Chapter 1
Arzenal
(Home of the Norma)
Firing Range
In the middle of the ocean, there was an island that was cut off from the rest of the world and its inhabitants are women who are called Norma. They are born without the ability to use the Light of Mana once that discovery is found. They are then sent to Arzenal where they must fight off interdimensional creatures known as DRAGONS.
The women with plug suits firing their weapons are known One of them was A blonde short-haired girl named Ange a former princess Angelise of the Empire of Misurugi who was revealed to be a Norma was minding her business doing target practice along with the rest of the women she had improved over her first week of arriving at Arzenal. However, there was still tension between her and some of her squadmates there were 3 girls looking at her with anger their names were Hilda, Chris, and Rosalie.
"I can't believe that whore just keeps killing more DRAGONS than us." Rosalie said out of anger.
"She keeps stealing our kills just for the hell of it." Replied Chris while looking at her with a murderous look.
Hilda just looked at Ange with a neutral look at her, not friendly but not angry either, but Ange didn't care her purpose was one thing only killing DRAGONS and fighting for survival by any means necessary.
Arzenal Mall
A short red-haired girl who has a lollipop in her mouth named Vivian was walking around with a pink-haired girl with a motherly aura named Ersha to buy supplies for the children that she teaches.
"Thank you for helping me out with buying some arts and crafts for the children Vivian I really appreciated it." Ersha said while grabbing a brush and putting it in the basket. Vivian humming replied. "Oh, no problem Ersha I know how much you take care of them."
They were walking to checkout when they saw Salia picking up a book from the library section. "Hey Salia how are you doing?" Ersha asked. Salia stumbled around and hid the book she bought from the mall.
"Oh I'm just browsing around that's all." Salia said while blushing a bit. What she didn't realize is that Vivian snuck behind her and grabbed the book from her. "So what's this book about 'How to kiss a...'" Vivian said but Salia covered her mouth and grabbed the book from her. "It's nothing okay!" Salia Shouted.
Control Room
In the Control room, there were 3 girls on their respective consoles a red-haired girl named Hikaru, blonde hair named Pamela, and a green-haired girl named Oliver one was a woman with a black hair ponytail who was smoking her Cigarette in the control room. She looked at the photo of her younger self and the original crew of Libertus more specifically at the image of a man with blonde/brown hair.
Then she heard the doors opening behind her and in an instant, she put the photo away so nobody could see it.
She turned and saw another woman named Emma Bronson who wore white clothing, a hat, and glasses had begun to walk up to her.
"Commander Jill what's the status of the Norma Ange." Emma asked.
"She is improving very well especially after what happened last week, Inspector Bronson." Jill Responded. However, the inspector sighed despite her hatred of Norma's part of her feeling bad for some of the young ones to die, just part though.
'Beep Beep'
Then the alarm system went off signaling the others in the room to take action.
"Commander, we're picking up a dimensional gateway opening." Oliver said while typing on her console.
"Where's the location, and what's the category." Jill questioned while looking at the screen.
"It appears to be a category 2, and it's 50 Miles from Arzenal." Hikaru said while pulling the data on the screen.
Jill looked at the data and smiled. "Another day another hunting." then she sat down on her chair and said. "Send out the first Squadron now!" Jill announced with Emma sitting next to her.
Ocean
"Is this what death feels like, but wait I'm not dead, am I?" Daniel thought until he opened his eyes to see that he and the rest of his squad were alive.
After the black hole had absorbed them was gone we suddenly arrived in the middle of the ocean. Daniel thought to himself again. 'How the hell did we end up here in the middle of the goddamn ocean!?'
"Is everybody okay?! Is everybody okay?!" The pilot asked on comms while looking back at the passengers.
"Yeah, we're all good." Daniel said while looking around to see the whole ordeal that shook up his entire squad to his relief their okay.
"Oracle 6-1, this Lieutenant Jones I'm in Howler 5-6, and we linked up with Howler 5-4 and I got a visual on you, we're inbound right now." Said Lieutenant Jones on the radio.
"Roger that, it's good to hear that you're okay Lieutenant." Daniel radioed in response with relief.
"Sarge what the hell was that?!" Trish asked out of confusion and fear.
"How the hell did we end up in the middle of the goddamn ocean!?" asked Renji while looking outside shocked.
