Chapter 62: Cold Steel
Located in a dark room on an even darker patch of land, an android in a black YoRHa style uniform stood in front of a dozen different holographic screens, carefully studying them.
General Noir had served for many years, being a few centuries old at this point. A...
2024-03-10 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 61: Fall of Osaka
“Damn it, how many of these bastards are there?!” Pepper snarled, firing wildly at the approaching horde of Neo-Machines. “And what does it take to kill them?!”
Every time they thought they killed one, it just glowed purple and got back up,...
2024-02-29 18:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Cauldron bubbles
“Seems like it’s finally that time,” I mused quietly, looking at the letter Harry had sent me. He wanted to know if I knew anything about ol’ Nicholas Flamel. A bit late compared to what I remember about the story. Or was it? It’d been so lo...
2024-02-29 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2: Court Appointed Defender
(Monday, August 23rd, 2123)
The dark sky was slowly turning bright as dawn crept up over the horizon. In the distance, the skyscrapers that stood where the Row once had sparkled in the early morning light. It was an incredible sight. And ...
2024-02-15 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: Flight to Remember
Harry POV
Winter had finally come to an end in the Scottish Highlands, and Harry was grateful for that. Snow was nice and all, but the piercing cold and howling wind got old really quick. There were of course other reasons to appreciate the approach of s...
2024-02-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60: Rebirth of the Network
Through sheer luck, none of the tunnels the group had traveled through earlier had collapsed due to their slightly reckless use of explosives to perform emergency excavation.
That was the only good news, though. The pits filled with broken and non-fu...
2024-02-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Christmas Crimes (Finale)
Delilah and I peeled ourselves away from the window, plans for escaping swirling through our minds. Eventually, a crazy thought popped into my mind, and I turned to my new partner in crime.
“How sure are you about getting out the wind...
2024-02-14 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59: Node Defense!
As White had promised, an airbus was dispatched to pick up the two ex-YoRHa operatives, along with some other units and supplies from the area.
The sleek black vehicle set down on a stretch of road that’d been converted into a landing and runway strip, and ...
2024-02-14 16:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1: Jailbreak
(Sunday, August 22nd, 2123)
“Stilwater. An island off the southern coast of California, it was originally settled in the 1860’s by fishermen and whalers. It only rose to prominence years later, in the 1920’s, due to it becoming a major bootlegging...
2024-01-15 18:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Christmas Crimes (Part 2)
“Okay, I think… this will do,” I muttered as I looked over my stock of magical items. There were potions, but I was hesitant to bring them with me. Too fragile. I still put a few potions into small plastic bottles just because they were...
2024-01-15 18:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 58: Gun-Grave
Crouched on a roof overlooking a dazzling scenery of dancing holograms and neon signs, two YoRHa androids and one POD closely observed as hundreds of Neo-Machines scurried around the base of a massive gun, the barrel aimed westwards and to the stars.
It was a mas...
2024-01-15 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Christmas Crimes (Part 1)
“How do I look?” I asked, showing off my handsome face to Inky, who squinted up at me.
The elderly House Elf then wiggled his fingers and my tie adjusted itself, straightening out. A second waggle smoothed out the creases on my suit, and then ...
2023-12-25 18:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57: Bunker Buster
“…and that is the latest report regarding the siege of Cape Horn. The Neo-Machines have been driven back for now, but the satellites report reinforcements from the Tierra Del Fuego and Argentinian factory-fortresses will arrive in less than twenty-four hours,...
2023-12-25 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56: Operation Fallen Angel Part 2
“Seems like A2 is having fun,” 9S muttered, listening in to the chatter going on over the combat tac-net.
A2 had gone to hold off a small vanguard force of Neo-Machines which had tried to probe the defenses from the east. From the sounds o...
2023-12-15 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: Yule Tidings
Harry POV
Harry had assumed it would be easy to find information on their target. Yet weeks would pass in vain, however, and Harry and his friends found bupkiss on Nicholas Flamel. The library was an impressive repository of knowledge, but it was poorly organi...
