Chaos had ensued at the once peaceful city, armed thugs here and there stirring up trouble upon the unlucky civilians.
The party of five… or six came running through the streets with one single objective. To escort sensei towards the SCHALE building.
Yuuka ran in the very front with Suzumi and Rin following closely. Chinatsu and Hasumi then were in the rear.
And on the very back was Hans. Why? To protect him they said. It's a funny thought. That he, the one that had been protecting and escorting for a long time, was being escorted in turn! By haloed angels more of the fact
…Or… are they humans with some sort of a device? Hmm…
"Uhm… vice president, sensei is glaring again…" Yuuka whispers.
"...Let him be. He is… still very confused after all."
Fires continue to rage all across. From buildings, whatever vehicles, and from other garbage the gangers burn. Massive holes formed on the streets as explosions was heard from everywhere.
..This felt like London.
Then all of the sudden… a nearby explosion caught them in surprise.
"Look there, the vice president and some GSC jerks! Get her!" One of the masked sukeban girls shouted. Then twelve of them in all shapes and sizes ran out of the looted buildings. With the signature masks that poorly hid their faces.
And immediately they started firing at the crew, and thus… the firefight began. Rin ducked and hid behind covers followed by Suzumi who fired their guns. Hasumi also did the same, albeit a little far away
Chinasu ran next to Hasumi, and fired her luger.
And Yuuka… Yuuka was in the middle of it. Hans saw the bullets rushing at her. Is she dumb?! Is she blind?!
Hans was about to run towards Yuuka when a bullet struck her.
…She's dead. Or at least, that's what he thought.
But instead… she screamed as the sound of something hitting a hard surface ringed out. "ITAAAII!"
Hans looks in surprise, she is still… standing and roared in anger. Blasting away more and more of the delinquents with her SMGs
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT YOU JERKS!"
Hans blinked for a moment… before he shook his head. Of course.
"Sensei! What are you doing?! Get to cover!" Rin shouted as she stared at Hans who was standing motionless.
Hans shook his head, and he pulled out his twin long barreled Mauser and started shooting. Standing in the open like a damn large target. In which, the delinquents notice but as when they started to put sensei in their crosshairs, sensei with the others shot them down.
Knocking them out of action, by the disappearing of their halos.
Then, a certain elf was fuming as she ran towards the captain.
"Sensei! Do you know how reckless you are?! You might get hurt!" Rin shouted at Hans. Poking his chest with an index finger.
"Eh? Isn't it fine though? Wouldn't our halos protect us?" Yuuka tilted her head.
"Yes! But sensei doesn't have one!" Rin again pointed out with a groan and a scowl.
The four girls stopped dead in their tracks, as they realized it now. Sensei… sensei doesn't have one.
He is fragile as an egg.
And a single bullet could've ended him right now.
…But that's where they're wrong.
Hans sighed and shook his head.
Rin trembled but she decided to drop it. Since sensei… was a little thick headed she thought "You're lucky now, but next time… get to cover okay?."
A small nod left his head, then the captain walked to Yuuka with steady steps as she stared.
Hans reached his hands to Yuuka, cupping her cheeks. "F-Fweeh?! Sensei?! What are you doing?!" She trembled, a raging blush formed on her cheeks as it was being held by his gentle yet firm touch.
He inspected her face, up and down, then to her neck. Satisfied, he nodded. Just a little bruising here and there. Then he released her face in which she is still blushing like a tomato.
"Uuugh um… sensei! T-They're using JHP rounds! T-That's cheating! Why do we have to be the ones fighting them anyway?!" Yuuka complained as she spoke to Hans and glared at Rin for a moment. Rubbing her torso and head.
Hans tilted his head
"Because right now as I heard, Valkyrie got their hands full." Suzumi answers as she reloads her weapon, after recovering from the information of Hans.
"You should've got to cover. Besides, hollow points aren't illegal, you know." Hasumi sighed.
"Well, they're illegal in my academy, starting now! It hurts, that might leave a mark!"
Chinatsu followed behind with a small blush and inspected Yuuka as well. She shrugged and sighed. "U-Uhm y-you're fine Yuuka. Just a little bruise on your forehead." Then from her bag, she took one of the syringes and injected the liquid right into Yuuka's arm.
She winced for a little before murmuring a thank you.
"But before that sensei. Are you hurt anywhere? I-I don't see any wounds but…" Chinatsu asked, trying to be sure.
Hans gave a nod. He reloaded his Mausers and pointed ahead.
"...Alright. Let's continue." Rin sighed and rubbed her temples before the students continued on their march towards SCHALE..
