Novum Chaldea PoV:
"So, where is my husband?" High Queen Morgan asked as she looked at the Director of Chaldea and the bloodsucking Alchemist.
A day had passed since Marisbury Animushpere had been defeated, and that surface of the planet had been corrected back to what it should be, with Storm Boarder floating above the old Chaldea Base. Of course, there was a lot of hup-hup about what had happened, but the Fairy Queen did not care for the issues of irrelevant human government. Her only concern was that her Husband and Master were currently not here and pampering her.
"We… have no clue," Goredolf spoke with frustration. "There is no trace of either him or Mash anywhere on the planet's surface."
"It is only because our Tie of En with him exists into the future that we know our d~ear Masssstaaahhh, is still alive," Spoke the evil onmyodo known as Ashiya Douman, an Alter-Ego and the former Apostle of the Foreign God. "In some capacity."
"Sorry, your Majesty, that is all we know," The vampire spoke.
"Very well, I and my knights will start our own search then," She spoke; it should be a simple matter to divine his whereabouts if the bond of fate that had allowed him to summon her in the first place still existed into the future.
"Have we been using SHEBA to scan for any micro-singularities they might have been sent to?" The other Master, the one that was lesser than her husband but still respectable asked. "It is something that has happened before."
"Haven't found one yet if that is the case," The voice of the grating AI spoke. "And before you ask, no, none of the mes have anything to do with it."
"Just don't start causing trouble, Mooncancer, because Fujimaru is not here," Goredolf Musik stated with a look, the man now being somewhat able to handle the immature Servants that ran around the place.
"No BB Fest anytime soon, I assure you, Mr. Musik, this Kouhai is dedicated to finding her Senpai," BB announced.
"Good; now, how is the restoration of the footage of the final battle going? Because we know The Foreign God said something before the flash happened." Goredolf asked the list bit of the human stuff that was still alive.
"We are working on that, sir," Cerejeira answered, the Records Clerk working hard to restore the footage so they had an idea to find the man she had a crush on.
"Good; now, to continue, you can join the others in trying to devise something that can find Ritsuka Fujimaru," Goredolf said.
"I shall work better on my own." The Queen of Fae spoke as she went to exit the bridge but was stopped as the Interfacer entered before she could.
"News everyone, Penthesilea just vanished from the Storm Border in a way that matches being Rayshifted," Leonardo da Vinci, Lily said with happiness in her voice. "Ritsuka must have gotten a way to summon her to her side."
Silence reigned over the entire Storm Border for but a single second, before over a hundred female Servants spoke at once.
"IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME! NOT HER!"
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Ritsuka Fujimaru PoV:
"Queen of the Amazons, Penthesilea heeds the call of the Last Master." Spoke the woman who now stood beside him, her short and scantily clad body showing of her rippling muscles. "And… I am so happy you are okay… Master."
"Who the fuck are you?" Hookwolf asked as he recovered his body, expanding into more and more metal.
"But it seems pleasantries shall wait for later." The Amazon Queen surveyed the area. "All enemies must be removed first."
"Again, who the fuck are-" Hookwolf was cut off as Penthesilea slammed her spiked wrecking ball into the body of the Super Nazi, sending him flying back to where he came from.
"Penth, follow him; I can take care of this one," Ritsuka said as he looked up at the person called Sabrina the Teenage Nazi, a joke based on Sabrina the Witch as she was a Nazi and also the only magic user in the Empire.
It was so weird that magic was a public thing on this Earth.
"Understood, Master," Penthesilea replied, and the Berserker jumped into the fray with Hookwolf, Jirai Gumo, Oni Lee, and Captain Nazi, who was probably currently the most dangerous villain in the Bay outside of maybe Lung in terms of pure physical might.
"You really think you can take me?" Rune asked as she drew well… Runes in the air, causing a car to begin to float. The girl seeming intent on throwing it at him. "You are going to lose if you do."
"Nah, I win," Ritsuka replied as he made a finger pistol. "Gandr."
There was only really one spell that Ritsuka Fujimaru could actually cast without a Mystic Code, and that was Gandr, as Ishtar had gone and beaten it into his head that he should at least have something he could do if Ritsuka ever found himself lacking in Codes one day, just like he was now.
And with Louhi's assistance, he could confidently say that this was the one spell that Ritsuka could say he had mastered.
The Finnish curse was fired like a bullet and impacted the robe-wearing girl. "Was that- urghhh!" Rune suddenly started heaving and groaning as she lost her concentration and fell to the ground as she started to throw up; the girl had no resistance to sickness, the basic version of the curse inflected.
"Now for Mash," Ritsuka said to himself; Penthesilea could keep the other four occupied until the heroes arrived. Now, she couldn't have moved toward the area, Lee and Jirai Gumo had come from, so she had to be…
Ritsuka turned his head and reinforced his eyes, something he hadn't been able to do until Kadoc had taught him how.
And at the other end of the street near the cross-section, he could see… "MASH!" He shouted, and once again, he felt the back of his hand burning.
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Mash PoV:
This is just one of those days. Mash Kyrielight Pelham thought as she finally managed to escape the crowd of panicking people, who were currently running away from the Supervillain fight that was currently happening. She tried looking around for Senpai, but she couldn't see him anywhere near, meaning that he was still near where the fight had broke out, but with the people, she couldn't go back to get him.
