SonicANIME2010 here with another installment to the Saint Cradle saga, what could happen next? Shout out to all my followers as my story's getting more notability, thanks to everyone who followed from the start. I don't own Sonic or Nanoha characters.
-Previously on Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step-
Cinque narrated her perspective what was happening with the fight against the Numbers, 'So far, my gambit's working. I managed to get Nove and Wendi to question parts of their motives, but still regardless they made their attack on Teana, whom I was with when the building was sealed by Otto. To make matters worse, Teana is wounded by Deed, but she didn't let it slow her down, I can see the resolve in her.. And on a brighter note, Silver was saved too.. I wouldn't be lying if I said I think I made the right choice defecting over to this side. With Teana's help, I will save my imoutos.'
-OP: "Massive Wonders" Mizuki Nana-
Sonic Adventure: Lyrical Step
Chapter 30
Stars Strike! Sonic and Nanoha's resolve! Cinque and Teana's counterattack; Zest's final sacrifice
-The Saint's Cradle: Route to Throne Room: POV: Sonic and Nanoha-
-BGM: "Force your way" Final Fantasy VIII-
One by one by one, drones were dismantled as the pair of Unison Sonic and Nanoha blazed through their path to the Throne Room, where Emerl was kept. Vivio trailed these two from the shadows high up, but they were unaware. Their advance continued on, nothing stood in their way.
"Target Point is near!" Raising Heart informed the duo. They nodded and continued on.
Up ahead, Dieci knelt down with her cannon in front of her, she had a view on the pair of mages, she thought out loud about Sonic, "He's the oto-san of that robot..." she shook her head of doubts, "I've got nothing against you... demo..." Her cannon charged up energy as she counted down, "Go...shi...san...ni..."
Sonic and Nanoha rounded the corner to find Dieci with her cannon and her count, "ichi.."
"Sonic-kun! Exelion..." Nanoha pointed Raising Heart in front of her with Sonic taking point directly in front of it.
"Shahra!" Sonic spun into his spin-dash
"Soul..." Shahra said within Sonic.
"Zero" "BUSTER!" "BREAK!" At the same time, Dieci's cannon fired and Sonic blasted off to intercept it with Nanoha's Exelion Buster pushing him forward into the blast, their powers equally clashed.
Sonic grunted, "Shahra.. Hang in there! Speed Boost!" and rose his power up more to combat the attack.
Nanoha grunted, "Blaster System. Limit 1, Release!" "Blaster Set!"(Raising Heart); with that flicker, Nanoha called out "Booster Shoot!" and poured more power into the blast, with that and Sonic's power boost, it was more than enough to not only negate Dieci's cannon, but also continue on as Sonic struck the cyborg head on in the gut and Nanoha's buster engulfed her. The end result had Dieci laying on the ground in defeat, consciousness fading and her cannon disarmed from her.
Dieci struggled to lift her head, "This kind of power.. right from the start..." she thought loud enough for the others to hear. She found herself in two binds, Sonic's Ring Bind, and Nanoha's Restrict Lock, "A-are they really... human?" a slight deadpan.
Seriousness etched on both Sonic and Nanoha's expression, the white mage informed the arrested cyborg after sealing the cannon, "The assault team will be here to take you to a safe place.. Stay put."
"And for your information, I'm a hedgehog, not human.. Nanoha here's the human. Now if you'll excuse us.. This warship's flying without a license.. total breach of traffic laws.. so we're gonna stop it!" Sonic added before the two left the now unconscious cyborg.
The two continued their flight still unaware of Vivio following them, Nanoha grunted in pain however as some blood leaked from her left hand. Sonic was about in the same condition as blood found its way out of his right hand.
"Master!" Raising Heart noted in concern
"Sonic!" Shahra noted as well.
"I'm fine.. Maintain Blaster-1" Nanoha assured her device.
"This is nothing new Shahra, we're pulling through.. keep that Unison in." Sonic equally assured, then turned his head to his aerial mage partner to complain "Nanoha! We've been demoted to traffic cops!"
Said mage giggled a bit, before focusing again, "We need to hurry up, Raising Heart, Sonic-kun."
