Yu's eyes were twitching as he scowled heavily at the four kids before him as all of them could not look up to meet his glare at the very moment. "Would anyone please tell me what the hell was that? That was by far one of the worst training sessions I have seen out of you lot yet!" He all but gritted out as the four looked somewhat squeamish. To say that the last training session went bad was an understatement to say the least and kindest about it. It had been about four weeks since they all gotten together but their teamwork was not improving at all for the cadets.

Well, that was not exactly true, Erio, Caro, and Subaru were making great strides in their teamwork and now she was even less clumsy with her skating as well. The only one that did not improve at all and maybe even gotten worse was Teana. She seems to have a hard time trying to grasp the idea of working together with others. He did not care if she was trying to prove something, if she ignores her team one more time then he sill not let her enter Riot Force 6. Screw what Nanoha, Hayate, and Fate said about her skills! He refuse to let someone like her continue what she is doing in a team operation.

Then Erio raised his head to look at him, 'good at least one of them have the guts to stare me in the eyes.' Yu thought as he directed his glare to Erio who just flinched at his intense look. "Um Sir, I believe that the reason we failed to accomplish the objective of today's training session was due to a failure to communicate with one another." He raised his eyebrow at him questioningly, at least he was on the right track, so he gets a point there. "Another reason was we all fought like individuals rather than a team so there's that as well."

Then Subaru raised her head and started to speak as she was now embodied by Erio's courage. "We also failed because we were careless and did not plan ahead for any possible danger as well. So because of that we got in the way of each other when we were using our magic spells and hurt each other instead." He nodded his head at that, she also gets a point for speaking up and assessing the reason why there was friendly fire in the course. "Not to mention we also acted immature and started to argue over what we should or should not have done instead of finishing the task." He nodded approvingly at that.

Caro then spoke up as he could tell she was no longer scared at him glaring at her now. "It is also because we did not trust each other to do the job that we worked out ourselves." Her soft tone would have made it hard for anyone to hear except the room was silent and Yu had enhanced hearing, so yeah. "So because of that we all tried straining ourselves on tasks that could have been accomplished by one of us and instead spread ourselves too thin trying to do everything on the field in training as well."

He nodded very approvingly at the three cadets before him, at least they were smart enough to admit their own failings, now if only a certain gunslinger could do it as well and they will be golden now. "So what do you think Cadet Teana? Why do you think the four of you failed at finishing the task before you? What are some of the weaknesses did you think this team could work on?" He really hoped that anything she said would actually be useful and none of that lone wolf crap like some would like to say.

But alas he was given nothing more than a scowl at the other cadets before she started her own version of why they did so poorly. "It is because they were in the way and nothing more than a weight to pull me down. I could have accomplished everything on my own with ease." She said with a scowl as I lost my good mood at how the other three were making improvements but she was not making any at all herself. I then glared at her as she was not making any compromises at all and still doing the same thing.

"Oh really now? You honestly think that you could have gotten past all the challenges that the training course had to throw at you?" He asked quite calmly to which she nodded her head quite rapidly. "Well let me tell you cadet Teana, that is absolutely impossible unless you have the power necessary to raze an entire city." He ignored the shocked and angered look on her face as he then pulled out an image of the whole training course before them and then he circled several units and pointed to them.

"Now listen up you brats because class is in session." He spoke up as they now listened with rapt attention save for one of them. "As you may know, the TSAB keeps track of all mages and that they have under their service and the like. So because of that we also know all of your specialties as well." He explained calmly. "Each and every last one of those units were configured to deal with your magical skills and your fighting ability."

As he simply ignored the shocked and surprised look on all the cadets before he went back to the board. "As a result, it is practically impossible to deal with any of them by yourself and because they are attuned to one type of fighting style it would be possible for one of you guys to destroy the ones that does not suit your fighting level. But as you all know that they have a habit of swarming before you can."

Then he pointed to Subaru. "You lack any actual long range specialties and you are a bit slow in terms of reaction to the other three, so your units were focused on long range and speed."

