It was something Albus Dumbledore didn't want to do. And yet it was something he knew he couldn't put off as he sat in his office. He would need to talk to someone that he was sure was not happy with him and going to make that crystal clear in the conversation.
Dumbledore mentally focused and gave a nod to the pair of men in the room to give their insight later. Albus trusted that they would be able to provide insight he might lack in this situation. Though even Albus had to admit with one it'd require getting through the bias had regarding the individual being called.
"Sirius Black," Dumbledore said clearly to the mirror he had in his hands.
Sirius Black appeared and Dumbledore could notice that the young man had made remarkable progress but he wasn't completely physically healed yet. Dumbledore had no idea if the mental scars ever would completely heal.
The fact such a thing happened to an innocent man would be another of the many regrets Albus had. He felt his hands so stained that no great ocean could get them clean.
Sirius looked at Dumbledore with a bit of annoyance.
"So what is this about?" Sirius asked bluntly as he doubted this was a social call.
"Did you hire mercenaries to destroy Azkaban?" Dumbledore inquired.
Sirius wasn't expecting that question. He was expecting Harry or his friends to have embarrassed someone or Harry got someone in a mech and they blew up something.
"No….should I have?" Sirius answered.
"That seems to be the theory going around the Ministry of Magic as what had happened to Azkaban," Dumbledore sighed. "As an act of revenge on your illegal imprisonment."
"The Ministry or Rita Skeeter over making her pen explode?" Sirius inquired. Inwardly he was amused the Ministry was unable to keep quiet on him not getting a trial. Though it seemed they didn't agree with his saying he was innocent.
"Neither are happy with you," Dumbledore admitted. "Though the ruler of the country you are in has made it clear what the result of going after you would be."
"Yeah Londo Bell shoving their metal fist so far up the Ministry's arse they could help them floss," Sirius remarked with a snort.
"Crude but apt," Dumbledore noted.
"I didn't have anything to do with whatever happened to that pit of nightmares," Sirius stated firmly.
That relieved Dumbledore in some ways, but worried in others. Who had destroyed Azkaban and why? Also who would know of it and would hire mercenaries with mecha to work for them? What else would they wish for those mechs to destroy?
"Oh and while you are here we have some issues to discuss," Sirius said sharply. "And I don't mean related to me, but to my godson and what had happened to him in the last two school years."
Albus actually found it funny in a strange way instead of having to deal with an escaped murderer this year he was going to be having a pointed discussion with the guardian of a student.
That was the only good side to it as Sirius was extremely unhappy and Dumbledore really didn't have to work hard to figure out why.
"Sirius I…" Dumbledore began.
"You told the entire school at the opening feast in Harry's first year that there was a corridor that held certain death," Sirius interjected. "You have been a school teacher for a very long time and have been heavily involved in politics for decades. What in Merlin's name made you think it'd do anything but interest a lot of students in seeing what was there?"
"I have been getting that question a lot," Dumbledore noted dryly.
"And I am vaguely annoyed that of course the one threat taken serious is me," Sirius commented. "And extremely worried that I wasn't the only threat to the school in Harry's time at Hogwarts."
Sirius paused for a moment and groaned. "Even when I am not purposely trying to make that joke I do."
Dumbledore was slightly bemused at that.
"Look," Sirius said focusing. "My godson has been in way too much danger at Hogwarts. I mean he was sent into the Forbidden Forest as first year with Hagrid, Hagrid's dog, and a fellow first year to see what was killing unicorns. How was anyone thinking that madness was a good idea and won't blow up in everyone's face?"
Dumbledore had to admit that incident looked really bad. Even his orator skills would be hard pressed to make anyone think otherwise.
"I will be honest on that the only future events I hold against you is the Triwizard Tournament," Sirius stated. "As you are currently planning it out and clearly did a shite job on safeguarding the Goblet along with even thinking that bloodsport was a good idea to bring back."
"Even if one of the events will be that Burning PT game instead of whatever had been told by the time travelers?" Dumbledore inquired.
"Burning PT, Quidditch, or a quiz show won't require that Goblet of Fire," Sirius remarked. "Or just use most of the defenses of the Philosopher's Stone as those would work better as a test of students instead of safeguarding something important."
Dumbledore was not surprised Sirius had learned of that last part.
"Of course I'm sure that the Ministry could mess up even that," Sirius growled.
"And why would you say that?" Dumbledore inquired.
"I found out why I was told I got to know Harry's friends better than my own godson by Princess Shine," Sirius said sharply. "I died for him. Remus died for him. Hell Riddle died for good and nothing bloody changes!"
Dumbledore realized this was a part of why Sirius was so unhappy. Finding out what happened fighting in two wars and being in prison for a crime you didn't commit between them didn't lead to any change would make someone disillusioned to say the least.
If Albus was being frank he had similar feelings. It made him understand a firmer hand was going to be necessary and that he actually looked forward to his political enemies finding out why.
That Tom managed to rule for a year before it all fell apart was merely a bonus to infuriate them. Some leader he'd be if that's how long he could last.
Dumbledore was sure that was going to make Tom's allies and minions wonder if they really would want him back. He doubted many of them did, and Tom's reign being what it was definitely would decrease the numbers even further.
Those who followed Tom or used the destruction he made to serve their own dark desires would find Dumbledore was listening more to his best friend's council. If that was what it took to avoid another war then so be it.
He felt before that a light hand would allow those that regretted their actions a chance to change. It seemed there were not many takers besides Severus and Alastor had his doubts on Severus having really reformed at all.
Dumbledore was sure that if sports went the same as they had in the timeline of Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy that his coming down hard on the sure to be captured by Londo Bell Death Eaters or imitators would be shocking. It would likely be nearly as shocking as mecha pilots beating them up.
'If that was what it took to keep all that I care about safe then so be it,' Dumbledore mentally vowed.
"Look," Sirius said and drove Albus from his thoughts. "We're going to need fix things. And one of those things is for you to act like the Lord of the Light or step aside and let others clean up the mess."
"It relieves me you didn't intend to let Mr. Jin or Mr. Nagare handle it all," Dumbledore stated.
"I wanted to clean up the mess and not slaughter them all," Sirius commented. "Though some people spewing out they think muggles are brutal savages meeting the pair to learn what they say is just words would be fun."
Dumbledore had a feeling that won't go well and that it'd likely haunt the dreams of those exposed to the pair for years. Not that he really would mind that happening to them very much. There were many that honestly believed that position that were no less brutal and savage than they thought muggles to be.
"Where is Harry's fanmail?" Sirius then asked in a very pointed tone. "I can get why you wouldn't want him getting that before he knew he was a wizard and that some of that stuff will be in the hate mail is nasty. However he knows about it now and I am sure there a lot of people that think he's a snob or something for not answering them."
"It is an issue I rather not have to deal with," Dumbledore admitted softly.
"Tough, because I am going to force the issue," Sirius remarked and sounding extremely annoyed. "Where in Merlin's name is my godson's mail? And if it is at Gringotts the goblins know I am free and wasn't charged with anything."
Dumbledore sighed as he knew Sirius was still legally Harry's godfather and had the right to want Harry's mail. Plus the fact that Harry would want mail and would force the issue if he had to.
"I can have it sent to you," Albus stated. "And I will as you can sort through it."
"Mad Eye can go through the current stuff," Sirius informed his former Headmaster. "Harry needs to at least get the addresses of the old stuff to send a standardized letter explaining the Chief Warlock kept his mail hidden to keep him safe."
