There were days even Augusta Longbottom didn't want to get out of bed. Today was turning out to be one of them as she learned what that metal thing that had taken her grandson had been and why it happened in the first place.
"A single man decided that after losing his family he was to merge the minds of everyone he could into a single...something….and managed to sell people on the units he used like they were a brand new racing room?" Augusta stated as she tried to organize what she had been told. "And that was just an incident for the group you work with?"
"A very deadly and massive incident," Hayato Jin commented. "It is because of us Neville is still here as destroying the production plant completely was the plan if we failed."
"And after that an entity that has ruined if not destroyed entire planets was encountered by you," Augusta said rubbing her temples.
It didn't help that even Londo Bell wasn't sure what exactly Mimetic Beasts, the Radam, and Tekkamen were. It said a lot when Killer the Butcher was the easiest thing to explain to the entire Longbottom clan.
"We are not sure if Gaizok is an entity itself or the name of the group the entity called Killer the Butcher has," Lalah admitted.
"Now there's a name of someone to avoid," one of the Longbottoms commented as you didn't get called or call yourself Killer the Butcher for being a nice person.
"Of course we are surprised a taboo got placed on the name of that one guy," Ryoma commented. "Mostly as vol de mort is a phrase and not a word."
"Flight of death or flight from death," Michiru explained as Longbottoms twitched in fear.
"His real name is Tom Riddle," Hayato said with a bemused expression. "You might remember a special award for the school in his honor. Well he caused the incident he blamed the now COMC professor on so we removed it."
"So Gran if you want to call him something always use his real name," Neville commented. "I am not calling him You-Know-Who anymore. He's just Tom or Riddle to me."
"In any case," Augusta then stated to stay on track after that massive shock. "After that mess you got to see a birthday party invaded by a force that has a desire to destroy the type of thing you pilot."
"And aliens," Ryoma noted. "Reportedly ones that a lot of their elites give anyone without horns as hard of a time as muggleborns and squibs get around here."
"And after that you heard about something that happened to Neville while growing up," Augusta said sharply. "Which you took as his magic would keep him alive while using that…disturbing thing."
"Also from a time traveler said that in their timeline he cut the head off Riddle's pet snake with a legendary sword," Ryoma chuckled. "And did it right in front of the resurrected sorcerer so either way we were sure that Neville had the guts to be a part of Londo Bell."
Everyone's eyes went wide at that. They had trouble believing that as possible. They also felt fear at Voldemort coming back from the dead being possible. They did not want the bad times to return ever again.
"It probably doesn't help that one of that trio of time travelers is Riddle's own daughter and she wanted to work with her old man before he'd finally been killed for good," Ryoma snorted. "Not that the guy was very impressive when he controlled a Mimetic Beast."
"...If Merlin showed up would you beat him up and take his staff for a back scratcher?" Augusta asked after several moments.
The Getter grin she got in response didn't help her nerves at all. She also took that as a yes they would do that for the fun of it. Also that they didn't know knew that.
"My father did not recruit people for their charming personality or diplomatic nature," Michiru replied in tone that made it clear she'd had to say that to a lot of people. "I could show you the medical records of what his stunt of being in Getter did to his body."
"Even Coordinators didn't care for piloting those," Ryoma mused.
The Longbottom clan wasn't sure if they could take much more of this. It didn't help that Neville had a look of utter amusement now.
"And then there's when Neville got to experience Burning PT," Hayato commented sounding amused. "It seemed he wanted to experience a nonGetter mech or at least close to it."
"I love that game," Neville said with a wide grin. "It was a lot of fun."
"It is popular with most of the students," Ryoma remarked. "Plus it means we could get them into a Gespenst as that's what the cockpit is an exact copy of."
"Hogwarts school of magic and mecha combat sounds good to me," Neville spoke up.
Augusta Longbottom was starting to realize that a boarding school was not all pluses when it came to children as her grandson was after a few months very different than she remembered. He was a lot more stubborn, and had taken to using that thing he showed up in. If anything he seemed to enjoy being the pilot of that strange thing.
"After that he was able to use that Moon Wars Era Getter to fight the Mycenae Empire," Michiru noted.
"Moon...Wars?" Augusta asked.
"Yeah you don't get out much," Ryoma snorted.
"Young man I am fully aware muggles are living on the Moon, but I am not sure who or what would cause a lunar conflict," Augusta snapped sharply. "Especially given it seems it could be anything."
"No one is sure what the Invaders were exactly," Lalah admitted. "Other than they were dangerous and what worked best against them was Getter Radiation."
"And we are sure Admiral Delacour was very close to trying using his wand on those things to see how well magic would work," Hayato Jin stated. "Same I am sure with removing the curse placed on a trio of pilots by a demon."
"What?!" Augusta gasped.
"It was a pain in the butt got resolved without using magic to fix it," Ryoma shrugged.
"In any case Admiral Delacour was one of the better admirals put in charge of Londo Bell," Michiru said thinking about the various people who had been in charge of the special taskforce.
"Definitely better than that bald idiot Major General," Ryoma laughed. "What was his name again?"
"Ah Major General Kenneth Garret," Hayato spoke up remembering that fool. "Didn't he end up on that private shuttle blown to bits by Wing?"
"Man Oz didn't get that removing that pain in our butt actually helped us," Ryoma said recalling how crazy things got in that time last year.
"Trieze Khushrenada might have seen Londo Bell as a very useful tool against the Titans subfaction of Oz and Duke Dermail," Hayato Jin mused. "Even then I am sure he was already plotting to deal with the Romefeller Foundation."
"Very true," Musashi agreed. "He won't be blind to the fact that he and Duke Dermail had very different views on how to fight wars and it won't a peaceful agreeing to disagree."
"From what little I have been told there are a lot of Slytherins that would want to have the cunning of that man," Neville commented.
"That is obvious if anyone lets that yipping little dog of bad faith be the one who makes the biggest impression on people," Ryoma mused. "I am sure he'd because a mess if that one animal clawed him."
"And the reason his daddy he talks about often has kept out of things at Hogwarts is the fact you and Hayato scare him so much," Neville chuckled.
"Given what he did involving that Chamber of Secrets mess we would kill him on sight," Ryoma growled. "We do not let anything like that go without consequences."
"They will pay for it in blood," Hayato agreed. "Sooner or later Lucius Malfoy will have to pay the piper for that."
The Longbottom clan members looked at each other in confusion. They never heard about anything that hinted at this beyond Dumbledore supposedly fired and rehired after a few months. Something that sounded more like Dumbledore wanted to go on vacation than something serious like all this sounded.
"I take it Dumbledore once more sat on his hands instead of gaining allies over someone unleashing what could be considered a weapon of mass destruction in Hogwarts," Michiru groaned.
"And he wonders why he constantly throw his doing what is right over what is easy catchphrase in his face," Ryoma said with a laugh. However it was not a laugh with much humor in it.
Augusta Longbottom looked furious.
"What in Merlin's name is going on at Hogwarts? And why have I or anyone else been told about this?!" she snarled. "That insanity of the Dementors outside Hogwarts was bad enough, but for it to sound like a common thing to happen each year is even worse."
"The Philosopher's Stone hidden at Hogwarts in Harry's first school year, a basilisk unleashed in Harry's second year while he was treated like a pariah because he can talk to snakes, an army of Dementors around Hogwarts this year, and there will be the Triwizard Tournament next year and frankly no one trusts it not to be a complete and utter disaster,' Hayato answered.
"I believed Hogwarts to still be a school and not where Dumbledore or anyone else can make their ideas for Boy-Who-Lived novels come alive," Augusta growled.
"We have many theories on that," Michiru admitted. "Though we have done our best to have Harry not have problems at Hogwarts."
