Sorry for the long delay, I was busy pla... *cough* Nekopara *cough*... I mean busy with RL stuff so I couldn't release this sooner

Well, without further ado, enjoy

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WOOO, WOOO, WOOO, WOOO, EMERGENCY ALERT! EMERGENCY ALERT!............

In an operating room, the sirens were continuously blaring like mad

"Principal Sophie! A warning just came, the has invaded the city!"

"damn it, there hasn't been an attack for over a hundred years, why the hell are they showing up now?! How many of them are there?!"

"multiple signatures confirmed, West side of the City, 5 Ground type, four Category 2 and one Category 3!"

The are divided into two type: Ground and Air, it shows that whether the is capable of flying or not, and five Categories. Begin with Category 1 as the smallest, then Category 2 etc... up to Category 5, with each Category, their sizes, toughness and power increases exponentially.

"What? How did a few Category 2 get through the wall? It was designed to withstand a Category 4' attack. Order the subjugation squad to sortie immediately!"

"Yes ma'am!"

"Do I look that old to be called ma'am? I'm still young!! Don't you ever call me that again!"

"Yes ma..... I mean Principal!"

A young, petite girl with short brown hair was yelling at the operator. Though the girl was petite and looked even younger than the operator, she has a calm air around her, her expressions, her posture suggests that she is not just a normal girl but a seasoned veteran who has experienced many battles

"This is not a drill! I repeat, this is not a drill! Multiple have invaded the city. The subjugation squad is to move immediately, the details for the misson will be delivered to your terminals. All other related personnel, man your station and ready for combat!! "

At where Souta and co was

"wawawa, wh...what happened to Saya-chan? Is she okay? What is happening? What do we do Sou-chan??..   How did it get like this?"

"calm down Mirai! Saya is fine, it's nothing to worry about. More importantly, wasn't that explosion near the shrine?"

The west side of the city was swallowed up in a sea of flames, smaller explosions can be heard even from here

"Ah, the Shrine! My mother was still there!"

"You need to go and protect Sanae-san, I'll take Saya to a safe place and join you as soon as possible!"

"okay Sou-chan, I'll be going now!"

"wait Mirai! Take this with you, you didn't bring the Masamune with you right?"

Souta stopped Mirai from running off and gave her a metal bar, it was the beam saber from before. Swinging the sword around a few times to check the weight and sharpness, Mirai gasped

"what's with this sword? I can't even feel its weight, and it's incredibly sharp too"

"it's a light saber, don't leave it too close to your body and don't mix up where the front and back or you will harm yourself"

"geez! I'm not a kid anymore, I know how to swing a sword okay! *hmpf*"

"just in case~". (Since you ARE an airheaded girl). He thought

He then carried Saya with a princess carry and stepped inside the blackhole, vanishing instantly from sight.

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At the border of the City, there is a wall, a boundary to separates the from human. Towering over 20 meters tall, the wall was there for a very long time, it just stood there, silently protects the city from the threat of extinction.

Outside the wall, all signs of human activity ceased from this point, the outer area is a waste land, filled with abandoned houses and destroyed skyscrapers, there were numerous vehicle in bad shapes, covered in rust and have weed growing on them, scattered around the area.

Now, there was a big hole on the wall, numerous buildings and houses were flattened, and the silhouettes of three huge monsters could be seen, the smallest one has a height of 6 meters and the biggest one is over 15 meters tall, each one has a different color, but all of them were hideous monsters.

One has a green colored skin, 2 pairs of dragonfly like wings on its back and a long, forked red tongue just like a snake's that kept flicking in and out

The other two have grayish colored skin, but one was bigger than the other, and they both have a horn protruded from their head

In the dead of night, with only the weak artificial light from the roadside as the only light source, dozens of figures were moving through the street at a breakneck speed, they were riding some kind of vehicle that looks like the smaller version of a hovercraft

The fast-moving vehicles suddenly separates into 2 group, and headed for different directions

"2nd squad break off and head for the smaller group, 1st squad come with me. We're taking on the big group. I'm not gonna let anyone die today! Not on my watch!"

