In the calm sanctuary of his office, Severus Snape wondered how his life gotten so completely and utterly insane even by Hogwarts standards. The Terran League leadership by now was well aware of where Hogwarts was, and Snape was sure having the school turned into an ROTC for Londo Bell might amuse some of them.
The fact the school was getting so much mecha helped reinforce Severus feeling right on people wanting to have all the students learn to pilot giant robots. That being part of Londo Bell would be more productive than being part of the Wizarding World was something Severus hoped wasn't true.
To his annoyance Snape had a feeling that sentiment was going get even stronger after word of the future that trio had come from got spread to the four corners of the Wizarding World. A future that no one wanted to have happen. Be they the light as it was disturbing, and the dark for the fact the Dark Lord proved to be like a wet firecracker in terms of length and effect as ruler.
Severus leaned back in his chair and wondered if that Potter brat would even understand referring to him as Homer beating up dinosaurs. He then nearly smirked realizing thanks to the Dinosaur Empire being around the time traveler would at least know what dinosaurs are. Though that was the only thing honestly amusing about that situation.
'How could Potter's grandson be even worse than his son?' Severus inwardly groaned. 'Then again the son didn't try to pilot the most dangerous mech in Hogwarts.'
That each generation of Potters was worse than the last was something Snape had wished to avoid seeing firsthand. He then made a face as that had come true.
Snape forced himself to avoid thinking about that depressing subject. He thought about how Scorpius had been keeping out of trouble, and piloting any sort of giant robot that Hogwarts seemed to getting more of every day.
Coop and Lowe it seemed were given any failed prototype and also keep whatever they could salvage from the battlefield. Such as the pair of them upgrading a Doven Wolf into a Silver Bullet for likely someone to use.
Snape had a feeling that sooner or later one of his snakes was going to be piloting a giant robot.
Severus then thought about how Minerva was working with a scientist at NERV to figure out what exactly Tekkamen did to transform themselves. How AT Fields and how they worked could revolutionize transfiguration if not magic in general.
It said so much to him how the Statute of Secrecy was a dead concept when dealing with groups that madness and chaos followed. Then again they also knew demons, magic users, guardian spirits of the Earth, an alchemist with a mecha made of science and magic that shot black holes at things, and seen many magical realms. One such realm was accessed via a videogame of all things.
They of course were so jaded to the insane that it didn't bother them. It was just another day of the week to them.
The universe was a very strange place.
Severus was driven from his thoughts by a knock on the door. He actually was thankful for it as it meant focusing on something hopefully more normal.
"Enter," he said briskly.
Narcissa Malfoy entered the office and Severus was not surprised. After all Lucius wasn't going to go anywhere near the Getter team or the Death Caprice Squad. He was never going to visit Hogwarts again as long there was a chance he could run into them.
"Severus do I have a time traveling grandson at Hogwarts?" she asked sharply.
"Yes," Snape replied. "And you also had a niece here too. Bellatrix and the Dark Lord are her parents."
It took all of Narcissa's control to not gasp in shock at that. She honestly didn't imagine the Dark Lord had any such desires left due to whatever rituals he had undergone. She had no idea that was the same thought everyone who found out about Delphini had.
"So now we have an angry time traveler on the loose," Severus groaned. "In a world full of things even half of them I am not sure of."
Narcissa wasn't sure what to make of that.
"And everything that...Getter team?" she then asked quietly.
"Oh I am sure what you learned underplays them," Severus remarked. "The Longbottom clan having an obsession with having one of their own having magic lead to incidents that made him sound like an ideal recruit for piloting a Getter."
Snape then laughed bitterly. "Oh course it turned out it did and now he will be one of the pilots of what is reported to be what they call the Getter Dragon. One to be even more powerful than Shin Getter."
Narcissa sat down at that. This was all madness to her. She did not know how much of this she could take.
Severus opened a bottle of wine and offered Narcissa a drink.
"I just hope we can avoid from drinking straight from the bottle," she admitted as a goblet was filled nearly to the brim.
"I have to be honest," Severus sighed as he poured himself nearly as much. "The students of Hogwarts are the most well behaved they have ever been. Though admittedly with Draco it involves it being made clear no one cares for his commentary."
"Has anyone harmed my son in that?" Narcissa asked with a deadly gleam in her eye.
"Merely given the smile of madness from the Getter team or the Mazinkaiser SKL pilots," Severus stated. "With the most physical thing any of the Londo Bell pilots had done was Ryoma Nagare yanking Draco away from a hippogriff he was being disrespectful to. And Draco's pain was more being face first in mud in front of that class."
Snape was not going to ever mention when Potter quit Potions and went with private study.
Narcissa rubbed her temples. "How did Draco ever believe that was a good idea?"
Severus shrugged. His godson did things he never could understand.
"So my son has no tact and only being scared does he keep his mouth shut," Narcissa groused. "So what is this Scorpius doing?"
"He keeps to himself and has not caused any problems," Severus replied. "He also wishes to stop what he considers sins of the Malfoy family from happening. He just has gone about it in the most foolish ways possible."
"Let Andromeda deal with him then," Narcissa stated after a moment. "Lucius has already washed his hands of the boy."
That honestly didn't surprise Snape. Both statements were as he expected and he was sure that Andromeda would take in Scorpius.
The one thing he did wonder was exactly how long would it take for the Thanksgiving in Jersey City to end up involving giant monsters and/or giant robots showing up.
Severus then wondered if just not getting out of bed that day would be a good idea. It seemed like a sound idea and he just hoped it would work.
Narcissa just hoped her son would survive all the madness that was coming. She just hoped that wasn't in vain.
V-V-V
Athrun Zala hated feeling like a loose end. The "Team Zala" as some referred to his group of Gundam pilots seemed to be the only ones that wanted to use those units after the test pilots ended up in some Invader trying to imitated the demon Jinman. It seemed that even the most hardened mech pilots turned green when they found out about that. Plus the Terran League brass considered them as good of pilots for the units as any.
Though Strike as it seemed had another issue. Kira was this "Ultimate Coordinator" and his on the fly customizing the OS made it so the mobile suit made it so he was the only one able to use it.
