Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Crisis
Chapter 24: Those We Wish to Protect
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Vivio stared in shock. The door to the shelter and been broken into, and several knight-like things were starting to grab people. A little girl screamed as she was seized, whom Vivio recognized as the one who was playing with the Nanoha doll earlier. It then began to fly out the same entrance they had busted in through.
Growing angry, Vivio glanced over her shoulder at the Kyoya and Miyuki people she had just met, but the man was just standing in front of the woman in a protective stance.
"Well, if you're not going to do something, I will!" she shouted at them, concentrating on her magic, willing the change. She could sense their surprised gazes on her, as her body grew and her saint armor formed.
With a mighty battle cry and multi-colored glowing fists, Kaiser-form Vivio Takamachi launched herself at the retreating robots holding hostages. She ripped off the arms holding the people first and tossed them lightly back behind her, then punched through it. The robot exploded in her face, but Vivio brushed off the soot and took off up the long tunnel that led to the surface.
She still had to rescue that girl from the other one.
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"I don't believe it!" Kyoya exclaimed, incredulous.
"Believe it," Miyuki told him, glaring. "That little girl just saved those people, and is going to save the others. She has power and she is not afraid to use it to help others. And what are you going to do about it?"
For most of her life, she hadn't been able to focus much. Things went by in a confused blur, distorted. Then, as she stayed in that hospital, slowly things began to make sense. Miyuki probably wasn't her real name, but somehow she felt she knew this Kyoya person and that's what he had called her, so she had accepted that name for now.
She didn't know anyone else, except for some partial feelings that the Nanoha girl was somehow familiar. Still, when Kyoya offered to take her away until they could sort things out, she accepted. It would give her time to think and figure out the world around her. She had gotten to know the young man who had been promising to protect and guard her, and slowly make sense of her scattered memories. As well as make new ones.
And that little girl had said she was Nanoha's daughter. Somehow, she thought that should surprise her, but it didn't.
Kyoya hesitantly met her glare, then sighed in defeat. "Alright, fine! I'll do something. But what about you? It'll be harder to protect you if I'm fighting, and I can't risk leaving you here."
She stood up, her white pentagram magic symbol flaring to life underneath her, offering her hand. "You know I can do a bit to take care of myself."
He nodded, taking her hand and stepping close to her. Miyuki's pentagram enlarged a bit to encompass him in the center, then began spinning faster and faster. Both were enveloped in white light, then disappeared as she teleported them straight to the surface.
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"Is this what I think it is?" Subaru asked, looking around the fairly large room. Their travels through the underground had been mostly uneventful... until now.
Tea looked around at the half-finished stack of missiles and couple dozen launch tubes. "I think you're right. I'd say this was one of the missile launch centers. Given the number of launchers and the number of missiles that were fired at us before, there should be another one somewhere, probably the other side of the city."
"Then let's bust this place up and go find the other one!" Subaru offered cheerfully, pumping her right arm up and down.
As she spoke, another missile came off a conveyer belt and mechanical arms picked it up, placing it on the stack with the others. After doing so, everything shut down again.
"It appears to take time to construct these, or they aren't set on a high manufacturing priority," Tea said, taking an educated guess. "Whatever the case, I think destroying this place should be a good priority." She activated her twin dagger modes. "The warheads shouldn't be armed, but try not to destroy them; just cutting the warheads off should be good enough."
Subaru nodded as the two went to work disarming the missiles, wrecking the loading arms, and launching tubes.
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Three brilliant beams fired, vaporizing the three large robots that had come through the wall. Voltaire roared, stomping out the other smaller robots, as Caro dissipated the whirlwind Adelinde was providing, going to check on Erio.
He groaned as she knelt next to him, lifting his head a bit into her lap. "Erio? Are you alright?"
His eyes flickered open. "I think so." He noticed where he was, the pink-haired girl looking down at him, and quickly sat up. "Um, thanks, Caro. Sorry for worrying you." He tried to stand up, and winced as his weight came down on his right leg.
"You're hurt!" she told him, draping his right arm across her shoulder to support him.
"I'll be alright, I think it's just a light sprain," he told her, then looked around at the devastation.
Every single piece of machinery and every robot was destroyed or flattened. Adelinde had landed near them, Fried was hovering nearby, and Voltaire was standing with arms crossed, awaiting further instruction. And then another type-3 came lumbering through the broken wall.
