I'm going to start some rewriting of my story and lengthen some of the chapters if I can. I'll also be building more on the girls' time together and their school days with the others too. This just feels a lot better than how I originally started it, and I hope you enjoy it.
Reviews are welcome.
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Senki Zesshō Symphogear
Howling Song!
CH.1
The Strange Girls with Animal Ears, Tails, and Dragon Wings.
"Speech" normal human/translation
"Speech" Symphogear activation or talking, private thoughts, telepathy, and communication
"Speech" Gear attacks, songs
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A large ship rolled in orbit slowly as explosions broke down the hull as a battle raged inside and drifts closer to Earth. Inside a teenager girl sings as she fights with a pair of great swords that split in two, firing crimson beams of energy, and matches the howl of her voice with one last attack in a shape of two wolf heads as the ship finally explodes. A silver and blue blur flies toward the planet made from the song and armor of the girl that just destroyed a two-mile-long ship from another world.
"I'll make it! I have to make it or this will have been for nothing!" The girl thinks as her armor starts to heat up more. She growls in both fear and worry as debris hits the shield, knocking her toward the nation of Japan.
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Hibiki Tachibana, Miku Kohinata, and Chris Yukine quickly move through the city even with the heavy rain. The wielders of the Symphogear relics have been busy taking out debris with the others all over the city. The last stop for this group was their school, Lydian Private Music Academy, since one of the pieces of debris fell near the school. No reports of damage to the building, but they still had to check with the security system getting knocked out. To be safe they are still in their armor and ready for just about anything.
They land outside the main gates of the school before jumping the gate and walk to the school. A small crater is the middle of the front garden showed there was some damage. However, what really was odd was the main doors seemed to have been forced open. Blood was on the other door as well, the sight alone meant someone was at the school after all.
"It looks like a pod of some kind also landed in the garden too." Miku says looking over the area a little closer. Her teal green eyes almost glow in the dark as she brushes her black hair black a little. "I'm seeing what looks like another crater off center of another small crater. I wonder if someone was in the pod."
Hibiki rubs the back of her head as she looks over the ground leading from the pod to the school. Her orange hair isn't even wet thanks to her relic's shield. "I'm not seeing any footprints thanks to the rain." She sighs looking toward the school. Her orange eyes meeting Chris's purple eyes before looking to the school with worry. "You think we'll find someone that's like Shem-Ha's people in there, Chris?"
"I hope not, but at the same time I'm worried about what is waiting for us." Chris says as they near the door and slowly enter with Chris pushing the other door open with her dual Gatling guns. "We need to get the lights and security back on to find out how many people we're dealing with. If anyone at all." She says with her lavender/silver hair gently bouncing with her steps.
Miku tries the lights for the hall, but they don't work. "I guess the power is out somehow. Nothing is every easy for us is it?" She asks with a giggle before a loud crash is heard deeper in the school with the sounds of fighting. "Yeah, nothing is ever this easy." She sighs as the group starts running toward the sounds of a fight. Oddly it sounded like the fight was also moving toward the cafeteria and kitchen.
"Master, we're going to need everyone over here soon. We're hearing what sounds like a fight with a lot of people here." Hibiki says as they round a corner to see some more blood on the wall and part of it burned with claw marks. "That's not good."
Genjuro Kazanari chuckled over the comm. "We're seeing everything you three are and I think just the blood alone isn't a good sign. The others should be there to back you three up soon. There's just one more piece of debris they've got to check out. I don't need to tell you to be careful till they get there, right?" Another loud crash was heard by everyone with a scream from two voices. Clearly the fight wasn't going to end any time soon unless they got to the fighters soon.
"Just tell them to hurry it up, old man. I'm not sure if the school will still be standing from the sound of it." Chris mutters as they run down the hall toward the kitchen as the fighters scream again. "I'm pretty sure classes are going to be canceled this week too."
"What's that light in the kitchen?" Hibiki asks as they near the doors to the kitchen. They can hear the fighters talking along with the sound of someone eating. "Are they eating and fighting?"
"Feeling better, Scarlet?" A female voice says, Miku thinks she might be between her age and Maria's. "I'd get something better, but I'm too hurt to use my item box with this damn piece of hull debris in my shoulder."
"Much! I'm still mad you blasted the ship apart with us still on it." Scarlet says with her voice partly muffled with food. Miku gently pushes the door open enough to hear the two talking more clearly, and peaks inside. "Don't give me that look! Wait, you really didn't know I was on board, Artoria?"
"Nope, I thought you would have sat it out. I also never thought your own uncle would use a ship to trap us, or a small team like that." Artoria says as Miku, Chris, and Hibiki all are now peaking inside the kitchen and see two girls about maybe mid-teens in age. What blows their minds is that they both look part human and part animal in looks. It made them think of Else Bete for a moment, but something else was worrying. The wolf girl is wearing armor like their Symphogear. The armor and cloth colored silver with blue on the leotard with silver armor supporting her breasts, like Maria's gear, should caldrons, gauntlets, and knee high boots. Black fingerless gloves run up to her elbows and white thigh-high stocking held up with black garter straps. A mid thigh scale armor skirt rounds out the armor that Chris and Miku find a little out of place. Hibiki thinks is makes the armor look nicer.
