[Ieyasu] bridge deck, in Reach's orbit.
"I'm what?' Kanzashi asked the man in grey robes.
"You have the same gift as master drallig and myself."
"So, she is capability of the same feet's you showed me today." The matriarch of the Sarashiki family said.
"She has the potential. But without someone to guide her, she never harness her power."
"So, you want to teach her."
"Only if she'll allow me. This isn't like learning a martial art, the way of the Je'daii is a lifestyle choice. The journey will be long and arduous, but I have faith she will blossom." Seth replied.
"But aren't you already training your sister?" Tatenashi remember that his sister had a red lightsaber.
"I am, but I've trained the most fundamental aspects into her, she mostly studies on her own, with guidance from me. Which is why I can focus on another apprentice. Since this is a huge decision, I'm not expecting an answer right away. If she would like to learn, then I want her to know I am willing to teach." Seth pressed a few buttons on the holotable and a hologram of Lelouch appeared.
"Your majesty."
"Madam Sarashiki, this is Lelouch Lamperouge, officially he is the head of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and holds the rank of Admiral in the Empire. Unofficially he is my right-hand man, I believe you two will be talking a lot in the near future." Seth introduced this friend to the head of the Sarashiki.
"It's a pleasure to meet you lady Sarashiki. I look forward towards your cooperation." Lelouch said.
"Likewise." The transmission ended, and Seth led the trio to some open officer quarters. However, once the group of four were alone the head of the Sarashiki house said something that surprised her daughters.
"Kiyomi."
"Excuse me?" The emperor said asking for clarification.
"My true name Kiyomi Sarashiki. For a head of the Sarashiki family to reveal their true name is quite important." Kiyomi said with a slight smirk on her face. Seth now knew where Tatenashi got that smile from.
"Thank you for trusting me." Seth responded.
"How could I not trust my future son-in-law." Kiyomi replied while eyeing her daughters. Seth chose to leave at that moment as he had some business to discuss with Master Drallig. He left a protocol droid with them if they needed anything. He went to the captain's quarters and met with the middle-aged Jedi master.
"Master Drallig, were you briefed on my plan for your dimension."
"I was. I believe that using the star forge plans to create an army is the only way to defeat Darth Sidious's empire." Master Drallig said as he pulled up a hologram projection of the Star Forge that Seth got from that holocron on tython. The plan was to place, what the R&D department called, a Star Child unit over a remote system in the Jedi's home universe, let it grow over a few years, while the force users were waiting in Seth's universe as the time dilation would mean rapids development on their end, and with the massive army of droids and ships, they could challenge the Sith's empire and take back the galaxy.
The Star Child was meant to use grow into a Star Forge in the same way that the [O.S.E.N.] system grew. It would build itself using the energy and matter from a star and a marker stored inside would assist it. It would take about two years for the 30-meter-long Star Child to fully form into the colossal automated shipyard/droid factory. Seth had ordered the construction of 3 Star children seeds and was going to take two of them back to the Jedi's home universe. He was gonna hide them in the unknown regions where he knew a few separatist outposts would most likely not have been found yet, he hoped.
They would also need to create allies as droids and a few force users weren't gonna win a war. The Je'daii was planning to leave in two weeks, hopefully they'll be able to scan through the [Giver]'s data banks and create a new class of ship. The two discuss many plans for their eventual assault, but it was all still very early in its conception.
Back on Earth, IS Academy.
It was a calm night for the students and faculty of the international boarding school. The night sky was clear, in the halls of the first-year dorm, one room was very active. A quintet was currently inside of the room, there were three sleeping bags in addition of the two beds in the room already. The five girls, Houki, Rin, Charlotte, Cecilia, and Laura were in the midst of playing a card game with each other.
"I'll take this... Nooo!" Rin had grabbed the joker card from Charlotte's hand.
"Sorry, but that's the game." Charlotte said with that calm, yet mischievous smile.
"Ahhh!" Rin said in frustration as.