True the OS could be changed back to the original one, but it seemed now the Terran League wanted Kira to be part of Londo Bell. They wanted to see what he could do and have him take part in fighting all the insane things that attacked the Earth.
Plus Londo Bell already had as part of the unit a supposedly "failed" Ultimate Coordinator that sounded way too much like Kira for Athrun's nerves. There also was the fact that Canard Pars might be able to use the Strike with the current OS, but no one really trusted him with the power of the one Striker Pack that was the massive guns.
Of course there also was the fact all of that was frankly normal compared to where Athrun was. A school for magic and it made the red jacket wonder if his father and the rest of the PLANTs Supreme Council was even vaguely aware of this magical subculture.
It was something that he wondered as this subculture seemed behind the times, and barely told the regular governments they had to work with for centuries anything.
That the UK Wizard World actually had no idea what PLANTS and a coordinator was before a student ended up in Londo Bell was kind of frightening to Athrun. They had an astronomy class at this school and could easily make out the various cities on the Moon with them. Possibly even make out some space colonies as well, and depending on how good their equipment was things like the settlements on Mars, various districts between Mars and Jupiter, and possibly some of the Jupiter colonies.
It made Athrun wonder what else was hidden around the Earth as dragons, unicorns, centaurs, goblins, and more were real. Or what magical things were hidden in other realms linked to the Earth such as La Gias.
What annoyed Athrun the most about everything was that was the fact that Blue Cosmos made it clear the Wizarding World as they called themselves hiding still was valid.
The fact that was true really said a great deal about humanity and none of it things that Athrun enjoyed.
Athrun also felt weird being in Hogwarts great hall after dinner. Various high tech consoles and monitors came out of the walls and tables for the students and staff to use. Candles didn't need to be used as there was much stronger lighting available.
Athrun was driven from his thoughts as he saw Kira talking with Harold "Coop" Cooplawski, Lowe Guele, someone who he had no idea who they were, and Hayato Jin.
Athrun walked over to Kira and tried to keep himself between his friend and the Getter pilot.
Hayato snorted in amusement as he could see what was going on.
"Athrun," Kira said surprised.
"Kira I do not trust this man," Athrun said firmly. "Especially given he let my mother's killer live."
"Quatre regrets what he did piloting Wing Zero," Hayato noted.
"He can regret that in a grave," Athrun snarled with spit flying. "I'll personally dig it for him before shoving him into it."
Tasuku Shinguji slowly backed away from Hayato and Athrun. He did not want to get involved in that at all. It would be very ugly if they came to blows.
However Athrun didn't want to start a fight with Hayato Jin. He just left his statement hang in the air.
Kira wondered what he had walked into. He also wondered who that Quatre mentioned was. He had no idea who the various members of Londo Bell and their allies were as frankly he didn't pay attention to all that.
Tasuku had the same feeling as he'd been working on the Archangel before the ship and crew had ended up part of Londo Bell. He didn't keep up on everything involving Londo Bell. He was able to improve mecha, but failed the tests to become a pilot.
That this school for magic was big enough to hold a starship was a shock. Though given it had doors that could only be opened at certain times, and moving staircases one could imagine Eldoran having done even more alterations with his magic than first thought.
"What have we gotten ourselves into?" Yzak asked his friend Dearka.
"Londo Bell," Dearka replied with that explaining everything.
Yzak sighed as it actually did.
"Says so much that Athrun's best friend is some further enhanced coordinator makes the most sense of everything we went through on Heliopolis," Yzak groaned.
"And that he had no idea about being further enhanced," Dearka mused. "Though given how the other guy with that got treated is a good thing."
"Sounds like a soap opera more than reality," Yzak grumbled. "A completely off the rails soap opera."
"Welcome to our world," Kikunosuke Abashiri remarked.
"That says so much," Dearka groused.
"I really do not want to see what that Pars guy would do if he can get the Strike moving and has those big laser cannons," Yzak admitted.
There was a moment of silence as everyone pondered that. That included Canard himself as he had to admit he might be able to use the Strike and its improved OS. Though he really did enjoy piloting his Hyperion and wasn't sure the big powerful guns would be a good trade off for the Lightwave Barrier.
"Of course I wonder what the CO and XO of the Archangel are thinking about all this," Ryoma mused. "That has to be interesting."
"I am more shocked that the ship is now based in Hogwarts," Yzak stated.
"Well it is part of a project to see if any of the various engines in Megas can be made to work," Tasuku spoke up.
Athrun had this feeling his father and the PLANTs council would only have the concern of that engine being tested in the same half the Solar System as the space colonies. Which had to admit likely was one even the J9 district would share.
"Trust me that's why the highest ranking survivor has become skipper of the Archangel," Tasuku said seeing Athrun's expression. "No one else wants to be commanding anything that has something Coop uses in it."
"They clearly are not completely insane," Yzak mused.
Coop didn't take any offense at that comment. Lowe looked a bit annoyed that people didn't think he helped make Coop's stuff work more smoothly. Tasuku wondered when they told Chief Petty Officer Murdoch he was working with someone from Megas.
The other pilots that had been attached to the Archangel wondered what they were in for. That is except for one.
Leona Garstein had cousins who were part of Londo Bell so she knew what to expect. Or at least a vague idea that if it was crazy then it likely was something they'd have to deal with.
She just hoped Carla, Ryoto, and the others could deal with this. Leona especially worried on Yuuki as he had trouble with all the insane things out there.
Leona then snorted seeing Yuuki Jagger was discussing astronomy and tea with the Astronomy professor.
"Of course he'd go for things that he could use to keep his sanity," Leona commented.
"Well it is in short supply so someone has to keep it," Kiva noted.
That was when the doors to the Great Hall slammed open and in came a group of wizards and witches. None of them looked happy and not many in the hall had any idea why they had shown up.
"Dumbledore how can you let muggles roam and use Hogwarts like they own it?" a very grandfatherly looking man growled as he looked at how drastically different the great hall was from his days at Hogwarts.
"Luke you are standing far too close to many of them to take that tone," Mad Eye remarked. "Well unless you want to look like me."
"Is that a threat?" Luke Smith growled.
Algernon Longbottom paled. "He means those maniacs Neville works with are here. And a pair are just as bad are here as well."
