A/N:The chapter will be rewritten,as part of the rewriting project

The Ether Conflict

Chapter 15: Revelations

Miho, this is all I was able to summarize from what information I could find, but they should be enough for you to understand. Unless we meet under different circumstances, this brief summary will have to suffice for now. I know that what you will read below might sound incredulous and you'll obviously have lots of questions, but everything that will be mentioned is true. Keep that in mind no matter what.

Ether/Ether Energy: A type of non-materialistic energy that exists between realities. The whole existence of this energy is based on the multiple realities theory that was proposed about 30 years ago. It says that there is a place where multiple realities exist with an infinite amount of worlds. This seemingly infinite energy, Ether, is what keeps the realities from crashing to one another and getting destroyed in the process. Since it transcends reality itself, Ether has the property of manipulating it, on the level of space and time themselves. You can do whatever you want with it, even create impossible things. The energy was discovered about 20 years ago, from a collaborative project between the European Union, Russia, America and Japan. At first, the nations thought of using this energy as an energy source and with its seemingly infinite supply, the whole world would benefit from it, but there were two problems:

-Firstly, they couldn't harness it. Although they could detect it, they weren't able to extract it, much less make it interact with our world the way they wanted it, due to its nature.

-Secondly, each nation wanted to weaponize Ether. They saw it as a wonder weapon that could change the balance of powers, but since the energy couldn't interact with the physical world, such fears were baseless.

Though after a few months of the initial discovery, they also found a way to give Ether form. They discovered that the human brain can utilize this energy, subconsciously give it form and manipulate it in any imaginable way. Miracles, supernatural phenomena, magic, all these words described the use of Ether. People born with a very specific genetic makeup, were able to use Ether to gain powers, such as fire making, telekinesis and other powers that you see in anime and manga. The nations searched for those people, since they saw them as living and breathing weapons. But their numbers were extremely low, only one every five hundred million people seem to have this specific genetic makeup. Due to these reasons, the project was abandoned and each country did its own research.

Japan found the Black Lotus, a branch of the JSDF that reported directly to the government. The department of Genetics Engineering and Paranormal Phenomena was a blacklisted department that was tasked with weaponizing Ether. The lead scientist of this project was a man from Germany named Dr. Mannheim and his assistant was from Russia named Dr. Azarin. Mannheim was a very talented individual. By researching the genetic makeup of people who could use Ether, he managed to create a DNA altering liquid, which was named Serum. He created many variants of it and classified them based on their color and strength. The strongest variants he ever made were known as Serum Black and Serum White. Essentially, the Serum is a DNA altering liquid, that will change your genetic makeup so that you can use Ether. The stronger the Serum, the more aggressive the alteration is, and the more possible for the alteration to fail and kill the test subject. Naturally, it would be very difficult to find willing test subjects to participate on the experiments. So, the Japanese government authorized the usage of any means to acquire results. That meant lying about the true nature of the experiment, buying orphans from orphanages and even abducting people. You, Miho, were one of the test subjects. I've attached your file at the end of this summary in case you need further proof that I'm not lying. You were injected with Serum Black, which, as mentioned above, was one of the strongest variants. All the previous subjects that had been injected with it had either died or received crippling damage. You were and still are, the only known test subject to have successfully survived the alterations of Serum Black. That gave you the ability to manipulate the Ether, giving you "magic" powers. One example is the black wolf you summon, again, check your file that I have attached at the end. As a side effect of using your powers, your hair will change color to black and your eyes to red. Though after some time, you lost the ability to invoke them on will. Mannheim suggested that they try to invoke extreme emotions to you, to see if your powers would return. I couldn't find any information on what they did, but apparently your powers went out of control. After that, your mother found out about the true nature of the experiment and using her connections, she shut it down for good. The damage had already been done though, as Mannheim had already sold the Serums at all the countries that had participated in the collaborative project.

After the apocalypse happened, Mannheim, with the help of some former members of the JSDF, resurrected the project. He also had other projects he was conducting. Being a Genetics Engineering department, the labs of Black Lotus offered the perfect opportunity to create the perfect soldiers, the guys with the white suits you have seen. He also managed to capture everyone from Ooarai after the school ship was beached. Despite what you may have seen, everyone is alive Miho, but our time is running short. We made a deal with Mannheim. We help him capture you and he doesn't use anyone from the school ship as a Guinea pig. It was clearly a ruse to buy time, but after so long, we may have been compromised. His location is laboratory S-18, under the city of Tokyo. Expect heavy resistance. I know these are a lot to stomach, but Miho, please, you need to come as fast as possible.