Dumbledore inwardly groaned as it seemed Sirius was going to tell everyone exactly why Harry had never seen their letters or gifts. The fact he was being utterly truthful didn't help much. It was going to make many people quite unhappy and they were going to be very loud towards him on the matter. Which all would be kind of annoying for a few months and to Dumbledore some minor political storm he had to weather.
It won't be anything he hadn't faced many times in his political career, but it wasn't something he'd rather not have to deal with.
"Also why didn't you or anyone teach Harry a single thing about traditions, the Potter family and more?" Sirius asked sharply. "Or does this relate to my godson taking another killing curse and coming back from that?"
Dumbledore had to admit he had no idea what to make of Harry being able to have the horcrux in his brow removed like that and coming back from the dead. The fact a killing curse was deflected back at Tom to end him for good only didn't give him a skull splitting headache due to the seer princess Sirius was a guest of told people to ignore the prophecy between Harry and Tom.
The events told by Albus Severus made the prophecy sound like meaningless drunken ramblings of a fraud. Especially the "at the hand of the other part" as that had nothing to do with what happened. It made Dumbledore wonder if he had tried to force events to happen and convince himself of things to make them fit with that prophecy.
The feeling of being utterly wrong on such a matter made Dumbledore wonder what else he could have completely botched. Albus prayed that Alastor never talked about it with Aberforth as Albus knew his younger brother would never let him forget.
Aberforth could be extremely annoying when he wanted to be. Something like that would be even more so than the usual things he kept reminding him of.
Dumbledore sighed. "Sirius there have been many things I have had to deal with they needed the utmost secrecy."
"You know finding out you get killed because the man you considered a leader couldn't tell his godson the visions he was getting could be false makes someone think that rational can be shoved up your arse," Sirius commented pointedly.
Dumbledore had nothing to say to that. Sirius was going to of course not going to be pleased and likely not work directly with the Order of the Phoenix if that group was reassembled. Remus also was likely to be the same. The group they were likely to work with was Londo Bell or one of their associates.
"Not that I expect that event to happen as Harry now has support from a group that knows what they are doing," Sirius noted.
Londo Bell also had made clear they were going to stomp anyone that tried taking that orb in the Department of Mysteries. Also that they'd tell who they stomped they knew what the whole thing was and likely pick apart the whole prophecy at the same time.
It had been a bit of an intellectual exercise go over the whole with Alastor and see how his friend could point out various ways it was vague. One that shocked Dumbledore was Alastor thinking a kid could have been born as the seventh month of the school year ended. Albus had to admit given he felt the start of September being a start of a year to him would allow that to make sense.
"Are we sure that the pair of boys are truthful?" Dumbledore asked as they had caused with their loose lips a lot of problems.
"Correct enough for me to not be happy," Sirius returned.
Dumbledore had no idea what to make of time travelers showing up and ending up stuck in the present. It was definitely not something he ever imagined would come up as those insane enough to alter the past tended to be unable to get their hands on time turners. Nor could most time turners go back years so it made Dumbledore wonder why one so powerful was being kept at Hogwarts.
Albus inwardly groaned remembering how Severus had remarked that of course a Potter was involved in that unforeseen mess when the identity of all three time travelers had become known.
Though finding out what the middle name of the time traveling Potter had thrown Severus for a loop. To be honest Albus was expecting Scorpius to have the middle name of Severus. That would have made sense and Albus was sure that Draco Malfoy loved his godfather enough to think about doing that.
Albus wondered who or what could get Harry or Ginevra to even entertain the thought of giving any of their children the middle of Severus. It made even less sense to him than Getter Radiation and that had as much respect for the laws of physics as magic did.
Sirius sighed. "And did anyone allied with the Potter family even bother talking to Harry or did they believe he'd somehow know everything?"
Dumbledore's silence did not do Sirius any favors. To be honest Dumbledore had done nothing to stop them and of their own free will they hadn't tried getting in contact with Harry at Hogwarts. Though Dumbledore realized his blocking Harry's mail from reaching him might have had a huge hand in that. He also knew that Sirius, Remus and Harry were not going to be happy about that.
They also won't have any restraint in making to clear to him how much that annoyed them.
"Ok at this point did anyone teach Harry anything other than magic spells?" Sirius snapped. "This shite is really getting annoying. I know all the rules are not written down, but it seems no one besides Remus and me would want to get off their arse and help Harry."
That was another thing that Dumbledore did not want to answer as it made him look really bad. How do you tell someone you felt that their godchild would be dead before they would need such information?
Sirius gave Dumbledore a sharp look.
"Am I going to bring all this up to the actual power that runs Hogwarts? Which says a lot when the person to talk to get things done is an alien from outer space," Padfoot commented.
"Do people believe that Mr. Kridanik is the one who makes all the decisions at Hogwarts?" Dumbledore questioned.
"They believe if you ask him that things will get done," Sirius replied. "And I am sure he won't give empty platitudes and half answers."
Dumbledore had a feeling that for Sirius that Vrlitwhai would force the issue if he had to. The man was very not afraid to step on toes after all. Figuratively or literally.
"I just want my godson to not be considered some unarmed toy for people to mess with because he can't fight back and it'd be fun," Sirius said sharply. "Oh yes his being considered the Heir to Slytherin mess along with what that Lovegood girl went through makes me wonder about the staff even more than the Potions Master."
"Sirius those are merely stand out events and not normal for Hogwarts," Dumbledore assured him.
"Do I look like I care?" Sirius retorted. "I got the same thing when I 'proved' I was just like my family. That behavior is not good...and yes I am well aware of my own actions with the Potions Master. I never claimed I am a paragon or even a good role model."
Dumbledore sighed.
"And if he's listening I wonder if he'd actually think about who is more like James was...Harry or his own godson Draco," Sirius mused. "And have to say really makes you look unprofessional to let the godfather of the biggest loudmouth student handle him when he just opens his mouth and keeps acting like a lion instead of a snake."
Dumbledore winced slightly seeing Severus shake in fury as he heard that. That remark was going be something not dropped for quite awhile. It also seemed to hit home with the force of a barrage from one of the ships that was a copy of the Macross.
"And let me be clear on one thing," Sirius stated. "James or I would have put Harry into a private potions class like he has now the instant we found out who the teacher is. Lily would have browbeat some sense into him."
Dumbledore had to admit that all sounded right. Severus looked displeased but didn't disagree with that assessment.
"Professor Dumbledore I really just want my godson to be able to have a normal year at Hogwarts," Sirius groaned. "Well as normal as it can be with him part of Londo Bell and their heavy metal madness."
Dumbledore couldn't say that Harry's time at Hogwarts had been normal in the slightest. It would be foolhardy to even suggest that even if it wasn't to Harry's godfather. Albus had enough time in politics to having knowing your audience was key.
"Also if the potions professor and Head of Slytherin really did take points off for breathing too loud I am not sure why anyone gives a toss about the house points," Sirius admitted. "Not very Slytherin to take one of the controls the staff have on the students and make a complete mockery of it."
Severus Snape looked quite livid at the claim one of his school year rivals made. Even worse that it actually might be true and something Dumbledore was sure that members of Londo Bell were going to use against the staff a great deal if pressed.
"I believe this is a good time to end the call," Dumbledore stated and did so.
"I can't believe it," Severus remarked as he put his feet on a footrest. "Black is even worse to deal with now."
"You also can't try to get an Order of Merlin out of capturing him," Mad Eye commented before taking a drink from his flask.
"That is a dirty look he's giving me right?" Severus mused after looking at Mad Eye for a moment.
"Yes that is," Albus replied with a sigh.