And somewhere else, a certain masked terror is chuckling to herself.
"…Ahh… so this is the building… hmm.. It doesn't look like much buuut if it's important to the General Student Council... hehehehe…."
She says, sadistically. A mad grin formed under her mask.
"Haah… I can't wait~"
The captain marched alongside them as they reached a marketplace of some sorts, like always… trouble followed, some shooting there, and some shooting here… and the hostiles are all down. Of course, this time Hans had the liberty of moving and dodging. He doubted the bullets would do anything to him but he wanted the girls not to worry too much about him. It was like he is saying,
'I can take care of myself.'
On the other hand, the bullets might be non lethal for the girls, but by the looks of it… it would still damn hurt for them.
"ITAI! MOU!"
And Yuuka… Yuuka might be the most reckless of them all, but she is confident in her resilience and she had some sort of a forcefield by technology.
When she pulled out her… device, she typed in something and a blue round barrier made of light and hexagons formed around her like a protective bubble.
Rumble… rumble… KABOOM!
The loud rumbling an explosion was heard, then a scream.
"KYAAA!"
"Wait, I recognize that scream. Sensei, I think we should make a detour and check it out." Suzumi asked, walking to Hans with determination in her red eyes.
Hans looked ahead. He gave a nod, Suzumi nodded back and she ran ahead with Hans following closely.
"W-Wait! Suzumi! Sensei!" Rin shouted, but in the end… she followed as well with the others.
The two march forward as a sight of a burning building surrounded with thugs comes up from the horizon, Suzumi firing her rifle and throws her flashbangs while Hans shoots them with his twin Mausers.
"OUCH!"
"OW!"
"Y-You jerks! Eat this- AHHH I'M BLIND!"
"You know sensei, you're a good shot." Suzumi complimented with a small smile, in which sensei returned with a nod and a gentle head pat in which Suzumi leaned into as her face puffed in red.
Then a figure popped out from "A-Are you back up?! Wait! T-There's still more-" KABOOM!
A rocket rammed directly towards Suzumi and Hans, in which he immediately picked her up and pushed her behind some downed cars.
"T-THEY GOT RPGs a-and there's snipers coming ahead!" The one inside the house spoke. "I-I wish I could do more b-but I'm out of ammo!"
"...Uuu… Oh, I should've taken the day off…"
"S-Sensei! Don't run away that fast!" Yuuka shouted as she came into view with the others.
Immediately, Hans pointed for them to take cover. Upon noticing the new gang of gangsters with motorcycle masks, they immediately do so. Providing more firepower to clear them out.
Hans then ran- or rather dashed to Hasumi patting her shoulders and breaking her out from the focus.
"Eh?! Sensei?" Hasumi jumped in surprise with a tint of red on her cheeks at how close he is. Hans tapped her rifle and pointed to the backlines of RPGs
"O-Oh! You want me to take care of them? O-Okay."
Hasumi nodded and calmed herself.
A somewhat menacing aura burned from her… then, her gun made a powerful shot.
BANG!
And instantly, one of the gang members was knocked out. Hans gave a satisfied nod. He reloads and started firing again alongside the students. Then, after a few more minutes... the area was littered with knocked out troublemakers and bulletholes.
"Up there, are you alright?" Suzumi asks.
"Um- yeah! Wait, Suzumi?" A head popped up, revealing a girl wearing the traditional outfit of a japanese police officer colored white and with cool purple canisters and other accessories. Her hair is white and long twin braided, ocean blue eyes flashed in joy as it was filled with tears and her lips formed a glad and cheery smile
She immediately ran down and hugged Suzumi.
"Waah! I thought we're goners…!" The policewoman cried.
Hans tilted his head.
Her halo is a pale purple circle, with two celtic knots going inside and outside the circle and each other.
"Ooh… I really should've gone back home…"
The second girl exits. A tired yawn left her lips as she rubbed the back of her head. She wore the same uniform as the first girl. But she wore it casually, and instead of purple her accessories were hot pink.
Her hair is blue and tied into two long twintails. Her halo is much the same design like the first one. Celtic knots formed pink hearts and a four-leafed clover instead of a circle and a crosshair.
"H-hweh?! Is that t-the GSC vice prez?!" The lazy one exclaimed with wide awake eyes now, the white haired one immediately shuddered in panic and released her hug from Suzumi.
"AAAH! U-Um! Nakatsukasa Kirino of the Public Safety Bureau, reporting for duty!" She immediately composed herself and gave a salute like a proper officer.
