Before we get started, I'd like to reply to a few reviews I've gotten.

HyperionGM: I actually haven't decided on whether or not Takanuva will be in this story or not to be honest. Also, the idea of a KanColle/Bionicle crossover where everyone from both respective universes confuse the two with each other sounds like an interesting (and hilarious!) idea, I might write a short about that at some point!

battlecruiser03: Unfortunately, Kohrak-Kal and Nuhvok-Kal are the only Bohrak-Kal that will be present in this story...But don't worry there will be at least one other major baddy in charge of both of them that is from the Bionicle Universe! (It isn't Makuta though, I doubt he'd come back after getting smashed into a planet!)

Chapter 10: Nice and Breezy!

After their arrival at the 501st JFW's Headquarters, the members of the 31st Joint Fighter Squadron had finally settled in after a few hours of unloading equipment, although the last piece of business was deciding where everyone was going to sleep. The 501st JFW had only two rooms left, one of which was only partially occupied by Danniel while the other was completely empty. Thankfully though, Minna and Mio had found a few disassembled bunk beds which could be put in both rooms, so they planned on switching out Danniel's bed from his room out and then putting in two bunk beds, while the other room would have two as well.

Although it meant that they'd have enough room to host the newest additions, it would lead to an interesting discussion later that evening.

"Alright, is everyone here?" Minna asked the members of the 31st JFS, Laura Toth, and Danniel who had all assembled in the living room area of the base. Satisfied that everyone was there she began to make an announcement.

"As you know our base is a little cramped at the moment so we've had to make a few adjustments to the two remaining rooms, we've already added two bunk beds to each room so you'll all have a place to sleep."

"If that is the case, why did you call us down here?" Raisa asked curiously, "We don't really need any suggestions of where we should bunk, right?"

There were multiple vocal agreements with the members of the 31st that is until Minna giggled to herself.

"If this were an ordinary situation, yes. However, we do have a minor issue that needs to be discussed." Minna walked behind Danniel who was sitting on one of the couches and put a hand on his shoulder, "One of the rooms is already occupied by Danniel, so we need to talk about who is willing to bunk with him."

The boy in question blushed, lowered his head down, and wiggled uncomfortably in his seat when several of the girls made exclamations about the fact that at least three young women were going to be sharing a room with an eleven-year old boy.

"Oh, well that's different.." Keiko shrugged.

"Meh, it can't be helped, right?" Marseille muttered.

"S-Sharing a room with a boy?!" Mami whimpered, her face full of dread.

"Well, that is a first." Furuko chimed in with shrug.

"Indeed." Matilda nodded in agreement.

"Well, I don't mind either way..." Raisa paused before whispering under her breath "As long as I'm with Hanna that is...".

Laura was oddly quiet for a moment before standing at attention.

"As per why I am here...I don't mind sharing a room with him." Laura said. In truth though, she was doing it so that she could keep a closer eye on the boy as she tries to help him with his nightmares and post-traumatic stress as well as trying to help him remember the events at Neue Eutin. Minna thought it was a good call on Laura's part and nodded.

"Pilot Officer Toth gets the second bunk. Who else is willing to bunk with him?"

With a sigh Furuko stood up next, "I don't really mind kids all that much so I can share a room with him if need be." She gave the boy a reassuring smile.

"Anyone el-"

Immediately Katou Keiko stood up with her hand raised.

"I call dibs on the last bunk!" Katou said with a shine of glee in her eyes, hoping that she would be able to sleep in the same room as the little cuddlemuffin (Was that even a word?) from Neue Eutin, he was so cute!

Minna nodded before looking to the remaining girls of the squadron.

"Alright then, the rest of you; Marseille, Raisa, Mami, and Matilda will be assigned to the other room. Any objections?"

She neither saw nor heard an objection so she decided the best thing to do was to let them unpack in their rooms.

"Okay." She gave one last look around as they stood at attention, "DISMISSED!"

At that point Marseille left the room with Raisa, Matilda and Mami trailing behind her while Laura stood up with Furuko and Danniel...until Kei hugged the boy from behind with her breasts pressing against the back of his head.

"So, it looks like we get to share a room with you cutie pie~!"

