ATTENTION READ FIRST BEFORE YOU READ THE STORY!

This story will only be consisted of six chapters and these chapters based on the major turning points in the first season of The Familiar of Zero; these include:

-Obligatory Guiche Fight (It's a staple in FoZ fanfics)

-Saving Siesta from Count Mott

-Fouquet's Arrival

-The Trip to Albion

-The Discovery of the WW2 aircraft

-Reconquista's Declaration of War to Tristain

I am only writing these episodes due to my extreme laziness to write longer chapters, with this I can at least get a 'complete' on my list of in-complete stories; and this is also to practice extending my inspiration instead of losing interest on day seven. I'll change some of the things in FoZ like the 'Staff of Destruction' and the WW2 aircraft. So without further ado enjoy!

Chapter 3.2

Alpha Squad, you're up!

Princes Henrietta de Tristain walked down the intricate hallway of the castle alongside her was Captain Agnes although her attire is not the same anymore; gone were the green tunic, boots and cape and replaced with khaki military uniform and cargo pants of the same colour, on her hip was an M1911 and while her primary weapon, the SCAR-H, is in the TTC barracks she's more than confident to protect the princess even in the event that the castle came under attack at this moment.

It has been months since the introduction of the new branch that was taught by Michael Fujiwara, in Agnes' opinion kept on rising, she joined the TTC as a way defend the kingdom in the name of the princess and still manage to stay by her side by special permission from Michael, she took the rigorous training that Michael threw at them to heart, she learned new fighting styles, her marksmanship was now better with the introduction of personal defence weapons, assault rifles, designated marksman rifles, shotguns, light machine guns, snipers and many more. Out of the TTC trainees' batch she was the one who rose from their ranks the fastest, Michael saw her amazing ability to adapt and skill with using firearms he just had to invite her to join the Spartan Corps.

The Spartan Corps' training was way harder than TTC's training as it trained both her mind and body to be physically invulnerable, one of the training sessions they had was during a small party and Michael had spiked the drink with sleeping drugs made by Montmorency. When she came to she found herself in a torture room with "blood" everywhere, an interrogator asked about information regarding the military and every time she denied him answers she was hit, had her toenails broken and even shocked by a square class wind mage. When it was finally done, Michael came in the room, she was of course furious when she found out Michael was the mastermind. He tried to explain only to have Agnes tackle her and he willingly allowed himself to be beaten up. She stopped when she saw Princess Henrietta come in the room. Once the whole situation was explained she finally calmed down, not before kicking Michael in the balls. During that time Michael was in his Assault class which meant that he healed Agnes and her pains after that torture using the medic box. The "training" she endured was to ensure her loyalty to the crown and also see how devoted she is to helping the kingdom. Suffice to say Agnes got in the Spartan Corps.

"I still can't believe you endured that torture. I'm very proud of you captain," Henrietta said while giving a smile.

"Y-your words are wasted on me, Your Highness. I joined the Spartan Corps because I want this beautiful country to be protected no matter what," Agnes said.

"Oh cut the formalities! If you truly are my bodyguard then you would know that I don't like this kind of attitude," the princess said while waving her hand.

The pair stopped behind a pair of double doors, beside the doors was two TTC soldiers holding and M16A4, when they saw the princess and captain they both stood straight and saluted. Henrietta smiled and entered the building not before greeting Agnes a good night.

When the door closed she bid one of the female guards to take the night off and she will replace her. After some convincing the soldier retired and was replaced by the captain.

"Louise what are you doing?" Michael asked.

Said girl was fumbling with an RPG-7, he was going to scold her for not holding it properly and doing it the middle of the night but he didn't, after all watching a small girl holding a weapon that's half of her height is quite comical. Besides the way she looked when she struggled to keep the weapon on her shoulder is just too adorable.

Michael sighed and approached her to help her hold the gun when all of a sudden gunshots were heard in the castle. Looking at Louise she gave the rocket launcher back and Michael placed the gun back where it should be. Familiar and Master left the armoury and searched for the source of the gunshot, multiple more were heard which helped them triangulate when it came from. When they found out where it came from they both had varying expressions; Louise had a look of horror while Michael had an unpleasant frown graced on his face.

