Narita

Cy's head suddenly snapped up as she looked up at the ceiling her advanced hearing picking up the multiple thumping noise of routers and narrowed her eyes as a hiss slipped from her which soon turned to a snarl as her head whipped towards Shin eyes blazing. "Get my son out of here. I will find you." she said, voice suddenly cold and dead. "Do not stop for nothing. My son is more important than you know. Keep him safe."

With that said Cy quickly dressed pulled her blade out and rushed from the room, her braid whipping behind her as the door closed and rushed down the hall and out the door, and down the stairs her head snapping up towards the sky eyes narrowing on the eight helicopters drew closer. Growling with rage, fear for her son pushing her, Cy raised her right arm palm pointed towards the eight helicopters and shot out several lightning bursts from her palm in quick successions.

As she watched the bursts of lightning shoot towards the choppers, Cy's eyes flick between each of them calculating their movements as she shot more of the lightning bursts from her palm, anticipating their maneuvers as if she has done this before. Though she didn't recognize these types of choppers, she knew they were different but her main priority was keeping her son alive and giving Shin time to get him out of here. Why the choppers where here and who sent them didn't matter to her. Nothing did but for her son. While she continued to shoot more lightning bursts from her palm she slid her sword back into its sheath and popped her left wrist causing the bracer with several types of emblem stylized gems to glow though a pale blue with swirling images began to glow.

With a flick of her left wrist a blast of scythe like wind shot towards the choppers slicing through tree branches like they were butter, her body was loose but in a offense stance her eyes locked on the advancing choppers as her mind slowed down to a state of protection not destruction, intentions of making the choppers either back off or land to preserve the lives in the choppers. The wind she called up blew her braid back away from her back even as it lashed the branches of the trees about her. ''''Please Shin. Get my son out of here.'''' she thought as she continued to blast lightning bursts and wind scythe's towards the choppers.

The Helicopters themselves were still several miles out, and over the water outside the city. as Cy moved to make her attack, the Helicopters continued their course towards the house.

"We're approaching the target, ETA three minutes." The operation commander said through the radio as the Umibozu team prepared their weapons. with six Oniyama helicopters with twelve men teams in each, the Operation was slated to go down without a hitch, and was predicted to succeed.

Each Umibozu soldier was equipped in full body armor, gas masks obscuring their faces. Their armament consisted of Seburo MN-23 assault rifles, the 5.56 cartridge secured within the chambers of these fast firing weapons. 50 round magazines were checked and checked again for smooth feed as the men prepared the raid.

It was then rapid and quick bolts of lightning peppered one of the Oniyamas, dispersed harmlessly by it's composite armor. At this distant, the wind blades would prove to be a mere nuisance, nothing more than rough turbulence at this distance.

As Cy's attack impacted the helicopters, the pair of Jigabachis split up from the Oniyama helicopters, Jigabachi pilots carefully maneuvering in the wind and lightning, which served nothing more than to force evasive maneuvers out of the pilots.

"We're under attack, advise!" One of the Jigabachi pilots called out, while lightning bolts danced and scintillated across it's composite hull.

"Move in and neutralize the target, we must not let the occupants of the house escape. Ten minutes until local police arrive."

As the radio chatter went on, the Oniyama helicopters split up, three banked a wide left, and three banked a wide right until suddenly all six of the Oniyama helicopters vanished from sight, activating their thermoptical camouflage.

"Three-One you bank right, I'll take the left, weapons free, Authorization Code confirmed." The lead Jigabachi pilot radioed, his helicopter shuddering from the blades of wind, but lacking any physical damage.

The pair of Wasp like helicopters moved in a wide circle around Cy, while one of them swiveled it's stinger like tail, which bore a 20mm vulcan cannon. As the pilot made minor adjustments to the Helicopter's AI, a firing solution was locked on.

Flying in a low pass, the tail gun opened fire, it was a short twenty second burst. But with 4,500 rounds per minute, Cy would be met with a barrage of roughly 1,500 twenty millimeter tungsten tipped, armor piercing, depleted uranium shells traveling at four times the speed of sound.

The rounds would more than likely impact their mark seconds before the 'brrrrrrt' sound reached the manor, and the surrounding neighborhood.

With the sheer overwhelming firepower at the hands of this single attack helicopter, concrete walls, roofing, glass, and everything else would be shredded in the brutal onslaught of large caliber, and highly dense projectiles, the building in which Cy stood upon, along with Cy's physical body, and likely the surrounding yard would, more than likely be completely and totally destroyed.

The droning sound of police sirens echoed in the distance.

Shin nodded at the interesting tidbit. He's dealt with freelancers before, unpredictable and difficult to manage sometimes. Especially since their loyalty is usual fickle, but they are very useful sometimes. Nice to have outside help that have their own skills and training. Makes them less predictable to his enemies. Roland then responded to Cy, "Yes right away." Shin smiled, the AI always seemed happy to have something to do. He always suspect Roland gets a bit stir crazy sometimes. Though what would follow next was untimely. Thundering sounds roar in the horizon, and Shin had a seeking feeling what it was.