"Alright!" "Okay!" Raising Heart and Sonic said respectively. Nanoha dropped a few magic spheres for her search spell in case and flew ahead with the hedgehog in tow.
-Throne Room-
-No BGM-
Quattro watched the duo in their approach of the throne room, even she was still unaware of Vivio's presence. She turned to the gizoid and spoke in a taunting manner, "Gizoid, your oto-san's a baka.. He thinks he can stop our scheme."
-BGM: "It Doesn't Matter" SA2-
The big door into the throne room suddenly had a huge dent in it, then blasted open with a bang from Nanoha and Sonic's Buster and spin-dash combo. Vivio hid herself in a air-vent high up so she can have a vantage point of seeing what's going on.
"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeere's SONIC!" U-Sonic announced as he and Nanoha landed on the ground.
"Irashai. (Welcome in Japanese)" Quattro greeted them with a cocky attitude, "We've been waiting. You came all this way, even though it was totally pointless. Now then, your companions are being beaten all over Mid-Childa." she showed them displays of many of the losing battles their friends were in, ranging from Knuckles and Vita's troubles with the Type-IVs to Ginga and Quint's losing fight against Subaru.
"You're under arrest for a large scale disturbance of the peace! You will cease and disarm immediately" Nanoha spat out.
"You're one sick, twisted monster." Sonic added with equal venom.
"Your friends are in danger, your robot's in trouble, and you're still worried about your job?" Quattro asked still maintaining her cocky attitude, "Such a demonic sense of justice." she stroked the Gizoid's chin.
Sonic had just about enough of the cyborg, within seconds he curled up into his spin-dash and blasted for her. Only for "Quattro" to disappear, she was an illusion. The peeved Unison Hedgehog went back to his partner's side.
The real Quattro opened a comm to taunt further, "But I wonder if you can still stay calm." within a few seconds electricity ran through the gizoid, a rainbowish aura knocked Sonic and Nanoha back, Quattro continued, "Let me tell you something, while it was that girl that destroyed the gadgets in her sleep in her case, this little robot helped slice their way out of the truck. And if you hadn't stopped Dieci's cannon, the girl nor robot would have been slowed.."
"Oy.. Urusai! We already heard the story from Cinque.." Sonic interrupted the cyborg.
"Oh did you now? Oh well.. Dear Gizoid, how's that link going?"
"Link with Relic... Established... Transformation starting." a flash of light ensured that forced Sonic and Nanoha to cover their eyes, when they uncovered them, Emerl has been drastically changed. His color scheme shifted to a black and dark blue combination, and his horn replaced by twin peak tipped horns (Sonic wiki, he looks like a different color version of the Gizoid Prefects).
Inside Emerl's mind, Quattro began her brainwashing, "The blue rodent and human in front of you are not your friends... They are vicious demons and they block your path of finding your true friends and your precious imouto... Do your best to beat the hell out of them..."
On the outside, the tainted Emerl landed on the ground, his voice emotionless, "You have my imouto... and my friends.. I will destroy you,"
"Hey! Lookin' good there Emerl." Sonic said and pointed his fingers at the robot in a friendly gesture, "Don't you recognize us? Remember!" he shouted.
The words looked like they worked for a brief second before Emerl turned back in a glare, "No! You took my Imouto away... I will make you pay!" a silver belkan triangle appeared at Emerl's feet, shockwaves flew for the duo.
Nanoha held out her device"Raising Heart!" "W A S. Full Driving!" the device flickered in acknowledgment.
"Shahra! Get ready!" U-Sonic called to his genie and readied himself in a battle stance.
The aura stopped, and all of a sudden the air grate from an upward vent fell down to the ground.
"Eh?" Sonic and Nanoha looked up.
All of a sudden a figure dropped down from her vantage point, it was Vivio, "Nanoha-mama, Sonic-papa!"
"VIVIO?" Sonic and Nanoha equally yelled in shock.
"W-what are you doing here?" Sonic asked
"H-how did you get here?" Nanoha added.