"I know you trust this man right here," Mad Eye said with a groan. "But honestly do you expect his opinion to be anything other than hate? Given what happened between them nearly had one of them attacked by the current DADA professor…"
"I had hoped to have the conversation kept to if Sirius had or hadn't attacked Azkaban and not an impromptu parent teacher conference," Dumbledore sighed.
Alastor chuckled at that like his friend had just told an extremely funny joke. It did not help Dumbledore's mood in the slightest.
"I am loath of admit but I believe Black had nothing to do with the attack," Severus Snape said with a disgusted expression.
"I agree that he had nothing to do with it," Mad Eye added. "Not that he'll lose any sleep over that place being trashed and the Dementors blown up."
"If they keep being attacked at this rate there might not be any Dementors left to join with the Death Eaters if Riddle does return," Snape noted.
"Good," Alastor said happily. "I have always hated those things."
Dumbledore was left wondering exactly who had assaulted the prison. In his bones he had this feeling it was going to something or someone that would end up clashing with Londo Bell. It made him wonder if Hogwarts was to survive the coming days.
It then worried Albus that last part was something he wondered all the time now with things like Orphan and the Reclaimers on it, various alien threats, whoever invaded Frontier IV, Doctor Hell, Mimetic Beasts, the mobile suits with dead bodies in them, Angels, demons, the Dinosaur Empire, whatever Algernon was, and the Mycenae Empire.
There also was the threat that Eldoran had him remember from a time that never was. Albus wondered where that fit into the whole mess of danger. He had a feeling it either was coming back or at least something related to it was.
Albus had the darkly amusing thought of using Mr. Cooplawski on the threat and the ways the threat could be utterly embarrassed. It wasn't the nicest plan, but it was one that he was sure would work.
The only issue with the plan was how to be on a Macross exploration ship very far away when it happened.
V-V-V
Professor Filius Flitwick was surprised when Harry Potter showed up at his office. Over this school year Harry seemed to be polite in classes, but only went to the DADA teacher if he had any problems.
Not that Harry Potter had many problems he needed to see the professors about as no one in their right mind wanted to have to face the more dangerous members of Londo Bell. Even more so given Ryoma Nagare, Hayato Jin, Canard Pars and more considered Harry a friend.
"Mr. Potter what do I owe this pleasure?' Professor Flitwick asked kindly.
"Sir I'd like to ask if you could help me with an issue that you are the most qualified for," Harry said respectfully.
"What issue would that be over the head of your house," Flitwick inquired. "Or Professor Lupin for that matter."
"I'd like to learn how the professional dueling circuits work and the various fighting styles used in those," Harry stated. "I find it as interesting as runes, broom making, and wandlore."
"And also if there is something like the Nagare school of karate that is banned partly due to sour grapes from all that fought it being utterly beaten," Filius remarked with a hint of bemusement.
Harry nodded. "I honestly want a fighting style if it fits me that will allow me to effectively deal with others in a magical fight."
"And I don't doubt for a moment it involves several fights your son has mentioned," Flitwick mused.
Harry gave the charms professor a sharp look.
"I am not going to be unprepared for combat," Harry said forcefully. "Or expecting adults other than Londo Bell to be willing or able to fight my battles for me with any chance of success."
Filius sighed as he didn't doubt Harry would take a long time to trust any adults outside of Sirius, Remus and Londo Bell. Though he had high hopes he could get on that list sooner than many others at this school.
"We have really let you down haven't we?" the charms professor sighed.
"I have had the summer to think about how things have gone my first two years at this school," Harry said softly. "And compare it to being with people that understand being forced to deal with things because no one else would or could."
Professor Flitwick rubbed his temples as to be honest he should have expected this even without Londo Bell or the time travelers being involved. Students shunned like Harry had been last year would be very unwilling to trust any authority. That anyone believed Harry would be different confused him greatly.
Remus not being part of the events of the last year and other botches by the staff, finding them as insane as Harry did, and being upfront with Harry were why Volunteer Ensign Potter trusted him. It made Filius hope they were able to break the curse on the DADA position and retain a good teacher for that job. It also was would allow another hand to deal with the Triwizard Tournament that could be trusted to keep underaged students out of the event.
"Sir I have to ask one other thing," Harry said and drove the charms professor from his thoughts.
"And that would be Mister Potter?" Filius inquired.
"Was there even any investigation into when my broom got cursed in my first year?" Harry asked.
Professor Flitwick had to think if anything had been done. Which was not a good sign at anything being done.
Harry groaned as the silence was a yes or Dumbledore did some fast talking and buried it. At the very least a proper investigation didn't take place and Harry was getting even more annoyed about the slapdash running of the school. Even more so given lives had been at stake and it was in their best interest to find out and stop whoever had attacked.
"We are teachers first and foremost Mr. Potter," Flitwick informed Volunteer Ensign Potter. "Not criminal investigators or consulting detectives."
"That's fine and dandy professor if the professionals that are good at that are called in," Harry said respectfully. "Such as the Auror who is a long time friend of the Headmaster. Who I don't believe was asked."
The head of the Ravenclaw house could see how this was not helping matters. Such an omission made Hogwarts look like they didn't care or Albus wanted to keep the Aurors out of his fiefdom. It wasn't true, but the professor knew saying that wasn't going to go over well.
"To be honest Mister Potter most school problems are minor issues or schoolyard spats that burn themselves out quickly," Filius stated. "Or pranksters being pranksters."
"Even with on staff someone who had to deal with the last part heavily?" Harry questioned. "I can understand why he is not a fan of the Marauders or likely group of pranksters."
"Professor Snape has his own issues," Professor Flitwick groaned.
Harry shocked the Charms professor by not retorting or saying anything negative about Severus.
Harry noticed that shock.
"I don't have to deal with that Professor anymore, and my team will keep the man's godson from doing things that will annoy me," Volunteer Ensign Potter explained. "So I can let the issue rest as long as those two leave me alone."
Filius took that as a mature attitude. Also that he'd seen Mr. Malfoy finding the Getter pilots frightening and it said so much to him that was the only thing to keep that boy in line. Then again either Severus wasn't trying very hard to change his godson's attitudes or the boy's head was so thick it was metaphorically as durable as the armor on Wing Zero.
Filius had no idea Harry felt holding Snape in mid air and spitting in the man's face was enough to make clear his opinion.
"Is Luna doing alright?" Harry then asked sounding concerned. "She says she's fine, but I think members of your house might hold a grudge and hate being forced to act civil with people they disagree with."
Professor Flitwick sighed as he was reminded of the mess his Ravens had made. He had heard some snide remarks of Ravenclaw being the house of booksmarts and not actual smarts. Which in this case was quite true.
"She is doing quite well Mr. Potter," the head of Ravenclaw assured Harry. "And I am utterly disgusted at that sort of thing she went through happening behind my back."
"Xeno wasn't happy to find out about that," Harry noted. "And Uncle Moony er Professor Lupin wasn't exactly pleased either."
That didn't surprise Filius.
"Though Xeno also made it clear to me to deal with the issue if you and the rest of the professors won't," Harry admitted. "He also blames himself for not noticing when Luna came home for Christmas break or summer break."
Professor Flitwick was very sure that Harry would not have been nice in how he'd handle things. Or who he'd ask for help in that matter would be gentle on the Ravens.
Harry chuckled. "And I'd have asked Hayato to do what you had him do if the issue had to be forced."
"I see," Filius said softly.
"Also I didn't know this at the time but in Japanese there are a lot of different ways to write Jin," Harry mused. "When it is in English you don't notice that, and is how I learned that Hayato is not related to the Jin family at all."
