XD Alright! So, as you guys can see, the Warriors are finally making a comeback! In the next chapter! Well, this chapter gives you a tour of the SW HQ, so it should be interesting. And, Gingka's back to doing my disclaimers after I promised him that he doesn't die or get injured in my kext story planned for after this one. Gingka?
Gingka: GalaxyPegasus14 does not own MFB. Also, she would like to dedicate this chapter to Ayra, the guest reviewer who never fails to bring a smile to her face with her reviews, and who also happens to have really good grammar! Thumbs up to you for following the FF site rules!
Me: Anyway, on to the story!
"Well Argo? I told you we would return."
Argo turned from the window and multicolored lights that were visible through it, looking at his screen in fear.
"You." He growled.
Gingka smirked. "I hope you're ready Argo, because we are more than ready."
With that, the Warrior cut off the connection.
"Kira!" Argo called.
The pastel-haired blader was in his leader's office within seconds.
"Yes sir?"
"Mobilize all forces to the forest near Koma Village, Ian should be able to pinpoint the location. The Steel Warriors are back." Argo turned on his heel and strode out, pausing at the door. "And get me a helicopter." He ordered.
"Yes sir." Kira grinned evilly as Argo disappeared down the hall.
"That was amazing dad!" Arashi and Anashi exclaimed as the Warriors retrieved their beys and landed.
However, Gingka made no reply, standing motionless in front of his family.
"Catch him before he falls!" Aguma exclaimed as his helmet retracted, darting over as the blue-clad Warrior collapsed.
"Gingka!" Madoka flew forwards. "Is he okay?"
"He overdid it again, he should be fine." Yuki said, pulling up Gingka's sleeve and pressing a few buttons on the redhead's wrist. "Lay him down, Aguma."
Aguma obeyed as Gingka's helmet retracted. The golden-brown eyes underneath were closed, but the Warrior was breathing normally, although he was a bit pale.
"He is fully healed, but hasn't recovered all of his strength. Today was the first day that he was even back in action." Yuki said as Madoka knelt down.
"We have to get him out of here, he called Argo and the DNA is probably moving right now." Kyoya said, again assuming command. The Leone wielder turned to the group of bladers behind them. "There is one helicopter in the bushes about a hundred yards away. A second one will arrive as soon as Chris and King can get it piloted over here."
The two nodded and took off as Kyoya continued.
"As many as we can get into the first one, go! Ryuga, Dunamis, pilot. No Warriors except for Gingka and the pilots should be in the helicopters, now let's go!"
"What did we tell you? Gingka is down, Kyoya is in command until Gingka is able to take back over." Ryo chuckled as Aguma carefully picked up the unconscious leader and carried him towards the helicopter. Somehow, they managed to fit the Hagane, Kurogane, and Tategami families into the helicopter, as well as team Wang Hu Zhong. Five minutes later, the other helicopter arrived, and teams Wild Fang and Dungeon, as well as the Unbaras and Shinobu, piled in.
By the time the DNA arrived a few hours later, the only evidence that the Warriors and their allies had ever been in the area were a few burnt leaves and blackened scraps of metal.
"We missed them! Those cowards left!" Argo yelled angrily.
"You were this close all along?" Hikaru was surprised as she looked around the landing bay of the Warriors' headquarters.
"Yes, you see? We were always within reach of a moment's alarm, and Gingka often sent one or two of us to check on things, although we were under strict orders to not let ourselves be seen." Kyoya replied.
"Wow..." Ryo just gazed around at the huge landing bay.
Aguma took Gingka down to the lounge and laid him on a couch with his head in Madoka's lap. Anashi and Arashi took up two of the recliners opposite, curling up in them and quickly falling asleep.
A couple of hours later, the three woke up to a rather loud thud.
"Mmph, what happened?" Gingka asked, sitting up and rubbing the back of his head.
Madoka and the twins laughed.
"You fell off the couch." Madoka said.
"Well, I knew that much. I meant what happened after we did that power show?"
"You fainted, Kyoya assumed command, and we all came here."
Gingka stood and looked around. "Oh, we are in headquarters, aren't we."
"Yeah, we have been here for a while. Any plans?" Kyoya said, entering the room with Hikaru and Takeshi behind him.
