Muv-Luv Alternative: Infinity +

Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to Muv-Luv they are the property of AGE

Disclaimer 2: The OC's Takeshi, Seigino and Sho are mine, they are from my Eternal Wars Saga and act like Deus Ex Machina, but here they will just be passing through, if they appear at all.

Warning: Rated M for manly, this Fanfic may contain the following, swearing, violence, horror, sex references and possible lemon/lime content.

A/N: Well here it is my first Fanfic and it's Muv-Luv, inspired by reading PaulXion's One last time into the loop and Huuduc's The last moment miracle, I decided to get in on the action, if you haven't read their stories they are both in my Fave stories so check them out. I have only played the main trilogy and a small part of Altered Fable I have not played or watched any of the expanded universe stuff so don't expect much in the way of those characters appearing here unless I get more free time but I have spent a lot of time on the Wiki so I should have good knowledge of weapons and loadouts. I will admit I have been playing a lot of Unlimited and Extra which I feel show more of Takeru's personality, so anything that 'feels' wrong is most likely me bringing the parts of himself that weren't really used in Alternative. I am going to assume that most people reading this are aware of the game and its terminology so will not be explaining it, unless asked in which case I will add a key. So please R&R and hope you enjoy my story. I also added a version Detail, this will be updated as I find spelling and grammar issues.

V2 (Updated 1.06.14)

(Final Loop Arc)

October 22nd 2001 - Shirogane's Residence - 8:00am [Infinity + X]

He opened his eye to the now barely recognised ceiling of his own room, sitting up he once again looked to his right beyond his desk a smooth wall no evidence of a door, not that there would have been a door in this world anyway, to the left the window that would lead to Sumika's house now occupied by a Gekishin TSF. Takeru rubbed his eyes partly to remove the forced 'sleep' the memories of the final moments of his last loop played in his head.

July 18th 2002 (Operation Rising Dragon) (Cheorwon Hive (Phase 4)) (Near Inner chamber) (1:42pm) [Infinity + X – 1]

Takeru's UN coloured Type-94 TSF creaked and groaned as his unit pulled itself up from where it had been lying on the ground, a sound of armour plating falling off the unit echoed around the claustrophobic tunnel alerting even the dead to the presence on a living being in this forbidding alien location.

Takeru shook his head, his unit had been blind sided by something and his unit had been knocked out, the neck protector had thankfully prevented a broken neck though a concussion was a possibility, flicking on the HUD a list of systems destroyed, damaged and active came up warning the Eishi that his unit was barely functional.

Switching to a overview of his TSF he could see the left leg booster was in the red while the right one was orange, as the HUD showed outside of the unit, several external cameras were down, shifting his eyes to the right or even his head showed nothing but the interior of the cockpit, the HUD flashing up with 'external view disabled' as if to mock him.

'Ping.'

The system announced another system repaired or bypassed by the auto reroute and repair function in the TSF, switching back to the view, a loading type bar showing the progress of several different systems that the program was attempting to fix, communications and radar were two of them, life support had just been fixed as the fans began to recirculate the air inside the confines of the machine.

'Ping.'

The system announced the radar was now fixed, the circular map showing his unit in the centre, but nothing around him, no warnings going off alerting him to BETA or any IFF signals showing him friendly TSFs in the area.

Takeru could feel dread welling in his throat but for now he couldn't panic, he had no communications, it may have been they thought he was dead and continued the mission and had shut down their IFFs on purpose, it wouldn't be the first time someone had messed with them around him.

Checking his damage report, aside from internal systems his units hull was down to 30%, a shift of his TSF caused another plate of armour to fall off, 28% the HUD flashed again mocking him again, a quick count of his units weapons showed a single Type-87 assault cannon, 500 rounds of 36mm and a single 120mm canister shot, no swords or knives or his shield.

'Ping.'

Communications were now fixed, opening a channel he called out to his squad.

"This is Valkyrie 3 to all squad, does anybody read me? Over."

Deathly silence was the only answer.

"This is Valkyrie 3, 1st lieutenant Shirogane Takeru to any squad members do you read me? Over."

Still no answer and he knew he couldn't get a channel to command, the truth of the matter was clear to him, but he had to check.

"Isumi, Mitsuki are you there? Meiya come in." he banged his fists on the control panel, the plexiglass cover breaking into a spider web shaper under his clenched fist and making the TSF flinch from the input. "Yuuhi, Haruko, someone, anyone answer me damn it." Anger burned deeply in his eyes; he thumped the control sticks again repeatedly causing his TSF to look like it was having a seizure and throwing off more armour.

"Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck. This is shit, why do I keep failing?"

He turned his TSF around behind where he had been BETA corpses by the hundreds littered the tunnel amongst them the carbon frames of other type 94's and near his unit 2 type 00R's in UN colours both cockpits torn open and smeared red liquid along the hull where something had been dragged away a single severed arm lying near the hole.

