The Potter family home was seeing more life and guests than it had in a very long time. In fact only one person going there had any memory or attendence of those events.
Ron never imagined he'd be in a home as opulent as this. Even more so with a talking cats, a girl that piloted a biomech, and more. The DADA teacher was likely the most normal of all of them.
Ron then nearly snorted realizing that included him given what he was.
'Man my life is weird,' Ron thought to himself.
Harry was savoring being able to introduce his parents and grandparents to his friends. He also hoped Hime not being around Yuu for a bit would help matters as the relationship between those two was just very confusing to him.
Some had suggested to Harry it meant they had feelings towards each other, but to Harry it looked more like Yuu had as much as much of an idea of what was going on as he did and Hime was being extremely controlling.
From what he heard Hime's younger siblings also were kind of annoying to Yui as well whenever he visited the Novis Noah.
Which worried Harry as it made more sense than what Arado and Seolla did. Man those two confused Harry a lot. He had no idea why anyone considered that relationship cute or why Seolla kept hitting Arado.
'I just don't see why anyone thinks that's healthy,' Harry admitted to himself.
Masaki thankfully didn't get lost. Harry wasn't sure where Masaki could end up if he did.
'He might end up in another dimension again like he said happened to him,' Harry mused.
Supposedly Masaki had done that, but his memory of it was a bit fuzzy. Something about beating some really ugly being holding the dimension together, there being magic, and a couple of the people he vaguely remembered as being people he knew.
The clearest memory Masaki had of the whole thing was something annoying him enough to team up with Heero Yui. No one was sure what could cause that to happen and really hoped to avoid seeing it happen.
Masaki crossing dimensions wasn't ruled out as something that happened to Masaki. He ended up in so many weird places.
Albus Severus wasn't surprised at what he saw. He was aware of this place, but in his reality his parents had decided to not live here as they wanted a place they could call their own.
Though he was worried what his great grandparents and grandparents would say about his adventures. Especially the one he nearly turned his brain to jello.
Albus Severus's frown was not a surprise to anyone.
"You sure you want to do this?" Kuro asked.
"Yes I am," Albus answered. "Though I don't think it'll be fun."
Canard Pars snorted at that. "I think that will be an understatement."
Neville just grinned.
That grin worried Albus Severus a great deal.
"You are definitely not the same as the one I knew of," Albus muttered.
"Good," Neville said. "I got a few years head start on being a badass to him."
Albus just left it at that as they made their way to where the paintings of the various Potters they wished to talk to were.
Masato tried to take in everything around him. Paintings moving on their own and more were still not something he considered normal even after being at Hogwarts for a few months.
Harry wished honestly that it was his actual parents and grandparents they were talking to, but these magical paintings were the best he was going to get.
"It is good to see you all again," Harry said warmly to the various paintings.
"Have things gotten less or more insane for him Moony?" James asked.
"Way more," Remus answered.
"That's not good," Lily said worried.
"Halloween and Christmas were very busy for me," Harry remarked. "And not all in the fun way."
"Do we want to know the full story?" Dorea Potter inquired.
"Not really," Remus groaned. "The leaders behind it are either not somewhere an owl can deliver a howler for you unleash a flood of profanity or they are already dead."
"A pity," Dorea grumbled.
"It would be nice if you could Grandma," Harry commented. "I'd enjoy them having to deal that."
That said a lot to everyone.
"Anyway this is Neville Longbottom," Harry said. "I didn't talk about him much before as we didn't get to know each other until school started."
Harry was not going to talk about the ODE Incident with the family paintings unless he had to.
Neville shot the paintings a certain grin. No one was quite sure why he did that.
James blinked for a moment. "Frank and Alice's boy? He looks...insane smiling like that."
"He's fallen in with the Getter pilots," Harry remarked. "If you can survive piloting it you are hired."
"That sounds extremely unsafe," Lily commented.
"It is," Remus spoke up. "We didn't cover them as we would have needed a week to cover all the mecha in as much depth as we told you about mobile suits and Harry's Rezel."
"I don't see myself as having fallen in," Neville remarked. "I see it as more finding out I am far stronger than I and definitely most of my family ever thought I was. Plus it just drives them nuts for me to have gone from meek to not."
"You have a lot of Alice in you," James said after a moment.
Neville was happy to hear that. No one ever had talked much about his mother to him. It always was his father.
"So is forcing out magic in kids a common thing?" Canard asked.
"It is extremely frowned on," Charlus said sharply. "And considered a mark of shame for a family."
"I didn't know that," Neville remarked. "Of course my great uncle Algernon has me smiling like this haunt his nightmares."
"They better Frank doesn't wake up or he's going to be very unhappy with his uncle," James commented. "And what Alice will do would be far worse."
"Really makes me want to see it happen," Neville admitted.
Ron was sure that was going to get ugly.
"This is Hermione," Harry stated to try to change the subject.
"A pleasure to meet you," Lily said kindly. "Harry told us a lot about you."
"And before you ask trolls, giant snakes, and bloody Dementors are not a normal things to be seen at Hogwarts," James spoke up.
"Oh and they intend to have the Triwizard Tournament next year," Harry stated. "Didn't even tell Uncle Moony as he was just the DADA teacher and won't be around then anyway."
"Son," James groaned. "Don't ever think because we went to Hogwarts that you have to. Get out if you think the place gets too dangerous."
Harry let out a bitter laugh.
"Dad if I left before Londo Bell had gotten there the place would be unable to deal with the problem of the year," Harry groaned. "The 'adults' won't know what to do if I wasn't there to be an impediment to and have fix things themselves."
"Let's just say it has been eye opening working there," Remus told the painting of his friend. "From the now and the once possible future due to a trio of time travelers who got an advanced time turner able to go back decades out of Hogwarts."
Lily and James stared at Remus. They had hoped he was just kidding, but they could tell he wasn't.
"Ummm…..hello," Albus said. "Nice to meet you grandmother and grandfather."
"...And here I thought James being part of that group of pranksters was the worst it could get," Charlus Potter groaned.
"Of course I am also sure you didn't expect me to have been fighting off invasions," Harry mused.
"Or have to solve all of problems in Hogwarts," Charlus spoke up.
"I have no idea why the staff did that," Remus interjected.
"After Dumbledore considered it a good idea to tempt children with a forbidden place with certain death I am not sure if they hadn't all gone mad," Lily growled.
Remus had to admit that it certainly was not Professor Dumbledore's best idea.
"I think I should introduce the rest of my friends as we'll be here all day and all night talking about mistakes made at Hogwarts," Volunteer Ensign Potter stated.
"Good idea," James agreed.
"This is Hime Utsumiya and she pilots a biological unit called an Antibody," Harry explained.
"Hello," Hime said kindly.
"Bio...wait you mean there are ones not made in a factory?" Dorea asked.
"Not with with those," Harry answered. "You have to find the Plates and awaken them."
"That sounds dangerous," Charlus spoke up. "As it sounds like those can be found in the wild."
"They are," Harry stated. "A group known as the Reclaimers want to take them all."
"The place is full of people in need of help," Masaki spoke up.
"Though I wonder what your parents think of you piloting some giant...whatever it counts as being," Charlus mused out loud.
Hime looked uncomfortable. "My parents are gone and I have been trying to raise my younger siblings. It has gotten easier joining the Novis Nova and Londo Bell."
"You poor dear," Dorea said softly.
"Of course she's nice to pretty much everyone other than his guy she likes," Canard remarked.
"I do not like Yuu!" Hime snapped.
"You sure seem interested in his personal life," Albus noted.
"Of course supposedly Sirius sees you as Harry's girlfriend," Canard mused.
James snorted at that last part.