"Ou!!!!!"

All the soldiers on site gave a big shout

"Central command, this is 7th platoon reporting. Targets sighted. Your order?"

There were three monsters at the place where the big explosion was

"Central here. You are to engage and destroy the target, remember keep the damage to the surrounding at a minimum"

"Roger that! Engaging the enemies now!!

"ASS (Anti-Stella squad) spead out and keep them busy. Espers take down their barrier. Witches concentrate on your spell and strike them at the appropriate timing. These guys are just small fries, but don't be negligent, else you will hurt yourself or your comrades"

"Yes ma'am!"

The captain of the subjugation squad - Iris Amaryllis gave out battle orders. Each and every member of the squad knew what they have to do, they instantly moved to their respective positions and started attacking

A few human wearing strange suit flew up into the sky and surround the  on site, bullets and missiles flew towards the monster from all directions. But just before they hit their target, all the missiles and bullets floated unmoving in the air above the , creating a dome-shaped barrier that emits a pale white light

"Tch, their barriers are up as expected. Second volley, start firing now!"

The soldiers starts attacking again, one after another, bullets and missiles rained on the .

All the possesses a special trait, that is the barrier they emits. It's a special type of barrier that either stops or repels any and all attacks against them, so they are virtually invicible until the barrier is taken down. That was why each and all of them are hard to kill

"I'll take down their barriers! Please cover me"

A blonde girl broke the formation and ran towards the , her sparkling golden hair was fluttering in the wind, as the sun brushed through it an iridescent glow emitted through the blonde mane, sparkling like a running stream.

"Uryaa.. Take this!"

Suddenly, the girl disappeared from the spot she was running. In the next second, she appeared right next to the gray  and made a straight thrust with her weapon, a pale white light emitted from the spot that was struck

The monster howled, its red eyes were flaring up with anger as it search for the attacker, and swung both of its pincered claws while raising an angry roar.

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However, just before the giant claw that can easily bisect a human into two hit the girl, she vanished. Appearing behind the monster, the blonde girl struck it again

The blonde girl - Lieselotte Elly was holding a weapon that looks like a huge Jackhammer with thrusters in the back - The SS.01 Shieldbreaker, rapidly appearing and disappearing around the monsters. With each time the girl appears, a white glow accompanied by red sparks shone out as she struck the barrier with her weapon

Gradually, the barrier started having signs of breaking down

The blonde girl thrusted her weapon towards the 's defenceless back again, the barrier resisted at first, then quickly gave in and the high frequency stake sunk deeply inside the monster's flesh.

"Lotte-chan, get away from it now!" A girl with long purple hair yelled from behind

"got it, it's all yours Rize-san"

At that moment, a giant stone pillar fell from the sky, piercing straight through the , nailing it on the ground like a piledriver. The monster let out a final howl, then crumble to the ground

"few, that's one down" muttering Rize

"good work Rize-san, you are strong as always"

Lieselotte, while panting heavily, leapt away from the ’s body and landed next to Rize

"I'm nothing special, look at the captain over there, she's the one you should call strong"

"uwaa, that's captain Iris for you, of this level didn't even make the break a sweat. Scary~"

Fifteen meters away, a girl with long silver hair that was tied up into a pony tail was facing two on her own

The green one jumped using it insect like legs at Iris, trying to pounce at her. But Iris just stood there umoving, she showed no sign of trying to dodge the incoming

Halfway through its course it was stopped by a huge pile of concrete - a fragment of a building slammed hard into its face.

The monster was blown back several dozen meters, tumbling repeatedly before stopping. It let out a muffled cry, trying to get up, only to see it was surrounded numerous debris floating in place like they were held by invisible hands

With a flick of her finger, hundreds of sharp rocks with all kind of sizes and shapes rained down on the monster from every direction, piercing it all the way through its body. The monster let out its death throes and stopped moving shortly after

"captain! The last one is trying to do something strange!" 