"How many people are available to help?" Gingka asked.
"Well, there's Wang Hu Zhong, Excalibur, Lovushka, the rest of Wild Fang, all of Zero's gang, us, and our kids." Kyoya counted them all off.
"Well then, we've got an army!" Gingka grinned. "The DNA doesn't stand a chance as long as we can train the others to fight the robots as well. We also have some new gadgets to test, right?"
"Yeah, Yuki needs your system so he can install them."
"I'll take it down to him then. Is he in his lab?"
"Yeah, working on the other systems."
"Alright then, let's get mobilized." Gingka said, reaching underneath his coat for the Stormflight system.
"What is that?" Arashi asked, looking at the small silver box in his father's hand.
"Just the entire Stormflight system." Gingka replied.
"That's the mask and everything?" The twins were surprised.
"Yup, all of it fits in this one little box, don't ask me how, because i have no idea." Gingka said. "Want to go see the control room?"
"Sure!" Anashi and Arashi exclaimed, following Gingka as he entered the elevator and pressed a few buttons.
Moments later, the group found themselves in the main control room of the Warriors' headquarters.
The twins gazed around at all the monitors scattered around the walls.
"Tamashii, bring up data." Gingka ordered.
"Ready." The computer replied.
"DNA movements within last twenty-four hours."
"Information on screen four."
Gingka turned to look at a screen behind him. "So, they are searching the area around the village. Well, they won't find us there." The redhead leaned forwards and pressed a button.
"Cosmicbark, is that new weaponry ready?"
"Well, look who woke up! Do you mean the new suit functions, or the helicopter and base defenses?"
"Both. Kyoya said you needed the Stormflight system to install the new gear on it?"
"Yeah, the sooner you can get that to me, the better."
"Alright, we'll come down there next. Arm the base's defenses, the DNA is getting a bit too close for my liking. They have already reached the base of the mountain according to Tamashii's data."
"On it."
"Off to the lab then, so that Yuki can get these new systems loaded as soon as possible." Gingka turned and strode back to the elevator, his family in tow.
Once they entered the lab, even Madoka was looking around in surprise at the various weapons hanging from the walls.
"I see you have been busy." she commented to Yuki as Gingka set the Stormflight system down next to his comrade.
The Anubis wielder turned. "Yup, we do have a country to save, after all." he grinned, then picked up a small gadget next to him. "Can you guys guess what this does?"
"No clue." Madoka laughed.
"Looks like some sort of gauntlet." Gingka said.
"Exactly." Yuki pressed a button, expanding the object, then slid his arm into it. "This is something I have been working on based off of something that Gingka and Ryuga came up with a while ago, using their beys.
Gingka looked confused for a moment, then smiled. "Oh, so that's what you did. I see, so our beys are supposed to slide in here?" he pointed at a few clips on Yuki's palm.
"Exactly." Yuki grinned back, and the two stood there for a moment.
"Huh? Can someone please let us into this loop?" Madoka asked.
Gingka turned and pulled Pegasus out of its case. "Anything I can fire at?" He asked.
"That wall, but be careful." Yuki replied.
Gingka attached Pegasus to his launcher. "Let it Rip!"
The silver and blue bey fell to the ground in front of him, spinning steadily.
"Pegasus, open fire!" Gingka ordered.
Madoka squealed in surprise as Pegasus fired off several bolts of blue energy towards the wall, leaving several dent marks.
Gingka retrieved Pegasus. "That's basically it, if we can fire off energy blasts without the bey spinning, then Yuki has already created something to keep our fingers out of the way."
"Exactly." Yuki confirmed.
"So, which arm will this go on once it's in the system?"
"Well, I considered just attaching it to the grappling hook, but then, if we needed to fire energy bolts and climb a wall at the same time, we would have a problem, so it will be on the other side." Yuki replied. "And it will likely stay out, but it will have to be worn over our gloves, inside could cause some major problems."
"Alright, how long will it take you to finish?"
"I'm not sure, but I'll call you when it's done."
"Okay, thanks Yuki."
"Why don't you take them on a tour while I'm at it?" Yuki suggested as Gingka turned to leave.
"That's not a bad idea, what do you guys think?" Gingka asked.