He then pointed to Caro. "You are a typical support mage so you lacked any actual combat spells and you need your familiar to do combat for you. So you got the heat resistant and the pack mentality type units."

Then he pointed to Erio. "You were a bit tricky to deal with as it has been recorded you have more than enough power to overload the units with your spells, so we made them extra tough and insulated quite well."

Then he pointed to Teana. "As for you since you specialize in hitting quick and fast with range, we decided to have the units focus on close quarters and added in a stealth feature as well." He finished before them.

He took in the time to look at their nodding heads understanding why they had difficulties in the course save for Teana who was trying not but obviously she was seething at me. "The whole point of this course was that main flaw that each of the unit had was that they can't do lots of team work and thus the only way to get pass them was to get through team work." Now looking at Teana. "The true goal was for all of you to work together to face any kind of foe, you cover each others weaknesses and you win easily."

They looked at him in understanding now save for one of them. "Remember you fight as a team and if you don't win as a team. You don't win at all; do I make myself clear now?" To which he got three rather enthusiastic nods of the head while one of them was rather reluctant. "Good! Cadets, you are all dismissed for the day. Remember that we have one more training session, because if I find it less than satisfactory then none of you are making it part of the Riot Force."

Then he focused exclusively on Teana and Subaru. "The two of you got your promotion exam in about four days, I suggest you two start to prepare for it."

Once the cadets all nodded and left, he went down to the chair and just collapsed as he sighed at what he saw today. He was now sure that Teana was not ready or mature enough to become a forward on the Riot Force 6. But perhaps she may change his mind if she proves to show all the qualifications for it on the promotion exams. If she was not ready, then Nanoha just might intervene in the exam herself and show them what it meant to truly be to be a higher ranking mage.

Considering that those two had one more practice they had better prove themselves to be capable of working together and learning. He paused then he scoffed at that bit, since when did getting people to work together become so complicated now?

Somewhere far away a man wearing a lab coat with wavy messy purple hair kept typing into his computer as three women clad in a blue skintight suit of some kind were working and aiding him in his project. Then all of a sudden a man dressed in a typical TSAB dress uniform appeared out of nowhere surprising the group till the man in the uniform shifted revealing the Worm that was sent to look after him as the group started to relax in the presence of the Worm who stared at them with high contempt.

"Well, well now. I must say that it is a pleasure to meet someone of your standing." As The man started to approach the Worm with a smirk not noticing its angered demeanor and demanding that he back away from it. "So I must ask. What could possibly make the Great Leader sent someone of your caliber to come here but then again I am rather important that you guys really can't make any advancements without me after a- "Only to be cut off viciously as the worm grabbed the man by the neck painfully.

That caused all the women to stand around him threateningly as the Worm tightened his grip on the man causing him to choke and squirm under its rather furious eyes. "The only reason why I have come here Jail." It spat out his name as though he was a maggot. "Is because the Great Leader is not happy with the fact that you have not been keeping in touch with HQ for the last couple of weeks and both the Great Leader and the General are not happy with your lack of messages and sent me as a response to that."

Then the Worm sensed the bloodlust emitting from the three women around it, inwardly the Worm snorted in disgust and annoyance. If it were not for the fact that Jail was the only masterful scientist Shocker had in their employ, Shadow Moon himself would have dealt with Jail. The mad scientist was not that popular with the rest of the organization and his blatant narcissism and attitude angered just about everyone and that is including the Shocker Grunts as well.

He dropped the doctor before vanishing before their eyes and now using his Clock Up he aimed for all the pressure points on all the cyborg bitches before they fell down in pain and agony and now all of them were widening their eyes in both anger and fear. Then he calmly waked over to where the doctor was as he was massaging his neck in pain from how hard he gripped it, only to start having issues breathing again as the Worm picked him right up now.