The boy's face flushed crimson, she was so close he picked up that flowery scent again and he could feel her literally breathing down his neck! Fortunately, he was saved by Furuko who flicked her superior officer on the nose.

"Kei, stop teasing the poor boy!"

Said girl pouted but complied with the demand, she didn't want to make a fool of herself in front of the others again despite how adorable Danniel may be.

"Well then, lets get unpacked shall we?"

The boy nodded, offering to lead the way as all three girls carried their personal belongings and luggage behind them.

The three girls of the 31st made a conversation as they made their way to the shared room. Laura glanced to the boy beside her, she noticed a glimmer of vague familiarity in his eyes when they first met. She didn't know whether this was associated with his trauma or it was something else nestled into his memory. However, she decided to put that off for the moment.

"Miss Toth?"

Responding to the formal title, she sighed before turning to the boy.

"Call me Laura, Danniel. What is it you need?"

The boy apologized before returning to his original question:

"Miss Toth, you said you were here to help me...How so?"

The witch from Ostmark put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"I have heard that you had nightmares about the Bohrok..."

She felt the boy tense up at the mention of the subject before deciding to continue.

"Do not be afraid, I...have a feeling about what you might be going through."

Danniel seemed to relax slightly at that statement, Laura noticed that his breathing had also slowed down back to normal levels. She wouldn't prod any further for now though as he was clearly uncomfortable even hearing anyone mention the Bohrok or his nightmares out loud. Another reason as to why she wouldn't go further is because they had reached their destination.

"Here's the room, I don't think they have the bunk beds read-Oh..."

Trailing off, he saw that the wooden bunk beds were set up with one on the end of the room closest to the window, while the other was against the wall closest to the wall. The dresser drawer was set in between both beds while both night stands were at the fronts of each bunk bed while the closet across from it was wide open.

"Wow, the maintenance crews work fast here." Keiko nodded, impressed. Immediately, she claimed one of the top bunks but not before sliding her personal locker under the bottom bunk.

"Dibs." She said with a mock salute.

"Okay then."

Furuko claimed the bunk underneath Keiko's with a shrug of her shoulders, opening her locker and depositing a few personal items before putting it away.

"Which bunk do you want?" Laura asked. Danniel took a quick glance at the remaining bunks before choosing the last bottom bunk. Leaving Laura Toth to claim the final bunk for herself.

Things seemed to be going well until Keiko decided to ask about how their going to get dressed with a pre-teen boy in their midst. There was a sharp fleshy slap of Furuko's hand against her head, she knew this would get awkward.

Later that night, the sound of soft whimpering awoke Laura whose eyes shot open immediately. She lifted her head slowly and cautiously, peeking at the bunks opposite of theirs. On the top bunk, Keiko was on her left side clutching her pillow in an embrace, wearing nothing but a yukata that went down to her knees while Furuko was laying on her back with her arms laying peacefully at her sides under the covers.

A short shiver caught her attention and with her fellow witches sleeping peacefully, the source of the noise was obvious. She took a gander at the bunk below her and sure enough Danniel was there in his matching pajama pants and shirt shivering in his sleep, sweat rolling down his brow, and his face furrowing unpleasantly in his slumber.

Sighing to herself, she carefully slid out of her bunk, softly landing on her feet with nothing but a loose-fitting nightshirt and her panties before quietly making her way under the boy's covers as he rolled onto his right side. Gently, she wrapped her arms and legs around the boy spooning her body around him with her breasts pressing against the back of his head and her chin touching his hair.

He seemed to gasp in his slumber a bit, twitching uncomfortably as Laura shushed him and soothingly stroked his left side and his head. Slowly his body relaxed, his breathing slowed down to normal, and he seemed to respond to the witches touch by cuddling closer to her as she could. With that done, she embraced him before she fell back asleep with a soft yawn.

Sanya yawned, slightly slumped forward as she made her descent back to base after a long night patrol. Her striker units buzzed quietly, her Fliegerhammer was in a resting position, all nine rockets having been unspent due to an uneventful night with no contacts except for a few broadcasts from radio stations or the occasional night witch on patrol in another region of Europe. All she had to do was to pull into the hanger, disengage from her striker units, and drop of her weapon and she could get some well-earned rest.

