A Legendary Army Of Unstoppable Hybrid Mages
Chapter One: One Hundred Digimon Hybrid Mages

Bellona

About twenty years ago, a project, a collaboration between two great scientific minds began. What was this project, exactly?

Well, after Jail Scaglietti, a mage scientist who specialized in cloning and creating artificial life, broke out of jail, he teamed up with Kurata, a former member of the first exploration team to the Digital World, and together, they started on a project to create an army of unstoppable Digimon human hybrid mages. To do this, they kidnapped thousands upon thousands of women who were known to be mages or have mage ancestry, gave them a special drug to ensure fertility, and forcibly impregnated them.

Among them were famous mages Takamachi Vivio, Takamachi Nanoha, Fate Testarossa Harlaown, Yagami Hayate, the female members of the Wolkenritter, Shamal, Signum and Vita, Ginga Nakajima, Subaru Nakajima, Teana Lanster, Caro Ru Lushe, Carim Gracia, Sister Scach Nouera, Rio Wesley, Corona Timil, Einhart Stratos, Lutecia Alpine, and Lindy Harlaown.

Also taken were women who had previous exposure to magic or worked around in on a regular basis, such as Banngins Alisa, Tsukimura Suzuka, Tsukimura Shinbou, Takamachi Momoko, Takamachi Miyuki, the Tsukimura maids, Noel and Farin, and Shario Finnieno.

The Numbers, twelve combat cyborgs created by Jail if you excluded Ginga Nakajima, were also used as well as the Materials, Stern the Destructor, Levi the Slasher, and Lord Dearche, plus Yuri Eberwein. And somehow, Kurata found Precia and Alicia Testarossa, who had been living in the fabled Al Hazard, and they were used as well. On top of that, the Unison Devices, Agito and Reinforce Zwei were given a larger form, and they were included in the list of mothers.

Once all of the captured women were pregnant, and it took a while to make sure that they were all pregnant (they had to make sure that all of them were pregnant, because while the drug they used to ensure fertility did indeed make sure that all of the captured women were fertile and capable of carrying children, it came with a catch— the women it was used on would be sterile for the rest of the year if a child wasn't conceived and would be sterile for a year after the child was born), the embryos were extracted and infused with the data of various notable Digimon, namely from famous groups and the partners of Digidestined from the past.

By giving them all different data, it insured that they would all have different abilities and would be more diverse and useful in combat than if every single hybrid had the exactly same abilities as the others. An army with exactly the same skills was not an effective one, after all.

Out of the thousands of embryos conceived, only a hundred survived the experimentation. Okay, granted a few survived to 'birth' but died shortly after, and a few died during their early childhood years. Only a hundred of us survived to our later childhood, about the age of seven.

I was one of the fifty girls who survived (somehow, the surviving hybrids are split evenly between boys and girls), one of the twenty five girls sired by Jail.

The fifty of us Jail sired are pretty much the children of mages or those who have mage ancestry, or have been around magic for a long time. The list includes the numbers, aside from Uno, Due and Tre because they were created from Jail's genetic material, Takamachi Vivio, Takamachi Nanoha, Fate Testarossa Harlaown, Yagami Hayate, the female members of the Wolkenritter, Shamal, Signum and Vita, Ginga Nakajima, Subaru Nakajima, Teana Lanster, Caro Ru Lushe, Carim Gracia, Sister Scach Nouera, Rio Wesley, Corona Timil, Einhart Stratos, Lutecia Alpine, Lindy Harlaown, Bannings Alisa, Tsukimura Suzuka, Tsukimura Shinbou, Takamachi Momoko, Takamachi Miyuki, the Tsukimura maids, Noel and Farin, Shario Finnieno, and the human-form Unison Devices, Agito and Reinforce Zwei.

Kurata mainly sired children with the women who weren't mages, and thus would be easier to break and impregnate. A good number of them were also either Digidestined themselves, or aware of the existence of Digimon. Thanks to Jail's artificial mage technology, it wouldn't matter if they weren't mages at birth. Especially not with the Digimon data which was infused with magic. It was a sort of failsafe to ensure that the children would be mages.