Lily rolled her eyes.
"Don't let Sirius get to you," Lily told Harry and Hime.
"I try not to Mum," Harry answered.
"Good," Lily said with a smile. "Your godfather is a good man, but he's very immature and can be extremely annoying."
"So I have gathered," Volunteer Ensign Potter commented. "Still I am very glad he is in my life and I with a bit luck can avoid my friends spending more time with him than I ever will."
"Huh?" James asked.
"Albus is very willing to talk about things," Harry explained.
"And I take it won't know what the Temporal Prime Directive is from," Lily sighed.
"We haven't shown him Star Trek yet," Harry informed his mother. "Trying to figure out the best place to introduce him."
Lily had a feeling something had been left out of that.
"I have no idea what he was talking about," Albus admitted.
"Long lasting fictional series," James explained. "Lily showed me some of the movies on our honeymoon."
"I'd have a lot to say to Khan," Canard noted.
Hermione blinked and realized that yes Canard would have much to say to a fellow genetically enhanced being.
"This is my friend my friend Masaki Andoh and his familiars Kuro and Shiro," Harry stated.
"Hey there," Shiro spoke up.
"And here I thought Harry was joking on the talking cats," James managed to get out.
Lily realized that it was likely everything Remus and Harry had said was completely true. Which worried given some of the things they had mentioned and things had gotten even more insane for her son.
"You have no idea how crazy things are then if that was unbelievable," Neville laughed.
"That is extremely worrying," Dorea spoke up.
"It is my life," Harry shrugged.
"I didn't expect your life to one where Gekiganger 3 would be considered normal," Lily stated.
"Only the dates not matching up keep me from thinking they based the show off the Getter team," Harry admitted.
"A very kid friendly version of most of the Getter team," Masaki commented.
"If they gave one of the Getter pilots the leniency we had the school would have been conquered and then he'd go for the Ministry of Magic," Remus said with a shiver. "Hayato Jin is a very dangerous man."
"He also is one of the major reasons Hogwarts has finally gained some level of getting along," Harry noted. "Along with Ryoma Nagare, Ken Kaido, and Ryo Magami."
"Merlin…" James muttered.
"Anyway," Harry said as they had gotten off topic. "Masaki here is someone I trust way more than a lot of Hogwarts students."
"Harry most of Londo Bell is on that list," Hermione spoke up.
"That is true," Harry nodded.
Lily was sure that most at Hogwarts hadn't said or done anything to make up for Harry over thinking he was the Heir to Slytherin. She doubted the fact he was with a military strike force or not had anything to do with that.
"Nice to meet you," James said to Masaki. "Glad Harry is making friends."
"Nice to be here," Masaki grinned.
"So what sort of...thing… does he pilot?" Charlus asked.
"It is called the Cybuster and it uses magic or prana as they call it in La Gias," Harry explained.
"I can see that La Gias lacks a Statute of Secrecy," Dorea noted.
"Yeah they don't care," Harry noted.
"I'm from Tokyo originally and most of the pilots of the Masoukishin think have been from the surface world like me," Masaki commented.
"And the fact other than its power source can be understood by Londo Bell," Harry said bemused. "And it is all using magic."
"It probably has to hurt some people that muggles could figure out how a magical mech works way more than they ever could," James mused.
"Though I am learning how in Coop's after school class," Ron said with a smile.
"The world is very nuts when he could be called a professor," Remus remarked. "There have been far worse teachers at the school than him."
"I don't know why the state of affairs that Hogwarts didn't try living up to being the greatest school of magic existed," Charlus said firmly.
It was a question they could not answer.
"This is Luna Lovegood," Harry stated. "It says a lot I got to really meet her in Las Vegas instead of at Hogwarts."
"Why is that?" James asked.
"She's a year behind me and in Ravenclaw," Harry explained. "I really was not a social butterfly the first two years at Hogwarts."
"That is a very annoying," Lily groaned. "It is hard to keep up friendships with people in other houses. More than it really should be."
"I just wonder if the Ravenclaw and other houses talk about your house being your family crap," Canard remarked.
Charlus and the other paintings could tell Canard's family life was horrible from that statement. They had no idea it was even worse than they imagined.
"That is an interesting question," Charlus admitted,
Luna stayed silent on that. As was Dorea Potter.
"That says a lot," Canard noted.
"No kidding," Masaki muttered.
"Though Luna had some issues at Hogwarts," Harry commented. "Really the most normal experience for the school was Sirius's as mine and Luna's didn't put the staff in a good light."
"Of course now things have been fixed," Luna said with a smile. "Amazing how it just takes Hayato Jin focusing his attention on the Ravenclaw House."
"What do you mean that it took Hayato Jin to make things in the Ravenclaw house be sorted out?" Charlus asked sharply.
"He means that Filius had not seen some of the bullying done by members of the house to others in it," Remus explained. "And now it is them and the very foolish Slytherins that get sent to the gym."
"Mum thinks the physical exercise has done them a lot of good," Ron smirked. "They are too tired to be a pain to everyone."
"Physical activity as a punishment?" Dorea said surprised.
"I think the words self destruction ended up scaring a lot of people," Harry mused. "Then again about a hundred of each of a bunch of physical activities as a punishment would do that."
"Yikes," James said after a moment.
"Needless to say muscle relaxing potions and ointments are something kept in stock now," Remus noted.
"I don't recall Ravenclaws in my day being so stupid," Charlus remarked.
"I don't think that Ravenclaws in your day would take me when I was being a jerk as something to emulate," Ron mused.
It said a lot to Harry that he got a Ron that was willing to admit he hadn't always made the best choices. He didn't want to have to deal with Ron turning his back on him while put in a magical tournament that of course the only person actually helping him put him in it in the first place.
Volunteer Ensign Potter then made a note to ask Hermione's parents if they heard Hermione was to be put in the bottom of Black Lake in the middle of winter for the tournament. He really wondered if they threatened anyone yet as it seemed the tournament was still going due to political inertia.
"This is Canard Pars," Harry commented.
There was something about him that worried Lily.
"He's a coordinator and we still are trying to figure out how he is lesser than someone else we know named Kira Yamato," Volunteer Ensign Potter stated.
"Ok…" James said as he had a feeling that would his head hurt if they went into detail.
"We aren't as close as Harry is the others but he felt I needed something better to do for New Years than brood," Canard stated.
"But I still think you are a friend," Harry pointed out.
"More with Russel than me but he's busy," Canard shrugged.
"Who?" Lily asked.
"Russel Bagman," Remus explained. "Doubt he has any relation to Ludo Bagman."
"Huh," James muttered.
"He's a guy that everyone gets along with and almost is considered utterly normal," Remus stated."Until you realize how well gets along with the leader of Octo Squad."
"She's kind of crazy," Harry noted.
"I'd say more than kind of," Canard put it.
"Not that you are any saint or innocent," Neville mused.
"I never said I was," Canard shot back.
The paintings weren't quite sure what to make of Canard Pars at that.
"Trust me it'd take several hours to explain things," Remus told the paintings. "I'd have to explain a lot of muggle terms and their advanced technology that involves permanent transfiguration of things on a scale that most purebloods won't have imagined could be done. Also to things that can not be seen by the naked eye that make up what makes us well...us."
"I'll try explaining some of it after you all leave," Lily stated.
"Also from what Lowe has said that George Glenn when he's not in things he has to be serious is a goofball," Harry noted.
"They use his brain hooked up to a ship to be the captain of said ship," Remus informed the paintings.
"Why do I have a feeling some Ministries of Magic would consider that necromancy?" Dorea gasped.
"They might," Harry admitted after a moment. "And then realize that Coop might top that if they raise a fuss by accident."