"Tell me about it. I knew he was power mad, but to attack his own family?" Scarlet says taking a bite out of a potato. The dragon like wings, tail with red scales, and horns is another curvy ball to the girls. Other than her forearms and shins having scales she looked normal with red hair and eyes. Her torn clothes even looked normal enough too. "Here, let me try pulling it out now that I'm both calmer and got some food in me. Sorry again for just jumping you like that."
Artoria chuckles turning her back to the door as Scarlet gets to her scaled feet to help her, and the girls can see the debris in the wolf girl's right shoulder. "It's fine and thanks for the help." Artoria says.
Chris, Miku, and Hibiki had to cover their mouths to keep from their gasps from being heard when another voice, a male, is heard from in the room as well. However they can't see anyone else from the door.
"I'm ready with the phonic shield to hold the wound. Once it's out you should be able to get a potion from your item box, Artoria." The voice says but Chris can't see where the guy is. "That fall really drains me every time. I hate orbit drops so damn much."
Artoria chuckles before growling loudly as Scarlet pulls the piece of debris out of her shoulder. "GRRRR!" She snarls like a true wolf before panting loudly for a moment. "S-sorry to do that to you, Duel Fang. When we get back I'll talk with Scotty about getting you an upgrade again."
"He's still trying to understand how I work, Artoria. Not much can be done about fixing me fully till he does." Duel fang says as something in the air glows and Artoria reaches into the small white portal. Hibiki's jaw drops as she sees the wolf girl pulls a bottle out of it and a very large sandwich. "Better already? That's my wielder for you!"
"Here you go, Scarlet. One Hero Sandwich with extra hot sauce." Artoria says handing the food to the dragoness. She pops the top off the bottle before chugging it and her shoulder wound starts to heal fast.
Hibiki and Miku pull Chris away from the door to whisper among themselves. They also hope the two odd girls don't hear them, or even smell them. Miku barely remembers talking with Else before becoming Shem-Ha's new body for awhile.
"It sounds like they are very far from home, and not by any choice of their own." Hibiki whispers looking back at the door for a moment to make sure the two girls won't come out. "I think we should try talking to them and see if we can help them."
Chris keeps an eye on the door as well but shakes her head at Hibiki's plan. "I'm not so sure we should. Didn't you see how fast her shoulder healed after drinking that potion? It was like magic! I say we wait for the others to get here and then start talking with them."
"What do you think, Commander? I'm still not sure what they were even screaming about." Miku says over the comm and to both her teammates. "There's no way the stopped fighting to just grab a bite to eat and calm down."
"I have to agree but trying to talk with them now might be easier." Elfnein says over the comm in a whisper, not that she needed too. "They might feel less threatened if it's just you three. If it's all seven of you they might want to run." She offers sounding a little excited. "We might get this done without a fight that'd destroy the school if we hurry."
Chris weighs the options as Miku rubs the side of her head thinking as well. When they looked to ask Hibiki they find her a few steps away and talking with the two girls?! It looked like while they were busy thinking Chris took her eyes off the kitchen door for a moment and Miku has her back to the door and hallway. However it seemed the God Killer was having a nice chat with the two odd girls.
"You two really aren't going to start fighting again?" Hibiki asks looking between Artoria and Scarlet. She was even snacking on something the wolf girl shared with her. "This is really good! What is it?"
"Just a veggie stick and we're not going to be fighting again. Scarlet here just had a bad day like me and needed to vent. I don't blame her for thinking I was something else after that landing." Artoria says with a wave of her hand. "I don't think we gave you our full names yet. I'm Artoria Redmoon." The wolf girl says as the light from the kitchen fades and a ball of light appears over the group. Her long red hair, wolf ear, and tail stand out from her silver/blue armor. However, it's her aqua eyes that pull even Chris closer with a light glow they have.
"And I'm Scarlet Blaze. A friend from high school to this nutty wolf, and all around normal girl." Scarlet says with a grin as Artoria rolls her eyes. "The armor is her relic Duel Fang, but I don't know much about him. It's kind of a "top secret" thing I guess." She says taking another bite out of the sandwich. "It looks like your friends are done talking, Hibiki."
The orange haired girl looked back at her two friends and chuckles as she gets glared at by Chris. "W-well, you two were so deep in thought I didn't think you heard them walk up."
"We're pretty quiet thanks to a few other friends letting us join their training." Artoria giggles. "Never skip stealth day when Carol is giving pointers."