"Right, let's get out of here, but first I think there's one more part to this factory we should take care of," Caro replied, looking up at Voltaire.
He nodded and turned towards the firing robot, charging his magic blasters again.
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"What do you mean, family!?" Fate demanded to know, recovering her senses. "You abandoned me! I did everything for you, yet you never even smiled at me!"
"And yet you still call me 'Mother'," Precia countered, relaxing back in her regal chair. "Don't you want to be part of a family?"
Fate brought Bardiche up, still in Zanber form. "After all you've done to me, to my friends, and what you're doing to the city... you expect me to be a part of your family?!"
Alicia skipped down the short set of steps, curiously walking up to Fate. "You don't want to be my big sister?"
The taller girl paused, kneeling down a bit. "It's... more complicated than that." She reached out her hand to pat the girl on the head, confirming it wasn't a hologram. There was a warmth there, too. [Could she actually be real?]
Alicia smiled, stepping close to hug Fate. "I've always wanted a sister, and mama has told me so much about you!"
Fate froze, feeling the warmth against her skin, and the breath against arm. [A sister....] The thought did make her warm inside. Her memories inside the Book of Darkness surfaced, where she had met her idolized form of Alicia. It was one of her most secret thoughts, her most hidden feelings; she had longed to meet the real Alicia, to experience what it was like to have a sister again. Almost unconsciously, her arms went around the smaller girl.
Then she froze, blinking in surprise at the translucent form in the darkness of a side doorway. From where she was, she was certain no one else could see it. She blinked to make sure her eyes weren't playing tricks on her, but confirmed that it looked like a second Alicia in the same dress. And there were tears running down her cheeks?
"And now we can be together forever and ever," the Alicia in her arms was saying, the tone in her voice changing ever-so-subtly.
Fate parted slightly from the girl, eyes widening in shock as she looked down. Alicia's smile had turned into an evil grin, to the tune of an increasing electrical whine.
In the next split second, she exploded.
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Schach Nouera teleported behind a type-1 and turned around, slicing through it, jumping to the side as it exploded. Two type-2s suddenly loomed over her, but twin red swords emerged from the chest of one, while a bombardment of green energy blasts overwhelmed the other.
"Thanks, Deed and Otto!" the combat nun told them.
The cyborgs nodded, then Otto pointed, directing her attention to two large type-3's that emerged from around the corner of fairly large buildings. Schach popped another cartridge into Windelshaft and teleported under the shield of one via the ground underneath, slicing through the legs.
She escaped quickly as it collapsed, cursing that she was out of cartridges now and thus didn't have the burst of magic power needed to teleport. How was she going to destroy the second one? Otto was firing on it, but she knew it it would take a lot of firepower to get through that shield.
Sein sprung out of the ground, bounded off a hind leg and sprung into the belly of the beast. The type-3 beast paused, gears whining as it shook. The Deep Diver cyborg then fell out of the stomach and dove into the ground again, the large robot exploding a moment after.
"Nice work!" Schach complimented her when Sein emerged next to the Church Knight.
Sein gave her a V-sign, grinning. "Easy for me!"
"All units, this Colonel Najakima," came the voice over their communicators. "Requesting all aerial units to help rescue troops and civilians being kidnapped by enemy forces. They are being flown up to the enemy city above. Watch your fire, so you don't hit friendlies! Repeat, requesting all aerial forces to help with rescue operations, and to watch aerial fire so you don't hit friendlies!"
Otto and Deed came up to them, as they stared at each other. Each had the same thought: Why were the enemy forces now kidnapping people?
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The airborne surfer hit her communicator. "Colonel Nakajima, this is Wendi. I delivered the package as you requested, and I have a few things for you. We're almost to the city, so don't worry; we'll save 'em!"
"Understood, and thank you, Wendi," Genya replied. "And convey my thanks to your guests as well."
Wendi looked back at the three flying behind her, giving the thumbs up.
"I can hear you just fine, Colonel," Quattro told him, smiling mischievously. "And it will be my pleasure to tinker with these interesting new robots. I haven't met a computer system yet that can withstand my Silver Curtain!"