"I'm up for it." Madoka said.
"Alright then, we'll start at the landing bay, which you have probably already seen…" Gingka trailed off into thought as they entered the elevator.
A few minutes later, the four entered the landing bay.
"We didn't really get a good look at this, since we were worried about you." Madoka said.
"Well, Anashi and Arashi did at least. That's where we take off from, that ceiling above us opens up to let us out, and opens automatically whenever one of us is within a certain distance of the base. We have had to be very careful with it, since at night it is lit up and would attract attention." Gingka pointed to several areas as he spoke.
"But you can only see it from the air above the village." Arashi pointed out.
Gingka looked at his son in surprise. "How did you know that?"
"Warlord showed it to me one night after he and Dragonfang rescued me and Shinobu-san from a forest, we were flying back. And he pointed it out before we landed."
"Oh, that makes sense. When was that?"
"Nearly a month ago, less than a day after we met in Tokyo."
"Oh, I see, no wonder I didn't hear about that, I was unconscious."
"He went off looking for you or a whole year before he was recruited by the DNA." Madoka said.
"And it turned out to be a good thing that he didn't get my hair color, otherwise they would have recognized him as a Hagane right away." Gingka ruffled Arashi's hair playfully.
"Daad!" the teen ducked out from under his father's gloved hand as the redhead laughed.
"Shall we move on then?" Gingka led the way back to the elevator.
"And this is my least favorite room." Gingka said, walking into another floor.
"The hospital?" Madoka guessed.
"Exactly. Needless to say, I have been stuck in here for the past month. Moving on." Gingka turned and strode out the door as Madoka laughed.
"That was too easy to guess."
"Well, you know me pretty well." Gingka pressed the button, taking them down another floor.
"The lounge, you have already seen it." he said as the doors opened and then closed again.
"Here's our rooms, and a few extra rooms for potential visitors that we were sure would be here eventually." Gingka walked down a hallway after keying in a passcode.
"I see that you guys decorated." Madoka laughed at a few different doors that quite obviously led to the Warriors' rooms.
"Yeah, pretty much." Gingka grinned. "These down here are open, the other teams have apparently taken these right here, leaving the two at the end open. Perfect, for you guys." he turned to Anashi and Arashi as he opened the doors to two rooms that were right next to each other. "I'll let you pick, we can put a code on them as well, so that nobody can come in without your permission. We'll get them furnished as soon as we can."
Anashi quickly stepped into one room and shut the door, right in her brother's face.
"Hey!" the brunette teen yelled.
"First come, first serve!" Anashi replied.
Arashi sighed. "Guess I'm stuck with the other one then."
Gingka laughed. "Don't worry, they're exactly the same."
"So, how did you hide this large of a building anyway?" Madoka asked.
"Easy, I don't suppose you saw that the ground below you opened up into the landing bay when the helicopters were landing? The entire building is underground." Gingka replied.
"How did you dig down so deep?"
"Well, we stayed in a nearby cave, with our helicopters outside, until we finished building it. It took nearly a year to clear out the landing bay, and then we stayed in there while we dug out the rest. Don't ask me where we got building materials, Yuki and Kenta took care of that."
"And I suppose you have a generator down here somewhere?"
"Yeah, in the basement storage room, which is also our testing facilities. Shall we continue? There's only two more floors to see before we're done, and the next one is my favorite."
"Sure, let's go!" Anashi exclaimed.
"What's next?" Arashi asked.
Gingka grinned. "The training room, where we practice our formations and stuff."
"Wow, this thing is huge!" the twins exclaimed a few seconds later.
"Hey Ryuga! Care to demonstrate the obstacle course with me?" Gingka called, catching sight of the Dragon Emperor weightlifting across the room.
Ryuga set down the weight he was holding and turned. "Look who decided to get up!" he grinned, fangs flashing in the lights from the ceiling. "Sure, I'll demonstrate!"
"Gingka…" Madoka gave him a warning look.
"Don't worry, I've done this dozens of times." Gingka said as Ryuga came to stand next to him.
"But you're not fully recovered still!"
"The worst that could happen is me fainting again, so quit your worrying."
Madoka sighed, knowing that she couldn't persuade the redhead otherwise.