"Now then listen here and good Doctor, the only reason why I have not destroyed you yet is because you still have worth to Shocker, and from now on the Great Leader wants you to stay in constant contact, else you will soon learn the fear of what it means to take on the Greatest of Worms and a member of the Dark Six. Do not disappoint us doctor." He snarled as Jail nodded his head rapidly.

Nodding in satisfaction he dropped him as Jail started to take in deep breathes as he looked at the cyborgs with contempt and they looked at him with anger and shame. He snorted even deeper inside. This was supposed to be the best that Jail has created and offered to Shocker? While some of the higher level mages might have trouble with them. They would not be able to take on the likes of some of Shocker's more dangerous assets at all.

Then again, from what he could assume about the doctor, is that there is no woman in either heaven or hell that would consider laying with him and so he might have built them for his own pleasure. Then he noticed the tube full of unknown liquid to him but did not care as he focused more on the being inside the tube. The key that will allow their organization reach one step closer to usurping the position of God.

There were not a lot of things that could honestly grab his attention but the fact remains that somehow the doctor was able to grab the tiniest spark of DNA and somehow grew this much is a bit of miracle by itself. While no doubt they would prefer to just have him inject the DNA of the Saint into any of them to use the Cradle. The security system was made for the Saint's pure 100% DNA. So that mean that not even the Great Leader can obtain the power by injecting himself with the DNA.

Not to mention the Security System is something that not even they could break through without destroying some of the more vital aspects of the system so force would not work that way either. But just making a clone of the Saint won't cut it either as well. The System has to recognize that the Saint is old enough to make her own choices and if that Saint is too young then it will basically go into adult safety. But luckily some of their records indicate the youngest Saint was about eight to ten years old.

So the doctor only had to grow her to be around that age and then give her the necessary knowledge on how to operate in the real world and then a few modifications here and there and soon she will become he perfect guard dog for the Cradle. But still it is going to take more than a couple of months still to finish growing her to be the proper age to activate the Cradle, not to mention of couple more months to implant all the necessary information and the memories into her mind as well.

Still, he could not help but smirk at how fast the project progressed. Who would have thought that long dead Project Fate that Jail helped work on would be key to their success? It could have gone by faster if they accelerated the aging process but that would lead to a series of complications that would only work against them so for four years this puppet has been going at the rate of twice the aging a regular human would go under and that was the safest they could do to age her without any consequences.

Tearing his eyes away from them he then turned his sight to everyone else in the room to see that they were doing what they were before. Good, he will be sure to keep them on track with the schedule that the Great Leader demanded out of them and make sure there was nothing to slow them down no matter what happens. Though he did wonder where were the rest of the Numbers were. If they were anything like the Numbers here, in other words bad, he might step in to train them to be stronger fighters for their organization.

"Are you sure about coming here with only just me this time Fate?" Yu asked the blonde woman softly next to him quietly as they walked through another set of stairs in only their civilian clothing but with their Devices hidden on their person.

Fate nodded. "…I do wish to see her and let her know…that me and Alicia are doing fine and that there is nothing wrong so far in our lives." She spoke softly as Yu, unknown to her, frowned a bit at the mention of the woman. "And Alicia won't be free for the next couple of months as she and Yuuno were working on that presentation at the Archeological meeting too." She added in.

Yu nodded at that, Alicia unlike Fate decided to dedicate her career in discovering lost ruins and the place much like Yuuno. Though that career choice could have something do with the guy as Alicia tried really hard on all the exams and managed to get herself a spot on Yuuno's team whenever he is going out on lost ruins and working as the Grand Librarian.

But still. "Are you sure you're comfortable with only having me around when you see your mother?" He asked rather sharply, something that was not missed by Fate to which she could not help but sigh at how Yu is going about it. Even though it has been more than half a decade since she reconciled with her mother, there were just some things that one does not forget.

While both Alicia and her were more comfortable with Presea, Yu was always a bit suspicious of her regardless. Granted, he had his reasons but she has been making progress as of the last couple of years and soon she may even be released from the Psychiatric Ward and may soon start her Community Service as a TSAB Mage. "I'm sure Yu, now hurry up, I don't want to be late." Fate replied as she sped up a bit ahead of Yu as he remained silent till then.