"Sir, I don't mean to alarm you but eight helicopters are converging on this location." "All eight armed with heavy ordinance, I suspect aggressive response." Roland spoke, his voice hard to tell if he shows concern or is indifferent. "Visuals please Roland." Shin spoke as two monitors appeared down from the ceiling. "Damn, Kenbishi Oniyamas and Jigabaschi AVs." "Someone's looking to make an appointment with me." Shin joked though perhaps inappropriate to treat this so casually. Then Cy spoke to him, she wanted him to get her son out of here. Shin understood and as she ran outside. Upon the monitors he saw Cy attempting to ward them off. Wasting no time Shin went to prepare their escape.

"Roland I need a container!" "Something that can hold a full grown human being!" "Something highly secure!" "Um...like one of the jettison pods on ships, one that have some life support systems." Shin commanded. "Hm...I don't exactly have anything like that." Roland spoke. "Is there anything we can place him in?" Shin quickly asked. "I can enclose the table he is upon and detach it with a hover module." Roland offered. "Do it and have my fastest vehicle prepped!" Shin commanded. "Absolutely sir." Roland responded. Soon the stretcher enclosed Ki like a coffin then detached from the main table. It hovered harmlessly off the ground. "Open the quickest escape route into the garage now!" Shin spoke. Soon the wall slid open to reveal a hidden path, Shin pushed the pod down the hall and into the garage. The garage was rather deep underneath the structure of his home. Completely with an hidden exit for occasions such as this.

He could hear the fire of weapons on the outside. "Sir they are attacking the manor and Miss Cy with a 20mm Vulcan Cannon." "It's ammunition, 1,500 twenty millimeter tungsten tipped, armor piercing, depleted uranium shells." "The sheer velocity is calculated at 4,500 rounds per minute." Roland reported. "Damn, with that firepower," Shin was then suddenly interrupted by Roland, "Sir Police vehicles are en route to this location evacuation should commence immediately." Roland spoke. "Is the vehicle prepped?" "Yes, I have accommodated for speed and capacity to fit your second party." "Though the vehicle will not outrun those helicopters." Roland commented. "That is why I need you to send in my ship, have it prepped for my coordinates." Shin commanded. The car was brought to him, it was smaller than a limo but not very sleek. Shin detached the top or the slate containing Ki as he slid him in the back. He then entered the front seat and prepared to drive. "I have took the liberty to outline the city map for possible routes,and I have activated the tracker for your ship which has been called." "I also took the liberty to having configured the radio to double as a police scanner just in case." Roland spoke. "Good and I assumed you have already activated protocols?" Shin asked. "Yes sir, I have activated protocols." Roland confirmed. "Excellent, I'm off." Shin spoke. "Good luck sir." Roland finished.

Then with a vroom the vehicle took of at high speed. It entered a back exit from the garage away from the front of the manor. "He will soon appear on a street, from behind the estate. There was a straight road and clear traffic, he would have a good dart at first. The map appeared on an on board computer mapping out the best possible routes. The scanner brought up some police chatter. This has to be a raid it has all the characteristics of such, and the coppters? They're not the Narita Police Department they're something else. Most likely the ISSP Agency. Whatever the opponent, he has vacated the premises, but not eluded capture. Those helicopters will notice the vehicle escaping the area, he can only hope his protocols work. In the meantime he began to undertake evasive maneuvers to avoid the police vehicles approaching the area as he studied the chatter on the scanner.

Catching the moment the choppers vanished Cy shifted her stance even as her highly evolved sight caught signs of disturbance in the air along with a ripple that registered as thermoptical camouflage, and sneered when she saw them split up her eyes narrowing. Growling lowly Cy dodged the shots aimed for her, her motions practically invisible, hissing as heat from a to close shot sizzled across her right shoulder as she twisted to the left.

Using her momentum she popped both wrists before slamming both palms to the ground and shouted 'Mother's Barrage' and watched as millions of stone spikes shot up into the air and hoovered as Cy popped her wrists again pulled her arms tight against her chest before pushing them out shouting 'Sister's Breath' and grinned as the wind blasted the spikes forward, intercepting dozens of the bullets while dozens of others shot towards the choppers.

Standing up she dodged to the left growling as she was twisted to the right as her shoulder was struck and pain crashed through her causing to slam to the ground as a scream of pain ripped from her even as she curled up grabbing her right shoulder and felt sparks strike at her hand and fingers while blood pooled from the wound. Keening lowly at the pain, Cy gritted her teeth as her arm twitched and jerked, pain rippling from each twitch and jerk. Her silver and black tawny gold eyes narrowed as she turned her head to assess the damaged and hissed her eyes widening when she saw that a large part of her tight shoulder was gone, sparks flying even as blood flowed down her arm. "Sorry...fuckers...you'll...pay..." she growled as she struggled to her knees, only to throw herself forward and to her right barely being missed by another of the bullets. Rage burned in her as she forced herself to her knees and with gritted teeth pulled loose one of the ribbons from her hair and bound her right arm to her chest, unmindful of the blood flow, knowing that the nanites were already working at cutting of the flow while frantically working at maintaining the damage already done.

