The Crossbone Vanguard leadership would be mortified to find out that their smaller and lighter mobile suits had an interesting and very exploitable weakness. The fact the armor was so light and merely titanium alloy and ceramics instead of any durable like super alloy or gundanium meant that machine guns actually could be a viable weapon against their mobile suits.
Hence why on the trip between Orb to Tokyo 3 that Coop and Lowe were already working on mega machine cannons and heavy machine gun designs to take advantage of that as they were sure the group that invaded Frontier IV wasn't going to stop after just one defeat.
As much as everyone in Londo Bell hoped that defeat would be enough. Frankly they had enough things to deal with already and it didn't look like their workload was going to get any lighter.
Of course if their workload was anything like it had become no one was sure there would be an Earth to protect.
They also were aware that the pirate group known as Bunker wasn't shy about blowing up planets.
Though they still weren't sure how that Gill Berg if he hadn't been resurrected was so as there weren't very large pieces of him left for Bunker to use. Also there was how long that insane cyborg could manage to keep any sort of cover or from attacking those he hated.
"Are you sure having this out here is safe?" Professor McGonagall inquired as she looked at Coop and Lowe working on something that she felt was extremely dangerous. "Given someone took that one frightening unit they have."
"Professor McGonagall we got the aid of the charms teacher for the spellwork to safeguard that section of the workshop," Gilliam Yeager assured her. "And it definitely was more secure than say a cerberus living in a room that will be certain death to all that enter."
Minerva groaned as she knew that at least one member of Londo Bell would throw that in their faces. Though she had to be fair and admit locking such a door that a first year unlocking spell could open it was really bad. Frankly she believed that Albus was so used to Hogwarts being his fiefdom that he and the rest of the staff didn't even think about how what they did would be seen by others.
Which on thinking about it made her wonder how many that were against Dumbledore didn't use it against him. Of course digging for information seemed so against Lucius Malfoy and his bunch. Hard work was not a Slytherin trait after all and they looked down on the house that such a trait was a defining one.
Minerva had this feeling that Hufflepuff alumni got a bit of a chuckle out of that from time to time.
"Also we made it so the hinges could not be simply removed," Gilliam commented. "Along with us hoping anyone sane would realize anything even Coop and Lowe consider dangerous should not be messed with at all."
The Deputy Headmistress realized that Albus Severus needed someone to keep him in line. Also that Scorpius Malfoy was the most well behaved of the trio of time travelers.
A Malfoy as the voice of reason was extremely weird to her even with how strange things had gotten. Which given the entire day or so they'd been fighting off an ancient civilization of giant cyborgs said so much.
With that thought Professor McGonagall wondered where sanity had gone since that meeting Albus wanted them to design defenses for an object of extremely high value to be held in Hogwarts. Everything had gone crazy since that point and Londo Bell just was even more so than the previous two school years.
Which frankly scared the Deputy Headmistress and made her wonder what else was going to show up and wreck havoc on Hogwarts. There were just so many things in the universe like the Galra Empire that scared her.
Any empire that its rulers would consider You-Know-Who and the Death Eaters as barely trying was a true terror.
Gilliam Yeager then looked her directly in the eye. "Incidentally how often do children manage to fall out of a manor home window and down the road? Or accidental magic like that allow them to survive things that should have crushed them?"
"You mean there more of those Getters around?" Minerva gasped as she thought that there only was the five that she'd seen. Which in her mind had been more than enough.
"Oh there are many Moon War era and various prototype Getters around," Gilliam informed her. "The only thing really stopping their use is a lack of pilots able to withstand them."
"Not even those coordinators?" Minerva asked as they reportedly were stronger, more durable and more than normal muggles.
Though frankly Professor McGonagall didn't wish to test that with Canard Pars as he was the only coordinator she knew. She also didn't want to bother the hair trigger teenager or his equally ill tempered command officer. Neither individual seemed rational or one that had any patience.
It said so much to Minerva that Harry considering them at least friends from work was nothing compared to his friendship with the Getter team.
"Not many wish to use them when the various ZAFT mecha use their enhanced abilities and don't feel like mules had been using their guts for a kicking contests in the words of one coordinator," Gilliam replied. "Something they didn't have in the Moon Wars so they were stuck using Getters then."
Minerva wasn't sure what to make of one of her lions piloting a Getter without any complaints or internal injuries. Though she was sure that the Longbottom clan was going to learn the hard way that their actions had consequences. Meeting Ryoma Nagare, and Hayato Jin and seeing what they feared was a squib work with those madmen was going to scar them for life.
The Transfiguration Professor found she really couldn't care in the slightest about that family having that pair and possibly some Getter Robo Go pilots as what boggarts turned into around them. She wondered if Michiru Saotome was as frightening as she hadn't really heard much said about her at all.
Also Minerva wondered what the other pilot of the Getter Queen was like.
Regardless of what the temperament of the Getter Queen pilots was, the Longbottom clan had made their bed, and now they were going to have to lay in it. Professor McGonagall had utterly no problem with them paying for what they had done in ways they could never foresee. She wished that she could see the looks on their faces and realized there actually was a way to do that.
'Perhaps showing him how to use a pensive would be a good idea,' Minerva mused to herself as she was sure the memories her lion would have would be extremely interesting and entertaining.
"Are other units as dangerous?" Professor McGonagall inquired. "As supposedly the Evangelions have gone berserk and have those strange fields that can block nearly everything you can throw at them."