Though he will never admit it to Fate or Alicia, if Presea somehow goes out of her way to hurt Fate in any way, shape, or form. Well…they say the best way to deal with a rabid animal was to put it down. Still, he kept his silence as he walked through the last door and there he saw a powerful yellow magical barrier emitting in front of him with part of the barrier clear to allow others to talk to each other without anything obscuring them.

Fate was already sitting on the chair provided by the Ward as Yu elected to stand and lean on the wall as this was not something that he could interfere or talk about.

No. This was a matter between a mother and her daughter.

And there she was, Presea was slowly walking out of the door in her white mental ward clothes as she was being escorted by a stoic looking female mage as she sat down before Fate as she looked at her now without a flinch from either woman.

In comparison to the woman that he had met over a decade ago, she seemed to be much more concentrated and more alive. Her hair that once had gray strands all over was now purple and full of luster, her skin which once had wrinkles were now just youthful spots, her once dry lips have now become ruby red and wet with full of life, and finally her eyes. Her eyes which used to hold so much hatred and rage and only one of them covered were now both free and shining with life and intelligence this time. The one emotion that Yu could see in her was regret and longing in her eyes.

Nitoh once told him that Presea had went under rejuvenated medication held by the King of the Fangire race and the brother to inheritor of the Kivat Bat the Third and current Kamen Rider Kiva as well. The practice to this once it was discovered that the Fangire had such a thing made them a widely desired place to explore and discover among female mages, many of them hoping to keep their youth. Whereas the more medically inclined Mages were more interested in its restorative and cleansing properties.

When Presea first went under medical treatment here, her body was an absolute mess and it took them a while for them to restore everything that has happened to her body. Not to mention the additional couple of months it took for the treatment to purge the tainted magical energy causing her aliment in the first place. By the time she woke up she would find herself no longer under a fog of insanity no more. Nothing but the nightmares of reality to haunt her for the rest of her days in the years to come.

To say that she did not take to what she has done to Fate and what she has spent most of her life obsessing over was putting it incredibly lightly. The first thoughts were of horror and disgust of how she could do what she did to a little girl and what she basically turned her into. The second part was shame and disgust when she started to remember that one of her original daughter's fondest wish was to have a little sister that she will love and care for and treat as a sibling that she wanted.

She spat on everything that she once stood for, broke the promise and then spat and trampled all over it and then became very spiteful to herself when she finally remembered what she said to Fate the day she was defeated. All of that behavior and the like led to her trying to end her life in disgust, shame, tears, and self-loathing. An attitude that would very slowly ease over time the more and more therapy she would get as she spent over three years on Earth.

Yu furrowed his eyebrows, he wondered what it was that those two were talking about right now.

"It has certainly been a while…Presea." Fate spoke out in her ever soft voice as her mother looked back at her with nothing but regret and shame as she nodded before her.

"Indeed it has Fate, but enough with the awkward introductions. Tell me, how have you been as of late?" She asked with concern and curiously leaking into her tone.

Fate smiled a bit as Presea is trying her best to connect with her, despite the fact that she did not feel worthy. "I have been fine Presea, just recently I have become an instructor alongside several of my colleges in training new cadets to be the best they can be for the newest Unit being formed."

"Really?" Fate nodded her head. "So tell me, what is the name of the newest Unit that is being formed by the TSAB, from what I've heard trying to start a new Unit these days is pretty hard to do." Presea noted with a bit of surprise in her tone.

Fate smiled and nodded at her. "Indeed, but let us say that many of the member's exemplary records and add in the fact that we are also training about a third of the forward team and recently gained the sponsorship of a high ranking officer of the TSAB made it possible." As she took a quick glance at Yu who only nodded at her.

Presea took a quick glance at the man behind her and recognized him as the child that defeated so long ago. While he looked stoic on the outside, Presea knew that he was not happy being here with her. "I see, so is it possible that the one who gave you the sponsorship happened to be related to him?" She asked pointing to Yu.