Seeing this Takeru barely held back his urge to vomit, the fate of the two girls was not pleasant, no the fate of all the squad had not been pleasant it never was, never had been, but he had been spared, why? It didn't matter not now, pressing the rescue button, Takeru ripped open the chest piece of his Eishi suit, revealing bare flesh, pulling his service pistol from its holster he aims it at his heart.

"Girl's I'm so sorry, but I will see you again."

*Bang*

October 22nd 2001 (Shirogane's Residence) (8:02am) [infinity + X]

Shaking his head to dispel the growing emotion he sat himself at his desk, pulling out the notepads he kept for studying and gaming he began to write everything he could remember from the early loops the furious clicking of his pencil and scraping of paper were the only sounds to be heard in the empty house.

"Takeru? Why are you still here?"

He shot around to face the voice that had come from a few feet to his left.

"Meiya?"

Before him stood Meiya wearing the normal school uniform, he could tell it was his old Meiya not the one from this world. This one had a girlier aura; this one was his old childhood friend. But still it didn't make sense not only was he clearly in the BETAverse but even if he wasn't the door and herself shouldn't be in his house at least not yet. He blinked as he stood up, but Meiya had vanished along with the door. Walking to the bathroom he run the tap knowing it would still be working and splashed cold water on his face.

"Keep it together kid, you've come too far to lose your shit now."

Setting himself back down at his desk he finished up the notes on the loops, looking at the clock he noticed it was nearly 10am, grabbing his holiday holdall from the wardrobe he placed his school uniform inside along with some spare clothes and the notepads. Thinking, he went back to the desk and pulled out the game guy and cartridges and placed them in his bag too.

Donning a pair of jeans and yellow polo shirt he noticed that the arms and chest of the shirt were tight but it was still wearable. Grabbing the bag he made his way downstairs picking up his wallet and stuffing that along with some instant ramen and other snacks in his bag, before zipping it up. He had found out that the money in his wallet could be used in this world and had on one occasion managed to take a trip into Tokyo so was hoping to again.

Stopping by the shoe rack he took stock of himself, the last 2 loops were still present on himself, the small 2 inch horizontal scar on his cheek a product of a sparring match with Hayase and his new longer Bishonen hair, he sighed to himself he would need to get it cut before things got out of hand again, but it was during this sigh that he noticed a blurred object on the cabinet, it was a photo frame.

Takeru scrunched his face up the photos around it were normal, but this sole one was like a TV out of tune, reaching for the object he picked it up leaving a second picture behind the one in his hand was of himself and Sumika on their first day of high school, a small smile crept along his face at the photo before him he remembered his mother taking the photo, in it he stood trying to maintain a neutral expression while next to him almost clinging to him was his other childhood friend a big grin on her face.

"Sumika."

His fingers gentle traced her face as memories of his old world flooded back. Shaking his head he placed the picture in his bag, if nothing else it would add to his room and everyone complained his room was always bleak. Looking at the second picture his eyes widened and he almost dropped it, the picture showed the whole gang at the hot springs, placing that photo in his bag, he put his shoes on and opened the door.

"I'm off" He said to no one.

(Hiiragi Town) (10:15am)

Walking out the door he stole a brief glance at the Type 77 that was trying to fill in for Sumika's house, as a 1st Gen TSF the performance compared to his usual Type 94 was like a scooter and a motorbike, it was far too clunky to really serve as an attacking unit so was being used more for defence these days, still he knew other Eishi that would give him grief for thinking that so he moved on.

Jogging through the town he could still picture how it looked in his old world, but once again he shoved those thoughts aside, he had given up on returning to his birth world on any sort of permanent level, for the sake of his mission he had given up something important, but what he wanted to protect was even more so, reaching the hill he continued at his light jog a smirk on his face, this hill had been the bane of him during his high school days though Sumika's drill milky punches hadn't helped, but now it was a breeze, reaching the top the UN base spread out before him.

(UN 11TH Pacific Army Headquarters Yokohama base)

Walking up to the gate Takeru saw the 2 gate guards heading toward him, he rolled his eyes as he saw the same 2 people he always saw, the shorter man was of Japanese origin looked to be in his late 30's and had a pencil moustache, the other looked to be American, with dark skin and an easy going demeanour and also in his 30's, Takeru wondered briefly if these 2 were the only guards on the whole base.

"Halt this base is the property of the UN 11th army, state your name and business" the older of the 2 guards stated.

The second guard's stance showed he was ready to pull his rifle from his shoulder at a moment's notice.

"At ease gentlemen, I'm here to see Professor Kouzuki Yuuko and no she is not expecting to see me, but I need to speak with her."

The older guard narrowed his eyes.

"State your name, and business then I will tell her." He replied.

"Oi, what are you doing?" The younger guard asked his friend.

"We were told to report anything relating to the professor to her."

"Tell her it's Hugh Everett, and I'm proof of the theory and tell her, her deadline is closing in, I also want to speak to her over the phone before we meet."

The older guard walked back to the gate house to inform the XO of the strange man, Takeru stood at ease a wry smile on his face the younger guard eyeing him ready to react to any moves he made.