-Anzu

Having read the document, everyone inside the tank was silent. "This can't be real, these things are like they came straight out of an anime or a manga! It's impossible for something like that Ether energy or whatever to exist!", Saori blurted out, still unable to process anything of what she has heard.

"If we think logically about it, there is a slim chance for this energy to exist and to be able to interfere with reality itself. As human beings, there are a lot of things we can't understand and will brand as "magic" just so we don't feel dumb", Mako says with a calm voice, clearly understanding most of the things that the document had written.

"But having such absurd powers, how can you not name it magic or something supernatural? And for Miho to be involved as well, will she be okay?", Hana said with great concern, worried about her friend.

"I don't care if Miss Nishizumi has magical powers or was on a really shady experiment, she is still my best friend!", Yukari yells and bear hugs Miho, causing everyone to burst in laughter. "Thanks, Yukari", Miho says, patting her curly hair, which causes Yukari to blush and undo her hug. "Although I would be lying if I said that I am not shocked from what I have read, our friends are in trouble and we need to help them. We can try and understand what is written inside here at a later time." Nodding in agreement, everyone has a steeled expression, their eyes full of determination. "Mako, gets us out of the forest and back to the defense line, Yukari, if we see any infantry, load HE or Napalm shells, Hana, fire at the first target you see, Saori, contact the HQ and tell them we lost the target that we were pursuing and that we are returning at the defensive line."

Everyone inside the tank responds with a resounding "Yes!". Standing out of the cupola to have better visibility, she puts her hand on her neck. "Panzer vor!", she says and the tank starts heading towards the battlefield, hope fueling its crew, finally knowing that their friends are alive.

Landing on top of the Cerberus turret, Odysseus unholsters her pistol and opens the commander's hatch. Grabbing the commander from the neck, she forcefully drags him out of the turret and throws him off the side. Jumping inside, he shoots the loader and gunner on their heads, blood and metal bits flying everywhere. Before the driver can raise his own sidearm to fire at the intruder, alarmed by the sound of a gun discharging, his head jerks sideways by a kick, a loud *bang* being produced from the helmet striking the metal of the tank. Unseathing her knife, she plunges it deep in the man's neck, the blade splitting his spine and its tip exiting from the back of the neck. Blood flies everywhere, painting everything red inside the tank. Exiting from the driver's hatch, she jumps back to the ground and looks at her left. The tank commander is on the ground, trying desperately to unholster his sidearm, but because he is panicking, he is unable to do so. Odysseus, holding on her left hand her knife and on her right hand her sidearm, slowly walks towards the man, who upon seeing her approaching, he starts crawling away from her as fast as he can. Odysseus raises her pistol and fires at the man's legs and hits his knees, causing him to howl in pain. Reaching him, she pins him down on the ground by pressing against his chest with her right knee. Removing his helmet, she presses her pistol against his forehead. The man, looked no more than 20 years old, had brown hair and black eyes. Tears were rolling on his cheeks from the intense pain he was feeling.

"P-Please, d-don't ki-ki-kill me!", he whispered in a terrified voice, his eyes wide open and glued at the gun in front of him.

"Than you better answer my questions", Odysseus says in a dark tone that could make even the bravest of men scream like a little girl.

The man makes a tiny nod, unable to even speak from the sheer terror that grips his brain. "First question. Are these tanks called Cerberus Guerilla tanks?" The man nods slowly, still looking at the gun in front of him. "Good. Second question. Were you given these tanks or the blueprints of the tanks by someone?"

"Y-Yes, by a foreigner. He came in contact with Dr. Mannheim and offered him the blueprints of the tanks in exchange for capturing a certain individual-". His eyes widen more in realization of who is pinning him on the ground. "Y-You! Th-That individual is you!", he screams as he tries to free himself, flailing wildy.

"So...he really is here...the Major is here. Hahaha, ahahahahahaha!" Laughing like a maniac, she gazes up on the sky, eyes open wide and a grin that would scare Joker himself. The man is absolutely scared out of his wits, crying and shouting for help. "After so many years, he has finally shown himself. Finally, I'll have my revenge!"

"Hey Odysseus." Hearing someone calling her, she stops laughing and turns to face the person who said her name, only to see Annabelle punching her square in the face with such force that she instantly gets unconscious. "Why don't you take a nap?", Annabelle says, before unholstering her sidearm and shooting the man in his head.