Daniel didn't reply he was just happy that they weren't all dead. 'Wait if we were sucked in and we are still alive then that means the rest of our company was sucked in and are still alive.' He thought 'Still how did this even happen?' He thought out of curiosity.
Screech!
They all heard the noise, and they all looked around to see where it was coming from. "Did you hear that?" Wilson asked, readying his M16A3. Everyone else readied their weapons just in case too. "What the fuck was that?" Lynch asked cocking his M249 SAW and aiming his weapon outside.
The pilots were looking and what they saw in front of them were winged creatures.
"Are those Dragons?" One of the pilots from Howler 5-4 asked out of confusion.
Before anyone could answer the Dragons began to charge at the choppers.
"Look out." The co-pilot Richter pointed at one of the dragons charging at them as David lifted the stick and dodged the incoming dragon.
Then more DRAGONS began attacking them but the pilots were outmaneuvering the Dragons and successfully getting out of the kill zone, everyone in Daniel's squad was firing crazy.
"I can't believe this is happening!" Said Howler 5-4 pilot while looking around.
"Lieutenant what shall we do?" Asked The Private next to Lieutenant Jones.
"Fire Fire Fire!" Lieutenant ordered his men and the pilots to shoot, firing their Mini Guns, Rockets, and rifles at incoming dragons.
"Oh Shit, Dragons are attacking us and are real!" Yelled Renji out of confusion he couldn't believe that dragons existed.
"We won't stand a chance!" Shouted Kimberly out of fear she didn't want to die like this.
"What the fuck are we gonna do!" screamed Ryan out of anxiety he never thought this would happen at all.
Daniel then put his foot down and then shouted "Everyone pull shit together alright, we are not gonna die! Now I want us to hold our ground right here and fight because we Rangers never quit we keep fighting is that understood!" Daniel shouted at his men. They all looked at Daniel and replied "Yes Staff Sargent!" They all shouted.
"Cunningham, Johnson get on those 50 Cals now, the rest of you we shoot at them if they get too close to the Helicopter, we conserve our ammo I don't want to lose an entire squad to a single Dragon understood." Daniel Ordered readying his weapon while making sure Luna is secured.
"Understood!" "Copy that!" everyone responded while reloading their weapons and then they began shooting killing dragons left and right they were still shocked, in fact, all of them were in fear but they wouldn't go down without a fight.
"Pilots radio in for help, and see if any of our Navy Ships or our fighter jets are nearby, and try to find our coordinates so they know where we are!" ordered Lieutenant Jones to every pilot while still firing his SCAR-H at a DRAGON that got close in the head.
"I read you loud and clear!" "Copy that!" "Understood!" said every pilot and they began radioing for help.
Control Room
"1st Squadron is on their way to handle the category 2 right now ma'am." Hikaru said while looking at the screen showing Jill and inspector Emma where the first squadron is at right now. Around the same time, Maggie and Jazmine walked into the control room to view the situation.
"Alright keep me posted." Jill replied while smoking her cigarette, then a notification buzzed in and Pamela responded to the message.
"Uh, commander Jill, we're picking up a couple of unidentified aircraft from where the singularity was first established." Said Pamela. Then she began typing on her board. "We received a transmission of some sorts, beginning to play it now." she said as she started playing the transmission
"Hello this is David Gonzalez of the US Army Rangers, my team and I are being attacked by these winged creatures they look like Dragons, we need help! Is anyone out there, our coordinates are 21.747255 by -201.005537, Over!?" When the transmission ended there were questions and confusion in the control room "US Army Rangers?" Asked Oliver in curiosity. Hikaru then said. "So that's what a man sounds like." then Pamela asked "What do we do?" Maggie and Jazmine looked at each other with a curious look when they heard the situation.
"Was that one of the founding nation's vassals being attacked no one why didn't they contact me through Mana communication... unless the Ancient Humans are planning on attacking?" Emma asked in confusion about the whole situation. Jill on the other hand wasn't convinced. "I doubt that's a founding nation vessel's distress signal, nor do I believe that it's the Ancient Humans they're extinct remember, contact the first squadron immediately to assess the situation." Jill ordered. 'It can't be the Ancient Human survivors can it?' She thought while smoking her cigarette.