"Rin, such an attitude is not fitting of a lady." Cecilia said as it was her turn to go. She reached out for a card, and her calm face was replaced frustration. As she drew a bad card from Laura who smirked in victory.
"Laura, you could be humbler."
"Houki, It's your turn." Cecilia said as she held up her hand towards the young woman. Houki began to hover her hand above the cards and noticed that Cecilia made a slight facial movement when her hand went over one card in particular. Naturally Houki grabbed it, only to find out that it was a terrible card to draw.
"Hey!"
"I'm sorry Houki, but all is fair in love and war." The room went silent after they heard Cecilia's phrasing. They all began to look at one another hoping someone would break the tension in the room. Finally, one of the blondes spoke up.
"Does anyone else want to talk about it. I think it would be helpful." Charlotte let out.
"What talking about 'him' gonna do for us?" Houki said with slight malice in her voice.
"She's rights. We need to talk about his royal 'jerkness'." Cecilia said as she placed her cards down.
"That cheating bastard!" Laura said as she let out her frustration and threw her cards across the floor.
"Laura!" Charlotte said. "Please calm down.
"I can't! Not after everything that has gone down." Laura responded.
"That jerk led us all on!" Rin added on.
"Not to mention, he's fucking my sister!" Houki added
"Houki! Language!" Cecilia added.
"Oh, knock it off with the 'refine lady' shit." Rin added. This got on Cecilia's nerves.
"Now Rin, you listen here you unrefined Muppet, you're starting to-"
"Starting to what!"
And the room erupted into chaos. It didn't take long for the other girls in the room to join in. The verbal disagreement was on the verge of having IS being deployed when two adults entered the room. Enter the room would be an understatement. The moment Chifuyu entered the room, the aura shifted coldly.
"Care to explain what the hell is going on." The former world champion gazed at the quintet who were silent. Anger was clearly in her eyes.
"Well? I'm waiting for an explanation."
"We were having a discussion." Charlotte answered.
"Oh, is that so. Care to tell what the subject was, Dunois?"
"You know damn well what we were talking about, hell half of this damn school probably does."
"Shinonono, I recommend changing your tone."
"Or what?" This made the four other students gasp in horror.
"Alright Shinonono, if that how you want to ac-, huh?" Chifuyu was mere moments away from, showing Houki why she is to always be feared, when someone grabbed her back.
"Heya Chifuyu!" Natasha said as she clung onto Chifuyu from behind. Chifuyu could smell the alcohol on Natasha's breath.
"Have you been drinking?"
"Maaaybeee?" The blonde woman tried to get up, but quickly lost her balance and nearly fell had she not put her weight on the wall. She slowly slid down the wall and looked around, before her eyes began to water and tears streamed down her face.
"Natasha, what's wrong?" Chifuyu crouched down to be leveled with Natasha.
"Sorry, I'm just under a lot of pressure. This whole situation with Seth and fucking feds has gone to shit. Dammittt!" In her drunken anger she threw her arms in the air but ended up making a dent in the wall of the room. She panicked and got up quickly but ended up making the hole bigger.
"Oh no!" At this rate the whole room would be torn up, she was grabbed by Chifuyu who had her by the hips.
"Alright, enough is enough. You five keep it down, Shinonono I'll have a word with you later, right now I have to take care of her." Chifuyu left the room with her drunken worker and slammed the door behind her.
Chifuyu dragged the drunk woman in her room. She put her on the bed and grabbed some water for her, hoping to sober her up a little.
"Alright Natasha, you better have a damn good reason for drinking on campus." Natasha took a long pause before she told her what had happened over her leave and explained to Chifuyu what the US Government's plans were for the so-called Emperor. Their main goal was attaining a genetic sample from Seth and use it to create their own super soldier. To do this they have order Tina Hamilton to seduce the Emperor, should Natasha and Iris fail to get the genetic sample. And if all these fail within a certain time frame, more drastic measures made be taken. Natasha knew that they would target Seth's child.