There were one hundred of us because Kurata and Jail wanted an army. While a few of us are pretty strong, ten, twenty, twenty five, thirty, forty, or fifty hybrids don't really make an army. While perhaps sixty, seventy, eighty or ninety would, nothing made a statement quite like one hundred hybrid mages boring down on you all with the intent to kill you. Granted I had no intention of killing anyone, but when Jail and Kurata said jump, us hybrids asked how high.

I'd say what really set us on the path to being free was when Jail and Kurata brought in a woman with pale golden blond hair and red eyes, claiming that she would teach us about politics, being a member of one of Mid-Childa's most noble families, and also test each and every, and I mean every, last one of us for the rare gift she had known as charmspeak.

Her name, they told us, was Alicia Testarossa.

That very day, she gave us our first lesson.

"Now," She began. "I'm not going to fool you into believing that you'll all be the best negotiators, because with so many of you there are bound to be some of you who aren't as good, but I see no reason that you can't all get a good grasp on the basics. To start, negotiating is a very subtle art. You can't just tell somebody to do it and expect it to be done. First you have to make sure whoever you're negotiating is on the same page as far as what you hope to achieve. Then, you have to make sure that the terms benefit both parties. Why would anyone want to agree to something if there's nothing in it for them? For those of you who do have charmspeak, the same first rule applies. Negotiating is all about subtlety and finesse."

I raised my hand. "Is there any way to tell if we have charmspeak without being tested?" I wanted to know when she called on me.

Alicia nodded. "There are a few clues. For one, they're very persuasive. It's easy for them to convince someone of something simple, like that their shirt is inside out. Something like, say 'the sky is green' would be nearly impossible because very few people are going to believe something so illogical. That's the biggest one. For the most part, it's girls who are given the ability to charmspeak, because they tend to be more persuasive than boys. A tip for any of you who do have the ability, don't try to shove all of your power into your voice and shout 'don't kill me!' when your opponent's deepest wish is to kill you or something similar. Granted, there are some times it does work. Most times, however, it fails miserably. Trust me, I would know." She smiled ruefully. "I once tried to convince Mother to let me out of lessons when I was younger. Not only did it fail, it failed spectacularly and I only wound up getting more homework to do."

"At least you knew not to do it again." My best friend Mars pointed out.

Alicia shook her head. "No, not really. It took three more times doing the same thing and a hint from mother, try being more subtle next time, to make me realize that what I was doing wasn't going to work and that I had to try a different tactic. Not that they ever worked."

"Wow," Venus, who ironically had the data of Venusmon, said bluntly. "Either Precia-sama was really, really resistant to charmspeak, or you were just really bad at convincing her."

I slapped my head. "Venus!" I grumbled. "Is it really absolutely necessary to insult the only teacher we've ever had?"

Alicia waved a hand. "It's fine. It is true, after all."

"See!" Venus gloated. "I told you." I merely stuck my tongue out at her.

The others had a good laugh over that, and the lesson progressed. I did rather well, I thought.

Over the coming weeks, I grew closer to Alicia, moreso to her than any of the other women Kurata and Jail brought in as teachers for us, Bannings Alisa, Tsukimura Suzuka, Takamachi Miyuki, and Noel, Suzuka's personal maid.

About five months after our first lesson, I stayed behind to ask Alicia why I felt so attached to her, despite the fact that all five of our teachers treated us the same.

She shook her head. "You really haven't figured it out? Look at me. Look at you. Blond hair. Red eyes. Amber magic. A love of and a talent for using lightning. Charmspeak."

" . . . I feel stupid." I said. "I can't believe I didn't even recognize my own mother!"

"Well, considering that you didn't have me for the first seven years of your life, it's no surprise." She smiled before becoming serious. "I have a question for you, though: would you like to get out of here, and have a chance to live without being a weapon?"

I thought it over for quite a while. Then, finally, I came to a decision. "Yes. Yes I do."