Meanwhile at the Outskirts
A person wearing tactical gear with a black hood with a feminine figure was hiking up a mountain, the person kept hiking looking at her map to find the item she needed to complete her training. "Why in the world am I hiking up a mountain." She said out loud then a radio static came through "Well 'MYROM' your just gonna have to endure it this is the final part of your training, you said you wanted to contribute to our effort more right?" said the voice on the radio.
"Understood Captain Laswell, but still it's a nice view of the forest." She looked up to look at the trees and the sun shining through her blue eyes with strains of her blonde hair blowing in the wind while witnessing the beauty of nature, she then saw the flag that was placed and grabbed it. "Finally I got it."
She then began to walk down the mountain but then she heard a strange sound that didn't sound like it wasn't part of the forest. She then looked across the mountain and saw a shimmer of light that appeared 50 miles across her position. "Uh Laswell I think I see something?" She waited for the response from Laswell and then the radio said. "What do you see." MYROM was still trying to look but the distance was unseeable. "I can't tell, I'm gonna pull out my binoculars to get a better look." She said while pulling out her binoculars and looking through them.
Alan was covering his hands from the blackhole that appeared and looked around to see that he was still alive along with the others, but Captain Davis was knocked out. "Captain Davis!" he then shook Davis to get him to respond but to no avail.
He got out of the Humvee and saw the rest of the Helicopter in the air, the tank division, and the other Humvees with their men in them. 'How the fuck did we end up in the middle of the Forrest?' he thought in his head.
"Lieutenant did that just happened!?" asked a panicked soldier still having a headache. 'What are we gonna do? Where are the others?' Everyone was asking questions out of fear.
"Yeah where is LT Jones and the rest of our company?" Asked a fellow Ranger. "and our fighter jets did they get killed?" another asked
"Everyone calm down, do not panic I'm sure they are okay and trust me we will find them eventually." He looked around to see Corporal Hector Gonzalez and Derrick Johnson messing with the radio. "What happened with the radio?"
"The Black hole must have fried our communications sir however we are still able to make contact with our Helicopters though, but to make contact with the missing company will take some time sir."
"Alright then, first things first I need Intel." He turned to Sylvia and Ichiro. "Listen Sylvia, and Ichiro I need you to do some recon to find out where we are. Hector and Johnson, I need you to fix the radio ASAP we need to know where the others are understood." each person that he assigned to responded with a yes sir and they did their designated tasks.
"Apache and Black Hawks pilots find a place to land your Vehicles we need to save up on fuel." He talked on the radio. "Copy that!" replied one of the pilots. The Helicopters then began to find a landing zone.
The rest of you will set up camp here and find a perfect place to set our vehicles up." Everyone then shouted "Sir Yes Sir!"
"I hope Captain Davis wakes up sooner rather than later, cause we need all the help we can get." He said to himself.
MYROM finished looking through the binoculars and then took pictures of what she saw. "Laswell I'm sending you photos right now, you will not believe what I'm seeing."
Then in a control room with a lady in her mid 30's with short blonde hair wearing a brown coat with a star symbol on her left arm along with multiple men and women among them saw the images. "Good work MYROM report back to base immediately, will send someone else to keep an eye on them." she said while looking through the images. 'Copy that.' replied MYROM.
"Look at those weapons and equipment they got." one man said while zooming the image they received. "Are these any Ancient Human survivors?"
"How can they be survivors if they appeared out of nowhere dude?" one person responded out of annoyance.
"Although it just begs the question who are they, and where did they come from?" Laswell asked while looking at the Red White and Blue flag arm patch.
Meanwhile somewhere in the Ocean
'Raptor 6-2 do you copy over.' said the radio inside the F-35 cockpit with the pilot still confused about what just happened. 'Garrick do you read me over!?' said the person on the other side of the radio, and with that, the pilot named Garrick shook her head, and responded to the radio call. "Yeah, I read you loud and clear, I'm just flabbergasted at what just happened Sullivan." Garrick asked
Garrick looked to her left and saw F-22s and on her right were F-35s all information. "Well, we're all just as messed up as you are 'Kaz' but what's done is done." Sullivan replied.
"Just what in the world was that Captain?" Kaz Asked. 'I wish I knew Kaz I wish I knew.' they then heard their radios picking up a transmission.