"She is one of the few ninja we know after all." Scarlet points out making Chris face palm. "I still think she plays it up too much even for a nekomata. Must be a feline thing." She says with a giggle of her own before reaching out and pats Hibiki on the head. "Right, Sakura?"
"Sakura?" Hibiki, Chris, and Miku ask at the same time. This makes Scarlet pull her hand back and blush. "I look like a nekomata too you?" Hibiki asks a little embarrassed as she tilts her head also trying to imagine having cat ears.
Scarlet just rubs her neck embarrassed. "F-for a moment you did. Sorry about that."
"Its fine, but now more head pats for a bit, please." Miku says being a little protective of Hibiki. She's the only one that can give Hibiki head pats. "We should get out of here and back to base. I'm sure the Commander will want to talk with you two."
Chris sighs loudly looking defeated with how quickly they we're getting along. "We'll need a place for you two to stay as well. It'll just take a while and not be public is all." She says before they all hear something metal getting crushed. The sound came from the hallway the relic wielders of Earth had followed to the kitchen. "What was that?!"
"Scarlet, you said that droid was offline right?" Duel Fang asks as Artoria holds her hands out and a pair of wrist blades snaps forward, shift into dagger that she grabs, and shift again into long swords. It was so fast Hibiki and Miku barely saw it appear.
"I pulled the power core myself and threw it out of the pod before it launched." Scarlet says taking a fighting stance next to Hibiki, who also looked ready to fight. "Unless is has a second core I'm sure that little B-1 can't even crush the school doors."
"It might be another droid from the debris. I didn't do a good job of trashing that ship." Artoria points out as the sound of heavy footsteps is heard. "That sounds more like a MS droid type to me. It might be either a Zaku or a Strike Dagger."
The girls didn't get what the two alien girls were going on about, but it did seem like they have an idea what was coming. Duel Fang however sounded much more worried as a pair of glowing machine eyes started to appear from the dark hallway. "It's a Blitz G-Droid!"
The girls pulled by Scarlet and Artoria back into the kitchen as the Blitz opens fire with its beam rifle. The quickly look they all did get let them see it was missing its left arm. Even missing an arm the rifle alone was going to be a problem. Artoria busts the door to the outside down and the group runs into the night with the Blitz right behind them.
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Chris pushed open the walk-in frig door after the sound of the G-droid's heavy footsteps faded. She had to give credit where due this the decoy Artoria just made. It was more shocking the machine fell for the decoy in the first place. Maybe the thing was busted somehow?
"Hey, how come that worked? Don't machines have trouble seeing magic?" Hibiki asks as they walk out of the frig and quickly make for the hallway. "Or is that just in cartoons and books?"
Scarlet rubs her arms to get a little warmth back as they head for the front doors. "It depends on the machine, and the spell. In this case I'm pretty sure that Blitz is damaged in the head since it feel for the illusion. Might not last the night either with how much damage it took." She explains as they run into the rain as one of S.O.N.G.'s truck pull up to the gate and Owaga gets out. "Who ordered the ninja?"
"You can tell that easy?" Owaga asks a little surprised as he opens the door for the girls. "Hop in and we'll head for HQ."
"I called for a ride thinking we needed to get away fast." Miku says as they get in the truck. It's surprisingly room for the girls for a heavily armored truck. "One of us doesn't have any armor after all and I thought you were still hurt." She points to Artoria as the wolf girl rolls her right shoulder.
"I've had to fight in much worse shape, Miku. But thanks for worrying about me." Artoria says with a grin as armor forms over her tail. "Also Scarlet can take a few hits as well, being a dragon and all."
The red dragon girl sighs scratching her right cheek. "I'm not nearly as beam proof as you are in Duel Fang. You, Fran, and Silva are the only ones with those armors right now too." Scarlet points out making Chris, Hibiki, and Miku look at Artoria, more so her talking Symphogear, in surprise.
"And your uncle has a stick up his ass about it." Artoria huffs leaning back in her seat before yawning. "Besides, it doesn't look like Duel Fang and his sisters are the only armors now. Where did you girls find those three and what are their names?"
Duel Fang grows soft silver from his silver crystal on Artoria's color bone and makes a soft humming sound. "That's strange. It doesn't seem like they have their full system or intelligence either. I don't think they are from Mythwind or the Mystlight system like me. Were they built here?" Duel asks as he keeps gently trying to connect to the three Symphogears, but can't seem to get a response back.
"Yes? Why?" Hibiki asks before anyone can stop her, but she did ask what was on everyone's minds.
"There's a spark just on the edge of waking up. I think I can your partners' wakeup to help reach even greater power." Duel Fang says with a note of excitement in his voice. "I know the relics by the energy, but I never thought I'd see them like this. Blood Claw, Luna Arrow, and I were seen as flawed weapons because we can think."
"Let's just wait for the okay from their commander first, buddy." Artoria says with a sigh at her partner and friend in combat. "We should at least wait for Fran and Silva to get here with mom." She chuckles before shouting. "Look out!"