That was worrying to the paintings.
Remus shrugged.
"This is my friend Masato," Harry remarked.
"Hi? Masato said a bit confused.
"It is nice that you are making more friends," Lily said kindly.
"I have another one named Shinji Ikari here but his father won't want his puppet to be away from town for something that he'd enjoy," Harry grumbled.
"Let's just say Gendo Ikari is a shite father and leave it at that," Remus explained. "Or we'd be here all day and not sure how they'd explain him getting a vulgar yelling letter."
"I see," James said sharply.
"No one likes that guy for good reason," Harry stated.
Lily looked extremely unhappy to be able to meet another of her son's friends.
"In any case Masato is stuck in a weird mess," Harry said looking extremely unhappy. "Seems that his...father for lack of better word has gotten two groups dance to his tune and he's been dead for a long time."
"Moony is being very afraid of what Harry calls a weird mess a good thing?" James asked.
"Oh yeah Prongs," Remus replied.
"That is worrying," Lily noted.
"I don't want to be in this or have to hurt anyone," Masato spoke up.
"And yes that includes people trying to kill him in mecha combat," Canard remarked.
"He is more charitable than most would be," James commented.
No one disagreed with that statement.
"And this is Ron," Harry stated.
"Hello," Ron said respectfully.
"What in Merlin's name is that?!" James asked as he started at the pet Ron had brought with him.
"Oh that's Chudley," Ron answered with a grin. "He's a mercat or a seacat from another planet. He was available at a shelter we were helping out at after an invasion on Halloween."
"An invasion?" James asked.
Harry didn't look forward to explain who had done that. Especially given it involved ancient giant cyborgs, demons, aliens, and more.
"It is a long story," Hermione told them.
"Probably as long as explaining the background of Canard," Harry mused.
Canard shrugged.
That said a lot to the magical paintings.
"Oh boy," James said softly.
"Halloween has become a very bad time for me," Harry said downcast.
It hurt Lily so much she was unable to hug her son.
"And not sure what next year will have given that is when they wish to restart the Triwizard Tournament," Harry groaned.
"That was what Scorpius and I were aiming for," Albus Severus spoke up.
"What for?" James asked.
"Well Albus had done some things that aren't really great ideas," Harry grumbled.
"That's an understatement," Remus spoke up.
"Better get some chairs as this will take some time," Ron remarked.
That did not make the paintings feel good as every sat in the chairs. The feeling got worse as Harry laid out all of Albus's poorly thought out plans.
"Are you completely insane?" Lily snapped at her grandson. "First messing with time carelessly and then going for a mech that was literally the most locked away thinking it was the best? With on top of that not even being aware what said mech could do?"
Albus was speechless. That was sharper than he was expecting.
James gave his grandson a dirty look.
"What made you think that time was something that was to be messed with on a whim?" James said in an ice cold tone.
"I...I….just wanted to help people," Albus said softly.
"We question the how," James commented. "So very much question that and much more."
"There have been talks to get a guy that scares people even more than Major Kitamura to talk to Albus if he does something else really stupid," Harry spoke up. "Reportedly even if he gets tired his familiar can pick up on his talk of Chinese wisdom and such."
"I really don't want to find out how that scares people," Albus admitted.
"No one does," Masaki groaned.
Albus took that to mean Masaki had experienced it. Which made Albus want to find out first hand even less.
Canard really hoped that Albus avoided that.
"Why do I have this feeling who they are talking about could have gotten us to straighten out?" James asked Remus.
"Oh he would have tried," Remus commented.
Charlus's expression made it clear he doubted it'd have worked.
"Now Grandpa can you tell me about any political alliances the Potters were part of?" Harry asked. "And exactly how to get them onboard with dealing with the fact the universe is a crazy place."
Charlus Potter pondered that.
"I take it that none of them have contacted you due to your age," Charlus commented.
"That and very sure Dumbledore keeping all my mail away from me until very recently," Harry groaned.
"Dumbledore and his utterly…." Charlus Fleamont Potter growled. "How dare he get in the way of House Potter's business like that."
"The blame for me not answering letters and such has been laid at his feet," Harry commented. "And I've been working hard to answer people now with at least some standardized letters."
Albus wondered when in his timeline his father started doing that. He hoped he had as otherwise that would be something that would look bad.
"And of course a lot of people find that Harry losing any guardians so fast as suspect," Canard commented. "And the will being blocked."
"The second part I agree," Lily stated. "Or Dumbledore feeling he knew best and the ones under Alice or Sirius would have far too much political drama to go through without the end result being certain."
"And of course he won't talk to those about it," Charlus grumbled. "Bloody control freak."
Harry smiled as he was glad his family wouldn't be yes men for Dumbledore. It would make things really annoying as he wanted to be able to talk to these magical paintings. Having to avoid them to be pestered would frustrate him.
That not being an issue at all was a great thing.
It helped that no one thought much of Dumbledore being infallible.
So he was very happy that his friends and his parents and grandparents were getting along so well.
Though he hoped next time he visited he could bring Shinji to meet them.
He wanted them to meet him and Harry wanted to keep far more in touch with Shinji.
The fact Tokyo 3 was ground zero for giant monsters worried Harry a lot.
V-V-V
That New Years went normally and without incident was a godsend to the nerves of the Hogwarts staff. Christmas had been way more than they expected or wished to deal with.
Dumbledore had enough problems with the Death Eaters being mech pilots. A version of Tom that wasn't the wraith having a body and being leader of the unit was to him a nightmare.
Hence why there was an informal gathering of the Order of the Phoenix in his office. Even if things got more organized this likely would be the headquarters for the Order as it was the most secure location they had available.
"So how are we going to explain to the Wizengamot that the Death Eaters have adapted to the times and are wands for hire for the moment," Arthur inquired.
"I'd more worried explaining how they got beaten twice so far," Kingsley Shacklebolt spoke up.
"Well it would only make them more angry that muggles could fight them off," Snape noted leaning against a wall in the corner of the room. "Especially Bellatrix LeStrange. If Longbottom having taken to being a savage beast didn't send her over the edge."
"I think she left the edge a long time ago," Sirius Black said from a mirror that had been mounted on the wall.
"No one asked for your opinion," Severus growled.
"Enough," Albus Dumbledore said firmly before Sirius could have said anything.
"In any case we have footage of what that group of forces did in the taking of Brussels and the Death Eaters definitely had a hand in that," Remus stated.
"And given they have a time traveler with them I need to avoid interacting with that group," Severus commented.
"Yeah that's definitely a good idea," Mad Eye stated.
Sirius to the shock of many said nothing.
"So what exactly is 'Lord' Malfoy doing?" Remus inquired.
"Keeping his head down as before," Severus answered. "Unlike Draco and others Lucius is using his head and not committing anything until he knows what will serve him and his interests best."
"Best we could hope for at this point," Doge mused.
"He also is afraid the loss of the diary horcrux will have him used as cannon fodder against Londo Bell even if he is taken back in," Snape noted.
Dumbledore sighed at the term horcrux being used so openly, but it seemed that Tom didn't keep that secret and neither was Harry on learning that term. The only reason it didn't bother Albus more was due to the fact that even with the soul anchors Tom's reign of the UK Wizarding World was under a year. They weren't as well hidden as they could be and proved to not be very useful once Tom took over.
"And of course the fact what version of Voldemort in charge of the Death Eaters is him at his most sane, calculated, and rational, " Sirius commented.
Dumbledore noticed Sirius didn't even twitch saying that name. Then again learning about all kinds of things far worse than Tom would lessen the fear.