"Hello this is David Gonzalez of the US Army Rangers, my team and I are being attacked by these winged creatures they look like Dragons, we need help! Is anyone out there, our coordinates are 21.747255 by -201.005537, Over!?"
"Everybody got that, it's gotta be a joke right?" asked Hudson the pilot of one of the F-22. "Yes we got it, but considering how we were at Barstow one minute and all of a sudden we got sucked into a black hole and ended up in the middle of the ocean I'd say they're not joking, enough chit chat let's go help them." Sullivan responded then as of queue they all turned to the direction of the coordinates.
Ocean
When the 1st squadron was on their way to the Category 2 they received a call from Jill. "1st Squadron this is commander Jill we just received a distress call from the control room." Jill announced on the radio with everyone except Ange stopping in their tracks.
Hello this is David Gonzalez of the US Army Rangers, my team and I are being attacked by these winged creatures they look like Dragons, we need help! Is anyone out there, our coordinates are 21.747255 by -201.005537, Over!?"
When they received the transmission they were mixed opinions among the first squadron.
"What do we do, should we assist them?" Asked Chris with a confused look.
"It could be a trick for all we know, why would there be a Mana ship close to us, it's not even inventory day." Rosalie said
"Why should we, they're just men, and they should get what they deserve." Hilda said with a smirk on her face, she didn't like men, and hearing how they are struggling just put a smile on her face.
"It's not right to just let them die, they sound like they're in serious trouble." Ersha said with disappointment.
"Yeah, we might be able to make new friends as well, right Salia?" Vivian said with excitement while looking at her Captain. Salia was blushing a little she had never heard a man's voice before and was nervous about meeting one let alone more in person.
"Hey wait a second where's Ange?" Ersha asked making everyone look around to see that she disappeared out of thin air.
"She went to the DRAGON's coordinates with our us come on!!!" Salia ordered. Prompting everyone to follow her including Hilda.
Ange was flying Vilkiss to the location of the dimensional gateway that opened up and as well as where the Distress signal was located as well. 'I don't care if they're in trouble or not im just here to collect my money.' She thought in her head.
As soon as Ange got close to the DRAGONS she stopped in advance and saw three helicopters fighting against the dragons 'those aren't mana vehicles?, they look like ancient vehicles I read about with momoka.' she thought to herself and saw a DRAGON sneaking behind one of the Helicopters she then began to rush in to help.
Daniel and his men were firing making sure they made every shot count. With Lieutenant Jones and his men doing the same thing but the more, they keep killing they keep on coming no matter how hard they tried
The Pilot was dodging each attack the dragons made until one of them was about to hit'em from behind but by the time the pilot saw it it was too close to dodge it in time.
"Brace yourselves!" Shouted David while closing his eyes along with Richter, but unbeknownst to him and Richter, Daniel and his Squad saw a giant robot swooping in and killing the Dragon that was going to kill them
Ange began firing her weapons at the Dragons killing every single one that was close to the helicopter. When one Dragon was about to Attack her from behind she was gonna counter attack it but saw the soldiers in the helicopter shooting the Dragon. 'Are they helping me?' she thought to herself but she didn't give it any more thought and continued fighting.
Meanwhile, Salia arrived at the location where the radio message was sent. "Ange, wait until the rest of... us?" Salia shouted, but she saw what her eyes had deceived her looking, as soon as the others caught up with the two they saw the action.
Then some of the Dragons were being gunned down by 2 MH-6 Helicopters with their Mini Guns and Rockets firing at them. They also saw a Black Hawk with multiple soldiers firing their weapons at Dragons.
"Wow Look at that." Vivian said with excitement she loved making new friends and to have first male friends would increase her friend list.
"Those don't look like Soldiers from the Founding nations?" Ersha asked while looking at the situation she was expecting Mana airships but they rode on engine vehicles as they do .
"I don't think so, their vehicles don't seem to be running on Mana." Salia Replied and then noticed that the pilots and passengers were mostly men with a couple of women as well with the vehicles they have.
"Well, whoever they are, they're putting up a good fight." Rosalie replied with an impressed look. "It also looks like the fallen princess is enjoying it too." Chris said.
"Well looks like they don't need our help come on let's go." Hilda said but as soon as she said that she noticed that Vivian flew in to attack the DRAGONS.
