Disclaimer: The following KhaosOmega fanfic is based on StevieBond's Galaxy Angel II Retold - What Ifs. With the exception of one chapter combo from his version, the chapters in this one feature a mix-and-match system for the What Ifs, as well as potentially different canon pairings. All references, except for the Marty Jordan character (the OC that is this story's Arnold Williams), belong to their respective owners. Please support the official release.
Chapter 5: Surviving the Turmoil Stronger (Anise Route)
Anise thought she had us by surprise, only for Kazuya to pull something from my book and flirt with her. She had said she would return when we least expected it, before Almo cut the communication.
I have no idea who it was, but when the Luxiole was constructed it was Almo who became its chief operator and not Coco. That surprise came waaaaaaaay outta left field. And all the evidence showed Lester was nowhere close to the conversation responsible.
Things only got even more bizarre, when my love Forte revealed she had taken Seldar's royal family into custody. The way she talked to me during the transmission really did a number on me.
When Anise did return things got crazy and faster than a multi-car pileup at Daytona International Speedway. The first person she ran into was Almo almost immediately, and while she managed to get away most of the groin area of her pants was gone. Then again they looked to be in REALLY bad shape, as were the sandals she had on as well.
Once she got to the hangar, me right on her tail, i whipped out the desert eagle Forte gave me four years ago. It was time for desperate measures.
"Anise, FREEZE!" i yelled out as i aimed the pistol her way.
She suddenly turned around, but too quickly, for her legs got tangled up and as she fell her sandals broke off and flew away where she couldn't recover them.
"What the fuck?! You have a personal firearm? I thought military types weren't allowed them."
"Rich, coming from an assuming Emblem Frame thief."
"You're not gonna shoot me, right?" she asked.
"With what i've been going through recently i've got a right mind to do it here and now."
"A-a-a-are y-y-y-y-y-y-you s-serious?" she stuttered, i clearly had her intimidated.
Dang, where's the Dale Earnhardt shades when they're needed?
"You bet i am." i said as i pulled the trigger. It was a close miss, but i was aiming to miss.
Judging by the changing colors of her panties and what remained of her pants i could tell that despite having deliberately missed her, i scared her to the point she wet herself.
"PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!" she cried, tears flowing down her face. It was then that the others barged in. Much to the surprise of a few of them, she admitted defeat.
Minutes later we were in the Piroti interrogating Anise.
"Marty, what the heck were you thinking?!" Tact asked me right off the bat.
"Verel did it!" i answered defensively.
Mint nearly broke me in two with the ensuing hug, for i had inadvertently revealed something crucial. Which meant that Forte had been forced into undergoing her actions, giving me a spark of hope that our relationship would survive.
"So Anise, what exactly made you want to steal the Brave Heart?" she asked after releasing me.
"My boss, Dieta, wanted me to bring it to her so she could sell it. I've had to scratch and claw my way to earn any money almost my entire life and it was always difficult."
"Based on what i saw in the earlier battle, you could sign up for the military." Tact stated.
"Speaking of which, Marty almost shot me in the hangar."
"I deliberately missed you with a rubber bullet. Tact's right, you could sign up and give us another fighter; that's why my gun's ammo was rubber bullets and not real ones."
"Oh, but still, even though you missed on purpose you still made me wet myself." Anise said, blushing profusely. "And before then i spun around too quickly my only shoes broke off as i fell."
"I have an idea. Someone anticipated this and gave me something for you to replace them, but if you want it you have to agree to my idea." Mint spoke up.
"What is it?" a curious Anise asked.
"I have a list of fines you owe me in payment, but i'll make them go away and give you this platinum-level card if you sign up for the military."
"You won't be a perv, right?" Anise asked Kazuya.
"If i do something wrong, i'll let you hit me down there."
"I'm in."
"Then we have a deal. If you please, Tact."
"Here you go Anise, as of now you're a second lieutenant in the Rune Angels." Tact said as he gave Anise the jacket. During this, Rico had rushed away, before returning with a red version of her skirt and some clean panties in hand.
"You might need these Anise, you don't wanna stink out the others with those wet panties you got on right now. The skirt's yours to keep, red's not really my color." she said as Anise took the items. A nearby bathroom was where she made the change, which i could understand for she didn't want to accidentally flash anyone. She then walked out, showing us that the skirt fit her quite well. While she was changing, Mint temporarily walked away so she could collect whatever she was referring to earlier.
"So, what is it you were referring to earlier Mint?" Anise asked. Mint handed a box to her in response.
Her jaw dropped once she opened it. The box contained a pair of black ankle-strap high heel pumps, but they looked insanely extreme.
