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World Divergence: Alpha - Nanohaverse

A's VII

A/N : cross posted on my blog and FFN.

"Hasta la vista, baby" - normal speech

=I got lost in the road of life= - telepathic speech

[Dimensional Transfer] - device speech / spells

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At the same time, one of the screen captured the sight of another Hentai Kamen somewhere in the same planet as Fate. He appeared to be running toward her location.

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0065 - December

Random Planet #whatever

Arrived at the desert planet, about one kilometer from Fate's location, I quickly made a dash toward her direction. Amy had sent the coordinate to Eyaruu during my transfer.

Channeling my ki to both of my legs, I made my way through the sands. I leaped at high speed, just like young Goku in Dragon Ball anime, ignoring the possibility of giant sand beast.

A little dumb, considering Signum and Zafira were here to hunt those beasts that lived in this desert. Several tens of meters long sand beasts.

The sad thing, I was a little too late.

By the time I arrived, Fate was stopped cold. The Hentai Kamen had this hand trough her torso. From her back passed through her chest. Her linker core was glowing in his hand.

Signum, on the other hand, was standing before them. The Book of Darkness opened and currently draining Fate's core.

I channeled even more ki and increase my speed-

"DYNAMIC ENTRY!"

-and double-kicked his face.

My feet, meet Hentai Kamen. Hentai Kamen, meet my feet.

The absurdity of the situation was beyond words. His arm was forcefully withdrawn. The draining process was abruptly stopped. Coupled with my near-perfect timing (subjective opinion) to unleash my killing intent at full power, beyond what I had displayed last time, both were frozen.

Not wasting my time, I raised my right tonfa, twisting it so the longer part now switched with the shorter one,-

[Point Impact]

-and smashed it to his left arm. The one he sticked in Fate.

A muffled sound of pain from his mouth-

I channeled my ki and mana while raising both tonfas, and hit him with full power attack on the same arm.

[Point Impact]

-followed by a sickening crunch and stronger scream. He pulled his hands in pain.

I made both tonfas on my hands to disappear and pulled both fist to my right waist-

"Feel. My. Love."

[Down. Down-right. Right. Hit]

"HADOUKEN!"

-and unleashed a ripoff move from Street Fighter. Only it was in the form of flying fist instead of fireball or beam. Don't ask me why. I didn't know the answer either.

The ki projectile hit Hentai Kamen on his chest. He was thrown back several tens of meters. He bounced one or two times before finally down.

Arrogantly, I said a very cliche line, "This isn't even my final form."

The Hentai Kamen couldn't even hear me. Signum was frozen with mix of dumbstruck and fear in her face.

I stopped my killing intent. Scooping Fate up, I then carried her on my arms. A bridal carry like I did to Luna back in Triwizard's Second Task.

Purposely not looking at Signum, I said a little loud, "I am disappointed."

Signum stood speechless-

"I told you to stop your child-molesting act. And yet you asked someone to molest a child for you."

-and facefaulted.

I walked past her without giving a damn about her existence. During the short period, I used Matrix Scan and Restoration while force-fed her one of my potion. Signum seemed to have recovered and said something.

"I have no excuse."

I turned back facing her, in silence. Fate was in my arm, in slightly better condition. I eyed her for a few seconds before turning back and walking away.

"Tell her it was my loss," she said again.

I kept walking and smirked, "I am not letting her alone near another pedophile again."

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0065 - December

TSAB Ship Arthra

"Fate-san took quite a bit of damage to her linker core within the brief time it took for you to get there. However, her life is in no danger. I guess we have you to thank for your quick response, Will-kun."

I gave a hesitant nod.

"So her core was partially sucked up by the book of darkness, just like what happened with me?" Nanoha asked.

"It's a good thing Will-kun was on board. Things could have been a lot worse, otherwise.

"Still, it was a little too late. When I got there, her core was getting sucked."

"And yet," Lindy-san spoke, "you managed to minimize the drain, drove the masked man-"

"Hentai Kamen," I interjected.

"Excuse me?"

"The name 'masked man' can be used in official report. In the field, use a name that your enemy would loathe."

All pairs of eyes looked at me weirdly. Sadly the catgirls weren't here.

"A part of psychological battle. It will increase our morale and reduce theirs."

"How so?"

"It bought me one-two seconds at our first engagement, didn't it?"

They grudgingly agreed.

