Later that week...
Hayate looked at Yuuno, Fate, Arisa and Quint. "I just got confirmation from Regius, until the Internal Affairs investigation is over with, both Subaru and Teana are on probationary status." She gave them a slight smirk. "The only thing it means is that they have to be supervised under most circumstances." She looked to her side and nodded at Reinforce.
"As to the problem with Limiters, right now, the limiters have been mostly lifted, however..." Reinforce sighed softly. "We're still under them, however, they were lifted so that none of us can be stronger than AAA right now. Even so, every one of us has been given total authority to have the limiters lifted at any time during a mission for the duration of the mission."
"However, doing that," Hayate linked her fingers in front of her face, "will, of course, require that you write up a very detailed report over the very reason why you did it."
Arisa rubbed the back of her head. "Um, why am I here? I mean, I'm not under one."
"Which is only because Holy magic is harder to scale properly than normal magic." Reinforce reminded her. "Anyway, there are rumors of a shipment of various illegal goods, including Lost Logia, running through Cranagan today."
Fate blinked at that. "...Normally that would be kept very quiet, unless it was a trap, so, how did..."
"Vita got the information, and, no, you don't want to know who or what she did to get that information." Reinforce gave Fate a pointed look and the blonde nodded, blushing softly. "Anyway, the stuff's pretty hush-hush, and Vita even commented that she got lucky with getting the information."
"Speaking of which, where are they today?"
Hayate sighed at Quint's question. "Part of the reason we gathered you here today. Nanoha and Zelgadis are, unfortunately, forced into a meeting with several trainers, Vita, Signum and Rein Zwei are together on the northern side of the planet right now... So, we're down a few staff members at the moment."
"Before you say anything, we wanted you four to do this mission anyway." Reinforce spoke up. "So don't think that you're only being used because we don't have others. We want you to take Teana, Subaru, Ginga, Erio and Caro out on the mission with you, if something goes wrong, the four of you are less likely to destroy the city than the others are."
"Why don't we use those dimension fields?" Arisa asked, scratching her head and blinked as she caught Quint shaking her head. "Uh... I miss something?"
"Those fields are to be used on less advanced worlds where magic isn't as well known." Quint started to explain. "However, on worlds such as Mid-Childa, the usage of a dimension field indicates that there may be criminal activity going on. After all, you could easily kill someone in a dimension field in cold blood, say that it was self-defense and most people wouldn't know the difference."
Quint nodded as Yuuno, Fate and Arisa all looked disgruntled at that. "They were abused in the past, it's just better for everyone if they're not used like that again."
Arisa grimaced and nodded. "I guess so."
"Anyway, the shipment's expected to move in a couple of hours, I want you four to brief them on the situation, handle it as you see fit, but don't hesitate to unseal the limiters if you need to." Hayate looked at Fate, who nodded at her. "Just remember that even though we have the authorization to do this, there was still a lot of problems with getting this cleared."
They nodded and left as Hayate dismissed them.
"Something wrong?" Reinforce looked at Hayate.
"I think if a mission comes up that needs more firepower, I might just take it myself. I need to get out of here once in awhile." Hayate stood up and stretched. "I swear though, if there are more missions with those 'weird signals' that turns up nothing, I'm going to start ignoring them."
Reinforce looked at the mission documents. "Perhaps I can go to one in the future? If it's just something like an old computer system or something, it won't take long for us."
Hayate nodded and turned to Reinforce. "...What's the rest of the day look like?"
"...Until they leave on their mission..." Reinforce trailed off, she knew that look on Hayate's face. Sighing, she pushed a button on the desk. "Hold all calls for the next two hours, and do not let anyone in here unless it's an emergency."
"How bad of an emergency?"
"There better be a zombie breakout at the very least, or you're in trouble." Reinforce turned off the intercom and pushed another button to lock the doors. "I think our schedule just opened up."
The next thing the tall device knew, Hayate was in her arms and they were laying on the couch. 'This is one way to burn off stress.' Reinforce mentally commented to herself as Hayate had a hungry, almost needy look on her face.
Reinforce mentally shrugged as clothes started going everywhere. After all, they could be replaced easily enough.
She stopped thinking when Hayate kissed her on the lips, and any other thinking went out the window for the next couple of hours.
Elsewhere...
"How do you like the body, Quattro?" Levi smirked as she saw Quattro walking around, her steps a little stiff and a little uncertain.
Rolling her shoulders, Quattro had to admit, this new body was rather interesting. "I'm surprised you put so much effort into it." It was actually nice to feel air going into her body without someone in the background of her mind.