Speaking of well-earned rest, a majority of the inhabitants on the base were sleeping peacefully for the moment.

Miyafuji lay asleep on her back with one arm under the covers while the other rested over her chest.

Lynette was on her side hugging her pillow with a blush while her long light brown hair was untied from the braid she kept it in and splayed along her bed.

Perrine laid on her back asleep and much like Lynette her hair was messily splayed over her pillow.

Minna slept on her side, with one arm folded close to her chest while the other grasped at the corner of her pillow.

Trude was asleep on her back, with only part of her shoulders and chest peaking out from under the covers while her brown hair embraced the back of her neck.

Erica was not on her bed asleep but rather had slipped off the bed in the middle of the night and was on the floor with only a loose blanket covering her legs and a few scattered pieces of clothing covering her face and arms.

Eila laid on her back asleep, snoring quietly although that would probably change when Sanya arrived.

Shirley laid on her bed with only part of the covers on her legs, while her upper body was spread one the bed and pillows as an unfinished device and an instruction manual messily arranged on either side of her bed as she snored loudly.

Lucchini wasn't sleeping on a bed but instead was snoozing like a cat on a tree branch with the flag of her home country underneath her.

Marseille slept on her side, her pair of goggles hanging of her neck as the covers were squeezed tightly in her grasp.

Raisa slept on her stomach with both of her hands wrapped around the bottom half of her pillow while her head was on the top of it.

Matilda was already awake, having awoken early out of habit and was now in the kitchen after quickly cleaning herself up a couple of minutes ago.

Mami slept on her back, her arms on her sides over the covers as she breathed quietly in her slumber.

Furuko had rolled onto her side in her sleep and her arms laid in front of her clutching the surface of her bed.

Keiko had more or less remained in the same position she did before however there was a small line of drool that had rolled down her pillow.

Danniel remained cuddled with Laura, both of whom having a good night's sleep although...Keiko would most likely take a quick photo of that moment to use for blackmail material if she ever needed it.

Mio was the only other witch on base that was awake, jogging through the woods before reaching a clearing and making several practice swipes and cuts as her morning regiment. A minute or so later the sound of the first call on the bugle caught her attention and it would also serve as a wake up call for a majority of the personnel on base. However, today would be a bit different as most of everybody had overslept and the following events that all started when Erica Hartmann couldn't find her panties.

"I can't find...my panties." Erica muttered to herself as she finished going through the disorganized mess that was her room, she took a glance or two around the room, sighing to herself.

"Oh, well." She shrugged.

Meanwhile, after being part of Mio's morning mid-day training exercises, both Lucchini and Miyafuji both excitedly jumped into the baths while Sakamoto and Perrine started to strip.

"Nothing beats a good sweat after training." Mio said, shedding off her top with a blushing Perrine watching.

"Y-Y-Yes, you're right." Perrine said quietly, and soon a fantasy of her idol sitting next to her, taking off her eye-patch and giving her a shiny toothy grin. She squealed to herself, blushing and drooling a bit, not noticing that a half-undressed Laura Toth and Kitano Furuko were watching her.

"Whats her major malfunction?" she asked while Laura shrugged and hummed 'I don't know.'. Perrine made a noise of confusion, realizing that Major Sakamoto was gone and she was left alone. Not wanting to be left out, she quickly started stripping as fast as her hands would allow her before she quickly crept into the baths while a bemused Furuko and Toth watched.

"Weird." Laura muttered, Furuko hummed in agreement.

Perrine was running so fast in the steamy bath that her glasses had been covered in condensation and before she even knew it she had slipped on a bar of soap, her towel flying off as she splashed into the bath. When she surfaced, her first flustered response was to call out the culprit.

"W-W-Who was the one who dropped their soap on the flo-"

"Are you okay?" Mio asked the Gailian girl who suddenly saw that she was in the arms of her idol. Suddenly, the noble girl's face turned a bright red, sputtering half-finished words as her brain short-circuited.

"Excuse me!" She shouted before slipping out of the women's arms and taking a seat beside her looking down at herself bashfully.

"Um...may I join you?" she asked meekly.

"Sure, don't be concerned with rank in the bath!"

"Ah, I'm sorry Perrine-san it flew out of my hands!" Miyafuji apologized.