"Hey kid, what's in the bag?" The guard narrowed his gaze at the holdall on the floor.

"My life" Takeru laughed.

The guard had come back, gesturing for Takeru to follow, leaving his bag on the ground he followed the corporal to the hut, picking up the phone he looked at the guard.

"A little privacy please, anything you hear could have you removed."

"From where?" Ask the now nervous guard.

"From life itself."

The guard walked out of the door, shutting it behind him, he didn't know if this 'Hugh' was telling the truth but he wasn't about to take that chance, the fact the sentence he had repeated to the XO had gotten her to agree with the call was enough to make him wary.

"Am I speaking to Kouzuki Yuuko?"

"Yes, now tell me who you are."

Takeru looked up at the internal camera knowing she would be looking at him through it.

"My name is Shirogane Takeru, you can check both the UN and IJ databases it should tell you I am dead."

A silence reigned; Takeru knew she was checking the records and the camera images.

"Oh, so now we have dead people coming back to life, tell me how is this supposed to convince me to grant you an audience?"

"Simple, I am not the dead Shirogane you have on file, I was not born on this earth I come from a parallel world, I was born in a world without the BETA but now I'm trapped in this world."

"Interesting, but surgery is not out of the question and Everett is not a complete unknown. Still what could you offer me that I can't get myself."

"I can't say much over the phone, but your counter part from my old world completed the Thesis that you are stuck on, I can get it for you, I also have information on dealing with a few issues that you are having problems with including you personal Cadet squad, after all they failed the C.C.S.E a few months ago and you should know they will fail again without help from somewhere.."

"What makes you think, I can't get the information through other means or cheat for the squad?"

Takeru could almost see the evil smile from the mad scientist on the other side of the phone, but he knew he had the upper hand; he always did but had never used it until the last few loops.

"Truth serum wouldn't get you the information only that I know I can get it, and Kasumi-chan also can't get it because of that, you have just over 2 months before the deadline and I know the stress is building, my guess is your thinking of cleaning your office but you know delaying will not help."

Takeru looked up at the camera again.

"Listen Sensei, I am trapped in this damn loop, I have seen what happens when Alt IV fails both to yourself and the world, I will not watch those shuttle take the human race out into space and to their own deaths, it needs to be stopped, I am the only person in the world that can help you complete your project and I have far more skills that you can make use of, but we need to talk in person."

"Put the guard back on."

Takeru's smile widened, gesturing to the guard to take the phone he placed it back on the desk and walked out of the hut hands up in the air to show no violent intent, he picked up his bag and waited. The guard came back scowling at the boy.

"Follow me the Professor wants to meet you."

(Basement 19) (Yuuko's Office)

Takeru flanked by the guards entered the office to the hiss of the door, the book cluttered room was a reflection of the occupier showing someone with hundreds of ideas flowing through her head with a learned intelligence that should never be discounted.

Marching away from the pair he grabbed the single chair from the side of the room and moved it closer to the desk before sitting down and crossing his arms, a slight smirk on his face as even though he couldn't see the guards he knew they were flabbergasted by his brazen attitude.

The guards went to open their mouths by Yuuko quickly waved her hand signalling the pair to leave and return to their posts, a quick pointless salute to the mad scientist before turning and leaving the door hissing again behind them.

"Kinda dangerous that." Takeru asked incredulously. "I mean not even a cavity search, I could be an assassin or an anti-alternative agent. Still enough groping around the subject; let's get to the heart of the matter, what I can do for you and what you can do for me."

Yuuko shifted in her chair behind the desk, her pistol lay in the open desk draw, she looked at her guest who just shook his head.

"Not thinking of threatening me with that gun are you? You don't have any training with it so you are unlikely to hit me even from this distance; still you do this every time loop so I can't fault you that one."

Yuuko flinched at the declaration the fact he seemed to know quite a bit about her, she had removed most of her profile from the databases years ago, and anything else was at maximum clearance, the only way anyone would know was if he was a member of an agency, she wondered if Yoroi had sent him.

"Oh and what can I do for someone with your kind of information, that is unless you want my body, but I'm afraid I'm not interested in younger guys."

"Haha, Sensei I already had you in another of my time loops, on this chair too, by the way where did you get that Santa costume? I mean back in my world it was usually Marimo-chan that was getting dressed up by you, unless that costume was for her, still you filled it out quite nicely." Takeru threw out some unneeded information, stuff that was not important by secret none the less would help establish himself with her.

Yuuko blanched at the comments made, it was a lot to take in, the least of which was the Sensei remark he had called her that over the phone too, but no one knew of the costume she had bought to dress up Marimo in and he was once again talking about time travel, she realised he was trying to keep her off guard like a certain blue haired spy would, she wasn't happy but he was certainly interesting.

"Ok so what is your proposal, I will at least hear you out but that is all I will promise you."

Takeru nodded at this, catch her interest first, they hook the bait, it was a simple plan, he needed her for his own objectives and would need to work to make himself indispensable to her before he worked his way up the hierarchy.