"Okay, so... Drove the *ahem* Hentai Kamen back, and stabilize Fate-san's condition before transport. There is something that I missed, though." Lindy-san narrowed her eyes at me and continued, "Why did you order Amy, to prepare the transporter to Fate-san's location, sometime before the masked man was sighted?"

All eyes directed at me.

Damn. There was no way I'd give 'I remembered the anime' as answer. Luckily, the alibi was there, ready for me to use.

"Several days ago, I made some theories. Ones that reported to you by Chrono, and then you labeled them as 'under consideration'."

She and Amy nodded at this.

"It was when Nanoha went to different planet that I had an... inspiration, so to speak. If the whole Book of Darkness behave like a book and its writer, then the book writer would not want to write the same thing twice. Nanoha's core had been drained once, but Fate's had not back then. Using the book and book writer analogy, everything about Nanoha had been written, but Fate hadn't. Therefore Fate was the bigger target, so to speak. No offense, Nanoha."

"None taken," she replied.

"And so, I made a split-second decision. The problem was there were two Hentai Kamen instead of one. I believe that's why I got defeated rather easily back in our first engagement."

All but Lindy-san hummed in affirmative.

I sighed, "While I am glad that my theory was proven true, I don't like the way it was proven. My only consolation was I paid my debt to that Hentai Kamen."

"So basically you gambled and won?"

I shook my head, "No. I gambled and partially won. I couldn't get there fast enough. And even then, I received next to no support after I arrived. It was after spending several minutes stabilizing Fate that the communication back online and I could teleport back."

"Yeah," Amy chimed in. "Shortly, just a few seconds, after I transported Will-kun, the station's control systems was cracked, issued and error, and shut down. Because of that, I couldn't issue command or contact anyone else. I am sorry. I am responsible for what happened."

"No, you don't," Lindy-san said to her gently. "Thanks to Will-kun and your quick response, we were able to save Fate and bring the system back online quickly. Moreover you managed to capture an image of *ahem* Hentai Kamen. But it's strange. The control systems on the Arthra are the same used in the ones we use in Administration Bureau. Is there really someone who could crack it from an external point?"

"You're right." Amy said, standing. "They went straight through the firewall and alert systems, and suddenly forced the system to go down... It's just a little hard to believe. I've scrambled the unit files, but we need to devise a more powerful security system."

Nanoha got straight to the point, "Does that mean someone with incredible technological skills is out to get us?"

"I don't really understand how this relates to do with the situation," Chrono said.

I snorted. Everyone's eyes directed at me.

"Because of the timing, Young Padawan," I said, mimicking a random Jedi master. "The system was hacked a few seconds after I was transported... Or rather, a few minutes after Fate and Nanoha were transported. And it came back online a few minutes after the Hentai Kamen were gone. That is too good for a coincidence."

Some nods here and there.

"Moreover, I don't think image you captured will have any use. Those Hentai Kamen appeared to be identical in both figure and clothes. Or at least that what's I saw in monitor. Therefore, it either means a pair of twin or two persons with good illusion magic. And I put my bet on the later."

"Oh, and what makes you so sure on that?" Chrono challenged me.

"Other than gut feeling (plot, the plot!), basically a leftover paranoia. You can't survive in a society, with corrupt government (Britain MoM), terrorist organization (Voldemort's Bitches), and illegal vigilante group (Order of Roasted Chicken), without learning a thing or two."

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0065 - December

Uminari City

"Oh? Aren't you one of our frequent customer lately, and Nanoha's newest friend?"

I, who was currently sitting on the riverbank after my physical training, suddenly shivered at those words. There was something wrong with "Nanoha: and "friend" in the same sentence.

Because it meant that you had received her Starlight Breaker, or punch if you're mundane.

I looked at the direction of voice's origin. A male, either late teen or early twenty. With strong resemblance to owner of Midori-ya, Shirou Takamachi, Nanoha's father.

"Nah, I am still a mutual acquaintance at this point."

"Oh? Do tell."

"Your sister has a certain reputation. It's said that only they who had tasted her hit are her friends. As it stands, I am currently freelancing on Lindy-san's work and has yet to have a taste of her hit. So, yes. Mutual acquaintance."

He laughed.

"Kyouya Takamachi," he introduced himslef, grinning. "University student, big-brother extraordinaire, and Godly Twin Short Sword Master."

Okay, the last one was unexpected. The anime did not mention any of that.

I narrowed my eyes at him. As I saw the bundle on his back, I think I understood his intention. I stood up and introduced myself.

"William Thunderion, but call me Will. One thing led to another and I got lost on the road of life."

He sweat-dropped.

"You look bored," he said. It was no question, but a statement.

I nearly snorted. So he's trying to entertain me? Cheer me up? It was certainly an unique way of doing it.

"Is it related to Fate-chan getting hurt in that fight?"

So he knew. But how much? I didn't remember Nanoha telling her family anything before end of second season.

"So you know?" I replied in question.

This time he nearly snorted. "Of course we do. We are Nanoha's family after all. Despite her effort to keep everything secret, there's always some details that she failed to keep."

"So, what do you want?" I asked him.

"Up for a spar?" This time his grin was wider than before. "I think Nanoha mentioned a boy who's rather good at fighting."

"Here?"

"Why not? Here is as good as any."

He threw me one of his spare bokken.

I eyed the bokken for a few moments, gave it some test swings, and threw it back at him.

He eyed me weirdly.

"I am not familiar with that kind of sword. It will only hinder me."

He nodded, "You ready? No magic, alright?"

Heh, so he knew that much. And no magic? Puh-lea-se. Ki was no mana, so technically it was no magic.

I channeled a little ki and switched to Gouken stance while he readied his bokken in mid position.

He smirked and thrust his bokken forward. I used my left arm to deflect it to the side and followed with right punch. He dodged and followed with a diagonal slash from my upper left. I dodged a little while deflecting the attack further right. I quickly followed with a right kick but he leaned backward in the last second. He spun with that momentum and used a full circle slash. I channeled more ki into my right hand to deflect it by punching. We both then jumped backward.

"Not bad," we both said at the same time. He said smirking, while I said rubbing my knuckle.

"That's your own fault you know. You refused my graciously-offered bokken after all."

"Graciously-offered my ass," I grumbled. "I am not good with that kind of sword. And that's all you have."

"Well, what can I say?" he smirked again. "Technically, I am a samurai."

I rolled my eyes and muttered under my breath, "Fucking samurai."

I tapped my Xbelt and asked him while pulling a pair of wooden tonfas that I crudely made back in Potterverse, "You have no problem with tonfa right?"

He raised one eyebrow. "Err... Sure."

I readied my stance and he pulled a second bokken to dual-wield.

Channeling ki to my limbs, I leaped forward. He did the same. We met in the middle, our weapon clashed. He used swipe and thrust, I deflected the thrust and blocked his swipe. Twisting my tonfas, I swiped from upper right and upper left. He dodged backward.

Our spar lasted for a little longer until he used vertical slash with both swords. I crossed my arm, covered by tonfas, to block the attack. I added a kick to his stomach before jumped back. However, one of his bokken swiped my side.

Kyouya rubbed his stomach. "That's one blow each. Want to end this before going home?"

I raised one eyebrow, "Your offer?"

"One last blow, full power."

I had to pinch the bridge of my nose. "My full power will either kill you (hydrogen bomb) or permanently cripple you (Point Break with full ki and mana reinforcement). And then Nanoha will blow my ass on full power to either keep you company in hospital or afterlife."

"Ahahaha..." he laughed a little nervous. "Just the one step short of permanent damage, then. I always wanted to test myself against a mage."

"Based on my skill set, I am technically a shinobi, you frickin' bushi!"

He switched to a strange stance, "Heh. Here I come, shinobi!" He leaped forward without waiting for my reply.

"Fuwa-ryuu:-"

I did not hear his words as I leaped forward while channeled my ki and unleashing my killing intent, both at full power.

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A/N: So, I found this concept from a random HP fanfic where Dumbledore insisted, once again, that love was the only way to defeat Voldemort. Harry agreed that love was indeed the power-he-know-not. But his own interpretation of the said love, one way or another, led to Street Fighter's Hadouken. Long story short, Harry trained and managed to use Hadouken and defeat Voldemort.

Hentai Kamen (lit. Perverted Mask) was a bizarre, non-hentai manga that either parody or twisted interpretation of Kamen Rider. The male protagonist wore only underwear and fishnet stocking for his costume. So yes, it was (in my opinion) one of the worst insult to the Lieze twins.

Takamachi Shirou was originally Fuwa Shirou. The Fuwa clan was a samurai clan and Takamachi Kyouya had indeed surpassed his father in the art of sword.

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