"Ugh… how troublesome.. Nemugaki Fubuki. I'm the same as Kirino." Fubuki sighed and rubbed the back of her head, in which Rin replied with a twitch of her eye.
…She really reminded her of Momoka.
Immediately Kirino gave a light jab.
"Fubuki!"
Fubuki just gave a shrug in which Kirino returned with pout and a sigh.
"At ease, Kirino, Fubuki. What happened? Are there any more Valkyrie Police Academy students with you?" Rin finally spoke up, adjusting her glasses.
"No. It's just me and Fubuki. W-We're on patrol! And… we've been tasked to apprehend… Kosaka Wakamo."
"Huh?! Wait, WAKAMO?! IT'S HER WHO BROKE OUT?! THE FOX OF CALAMITY?! A-And aren't you two just- you know?! Managing simple and harmless tasks?!" Yuuka pointed out with fear.
The gears are turning on Rin's head.
"Yes! But… in this chaos, we are spread thin and most of us are unavailable. E-Even Captain Kanna herself who first wanted to join us had her hands tied, a-and we couldn't reach SRT Academy… ."
Rin flinched upon hearing it, and she gave a tired sigh. Of course… of course.
"But! We know where she is heading! She is um…she is heading towards a building north from here… around a few kilometers from here with a large group f-for some reason…"
"...Ugh. Sensei, We should make haste." Rin bit her nail. "Kirino, Fubuki, would you join us? We could use your help."
Fubuki frowned and Kirino's eyes lit up.
"I-"
"WE WOULD GLADLY!" Kirino cut off Fubuki.
"H-Hey! Kirino, we're out of bullets, remember?!" Fubuki complained, which made Kirino stop in her tracks.
"O-Oh… right…" Kirino's smile fell off. She really wanted to help…
Hans looked around, and he walked to the downed thugs.
"Hm? Sensei?" Chinatsu asked in which Hans returned with a nod. He then began to scrounge around, he picked a sidearm, inspecting it, then gathered the ammo.
He then walked to Kirino and offered it to her.
"E-Eh?! U-um…"
"Kirino, Fubuki, this is Hans-Sensei, and he will help us in the crisis." Rin pointed
"A teacher? Wait… s-sensei! I-I can't take this gun! i-I might be out… but I don't want to steal you know…?"
Kirno looked sideways in shame. Hans nodded, and he then offered his own gun.
"Eh?! B-but…"
"Haah.. Kirino just accept it already… I'm guessing Hans-sensei is determined?"
Hans shrugged. Noticing it, Fubuki sighed as she 'borrowed' a downed thug's magazine.
"Eh… this will do."
"Fubuki?! I- Ugh… alright. I- I wanted to help s-so…" Kirino mumbled but she accepted Hans' Mauser.
..It was a little too.. long for her but she can make it work.
..She thought.
And with that, the Valkyrie students joined as they ran towards the building alongside Hans and the others.
"Incoming! 12 o''clock! They got LMGs!"
Hasumi shouted, aiming down her sights and blasting another of her powerful shots. A bullet scorched through the air and knocked down one of them. Explosions of gunpowder and flashbangs was in the air as a cries of a child echoed.
"Uu… uwahhh! Where is Irohaa…?! Uwaaah!"
"Shh… Ibuki, we'll find her okay?" Chinatsu cooed, shooting her own Mauser while trying to keep her from crying.
This is Ibuki. A lovable mascot from Gehenna, the oversized coat, the cute blonde hair tied to twintails… She is the perfect image of a cute and funny student.
But Hans remained stoic as a frown formed on his lips blasting away thug after thug with his single trusty Mauser. Ooh this is really bringing up the memories of 1933… what's next? Giant banners displaying the logo of the school?
Kirino was doing well, although she is a little struggling with the sheer length of it. Now that if he thought about it… his sidearms are a little silly. Hans shook his head and continued firing. A stray rocket rushed ahead towards him and Ibuki. On instinct, Hans picked up the kid and hoisted her up his shoulders then, made a dash towards the alleys and reloaded.
"Wooah… hehe! So high!"
Ibuki clinged to him.
"Hey.. hey sensei? Can I wear your hat?" Ibuki without waiting for an answer released Hans' field cap from his head and swapped it with her smaller officer's cap.
"Here sensei! You can use mine! Hehe… it's so big!"
She let out a fit of giggles as she played with it and letting the visor to hide her eyes. Hans gave a silent smile.
At least she's not crying anymore.
..He patted her head, exited out of the alley, and continued on blasting.
Then a low… familiar rumble of a tank.
Crash! BOOM!