Luke turned to his friend. "You mean they are at Hogwarts and no one told me?!"
"Where do you expect them to be?" chuckled a younger looking woman.
"Somewhere not near me," Luke said trying to see the savages and attempting to get several people between him and them.
"And are they kidding when they say the thing that was made rule this school his huge and has blue or green skin?" another woman remarked.
Vrlitwhai took that as his cue to walk over to the group. A group that stopped their conversations on seeing him.
"He really does have blue skin," Algernon said in surprise.
"Exactly who are all of you?" the Zentradi inquired sharply.
"That would be Hogwarts Board of Governors," Mad Eye informed Vrliwhai.
"I see," the captain of Hogwarts when it was in ship mode noted. "Please sit down then and we will discuss various matters and issues."
"Here and now?" Luke Smith gasped.
"Why not?" Vrlitwhai asked. "You are all here, the students might as well hear about this, and the professors are here."
The board was not used to suggestions like that. Usually things were kept hidden and private. Openness was not something they usually practiced.
"Now I have to ask," Harry Potter stated. "What exactly do you all do? This isn't to be pithy or annoying as I honestly first heard about the Board of Governors existence last year when Professor Dumbledore was sacked."
The Board was shocked at that. Especially given who had just said that to them.
Harry looked like he wanted to groan as it seemed the Board of Governors seemed to believe all the fictional books about him.
That honestly annoyed Harry a lot.
Vrlitwhai smirked slightly when a table and chairs came up from the ground for the guests.
"What has been done to Hogwarts?" Luke asked with a look of utter shock on his face.
"When a guardian spirit of the Earth uses his powers this sort of thing is what happens," Vrlitwhai replied.
"A what?!" Jessica Bole said not sure if she heard right.
"Yes Eldoran is a guardian spirit of the Earth and no one is quite sure why school children are who he picks to give mecha," Alastor commented. "Amusing how he and demons don't care about the Stature of Secrecy in the slightest"
"Demons are real?!" Luke Smith gasped once more and was terrified that demons could around.
"Very real," Vrlitwhai assured him. "Though the Angels are not actual angels. Also I notice you haven't answered the question."
"We don't have to answer any questions," huffed a middle aged looking man.
"So you don't see the fact that a Hogwarts student is only aware of you because a man that reportedly strong armed you all into following his wishes as a sign of how badly the muggleborn were taught?" Vrlitwhai noted.
"The Boy Who Lived isn't a muggleborn," Jessica Bole chided.
"I might as well have been for all I have known," Harry interjected. "Everything in the books about me is rubbish."
There was a stunned silence at this. And not just from the Board of Governors but many of the students as well.
"The fact this surprises them is a sign that you need to meet more people Harry," Vrlitwhai noted. "And possibly get out more."
"Doesn't help that the headmaster didn't see to tell me have I have an insane amount of fanmail and no one got told I never saw any of it," Harry groaned. "And my godfather is the only reason I know it exists."
There again was a stunned silence.
"And who is your godfather?" Luke Smith inquired more for confirmation from the Boy-Who-Lived than anything as someone had stepped forward saying they were that.
"Sirius Black," Harry replied. "So you can see why he hasn't been able to tell me various things I should know until recently."
"You mean he was telling the truth?" Algernon Longbottom said in shock.
"As true as you accidently dropping Neville out a window," Mio commented.
Harry gave the man a dirty look. Something that Harry wasn't alone on. Algernon just hoped Neville wasn't doing that insane smile again. That smile was something that made him feel terror every single time he thought about it.
A smile the Getter pilots were doing if Algernon looked at them.
"I do wonder if you had been on the Board of Governors before or after Lucius Malfoy resigned," Vrlitwhai mused.
"Are you saying I am dark?" Algernon snapped.
"I am saying your actions made many wonder if there really is a distinction between Light and Dark families," Vrlitwhai replied.
"Surely you can not judge the actions of an entire faction on the actions of one person," Luke interjected.
"Funny you should mention that," Ryoma remarked. "We've heard about Volunteer Ensign Potter made from a golden hero to feared and back to golden hero again with no one actually willing to help him."
"And all merely due to his ability to talk to snakes," Vrlitwhai added. "Yes it was supposedly something two evil wizards had but one of them was over a thousand years ago and the other is famous for his failed attempt to murder Volunteer Ensign Potter."
"It helps make us believe what you call light and dark are merely labels thrown around without substance," Hayato stated.
"That's not entirely true," Mad Eye told them. "Though yes the labels of light and dark are incredibly overused and really diluted in meaning."
"We will concede that point," Vrlitwhai admitted. "However we also don't recall Albus Severus Potter or Scorpius Malfoy to have mentioned the Board of Governors getting involved in matters they should have in the future they talked about."
"I won't be surprised if getting in my way is the only thing any wizarding world 'adult' was capable of doing," Harry groused. "And I mean adult in the Charles Dicken Oliver Twist sense."
"I can see that," Vrlitwhai mused.
"In any case," Jessica Bole spoke up. "We are here due to the hiring of a new History of Magic teacher without any talk with us, a pair of rumored professors of something muggle we don't know how to pronounce so we aren't going to try butchering it, the fact the school is literally as mobile as the Knight Bus now, that a being from another planet has a position of power, and muggles are living here now."
The Londo Bell members waited to see if any mention of the students being in danger or such.
Harry wasn't surprised at the lack of that. He won't be surprised if the incident involving a now famous author of books on magical creatures being kicked out involved whatever creature he had eating all of a year of students in one of the Houses.
Hagrid just got his wand snapped when he supposedly had killed someone so Harry didn't expect being kicked out of Hogwarts to be any different.
"And how were we to talk with the Board of Governors as you didn't wish to speak with us until you had brought in a new member?" Deputy Headmistress McGonagall questioned. "And better Londo Bell roam the school than Dementors lurking outside it."
"You mean Fudge really did have Dementors around the school?" William Dawlish said in horror. "And these muggles slaughtered them all?!"
"Well there might one one still around with an arm missing," Harry commented. "Given I shot the arm off the one that tried to get up close and personal with me."
It was hard to tell which part of that statement shocked the Board of Governors more.