Filius considered that interesting, and also that survivors of an alien species settled on Earth after the destruction of their home planet. With the Jin family having done it far earlier than the Fleedians and Professor Flitwick had this feeling they weren't the only ones. Perhaps the Veela were another group as anything seemed possible now. Stranger things kept happening after all.
It made the head of Ravenclaw wonder what other aliens looked like and if those that looked humans like the ancestors of the Jin family, the Fleedians,Princess Fala, S-Force, and to varying degrees the Zentradi were common. He also had a feeling Londo Bell would find out sooner or later.
"And also likely shoot them too,' Filius thought to himself with some dark humor.
"There is one thing I don't understand," Harry admitted and drove the Charms professor from his thoughts.
"And that would be Mr. Potter?" Filius questioned.
"How golf hasn't taken off as another sport for the school," Harry answered. "Unless the centaurs got annoyed with the Forbidden Forest being used as a driving range."
"I am unsure if golf ever had been a sport played here," Professor Flitwick admitted after thinking for a moment.
"I saw that as more possible than caber tossing," Harry remarked with a shrug.
Filius had to agree with that.
Harry pondered something for a moment. "Professor...if I came to you or Professor Sprout thinking someone was after an extremely valuable mystical artifact at Hogwarts even if it was Professor Snape I thought stealing it would either of you not even pay attention to the warning?"
Filius stared at Volunteer Ensign Potter and wondered how the boy after that and the whole Heir of Slytherin mess was as respectful as he was. There was sticking your foot in your mouth, but that seemed like shoving your entire leg in when it came to the staff. This didn't help with all the other things Harry had heard from his son.
The charms professor was left with a burning desire to help Harry and prove the staff weren't inept. Also to talk to Minerva about not letting her respect for Dumbledore overwhelm her better judgement. It was something that would have to be corrected and would help her in the Herculean task of getting onto Harry's good side.
"Mr. Potter I am not sure what Minerva was thinking in that case," Filius groaned.
"Don't be surprised if my godfather once the legal nightmare is over asks her face to face about that," Harry noted. "The deputy headmistress, groundskeeper, and headmaster going to be the ones he's going to be the ones he is the most annoyed with."
Professor Flitwick felt that was Harry putting it lightly.
"Sir I have no disrespect for most of the professors I have had," Harry stated. "Though I am worried the only way my problems were resolved was I had to do it or I became part of a special task force that dealing with weird things is their job."
Filius could see why that would that would be annoying and extremely frustrating.
"Even more so finding out my dream of having a normal school year was a joke," Harry nearly growled. "A complete and utter joke on me because it was always going to be something that only I would have the will and ability to deal with."
The head of Ravenclaw had no idea what to say to that. How assure a student that his years at Hogwarts would be free of insane things when their time traveling son told them all about the events that took place and make any words he said to the contrary a complete and utter lie.
It also made Filius wonder if working to get the Order of the Phoenix back together would be a bad idea. Even if just an informal revival to keep an eye various Death Eaters that got off on being under imperius should prove useful.
"Mr. Potter I believe that the future has been changed and I don't believe any Death Eater would be insane enough to be where your allies can hunt down them," Filius stated. "And I utterly hate how your life requires a military unit to make your time at Hogwarts easier."
"And I believe you Professor Flitwick," Harry commented. "And I'm sorry I have had to introduce Hogwarts and everyone in it to the fact the universe is full of insane things."
"And very likely that every student will learn how to pilot at least a personal trooper or a variable fighter," the head of Ravenclaw mused.
Harry shrugged. "It is the way of the world professor and no one will mistake mecha for not being dangerous like they do wands."
The charms professor had to admit before Remus there had been a laxness on wands being what they were. It was an omission in the lesson plans that vexed him.
"Is there anything else?" Filius asked. "As we can go over various dueling styles right now."
"Nothing else professor and I look forward to this," Harry said with a smile.
V-V-V
Of all the things Canard Pars least expected to happen to him was for anyone to give him a hug. In fact before this he wasn't sure if he could even remember someone giving him one to be honest.
The now Professor Molly Weasley did just that in front of everyone in the Great Hall.
"You are not a failure," she then said and it was another thing that Canard never expected to hear from anyone. Even more for them to completely and utterly mean it.
Judau and Masato had a feeling their parents would want to avoid that mother of seven if they wanted to be in the same shape they were now. Masato even as nice and passive a person that he was not bothered by the thought of someone wishing to violently inform his 'parents' about how angry they were at the pair taking a big briefcase full of cash and walking away.
Judau looked ready to guard his ears if the mother of seven wishes to pull on them for giving up on school so his sister could go to a nice one. He just hoped being a newtype would help him be faster than her.
Yuu had this feeling his grandmother was the only relative he had that Professor Weasley would have a calm and polite discussion with. Yuu wasn't sure what his sister having taken on another name would get for a response from the History of Magic professor. He just doubted his sister and the mother of seven meeting would go well.
Yuu also wondered what the new professor would do if she met a lot of the broken people that were part of the Reclaimers. It would definitely be interesting and Yuu just hoped it'd actually help them. He could tell it would be from wanting to help them, but even Yuu had to admit they and he were extremely thick headed.
Lowe made a note to make sure the Professor was ready to meet guests if Mrs. Weasley met with the rest of the Home crew. He remember the disaster that was barely avoided when Coop's mother met them. Other than that and possibly needing to physically get her husband away from the Home Lowe was sure Mrs. Weasley meeting the Junk Guild would go fine.
Ron turned to Harry. "Even with my...whatever...I didn't foresee Mum taking the job. Malfoy better learn to keep his mouth shut as I know she won't put up with him being like he is around us."
"Good luck on that happening," Harry remarked with a chuckle.
Ron gave Harry an amused smile. He looked forward to seeing Malfoy humbled. And the git couldn't have his godfather smooth over everything in this case. Ron knew his Mum was not going to allow that, and also knew that the Potions Professor was Malfoy's godfather.
Harry didn't even need to have Ron's senses to tell someone was giving Malfoy a deranged look to make sure he kept his mouth shut. Frankly he wasn't sure if Malfoy would understand Canard would be even more unhappy than usual if he was annoyed at the moment.
"I believe we all can welcome Professor Weasley," Dumbledore stated using a sonorus charm. "She will be teaching History of Magic as it was suggested."
Fred and George groaned as this was going to make things a lot more difficult for them. In not only getting away with pranks, but in their mother being able to look at their grades with ease. That was going to be extremely annoying as she wasn't going to have any issues against nagging them to do better in school in front of everyone.
Kamile looked ready to move if he got hugged next. It won't surprise him if Molly Weasley went for him as even before stepping into the Gundam MK II Kamile's home life was a trainwreck. It didn't just didn't improve after he started working with the then outlaw Londo Bell.
Kamile had to focus on the here and now instead of how his family life went downhill further. Otherwise his thoughts would be going some very dark places.
"Thank you Professor Dumbledore," Molly stated civilly after letting go of Canard. "I do hope to be able to inform and not have the student body using a core class as time to sleep. I also intend to answer many questions I had been asked in letters about many things that should be taught at Hogwarts."
Harry almost laughed realizing those questions were the ones he'd asked in letters over the summer. That was going interesting and shoot starship sized holes in if anyone commented everyone already knew that.
Molly then looked over the various students and mecha pilots. What would shock the Slytherins would be her thought not of them being dark, but how her mother in law likely would be annoyed way too many all ambition and no cunning types were strutting around the school. The types of Slytherins she found obnoxious.