Natasha said she's complete against this whole plan, but if she didn't agree with this someone else would have been sent. She was torn between her loyalty to her country and her love for the boy she had raised as her little brother for the past five and half years. But she knew that this was wrong and now she was attempting to delay Iris and Tina as long as she could, but the stress was getting to her. Chifuyu swore that she would assist her as well, but she knew that her brother would have to be informed as well. She was fearful of the action he might take, considering her led a military invasion not too long ago.
The next day somewhere Antarctic
The weather was quite pleasant for this time of year in this normally inhospitable location. However now in the frozen land, a meeting was occurring between several shadowy figures. In one chair was the phantom of a man, Albert Wesker who had his Ichika clone nearby him. Across from him was another man who working in the shadows. The man simply known as Leader by members of the organization Phantom Task. Next to him were several women, notably Autumn and Squall from the Japanese cell of the organization which had been underperforming lately. They had failed they had lost a lot of units recently and they lost the most advance IS unit, [Kuroshiki] along with the pilot, the younger sister of the most feared woman. To say that the leader was unhappy with them was one way of putting things.
"It is quite unfortunate what occurred last night. We were so close to cutting the head off the Sarashiki organization." Wesker said.
"Indeed, though we have come to learn, that this 'Empire' has joined forces with the Sarashiki. This is... troublesome." Leader finished as he poured a cup of wine for himself. He offered one to Wesker who accept.
"So why have you called this meeting?" Wesker asked.
"I needed to reassure our partnership, after all that has happened I'm starting to doubt your abilities Mr. Wesker." The Leader said as he put his drink down and stared at the head of Umbrella.
"What did you say?" Ichika partially deployed [F.L.A.R.E.] only to see six IS suits activate behind the Leader.
"Ichika, control yourself." Wesker stated in a calm yet authorize tone
"Alright." The partially deployed machine disappeared and the other IS pilots did the same.
"A bit quick on the trigger your project is. Onto the matter at hand, while it is true that you have provide us with new IS suits, I feel as though they are lacking. As are your unmanned machine. They are becoming nothing more than cannon fodder at this rate. This was made most apparent in the invasion of North Korea, where they were heavily outclassed by this new machine." One of the monitors showed an imperial [Q.U.A.S.A.R.] easily defeating several of the Umbrella made IS. The screen then switched to footage of Imperial troopers using what looked to be standard anti-tank weaponry to eliminate the Infinite Stratos machine. Then it switched Seth, in his armor and wielding his red lightsabers, using the force to crush several machines. Wesker switched the screen to a new model of Infinite Stratos.
"Allow me to introduce you a new model of Infinite Stratos. [S.I.R.I.U.S.]." Wesker handed the Leader with a copy of the new units Specs on a tablet and a smirk formed on his face.
"I hope that this is pleasing to you." Wesker said.
"It is, how soon can it be mass produced?"
"There's a small problem. The DPRK was our main source of antimatter, but with the most recent events we can't produce more than ten cores with our remaining supplies and we can only make around 23 [S.I.R.I.U.S.] bodies."
"And is there a solution for this?"
"There are three nations in turmoil and I believe that we have a serious opportunity to help ourselves." Wesker brought up a map of India and a picture of the man leading the Rebellion against the government, Asav Kapoor.
"I know you are aware of this man Asav and have been selling weapons to his band of rebel fighters. Perhaps it is time to offer more support."
"When he takes over, he'll be in debt to us. But what if he was to turn on us?"
"We won't have to worry about that once he's given this." He pulled out a vial contain a small ten-legged creature, suspended in a brown tinted fluid. He swam and demanded to be let loose. "Once Asav takes this, He'll be under our control and he'll be none the wiser." Just as the Leader of phantom task was about to voice his concerns with this idea, when several explosions rang out in the distance.
45 Minutes Earlier.
IIB had been tracking the IS unit [F.L.A.R.E.] since it's attempted attacked on the Sarashiki compound last night. They were able to locate a hidden base, with significant defensive measures set in place. IIB officials recommended using to Venators Class ships to conduct instant orbital bombardment, but the Emperor has order a ground assault, led by Princess Madoka, or rather Darth Zus.