Vivio giggled a bit guiltily, "ah heh heh.. Vivio.. followed Sonic-papa and Nanoha-mama... Vivio wanted to help save Emerl-onii-chan." she turned and gave the gizoid the most powerful weapon she could muster at the moment.. the cute puppy face, "Emerl-onii-chan.. don't you recognize Vivio? Vivio's Emerl-onii-chan's imouto"
"Liar... You are not my imouto." Emerl spoke emotionless after fighting that headache off.
Tears threatened to come from Vivio's face, "Emerl-onii-chan doesn't recognize Vivio..." all of a sudden a rainbow light coated her too and her parents had to cover their eyes. When the light ended Vivio appeared different...vastly different..her age went up to 19 in body, and it showed on her figure with a larger bust, her hair was tied up in a side-tail with a blue ribbon to tie it, her outfit consisted of a dark blue skin-tight suit with a white cape attached to her waist and a white jacket over her shoulders. The real Kaiser has arrived.
All of a sudden, the Cradle suspended its ascent at it's halfway point; it could only maintained a hover in the sky, unable to act after registering Vivio as it's real Kaiser.
-Engine Room Path: POV: Knuckles and Vita-
All the type-IVs that the echidna and red knight were dealing with suddenly stopped and collapsed.
"Eh?" Knuckles tapped one and caused it to collapse, "Did we break them?"
"What the hell?" Vita asked, "They just stopped, what's going on?"
"I'll try to get anything out of the communications."
-Exterior: POV: Hayate-
The brunette watched as the Cradle's ascension stopped all of a sudden.
"Nani? Chrono, Carim, are you getting this?" Hayate opened a comm and asked the mentioned two.
"Hai.. The ship stopped.. the gadgets around your area also stopped." Chrono confirmed.
"Something must have happened in there, see if you can get in contact with someone on the inside." Carim requested.
"Hai.." Hayate had just the right one to call on that
-Unknown Location in the Cradle-
Quattro was surprised, all her feeds were cut and her control over the Type-IVs have been stripped from her position, she was confused as to why, and when she made inquiries the Cradle itself denied access aside from a feed in the throne room where she saw Vivio.
"H-how? The real Saint King!" Quattro thought out loud.
-Throne Room-
-No BGM-
The transformed Vivio found herself on the ground on her knees, all of a sudden, memories after memories came to her about her past.. with them came her past life's fighting skills, the girl was confused in the memories, there was someone just like her in the memories but how, she only was with her adopted papa and mama since she awoke.
Sonic was speechless.. part that he just saw his adopted daughter age up, and part that she was a beauty.. he thankfully set those thoughts aside in favor of his attraction to Nanoha, and he was quick to call out to the girl-turned-woman, "VIVIO!"
Vivio heard her new papa's voice on the outside and came right to her senses. She stood up from her kneeling position, determination burning strong in her resolve to save her brother figure, she stepped back and took a position beside Sonic and Nanoha, she spoke to them, "Sonic-papa, Nanoha-mama, onegai.. let Vivio help save Emerl-onii-chan... Onegai!"
"Demo.. Vivio-"
Sonic cut Nanoha off, "Yes! Vivio can help Nanoha-mama and Sonic-papa save Emerl, ne, Nanoha?" Sonic asked his mage partner before sending mentally, 'Come on, Nanoha, let Vivio help, she wants to be responsible.. plus.. I have an idea.'
The two's chat were cut off when Hayate rang in with a call, "Nanoha, Sonic, it's Hayate; all the gadgets outside suddenly stopped and the Yurikago is in a complete neutral, What's happening? Matte.. is that, Vivio?"
"Hai.. It's Vivio.. I don't know how, she henshined.." Nanoha replied,
"Odd.. thank you for the information." Hayate ended the call, only for Vita and Knuckles to call nearly a few seconds after they did.
"Oy! Nanoha! What's going on? All the drones here just stopped!" Vita asked
Sonic answered "Vivio's here. The Yurikago must have recognized her as this "Kaiser" thing and now its confused about who's in command."
Knuckles chimed in, "We're almost to the engine room, we'll call when we get there" he ended the transmission.
"Nanoha? Can she help?" Sonic asked with his attention on both the two.
"Hai.. Vivio can help, demo, Sonic-kun, we're not going to let her get hurt. We have to stall Emerl until my Wide Area Search can find the cyborg controlling him." Nanoha agreed and readied Raising Heart against Emerl.
