Harem Hero

Four of a Kind

"Doctor, Doctor!"

"I'm here you damn brat. No need to shout!"

Sundar pushed his way through the scrapheap jungle that Doctor Gael called an 'office.' In one of the few open spaces he worked dutifully – the Sledgehammer that Sundar had copied was dismantled into hundreds of pieces. The copy gun glowed dimly from the back of the room, the stabilisation device needed to remain powered for the copy to continue existing.

The Sledgehammer was a fiendishly complex piece of machinery. Gael, in his years of experience, he'd never seen anything like it. A hyper-intelligent brain struggled to comprehend. Voldaz were meant to be the rulers of the interdimensional space. Yet here was a random earthling creating a weapon unlike anything they could make themselves.

Sundar paced around the workbench and picked through the dozens and dozens of schematics that Gael had drawn by hand. The Doctor had been working on picking it apart for weeks now, and progress was painfully slow. He had hoped that his next plan would have had a faster return on investment. The entire thing had been kept quiet, at the Doctor's insistence. He was terrified when Sundar returned with the white weapon clutched between his claws. What had frightened him so? Now that it was nothing more than a pile of electronics the mystique was gone.

Gael ignored his irritating gaze and continued to tinker with his current obsession, a sophisticated time-space dilation device that the human scientist had included into the device. He could already feel his own mind being enriched with a bevy of new ideas. If only he could work with the woman in question, instead of being tasked with such inane nonsense as building attack droids.

He grunted, "If you're so bored, why don't you go attack the humans?"

Sundar waved his hands dismissively, "Mary and Faust are already doing it. Not like they'll get anywhere with it. Those two don't have a brain cell to share. That guy who's been fighting us is a real asshole – summons a bunch of people from other dimensions to fight for him."

"If it works, it works," Gael sighed. "There's no need to begrudge a winning strategy."

"There is when it beats me. I would have preferred to destroy him then and there – but we need something to even the playing field a little."

"It shouldn't take too long now. I'll have what you want soon enough."

"I hope so, Doctor."

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Gathered around the TV in the garage are you, Rias, Koneko and Asia. A news report displays your heroism in defeating the Gundroid and saving lives. Followed by a panel where the interviewer is speaking with the city's police chief – Andrew Spalding.

The interviewer goes for the jugular, "There are some that would say that the police aren't taking enough of a proactive approach to this unknown threat. What is the feeling at your department?"

The chief sputters for a moment, "I-I'd just like to say that we shouldn't leap to any judgements about the work that my officers do. We follow a strict process to ensure that we do everything we can to resolve the situation at hand. We know that these attackers are using advanced weapons to take hostages and cause large amounts of damage to public infrastructure..."

"Have you made an assessment on what their goal is?"

"No. But we're working with all the relevant government agencies to track down the people responsible, and to get a stronger lead on where they might strike next."

"And what of the people who did enter the stadium?"

"While public bravery is appreciated, and very noble – it should be said that in delicate hostage situations such as this that it should be left to the police. We have the training and the team to successfully resolve the situation. Vigilantism can result in more harm than good."