Perrine's face turned dark red, flustered but instead of admonishing the school girl from Fuso she uncharacteristically thanked her instead, much to the bemusement of everyone else in the baths.

Erica slid down the railing, jumping off at the end landing on her feet, the flaps at the back of her uniform flipping up a bit before descending back down. The ace gave a small sneeze complaining about how breezy it was before taking a glimpse at the purple drapes near the entrance of the baths. An idea popped into her head at that moment and a few moments later she left the room with her arms up in the air like a plane as she happily trotted off to places unknown. However, if one of the witches was there before hand they would have noticed that she was wearing a familiar pair of blue and white stripped panties.

A few minutes later...

"My panties!" Lucchini muttered, she thought she had left them in the bin earlier but it wasn't there! All that was left was her uniform, her shoes, and her socks! However, she smiled deviously, eyes twinkling when she spotted a pair of light purple panties sitting neatly on top of the folded blue dress and pantyhose of a certain Gailian noble.

A couple minutes later...

"Oh? Oh my, Oh my..." Muttered Perrine as she started sifting underneath the clothes in her bin, last time she saw them her panties were on top of them. One thorough search of the contents in her bin proved fruitless.

"Wha- They're gone! My pan-" She paused for a moment, closing her eyes and clearing her throat as she stayed calm.

"N-No, it's fine..." she said to herself as she started putting her clothes (sans panties) back on. 'Stay Calm, Perrine Clostermann! A noble lady of Gailia must not become flustered over a minor nuisance like this!' Nodding resolutely after pulling on her pantyhose and putting on her blouse despite the blush on her face. 'That's right! S-So what if I don't have panties!' Immediately, she let the ears and tail of her familiar spring out, with the latter curling around her right leg to cover her modesty. However, her calm attitude started to fail after that. Her face was still flushed and she didn't feel comfortable.

"If only I had a replacement..." she whimpered. She looked to her right and instantly her face along with the features of her familiar perked up and she gasped at the sight in her eyes.

'This is...the major's!' Indeed she had her sights on the one piece swimsuit and was reaching to grab them with her reddened face until she stopped.

"W-What am I thinking? I-I would never stoop so low to do something like this!" She thought out loud and thought she felt ashamed a small grin was forming on her face.

"I musn't take them without permission. No of course not..." Muttering to herself as she held it in her arms, some very perverse emotions and thoughts bubbling inside of her.

'Just try them on...No, that would be unforgivable! Unforgivable!'

She was interrupted when Miyafuji emerged from the bath, mouth gaping a bit. "Eh?"

"Uh..." Perrine tried to come up with an excuse, her shame starting to rise up and then suddenly spilling over as Mio came out behind her fellow Fusoan.

"What are you doing?"

Perrine yelped, looking incredibly guilty at the moment until Miyafuji commented about how the Gailian was holding her swimsuit. Perrine gasped, dropping the garments in embarrassment, oh the humiliation! She thought for sure it was the swimsuit of her idol! So she did her best to avoid further embarrassment by forming a scowl on her face, eyes shut, with her face turned away haughtily.

"T-T-This is a crime!"

Needless to say her explanation would not only prove to be awkward but also much more humiliating.

Meanwhile, after exiting a small building with Minna, Lynette with the package in her hands took a look into the sky.

"What nice weather!"

"Indeed." Minna agreed, "Its so peaceful."

Little did they know of what was happening back at base.

"This is a crime." Gertrude Barkhorn grunted, standing next to the table with Charlotte Yeager seated with a mischievous if not suggestive grin on her face. On one spot of the table, in front of them was Miyafuji's neatly folded swimsuit.

Across from them was an uncomfortable-looking Miyafuji and Perrine both clutching the front hems of their uniforms while Major Sakamoto stood to one side bemused.

Meekly, Miyafuji asked if she could have her swimsuit back but Barkhorn refused, stating that it was evidence. The school girl objected and only after a quick glance to her clenched uniform did Barkhorn understand.

"You aren't wearing anything?" Bemused at first, she then closed her eyes and started grabbing the waistbands of her panties. "Fine, I'll lend you mine."