Inside of a [LAAT] gunship, Madoka, alongside several others of the 121th legion were geared up for the climate. With a special snow armor variant of their armor that provided additional protection in this type of climate. To the naked eye, the armor was completely white, but those wearing Imperial visors the suits had the distinct orange highlights of the legion. Madoka was wearing armor that was similar in design to Seth, but much weaker in material since her body wouldn't be as agile if she had the weight of a full suit of Mandalorian iron. Her suit was like the standard Imperial trooper armor.
"Commander Zus, were getting close to the LZ." Captain Ortega told the young dark lady of the Sith.
"Understood Captain. All troopers, ready yourselves. [AT-RT] operators be ready to scout ahead.
"YES MA'AM!" A choir of voices said over the comms channel. The [LAAT]s landed and dropped off their passengers, both organic and robotic. Normally they would have landed just outside of the base, but they wanted to have the element of surprise, so they landed outside of the range of the base's sensors. The [AT-RT] scouts moved up head and began to mark the way for the advancing troops.
It didn't take long for Madoka's squad to reach one of the base's outposts. It was fairly shotty in design considering the climate. Madoka saw at least six guards at the outpost. She in her white armor and matching cloak approached the fence. As soon as the guard looked distracted she grabbed him with the force. Before he could gasp, a clear cracking noise was heard from him and he fell limp on the floor. Another guard noticed this and raised his weapon, but he was pulled toward Madoka, and was impaled by a red lightsaber. The last of the four outside the outpost were about to alert the main base, when they were shot dead by several rounds of plasma bolts.
Just then Captain Ortega received confirmation from the other teams that they had taken their targets out with no problem. Phase II of the plan would begin. As the squads made their way towards the main base, two C-9979 land craft began to descend from orbit. Inside of these transports were the main assault forces, but they were vulnerable.
Madoka's squad was the first to arrive at the main base, but they were quickly joined by the other squads. They planted explosive at the main gates and once they were ready and the transport were near the detection radius of base, they detonated the explosives and rushed inside. The personal near newly created hole were quickly gunned down. It took Umbrella security forces several minutes to take up positions.
Inside of a computer room, Madoka's squad was pinned down. They had taken a few injuries, but the squad was still in the fight. As the Umbrella forces began to move toward the pinned Imperial forces, several droidekas rolled into the room and deployed their energy shields. The droids quickly acquired their targets and opened fired on the Umbrella units. The twin double barreled blaster made quick work of the Umbrella troopers. With the droid reinforcements now in the battle, Madoka's squad were heading ever deeper into the lower levels of the base, but as they entered a corridor, a volley of bullets was fired. Madoka partially deployed [Kuroshiki] and the suit's barrier protected the troops. Madoka looked towards the source and saw three women standing.
"I was wondering when you would show up." Madoka said as she undid her helmet.
"What's a matter, M? Aren't you excited to see us again?" Madoka saw that Autumn's [Arachne] next to her was Squall's [Golden Dawn] and lastly next to her was a woman in a stolen [Thunderstrike] Gen 2 Infinite Stratos unit. Probably the replacement that they sent after her defection to Seth.
"Captain, take your men and head forward. Remember, our target."
"Understood ma'am. Let's move it boys!" Captain Ortega said as they moved out of the corridor and ran towards their objective.
"Did you think we just let- what?!" Autumn had her weapon's sights set on Madoka and the troopers. She pulled the trigger and saw the bullets exit her gun, but they stopped mid-air by an unseen force. Madoka's gear disappeared into particles of light and she was left in her new pilot suit, which took inspiration from Samus's zero suit, but it's color scheme was a dark purple and white core area. They now saw that her eyes were no longer brown like they remembered but were sulfur in color. Autumn began to feel a crushing pressure on her neck. She began to gasp for air as Madoka lifted her right hand up and stared down the trio of women with hatred clearly in her eyes.