"Sorry fuckers. Who ever the hell you are you will not get near my son!" she growled as she crouched to the ground than shot up into the air in a burst of speed unseen by normal human eyes and began to twist her body in a clock ways motion, allowing the wind that she had already activated earlier to burst out into a swirling mass of wind which soon turned into a swirling twister that grew in width and force. Enough to pick up dabries and rip out near by trees before she pulled her left arm tight against her chest than swung it outward sending not one but two twisters towards the choppers smirking as they grew in volume and speed.

Dropping back to the ground, Cy grunted as she hit, crumpling to her knees as the impact cause pain to ripple through her from her shoulder, mentally ordering the nanites to shut of the pain sensors in her right arm, even as the impact created a 2 foot deep indention in the ground and stood up, swaying slightly before catching her balance, to watch all the action, before snapping her head towards the sounds of the sirens and narrowed her eyes at seeing the nearing police and hissed, only to catch sight of a vehicle leaving the area and prayed that it was her son and that he would be kept safe. "He is your responsibility now Shin. Keep him safe." she said as she turned her attention back to the police cars and smirked. Popping her left wrist, since her right was out of action, and slapped her palm to the ground and hissed 'Earth's Wave' and watched as crashing wave of earth and pavement ruptured straight towards the vehicles.

Turning once again she faced the advancing choppers her eyes narrowing with rage as she watched the chaos her twisters were causing, chuckling as they continued to grow in volume and speed, practically destroying everything in their path and pulling up and spitting out more dabries as they ripped up and outward. "Not all of you will escape. Let alone survive. Those left I'll tend to when you land. None of you sons of bitches will get near my son let alone anyone who is tending to him." The chaos her twisters caused didn't allow any of the choppers to see the escaping vehicle just as the crashing wave caused problems with the police cars, not allowing them to catch sight of the fleeing car as well.

Cy looked towards the house and frowned before sighing and wishing that she could save the house from total destruction, but knew that it would be lucky to survive and closed her eyes and waited, knowing that soon she would have her hands full. With another flick of her wrist her hand glowed briefly before the glow dissipated and faded to nothing. Silently she waited as she listened. "All right lets finish this assholes. It's time to dance."

The pair of Jigabachis continued to circled wide and broad despite the magical onslaught, one of them narrowly missing one of the massive twisters by pulling it's chin up and rapidly gaining altitude.

The Pilot white knuckled the yoke as he yanked it up, and the Jigabachi protested, pulling itself away from the violent twister. "There's too much Magical interference!" The Pilot cried on the radio, jerking the yoke sharply to the right.

"Ugh... I can't hold it." The Pilot said, while the second Jigabachi pulled away from the scene, the first struggling against the whipping wind, which tossed and spun the helicopter about.

"Team Alpha, this is Command, withdraw the ground teams, it's too hot. I've got conventional response in the city to catch the fleeing suspect."

The Umibozu commander within the lead Oniyama nodded. "Roger, we're returning to base."

Cy had managed to succeed, and the six Oniyama helicopters banked a wide right, and began to fly back out towards the water, and away from the immediate scene. One Jigabachi was caught in the storm, while the other managed to withdraw to safer altitude. Thankfully the incoming police were too far out to be caught in the storm of upheaved rubble. However, the fleeing car was spotted by the same ISSP Agent that tracked the limo.

Putting the car into gear, he started off after the fleeing car, close enough that Cy would be unable to attack it without attacking the car. With a straight and narrow route, the pursuit would be easy, until both cars were caught in fleeing crowds due to Cy's defensive spells.

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Narita Spaceport
5 Minutes following Cy's attack.

As events unfolded in the outskirts of the city, the Spaceport Manager would be keenly watching the flickering screen, a newscaster droning on with the plume of smoke and flame in the background, dotting the black smoke were flashing red lights from various police vehicles.

The Spaceport Manager was suddenly startled as a red telephone rang on his desk, picking it up he spoke.

"Manager..."

The voice on the other end was calm, and crisp. "We have a situation, Regional emergency, shut it down, all non essential personnel are not permitted."

With the phone call finished, the Manager turned to his Executive. "Alright, I just got orders to shut the spaceport down, Military's calling an exclusive lockdown." He said, and the Executive nodded, turning to leave.

As the orders were carried out, Flights would show cancelled all across the board, while Police with canines and heavily armed military personnel began to move through the crowds of people in the Spaceport, amidst barking dogs and shouting orders, Chaos enveloped the port as Anti-Ship defenses were rapidly deployed around the Spaceport.