"However we did not take part in the assault on the nightmarish violation of everything that the Dementors called home," Vrlitwhai informed the Board of Governors.
"Which given reportedly Dementors can breed means they might make a comeback," Ryoma pondered out loud.
"...They can…." Jessica Bole gasped.
"Yeah the future that a trio of time travelers came from had that happen," Vrlitwhai noted. "Interestingly no mention how the Dementors were stopped as soul eating monsters which cause people to relive terrors let to feed and breed would shatter that Statute of Secrecy you reportedly follow."
No one on the Board was quite sure what to say to that. This was all things they were not made for. Harry wondered what the Board was really meant to do and what they actually did as they had not answered his question.
Volunteer Ensign Potter considered it mean they were a bunch of busybody rubber stamps for the Headmaster or Headmistress at the time.
"Anyway," Dumbledore stated. "As Minerva brought up the Board was in a state of disarray for the summer and I intended to bring up Molly being hired as History of Magic teacher at the first meeting to be held. I honestly didn't believe it would be a major issue."
"In all honest it isn't," Luke Smith said after a moment. "It is all the other issues that are worrying us greatly. Especially from what we could gather on the muggle taught class was it involved students given dangerous weapons."
"As the DADA teacher I have to inform you that so are the wands everyone besides most of Londo Bell have," Remus Lupin interjected. "Not to the same degree as the various mecha, but they still can be used to hurt people."
"Most of Londo Bell?" Algernon asked.
"Yes there are Volunteer Ensigns Potter, Weasley, Delacour, and Longbottom which can do magic," Vrlitwhai answered. "There is also Volunteer Ensign Albus Severus Potter but it is hard to list him and his father together like that."
The Board of Governors nearly as one looked at Professor Weasley. They all knew this could not be sitting well with her.
"I don't care for Ronald to be piloting a giant robot and under attack by Merlin knows what, but he has a gift and honestly given the things that have happened at Hogwarts he likely is safer there than he was the first two years at this school," Molly commented.
That said a great deal to the Board.
"As for my being here and the school being used as it has," Vrlitwhai remarked. "Well a Terran League general tried to have his soldiers use the mecha Eldoran had left the first time. They couldn't get the mecha to even move."
'So they made it so everything altered by Eldoran was made part of Londo Bell," Hayato added.
It sunk in to the Board of Governors that the entire castle was altered. Which meant that Londo Bell was going to run the entire place.
"The ICW or the Minister of Magic or such haven't said a word about it," Vrlitwhai stated. "Interesting how they haven't tried to express their authority. Especially given for the ICW their leader is here."
"Well Fudge's good friend is afraid the Getter team will kill him," Alastor Moody said with bemusement.
"Which given he had a hand in unleashing a giant snake that can kill with a glance and got away with just being removed from the Board of Governors here of course we will," Ryoma nearly growled.
"If we don't beat you to it," Ken Kaido said with a deranged smile on his face.
Given Lucius Malfoy had blackmailed and threatened the Board of Governors to sack Dumbledore even the ones that agreed with Malfoy didn't speak up in defense of him. Plus also weren't suicidal.
"Well there also is the fact that the Terran League President knows exactly where to go if they even did try to evict us," Ryo mused. "The conversation would likely not be pleasant."
That was something the Board of Governors was unaware of. Harry was sure that was a great many things.
"Let me make one thing clear," Vrlitwhai stated. "The fact that no one at this school before this year has taught in their class about the Board of Governors says many things about the quality of History of Magic."
"And the fact it was blackmail and not some of the interesting incidents from two years ago that got Dumbledore fired last school year," Ryoma commented.
"So basically there legitimate reasons for that?" Luke Smith said surprised at that revelation.
"Let's see…" Hayato pondered out loud. "There was Professor Dumbledore telling the student body there was a place not to go because it would get them killed, Volunteer Ensign Potter having a very public attempt on his life while riding on a broom, Volunteer Ensign Potter and Mr. Malfoy sent into the Forbidden Forest with a man who legally can't do magic and his dog to find out what was killing unicorns, and a mirror that was left in the open that caused people to die by being unable to stop watching it."
As one the Board of Governors glared at Dumbledore. Dumbledore had a feeling this was going not be very civil.
"Don't forget he sent all the students out of the main hall to their dorms when a troll was on the loose," Harry added. "With dungeons being the supposed last known location of the troll."
"And the teachers of course just blindly followed Albus's lead," Alastor groaned.
"Pretty much," Ron agreed.
That Professor Weasley didn't correct or chastise her son said a lot to the Board.
"Perhaps letting the muggles with heavy firepower stay as a form of on hand oversight might be necessary," Jessica Bole snarled. "Given the Headmaster and his followers might be far more dangerous to the students."
Needless to say Dumbledore was surprised at that quick change in opinion on Londo Bell.
Luke Smith stared at his fellow member of the board in shock at that suggestion.
"Like we could get Dumbledore thrown out again to stick," Jessica sighed. "Given nearly everyone would be 'but Dumbledore had to have good reason' and more brainless trash like that. Better to at least have something he can't get rid of and isn't afraid to step on his toes if necessary around."
Helena Bulstrode pondered that.
Algernon sat down in one of the offered chairs and wondered when the Lord of the Light had become someone the students needed defended from instead of defended by. It was something that was frankly terrifying to him.
Luke Smith then sighed. "The thing is Jessica is right. If it was anyone that didn't have Dumbledore's fame we'd sack in and instant and it'd stick like someone used sticking charms to it. With him we'd never hear the end of it and I have better things to do with my time than deal with hordes of howlers."
Harry could almost hear Hermione's trust in authority figures start to shatter like Shin Getter Two took its massive drill to it. It was not something he found pleasant in the slightest. If anything he considered that to be a tragic thing.
Luke Smith then turned to Snape. "Consider yourself on probation as you are a brilliant potions master, but let's just say we aren't unaware of your flaws."
Severus took that as to improve even more as a teacher or be fired. Also that he was sure they'd use Ryoma Nagare to punt kick him out of the school regardless of what Dumbledore stated if he didn't improve.
Dumbledore understood all that. It also made him realize how thin of ice he was with the Board of Governors and this time it won't be due to one wishing to remove him for their plans to work. He also was making sure to keep an eye on Molly as she might throw spells at him.
Hagrid had this feeling that asking Gawp if they'd have a place with that group he was training with was a good idea. Just in case he needed somewhere to go later as just maybe his taking students into the Forbidden Forest or telling them to go into it to meet Agog was something that could get him fired.
Minerva wondered what effect Albus needing a military unit to keep watch on him will do his authority and that of the rest of the professors. It then hit her what would happen if Severus spread news of Remus being a werewolf to spite the man.
'There would be utterly no respect in us and Londo Bell possibly demanding the antiwerewolf laws be dismantled or they start dismantling people,' Minerva realized.
It was something she was going to have to deal with as she doubted Albus would. Severus having his trust wasn't going to be enough in this case. Plus there was the fact Remus was one of her former lions and deserved a chance to be a teacher as long as he was able to.
Harry then had an idea. It might just work and shock everyone in the Wizarding World.
"Board of Governors would you wish to visit the Chamber of Secrets after work is done to fix a collapsed tunnel?" Volunteer Ensign Potter inquired.
"..You mean the chamber is real?" Helena gasped.
"Oh yes it is," Harry assured her. "I've been there. Had to fight a giant snake down there too after finding out Lockhart is a fraud that steals fame with memory charms."
"Mr. Potter why do I have this feeling you will have many stories and none involving the Aurors called in?" Luke Smith managed to ask.
"Because that would be the truth," Harry answered. "I would have told Mr. Moody all about those incidents if he was called in."
The Board of Governors had this feeling that they should have paid a far closer eye on Hogwarts. With the unthinkable coming to their minds in that perhaps the alien from outer space would be a good person to work with to change that.
"Also is using the word of time travelers that the upcoming Triwizard Tournament is a complete and utter mess wrong to bring up?" Harry inquired.
"Mr. Potter I personally felt the whole thing was a terrible idea to even suggest let alone having it go forward for next year," Luke Smith stated. "So I am not surprised on it going badly news."
"Just an age line, and I get entered and used as bait," Harry groaned. "And reportedly the one who entered me in it told everyone that it was to try to get me killed. No one seemed to care about my feelings."
"And let's not forget the fact they'd let badges that slander you be worn and no one having points taken off or told to take those badges off that moment," Ryoma noted.
The Professors could feel Molly glaring at them.
"Albus if you are still doing that thing you better have good reasons for any and everything planned," Alastor said glaring at his friend. "As I am going to be with Londo Bell on picking apart everything and not letting tradition be a reason for doing anything in that tournament."
"Using Volunteer Ensign Potter as bait is also out of the question," Sanger proclaimed.
No one was thinking it'd be a slap on the wrist if Dumbledore went against the Sword That Pierces Evil. Well unless Sanger used his mech to slap Dumbledore.
"I agree with Major Zonvolt," Remus said firmly. "James and Lily did not give their lives for Harry to be used like that!"
Dumbledore was sure that was aimed it him.
"This is something the Board does not want to have happen," Luke Smith spoke up. "And why I didn't want the Triwizard Tournament to go through before, and now I think Hogwarts would find a multitude of ways to utterly embarrass itself on an international stage."
"While we can't have you fired Professor Dumbledore do consider yourself on probation like Professor Snape is," Jessica Bole stated. "And it definitely will still be the case next school year as well."
Gilliam wondered what sort of shockwaves this frank and open discussion would have. It definitely was going to be interesting.
And perhaps the Triwizard Tournament could be made something that wasn't a bloodsport. Though Gilliam wasn't holding his breath on that.
"I also wonder how badges slandering the Boy-Who-Lived were allowed to be used," Helena inquired.
"My son and his friend had no idea," Harry admitted. "Of course half the time I think the biggest lesson Hogwarts teaches is that might makes right and that you should use your power to force people to do what you want."
There was a stunned silence from the professors, board and the students.
"I don't think it would be an intentional lesson, but there are a lot of examples of people using and abusing their power that I have seen," Harry commented. "And some I heard from my son too."
"Mr. Potter that is something we as the Board will try to resolve," Luke Smith assured him. "Given we had enough problems the last time someone thought like that and was able to gather an army."
"Minister Fudge is also part of that problem," Harry remarked.
"Of course he would be," Algernon grumbled. "Bloody idiot."
It warmed Harry's heart that it seemed no one really supported Fudge. Nor did anyone try to say he was wrong to feel they way that he did on the minister.
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The strike on the Crouch home was fast as lightning, and hoping that what Barty Jr. had told Bellatrix and others about the defense still applied. They also hoped that the Triwizard tournament plans were keeping the only other person to live at the house extremely busy.
They didn't seem to notice or care that the house elf didn't attack them or do anything to defend Barty as the Death Eaters looked for him. Something that if they had been thinking about it should have worried them.
Thomas used thermal vision goggles and smiled slightly as it worked to find a large object that was hidden from normal sight. He wondered if the infamous cloak given by Death would be as easy to find.
A quick check was taken to make sure it was Barty and none of them noticed a slight smile on the face of who they rescued as they'd covered him back up with the invisibility cloak.
It was something they'd learn to regret later.
Euzeth Gozzo had plans for this bunch, and it wasn't ones that the Death Eaters would agree with for the most part.
The only plan that Barty/Euzeth had they might desire is trying to mix science and magic like Granzon had.
Perhaps for once he would be able to be like Ultraman. It was something he always wished to make happen.
He also hoped to avoid being beaten by a bunch of mecha pilots again.
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Despite all the changes he had undergone, Ron still was giddy thinking about the feast they were going to be flying to New Jersey for. All the food sounded good to him and he was sure Coop was going to wrap turkey in bacon.
Perhaps there would even be a turducken available for him to try at the feast. It was something Ron considered interesting. He then chuckled as he imagined using magic would make putting the three animals together to cook a lot easier.
Volunteer Ensign Weasley also thought about how for Christmas there was going to be fried chicken, coleslaw, and a few other things added to the usual Hogwarts Christmas feast. It all sounded weird but extremely interesting and tasty to Ron.