"What?! Wait, please!" Miyafuji cried. Marseille who was seated at another end of the table rolled her eyes, she thought it was typical of Barkhorn to try something like that considering how much of stickler for the rules and a by-the-book soldier she was. However, the Star of Africa didn't notice how Raisa blushed a little, quickly glancing between both the younger Fusoan and her wingmate's rival. Upon hearing that statement Danniel's eyes widened and he froze, despite the fact he lived at an orphanage the caretakers had taught him to never peek and/or go into a room if a girl and/or lady were getting dressed, undressed, or changed! Thankfully, he was sitting between Kitano Furuko and Inagaki Mami who instantly dropped their utensils and shielded his eyes.

"There's no need to hesitate!" Getrude said, ignoring the objections of her junior, "Y-Y-Yes, there is!"

Mio suddenly came to her rescue however, when she took of her jacket and wrapped it around her.

"You can make do with this for now." She said while Miyafuji bowed and thanked her, even though it left her superior officer in her one-piece swimsuit. Gertrude frowned and complained about the younger girl's modesty, sliding her panties back on and ignoring a few verbal jabs from Marseille as she did so. Danniel thanked both witches who covered his eyes before all three of them went back to their meals. Raisa sighed in relief, although a small part of her deep in the back of her mind wished that Marseille would do the same thing for her. As for Perrine, it went unnoticed that she was swooning at the sight of Mio Sakamoto in nothing but her swimsuit and eyepatch.

"Now then, let's begin the investigation."

"Can we really call a lost pair of panties worth something investigating?" Marseille sarcastically asked to which her rival quickly said "Shut up, Marseille!" before returning to business,

"First of all, why did Perrine's panties vanish?"

"Maybe she lost them?" Marseille muttered under her breath, rolling her eyes.

"Maybe she wasn't wearing them to begin with?" Shirley asked in a suggestive tone. Marseille nearly choked as she was guzzling down a bottle milk while Matilda snickered under her breath. Although poor Danniel's face burned brightly, remembering how he flipped the Gailian noble's skirt and imagining the possibility that she was- He shook his head, trying not to think about it as he decided to finish his meal with a bit more gusto than usual.

"I would never!" Said Gailian was not amused by that accusation, she thought she would do something so vulgar!

"Never what? Wear panties?" Charlotte's grin widened, infuriating her junior.

"Charlotte, be quiet. You're not helping." Gertrude said to her as calmly as she could, not listening to her rival butting in with a "Like you're one to talk!".

"I did wear my panties before I got to the baths, I even folded them and placed them on top of the clothes in one of the bins!" Perrine said, crossing her arms.

Gertrude looked thoughtful at that explanation, after all it wasn't like Perrine to lie about something like that...unless it involved the Major of course. So she had only one conclusion.

"Then the possibility is high that someone stole them."

Marseille scoffed, "Why would a girl steal another girl's panties of all things? Seriously, there isn't really anyone to susp-" She paused for a moment with a thoughtful look before her eyes glanced towards the lone boy of the table,

"Well, there is one person we can suspect and he's in the room with us." Immediately, Perrine, Getrude, Miyafuji, and Mio turned towards him. The first two giving him looks of suspicion while the rest of them looked mainly just to probe him. Unnoticed by them, Lucchini started quivering in her seat.

Danniel flushed,

"W-What? Y-You don't really think I would do that, would you?!"

"Hey, your a boy of what? Eleven-years old?" Charlotte asked with a mischievous grin, "Its a difficult age for a kid like you, especially when you start getting interested in girls. Who knows, maybe he took a peak inside of the baths just to get a glimpse of some of us naked~."

"WHAT?!" Perrine started growling, her eyes filled with visions of great vengeance and furious anger ready to show the path of the rightheous man- Er, women to the young boy as her magical powers started to manifest.

"B-B-But..." Said blonde-haired boy glanced at his fellows at the seat of the table, only to see Lucchini shaking for some reason, Erica enjoying her meal, Marseille shrugging, Raisa blushing, and of course the two Fuso girls raising their eyebrows at him in suspicion. Overwhelmed he reacted the only way he could, by telling the god-honest truth before he met his untimely end.