Crushing some destroyed vehicles and trash and blasting some thugs was the beloved, most remembered familiar rumble of the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger.
"Ah! Look herr Hauptsturmführer, our beloved panzer company is crushing them to bits with our brand new Ausführung H!
Doesn't zis excite you ja?
The grand war… our beloved war… Ja.., this is just starting... "
Hans shook the memory away.
"Iroha!" Ibuki waved with a giggle as she continued on to cling on to the extremely confused captain.
"Ibuki!" Iroha popped out of the panzer and smiled.
"Wait, finish the punks first!" Chinatsu shouted as Yuuka was getting blasted.
"...Chinatsu? Hmm…" Iroha sighed and popped back down, the panzer aimed… and..
KABOOM!
"AHH!"
"THEY GOT A TANK! RUN!"
With spirits back up, Yuuka groaned the pain away, restarted her barrier and ran back into the action.
"HEY! DON'T RUN YOU COWARDS! TAKE THIS!"
"..." Rin shook her head and shot some precision shots with her sidearm
And in just some short moments after the arrival of Iroha, the helmet gang was gone. She sighed and exited out of the tank with a tired look on her eyes.
"Ibuki, what did I tell you about going on your own? And who is that adult with you?"
"Um.. wheh... what's your name again?" Ibuki asked the captain, and he replied with a sigh.
"Iroha, this is Hans-sensei from SCHALE. Apparently… he had been sent here by the missing GSC President." Chinatsu answered.
"A teacher? Really?" Iroha asked again,
answered by a nod from Hans as he picked up the energetic kid and lowered her down.
By her appearance, Iroha has long and wavy crimson hair and she wore the exact same oversized black greatcoat like Ibuki's and the same officer's cap.
And her halo is an indigo-blue circle with four evenly spaced spikes and a rhombus at the top that extends through the circle
"I see… Well, my name is Natsume Iroha of Gehenna's Pandemonium Society. And this is-"
"You know me! Ibuki! Nice to meet you sensei! Ehehe!"
Ibuki cut off Iroha as she raised her hand high. Hans answered with a nod and patted the mascot's head and offered a handshake to Iroha.
Ibuki hugged the tall captain and Iroha sighed and shook his hand.
"Iroha. What are you doing here in the first place?" Chinatsu asked.
"...Ibuki wanted to see the chaos. I and Makoto tried to but… you know we can't reject her."
"...I see." Chinatsu sighed as she walked to Yuuka who was rubbing her bruises and stabbed a syringe into her.
"Hey! Ouch!"
"...Iroha of the Pandemonium Society, correct?" Rin walked to her.
Iroha glanced. A small look of shock gave in before it vanished as fast as it came. "Vice president Nanagami Rin. What is it?"
"As far as our intel goes, Kosaka Wakamo of the seven prisoners is wreaking havoc with an army of delinquents to our target. Your aid would be… greatly appreciated."
Iroha raised her eyebrow, she sighed and refused.
"No. I must bring Ibuki to a safe-"
Ibuki pouted and tugged. "Iroha… but they kept me safe! And sensei even let me borrow his hat! Can we please help them?"
Iroha stood still for a moment. She really wanted to say no… and to find an excuse but… those damned puppy eyes…
"...Ugh fine. But only for a little."
"Yay!"
Iroha sighed and climbed back on the panzer with the blonde following closely behind.
"Ooh! Ooh! Sensei, climb up here too!" Ibuki offered her tiny hands as Hans shook his head.
"Sensei go ahead, we're fine walking." Suzumi spoke.
"Sensei… pleaase?" Ibuki pleaded
He gave a glare before sighing and accepting her tiny hands. It's been awhile since he had last rode one… when was it?
..well, it doesn't matter anyway.
"Lead the way, Vice president." Iroha sighed.
As expected, her help was a gift from heaven. The panzer is a great asset to have. Plowing through troubles here and there, and for all they know... It's going to be a breeze towards SCHALE.
The clock continues to tick as kilometers upon kilometers are passed, and eventually… they saw the building.
And as they expected… it was not as simple as walking in.
For they had company,
Ahead of them was a Crusader tank, surrounded by an army of delinquents from all kinds of gangs. Then a megaphone echoed through.
A fox masked woman wearing black furisode exited the tank.
Her halo were shaped like a black cherry blossom surrounded by a combined sniper sight and an anarchy symbol stood on top of it.
Hans squinted his eyes.
...is that fox ears?
The cannon spun towards them as guns aimed and clicked.
"Ah- ah ah… testing… testing… hehe, finally we met face to face with the General Student Council~!"