"Yeah now he just has to deal with our usual problems," Ryoma interjected. "Though we can smash them when they come up."
Michiru groaned as Ryoma was not helping at all given what the usual problems for Londo Bell were.
"Harry, Neville, and Ron all pulled their weight," Hayato commented. "Something that needs to be applauded."
No one in the room doubted that Hayato Jin rarely gave out praise. Neville looked extremely proud to hear that.
"So when all of you step up and fight off an invasion we might not try seeing if you all can bounce down the street after being thrown out a window," Ryoma said with a savage smile.
Augusta had no doubted that they would do it. Or that the red haired woman cleaning sword won't try running them through with it.
That no one besides Neville would likely be willing to step into one of those things and fight off an invasion of who knows what also was something the whole clan was well aware of.
They also were trying to deal with the fact that the whole world had gone completely insane and the strange and weird had become common.
Neville considered this all the best revenge he could get on various members of his family. No one was hurt, and yet everything many had said about him had been proven to be completely untrue. He just wondered if his parents would be proud of that.
Though Neville had a feeling he won't have had to do what he did if they'd been coherent. Something that rather annoyed him and gave him a good reason to step on the four that had put his parents in the state they were in now with his current Getter or the Getter Robo Dragon he'd pilot sooner or later.
Neville then shot his Great Uncle Algie a Getter Smile. The man nearly soiled himself in fright.
"Neville stop frightening your great uncle with that expression," Augusta commanded.
Neville stopped but he was sure that it would haunt his great uncle's nightmares now. It was something that made him feel great.
"You two taught him that didn't you?" Michiru groaned as she looked at Ryoma and Hayato.
"We admit or deny nothing," Hayato put it diplomatically.
"And yes most of the other pilots in Londo Bell are far saner than those two," Lalah informed Augusta. "The ones the same are ones recruited because they can handle the stress of the unit as the only standard being the exceptions."
Neville thought for a moment. "I can't remember of for Ken and Ryo it was stab or shoot first for their catchphrase."
"I think it was for gods in their way they stab them, and for devils it was shot them," Ryoma supplied.
Augusta wondered when the world was going to ever be sane again. The only good part was that it seemed her grandson was thriving and would survive it.
She just wasn't sure if she was going to live through all this madness.
V-V-V
The Edo Great was the newest warship of the Terran League fleet. It had the best of human technology, the various technology of aliens humanity had encountered, an impressive amount of mecha and variable fighters, and of course one of the best captains in the fleet with Gint Kitaumi.
However even when they saw what was going on in the outer region of the Solar System felt they'd rather go back to port and let Londo Bell with it.
It being several humanoid and human sized figures in an aura of energy fighting with the Radam and their Tekkamen, and another alien force that no one on the Edo Great had any idea who they were. The only thing they were sure of was all three forces had enough firepower demolish a large portion of the Terran League fleet.
If the crew looked closely they'd also see a Detonator scout in the middle of that all out brawl as well. So yet another threat loomed as the Detonators wished to destroy all life in the Solar System.
The Edo Great crew had no idea that they weren't the only ones looking at the all out brawl in shock, and concern.
The group termed the Inspectors also was watching and wondering how this backwater system attracted so much stuff. Well those that weren't aware of the Improbability Drive that was in effect at least.
Wendolo was not quite sure to be annoyed or happy that the drive was working incredibly well. Perhaps it was working too well, and yet the apes weren't dead yet.
'What will be next? Some sort of interdimensional version of an Earth animal evolved enough to have their own mecha showing up?' Wendolo pondered and dismissed that odd thought.
Mekibos wondered if all the things coming to this star system might kill them at this rate. He also was saddened that the Professor Denton who sent a message for peaceful interactions between sentient races got these terrors at the doorstep instead.
What worried Mekibos was that there likely were more things coming due to that message which would wish harm and not friendship. There was no lack of things that could turn up and be disastrous for humanity.
Though Mekibos had no idea that the creator of the newest force could frankly be more of a danger to her own plans than anything on Earth.
Neos Gold ran more on id than anything else frankly. She was all power and not a skilled military general when it came to dealing with underlings. If anything her strategy was it better go right the first time or else.
Dreaming of the battle was one Nagasi Kai who was not sure what was causing such horrible things to be in her head. She considered the strange spider crab like things especially to be like something from a strange nightmare.
Nagasi honestly didn't know about the Radam as she wasn't a Londo Bell fangirl who kept up to date on the various threats they battled.
The delivery girl toss and turned with yet another night of what she felt were just really bad dreams.
V-V-V
Molly Weasley had to admit that she couldn't say that things were boring for her. Things had never been this crazy in her entire life.
Though now she could see supplies were being stocked up for some reason beyond feeding Londo Bell and especially Coop. At least she hoped that was the case and that what said about Coop's ability to eat was a tall tale. The same with that boy named Arado Balanga.
She then blinked as she saw this massive blue skinned man who she had only heard of in letters. Though from his expression he knew of her and looked glad to see her.
At least she hoped he was happy to see her.
"Ah Mrs. Weasley," Vrlitwhai stated. "You noticed we are preparing to send relief to Center City."
Molly wondered where that was as she had never heard of that city before now. She just hoped it was on Earth given how much space travel Londo Bell did.
"Originally we were to be delivering relief supplies to Atlea," Vrlitwhai commented."Though the Halloween Invasion changed that dramatically."
"Isn't that the world being attacked by those...savages," Molly said trying to avoiding saying something far more vulgar about those aliens.
"Indeed it is," Vrlitwhai replied. "The Galra Empire is one no like cares about beyond possibly learning how the emperor is still alive after centuries."
Molly blinked at that.
"Also the Mega-Road 3 and the 10th Long Distance Colony Fleet have been keeping the Galra Empire away from Altea while Go-Lion has been on Earth," Vrlitwhai stated. "And the..fools...on the Macross 29 have spearheaded the relief measures for Atlea."
"Why are they fools?' Molly inquired.
"Their idea of unarmed neutrality is laughable and utterly stupid," Vrlitwhai growled. "And that's not just the fact that I am a warrior causing me to feel that way. Space is a very dangerous place and not being armed doesn't mean things will take pity on you out there."
"I take it expecting the better sides of their nature to come out is dangerous," Molly commented.
"It would be like expecting Death Eaters to show up and throw a party instead of try to kill you in the most horrifying ways they can imagine," Vrlitwhai put it bluntly.
Molly made a face at that.
"And frankly having a debate among those of Macross 29 being my biggest problem would be nice," Vrlitwhai commented. "As I am sure the Earth being assaulted as it has been will get the Neo Zeonic forces, or Celestial Being or others to attack thinking it will do better than usual for them."
"I am starting see how things were so crazy over the summer for Harry," Molly muttered.
"He learned well and Bright never had any issues with him," Vrlitwhai said with a touch of amusement.
"Harry is a good boy and not one to cause trouble," Molly stated firmly.
"I agree," the massive Zentradi remarked. "Though your grandson is a different story entirely."
Molly just groaned. "And here I thought I'd have a lot longer before Fred and George's children went to Hogwarts and caused a mess."
"Of course we are still trying to figure out if a magic user's brain is any different from that of a more or less normal person or a newtype," Vrlitwhai said pondering something. "Or if any of those differences would mean anything involving the Zero System."
Molly had to wonder if anything would ever be normal again for her. Or what Ginny could end up doing or piloting at this rate. Which given all the madness surrounding Harry now could be literally anything. Reportedly the mecha of La Gias were powered by magic so magic could be involved.