"I'm, uh, glad I can help," Tre offered flatly, not looking completely comfortable with this. Although Wendi felt she just didn't know what to think at all, and thus was just going with the flow.
Sette just shrugged, but then she had always been one of the more quiet ones.
"You all have my sincerest thanks," Genya said. "Your sisters spoke very highly of you, and I'm glad you decided to help us out!"
The four cyborgs started gaining altitude, passing through the city shield. They split up and began attacking the retreating robots, helping to rescue the kidnapped victims.
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Arf panted heavily, holding her injured side, having temporarily taken human form. The damaged robot had done a bit of self-repair and now had her hand back, but still no staff. However, she had also summoned a pair of type-2 robots to assist.
"Poor Arf," Precia mocked. "I remember our last confrontation. You didn't fair so well then, either. I told Fate several times she should have made a stronger familiar. Though I admit you've fought decently well; I've noticed some improvement. If my manufacturing facilities weren't currently in disrepair I could have summoned more automatons and this would have been over by now. But these two will be enough."
"Don't take me lightly," Arf growled. "I told Fate I could handle you, and I will."
Precia smiled. "Ah yes, my wayward tool. I regret to inform you that she's been defeated now. Perhaps if you had been a stronger familiar, you might have been able to vanquish me earlier and protect her. How pathetic."
Arf grew angrier, shifting back to wolf form. "You're lying."
"Am I?" Precia taunted. "Fate will serve me. If you serve me as well, and I will make you more a powerful familiar, so that you can truly protect Fate under my command."
"There are two things you have wrong," Arf informed her, readying her magical bolts. "Number one: I believe in Fate and she believes in me; she would never lose to you."
She fired off a barrage, charging in as the two type-2 units flew directly at her as well, firing back. Precia was adding more photon lancer projectiles into the mix as well, but Arf took what she could on her smaller, weakened Round Shield. Still, she was unable to stop some from grazing her.
She flipped over their melee swings as they clashed, then managed to snag all four of her claws on the bubble shield of the first robot before tearing into it tore into the first robot. Precia fired a larger purple beam at her, but Arf snagged the second with a pair of chains, and with a roar, swung it around into the path of the purple ray of light.
The beam hit the pair and exploded, but Arf charged out of the smoke at top speed, barreling through more quickly formed photon lancer shots. Precia's eyes widened in fear as she realized Arf wasn't stopping; the large orange wolf crashed into her, claws cutting across her arms, stomach and neck. Arf shifted to woman form as she cut through, grabbing Precia's head by the hair and pulling it away from the exploding body.
"And Number #2," Arf told the head, glaring, while some power remained in it. "I'm a Guardian Beast, not a familiar!"
Precia's mouth dropped open in surprise, then life left its eyes and it shut down. Arf let it slip from her fingers, watching it tumble back down to the city that had birthed it, then took off to find Fate.
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The smoke cleared as Fate opened her eyes, staring in shock and awe at her hands. Alicia had just exploded right in front of her, and yet she was unharmed; although a green glow was slowly evaporating from her.
"Looks like we got here just in time," Yuuno stated, his hand outstretched, the same emerald glow fading from it.
"Yuuno!" Fate exclaimed, turning around. "And Nanoha!"
"We came as fast as we could, Fate-chan," Nanoha told her, smiling.
"Well, well, well, this almost calls for a reunion party," Precia told them, amused. "It seems you three have become a bit closer while I was away. We'll have to do something about that."
Fate turned back to her mother, raising Bardiche in an attack stance. "You used your own daughter as a bomb to kill me. Do you not have any shame left? Is there really nothing of the mother left in there, that my old Alicia memories tell me about?" Her face hardened. "And you promised to tell me why you are doing this."
Precia stood, bringing out her staff. "If you want to know, you'll have to beat me." She smiled evilly. "Of course you realize, if you do kill me, you won't have anymore family left."
"Fate already has family," Nanoha told her, coming up to stand on Fate's left, placing a hand on her shoulder.
Yuuno mirrored that action, but on Fate's left. "She has us. Family is not just about blood, but about being with those you care for, and who care in return."
Fate looked left and right, touched. "Nanoha... Yuuno..." She nodded in determination. "That's right. I've found a new family. You will always be my mother, and I do want to help you. But I can't do that as long as you are endangering my other family and friends, and all the people below. For their sake, I have to stop you."