"They were the only shoes i could find in your size." Mint explained, arms raised. Anise then looked at the extremely high heels before putting them on.
They fit perfectly, proving Mint's statement.
"Although the heels are so high, they're the only shoes i can fit into perfectly for now so i'll just stick with them." Anise said.
Once we had dealt with the Crust Breakers a shuttle docked on the Luxiole with Forte inside. She was clearly apologetic after her actions, but i told her that in trying to defend myself earlier i had unintentionally exposed a crucial plot element, which gave me hope that we could save our relationship.
I could clearly tell she was afraid she'd be arrested for her actions, but we could limit the punishment if we bring Verel to justice.
A little later i walked into the Piroti to see Anise moving a lot faster than she should in the heels she had on.
"Honestly, i did not expect to be THIS fast in these heels. Not only that, but for some wierd reason i'm not suffering from the pain i thought i would have because these heels are so high."
"That's 'cause i imbued both skills into them, considering me and three of my teammates regularly wear those very heels." a new female voice said.
Everyone glanced at the source. Leaning against a nearby wall was a girl with cyan hair, a white fedora, a pink corset under a worn-open platinum jacket, a turquoise gown-like skirt stopping just above the ankles, and the same heels Anise was in.
"Who are you?" Lily asked, sword drawn.
"Hollie Nightshade, leader of Rainbow Squad Shadow." the new girl answered.
Blushing almost as red as Anise's hair, Lily hastily put her sword away.
"Sorry if i threatened you there, i'm a little cautious regarding strangers." the blushing knight admitted.
"Not your fault, Lily. Who knows what a stranger could try."
"True. Nice skirt."
"Thanks. This is one of my rare missions where i can get away with wearing the skirt. The jacket's the only way i ever cover my shoulders, everything else i own that's to cover my upper body is strapless."
"Well, corsets are supposed to be strapless." Kahlua (who had just walked in) pointed out. "As are their bustier variant."
"ZJ85H prefers them. I was part of a group of twelve who aided her in taking down that crime syndicate in the alternate Los Santos she had been sent undercover in."
"Which was your trap?" Anise asked, curious.
"I was covering a five block stretch that included both of Hollie M's owned apartments as well as the Ammu-Nation next to Simeon's. Wound up taking out the most syndicate members out of the twelve, including one blast that nailed thirteen vehicles in a chain reaction. The traps were set so that whoever took down a syndicate member could access their vehicles; the ones i took out had a total of eleven Adders, three T20s, six Vaccas, one Osiris, nine X80 Protos, and i lost count on the number of Coquettes i took ownership of. They were all the model type Hollie M prefers."
"You said this was a rare mission which you could wear the skirt, right? I take it you normally wear pants on the majority of them." Lily said.
"Wrong. Outside of intimate time with Jet or a mission where pants are preferred, i basically always have a skirt like the one i'm in now on." Anise's eyes lit up.
"OMG, you get to wear a strapless gown on the majority of your missions?!" she squealed. "Man, if i wasn't such a tomboy i'd do the same thing!"
"Who else wears those heels you're wearing?" Kahlua asked.
"Ava Johnson - the only one out of five total in these heels, counting me, who can wear other shoes - plus her scarlet-haired lookalike Ava Baxter of Super X, Ruby of the Delta Kong 5, and the RSX-born former Team Rocket agent Domino, who isn't actually an agent. Although Ava Johnson can wear her pair without stockings when not in the miniskirt she pairs them with, i'm the only one who doesn't bother with any hosiery at all. Both Avas can take their heels off, though Ava Baxter has an Arsenal Lock deployed limiting her to just these heels; Ruby did the same but by choice before she and her teammate Lavender deployed that power booster she rendered hers eternally locked on with, while Domino got hers as a result of another pair in the same model series she had previously given to Jet activated something that led to her transfer out of the 318 System and into her current role."
"Okay, what exactly did Domino do to land herself in 318?" Lily asked.
It was Anise who answered.
"Destruction of Jet's original scouter. Somehow, between receiving her 3010 variant of these heels and her going to 318, an anti-pregnancy shield was activated that went undiscovered for seventeen years. Shield only worked on the Kovelioss Elites of the 318 System, Jet was able to knock her up shortly after she became his sex slave."
"3010 variant?" a confused Kahlua asked Anise.
"Femme series. This model Hollie and i have on is the lone one of that series to not be a boot."
"I thought ballet heels were nothing but boots. Especially since there's at least four Rainbow Angels who regularly wear thigh high pairs. Three of whom can never take their pairs off."
"You're not the first one whose thought a specific element regarding high heels was limited to either only pumps or only boots; Ruby's teammate Sapphire's STILL locked in those peep-toe thigh boots, and they were first locked on six years ago."