U-Sonic took a battle stance against the Gizoid, ready for the rematch, "Things'll be different this time... Emerl.." he thought out loud then sent a playful challenge to Vivio, "Try to keep up now, Vivio!"
"Hai, Sonic-papa!" Vivio took the challenge, part of her memories did include her past life's skills in fighting, with those working for her, she took a battle stance.
-Exterior: POV: Hayate-
Hayate just informed Chrono and Carim of the developments, and Carim had her own idea to explain.
"Vivio was created as a biological clone of the last Saint King.. Her presence as the real Kaiser of the Yurikago must have caused it to realize who she was as the last of her royal bloodline; the computer must have trouble deciding who's in control.. her or the Gizoid. And with no orders, the ship can't advance."
"Lets hope that her, Sonic and Nanoha can save Emerl and free him from that control.." Hayate told them, and they agreed.
-Capital City-
-BGM: "Enemy Battle" Final Fantasy X-
Genya Nakajima took command of a detachment of mages and fought to defend the city from the gadget drones, he was well aware of the numbers of reinforcements were thin, nonetheless he and his forces fought hard. Genya also prayed for Ginga and Quint's survival against Subaru.
-POV: Otto-
The androgynous, yet female cyborg kept her cage over the building Cinque and Teana were fighting Nove, Wendi and Deed in up.
-Inside the Building-
-BGM: "Challenge" Final Fantasy X-
Teana and Cinque resumed their battle against the cyborgs, the illusionist sought to use her trademark skills to draw the fire of Nove.
"Your illusion skills are useless!" Nove taunted and blasted each copy like they weren't there.
"Careless and reckless Nove, try my skills then." Cinque's voice rang out and Nove's position was surrounded by daggers, the explosions caught Nove off guard and sent her to a wall. The cyborg recovered and resumed her attack/search.
Deed flew about the interior of the building, 'The illusionist is tough.. and Cinque's probably worse.'
'If she draws this fight out for her backup to arrive we're toast.. and we can't last long against Cinque forever.' Wendi added
'We have to kill her, knock out Cinque, and move on!' Nove declared, a display confirmed the position of the hidden Teana and Cinque, 'Found her' the roller blader smirked
On Teana's side, she maintained her silhouette spell that created copies of her and her cyborg partner. Cinque stood guard.
"They have confirmed our position and are moving in on it." Cross Mirage informed.
"Maintain silhouettes and shooter.. Cinque, how is your IS holding out?" Teana asked
"I can create as many daggers as I want with it.. and they all carry the explosive charge.. You need not ask about me, aibou, I can handle this." Cinque assured the mage.
Teana stood up and called her second gun as she whispered her thoughts, barely loud enough for Cinque to hear,"I'm running low on cartridges...I'm not sure if trying to fight with my last bullets will work... To be honest.. No matter how hard I try.. I'll never be a top first-class mage.. It hurt, it was pathetic and I didn't want to accept it..that hasn't changed... but still I won't give up.." her thoughts were interrupted as the wall nearby burst and Nove and Deed burst through.
"V Dagger" Cross Mirage declared and shifted to that form.
Deed went in for a twin bladed slice which was guarded. Nove rolled up and tried a roundhouse kick on the illusionist and explosion occurred from the impact.
Wendi caught sight of what looked to be Teana and shot at her, only for Teana to disappear, "Another illusion!"
The smoke cleared and revealed that Nove's shoes took some damage. And there stood finally, Teana, with one gun in dagger mode and her left gun in its gun form, Cinque stood beside her, just as defiant. Wendi, Deed and Nove had a formation set up with their targets in the middle. Nove was in front while Wendi and Deed were right behind the two.
'They're not moving.' Wendi sent mentally to the other two.
'Is it a trap?' Deed asked.
'There's no doubt, these two are real.' Wendi answered
'They are...' Nove added
'Don't underestimate them.. We'll all rush at the same time and take them out, and save Cinque' Deed planned.
'I knew it.. Same positioning as the first time.' Teana sent to Cinque
'Originality was not something they've learned yet. This is the hole in their plan.. simple yet perfect combination.' Cinque sent back
'If we can hit at the exact instant their combination strikes...' Teana finished their planning. Will it work?