"You know, we could have captured him and interrogate him.", Reiji says in a calm tone as he helps Annabelle pick up Odysseus and put her in the tank.

"Too dangerous. He might have been behaving differently from the other soldiers, but we don't know if he is physically enhanced."

"Fair point. Can you also tell me why you had to punch Odysseus? And why she was laughing like a maniac?", Reiji asks Annabelle, having reached the tank.

"Yeah, why was she acting so weird? It was beyond creepy", Tyler says, standing on the engine deck and lifting the unconscious Odysseus to put her inside the tank.

"You have heard her past, so you can't expect someone to go through so many horrible experiences and dont have a trauma or two.", Annabelle says while climbing the tank to enter it through the driver's hatch.

"So, our dear commander is a psychopath who could slit our throats at any given time...great", Tyler grumbles while easing Odysseus in the commander's seat with the help of Reiji.

"No, not exactly. Why do you think she acts like a child?"

"In order to not damage her already unstable mental state even more?", Reiji takes a lucky guess, sitting on his seat and starting looking through the gun optics.

"Exactly. She is always treading on thin ice and whatever this dude told her, just shattered the ice and caused her to lose her shit."

"You seem to know more for Odysseus than what you tell us.", Tyler says.

"And you'd be right Tyler, but it's not my place to tell these things to anyone. You can ask Odysseus when she wakes up. For now though, it seems we best retreat, most of our vehicles have become scrap metal.", Annabelle says in a calm voice, looking through her vision port at the line of smoking wrecks.

"Agreed, we are an easy target here in the open.", Reiji says, firing a shot at an APC that was running for the defense line, before the Panther starts heading to the defensive line, the rest of the Blackout vehicles doing the same.

Back at the defense line, anyone that had a sniper rifle was firing at the uniformed soldiers that where in the open, about 500 to 600 meters away. Luminous had set up her TLRR next to a smoking wreck, using it as cover in case the enemy had any snipers of their own. Aiming her scope, she zeroes in a soldier's head and fires, a defeaning thunderclap being heard and seconds later the soldier's head explodes in pieces, blood flying everywhere. Luminous retracts her face from the scope, as to not get burned by the heat the gun creates every time it is fired. Cycling manually the revolver-like magazine, she acquires a new target and fires, this time hitting a soldier on his chest, creating a fairly big hole on the area the bullet hit. Cycling the magazine once more, she waits for the green LED light in the scope to light up, before firing a final time. "Press R for reload", she murmurs sarcastically, pressing a small button that is just above the trigger guard on the right side of the weapon, releasing the still hot cylindrical magazine and letting it to fall to the ground. Grabbing the sniper and magazine with her gloved hands, she sits up on the ground, leaning on the wreck,while retrieving a .60 Cal bullet from one of her vest pockets and placing it in one of the three holes the magazine has. An explosion is heard in the distance as one of the retreating Blackout vehicles gets ammoracked, its turret flying in the air, crashing into another retreating vehicle and falling off it on the ground.

"Never seen that one", Vin comments when he sees the turret landing on the moving tank, leaning his head off the side of the wreck to see what the explosion was.

"Vin, don't lean your head like that, an enemy sniper might target you!", Rika says and forcefully drags Vin behind the wreck.

"Oh come on Rika, you worry too much. If there was an enemy sniper don't you think they would have fired back? Our guys are practically standing in the open and no one has a bullet hole in their heads."

"Yeah, but-"

"Both of you, that's enough! The enemy is charging on our position!", Theodore yells, seeing the enemy soldiers running towards the defense line, the armored vehicles following closely. Bullets start flying everywhere and soon enough, shells. Explosions start rocking both sides, as HE shells crash to the ground and vehicles get destroyed.

Inside the Panther S, which was about a hundred meters away from the defensive line, Tyler was loading shell after shell in the gun breach with Reiji shooting at the enemy tanks, some times missing and some times bouncing.

"First time I see you missing or bouncing so many shots", Annabelle says, watching from her vision port where the shells land. An incoming shell hits the side of the hull in such a way that despite bouncing, it dents the armor quite badly and causes the inner side of that part to spall, the shrapnel flying everywhere in the cabin. Thankfully, most of them are small enough to only cause light wounds and small grazes, but one is big enough to graze Annabelle's back and cause a fairly big and deep gash. Screaming from the sudden pain, she instinctively moves her body forward, hitting her head on the vision port. "Fuck, fuck, fuck!", she yells as she rubs her forehead. Blood flows from her back at an alarming rate, but she grits her teeth, trying to fight the immense pain she feels. "I'm getting us out of here, it's too dangerous to stay!", she yells.