Yuuno stepped back bringing his hands together. "I'll take care of defense. You two concentrate on attacking."
Nanoha assumed a combat-ready stance, but glanced partially over her shoulder, smiling. "Yeah, just like always, right?"
Fate smiled and nodded, getting ready as well, speaking over her shoulder. "That's why I can fight; because I have such precious friends watching my back."
"Sonic form," Bardiche intoned, shifting Fate's barrier jacket, then switching to Riot Zanber mode.
Yuuno nodded back at them, then all three focused on the two Precia's, who had raised their staves and were gathering energy.
Miyuki reached out with her hands, telekinetically holding four type-2 drones that were each holding two people. Kyoya sliced through the arms of all four, and she switched her grip to gently lowering the eight people to the ground. Vivio followed up by smashing the robots, having rescued the Nanoha-doll girl earlier.
"This is Captain Ulrich again," the man next to them said, pulling his axe from a fallen type-2 robot. "Belay that backup request. I think we are getting the situation in hand now...."
A red-headed woman pulled her claws from the back of a type-1 robot and kicked it away before it exploded. "I think they're doing a better job than you are, Captain."
"Shut up, Vespy, and get back to work," Johannes told her. "This isn't over yet."
Vivio looked up; was it her imagination, or was the city rising higher?
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The room was fairly huge, so there was plenty of room to maneuver. And the random blasts taking out portions of the walls and ceilings, threatened to make it even larger... if it didn't collapse on them first.
Nanoha rebounded off a wall, throwing another wave of Axel Shooter orbs at the pair of Precia's, having lost track of which was the robot and which was real. They both leapt away, frighteningly and expertly in-sync with each other. They covered for each other, as if one mind controlled both bodies. Given the situation, that was very likely the case. Although these seemed much more agile and in-sync than the ones she fought earlier; she supposed it was because Precia was right here this time, and the robot was one of the later models programmed against Nanoha.
One of the Precia's let loose dozens of photon lancer shots at her. She managed to dodge a few in the air, and the rest were blocked by shields Yuuno was putting up. Nanoha nodded at him once as thanks, charging up Raging Heart and activating Blaster 1. She wouldn't know which target she'd be able to hit when the time came, but she wanted to make sure she hit it with enough power.
Fate flew in to strike at the other Precia, trying to keep them both moving. The one she was fighting, seemed to actually be a decent melee fighter, as she parried the strikes partly with her staff, and partly with her barrier. She struck the ground with the bottom of her staff as her magic circle flared, purple lightning shooting upwards all around her. Fate quickly got out of the way, attacking the second one, managing to graze her arm and leaving a bloody mark. Then she radiated lightning energy in a full circle, forcing Fate away, as Yuuno did his best to protect her.
"You're becoming quite annoying, young man," one of the Precia's said. "Claustrum, Lightning Void!"
Yuuno covered himself with a barrier as a giant lightning bolt hit him, the sheer pressure pushing him down into the ground. Nanoha took the opportunity to fire a Divine Buster at the caster, but the second Precia flew in front and blocked it with a shield. She glanced back at Yuuno's surprised cry, as a hole had opened up beneath him and he was beginning to fall down, the force of the lightning bolt pushing him down against his barrier.
Fate hit the shielding Precia with a Lightning Bind, then flew over and used her own shield to deflect part of the huge lightning bolt, relieving enough pressure on Yuuno for him to fly out.
"Blaster 2!" Nanoha called, increasing her beam strength and summoning two of her bits. "Restrict lock!"
Her prepared bind spell tied up the second Precia, stopping the lightning void spell. But the first one fired at the ceiling with her shield still up, dislodging more chunks to rain down on Nanoha and the others, who was forced to cancel her Buster attack. The second one burst free of the lock spell, and the two of them pointed their staves.
"Photon Lancer: Genocide shift," they said as one, as a multitude of purple spots appeared in front of them. In the next instant, thousands of bolts came flying their way, filling almost the entire room.
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"Chief Mizetto, look out!" Hayate called, her own barrier taking fire from a couple of type-3s.
The elderly mage had surprised Hayate with her vigor, being able to keep up quite well. But she was starting to show her age. Her barrier seemed weaker now, as she blocked her fire from her own type-3.