The mother of seven also could see something in many of the Londo Bell pilots that reminded her of Harry. That being forced into things that adults should deal with, but were unable or unwilling to do so. The only silver lining she thought that had was that Harry had people that understood what he had gone through.
Something she didn't want Harry or them to have to do.
"Also I will not tolerate any bullying. Be it students to each other or staff to the students," Molly stated. "And that includes punishments that are so completely insane that the professor won't have any rational defense for it."
The depute headmistress nearly groaned at that last part. The head of Slytherin merely looked like his face had been carved out of stone.
Dumbledore had this feeling that things won't quite be the same anymore at Hogwarts. He wasn't sure if that would be a good thing or a bad thing.
What the headmaster of Hogwarts could see was that a new wave of professors that weren't as willing to listen to his every word was coming. What made that not as bad as it could be was they also weren't going to the dark either.
It beat having the Getter team and the Death Caprice Squad take over as professors at least. They'd likely destroy the school and not care.
Molly then saw her grandson. Albus Severus had a feeling she wasn't going to happy with him.
"Young man I really do hope you have stopped doing things that even Londo Bell consider to be completely nuts," Professor Weasley stated. "You don't need to top various members of that group."
"I am trying to avoid doing that Grandma," Albus replied.
Molly smiled as that was all she could hope for on that front. She also wondered if William would end up with the girl that this point Molly didn't care she was a Veela as there were a lot weirder things she'd met.
She then wondered what would be the most effective way to hunt down the disgusting people that raised Masato Akitsu. Would Major Yeager or others be able to find them for her and how could she disguise a howler so it wasn't seen as magical.
It was a project she was sure would be very fun to work on when she had some free time. Anyone that could claim what the 'father' of Masato had deserved to be informed the sort of person they were at volumes reserved for Fire Bomber concerts. Even more so when their son turned out to be a gentle young man who didn't want to hurt people.
V-V-V
Amuro had a very uneasy feeling being in the Side 7 region again. It reminded him of how he first became a mech pilot. On top of that memory that had been burned into his memory was the battle he and the rest of Londo Bell had last year with Quatre in Wing Zero. That had not been a pleasurable experience to say the least.
Plus he and the others were there to see the test flight of a bunch of new Gundams. Given how that tended to go was why they had brought all their gear and were ready to use it on whatever crashed the party.
Neville didn't have that history and was enjoying having a chance to meet his fellow pilots for Getter Dragon. Kei Minamikaze was no-nonsense and Neville had no problems with that. Benkei Kuruma was a friend of Musashi and had taken over when Musashi had been sidelined by various injuries over the years.
Lune Zoldark wondered how well the Gundams that were to be tested out would do against her Valsione. She doubted it would be that great. She also felt the Black Getter could wreck them even if they had some system to deal with bullets. Or even the unit they were working on that was to have antibeam shielding superior to what the Hyaku Shiki had.
Ryusei Date looked happy as can be to see what the new Gundams could do. Though he hoped it'd not end up like the last test of mecha he'd been in attendance at. The R-1 had taken a lot of damage fighting off the Celestial Being mecha that had crashed that event.
Albus Severus was in shock at exactly how many space colonies existed. Also that this one was for a small nation on Earth. The nation that he drove that one mobile suit over and went crazy due to the Zero system variant in fact.
Albus was glad he didn't break anything other than some Grand Chers in Orb. Otherwise things could have gotten very difficult for him given the princess of that nation was here as well. Plus she was a student of Ryoma Nagare and her asking for that man to break him in two was rather easy.
Kai Kitamura was already on guard and mentally going over who could attack this space colony that he was aware of.
Fleur just hoped that the food was good and that eventually she could get a mobile suit with the ability to use Striker Packs. She found them to be quite interesting and would be very useful. Plus she was sure Lowe and Coop would invent their own Striker Packs for her to use as well.
"So…." Ron said seeing the ZAFT team also watching this. "Is someone wearing a face covering mask or helmet a sign they are up something or have their own game plan?"
"Yes it is," Hayato admitted.
"So don't trust the guy leading that team got it," Ron nodded.
Sayla groaned. Her brother hadn't intended to become a trailblazer in that way, and she was very sure he won't care for most of the imitators.
"We can hear you," Yzak said sharply as he rather annoyed at what they felt of his commanding officer.
The man in question kept a calm and collected expression, but inwardly groaned as he kind of needed the mask to help cover up why he looked exactly like a younger version of Al Da Flaga. It would lead to questions he didn't want asked or to be forced to answer. There also was the fact that Rau felt shame at having Al Da Flaga's face. Every time he looked at it in the mirror it reminded him what he was and what he most definitely wasn't nor would ever be.
It just was Rau's bad luck several people wearing masks or face covering helmets had clashed with Londo Bell.
In fact one of them was right there as Preventer Wind was keeping a close eye on Rau Le Creuset. Something about Wind's voice reminded Rau of Mu. It was not something that Rau enjoyed.
Rau then looked at the "Riddle Gourmet" and mentally added people also wearing sunglasses as a disguise like Char as well. The clone hoped that Char himself wasn't here watching as well. He didn't want to have to deal with the Red Comet, and whatever else he'd bring with him.
Canard Pars felt weird being on the same space station the supposedly perfect Ultimate Coordinator. Someone that he wasn't sure if he wanted to meet or not. He also was aware that Athrun Zala was looking at him weirdly for some reason.
Ken Kaido hoped this whole thing won't be boring.
Cagalli just didn't want this to blow up in all their faces.
Koji Tetsuya looked a bit nervous being between the team of coordinators and Ryoma Nagare. He really didn't want to be in the way if a fight broke out. He was sure even newtypes didn't want to be in that position.
It was a very true belief as Sayla Mass looked uneasy being right next to Koji Tetsuya.
Harry just wondered what the sort of work coordinators had would do to the child of a magic user. Was there a specific gene for magic? Would dealing with a lot of genetic issues make the process cost more?
"Harry aren't you worried?" Ron asked as he had a wary expression looking at Ryoma and the ZAFT unit.
Harry just snorted. "Trust me Ron if a fight was going to break out it'd already started."
"The day is still young," Hayato stated. "Plus what is happening is almost cliche for someone to attack. It has happened repeatedly."
"Despite the fact that these mobile suit models will be on the market sooner than later?" Athrun Zala commented.
"Some people would rather go to the trouble of spending more in an assault than just opening their checkbook when they are for sale," Cagalli sighed. "And that is where all of you come in."
Ryusei groaned softly. "And I was just hoping to have this being quiet and uneventful."
"At least this won't be dull," Ken Kaido remarked with his own insane smile.
"So any idea who will wish to do the giant robot version of a dine and dash princess?" Ryoma asked.
"Now that part we have no idea," the daughter of the Lion of Orb admitted. "Not that there is a lack of groups willing to do that."
Yuu groaned as of course there would be another mess getting in the way of dealing with Orphan. A menace that he was sure would cause more far more damage to the Terran League than some people taking mobile suits.
Yuu also doubted the Reclaimers would want any those mobile suits. The Grand Chers worked well enough for them and the biotech behind them was what they were masters of. They really had no experience with normal mecha.
Rau instantly was glad he had no traction in getting plans to steal the Gundams here off the ground. The five mobile suits would not be worth the trouble getting them from Londo Bell. Adding to that was the fact there was no way they'd be able to destroy the Sandrock and its pilot.
Harry noticed things started off normal with the Astrays being tested first. There were a trio of them and they seemed to have seen what Lowe and Cagalli had done in the pair of prototype Astrays.
No one was surprised that Orb wanted their own homegrown mech. The Astray looked to be like the GM line and Jegan in terms of ability.
