Ch 2 the deal

"Captain. You seeing what I'm seeing?" Sanada asked.

"Yep. I see it." Kodai said, near the bridge window. They saw dozens of people on the docks that lead into the castle. On closer look, they realized that it was a bunch of kids. No older than 11. Next to them was an older women, wearing robes, and a pointed hat.

"Any idea what that is?" Shima asked.

"Great. They saw us." Kodai said, as the Yamato sheer size, and weapons caught the attention of everyone.

"What do we do?" Aihara.

"Set condition two throughout the ship. Point our guns towards them, but do not load them." Kodai said, as alarms sounded in the bridge.

"What's that?" a student asked.

"Filch, take the first years inside. Wait at the main doors. I'll be there in a minute." McGonagall said.

As the first years were taken to the castle, Minerva waited at the docks. She silently observed the battleship as it headed towards the fjord. The ship maneuvered itself, so that it would enter in, back-end first. As she watched the ship disappear into the tunnel, one thing went thru her mind. That ship looks very familiar. Then it hit her. That was the same warship she and Albus saw in the pensive, just before the school year began.

Knowing that she had to tell Albus, before Dolores found out, and made the situation worse, she ran as fast as she could towards the main hall.

The usual was going on at Hogwarts. Everyone waited as the first years were to be sorted into the 4 houses. Harry wasn't happy. He saw Dolores Umbridge, the same woman who was at his hearing before the ministry. He almost got expelled from the school, just because he was acting in self-defense.

The door opened, and Minerva walked in, with the scared first years behind her. Despite her best efforts to hide her concerns, Hermione picked up on it.

"McGonagall is nervous." Hermione said.

"She doesn't get nervous." Ron said.

"She really is nervous. I don't know why." Hermione said.

"I have an idea." Harry said, whose attention was on Umbridges' the whole time.

After the sorting, and the giant feast, Dumbledore began a series of announcements, only to be rudely interrupted by Umbridge.

"The ministry of magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizards to be of vital importance… Every headmaster and headmistress of Hogwarts has brought something new to the weighty task of governing this historic school, and that is as it should be… some changes will be for the better, while others will come in the fullness of time to be recognized as errors of judgment…"

Harry almost fell asleep. To prevent it, he positioned a fork to stab himself in-case he attempted to rest his forehead on his arms. His attention was caught as Hermione and Ron argued.

"How about 'progress for progress's sake must be discouraged'? How about 'pruning wherever we find practices that ought to be prohibited?'" Hermione asked.

"What does it mean?" Ron asked.

"The ministry's interfering at Hogwarts." Hermione said thru clenched teeth.

As everyone left to their rooms, Harry noticed Dumbledore and Minerva leaving another way and talking.

"Albus, this is dangerous." Minerva said.

"I know. But Fudge is breathing down our necks. We'll have to stay low. Something's troubling you, Minerva." Albus said, noticing her nervousness.

"Albus, remember that ship we saw in your Pensive?"

"Yeah. I remember."

"It's here. The ship is here, right next to the school. I saw it."

The two professors left the school to search for this new ship. It was very dark outside, so they lit their wands to provide light. On the Yamato, they were running into serious problems.

"That's the 4th time the radar isn't working." Shima replied, banging his hand on the instrument.

"I've just talked with engineering. They're reporting power fluctuations throughout the entire ship." Kodai said.

"I've managed to pin it down. The fluctuations are coming from an outside source." Sanada said.

"Where is it?" Kodai asked.

"Outside, but the interference is so bad, I can't pin an exact location. Best guess puts it at the castle." Sanada replied.

"This is the late 20th century. That castle can't possess an EMP technology." Shima said.

"Well, unless we stop these interferences, we're not fixing our ship anytime soon. I'll take 2 mechanics and 2 security guards with me. Stay on condition two. If we can launch fighters, lets get ready to launch them." Kodai ordered.

The group of 5 left heavily armed, towards the school.

Meanwhile, McGonagall and Dumbledore were heading towards the Yamato.

"Albus, what do you think we should do?" Minerva asked.

"We need to talk with them. They are incredibly powerful. You saw that ship fend off hundreds of other ships, much like it. It even took down one ship 10 times its own size. We need them on our side." Albus said.

"I see two people, heading right towards us." Kodai said, seeing Albus and Minerva.

"They're not armed." One of the guards said.

"I'm not taking chances. Activate your cloaks. We'll take them by surprise." Kodai said.

Albus and Minerva continued walking, until they heard the noise of bolts being racked on weapons.

"Hold it right there." A voice said, as 4 people appeared out of thin air, holding M8A1 assault rifles. A 5th appeared out of thin air, holding the storm rifle.

"Shit." Minerva muttered, as the 5 unknown people came out of nowhere, and had the two wizards at gunpoint.

An awkward silence occurred as both groups eyed each-other. Dumbledore broke the ice.

"Albus Dumbledore. Headmaster of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry." He introduced.

"Susumu Kodai. Captain of the space battleship Yamato." Kodai said.

"Minerva McGonagall."

"Albus, I have a few questions." Kodai said.

"As do I." Albus returned, then eyed the 4 others holding their rifles.

"Right. Put your rifles down." Kodai said.

"One question. Were you involved in a war?" Albus asked.

"Yeah. Why?" Kodai asked.

"We need to talk. Follow us." Albus said.

The 7 headed into the castle, and into Dumbledore's room, with the pensive.

"Does this castle poses an EMP weapon?" Kodai asked.

"A what?" Minerva asked.

