Looks like I was able to publish the other half early, as again big thanks to The Son of Sparda 343 and SoTaWoB for there help as always.

So right where we left off.


Sekirei: The Lost Wolf.

Chapter 5: Assessing the situation part two.


Toyotama smiled and the two of them began to walk toward the shopping district. As they walked through the city and Toyotama found a store that seemed to offer styles that she liked, Six was busy keeping an eye out for anything strange either on the ground among the various people going about their day or from the roof tops of buildings. While he was waiting Athena decided to make herself known.

"Hey, Six, was able to get all the data I could find on the Discipline Squad."

Six nodded and asked "How were you able to acquire it?"

Athena chuckled inside the Spartan's helmet. "Six we are on a Earth during the 2020s, so me hacking and breaking through the digital security and firewalls of this era might as well be you attacking a cardboard fort. Though I will admit MBI's security is a little bit more tougher then what should be possibly for humans of this time period. Still it was nothing I couldn't get through.". Athena finished.

Six thought about it for a moment. "Chances are they probably used the Sekirei tech to enhance their systems and their digital security."

"That would make sense - aside from profiting off their tech they also kept some for themselves. Anyway, I decided to have a little fun with them while I went in searching for the data. Once I was inside I went after their other sensitive data and information and created uplinks all over the world to have everyone on the planet learn of MBI's secrets. Then I decided to mess with their bank accounts, and of course - this is my favorite - created fake information on the head of MBI and tried to upload it all to the internet."

Six couldn't help but smirk. "The data you recovered?"

"After I had my fun I was able to easily acquire the data. Not only on the Discipline Squad but all the Sekirei, both winged and un-winged, and of course data and information about their Ashikabi. By the time they were able to stop all of my attempts at ruining them I had what I was after and left their networks. I'm sure everything in their systems are back to normal now, but next time might be more of a challenge."

"You'll probably still walk all over them." Six smiled at the work his AI partner. "Now, on to business. What can you tell me about the discipline squad ?"

"The best way I can talk about the discipline squad is to start from the beginning." Athena said as she began putting up data on his HUD.

"Discovery of the alien ship on the deserted island - they found the 108 life forms onboard and designated them by age order. The only alien close to adulthood labeled number one, the 8 fetuses labeled numbers two through nine, and the other 99 like Toyotama were fertilized eggs. Not long after the discovery Minaka named the island Kamikura Island and he converted the island into private land, removed from all maps and became an extraterritoriality. This caused the major authorities of the world to react and started the invasion of Kamikura Island."

"No MBI private army existed then, right? That means...

"Because of the military mobilization, the first disciplinary squad was formed made up of the first five Sekireis, numbers one through five. They were woken from their slumber to defend the island from the invaders. All five of them easily defeated the international army while protecting all unborn Sekirei. Believe it or not I actually got my hands on battlefield footage of that day, I'll send it to you now."

On the top right of six's visor a small video screen appeared.

What Six saw was an armed force close to the size of the defense force trying to protect Reach attack a small island. From what Athena told him it was a newly formed island thanks to an earthquake in the region. some troops began to land on the island, Six saw something caught his eye. Standing on top of a cliff was a lone woman carrying a katana, but what Six noticed she was wearing a grey kind of jacket with the same symbol that he saw his own Sekirei had on her clothes.

'That must be the symbol used by the Sekirei.' Six thought to himself.

What happened next completely shocked the Spartan to his core, as this purple haired woman drew her weapon she looked at the group of ships yet to land on the island. She then brought her sword above her head and brought it down in a vertical slash, but it was what happened next that shook Six as this swordswoman was able to create a massive shockwave that raced towards the ships. Once contact was made three ships broke apart and began to sink into the ocean, Six looked at the damage and it looked like the hull of these ships were finely cut in half...like by a blade. 'She is able to cut through objects just from the shockwave of her sword cuts.' Six thought in awe.

Six watched as the purple swordswoman continued unleashing wave after wave of death at the ships cutting them one by one. The video feed then switched to a group of helicopters flying to an LZ to deploy the troops inside. On the ground several feet away stood another woman with dark purple hair, she appeared to be un armed. Six expected her to fight the soldiers when they landed, Six raised an eyebrow instead when she lifted her head with a playful smile on her lips. Suddenly huge gusts of wind began to surround the helicopters making it impossible to land, it wasn't long until they came crashing into each other, crashing into the canyon walls surrounding them, or crashing directly into the ground.