Suddenly the space colony started to shake. It gave Sayla and Amuro flashbacks to when they first ended up involved with mecha. It was not a fun experience for either of them and made them even more worried about what was going to happen.
"And here we go," Ryoma muttered.
"Let's just hope this colony comes out of this in one piece," Amuro dearly hoped.
"You'd have to be a sociopath with a complete and utter hate of humanity to not want that," Mio commented.
It took all of his acting ability for Rau to not react to that. He then made a note to make sure to kill her first once his true personality was known.
Rau had no idea there was a line for that, and someone else intended to beat him to the punch. A someone who was even stranger in origin than he was.
"Hope you guys parked your stuff close by," Benkei remarked to the ZAFT team as he and the rest of Londo Bell ran for the Macbeth.
It took the coordinators a moment to realize that definitely was not the case.
A grey Gundam then started lumbering to help the trio of Astrays. It was missing any of the backpacks designed to be used on it, and the phase shift wasn't turned on.
"You four," Rau said looking at Yzak, Athrun, Dearka, and Nicol. "Go see what is going on with the other Gundams. I have a feeling we will need all the firepower we can get."
No one in the Le Creuset Team believed the person driving the Strike was the test pilot.
Things then got worse as they saw a pair of custom Mazinger units. One looked like a lighter color and more blocky Great Mazinger with red jewels on the chest and shoulders. It also had a V on the forehead as well.
The other Mazinger unit looked like Mazinger Z had been the base of the design. It was more streamlined, had bandages around the limbs for some reason, there were spikes on the head, a small cape, lightning bolt shaped heat sinks, and the left eye was covered.
No one believed that Koji Kabuto would be any more level headed than Tetsuya Tsurugi when he saw that Mazinger based off his mech. That made the four that needed to get to the other Gundam prototypes run even faster as being in those and in the fight might actually be safer than anywhere else on the space colony.
It didn't take the four long to reach the still waiting for their pilots mobile suits. They were all prepped to go and yet no one was there.
"Anyone else as worried as I am?" Athrun asked as he powered up the Aegis. "The test pilots should be here by now."
"Definitely," Yzak replied. "Though I don't think anyone of us want to find out why on a full stomach."
"Agreed," Dearka stated.
Yzak then noticed something. "Huh they made an acronym out of Gundam. Surprised they managed to do that and it makes sense."
"We can marvel at that later," Athrun spoke up. "Let's see what these units can do against Mazingers."
"I just hope that it will be enough," Nicol Amalfi said softly.
No one disagreed with that sentiment.
V-V-V
Lt. Murrue Ramius was finding piloting a mobile suit to be difficult. She was not trained in it, and the Strike Gundam was a very powerful mobile suit.
It made her wonder how so many teens got put into mecha and managed to survive as her guts felt like they were being used as a drum by a Zentradi warrior. It also made her wonder where the test pilot for this and the other units were at.
"First day?" Mu asked as he watched Murrue's six as Great Boomerangs flew through the air.
"Indeed," Murrue managed to say without groaning in pain.
Tetsuya was extremely unhappy to see the army of Mazingers Tau Dragon still was using and even more when they clearly had no idea how to use their Great Boomerangs correctly. It was something he knew he had to show these fools how it really was done.
Murrue gasped in shock and awe as Great Mazinger did several seemingly random Great Typhoons and the Tau Dragon units ended sliced up by their own Great Boomerangs.
"Every time I see him do something like that I am still impressed," Mu commented.
"Teens watching the fight on your four," Kai called out to Mu.
Murrue was shocked it had gotten to the point no one was surprised at that. It was almost expected by these people it seemed like.
Though on reflection that a literal rank had been made for teen pilots that were part of Londo Bell said a lot about how often this sort of thing came up for them. It was something that honestly she wondered why it kept happening.
"Any takers on at least one of them piloting a Gundam?" Ryoma asked. "Even you Kyosuke?"
There was dead silence on that.
"And anyone want to bet those two new Mazingers are even more powerful than the ones we have?" Sayla Mass sighed.
There was dead silence again.
"Stronger or not than Great I will destroy that mockery!" Tetsuya called out as he charged at the Tau Dragon Mazinger force.
"Just try to avoid getting your butt kicked," Ken Kaido remarked.
Even now Kayra Su wasn't quite sure what to make of chatter like that. Or if a fight was about to break out between the pair or if it would be after the battle was over.
To the shock of Mazinger Valor's pilot it wasn't Great Mazinger that attacked first but Black Getter. Still the Mazingerdo was able to block the tomahawk. Not that it stopped Neville from trying to get the weapon through the shield.
"Cross Smasher!" Lune yelled and the Mazingerdo surprised them by being able to withstand that attack.
Kai in his Gespenst got behind the Mazinger Valor and let loose with his shotgun. The Neo Titanium buckshot dug into the super alloy armor of the Mazinger unit.
Rastel wondered if that shield be able to deal with Sanger once his new mech was completed. It was going to be an interesting stress test for that shield no matter what happened. He then fired the beam rifle at the invading Mazingers.
The Aegis, Duel and Buster opened fire on the army of Mazingers. As the trio of Gundams got the attention of the Mazinger horde, the Mazinkaiser SKL used the Ganzanto to hack into the armor of the invading force.
Albus Severus flew and tried to help Ken Kaido against the Mazingers. The time traveler also tried to imitate some of the moves Ken used against the Mazingers.
"He needs to work on his swordsmanship," Excellen noted. "One of the few areas I am not the best to be the professor on."
Bullet wondered why he felt people were looking at him.
The Blitz Gundam suddenly appeared and fired or used the beam saber before disappearing.
"Well that answers where the missing one was," Ken mused.
There was a sizzle of metal as Tetsuya used the Breast Burn to heat up the surface of Great Mazinger and punched the Mazingerdo the repeatedly. Then Tetsuya let out a Great Typhoon to cool the metal quickly.
The shield didn't come out of that without damage, but it still usable. Tetsuya smiled and was sure he'd be able to eventually destroy it.
Fleur helped Tetsuya by unloading the heavy firepower of the Full Armor GM Cannes. The impressive barrage tested the Mazingerdo and yet the shield still wasn't turned to scrap metal. Harry also aided in stress testing the metal shield by letting loose with a full power burst from his Long Mega Buster.
The G-Gunner then fired the pair of blasters that flipped onto the shoulders at the Necro Mazinger. With the Necro Mazinger focused on the G-Gunner the R-1 unloaded with the G-Revolvers.
The Gustav Karl unloaded on the Necro Mazinger with the beam rifle while it was distracted. Kayra wondered if a more powerful mech would help her in messes like this. It likely won't hurt to have more firepower and armor.
The R-2 unloaded on the Necro Mazinger with its Magna Beam Rifle.
The Strike Gundam then fired the bazooka and the pilot along with the Tau Dragon Mazingers found out it was using a shrapnel round.
"Looks like that was something they wanted to show off," Mu noted as he let loose with the electrochemical gun to keep any Mazingers getting close to the teens watching the fight.
Athrun realized one of those teens was Kira so he quickly moved to help Mu. The four beam sabers on the Aegis made it extremely dangerous for the Mazingers to get close to him. Yzak and Dearka followed Athrun's example as they figured the teens were important for some reason.
Ken then switched over to Ryo and Lucifer Four unleashed a barrage of fire on the Mazingers.
Volunteer Ensign Weasley fired his beam rifle in rapid fire mode to try to show up the Mazinkaiser SKL pilot.
Ryo merely was bemused.
"Being a newtype or a psychodriver or whatever you are only goes so far," Ryo commented.