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Police Radio chatter continued however, despite the fleeing car and Cy's Chaos, Shin would likely learn some unfortunate news.

"Be advised; Military's shut down the region due to a regional emergency, Fleet's under orders to pursue and destroy anything that tries to leave the city, Precinct Three-One is working the Nihima district, we need to evacuate civilians for tactical nuclear strike."

"Acknowledged, Division One Nine is working in the Daiichi district and the spaceport district setting up road blocks, the ITN Kirishima, and the ITN Funaho are preparing for combat ready, along with the SV Kisseki, and the ISSP Cutter Mutseki."

It was likely that the driver of the car would soon find they too were hemmed in by a roadblock. Two police cars and a single HAW-206 Tank. One officer held up a stop sign, while the others braced for cover. It was by sheer coincidence that they ran into this rapidly deployed roadblock, but with Cy's chaos, the entire city was being quickly locked down.

Silently Cy watched as 7 of the 8 choppers withdrew and smirked even as her eyes narrowed on the one that was caught in the storm and grinned ever so slightly though it didn't reach her cold eyes as she moved forward, not caring about the cops behind her let alone the utter chaos she had caused. In her eyes, she did what needed to be done, to keep her son safe along with the only person she trusted to keep him safe. As she stood there watching the twisters and the single chopper left behind, Cy reached into the pouch at her left hip and pulled out a small bag, which she rolled in her hand narrowing her eyes as she decided whither or not to take what was in the small sack, her right arm numb and useless to her, something she hated though it wasn't anything new for her.

Hell she'd had worse than this several times in her life and her type of work, yet she hated being one arm down a sneer slipping over her face as she recalled the strike that had actually knocked her off her feet a low growl slipping from her as her eyes trailed after the struggling chopper. Reaching up and over her chest to press her forefinger to just behind her right ear, flinching slightly when a high sound of chatter echoed in her ear soon followed several voices chatting all at once and by passed it, centering in on both police and military, letting the in built language modulator translate the language that echoed through the in built scanner, smirking even more though her face stayed passive her eyes glowed with rage when she heard that the Spaceport was shut down and road blocks were being set up.

Though a slight frown marred her face at the mention of evacuate civilians for tactical nuclear strike it smoothed back over to blank features as she slipped the small sack back into the pouch at her hip and proceeded to unwrap the ribbon she used to bind her arm to her chest and with the air of someone used to stripping, Cy quickly stripped out of her armor, crouched down and rummaged through the pouch until she pulled out black leather pants with blood red stitching along the outside seems, black leather lace up vest , the leather lace blood red and black thigh high steal toed boots with five inch heels. Swiftly she dressed in the clothes she pulled out, reattached the pouch to her hip via the blood red leather belt that hung lopsidedly about her hips, than pulled on combat fingerless black leather gloves with blood red stitching. Once finished she once again bound her right arm back to her chest, the damage still bad, the healing slow as sparks continued to flicker from the mangled shoulder though the bleeding had stopped.

Once again Cy sighed as her eyes flickered behind her towards the wave of destruction caused by 'Earth's Wave' nodding slightly when she say that the cops had been stopped, than turned her attention back towards the chopper and twisters before a sinister smile curved her lips, popped her left wrist before raising her arm palm out towards the farthest twister and flicked her wrist sending it towards the twister that held the chopper captive and chuckled as both converged into one single twister that was wider and more powerful than it was before since now it was two twister in one, yet it didn't move from the place where it had caught the chopper in its grip.

The Cell in which Joshua was being held, tortured, and fastened securely to a chair stank of excrement, despair, and horror as the Shogun moved through the halls of the Prison Complex.

"Now that Shanthi has been returned, I have taken the liberty of moving forward with the execution." Sato said, explaining to Avantia as they moved through the hallways.

"By noon today, Mr. Mattrix will be executed by public beheading, for all of Terra to see." The Shogun added as she came to a stop at a doorway leading to Joshua's cell.

"This isn't a sight for the easily disturbed, but I wanted you to give the final approval before we carry out his execution." Sato said to the Matriarch, before she nodded and a guard slowly opened the cell door to reveal the prisoner inside.

Avantia raised the end of a silken scarf to her nose at the stench that assaulted her when the door was opened. She held it there as her eyes came to settle on Joshua, but the compassion she was so well known for wasn't with her today.

She nodded at Sato's words.

"Shanthi is not yet well enough to travel," she told Sato in the Taiyou tongue.

Physically Shanthi was healthy, but psychologically she was still recovering. It would likely be a long time coming before the girl was well enough emotionally to travel abroad again.

"I'd like him taken to Volaria, and the execution held in La'ita Hara. I want Shanthi, and the people of Volarian, to be able to witness first hand the retribution for this heinous act."