What worried her was this actually was the safest Harry had been. Why things had gotten that way in the first two years that Harry and Ron had gone to Hogwarts didn't matter to Molly. What did matter was that every single student had been at risk and no one bothered telling the Aurors about it.
Mad Eye not being informed about all those incidents and brought in confounded Molly to no end. She was sure he'd get to the bottom of things and it won't be fun for those that tried to harm the students.
It all made her wonder exactly what was going on at Hogwarts, and why these things kept happening. Was it malice? Dumbledore thinking Hogwarts was his fiefdom? Always been like this and she just hadn't noticed until now?
"Ah you are having the same sort of thoughts most people have on this place," Vrlitwhai commented.
"I just wonder where it all went wrong," Molly admitted. "I want my children and my grandson to be safe and learn how to use magic. Not this yearly disaster mess."
"I doubt they understand what the word safe means at this school," Vrlitwhai mused. "Especially as something that would be at home in your youngest son's nightmares is in the forest around the school and has been there for about half a century."
Molly stared at him as to hope he was joking. Somehow she doubted he was.
"Oh yes giant spiders," Vrlitwhai said with distaste. "And reportedly a village of werewolves as well in there. We have to meet with them and see if they would wish to move somewhere they aren't treated as pariahs."
"I think letting the maniacs of Londo Bell run Hogwarts would have things make more sense," Molly groused. "Because then the giant spiders and werewolves would be for training in that brutal fighting style of that one maniac."
"And going by what your grandson has said the younger half brother of Hagrid was also let roam the Forbidden Forest," Vrlitwhai stated. "We have told the Care for Creatures Professor to stop using that region to keep his pets and house for his brother."
"Are you recruiting Hagrid's brother for Londo Bell?" Molly then asked.
Vrlitwhai smirked. "Actually yes. Gawp is undergoing training with a Zentradi unit as even microized they would durable enough to survive his strength."
Molly had a feeling that Gawp might be mistaken for a Zentradi and no one noticing he was different. Or honestly care if they did find out what he was.
That said so much to the mother of seven.
"So what are you going to do about Binns?" Molly inquired to change the subject.
"First get a living and breathing History of Magic teacher," Vrlitwhai replied. "If you don't accept we have other options. One is having Sirius use a mirror like in the Noir Department Store."
Molly laughed as the man she would tell Harry to avoid going after could instead become the History of Magic teacher. She also was sure that the leadership of Londo Bell didn't care what Dumbledore thought of that choice. At this point she also wasn't exactly in the mood to care either.
"The ghosts and paintings have their value as helping teach History of Magic," Vrlitwhai said and never imagined it'd be a statement he'd ever make.
Then again a lot of things he had said over the years due to humanity had been things he never would imagine he'd ever say.
"I...I never even thought about that," Molly admitted after a moment.
Vrlitwhai's expression made it clear he doubted anyone had thought about that. Not that Molly was really bothered by that.
"Also we are sure that the Grey Lady is Helena Ravenclaw," Vrlitwhai informed her. "So if she disagrees with the image of the founders of this school she has a great of good reason. Though perhaps her thoughts on her mother can be taken as very tainted by a great deal of emotions."
Molly's eyes widened at that. She never imagined the Grey Lady to be that.
Vrlitwhai wondered if the Grey Lady would even take part in the History of Magic classes. She wasn't the most social of the ghosts in Hogwarts.
He doubted that anyone would say no to her especially after learning who she was if she did decide to be a guest speaker for History of Magic however.
Molly wondered what else Londo Bell had learned of Hogwarts that it seemed no one else knew of. Which was a bit embarrassing to her as a bunch of people didn't have magic had a better grasp on Hogwarts than those that lived there it seemed like.
It made her wonder if she really should take the job as History of Magic teacher or not.
Vrlitwhai looked at her for a moment. "Also we have to ask why exactly Howlers were let to go through."
Molly blinked for a moment at that change of subject.
"To be honest things like those make me glad I don't have parents," Vrlitwhai stated. "As I really can not understand why anyone would want to tell the world their issues with their children."
No one had ever explained to her that way and Molly wasn't sure why they hadn't said that. Dumbledore won't have to had to do much more than say that and she'd likely have never sent another one to Hogwarts. It won't even take him more than maybe a minute of his time to do either.
It made Molly wonder if the Hogwarts staff had the actual desire to do anything or even the energy to do so given how few professors there were. Something worried her a great deal as she tried to mentally sort out a timetable for even one professor and her head started to hurt.
"I am not sure how the professors can handle their insane schedules," Molly groaned. "It just seems so haphazard and changing from year to year."
"I guess pure insanity," Vrlitwhai returned. "Professor Lupin has his assistants to deal with the time he takes off for his illness and they can handle it or keep Professor Snape trying to take over for a day a month in check."
No one in Londo Bell cared Remus was a werewolf as he did his best to keep himself under lock and key away from anyone that could be infected on the nights of the full moon.
"Illness?" Molly asked.
Vrlitwhai just stared at her as he thought she'd have figured it out. He realized she had no idea.
"Yes he has an illness he has had to battle since childhood," the Zentradi warrior replied. "It is part of why Professor Snape hates him with a fiery passion."
Molly had no idea what illness that could be. Vrlitwhai noted a need for a critical thinking class at that. Perhaps also a class on classical myths as well would be helpful.
"More important is dealing with any sort of curse on the DADA position," Vrlitwhai said figuring that being dealt with was far more important. "We'd like to hire your eldest son to help with that supposed issue."
"You really want to keep Remus around don't you?" Molly remarked.
"He is trying his best as a teacher, honest with us, and no longer listening to every word from the headmaster's mouth," Vrlitwhai returned. "We honestly need that so that Hogwarts is an effective school. Also so I don't get involved in all that."
Molly wondered what had happened when an alien had more influence and effect on Hogwarts than the Board of Governors. Even more so when she found the alien far more agreeable and much saner.
"And you think I could do the same?" Molly inquired.
Vrlitwhai nodded.
"I am...honored you actually feel that," she admitted. "And I am sure William would enjoy helping remove any curse on the DADA."
"Good as we don't want to have to deal with a polyjuiced thought dead man next year," Vrlitwhai commented. "Mostly we doubt we could smash into a man's home and drag his son out for all to see...at least without far too much whining for far too long."
Molly wasn't quite sure what to make of that comment. Or what in the name of Merlin Londo Bell was supposed to think of the Ministry and their entire society when they got to see and hear so much insane things and things that made everyone look crazy and out of control.
She had no idea Mad Eye's plan to deal with supposedly dead people that weren't inferni attacking him was to to make sure there was enough left to revive later and question. He didn't intend to be caught off guard and stuck in his own trunk for about a year.
"Yes that would be...difficult," Molly stated. "Though are you sure everything my grandson has said is true?"
"It has proven true enough for us to believe that your ministry is a rotten tree and frankly we have enough problems to deal with already," Vrlitwhai put it bluntly. "There are those like your husband who clearly are not in a powerful position that we could work with."
Molly did not disagree with him and was enraged her brothers and a great deal of members of the Order of the Phoenix died for frankly nothing. Even worse one of her sons died in what seemed to be pointless war in that future Albus Severus came from.
"I honestly am quite annoyed that no one fixed any issues," Molly sighed. "Or that the same thing could happen again."
Vrlitwhai smiled slightly. "Oh I won't worry about it happening again Mrs. Weasley. Especially not after Riddle got crushed by us and now his right hand man fears for his life."
Molly had a vindictive look on her face. "Good. I am glad he is afraid several people would murder him for his actions."
Molly had learned that the diary Ginny had was even worse and more frightening than her darkest fears had been, and of course Lucius Malfoy wasn't punished for his actions in any meaningful way. No wonder the man's own grandson had wanted to travel back in time to remove family sins.
