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(Spring 1208, Crossbell City)
Life had been fun, though surprisingly uneventful so far for one Juna Crawford. After the incident the previous March, Crossbell had finally regained its independence. While it wasn't perfect, with some still holding some bad blood towards Erebonia, which she outright had come to see as a second home, and Calvard, it was still free and safer than she remembered it prior to the Imperial Annexation.
Great shock was how normal it had been throughout her second year at the Branch Campus. After all the hurdles they went through in her first year, it turned surprisingly calm with only minor sporadic incidents until graduation. Now she had just recently graduated from the Branch Campus and upon returning home to Crossbell, fulfilled her dream by becoming a full-time member of the SSS. It had been relieving, yet also shocking with how...normal it felt.
"Then again, I guess anything would seem small after stopping a continent wide war..." The pink haired policewoman stated as she looked out the window of the patrol car, clad in a fur collared red coat over a white shirt with a black tie green skirt and brown boots with black stocking.*
"What was that Juna?" Came the voice of the young women in the driver's seat, clad in a CGF uniform consisting of a green jacket over a black shirt and red tie, brown boots, thigh high stockings, her brown hair covered by a beret of a similar color to her jacket as she briefly glanced at her junior to the side.
"Oh, its nothing, sorry for worrying you Noel." The pinkette waved off. "Just thinking back while admiring the sights." She stated while bringing her hand up to scratch her cheek as she looked at her senior as the car turned the corner. "It just feels hard to believe, how hard it was to fight and get our independence back, and the fact that I'm now one of you." The newly minted policewoman stated.
The aforementioned Noel Seeker gave a slight smile at that as she brought the car in to park near the Special Support Section's headquarters. "Yeah, I know what you mean. Feels like just yesterday we were still in hiding to fight off the occupation, and now here we are, free and independent once again." She then paused briefly to park the car. Removing her seatbelt she continued. "You deserve to be part of it too, with how much you helped out alongside your classmates and that instructor of yours, both during the Twilight and afterwards."
Juna brought her hand up to scratch her cheek as she chuckled at those words. "It still feels strange to be praised like that."
"Nothing strange about the truth." Noel rebutted as she stood up from the car. "Now c'mon. Lets go talk to the others and-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" A great scream erupted, interrupting Noel and making both young women nearly jump in surprise.
With a hint of worry, they noticed that the voice sounded young, female, and worryingly familiar. And more alarmingly, that it seemed to be coming from inside their base.
Instinctively, the two policewomen immediately brought out their weapons, a pair of pink gunbreakers for Juna and dual Orbal powered submachine guns for Noel.
Nodding at each other the two immediately rushed into the building. They immediately opened the front door, finding no sign of forced entry, and quickly discovered the possible source af the scream as they peered inside, and saw a familiar petite blue haired figure twitching on the ground.
"Tio!" Noel screamed out the name of her comrade as she immediately rushed to the blue haired girl's side, taking notice of how she was twitching on the ground, and the haunted look on her face. "Tio, it's me, Noel are you alright?!"
"What happened?!" Juna screamed out in concern as she examined the younger girl for any injuries.
"J-Juna, Noel..." The youngest member of the SSS groaned out as her eyes focused on her compatriots, her voice still hoarse from the great scream she had made.
"We're here, are you alright?" Noel replied as she held onto the young genius.
"No." Tio grimly replied, before her voice took a hint of urgency. "Emergency meeting, I'll explain when we're all together. Call the others. Now!"
"R-right." Juna replied as she brought out her ARCUS.
"Wait," Tio spoke again, as a thought occurred to her. "Don't bring in KeA, this is too much for her, please." She seemed all but begged.
The newest member of the SSS only nodded before making the call.
(Later)
Some time later, most of the members of the Special Support Section came to the lobby as Tio stood at attention, her gaze going over the assembled group and noticing a few missing members. "Where are Wazy and Rixia?"
"Did you forget?" The red headed Randy Orlando replied. "Wazy got called back to Arteria for what's supposed to be urgent business."
"And Rixia is with Arc-En-Ciel in the middle of a big show." The leader of the SSS, Lloyd Bannings stated as he looked at the diminutive young genius of the SSS.
"We left KeA with Miss Cecile just in case like you asked." Spoke the voice of the voluptuous silver haired beauty, Elie Macdowell, as her green eyes peered at their groups youngest member in worry. "Are you sure you're alright?"
"I wasn't attacked so I'm fine. Physically atleast." Tio grumbled. "Anyway, the reason I've called you here is because I've discovered something. Something...horrific." She spat out practically shivering as she remembered the horrid sights. "Its a good thing you kept KeA away, she's too innocent for this horror."
That made the assembled heroes of Crossbell look amongst each other. With how much they and the young Zero Child had already seen, and for the usually composed prodigy to be so on edge and be left a horrible screaming wreck while saying the younger girl should be kept away, whatever she discovered would truly have to be horrific.
"What," The newest member, Juna swallowed before speaking the question on everyone's mind, almost dreading the answer. "What is it?"
The young researcher grimaced as she booted up the Orbal computer, her hands shaking as she brought up the same web page that had sent her screaming. "Just, just see for yourself." She shakily stated before rushing away from the terminal as if afraid it would burn her.
The rest of the SSS briefly looked at their youngest member's form, before sharing a glance at one another. Nodding at one another in resolve, they then walked towards the terminal to see what had sent their youngest member into such a state.
With bated breath, the Special Support Section all looked into the terminal and gazed around the web page.