"Let's just say there are those that are shocked Doctor Ikari and those working with her even got those things working at all," Gilliam stated.
"That doesn't assure me," Minerva grumbled. "And I doubt that even Ms. Sohryu knows everything about them."
"The Evangelions are biological mecha," Kai noted. "And NERV doesn't want to say from what and what the fluid they put the pilot in actually is. Though one of the pilots has said it smells like blood to him."
"The Supreme Commander of NERV is quite annoyed that people even know about the existence of the graveyard of failed Evangelions under Tokyo 3," Gilliam commented.
"Isn't that the father of one of Harry's friends?" Minerva inquired as she had heard about Shinji Ikari.
"Biologically yes," Kai said with an annoyed expression. "He washed his hands of that in the week of his wife dying. As in Doctor Ikari turned into sludge like a dinosaur hit with Getter Rays in front of Shinji when he was four years old."
"That poor boy," Minerva said with a sad expression as that boy seemed to lose both parents instead of just one.
"Yeah Harry has gathered as friends a lot of people that Volunteer Ensign Weasley's mother would want to keep as far away from giant robots and danger as possible," Gilliam said with a bemused expression.
"As would anyone sane," Minerva noted. "As it is madness the amount of teens and children put into the cockpits of those. Even more so without any proper training unless your group gets to them with some time before whatever they are being thrown into those cockpits to fight."
Kai and Gilliam didn't disagree with her on that. That assured the Deputy Headmistress that Londo Bell didn't agree with that madness, but tried their best to keep the children alive. Which was more than the organizations doing the recruiting do in her mind.
Minerva sighed and frankly there were days she felt like Londo Bell didn't lie like she had to with the muggle parents of muggleborns. With them a threat of danger was understood to be normal and that by working with them the child would have a much better chance of survival than left to whims of fools or those that didn't care.
Admittedly Londo Bell also had people that something dangerous roaming the halls would be considered a nice warm up. She could see Ryoma Nagare being giddy to fight a giant snake that looking at him could kill him.
Minerva nearly snorted at the mental image of a basilisk having Major Zonvolt's battle cry as the last thing it heard before dying.
Professor McGonagall also was sure that whatever had been in that diary would quickly join that beast in death. The diary might have survived being put into a fireplace with a roaring fire in it, but she doubted being dumped onto a moon where lava flowed like olive oil would be something it would survive intact.
Needless to say the astronomy classes had been updated with facts like that about the various moons in the Solar system, and facts about the star systems where humans had colonized such as Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Eridani, and Groombridge 1816.
Minerva wasn't sure what to make of stars she before had only vaguely remembered from her astronomy classes so long ago now where places she could visit and many of the locals would ask if there was any old sci fi series that had races or where the show was set to not bring them up every five minutes.
Reportedly on Gloire it was considered really annoying to do the Vulcan Salute or Surakian Salute as the joke was considered really stale. Same with suggesting they build a space station that would be a shining example of diplomacy and commerce for the Terran League in the system.
Professor McGonagall found herself wondering what else the various exploration fleets, the research fleets, and the galaxy survey mission would find. Besides alien life that would want to kill them all of course.
That muggles were doing such massive exploration of space, built massive colonies at the L points, terraforming planets like Mars and Venus, and set up so much in the asteroid belt they needed to section it by number and letter made her feel like she was living under a rock buried in peat moss.
There also was the wonder of what schools of magic were out there among humanity's colonies among the stars.
Minerva then groaned as she realized her students and even herself couldn't name even half the schools for magic that were on Earth.
It was embarrassing and didn't make her look good.
What then shocked Minerva was seeing what looked like a headless mobile suit being prepared by some of the mecha club/class students. They seemed to be adding things to the trainer mobile suit. She wasn't sure what add ons were and won't be surprised if they could blow up the school.
She didn't know what they were adding a magnetic coating to the joints and servos of the mech along with various thrusters. They were to make sure this space version of a GM Canard was able to keep up with the other units.
Though she hadn't seen that mobile suit before in this workshop so it likely wasn't for any pilot she'd met before this. Unless the pilot was another of the students given a mech.
She also wondered exactly how many mechs Lowe and Coop had in Hogwarts. It seemed like they got more ever time she didn't pay attention to them. That they kept getting more and more of them won't surprise her at all. She expected the pair to do that as they loved customizing mecha. She also was aware that one of the producers of those mecha made use of the pair as consultants and a way to make use out of failed or incomplete prototypes.
"Oh that will be Albus's mech," Gilliam stated having seen her looking at the GM Canard. "We frankly aren't trusting him with a Rezel or a Nero."
"We just need to figure out who will pilot an upgraded GM Cannes so that they could take control of that GM Canard," Kai Kitamura mused. "There has to be someone that it would a superior unit for them to pilot."
"Volunteer Ensign Delacour or Lt. Aker would be a good choice for that," Gilliam commented after taking a moment to think about it.
"You know Graham is attached to the Union Flags," Kai sighed. "He won't want to be parted from it for anything."
"Much like we are with Gespensts," Gilliam said with a chuckle.
Kai shrugged at that. It was true after all.
"It says so much you want someone who can take control of the mech but didn't feel that way with any other Hogwarts students recruited for Londo Bell," the Transfiguration professor noted.
"We trust them enough to not do something insanely stupid," Kai stated. "Even by the somewhat looser standards that Londo Bell has on that."