Just that Scorpius really went at it in the worst manner possible, and with a cousin he wasn't aware he had who had very different and darker goals. A woman who now was doing who knows what.
Though Molly Weasley wasn't a seer by any means she had this feeling that woman was going to return with a mech and want to kill Ryoma Nagare. The first part due it seems everyone getting one and the second part as she doubted You-Know-Who's daughter would allow her leg being broken to go unavenged. Or that Ryoma Nagare was going to be as merciful in their next battle.
"Oh we are glad he stayed out of our way," Vrlitwhai noted. "As much as the urge to deal with him anyway has be hard to keep under control."
"The same with his son?" Molly asked.
"Not as much as he is far too brash and short sighted to do much right now," Vrlitwhai answered. "Though that might change, and if he does start what Albus Severus mentioned in his sixth year we are not going to put up with any of it."
That was something that made Molly wonder what anyone was bloody thinking at Hogwarts. Even if Dumbledore felt he could bring a child back into the light and that his attempts to attack him were easy to stop there was the fact that the student body won't be as well equipped.
Frankly Molly wondered what in Merlin's name anyone had been thinking if they were doing so at all. It certainly wasn't telling the parents what was going on. Which at this point Molly wondered if the staff hated having parents involved as that might mean they had to do their jobs and answer important questions.
The mother of seven was getting rather annoyed at how lax things were at Hogwarts. The things that her grandson mentioned were not helping her mood.
Molly realized that the best way to combat that was to become one of the professors at Hogwarts and along with Remus and anyone else willing to help make sure none of those dark events Albus Severus spoke of came to pass.
V-V-V
Fleur blinked seeing her GM Cannes being upgraded with a Full Armor set of gear much like the Full Armor Gundam MK III. As in it was less to add to her defense and more just to give it far more firepower.
She turned to Coop and asked him about why they were doing that to her mobile suit.
"Eh it works as working out some ideas we have for the 7th Gundam over there," Coop commented with a shrug.
Coop and Lowe had been planning out how to make one of the proposed set of add-ons the Gundam was supposed to have. One that was supposed to be able to smash battleships in combat.
No one was sure how many battleships in one shot it would be able to wreck once Coop and Lowe were finished.. However no one had any doubt it'd more than one by the time the duo had worked their magic.
What surprised Fleur was that Ron was helping with the Full Armor upgrade to her Cannes. She honestly was amazed he had any idea what he was working on given he was a pureblood wizard from the UK.
She doubted most of them could learn to pronounce something like getter radiation let alone do work on mecha.
So she wondered if heavily armed giant robots had an appeal that reached even into purebloods.
Fleur then was surprised to see the Gunner Gundam was in Coop and Lowe's lab. The unit had been used by a man named Terry Sanders Jr. in the Moon War conflict.
'I wonder what happened to him,' Fleur mused. The man hadn't ended up missing like his CO from the Space War had.
She then got to see the beam rifle from a Jesta being put in the hands of an orange Nero.
Ron was extremely happy to have an even higher rate of fire beam rifle, and it having a machine gun rate of fire mode as well. He knew that was going to be extremely helpful in his fights.
Albus Severus had no idea what was so special about that thing. He also wasn't shy making that opinion known.
Ron shot his nephew a dirty look.
"Are you even trying to understand all the mecha and weapons around you?" he asked sharply.
"How can I keep track of all this?" Albus Severus remarked. "Gundam this, Getter that, Mazinger whatever, Evangelion, Variable Fighters, Brain Powered whatever that is, and who knows what else!"
"Don't know until you try," Kai Kitamura commented as he doubted Albus Severus actually put in any effort.
Albus Severus shot that massively scary man an annoyed glare. If anything Kai looked vaguely bemused more than anything.
Fleur really wondered if her nephew had a death wish doing that. Or perhaps he wished to learn why the man was called the Hell Instructor first hand. It seemed to be the only way that headstrong boy learned things.
She then looked to see if anything was being done to the GM Canard that Albus had been using.
That it was being given a flight unit like Lowe's Red Astray had was a surprise. It seemed they wanted to make that durable trainer mobile suit as fast as it could possibly be.
The name of the game seemed to be speed for the time traveler. Fleur hoped he could handle the speed and won't get himself killed. She didn't want him have his life ended.
He wasn't that bad. At least she was sure that he won't try piloting mecha that could turn his brain to sludge anymore and his time turner was trash.
Fleur then wondered if that other time traveler with them was going to point a mech as well. It won't surprise her at this point as it seemed everyone could get a mech at Hogwarts now. It was something that actually amused her.
Fleur then blinked again as she saw the open casing for a giant beam saber made for an Evangelion on a massive table. Though if it was a regular beam saber or a hyper beam saber she had no idea.
The weapon was one Fleur was sure was meant for that crazy girl with the Evangelion. She discounted Kaworu given he had that dual chainsaw so he didn't need another exotic melee weapon. Fleur wasn't sure what was wrong with Mari, but sure it was something.
'Not that the Evangelion pilot was alone in that,' Fleur thought.
Ryoma Nagare and Hayato Jin still scared Fleur as much as the had when she was younger. Plus the Mazinkaiser SKL pilots were frankly not the most stable people either.
Still they made people part of Londo Bell because of their unique abilities or mecha and not because of sanity.
Lowe saw Fleur looking at the Eva sized hyper beam saber and was sure she was impressed with it.
Kai had a feeling Lowe was misreading Ms. Delacour by a great deal.
Albus Severus then looked at his uncle as Ron was working on the GM Cannes in confusion. That didn't seem like something that would appeal to Uncle Ron. Possibly grandfather would do something like that, but he wasn't in this lab and Albus hadn't seen him at all yet.
Albus was sure his grandfather was fine, and just busy with his day job. Which actually the most normal thing for Albus right now. And boy did that feel kind of weird to Albus to have that as the touchstone of sanity.
'Man it feels going to have some things actually be as I remember them,' Albus Severus mused.
"So what did I do in the future or whatever," Ron asked as he was quite curious.
Albus Severus won't know what a Temporal Prime Directive was let alone follow it answered "Oh you worked at Uncle George's joke shop."
"Just George?" Ron questioned as that didn't sound right to him. "What happened to Fred?"
Albus's silence made Ron realize what happened to his older brother in that...whatever.
"Oh," Ron said as that hit him hard.
"That's part of why you are doing this isn't it?" Kai stated.
"Is it bad for me to want my one dead uncle to not end up in a major battle where he and a lot of people died?" Albus Severus said softly.
"No...that makes you human," Major Kitamura commented.
Albus was surprised at that remark.
"Though don't think that this means we consider what you did to be a good idea," Kai noted. "Merely that we understand why you did it."
Albus Severus considered that the best he'd get.
"So what has Scorpius been up to?" Ron inquired.
"Trying to learn all he can about how things differ between what we remember and all this," Albus replied.
"Any luck?" Lowe asked.
"Everything wizard world side seems to match," Albus returned.
That they didn't mention the other side didn't surprise them at all.
"Hey you know the other is probably more important right?" Coop asked.
"But that has nothing to do with us," Albus stated. "Right?"
"It likely has a lot to do with what the differences are," Kai noted.
Albus Severus was a loss for words when someone forced the door into the workshop open. The door slammed into the wall and in stepped Mad Eye. He looked utterly furious.
The battered Auror walked up to Albus Severus. Coop and Lowe pondered making the man a really cool metal foot to replace the pegleg.
Albus Severus was sure who that guy was. Though his parents didn't know him well, but they did paint a very clear image of the man. Which made Albus hope that the man wasn't going to hex the shite out of him.
