"R" Aces of the Skies

Chapter 20

Alicia: W-What is going on here!?!?

Nanoha: Ah! Alicia-chan! Minako-chan!

Fate: O-Onee-chan! Minako! Thank the heavens you both are alright alongside Nevada.

Nanoha: Eh… umm… Minako-chan… who is that behind you?

Minako: Huh? Oh, allow me to introduce you to my papa, Aegis Burton. Former Ace Pilot of Planet Gradius.

Nanoha: P-Papa!?

Aegis: Yup, the one and only. Nice to finally make your acquaintance and I thank you for looking out for my daughter and for being very good friends with her.

Nanoha: N-Nice to meet you too, Burton-san.

Fate: But let's cut to the chase immediately, we had to get to Hayate now!

Alicia: Hayate-chan?! Eh what is she doing here!?

Minako: I don't know… but what I do know is that she needs us more than ever now!

The girls and the pilot flew closer to the ill girl as she finally took notice of the approaching group.

Hayate: Alicia-chan! Minako-chan! Oh I'm so glad you're alright!

Alicia: Sorry to worry you Hayate-chan.

Minako: We kind of… "flew" into a bit of trouble along the way.

Hayate: It's alright.

That was when she noticed Nanoha and Fate.

Hayate: A-Ah!? Y-You two-! If you are here then who-!

Hayate looks to where Nevada was and she is quite awestruck at what Nevada did. He could be seen dashing through the air, slashing the two fakes with his sharp claw-like fingers. When the two took enough damage, they are forced to switch back to their form.

Masked Man #1: [This kid… He never told us that he was THIS powerful!]

Masked Man #2: [Tch! To top it off… Hayate doesn't appear to look too broken for her to initiate her awakening. It has got to be this boy who's keeping her mentality in check!]

Masked Man #1: [Then we'll just have to eliminate whatever's left of Hayate's morality chain… her awakening HAS to be commenced! Even if this boy is a living, breathing human...]

The man tries to bind the R-Typer but his movement speed at which he interrupt his binding proceed with his Bydo shots and eyeball homing missiles makes it hard for him to initiate a binding spell on him. The other man attempts to stall him to give his other double more time to bind him. It did gave him the appropriate amount of time but thanks to Nevada's desynch drive engine, he escapes into desynch space, causing the man's binding spell to accidentally bind his double instead.

Masked Man #2: H-Hey! What do you think you're doing!?

Masked Man #1: S-Sorry!

Suddenly, Nevada appears right in front of the man… with a fully charged wave cannon on standby.

Masked Man #1: Oh…

Nevada: [Eyes: Red] (Scatter...)

Nevada then opens fire, releasing a shot that resembles a certain creature that appears inside a science book and the name of the weapon, is the Dantalion's Flute.