"Or even the Getter pilot standards for Volunteer Ensign Longbottom," Gilliam remarked.
"And from what you have told me about Professor Saotome those are some extremely loose standards," Minerva said recalling how nearly nonexistent those standards were. As in if you survived the stress the unit put on the body you got the job.
"Yet even Professor Saotome has avoided touching the Zero system," Kai said firmly. "He frankly doesn't want to see what mixing it and Getter Rays would cause."
The fact that Albus Severus had gone for Epyon had everyone worried. It was literally one of the most dangerous mechs to everyone and the user in the workshop. There was a good reason no one wanted to use it, and that included one of the actual pilots of it.
The Zero system nearly drove several Gundam pilots mad, and caused one person to use it to have a brain hemorrhage.
"We'd have been less worried if he'd tried piloting the Zeta Gundam over there," Gilliam commented and pointed at the white and purple Zeta Gundam unit with a stylized A on a shoulder that was in a corner.
"Though he won't be anywhere near as good of a pilot for it as Amuro," Kai stated.
"Not many would be by what I have been told," Minerva remarked. "If even half the things said about him are true."
"Albus Severus piloting that or the Dijeh if it was here would not have annoyed Amuro," Kai informed her. "Especially given he has the Nu Gundam to pilot now."
"He would hope the boy doesn't break them," Gilliam said with slight smile. "But that would be his only real concern and frankly that is more a minor annoyance than anything."
"That boy," Minerva sighed. "I have no idea what he was thinking or why he felt the need to take a mech now."
"Everyone is thinking that," Gilliam said with a grimace. "And the worst part is he felt the mecha would be like the Hogwarts library and the forbidden section is where all the best things are kept."
Professor McGonagall groaned as she didn't know where to begin with that madness. Also she wasn't sure if the teaching standards had gone down even more by the future era those boys came from.
Frankly by this point she wondered who they had as teachers besides Ms. Granger and if she should give them a stern talking to about how to teach. They needed it from the talk Scorpius and Albus Severus had given. Such arrogance in talking to students and such lackluster defenses for things that should be kept out of the hands of students.
It all sat poorly with her as she wanted the standards of teaching for Hogwarts to increase and not seem to get even worse. It was not a trend she wished to have happen.
She also didn't want things like time turners or Philosopher's Stones to be stored at Hogwarts like it was a secure vault. It was Hogwarts School of Magic, not Hogwarts Vault of Important Items.
Professor Minerva McGonagall truly wanted Hogwarts to be one of the greatest schools of magic in the world. It annoyed her that the school was falling short, and now it had Londo Bell watching and writing down all the shortcomings.
She was sure that various officials in the know in the Terran League were reading all the observations, and she doubted they were happy.
Minerva doubted that strange alien or the various captains and majors of Londo Bell were going to keep themselves from bringing up all that. If anything they would be very loud about it and likely tell anyone that asked them about.
The part that scared the Deputy Headmistress was that for most of those close to them the talk might be more sane and normal than the usual things Londo Bell deals with.
She wasn't sure exactly if normal meant the same thing for long time members of the special task force as it did other people. Or if the long time members of Londo Bell even cared about normal anymore.
What worried her was the fact that Alastor was perfect as a liaison for the group to the Wizarding World. She found Auror Tonks to be at least not working with them like they were the sort of people they'd want around to beat down Death Eaters.
It actually mad Minerva happy that Lucius Malfoy was keeping his distance from Hogwarts figuratively and literally.
The transfiguration professor then noticed something that looked like the Double Zeta Gundam in the workshop. With Minerva shocked that she was starting to be able to place names and the appearances of various mecha now. She wondered exactly how many of them the various students knew now.
The ZZ Gundam Ground Use Type was another failed prototype in the workshop. The mobile suit had a far less powerful reactor and turning into a tank put heavy stress on the frame. That the original unit hadn't been designed to change shape in gravity like being on the Earth didn't help either.
Coop and Lowe were sure that they'd be able to figure something with it. They always did and had fun doing it.
"Yes there are a lot of prototype Gundams that failed for one reason or another," Gilliam said noticing what she was looking at.
"At this rate I am sure there are enough of them to be used by everyone in Hogwarts," Minerva commented. "And I somehow have a feeling that...Zentradi...won't be against trying to do that."
"With other mecha such as Nightmares, Thunderbolts,Jegans, Gespensts, Huckebeins, and even Grungusts for any students missed by those," Kai admitted.
"How you can keep track of all those units I have no idea," Minerva sighed. "Because I honestly can't keep track of the sheer volume of units."
"Practice," Gilliam said with a shrug.
"I see," Minerva muttered.
"Someone in Londo Bell has used most of the units mentioned," Kai noted.
"And to be honest many of the special or one off units and their pilots end up in Londo Bell," Gilliam added.
"I never imagined there would be so many weapons of war," Minerva said softly.
"And we never imagined a society of armed individuals would be so timid," Major Kitamura stated.
"The ones in the Order of the Phoenix and the Aurors with that were the ones who tended to die on the front lines," Minerva informed them.
"And that fact that none of you noticed the reconstruction work on the SDF-1, the Zeon conflict or the Space War is worrying," Kai said wondering how they could miss all those.
"We are rather insular," Minerva admitted. "Though you are talking of an alien starship being studied and rebuilt from where it had crash landed on the Earth, a war that likely would spread across the Earth, and aliens literally showing up and scaring everyone so bad the aforementioned war fizzled out."
"Even by then there still were scars of the Jama Kingdom and their using magic against Steel Jeeg," Gilliam remarked.
"I am sure a history class on all of that would be interesting," Minerva commented.
Both Kai and Gilliam were sure of that.
Minerva then looked at the pair. "And are you sure that Black is telling the truth?"
"We have a Getter Ray altered Pettigrew still alive and just missing that finger he had lost," Kai stated. "And also Albus Severus and Scorpius having mentioned Pettigrew resurrecting Riddle next year."
"Meaning we really do not wish to see him run off," Gilliam said sharply. "We do not need a magical boogieman and his goons causing problems like breaking bridges and burning down houses."
The Transfiguration mistress was sure that they had enough to deal with and You-Know-Who would not stand for being considered a lesser threat or the sort of commentary various Londo Bell pilots would give him. Especially that of the Getter Team and the Death Caprice Squad as they would quite brutal and cutting in their words and deeds for that matter.
It was adding petrol to fire, but those men seemed to rather enjoy that. It was just how they were and she doubted they'd ever change.
What scared Minerva was the fact that Shin Getter had been undergoing maintenance while Londo Bell had battled the wraith of You-Know-Who possessing a giant monster. Even without that powerhouse mech they considered the whole thing a normal day.
Truly Professor McGonagall was feeling that the Wizarding World was going to be changed forever by Londo Bell. She just wasn't sure how to feel about that.
She also wasn't sure if the culture she was raised in would be on fire or not.
With the way things were going that was an actual concern and one that she hoped Albus would force into the heads of some more hidebound people.
It also didn't help that the term kakistocracy could be used to fit the UK Wizarding government. Which really was extremely embarrassing and a term she was sure someone in Londo Bell knew.
The Deputy Headmistress also was sure that if Albus really annoyed Londo Bell they'd refer to him as Chief Oathbreaker as that was one way to call him Chief Warlock to get on his nerves. It also was utterly petty, but she didn't think that'd stop some people.
If anything that would be encouragement as they didn't have the reverence the Wizarding World had for Albus, and busting his chops was manna from heaven for them.
The transfiguration professor took solace that was all the sort of action they had taken against Albus. She was sure if they wanted him dead then he'd be lucky to have parts you won't need tweezers to pick up.
Harry had definitely made some very loyal allies by joining Londo Bell.
Minerva wondered if at some point Londo Bell would have more Volunteer Ensigns than Hogwarts had students. What she had gathered was that Molly would be angry as can be on how many who held that rank had been treated.
The Deputy Headmistress looked at the mech of the one she knew Molly wanted to mother and hex the living daylights out of his "parents". Zeorymer just felt wrong to Professor McGonagall. Just utterly wrong and unsettling to her.
Masato Akitsu had the opposite feel to her as he felt like a nice person that didn't want to hurt anyone. Minerva felt if the boy had magic and went to Hogwarts he'd be a Hufflepuff and likely get along well with most of the students in the school. Only those that felt that was a house of duffers and were rude to them won't get along with the boy.
The boy's "father" on the other hand she was glad never went to Hogwarts as he sounded like the most arrogant arse genius she had ever heard of. He'd be one of those Ravenclaws everyone wanted to unleash a barrage of curses at. Be them spells or merely words depended on the person.
The girl named Miku was one Minerva had no idea what to make of. Nor did she know what to make of the looks the Weasley twins gave her. It was like her being there surprised them every time.
It was like the pair had no idea what to make of her for some reason. It was the same thing with that one Evangelion pilot named Kaworu Nagisa.
Thinking about Fifth Child made Minerva shiver for some reason. There was just something about him that was unsettling and scared her to the core. She wondered if he and Ms. Browning had the same reason to get that reaction out of her.
Also what that reason or reasons for her to be afraid were.
Minerva then shook her head. She was sure by the end of the school year she'd find out and with a bit of luck the school would still be in one piece.
That is if they managed to survive the mess they were ending for.
Minerva hoped that the madness of this Halloween wasn't too much for them all and that it won't get even more massive by the end of the school year.
V-V-V
Tokyo 3 looked to be as much of a mess than the other cities Londo Bell had visited. The Warrior Beasts were not doing so well against the Evangelions and other forces.
Especially not against Evangelion 02 as Asuka won't settle for anything less than utterly removing the threat from the city.
She also had made sure to smash any alien invaders as well. She wasn't going to let any of them wreck her town!
Asuka won't be happy to know Prince Heinel didn't use any important units in his invasion force of Tokyo 3 or Paradigm City. Frankly he paid lip service to this alliance, and held no real expectation of success or doing anything beyond smashing a few things and causing a some destruction.
Asuka also didn't really care too much about the ZAFT units that were helping out. Frankly she thought those coordinators had a lot of jerks thinking that their parents had their DNA messed with made them superior.
She also wasn't sure what to make of the coordinators that tried to take on a more Vulcan like demeanor. Repressing emotions made no sense to her at all.
Evangelion 02 then kicked the weird and ugly mobile armor that had gotten beaten up by Londo Bell on Frontier IV. Given it'd been driven off from the Sanq Kingdom by a bunch of personal troopers and that weird combining robot able to fire chainsaws from its back Asuka didn't believe it could harm her production model Evangelion. The lightning attack it had didn't go through an AT Field so it was in Asuka's mind just a useless mech that doubled as a ugly piece of art.
Saiga groaned as frankly working with these people was not working out as well as he hoped. He was sure the empress was going to think having this and working with the Crossbone Vanguard end like this will cut back on his rebelliousness. What it really taught him was that he needed far better help than he'd found to use in his plans.
Saiga then tried to dodge fire from the pair of rocket launchers that Evangelion 02 had. Given the size of his mech that didn't go well. The pair of shells hit extremely hard and made the mech shake.
Yet for all the damage the bazookas did was nothing compared to the assault that Wing Zero did. The double buster rifle easily shredded armor and internal components of the Tau Dragon mech.
"Huh thought that would have made it explode," Asuka remarked as she stabbed the still somehow still flying mobile armor with a prong knife repeatedly.
Saiga doubted this was going to be a day he'd ever want to talk about. An orange GINN taking a potshot at him with the missiles intended to use on base or fortress was just adding insult to injury.
Then Saiga got attacked by what he considered a knock off funnel as Rau Le Creuset used the prototype DRAGOON that had been added to his CGUE to assault what he considered to be a major rival to his plans.
Rau knew Saiga was as big a backstabber, but thanks to be genetically altered the member of Tau Dragon was as subtle about it as a brick through a window. The red jacket wondered if he should feel pity for Saiga.
Rau also let loose with the beam rifle that looked exactly the same as the standard issue machine gun for the CGUE. It was purposely done to confuse people if it was going to be a beam or a bullet coming out of the weapon.
Yzak Joule quickly flew in and repeatedly struck the massive mobile armor with his GINN's sword.
"I think a heavy ion cannon could be used against that thing," Yzak remarked.
Dearka Elsman fired the sniper rifle he had and it struck the massive mech easily.
"Sniper rifle works just fine on it too," he remarked.
The Gundam Zephyranthes then used the beam rifle on the damaged mobile armor. Setsuko wondered how that thing was still in the air.
Toby Watson struck the heavily damaged mobile armor with a beam javelin.
Saiga then had a sensation he didn't want to feel again as Evangelion 02 grabbed the tail of his mech and started spinning them around.
"Not again," Saiga groaned.
His mech then slammed into the ground after being let go.
Evangelion 02 gave it a few kicks while it was on the ground for good measure.
"And stay down!' Asuka called out.
Yzak Joule had to admit he liked the Second Child's style as he let loose with the heavy assault machine gun on Warrior Beasts.
Go Ichimoniji wondered if any of the Mazinger pilots were going to be unhappy as Getter Gai unleashed a Breast Beam.
Even Go could see how much Hayato Jin had copied from their units into his Getter and hoped this went better than Sayla Mass finding out about the breast missile attack of Getter Sho.
Go was glad he stayed out of that mess. He didn't want to get the crap kicked out of him for something he really had no part in causing.
Wing Zero then flew in and cut through Warrior Beasts like they were made of cardboard.
Athrun glared at Wing Zero. He had hated that Gundam ever since learning it had been used to kill his mother and many others in a rampage across the Solar System.
Yet what annoyed him was the assault rifle his new GINN Assault Type had might as well be spit wads to the armor of Wing Zero as Gundarium Theta was some of the toughest armor ever made. What the GINN had for armor was basically tin foil by comparison.
What also made Athrun keep from firing was the fact that the pilot wasn't the one who killed his mother. That would be the pilot of the Sandrock and he wasn't in Tokyo 3. Frankly Athrun was not sure where that man was now.
Inwardly once more Athrun vowed to make the pilot of the Sandrock pay for his crimes. Nothing was going to stop him from doing that.
Though even in his head the red jacket had to admit he'd need something way better than a GINN to stand a chance of hurting the Sandrock even if the pilot did nothing to fight back. It'd have to be something like the Gundams being worked on to do that.
Then Athrun noticed that something was coming up out of the water towards the city. An Angel seemed to pick today to be a good day to go on a rampage.
Or a Mimetic Beast. Athrun wasn't really sure and honestly didn't care much as one giant monster on a rampage was the same to him.
The Angel then split into two.
"Well that's new," Ken Kaido noted with slight bemusement.
Evangelion 02 raced over to the Angel and Asuka stabbed one of the two in the chest. She smiled as she knew that it would show so many who felt the Evangelions were junk how wrong they were.
It didn't work as planned as the Angel didn't go down.
Asuka grit her teeth as Megas froze one of the Angel halves in ice before slamming it into the unfrozen half.
"Hey that's my kill!" Asuka yelled.
"And I should care about your ego for what reason?" Kiva remarked.
Mu inwardly groaned as that wasn't going to end well. He also sensed that one ZAFT pilot. He wasn't sure why he could sense Rau Le Creuset however he knew he was there.
Though Mu was sure he wasn't going to like it when he found out why that was.
Mu also kept a close eye on the GM Canard that had been launched. He didn't trust the pilot at all.
Albus Severus could literally feel so many of his father's allies watching him like a hawk. It was not a fun experience.
Though the one that really worried Albus was the look the Evangelion pilot named Kaworu had. The Evangelion pilot hadn't forgotten what Albus had done.
If anything Albus Severus was second after Mio on Kaworu's list of people he intended to kill. Which was a terrible place to be if you wanted to have a long life.
Then the Angel or both halves of it seemed to take the freezing more with annoyance than anything.
Asuka growled and stabbed one of the Angels repeatedly.
"DIE!' she yelled.