"Tell me," Alastor Moody stated in a tone that made an Alaskan winter seem tropical. "Did I end up in my trunk for a year and later murdered in one of the stupidest ideas ever?"
"Yes," Albus Severus said quickly as the man was very scary and frightening to him.
For a moment everyone expected a Macross sized barrage of f bombs to erupt from the Auror. Suddenly Alastor's expression grew ice cold. It actually unsettled Albus Severus way more.
"I see," Mad Eye remarked. "And glad my eye can't become the conversation piece of in the office of...her. Kind of hard given they had to bury her in a bag."
"Umbridge is dead?!" Albus Severus asked in complete and utter surprise.
"Killed by some giant monster that attacked on your mother's birthday," Alastor replied.
"Thank Merlin!" Albus said sounding happy. "She had carved into Dad's hand to not tell lies with a blood quill."
"The urge to let all of you burn the Ministry to the ground and urinate on the ashes grows," Mad Eye muttered as he was sure nothing was done to that...woman… that had so many interesting nicknames.
"I agree," Kai stated. "I take it she wasn't punished for her actions."
Albus Severus tried to recall what happened to Umbridge after the war. It seemed no one talked about her at all. So he really really couldn't tell them.
"Seriously a second round of nothing changing is more than I can stand," Mad Eye growled. "I am going to end any Death Eater that tries anything."
"Nothing changed the first time," Fleur noted. "Their master vanishes and no one actually tries fixing the problem. So what did you expect?"
"Enough self interest to want to clean up," Alastor returned. "Especially so they actually had enough 'right' people to marry and not end up like the Gaunts."
Fleur had to admit he did have a point.
"Of course I am sure that girl only went along with you so she could avoid having her father end up defeated after a year running things," Mad Eye remarked to Albus with a smile that was all teeth. "No wonder he never tried to get elected into public office."
Albus Severus wasn't sure what to make that comment.
Ron shrugged. "If Riddle and the Death Eaters had actual guts and didn't care about what others thought of them they won't use fake names and masks to disguise themselves."
"Like you have ended up fighting," Alastor commented. "And got to say Fabian and Gideon would be impressed by that."
Ron wasn't sure what to say as talk of his dead twin uncles was extremely light. It made him wonder if Albus Severus even knew of them at all. Thinking about that made Ron actually ponder learning more about his family and seeing if he could pass that knowledge down to Albus Severus.
'I wonder if Bill or Charlie would know anything,' Ron mused.
Albus Severus looked confused.
Mad Eye sighed. "Your great uncles. They were part of the Order of the Phoenix."
"No one wanted to talk about that much," Albus admitted. "It just seemed so painful to them."
"They lost friends and family," Fleur said softly. "That is never easy to discuss."
"Again this is the sort of thing Scorpius and I wanted to stop," Albus sighed. "And yes even I am willing to admit we got in over our heads and made some really bad decisions."
"That is the most sane thing you have said today," Kai commented.
They then got to see Sayla Mass swear as she put down her phone.
"There is something requires my attention," she stated in a tone that made it clear she was going to be gone for a bit. "I'll be back as soon my task is completed."
Something about that scared Albus Severus and made him glad it didn't involve him at all. He also wanted to avoid being involved in any manner with it.
Kai just hoped that this wouldn't be like Ryoma going off on his own. The conversations when he got back never were pleasant.
V-V-V
Things were very chaotic at Photon Labs, and Professor Gennosuke Yumi wondered what had set off Sayla Mass. The newtype pilot currently had a gun pointed at Doctor Sewashi's head. No one really wanted to see if she was bluffing or comment she currently had a strong resemblance to her infamous brother.
"Ms. Mass what is this about?" Professor Yumi inquired and hoped there was some reason for this.
"That these trio of scientists have been working on mixing the motion capture ability of the Gundam fight units, and something to fill in for that fluid in Evangelions," Sayla commented in cold and hard tone. "Though the outfit for a clearly female pilot to use needs changed."
Yumi turned to the trio as it was clear what they had designed for a uniform seemed to be the cause of hostility. The trio pointed where the uniform was at on a table.
The professor raised an eyebrow when he saw the extremely skimpy and likely not legal to wear in public outfit. He understood why Sayla was so angry now. The outfit looked uncomfortable and that it had to be custom made to fit on a woman. It was not something anyone would willingly want to wear into battle that was for sure as the the long gloves were the biggest and most covering parts.
The uniform was even worse when Professor Yumi noticed where some of the connector ports for the outfit were. It was over places you'd rather not have wires connected to.
Sayla glared at the trio of scientists. "The Gundam fight uniforms might be spandex-like in appearance but cover far more of the human body than that thing you are passing off as a necessary uniform."
"We'll redesign it!" Doctor Nossori said quickly. "Just calm down and please put that gun away."
"You better," Sayla said in a subzero tone.
Professor Yumi wondered if was something Captain Noa had to deal with a lot. This was giving a headache.
It was even worse than the things Koji got into. Which given some of the things he had gotten into said a lot.
Sayla holstered her gun, and her expression admit it clear she'd be back if the trio went back on their word.
Professor Yumi really hoped this was going to be the biggest problem for the Artemis A. He also wondered who to have pilot that mecha once it was finished. It was something that would need to be worked out. He was sure whoever was made the pilot would be happier with whatever redesigned uniform was made than the original.
Or at least they would be after seeing the original design compared to what they'd be wearing.
'This is nearly as bad as that time they tried to get Koji to help with some photos for a new mech that looked more like Sayaka," Professor Yumi inwardly groaned.
That had been a disaster and Jun had threatened the trio if they got any ideas like that with her they'd regret it for a very long time.
No one wanted to find out what she'd do.
There were days Professor Yumi wondered why everyone he had working for him were completely nuts. He also wondered who had told Sayla about the interface 'suit' for the Artemis A as it he doubted his daughter or Jun really would be happy with it.
He pondered if he really wanted that last mystery solved. What was more important was that incidents like this didn't keep happening as once was enough.
V-V-V
In Center City Joey Jones stared at the adhocly covered up hole in his room. The tarp covered hole was blamed on the whole invasion of the planet that had just happened, but really was the toy he fixed getting bigger and coming alive.
Also that he made his own door to save some people trapped in a car due to those...giant things that had attacked. Joey had no idea what they had been, and wasn't sure if they were never going to come back or not.
Joey was not sure what to make of all of this and was actually kind of scared his grandmother won't notice him working with Londo Bell. The fact that last part was possible at all was worrying to him.
'I worry about her,' Joey thought to himself.
Joey then looked at the toy that somehow had after being hit by lightning come alive. Right now it just looked like an expensive toy that had over the past month or so been repaired by someone.
Joey felt the fact that Heroman had been hit by a car that his repair job was pretty good.
He then wondered how he'd explain this to his grandmother. Given that an alien starship had crashed onto the Earth, been fixed up, and the first use of the FTL drive pulled an island off the face of the Earth among other things like magic using aliens had fought the first mech using hero...he was sure that it would be more asking for proof than outright dismissal.
The problem Joey now had was figuring out how to get Heroman to change size again. Would it take another lightning bolt? Or did he need to do something else?
He just hoped Professor Denton had some ideas.
Suddenly the controller for the toy transformed a device that covered hand. Joey could see an icon that looked like Heroman's face when he was full size.
"Wow…" Joey gasped and mentally wondered how to stop this.
As if by magic the device turned back to normal.
Joey felt some questions had been answered, but he even more questions now.
V-V-V
Emperor Burai considered the attack of that one empire a boon to the Oni. With so much damage caused their hospital/"recruitment" operations were able to increase dramatically. Though he had this feeling he wasn't the only one with that idea active around the Earth.