"Jesus Christ, doesn't this thing have a spall liner!?", Tyler yells, checking his body for any significant injuries, before continuing to load shells on the gun breach. Reiji continues to fire, not even checking for any wounds. Checking Odysseus, he sees that no shrapnel got her, so he goes back at shooting. "Seems the shell that hit us was of a big caliber.", he responds calmly. Another shot hits the tank, this time in the gun mantle, ripping a huge chunk of steel.

"We are going to die if we stay here Annabelle!", Tyler yells in a panicked tone.

"You think I don't know that you damn idiot!?", Annabelle also yells, seeing an enemy tank aiming its armament straight for them and firing. Rotating towards its left, the tank shakes violently as the enemy's shell hits the right driving wheel and completely destroys it, but losing enough penetrating power to become unable to punch through the steel side of the hull. "We have been immobilized! Get out of here now!", she yells to the others, who exit from the gunner's hatch, dragging with them the still unconscious Odysseus. Reaching the gunner's hatch, she dives out of the tank just in time, as she feels tremendous heat enveloping her feet, followed by a burning sensation. Falling to the ground clumsily, she looks at her legs, which are singed pretty badly from the knees and down. "Guys, I-I th-think I can't walk", she says with laborious breathing, her body unable to handle the pain and damage it has received. The turret of the Panther S burns brightly under the midday sun, flames seeping out from the gunner's hatch and the ripped commander's hatch. Both Reiji and Tyler turn to face Annabelle just in time to see a Phantom standing above her, ready to strike with his blade. Tyler immediately sprints and tackles the man on the ground, but he quickly recovers, picking Tyler with one hand and throwing him on Reiji, causing both boys to crash to the ground hard. Grabbing Annabelle from the neck, he lifts her from the ground on his eye level. Annabelle tries to grab her sidearm, but it is not in its holster. The man punches Annabelle on her abdomen a couple times, causing her strength to vanish, as her body is on her limits. Looking with teary eyes at the helmet of the Phantom, she whispers, "Odysseus, goodbye." Lifting his right hand and extending the blade that's on it, he thrusts the blade forward. A crushing sound is heard as his whole right arm gets ripped off from the shoulder. Letting Annabelle to fall on the ground, he looks at the figure that attacked him. Odysseus throws his hand on the ground and thrusts her right hand inside the man's abdomen, his organs getting mushed by the sheer force. Looking at her face, the man finds his body paralyzed in fear, however impossible that is, since they are genetically engineered to not have any emotions. Odysseus's right eye glows with a bright magenta color, on her face an emotionless expression. A single tear can be seen rolling on her right cheek, reaching her jaw and falling to the ground. "No one hurts my friends", she exclaims in a low voice filled with anger and wrath. Grabbing the man's spine, she forcefully pulls it out and the man instantly falls limply on the ground, a semi-transparent white aura getting pulled from his body and into Odysseus's. Odysseus instantly falls to her knees, a terrifying burning pain grasping the left side of her face,like someone is pressing hot iron against her skin. Grunting from the pain, she puts her right hand on top of her left eye socket, which is bleeding, the fake eye having popped out. Standing up despite the bleeding, she keeps her left eyelid closed and rushes to pick up Annabelle.

"Odysseus, what the fuck was that?!", Tyler yells, having witnessed everything. Odysseus ignores him and she starts running towards the infirmary. Before Tyler can say anything else, Reiji puts his hand on his left shoulder and moving his head from left to right, he says, "She was crying Tyler." Tyler instantly shuts up, his expression transforming into a surprised one. Saying nothing more, Reiji starts running towards the base to catch up with Odysseus, followed closely by Tyler.

Back at the defense line, things were getting worse by the second, as more and more enemy soldiers were closing in. "HQ, this is Vin, where the hell is the damned air support?!", he yells, firing his SCAR-H on semi-automatic, trying to gun down as as many enemies as he can.

"Black Mambas, this is HQ. We can't provide air assets at you, because the airstrip was severely damaged and the enemy has deployed mobile SAM sites on the vicinity.", a female voice responds.

"Unless you do something, the defense line is going to collapse!"

"We are sorry, but we can't do anything at this moment", the woman says, before terminating the transmission.

"Guys, we are on our own!", he yells at his teammates, taking cover behind the wreck to reload his weapon.

"It won't be the first time", Theodore says, firing his light machine gun at short bursts.