Lloyd was the first to speak as he read aloud the contents. "...Welcome to Mishy-X, thesite where fans flex their creative skills to show that there is more to Crossbell's beloved mascot than just what is seen in public, and how he can entertain adults just as well, if not more than he does children." He hmmed as he scrolled down and saw what seemed to be a fan made comic involving Mishelam's mascot greeting a female fan. Slowly his gaze shifted towards the ZCF representative. "Well, seems odd, but I'm not sure how-"
"Scroll down some more." Tio tersely retorted as she averted her gaze from the terminal's general direction.
Wordlessly, Noel did as instructed and scrolled down.
As one, the rest of the SSS blinked. Then they processed what they saw on screen.
"...The Fuck?!" Randy yelled as his eyes widened.
"My eyes!" Noel shouted as she looked away, her hands covering her eyes.
Juna had done the same, though not as eloquently, her voice stuck in a single long scream.
Elie's face turned a color paler than her hair before changing into a sickly green as she covered her mouth and looked away.
Lloyd was left staring, his eyes as wide as dinner plates, his mouth agape as he struggled to process the sight before him while hoping it isn't real.
Slowly, the leader of the SSS brought his finger up and pointed at the screen, his mind a blur as he struggled to voice what he saw. "Why does that Mishy have such a huge-"
"Don't say it!" Noel yelled out, her eyes peeping between her fingers before closing once again and she screamed at the horrendous sight still present.
"That's not even how a cat's thing looks..." Randy thoughtlessly intoned as he was unable to look away from the sight.
"That's not the point!" Juna screamed in outrage. "What the Hell is that?!"
"That," Tio dramatically intoned in a thankfully successful way draw the rest of her comrades sight away from the sight. "Was just one of many, MANY pieces of sacrilege from that pit. We have all gazed into the abyss, at the existence of something so depraved not even the worst of Ouroboros could dream of."
"Considering what we've seen, I have my doubts about that..." Elie muttered, her face having regained some vestige of a healthy pallor even as she struggled to erase the haunting images from, her mind.
"I dunno, considering some of this, she may be onto something." Randy retorted, his face still stuck in his previous shocked expression as he robotically continued to navigate the den of depravity.
"...Why are you still looking?!" The silver haired secretary screamed out in shock.
"...I don't know."
"Its worse than I thought..." Tio stated gravely as she shook her head as the Red Reaper remained unable to stop watching. "He's already been taken. We have to fix this soon, find these depraved fools and send them to Gehenna before they infect more like this."
"Now hold on." Lloyd spoke up, trying to act as the voice of reason. "Let's not get too hasty and blow this out of proportion. That's going a bit far."
"Too far? Too far?!" Tio shouted out in indignation. "Look what they've done to Mishy! Can you imagine how many children's dreams shall be destroyed by this? How many will lose their innocence at seeing him like this?!" She flailed her arms in anger. "They've taken one of the most wholesome symbols in the continent, one of Crossbell's greatest creations and symbol and desecrated him! An offense like this should be a capitol offense deserving only the most severe punishment like if someone in Erebonia threw garbage at the the grave or statue of Dreichels the Lionheart!" The usually stoic genius shouted out, her expression promising pain to the perpetrators.
Lloyd raised his hands in a placating gesture at the young Remiferian. "Tio, I know how much you love Mishy and completely agree how, well, wrong...that is," The young detective stated while gesturing at the terminal, Randy still unable to stop staring at the mind rending horror, the remaining female members giving occasional screams as they peeked at more scenes of their beloved mascot being debauched while keeping a fair distance away. "But violence probably won't solve this. Disgusting as it is, that technically isn't illegal. Unfortunately."
The young lover of Mishy however was undeterred in her vendetta. "I don't care. I am going to dox these bastards and kill them for daring to deface the symbol off all that is good in the world!"
"THAT, is definitely illegal and something I'd have to arrest you for." Lloyd deadpanned.
The flat look on Tio's face made it abundantly clear how little effect the threat had and how much she'd care if he actually went through with it. "Like how you arrested Rixia for her connections with Heiyue?"
"Burn!" A certain redheaded ladies' man stated.
"Shut Up!" Lloyd shouted in denial before pointing at his red haired teammate. "And get off the terminal!" He then looked back at the SSS' tech expert. "Anyway, that's totally different."
"Doesn't seem like it to me." Tio grumbled.
"Tio," Elie stepped in, placing a hand on the younger girl's shoulder to get her attention. "Let's not do anything rash. Let's calm down for now, try to see if there are any requests, and discuss this again later."
"We can't just ignore this! If we don't stop them now who knows how many more abominations like this they'll make!" The orbal staff wielder argued back. "Think of the children! Do you want to risk KeA being traumatized from this because we don't stop these monsters?!"
"Well, no but-"
"That settles it then, lets go kill some perverts!"
"Tio, No!"
"Tio, YES!"
And so, as the trio devolved into an argument on the proper course of action to take involving the makers of such horrid excuse of art and Randy still unable to pull his eyes away from the screen, the newest member of the SSS looked to the team's designated driver.
"Is it always like this?" Juna asked out of curiosity.
Noel could only sigh. "...We both know there have been crazier things than this." She then looked around the group, flinching briefly as another image from the accursed site entered her sight. "Lets, just head out and take care of some requests, hopefully this will blow over when we get back."
"No arguments there." Juna hastily replied as the two walked out and hopefully get the images of 'erotica' featuring Crossbell's beloved mascot out of their memories.
A scream of "Why does he have tentacles in this one?!" from a certain redhead only made the two rush out quicker and ignore the screams of the remaining trio.
Meanwhile in Arteria, the Ninth Dominion couldn't help but feel he had missed out on something hilarious, and was determined to rectify that come his next visit to Crossbell.