"Hayate..." A soft voice was speaking to her. "Time to wake up."
"Nnngh?" Opening her eyes groggily and blinking as she saw Reinforce's face close to hers, Hayate blinked several more times before sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "I was asleep?"
"Zwei put you to sleep." Reinforce smiled and stepped back as Hayate sat up. "It's been four hours."
Hayate's eyes widened as she stood up in a flash. "Four hours?!" She admitted, she felt more awake, albeit still groggy, but more awake. "I've got to..."
"Relax, dad." Hayate blinked and looked across the room where Vita was laying on the other couch, her hands behind her head as Zwei was apparently using her breasts as a trampoline to bounce into the air. Considering that Vita didn't have any discomfort on her face and Zwei was giggling madly, Hayate assumed that Zwei was just barely touching them and was really propelling herself upwards with a spell. "Signum, Nanoha, Fate and Yuuno haven't shown up yet. Shamal said she'd call as soon as they got here."
The second Vita stopped speaking, a screen popped up and Shamal's face appeared on it. "Hey, we're here."
Reinforce nodded to the screen. "Very well, come on up, we need to do some debriefing anyway."
"Ack!" Hayate tried to smooth her hair down. "I'm a mess."
Reinforce rolled her eyes and walked over to Hayate, pulled a comb out of her pocket and sat down behind Hayate, combing the girl's hair. "You're overly stressed."
"Just nervous." Hayate muttered as Reinforce combed her hair down. "I'm worried that this won't work, that I'm wasting my time, that I'm wasting all of your time, that..."
"Dad..." Vita spoke up and looked at Hayate with her left eye closed. "If this was a waste of time, none of us would be here. I'm sure that Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno, and Signum don't like to waste time on things either." If there was one thing Vita knew how to do, it was burn some time, usually out dancing and with any date she had.
Those were fun days.
"Thanks, Vita-chan, it's just..." Hayate trailed off and closed her eyes as Reinforce finished combing her hair out. "Guess that I'm just nervous about all of this."
"Don't worry, daddy." Zwei stopped bouncing and was sitting on Vita's breasts directly. "I'm sure that you'll do just fine."
Hayate smiled and stood up. "Thanks." The door opened at that moment and Shamal, Nanoha, and Signum walked into the room. "...Where's Fate-chan and Yuuno-kun?"
"Out picking up a couple of stragglers." Signum chuckled softly as she looked at the others in the room. "This isn't even everyone, huh?"
"I would hope not," Shamal shook her head, "how else are we supposed to operate with a bunch of rookies, a few Aces and a bunch of bridge bunnies?"
Everyone in the room laughed, except for Reinforce, who just smiled, and Rein Zwei, who looked confused and blinked several times.
"Anyway..." Hayate looked at them as the door closed. "Since we're here, I may as well go over who's going to be joining us for sure." The others nodded and she turned as a large screen popped up in the middle of the room. "Quint Nakajima, AA rank, ground forces Warrant Officer, mother of four, wife of Genya Nakajima, will be transferring over here, both because it gives us someone who's got experience with dealing with the politics that the Bureau has, and someone who's got connections and favors that she can use."
They nodded as the image changed to a man with brown hair and dark eyes. "This is Zest Grangeitz. Sadly, his transfer here may or may not happen. But if it does, he's over S rank and Quint Nakajima's direct superior."
"His role, should he transfer, would be to undertake, along with three others, missions requiring massive firepower." Reinforce spoke up to the group. The screen changed again and a man with purple hair and blue eyes appeared on the screen. "Zelgadis Greywords, as of this moment is finishing up some training with several new recruits. S rank, captain of the training corp, the man responsible for the expanding growth of the hybrid style of magic that many in the Bureau are adopting."
"Despite the fact that none of us have any problems using it," Hayate took over, "other than migraines when we push ourselves too much, we have the mana reserves to throw around spells that would quickly burn out weaker mages. I was reminded of the fact last week when I saw some C rank trainees using the hybrid style. They passed out after only five of the hybrid spells. However, these hybrid spells are the only way that, as far as I know, we humans can fight against the various threats that exist."
"Like the Mazoku." Nanoha said, her voice laced with disgust. "What else?"
Reinforce nodded and the screen changed again, this time revealing two young children that everyone in the room knew. "As you know, Erio Mondial and Caro Lu Rushe-Scrya," she smiled softly, remembering how utterly happy Caro had been to find out that she was part of Yuuno's clan officially now, hearing her call him 'papa' was the highlight of her day.
Especially with how jealous some of the girls around Yuuno seemed to act when they heard that and saw the flying hug Caro gave him.
"As you know, the two of them were in accelerated basic training for the past eight months and will be joining us soon." When Signum smirked, she raised an eyebrow. "Just what is so funny, Signum Yagami?"
"Who do you think Testarossa and Scrya are picking up?"
Reinforce nodded and blinked as the door behind Nanoha, Shamal and Signum opened up. "Greywords..."
"Sorry that I am late." He said as he stood there in a light blue uniform, looking at them. "I did intend to get here sooner."
"Don't you have training?" Vita said as she sat up and got off the couch, as she did so, Rein Zwei climbed up her breasts so that she could sit in the valley between them. "I thought you were joining us later?"
"Officially, I am, I gave my students the day off so I could get here." Reinforce nodded at him and Zelgadis continued on. "Going over some new recruits?"
"You have a suggestion?" Hayate asked and Zelgadis nodded as he pulled out a small data pad and tossed it to Reinforce, who caught it easily.
"Hmm..." Reinforce looked at the data and raised an eyebrow before putting the images up on the screen.
"Subaru Nakajima and Teana Lanster, both are recent graduates of mine, I was trying to find them an advanced course to take to further their skills." Zelgadis explained to the group. "Despite being hot-headed, the two of them work rather well together. They did have a third roommate, but she left just days before graduation and we haven't found her yet."
"Would the third roommate have been a suggestion as well?" Reinforce raised an eyebrow as Zelgadis nodded to her. "I see, too bad. Anyone else?"
"At the moment, no, but I might suggest asking some of the Saint Church members to help train those four, they could use it." Zelgadis smirked at Reinforce.
"There's a couple more people who will be joining us." Hayate said as the screen changed one last time. "I'm sure that we know both of them by now, for you, Greywords-san, I'll explain," the image zoomed in on the one with short blonde hair. "This is Arisa Bannings, host of the Azure Dragon, which allows her to manifest several constructs of any element she wants to," on the screen, Arisa was holding a shield of ice that seemed to spin around on her left arm while her right arm had a mace of water and her back had two blue wings of fire, " that shield was made up of ice and wind, if any of you were curious about it. Not too long ago, she joined the Bureau and has been in training, most of it was the boring training." She shot at look to Vita, who merely snorted. "As for the other one..."
"Suzuka-chan..." Nanoha muttered as she looked at her friend on screen. "I thought she didn't have any magic?"
"She doesn't." Hayate admitted truthfully. "However, her body was, in fact, modified to be able to fight against Astral beings almost perfectly. And since she has some unusual abilities due to her lineage, well, Mary and Shari Finieno, both of whom are known for being geniuses when it comes to building new devices and upgrading old ones, figure that she can be the best person to test new devices and equipment that they have planned for mass-release."
Nanoha, Zelgadis, Signum and Vita all sweat-dropped heavily. "Um, Hayate-chan..." Nanoha trailed off, scratching her cheek idly as Raising Heart, which was chained around her neck, suddenly flashed lightly. "Do you recall what happened when they tried to install a cartridge system into your staff?"
"...I don't want to think about it." Hayate muttered, remembering the end result of that little experiment. "At least they fixed it."
Reinforce patted Hayate on the shoulders to calm her down. "Speaking of which, Nanoha, did they fix your Assault Mode?"
Nanoha nodded and grinned. "Yeah. They changed the cannon so that it's smaller and more stream-lined and turned the whip into a blade that rests against my arm so that I can block strikes to my arm, or extend out so I can strike back."
"Did they get rid of the wings?" Hayate asked, gulping as Nanoha narrowed her eyes. "Guess not."
"No one touches the wings! They are cool and you will leave them alone."
Hayate nodded before clearing her throat. "Anyway, that's all for now, so... We won't start operations fully for a few more days, so get to know the rest of the staff. But, remember, we're professionals, so act that way when on duty."
Everyone stood to attention and saluted Hayate, even Rein Zwei, who somehow managed it while standing on Vita's breasts.
"Dismissed." Hayate said to them and smiled to herself as everyone left the room, leaving her and Reinforce alone. "That went well."
"Indeed." Reinforce blinked as Hayate called up a holo computer and locked the door. "...Hayate?"
"I think I want some... Fun time with you." Hayate turned and grinned, causing Reinforce to gulp and blush at the same time.
Well, at least fun time was fun for the both of them.
'At least she locked the door this time.' Having Rein Zwei float in on them last time was rather... Embarrassing.
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(Posted Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:29)
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