Ron was too busy fighting Mazingers to respond to that.
Fleur found it amusing to see what she otherwise would have felt was a little boy holding their own in a Nero. She then wondered why anyone would use a FLAG as she saw Graham Aker using one to fight the Mazinger horde.
The Union Flag Orbit Package then showed it had some surprises to Fleur as the various missiles it had were definitely not the standard ones, and more like ones Coop and Lowe had thought up.
Graham then let loose with the Linear Rifle and it too was using some custom rounds as the bullets struck the Mazingers. The amount of damage was way higher than regular rounds would do.
Then there was a barrage of Strike Shields from the R-3. Ron wondered if he was going to get devices like or Fin Funnels to control with whatever power he has. He also wondered if his power actually could do that and if he'd be able to keep track of them and the other guided weapons people used.
Ron then let out a word his mother won't want to hear from him when Necro Mazinger's version of a Rust Hurricane cut the power to the Nero instead of causing massive amounts of damage. Albus fired on every single Mazinger that tried to deal with the Nero as its power was out. Canard gave Albus cover fire and took several shots that would have hit Ron.
Nothing that the Mazinger invaders did managed to get through the lightwave shield. Even the sub zero Breast Blizzard of Necro Mazinger did nothing to the Hyperion.
"Yeah those two new Mazingers are going to be annoying," Harry noted as he used his hyper beam sabers on the regular Great Mazingers.
Volunteer Ensign Potter doubted anyone besides Canard or whoever used that other Hyperion could block that attack. It also made Harry wonder if Evas or Brain Powerds could get frostbite. It was something he didn't imagine he'd ever have to consider.
"Always expose the Mazingers to Getter Rays,' Mio suggested.
No one asked which Mazingers she was referring to. Nor did they really want to know as that sounded like a terrible idea that would cause a massive mess.
Preventer Wind struck the Mazinger horde with his beam saber. The Lightning Count didn't let up on the speed and easily avoided any attempts they had at using the Great Typhoon to drive him into their lines of fire.
Yuu and his Brain Powerd also did the same thing and proved extremely annoying to Tau Dragon's forces.
"I wonder if we'll ever get that good," Juri Wu Nien gasped.
"It isn't easy," Judau commented as he let Necro Mazinger have it with double beam rifle.
The Necro Mazinger lacked a shield like the Mazinger Valor so it took the shot right to the chest. However it wasn't enough to stop the Mazinger unit.
The "eyepatch" was the removed from Necro Mazinger and it froze the Strike in place. Necro Mazinger then unleashed an extremely powerful Photon Beam.
Once the beam stopped was when Sayla Mass moved in and slashed both eyes of the Necro Mazinger with hyper beam sabers.
The Necro Mazinger and Mazinger Valor then had Black Getter 3 and Shin Getter 3 wrap their arms around one of the units and then fling the pair of Mazingers into each other.
Murrue Ramius knelt down her mobile suit and put down a hand so one of the teens could get into it and then into the cockpit. At this point she was willing to let one of them drive.
Anyone that tried to get close to the Strike got to eat lasers from the Aegis, Duel, Buster and Zorrin Soul. No one walked away from that with their Mazinger intact.
"Here we go again," Ryoma commented. "Good thing we have a closet full of the stuff that needs to be given to volunteer ensigns back on the Macbeth."
"My name is Kira Yamato," the new pilot of the Strike stated. "And who designed the OS of this mech? It was terrible."
"Why did I have this feeling something like this was going to happen?" Canard groused as he had a feeling the "perfect" Ultimate Coordinator was going to get a mech.
Kira was a bit freaked out to hear someone that sounded like so much like him. He didn't have any siblings.
Less shocking was seeing in one of the other mecha was his friend Athrun. Kira remembered Athrun mentioning joining ZAFT in one of their on-line discussions. Though he didn't expect to see his friend in a non-ZAFT mech.
"I wanted to see if I could meet you for lunch but not this," Athrun told Kira.
"Talk later!" Cagalli called out as she opened fire on the Tau Dragon mecha with an almost comically huge beam rifle.
The Valsione and the restarted Nero gave the Green Astray cover fire against the swarm of Mazingers.
The Rezel Command scared a Great Mazinger pilot by trying to get into their cockpit with a beam saber.
Suddenly a shot came out of nowhere and struck the cockpit of Mazinger Valor. The Necro Mazinger tried to see where that shot came from.
"Figures they'd be here too," Canard commented as MITHRAL would be as against Tau Dragon have those Gundams as Londo Bell was.
Harry was kind of surprised that he hadn't met this group before as a trio of Armslaves decloaked.
The Zamzeed then struck Necro Mazinger with a sword. The sword did far more damage than anyone other than Mio expected.
The Duel then fired on the Necro Mazinger with the rail bazooka the mech had. The Mazinger was actually knocked back a bit by the attack.
"Glad I didn't leave this behind," Yzak commented.
Dearka then found out that the main weapons of the Duel could be merged and put them together and made an Anti-Armor shotgun. The red jacket fired and everyone was shocked when the shatter shot torn into the Mazingers.
The Strike Gundam then got fitted with the Launcher Striker Pack and the armor changed color as the Phase Shift was turned on.
The hyper impulse beam cannon got fired and blew through Mazingers and a hole in the colony.
"Had Coop and Masato sit this one out to avoid something like that," Hayato groaned.
"You know they are going to try to make cheaper and stronger versions of that thing for the GM versions of that thing right?" Benkei commented.
Athrun wondered if that would be powerful enough to hurt the Sandrock. He then noticed his mech also had a mobile armor mode with a massive beam weapon. Though for some reason the beam weapon could not be used in mobile suit form.
'Going to have to see if I can be made pilot of this mech officially and part of Londo Bell,' Athrun mused as he was sure that Lowe Gruele and his buddy in mecha altering could fix that problem.
Athrun had no idea it wasn't exactly a complex issue that needed to be fixed.
The red jacket then shook his head and had a feeling Kira was shocked at the raw power he had now.
"What...what did I just do?" Kira gasped.
Albus Severus also stared at the hole and realized that what he had seen was a mech portable weapon and that far more powerful ones existed that were mounted on ships or even bigger like the colony laser that killed the Zentradi leader.
The remaining Mazingers then tried to make a break for it.
Cagalli wasn't sure if she was proud or worried about that.
Things got more insane as what appeared to be dogs a pair of men were walking turned into giant monsters. Monsters that many there had seen before and rather not see again.
"Invaders," Ryoma growled.
"I thought those were all dead," Mu said softly.
Even the Tau Dragon pilots got nervous when the thought dead threat proved to be still be around. They got even more scared as more and more Invaders came out of seemingly nowhere.
Neville just fired off a Getter Beam. He also felt a bit weird having people in the other Getter jets of Black Getter. He just hoped they would eventually get changing forms of the Getter to be way faster.
The effect the Getter Beam had on the Invaders was the same as it always was. It was nasty but it ended the Invader it hit.
The two men then turned into forms that Getter team was aware of.
"Doctor Stinger and Doctor Cowen?" Benkei gasped. "How are they here?!"
Harry had a feeling them being with the Invaders was even worse than he felt it was now.
Athrun unloaded on the Invaders with his beam rifle and the feet mounted beam sabers if the threat that still haunted his dreams got close.
"Yuu Brain can not stand those things," Yuu stated as he unloaded missiles on the Invaders.
"Your mech agrees with everyone," Sayla remarked as she let the Invaders have it with her beam rifle and the forearm mounted beam spray guns.
"We'll see how they do after I'm done with them," Ryoma commented as he brought down Shin Getter's axe on the pair of scientists.