"Now, this is much easier and more interesting with our suits, since part of the course is supposed to be done in the air, but Yuki has them at the moment, so we'll just have to skip that part." Gingka said. "Ready Ryuga?"
"Go!" Ryuga took off running, with Gingka close behind him.
They first approached a tall wall, which was about three times their height. Ryuga stopped at the base of it and whirled, holding his hands low down to the ground. Gingka ran up and put one foot in them, then jumped, Ryuga giving him an extra boost. Once he was on top, Gingka threw down a rope, which Ryuga climbed while Gingka held it in place. Madoka and the twins watched in surprise as the two disappeared behind the wall, only to appear again a few seconds later diving out of the way of a few swinging logs.
Madoka gasped in fear as Gingka narrowly missed getting hit, then recovered, dodging the rest of them skillfully. Ryuga reached the end first, and stopped to wait for Gingka, who seemed slightly out of breath.
"You're slower than normal Hagane."
"Blame the fact that it took me a month to recover, now let's keep going." Gingka gave Ryuga a boost as the white-haired blader jumped, catching hold of a net hanging from the ceiling above and dropping another rope down to Gingka. The two swung across, then leapt out into thin air over a pool, catching hold of two ropes and swinging halfway across before letting go and diving into the water.
"That part is supposed to be in the air, if they had their suits, they would be flying through that tunnel." Kenta said, coming up beside the rest of the Hagane family to watch.
"That long twisty thing? No wonder you guys have so much control in the air!" Madoka exclaimed, looking at the large tangled object hanging from the ceiling, then back down as Gingka and Ryuga climbed out of the water and ran to the next obstacle. Gingka reached to the side and grabbed something, tossing it to Ryuga before grabbing another and putting it on. The two hooked ropes to their harnesses, then began climbing a vertical wall, using their feet to steady themselves as their arms strained to pull them up. Once they reached the top, the two again jumped down out of view. The group watching heard a splash, then saw the two swimming towards what appeared to be another pool right next to the first. However, once Gingka and Ryuga reached the edge, they dove straight down rather than climbing out as Madoka and the twins had expected. They soon appeared in the other pool, on the other side of what was apparently a wall with a gap somewhere underwater. Swimming to the edge, they climbed out, both out of breath.
"And that's about it." Gingka panted, walking back over to his family and grabbing a towel from a nearby rack.
"That was amazing!" the twins exclaimed.
"I have never seen you do something that complicated!" Madoka exclaimed.
Gingka grinned, taking off his blue coat and hanging it up nearby. "Give me a second to change and hang these up to dry and we'll go down to the basement." he said, disappearing through a door. Moments later, he reappeared in black sweatpants and a blue t-shirt, his red and brown crossed belts around his waist with all his gear in place. Silently, he led the way back to the elevator.
"Looks like they fixed what Ryuga blew up." Gingka commented as they entered the basement. Chris was busy operating a small machine, which was firing rapidly at a small target on the wall.
"It looks like a normal machine gun." Madoka said.
"Yeah, that's the point." Gingka said. "Chris? Want to show them what it really does?"
Chris grinned and pressed a button on a small metal bracelet he was wearing. Instantly, the small target exploded.
"What was that?" Anashi and Arashi asked at once.
"The bullets explode, this will allow us to blow up the robots a bit more efficiently. They only explode when told to though, so they're safe. I think Yuki was making a miniature wrist-mounted version for our suits, although the bullets would have to be carried separately and loaded before we could use it. It will also only be used against robots and helicopters." Gingka replied.
"So, that's your whole base here?" Madoka said as they headed back up to the lab to see how Yuki was getting along.
"Pretty much, and we've been here all along." Gingka replied. "I never was that far from you guys, now was I?"
"No, I guess you weren't." Madoka smiled and Gingka leaned in to kiss her.
"Eww alert!" the twins yelled.
Gingka rolled his eyes.
XD Alright, so now you know what at least the basic layout of the Warriors' base is! I figured I would describe it, since I needed to fill up a chapter and it is a fairly important setting. Plus, I thought you guys would probably find it interesting to know what they set up! Next chapter: The Warriors and their allies begin planning, and Gingka, Zero, and Kyoya begin training their kids for battle! Until next chapter, see you guys!