Levi just grinned at her. "Don't forget, that body's only temporary for now, should it be destroyed, you'll end up back in this body." Quattro nodded at her and adjusted her glasses. "I made sure that you still have access to your abilities..."
"Hey!" Both Levi and Quattro turned to see Straight Kuma walk in with another man, this one was wearing a dark tank top, black pants and boots, his had blond hair that was fairly curly and a savage grin on his face. "Wow, my female boss got a cute co-worker!" Kuma grinned as he looked at Quattro. "Not bad, though if I was you, I'd wear my hair down, it would look better."
Levi just snorted at him. "Don't even try it, Kuma, who's this?"
"I'm George Tetsunami, I prefer it when people call me Tetsunami, it's better than George, in my books!" The man grinned as her as he pulled out a weird looking gun and spun it around a few times. "I hear that the pay is really good for this job."
"Only if you or one of the women that shows up, can secure the Lost Logia and get them away from other forces." Levi looked at Kuma, who had hobbled up to her. "He's a lot weaker than I thought he was. What took you so long to get back to me?"
Kuma shrugged and his eyes narrowed behind his pink shades. "Had to get his specialized device from storage, and even with my speed, that wasn't easy."
"Cry me a river." The Mazoku snorted at him. "Listen and listen well, in a few hours, there's going to be a major shipment of various illegal goods in the city. I need the two of you to stop the shipment from getting to the downtown area and get the materials for me." She grinned at them. "You'll be joined by three others." She tossed Kuma a few pictures. "Their names are Due, Lutecia and Agito. There may be others as well, but you will work with those three to secure the Lost Logia."
"I'll be heading out now." Quattro smirked as she left the building. "Oh yeah, should I send those things in?"
"Just one, I want to test how good it is with the AMS." Levi grinned and then looked at Tetsunami and Kuma again. "There will be, later on, a rather large mechanical being that will show up, I suggest you clear out by then."
Kuma grinned at her. "Regardless, it looks fun." He looked at the people in the images.
"Oh, and Kuma..." Levi looked at him as Tetsunami left the room. "That purple haired girl is mine, don't try anything with her."
Kuma merely raised an eyebrow, but nodded and left.
Levi just smirked and turned to look at a small laptop. Turning it on, her smirk turned into a grin as she worked on the program. Even if they failed, she had a back-up plan in store.
Seeing two figures appear on the screen, she wondered if she'd need them today or not.
"You get that, Asuka?" Kuma said to the third person waiting by his car.
The third member, a man with short brown hair nodded as a green sphere floated out of Kuma's hands towards him. "I got that," he turned to look at Tetsunami as he looked around, twitching slightly, "and you, Tetsunami, keep yourself under control today, got it?
Tetsunami just grinned and spun his gun around a few times. "Between my magnum, your balls and Kuma's speed, there ain't anyone who can deal with us."
Two hours later...
Looking down at the traffic, Yuuno turned to the rest of the group. "Okay, our information points to those semi trucks coming this way as the ones carrying the shipment. Arisa and I will stop the trucks, Teana, Subaru, Ginga, I want you three to get the drivers out of there, Quint and Fate will deal with them and Erio and Caro, I want you two to open the trucks after the drivers are out, got it?"
They nodded and Yuuno smiled at them. "Alright, let's do this!"
A few moments later, Teana smiled as the plan was moving along just perfect, no one was interfering and all the semi doors were opened up. "That everything?"
"Not quite." A female voice spoke up and Teana turned to see a thin woman with blonde hair, and a rather sharp weapon on her hand, wearing a blue body suit, a younger, purple haired girl in a black dress that showed off the top part of her breasts and dropped just enough to preserve her modesty, if one was looking right at her, instead of up. Teana had to admit, at least the girl's purple panties seemed to work for her.
Teana felt like smacking herself, why did she have that thought right now? Clearing her head, she saw the final member, a small creature with wings sprouting out of her back, red hair done up into three pig tails, and her outfit was rather skimpy, a small skirt around her waist and some sort of bra over her chest.
"You're outnumbered." Teana pointed up at her as Ginga and Subaru jumped to the top of nearby semi-trucks.
"I wouldn't say that, Tiyana." A familiar male voice said from behind, causing Teana to spin around and glare at the person who said it.
"That's Teana!"
"My bad!" The man grinned as he stood beside a rather... Unusual pink car. "But I think that the three of you are outnumbered here."
Teana turned her head and saw a rather solidly built man with a gun pointing at Subaru's back and another man with eight green balls of light around him. "...Well, damn."
"Teana-san, Erio-kun and I are in position, if things go bad, we'll help."
