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Part 2

Meanwhile, in Uminari City...

Lilith smiled as she got up from the couch. "Thank you for having me these past few hours, Miss Lindy."

The older woman smiled at her. "Oh please, you're one of Fate's friends. Besides, it's been fun talking to you and learning so much about Earth that I didn't know before."

There was a loud crying heard from the back and Amy, a young woman with brown hair and purple eyes, walked out with two children in each of her arms. "They're only a couple of months old and they have such lungs on them." Amy looked absolutely exhausted. "I'm sorry, I don't..."

Lilith smiled as she held out her arms and took one of them from Amy, gently rocking and holding the baby, who was still crying. "My goodness, you can scream." An idea came to her as her wings extended from her back and grabbed the baby she was given. Both Amy and Lindy looked alarmed, but settled down when the baby she was holding started to calm down and the screaming lessened. Lilith extended her other wing to the other baby and took it, rocking both in a way that caused them to finally quiet down. "Thank you." Amy smiled in relief as she walked over to a chair and slumped down in it. "I never thought that twins would be so hard to deal with."

"Don't worry about it." Lilith said while giggling. "I'm actually cheating, I'm using magic to soothe these two so they calm down. If they get hungry or have a dirty diaper, they're going to scream again." She smiled as Arf, looking like an eight-year old redheaded girl, walked in. "Things sure have changed, huh? The last time I saw you, you were were bigger than me and I was the midget."

Arf grinned at her as she watched Lilith gently rock the twins in her wings. "Yeah, but being Fate's familiar, this is easier on her. It uses a lot less magic."

"You should convince Fate to let me help support you." Lilith said as she extended her wings and handed the twins back to Amy, who smiled as they slept peacefully. "I've got enough magic power in me these days that I could support you and Hayate's Wolkenritter and I wouldn't feel it."

"Do you really?" Lindy asked and Lilith nodded.

"Yeah, it was several months ago, but I fused with the other portion of my soul and gained so much power..." She trailed off and shook her head. "Well, let's just say that it's a lot, okay?"

Which was an understatement, after all, even the four Great Seraphs could only get God's system running enough to keep Heaven from collapsing and she had, after fusing with Morrigan, been able to reboot it enough to put in new rules for Angels. The only reason that she hadn't put in some sort of way for new Angels to be created was because she wasn't sure how Heaven's faithful would have taken it. 'Plus there might be a lot more Fallen if that was the case.'

Suddenly the television lit up and Lindy frowned in confusion as she saw a female face on the screen that she didn't recognize. "Yes? Who is this?" The woman was dressed as some sort of nurse.

The woman gave her a nervous smile. "I apologize, Miss Harloawn, but as you are the legal guardian of one Fate Testarossa, I have to inform you that miss Testarossa was badly injured on a mission."

"What?!" Arf and Lilith gasped in surprise while Lindy looked grim.

"Please tell me that she's alive." Lindy asked and the woman nodded.

"Yes, currently she is in surgery so that she can recover from what happened." The nurse informed her.

"I'll be in as soon as possible." Lindy said as the nurse informed them of where the hospital was at and where Fate could be found before the screen turned off. "Dammit, even with the fastest ship, it would take us around three hours to get there."

Suddenly Lilith was in front of her while holding Arf's hand. "I need you to picture the front of the building." Lindy looked confused and Lilith shook her head. "Just picture it, if I know where I'm going, I can get us there." She looked at Amy and gave her an apologetic smile. "Sorry, I can only take a couple of people with me."

"It's fine, just get there." Amy said with a nod.

"Alright," Lindy pictured the building in her mind. "If you think you can..."

Lindy, Lilith and Arf disappeared in a flash of gray light.

(-)

On Crannagan...

"...get there with... What the hell?!" Lindy gasped as she, Arf and Lilith appeared in front of the hospital in question.

Lilith smiled at her. "I told you, I gained a lot of power, doing a blind teleport with just your surface thoughts was a bit risky, so I made sure to aim off to the side to adjust for any variances."

Arf ignored them and was already running inside, followed by Lindy and Fate.

After getting to the receptionist, who the three recognized as the one who called them and getting over the shock of seeing them so fast, they were ushered to the waiting room. "Miss Fate is currently in surgery, you'll have to wait out here with her."

"Huh?" A new voice spoke up and the three looked over to see Hayate and Vita, who had some bandages on her body and a lot less hair, sitting in the waiting area. "Miss Lindy! Miss Arf! Lilith! How did you three get here so fast? Aren't you on Earth?"

"Apparently," Lindy said as she walked over to Hayate and gave her a quick hug, "Miss Lilith is really good at teleportation magic."

"To go all the way across the universe that fast though?" Vita asked, before shaking her head. "The doctors just finished fixing me up." She said, motioning to the bandages that they could see. "Signum's currently getting her broken legs fixed and Fate..." She shook her head.

"What happened?" Lindy asked and Vita sighed.

"We were tracking down a criminal scientist, Jail Scagiletti, and when we thought we had found him, but instead there was this woman," Vita frowned in confusion, "she was... Really strong, like stronger than Fate, Signum and myself combined. I don't know her name, she had these purple eyes and long black hair, wore this white dress and complained about us getting in the way of her business. We were going to ask her some questions and she said that we needed to mind our own business." Vita grimaced in pain, "sorry, it still hurts." The others nodded in understanding and Vita continued. "I don't know what she did, but she used some sort of really powerful magic when we fought, she ended up giving me a bunch of smaller injuries that made it impossible for me to get back up. It felt like she cut a bunch of my nerves all at once. I blacked out for a bit, and when I came to, I saw that she had broken both of Signum's legs and ripped Fate's left arm off."

"What?!"

Vita nodded with a haunted look in her eyes. "She then came over to me, chopped my pigtails off before stabbing Signum in the legs. Said something about keeping them as trophies and left."

"Did you get a name?" Lindy asked.

"Melo-something." Vita grimaced and shook her head. "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention to her when Signum and Fate both needed help and I had to call in an emergency rescue crew."

"No, it's fine." Hayate reassured and hugged Vita. "I'm just glad that Vita-chan, Fate-chan and Signum-san all made it back alive. We'll get you all healed up and figure out who this person is."

"Does Nanoha know that her girlfriend is missing an arm?" Lilith asked and Hayate and Vita shook their heads.

"We should probably tell her." Lilith said and grimaced. "Ah, sorry, I need to use the restroom. Where is it?"

"I'll take you." A nurse who walked in at that moment said with a smile. "Follow me."

Lilith nodded and followed after the nurse.

"Despite being visibly pregnant, that teleportation didn't slow her down." Lindy muttered and shook her head. "Vita, I need to know if there was anything else you can remember."

Vita grimaced as she thought back to the fight. "That magic felt evil and horrible. It felt like death itself. And I know what that feels like. It was like..." She trailed off, trembling, "like when I was absorbed back into the Book of Darkness. Just being near it, it felt horrid."

Neither Lindy nor Hayate had anything more to say, so they just sat quietly as they waited for word to get back from the nurses.

It was several minutes later, after Lilith had returned from the restroom that found a nurse walking into the waiting room. "Miss Yagami?" The nurse said softly as she walked past the others who were waiting for word on their loved ones. Mentlaly, the nurse sighed and hoped that everyone got good news. "A word please?"

Hayate nodded and stood up and walked with the nurse to the side so they could talk. "Yes?" She asked softly.

"Your relative, Signum, will be okay." The nurse smiled as Hayate sighed in relief. "Both of her legs were broken, but thanks to our efforts, there were no complications. She'll be unable to walk on them for a few months, as any further healing magic could actually cause complications."

Hayate nodded and personally wished that healing magic worked like it did in video games, where it could be used to fully heal and recover anyone, but she knew that there were complications to overusing healing magic. "That's good. I'm sure that she isn't happy."

The nurse chuckled softly. "Quite. She's currently sleeping, but she'll probably wake up soon." Her demeanor changed and she looked at Lindy. "Miss Harloawn, could you come here, please?" Lindy nodded and walked over to them. "Your daughter, miss Fate, should be mostly okay now. We were able to stop the bleeding from her arm, it was severed just below the shoulder joint." Lindy nodded, "so she has a stump of an arm right now, it's bandaged up so that it can heal, and there are options for her. We can discuss them at a later time."

"Fate-chan won't be able to be an enforcer anymore, huh?" Hayate asked and the nurse shook her head.

"Unless you know someone who can perform a literal miracle with healing..." The nurse shook her head. "Anyway, if you want to see her, she's in a room recovering."

Lindy nodded and looked at Vita, Arf and Lilith to follow them.

(-)

In a well-lit room, Fate was sitting on her bed and looking at the wrapped up, and slightly bloody, stump of where her left arm used to be. "So weird." She murmured and moved what was left of her arm. "I swear, I can feel my fingers and hand still."

"It's called phantom limb syndrome." A voice had Fate looking at the door and she smiled as she saw Lindy, Arf and Lilith, much to her surprise, walking in with a nurse. The nurse smiled at her. "It's common for people who have lost a limb to think that it's still there."

Fate nodded and waved with her right hand. "Hello, mother, Arf, Lilith. How did you three get here so fast?"

"We had help." Lindy said with a soft smile. "Are you okay?"

"I will be." Fate said and sighed softly, hugging Arf as the small dog girl crawled into her bed to hug her. "Thank you."

There was a beeping and the nurse looked at the pager that had been clipped to her belt. "If you need anything, just call." The nurse said and left to check on what was important.

"...They still use pagers even on alien worlds?" Lilith asked dumbfoundedly. "I'm glad you're alive."

"Me too." Fate sighed softly. "I guess that I have to retire, huh?"

"Well, there are options." Lindy said as she sat down on a chair next to Fate's bed and gently put her hand on Fate's shoulder. "You'll be okay."

Fate nodded and looked at Lilith. "You're looking good," Lilith smiled at her, "you're about... What? Five or six months along now?"

"About that." Lilith nodded as she rubbed her belly. "The little one likes to kick every so often, but it's not too bad just yet. But, Fate, if you want, I know someone who chopped his own arm off and got it replaced with a cybernetic arm, complete with a rocket punch, if you want. Then there's no problem with you staying as an Enforcer."

Fate giggled and nodded. "Well, if that's possible, I suppose it wouldn't be too bad. I certainly hope that this doesn't become a habit though."

"A Fate with two robo arms would be cool though." Lilith mused as she tapped her chin. "She'd be like that guy in the fighting game where they rip people's heads off."

Fate sweat-dropped heavily. "I'm not that violent, am I?"

"Nah." Arf smiled at Fate. "You're a good person."

Fate smiled and rubbed Arf's back. "Well, Lilith, if that can be arranged, I wouldn't mind it. It would certainly be better than not having an arm."

"Though, a one-armed swordswoman Fate would be cool too." Lilith mused and everyone sweat-dropped. "Ah, sorry, I was playing several fighting games over the past few weeks, so that's on my mind."

Fate was going to answer when a screen appeared in front of Lilith, who blinked and pushed the call answer button.

"Ah, there you are." Nabiki said as she appeared on screen. "We were trying to get ahold of you for a bit now."

"Uh..." Lilith tilted her head in confusion. "What do you mean?"

"Well, specifically, we were trying to get ahold of Fate, but I knew that you were going to be in Kuoh and..." Nabiki paused. "How DID you get across the universe?"

"Blind teleport based on memories that Miss Lindy had that carried me, Arf and Lindy across the universe." Lilith answered back.

Nabiki groaned. "Figures that you'd do something like that, anyway, I'm going to finish playing this game of call operator and let you talk."

The screen went dark for a moment before Issei appeared on screen. "Oh, hey, Lilith, is that Fate girl there?"

Lilith nodded and pointed to the side before adjusting the screen so Fate could see Issei.

"Oh damn, what happened?" Issei gasped as he saw her arm. "Do you still have your arm?" Fate shook her head and Issei snapped his fingers. "If you did, I'd get you some Phoenix Tears, that could fix your arm right up."

"It could?" Fate asked in surprise and Issei nodded.

"Yeah, I've seen people have their arms cut off and they had no problem with their arm, other than being weak for a couple of days after being reattached." Issei said and shook his head. "No, wait! That's not why I called, I met someone who wanted to talk to you."

"Oh?" Fate asked as she sat up. "Who?"

Issei stepped off to the side and a few moments later, someone that had Fate, Lindy and Arf gasping in surprise appeared on the screen.

"...Hello, Fate." Precia Testarossa said with a sad look on her face. "It's... Been far too long."

"...Mother." Fate said, her pupils shrinking from the shock.

End Part 2

Yep, time for this confrontation.