Owaga barely even saw the person in the road since the rain made it darker and whatever they're wearing is dark colored. However the rocket they fired at the truck only made things worse as he turns the truck hard enough to spin. The rocket missed as three more trucks appeared as the truck stopped spinning and Owaga floors it.
"Did you just shadow clone the truck!?" Scarlet asks in shock. "Dude! What is your limit?!"
"Like it's any worse when Carol does this with the Sidewinder?" Artoria asks holding onto Chris with one arm and the door. "Sorry about that, Chris. I just reacted."
Chris just brushed it off with her cheeks red from blushing. "It's fine. It's not like we're wearing seatbelts while in our gear." She says still blushing but happy the truck is big enough inside for her and Miku to still have they gear on. "How are you three back there?" She asks looking in the back most seats where Miku, Hibiki, and Scarlet are.
"We're good, but I left claw marks." Scarlet says as a rocket goes through one of the clone trucks and hits the road. She looks back with Miku and Hibiki still holding onto her torso (Miku) and left arm (Hibiki) with her wings over the girls. "Great. It's another MS Droid and I think it's a DOM."
Artoria looks out the back window and growls seeing the one-eyed purple-black painted machine as it hovers quickly after them. "Shit! It's a DOM alright and I don't think this one is brain dead like the Blitz was. Just how many survived me destroying the ship?"
"Two is too many." Chris says rolling the window down and leaning out of it. Artoria quickly grabs her by the hips to steady her. "W-watch the hands!"
Artoria just rolls her eyes. "Shot first, be grumpy later with me." She says in a flat tone of voice. "Aim for the eye and chest for a quick kill. That's if your guns can punch through the armor." She says a little louder to make sure Chris hears her as the truck takes a right at high speed. Artoria tightens her grip on Chris's hips and the armor to keep her from falling out.
Chris shifts her right gauntlet into a red-black hand cannon with a over-under double barrel design. She wants to make the shot count and two heavy slugs at the same time should work. At least she thinks it'll work as she lines up the weapon with the DOM's chest. She squeezes the trigger with her aim for the heart, if the DOM had one, and smiles feeling the gun recoil in her hand. Chris only starts cursing as the DOM blocks with its left arm, but loses the arm from the elbow down.
Owaga had to dodge as the other clone truck crashed into a traffic light and the odd vehicle out on the road this late at night. He smirks as the last clone truck tries to crash into the DOM, but the machine just jumps over it. This gives Chris the best chance to take it out with another squeeze of the trigger. This time her rounds hit home and through the DOM's chest making it explode!
Quickly Artoria pulls Chris into the truck as the fireball hits the road behind them. The sound of metal scrapping loudly is heard from the back of the truck. This time the wolf girl leans out the window and throws a silver-blue knife away from the truck. Only for it to come back lower to hit the DOM barely holding onto the back bumper with half a hand and drag it across the road before getting back into the truck with a smile.
"Got to respect their drive at the very least." She sighs rolling the window up as a small fireball finishes the DOM off. "But I respect my Blast Knife a lot more."
Everyone sighs in relief as the armors all shut down and they relax. Artoria's clothes are pretty normal with a red t-shirt, blue jeans with rips on her thighs, and brown hiking boots. The other thing of note is the black fingerless gloves she's wearing as she rubs her right shoulder.
"It still hurting?" Chris asks pulling Artoria's shirt off her right shoulder to have a look. "I'm not seeing anything but a few scars. Wait." She gently pokes a small black burse that makes the wolf girl gasp in pain. "Looks like you didn't get all the pieces out after all."
"Nothing a little medical work can't fix." Artoria growls as Chris pulls her shirt back up. The white bra strap pulled to the side to keep it off the burse by the purple eyed girl. "I kind of hope we see Watson since he has med packs with him."
Scarlet slumps in her seat as she hugs both Miku and Hibiki like they're old friends. "That old Kampfer would have found us by now if he made it." She says a little sad. "Over seven hundred and twenty nine years old without any trouble getting up again after a battle. I do hope he's…" She looks to her right with everyone as something taps on the window near her. "You goofy old man!" The dragon girl shouts with joy seeing the blue Kampfer MS Droid.
"Yeah and damn proud of it, kiddo! You won't believe where I even landed in the first place." Watson says loud enough to be heard through the window. "Guess I'm going to have to brush off my field med skills for someone?"
"We'll have a room ready at HQ for you." Owaga says having lowered his window to make it easier. "I just don't know who needs the help."
"That would be me and thank you." Artoria says leaning on Chris's shoulder, not very easy for her being a head taller than Chris. "This pain in my right should isn't going away." She mutters sounding very tired.
"By the way, Lady Redmoon. Fran and Silva were able to get to a pod and escape. I should know since my foot was stuck to the damn thing." Watson says scratching his left cheek. "It would seem we're all here and home is defended by the second team."