The Angel didn't seem to hear her or care about what she wanted.
"You got to hit them both at the same time," Mio commented.
"That probably is the case," Mu said after a moment. "Not like we have any better ideas on what to do."
"So Sayla and Amuro?" Hayato suggested.
"I can do it!" Asuka growled. "We don't need them to do it!"
"I'm surprise she doesn't sound like Kurt Russell," Mio remarked.
Harry was sure if he figured out what that meant would not be very nice. Or it would at the very least annoy Asuka a great deal.
Asuka just charged ahead and ignored Mio.
The Angel or Angels were able to avoid being struck at the same time with ease even with Evangelion 02 having a prog knife in each hand.
"So we are facing an Angel that exploits the fact that the Children have not been trained to work in synch with each other," Kai noted. "Something we will have to change."
"We can always tell Shinji to lead, and set up the other four," Ryoma commented.
"I don't think you have a grasp on their personalities and interactions," Velt stated.
"I agree," Kai spoke up.
"Fine we sort out who does what later," Ryoma grumbled.
"Quit making me look bad!" Asuka howled as she was getting more and more frustrated as Isafel wasn't dying like she wanted.
Shinji wasn't sure what to do exactly, but he did know that doing what Asuka was doing wasn't going to work. He did know that Asuka wasn't going to listen to any suggestions he'd give, or even orders from Captain Noa.
"I think she needs to switch to decaf," Goat said as he watched Asuka frantically try to cut the Angel halves with a prog knife.
"Yeah I can see that too," Amuro commented.
Mari watched Asuka closely to see what she intended to do and then shook her head. Trying to help the Second Child would likely have her change her attack and nullify any chance of hitting the core at the same time.
"Stand down Volunteer Ensign Sohryu," Sanger called out.
"I can deal with it!" Asuka snapped.
"You are doing nothing but flailing around in rage," Sanger stated. "Stand down and let those that can work as one handle the foe!"
That Asuka didn't yell at Major Zonvolt shocked even Gendo.
Amuro and Sayla took that as their cue and Mari kept the AT Field of the Angel down for them as they worked pretty much as one.
The Alpha and Beta halves of the 7th Angel were extremely worried now. Those two were able to work together easily.
The pair remerged into one being and got struck in both cores with the fin funnels of Amuro and Sayla.
"I could have done that," Asuka groused.
"Right…." Ryoma commented with heavy sarcasm.
Asuka growled but that was it.
Ryoma chuckled and tore apart several Warrior Beasts.
Asuka glared at Shin Getter for a moment and then launched herself at the forces attacking Tokyo 3 with a renewed vigor.
Miguel Aiman wondered if the Second Child knew how transparent she was being, and it showed a lack of maturity on her part.
Ron was shocked to see someone else had an orange mech, and kind of liked the logo he had on it.
'When we aren't in mortal danger I got to make a logo to put on my Nero like that,' Ron thought to himself.
Maybe Dean could help him design it and it'd be a nice thing to add to his mech.
It was something Ron definitely wanted to do. He just wondered what would be a nice symbol and discounted a stylized R or W on the shoulder of the Nero. Amuro was cool and all but Ron didn't want to imitate him or Char.
Ron had no idea how not wanting to copy famous pilots elevated him in the eyes of other pilots. Way too many pilots had tried to do that and never really measure up in any fashion.
Fleur kept a very close eye on Albus. She wondered if he'd have the same bravado that Asuka was showing.
Albus kept his distance from Evangelion 02 and the Warrior Beasts it was demolishing. Given he wasn't sure if she'd try shooting him for attacking another Evangelion or even want someone else to get in the way of her fights.
Kayra Su also kept a close eye on the….time traveler...and once more wondered what exactly she had gotten herself into.
"Hey has anyone told your commanding officer that Sayla thinks he's trying to rip off her brother?" Ryoma commented to Le Creuset Team.
"I can see that," Athrun admitted.
"That really annoys me," Rau muttered.
The clone hated how so many compared him to the Red Comet like he was a cheap imitation. He hated feeling like he was the cheap imitation of anything. He'd make them all pay.
And it won't be with a credit card.
It would be in blood.
Lots and lots of blood.
Nothing else would be enough for Rau.
Canard unleashed hell on the Warrior Beasts.
"So any more of these running around the world we need to smash?" Lt. Pars inquired.
Athrun blinked as that Canard Pars sounded so much like his friend Kira in the last video message he'd sent him. It was kind of creepy actually. It made Athran wonder how that was possible.
Canard Pars ignored the GINN Assault as he unloaded on the Warrior Beasts.
By this point Canard was not impressed with the invaders at all. If anything they all seemed to need numbers to be even just annoying.
Canard then had a massive sword strike his lightwave barrier.
The coordinator's eyes widened as the Warrior Beast who was attacking him was the size of an Evangelion and his black armor and cape seemed ominous even to him.
"Who is that guy?" Shinji asked sounding a bit scared.
"Someone who I am going to beat up," Asuka growled as she needed to show up Londo Bell after what they did to that Angel.
The Great General of Darkness looked at the red Evangelion and seemed to find it wanting.
Asuka launched herself at the Warrior Beast at that, and found herself knocked to the ground with utter ease.
In the Geo Front Gendo Ikari got a very bad feeling about this. That the being that had just shown up was extremely dangerous to Londo Bell and to his plans.
The Great General of Darkness then easily dodged a Breast Burn by Great Mazinger.