The gunshots came from Princess Henrietta's quarters.

Master and Familiar sprinted towards the castle. The training that Michael gave Louise was not too hard but it was also not easy, he pushed her unfit body to new limits, he even taught her how to use a weapon; her choice of weapon is the P-90, Michael kind of expected she choose that weapon because of its unusual design and its slight complexity when compared to the Law Enforcement's staple gun: the UMP-45.

Michael and Louise rounded around the corner and climbed the final set of stairs, the gunshots stopped by now and the whole castle was alert, a large bell was rung alerting every guard, mage and soldier in the area. When they were running down the hallway they saw the doors leading to the princess' quarters wide open. Upon entry they saw the crumpled form of Agnes nursing a guard's stab wound.

"What happened?" Michael asked.

"Kidnappers came in and took the princess; they would have succeeded to if it weren't for Princess Henrietta taking out the emergency pistol underneath her night table… Dammit!" Agnes said while punching the now dead soldier on the chest.

"Stand back," Michael said before taking out his defibrillators.

"What do you mean?" Agnes asked.

"I'll see if I can revive her," he said as he placed the metal pads together and began rubbing them in a circular manner.

Agnes reluctantly let the corpse go and stood aside, Michael crouched removed the guard's Kevlar vest, indignant cries from Louise was heard telling him to stop but he ignored her, he opened the guard's uniform revealing her bra. He grabbed his defibrillators again and rubbed them in a circular motion, he was rewarded when the gadget gave two quick beeping sounds. He placed the pads on the corpse's chest and pressed a button giving an electric shock to the body. The body jerk and didn't move. The eerie silence was deafening as they waited for a response. A finger twitched followed by the now alive guard's arm, she groaned as she nursed her head.

"Ugh… what happened?" the guard asked before looking down on her current condition.

"Soldier I need you to calm down, you just came back from the dead," Michael said carefully as he watched the guard's slowly reddening face.

The guard took a deep breath and calmed down, not before giving Michael a slap. Then Michael's previous statement came back to her in full swing, "Wait I died!? Is this the afterlife!? I know I've been a bad girl and I just want to apologi-"

"I can assure you that you're still among the living, what's your name?" Michael said before giving a smile.

The guard gave a sigh of relief. "I'm Private Isolde Maquin, sir"

"Tell me what you remember and after that you can go back to the barracks and take the night off,"

The soldier nodded and spoke, "When we heard the princess' gun go off, we barged in and saw seven individuals, I managed to kill two while the third one got lucky and stabbed me, Agnes killed my stabber and one more kidnapper but the last two that survived managed to escape with the princess… if only we'd been faster," Isolde said.

"I see… great work, we'll handle it from here, go get some rest,"

The guard stood up and left the room just in time for knights to enter the room and asked what happened. Michael only looked at them and requested them to be ready. He approached the bodies of the kidnappers and aligned them side by side and while blood was scattered on the floor Michael didn't care. He took out his defibrillators and proceeded to revive all of them.

"Ugh what happened?" the last kidnapper asked particularly to no one.

He looked up to see Michael's pissed of face, "Welcome to the land of the living motherfucker,"

That was he remembered before a nasty kick landed square on his face knocking him unconscious.

"Take them to the interrogation room!" Michael said.

Michael and Louise walked forward pushing the doors open that was leading to the war room. Inside the room there was a table with all of the generals available at the moment all squabbling around like headless chickens.

"We need to rescue Her Highness now! My assassins would do the trick!"

"Don't make me laugh! Right now we need excessive force to drive these rebellious commoners!"

Michael was about to make his voice known when all of a sudden the windows in the room were slammed opened by a strong gust of wind, curtains danced vigorously when the winds hit them and some of the furniture even fell and broke and the most noteworthy thing to mention is a loud screech. Louise's blood ran cold as she only knew one familiar that sounded like that.

"Oh no," Louise whispered.