"If i recall correctly Sapphire stated that until then every time she encountered Anastasia the Coordinator had peep-toe pumps on. As for ballet heels, the majority of them are boots as they offer a more secure fit than the other variants."
"Partly 'cause your own shoes are thigh boots, eh?" Anise asked Kahlua. "Sure, they're nowhere near as high as ZVE Tequila's - she's one of the three eternally locked in thigh high ballet boots - but they still have a little bit of a heel. Rosa EX, more specifically, ZVE Tequila's pair. Model's named after the one known Rainbow Angel who regularly wears thigh high ballet boots and can still wear other shoes. The other two who're eternally locked in their thigh high ballets are a redhead named Faye, who i believe is from the Pokemon world judging by the fact her Rosa EX ballet boots are red, and a brunette named Michelle from a parallel variant of Jet's home dimension who, like Hollie here, had her lone shoes eternally locked on without any visible bondage as a result of her Bond activation. Michelle had the same Bond trigger as Ava Johnson's fellow RHR Dragon Jasmine Levesque, in that it was sex-activated with a pregnancy requirement. Three days later Ruby and her purple-themed teammate Lavender - she was named such for she and the rest of the Delta Kong 5 are custom duplicates color-coded specifically for the Donkey Kong 64 mission by my variant from the OZ system, who often goes by the name 'Amethyst' - activated a power booster that, like Michelle did as part of her Bond activation, permanently locked a collar on their throats. Ruby's is due to her extreme submissiveness, while Lavender has quite the bondage fetish. May have misworded the revelation to Jet and nearly got her asshole destroyed in the resultant pounding, Jet has a tendency to take advantage of such a misstatement. That power booster also accelerated Ruby's reproductive cycle to the point where she got the pregnancy she originally wanted, her and Lavender were allowed to finish their mission pregnant using a special exception Jet granted them. Normally, when a female Rainbow Angel is given a mission, it's preferred that she not have a pregnancy planned anytime soon, while the preferred outfit sees the lower privates covered by either pants or a miniskirt; Miss Nightshade here has a special exception to that rule and as far as i know Jet seems to go well off the usual path to give her a mission she gets to wear her preferred strapless gown on."
"Yeah, i have three criteria for whenever i intend to buy myself a new formal outfit. One, it has to be strapless. Two, the skirt must reach the floor in my irremovable heels; if it's just a skirt i'm willing to let it stop as short as just above the top of my heels like the one i'm in now, but no shorter. And three, the skirt style absolutely MUST meet the requirements to designate a dress i want as a gown, even if it's just the skirt itself and not an actual dress. The fact i only allow a jacket to cover my shoulders but always worn open - and i only own three such jackets, one each in white, silver, and the platinum one i'm currently wearing, along with the white fedora on my head - are due to the fact i have by far the strongest link to the GTA Online character of Crewniverse member Shadow, hence the name of my Rainbow Squad. If you're racing against me in GTA Online, you better hope the class isn't supercars 'cause i'm unstoppable in that class when i'm using a white Infernus."
"Only 'cause you always find a way to come charging through the field into second near the end and end up passing whoever's ahead at that point when they have some sort of miscue." Rico said.
"That one time Shadow did it D20 was parked in front of the finish line. Sp33dy was chasing SideArms when they approached, both ran into D20, and apparantly it shunted SideArms so far right Sp33dy wound up finishing third."
"G18 thought he knocked Sp33dy off by sending him over a divider, but didn't as Sp33dy was still able to hit the nearby checkpoints."
"Ironic, isn't it? One race G18 tries to screw Sp33dy but fails, then the next Sp33dy has nobody close enough to bump him outta their way and he screws himself over. Not the first time he had a lead and his cockiness cost him; D20 won a race when Sp33dy tried finishing in reverse and fucked it up."
"Oh i remember that race. The 'Who's Orange?' race; the other Deluxe, driving the orange car in question, was the only one not to finish, which he claimed was due to not having what he calls a 'banana car'."
"He prefers yellow vehicles, doesn't he?" Kahlua asked. Lily raised an eyebrow. "What? The only people who could possibly think banana doesn't equate to yellow coloration would be most of the Delta Kong 5, and that's only due to their color themes."
"Most of them?" Lily, clearly confused, asked.
"All but Solara, actually; her Donkey Kong 64 link is DK, whose collector color is yellow." Hollie clarified.
"What'll we do about Verel?" Rico (who just entered the area) asked.