"Come on guys let's help them out, and make some new Friends!" Vivian shouted with excitement.
"Vivian's right, we have to help, come on let's go!" Ersha Said while flying into the action. With that Rosalia and Chris followed suit but only for the cash.
"Wait for my... unbelievable!" Salia shouted then she charged into battle. Hilda then looked and said. "Unbelievable indeed." as she sighed and flew right in to the action.
While Daniel and his Squad were firing at the Dragons they were in awe at what they saw more giant robots helping them out. 'Well at least we got back up.' Daniel thought. He saw the one with blue and white and thought to himself 'Man whoever is piloting that must be an expert.' He thought.
"This is Air Force Captain Sullivan we see you and we're coming in hot." Said Sullivan
"Roger that, be advised do not aim at the robots I say again do not aim at the robots when you see them they are helping us." Replied Gonzalez while reloading his SCAR-H.
"Copy that, were coming in on your Southwest over." Replied Sullivan as soon as he replied Daniel and his squad including the Jones and his team looked to their Southwest.
"Woosh"
Then everyone heard a loud Woosh from the planes and the Paramails were about to attack until they saw what it was, 9 F-35s and 7 F-22s zooming in and began firing at the Last remaining Dragons.
Everyone looked in awe including Hilda who had to admit was impressed despite them being men.
"Command are you getting this?" Salia said over her radio.
Control Room
"Affirmative." Jill Responded while looking at the footage of the Vehicles, she couldn't help but be entranced by the whole situation, she had a feeling of nostalgia in her mind that reminded her of the Ancient Folk and of Istvan but that feeling had to wait.
All personnel in the control room had mixed opinions on what they were watching. Hikaru Oliver and Pamala were in awe and shocked, "Is this real?" Hikaru asked. "It's like watching a movie." Pamela said.
'So does this mean there is more Ancient Folk that survived than we realized?' Jazmine thought to herself while patting Vulcan on the head. 'Oh men it's been a while I wonder if their blood is different.' Maggie thought to herself while smiling at the look on the inspector's face. Emma was still confused about the whole situation she saw on screen.
"Alright then, Saila I want you to establish contact and let them follow you back to Arzenal for questioning." Jill ordered on the radio.
"Understood!" Salia responded, Jill looked at the screen again and saw some of the Ranger's faces. 'They might just help out.' she thought in her mind.
Ocean
With all the Dragons gone everyone could relax knowing that it was over. Daniel and his Squad were exhausted mentally and physically.
"I was hoping to see one helicopter crash." Hilda said with disappointment. Rosalie and Ersha looked at her with their eyebrows rising.
"Yeah we kicked butt, and we can make new friends." Vivian said with excitement.
The pilots were circling around the area to make sure no other Dragons were around. The helicopters were hovering in the air. As the paramails came closer they heard the radios talking. "This is Salia captain of the 1st Squadron, identify yourselves." Salia Ordered.
Prompting to answer Daniel picked up the radio and responded. "This is Staff Sargent Daniel Espinoza, my men and I are part of the United States Army Rangers we are lost and are low on fuel, we request permission to land at your HQ, over." Saila blushed realizing that she was talking to a man but she thought ''United States' I had never heard of that country before, and their uniforms they are totally different from what Jill and Jasmine told her about the Ancient Folk?', but she shook her head realizing that she was getting sidetracked.
"Roger, follow us to Arzenal." Saila said while getting a good look at the soldiers she never thought she would encounter men before.
Everyone in Daniel's unit looked at each other. "Arzenal? Asked Robert. "That must be their base of operations." Diana responded.
The Helicopters and Jets were traveling along with the Paramails heading to their destination, from the side of the choppers and cockpit of the jets they got a couple of waves from the pilots that controlled the giant robots and realized that most of them looked young. 'Okay, we definitely need to ask a lot of questions when we arrive' Daniel thought in his mind. Then he saw a red-haired girl giving him and his squad a death glare. 'I wonder what's bothering her?' he thought.
About 10 minutes later they arrived at their destination. The pilots, and passengers of the Helicopter and jets all saw a military base in the middle of the Pacific ocean everyone was in awe.
"Here we are, US Army Rangers welcome to Arzenal." Salia declared.