"I DIDN'T DO IT! I DIDN'T STEAL HER PANTIES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT! I HAVEN'T EVEN TAKEN A BATH SINCE I GOT HERE!" He cried out with fountains of tears coming out of both eyes, "PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!"

"Eh?" Perrine, dropped the frown for a moment, feeling a bit shocked at his reaction and oddly...awkward that he would admit that he hadn't taken a bath here. Furuko grabbed the boy, who yelped at the sudden touch and gave a few sniffs, recoiling a bit in disgust.

"He's telling the truth, I doubt he'd be lying if he stinks as badly as that!"

Trying to get a handle on how awkward this situation had become.

"Right then...Since our first and obvious suspect has been eliminated, that leads me to ask this question; Who was in the changing room before Officer Clostermann."

Perrine hummed in embarrassment before she remembered, there was one person who left the baths before her! She turned to the new suspect, Lucchini who was unfortunately quivering much more than she did before the so-called 'investigation' began. Even the others at the table stopped to turn towards her.

"Officer Francesca Lucchini?!" Gertrude asked, Shirley looking disappointed while the others at the table readied themselves to catch her if need be but then all of a sudden she burst out of the room leaving her fork and an uneaten potato behind.

"She's making a run for it!" Charlotte exclaimed as she jumped out of her seat with Gertrude, Mio, Miyafuji, and Perrine (She noticed the Romagnan wearing her panties) behind her.

"Wait, stop right there!"

Leaving behind the others seated at the table a bit too stupefied at what just happened, with the exception of Erika who continued feeding herself as they passed by.

Visibly agitated by the chase, Lucchini grabbed Miyafuji's swimsuit, realized what she had in her hands and then took off running with others asking or outright demanding her to come back.

"I'm sorry!" The Romagnan girl yelled.

"Come on, Raisa we better go help!" Marseille said, placing her dishes and finished meal to one side before taking off.

"Eh? Hanna, wait up!" Her wingmate jumped out of her seat, abandoning her dishes before she took off behind her. Despite Matilda's amusement, she decided to stay behind and clean up after both her mistress and her wingmate instead.

Furuko gave Mami a questioning look.

"Should we go help them?"

"I think we better stay out of it...for now."

Danniel, who was relieved at not being in the crosshairs of an angry Gailian noble just chose to finish his meal, although he didn't know what to say about Lucchini's antics and her pursuers.

Erica gulped down another piece of a potato before she made a short noise that caught everyone's attention,

"What's the matter Officer Hartmann?" Furuko asked.

Erica shook her head, saying "Delicious" before diving back in.

"Just one of those days I guess." Matilda muttered.

"Where did she go?" Gertrude asked near the front entrance of the base.

"I don't know..." Charlotte drawled.

"Lets head this way!" Gertrude said, pointing in one direction while Charlotte followed behind her.

"Lets go the other way!" Miyafuji said with Perrine joining her. Meanwhile Mio decided to search near the entrance.

Just as Miyafuji and Perrine made it halfway towards their designated direction, Perrine fell behind, feeling dreadfully uncomfortable without her panties.

Miyafuji bolted ahead though, especially when she saw Lucchini peaking out of a bush.

Trying to shake the schoolgirl from Fuso off, the Romagnan climbed up a tree much to Miyafuji's frustration.

"Lucchini-chan, give me back my clothes!"

Feeling victorious, Lucchini teasingly smiled and waved, "Come and get them!" she chimed in a sing-song voice. Oh it was on! Miyafuji hugged the tree as she attempted to climb up it slowly grabbing each branch but when she reached Lucchini's perch she was nowhere to be found!

"What?!"

"Yoshika, I can see you!" The little girl said from the grass below, teasingly putting her right hand curled into the shape of a telescope zooming in and out of her teammate's exposed bottom. Embaressed, Yoshika tried to grab her bottom only to end up releasing her hold on the tree branches and falling into the foliage below.

Lucchini was concerned at first until she heard two familiar voices call out to her and she started running again!

Laying in her bed, Eila basked in the warmth of her wingman and her lover who laid silently asleep back to back. That is until she heard her door open and close. Raising herself to take a peak, she saw Lucchini panting before facing her with sushing her with a single finger to her lips.

Eila settled on glaring at the intruder, before she opened one of the windows, and made a satisfied noise at whatever she was looking for.