"Ok, as I was saying, I was born on another Earth, one without BETA, I was dragged here and stuck in a loop due to issues involving Operation Lucifer, dropping those 2 G-bombs reacted with this worlds counterpart of myself, my remains were in some G-elemental liquid, I think you know the stuff, blue tint maybe brainy stuff." Takeru smirked he needed to make it plausible while avoiding telling her about Sumika being the cause.

"Anyway that combined with your counterpart in my old world who was doing an experiment charged me and I woke up her, trapped in an endless loop, every time I die the whole world resets and I would wake up without memories and think it was my first arrival here."

"So what happened?"

"To abridge the details, I found myself here, this was my school in the other world, but I spent 3 days in jail before you turned up, after we spoke for a while you decided to give me a chance, I could either help you and join the army as a Cadet, or I could go back to the cell, kind of an obvious choice really."

"So I complete civilian with no ideas about the BETA was put in the 207th, you have Marimo-chan keep an eye on me, but since I was telling the truth nothing came of the issue, but I tried to help you with the project despite not knowing anything about it."

"In the end the 207 passed the C.C.S.E though my status as the load helped which I think is quite ironic considering the label, but we failed to complete your work, 24th December you were down here in that Santa costume getting blind drunk and crying you eyes out, saying how you couldn't be the holy mother."

"Alt V was put into action and 3 years later the planet was bombed as a small handful went up into space and the rest fought for the next 4 years before we became extinct, some hives survived and for a while humanity fought itself over the last remaining habitual land."

Yuuko looked at the young man sitting in front of herself, most people would call him delusional but what he said sounded oddly correct, though the habitual land comment sounded ominous.

"Ok, so that's your experience?"

"No." He shifted his sitting position again unfolding his arms. "I've been through dozens maybe even hundreds of loops, my mind can't remember all of them particularly if half the loops have similar outcomes, I would say I have more experience in a TSF than all the Eishi on this base together, get me in a training unit now and I can show you all sorts of moves." Takeru gave a half truth to Yuuko.

Yuuko looked at the young man in front of her, he was making quite a boast still if he could deliver it would be worth the risks, common sense would tell a person to have this guy thrown into the detention cells and drug and interrogate him, but what was common sense really but a chain to hold the masses at bay while risk takers reaped all the rewards, if the man could bring half what he promised it would be worth it.

Picking up the phone she dialled the simulator training command centre.

"Sim Com here." Came the female voice.

"This is Professor Kouzuki I want the training area cleared I got a VIP that will be using the trainers."

"Understood."

"Follow me Shirogane; let's see if your skills can match your mouth."

(Training Room)

Shirogane walked out of the changing room wearing the officer Exo suit and headed for the open simulator, sitting himself down he adjusted the seat to his size, it needed little adjustment but he was slightly taller than before, the door closing behind him with a hiss, he was bathed in soft light from the consoles.

"Ok Shirogane, I take it you don't need to do the basic course, how about combat course S? Think you can handle that?"

Takeru raised an eyebrow, detailed memories of this course flowed through his mind; it was an offence mission against American TSF's that had taken a Japanese city, the enemy had about 40 TSFs which included F-15's, F-16's and A-10c's, he didn't like this mission the A-10's fire-power would keep him pinned down while the others flanked him. The HUD activated showing the mountain from which he would begin below him the city still smouldering from the 'earlier' attack. Checking his systems he realised he was in a Type 77 with strike vanguard load-out.

"What the? Aw man a Gekishit."

Sniggers could be heard from the comm operators, he was sure he used a Type 94 last time, Yuuko-Sensei was not playing fair, still the current system had a few exploits that could be used. Tapping into the command console system he disabled the auto balance and IFF, freeing up some processing power.

"This is Kaizer 1, deploying, HAHA" Takeru laughed remembering his old favourite Valgeron.

Charging down the mountain, the clunky beast tearing trees up as he moved, the defending TSF's could be seen setting up defensive positions, a few seconds later hundreds of tracer rounds peppered the area from the A-10's shoulder cannons, switching his auto targeting off, he activated the 120mm of his left assault cannon firing a single APSDFS round at the cockpit of the A-10 manually.

Without the lock on feature, the enemies system couldn't tell who he was firing at so no warnings came up and set the auto move off, the round punched through the armour of one of the defenders causing it to explode. Landing in front of the cities commercial district he boosted inside confronted with a pair of F-15's, rushing between them he set his TSF to fall the same second as both units fired their cannons taking each other out.

"Stagger yourselves fuckers, well guess they don't have to, IFF takes care of this usually." Takeru chuckled "Still 3 down only 37 or so to go."

Yuuko watched the scene unfold on the monitor, the suits data feed showed this boys aptitude it was high, very high not even Hayase or Kashiwagi were on this level and he didn't even have any feedback data yet. She looked around the room everyone's eyes were wide disbelieving at the unknown pilot, it hadn't even been 5 minutes and already 13 TSF's were down without a single hit. Yuuko smiled disabling the balance system and auto aim was a nice touch, his command input levels were amazing less than 1/6 of a second per input, the system couldn't handle it not in a Type 77 as they didn't have the OBL but the freed up processors were reducing the lag.