The two had made their way to the south part of the city, as the majority of the type-3s seemed to be congregating there, along with other forces. It seemed the type-1 and type-2 robot forces had begun drying up; less were coming down, and others were retreating trying to take people up for some reason. She could only assume the strike team was responsible somehow for the former, but she had no clue for the latter. However, because of that, the remaining forces were pushing hard on the eastern front to take shelters; already, several had been broken into.
But first she needed to deal with these two, as she flew up higher, flipping pages. "Approach from the beyond, mistletoe branches, and become spears of the Silver moon! Pierce it! Stone spears, Misteltein!"
The rain of gray lances fell upon the two type-3's, petrifying their shields, which were then shattered by ground fire. While she directed the ground troops to fire at one target, she wound up another spell.
"Resound, Horn of Judgment!" she chanted, pointing her staff. "Ragnarok!"
The blast of blue fire annihilated the second type-3, but as she dove back down, she noted that nearly a dozen more type-3s were closing in on the shelters, and Mizetto was desperately trying to hold them off, using run and cast tactics. But even that wouldn't be enough; there were too few forces, and the shelters would soon be under direct attack.
"[Buy me time, would you?]" came the old mage's telepathic message. "[I have an idea. Oh, and have the other forces withdraw for the moment.]"
Hayate didn't know what it was, but she began to cast more Misteltein spells as the type-3s seem to focus on Mizetto. She managed to fly between them, keeping low to the ground . Then a near shot sent her tumbling along the fractured terrain. Hayate's heart leapt into her throat, and she dropped down to provide cover. But suddenly there was another mage there, providing a barrier to protect the old woman.
"General Ralgo Kiil!" Hayate gasped, recognizing the honorary General of the Armed Forces. "What are you doing here!?"
"I couldn't let this old bag do this all by her self," he told her, straining as more and more of the type-3s turned their firepower on him. "She's starting to make me look bad. And I'm better at barriers than she is!"
"Old bag?" Mizetto questioned, pulling herself to her feet. "Looks who's talking. You're older than I am."
"Only by 5 years!" he shot back.
Mizetto began gathering magic, while she looked up at Hayate. "You may want to get some distance, this will be rather destructive."
Hayate nodded and as she flew away to give them some long-distance support.
"Rather destructive?" Ralgo questioned, straining under the beam attacks as the type-3s came closer. "It's going to be a bit more than that."
"Then you know what I'm going to do," she said simply, then switched to a softer tone. "You can still make it out of here, you know."
"You'd never get that spell off without me," he replied, wincing. "But you could hurry; these things pack quite a punch." He smiled. "It's been fun."
She gave him a soft smile in return, then felt the magic charge reach its peak. "All ye who practice evil, return to the soil and be buried! Abyssal Quake!" She jammed her staff into the ground, and as it began to shake, she sent one last telepathic message. "[I'm sorry, I guess I won't be able to tell you about Precia after all. But you might ask Leone about it.]"
The entire area around the mage couple sank into the ground, pulling the type-3s down into the pit.
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Hayate stared in shock at the immense cratered hole and the last telepathic message she received. Mizetto had created an enormous sinkhole that expanded and swallowed up all the remaining type-3s. In one moment, she had protected the shelters and turned the tide of combat on this side.
But that didn't stop the tears beginning to leak out from the eyes of the SS rank mage.
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The barrage ended, and Yuuno lowered the large Round Shield he had erected to cover half the room. He had protected both of the women, but the effort left him temporarily weakened and gasping for breath.
But Nanoha had finished charging, and maneuvered her blaster bits into position. "DIVINE BUSTER!" Five large beams from her full Blaster 3 system converged on the pair of Precia mages.
Both threw up their barriers as the barrage hit, but it didn't take long for the one in front to fail. It's barrier shattered and it slowly vaporized in the stream, skin peeling off first to reveal the robot underneath, and then that dissolved, too.
The attack died off in a great explosion, while Nanoha dropped to one knee afterward, panting heavily and using Raging Heart for support. She had gotten rid of one, but the other seem to still be okay, although her clothes were torn in several spots.
Precia glared at them in anger and surprise, as if she couldn't believe what kind of power she had just been hit with. "I'm impressed, but that seems to be most of what you have. It's over now."
"Sonic Move," Bardiche chirped as Fate darted in.