"Dammit she's like him." Squall summoned her IS, [Golden Dawn] and fired a beam of yellow energy towards the former Phantom Task member. In response, she summoned her own machine, but her hold on Autumn was broken. The third woman in the [Thunderstrike] open fire with her modified rotary cannon, but [Kuroshiki]'s shields easily took the attack. Madoka brought up one of her hip mounted plasma cannons and fired. Squall and the woman in the [Thunderstrike] took the blast, Autumn was able to move away thanks to her suit's legs, but she was soon struck by [Kuroshiki]'s broadsword.
Autumn was struck toward the other two and were under attack once more. Madoka open fire on them, but Squall recovered and dragged the other two to another more open area. They were confine, but the room allowed for some more movement. This was quickly lost when Madoka began attacking Autumn and disabled her web launchers, while avoid fire from all three effortlessly. After eliminating the web launcher, Madoka slashed off the main gun of the [Thunderstrike] then she severed the tail of Squall's unit, even though Squall put up a barrier. However, the barrier was useless against the upgraded broadsword of [Kuroshiki] as she tore straight through it.
They couldn't fight head on, Squall knew it. Their skill difference was too vast. She was slightly impressed that her 'M' was able to grow so much in such a short amount of time. Madoka was a great pilot while in Phantom Task, but now it seemed that she was able to predict her opponent's movements before they even occurred. As much as her pride would hate to admit it, she knew she had to run. She was gonna use Autumn and Agatha, her other subordinate, to ensure her escape. If the ship left, Squall knew that the leader of Phantom Task would use the nanobots inside of her and end her life. It was a failsafe in the event of an agent being capture. Madoka's should have activated, but it appeared that she was able to get her's removed.
As she was about to run, battle droids entered the room and opened fire. The three enemy IS suits came under fire. Agatha's unit was the first to give out followed by Autumn, who was taken down by a Super Battle droid's rockets. Squall turned her head just in time to see an Imperial trooper with a charged Ion shot. The blue blast her and all of [Golden Dawn]'s systems shut off. It didn't dematerialize, it just went limp. As did her left arm. Squall quickly removed herself from the disabled machine, but as she got up, she noticed that the blaster fire around her had stopped.
She raised her head and saw that Autumn, Agatha, and herself were surrounded by countless blaster barrels and one IS unit with her sword drawn. The three women suddenly felt a pain, unlike any other course through their bodies.
Meanwhile with Wesker.
"It appears that the they failed." Albert said as he watched the camera feed from inside of this ship of unknown origin. The small 200-meter frigate was finished mere hours ago at this location, but it wasn't fully stocked up. Its engines fueled to the only 1/4th of its full. Weapon systems were offline, and the ship's shielding was not up to par. However, it's cloaking abilities were online and ready to be used.
"Shame. For all her recent failings, she had her usage. Goodbye my dear." The leader brought up a hologram with Squall and the rest of here groups' kill switch. All he had to do was press the button. But as he extended his hand, he saw that his former operative launched electricity from her arm and the hologram for the nanobots read 'signal lost. He saw the trio of operatives being dragged away my men wearing that white armor.
"No..." Squall didn't know everything about Phantom Task, but she had information that was now in the hands of their enemy.
"Are the engines ready yet?!" Ichika barked out at the ship's crew.
"Engines primed! Thrusters hot." A crewmember shouted.
"Weapon systems are offline! I got nothing." Another crewmember said.
"All sensors are working. Shit, contacts coming!" A female crewmember said as it detected several squads coming towards the ship.
"We need to leave now." Wesker added.
"Launch!" Ichika ordered and the ship came to life.
Outside the ship, Captain Ortega and his men arrived in the hidden shipyard. However, the engines of the ship were on, and before they could get a rocket on the ship, it took off. The Imperial captain quickly hailed the [Moloch], another Arquitens-class light cruiser, and told them to attack the fleeing ship.
"Sir enemy ship is heading our way. Were in target range!" A crewmember said.
"Enemy ship's weapons are moving! They fired a volley!"
"Deploy countermeasures! Evasive action!" Ichika order. Two canisters filled fired from the ship as it began to evade. The canisters unleashed their loads and clouds of magnetically charged particles appeared. The particles were able to destabilize the magnetic coating surrounding the plasma bolt, greatly decreasing its firepower. As the Arquitens-class continued firing on the smaller frigate, Ichika knew they couldn't last long. They were outgunned and outmatched. He could jump in [F.L.A.R.E.] but he didn't know if he could take it down, before his ship sunk, he had one hope.
"Cloaking abilities?!"
"Ready!"
"Do it!"
On the bridge of the [Moloch], the unknown frigate just vanished from sight, much to the shock of the ship's captain. He asked if the ship was still on their sensor, and it came back negative on all spectrums. They were gone.
A few hours later.
The mission was over, they had captured the base, and gain access of the data left behind. Plus, the capture of three phantom task operative was a major success. However, Madoka felt like she failed as here objective was the assassination of Wesker. With more imperial troops arrive to clear the base of anything of value, Madoka returned to the Lunar base with her captives. As her ship approached the Earth's natural satellite she saw Seth's shuttle jump out of hyperspace and fly in formation with her transport that was inspired by an Fury-class interceptor from the old Sith empire. As the ships docked inside the base, Madoka saw that he wasn't alone. She saw a trio of blue hair women walking down with the Emperor beside them. Seth noticed his sister and three hoverlifts, pushed by droids, with captives on it. He quickly made a clone and said clone continued walking with the Sarashikis while the real one join Madoka.
"Zus, I was informed about your mission. I'm impressed."
"Thank you master, but I failed in the main objective." Madoka replied.
"You were able to take over an enemy base in the span of 90 minutes, eliminate three enemy IS units and recovered their cores and pilots. Lastly thanks to your actions of sending your squad forward, we discovered Umbrella has some form of hyper advance warship. Overall the mission was a great success. I'm proud of you."
"Thank you Onii-chan- I mean master!" The two just then entered a turbolift. Madoka saw her brother place his hand on a scanner and the destination was set for ?."
"Zus, in public we need to appear strong and unwavering. We are the symbol of strength and hope for those around us. However-" The turbolift took off and headed for its destination. "When were alone like this, you may call me Onii-chan, my cute little sister." Seth said as he rubbed Madoka's head much to her embarrassment. Seth saw that Madoka gained a red blush on her face and her eyes turned back to those beautiful brown color, and they were much softer. Madoka was about to say something, when the dup sense that their captives were waking up.
"What the hell?!" Autumn said a she began to move, only to find herself strapped to the hoverlift.
"Hello sleeping beauty. Did you enjoy your nap?" Seth said with a smirk on his face as he looked down at the orange haired woman.
"W-we were captured? The nanobots-"
"I zapped them. Would you like a second demonstration?" Autumn shifted her eyes toward Madoka who held her hand up and lightning began to arc between her fingers. Despite this, Autumn began to shout profanities and attempt to fight her restraints.
"Autumn enough." Squall said, the orange hair woman was about to protest, but she decided against it. The group arrived at a hidden train station and head towards their destination.
Sector Zero.
One short train ride later and the group now arrived inside the Moon's most secured area. There was a small holding cells that was meant to be used in the event of a high value target being taken alive. Seth had based it on the cells in the Galactic Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center that held him during the final weeks of the clone wars. Right now, the group arrived inside of an interrogation room, Seth had two magnaguard and a medical droid in the room as well. Inside the room there were three orange prison jumpsuits.
"Please have a seat." Seth said as he motions the trio to the table. Before any of the Phantom Task could protest, Squall sat down at the table, her teammates followed suit. Squall looked calm and collected, but Seth knew otherwise. He decided to get the interrogation under way. A hologram screen appeared showing Squall's file.