What happened next shocked everyone as Doctor Cowen was able to hold up the massive weapon with one hand.
"Did...did that guy just keep from being hit by that giant axe?!" Ron gasped.
"What in Merlin's name is he?" Neville asked.
"Nothing good," Mio answered.
Then they saw the "good" doctor climbing up the surface of Shin Getter. Ryoma started freaking out which scared everyone. Neville had believed nothing really scared Ryoma Nagare. To find out there was something that did worried Neville as it felt so wrong to him.
It got worse when somehow Doctor Cowen dodged a shot by Ron.
Ron didn't think he'd ever seen anything move that fast.
Kurtz's shot however didn't miss and Cowen was knocked off Shin Getter. However he seemed more annoyed than anything.
The very serpentine Doctor Stinger looked bemused at all that had happened. That was when an invader rose up out of the ground, and it was different than the others.
"I think I know what happened to the Gundam test pilots," Benkei gasped as a pseudo Jinman had human faces on the back of his "shell".
"Merlin," Harry gasped at the sheer horror.
"How...how can such a thing exist?!" Albus Severus said in utter shock.
Ryoma responded to the psychological warfare of the Jinman knock off by letting the Invader have it with a Getter Beam. He then hammered what was left with his fists and feet.
That was the Ryoma Nagare that Neville knew and respected.
"Subtly is dead with Ryoma," Stinger commented.
Yuu then was shocked when Doctor Stinger avoided the blast from his Brain Powerd.
"Those Brain Powerd and Gran Chers will be interesting to test what we can do them," Doctor Cowen mused.
"I especially look forward to seeing what we can do to Orphan," Stinger cackled.
Yuu didn't even want to imagine what an Invader infestation would do to Orphan. It was something that had to be stopped as much if not more than Orphan trying to leave the Earth.
The pair of scientists then had to move fast as Neville unleashed Getter Beam after Getter Beam at them.
"The new kid definitely has guts," Cowen remarked.
"I'd like to show them to him," Stinger mused.
Cowen chuckled at that. "All in due time."
The pair then got struck by fin funnels from Mu, Amuro, and Sayla.
"...We really need to not discount New types and their ability to track things," Stinger groaned on the ground.
Ron was surprised they had managed to hit those two when he wasn't able to.
"I think it might be time to leave," Cowen admitted as he got up off the ground.
"Yes the door is open," Stinger agreed as he looked at the hole that Kira had made.
With that the pair of scientists and the Invaders merged into some massive two faced horror and flew out into space.
"Well there's something that'll be haunting my nightmares for a long time," Harry admitted.
No one disagreed with him on that.
Kira Yamato wondered what he just got himself into.
V-V-V
Thomas Krieger watched as "his" Death Eaters were implanted with knowledge on how to pilot mecha as they were recovering in tubes filled with some sort of fluid. He honestly was amused at the looks of culture shock they had on their faces.
The reborn Tom Riddle hoped that they enjoyed using the modified Zaku IIIs they would be getting to use. He wasn't sure Sinkhole Zaku IIIs was the most frightening name, but he did know that the Death Eaters would be able to spread fear and destruction in them.
With a bit of luck they could be one of the most dangerous units serving Full Frontal.
He then mused the best way to get Barty before Londo Bell beat him to the punch. There was no way they'd let that man keep breathing for long.
'Pretty sure the only reason he wasn't killed before was politics,' Thomas thought. 'As blowing up a house with orbital bombardment or a giant robot would be more trouble than it was worth politically.'
Still Thomas had a feeling the window to get Barty away from his father was very narrow, and would require less destruction than breaking out his current troops.
He then smiled widely as taking every troop and resource he could alway from that wraith was a way to insult Voldemort. And each something he could use for the ultimate goal of building an army and using a Macross ship to colonize his own world.
Thomas nearly laughed imagining the wraith's rage at being shown up like that. Perhaps Harry Potter's stuffed head as well to drive it even higher.
Not that Thomas considered that last part vitally important, but he would turn it down, and considered that prophecy a bunch of dragon dung given how it played out in the future his daughter was from. Hand of the Other his arse.
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Chapter notes
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. Not someone you should mess with.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. A psychopathic man who getting the ire of is a good way to be dead and no one will want to have an open casket funeral.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED X Astray. He has a chip on his shoulder the size of Jupiter and is a supposedly "failed' Ultimate Coordinator.
Judau Ashta is from Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. He is an extremely powerful newtype and street smart.
Masato Akitsu is from Zeorymer. To say his life is complicated is an understatement.
Kamile Bidan is from Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta. Always willing to prove Kamile is a man's name and he is a man.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. The original Gundam pilot, and the one which all others are judged by.
Kei Minamikaze is from Getter Robo Go. She is not insane and not able to crush people to powder.
Benkei Kuruma is from Getter Robo. He's not insane and not a psychopath.
Lune Zoldark is from Super Robot Wars OG. Her fashion sense is a bit weird, but her mecha pilot skills are top notch.
Ryusei Date is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is a mecha fanboy living the dream. However he is also finding reality is different than the dream.
Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is an experienced pilot and can make the Gespenst fight like a Gundam.
Sayla Mass is from Mobile Suit Gundam. She is not one to be taken lightly.
Yzak Joule is from Gundam SEED. He is a hot headed mech pilot who can be blinded by his emotions.
Rau Le Creuset is from Gundam SEED. He is a mess and wants the world to literally burn.
Preventer Wind aka Zechs Merquise aka Milliardo Peacecraft is from Gundam Wing. A skilled pilot with the nickname the Lightning Count. Kind of annoyed no one even pretends to not know exactly who he is.
Rastel Feinschmecker aka Elzam von Branstein is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is taking the chance to have a different identity to loosen up a bit.
Cagalli Athha is from Gundam SEED. She is not a normal princess and best not to treat her as such.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He enjoys using melee weapons.
Koji Tetsuya is from Godannar. He is hard to kill.
Yuu Isami is from Brain Powerd. He's a troubled man, and wants to keep Orphan from destroying the Earth.
Athrun Zala is from Gundam SEED. He really hates Quatre Winner for blowing up the space colony his mother was living on.
Dearka Elsman is from Gundam SEED. He tends to back his friend Yzak in disagreements, and does have a sense of humor.
Nicol Amalfi is from Gundam SEED. He is more reserved and strategic in combat than his friends.
Murrue Ramius is from Gundam SEED. Boy is she in over head.
Mu La Flaga is from Gundam SEED. He is a decorated mech pilot, and has some sort of weird connect to Rau Le Creuset.
Kyosuke Nanbu is from Super Robot Wars OG. His mech suits him perfectly, and he always takes the long odds.
Koji Kabuto is from Mazinger Z. He is the mold from which the hothead teen pilot has been made.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He is a proud and skilled mecha pilot. Some might say way having way too much of an ego about Great Mazinger.
Kayra Su is from Char's Counterattack. A decent pilot, but can let having a high grade machine go to her head a bit.
Excellen Browning is a from Super Robot Wars OG. She is a perky person, and a skilled sniper. She also has secrets even she is not aware of.
Ryo Magami is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He uses ranged weapons.
Graham Aker is from Gundam 00. He is an extremely skilled pilot, and can make his Union Jack transform in a fight like a variable fighter.
Mio Sasuga is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is able to break the 4th wall and has no issues against doing so.
Kira Yamato is from Gundam SEED. The supposed perfect Ultimate Coordinator, and Cagalli's brother.
Kurtz Weber is from Full Metal Panic. He is a skilled sniper and a ladies man.