Precia managed to block the twin sword strikes with her staff, but it cracked under the pressure and sent her flying backwards. As she hit the wall, she pointed her staff out and whispered, "Lightning Wall."
A full circle of purple lightning energy shot up from the ground in front of her, and Fate couldn't stop in time. She hit the barrier and was stopped, screaming as the charge went through her body. Eventually she was tossed backwards across the room like a rag doll.
Nanoha pulled herself to her feet, but she had been using a lot of magic today already, and was nearly at her limit; she couldn't find much strength remaining. Then she felt Yuuno's hands on her shoulders, sending his healing energies through her. She hoped she could get enough strength back soon.
Precia pulled herself out of the wall, coughing up blood. "You're rather... resilient... for insects. But it's time to end this." She stretched out her staff at Nanoha and Yuuno, while opening her left hand at the fallen form of Fate. "You're a good barrier-mage, boy, but you don't seem to have much left, and I doubt you can save them both."
Yuuno's eyes widened as he realized the truth behind those words. He doubted he had enough power left after that double genocide attack to shield all of them sufficiently. And he could sense that Nanoha wouldn't be able to put up much of a barrier at the moment, either.
"[It's... okay,]" came the mental words. "[Protect.... Nanoha.]"
In the next instant, Precia fired, twin beams of purple magical power streaking towards both targets. Yuuno closed his eyes and trusted her words, putting the rest of his power into a barrier protecting him and Nanoha.
Fate grasped Bardiche tightly and performed one more sonic move, dodging the attack and bringing both Riot Zanber blades together.
"Jet Zanber!" she cried as she swung, the sword elongating and breaking Precia's staff as her opponent attempted to block, slamming the elder mage back into a wall again. Afterwards, she dropped to one knee, feeling weak, her body not completely over her encounter with the lightning wall.
Nanoha and Yuuno went to help Fate up, and the three of them made their way over to Precia. Each stared in surprise at what they found. The fallen mage was bleeding, but parts of her arms were torn, revealing mechanical components within.
"A cyborg?" Yuuno questioned in bewilderment.
The caretaker Alicia-program appeared beside them. "This was the physical body of the main aspect currently in control."
"Alicia!?" Fate asked in surprise.
"She's actually a manifestation of the city's computer, just taking the form of Alicia as a way to interact with us," Yuuno explained.
Fate didn't know what to think about that; was this the Alicia that had been appearing to her? It didn't seem like it, since that one clearly displayed emotions, while this one was expressionless. She shook her head, focusing on the cyborg woman in front of them.
"Then, was she my mother or not?" Fate questioned, her emotions running high, as the floor behind the throne rippled and a trap door was revealed.
The Precia cyborg turned her head, still breathing. "Your mother... and your answers... are down there. But... you may not like.. what you find." She swallowed. "But... none of you... will leave here... alive. This body... is useless and... will now shut down." Her eyes closed.
Fate swallowed. Even if it wasn't her mother, watching her die again hit her more powerfully than she would have thought. She knew her attack didn't hit hard enough to kill her, but whatever the thing that wore her mother's face was, had shut down regardless due to the damage. Her head came up again after a moment, and she pulled away from Yuuno, heading for the trap door with determination on her face.
She wanted truth and explanations, and she felt very strongly that she would find it down there. She had come this far, and there was only a little farther left to go.
The other two quickly followed her and they descended the stairs, finding a darkened room at the bottom. From what little light they had spilling in through the now opened door, they could make out some machinery not too far in, with six large pods attached. Fate inhaled sharply as the group approached.
In the middle two, were the bodies of Precia and Alicia Testarossa.
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Author's notes:
I wanted to give Arf her rematch from the first season; I figure she could use the chance to redeem herself... or her predecessor's self, depending on how you want to view it. I think it was my favorite part of this chapter, and between her and the Vivio/Kyoya/Miyuki parts, bets exemplifies the chapter title.
As for my rewrite note, I changed the color of Precia's attacks from gold to purple. For some reason, on my first write-through, I thought they might be gold to match Fate's. But watching the first season again, her attacks were clearly purple.
Shout outs and thanks to Nijiru for the use of Johannes Ulrich, and OZ7UP for the use of Vespy. Always like to return a little something for my fans.^^