Hey Everyone sorry for the long update, I've been kinda busy with other stuff in life but here it is the 2nd Update, and as you can see the Rangers are about to arrive at Arzenal and some of the Norma Residents are very confused including Jill.
Before I continue I just have a couple of questions, #1 what year does Cross Ange take place? I've watched the anime so many times but not once do they even mention what year it takes place I know it takes place in the future but I don't know the year it is, if you guys have any idea what year it takes place I'm all ears. (I assume it is in the year 3014 or 2722 but I'm not 100% sure)
#2 should I add Norma sympathizers to the story or am I being too cliche, but let me know and I might have some sympathizers? Also, I might change the rating from T to M, haven't decided yet but still thinking about it later.
BTW Here are the Army Rangers and Air Force pilot's ages, ethnicity (for diversity) Hair and Eye Color, Body Built, Rank, and who they are voiced by.
Daniel Espinoza / Staff Sargent / Age - 21 / Eye Color: Brown / Hair Color: Dark Brown / Body: Athletic / Mexican American (Voiced by Alejandro Saab)
Richard Johnson / Sargent / Age - 21 / Eye Color: Brown / Hair Color: Black / Body: Athletic / African American (Voiced by Gabriel Kunda)
Trish Lee Park / Specialist / Age - 23 / Eye Color: Black / Hair Color: Hazel Brown / Body: Ottermode / Korean American (Voiced by Laura Bailey)
Nathan Garcia / Specialist / Age - 20 / Eye Color: Hazel / Hair Color: Black / Body: Ottermode / Colombian American (Voiced by Billy Kametz) (RIP)
Kimberly Ortiz / Corporal / Age - 20 / Eye Color: Black / Hair Color: Dark Brown / Body: Ottermode / Spaniard American (Voiced by Erica Mendez)
Robert Wilson / Private First Class / Age - 19 / Eye Color: Hazel / Hair Color: Brown / Body: Ottermode / African American (Voiced by Nadji Jeter)
Diana Johnson / Specialist / Age - 22 / Eye Color: Grey / Hair Color: Dark Brown / Body: Athletic / African American (Voiced by Enuka Okuma)
Kyle Lynch / Private First Class / Age - 19 / Eye Color: Green / Hair Color: Brown / Body: Ottermode / Caucasian American (Voiced by Bryce Papenbrook)
Joseph Ryan / Private / Age - 19 / Eye Color: Black / Hair Color: Brown / Body: Ottermode / Caucasian American (Voiced by Aaron Dismuke)
Evan Cunningham / Corporal / Age - 25 / Eye Color: Blue / Hair Color: Dark Brown / Body: Athletic / African American (Voiced by Zeno Robinson)
Victor Osborne / Private / Age - 19 / Eye Color: Blue / Hair Color: Blonde / Body: Ottermode / Caucasian American (Voiced by Josh Grelle)
Renji Watanabe / Private / Age - 18 / Eye Color: Brown / Hair Color: Black / Body: Ottermode / Japanese American (Voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch)
David Gonzalez / 2nd Lieutenant / Age - 32 / Eye Color: Hazel Brown / Hair Color: Black / Body: Athletic / Mexican American (Voiced by Alian Mesa)
Richter Anderson / 1st Lieutenant / Age 33 / Eye Color: Grey / Hair Color: Brown / Body: Athletic / Caucasian American (Voiced by Troy Baker)
Matthew Davis / Captain / Age - 38 / Eye Color: Black / Hair Color: Black / Body: Athletic /African American (Voiced by Keith David)
Randy Jones / 1st Lieutenant / Age - 34 / Eye Color: Brown / Hair Color: Black / Body: Athletic / Caucasian American (Voiced by Steve Blum)
Kathleen "Kaz" Garrick / 1st Lieutenant / Age - 34 / Eye Color: Grey / Hair Color: Blonde / Body: Athletic / Caucasian American (Voiced by Jamie Marchi)
Sophia Hudson / 2nd Lieutenant / Age - 26 / Eye Color: Green / Hair Color: Black / Body: Athletic / African American (Voiced by Rosario Dawson)
Sullivan Parker / Captain / Age - 36 / Eye Color: Blue / Hair Color: Blonde / Body: Athletic / Caucasian American (Voiced by Brian Bloom)