"At least it'll be safe. Cathy, Sakura, and the others are still new to their partners." Artoria sighs as Chris rubs her right shoulder to ease the pain. "I just hope your new sisters aren't having too much trouble them, Duel Fang."
"Not really new but awake kiddo." Duel Fang says with a chuckle. "Still I'm sure their all doing just fine. Now I'm going to try calling Fran and Silva to make sure they're alright."
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Shirabe Tsukuyomi, Maria Cadenzavna Eve, Kirika Akatsuki, and Tsubasa Kazanari caught up to another damaged MS Droid before Shirabe cut it in half. It led them to a pod with six more damaged MS Droids trying to rip it open. It took less than a minute for them to scrap them before Tsubasa cuts open the pod hatch.
"Oh thank god!" A girl says jumping out of the pod the moment thatch hit the ground. She looks like Shirabe with black rabbit ears, a grey-black tail, and wearing a black one-piece swim suit. "I thought we were going pass out from all the drumming. Jeez, my ears are hurting so much." She shouts rubbing her ears with a green glow on her hands. "You need help, Silva?" She shouts back into the pod.
"What?!" Silva shouts stepping out wearing a pair of blue jeans, green t-shirt, and looks like Chris with silver fox ears and six tails. "I can't hear you! My ears are still ringing!" She shouts rubbing her ears like the other girl with her hands glowing green. "Fran, where's Blood Claw?"
The girl now named Fran pats to her swimsuit before pulling a pendent out with a sigh. "She's still here." Fran says in a more normal volume of voice before Shirabe leans into her field of view. "ACK?!" That surprised Fran enough to make her jump, a full meter and a half into the air.
"Wow! I can't jump that high without my gear." Shirabe says with a giggle and smile as Fran lands on her feet. "Get caught at the pool?"
"It's better than last time when it was the shower. I'm Fran Redmoon by the way." Fran says with rubbing her left ear. "Jeez. Just when I thought things couldn't get worse we all get launched." She shakes her head before holding up her pendent. "Mind if I change into something a little warmer?"
"Yeah, it's no fun getting soaked in the rain. I'm Silva Silvermist by the way." Silva says still rubbing her ears, but she also wasn't shouting any more either. "Thanks for killing those guys and opening the pod for us too. It's kind of hard to call on your relic when you're half deaf."
Tsubasa and Maria look at each other and shrug since it was raining. Silva's clothes were starting to turn see-through as well which made it clear she wasn't wearing a bra. They called in to HQ for Genjuro's input before giving the okay to the rabbit and fox girls.
"Would it be okay, uncle?" Tsubasa asks over the comm. "I don't think them getting sick would be a good idea, but we don't have any blankets for them."
"Artoria is on the way back to HQ with the others. She said to let them know she's going to be alright as well." Genjuro says with a sigh. "Also, we can't seem to get their relics to work with our own comms just yet. Duel Fang, that's Artoria's relic, is going to try calling the others in a moment."
"Blood Claw here with Fran. We're okay, bro." Fran's silver pendant says making Shirabe nearly jump in surprise. "Yeah, just a little wet over here in the rain. Silva is getting it the worst as the call happened as she just finished drying off."
Silva sighs covering herself with her arms. "At least I had time to grab a shirt and pants. So can we put on our gear or not?"
Maria rolls her eyes at Tsubasa thinking it over more than needed. "Yes, but no arm gears. You'll have enough weapons with just your armor."
Silva sighs grabbing her pendent. "Thank you!" She sings softly the activation of her relic.
"Silver Moon of the Emerald Huntress."
In a flash she's in her armor of lunar silver with emerald green that looks just like Chris own Ichaival. There are a few extra piece of armor like a set of emerald-silver armor horns protecting her fox ears, a silver scale armor skirt, and emerald chains wrapped around her tails. She also wears a pair of lunar silver-emerald knee-high armor boots with black talons.
The girls jaws just drop seeing Silva's armor and turn slowly to Fran. "Guess I'm next?" The rabbit girl teases before singing next.
"Bloody Claw of the Golden Dawn."
Just like with Silva the armor in on in a flash and is very different from Shirabe. Fran looks more like a brawler in her blood red-dawn gold armor that looks like a cross between Hibiki's Gungnir and a kunoichi with a blood red skirt and golden plates over her ears. Her hands and feet are covered in armored claws with red and gold spike on the gauntlets and shin guards. Thigh-high black stockings on are covers with golden chains on her thighs and her red boots. Red chains are wrapped around her gauntlets between the spikes and her shoulders are covers with a silver silk like cloth. Her hair is pulled back in a mid pony tail with red and gold chains hangs past the end of her long hair with dagger like spikes.
"You look terrifying!" Kirika shouts hiding behind Silva. "Just what kind of relic is that?!"