"What are you doing?" Eila tiredly asked.

"Oh yeah!" Lucchini said, ignoring the question before going over and grabbing Eila's tights. Alarmed, she rose out of bed.

"Hey, those are mine!" But she didn't make it time to catch the little breast-groping troublemaker, instead she parted the curtains to see Lucchini wrap the white tights around a drainage pipe as she slowly climbed down.

Great, now she had to catch that pikku paska and get her tights back! She made it to her door before pausing for a moment and remembering she had to get dressed but...she didn't have her tights. However, Sanya had hers on hand. Desperate, she made her move muttering 'Sorry!' before exiting the room wearing her love's tights. Living up to their name they were indeed tight on her lower body mostly due to the fact they were fitted for her girlfriend's size but it was better than nothing. Suddenly, Getrude and Charlotte stopped in front of her.

"Where's Lucchini?" Charlotte asked. 'Well, looks like I'm not the only one she pissed off today.' Eila thought to herself. Bashfully she whimpered,

"S-She went down."

"Let's follow her!" Getrude said. With that, Eila joined her seniors in the hunt for Officer Francesca Lucchini!

"Ta-Da!" Lucchini celebrated as she made it to the lowest floor of the base through one of the windows. Her ears perked up when she heard more voices to her right and there was Yoshika, Perrine, Hanna, and Raisa all of whom were in pursuit.

"You won't get away you thief!" Perrine yelled.

However as she made an attempt to run she saw her right flank was occupied by Shirley, Gertrude, and Eila.

"Give them back!"

Taking a glance to the left and right, she saw that a path in front of her was clear and took it before she got caught all the while yelling: "I'm not a thief!" Before quickly diving to an old wooden door at the side. Unfortunately, her pursuers didn't notice her take the door off to the side and continued forward.

Lucchini sighed in relief, before taking a look around in the room she was in.

"Wait, is thi-"

She didn't have further time to speak because she slipped on a bottle and barreled off to the side with her hand reflexively grabbing the closes object to keep her balance which happened to be a switch that clicked as it was pulled down, inadvertently activating the sirens on the base.

Immediately, the chase was halted as the pursuers heard the alarm go off and instead decided to ready themselves for battle.

Meanwhile, Sanya had woken up and was about to get dressed only to notice her tights were missing.

Back in the kitchen, Matilda had started cleaning the dishes while Erica finished off a glass of milk before heading out.

On another end of the base, where Mami and Furuko were with Danniel, they heard the alarm go off and the two witches immediately darted off but not before ordering Danniel to take cover back in their room.

Laura who was finishing her bath, stopped as she was rinsing herself and quickly started to dry herself off, and grabbing her clothes. Looks like it was time for a fight! (Or so she thought.)

Minna and Lynette who were on their way back from a brief errand immediately sped back to base.

Back in the hangar, everyone who was able mounted a striker with the exception of Perrine and Miyafuji who began protesting about their lack of undergarments before having their complaints dismissed by Mio who said that it was their duty to fight and that nobody would see them in the sky.

A half-awake Sanya walked in and said she was ready to fight but much to Eila's embarrassment noticed that her tights were being used by her lover and wingmate.

Meanwhile on the other end of the base, Lucchini slowly crept out of the room, gulping to herself.

"They're going to be so mad if they find out I pulled that switch." she whimpered.

"And what switch would that be?" a voice asked.

Lucchini pitifully squeaked before slowly craning her head to the right, seeing a smirking Erica Hartmann who later would drag her to the front of the hanger with the remaining witches and explaining who exactly was behind the false alarm.

Regardless of Lucchini's shenanigans and the confusion that followed, Erica Hartmann's commendation went as planned until much to her cheekiness Lucchini noticed that the pride of Karlsland's military was wearing her panties.

Somewhere many miles away though, the situation was much darker as Kohrak-Kal and Nuhvok-Kal were accompanied by several of the lesser members of the swarm overlooking a small town from the mountains that was but a few miles away from Folkestone.

"Prepare yourself, brother for we may face some resistance here before we move quickly move forward to the marked one." Nuhvok-Kal said, gesturing to the town below.