Seeing two of its fellow died, the last and also the biggest slammed all its legs, digging deep into the ground, and from its mouth, a ball of light was slowly forming, it kept getting bigger and bigger by the seconds

Seeing that spectacle, suddenly Iris felt a chill running up her spine. Shaking her head to clear up the unpleasant feeling, Iris point her hand at the that was nailed into the ground by Rize and activate her power

The ground slightly trembled , and the giant stone pillar floated up with the corpse of the monster still stuck on it. Then like an arrow that was shot from a bow, it flew with an incredible speed towards the last .

At the last second before the stone pillar hit the monster, the ball of light on its mouth transform into a thick beam of light. The beam with tremendous output was fired toward the silver haired girl, it instantly vaporized the stone pillar along with the corpse stuck on it, and kept going.

But the beam of light did not reach Iris, as if hitting an invisible wall around her, the beam spread apart in all direction and exploded like a firework show

Moments later, a huge black orb flew from behind Iris and hit the monster directly, an instant later, a blinding flash came, and a huge ball of varicolored fire belched upward, the heat radiated from the explosion can be felt even from afar.

"that was close, luckily I prepared a few magic bomb just in case. Maybe that was how they blew up the wall, what a nasty attack"

The girl with purple hair - Rize Rosemary sighed in exasperation

"An attack like that is unprecedented, when did the develope an ability like that?" Amelia chimed in

"I don't know how, but we need to head for the second squad immediately. I have a bad feeling about this"

"you heard the captain! Move out!"

They moved in an orderly fashion, with the ASS formed a circle around the entire formation, witches in the rear and espers in the middle

"this is where the signal of the 12th platoon is, but why is it so quiet? Is the battle already over?"

"Over there captain! There's someone on the ground"

When the 7th platoon arrived at where the second team was, there was a huge trench on the ground, 5 meters deep and 10 meters wide, it looks as if a giant fissure has formed after an earthquake. Nothing remains inside the colossal trench, but they came upon something horrifying

Laying on the damaged ground, was a charred corpse. Her skin intertwined with her suit, the stench of the burnt flesh filling the air wafted into their nostrils, the smell of burning skin and hair, quite sickening and disturbing to the senses made some of the soldiers vomitted on the spot.

"wh...wha...what happened here?"

"where is everybody? Wasn't there 6 people in the 12th platoon?"

The girl - probably from the ASS, was lying on the ground, or more accurately, only her upper body was, everything below her breast was gone. But not even a drop of blood remains, the wound has been charred black by something with high temprature. This is what would happen if you took that beam attack directly

"how...how could this happen? They're all dead...."

"Melisa-senpai.... *sniff* please don't leave me alone *sniff*... didn't we promise to go for karaoke after this? *sob* Why didn't you keep your promise??!...." *sob*

A girl with red hair stood there in a daze - Amelia Fortza, hugging what's left of her comrade, bawling her eyes out, she couldn't stop her tears from overflowing. She sobbed into her hands as the tears dripped between her fingers, raining down onto the parched soil

"get up! This is a battlefield, save your crying for later"

"I can't... I don't want to fight anymore ..."

*smack* a dry sound rang out as Iris slapped the girl. The slap was as loud as a clap made her face stung, it was an open-handed slap and it even left a red welt behind. The girl fell on her butt due to the recoil of the slap, looking up, she didn't even know what happened to her

"GROW UP!!! Look around you! This is what happen when a attacks us. Do you think you're the only one who lost your friend? Many other in the squad are friend with each other.... I lost my friend too"

"Iris-senpai... so how? How can you say that?  How can you still be so calm as if nothing happened ?!"

"Because that's our duty. This is a battlefield where we may die at any moment, and our job is to make sure no citizen is harmed beside us, we will even give our lives for that. So if you don't want more innocent peole to die, then STAND UP AND FIGHT!"

Swallowing her grief and sadness, the girl stood up

*sniff* I'm sorry captain, I'm fine now. I'll fight, so that no one will have to lose their loved one anymore *sniff*

"good, now stand up Amelia, the next battle is waiting for us"

"you heard the captain! There's only one  corpse here. We need to find the other one right away, before it kills even more..."

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End of part 1