"The Blood Claws of the Berserker." Silva answers for Fran as she stretches out like she's getting ready for a run. "However, she never once went that far. In truth all three relics were seen as failures by their makers."
"You can say we three prototypes just couldn't see ourselves as mindless killing machines." Luna Arrow says making Kirika blink in surprise, but she doesn't jump away from Silva. "That might be why other relics won't given minds of their own or either sealed/removed. We didn't want to be used to kill civilians or force worlds under our makers' boots. That was before they made the Rift Gates to take from other worlds what they wanted."
"Let's just say it's been a very strange history we've been learning about our solar system." Fran says doing a back flip. "That is so much better than being in the cold rain."
"Yeah, but we should get moving to check on Artoria. She did blow up a two mile long ship after all and we've got to tell her about the rift generators we saw on board." Silva says looking to Maria and the still shocked Tsubasa. "If that's alright?"
Tsubasa snaps out of her shock and nods her head. "Y-yes! We can split up with two of two taking you back to HQ. There should be a truck nearby that can get you there quickly." She says before turning her comm on. "Would that be alright uncle?"
"Artoria was just rushed to our ER with Watson carrying her. Bring the girls back to HQ to help their friend and give us a quick rundown of everything." Genjuro says over the comm a little rushed. "We haven't got any other reports of these droids and the debris stopped falling as well. Return to HQ as quickly as you all can."
Tsubasa relays the orders, and the group gets moving with Fran and Silva keeping pace with them. The worry on their faces is clear till they hear Watson is with their friend. Shirabe is surprised they relax hearing the name and most of their worry fades.
"This Watson guy a doctor you know?" Shirabe asks as the group speeds along the road. They just entered the docks to get to HQ since it was in for a resupply. "We were told he's a machine like those droids we were taking out."
"Yes and no on him being a droid. But he is a top medical expert with a few hundred years behind him." Silva explains with a chuckle. "He's an MS-Droid that was built to be a kind of shock troop. However, he turned on his makers some seven hundred years ago. He's never said and we don't ask."
Tsubasa nods her head as they run into the ship's open hatch. "He sounds like an honorable man for a machine. Medical is this way and up a level." She leads them taking a left and up a stairway to medical.
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Medical ER at HQ
Watson gently works the scalpel as he cuts the bruised area of Artoria's right shoulder. The black bruising had grown to nearly three inches in size. The wolf girl is face down, topless, and calm as Watson works. The fact his med kit looks more like a full medical shelf isn't lost on most of S.O.N.G.'s crew with young Elfnein watching closely as she talks with Artoria.
"So you think it's a rebound from healing because something is still in the wound?" Elfnein ask as Watson opens the bruise open and looks inside. "I guess that would make some sense with the bruising if your body was trying to push some debris out. How does it looks, Watson?" She asks as the wolf girl marvels at just how young Elfnein looks.
The Kampfer hums softly digging a little deeper into Artoria's shoulder. "I believe she's right about the rebound. The large piece wasn't holding together very well when Scarlet handed it over. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few small pieces still in here." He is surprisingly very gently in his movements like a human doctor. "Ah. I found it. It looks to be about an inch wide." He chuckles making a few more cuts before grabbing a clamp to pull the debris out. "This might hurt a little."
"It's fine." Artoria says still sounding relaxed. "Why don't you let the nurse of Elfnein hold the wound open?"
Watson looks up at the nurse and chuckled sheepishly. "I'm sorry. I forgot you came in to help, miss. Could you hold the wound open for me please?"
"Not a problem, doctor." The nurse says as she reaches across the wolf girl's back to hold the wound open with the tools. "Like this?"
"Prefect. Now I'll just cut a little more here and pull it out." Watson says as he cuts a little around the metal piece and pulls it out with the clamp. "An inch wide and a quarter inch thick. No wonder you were getting a large bruise, my lady." He says putting the piece of metal to the side in a glass dish and returns to cleaning the wound. "I'll give you an Elixir once we clean this up and pack it with med-gel. I'm shocked that this happened in the first place."
"Reentry has always been rough on the shields, doc." Duel Fang says.
"Plus, I was low on my own magic too. None of us really had anything to eat for the past day and a half." Artoria points out. "Low end FTL for a ship that size only made the trip longer than needed. I can feel that a little."
"That means it's still healthy muscle there." Watson says pulling out black muscle pieces. "Looks like micro machine damage too. I'll use an EMP to make sure they're offline." He says getting what looks like a light pen and pushes into in the open wound. "It'll feel a little like static shock but it shouldn't hurt very much."
Artoria nods her head a little. "Okay."
Outside the room at the observation window watching the operation is Genjuro, Scarlet, Hibiki, Miku, and Chris. They turn as Tsubasa's group enters the room with Fran and Silva. Chris does a full double take on seeing the six tailed fox girl.