"Everything that you see here is classified at the highest levels" Yuuko shot a look at the staff around the room, beads of sweat were forming on the operators, they knew if she said that she was serious.

Takeru increase the output of his left booster spinning and he lurched forward, a 120mm round narrowly missing the transmission block on the back of his TSF, he blind fired a 120mm the last in his left cannon, not even bothering to stop his spin bringing him full 360 he continued forward the explosion confirming another kill.

"Splash 18" he did a quick check on his ammo levels, the left cannon still had 2000 rounds of 36mm and 2 more mags spare he was down to 800 rounds on his right cannon but 6 120mm, he had yet to deploy his swords or knives. Charging down one of the streets a pair of A-10's a few hundred meters ahead aiming both their shoulder cannons and assault rifles at him, looking at the street he could see an intersection a few meters ahead, darting down that as 36mm cannon fire tore the area he had been standing to shreds, looking down he noticed that once again the computer had emulated people in the city.

"Come on, there's apathy and then there's blind fucking stupidity, why are there people shopping in a warzone, don't they usually remove these during a fight?" Takeru asked as he noticed the simulated humans in the town, clearly the programmer had used the basic training module and forgotten to remove them.

Continuing his evasive manoeuvres he managed to flank both A-10's, not that you could flank them really, switching to his knife he plunged it into the transmission of the nearest TSF it fell to the ground unceremoniously, swapping the knife for his sword he crouched his unit as both GAU/8A shoulder cannons on the second unit turned to track him, sweeping the sword horizontally he cut the legs out from the unit causing both cannons to fire wildly into the air before stopping as he run the unit through with his sword. "Half way there" he muttered, checking the radar he could see the enemy indicators converging on his position, "Time to go on the offence and get serious"

Yuuko watched from the control room, in less than 15 minutes he had taken out half the enemy TSF's and what did he mean time to get serious? The Valkyries had taken a little over 30 minutes to complete this mission but that was with 15 Eishi and they had lost 7 members in the mission, checking the physical reading on the pilot she noticed that his heart rate was steady at 50 BPM a little lower than rest, his brainwaves however were even weirder, aside from the periodic comments that were causing minor fluctuations they remained level, it was like he wasn't even thinking just instinct, his facial expressions had changed little outside of a neutral expression.

"Brain wave activity spike" one of the operators exclaimed

Sure enough his brain waves were rising off the charts; his face changed to a cold smirk, Yuuko went back to watching the fight.

Takeru knew the program couldn't emulate thrown objects or hand fighting, which was a shame since it was his speciality, boosting down one of the streets he could see a blip on his radar showing an enemy TSF on an intercept course, they would meet at the next cross roads, pulling his sword out, he spun while moving towards the intercept point bringing the sword up high then swinging it down cutting the enemy TSF in two without losing any momentum, two more TSFs blocked his path, reversing the boosters his unit began to fall backwards the 120mm shells passing over the units head, Takeru's TSF slid along the floor on its back, feet first towards the enemy, pulling the trigger of his rifle 2 cannon rounds slammed into the offending units causing a bright explosion, that levelled several buildings, righting his Gekishin he powered towards the remaining units that had set up a defence line.

Yuuko watched as Takeru hunted down the last 3 TSF's on the map, an evil grin appeared on her face as she quickly typed in commands to add another unit to the mix, she had only gotten this information a few weeks ago and this person seemed like the ideal candidate to unleash this unit on.

Takeru pulled his sword out of the cockpit of the last TSF showing up on the map, looking around the HUD continued to show the half destroyed streets, and trashed TSFs, the HUD briefly glitched along with the entire city.

"Great, I'm in the matrix." He rolled his eyes

An alert popped up on his HUD a target lock on his unit, he dodged left quickly narrowly missing the hail of gunfire, checking his display no signature could be detected, "fuck an F-22, seriously Sensei you want me to take on one of the most advanced anti-TSF, TSFs in a first gen unit, I mean I'm good but not that good." Quickly taking stock of what he knew of these units, he knew it had a mean stealth advantage and was designed to take out units like his, a small drop of sweat ran down his face. "Think Takeru, what weakness does this unit have."

A loud rumble to his left his radar showing a building collapsing the seismic sensors pinging the surrounding buildings; a bright grin appeared on his face.

"That's it."

Takeru pushed his TSF deeper into the commercial area of the town, working fast he tied his seismic sensors into the radar and layered the current map under the new one giving himself a crude sonar, 'let's hope this works' he thought as he made his Gekishin stamp its foot on the road.

A loud bang erupted his new sonar showed the sound pulse spread out revealing the surrounding buildings he repeated the process another stamp, another pulse checking the sonar sweat was pouring off his brow, he caught it.

