6 Months Later

"Kiana! I'm sending a drone to pick you up, "A female voice, Himeko, shouts, then continues in a sarcastic tone through the intercom, "And try not to destroy this one."

Kiana, wearing her white Valkyrie suit, grumbles and pouts as she taps on the intercom in her ear, "Hey! That was the beast's fault!" She rolls to the side, narrowly dodging an Archangel rush, "Whoa! Thanks for the save, Hachi! Still can't get used to you controlling my body all of a sudden!" She fires at the Archangel a few times, to the point that it explodes into purple and pink haze.

She looks around, trying to find the drone amidst the chaos of Honkai beasts and other drones flying around, while scanning the rooftop she's on for any other enemy. She flinches as she feels the floor violently rumbling, as if one of the jet drones had crashed into the building she is on.

"Argh, where is the drone?!" She taps on her intercom and shouts as she feels the building tilting, "I need it now or else all of you will get Kiana pancake from the rubble!"

"Jump from there now!"

Kiana immediately jumps from the building, narrowly avoiding becoming a pancake due to the building fully collapsing now, and blinks as she lands on top of a white drone, "Woah woah! Steady!" She stumbles around, almost falling off from the drone, but quickly balances herself. She looks around and sees explosions all around her with various debris in the sky dropping to the ground.

"Kiana, you got incoming beasts!"

No sooner had Himeko said so, Kiana sees a few Archangel class beasts landing around her, prompting her to grip her pistols tighter, "Now this is a party!" She excitedly yells as she sprints to the nearest beast while shooting at it. When she gets close enough, she jumps on top of it, dodging a ram attack from a different beast, then summons a giant cat paw from a portal to stomp on the beast, instantly squishing the beast and making a small hole.

She deftly lands onto the drone then quickly jumps away to avoid a slash attack while firing off bullets at the beast, to the point it disintegrates into pink cubes.

She sees the last beast rushing at her, so she waits for it to come closer while tensing her right leg. Once it comes into range, she kicks the beast so hard that it almost instantly disappears away from the drone.

"Woah, did you see that Hachi?! It's a home run! Come on, give me a high five!" Kiana holsters her guns then raises her right hand into the air, prompting for the other hand to do the same, albeit in a slow manner, "High five!"

"Kiana! Stop playing around and get ready to jump off from the drone!"

She flinches at the harsh scolding, "Fine, fine." She looks around and sees the giant flying ship rapidly coming closer, "I see the ship. Kiana preparing to launch!"

She crouches down then times herself to make the jump across, counting down from 3 then jumps when she reaches 0. She roughly lands on top of the ship, barely managing to stabilize herself from falling to her face .

"And Kiana sticks the landing! Another perfect landing from yours truly!"

Kiana's left hand reaches up to her own face then lightly pokes the cheek, eliciting a giggle, "Awww, I know you're impressed Hachiman." Though, she soon stops due to the sudden light slap, "Ow! Just you wait till we get –"

"Kiana! Go do your job!" The sudden shout jolts her to attention, prompting her to let out a squeak but she soon runs towards the middle of the ship. She turns on her visor to pinpoint enemies positions and quickly heads over to each dot to eliminate the beasts and zombies.

After a long time of fighting, she fires off one more shot at a female zombie, which instantly falls down. She takes a deep breath then exhales in a slightly rough manner.

She checks her body then sees minor scratches adorning all over, prompting her to click her teeth, "Awww, my no hit run is ruined…" She sulkily says with her head hanging down.

She flinches as she suddenly hears Himeko again, "Kiana, be advised that squad V.I and Mei are in position and ready to –"

"Mei's already here?! Himeko, I'm going over to her as support!" Her face instantly brightens, as if her previous mood was a lie.

"No! Sti –"

Kiana quickly turns her communicator off then proceeds to check her map from her visor and see a purple blip pop up at the edge of her map. Her face lights up as she rush towards the purple blip, though it changes into annoyance when she feels her body trying to stop.

"Come on Hachi, we should just go help Mei! And I guess the midget too…" She whines as she doubles her effort to move, yet she still feels herself slowing down, though it merely motivates her to keep on trying.

Her hand comes up and pokes her cheek then points behind her, as if ordering her to go back, though it only results another whine, "Pleeeaase~? Can't we go and help Mei? It's not like we really need to be here since we've already cleared the top side and squad V.I can handle themselves without us babysitting them!"

The hand keeps pointing to the back, no matter what Kiana says, prompting her to let out a long sigh, "…I'll stop sleeping in class and attend the late night study sessions…"

The hand stiffens then slowly moves in front of her face to hold up 3 fingers, "Fine, three days. Not weeks, months, years, yada yada yada, three days." She scrunches up her face at the end of her words, as if merely speaking those words leave a bitter taste on her tongue.

The hand gives a thumbs up then lifelessly drops to her side, prompting Kiana to let out a miserable sigh but continues on her run towards the purple dot location.

*BKTBKTBKT*

A/N

Ahem, I would like to state that I blame life for the no new chapters till now. Moving on from my excuse, I'm not dead just yet, so that's a yay, and I've been writing my other fics for a while (more like 8 months ago, oof), so... Yeah. Also, I've been thinking for a while, and I kinda want to change a few things here, like the arcs (this chapter is the one I wanted to be the new arc starting point now), and chapter numbering, along with a few things if need be, but of course, if y'all are fine with it then I won't do the changes, so please be kind enough to tell me your thoughts on this matter. Anyway, on to the comments!

aiman031122 - thx, and apologies for the long delay, and happy really really really late New Years to you too

Renashi-RE012 - thx. And maybe I'll do a lemon scene as an apology lol. *REDACTED* and that'll be fun. Yep, can't really be a true Honkai without the prologue lol

Guest - thank you, and yep. I completely understand lmao

Wicked.A - *REDACTED*. Lmao, but is it really an omake? No roll credits just yet if I'm still alive!

The Deserter Angel - here

Im4xsk1ll - thank you. I don't really know if you still need it but I got my sources from the Honkai timeline site, also gl with your fic

Zarai - It runs in the Kaslana's vein, adopted included lol