"Whoa! She wasn't kidding about me having a twin!" Chris shouts before covering her mouth and looking through the window. She sighs seeing Artoria's tail wag and Watson waving with one hand to show they're good. The other is holding the light pen in the wound. "How are they so calm?"
Fran giggles looking in as the EMP pen glows, making Artoria's right arm twitch a little. Elfnein helps hold the wolf girl's arm down to help keep her from moving too much with each EMP pulse.
"Watson is both a doctor and field medic. Someone screaming in surprise is nothing new to him." Fran explains flinching a little as Elfnein is lifted off the floor a little by Artoria, but keeps her grip on the wolf girl's arm. "Still it's not fun getting a few EMP pulses in the body. It's really low so it doesn't hurt you but it'll kill most micro machines and nanobots." She says as the pen is pulled out and Watson puts another pen into the wound.
"Is that to pull the micro bots out?" Hibiki asks as it looks like Watson is just moving the pen around the inside of the wound. "That's got to feel really weird."
Silva stands next to Chris to let her look the vixen over. "It does. I had to have the same thing done to my leg when I was younger. I just hope Artoria doesn't get a new scar out of this." She says biting her index finger with worry. "She's got enough from the bitch grandmother of hers before she died."
Miku was wondering about the scars they could see on Artoria's back. "Why would she do that to her own granddaughter?" She mutters not really wanting to know but does as the same time.
"You'd have to ask Artoria about it. I was adopted after it all happened." Fran says as they see Watson take the pen out and put it in a case. "Looks like he's wrapping up."
Back inside the room Watson opens a white tube and squeezes out a clear gel into the wound. "That had to be the quickest removal of nano machines ever. Just a little med-gel, Elixir, a good night's rest, and you'll be good as new." He says getting a needle and thread. "Just a little stitch work and a large bandage to keep it closed is all that's left. If you want it that is?"
"Do it. It'll be less likely to scar if you stitch it." The wolf girl says in a flat voice. "Like I need more."
"That mutt bitch is dead, Artoria." Watson says calmly as he starts stitching the wound close. "I blow the FTL on her ship up myself before she jumped. There is no way she is alive after that." He says working quickly to make four stitches and cover the wound with a bandage. "There you go. Now just sit up slowly and take this Elixir." He puts the needle down and hands her a small red bottle as the nurse and Elfnein help Artoria sit up.
She drinks the Elixir quickly and hands the bottle back to Watson. "Thanks." Artoria says as the nurse helps her get her bra and shirt back on. "All that's left is to give a short report and find a place to sleep."
"I think we can skip the report for now." Elfnein says as Watson cleans and puts his medical tools away. "Duel Fang was kind enough to forward most of the data to my pad."
"You're welcome and thank you for helping me link into your comm systems for later use." Duel Fang says with a friendly chuckle. "That is alright with you, Genjuro?" Duel asks as Artoria joins the others with help from the nurse to stay upright.
"Yes. Scarlet also filled us in about her uncle's plan that turned into a trap for all of you." Genjuro says gently patting the dragoness's back. "We even have room for you all to stay at a hotel for the night. That means you girls too." He says pointing to the seven girls of S.O.N.G. "in fact most of the staff is going to be staying there with the refit being moved up to the day after tomorrow."
"Is it the one that also has those clothing shops in it too? Fran and Silva really need some cloths after all." Kirika asks looking at Artoria and Scarlet tilting her head. "I guess all of them need new cloths if they'll be staying."
"Can we trust this hotel and its staff? I don't want to have a close call while I only have my swimsuit." Fran says making sure her point is very clear. "I'm sure you girls get my point as well, right?"
"We do but the hotel is staffed by our own people as well." Maria says with a grin. "It is the Seaside Mall Hotel right, Genjuro?"
"It would be that hotel, yes." Genjuro says with a chuckle. "I'd still like to have the name changed to something else later."
"It would be best to get there and let the staff start on the modifications to their clothes while you all rest." Watson says stepping out of the medical room. "Artoria will be crashing soon with both her treatment being done, and the large amount of power she put out to destroy the ship. The clothing can wait till the morning for everyone. It's how late is it?"
Elfnein looks at the clock. "Just after eleven o'clock and it'll take about ten minutes to reach the hotel. You should be able to able to clean up and get a light meal before it gets much later. I'm going to stay with Watson to finish up a few reports." She says holding up her pad with the report about the surgery. "I also agree with Watson as well on everyone getting some sleep since they also just got the week off from school."
Genjuro nods his head. "Alright. You all go rest and enjoy the rest of your week off."
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Seaside Mall and Hotel
Chris couldn't help herself from giggling as she gently guilds Artoria to their room with Hibiki and Miku right behind them. Watson wasn't kidding when he said she was going to be crashing. The wolf girl was yawning a good deal on the way over by truck. So, they tried talking to help Artoria stay awake and learn a little about her home. Though Scarlet did most of the talking and was getting them snacks with the others.