Londo Bell had no idea if it or he would be the correct pronoun to use as the Great General of Darkness weathered a fin funnel barrage.
Wing Zero unloaded with the twin buster rifle and the Great General of Darkness was still standing.
Asuka tried to attack the Great General of Darkness again and then screamed as she felt like one of her arms had been chopped off.
D-Boy unleashed the full power of his Voltekka on the Great General of Darkness and the general let his cape take the blow.
"That cape...it still is intact," Harry gasped.
True the cape was heavily damaged and looked beaten up but it and the person under it should have been destroyed by the beams of antimatter.
Denzel Hammer then unleashed hell with the 108 micro missiles. The Great General of Darkness took the missiles easily, but it was just a distraction.
Toby Watson let the Great General of Darkness have it with the beam bazooka the Gundam Physalis had.
The Great General of Darkness appeared to be more annoyed than hurt by the powerful beam weapon.
"That is not a good sign," Neville gasped.
"What is this guy made of?" Ron asked as the Great General of Darkness was taking a beating and kept on going.
"Stern stuff that's for sure," Hayato noted.
"That's not a good sign," Mu commented. "As that giant turtle Warrior Beast fought in Orb won't be able to take that kind of beating without being damaged."
"So is this all you have?" the Great General of Darkness remarked. "And here I thought you all were better than this."
"If he goes into a musical number after we gasp he can talk I am going to be very annoyed," Sayla groused.
Rau unleashed the DRAGOON unit on the Great General of Darkness. The next thing Rau knew his CGUE was hit by the DRAGOON unit. The ZAFT team leader barely avoided crashing into the ground.
"That's not good," Yzak muttered.
Neville doubted that a Stoner Sunshine would do as much damage as he'd like. Still he went for firing off missiles at the Great General of Darkness with the guns the Black Getter had.
Once more they merely annoyed the right hand man of the Emperor of Darkness.
Jun and Tetsuya both wondered if anything could have prepared even them for this seemingly unstoppable force they were up against.
"Breast Fire!" Koji yelled and even with his cloak messed up the Great General of Darkness was able deflect and have the attack be like a shotgun blast at members of Londo Bell.
Ron then flew in and struck the Great General of Darkness with his beam saber, and barely avoided being cut in half by the massive sword the Warrior Beast General had.
It was one of the bravest and stupidest things Harry had ever seen someone do. Yet he had a feeling he or someone else would top that.
Shinji then unloaded with the pallet gun on the being he felt was more deadly than the Angels at this point.
The Great General of Darkness was unhurt by the cannon.
"He isn't even dented," Albus Severus gasped.
"And here I thought Angels would be the biggest threat," Denzel Hammer remarked.
Everyone then realized that Coop had been silent and hadn't attacked.
And that was when he unleashed the Super Destructor Mode. Both sets of eyes for the Great General of Darkness widened as the insane barrage of fire was unleashed on him.
Asuka managed to get Evangelion 02 back to its feet after the insane pounding Coop had let loose.
Yet even she barely could believe it when the smoke cleared that the Great General of Darkness hadn't been blown to bits.
"Perhaps that fool with the large head and small limbs was more truthful than I thought," the Great General of Darkness admitted.
Mari chuckled in amusement at that.
Then the Great General of Darkness felt gravity increasing dramatically as Grendizer struck it with an Anti-Gravity Storm.
Venus A unleashed a Photon Beam right into the organic eyes of the Great General of Darkness and for the first time in the fight the Warrior Beast General called out in pain.
It seemed to be enough to cause Londo Bell redouble their efforts against their foe.
"Let's see what your insides look like," Mari called out as she stabbed the Great General of Darkness with her prog knife.
Ryoma waited for Albus Severus to ask if he was related to Mari and honestly felt a bit let down when the time traveler didn't bring it up.
The Great General of Darkness then surprised them by managing to move and punch the Evangelion in the face and then knocking it back with an energy blast from his eyes.
Albus Severus felt more and more dread.
Ron also wondered what he'd gotten himself into with this. Did the clock his family had go higher than mortal peril?
Sanger Zonvolt then charged at the Great General of Darkness. Ratsel gave him cover fire with a photon rifle.
The Great General of Darkness went to cut the Grungust in half with his blade, but was shocked when Sanger blocked it with his own massive sword.
To the shock of the Great General of Darkness found he was the one that was being forced back.
The Sword that Pierces Evil was living up to the legend surrounding him.
The Great General of Darkness did not need a legend around to inspire humanity. He let out an energy blast at the Huckebein supporting Sanger.
The Huckebein went down missing an arm and a leg.
"That's not good," Koji remarked.
"Definitely not," Sayla agreed.
Sanger threw himself into the fight even more at his friend being taken out of the fight.
The Great General of Darkness weathered Breast Fires, Finger Missiles, particle weapons fire, and more.
Londo Bell lost track of the time as they battled the seemingly unstoppable force.
Tekkaman Blade started getting more and more savage as he assaulted the Great General of Darkness.
People were worried this was why D-Boy had a time limit he stuck to.
Ryoma wasn't worried about it. He was sure Shin Getter could handle a rampaging out of control Tekkaman.
Others were not so certain in their ability for their mecha to handle the rampaging berserker.
Then again they also were not ignoring the fact that the Blade could fire antimatter beams at them if he felt like it.