-Capital City: POV: Quint and Ginga-
-Flashback: appx 10 years ago-
-BGM: "Yuna's Theme" Final Fantasy X-
At the Nakajima residence, a younger Subaru was crying with her knees bruised due to a trip., her sister and mother ran out to comfort her.
"Ara, Subaru?" Quint asked.
"What's wrong?" Ginga asked in concern
"Kaa-san.. Onee-chan.." Subaru cried out as she was on her knees from a trip.
"Ara ara, you slipped huh?" Quint picked up her young daughter and took her inside for nursing.
Inside, Quint sat her daughter down for a few words of encouragement, "Hey, Subaru, don't cry because you tripped, you're okaa-san's daughter and Ginga's imouto" she kissed Subaru on the forehead, "You're actually a strong girl."
Later at the HQ, Quint watched as Subaru and Ginga were given their check ups because they were cyborgs. A teenage Mariel Atenza and Quint watched the two.
"The results of the test are undeniable. Your genetic structure is identical to both Subaru and Ginga's, we think your genetic data was stolen somewhere and used." Mariel informed Quint.
"I see.." Quint nodded, she gasped when she saw smiles on her daughters' faces. With a smile on her own, she waved to them.
Later on, Ginga was practicing fist thrusts for her shooting arts training while Subaru watched
"You should do more shooting arts practice." the older sister noted.
Subaru shook her head "I don't like hurting and scary stuff." she told her sister, who blinked and continued to listen, "I don't like being hurt, but I hate hurting and scaring others more." Subaru held her closed fist, "Our bodies aren't normal. I'm scared of breaking something I don't want to."
Ginga smiled in a caring way, "I see" she approached her younger sister and sat down on the bench beside her, "Well, you might not need to be strong. Okaa-san and Oto-san are here, and so am I."
Quint watched her daughters smiling together and had her own smile.
-Flashback End-
-No BGM-
That memory and more ran through the minds of both Quint and Ginga, they were on the losing end. Subaru had Ginga in a choking grip while Quint was sent against a wall.
"Cease resistance and shut down." Subaru said emotionless to Ginga.
Quint blazed in a rapid charge, only to be shut down in her attack by Subaru, who put the woman in a choke-hold "A change in orders is needed.." The girl spoke out and slammed both Nakajimas against the ground once more, "Destroy until unable to resist and then recover.. all resistance, destroy.." Subaru rolled up an upward kick to Ginga and a follow-up uppercut to her mother.
Things were getting blurry for both of the Nakajimas, hope fading, their daughter was just too strong, and they were only themselves. Well not for too long.
Subaru rolled on the Wing Road for another follow up attack, however just before the attack could hit a female voice shouted out from the distance, "Fly, my falcon!" followed closely by "Sturmfalken!" and an arrow whizzed right between them, grazing Subaru on the cheek.
Quint found herself in the arms of Zest while Ginga was in Garyu's arms. Blaze, Megane and Lutecia shortly arrived afterward.
"Zest?" Quint asked after she stood up.
"Hai... Signum and Blaze informed me that you were in trouble, so we came here to help." Zest confirmed as everyone stared down with Subaru, who was now also on the same level.
"There's a Relic controlling her actions, we break that Relic, we can save her." Blaze explained.
"Hai.. my Full Drive should be more than enough to take care of that.." Zest offered himself to sacrifice.
"You can't use that, you'll die!" Megane tried to talk him out of it.
"I already died once, and my time's almost up on this life. I'm going to perform this last deed before I depart." the artificial mage prepared himself for his ultimate sacrifice.
-Otto's POV-
Otto, under the guard of combat drones, watched the battles from her display, what got her attention was the sudden appearance of a mage from the same helicopter that dropped the forward team shot down the drones one by one. The tide was turning against her favor and it only turned more from there.
The drones covering her were suddenly impaled by green and silver "yokes" or spikes that came from the ground. The cyborg gasped in shock as she found herself bound by a green chain that wrapped around her body.