Six would of thought that was awfully convenient, but he knew the truth and Athena confirmed it for the Spartan. "Apparently from the reports of this attack this Sekirei was able to control the wind and air currents with her mind, making her an aerokinetic." the Smart A.I. stated.

The feed then switched to a battalion of tanks converging on one man whose only weapon was a katana. If asked a month ago Six would have thought he was a goner, but now the Spartan was just curious how he planned to stop these tanks. The Sekirei male in question did nothing and just stood there, until the man could see the tanks he began to kneel to the ground and waited. Once the tanks were half way towards the kneeling man the Sekirei raised his still sheathed katana into the air and slammed the bottom of it to the ground as hard as he could. Seconds later multiple columns of earth began sprouting out from the ground like geysers, the tanks could do nothing except if caught up into the air and exploded from the force of their landing, while many more got crushed while still on the shifting ground. Six looked at the man who was now in a protected circle made out of the huge columns of earth he summoned. First an aerokinetic and now a geokinetic - if these were just three of them he wondered what the last two would be?

Athena decided to chime in. "These are only the first three of the First Generation Discipline Squad, the last two are interesting cases though.

The vid then changed to 4 platoons worth of soldiers all armed to the teeth shooting at a woman with grey hair wielding a katana. As several soldiers began opening fire on on her but she bobbed and weaved through the gun fire with a smirk on her face. Once she got close that was it for them. She would slash and cut with zero hesitation as heads and body parts began flying one way or the other with sprays of blood decorating the ground. Most tried to flee but it didn't matter as the women slaughtered them too. Six looked at her and saw that she was definitely on a Spartan's level of strength and speed. The feed then showed a soldier missing both his legs begging for mercy from the woman with the blood covered katana, only for her to decapitate him in a flash laughing at her work.

The feed then showed a red-haired Sekirei with glasses surrounded by the previous four Six was confused and Athena answered him.

"I know this last one isn't much, but in my opinion she could be the most dangerous." Athena then had the video feed zoom in and turned up the sound. The Spartan could see that the glasses wearing Sekirei wasn't only giving them orders but the coordinates of where the enemy would land or where they were located. Athena began to explain. "According to the reports this one would be considered technokinetic. She has the ability to affect machines or enter technological systems with her mind. In many ways she is almost like a Smart A.I. given human form."

Six was shocked to hear about this information and thought of all the ways someone with this kind of ability could be a threat. Could this Sekirei process information just as quickly as an A.I. or could she do it faster? If it was the later Athena wouldn't be of much help against a cyber-intrusion caused by this Sekirei.

The recording ended and Six took a quick glance in side the store through the windows to check on his Sekirei. Though the window he saw Toyotama being hit on by a male customer probably flirting with her because of her good looks. Toyotama waved him off and said psomething to him that made the young man look disappointed and he walked away, then she went back to shopping for supplies. He wondered if she simply claimed to be married. However, seeing the young man try flirting with his Sekirei rubbed Six the wrong way and he couldn't explain why...

Putting those thoughts aside, Six took his attention back to what he just witnessed in those recordings, trying to process what he just watched and learned in those few minutes.

Collecting his thoughts he tried to find words. "In my whole career, never once have I saw anything like these Sekirei before."

Athena's thumbnail-portrait on his HUD nodded in agreement. "I'll be honest, I find them fascinating. There's no alien species in our time and universe in the Covenant that displays such abilities and how much they look like Humans."

"Still…Watching that made me realize just how vulnerable humanity is in the 21st-century." Six thought aloud. After witnessing an advanced alien force wiping out a 21st-century military force he was reminded of the reasons why Spartans like him were made. With no bioaugmentation's and no MJOLNIR in this time and century Humanity was pretty much a sitting duck to aliens like this.

"I know what you mean. If five of them can decimate a 21st-century military force like it's nothing, I could only imagine what all 108 of them can do. Or even worse thousands or millions - humanity would barely stand a chance of surviving in our century, never mind this century."

Six not wanting to imagine that scenario took his attention back to the grocery store his Sekirei had ended up in. He could see Toyotama through the windows selecting food off the shelves and putting it into a shopping basket looking like it was filled to its capacity with groceries reaching to her elbow far above the top of it, making him wonder 'How much is she buying?' even though the cost shouldn't be a problem with the unlimited money from the MBI card.

There was yet time. Six still wanted to know more about the disciplinary squad.

"Athena, is there any more Intel on the disciplinary squad?"