Miku opens the door to their room on the third floor that overlooks the ocean. It got two large beds and a large futon that Scarlet will be sleeping on that she requested. The dragon girl was not a fan of western bed types since her wings or tail get caught and rip the mattress. For some reason she never does that to a futon.
"I can hardly believe someone thought your ancestors were all worthless, or the tech they left floating around your solar system." Hibiki says hoping to keep Artoria awake a little longer as Chris helps her to sit on the bed. It's the one closest to the window with the best view of the ocean. "Just how full of yourself do you have to be to… Then again it might have been someone trying to outdo Shem-Ha at the time."
"That's a scary thought." Miku mutters as Artoria flops onto her back. "You doing, okay?"
"I'm so tired." Artoria yawns out as she tries to get her shirt off. "Mm, need to get out of my clothes first."
Chris sighs pulling the wolf girl to sit upright. "Come here." She says pulling Artoria's shirt over the girl's head and gently lays her back down. Next were the wolf girl's pants since her sneakers were at the door. "Geez, you really are wiped out, huh?"
"I don't remember the last time I used that much magic with Duel Fang." Artoria mutters crawling on the bed and under the bed sheets. "I'll shower in the morning after Watson removes the stitching." She yawns laying her head on the pillow as Scarlet enters the room. "Goodnight."
"Night, Redmoon." Scarlet says setting the bag of snacks down. "Get a good view of her, Chris?" She teases taking her shirt off to show a red sports bra and well-toned body. The fact it unzips on the lower left side for her wings is a little odd to the girls. "This really must seem odd to you three."
Chris waves it off blushing after getting a good look at Artoria's butt in black panties. "N-not really. Just how something like having a tail changes the whole clothing scene is a lot to take in." She blushes more as Scarlet giggles. "H-hey! It's not like I meant to look!" She pouts.
"It's fine. I'm sure she's too sleepy to be worried about it anyway." The dragoness says folding her shirt before taking her pants off. This lets the girls really see how much of her body is covered in scales.
From what even Miku sees Scarlet's scales cover the lower part of her breasts, both sides of her torso, forearms, shines, hands, feet, and neck. There are scales running along her jaw line to her ears that look to be pointed. It wasn't elf ear pointy but noticeable. Scarlet's finger and toes also have short black talons to finish her look with her red eyes glowing a little in the dark.
"That's just creepy." Hibiki says with a nervous grin as she looks away and sees Artoria's eyes glowing as well. "EEEEEEEEE!"
"Yeah, you better be ready for the others to scream sometime tonight." Artoria mutters with her aqua eyes still glowing. "Glowing eyes is a normal thing for all of us."
"All of you?!" Chris, Hibiki, and Miku ask at the same time in shock as Scarlet gets in her futon.
In the room two doors down with a view of the ocean as well. Kirika and Maria were having a little freak out few two pairs of glowing eyes of pink and purple from the dark bathroom. Shirabe just reached in and turns the lights on to show Fran and Silva in oversized t-shirts for their pajamas.
"Y-your eyes are g-glowing?!" Kirika asks still scared of the two alien girls. Both she and Maria don't really do well with paranormal stuff. She'll never understand how Shirabe isn't fazed by any of it. "How d-do you do it?"
Fran just shrugs not really understanding what the problem was. "It's normal. At least for us it's normal back home." She says as Silva reaches into a magic circle and pulls out a backpack. Fran does a double take at her fox friend. "Hey! That's my pack!"
"I just remembered you threw it to me to store since you wanted to hurry." Silva says pulling out two more packs. "Morgana gave my Artoria's as well. So, we're good on a change of clothes in the morning."
"Item box?" Shirabe asks in awe. "Can you and Artoria use one too, Fran?"
"Yeah, and we normally do keep extra clothes in it. Sis is probably too tired to remember hers right now." Fran yawns stretching her arms above her head and laying her ears flat. "We better get some rest before it gets any later."
Tsubasa yawns next. "Sounds like a good idea to me. Since we have three beds in here, I'd like to know who's sleeping where." She has a light blush on her cheeks as she looks at Maria, who also blushes.
"We'll take the middle bed in case someone tries to sneak from either the door or window." Silva says walking to the bed and putting the packs down. "That way they've got to get past you girls, but I'm sure we'll wakeup to help deal with them."
Fran rolls her eyes. "Like anyone is that dumb. The Owaga guy is a full ninja, and I wouldn't be surprised if he has friends watching out for anyone." As if to prove her point a loud scream is heard in the pool area below followed by a loud splash. "I rest my case."
Without another word the girls sigh and get to their beds. Maria and Tsubasa take the bed nearest the windows. While Kirika and Shirabe take the bed near the door after hugging Fran goodnight. Chris shares Artoria's bed and finds herself cuddled up to by the wolf girl, much to her embarrassment. Hibiki and Miku check on Scarlet before making sure the windows and door are locked. Then they get in bed to finally get some sleep themselves.
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