Michael didn't hear her whisper as he saw a figure in steel armour enter from the window, he brought up his pistol and was ready to pull the trigger when Louise's arm grabbed his wrists, Michael looked at Louise to see her terrified expression but the message was clear that this person is an ally. He lowered his weapon and at the same time the figure that landed on the table stood up and scanned the room, the strong gust of wind had long stopped. The person's eyes landed in Michael and Louise's direction, Michael for his part tensed, he hadn't felt this much killing intent directed at him since a long time, clearly this person is not one to be messed with.

"You are Instructor Michael, correct?" The female knight said now that Michael could hear her voice.

Like Moses at the Red Sea, the generals that were in her general direction parted and approached the soldier, the whole room was silent except for the metal tapping from her metal boots, Louise's hand discreetly grabbed Michael's left hand and felt her genuinely scared for the first time and just like that everything clicked, Louise rarely if ever got scared and getting terrified was just not possible, not matter how scary the situation was she always faced it with remarkable bravery, she was never scared of anyone but she did fear one individual.

"What is your business here, Karin the Heavy Wind?"

"I received a message from that the princess has been kidnapped under your watch, is this correct?"

"Yes, last night kidnappers infiltrated Princess Henrietta's room and successfully kidnapped her," Michael said.

"I see, but what can I expect? You're merely a simple commoner, it's really not that surprising, despite the new branch of military nothing really happened, it was a mistake letting Princess Henrietta create that branch" She said.

Michael's blood began to boil, insult him, hit him or even kill him; Michael would accept it as long as it's only him that's involved. Everything changed when Karin involved his branch and insulted his pride and joy. If she wanted to play dirty he can do dirty.

"That's a lot coming from you… Karin," Michael said dropping the title.

Gasps echoed in the room and Louise was slowly shrinking behind Michael as he could feel the killing intent resonating from her, "don't speak my name as if were equal,"

She took off her helmet revealing the long pink hair that fell to her shoulders, her eyes were made of steel that yelled experiences that no mere man would be able to walk out alive, "You are just a familiar that was summoned by a failure of a mage,"

At that Louise flinched and he could feel something wet behind his back, enough was enough, Michael's eyes turned cold, he was going to school this failure of a mother in more ways than one. Good thing he's an educated prodigy or else he wouldn't have understood a single thing about those behaviourist books that he was reading before he came to Halkeginia.

"That's a lot coming from you… I hope you don't mind but I did a background check on your persona and what shocking news did I get," Michael bluffed.

"I don't need a familiar's praise to know my success,"

"I never said I was amazed, I said I was shocked by what you did during your active duty,"

This seemed to work as he noticed how her killing intent wavered for a bit, "And what is this thing that shocked you?"

To the untrained they would never have noticed the very slight change in Louise's mother's voice but fortunately Michael did.

"Hmm… a tone that challenged my bluff… I need more information," Michael thought.

"From what I gathered, it was really obvious that you don't want this information leaked to the public…" Michael held and took this time to sneak a look at Karin.

Karin for her part wasn't wavering but he did notice how her pupils dilated, he maintained eye contact with her, his emotions on hold but the internal grin in his mind was trying it's best to hold. Michael also noticed the slightest twitch of her right arm, this was a big information for Michael as he started to narrow down his assumptions.

"A retired soldier, contained anger, dilated pupils, the twitching of her dominant hand… oh my… a war crime…" Michael internally thought.

"Seriously what happened to that person was… just wow," Michael voiced in fake shock.

Karin's hand subtly inched closer to the blade on her right hip, her head tilted forward and a face that still challenged his bluffs were still present but Michael knew he snapped a string inside and all these reactions that she was giving him was just feeding him more information.

"Is that all you're going to say?" Karin said, though the edge was present in her voice.

"A rush to finish the conversation, defensive posture… that means blackmailed, I got you now Karin,"

Michael walked closer to Karin and he leaned close to her left ear, "I wouldn't do that if I were you Karin, don't forget that I have your information, if my men catches word that their instructor isn't 'coming back'… I wonder what would happen to that title you have, Knight Karin."

From a distance no one could see it but for Louise she had never been so shocked because whatever Michael said to her.

Made. Her. Flinch.

Michael retracted his head back and smiled at her mother, the look on his face was like he was seeing an old friend. "But I digress, we have more important things to do than have small chat, my men managed to capture five of the seven kidnappers that entered Princess Henrietta's room. So without further ado I'll let you generals continue you dick measuring contest,"

Michael left the room with Louise in tow; the whole room was silent except for the thoughts that were raging in the wind mage's mind.

"How did he know!? I made sure that story was forgotten. How did he knew I killed my superior!?"

She looked up to see the shrinking figure of her daughter and her familiar. She never missed that smug grin that was subtly directed at her as the doors to the war room closed behind their backs.

Michael's cold eyes scanned the group of kidnappers that were still unconscious in the torture room; beside him were Captain Agnes and Karin. It had been six hours since the princess has been kidnapped and right now time is key. Michael approached one of the kidnappers; he had scraggly but jet black hair and he has a scar located on his left eye.

Michael slapped him lightly; the man stirred but made no attempt to wake up, knowing that every second wasted is one second closer for the princess to be in dire danger, Michael looked around the torture room for something to wake him up, his answer came in two short, thin metal poles sat right beside the chair the kidnapper was sleeping on, after he took the poles he slapped the man again and to Michael's relief the man opened one eyelid and gave a groan but before he could say a sentence Michael spoke.

"Hey, I need you to focus!" He said before stabbing one pole on each thigh.

The man screamed in pain, the shout was loud enough that the other kidnappers roused from their slumber.

"Focus!" Michael said while harshly forcing his chin to face his. "Where did you hide the princess?"

The man finally regained some form of composure and answered Michael with a spit on his face; the kidnappers chuckled at Michael's misfortune. Michael stood up and looked at Karin while wiping the spit off his face.

"Karin, can you use lightning magic?"

"That is an absurd question but I'll indulge your petty mind, yes I can," She said.

"Pass a current through those poles," Michael said bluntly.

"What?" the kidnapper asked confused.

Michael looked back, the kidnapper felt uneasy as the smile that he was giving him was so… out of place, "Don't worry, I'm only going to hurt you very, very badly,"

The way his voice sounded like was that of a lunatic, even it had both Agnes and Karin feel uneasy around him, Michael gave Karin another look and gesture her to do it.

"AAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!"

"Stop it," Michael said.

The current passing through the man stopped and Michael force him to look as his eyes again, "I'll say it again, where is the princess?"

"Y-you can… crawl in a… ditch… and rot there!" The man panted.

"Karin," Michael simply said.

"AAAARRRGHHHMMMMMMHHHHHHHH,"

The man couldn't scream out loud as Michael lodged a dirty piece of cloth in his mouth but that didn't stop his muffled screaming, the other kidnappers started to become unsettled as their comrade started to smoke. Finally Michael finally told Karin to stop and the man's grip on the chair and he was panting heavily. Michael walked up to the kidnapper and asked the same question.

"I…I'd… rather die… th-than… tell you… anything!"

Michael's cold eyes locked with his and for a second a very dark idea popped in the back of Michael's mind. Michael stood up and walked away from the man, the man gave morbid chuckle thinking that Michael wouldn't call his bluff, he looked up and to his unfortunate luck the barrel of the gun was staring right at his face.

"You want to die so badly then be my guest,"

The kidnapper's head lurched backwards as crimson escaped from the back of his head; the kidnappers all looked away while Karin and Agnes merely flinched at the execution of a kidnapper.

"What are you doing?! He could have given us the information we need!" Agnes yelled at Michael.

"I know…" Michael said.

Agnes' gave a perplexed look at Michael's vague response, meanwhile Michael walked up to the corpse of a kidnapper; he pulled out his defibrillators and rubbed them together in a circular motion, once his gadget gave off two quick beeps he place them on the dead man's chest and applied an electric shock, the body convulsed at the sudden current flow and slowly but surely the man moved, with a groan the man mumbled something and finally everything came back to him.

"What!? I-I should be dead!" The man said.

"I know… but since I have these," Michael said waving the defibrillator pads. "You won't be dying anytime soon,"

The man looked at his eyes in fear; those weren't eyes that belonged to a soldier. They belong to a lunatic. Michael harshly grabbed his shoulders and forced him to look at his eyes, "We could do this again and again since I can always bring you back to life and then I'll watch you slowly lose yourself, and when you finally can't take it anymore I won't kill you, I'll just be moving to your friends… now I'll ask one more time… where did you keep the princess?"