Athena nodded. "Yes I have plenty here to read from here. Well, at least numbers 2 through 5 - there is no intelligence on Sekirei number one."

Six raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean there's no intelligence on her and who is she among the five here?"

"Sekirei Number one is the woman who was cutting ships in half with a sword." Athena answered bringing up an image. A slender yet shapely fair-skinned woman waist-length purple hair with brown eyes, causing massive razor-sharp shockwaves.

"I don't know why but almost everything about her has been removed from MBI's systems " Athena said confusion in her audio. "I'll try to dig deeper into MBI files, without alerting them like last time. For now I can give you the information on Sekireis 2 thought 5. I'll start with the second sekirei, #2. Matsu."

Athena brought up a mug-shot of the red-head with glasses.

"From the data I'm reading here, MBI described her as highly intelligent and an excellent strategist because of her abilities. However….."Athena trailed off a little, virtually scratching her head at what she was reading

"However what?" Six wondering why Athena trailed off.

"Well… despite her high intelligence she's bit of a pervert."

Six just stood there in silence before sighing. "Well, it's still a weakness we can use against her, even though its sad."

In another part of the city at a small Inn, Matsu in her secret room fascinated with the newest information from MBI about an armored Ashikabi that appeared out of nowhere and was able to take on multiple winged Sekirei. As she was typing away the redhead suddenly sneezed" achoo!"

" Don't tell me I'm coming down with a cold too?" The brain type said to herself. "Kagari said something earlier about him coming down with a cold..."

Athena shrugged in her own image. "I agree, that is a pretty stupid weakness. All we need to do is flash naked pictures in front of her and she'll drool all over it like an idiot."

"Other than her perversion, is there any more data on her." Six asked.

Athena brought up Matsu's profile again. "Yes, sometime go she actually did leave the squad along with several other members of the first discipline squad. Which I will get into later as we go through the Intel report. Apparently MBI is hunting her down for stealing something called the Jinki." Athena read out the report.

Spartan raised an eyebrow "Jinki? What is that?"

"I tried searching for it, however I ended up finding nothing about this Jinki. From references to it I guess MBI is keeping hard data on whatever this Jinki is on a flash-drive out of the servers."

"Then it must be highly valuable if MBI is keeping this thing separate from the rest of their systems."

"Must be. I guess they did this so ordinary hackers couldn't have any access to that information. They don't want anybody to know about the Jinki."

" Any chance you know where that flash drive is?" Six asked Athena.

"Yes I do - it's being held at the top of MBI tower in Minaka Hiroto's office. If you want that flash drive you would have to fight your way up that giant tower to get it." Athena directing the Spartans attention to MBI's headquarters out of the corner of his eye.

The spartan from where he was standing had a good view of the tower, that was one of the first things he saw when he first came to this time and world, this clock bearing tower. Just looking at it six knew Minaka definitely had a massive ego. Up in that tower thinking he was higher than everybody else... Probably thinking of himself as a prophet similar to one in the Covenant.

"Athena, any chance you can get blueprints of MBI tower? At some point I'm going to pay that place a visit and see what's going on inside as well as hunting down the flash drive."

"Sure, I'll go hunting through their data bank again to find it. Give you the lay out of tower from it's defenses, what goes on every floor and where to infiltrate." Athena already having an idea what the Spartan is thinking about doing.

"Thank you, Athena. If we are lucky I could actually put that mental case out of his misery and end this right away."

Athena nodded in agreement, however something crossed the AI's mind. "Don't you think you be betraying Toyotama's promise not to antagonize them?"

Six stopped and paused for a moment thinking about the promise. Toyotama begged him not to antagonize MBI and suffer the wrath of the discipline squad, so any form of action he would commit against MBI would be betraying her trust. So far she seemed to be the only ally he had, trapped in the city in this symbiotic relationship he had with her.

"As much as I don't want betray her trust, as a Spartan my duty is to protect Humanity. So far Minaka has proven to me he is a threat that needs to be dealt with." Six rationalized.

Athena agreed with Six. Even though they're not in their world and time they have a duty to protect humanity, and so far MBI had proven itself to be a threat.

"I think we got off track here - you said number two went into hiding after she stole this Jinki right?"

"Yes, after she stole the Jinki she went into hiding somewhere in the city and MBI hasn't found her since." Athena confirmed.

"I see. Any chance you can try to track her down using the local Internet? Because I'd like to ask her nicely what the hell this Jinki is. She could know what is on that flash-drive, perhaps more."