"Squall Meusel is the current name you go by, isn't it? Age 30 Imperial records show that you went by the name Amanda Cayce, and was former United States Navy SEAL in the past. 7 years ago, you were presumed dead. Reality was heavily damaged in a IED and required significant cybernetic enhancements to survive. You have two limbs and your liver are mechanical, these require constant maintenance. Known family, Daryl Cayce who is currently attending IS academy and has shown suspicious behavior recently. Currently in a homosexual relationship with Autumn Nimski." The screen shifted to Autumn's file.
"Autumn Nimski, age 25. Former citizen of Ukraine. Mother died during childbirth, father was an alcoholic and police reports from the period indicate that he would become physical when intoxicated. After reports of bruising on your body at the age of 13, the state intervened and took you into foster care. You stayed with several households until your last one lost track of you. This was shortly after the Infinite Stratos was revealed and your medical records indicated a high sync ratio, but before the Ukraine government could recruit you, you vanished. Mostly likely scenario, you were abducted by Phantom Task at this time. Currently in a homosexual relationship with Squall Meusel." The hologram changed to Agatha's.
"Agatha Bakker, age 21. Former Dutch Representative candidate. Showed A rank compatibility with the infinite Stratos and appeared to have a promising future ahead of her. Attended IS academy and graduated three years ago. However, you were bested by the current Dutch Representative and were placed as a backup pilot. Your life was quiet after that until you disappeared about four months ago. Now you've reappeared as a Phantom Task operative." Seth stated much to the surprise of the Phantom Task members.
"Was there anything in the record that was incorrect?" Seth asked. No replies.
"Very well. Ladies, I'm not gonna lie. You're in very deep shit. Right now, with all the crimes we have gathered so far from IIB agents. The Imperial Courts will sentence you to most likely life in prison without the chance for parole."
"So, we're gonna fry? Is that what your trying to scare us with, you sack of-" Autumn began to gasp for air. She reached for her neck, much to the horror of her teammates.
"Zus, release her. Now." Seth looked at Madoka with a stern look and his eyes were a sulfuric yellow.
"I apologize for the discomfort, but I'm sure you know quite well why my sister is unhappy with you." Seth said. Squall saw that Autumn was about to try something again, so she intervenes.
"It's clear that you want to offer us a deal. So, care to tell what it is?"
"I want everything you know about Phantom Task, but more importantly everything you have on Umbrella." Seth said.
"And what would be the incentive."
"A reduced prison sentence and some of your crimes will be looked the other way. Parole will become a possibility if you have good behavior. After the prison sentence is over, and if you go a decade without an incident all record of imprisonment will be erased and you will be eligible for Imperial citizenship or return to your home countries under a fake name." Seth stated.
"And if we refuse?" Squall asked. Seth gained a smirk on his face.
"Then we will conduct a very painful mental probing that will most likely result in a brain-dead state."
"Mental probing?"
"Allow me to show you." The trio of women were grasp by an unseen force and held against the chair they were sitting on tightly. Seth got up and approached the youngest member of the group. The young Dutch blonde's fear was clear on her face as Seth raised his left hand mere inches away from her head. At first the 21-year-old felt a minor discomfort, but soon her head began to throb. Soon her breathing became labored and her face began to contort.
"Stop!" Agatha screamed, but Seth continued.
"I see, you were not inside the meeting room, but you knew that these two were. You saw one of your comrades gunned down by my battle droids and took her unit since you didn't have yet." Seth released her hold on the woman and she collapsed on the table exhausted. With such an ability to extract information regardless of the captive's willingness to comply made Squall ask why was this 'thing' even talking to them? She knew that he was another one of Wesker's project's gone rogue, but there was never anything like this. She realized something. He was just toying with them. If he wanted, he could just do what he did to Agatha.
"You're wondering why I don't do the same to you, aren't you?" Seth said in a cold voice.
"I could easily do that and be rid of you, but I am a man of principle and I am offering you a choice. If you deny my offer, then I have no other option but to use such methods. So, what is your answer?" Seth said as he looked at the blonde terrorist.