"There F7!" A brief break in the buildings he stamped again the break had moved towards him "F6" using heavy steps Takeru made to intercept the offending enemy unit.

Yuuko watched in disbelief at what the young pilot had just done, quickly tapping into the computer she watched as the F-22 was showing up crudely on the radar/sonar hybrid.

"I might not be able to let him go at all." Yuuko grinned as the boy named Shirogane exploited what could be called the one weakness of the stealth tech, the fact is absorbs waves rather than bouncing them back, he was finding the TSF by what wasn't showing up on his screen.

Takeru's grin had not faltered since his idea had somehow worked, and quickly made a bee line to the enemy still his unit was 2 gens below the enemy unit, firing another 120mm round at a building he used its sound to pinpoint the enemy TSF boosting over the building he instinctively shoulder charged the enemy but fell through it,

"Shit!"

The F-22 fired its gun rounds slamming into the Type 77 Takeru fired a single round at his attacker hitting its leg before the simulator shut down, Takeru sighed he could have won if not for the lack of collision data, but still the sonar idea was good at least in urban environments where layout was known.

"Good work Shirogane, disembark and change were heading back to the lab."

Yuuko's Office

Sitting back in the office Takeru smiled at the mad scientist behind her desk, her eyes on the computer data from the simulators.

"Well I must say, you are certainly not an ordinary human there are maybe 5 people in the whole world with scores like yourself and there is no way anyone would or could hide a person of your skill, so what is your mission exactly?"

"To wipe the BETA from this planet and our solar system and prevent Alternative V from happening, I doubt even when it worked that the refugees survived." Yuuko looked at Takeru quizzically. "In some of my earlier loops Alternative V succeeded not just my early loops but some of the later ones where I went down a different path."

"Different path?" Yuuko asked confused.

"Yeah, I, we were failing to make headway in our fight with the BETA, so I decided to take a step back, I knew if I died I would go back to today, so I figured I would improve myself, I was still quite ignorant about this world as a whole and had lots of areas I could work to improve myself in, people here called me an idiot because I didn't know general knowledge, but then again this world hasn't meshed with mine quite right since the 19th century since this world still had imperial rule we got the Meiji restoration instead."

"Yes I see that would cause some problems." Yuuko smirked it sounded interesting to know of a completely different timeline, even if it wasn't relevant to the matter at hand.

"Anyway during one of my later loops we made it into the Kashgar hive, well a few of us anyway, 6 Valkyrie members myself included, none of your current active roster though along with the 00 unit it was a rushed attack due to an unintentional spy."

"The 00 Unit needs to be filtered of G-elemental liquid in the reactor, but it basically downloads her mind too, the BETA knew everything about us and, well Sadogashima went badly we lost one of the 2 XG-70b's you had, the defence of this base, we lost over half our personnel, all but the 207th were no longer able to fight, the XG-70b left was badly damaged and the reactor of the 70d was too."

"So we had to use the b's for the d under powering the unit and only putting a few weapons on it, the Kashgar mission went badly, everyone in the 207 died, but the BETA superior was quite forthcoming with information which I now have in my head. I was killed then too." Takeru lied keeping the real truth from her.

Yuuko looked at the man sitting at the desk most people would say he was insane or a compound liar or a fantasist but Yuuko could see he was telling the truth or at least believed he was, his voice and facial expressions would change between sadness and pure anger, dejection and hope when he finished he stared straight at her Yuuko could see the age of the young man from his eyes, they were old ancient eyes with barely contained madness and deep loss yet a fire brighter than the sun.

"So we need to solve the problem of purifying the 00 unit without using the reactor, I will need to make some calls on that later, but in regards to the migrant fleet you think that even with the evacuation the human race maybe bought itself another decade out in the stars?" Takeru nodded. "How do you plan to achieve your mission then Shirogane?"

"By becoming an officer and using my authority to get people to listen to me, they are more likely to take my advice when I have a rank to back up my words."

Yuuko nodded "So what can you do to help my plan, you've told me a lot about Alternative V and the BETA but only about the 00 unit not about how we got it working."

"Simple you need to get 15 billion semiconducting parallel computing circuits to fit in the palm of your hand, luckily for you during one of the loops you got pissed off and threw your current thesis at me when I saw it I remembered the Yuuko-Sensei from my old world had written the same theory but then changed it stating that yours was old thinking and garbage that in the end there was only one brain, in the end you built a machine that could send me back to my world to retrieve the new theory, but we didn't get it until about the 7th of December."

"Then we need to build this machine now, and you need to go get the thesis." Yuuko said excitedly

Takeru shook his head sadly "No you don't even start the new theory until November, and we still need to deal with the ODL purification, the longer we wait the more chance we can keep the BETA in the dark, I will get you the data but just before the C.C.S.E, since I can jump independently without the machine now." Takeru grinned "I found out how, kind of obvious really."

Yuuko grinned at the man in front of her "Ok, I guess I can continue like normal for now, but I want you to give me information on future events when possible to help your credibility, other than that what should we be doing?"