She gestured for the cell door to be re-closed. She had seen enough.

Joshua Mattrix was in so much pain. His limbs ached. His stomach clawed at him for food. His throat felt like a train could fit through it. He sat limply in a chair, in a pile of his own excrement, having no idea what his final punishment was going to be, having no idea that he was living his final hours in a chair, unable to see, and in pain.

The smell of him had long been forgotten. The pain was the only thing he could sense after the days or weeks of torture. He'd lost track of how many days it had been. He'd lost hope that O'Leary was going to come and get him out of this mess. He'd lost hope that they were going to let him go. All he knew now was how to live in pain. He was burned from hours in the sun, his thumbs had been dislocated from been hung in the air by them for hours.

He'd been broken long ago. And each time something new had started, he'd begged for forgiveness. Nothing had stopped it though. Even now, he didn't hear the cell door open and couldn't see the two people watching him.

Just outside the Shogunate City of Narita, a massive concrete door peeled away from one of the Shogunate's numerous ICBM sites.

As the Concrete door pulled back, the missile slowly peered it's nose out, exposing itself before a plume of smoke began to erupt from the silo itself.

"Launch in T-minus thirty seconds." The Missile Commander said, as he checked his watch.

As he checked his watch, a team of technicians worked furiously to program the missile's coordinates into the system. The Target was the middle of the Solinus sea, where a mid-altitude nuclear detonation was to take place.

With the TCCA informed several days prior to the scheduled test, even invited to watch. It would seem that Launch Preparations were going without a hitch.

"Ten... nine... eight..."


The Missile began to billow smoke even more, while a technician turned to the commander.

"Coordinates Locked, nuclear warheads armed."

"Five... four..."

"Three... two... one..."

"Zero Hour... Launch."

The Commander's hand went onto the large red button in the center of the console, and with a plume of white smoke, the Missile was away.

Having been watching the chopper before her Cy's head whipped around when she heard a faint sound her eyes narrowing in on the white plum of streaking smoke through the sky, a frown pulling at her brows as she watched it. "Missile? Why the hell have they launched missile!? What of all the life that hasn't been evacuated?" she asked, puzzled by the humans stupid actions but knowing that she couldn't do anything bout it, Cy turned her attention back to the chaos she had already made, hissing in pain as her shoulder sparked.

Looking down at her shoulder, or what was left of it, her lovely face twisting into an angry enraged look as she reached up and gently touched the skin around the edges of the wound, noticing that it was taking to long for the nanitz to fix the damage a sigh slipping from her as she shook her head and looked up, her eyes skimming over they sky and the missile, back too the helicopter and too where the cops had been stopped and heaved a sigh.

"Shin...I hope you have gotten Ki somewhere safe. Cause something tells me this is gonna be getting even worse." she muttered as she ran the fingers of her left hand through her hair, eyes closing as her head dropped back, her thoughts on her son, and the man who had helped her find him. "Things always go from bad to worse to chaos...." she muttered as she stood there silently, listening and waiting, knowing she was in the center of the eye so to speak.

As Shin drove, Ki, who was still unconscious began to twitch and shudder, his right shoulder a mangled ugly bruise, keened in pain as he twisted and jerked where he lay on the back seat, the pale blue shield now covering his abdomen slipping over the red stone in his bellybutton. 'Mommm...." whispered from him as he sunk further into darkness as soothing coolness washed over him from where the shield already covered, though his head continued to pound and pulse with agonizing pain.

As the sun barely crept above the horizon over the City of Narita, a single Black Tengu was being prepped in one of her many military bases.

The Pilot went over his checklist, and then offered a thumbs up. He then checked the GPS, at supersonic high altitude flight he should reach Wing City within the hour, enough time for Umibozu Ground spotters to deliver the coordinates for a precision strike.

The Pilot swallowed, before he went over final checks, and then engaged the throttle.

Once he kicked the throttle, the Black Tengu began to accelerate, and then gain altitude. Once it was away, it banked sharply westward, and began to climb.

"Watashitachiha, hanarete yotei jikoku o 1-jikanda." Hiro reported, before he pushed the throttle some more.

The Black Tengu was an angular fighter, clad in a black, radar absorbing material with small strategically placed mirrors to make the craft nearly impossible to detect. Along with it's hypersonic speeds, it would appear to be little more than an intermittent anomaly.

Tex walked up to the bar and pulled her hood down shaking her ears loose and stared up above the door. It was raining, which made it harder to read the already dark neon sign. After confirming that it was the right bar she stepped inside.

The bartender watched as the new customer walked in, she was different than most of the woman who came here, she radiated power, and the way her eyes glinted in the dim light, she had seen lots of shit.

Tex sat down at the bar and lowered her head. her loose red hair falling over her eyes. She drifted into her own thoughts. Images Lab tables, containment tanks, and bright lights kept returning to her mind. "What'll you be drinkin?", the bartender jolted Tex back to reality ,and she raised her head slightly " Oak Ale", the bartender raised his eye brows and turned around to get the drink "Strange request, your not from around here are you?", Tex sighed and pulled down her hood "Dose it matter". The bartender handed Tex a mug of Oak ale and leaned in "Not especially", "E-Theria, though I haven't been back there in a long time". "Oh, the elven planet huh, you a-", Tex interrupted the bartender before taking a swing from her mug "Half-Elf, not the easiest way to grow up in a place where everyone thinks your a freak"

The doors opened and a man walked in looking around before sitting down beside Tex and ordered a beer then, turning toward Tex. "Agent Six", "I go by Tex...how long has it been?". The man turned back toward the bar and took a drink from his beer "Thirty years, and you know we wouldn't come to you unless we found them". Tex sighed, staring at her ale "So what do you want me to do?" the man pulled a file out from under his coat, and handed it to Tex "We need you come in and take care of it with some new agents. Everything you need to know is in those documents" the man got up and left a few coins on the bar "We will see you in the morning I presume?". Tex stared deeply into the mug, pondering the options. "Yeah, I'll be there", Tex took a long drink from the mug before, tossing coins onto the bar, pulling her hood up, and walking out into the rainy night.

Sato Shogunate General Headquarters
15 Hours following the attack on the Nagama shogunate.


The response was swift following the attack against the Taiyou fringe worlds in Andromeda. Word had traveled from the Nagama shogunate, to the Empire, and ultimately reverberated through the AXIS until it reached Terra to allow the Prime Minister to deliver a well prepared response, and a call to arms.

It was morning in Narita, the sun was slowly rising up over the towering skyscrapers of the city, the morning rush hour had begun, and billions of television sets were tuned in to hear the speech that the Prime Minister of the Taiyou Empire was poised to give.

Kayabuki stared straight towards the camera, her face composed in a rather stoic expression. The flicker of photographer's flashes painted a flickering glow on the woman's face, while an adjacent newsman nodded and the Prime Minister shuffled some papers as she prepared her speech.

She cleared her throat, and began to speak.

"Ohayougozaimasu, taiyō teikoku, kanojo no bakufu, soshite kanojo no dōmeikuni no shimin."

"Good morning Citizens of the Taiyou Empire, her Shogunates, and her Allies;

"Kyō, watashitachi no nakama no shimin seikatsu no watashitachi no hōhō wa, watashitachi no sonzai sonomono ga, itoteki katsu chimei-tekina tero kōi no ichiren no kōgeki o ukete kita."

"Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very existence came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts."

Kayabuki paused a moment to take a breath, before she cleared her throat and continued to speak.

"Gisei-shadeatta, tanjun'na nōmin, gyomin, karera no senjō, sorezore no bun'ya de, jibun no ie ni aru, matawa karera no ofisu ni aru - hisho, jitsugyō ya josei,-gun to bakufu no rōdō-sha. Hahaoya to chichioya. Yūjin ya rinjin."

"The victims were simple farmers, fishermen, on their ships, in their fields, in their homes, or in their offices -- secretaries, businessmen and women, military and shogunate workers. mothers and fathers. Friends and neighbors."

"Seikatsu no jū oku, totsuzen kyōfu no waru, hiretsuna kōi ni yotte shūryō shita." She said, her tone now somewhat remorseful, yet resolute.

"Billions of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror."

"Wakusei ga moete, watashitachi no kūkan o tonde eirian no uchūsen no e wa, zentai no sekai wa, hakai sa reta shinjirarenai, hidoi kanashimi to shizukana, fukutsu no ikari de watashitachi o umete kita."

"The pictures of alien starships flying through our space, planets burning, entire worlds destroyed, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger."

"Tairyō satsujin no korera no kōi wa, konton to kōtai ni watashitachi no kuni o kowagara tame ni ito sa rete ita. Shikashi, karera wa shippai shite iru. Watashitachi no teikoku wa tsuyoi. Idaina hito wa idaina kokka o mamoru tame ni idō sa remashita."

"These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our empire is strong. A great people have been moved to defend a great nation."

"Tero kōgeki wa, watashitachi no saidai no tatemono no kiso o yurugashi, watashitachi no mottomo jinkōnoōi sekai no koa o keshi saru ga, karera wa, kono teikoku no kiso o fureru koto ga dekinai koto ga dekimasu. Korera no kōi wa, chikyū, soshite kōtetsu o funsai, karera wa taiyō no ketsui no hagane hekomi ga dekimasen."

"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, obliterate the core of our most populous worlds, but they cannot touch the foundation of this Empire. These acts shatter earth, and steel, but they cannot dent the steel of Taiyou resolve.

"Watashitachi no saisho no yūsen jun'i wa Nagama bakufu ni tasuke o eru tame ni, jitaku de, saranaru kōgeki kara ginga no mawari ni watashitachi no shimin o mamoru tame ni arayuru yobō o toru kotodesu."

"Our first priority is to get help to the Nagama shogunate and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at home and around the galaxy from further attacks."

"Teikoku seifu wa, watashitachi no keizai wa, bijinesu no tame ni aita mama, chūdan suru koto naku kinō shi tsudzuke, soshite teikoku wa, korera no kōgeki nimokakawarazu, dōsa o keizoku shinakereba naranai."

The Imperial Government continues to function without interruption, our economy remains open for business, and the Empire shall continue to operate despite these attacks.

"Kensaku wa, korera no jaakuna kōi no haigo ni iru hito no tame ni shinkō-chūdearu. Watashi ga sekininsha o mitsukeru to seigi ni sorera o motarasu tame ni watashitachi no chisei to gunji komyuniti no tame no kanzen'na risōsu o kantoku shimashita. Tōsha wa, korera no kōi to sore o daku hito-tachi o okashi terorisuto no kubetsu o shinaideshou."

"The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I've directed the full resources for our intelligence and Military communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

Watashitachiha, Ayenee no kuni ga, korera wa, kono hijō ni bakufu ni gurēto setoōhashi o kōgeki shita onaji hitodearu koto ni shōko pointo to shite, korera no kōgeki o okashita mono o, hoyū suru sekinin ga arimasu shitte iru. Ayenee no kuni ni watashitachiha,-ji no yōkyū o hakkō shimasu.

"We know the Nations of Ayenee are responsible for harboring those who committed these attacks, as evidence points to these being the same people who attacked the Great Seto Bridge in this very Shogunate. To the Nations of Ayenee we issue the following demands;"

- Anata no tochi no naka ni kakureru tero soshiki no shidō-sha no subete no taiyō tōkyoku ni haishin shimasu.

- Anata no kuni de jānarisuto, gaikōkan ya enjo shokuin, gaikoku o hogo shimasu.

- Sugu ni tojite Ayenee ni okeru kōkyū-teki ni subete no terorisuto kunren kyanpu. Soshite, subete no terorisuto hitorihitori to taiyō tōkyoku e no shiji kōzō o hikiwatasu.

- Taiyō no terorisuto kunren kyanpu e no furu akusesu o ataemasunode, watashitachiha, karera ga mohaya dōsa shite iru koto o kakunin suru koto ga dekimasu.

Korera no yōkyū wa, kōshō ya giron ni aite inai.

"--Deliver to Taiyou authorities all of the leaders of the Terrorist Organization who hide in your land.

-- Protect foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers in your country.

-- Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Ayenee. And hand over every terrorist and every person and their support structure to Taiyou authorities.

-- Give the Taiyou full access to terrorist training camps, so we can make sure they are no longer operating.

These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion."

"Ayenee tokuni CONCORD no kuni ga kōdō shinakereba naranaishi, sugu ni kōdō shinakereba naranai, aruiwa, karera wa onaji unmei o kyōyū shimasu."

"The nations of Ayenee and especially CONCORD must act and must act immediately, or they will share in the same fate as the Terrorists."

"Watashitachi no kuni wa, watashitachiha shinai taiya, watashitachiha tsumazuku koto wa arimasenshi, watashitachiha shippai shimasen, korera no fumeiyo to hiretsuna kōi no sekininsha o mitsukerudeshou.

Korera no kōgeki no haigo ni iru hito-tachi e. Kore o shitte iru. Anata no jikan wa temoto ni ari, dokoni-bi ga kuru, anata o sapōto shite iru subete no hito wa, watashitachi no ken ni yotte saiban ni motarasa rerudarou."

"Our Nation will find those responsible for these dishonorable and despicable acts, We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail.

To those who are behind these attacks. Know this; your time is at hand, and the day will come where you, and everyone who supports you will be brought to justice by our sword."

Once Kayabuki concluded her speech her head lowered, and there would be audible applause as she stepped down from the Podium. Those watching would now see the screen fade to black, before resuming normal programming.

The large Shogunate palace in the center of the massive city of Narita stood like an imposing edifice over the city around it. There were a small group of guards standing before two large closed gates, the guards did not move as the blue blur approached it.

Four guards, two standing and two pacing the gates in lock step, with the gates themselves locked tight. The Courier moving through the city garnered plenty of attention though, police sirens echoed in the distance, and the Courier's approach was long detected, but the guards continued their watch unflinching, as a small door to the massive gates opened, a single man in formal closes emerged, and closed the door behind him, no doubt the radio messages reached the Palace before the courier did, so the man waited.

The lone representative tapped his radio, and spoke into it briefly in Taiyou, the words echoing into the microphone.

"I'm afraid that the Shogun is indisposed at the moment." He said in thickly accented common. "I will accept your message, and ensure that it is delivered."

