Before anything else, this story might end up spoiling Luminous Avenger and most certainly will spoil Gunvolt 2. So read only if you have finished them/don't care.

Chapter I

[ASG: Stratosphere ~ Babel]

The orbital station Firmament floated at the very edge of space, looking down at the earth below.

The window looked out at a world which had been torn apart by psychic powers, most parts of the world were now in ruins. The only thing that had been keeping Japan relatively at peace was it's stance towards psychics, they would be used as tools and not as people.

Either way they were a threat to society and thus they must be destroyed like the monsters they are.

Copen had tried too, He had come today to Firmament to attempt to slay the Sumeragi commander and the Muse, a tool that Sumeragi could have used to force adepts to obey them. Now however he leaned against a wall, trying to make his way to the elevator before he bled out.

He had first been stopped by the Azure Striker- Gunvolt. They had fought and that demon had defeated him, he had not taken his wound there of course. The demon had used his lightning to short out his "Aix Gear" A shield used to copy the septima of defeated adepts. Copen had to wait behind to repair it.

He still remembered the words he had spoken at that moment "Father...you knew this would happen. You tried to warn those fools. I've let them all grow too strong... I can't pray for God to bring you back. But I can still pray those monsters destroy each other. And if any are left standing at the end of this...one day...one day, I will find them..."

After that he had repaired the damage to the Aix Gear before heading back to his "Sabertooth", the spacecraft that he took up to the orbital station. There he encountered another adept.

He struck against the Adept with "Power grab" a greedy septima that he had taken that could temporarily sap an adepts abilities. In this state the man with long silver hair had been shocked but he pulled out a gun of his own and shot at Copen. The shot had been blocked by his shield but because the adept had a moment of piece he recovered his lost abilities.

The man then activated a skill, Copen could still remember it's cursed chant "Fear the azure creed, it's thunderous voice is the Alpha and Omega of all things, Voltic Chains!"

Chains of lightning had gone everywhere, Copen was caught by surprise at the time. It had only been the timely intervention of his maid Nori who had the spare spacecraft (Currently unnamed) to fire an attack at the adept. Voltic chains did however destroy the Sabertooth and damage the Aix gear beyond repair.

As Nori landed the unnamed spacecraft to act as an escape craft, she was driven off by the adept and prevented from landing. Copen was only able to stop her from being killed by firing multiple bullets from "Border" the pistol given to him by his father.

While Nori was able to get out unharmed, with the Aix Gear destroyed, he had little hope of winning the fight. If only he had brought Lola with him he might have a chance.

In the end he had been knocked out an airlock by the adept. Luckily his suit "Megante Leon" had a pressure sealing helmet that could be deployed quickly along with and oxygen supply and a small propulsion pack. The bullet holes would have been a problem but the suit healed over those quickly (Which he couldn't say for the flesh underneath).

The only problem with getting knocked out of the airlock was he dropped Border inside it and the adept was able to get it. After a minute of floating the adept left, thinking him dead in the vacuum of space. Copen used the jets to re-enter the station and began to make his way to the elevator.

He was still bleeding though.

At the bottom of Babel tower, two people were waiting. Moniqa and Zeno, a Minos who lacked abilities and an Adept with ESP. They were waiting for their friend Gunvolt or their boss Asimov to return to them.

As dawn broke the elevator doors opened revealing Asimov.

An hour after that, Copen rode the elevator to the bottom. There was no-one waiting for him when he got there so he called Nori to pick him up.

When she arived she got to medical care first no matter what Copen said.

"Really? Copen-sama? You need this care now."

She had a knife with her that she used to cut his suit open again before extracting the bullets that had been shot into him and then disinficting and bandaging them.

Only then did she lift Copen into the car and drive him home.

[ASG2: A Girl]

In the mansion that Copen lived, his sister was hospitalised. Occasionally doctors were brought in to do check-ups or they discussed possible cures with Copen and Nori. Put simply Mytyl was mute Though she had a voice box, she seemed unable to use it. No matter what was tried she couldn't make even the smallest sound from her mouth with the obvious exception of breathing.

Mytyl was worried. Nori said that Copen had come back but he hadn't come to see her, was he hurt?

She herself was feeling great, like a weight had been lifted from her, it came upon a couple hours before but Nori had not gotten around to checking for a cause yet.

Luckily Lola was with her, Copen had left his flying robot to keep her company and she was making the occasional joke.

An hour after Copen had returned he finally entered her room. Mytyl raised her hands to her mouth in shock to see his wounds. She quickly reached for her drawing tablet and wrote out a question "Are you okay?"

Copen smiled at his sister "I will be fine, given time. I'm sorry but I need to take Lola now."

"Coming boss!" Lola chirped and flew to him. As he left Mytyl looked sad.

"Nii?"

Copen stopped and looked around at a shocked Mytyl. She was holding her hand to her neck as if shocked, Mytyl had made a sound.

"Is it back?" Copen was amazed "Can you speak again?"

Mytytl rubbed her neck and tried to speak again but nothing came out so instead she wrote on her pad "I don't know, I could for a moment. It was like it just fit."

Copen nodded with a look of affection on his face "I'll send Nori in to keep you company and perform a check up."

[ASG2: The Secret Plan]

Somewhere else, Asimov was speaking over the phone.

"Yes, the king and queen are now beyond our reach."

A moment passed.

"I think Nova killed them."

The person on the other end of the phone sounded like a young girl "Then a new plan must be made, I have done research into the Muse's origin and believe I have found the source."

Asimov turned to look at the city as his contact continued "It was discovered by Dr. Kamizono in his daughter. He performed a glave operation on the girl but the glave he created wasn't in the normal sword shape. He cloned the girl's cells and used the resulting girl to act as the seal on his daughter's ability."

Asimov rubbed his eyes "So the girl could not use the Muse until Joule was dead then?"

"Indeed, now that queen has died, the origin should recover her ability over the next few weeks." His contact spoke with a form of twisted joy.

Asimov shook his head and asked "So what is the girl's name then?"

His contact went by the handle of 'Alice' when they talked, she was the leader of a group called EDEN.

A smile could be heard in her voice "Her name is Mytyl."

End of chapter.

Start of the promised side story, I won't upload often but well...

Either way this story is basically; "From Copen's perspective, what happens when GV and Joule just disappear?"

As I said at the top, spoilers for ASG2 and GC:LUI

...Though a lot of the ASG2 spoilers have already happened.