"Enemy Phantoms!", a Blackout soldier yells, having spotted the characteristic green LED lights their helmets have. Everyone shifts their fire at the Phantoms, who disappear from view and start running towards the defense line. While they are invisible, they aren't bulletproof, so some of them fall from the lead wall that is being thrown at them, suddenly popping in view and limply falling to the ground. Reaching the defense line, they start wrecking havoc among the ranks of Blackout's soldiers.

"Use pistols or knives!", one of the soldiers yells, since the Phantoms only have a blade as a weapon. Although it helps a bit to counter them, they still take heavy losses. Killing the last Phantom, Vin looks at the enemy, who is now about four hundred meters away from the remains of Blackout's forces, but surprisingly enough just standing there. "This is not going to end well", he says, seeing five more Phantoms appearing in front of the enemy forces.

"They must be trying to bleed our manpower little by little,before swarming us with all of their forces.", Rika says, aiming her Steyr Aug at the enemy soldiers.

"It seems they are on the move. Time to raise my K/D ratio", Luminous grins, firing a shot from her TLRR on one of the Phantoms, barely missing him and hitting a soldier that was behind him. The Phantoms, five in total, start running towards the defense line, but before everyone starts firing, a single girl with black hair starts running to the enemy forces, her uniform's insignia clearly indicating she is from the logistics department. "Someone stop that girl!", a soldier yells,but no one dares to leave the safety of their cover. Reaching about fifty meters away from the Phantoms, a circle with three prongs every 120 degrees starts glowing with a golden color on the back of Yuki's right hand, before a katana with a very simple handle materializes on her right hand. "Inner Peace", she says and closing her eyes, she feels time slowing down, a picture of her surroundings in black and white being formed in her mind. Spotting the silhouettes of the invisible Phantoms, she marks them and says, "Chain link", before snapping her eyes open and shoots forward at an incredible speed. Lifting her sword, she points it forward and a Phantom appears with a blade exiting from his back. Pulling the sword out of his abdomen, she leaves the body to fall on the ground and dashes at an unbelievable speed at the next invisible Phantom, this time decapitating him with a horizontal swing. The other three Phantoms meet a similar fate, everything happening so fast, that it seemed like Yuki was teleporting all over the place. Everyone is watching with their jaw dropped, unable to comprehend what they are seeing.

"Overseer, we have encountered a Class D individual, requesting permission to use an Executioner.", an enemy soldier speaks with his heavily synthesized voice.

"Request granted Unit-935", the man hears a voice from his helmet saying. Turning to face the rest of his squad, he quickly orders them to inform the Executioner of his orders. Yuki is slowly walking towards the enemy troops, her sword pointing on the ground. Suddenly, a man that appears to be like a Phantom appears in front of her, though his helmet has six red LED lights. His suit looks to be made of a metal, as it is shining under the midday sun. Yuki immediately tries to go for a horizontal slash to decapitate him, but the man catches the blade with his metallic gloves and exerts enough pressure to break it. Yuki widens her eyes in surprise, not expecting the blade to break. Capitalizing on her mistake, the man punches Yuki on her left side, breaking four of her ribs and sending her barreling for about 10 meters. Coming to a stop, Yuki immediately tries to stand up, only for an excruciating pain on her left side to cause her to fall down, tears flowing from her eyes. Gritting her teeth, she tries to stand up again. Panting heavily and holding her left side with her right arm, a sword materializes in her left hand this time. The Executioner takes one step before disappearing and instantly appearing behind Yuki, ready to strike her back. Yuki pivots on her right leg and tries to block with her sword, but once again, the blade breaks from the force of the punch. "Shiroyama!", she yells and black samurai armor envelops her whole body. The Executioner tries to punch Yuki square on her chest, but she blocks it with her left hand. The armor instantly breaks and a loud crack is heard from Yuki's left hand, indicating that it has broken. Falling to the ground, the fall further exacerbates her injuries, with Yuki crying and screaming from the extreme pain she feels. Having passed her limit, the black armor that was covering her vanishes. The Executioner stands above Yuki, ready to deliver the coup de grace. I'm sorry Miho, I wasn't able to protect you or the others like you did for me. Moving his left fist backwards to finish Yuki, the man gets hit with a red energy ball, causing him to get thrown ten meters backwards and barrel for another ten. Lifting his head to see what just happened he spots a black wolf with red eyes flash stepping in front of him. The wolf immediately bites his throat and rips it to pieces, blood and meat littering the ground around them. Yuki turns her head to the right and sees a figure with black hair and red eyes looking forward, glaring at the enemy soldiers with a piercing gaze. "I'm so glad", Yuki whispers, before fainting from the severity of her injuries, her body having exceeded its limit a long time ago. Summoning three black kunai knives at her right hand, she throws them into the air, the knives taking a parabolic trajectory and striking the ground on the enemy units, about two hundred meters away from her position. The moment the knives get lodged in the ground, three huge pillars of red energy shoot at the sky, most of the enemy forces getting annihilated, not even their ashes remaining.