The kidnapper stayed silent, contemplating on whether he should tell him or not, Michael took this as a sign of denial and aimed at the man's head.

"Wait! I'll talk. I'll talk..."

Michael held the gun on his forehead and his finger was dangerously close to the trigger but he didn't pull as he waited for the man's answer. "The west forest… we took her to the west forest, we have camp there,"

The man lowered his head in defeat, the others to have the same idea afraid that they would bring the wrath of Michael on them.

Michael looked back at Agnes, "Agnes you're coming with me this will be a joint operation between the Spartan Corps and the Law Enforcement branch"

Helewys fell face first on her face and a frustrated groan escaped her mouth, Lisette and Juliana looked at the distressed woman with eyes that tell them that this has been going on for quite some time; it was supposed to be a simple tactic, walk up to Bryce and ask for help down at the shooting range, she would purposely mess up her stance so that Bryce would come close to her and help her fix said stance then she would 'accidentally' turn around to face Bryce, it would have scored points for her too. So where did it went wrong.

"Did it work?" Juliana asked nonchalantly.

"No," she said with a muffled sound, she turned around and looked up at the ceiling, "I don't understand where I went wrong, everything was doing fine, we were close so I wanna know where did I go wrong,"

"Maybe because you blew your fuse the moment he accidentally pulled your hair," Lisette said.

"I know right!? Seriously what's his problem, I keep my hair nice and fluffy and then he goes in and destroys it!" Helewys said, her sour mood suddenly turning into anger at the thought of Bryce pullin her beautiful hair.

"There's your problem," Lisette said while gesturing at her hair.

"What do you mean?"

"You care too much about too many things, he didn't even do it on purpose, also you need to calm down more often," Lisette lectured.

"Yeah, yeah whatever 'Mom'" Helewys' annoyed tone was not missed by the small woman in the group.

"Hey! Don't be like that to Lisette, we're trying to help you out here," Juliana said.

Helewys looked down at the small girl with a smug look, "That's a lot coming from a midget like you,"

A tick mark appeared on Juliana's forehead, she smiled though it was obvious that it wasn't a genuine smile if the slight twitching at the end of her mouth were any indication, "I think I can finally see why Bryce doesn't like you… I'm not even sure anyone will fall for you with that temper of yours,"

Helewys walked closer which made Juliana walk closer as well, Lisette gave a heavy sigh, already used to her squad mates' shenanigans, she could practically see sparks coming out from both women's eyes.

"You wanna take this outside kid?!"

"Sure! I'll take this outside, you purple gorilla!"

"Girls…" Lisette said.

The door leading to the barracks was suddenly opened and Lisette instinctively stood straight, "Sir!"

The moment the Juliana and Helewys stopped their bickering and stood straight as well while shouting 'Sir!' at the same time.

Michael gave a gesture that put them at ease. He looked at Lisette and spoke, "Lisette gather your team and meet me at my office the ASAP,"

"I would like to ask why sir?" Lisette asked.

"Today's your first mission; I'll debrief you when you get there,"

That was all Michael said before closing the door, the shocked look on the girls faces were present, Lisette shook her head, all signs of humour was gone and replaced by a serious face, "Juliana, find the Jaune and Bryce and tell them to meet at the armoury. Helewys help me with preparing our equipment,"

"Copy that Captain!," Juliana said before rushing out the door.

"I'll go get the guns," Helewys said.

"I'll get the Kevlar vests," Lisette said.

Both women left the room and ran straight to the armoury, this is not an exercise; this is Alpha Team's first mission. Lisette could only hope that they're ready.

Here's a new chapter my fellow readers! I was initially thinking about putting this whole thing in one chapter but then I realised that it might be too long for the chapter and I might miss out on some specific details if I finished it all in one go. on another note that whole thing with Michael being a behaviorist, I just wrote some random stuff so don't take it all seriously. I'm not an actual behaviorist.

With that being said I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Next chapter is all about Alpha Team, Spartan Corps and saving Princess Henrietta.

And with that I bid you all adieu!

Peace~