"We do what we always do sensei, you enrol me in the Eishi training program and put me in with the 207, give me the usual S4 clearance and we get to work saving this planet."

"Quite bold of me to do that, but with your skills I think you should skip the basic training I can get you commissioned to 2nd lieutenant today and into the Valkyries you would make a lot of difference there."

"No we tried that before too, the 207 failed their C.C.S.E and it had ramifications for both this base and the mission, but that wasn't too much of a surprise to myself considering both the families of those girls and the fact they lack any real camaraderie, even you should know that they failed their last exam because of it."

"I see, still I think getting you a commission would help, so what do you know of the last exam?"

"Nothing much, except it was due to landmines and disagreements between the group and when you take 2 strong conflicting wills, a space case and one who is quite standoffish you got a disaster waiting to happen."

"What about the 5th member?"

"Tama? Well she isn't one for confrontation even in my world you had to goad her into a cooking competition under false pretences, well they weren't false but at the time they felt like they were."

"So about my commission, how about some middle ground, you assign me as a special case cadet to the 207, I can help bring the squad together and raise the bar for them, and if or when we complete the C.C.S.E I get my commission before the aptitude test, I can stay assigned to them as new squad leader and get them ready for their eventual integration into the Valkyries. It will also help with the training for the new OS."

"New OS?"

"Yeah a new OS we make every loop, but we can talk about that in about a week or so, it's not required yet."

"Ok we'll do it your way as you are 'clearly' the expert on future knowledge, I'll sort out the paper work and get you your clearance, drop your stuff off in one of the free rooms and get your kit."

"The end room by the elevators open? That the one I usually get."

"Yes, I will have this done by then so come get your card, and you can meet your squad after that."

Yuuko handed him a visitors pass to get around, Takeru walked out of the office, checking his watch it was a little past 2pm since he had avoided several hours of cavity searches and interrogation it was much earlier than usual, scanning his temp card he made his way to his new, old room, it was just how he remembered it, a bed, desk, wardrobe and separate shower and toilet aside from the fact this room was unused it looked the same as when he had lived in it.

Unpacking his clothes he hung them up and placed the picture of him and Sumika on the desk before hiding the second one and his game guy under the bed, leaving the room he headed for the quartermaster to get his clothing. Returning to his room 20 minutes later he found he now had 3 full sets of cadets clothing, a vest top set, a schoolesque set and a winter training set, they had an over-abundance of men's uniforms a sad proof of how bad the war was going, after changing in his room he made his way down to the lab to pick up his new ID.

"I have informed Instructor Jingujii about your transfer, she should be out on the field with the cadets, I trust I don't need to tell you where to go?" She appraised the newly uniformed Takeru. "I must say that does suit you quite well."

"I guess I have been wearing these uniforms for a few decades now, I think I'm more comfortable in these than civilian clothing, hah, guess I really have lost my chance to return home."

Leaving the lab he headed for the outside training area, the base had an indoor training area for those off duty that wished to train without getting in the way of scheduled training squads, he had spent a few enjoyable times fighting Hayase indoors the scar was testimony to that. Arriving at the running track he could see squad 207 doing laps, Sakaki was heading towards him as he waited by the track.

"You there, this area is currently reserved for the 207th state your name and squad."

"Shirogane Takeru, Cadet newly assigned to the 207th, I'm looking for the instructor."

Marimo walked over to the two, a firm gaze aimed at the newest member, she had to admit he carried himself with a confidence and posture that screamed military, Yuuko had told her he was a special case, and had some freedoms when it came to training, his build told her he didn't need it but she needed to be sure.

"Sakaki, gather the squad"

"Squad assemble" bellowed Sakaki to the running trainees.

The 3 other girls quickly gathered looking at the instructor, as to the strange summon.

"Squad assembled." Sakaki informed the instructor.

"Good...then I'll introduce him. This is Cadet Shirogane Takeru, newly assigned to squad 207."

"Pleasures mine." Takeru responded with dignity he had hardened himself enough over the last few loops that seeing the girls alive after another death didn't make him break down.

"As you can see, he's a man. You're all probably surprised to see a male recruit nowadays, but until recently, he was exempt from the draft. I expect you all to work together"

"Ma'am" came the collective reply

Shirogane had noticed a familiar pattern with the group during his introduction, class rep I.E. Sakaki studied him to see if he would be an asset to the group, Meiya always maintained a distance more due to her heritage than out of any dislike of the squad, Ayamine was indifferent as usual and Tama always seemed to blush like men we something to be embarassed about.

This loop however both Class rep and Tama were blushing slightly, it might have something to do with the hair making him look like a model, 'god I hope we don't end up like those loops' Takeru though to himself, a brief though back to his earliest loops when he had arranged Christmas parties and ended up with all the presents, all the girls had got presents for him, a not so subtle attempt to win his heart.

He thought back to his old world and the cooking competition Sumika had jumped at the prospect and with the exception of Mikoto all the girls had really put an effort into making him food, he sighed at the sheer density he had when it came to these girls, 'I'm like a bag full of lead cubes' he thought wondering if this concept was like the dreaded arrival of Tama's father and the letter she sent him every loop and was a fixed point.

