he got to for a flight on the back of the hippogriff.
'I think that means he likes me,' Harry mused.
Draco of course did the exact opposite as Harry did.
"Such a beast," Malfoy said dismissively. "Like I need to show this any…"
Before Buckbeak could claw Draco he was yanked away by Ryoma and landed face first in mud.
Ryoma and Buckbeak stared each other in the eye for several tense moments. Then Buckbeak moved away from Ryoma and next to Hagrid.
"Huh," Hagrid muttered. "Never seen that 'efore."
Draco spit up mud with a foul and disgusted expression on his face.
"Professor I have to ask why Malfoy is taking this class if he can't understand animals don't care how rich his family is," Harry stated. "Or how bad an idea annoying the Getter pilots is."
Hagrid realized how close Buckbeak was to being in big trouble because some kid couldn't follow instructions. Which annoyed the half giant as he was trying to show them impressive animals that if they were treated right won't harm anyone.
"Good point," Hagrid commented.
"So why are you here?" Ryoma snarled. "Given you seem to want to fail this class."
Draco was silent. He didn't want to admit he did this because he couldn't think of anything better to do.
He also had a feeling that he was not going to be take Care for much longer.
"Half tempted to give the full experience learning my fighting style," Ryoma then commented. "I'm sure if it doesn't kill you then you'd be straightened out."
Draco had this feeling that fighting style could kill him.
Harry just tried to avoid smirking at Malfoy having made a giant mess.
Ron was not able to do so and he clearly was enjoying all this.
Draco glared at Ron and suddenly Ryoma picked him up off the ground by the throat. The spoiled rich pureblood got to look Ryoma right in the eyes and also see his maniac smile.
"Shut up, leave, and find some other class to take," Ryoma ordered. "You don't want to know what I'll do if you refuse."
Draco ran as fast as he could back to the castle at that. The laugher of other students as he did so filled him with rage.
V-V-V
Harry wasn't sure what to expect as he found the Potter family home. Remus had a sad smile as he recalled better days visiting the place.
Remus frowned as that reminded him of Peter and being told they had found Peter who had been in hiding with the Weasleys for over a decade. Plus Londo Bell making it clear how incriminating only a cleanly cut off finger being all that was found of Peter had been given what had happened.
'And the fact that Sirius wasn't given a trial,' Remus thought darkly before focusing on more positive things as now wasn't the time to go down that path.
One word that could describe the manor was it looked normal. It didn't have weird physics defying parts like the Burrow and instead looked like a Tudor era manor. Like it was a house he could show people and won't have to explain away odd things.
It also felt welcoming to Harry like he was finally coming home. A home he didn't until recently even knew existed.
Harry then smiled realizing he'd be able to tell the paintings of his grandparents at least about his friends and allies. Even better if he was able to meet the paintings of his parents and probably scare the crap out of them.
"Now there some strange ritual I need to do to get in here?" Harry asked Remus.
"Just open the front door," Remus replied. "It should tell who you are and let you in."
Harry took that as his family didn't mess around and wanted to get things done. Practicality over trying to be impressive.
He grabbed the handle and the door easily opened for him.
Remus felt memories come to the surface again as he looked into the house. He could almost imagine Sirius or James coming out to greet him.
Harry noticed how clean the place was and had a feeling there were house elves around. He just hoped they won't be angry at Dobby for his crazy way of trying to protect him last year.
The feeling of home got even more powerful as Harry stepped inside. He then followed his gut and soon found himself in front of the paintings of his parents.
The magical paintings came alive and Lily instantly was worried. Harry looked like had been to Hogwarts for years now.
"Remus what would have taken you or Sirius so long to…" Lily stated.
"Peter betrayed us and things went to hell," Remus managed to get out.
"Though it didn't include Doctor Hell," Harry noted and realized he'd picked more from "big sis" Excellen than he imagined.
"Doctor….Hell?" James asked trying to figure out what that meant.
"Let's just say there are a lot more dreaming of taking over the world than Tom Riddle," Harry noted. "As I am not referring to that guy by his alias nor the one people used after that."
"That's You-Know-Who's real name?" James gasped. "Geez no wonder he went with a new name."
Remus used a summon charm to get a pair of chairs.
"Trust me we're going to need these," he admitted to the surprised paintings.
"Yeah this is going to be a long story," Harry commented as he sat down. "And doesn't get good until the summer of this year for me."
"And we are not joking with you," Remus said quickly.
And with that Harry began to tell the tale that was his life to the paintings of his parents, and likely every other magical painting in the manor.
V-V-V
The staff at Hogwarts felt a cold chill going down their spine. And then another one as Coop and Lowe were working on upgrading a captured Doven Wolf to a Silver Bullet yet keep the pair of chest mega particle cannons as part of their Hogwarts "class".
Angelia Johnson had some ideas for doing that which just came to her.
While Gilliam Yeager looked at the Doven Wolf, MP Great Mazinger, and painted black Getter.
'I wonder if I can get Cedric Diggory to pilot a mech,' he mused.
The intelligence officer was sure that'd be useful to remove some problems that were coming up. Plus might make Albus Severus and Scorpius happy that Cedric's chances of being killed by Death Eaters was dropped.
V-V-V
Character notes
Gilliam Yeager is from SRW Original Generation. He is an intelligence officer that is more than he appears to be.
Kai Kitamura is from SRW Original Generation. He is not someone to take lightly just because he uses a mass produced mech or one to call old.
Sanger Zonvolt is from SRW Original Generation. He is the Sword that Pierces Evil and is a complete badass.
Wind aka Zechs Merquise aka Milliardo Peacecraft is from Gundam Wing. He is a very driven man, and an extremely skilled mech pilot.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. The original pilot of a Gundam, and still one of the best.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL and likes to deal with things using bladed weapons.
Lucrezia Noin is from Gundam Wing. She is a skilled mecha pilot in her own right, and not one to be taken lightly.
Ritsuko Akagi is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She's a scientist in a very insane universe full of magic, portals to other dimensions, and aliens.
Misato Katsuragi is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She has a lot of problems, and rather be in a mech fighting alongside the Evangelions than in the Geofront.
Asuka Langley Sohryu is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She's very assured in her ability to pilot her mech.
Hokuto Kusanagi is from Gear Fighter Dendoh. A bright kid, and doesn't know his mother is an alien.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He is a brutal martial artist and not one to take lightly.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is the original hot blooded mecha pilot.
Ginga Izumo is from Gear Fighter Dendoh. He's a martial artist and not as book smart as Hokuto.
Excellen Browning is from SRW Original Generation. She's flighty, yet a skilled mech pilot. She also has secrets even she is unaware of.
Harold "Coop" Cooplawski is from Megas XLR. He loves food, pro wrestling, monster movies, working on cars, and altering mechs.
Koji Tetsuya is from Godannar. He's doing better with Londo Bell than at Dannar Base.
Rastel Feinschmecker aka Elzam von Branstein is from SRW Original Generation. He is a badass pilot and an incredible chef.
Bright Noa is from Mobile Suit Gundam. He has had a lot of experience dealing with unique pilots and how to make the most effective use of them.
Kaworu Nagasi aka Tabris is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is the Angel of Freewill and the most sane Evangelion pilot. Which says a lot about Gendo Ikari's picks.
Rei Ayanami is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She was created from DNA of Yui Ikari and Second Angel. Most members of Londo Bell won't exactly be surprised or even bothered by that.
Gendo Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He intends to be reunited with his wife inside Evangelion 01 for all eternity.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED X Astray. A "failed" Ultimate Coordinator he has a massive chip on his shoulder and not exactly the most stable person.
Denzel Hammer is from Super Robot Wars Z. He is the leader of the Glory Stars.
Toby Watson is from Super Robot Wars Z. He is a member of the Glory Stars.
Setsuko Ohara is from Super Robot Wars Z. She is a member of the Glory Stars.
Heero Yui is from Gundam Wing. He is the tactrum pilot of Wing Zero.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He is very proud of being the pilot of Great Mazinger and also extremely good at it.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He's not a nice person and not someone to get into a fight with.
Mio Sasuga is from SRW Original Generation. She is the pilot of the Zamzeed and she breaks the 4th wall all the time.
Shinji Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Londo Bell are the sane ones in his life.
Lowe Gruele is from Gundam SEED Astray. He is a member of the Junk Guild and loves tinkering with mechs.