Shamal and Zafira appeared from the smoke from the destruction of the drones, the healer spoke in an informative and confronting tone, "You're the commander in charge of the battle as well as the one in charge of all the barriers. You were well hidden, but you can't get away from Klairwind's sensor."
The blue wolf added "You're under arrest on suspicion of a large scale disturbance of the peace as well as the attack on Riot Force 6."
Otto broke free of the chain and tried to run for it, only for the wolf to roar and block the escape with the Steel Yoke once more and the healer to bind her once more in the chains as the spikes trapped her in a tomb.
"You're under arrest!" Zafira repeated himself.
-Inside the Building: Teana and Cinque POV-
The barrier that was held over the building vanished with Otto's capture. Deed noticed it immediately, 'Otto!'
'Otto fell!' Wendi sent to Nove.
The anger on Nove's expression was upped considerably, "Why you!" she launched off in a full charge. Deed followed suit in her attack and Wendi charged up a shot.
-BGM: "Sonic Speed Riders instrumental" Sonic Riders-
"Now, Cinque!" Teana signaled and sidestepped to avoid the roller blader. Cinque threw several daggers up in the air. Her partner sent one of her shots to collide with the shot that Wendi was charging and the other shot to bounce off a wall. With device in dagger mode, she intercepted the twin blades Deed attacked her with. The timing was down to seconds as the shot that bounced off the wall ricocheted and hit Deed square on in the back of the head, a pressure point that ensured a quick knock out. Wendi found herself blind-sighted by several more daggers that exploded near her, and with her concentration stopped, her own shot was overpowered by Teana's and she too found herself unconscious in defeat.
This left Nove the only one up, she was shocked at her sisters defeat, matters were only made worse when Teana pointed Cross Mirage at her.
"You're under arrest. Disarm yourself and don't move." Teana ordered
"Do what she says, Nove" Cinque added as her daggers impaled the ground a few centimeters away from the blader's foot.
Nove was too defiant to give in just yet and she tried to charge the two once more, only for Cinque to snap her fingers and the daggers exploded, the explosion threw Nove back and she impacted her head on the wall and fell unconscious.
Cinque sighed, "Always the hard way with these younger ones.. Arigatou, Teana."
"I should be thanking you for your help." Teana retorted.
"Another time, let's check on the others, I know Silver's going to be fine."
"Hai." Teana opened a feed to watch Ginga and Quint's fight.
Cinque noticed Zest's presence in the battle "Well well.. now this really is a surprise.. I'll be back in a bit, illusionist."
"Hai.."
-With the Battle against Subaru-
"Mister, you can't do this!" Agito cried out.
"Gomen, Agito... I must.. Blaze, Signum. Promise me you'll take care of her" Zest requested as he held his halberd out.
"Hai." The both nodded in honor.
"There is one other.. Silver.. make sure he's safe as well."
"We'll do what we can" Quint nodded.. she could barely fight the tears herself.
"Good... Full Drive.." Zest called to his device, which flickered in reply "Full Drive Start!" he blazed ahead in a full on charge on Subaru, who charged in return. The two clashed neither willing to give in, all of a sudden the Relic inside Subaru became more visible and open, which left Zest the opportunity to impale it with his halberd. The jewel shattered and the remaining force of the charge sent Subaru, unconscious but free, into the side wall.
Zest's body took more strain from the full drive, his consciousness and life fading, he fell from the ledge towards the ground below. Only for a silver flash to rescue him and land on the ground. It was Cinque. The eyepatched number placed the fatally wounded and near-death Artificial Mage on the ground, laying down on his back.
"C-cinque?" Zest coughed up a lot of blood in his surprise.
"Ironic, isn't it? Killed by someone in your first life; and saved in your second life by the very same person." a faint quirk of a smirk found it's way on Cinque's lips.
"V-very.." Zest coughed out once more, "Will she.. be alright?" he asked in regards to Subaru.
Ginga lifted her sister and when her device tried to contact Mach Caliber, it got a response, "Hai... She just needs to rest now."
"G-good... farewell, Megane, Quint... Live well... Blaze.. Signum.. take care of Agito and Silver..." Zest coughed out once more, his eye's dulled out and his body, lifeless.