Someone else seemed to be doing the same thing, and the leader of the Oni wished to have that ended.
That someone would be very annoyed that the alien brain from the future had never heard of him, and frankly would consider him at best a knock off of Doctor Hell.
Professor Rando would really learn to hate being considered nothing more than that, and given nothing but contempt for it.
But Emperor Burai did not know that, and currently was trying to see if he could get help from his alien "allies" that likely held their alliance to as much of convenience as he did.
Not that it bothered him in the slightest. His "allies" would lose their war and be nothing but a footnote anyway.
'Though they can be at least useful for shock troops,' Burai mused.
The Emperor of the Hyakki Empire then planned out what his next major move after the various hospitals used by a rival to gather troops would be.
V-V-V
The 3rd year and onward students of Hogwarts found themselves used as relief workers in Center City. The city had been damaged and battered by the invasion of the Mycenae Empire.
"I think I've seen more cities in the last week than my entire life," Ron admitted as he was helping Hermione and Harry check if animals in the animal shelter were listed as missing pets or in other ways had identification on or in them.
"It was a big crisis," Harry noted. "Only other mess I fought as part of Londo Bell that was the same sort of scale was the ODE Incident."
"I am worried something like that was merely called an incident," Hermione grumbled.
"Me too," Harry admitted.
"I'd hate to see what they listed as a war then," Ron commented.
"Those are far worse," Hermione said softly as the Space War, Moon War, and Oz War were devastating conflicts.
Ron stared at what he felt was a cat someone transfigured partly with a seal. There really in his mind could not be any other reason for this animal to be around.
He had no idea it was a Ragnan seacat. Or even that the planet of Ragna was for that matter. It was something he needed to work on.
The seacat nuzzled against Ron.
"So...who is the owner of this?" Ron asked.
"That is what we need to find out," Hermione replied.
"And find out why they left their partly transfigured pet loose," Ron commented. "I know that with Londo Bell such a thing would not get an eyebrow raised, but not everyone is as used to weird things as they are."
Harry explained what the animal actually was.
"Huh," Ron muttered. "Should have figured something like that was possible."
Hermione was surprised Ron said that.
"I wonder he'd like being called Chudley," Ron mused.
"People have named pets weirder things," Harry noted.
Ron was pleased to hear that. He also hoped his Mum would not mind having such a strange pet at the Burrow. Then again after his last pet this one was far less dangerous and they were very sure no animagus had an alien animal for their form.
Harry and Hermione merely checked to see if the seacat had any identification in it or on it.
When it didn't, they posted online to a post and found pets forum. They'd just have to wait and see if anyone claimed the seacat.
Ron didn't mind as he rubbed the very weird cat-like sealion. He did hope it could come to Hogwarts with him and maybe be the subject of a Quibbler article. He doubted Luna and her father would have any problems writing about an alien animal.
The world had gotten a whole lot weirder to Hermione as she realized that Ron wanted an alien pet. Also this was less strange than what Ron's last pet turned out to be and frankly Hermione could see why one of the people helping teach DADA was so paranoid.
It wasn't paranoia if people could become animals and avoided signing up for any list that told people about it. Even more so when it was only one of many ways people could disguise themselves. Something Hermione knew as the year before she'd made a potion to allow them to do that.
Hermione groaned as this all was something not covered in DADA for her so far. The only reason she even knew animagus existed was due to one of the professors showing that off the first day of Transfiguration. The only silver lining was she could discuss animagus detection and what to look for with Professor Lupin and he'd work it in somewhere.
She just didn't want to add even more to the workload of material needed to be covered in DADA as she sure redirecting a river into an utterly filth covered stable without magic would be an easier task for Professor Lupin.
"I really hope they deal with the curse or whatever is wrong with the DADA post," Hermione found herself saying outloud.
"I do too," Harry agreed.
"And avoid anyone like Lockhart," Ron commented. "I mean one year of him was way more than enough."
Hermione now wondered if Lockhart was going to now be a measuring stick for terrible teachers at Hogwarts. She had to admit it would serve him right for being so utterly unqualified and charging so much for his books.
"I just wonder if Mad Eye would want the job of DADA next year even if it was offered to him," Harry mused. "Given everyone would be suspecting him of being replaced and some won't be gentle in trying to find out if he was or not."
"The fact that even is a concern is scary," Hermione remarked.
"Also Sirius and Remus are impressed we used polyjuice to get into the Slytherin dorms," Harry stated. "They never tried to do something like that."
"That says a lot," Ron said with a bemused expression.
"And that after Hermione made polyjuice then that supposedly in our sixth year she would be jealous of me doing well in potions," Harry groaned. "And yes Hermione I don't understand it at all either."
"I find some of the things said by that time traveler suspect," Hermione commented. "Possibly distorted in retelling."
"Oh like a game of floo," Ron spoke up. "You mentioned there being a game like that too based on messages getting distorted."
"Yes it is called telephone," Hermione stated.
"The scary part is I really don't it is that distorted," Harry sighed. "As Professor Slughorn is my potions tutor and he does want to restart his Slug Club. Also pretty sure if I looked I could find that 6th year potions book with the notes and such in it."
"I don't understand how I could fight with you over using a potion book," Hermione admitted. "Perhaps question if the written in notes are a good idea without a potions professor to make sure they will work and not end up causing a huge mess, but that didn't sound like whatever verb tense you want to have taken place."
"The whole Malfoy doing everything he would do that year also all killed any desire I have to ever let any professor deal with anything," Harry said sharply. "Even with Professor McGonagall improving it sounds like trusting them to get off their arses when people could die is like expecting Ryoma Nagare to convert to total pacifism."
Hermione sighed as she was pretty sure that was apt. Which said so much about the teachers at Hogwarts that it frankly scared her.
She had to wonder if other schools of magic were as lax in their security and such. It was something to ask Fleur later. It was a hope that they would take security more serious.
"Mum would not put up with any of that," Ron commented. "So wonder they'd never tell her about it."
Harry and Hermione didn't disagree on that.
Harry then chuckled. "Of course if Malfoy tried doing anything like that Londo Bell would stop him."
"And it won't be in a gentle manner," Ron said slightly bemused.
"No kidding," Hermione muttered as she could see two of the Getter pilots called in for that.
"I am glad all I seemed to be doing was dating Lavender Brown," Ron commented. "I don't think would care what my 6th Year dating life is."
"I'd hope so," Harry remarked.
"I just find the whole keeping a time turner at Hogwarts puzzling," Hermione stated. "Especially with it being a version of me they got the device off of."
"If it is stupid and no one gets killed then keep doing it," Harry stated. "Another Hogwarts motto they can use."
"No one want to go there if it was," Ron noted.
"The sad part is after hearing about that future from my son I could easily believe almost all of that happening," Harry admitted. "I just really didn't want to believe the parts either of you turned your back on me."
Ron turned away.
"Harry I've been jealous of your fame and other things like that," he admitted. "And I doubt I'd remember having to help spring you from that place if I really got worked up about before this summer."
"What changed this summer?" Harry inquired. "Besides the your newtype like thing."
"Your letters," Ron explained. "You sent me those letters and along with asking my parents all kinds of questions I realized that you had the best summer while part of a military unit fighting insane things that wanted to end way more life than the Death Eaters could imagine."
Ron then turned back to his friend. "I had a family that cared about me, and you didn't. Merlin you even showed concern for Ginny that made everyone doubt if Dumbledore had any or actually cared what had happened to her."
Hermione opened her mouth and then closed it as she realized Dumbledore's plan for Ginny being possessed for nine months seemed to be nothing. Which frankly scared her deeply as that was not something people just walked off.
That inaction was yet another nail in the coffin of Hermione respecting authority figures blindly.