To which to her surprise Fate just shrugged her shoulders in a 'so, so' manner, as to her memory she had never done that. "To be fair Presea it was actually a bit more complicated than just asking for the sponsorship." Leaving her in a bit of confusion about that. "It was predicted by the Grand Marshal of the TSAB himself and he left a letter of sponsorship to Yu, and told him to wait till the one who will form the Unit to approach him about it."

That remark cause Presea to sigh a bit, she had heard that both of the Grand Marshals were rather eccentric in their own ways. She heard that one was an eccentric trickster of sorts that can move through reality like it was nothing and those who once studied under him were committed to the deepest level of the Mental Ward here for they were frothing at the mouth and screaming in terror.

Though the other one was more like a hermit that rarely moves unless he sees something that can help others. Though that did not mean he was an omnipotent man though. There were somethings that not even he could see through the various timelines, not to mention that he is bound by a certain set of laws that despite having some ability to break them, he cannot break the core laws.

But back to the conversation at hand. "I see; would you mind telling me about the two kids that you have adopted to become part of the Unit then?" Presea asked with a bit of curiosity and interest in wondering what kind of kids did Fate adopt.

Then she changed her expression to that of a happy one as she started to talk about both Erio and Caro and wonderful those children were. From what she could hear about Erio is that he's a prodigy of lightning magic and was a wonderful and somewhat by the books on the rules at times. Yet he was also something of an outcast and that when she decided to pick him up and raise him as her own.

Caro on the other hand was an introvert but a powerful summoner from a tribe of summoners and was eventually banished due to how powerful her summons was. Even the TSAB were rather weary of claiming her till the recent increase in danger across the stars due to Shocker made them reconsider and eventually they decided that since Fate already adopted Erio and Fate was more than willing to adopt her. Caro found her new guardian in Fate.

Then they started to gossip a bit about the relationship that Erio and Caro shared and apparently many found it to be quite adorable and they thought that it would be a bit wonderful and cute if the two kids decided to get into a relationship with each other at some point in the future. Apparently there was now a betting pool as to when those two might get together or not.

It was something that Presea found very funny and laughed a bit for a while with Fate. But then all good things must come to an end. "Well it has been a great pleasure to talk with you Fate but I am afraid that I am done for the day. I hope to see you again soon." Presea said as whispered that last part to her.

Fate can only smile at her sadly still. "And I look forward to the day that I can once again call you mother without feeling ashamed of yourselves for everything that has happened. It has been more than eight years. I forgave you for everything." Presea flinched at that as she lowered her head down in shame still.

"Please Fate, we both know that I simply have far too many sins that I cannot make up for. I deprived you of your childhood, your happiness, your future, put in you in pain, and even took great joy in your suffering. No; I am not worthy to be your mother once more." Presea said solemnly as Fate looked at her with sadness.

"I still think you are worth saving and still have the worth to be a mother to me and Alicia." Fate muttered sadly as she left the room and just as Yu was about to leave,

"Wait there Yu, there is something that I wish to talk to you about." Presea called out as the man before her froze than he sighed before he turned around and look indifferent to her as he walked down and sat down in front of her.

"What is it you wish to speak of Presea?" Yu spoke with clarity and strength in his voice and yet if one were paying attention they would also noticed the hidden venom he had for this woman.

Presea could not help but hold back a shiver as she bore into the eyes of the man that was once a child who defeated her in his youth. But still she continued. "Yu is it?" To which he nodded though his eyes narrowed a bit at her using her real name. "Tell me then Soma Yu…just how much do you truly hate me still?" To which he looked surprised at her before he calmed his features down.

"To be completely honest? I despise you." He said rather bluntly to her. "I despise you the most when I was a child. You were by far; one of the most despicable woman that I ever had the displeasure of meeting in my entire life and I admit I took no small amount of satisfaction when I landed that final blow on your body." He admitted shamelessly.