"Hunt", she orders and the wolf starts hunting down the survivors of Miho's devastating attack, ripping their throats with its teeth. Miho hunches forward close to the ground and tendrils of bright red energy start snaking around her legs. Reaching her thighs, Miho shoots forward like a bullet, the ground beneath her feet cracking and the sudden change in velocity creating a shockwave. Stopping suddenly in front of a soldier, inertia takes over and the air behind her shoots forward and throws the man some fifty meters away, his landing accompanied by the sound of broken bones and a neck snapping. Unholstering her modified Luger, she starts shooting at the soldiers with such speed and accuracy, that within five seconds, the remaining six soldiers fall to the ground with a bullet between their eyes. "Pulse", she says and a red energy circle starts racing outwards from where she is standing for about one hundred meters. Not sensing any other life signatures in the vicinity, she holsters her pistol, her hair and eye color reverting to their original one.

"This is definitely something I won't get used to anytime soon.", she sighs, before starting to run towards Yuki. Kneeling beside her, she checks her pulse and her injuries. A huge bruise has formed in her hand, a result from the punch she received in her arm. "Can someone take her to the infirmary, she needs medical treatment immediately!", she yells to the rest of the Blackout soldiers, who stare at her like they are seeing an alien. Snapping out of his frozen state, Theodore rushes and picks up Yuki carefully, before running towards the infirmary. Standing up, Miho sees her friends approaching her, with Yukari once again tackling her on the ground.

"Miporin, what was all these...things you did!? You just shot a ball from your hand, then threw some knives and created these huge pillars of red energy and then you shot off like a bullet!", Saori yells, making incomprehensible hand gestures to try and express better what she wants to say.

"Miss Nishizumi, that was so cool, please teach me how to do these things!" Yukari's eyes were beaming with excitement.

"Sorry Yukari, but that's impossible.", she answers back with an apologetic smile, being helped by Yukari to stand up.

"Miho, if I may interrupt, what about the..."wolf" on your left?", Hana points at the wolf that is sitting on the ground next to Miho. Looking at the wolf, his ears perk up and he looks up at Miho.

"Umm, I am not too sure if he is supposed to vanish or remain here, but, do you want to stay with us?", Miho asks with an awkward smile and the wolf rises on his back legs and using Miho as a support, he starts licking her all over her face.

"Interesting. Despite being created by her powers, the wolf seems to be an independent entity.", Mako whispers, being quite intrigued by this turn of events.

"Black Wolves, Black Wolves, Black Wolves!", the soldiers start yelling and cheering in unison. The wolf in response starts howling, joining the chorus of voices and whistles.

"Are we sure we don't live inside a game or a fantasy world?", Luminous says with a blank face.

"Last time I checked there was no UI or any elves in the nearby woods", Rika responds with the same expression.

"I quit, I have seen too much shit for one day", Vin exclaims and starts heading back to the base.

Inside the emergency shelter, the school ship commanders were looking at one of the monitors that streamed what the UAV's camera was seeing. They all had a dumbfounded expression, unable to believe what they just had witnessed. "Was that really...magic? Because these things should only happen in fantasy novels, not in the real world...right?", Anchovy says, her eyes still glued on the monitor.

"The most pressing matter Anchovy is not what happened, but rather who did all these things", Darjeeling says with a calm tone.

"I think we already know", Kay responds, looking at Maho. Maho was looking at the monitor, a very sadden expression being hidden by her stoic face.

A/N: And the base has being saved! We also learned a lot of interesting things. Before I forget it, the next time you see the story updated, it will probably have a different name and chapters 1, 2 and 4 will be rewritten. Chapter 3 will probably have some small changes too. Anyways, as always, suggestions, questions, corrections, reviews or PMs are greatly appreciated. Also, English isn't my native tongue, so expect some grammatical errors here and there. If you found the story interesting and had a great time, favorite and follow. Have a nice day/night and until the next chapter, stay safe!