Grinning, Hollie put her left hand, thumb and index finger forming an L rotated 90 degrees clockwise, against a nearby wall, then used her right index finger to create what looked like a holo-TV screen. Showing on it was Verel - just as a brunette started mauling him with a Shining Sword Attack, with the ki blast at the end obliterating not only him but his flagship as well. (Two minutes later it was revealed Milfie was a good eighty yards off-screen at the time).
As soon as the screen disappeared Milfie and the brunette materialized out of thin air, with the unknown girl having two fingers from her right hand on her forehead. It was just as the brunette walked towards Hollie that Rico leapt into her sister's arms.
With Rico busy i took a good look at the brunette. Like Hollie she wore a corset, but black and without a jacket. She had a skirt on too, but so much shorter it was a miniskirt. The reason for the miniskirt was the fact she wore black thigh-high ballet boots.
Most surprising was a rather big black collar on her throat, with a padlock that looked like it couldn't be unlocked at all keeping it on.
"You were the last person i expected to take Verel down, Michelle." Hollie said.
"Good thing i had Faye sent to a specific location on Seldar, she should be warping here within the next ten seconds." Sure enough ten seconds later a redhead materialized out of thin air.
Unlike the now-identified Michelle this girl was in a tank top and lacked a collar. She was also in a miniskirt and thigh high ballet boots, this pair red with two padlocked straps on them, one just above the ankle and the other at the top. The padlocks on her boots looked extremely similar to that on Michelle's collar.
It was just as i turned towards Rico that a pair of massive breasts blocked my view; Faye (i think that's who the new redhead was called) had brought Forte with her.
"Marty, you have no idea what Michelle spared me from."
Normal POV
Elsewhere in NEUE, a massive carrier was stationed. Five girls stood next to each other watching a screen on which two reunions had just occurred.
"Of everyone who could've been sent to eliminate Verel, Michelle was not even close to my top 300 picks." a girl with predominantly dark blue hair said. This girl's outfit consisted of a pink-skirted black tube minidress, black lacy stockings, and pink 7 inch stiletto, 2 inch platform peep-toe thigh boots. "Heck, she wasn't even in my top 1000."
"Same here, Hikari." the girl next to her stated. This girl had mint green hair more than triple her height even in the black ballet ankle boots she wore, to go along with what looked like a cross between a green version of Anise's top and a white vest with a large diamond (the jewel, not the shape) on the back and jeans. "Michelle's one of the Bond's most submissive girls; to think she'd dominate Verel so quickly isn't like her."
"Maybe she was sent so she could possibly discover a dominant side to her that only applies outside of sexual activity." a predominant brunette in a corset, slutty miniskirt, and lace-up thigh high ballet boots pointed out. "Much like the time Anastasia wound up in South Park during THAT series of events."
"You have a good point Rosa, as does Emerald." girl number 4, who had shoulder-length red hair, said. This girl wore a strapless red slutty tube dress, a dark red choker with an emerald pendant, and extreme stiletto red pumps. "Besides, two of the Delta Kong 5 found surprising things about themselves after one of them phazed through a door to secretly see me getting fucked senseless by Jet on only my second day as a Rainbow Angel."
"True, but you had two weeks on Michelle in regards to joining, not to mention your trigger only needed a kiss and Michelle's required Jet to impregnate her." the fifth girl, a blonde in a high-collared short-sleeved shirt, a miniskirt even sluttier than Rosa's, white gloves reaching past her elbows, thigh-high stockings the same shade of purple as her eyes, and locked-on Devious Femme-12 platform ballet heels. "And besides, Scarlet, while the mission Ruby was on featured the ability to turn invisible as an exclusive move of her green-themed teammate, turning invisible outside of that mission is a default XQ skill. If i remember correctly Ruby was at the base after completing her portion of her gambit for sex but warped into her room three floors above her intended target only due to the fact you were getting fucked at that time."
"Oh, that's where she initially warped?" the now-identified Scarlet asked. "I thought she was in the same room as me and Jet but stayed invisible so she wouldn't startle me considering how recently i had joined."
"No, she warped into her room; i found out a week later." the blonde told Scarlet. "Besides, Faye and Michelle should be warping back to the main base; we've neutralized the Will so they won't be a problem." With that, the screen faded away and four of the five girls walked to another part of the carrier.
Only the blonde didn't leave immediately.
"Angels, you no longer have to worry about any conflicts." she said to herself. "At least unless the Three Idiots trick Natsume into fighting you, but i doubt Zephyr will allow that to happen." As she turned to join the others she took her shirt off, revealing a strapless red lace lingerie bra and a deep purple collar bearing a blue J inside a white star.
"Besides, either way you'll become one Angel stronger, and strength in numbers is important in combat situations. I got lucky that incident between me and my master didn't spiral into a fight." Domino Benet stated to herself before walking away herself.