Meanwhile...
Shari gulped as she stood in front of Hayate's desk. The commander of the Riot Force had her hands crossed in front of her, which hid her mouth, and was looking at Shari with a very serious expression. The poor technician might have been good, but she was fighting the urge to wet her panties and run home crying at that moment.
"Knock it off, daddy." Rein Zwei said as she flew into the room. "Big sis is fine and Nanoha's just fine, she just needs to wake up." The small device pouted as she saw Hayate's expression. "Signum-nee! Daddy's stuck in her Gendo Ikari impersonation mode!"
Walking into the office, Signum rubbed her eyes. "Hayate, if you don't stop that, I'm going to make you wear a chastity belt and tie your hands behind your back for a week." Seeing Hayate instantly change from terrifying to a more scared and emotional mood, Signum nodded and turned to Shari. "Sometimes you need to scare her into not having fun for awhile."
Shari nodded and sighed in relief as the mood in the room lightened up. "Well, I finished the data gathering from both Graf Eisen and Raising Heart." Shari pulled out a small remote and pushed a button, causing a screen to appear in the room, showing off the two opponents that Nanoha and Vita had fought against. "I am unable to determine who they are or who they work for in such a short time, but I can tell you a little more about them."
Hayate blinked as she looked at the pink-haired one and turned to Signum. "Did you have a daughter and not tell us?"
"Hayate, by that logic, Caro would be my daughter, no, I don't have one." Signum rolled her eyes and looked at the pink-haired one more closely. "Though, considering that she has hair similar to mine and blades, I can see why you might think that."
"Though, I doubt Signum has anyone in her family with reptilian eyes." Signum, Hayate and Rein all blinked and stared as later battle footage was shown. "As you can see, her eyes became very reptilian shortly after Vita released her limiter, and her strength and power seemed to increase as well."
Signum raised an eyebrow as she saw the pink-haired opponent easily block Graf Eisen. "Impressive, to say the least."
"Yes, but she can also create four swords, and this..." Signum raised an eyebrow as the swords seemed to shatter into millions of smaller blades.
"...That is impressive." Even if the woman was an enemy, Signum couldn't help but appreciate a powerful technique such as that. Especially as it was later shown to tear through Vita's outfit easily. "That shouldn't be possible, even if Vita does like to expose her backside quite often, her Knight Armor should have held against normal blades, even Laevantine has trouble tearing through a Barrier Jacket, so, how?"
"That's a question I asked as well, so I took a closer look at the blades." Shari shook her head. "Without one on hand, I can't tell for sure what they were made of, but, just from a visual glance..." The image zoomed in on one of the smaller blades and Hayate blinked at the slight difference between the cutting edge and the flat of the blade itself. "Just from a visual glance, it kind of looks like whoever made these blades managed to come up with a lot of the Blaster Metal." Shari frowned as she looked at the other three in the room. "Which should be impossible, even if the production of the Blaster Metal has gotten easier over the years, it should be impossible to make such a large amount."
Hayate nodded at that. "Understandable, Signum, if you go against her in the future, try to get one of those blades for yourself."
Signum raised an eyebrow, but nodded. If she fought against that pink haired woman, she really did relish the thought of fighting such an opponent. "What about the other one?"
"From the data we got from Raising Heart, this woman has speed on par with Fate and greater strength, but what surprised me was this..." Shari pushed a button and Hayate, Signum and Rein all winced as they saw the woman's blades change color and cut through Nanoha's Barrier Jacket with ease and cut into her stomach with ease.
Hayate frowned as she watched it. "How long will Nanoha and Vita be out of action?"
"A day or two at most." Shari blinked and Hayate nodded, leaning back, sighing in relief.
"That's good, write up a report and we'll get it to the right people."
Shari nodded and left the room.
Hayate sighed and massaged her temples. 'Who were those two? Why were they after that Lost Logia? And why do I feel that there's more coming?'
Quint frowned as she listened to Erio, Caro and Subaru about what happened. "So, there were four people at that train?"
"Yes." Quint turned to see Teana walking with a limp, her ankle in a cast, towards them.
"You could have that healed, you know."
Teana nodded as Subaru helped her to the couch. "Yeah, but I didn't want to bother Dr. Shamal and..." She wilted under the look that Quint gave her. "It'll heal just fine."
Quint shook her head. "I know you're tough, but no need to stress your body." She frowned softly and Teana blushed hard as Quint called up Shamal to come and see them as soon as possible. "Teana, Subaru mentioned something about a fourth person that Erio and Caro did not see, can you describe any details?"
The teenager nodded to the older woman. "Yeah, he was kind of tall, at least taller than I was, he kept saying my name wrong..." She frowned as a thought came to her. "He sounded somewhat like instructor Greywords did, but I just ignored that, brown hair that was streaked backwards... And he was fast, very fast, he ran on the side of the mountain as though he was on normal ground, before moving really fast and leaving glass in his wake."
Quint blinked and nodded at that. "Did he fight against you?" Teana shook her head. "What was he there for?"
"He was stealing something, but I'm not sure what it was." Teana leaned back and frowned softly. "...Still can't believe that..."
"Sein betrayed you?" Quint finished and Teana sat straight up and looked at Quint, who nodded at her. "Erio, Caro and Subaru all described her to me, and I remember that cute girl from anywhere."
"But, why?" Subaru asked, looking as confused, lost and hurt as Teana felt. "She was super friendly, nice, bubbly, why would she do this?"
"I'm not sure," Quint shook her head, "but I want you four to do your part and write up your reports on what happened, okay?" Teana and Subaru nodded, but Caro and Erio blinked in confusion and Quint smiled at them before standing up and walking over and kneeling down. "See, we need as much point of views as possible in reports, and Teana and Subaru both knew Sein, so they might be a bit too emotionally invested, you two need to write up good reports so that we get all the details, okay?" She winked and rubbed their heads, causing the two children to blush.
Quint lasted all of three seconds before she pulled the two of them into a hug and started squealing. "Oooh! You two are just so cute!" She hugged them tightly and started rocking back and forth. "I could just gobble you two up right now and..."
"Mom! Stop it, people are staring!" Subaru blushed hard as others in the room were, in fact, looking, smiling and laughing softly, most of them remembering what their own mothers did to them.
"Sorry, sorry." Quint let go of the two children, who were still blushing hard. "Just take your time and write as clearly as you can, get all the details you can into the report, okay?" She stood up as Caro and Erio did as well, the two children saluted Quint, who returned the gesture, before they ran off to find a terminal to write their reports down.
"I need to go talk to some people, you two will be okay, right?"
Subaru was still blushing, but nodded as Shamal walked into the area.
Quint smiled and left the area, her smile quickly left her face as her mind went over what she had just been told. '...They had to be Scagiletti's Combat Cyborgs.' If Sein was with them, and she was that girl's, Nove's, sister, and those two were working with Sein... 'Did he know this would happen?'
Still, this was something, and she would get to see the reports before they were sent to Hayate's desk anyway.
Quint stopped walking and her face paled visibly as a flash of memory came to her. "That one..." She hadn't been too conscious, but she remembered the reports that Zest had given, about his opponent from years ago.
"Please, please don't let me be right." She said softly while continuing to walk down the hall.
If she was, things were going to be a lot...
Worse from here on out.
See other episodes by Philip Weigel
(Posted Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:14)
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