Tekkaman Blade let out a growl like an animal and shoved his lance into one of the eyes of the Great General of Darkness.
Albus Severus felt sick as blood came out of the wound.
"That….that….thing is alive," Albus gasped.
"Not if D-Boy has his way with it," Ryoma commented.
"I wonder how much of those things was organic in the first place," Kamille pondered.
"Not much," Tetsuya stated firmly.
The massive hand of the Great General of Darkness drove Tekkaman Blade into the ground and yet it seemed to merely annoy the completely out of control warrior.
Albus Severus wondered what D-Boy was, and how he could take a blow like that and keep going. It was like it had done nothing to him.
"Stay frosty," Mio remarked to Albus.
Albus Severus laughed nervously.
"And try not to do something extremely stupid," Harry ordered his son.
"Yeah save that for the professionals," Ken Kaido interjected.
"Not. Helping," Harry growled at that.
Ken Kaido was bemused by that comment.
Harry then unloaded on the Great General of Darkness using his Long Mega Buster at full power. He struck the organic face of the Warrior Beast General and he seemed to at least be hurt by it.
"Dodge now!" Ron yelled.
Harry dodged to the left and barely avoided his mech being destroyed by the massive sword of the Great General of Darkness.
Sanger then unleashed a Hyper Blaster on the Great General of Darkness.
"Our fight is just getting started!" Major Zonvolt called out.
The Great General of Darkness said nothing as he went on an all out assault on the Grungust Type 0. No quarter was asked nor given.
It was a very brutal affair to Harry.
The Great General of Darkness and Sanger Zonvolt were not the sort of give up easily.
What did surprise the Great General of Darkness was that the Colossal Blade was still in one piece. It just won't break no matter how hard he hit it.
Frankly it infuriated the Warrior Beast General.
Still the Great General of Darkness knew that he could eventually wear down this worthy foe.
A sudden bolt of lightning striking made the Warrior Beast General revise his thoughts on being able to do that and survive the rest of Londo Bell.
"What does it take to stop this guy?" Neville asked.
"Just keep hitting it!" Kiva called out.
Coop didn't need to be told twice as he repeatedly hit the Great General of Darkness in his organic face.
The Great General of Darkness was not happy they had figured out his weakest point like that.
"Chesto!" Sanger then called out and struck the Great General of Darkness in that organic face with his massive blade.
Nearly blinded the Great General of Darkness to a swipe with his sword and nearly beheaded the Grungust Type 0.
The Great General of Darkness then screamed as a Stone Sunshine was drive right into his organic face. He had no choice but to flee.
As the Warrior Beast General got out of there, Tekkaman Blade got up from the ground and screamed more like an animal than a man.
The Tekkaman took off and slashed the Grungust Type 0 as it flew past.
Ron realized there was only one thing he could do. He opened fire on the enraged Tekkaman and then opened the cockpit to his Nero.
The Tekkaman flew in and Ron hit D-Boy with the strongest stunner he could. It staggered D-Boy and he flew out. He then changed back to human in midair and crashed to the ground.
What would shock everyone was that D-Boy could easily survival uncontrolled orbital reentry so what he just did was nothing.
Ron gasped. "I really hope no one tells my Mum I did that."
"That's an odd request," Shinji admitted.
"You haven't met his mother," Harry commented.
Shinji wasn't sure what to say to that.
V-V-V
Something felt off to the Zor. Like something had made a mess of the time loop that was their genesis and existence.
Not that it mattered as they won't let it stop them.
V-V-V
Chapter Notes
Harold "Coop" Cooplawski is from Megas XLR. He is chaos incarnate and loves food, wrestling, video games, cars, and mecha.
Gilliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is an intelligence agent and has many secrets.
Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars OG. He can make a Gespenst fight like a Gundam and never call him old.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He's a badass martial artist and not one to be messed with.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He is not someone to be messed with.
Shinji Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He needs Londo Bell's help badly.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is the Sword that Pierces Evil! He is pure awesome.
Graham Aker is from Gundam 00. A skilled pilot and loves all things from Japan.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is the most sane Evangelion pilot, and also is one of the Angels. It says so much for the recruiting process of NERV.
Asuka Langley Soryu is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She's extremely smart, cocky, and very proud.
Go Ichimoniji is from Getter Robo Go. He is one of the pilots of the Getter that Hayato Jin had made.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He likes using swords and melee weapons.
Mu la Flaga is from Gundam SEED. He is a skilled and expert pilot and finds the phrase impossible made possible to be the motto of Londo Bell.
Sayla Mass is from Mobile Suit Gundam. Not someone to take lightly.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. He is the original Gundam pilot and the one all others are measured by.
Kayru Su is from Char's Counterattack. She is a normal pilot stuck in the middle of pure insanity.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED vs. Astray. He's a supposed "failed" ultimate coordinator and has a chip on his shoulder the size of Jupiter.
Takaya Aiba aka D-Boy aka Tekkaman Blade is from Tekkaman Blade. He is not in a very good place, but doesn't let that stop him from being able to fight.
Kamille Bidan is from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. He pilots the Zeta Gundam, and has gone out of his way to prove how manly he is. Flying hang gliders, martial arts, mecha club, and more to prove Kamille is a man's name and he's a man.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He is the pilot of Great Mazinger and he is very proud of this.
Kiva Andru is from Megas XLR. She sent Megas into the past to change the outcome of a major battle against the Glorft. Things have gone weird for her and not as she planned.