Kohrak-Kal nodded, raising his sonic shields and charging them. A significant sonic blast near the center of it would startle the inhabitants and cause enough panic for the rest of the Bohrok to charge in and level it to the ground.

Just as he was about to release the blast they were faced with a quick blast of snow, ice, and wind that came out of nowhere and broke his concentration. He covered his 'face' with his hands as his feet dug into the dirt at the force.

"What is this?!"

"Who dares?!"

They barely noticed a shimmer of white light in the distance before frost formed on the regular Bohrok and then suddenly thousands of sharpened icy stalagmites emerged from the snow and encased them or impaled them in a variety of positions, either incapacitating them or disabling them when their Krana were instinctively released by their impaled mechanical bodies.

Kohrak-Kal caught a glimpse of a figure in the distance and yfired a blast of sonic energy only to find the assailant above him, reeling her staff to the right side of head, sending him sprawling into some of the now shattered stalagmites.

Seeing this, Nuhvok-Kal sent a burst of higher Gravity towards the grounded assailant. Her feminine frame quivered as she used her staff to brace herself but then she quickly uncurled a finger around the staff and used the higher gravity to slam it into the ground, spawning a blunt ripple of snow and ice that slammed into him with the force of cannon, releasing her.

"Damn human scum!" Nuhvok-Kal cursed as he stumbled back up, observing the feminine figure a staff at her side, the light of her angry glowing green eyes could be seen under a cloak that covered her body along with the animal tail and ears that were the tell-tale sign of magical potential.

"You are not welcome here, Kal." The women said, "So long as I guard this region you may go no further!"

"Who are you, witch?! I must remember your name for our new master before he smites you like the pestilence you are!"

The women raised her head under the cloak, pointing her staff upwards.

"I am no ordinary witch, Kal. Nearly a millennia ago one of my ancestors and five fellow witches were bestowed with the power and knowledge of one of the half-machine half-flesh warriors you call 'Toa'. With their powers over the elements, they banished your siblings back to their hives and slayed your queen when they united their powers over magic and the elements together! For many years their powers were passed down from mother to child and child to grandchild...I am the descendant of the witch who had the gift over ice and the last witch who bares the power of a Toa. I will show no mercy to your kind, monsters...for I already put your fellow Kal to eternal rest as they waited for a new master to wake them."

Nuhvok-Kal roared in defiance and anger while Kohrak-Kal stood unsteadily.

"So you're the one who defiled our siblings! Your predecessors may have slain our queens but we are no longer bound by them for our new master emerged from their remains but a few measly human years ago and your power is nothing compared to his!"

A small grin formed on the witch's face.

"Oh, really now? Are you aware that I went to the Kini established by my ancestors long ago? While I doubt I alone would stand a chance against your master, I doubt he would stand a chance against more Toa."

Nuhvok-Kal roared again, as much as he would want to rend this fleshling apart, the swarm could not afford more casualties.

"This is not over, insect! We will have the marked one, he shall be the catalyst for our new master's power! Kohrak-Kal, we must retreat!" Kohrak-Kal nodded before folding into his ball-shaped form with Nuhvok-Kal darting ahead of them.

The witch fired another salvo of icy blasts towards them as they fled before she sighed to herself, the road ahead from this point on would be bumpy but she would ride through it until the end. The question was whether the witches she observed...as well as her child were capable of doing the same, she prayed that they would.

"This is more than anyone can bear but mark my words, monsters...we will persevere!"

And cut!

From this point forward this is where things will be interesting and yes, as the mysterious witch implied the Toa Mahri (sans Matoro) will appear in either the next chapter or the one after it. I'd like to apologize for taking so long on this chapter but I had other things to deal with like a photography course last fall, a couple of collab entries I had to post up on Youtube and a few other stories here I was trying to finish.

Anyway, I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter and I'm hopefully going to get started on the next chapter either tomorrow or the day after depending on what happens.

Cheers,

-VentXekart

PS: Happy New Year, everyone!

Translation(s):Pikku Paska - Finnish for 'Little Shit'

EDIT:

Made some minor adjustments to the dialogue between the mysterious witch and the last two Bohrak-Kal due to a misunderstanding in one of the reviews. Hopefully this will clarify a few things. I'm sorry if anyone was confused about what she said near the end of this chapter.