2023-12-15 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55: Operation Fallen Angel Part 1
During the chaos of the White Chlorination Syndrome pandemic, as well as dealing with the rise of the Legion and the rest of the upheavals of the era, many nations had constructed various sites to act as Doomsday Bunkers, great vaults where humanity...
2023-11-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: The Mysterious Mr. Flamel
Harry POV:
Halloween passed by, and there were a few new changes for Harry. For one, Susan Bones and Hannah Abbot had joined their friend circle. The troll’s attack had traumatized the two, but Hermione had been able to keep them safe in the bat...
2023-11-23 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54: Iron Skies Over Europe
During the Alien Invasion and the prior Machine Wars, no continent had experienced as much conflict as Europe had. It was the center of the Hamelin Organization and Project Gestalt back in the days of White Chlorination Syndrome, and was the most heavily d...
2023-11-15 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: Halloween Mishaps
Harry POV
“Wingardium Leviosa!” Harry called out, and smile of pure joy and awe flickered across his face as he watched the feather jump up and stay floating in the air in front of him.
“Excellent work, Mr. Potter! Five points to Gryf...
2023-11-15 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53: The Caribbean Offensive
The Caribbean Islands. A major defensive node for the Terran Army. It was to the Atlantic what Hawaii was to the Pacific. No major offensives could be conducted in the Americas without the support of the various naval bases and munitions factories based o...
2023-10-31 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Business Deals
It had been over a week since Harry had gone off to Hogwarts, and I was feeling a bit lonely. Sam was great company, of course, but I’d grown attached to the little guy, and all his questions about magic.
I’d received an owl from him on Sunday, telling m...
2023-10-31 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52: The Battle of Osaka
10B had thought she’d seen the end of the fighting. That the violence was finally over. Sure, there were a few rogue Machines here and there, but the old strongholds were crumbling as time went by and more and more Machines chose to lay down weapons and agr...
2023-10-15 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: Start of the School Year
Harry POV
The morning came, and Harry woke up along with his roommates feeling well-rested and eager for the day.
Down to the great hall for breakfast, Harry sat down facing Hermione while Ron and Neville sat down on other side of him.
...
2023-10-15 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: A New School Year!
“You didn’t have to take me to the train station,” Harry said as I helped him roll his trunk to the train. It didn’t have much in it, thanks to the magical rucksack he was wearing, but there was enough to make it unwieldy. He was holding Hedwig’s cag...
2023-09-15 17:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51: Calm Before the Storm
“Sir Alexander! You’re here. Good,” Commander White said brusquely when she greeted the odd-ball family unit in the Bunker’s hangar. She had personally come to meet them and make sure the oldest living human was safe and accounted for.
“Whit...
2023-09-15 16:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: Down the Alley (Part 2)
Saturday morning dawned nice and bright, a perfect day to go out and stroll through a magical wonderland. I sighed into my coffee, drained it dry in a single gulp, and got ready to go pick up Harry.
I put on two rings, including the one I’d been w...
2023-09-04 17:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 50: Let Slip the Dogs of War
13R had expected some sort of grand ball or parade or something when she’d been summoned to the throne room with orders to bring tea. It was the sort of thing the eccentric Machine liked to do. Having a snack while watching other Machines perform parod...
2023-09-04 16:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49: The First Sin (Finale)
“Well, today is the day,” Alexander said, nervously adjusting the tie he wore. It was a dark, forest green color, and it went well with his charcoal grey business suit.
He briefly wondered if this had been made for him, or if some scavenger had f...
2023-08-15 15:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: Down the Alley (Part 1)
We traveled by bus to the street where the Leaky Cauldron was hidden, one of the three major entrances in the muggle world to the hidden magical world within London. Before entering, however, I took Harry to a convenience store and bought him a b...
2023-08-15 15:22:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: An Owl of a Good Time
A loud and frantic rapping on my apartment door caused me to look up from my work at the dining table. I had a jeweler’s Loup over my right eye, and a metal file and engraving tools in my hands, while a metal ring was being held in a vice as I worked on e...
2023-07-15 20:05:16 +0000 UTC View Post