"I'll see what I can do. It might be difficult since she's pretty much like me. I'm going to assume hunting her down is going to be no different than hunting down another smart AI." Athena replied. "Of course she isnt an AI, so I have some ideas."

"What about the other Sekirei profiles?"

Athena the switched from Matsu's info to the aerokinetic before beginning. "This is Sekirei #03. Her name is Kazehana. After doing some through digging I have found that she is one of those powerful single numbers that Toyotama told us about, just like Matsu. When I saw her in action I thought her powers would be along the lines of controlling the weather, but I see she can only control the air currents. Still, she is plenty dangerous, as she can turn gentle breezes into roaring hurricane winds. Kazehana's file also says she can create tornadoes, wind currents so powerful you'd literally be sent flying and has a limited ability for flight, and that's just the tip of what she is theoretically capable of. If she was creative she would also be able to possible suck the very air out of your lungs, or honing the wind currents to shield her from enemy fire from changing the trajectory of bullets by messing with the wind resistance to even blowing missiles and ICBMs off their projected paths."

"Physical confrontations will be difficult... What's her psychological profile?"

Athena then brought up notes of a therapist that did Kazehana's profile. "According to this Kazehana has a very calm demeanor. She has a very bright personality, gets along well with others and she seems to be quite the romantic as when asked about it the notes say that Kazehana - I quote - became giddy and talked about love like a young school girl - end quote. I think the most surprising thing in her profile is a note of how she felt, and again I quote - completely head over heels in love with the CEO and Director of MBI Minaka Hiroto." Athena finished.

Six nearly tripped over his own feet when the A.I. said that. "You mean there was someone who actually had feeling for that psycho mental patient?!" Six asked stunned.

Athena chuckled. "Yes I was just as surprised as you when I discovered that little tidbit, but it looks like Minaka didn't have the same feelings for her and turned her down. After that her profile says she fell into a deep depression and started turning to alcohol to help heal her emotional wounds." The A.I. said with a hint of sadness in her voice. Noble Six looked at the full bodied picture of Kazehana and while he was trained to suppress his emotions and urges, the Spartan wasn't blind to the fact that between her well developed figure and amply large breasts the Wind Sekirei was an absolute knock out in every sense of the word. So Six was gobbed smacked at the fact of all the people she could develop feelings of attraction to she picked a mental patient who forcing her kind to fight in a battle royal to the death.

Six decided to ignore it - such considerations were trouble. "So, does she have any weaknesses? Aside from her terrible taste in men, of course."

"Just that it seems she is still in her rut of depression. Like Matsu, Kazehana is no longer a part of the Discipline Squad. Right now Kazehana is still un-winged and according to her she isn't looking for an Ashikabi - as she believes she can love no one other than Minaka. Still, Six, I would keep my guard up if you run into her because while she is a lush she is still considered one of the strongest beings among her kind."

Six nodded as he filed away how to defeat the Wind Sekirei should they ever encounter each other. "What about the last two?"

Athena removed all the data and files on Kazehana and brought up a picture and information pertaining to the only Male Sekirei both the Spartan and the Smart AI had seen so far.

"This handsome young man is known as Sekirei #05 or Mutsu. He seems to be not only a geokinetic, but what MBI has dubbed a Weapons/Elemental type Sekirei."

Six was confused. "So they classified these aliens based on their abilities?"

"There seems to be multiple classes. There are Weapon type Sekirei like Toyotama, Mutsu, and the other two swordswomen Sekirei. Elemental types are like our dear friend Kazehana, Brain types are like Matsu. There are even physical types, such as a fist type or a kick type Sekirei - they have super human strength even going beyond what is the norm for Spartans... maybe even the Hunters of the Covenant."

Six didn't like the sound of that. He had thought that in terms of strength he would have a slight advantage like during the fight where he rescued Toyotama, but now he is told that there are Sekirei stronger than a Hunter, which were some of the strongest forces in terms of raw physical strength the Covenant have in their ranks. "Well if its the case I'll just have to rely on my speed and reflexes to avoid their attacks and find an opening to take them out."

Athena chuckled and added "Don't forget your combat experience too Six."

"True, but let's get back to our person of interest..."

"It seems Mutsu is quite the swordsman, as he uses his blade for most of his battles. It seems that when he does use his geokinetic abilities they are more suited to area of attack type of techniques. Mutsu's psychological profile shows he is a calm and composed individual who takes his time when it comes to judging the situation as opposed to acting immediately to a perceived threat."

Six looked at the picture of Mutsu and he could definitely tell this was a man who did not move or act unless he devised a plan and looked every conceivable angle before he did anything. "Is this Mutsu still apart of the Discipline Squad, Athena?"

"Just like his other collogues, no. It turns out that after #03 quit and #02 escaped with that stolen Jinki, Mutsu also quit the Discipline squad and decided to participate in the Sekirei Plan. According to their files on #05 Mutsu is already winged by a man named Mikogami Hayato, who MBI refers to as the Ashikabi of the South because he has the most Sekirei in that territory and is considered one of the Strongest Ashikabi in the city."

Six wondered what she meant, it almost sounded like Athena was talking about the city was divided into four territories and only one Ashikabi controlled that sector of the city almost like a crime family... or warring factions the Spartan surmised thought.

Toyotama walked out of the store just when he was about to ask more questions. 'How much did she get?' The spartan wondered to himself since it looked like the greenette bought enough for a small army.

"We'll continue this conversation later." Six said to Athena seeing the green haired sekirei was done buying groceries.

"Six?" Toyotama called out for her Ashikabi, she knew he was around somewhere cloaked.

"Toyotama, I'm right here."

The greenette heard the Spartans voice right next to her, making her look in that direction and she then felt the cold steal of his hand touching her shoulder.

"There you are. It be nice if I can see you and I could use a little help to carry groceries." Toyotama said since she had no hands left to carry anything.

"I can't show myself out in the open like this. Follow me down the alleyway across the street." Six said as he saw an alleyway on the other side of the road.

Toyotama nodded and followed her invisible Ashikabi across the street into the alley, once they were alone and no one was in sight, The spartan uncloaked himself.

Toyotama smiled. "It's actually nice when I can see you."

Six simply just nodded at her comment". Once I acquire some clothing and blend in with the local populace I don't have to hide like this anymore. How much did you buy? Looks like you bought enough here for a small army?"

"I bought enough so we won't be eating rats like you suggested earlier." she replied a little clipped.

Six chuckled a little at her remark.

"Anyway, you don't mind taking some of these?" Toyotama asked handing some of the groceries over to six.

"Sure." Six taking the groceries from Toyotama's hand.

"Thank you, I finally have one free hand to carry my staff." Toyotama said as she wasn't able to hold her staff now since she had it stowed under her armpits just to carry it.

"With grocery shopping now done let's-"

Suddenly a thunder-clap stopped Six mid-sentence. It sounded like an explosion in the middle of the city in broad day-light!

"What the hell was that?!" Toyotama caught off guard by that explosion dropping the groceries in her hand and having both hands on her staff ready to fight.

Six did the same thing and took out his assault rifle. "Athena what the hell's going on out there?"

"I'm going through local surveillance system rig-"

"Get out of the way please!" Shouted an unknown female voice.

Both Six and Toyotama turned to where they heard the female voice, they walked to the other side of the alleyway and peaked out the corner to see what happened. Only to find a young man lying on the ground and on top of him was the body of a woman only that her butt was in his face with her face near the man's crotch.

"I'm so sorry." the young woman said as she crawled off the young man. "I guess it really was too high to jump from there."

Six and his Sekirei just stood there with one thing going through his mind 'What the hell is going on?' he was answered by Athena.

"Apparently from what I was able to calculate this young woman jumped from a building around 210 feet tall."

Six was stunned as he saw the young woman dressed in what can only be described as a sexy version of a shrine maiden outfit turned to the man she landed on and thanked him for breaking her fall. The Spartan's mind raced 'How the hell is she still alive that fall should have turned both of them into paste?! Is she...' before Six could continue his thought he heard Toyotama yell a warning causing the young shrine maiden to tackle the young man out of the way of a lightning bolt that struck the ground.

Six looked up to see where that came from as there wasn't a cloud in the sky.

"Right side, rooftop." Athena said.

When the Spartan turned he was even more confused as on top of what looked to be a water tower stood two young women who looked to be twins dressed in bondage gear. Six aimed his rifle at the twins as Toyotama got into a fighting stance.

The bustier of the two newcomers cupped her hands around her mouth. "Running away is useless, you know!"

The other twin then added "Fight us!"

"I still won't fight you. At least not yet." The shrine maiden hollered back at them.

As Six was listening in and getting ready for things to turn south one though crossed his mind... 'I really wish I was back on Reach - where everything made sense.'


Notes

I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.

Other then that the next chapter would be called: Clash With The Lightning Maidens.