"I also realized that no one seemed to care for you," Ron told Harry. "At least in the sense my parents care about me and would tell people where they could shove it when people exceed their authority."
"And I would have mentioned Sirius, but I doubt Wormtail would have lived to see the next day," Harry sighed.
"Figures the one thing people were scared would hurt you turned out to be your godfather," Ron remarked. "And you are right that if I didn't kill Wormtail that someone in my family would if we had known."
The seacat that Ron wanted to name Chudley gave him a head bump to his side.
"Thanks," Volunteer Ensign Weasley said softly to the seacat.
"You seem to get along with...Chudley," Harry commented.
"I hope he can get along with Crookshanks," Ron mused. "I mean beyond being confused a bit at the fact this is an alien."
Harry recalled Hermione's cat. It was a very unique cat to say the least. Half magical cat breed, and looked really funny. Still Hermione loved the cat so that was really all that mattered on that front.
Hermione tried to recall if house cats and seacats got along. It was something that was very interesting to study if no one had checked that.
She then hoped that helping out in Center City would not involve giant robots or giant monsters smashing up the place and Londo Bell needing to put it down.
Yet even in her heart she considered that the same as the DADA teacher not having some sort of secret. Or Professor Snape being able to be professional in his class and it especially being in one where a student reminded him of things he hated.
Hermione groaned as even she was getting tired of the potions professor lacking professionalism. She knew he knew potions extremely well, but his ability to teach was another story entirely.
Harry ignored that and got back to checking if the various animals had ID. It was probably better than asking what about Hogwarts annoyed her. Plus they also had a lot of pets to do and needed to get back to work.
V-V-V
To say the Trinity siblings were unhappy they had to spend months under the radar was like saying water was wet. Even Johann was getting short tempered and irritable as they had no real outlet for their aggressive feelings.
Nena and Michael wanted to kill anyone they could by this point. It was even stronger than usual for them and only Johann was able to keep them from trying to kill each other at this point.
The only other factor keeping them even vaguely civil was the fact that they were going to get several things that would help them deal with Londo Bell.
The first of that was Turbulenz units for all three of the Gundam Thrones. That should increase the firepower of their mecha, and allow them to demolish any regular Terran League force.
The second one would be able to help on the mission to destroy all the collective bases known as California Base. Doing so would send a message to the Terran League.
Plus they could get some revenge on Londo Bell at the same time.
And they needed to get revenge so bad they could taste it. Not that Nena or Michael really needed much to start with on that front.
There also was what they had that would be an equalizer and allow them to outnumber Londo Bell's forces.
It was one they felt was going to surprise Londo Bell and do heavy damage to them.
They barely could contain themselves.
V-V-V
A strange whale-like ship emerged from the pacific ocean and out of it came a trio of mecha that many of Londo Bell were well aware of. Though it wasn't a pleasure to see that trio appear.
"These guys again?" Ken Kaido remarked seeing the trio of Gundams.
But the shocks did not end there as the trio of pilots not only had upgraded Gundams, but an army of what many referred to as the Gundam Alex emerged from more of the whale shaped ships.
The army of Mobile Dolls was not something to laugh at. The mecha were based off a unit that even a skilled non-Newtype pilot considered extremely hard to control and very powerful. The former was not going to be a problem for the AIs and the latter was going to be a problem for Londo Bell.
Even worse was the fact that the army of mobile dolls had weapons that the Gundam Alex never had, and definitely going to use use them.
The team had a feeling those were not manned mechs as they moved very similar to how the mobile dolls they had fought last year did. There also was the fact that Celestial Being hadn't launched anywhere near as many manned mecha in their various attacks around the Earth.
One of the MD Alexes charge at Nu Gundam and tried to strike it with the Gundam Hammer. Amuro thought they were mocking him and easily disarmed the mobile doll with his beam saber. Amuro then got to see the Gundam Hammers were like the one the Murdock Gundam had in that they had rockets built into the ball.
"Can someone explain to me why a whip weapon got called a heat rod, and that morningstar is called a hammer?" Ron asked. "Because it really doesn't make any sense to me."
"No one really has any idea sometimes," Sayla admitted.
"Ok…" Ron said as he opened fire with the Jesta beam rifle that he now had.
Ron loved how it had even more rapid fire than the Jegan beam rifle he had been using before. At least it felt more rapid fire and he hadn't even used the even faster firing rate the weapon was able to do yet.
He needed it against the Gundam Alexs as they weren't going to stop for any reason other than being completely destroyed.
Team Trinity considered it their lucky day that there was no sign of the Getter Team and Major Zonvolt. Plus the pilot of the most powerful mech was a pacifistic crybaby.
In an upgraded Rezel Commander Type Rastel wondered if the trio would believe him to be the previous pilot of the mech.
The Zorin Soul then unloaded on Gundam Throne Zwei. The beam rifle even had a jutte so Mu could use a beam bayonet on the Gundam Throne Zwei. Something that Mu slashed the Gundam Throne Zwei in face with.
"And they thought the Rezel I had was damaging before," Mu commented. "The Zorin Soul makes that look like nothing."
"We shall see about that," Rastel remarked as he unloaded with the beam rifle on the mobile dolls.
"Have fun," Mu chuckled.
"Oh I intend to," Rastel replied.
Harry barely avoided being blasted by the HEAT round of a clay bazooka. He then used his hyper beam saber like a fencing foil or a rapier and shoved it right into the guts of the mobile doll.
That the mech stopped dead in its tracks made it clear where the AI controlling it was. Harry then lifted up the beam saber and cut through the rest of the center of the chest and then through the head.
"Well that shows they aren't made of the same stuff as a certain set of Gundams," Harry remarked.
"Thankfully," Sayla muttered as she remembered the beating those things took when Londo Bell had battled those five mobile suits at the start of the Oz War.
A mobile doll got hot due to a Breast Fire, and suddenly hit with a Great Typhoon. The weakened mobile doll got torn apart by the attack of Great Mazinger.
"Anyone get the feeling they cut corners with these?" Mu asked.
"It won't surprise me," Amuro replied as he was sure the mech intended for him to use was more durable than the mobile dolls were.
Major Kitamura introduced the head of another Gundam Alex to Neo-Titanium buckshot. It ripped right through the armor of the mobile doll and the mech went down.
Yuu Brain seemed to just appear and disappear all over the place to the mobile dolls. The dagger and the energy blasts it gave off weren't as damaging as the attacks of the other mecha, but they still were taking their toll on the Gundam Alex mobile dolls.
"Stand still!" Michael roared in frustration as he tried to hit Yuu Brain and failed miserably.
"I believe you would fit right in with the Reclaimers," Yuu noted in a calm tone.
"Don't compare me to that colony of screw ups!" the pilot of the Gundam Throne Dwei belllowed.
Canard Par let out a cold laugh.
"Oh that's just the beginning of what we are going to do to all of you," Canard commented.
Johann fired the GN Launcher at the Hyperion and was shocked the forcefield of the mobile suit took the shot without any problems.
"What's the matter?" Canard said mockingly. "Never heard of a forcefield?"
Johann was sure the GN High Mega Launcher could handle the Hyperion, but he doubted the mobile dolls would be able to protect them all long enough to use the GN Particle Transfer System, fire, and get moving.. It really only was useful in a quick sneak attack against Londo Bell.
The eldest Trinity sibling did not look forward to seeing more mobile suits having the Lightwave shield system.
The Gundam Throne Eins then got a sword to the GN Launcher. The Red Astray was trying to disarm the mobile suit.
Johann hated the utter hypocrite that was attacking him. He claimed to not kill people yet provided so many with better weapons and mecha.