"His working for anyone else is merely so he can get intelligence and figure out how he can create his own faction that allow him true power," Snape stated. "Nothing more and nothing less."
"So what can we do about it?" Mad Eye asked.
"At the moment we let Londo Bell handle this," Dumbledore answered. "What we need to do is regather the entire Order of the Phoenix and keep a close watch on those that are Death Eaters or those that might consider this new version of Voldemort a much more attractive way to gain more power."
"And with you not seen as a crackpot we can get more people," Mad Eye noted.
"And pretty sure Londo Bell providing video footage of the wraith getting his arse handed to him by them also helps," Sirius said with a slight smile.
Needless to say any real faith in Minister Fudge being useful died learning about his actions before being fired in the timeline that wasn't going to be. That along with Fudge's sending Dementors to guard Hogwarts had made it so only very few even cared about the minister of magic.
With some instead of referring to him as Minister Fudge referred to him as Mayor Fudge behind the man's back. So far it seemed the minister was unaware of that.
"Yes that is quite useful," Dumbledore agreed.
"Also are we going to bring in Vrlitwhai on this?" Mad Eye inquired.
"Won't the Order just be an arm of Londo Bell if we did?" Severus commented.
"Is that really a bad thing?" Remus spoke up. "As lets all be honest. Intelligence gathering is all most of what remains of the Order of the Phoenix can do. Doing that for Londo Bell would allow us some legitimacy."
"In the eyes of some," Severus noted.
"And yet that will not go so well in the eyes of others," Dumbledore sighed.
"Does anyone really care what Fudge thinks?" Sirius brought up.
The silence said a lot.
It made Sirius snort in amusement.
"His opinions will likely have no consideration on that," Remus stated.
"They do though," Mad Eye groaned. "As he would think we were going to remove him power. And people think I'm paranoid."
It said a lot to the others when even Mad Eye felt that Fudge would be going to far in seeing things that weren't there.
"Though we are going to have people that even now feel that muggles shouldn't be involved in any manner," Dumbledore warned. "Even if their feelings and desires on that are no longer relevant."
"And we can't have Hayato Jin and Ryoma Nagare as the complaints department," Snape noted.
No one laughed as they were sure the Head of Slytherin wasn't kidding.
"That would cause more problems than it would solve," Dumbledore commented.
"A pity," Snape grumbled. "At least then they would do something more useful than scaring my students."
"I find that some of them need it amusing," Sirius snorted.
Snape just gave him a dirty look as the man wasn't in the room.
"Any luck in gathering allies in Riksent?" Mad Eye inquired.
"Oh I've been able to gather supplies and some very good crash course in self defense magic books," Sirius replied. "And some interesting reading material in removing curses to things like positions."
"I'll have to look at that," Mad Eye remarked. "Sure it will help in making sure I stay the assistant to the DADA and not be the DADA teacher next year."
Severus expected something to be said about him not informing people what the DADA teacher really was but nothing came.
Sirius gave a smile that was all teeth. "Trust me if you do try to get Remus removed I am sure I can ask some people to remove you from Hogwarts. In how many pieces they desire."
"Threats like that are not going to aid us," Dumbledore said firmly.
"It is merely a promise," Sirius noted.
It was things like that had Dumbledore wonder how little difference being in charge of the Order the Phoenix had between just being a teacher.
He also wondered once more about what Eldoran had allowed him to remember as time that didn't happen yet once had. He knew it was something important to the future yet wasn't sure how.
What worried him about that was how that insanity could happen again or even something similar taking place would be insane even to Londo Bell.
Severus snarled at Sirius.
"I notice you didn't claim you couldn't be that petty," Mad Eye commented.
"It would be a waste of time to claim otherwise," Severus put it.
"Because you are," Sirius noted.
"Gentlemen this is not getting us anyway," Dumbledore said firmly.
"So any luck on loosening the purse strings for the Aurors?" Mad Eye asked.
"It has been slow going, but the budget for training and for a longer standing force has been increased," Dumbledore answered.
"Helps they are all scared of things that make Riddle look like he isn't trying," Sirius mused.
"It has helped," Dumbledore admitted.
"And of course I heard Potions is taught way better so the teacher doesn't have his skull caved in by Ryoma Nagare," Sirius chuckled.
Severus had a sour expression at that. There also was the truth to it and also he was sure Londo Bell having provided in the common rooms information for various potions tutors and that they wanted to be paid.
The information on Slughorn including his love of famous people he could gain favor from. Not that the man really cared that was mentioned in the information given the Slug Club and gathering of contacts was well known.
"I do detest threats of violence having been used," Dumbledore remarked.
"Some people don't take to just kind words being used," Mad Eye shrugged.
"In any case," Severus said sharply. "The fact not even all of Londo Bell is at Hogwarts has many of those I talk to very wary and realizing that to get the Terran League's attention would not be to their advantage."
"Like trying to fight a Horntail in your underwear would be," Sirius noted.
"There also is that building pile of mecha at Hogwarts," Severus said ignoring Sirius. "Many I talk to wonder when every student in the school has their own personal unit to use."
"That could be done," Remus mused. "I have heard from Harry he won't mind having it be Hogwarts school of Magic and Mecha."
Everyone in the room was afraid that could actually happen.
V-V-V
The classes at Hogwarts seemed to be going normally now. Or at least settled into whatever they could take for normal now. Even if the school at any moment could be sent off to fight aliens or giant monsters.
Burning PT also caught on as a way to have fun outside of classes. The thought students that turned their nose up at it were a very small group now.
Harry was having fun shoot students in Burning PT. Especially the ones he didn't like due what they did during his second year when he was thought to be the Heir of Slytherin.
Harry didn't consider it petty to be a bit more rough in the Burning PT fights with those people. Or at least not being heavily petty in showing them how a trained pilot was not easy to beat.
Volunteer Ensign Potter also considered it amusing how his son was shocked at something like the simulators working at Hogwarts.
"We didn't have anything like this in my time," Albus said as he came out of the simulator.
"Might have helped if they did," Harry admitted.
"So would a military force," Albus sighed. "I mean...the houses get along now. I don't recall that at all in my era."
"That says so much about this school," Harry groaned.
"I think they are learning there are more important things outside of this place as well," Albus mused.
"Which can only be a good thing," Harry commented.
Albus nodded and wondered if any of this had been hidden from him. Also there was the question why this place had a very different calendar and it was a very different AD year than he came from.
That the Magical World history more or less meshed with what he remembered had him realize suddenly he wasn't exactly a historian or attentive student of history.
"Dad," Albus gasped. "I just figured out my knowledge of magical history isn't exactly the best or the deepest."
Harry didn't look surprised at all.
"We figured as much," Harry chuckled. "Given how bad Binns taught."
"Though I can't understand how things can be so different," Albus said softly.
"We'll figure it out together," Harry assured his son.
"I like that," Albus commented.
Harry wondered what the start of the differences between the time of his son and this were. It was something he felt would be very important.
"Oh hello Aunt Fleur," Albus then said by instinct on seeing Fleur come out of a simulator.
"I am not your aunt yet," Fleur noted in an amused tone. "Your oldest uncle is an interesting man though."
"You...you met him already?" Albus said shocked.
"At your mother's birthday party," Fleur informed him.
"Oh yeah when the fu….Umbridge got killed," Albus stated. "Good thing she died there."
"Given the things she'd do to me and then to muggleborns same feelings here," Harry remarked.
Harry was sure that someone would have killed her at some point if the Oni hadn't done it. And frankly doubted he'd care all that much given the sort of things she'd do if she could get away with it.
The horrible sentient being that was Dolores Umbridge was one the universe was better off without.
Volunteer Ensign Potter then shook his head and realized what would be a less morbid topic to discuss with Fleur.