He just wasn't sure if he'd be at Hogwarts for Christmas or at the Burrow. Either place was a possibility and he hoped that he'd be able to try some of the new Christmas feast items and some of the foods most of Londo Bell were going to eat on New Years as well.
Ron then focused on the quidditch match that was taking place. It was Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw. Though he was sure food being the only thing to beat quidditch would not surprise his classmates.
"And here I thought the broom riding was just a metaphor," Velt remarked as he watched the game.
"A metaphor for what?" Ron asked.
Velt was quiet. Which worried Ron a great deal as Velt enjoyed listening to himself talk about all kinds of things at length.
"It is something that will not be considered very complimentary," Velt explained.
"Oh," Ron said after a moment as he wondered what it could be.
Ryoma then whispered what it was to Ron and he stared at him in utter shock and surprise.
"Broomsticks mean we are riding what?!" Ron yelled and caught the attention of those not engrossed in the game.
"And pretty sure the male demons have those," Ryoma mused. "Given most of the female ones have breasts."
"Also the fact that demons have romantic relationships also makes it clear they do not reproduce asexually," Velt noted as this seemed to be a slightly safer subject.
"...I am not going to ask them what parts they have or try to check," Ron groaned. "I am not that insane."
Hermione blushed when she put together what they were talking about. She was glad Harry was busy as seeker to not hear about that. He might have had a mid-air accident otherwise.
"That is wise," Athrun Zala remarked as he also had figured out what they were talking about.
Albus Severus had no idea what they were talking about, and honestly wasn't sure if he wanted to ask. So he focused on the game instead.
In the air Harry was loving the feeling of riding on his broom. It felt so relaxing after the various battles he had been in. There also were no Dementors around to even think about messing with this game.
Harry also had no intention of having his broom slam into the Whomping Willow even if he'd get a Firebolt. He liked his current broom.
'Though I wonder what Ron yelled about,' Harry pondered as he flew past one of the Ravenclaw chasers.
Volunteer Ensign Potter noticed that Cho Chang was trying to find the snitch. Harry had a feeling that she had no idea where it was and was trying to play head games with him.
Harry then tried to play head games with Cho as he looked for the snitch in the most blinding obvious ways he could. He wondered if she saw through his tactic.
That was when a Neville flew past in the his jet. Everyone in the air scattered as the obsidian painted Eagle Unit did various aerial moves like a barrel roll. It was amazing that Neville didn't hit anyone given his jet moved at about Mach .9 and brooms didn't go anywhere near as fast.
"Figures the guy afraid of flying would be the one to get an extremely powerful jet," Harry muttered.
Madam Hooch was very earthly and colorful as she yelled at the Getter Machine that had scared everyone.
She wasn't the only one as Oliver Wood had a few choice words he shouted at the Eagle Unit.
Harry had a feeling Draco would have gotten even more of a scare if Slytherin had been one of the teams playing.
The pilot of a Rezel then looked to see if either of the other Getter pilots were going to fly over the pitch as well. Thankfully none of them were.
"Well that was…" Cho Chang said trying to find the right word.
"Utterly insane?" Harry suggested.
"He used to be shy," Fred remarked.
"Well I guess fighting demons and more gives you courage," George added.
"Timid people do not last long in Londo Bell," Harry noted.
"I take it your son will last a long time then," Cho mused with a slight smile. "As I don't think he is timid at all."
'Or sane," Harry said rubbing his temples.
No one disagreed with Harry on that. They also hoped that someone driving their mecha through the game didn't catch on. Once was frankly enough for them and it wasn't that fun even then.
More than anything he didn't want to see Coop fly Megas through a game.
V-V-V
Honerva smiled as she found something so very interesting in Solar System. A Gynok spore that appeared to be part of a ring around one of the outer planets. It would be perfect to have it destroy the Earth before the various other forces had their chance.
A few illusions and no one noticed the rock looking spore flying at high speed to Earth.
'With a bit of luck this spore will do all the work for us and we can blow up the planet before it spreads,' Honerva thought to herself.
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Anna Cooplawski was glad her son was making friends as Jamie had gone from a nerdy boy to kind of suspect to her. Tiny was ok. Words failed her on Goat. Kiva was odd to be honest. Lowe was nice even if he helped feed Harold's mecha madness. Though she never expected for her son to bring an entire castle to Jersey City.
However the shock faded when it involved the special task force her son was part of. It said a lot that her son's adventures were normal to them. Which frankly was utterly frightening to Anna as her son once nearly destroyed the Earth with a black hole.
Anna then focused on something that made her happy. It was that she didn't have to clean up all the dishes after her son had assaulted all the food for once as there were magical beings doing that work.
Though Anna also wondered about the brother and sister pair that also were at the Thanksgiving feast having a dog drive a mech. The Pasture King was just weird to her.
Anna shook her head and turned to the professor that also was a mother. It was someone Anna hoped to have a conversation with that didn't involve mecha or working on things like it was with Lowe.
"And this still is mess weird than the whole magical world that has a video game as a gateway thing," Anna admitted.
"I don't think I will ever understand that," Molly said after a moment. "Even the things one of my neighbors writes in his newspaper try to be more sensible than Hara-Hara World."
"It beats when my son found an ancient device at a yard sale that turned out to be full of digitized giant monster criminals," Anna groaned.
"That was annoying," Sayla remarked. "Even more so talking him out of throwing them out to sea as the tide would bring them back."
"Eh we'd beat them up again if they tried to pick up where they left off," Ryoma interjected as he was cutting off a piece off a turkey with a massive and extremely sharp knife.
Anna rolled her eyes and then groaned as she saw a girl turn more avian and hold up a fireball when Harold started eating stuffing out of the bowel with his hands. Smoke and heat radiated from the fireball like it was a barely controlled campfire.
"You will not ever do that in my presence again," Fleur growled at Coop.
"...Ok…." Coop said as he found that a bit scary. He also backed away from Fleur.
Seolla looked a bit jealous of being able to do that as it'd come in handy. She then noticed Arado and Ron seeing who could eat more. She really wasn't surprised to see that and if anyone bet with her she'd put money on Arado.
Seolla chuckled as she was sure that Kyosuke would make the same bet.