She spoke with a sultry, flirtatious voice dripping with chaos and venom as the air shifted with the tense aura.
The team was clearly on edge at the final battle.
Suzumi prepared her flashbangs,
Yuuka her device,
Rin her sidearm,
Chinatsu her syringes,
Hasumi her rifle,
Kirino her borrowed Mauser who is still dragging Fubuki to prepare herself,
and Iroha, her panzer with Ibuki grinning in the background still playing with Hans' field cap.
"...Ooh, I should've slacked off…" Fubuki groaned.
"Ehehe… I don't know what is inside of that building buuut~ It looks important enough~ you don't mind if I destroy it right~? Hm? What's that? You don't?"
She pointed her rifle.
"Hehe.. then do try to stop me~"
And with a thud… the delinquents fired.
It sounds so deafening and so utterly chaotic. Nothing like the peaceful Kivotos they all had known as the two groups exchanged their bullets.
Then the tank moved its barrel… and fired.
"TAKE COVER!" Rin shouted as the students immediately ran towards any kind of cover they could find. Behind cars, behind walls, trashcans, Iroha's tank, and anything else as the bullets made holes in them and ricocheted off from the covers.
The students all ran to safety or at least tried to. Yet, Suzumi and Yuuka are still out in the open.
Making a choice, Hans leapt from the tank.
"SENSEI?! SENSEI!" Chinatsu shouted.
Time is starting to blur. White mist formed on his legs as he dashed towards the two students. Like a lightning bolt, he picked them up and threw them aside as the tank shell was mere inches from their foot.
Then as the explosion rang on the battlefield...
Hans was hit directly.
"SENSEI!" Rin shouted with horror. No.. no! NO! THAT IDIOT! OH THE DIVINE…! OH GOD OH GOD-
The other students who knew the fragility of a man without a halo was also staring with pure horror.
Rin was ready to puke as the smoke and dust cleared… but instead, a figure leaped out from it. A figure of a man wearing an olive greatcoat albeit a little singed and torn. His hair white and lips expressionless
And without a single burn or bruise in his body.
Hans leaped high, and with a spin, he raised his leg and came down on the tank like a meteorite. Tearing through metal like paper mache, letting it to burst and explode in an inferno, bursting out in fury and metal, sending those who are unlucky enough to standing near it to be thrown a fair distance away by the strength of the explosion.
The sudden explosion was enough to stop the two sides from firing as they looked in shock and confusion.
Wakamo groaned as she tried to stand back up. Being directly in the ground zero of the explosion... had done her some damage.
At that moment, Rin understood that his true weapon wasn't his twin Mausers.
It was his body.
'What the hell happened? What was that?' Wakamo thought to herself.
Walking calmly out from the burnt tank was a man with his greatcoat undone and left open, leaving his tanned skin and calm mouth for everyone to see.
"...e-eh… uh… um… eh…?" Wakamo stutters. She trembled as she moved back. Staring at the muscular… terrifying... y-yet attractive man in front of her, staring into her eyes with his blood red d-dreamy eyes.
Her body shudders, her knees weak, and her tail wags up and down, she felt her ears twitched as something… came to her.
Then upon the glint of the dog tags around his neck… and a little sweat dripping on his neck-
…And there it is.
"E-EEH?! U-UM-" Wakamo's face lit up like a christmas tree behind her mask.
"E-EXUSE- EXCUSE MEE, EXCUSEEEEE MEEE!" With a scream on top of her lungs, the fox of calamity turned away and sprinted out of view, holding her hands on her chest and… in between her thighs.
'What?'
Hans sniffed the air and… ah.
'…Really? ...Foxes.'
Hans shook his head and remained to glare. He held his arm high… and pointed to the others as he dashed and tore through the terrified, paralyzed, and shocked gang members.
"...W-what h-how…?! W- let's go!" Yuuka ran first, exiting out from her cover and running ahead.
"...H-holy macaroni." Fubuki groaned and laid on the ground.
"F-Fubuki?! Hey! L-Let's go!" Kirino dragged her friend and rushed towards sensei and Yuuka.
"...Wow." Suzumi spoke out as she reloaded and ran as well.
"...Haah…" Iroha sighed while Ibuki cheered. "WOOW! SO COOL!" The panzer moved on.
Leaving Hasumi, Rin, and Chinatsu who is looking at each other and at the… one way combat infront of them…
"...I-I'll join them, a-and to patch up any bruises…" Chinatsu held her bag and moved on ahead.
"Guess… let's go vice president." Hasumi sighed, and marched.
"..."
Rin remained silent for a few good minutes.
What the hell was that?