Tears fell from everyone, some more than others like Agito's. Here and today, a brave knight made his ultimate noble sacrifice, it shall not be forgotten.
-Exterior of the Cradle-
The battle was at a stand still, while the guns and defenses of the Cradle were inactive due to Vivio's interference, there were still the per-programed drones to take care of. All of a sudden a large green laser blazed through a wave.
-BGM: "EGGMAN ~Doc Robeatnix mix~" Shadow the Hedgehog OST-
"Nani?" Hayate turned to the source and gasped to find none other than the Egg Carrier entering the limits and about to engage the forces on the outside
"Oh ho ho ho ho ho! Hello, brave mages of the Time-Space Administration. I'm baaaaaaaaaaaack!" The voice of Eggman declared from the vessel, "You didn't really think I'd let the one man who's caused my family so much disgrace get away with something like this while I still breathe did you? Oh ho ho ho ho, then you don't know me... Mark my words, when that warship's out of the way, my plans for domination shall continue!"
Hayate found her palm meeting her face, "Not him again... Chrono.. Carim..."
"We'll deal with him after the Yurikago is dealt with." Chrono said with a sigh
Carim added "Until then, his interference could be useful."
"Agreed.." Hayate confirmed and continued her battle.
Eggman's sudden appearance makes the situation complicated. With the forward team's battles against the cyborgs coming to an end, the focus shifts to Fate and Shadow's fight. The tides of battle are turning in favor of the Bureau and with Vivio's sudden appearance and transformation on the Cradle of the Saints, the warship's progress has been put to a complete halt, what will happen next?
-End of Main Chapter-
-Omake: Sonic's Harem candidates?
While it's no surprised that Sonic is in a relationship with Nanoha as well as Fate when available, there could be others who's past few days with the hedgehog could influence their feelings.
Cinque found herself cornered by the mentioned duo, both sporting teasing smirks on their faces.
"E-eh.. Konnichiwa you two.." Cinque was twitching a bit, she did not like the looks too well.
"So.. we've seen you spend quite some time with Sonic-kun the past few days... could it be you like him?" Nanoha asked.
"N-nani? H-how could you c-come up with that?" the cyborg was blushing like a school-girl with a crush despite her words.
"She's got the blush.. kawaii, ne Nanoah?" Fate asked
"Hai, Fate-chan.. kawaii.." the brunette answered
"A-a..a.." Cinque just was shocked speechless.. the blush extremely evident, "Well m-maybe I do have s-some feelings... a c-crush maybe.."
Nanoah giggled "Well Cinque-chan.. if you behave like a good girl, maybe we wouldn't mind sharing Sonic-kun.. ne, Fate-chan?" Nanoha asked as she stared down with a teasing expression.
"Hai.." Fate equally cornered the girl.
Cinque was just speechless again.
-Ending: "Beautiful Amulet" Tamura Yukari-
-End of Chapter 30-
Author's Notes: Okay, I gots some explaining to do on this one, particularly about Vivio and the whole Cradle stopping thing.. Okay.. so as was explained, Vivio was created to be the Vessel of the Saints to power the Cradle, because she is a direct clone of Olivie Sechbrect, the last Saint King (queen really) and because of that, her DNA makes her the true Kaiser to pilot the Cradle, however, Emerl has been recognized as the Kaiser because of his copy ability as the Gizoid and he formed a link... the Relic sped that up as well as that whole form thing. Now that Vivio's there, she' gets affected by the Relic as well somewhat, however the reason why she has complete control over herself unlike in Canon when Quattro had her is because Quattro never got the chance to sink her manipulative claws into her. And she was hit hard by the memories of her past life, and Sonic made sure to snap some sense into her by making her recognize him with his voice. So now Vivio's going to help Sonic and Nanoha save Emerl, and her past life's skills will greatly come in handy. Now for the Cradle stopping, its because the Cradle also recognizes her as the Kaiser.. and its having conflict determining who to follow, so it suspended all its actions aside from maintaining its flight. So now the real battle is for control over the ship... and if things work out, there may be some hope yet.. Cinque's actually right on the irony, it goes towards her "redemption" and how much she's changed since that time when she killed him... Tides are turning, stay tuned...