The man in front of the courier was Hideki Maseyama, the security chief of the Shogun's personal guard, and while not the shogun themselves, he was certainly in a position to deliver the message personally at his convenience. However he was also personally responsible for the Shogun's security, and would not allow an alien with no prior history with the Shogun passage.

He eyed the figure in the armor, while betraying nothing to the man before him, even as several snipers lined him up in their sights in case he was to make a move.

The Taiyou were a very industrious people, but within that industriousness was intricate protocol for social interactions, It was evidenced in the guards, and even the way the security chief spoke.

"I am the security chief of the Shogun's personal guard." He said producing credentials. "I trust that meets your requirements."

The Security Chief was slightly incredulous. There was a heavily armed and armored individual at the Shogun's Gates, with some kind of message. He was aware of the ship that had landed, and was keenly listening to the radio chatter going on.

"You understand how bad this looks? I will try to arrange an audience on one condition." The Security chief said. "The weapons, armor, they must be checked in, you submit to a search, and only then will we allow you to see the Shogun, that is assuming she is willing to receive you." The man said frankly.

"If you agree; I will let you pass."

The Courier nodded to the security chief, and reached up to his shoulder to begin unbuckling his armor before he paused and looked around him. He realized that, as the situation was, his movements could be misinterpretted. He then called out in an overly loud voice so that the soldiers around him could hear "I fully agree to your terms, and will now remove my armor. I am unarmed save for innate magic that I am trained to use. If you have ways or systems of dampening or restraining those powers, I fully submit myself to their use, so long as they do not restrain clear thought and function of the body."

Having said that, he returned to removing the armor, albeit at a slower pace. The shoulder plates came off first, then the chest piece was unbuckled removed, the gauntlets also. He would continue removing armor at this rate until it was all removed from him.

His ears were pointed, and his hair a strange metallic color that made it seem more mineral than organic. His eyes shined with silver light, and no pupils could be seen. His body, even beneath the light arming clothes worn beneath the armor, was obviously heavily muscled and toned. A pair of odd bone like structures protruded from his shoulder blades, serving no purpose whatsoever but being very evident. He was tall, easily standing over seven feet in height. His skin was pale with a golden sheen, as though some of the cells in his flesh were not organic at all.

He carefully placed his armor in a fashion that would make it easy to carry and look over, then stood at attention before the security chief, awaiting further instruction. The discipline he showed would be quite impressive to most onlookers.

The Chief nodded as he summoned one of the Soldiers over, who moved to unlatch the gate while another one took the folded armor and passed the strange alien a bright yellow claim ticket.

The Chief turned and gestured for the strange man to follow. With the gates opened, the dense bustle of the city would give way to a lavish garden, where everything was kept neat, tidy and a brilliant shade of green.

"The Shogun has agreed to recieve you. This way please." The Security chief said as he approached a security checkpoint. A large half cylindrical device with a yellow circle taped to the ground could be made out, as well as a pair of soldiers.

"Stand in the yellow circle, please." The Security chief said, and the half cylinder rotated around the alien, emitting a magnetic resonance to pick up any weapons that could be hidden. If he was clean, the Chief would nod.

"This way." He said, starting towards the large asian style building centered towards the back of the garden. The thundering sound of the gates slamming shut behind them could also be heard.

The Courier followed the instructions he was given to the letter, seeming not even to breathe if not ordered to. He would pass through the detector without issue, as the only weapons remaining to him where his limbs, and they would hardly be sufficient in this situation.

As he followed the chief he heard the gates slam shut behind him. It was thundering normally, but to his heightened sense of hearing it was all but deafening, and he winced in pain as the sound assaulted his ears. This would be the only reaction he would show as he followed the Security Chief to their destination.

The Security Chief led the Courier into the large building, though it appeared grand, and imposing. The building was ornately crafted with the finest wood. Inside the building one would find peace, relaxation as the security chief led the courier through the grand halls of the Shogun's palace.



Inside these magnificent halls, traditional music filled the air, the security chief had stopped at a small doorway, removing his shoes and leaving only his socks, he moved to put on a pair of slippers that were left for visitors, a second pair handed to the courier.

"Please." He said, gesturing to the slippers. "The Shogun is just this way."


Rounding yet another series of grand hallways, which smelled of wood and freshly waxed floors, the Security Chief happened upon the Shogun, who was knelt at a small table, hot tea brewing. Beside her was a middle aged man in a formal black Kimono, his hair done up in the traditional hair style, he was knelt beside the Shogun.



"Hotondo no meiyo shōgun." He said, bowing. "Anata ga hōmon-sha o motte imasu."

The woman nodded, and gestured. "Anata wa, Hideki o nokosu koto ga dekimasu."

The Security chief offered a bow, and then he replied. "Wakarimashita."

He then gestured for the Courier to enter, a single red cushion on the floor across the low table from the Shogun, it was implied he kneel on the cushion, to join the Shogun for tea.