Athrun had a wide eyed stare at seeing someone look like they were turning into a bird and holding fire in their clawed hands. He also made a note to not eat the stuffing from that bowl. He wondered if knowing or not knowing where those hands had been would be worse.
"Figures it'd take a girl able to throw fire to force Coop to show manners," Jamie commented.
No one disagreed with him. Ron made sure to be on his best behavior when eating given that woman was his sister-in-law in Albus's timeline. Also there was the fact Fleur had gotten along well with Bill when they met at Ginny's birthday party so it might be possible here as well.
'Even if she doesn't get married to Bill it is best to not give her reason to throw fire at me,' Ron thought wisely.
Kiva took all that in stride and turned to Jack King.
"So what is this...Thanksgiving?" she asked him as it likely would be better than Coop or Jamie.
"It is a day of giving thanks for what you have," Jack explained. "And a lot of eating as well."
"I can see why it is a favorite holiday of Coop," Kiva said dryly.
"Though this is the first time I've seen pizza served at a Thanksgiving feast," Mary noted looking at several pizzas and something that looked a lot like pizza.
Fleur was surprised to see that they had pissaladiere among all the other foods. So she tried it and found it was good. It gave her hope to have proper French food along with British, American, and Japanese fare.
"Just talk to the house elves in charge of the kitchen," Gilliam informed Fleur.
"You know where they are?" Fleur asked.
"It is a very open secret," Gilliam answered.
"Interesting," Fleur muttered.
"I believe showing you can wait until after all the festivities are finished," Gilliam remarked.
Fleur had no problems with that.
Though the XO of the Archangel looked like all this was about to make her freak out. Natarle Badgiruel frankly had hoped in her military career to not meet Londo Bell and be dragged into their madness.
There was a huge list of things that came to her mind that for any other unit everyone in it would get a Section 8, but with Londo Bell it was considered a slow and of dull day.
Mu La Flaga gave Natarle a commiserating smile. It almost made Natarle blush.
"Believe I have feeling too that," Kayra Su commented.
"They do good work, but anything that resembles normal tactics and objectives has flown out the window," Natarle stated. "I am not sure how the various captains and commanders has been able to handle this."
Kayra then laughed.
"What is so funny?" Ensign Badgiruel inquired.
"Captain Noa and the others have an easier time than my boyfriend," Kayra replied. "He's the one who has had to deal with Lowe and Coop as the chief mechanic of the Macbeth."
"..Oh…" Natarle said softly as that had to be utterly insane.
"Yeah those two are mad," Kayra commented. "And it seems that one of your crew is now working with the pair."
"Dear lord," Natarle moaned.
"Wait until they all get together with Ryusei and see if they can make a super robot from a TV show real," Aya Kobayashi remarked.
"And yes they'd do it," Mu assured Natarle. "Nothing really stops them from the things they already do."
Kayra didn't say anything as she was already sure they'd take a crack at it sooner or later.
The world felt even stranger to Natarle Badgiruel thinking about how Gekiganger could be brought to life. Plus the fact they had the Getters to use as a model made her feel worried.
"The world is a very weird place," Kayra admitted as she poked a piece of turkey. "And every bit of that weirdness wants to meet Londo Bell."
"Or kill us," Mu noted before eating some cranberry sauce.
No one disagreed with that statement.
"This is going to be one weird assignment," Natarle groaned.
Mu wasn't surprised to see her military bearing and manner crack like that. Many people did that when they had to work with Londo Bell.
Natarle looked rather annoyed she had done that. She prided herself on keeping a strong front.
"Don't worry about it," Aya assured her. "Be more worried if you pick up habits from Ryusei even worse the Getter pilots."
"You mean he does call out his attacks?" Natarle asked.
Aya nodded.
"The day fanboys become the the greatest pilots…" Natarle muttered.
"You are aware that to a much more quiet degree that one of the mecha pilots of the Archangel is like that right?" Mio asked as she walked by.
"They are?" Natarle groaned.
"Well as long as they aren't causing massive amounts of destruction," Mu commented.
"That scares me too," Kayru stage whispered.
"So which one is it?" Natarle asked Mio and hoped the strange girl would give a straight answer.
Mio pointed at the pilot.
Ryoto Hikawa wondered why people were looking at him. That was weird to him as he hadn't done anything.
Seated at what many in Londo Bell referred to a throne, Dumbledore looked at the mixing of people and felt that perhaps having a turkey feast yearly at Hogwarts would work well. Though he figured the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving would be a better time for the school as sleepy students on the Friday after the feast wouldn't go well.
Still the food was good, the students were interacting beyond house lines, and things were going smoothly.
Dumbledore also hoped to get Anna Cooplawski as an ally to try to keep her son from destroying Hogwarts by accident. It was something he honestly worried out every single day.
V-V-V
The Gynok was not having a good day as it got stepped on repeatedly by various metal giants. It also swore that one of them that was yellow purposed ground their foot.
"Need powerful forms to fight them," Gynok groaned. "Then get warm and conquer this planet and then the galaxy."
The green ooze like creature then saw various giant parade floats and figured that would work the best. Especially one that resembled some of the things that had stepped on it.
Gynok had no idea it should be glad that a hardcore Gekiganger 3 fanboy didn't have a mech yet. Otherwise things would get even uglier.
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Kaworu found this to be a strange day. A massive feast, and now taking part in a parade. He wondered what that weird plant pretending to be Aggie the Adorable Aardvark, Gekiganger, Texas Robo, a Valkyrie, and several Zentradi mecha floats was up to.
Tabris ignored the commentary two announcers gave of Londo Bell and Hogwarts being in the parade. He knew it would be of no real value and that the pair would soon be getting something worth talking about.
Suddenly various floats started to look like the character they were had taken steroids.
"Coop did you let something loose on the Earth?" Amuro inquired. "Again?"
"I don't think I did…" Coop replied.
"Gynok must crush metal giants, grow, and spread," Gynok growled from the mouth of Aggie. "Gynok must conquer everything."
"Gynok about to be introduced to Getter Rays," Ryoma snarled.
The Valkyrie that Gynok had taken the form of was struck with a Getter Beam and screamed.
"I really shouldn't be surprised that it doesn't care for that," Bullet commented.
"Let's see how much it cares for this," Koji called out. "Rust Hurricane!"
The alien plant screamed in pain as the Deputy Duck shaped body completely and utterly came apart and died.
Even the green sludge that made up the body came apart.
"That is a plant?" Neville said surprised. "Be nice to study if it wasn't trying to kill us and wanted to take over the galaxy."
"A botanist Getter pilot," Yzak commented as he opened fire on the roided up Valkyrie. "That's new."
"Hey I like plants," Neville remarked.
Kaworu rolled his eyes and then attacked the Auggie the Aardvark with his dual chainsaw. There was a lot of green goo/plant matter flying
Yet the instant that Kaworu stopped the massive slash in the gut of the being sealed and no one could tell it had been gutted.
"That's not good," Ron gasped.
"Must destroy metal giants!" all the giant plants growled. "Then get heat and grow!"
"Just chill out," Coop remarked and fired a burst of ice that covered one of the Fabio Brothers and caused it come apart.
Harry fired on the goo, but it reformed and looked even more enraged.
"Need heat!" Gynok yelled.
"Oh you'll get heat," Koji called out. "Breast Fire!"
The burst of heat seemed to be enjoyed by the plant creature and caused them to start coming together.
Mazinkaiser SKL joined in with the Inferno Blaster.
Coop then cranked up the heat in more ways than one. This caused all the "floats" to merge into one massive plant.
"Yes!' Gynok called out as giant spores started to bloom. "More warmth. Take over the universe!"
And that was when gravity of the situation stuck Gynok with Grendizer using the Anti-Gravity Storm and the plant got to feel what being on the bottom of the Marianas Trench felt like.
"Stoner Sunshine!" Ryoma called out and a massive ball of Getter Rays struck the massive plant dead on. The spores let out a smell like burnt popcorn as they turned black and the plant started to scream.
Koji stopped giving Gynok heat and Mazinger Z nodded to Iron Z.
"Dual Rust Hurricane!" Koji and Kikunosuke called out.
Gynok was unable to take that the green goo that it was made of also was compressed by the Anti-Gravity Storm.
There was a stunned silence from the crowd for several moments and then they roared with cheers at what they had seen.
"If they consider this the best parade ever I am going to wonder about this city," Yzak commented.
V-V-V
Dekim Barton looked at the army he had his command. Soon they would launch their assault and make the world his. Or they would destroy the Earth if control wasn't given.
Still there was a matter at the Telsa Leicht Institute and Mao Industries creating something that scared him.
The Dynamic General Guardians would be a very big problem for his plans.
V-V-V
Nine gems waited to be found. With them the way to another planet would be opened.
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Chapter notes
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. He is a badass.
Athrun Zala is from Gundam SEED. He has no idea what he has managed to get himself into.
Kira Yamato is from Gundam SEED. He is the "ultimate coordinator" but has no idea what that is, and was an engineering student like Amuro Ray.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED X Astray. He has a chip on his shoulder, and a Gundam to fight people in. Not someone to mess with.
Harold "Coop" Cooplawski is from Megas XLR. He loves video games, prowrestling, eating, working on cars and customizing giant robots. He fits in extremely well with Londo Bell.
Lowe Gruele is from Gundam SEED Astray.
Hayato Jin is from Getter Robo. He is not a man to be messed with.
Tasuku Shinguji is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is an extremely skilled mechanic and will fit in well with Coop and the others.
Yzak Joule is from Gundam SEED. A prideful red jacket who is in over his head. Best friends with Dearka.
Dearka Elsman is from Gundam SEED. More sarcastic than Yzak, but sharing similar views.
Kikunosuke Abashiri is from Mazinger Angels Z.
Leona Garstein is from Super Robot Wars OG. A cool and collected pilot and aware of how crazy Londo Bell is.
Kiva Andrus is from Megas XLR. Her plan to send Megas into the past to change an important battle has not gone anywhere near as she hoped.
Vrlitwhai Kridanik is from Macross. A determined and experienced military leader and ready for Hogwarts. If Hogwarts is ready for him is the question.
Mio Sasuga is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is the pilot of the Zamzeed and also can break the fourth wall.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He likes using melee weapons in combat.
Sanger Zonvolt is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is the Sword That Pierces Evil! He is a hammy badass that makes what he says sound awesome.
Gilliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is a man of many mysteries and has a thing for the Gespenst.
Veltab "Velt" Text is from Super Robots V. A student of military history and enjoys talking about.
Sayla Mass is from Mobile Suit Gundam. She might not have the fame of her brother, but she is still an extremely skilled mech pilot and not someone to get on the bad side of.
Seolla Schweitzer is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is skilled at long range combat, and has a hair trigger when it comes to Arado.
Arado Balanga is Super Robot Wars OG. He is good at close range, eats a lot, and has as much skill at getting through the minefield that is Seolla's feelings towards him as a fish is skilled at mountain climbing.
Jamie is from Megas XLR. He is a cowardly womanizer, and yet there are depths to him even he is unaware of.
Jack King is from Getter Robo. He is the pilot of Texas Mach and tends to dress like a cowboy.
Mary King is from Getter Robo. She pilots the hat/shield of Texas Mach and tends to dress in the same sort of spaghetti western garb her brother wears.
Natarle Badgiruel is from Gundam SEED. She is a strict and no nonsense military officer. She knows she is doomed by being stick with Londo Bell.
Mu La Flaga is from Gundam SEED. He is a skilled and decorated pilot. Is amused to be part of a group that making the impossible possible is what they do and likely their mission statement.
Karya Su is from Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack. Unlike most of Londo Bell she was a member of the military before becoming part of the unit.
Aya Kobayashi is from Super Robot Wars OG. She is a part of the SRX team, and a powerful psychodriver.
Ryoto Hikawa is from Super Robot Wars OG. He's a very shy and unassuming person. He also is a black belt in karate and a skilled mech pilot. Messing with him is a bad idea.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is the most sane and mentally balanced Evangelion pilot and is actually an Angel. That says so much about the recruitment of pilots for NERV.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. He is the original Gundam pilot and the one all others are judged by.
Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield is from Super Robot Wars OG. A man of some very odd sayings and learning to be a swordsman.