"Those are all robots right?" Masato asked. "And not driven by people?"
"Other than the first three," Lowe told him as he still was trying to cut off the GN Launcher.
Masato went to attack and the next thing he knew a small army of Gundam Alex mobile dolls were wrecked. He also had this weird feeling of disappoint.
Masato then shook his head and focused on the fight. He could worry about whatever had happened to him later.
Harry wondered why Masato had been so brutal for about a minute and had a feeling he was going to utterly hate the answer.
"Back off Small Lady," Mio remarked to Nena Trinity.
Nena Trinity wasn't sure why she got called that, but she didn't like it at all. She growled and opened fire on Mio.
Harry was sure he was missing something, but he wasn't sure if Mio would ever explain what it was. Or if his mind could handle the answer if he was being honest with himself.
The Zamzeed unleashed the trio of light on Gundam Throne Drei and Nena was shocked when one of those energy balls hit her mech with a giant paper fan.
Harry was sure that was half the point of that attack. With Mio no one was quite sure what she intended.
Nena was frustrated at how these people won't just die. She then had to move as a Red Gespenst came at her fist first.
The problem was that Nena went right in front of the Zorin Soul and Mu let her have it with his beam rifle.
The Gundam Throne Drei then took aim at a high school.
"Any of you moves and I fire!" Nena called out with everyone able to tell she wasn't kidding.
Of course there also was no doubt she'd fire anyway if she felt like it.
Then an armored figure slammed into the Gundam Throne Drei. With Nena distracted Harry sliced off the arms of her mobile suit.
"Chesto," Harry said flatly.
Michael had a flashback to when Sanger had done a similar thing to his Gundam. It was not a good thing to remind of him as that was the closest he had ever come to death. He growled in frustration.
The Gundam Throne Zwei unleashed GN Fangs at the Rezel as there wasn't a sign of what he really wanted to kill at that moment. Plus Michael really didn't want to fight the other Grungusts that were there.
Ron blew the Fangs out of the air with ease.
"I hate newtypes," Michael growled. "Especially when they do things like that!"
"I'm not a newtype," Ron remarked and put his gun into machine gun rate of fire mode.
The Gundam Throne Zwei was torn up by the heavy fire as each shot struck with deadly precision.
Ron smiled slightly and dodged the attack by Gundam Throne Eins. He was sure that they were finding it hard to believe him right now, but Ron really didn't care.
Rastel then slashed the unit attached the Eins. The beam saber went deep into it and ruined the add on.
Several Alex mobile dolls opened fire on the Rezel to keep it from destroying the Eins.
One of them got a stake revolver right in the main CPU. The mobile doll was like a puppet with its strings cut as it went limp.
The Gundam Throne Eins then got hit head on by Mazinkaiser SKL and their motorcycle.
"Just a pity the motorcycle lacks flames for tires and the head of the mech on fire," Mio commented.
"Now are you sure all of you are part of Celestial Being?" Ken Kaido commented. "Because I think even the most dead on arrival members of Green Falcon Squad were more effective than you three."
That made even Johann see red.
"DIE!" Michael Trinity screamed as he charged at the Mazinkaiser SKL.
The heavily damaged Gundam Throne Zwei got introduced to the melee weapon of the Mazinkaiser SKL and got another near death experience to go with the one he got months ago.
Johann was starting to think that they were in over their heads and this was not going well for them. He then got blasted by a GM Cannes that frankly scared him.
"That pair is starting to scare me," the eldest cannon folder son of Ribbons Almark admitted.
Then a GM Canard unit going extremely fast strafed him.
Johann used his secret weapon of a gas that could disrupt sensors. His siblings knew that meant for them to get out of there.
Not that any of the trio felt they got their revenge. If anything they were more angry than before.
No one in Londo Bell felt things had been resolved.
Harry wondered if the trio counted as arch rivals to him. He made a note to look up what made someone count as that.
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Doctors Stinger and Cowen looked out of their hotel room at the visa of Heliopolis. As nice as it was, they both wanted to see it in flames. Much like another Side 7 colony had been many years ago.
The test pilots for the new Gundams on the station would be the best to make their horrific desires of the pair a reality.
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To say the prison of Azkaban was bleak was like saying Coop liked to eat a lot. Both terms were correct yet only just scratched the surface.
Suddenly the prison was rocked by an assault from unseen foes. The structure of the prison was tested in ways no one intended.
The most anyone could see was black wing-like shapes lit up by bright flashes that struck the prison.
Then things came out of the thick clouds and darkness that were easier to see than black wings. A pair of green and silver mecha were much easier to see than Taurus mobile dolls.
The Hurricane Sazabi, and the Tornado Vayate filled any that saw them with dread. The two mechs unloaded on anyone that came to see what was going on. Dementor and human died as the father and daughter pair didn't want either of them alive to tell the tale.
Thomas wondered if anyone was trying to flee by swimming away. He doubted even magic would be enough to survive the trek that he was sure even professional distance swimmers would find daunting.
Delphini had an amused look as she exited her upgraded Vayate. She looked forward to being with both of her parents as all three of them destroyed their enemies and did a lot more than rule a subculture on an island for a year.
Thomas had some work done to look less like Harry Potter aged up and more like himself. Though how close the pair were in appearance before Voldemort let himself go it hadn't taken much.
"Time to find your mother," Thomas remarked in amusement. "And I'm sure Augustus will be able to adapt as well."
Delphini had a wide smile on her face as they went into the ruined prison to find the Death Eaters.
Pieces of Dementors and the guards were all over the place.
Thomas had a laser pistol in one hand, and his wand in the other as he kept his eyes out for anyone that would get in his way. He actually was disappointed when he got to the wing that the Death Eaters were held in without any trouble.
Delphini wondered if there was any sort of trick needed to open the locks.
Thomas used his wand and forced the doors open.
"Hello my faithful followers," Thomas said warmly. "We have much to discuss and later destroy. I do hope you are open to learning new ways to slaughter those that stand against us."
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Chapter notes
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He is not someone to mess with if you like your face in one piece.
Lalah Sune is from Mobile Suit Gundam. Turns out the Zentradi can cause the One Year War to come to halt.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He kicks ass and getting on his bad side is a good way to get yourself killed.
Michiru Saotome is from Getter Robo. The daughter of the creator of the Getter Robos, and one of the pilots of the Getter Queen.
Musashi Tomoe is from Getter Robo. Is the most sane Getter pilot as he is not a psychopath.
Vrlitwhai is from Macross. He was the leader of the Zentradi force that first came to the Solar System. He's now captain of a magical school that can turn into a spaceship. His life is weird.
Harold "Coop" Cooplawski is from Megas XLR. He is a force of chaos no one sane would fight.
Lowe Gruele is from Gundam SEED Astray. He is part of the Junk Guild and loves customizing mecha.
Kai Kitamura is from SRW OG. He is able to make a Gespenst fight on par with a Gundam.
Sayla Mass is from Mobile Suit Gundam. She is not to be taken lightly.
Joey Jones is from Heroman. He's got a lot of Peter Parker in him.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He loves to use melee weapons in a fight.
Mu la Flaga is from Gundam SEED. A skilled pilot and is called the Hawk of Endymion.
Rastel Feinschmecker is from SRW OG. He is Rai's older brother and using the chance to have a new ID to lighten up a bit.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. He is the original Gundam pilot and the one all others are measured by.
Yuu Isami is from Brain Powerd. He's not quite right in the head, but is trying to do the right thing.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED vs Astray. An earlier attempt at the Ultimate Coordinator than Kira Yamato and he's got a chip on his shoulder the size of Jupiter.
Mio Sasuga is from SRW OG. She breaks the 4th wall with the same ease as Deadpool.