Genya stared at the television, before something occurred to him and he rushed to the front door. Looking at his children, all of them, Einhart, Teana and Touma were part of his family, he knew that they needed to know. “Everyone get in here!” It took them about three seconds to get the message, another three to let go of Touma, and five seconds more for all of them to get inside and sit down in the living room.
“Dad, what’s…” Subaru trailed off as he turned on the large television. Thankfully, or not, the television networks were still running what had just been played a few moments ago. “Nanoha-san?”
“She… Cut her hair…” Teana was kind of stunned, she thought that Nanoha… “Wait a second, that’s not Nanoha.” She was able to focus on the Hayate and Fate look-a-likes long enough to make that connection, it helped when the Nanoha look-a-like introduced herself as Seikou something-or-other.
After the connection was cut off, Dieci started to whimper horribly. “No fair…” When her sisters turned to her, she shivered. “Nanoha-san blew me up when I was a bad guy. Now I’m not a bad guy and evil Nanoha-san is going to blow me up.” Tears started to flow down her face. “I don’t wanna explode in pink again!”
Everyone in the living room sweat-dropped as Dieci started to go slightly catatonic.
Teana shook her head, she understood how Dieci felt. Hell, after Nanoha had blasted her, she couldn’t stand the sight of pink for days afterwards, and that had just been because she had been stupid with her training. She couldn’t imagine how bad it was for Dieci, who had taken a BLASTER-mode Excellion Buster to the face. “PTBD.” She patted the cyborg on her shoulder and wasn’t surprised when Dieci turned and hugged her, crying into her chest. “It’ll be okay, the scary pink beams won’t blow you up here.”
Even though he sweat-dropped at the sight, Genya walked up to Touma and put a hand on his shoulder. “Touma, I know that you wanted to leave right now, but, I’m sorry… With the terrorists running around on outlaying worlds and now this?”
Sighing, though seeing the looks on his sisters’ faces, he knew that even trying to get off-world would be impossible, and he didn’t think that they’d accompany him. Even if he liked this family, he really wanted to know just who was responsible for his home getting destroyed. Still…
“I won’t leave, not yet.”
“That’s all I ask.” Genya smiled before being forced to step back as Wendi tackled Touma, hugging him, which triggered off the rest of her sisters to hug him as well. Sighing, Genya wondered if maybe he should have found them all boyfriends by now, at least then they wouldn’t be so clingy to the poor boy.
“Well, that was… Different…” Vita mumbled as she looked at the screen. Today had been her day off too, so she was spending it with Hayate at their home.
On the table, little Reinforce Zwei was starting to get nervous as she looked around, slightly panicky. “Ne, ne… What’s going on?” Something about those three was really familiar to her, and she wasn’t talking about the way they looked. Their names, those names seemed to “sing” out to her and she just couldn’t… Place it.
Walking out of the kitchen, Hayate Yagami, dressed in casual clothing and an apron, blinked at the concerned looks Vita and Rein were giving her. “What?” When Vita wordlessly pointed at the television, she walked over and looked, and stared, wide-eyed. “What the?! Tha.. That’s me… But, with different hair and her hair’s shorter and… Fate-chan? Nanoha-chan? What’s going on here?!”
“They aren’t you, but they are and… I don’t know what’s going on here!” Vita yelled, utterly baffled by the newest development in her life.
“Materials…” Reinforce Zwei mumbled, looking at everything and nothing as she thought about it. Something about it was just… There and wrong, what was it? “Nnngh…” And why did it feel like her head was about to explode the more she thought about it.
Even so, there was something about them that chilled her to the bone, and it wasn’t the fact that they looked like Nanoha, Hayate and Fate. The feelings she got as she looked at them were dark, cold and just wrong.
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