----- Same Day, Arthra Meeting Room -----
After the confrontation, everyone had an emergency meeting regarding the last encounter. The ones seated are Nanoha, Alicia, Chrono, Arf, Amy, one of the observation staff members named, Alex and a cat girl with short hair.
Lindy: Though Fate-san has her Linker Core damaged, her life is not in danger.
Nanoha: Just like what happened to me… The Book of Darkness managed to absorb some of it.
Alicia: Yeah… I'm glad that Nevada-kun has the desynch system in his attire. Without it, my sister could have had a lot more of her Linker Core taken. (And I'm surprised that Fate-chan got a slip of tongue and that Nanoha-chan is forced to tell them everything she knows about Nevada-kun up to this point.)
Chrono: And I'm glad it was when the Arthra was running. We were able to help her out much faster than in your case, Nanoha.
Cat girl with short hair: Right. Oh yeah, we haven't met before have we, Alicia-chan?
Alicia: How did you know my name?
Lotte: From my father, Admiral Graham. I'm one of his familiars, Lotte Liese. I have to say, you really do look like the spitting image of Fate-chan.
Alicia: Well of course she does! She's my "younger" twin sister after all. (I don't think she knows about her real situation.)
Lotte: Ooooh! What a coincidence! I also happened to have a twin sister as well. She's the other familiar of my father and her name's Aria Liese. She looks a like I do but has a much longer hair.
Alicia: Ummm… okay. Thanks for letting me know.
Lindy: Are we done? Then let's continue.
Amy: Right. A while after the two of you departed, the security systems at headquarters all went down from a hack. That was why I couldn't give commands or contact you. I'm sorry, it's my responsibility…
Lotte: It's not like that. Because you got the system back up quickly, Amy, you were able to contact the Arthra. And we were able to grab a clear footage of the masked man.
Two flat cylinder objects distanced themselves as to display the image of said masked man in the middle of grasping Fate's Linker Core.
Lindy: But it's strange. Their equipment is the same system used by the Administration Bureau. Is there anyone out there that can crack into it from the outside?
Amy: That's exactly it. Getting past all firewalls and alarms to take the system down so suddenly…
Alex: It's just unthinkable.
Amy: I'm shifting the units around right now, but I have to think of a stronger way to blocking them out.
Nanoha: Does that mean they have that good an engineer over there?
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