"You think that we-"
"We will accept your offer. We'll tell you everything." Squall said cutting off her lover.
"Squall?!" Autumn said in shock.
"Autumn, this is our only option. Look at her. If he can do that, we're powerless. Phantom Task has already ordered our deaths." The blonde mature woman said, shocking her hot-headed partner. After taking a moment to process the situation they were in, Autumn too agreed to the offer. Agatha accepted as well once she was able to get up.
Seth left Madoka to deal with them but ordered her not to use violence. As he was exiting, he received a call from Dr. Akagi.
"Doctor?"
"Lord Dominus I have an urgent matter to speak with you. It about your son."
"I'm heading there now." Seth hightailed it towards the medical ward of the base and arrived in Dr. Ritsuko Akagi's office. He knocked on the door and was let in.
"Doctor, please tell me what you found."
"As per standard imperial protocol, we took blood samples of the captives to check and see if there were any health hazards."
"Yes, but how does this relate to my son?"
"It's best if you see for yourself." Ritsuko said as she brought up a hologram of the lab report.
"Is... Is this accurate."
"It's a 98.65% chance it's true."
On the screen, the lab results read: SQUALL MEUSEL GENETIC MATCH WITH AKIKAZE FAIRS. RELATION: MOTHER.
Meanwhile at IS Academy.
Houki walked towards the Kendo training room. She was technically was a member of the club, but never really showed up too much. However, that was not the reason she was here. She was summoned by Chifuyu to have a talk regarding her attitude last night. Truth be told, she feared the former world champion, but she didn't regret her action, she needed to vent some steam after all that had happened.
She arrived and opened the door to the training room. She saw Chifuyu standing there with a stern look on her face. Houki moved till she stood in front of the demon teacher. Chifuyu saw that she was trying hard to look brave, but she could tell the girl was frighten.
"Shinonono, do you know why I called you here?"
"I apologize for my attitude last night." Houki said as she bowed towards Chifuyu. She was smacked on the back of her head and fell on the floor face first.
"Wrong! I didn't call you here to apologize. Shinonono, I know your relationship with your sister and my brother has gone south since you learn of their marriage, but that does not excuse your actions."
"And I'm just supposed to accept the fact, my sister ruined my life! Because of her damn invention, she tore apart my family! She made me move away from Ichika! Now she takes him for herself! This isn't right!" Houki broke down and kept saying it wasn't right, that it wasn't fair. As Chifuyu saw tears stroll down the sides of her face, she embraced the young woman.
"Huh?"
"You really loved him." Chifuyu said as she continued to comfort the teen.
"I still do."
"Even after learning the truth? Even after he married your sister?"
"Yes. I can't stop. I've tried so hard to try and push him out of my mind, but I can't stop loving him. Even after all this, I want to be his side." Houki said. Chifuyu knew she had to help the lovestreaken girl.
"Houki." Chifuyu pulled away from her embrace and looked at her in the eyes. "You can't ask your sister not to find happiness. She has just as much right to do so as anyone else." These words made Houki slightly sad. She knew they were true, but she didn't like it.
"But I can make you into a woman that can stand by my brother's side without holding him back." These words naturally caused a slight confusion in the young woman.
"Don't you remember? Every woman that foolish brother of mine married is someone that fought beside him, one way or another. If you allow me, I'll make you into one hell of a woman that he'll want beside him." Chifuyu got up and offered the girl her hand. She took it and stood up.
"I'll do it. Thank you, Orimura-sensei." Chifuyu replied with a smirk.
"Don't thank me just yet. You'll hate the training. Trust me."
"When do we start." Houki asked as she wanted to mentally prepare herself.
"Now."
"Eh?" A bokken was handed to the young teen.
"I got to see what I'm working, so ready yourself." Houki barely moved away in time to avoid Chifuyu's first strike. Houki saw that Chifuyu grazed her hair a little, but she was using a wooden training sword. Chifuyu had a look that sent shivers down her spine, and it was evident that Houki was clearly uncomfortable.