"Thanks, Caro." Teana had to admit, having a summoner really did make things somewhat better. "Even if you out number us, you can't win. After all, don't you think that there's others here too?"
"Lutecia," the blonde haired woman said, catching everyone's attention, "call Garyuu."
Lutecia nodded and Teana felt the bottom of her stomach drop out from under her as some sort of black, humanoid creature appeared next to Lutecia. "...She's a summoner too?"
"Garyuu?!" Teana turned to see Quint staring at Garyuu and the young girl, completely pale. "...You're Lutecia?!"
Due looked at Quint and narrowed her eyes. "You..."
"You're still alive?! I thought you were dead! We all thought you were dead!" Sure, she looked way too old to be Lutecia, but if that was Zest's daughter...
"Call up Jiraiou," Due whispered to Lutecia, knowing this could get out of hand quickly unless something was done.
"Jiraiou," Lutecia said calmly and several large horned beetles appeared around the group, "I suggest you leave now."
"We'll deal with the large summons." Fate sent to the group.
"Don't hurt them too much." Quint shot to them. "Lutecia, please, if that's you..."
The small device growled and floated in front of Lutecia. "My name's Agito, the mistress of fire, and you better leave Lutecia alone! She doesn't need more crap from people like you!" She snapped her hand out and a gout of flame erupted at Quint, who was forced to dodge out of the way.
Quint dodged out of the way and held a green gem in front of her. "Snap Calibur, let's go." A flash later, and Quint was in a light purple one-piece body outfit, a sleeveless vest covered her shoulders, while light colored leggings went from her feet up to her knees, leaving her thighs exposed. On each hand, a metal gauntlet with gears just over the wrists, and the back of the glove extended backwards towards her elbows while her feet were covered in armored roller blades with similar gears over her ankles.
Due blinked and looked at Quint, her eyes wide. '...That's just like Nove's...' She looked at Subaru, who had jumped down to deal with the guy with the eight points of light, and Ginga, who had jumped down to deal with the man that had the gun, '...Those two are type Zeros...' She snorted to herself. "Dammit, doctor, you really had to have us fight against Nove's family, didn't you?"
She turned her head as she saw a young boy with a rather weird looking spear land on the trailer that she and Lutecia were on. "Lutecia, you better use your summons to..." She trailed off as she saw a fairly small, though compared to the boy in front of it and the girl riding it, it was big, white Dragon, appear behind him. "I'm not one for front line fighting myself, Lutecia, you and Garyuu better be able to handle them, I need to help Agito out. She might be small, but her power's better for Unison."
Lutecia nodded and watched as Due jumped down and shifted forms, losing a few centimeters in the process, until she resembled a Saint Church nun. Who, Lutecia wasn't sure, but the woman had short pink hair and was wielding two tonfas.
Lutecia turned to look at the boy and the girl and pointed at them. "Garyuu."
Her insectoid summon sprouted wings and rushed at Erio, who frowned and rushed at him.
Quint had to admit, she underestimated this device. Unison devices by their very natures were rare, but there was something awfully familiar with this one. "You're pretty strong."
Agito grinned and sat cross-legged in mid-air. "Of course I am!" She suddenly stood straight up and held her arm in the air as fire swirled into an unusual shape. "Try my heat cannon!" Agito grinned and Quint's eyes widened as she saw that.
Not for the move...
But for what it looked like... A giant clawed hand with a cannon on top of it.
"Now I remember..." Quint quickly created a barrier to block the stream of fire that was launched at her. 'She's that device that I tore out of that thing.' If there were more coincidences today, Quint wasn't sure if she could handle it. Turning her head, she blinked as she saw someone she didn't expect to see out there. "Sister Schach? What are you doGAH!" Quint winced as Schach suddenly rushed up and slammed her side with those Tonfas of hers, knocking Quint into the side of a building.
"Agito," the one who looked like Schach said to the small demon before her form shifted and gained a little bit of height in the process, "let's go."
"Heh!" Agito grinned and shot into Due. "Nice trick, boss! Unison in!"
Due closed her eyes as her body was engulfed in flames, when they died out, she opened her eyes, which had changed to a blue coloring while her hair became red and yellow. "Now then," she held up her metal claws, which erupted into fire, "shall we continue?"
Quint rubbed her mouth and smirked at Due. "Well, didn't expect this, you're that spy that was in our group years ago, huh?" Standing up, Quint started chuckling at Due. "Seems like the past never truly leaves us? Let's go!" She yelled while rushing at Due, all of the gears on her gauntlets spinning at once.
See other episodes by Philip Weigel
(Posted Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:30)
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