As the ship took off into the air, Yuuno sighed softly, at least no one had… His train of thought trailed off as the ship shook “What the hell?”
“ARRR!! Give us back the booty!” He heard the leader of that group of merchants yell at him over the com system. “And maybe the booty of the thief and we’ll let you all go!”
Sitting against the wall, Isis whimpered. “This isn’t fair, I just wanted to be a normal merchant, not dealing with crazy illegal and stolen things, I don’t even like to fight if I can help it.” She could fight if she had to, but that didn’t mean that she liked it. “I’m just a tailor and all my stuff is down on the ground.” Her golden eyes seemed to shine for a moment. “Hey, hey… Can you pick up my stuff?”
“A little busy!” Yunno winced as the ship was rocked by another blast. “Damn, how many ships do they have?”
Yami frowned and pushed Yuuno away from the control panels. “Just sit down and help my tailor get her stuff back, with the way you do things, we’re likely to be shot down. Oww!” She winced and glared at Seikou, who was shaking her head.
“Please, do not antagonize Yuuno-san like this, Material-D.” Seikou chided the other Material, who just glared at her before getting the ship to start dodging and fighting back.
“I’m simply using the most efficient use of our resources, if he can cast teleporting spells from a distance, it would be easier for me to pilot this while he takes care of that problem.” Yami said, ignoring the way that Material-L kept going on and on about chickens and some bald, tattooed kid with a flying bison and some ship named “Enterprise”.
Rubbing his head, though he had to admit that Yami was a pretty good pilot, better than he was at any rate, Yuuno looked at Isis, who smiled nervously. “We should go…”
“Not without my tailor’s clothing!” Material-D huffed as she used the ship’s systems to create some barriers around the ship. “Now hurry up!”
Yuuno would have said something, but seeing the tired look on her face, he sighed softly. “Alright…” He would talk to her after this was over, but for now. “You’ll need to take us nearer to the place.”
“Right…” Yami was sweating slightly as she fired back an attack, causing the attacks on the ship to stop firing for a short while. “Can you hurry it up?!”
“Just a moment.” Yuuno grimaced as he chanced a glance out of the window. “Where was it..?”
“There!” Isis pointed to a small stall. “Just get the clothes out of there, I can get a new stall later.” She didn’t carry too much, since she was always on the move, but she liked having a selection on hand at all times.
“Right.” Yuuno nodded and concentrated, a green circle appearing under him as he closed his eyes. “Got them.” His eyes opened, just in time for the clothes to drop on him and Isis.
“Avalanche!” Rai giggled as Yuuno and Isis disappeared under clothes. “Does this mean I don’t have to go to school today?”
“Material-D…” Seikou said softly, getting a growl from the sweaty and tired-looking Hayate look-a-like.
“I KNOW!” She yelled at Seikou as she fired another blast, this one far stronger, since she was using her own magic, before flaring the engines and taking off.
Outside, to observers, it looked like the ship that was being fired on suddenly exploded in black before the ships firing on it were suddenly missing parts of their front and sides, as if someone took a knife, cut them off and made the missing parts disappear.
Of course, the only problem with the ships missing their entire front side was that they had no way of staying in the air for very long before gravity, like a mother upset with her child, grabbed the ships and pulled them to the ground, crashing through several buildings and into cars, causing massive collateral damage below.
Yami was panting, sweating heavily as Seikou grabbed her out of the chair. “I… Can still…”
“No, you’re going to rest, we don’t need you passing out right now, Material-D.”
Yami went quiet as Seikou carried her to the back room, while she was doing that, Rai was throwing the clothes off of the pile until Isis and Yuuno popped their heads up. “Call me… Your majesty!” Yami was heard from the back room.
“Thanks.” Isis chuckled nervously as Yuuno shook his head in exasperation. He was beginning to wonder if every woman he was going to meet on this trip was insane in some way. Hell, if he thought about the women he knew in his life already, he could say that they were all insane somehow.
Chrono sighed and took another swig of the wine in front of him. All of these headaches, it was becoming too much. “Ah, good old wine, you won’t betray me, will you? No… Your sweet taste, it can’t betray me, nope.”
Watching this, Shi Nye sweat-dropped and turned to Yaz. “Uh… Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Admiral marry his wife after they got drunk drinking too much wine?”
“The wine will NEVER betray me! It won’t blow me up like Nanoha, it won’t make me blush like my sister, it won’t get pregnant like my wife, no, you won’t betray me…” Chrono giggled and rubbed the bottle of wine, almost seductively. “No, even the doctors said that drinking you is a good thing! Yes… Pressure is too much, doctors said it was good.”
“Think he’s had enough?” Shi asked, sweating more.
“NEVER!” Chrono laughed and fell out of his chair.
“He’s had enough.” Both Yaz and Shi said at the same time, not that they blamed him, after all the headaches and demands that others had made by yelling at the Admiral, none of them blamed him for getting drunk off his ass.
Then again, that never did stop Admiral Leti from getting drunk whenever she could.
“Note to self, keep Admiral Leti away from Admiral Chrono from now on.” Yaz said, getting a nod from Shi.
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