So Mash did what she did best as the only unpowered member of New Wave. She started directing people to get them to safety as Senpai would want the civilians to be safe first, and it was also what her family in this world had raised her to do.
And thankfully, since some started to recognize her, the panic lessened a little so that people didn't trample on each other anymore.
But sadly, the reprieve she felt was only for a moment as her vision was filled with blinding light, and she had to cover them as in the air above her, floated Purity. "Young Pelham, please move Kaiser is about to arrive soon."
"Purity? But didn't you leave the Empire?" She asked as she remembered a conversation with Senpai before he had regained his memories, that it looked like Purity had left the Empire as she hadn't been seen with them for months.
"Everyone has a price, child, and Captain Nazi paid me mine," She answered with a tone that spoke of sorrow but resolution.
"Why is this happening?" She asked; we wanted to know; she wanted to understand why.
"It is time for the Empire to take full control of the city starting today; the war for our city begins, so move aside, child," Purity commanded, but Mash did not move.
"No," Mast stated. "I will not move, and I will not let you hurt people."
"Please, child, this does not-"
"What is the hold-up Purity?" A new voice spoke, cutting right through Purity's words, and Mash watched as the 'righteous' Kaiser rode up on a chariot made from metal and horses made from swords.
Mash felt disgust roil in her stomach at the sight of him as he perverted the title of Emperor.
"I am trying to get this child to leave," She answered.
"Ah, the unpowered one," He spoke as his helmeted face stared at Mash, but she stood unflinching. "Move, child, so that we can get to work."
"Why?"
"Why what?"
"Why are you doing this?" Mash asked.
"Because if we don't, our dream will not happen, that if we continued like we were, Hydra would cease to exist somewhere in the next year," Kaiser explained. "Our Diviners, Pre-cogs, and Prophets said that if we did not act on this day, that if a certain person did not die, we would lose, so act to save this country no this world from the disease and rot that has infested it. This is not the only fight that is happening in the city; in the country, all the heads of Hydra are acting as one for the first time in over seventy years."
And while he exposited, Mash's brain was going a thousand miles a second as she tried to figure out what had set them all off, made them so afraid… what had happened today that could… Senpai. Mash thought. They are afraid of Senpai… of Chaldea. It clicked into place in Mash's head. Their old comrades would obviously be searching for them, would try and find them, and then they would arrive with…
Yeah, she could see in her mind's eyes now; Senpai, who loved Heroes and this world, having lived in it for eighteen years, would want to make it better, to help people, so obviously the Nazis had to go.
"I won't let you," Mash said as her accelerated mind returned to real-time. "I won't let you get away with hurting."
"And what can you do to stop me? Fine, if it a Martyr's death you seek, I shall give it to you, Purity… kill her."
"What?" She asked back in shock.
"Kill her," Kaiser spoke, and Mash stood steadfast.
"Understood, I am sorry," She said.
"If you really were, you wouldn't say that," Mash spoke with judgment in her voice as light was fired from Purity's hands. It reminded her of Crystal's on laser beams, but Mash did not look away from it; she stood steadfast in her resolve for this?
This was nothing.
"MASH!"
Senpai.
"It is time once again to become his Shield."
A familiar voice spoke.
And Mash felt a connection establish once again as power flooded her body, and her surroundings exploded as Purity's beam hit her.
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Max Anders/Kaiser PoV:
"Now let us move on a slay the monsters that hunt our fair city," Kaiser spoke as the child was slain by his wife, and now there was no way for her to leave his grasp.
"Yes, Kaiser," Purity said in resignation as his woman stared at the smoking crater she had made; the Pelham child had been vaporized on the spot; well, children did deserve quick deaths, after all.
But as he was about to command his steeds to move his chariot, Kaiser heard the sound of clanging metal, which was a familiar sound, but it had not come from him.
No it had come from the crate in the road.
"I said," A voice that should no longer exist spoke as the smoke began to clear. "That I would not let you pass!"
A heavy thong echoed from the crater as the smoke was cleared, and in stood the Pelham girl but no longer dressed in regular clothing.
No, instead, she stood tall and proud wearing intricate armond that covered her torso, legs, and arms, leaving her shoulders and thighs exposed for movement, with a small cape that hung from the back, though the most stand-out thing was the massive great shield that she held in her hand. It was made up of two parts from the looks of it, the regular circular shape of a shield, but on top was metal that made it look like a cross.
"For I am Mash Kyrielight Pelham! I am the Shielder of Chaldea, I am Tam Lin Galahad and I will not let you pass!" She shouted.
"Get them, Mash!" A voice shouted, and Kaiser looked and down the street. His enhanced eyesight could see a black-haired boy of oriental descent, but the most striking feature was the red tattoo on the back of his hand, shaped like… wings…
"Purity, ignore the girl and go and kill that boy!" Kaiser ordered.
"Yes, Kaiser," Purity said as she…
Crash.
It had been so fast that Kaiser had barely been able to catch it, but in that split second of Purity hearing and responding to his order, the Pelham girl had used her shield as a springboard to jump up and punch Purity into the road.
"I told you… you won't pass me, this wall will stand."
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