"Electro-magnetic pulse. Shorts out all electronics. Ring a bell?" Kodai asked.

The look on the two wizards said no.

"We don't use electricity. This castle runs on magic." Dumbledore said.

"Magic?" Kodai asked. Then again, I've fought the Gamilians, and seen some crazy shit out their.

"We're witches and wizards. We hide ourselves from the outside world. From muggles. I doubt your weapons would work in the castle." Minerva said.

Kodai aimed his rifle at a chandelier, and pulled the trigger. The blue hot plasma burned right thru the chain holding the chandelier and it fell to the ground.

Dumbledore picked it up with his want, and put it back into its position.

"We're not from this time. We do not exist, not until the year 2199 AD. Over 200 years in the future." Kodai said.

"If you're from the future, what are you doing here?" Minerva asked.

"We were traveling home, using the wave motion device. Our FTL drive per say. I don't know what happened. But it malfunctioned. I don't know all the specifics of the wave motion device. It's an alien technology. Not human. But it sent us back thru time." Kodai said. He refused to get into specifics. Didn't concern them anyway.

"Captain, why'd you come here? Why not another country, like England, or America?" Minerva asked.

"When we got here, I sent out SOS messages. No-one believed us. Our ship is named Yamato, but the Yamato has been destroyed since 1945. Besides, I don't want anyone's help. The technology on my ship is highly advanced. We have a weapon that can destroy a planet with a single shot. I can't afford to have it fall into the wrong hands." Kodai said.

Dumbledore pulled Minerva aside, and talked to her.

"We need to cooperate with them." Dumbledore said.

"Why?" Minerva asked.

"These people, this Yamato. They could help us with Voldemort." Dumbledore said.

"These people are 200 years advanced of us. What can we give them?" Minerva asked.

"Kodai said that their ship malfunctioned. They need help repairing it. We can help them." Dumbledore said.

"And we'll take your help." Kodai said, walking towards them.

"You've been listening?" Minerva asked, eyeing him.

Kodai put his hand on his pistol, trying to reign in his temper.

"Min." Albus said, walking to Kodai.

"We'll help you with this Voldemort problem, you help us fix our ship." Kodai said.

"Deal. Now tell me more about this Yamato." Albus said.

"Alright. In 1945, it was sunk by American forces in the Sea of Japan, off the coast of Okinawa. In the year 2191 an alien race called Gamalias attacked earth for no reason. Well, they came in peace, and some asshole leader orders our fleet to attack. Didn't go so well, because 8 years later, we were almost destroyed. We took the remains of the Yamato, converted it into a space battleship, and we headed to Iscandar." Kodai said.

"Why their?" Albus asked.

"The Iscandarians told us they had a radiation remover device that would help us repair our planet. Of course, we went. What a hell hole. We spent a year in deep space, fighting many battles with the Gamalian military. We severely wounded them, if not outright destroyed them. We got the device and headed back to earth. After we fixed the planet, we were sent to a distant planet, to gather technology and supplies to make new weapon. The storm rifle, as my soldiers call it." Kodai said, showing the purple plasma rifle.

"Alright. We'll tell you a bit of our history. Well, what's relevant. Years ago, there was a wizard, named Tom Riddle. For reasons unknown, he grew disillusioned with the way things were going, and changed his name to Voldemort." Minerva said, slightly shaking when she said Voldemort. Kodai took notice of that.

"He turned dark, gathered an army, and started killing anything and everything in his way. The order of the phoenix was started, as a resistance against him. Many battles were fought. It seemed like the war would never end." Minerva said. She grabbed some tissues and wiped away some tears.

"I'm sorry about that." Kodai said, empathizing with the older women. He just came out of the earth-gamilian war.

"But the war did end. Voldemort killed Lily and James Potter, two very powerful wizards. He then attempted to kill their one year old sun, Harry Potter. The killing spell failed to kill, and rebounded on Voldemort." Dumbledore said.

"So Voldemort was killed." Kodai said.

"Severely wounded to be more accurate. He lost his physical form, but was still alive. He came into his human form, last year. His followers managed to bring him back. He's been building up in secret." Dumbledore said.

"If he's back, why didn't you take an army and kill then and there?" Kodai asked.

"The ministry of magic refuses to believe that he's back." McGonagall said, scornfully.

"The what?" Kodai asked.

"Our government."

Scoffing, Kodai shook his head.

"So, a mass-murder. A terrorist. Is on the loose, and your own government refuses to fight him. Hell, he's already won the war. And it hasn't even started. If you don't have your government backing you up, how do you expect to beat him?" Kodai asked.

"That's why we're asking you for help." Minerva interjected.

"Ya'll are desperate. I just barely arrived here. I only have 2000 soldiers under my command. How many soldiers does this castle have?" Kodai asked.

"This castle is a school. We have 1,000 students here, but around 333 are of fighting age. We also have dozens of staff members." Dumbledore said.

"2300, against an unknown amount of enemy fighters. And no support from the ministry. Just great. We're on our own here." Kodai said.

"Both of us are in the same boat. We can't get help from the outside world, and no-one will believe our claim." Dumbledore said.

"Okay. We'll help you win your war. And you'll help fix our ship. That's the deal." Kodai said.

As they stood up to leave the room, Kodai had one last thing to say.

"Don't tell anyone we're here for the time being. Not until you think it's in your best interests to say so. Oh, and you need to come aboard my ship. I got to show you something."

Wondering what he'd show them, Albus and Minerva followed the 4 soldiers towards the Yamato.