Then his eyes grow colder and Presea knew that it was the sheer dislike for her that made it feel like the room temperature dropped as it did. "But one of the most unforgivable things you have ever done was the fact you abused Fate." He said quietly that she struggled to hear it. "Then you destroyed her emotionally just after her biggest losses that she had endured in her entire life. By revealing just how much you hated her and did not even consider her to be real."

Then his eyes softened and grew sad as Presea had to stop herself from flinching, she made it this far she will not stop now. "Do you have any idea how many times Fate would wake up from a nightmare screaming for you?" Now this time she could not stop her flinch. "So many times she would have nightmares of how she was hated and despised and suffered from issues over whether or not she can be considered to be a real person. Issues that no one, much less a child, should have have to go through."

Then he went back to his stoic look as he looked at her with contempt. "I could go and on about how much I hate you but that would not have changed nothing. Heck, if it was not for the fact that I had a code to live by as a Kamen Rider and the fact that both Fate and Alicia desired you to live; I would have taken your head myself." He said as though commenting on the weather.

Again, Presea could not have stopped that shiver that went down her spine but was surprised when his features now had a ghost of a smile on them. "But I know better than most that people can change. Sins may never go away, so the only thing that we can do is to keep on fighting and living with them." He appeared to be quoting someone that she did not knew and it seems that his words were done.

At first there was nothing but silence but then a smile grew on Presea as she now had complete and utter assurance that he will see to the happiness of her daughters. "Well said Soma Yu." She praised as well as confusing him too. "Truth be told I honestly hoped that you would have been upfront and honest with me like this. And you are right, there some sins that cannot be forgiven no matter what."

He raised his eyebrows at her wondering what point is she trying to get across right about now. "What I am saying is…that I too, do not trust myself to be within a hundred meters close to either Fate or Alicia." She admitted in to him to which he still looked stoic, as she gave him a bitter look now.

"I have failed as a human being and as a mother, how could I bear to look at them in the eyes and not be reminded of the crimes I committed to chase after some useless dream to revive my daughter Alicia? How am I supposed to live with myself still at this point? Just how could I make up and be the woman I once was?" She muttered with tears in her at Yu all but shouting at him.

But then she cleared her throat. "But that is not the main reason why I wanted to talk to you." Yu then looked at her and he remained silent to which she took it as an invitation to continue. "In the past six years alone I have heard nothing but good things about you from both my daughters and what you tried to do for them as they grew up. You did your hardest to keep them smiling, embarrassed yourself for their laughter, and even use your own powers for magic tricks for their birthdays as well."

Then to her surprise than amusement, she saw that Yu turned red and mutter to himself about 'Never dressing up as a magical dog butler ever again.' For those two. "So for all those reasons and more I know for a fact that you will do everything in your power to protect my daughters that you now see as your sisters." Presea continued on and this time she had a serene smile on her now.

"So please. I am begging you to do whatever it takes to be the one that can continue to protect their smiles and their safety no matter what. I was not worthy or kindhearted enough to do so. I know that this may be a lot but please, continue to be the person that they deserve to have in their life as you have always done. This is not my request to you as Presea the mage that once fell from grace… This is Presea the mother that will always care for her daughters no matter what I feel." She all but asked him.

At first there was silence but then there was a snort that came from Yu. "Oh don't you worry now Presea. I have no such intentions of breaking what I am doing right now, I will see to it that Fate and Alicia will continue to get the happiness they deserve and no less than that." Then his eyes softened at her. "Perhaps there is still hope for you yet after all Presea." To which her eyes widened at that.

"I have seen many a monster and such despciable garbage that would not even be close to a quarter as being as ashamed and self-loathing as you are. So I know that you are truly sorry for the crimes you have done and I believe that one day once you stop your self-loathing I believe that you can forge something of a decent relationship with Fate and Alicia. People are capable of great change you know."

Those were the last words of Soma Yu before he headed out and Presea could not stop the tears of joy that were flowing freely from her eyes at his promise to keep them happy no matter what happens in the coming future now.