"So are there a lot of differences between your school and Hogwarts in terms of what is taught?" Harry asked Fleur. "Of course the History of Magic having a lot of differences being a given."
Fleur thought for a moment to gather her thoughts.
"That is a very good question," Fleur stated. "First off Potions is taught by someone that doesn't have a library of personal issues."
"That has to help a lot," Harry commented.
"Oh it does," Fleur agreed.
"I hope History at least has someone as good as Professor Weasley," Harry remarked.
"They aren't the best, but they definitely were far better than Binns was," Fleur shrugged.
Harry didn't mind that.
"Transfiguration is decent, but Hogwarts has a much better instructor," Fleur stated.
"Huh," Harry replied.
"Though the Charms professors aren't as decorated as the one at Hogwarts," Fleur admitted. "But they are still quite good."
"It doesn't surprise me as there aren't exactly a lot of dueling champions around," Harry noted.
"The DADA class has had teachers sticking around for a more than single school year," Fleur commented.
"Good," Harry said very jealous of that.
Uncle Moony was one of the rare bright spots as the DADA class had gone downhill in the decades since it actually had a teacher last for more than a year. That Professor Dumbledore or the Minister of Magic or Board of Governors or all the above didn't try to fix that spoke volumes to Harry.
It didn't make Harry think Dumbledore was a Dark Lord or anything, but all that was happening had him feel the man definitely was not living up to the Lord of the Light title given to him.
Fleur then felt a powerful surge of magic as Harry's thoughts went dark for a moment on if Dumbledore knew about the Dursleys and didn't care.
Albus Severus also could feel in his bone that large burst of magic. He also could believe his father once drove off a hundred dementors with that sort of power.
"Sorry," Harry said when he realized what he did. "There are things that I worry are true and they are extremely unpleasant."
No one was quite sure what to say.
"Is there any truth of Headmaster Dumbledore teaching alchemy classes?" Fleur asked to try to change the topic.
"If there they haven't told me about them," Harry answered. "I mean I'd have signed up for that."
"It was a long shot but I felt I had to ask," Fleur said with a shrug.
"Fleur can you tell me if the ICW and what it does is covered in any classes you have?" Harry asked.
"That is a bit complicated," Fleur admitted.
"I figured it was," Harry mused.
"And I don't think it was covered in my time," Albus Severus stated.
"Of course it wasn't," Harry groaned. "I mean why teach things like social studies?"
"Somehow I have a feeling someone with a lot of famous didn't ask questions that everyone was supposed to know and they realize actually they don't know," Albus commented.
Harry snorted at that.
"Beauxbatons works to keep it from being just teaching magic," Fleur noted. "Also has more than one teacher for classes as well."
"Very sensible," Harry commented.
Albus Severus had a feeling sensible was not a word used for the British Wizarding World.
"I'll need time to teach you about the ICW later," Fleur then said to get back on topic. "It is a bit involved and will take a bit of time."
"Thanks," Harry stated.
Inwardly Fleur wondered if she should work with Professor Weasley as this was something that History of Magic class would need to cover.
"'Now if I had requested a transfer to your school would things have gone crazy?" Harry asked Fleur.
"Well given your fame and wanting to rub it in a bit with Hogwarts it'd definitely have been sped up and Professor Dumbledore would have to weather some very annoying political storms," Fleur answered. "And fairly sure you might graduate Beauxbatons before it was all settled."
"And probably still get dragged into the Triwizard Tournament," Albus Severus sighed.
"Yeah I am sure that would happen," Harry admitted. "And anyone that tries that this Halloween better hope they can run and hide."
Albus Severus and Fleur held the same thought on that.
V-V-V
The front lawn of Hogwarts had some interesting things on it now as there a trio of jets on it.
Neville was not sure why the original Getter was brought in and his Black Getter was taken away.
Not that it bothered him as the two units were more or less identical. Coop and Lowe had upgraded any internal parts that needed that, repainted the mech black, added some spikes to a knuckle of the Black Getter, and improved the optics to look more like the mech had eyes.
It just felt weird to him that the Black Getter was being taken away for a bit for some upgrades. He wasn't sure what they were, but it was said it'd be useful later.
For the pilot of Getter One that was something he looked forward to seeing. He knew it'd be a lot of fun.
Neville wondered how many ways the upgrades to the Black Getter was going to ruin the day of someone.
Still he inspected the Getter jet one closely.
Kei noticed Neville seemed to have some idea of how the Getter jets worked. She wondered if he'd become like Jin-san in trying to build his own Getter.
As Benkei was inspecting Getter jet three he wondered why he felt a bit worried. The jet looked to be just fine, and figured it might just be Coop and Lowe up to something again.
"We have a crowd," Kei informed Neville and Benkei.
"Why?" Neville asked. "These can't be that interesting to others."
"I think it is more the fact our Getter got taken away and what this one will be," Benkei mused.
"Hey I just wanted to see what makes the Getter different from mobile suits and variable fighters," Ron spoke up.
"Well for one I think those do not put as much pressure on the human body," Neville commented. "Though I heard with the most powerful Gundams it'd still be too much for an untrained civilian to take the full power of the thrust."
That didn't surprise anyone there. Gundams were not low performance machines and could move very fast. Especially the so called Gundam Alex which the design was used for a mobile doll and had been originally designed to handle Amuro Ray going all out.
Neville, Kei, and Benkei took the original Getter out for a spin. They needed to see if the jets would have any different handling than the Black Getter.
"Open Get!" Neville called out eagerly.
"Now that is a frightening term," Scorpius commented.
"Indeed it is," Albus agreed.
"And yet so good for some," Harry noted. "Like me when there's a fight going down."
Scorpius was shocked at Harry Potter not throwing a rant at him and Albus being friends.
"Well I only have had your grandfather make an attempt on my life once so far," Harry noted. "And still not sure why the headmaster or headmistress would care my feelings on who my son hung around at Hogwarts."
It was something neither time traveler had ever figured out. They just figured it was because Harry was an important hero. Then again they never exactly explored the why as they felt utterly bitter about it.
"So what do they call both wars anyway?" Harry asked. "The Blood Wars? You-Know-Who trashing everything conflict One and Two? Or something else?"
They didn't expect him to ask that.
"Actually I can't recall anyone saying out loud what the conflict I ended was called," Harry admitted. "In two years no one has ever said it."
That said a lot and was rather disturbing.
"Actually people seem to have gone out of their way to not say anything about the war and such around me," Harry noted. "And yet somehow expect me to know all these things despite not being magically raised."
"You tried to change that," Albus stated. "Make it so those not raised around magic had some idea about all the things you weren't given any warning about."
Harry smiled as that sounded like the most sane and decent thing he could do after Voldemort got finished for good.
"My...father...considered it unimportant but I have found a great deal of things he felt that way were the opposite," Scorpius commented.
"Not surprised," Harry remarked as the Getter jets flew through the air. "Malfoy is a jerk and it sounds like in your timeline he got even worse."
"And with no one to attempt to keep him in line," Scorpius said bitterly. "Merlin's beard, I think teachers did more to try to keep Albus in line than they ever did my father."
"Of course they would." Harry commented. "I won't hex them or try to destroy them like your grandfather would. I would turn the other cheek."
"That says so much about Hogwarts in ways I don't think any we work with would like," Albus groaned.
"I know," Harry sighed.
"If I knew how it'd work I'd have tried sending Uncle Fred's ghost out to mess with people," Albus declared. "Fairly sure he'd do it if I knew how to ask him."
Harry laughed as he was sure that was entirely true.
That was also something that would amuse Fred a lot.