"Sakaki I want you to escort him around, I have heard he has some knowledge of this base, so it shouldn't be too hard."

"Ma'am."

"Ok squad continue your laps, Shirogane you wait here."

The squad took off again running laps, Takeru looked at them running none of them looked too out of breathe so them must have just started.

"Ma'am permission to join the squad on this run?" Takeru looked at Marimo. "They seem to have just started so it would be a good idea to join them and gauge their fitness."

Marimo looked at the newest cadet, it was quiet commendable to want to join the training half way through the day. "Very well cadet, you may do the 10km run they have only done 2 clicks so far so get to it."

Takeru took off around the track, quickly hitting a fast stride that over took the girls, he knew they would have to wait for him and with them 5 laps ahead he needed to catch up quickly, by the 15th lap he had caught up and managed to lap them by the end of the run, after being dismissed by Marimo-chan they each took their leave to shower and change, Takeru met up with Sakaki for the orientation outside her room."

"H..how did you know which room was mine?" she asked shocked.

"Uh, I walked with the squad back here, saw you enter this room." He grinned at her before narrowing his eyes like he was scrutinising her, "You know something? You look a lot like my Class Rep from my old school, kinda act like her too so sorry if I started addressing you as that."

Sakaki wasn't sure how to react to that comment but decided it was better to ignore it for now and get on with the tour, guiding him around the base she showed him everything that he already knew, including areas he never visited again, arriving near the PX the tour had wound down.

"This is one of the PX's on this base, its the closest one to our rooms so it's the one we use when we are not training."

"So, is there any difference between this one and the other ones Class Rep?"

Sakaki sighed again at being called by that title, he had warned her it was a habit, but she didn't have to like it, entering the PX they spotted Meiya and the others, Tama called out to them as they made their way over to the table taking seats on opposite sides.

"That was fast." Enquired Meiya

"He didn't need my help, but they did say he had some knowledge of the base, so I guess it was just showing him the areas we use." Sakaki shrugged her shoulders looking slightly annoyed.

"Don't worry about it Class Rep, at least I came prepared." Takeru grinned.

"...Class Rep?" Ayamine stared at the newest member of the squad.

"Hah, he did tell me I looked like an old acquaintance of his but for him to stick me with label already is annoying." Sakaki crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes at Takeru.

"I'll try to fix that habit, but I can't guarantee anything."

"Shirogane, the instructor asked me to give this to you." Meiya handed Takeru the now familiar recruitment oath that he would be reciting the next day.

"Ah, thank you, Shirogane have that memorised by tomorrow, you have to recite the oath to enlist."

Takeru nodded, it was once again a largely pointless exercise but he knew it had to be done.

"By the way Shirogane, there's something I want to ask you?" Sakaki fixed him with a solid gaze. "I'll be blunt can we expect much from you?"

"Sakaki, what are you saying he ran rings around us earlier clearly he has had some training." Meiya defended. "Besides the instructor told us he was a 'special person'."

"Is that 'special' compared to us?...no, out of everyone in the country? On the planet?" Sakaki had a small smile on her face asking this.

"Haha, out of the whole universe I would say." A huge grin appearing on Takeru's face, before it fell to a smaller confident one. "But seriously I wont say here, you will just have to wait and see, but I promise you all I will NOT drag this squad down."

"Good to hear."

"Lets train hard, Shirogane-San."

The discussion went on about the C.C.S.E that was due in less than a month, and about the currently missing member of Yoroi and the expectations they had for the newest member.

October 23rd 2001 (Yokohama Graduation hall) (8:00am)

Standing in the hall the sole occupant enlisting that day, his hand raised as he stated the vow, Takeru resisted the urge to laugh at the oath.

"I shall fulfill my duty to protect international peace and stability, by rigidly adhering to the code of conduct, by cultivating virtue, training my mind and body, polishing my skills, by not taking part in political actions, and by giving my undivided attention to completion of the mission. I swear never to shrink from danger, but to risk my life to fulfill my responsibility toward humanity."

-We welcome your enlistment at Yokohama base.

Takeru sighed inwardly, political action was something he intended to get into, and he had shrunk from danger before, the training he could agree with but the rigid part was again something he didn't agree with walking out the room a cool smirk played on his face.

"Now it begins"

A/N: a bit long for a first chapter, but needed to set up a few things for later, nothing here is really new but then again Takeru is a lot more Genre savvy from his loops so will be in his comfort zone, as should be clear, this is NOT the loop after Alternative, this is far later on at least a dozen loops since then, I will be jumping back and forth between some of the older loops to show some of the consequences to Takeru's actions I will show the new alternative ending at some point along with how he is now just time looping not a causality conductor. Hope you liked how I over came the F-22 stealth advantage, I asked a few military experts and got confirmation that this would work but only if terrain were known, so expect to see it in later chapters. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter.