Now that the smoke had cleared, Akko could get a better look at her assailant. He had very broad shoulders and was very muscular. His bare skin was white as milk, and he wore a red combat vest with two sashes positioned in an X shape across his torso. 8 1-pound charges of C-4 were were attached to those straps, 2 on each segment from the intersection, which was a buckle with a picture of an angry red face with no pupils. His left hand had a simple red military glove with spiked knuckles, but his right hand (which was holding Akko up in the air) had a strange device on it, with a small node on each of his knuckles connected to a slightly bigger one on the back of his hand, which was connected to something on his forearm. It was a bulky device, which had 5 empty glass containers in it. His leg-wear was simple: red combat shorts with red steel-spiked toed combat shoes.
Oh, and of course, he literally had a giant red cartoon-style bomb for a head with the wick getting very close to the base.
"I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE MORE TIME! TELL ME WHERE I AM, OR ELSE I'M GONNA-"
Emotional overload detected* said a computer voice from the device on his arm *Activating reboot protocol*
"Reboot protocol?!" asked Akko out of a mix of fear and curiosity "W-what's that?!"
"The only thing keeping MY BOOT from going up your aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The device on the stranger's arm began to spark as the nodes began to glow a vibrant red. After a few seconds, the man put Akko down to grab his arm in pain. Through clenched teeth and grunts of pain, he tried to speak. "S-sorry! F-f-for! Hurting! Y-you!"
Before the wiches eyes, the stranger began to transform! He shrunk down to about Akko's height, his bomb head turned into a grey bald head with bumps where the ears would be and an antenna on the top. His clothing changed to a white shirt with a blank grey face on a circle in the middle and long grey gloves covering his forearms to his elbow. He got a pair of grey briefs over a pair of white pants with grey featureless boots that went up to below his knees. Once he was done changing, he took a deep breath and looked at the device on his arm before taking out one of the containers, which was now filled with a glowing red liquid.
His face was emotionless and his voice was flat, but he spoke with confidence and intensity as he turned to the audience. "I apologize for my actions before, and I am sure you have a few questions that I may be able to answer. But first," He held up the vial, which was shaking in his hand "How do you dispose of hazardous substances here?"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T SEND HIM BACK?!" Shouted Professor Finnelan
"Exactly what it sounds like, GENIUS! The book says that he'll build a portal back to his own dimension as soon as he can!" Said Akko, more angry at the strict professor than usual.
"How dare you! Don't use that tone of voice with me! I can have you expelled for that!"
Diana walked out onto the stage with a somber look on her face. "There's no sense in prolonging our duty, so let's make this as quick as we..." Diana saw Akko and the professor arguing "... can. Okay, what's going on here?"
"They are experiencing second-hand exposure to red empathic-spectrum."
Diana turned around to see who was talking, and was greeted to see the stranger walking next to professor Ursula.
"Spectrum?" asked the Cavendish, "I have read thousands of books explaining magical substances and I have never heard of Spectrum before."
"Have you ever heard of an alien species called the spectres?"
"I don't beleive in aliens."
"She said, to the alien."
Hannah, Barbara, and professor Ursula actually had to cover their mouths to stifle their laughs.
"Who are you?" asked Diana asked sternly.
"In good time. For now, I need to make sure the girl who summoned me dosen't kill the professor out of rage. Or vice versa." He walked over to the witches.
Diana turned to Ursula. "Is it true? Did Akko actually summon an alien?"
"It's true!" said the professor. "And he's not just from another planet, but from another reality altogether!"
"How do you know that?"
"Oh, he told me while I took him to the dangerous substances vault."
"What?!"
"He needed to get rid of the red empathic-spectrum he mentioned earlier."
"What makes it so dangerous?"
"Anger," began the alien once he got Akko and Finnelan to stop fighting. He was talking to the audience to explain what they had just witnessed, "is the sharpest of double-edged swords. While anger can and has been made into a last-ditch power source of incredible measure, it is also the most dangerous. As made clear by my enraged avatar mere minutes ago, anger can cloud judgement and cause you act without logic or reason! This," he gestured to Akko and the professor, "is merely what being close to red empathic-spectrum will do. Be glad that I safely disposed of it. Now, are there any questions?"
"Who are you?" shouted a student.
"Right, first things first. My codename is 'the Emotional Roller coaster'. For simplicity, they just call me ER. Next question... you."
"What are you?" asked another student.
"My people call ourselves 'specters'. Coming from the planet Spectra. If that sounds repetitive, it's because our planet has been at peace for over ten thousand years. Is there anyone else who-"
The bells of a clock suddenly filled the air as the ground shook beneath ER's feet.
"O-okay! M-m-my t-turn! WHAT'S GOING ON!?" Asked ER, his neutral expression replaced with one of fear. The grey in his apperance changing yellow-green. He turned around to ask the witch who had summoned him. "WHAT'S...going... on?" Lo and behold, he was face to face with a giant ghost.
Almost immideately, a puff of yellow-green smoke engulfed ER. followed by a streak of lime speeding out of the cloud and behind Akko's leg.
"Hey! What are you-" Akko turned around, expecting to see ER, but stopped when he was nowhere to be found.
"D-d-down h-here."
Akko looked down and saw that ER was now a few inches shorter than Constantine, had lime green skin, was wearing white and lime glow-in-the-dark footie pajamas with pictures of scared faces on it, and was clinging onto a lime teddy bear about half his current size. He was basically an alien toddler.
"Ohmygosh! You look so adorable!" squealed Akko "But we don't need adorable right now! We need happy! What color is happy?"
"W-w-well th-th-th-that's-s-"
And that's when ER saw Sucy, and made a neon green bee-line to the forest in terror, leaving behind a trail of glowing green terror-sweat.
"ER! WAIT! Grrrr..." Akko turned to Sucy with a red face "What did you do?!"
"I didn't do anything," Replied Sucy, deadpanned as always, "But if you want to prevent the sacrifice you had better do something quick."
"Huh?" Akko looked around and saw that Diana, Hannah, and Barbra were about to be eaten by Vajarois as the sacrifices. "Oh no you DON'T!" She quickly drew her wand and began to charge up a huge amount of magical energy. "Scrylla!" Just as the ghost lunged forward, the spell took effect, and it was frozen in time (along with the blue team). "AMANDA!" she yelled. Almost immediately, the red-head flew up to her on a broom (almost as if she was hoping someone would call for her). She hopped onto the back.
"Miss Akagari!" shouted the headmistress. "What on earth do you think you're doing?! Unfreeze Diana this instant!"
"No way! I don't care if she is my rival, I'm not going to let another student suffer the embarrassment of being eaten by a ghost every year! FOLLOW THAT SWEAT!"
"What sweat?" responded a very confused Amanda.
"Oh, right. That glowing stuff on the ground." And with that, the two sped off to find the alien.
"Somebody stop-!" Professor Badcock began, but was abbrupedly stopped when a massive shadow appeared over where all of the professors were (Conveniently) standing. This was followed by a *thud* as Jasminka had used an inflation spell on herself, and was now sitting on top of the Luna Nova Staff as she munched on a bag of chips.
"You should trust Akko more often." said the (not-so-)little Russian witch between bites. The Staff wanted to be mad, but she was just too adorable.