"So you still not going to pilot a mech?" Harry asked Scorpius.
"It has become a bit of a theme I know," Scorpius mused.
"I rather like it as it has people learning to not need me to solve everything," Harry said with a grin.
"There has been a huge lack of people with the courage to fight around here," Yzak commented. "And you can bend reality with your literal magic wands."
"There are a lot that died," Ron Weasley pointed out. "Families destroyed, and a pair of uncles I will never got to know amongst the dead."
"And yet it seems everyone shoved their head in the sand and even after a second round didn't really do much," Athrun noted.
"I am sure there are plenty of psychological terms that could be applied to that," Harry mused.
"Of course now the Death Eaters have gotten with the times and fighting people that aren't afraid of them," Ron said with a snort.
"And learning to be afraid of us," Harry smirked.
"You are both in Londo Bell," Justin Finch-Fletchley remarked. "The boogie man would be afraid you would beat him up and then try to figure out if he's magical or an alien or whatever else he could be."
Getter Three getting into the Black Lake and was sparring with the giant octopus that lived their highlighted that.
V-V-V
A meeting had been called and Harry wondered why. One a massive monitor was something really ugly, and Harry wondered what he was looking at.
"What is that?" he asked.
"Good question," Amuro admitted.
"That isn't an answer," Harry groaned.
"It looks like a very ugly version of Doctor Wily's base," Mio commented.
"So a mad scientist lives there," Koji commented.
"Probably," Hayato admitted.
Suddenly a massive swarm of things came out of the extremely ugly fortress.
"And one that wishes to take over the world," Harry groaned. "So exactly what are we going to do about this?!"
"Break it?" Neville suggested.
"Ok that works," Yzak agreed.
"Oh boy," Athrun muttered as he'd be the one having to write the report for ZAFT.
Suddenly the image they were watching started to change.
"Now what?!" Vrlitwhai said in annoyance.
That said a lot when that was an answer to some crisis.
Doctor Rando appeared on the screen.
"Man he looks ugly," Albus Severus got out.
"He looks like he's trying to hard to be a knock off Doctor Hell," Tetsuya remarked.
"Just what we needed," Harry groaned. "Imitation would be world conquerors."
"Oh it will be fun chewing him out," Hayato said with glee.
"People of Earth I am Professor Rando and unlike that fool Dekim Barton I am not hiding behind some little girl," the cyborg remarked. "Resistance to me is futile."
Professor Rando's face vanished as quickly as it has appeared.
"We are paying him a visit aren't we?" Ryoma chuckled.
"I am sure we are," Mu groaned as the castle started to lift off.
"Here we go again," Ron muttered.
V-V-V
The Vega Zone as it was called by Professor Rando and his minions was not very inviting. It was cold, barren, and no one really wanted it.
It didn't help things that a very ugly army was flying and marching through it towards Alaska. Everyone stationed at JOSH-A didn't want any of Professor Rando or his army to be guests.
A giant snail like thing was at the back of the ugly army.
The commander of that thing then came on over the comm.
"I am Baron Yasha and the Metal Beasts will…." Baron Yasha stated.
"Can it," Koji called out. "You are a cheap knock off of Baron Ashura and your leader is ripping off Doctor Hell!"
"I am not sure how Professor Rando felt this won't be noticed," Ken Kaido snorted.
"Or snarked about," Gilliam Yeager mused.
Yasha growled and launched the attack.
The Metal Beasts had no standard appearance but were all ugly and looked like they walked out of someone's nightmares. Flesh and metal were mixed in ways that looked utterly wrong.
"Damn those things are ugly," Ron muttered.
No one disagreed with his assessment of their foes.
The Zeta Gundam opened fire on one of the Metal Beasts. The Metal Beast was blown to bits by that.
"Take that!" Kamille called out.
Harry swung his hyper beam saber at some weird creature that looked like a dragon with human arms and legs encased in armor. There was the smell of burning flesh as it incinerated on contact with the i-field. Harry was glad he could avoid that in his cockpit.
Volunteer Ensign Potter really hoped the laser swords of the Huckebeins was an actual laser and not Mao Industries wanting another name for their beam sabers. He didn't want to have Arado and Seolla cause this sort of carnage when a laser would be less visceral.
It was not a sight he wanted them to see either.
The Plasma Cutter of the Gespenst didn't do any favors for the appearance of a Metal Beast, but it put them down as well as a beam saber.
Major Yeager also unleashed Split Missiles on any Metal Beasts that tried to keep their distance from his black Gespenst.
Ron fired his beam rifle at he wasn't sure what it was called beyond a Metal Beast. The ugly thing took the shot and seemed to be more annoyed than anything.
"That's not good," Ron muttered.
"No kidding," Albus Severus stated.
"Stay frosty," Yzak remarked. "This is going to be one hell of day."
"No kidding," Goat said as he drove a heat hawk into a Metal Beast.
"Begone foul evils!" Sanger called out as he drove the Colossal Blade through a mix of metal, bone, and flesh.
"I want a weapon like that," Ron said after a moment. "Real swords are cooler than beam sabers."
Ken Kaido snorted at that. He honestly didn't have anything else to do as Mazinkaiser SKL let loose a barrage of fire.
Suddenly the giant motorcycle of Mazinkaiser SKL ran down Metal Beasts.
Mazinkaiser SKL got on the bike and ran down even more of the abominations.
"We need to get a bike like that," Ryoma commented as Shin Getter unleashed a Getter Beam.
The Metal Beast exploded like someone had set off a cruise missile inside it.
"One down and a whole lot more to go," Hayato noted.
"We'll work on that," Lottie stated.
"Good," Ryoma said very pleased.
"Photon Beam!" Koji yelled out and let loose.
The Metal Beasts started to melt when struck by the energy beams.
"They still are extremely ugly," Ron said in revulsion.
"Nothing can fix that," Ken remarked.
"I agree," Velt spoke up.
"I think making them scrap metal will help things," Major Kitamura noted.
It was advice Charlotte Hastings took to heart.
"Final Beam!" Lottie called out as she fired the chest weapon of her Grungust.
Velt unleashed his Huckebein's Leap Slasher to aid Lottie. The remote controlled weapon formed up after flying off the Huckebein in parts and sliced through the Metal Beasts like a chainsaw would through butter.
Shin Getter 2 and the regular Getter 2 charged forth at high speed into the horde of Metal Beasts made openings in the abominations and in the formation of the Metal Beasts.
Bullet let loose on the Metal Beasts with his Huckebein's Chakram Shooter. The Metal Beasts were unprepared for the wire controlled disk with explosive teeth on it.
Kushina backed up Bullet by unleashing a barrage of missiles on the Metal Beasts. It battered and knocked around the ugly things, and turned the smaller ones to chunks of bone and metal spread around.
The Fire Venus leaped into the swarm of Metal Beasts. The abominations burned at her kicks and punches.
Several Metal Beasts tried to rush the Fire Venus but Kai unleashed a barrage of fire with his shotgun. The Neo Titanium buckshot ripped right through the Metal Beasts.
Evangelion 06 then charged into the devastated formation of the Metal Beasts.
Kaworu made a face as this Lillium and his group were just sad. Knock offs of someone far greater and also Doctor Hell was not merely a pawn in someone else's plans.
Tabris was sure that the Dinosaur Empire puppet would hate that he was just that. A toy for the Dinosaur Empire's empress to use.
Kaworu then saw what the other group of Children were up to.
Seolla sniped something she wasn't sure what its name was but it was just damn ugly. It still was standing after she let it have it.
Arado charge at the unholy thing that was made of flesh, bone and metal. He slashed it with his laser sword but it still kept going.
"I think we're going to have both hit him," Seolla told Arado.
"Got it," Arado nodded and got ready to do it.
"Twin Bird Strike!" Seolla and Arado called out.
The pair slammed into a massive Metal Beast and sent it crashing to the ground and flattening various smaller brethren to it.
"That was...something," Albus said not sure what to say.
"It always is," Excellen commented as she sniped something that was after Albus.
Excellen then watched the six of Kyosuke.
Kyosuke used his Stake Revolver on the Metal Beast that tried to leap onto his mech. It went right into the abomination's head. The Metal Beast fell to the ground with a loud thud and right at the feel of Irm's Grungust."
Irm looked at the thing with disgust. "Even my father has more sense to make something like that."
"And given some of his ideas that says a lot," Kai noted.
Coop then let loose with what to the shock of some looked like the bow of the starship Yamato.
"Did I just see that right?" Kayru asked.
"Yes you did," Kai stated.
"How?!" Kayru questioned.
"With Coop it is hard to tell," Amuro answered.
Still the weapon Coop used blew right through one of the Evangelion sized Metal Beasts like i was made of soaking wet cardboard.
"Still as long as he gets results like that I don't think I'll lose any sleep over it," Kayru Su mused.
Coop ignored that as he worked on fighting the Metal Beasts.
The problem was even with Megas doing what it did best this army seemed endless.
Mu didn't let that get him down as he fired at the abomination after his mobile suit. The Gustav Karl gave the Zorin Soul support fire.
Irm's Grungust also gave them a hand literally by firing off a Boost Knuckle.
Tetsuya considered it vaguely amusing so many mechs imitated his mech by firing off fists. He unleashed a Breast Burn on a nightmarish creature. It burst into flames and went down screaming.
"Well I think I'll have that in my nightmares for the next week," Judau remarked.
"Be glad if you will be alive to have them," Harry stated.
Amuro ignored that as he unleashed a barrage of missiles on the Metal Beasts. He then used the massive beam rifle to make sure anything still standing after that wasn't.
Goat as drove a heat hawk into something that barely survived Amuro's assault he wondered if this Professor Rando guy was trying to top Doctor Hell in insane experiments. What worried Goat was that he wasn't sure if the guy was winning or not.
"There's a contest I didn't need to see if there a winner," Goat muttered.
"No kidding," Karyu commented.
The pair then saw a mech transform into a horse and the Dygenguar get on it. The pair of mechs charged at the mobile HQ of the enemy.
"CHESTO!" Sanger called out as he drove his sword into the weirdly named mobile fortress of Baron Yasha. As it didn't look like anything related to a dragon or a turtle. It looked more like a sea snail than those.
Baron Yasha growled as the mobile command center shook. Punishment rolled downhill and he didn't want to get from Professor Rando what he gave to subordinates that failed. It was not going be good for his health.
Not that he felt that staying would be good for his heath as he saw the Getter-2 Drill rip through flesh, bone, and metal of Metal Beasts with ease.
"Well that's disturbing," Albus Severus said as he got to see things he'd rather not have.
Sayla didn't watch that horror as she unleashed hell on the Metal Beasts.
"What could the supposed perfected Nu Gundam design have that the MP and the prototype don't?' Ron asked.
"Better fin funnel storage and a cannon that can plug into a starship and use that reactor to power it," Amuro explained.
"Oh," Ron said after a moment.
Kanan tried to stay alive instead of instead of listening to shop talk as she and Kanan Brain were utterly repulsed by the disgusting creatures attacking it.
Yuu unleashed missiles on the Metal Beasts trying to attack Kanan.
"Kyosuke would even you bet that Hime won't take that to mean Yuu has feelings for Kanan?" Harry asked.
"That's too long of odds for even me," Kyosuke replied.
Fleur laughed at that. She then unleashed on the unholy abomination that was trying to kill her. The thing had multiple heads, arms, and looked like the armor kept it all attached.
"Come and get some!" she called out.
A Metal Beast the size of Daitarn tried to hammer Fleur's Improved GM II out of the sky with a massive spiked fist.
"Maybe trying to taunt them isn't the best idea," Neville mused.
The Getter then shoved a Getter tomahawk into the massive blood red eye the Metal Beast had.
Voltes V and Go Lion shoved their swords into the massive horror and it stumbled around bleeding out some sort of fluid.
Suddenly Mari leaped onto the giant Metal Beast and started slicing it to bits with a pair of prong knives.
Albus Severus thankfully didn't have to watch that. He was busy trying to stay alive and showed the speed of his mech as he dodged enemy fire. The unholy mixes of flesh, bone, and fighter jets tried to keep up with him.
"What in Merlin's name is that guy up to?" Albus gasped. "And what lead him to make these things?!"
"I am not sure," Harry admitted. "Though doubt it is anything good."
No one disagreed with that statement.
The Metal Beast chasing Albus then got introduced to a Getter tomahawk.
"Thanks," Albus said to Neville, Kei, and Benkei.
"No problem," Benkei said kindly.
There was then a massive explosion as the Archangel unleashed a barrage of fire on the Metal Beasts. Then the Macbeth and Hogwarts joined in and Baron Yasha wasn't sure this invasion was going to go well.
He also had the feeling that taunting humanity was not the best idea for their opening gambit.
"Open Get!" Ryoma called out.
The mollusk looking command center got Shin Getter 2's drill into it, then was thrown through the air by Shin Getter 3, and got a Stoner Sunshine from Shin Getter 1 as the exclamation point to the attack.
Things then got worse for Baron Yasha as the Turtle Dragon shook from the barrage Megas hammered it with.
"Man that thing is ugly," Albus remarked. "I wonder what it could be called."
"Good question," Velt mused. "I don't have an answer."
There was stunned silence at that.
In that silence Metal Beasts launched an attack on Megas. It failed as more and more Metal Beasts were torn to shreds by Megas.
"Are we sure those are not alive?" Masato asked.
"Masato at this point killing those might be a mercy," Tetsuya answered.
"I am not sure I can agree with that," Masato nearly snapped back.
The Zeorymer suddenly moved in a far more menacing way. It was alien to everyone and actually more disturbing than looking at the Metal Beasts.
"Oh Alric you finally got your show on the road," Masato commented. "And here I thought you were all talk and ego."
A chill went down Harry's spine as the voice might been Masato, but the tone and utterly arrogance in it was definitely not one Masato would ever use.
Zeorymer then unleashed a massive burst of energy. Blood and metal started to fly everywhere. Even worse was that Masato didn't seem to care how close he was to killing any allies with friendly fire as he slaughtered Metal Beasts.
"What the bloody hell," Ron gasped.
"Masato what the…." Harry said in shock.
"I don't think he's the one in the driver's seat," Gilliam Yeager commented.
Shin Getter, Grendizer, Great Mazinger, and Megas looked ready to fight Zeorymer when Masato came on again.
"What….how did all these things get destroyed?" Masato asked utterly confused.
"Masato do you know of someone named Alric?" Harry asked.
"Not that I can recall," Masato answered but he wasn't sure why he'd been asked that.
That made Harry feel even worse and that something even more dangerous that Masato having psychological issues had just taken place.
Gilliam had a feeling that Last Guardian won't notice their pilot changing personalities until he said or did something worrying.
"Ah the plots within plots of mad scientists," Hayato commented. "Always an annoyance to unravel and deal with."
Masato had a bad feeling about that. Not that he wanted to pilot Zeorymer in the first place.
Hiku oddly was silent on the whole thing.
Harry had to force himself from keeping an eye on Zeorymer as Metal Beasts swarmed forward.
"This is not a good time," Harry remarked as he cut through swarms of Metal Beasts. "There are things more important than some mad scientist being a pain in the arse."
"I got to agree," Koji stated as he let loose with rocket punches and showed even while those fists were flying he had missile launchers in the arms to use as weapons.
There was a tension as the Zeorymer was one of the most powerful of the mechs there and having it be in the hands of someone they didn't completely trust was a very bad thing.
Harry knew they would have to get to the bottom of that.
Gilliam already was planning to see what he could get out of Last Guardian and was sure they won't like being the one made to give answers.
However the issues Masato and the others had wasn't stopping the Metal Beasts from attacking.
"Make them bleed!" Yzak called out as he opened fire.
"On it!" Ken Kaido called out.
An Inferno Blaster was let loose and reduced every nightmarish horror it struck.
Harry's unleashed his weapon at full power on the Eva sized Metal Beast and it was knocked back. Yet it still got back up and it looked angry.
"Oh boy," Harry muttered.
Yuu didn't pay much attention to the emotional issues surrounding Zeorymer's pilot as he dodged fire from some disgusting thing.
"I don't like it either," Yuu told Yuu Brain.
Yuu also wondered if the Reclaimers would try to bury the issue of Orphan wanting to take off under so much insanity that no one would notice until it was too late. He then realized that'd be giving them way too much credit.
Though even Yuu couldn't avoid looking at the massive amount of chest blasts done to that ugly mobile HQ.
Baron Yasha at that point made a break for it.
Count Rasetsu watched that on a monitor and wondered how best to take advantage of it.
V-V-V
The Radam in the Department of Mysteries were pleased. The beings that were watching over them had loosened up slightly on their defenses thinking they were just a strange new plant.
The fools had no idea how bad of an idea that was.
The Radam looked forward to what they intended to do with this group of wizards. Perhaps they might be really useful bodies. It was something they looked forward to testing.
V-V-V
Axis and almost all the other space colonies kept a very close eye on island that Steel Jeeg and his foes battled and now seemed to be locked in a sort of temporal stasis.
Thomas Krieger was able to in his meeting room to show what was happening around that island live to his followers. Perhaps someone without magic would be unable to see what they were seeing, but every single one of them was able to see the wraith calling itself Lord Voldemort.
Thomas had to inwardly sigh in disappointment. He was keeping a very close eye on Voldemort and the wraith was still basically slamming into a barrier after several months of trying to get through.
No wonder the wraith spent about a decade in a forest in Romania and then two years sulking after being beat by an eleven year old!
'How did they fear that loser?' Thomas thought to himself.
Even Bellatrix on seeing that and finding out what her master had been doing (and would have done in Delphini's timeline) had her utterly embarrassed
Rookwood had a sour expression.
Delphini looked exasperated at fact her father was doing nothing to gain advantage. It also had her wonder if instead of planning in that decade or two years after plan for the Philosopher's Stone failed it was him coming across something that got things going.
Thomas at that moment knew that his freed Death Eaters and daughter were going to be loyal to just him and not to the wraith. He kept himself from smiling at that.
"As you can see the wraith is not worthy of being with us or involved in our plans," Thomas spoke up. "He rather bang his head on a wall instead of attempt to figure out some useful way to rebuild his influence and power base. Especially given those he wished to rule are lead by a fool that would rather deny him and frankly are a rather weak bunch."
"That ghost deserves to be forgotten," Barty spoke up. "He is doing nothing and we don't need to wait for him to finally get a new body."
"Agreed," Delphini said with a disgusted look at the monitor. "And let Londo Bell crush him again if we haven't achieved our goals by then."
Inwardly Thomas smirked. Avoiding a civil war and loss of his minions was a good thing for him.
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Chapter Notes
Yuu Insami is from Brain Powerd. He is a very driven person, and misses a lot of subtle things. Also his grandmother is the only relative he has that the relationship isn't strained.
Hime Utsumiya is from Brain Powerd. A kind and loving person, but she also has a jealous streak she might not even be fully aware she has.
Seolla Schweitzer is from Super Robot Wars OG. She's a skilled sniper and has trouble dealing with Arado in ways that won't make anyone outside of an anime look at her weirdly.
Arado Balanga is from Super Robot Wars OG. He's able to eat more than most people, and trained to work with Seolla. He also is very dense.
Masaki Andoh is from Super Robot Wars OG. He gets lost extremely easy and is the pilot of a magical mech called the Cybuster.
Canard Pars is from Gundam SEED X Astray. He has a chip on his shoulder the size of Jupiter and isn't sure how he's really that different than Kira Yamato.
Masato Akitsu is from Great Hades Zeorymer. He makes what Shinji Ikari went through to be put in the cockpit of a mech look nice in comparison. He doesn't want to kill anyone and is wrapped up in the plots of an evil genius.
Shinji Ikari is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He did not want to pilot a mech.
Russel Bagman is from Super Robot Wars OG. He a dependable guy.
Vrlitwhai Kridanik is from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. Even he finds how his life as gone to be really weird.
Kei Minamikaze is from Getter Robo Go. She is very strict and no-nonsense.
Benkei Kuruma is from Getter Robo G. He is the most experienced pilot of the team piloting the Black Getter as he has filled in for Musashi when he has been injured.
Harold "Coop" Cooplawski is from Megasl XLR. He is utter and complete chaos on the battlefield.
Yzak Joule is from Gundam SEED. He's very self assured and hot tempered.
Amuro Ray is from Mobile Suit Gundam. He is the original Gundam pilot and the one all others are judged by.
Mio Sasuga is from Super Robot Wars OG. She has as much regard for the fourth wall as Deadpool does.
Koji Kaubo is from Mazinger Z. The original hot blood super robot pilot, and yet still seems to stand out.
Tetsuya Tsurugi is from Great Mazinger. He is a skilled pilot, but he has internal issues.
Ryoma Nagare is from Getter Robo. Not a man you want to fight if you like living.
Mu La Flaga is from Gundam SEED. He had no idea he'd end up a place that lives up to his motto of making the impossible possible.
Gillliam Yeager is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is an intelligence agent and far more than he appears.
Kamille Bidan is from Zeta Gundam. He will do all he can to prove he's a man.
Goat is from Mega XLR. He never imagined his life would turn out this way.
Ken Kaido is from Mazinkaiser SKL. He likes to use melee weapons.
Charlotte "Lottie" Hastings is from Super Robot Wars V. She pilots a Grungust.
Veltab "Velt" Text is from Super Robot Wars V. He is a man that once you get him started on facts it is hard to get him to stop.
Kai Kitamura is from Super Robot Wars OG. He is an experienced mech pilot and can make a mass produced mech fight like a brand new Gundam.
Brooklyn "Bullet" Luckfield is from Super Robot Wars OG. He has some weird sayings.
Kushina Mizuha is from Super Robot Wars OG. Her health drinks are something anyone sane avoids.
Kaworu Nagisa is from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He is the most mentally stable Evangelion pilot. He also is one of the Angels. NERV's recruitment standards are horrible.
Excellen Browning is from Super Robot Wars OG. A cheerful and bubbly woman who has secrets even she isn't aware of.
Kyosuke Nanbu is from Super Robot Wars OG. He isn't afraid to play the long odds.
Irmgard "Irm' Kazahara is from Super Robot Wars OG. He's a ladies man through and through.
Kayru Su is from Mobile Suit Gundam Char's Counterattack. She is not sure how she ended up surrounded by so much crazy.
Judau Ashta is from ZZ Gundam. He is brash and an extremely powerful newtype.
Sayla Mass is from Mobile Suit Gundam. She is not someone to take lightly.
Kanan Gimms is from Brain Powerd. Like all Reclaimers current and former Kanan has a lot of issues.