(School dorm)
It was still early in the morning when miku woke up. Normally hibiki would be sleeping next to her but there was no one there.
Miku: hibiki?
The only thing there was a letter from hibiki.
Letter: ditching school. Training.
Miku: what is she doing?
(Training grounds)
Hibiki was busy training with genjuurou. At the moment she was punching a punching bag.
Genjuurou: you're doing it wrong. Your fists should fly like hammers, smashing the thunder of the bolt that struck you.
Hibiki: I didn't understand a word of that! But I'll give it a shot.
Hibiki took a deep breath and focused all the energy she created in her fist. Then she punched the bag so hard that the branch it was hanging from braked, landing it a few meters back in a pond.
Genjuurou: good. Let's put these to work
Genjuurou was already standing by with some punching pads on his hands.
(Time skip)
Hibiki was resting on a couch in the secret base, when Y/n came to her with a drink.
Y/n: here you go hibiki, some refreshments for the hard worker.
Hibiki: thanks.
Y/n handed over the drink to hibiki.
Genjuurou: Y/n, next up is your turn to train.
Y/n: no thank you, after the last time I'm done.
Genjuurou: I insist, you can't always count on the gaia memory's for backup. You need a basic understanding of fighting.
Kanade: good luck Y/n, I hate to be in your shoes.
Genjuurou: that goes for you kanade. You two form a pair. You are also the main part of double, so you need to have the same training.
Kanade: whaaa!!!
Y/n: you were saying?
Kanade: but I don't use my body when I fight.
Genjuurou: that isn't an excuse. You two need to train together, so that you know what you can and can't do together.
Kanade: but…
Genjuurou: it's the same as when you were using a symphogear, you need to be attuned to each other to fight well. No linker can help with that. You need to do this yourselves by training hard together.
Y/n: I was just wondering, but isn't there another way to fight the noise?
Genjuurou: officially there is no way to fight the noise, even in Japan anything related to symphogears is classified.
Hibiki: but I kind of went out there in the broad daylight.
Aoi: keeping words from spreading is our job.
Sakuya: but sometimes we have to go far to do our job, so most people of the cabinet dislikes us. They don call us the second branch of the disaster relief squad, just the "sore thumb"
Aoi: the upper people swore us to secrecy, bit we can't keep up.
Y/n: it sounds they want to have the symphogears for themselves.
Genjuurou: that is the most likely scenario, that why we can't manage to slip up.
Hibiki: sounds like everyone is having their own issues.
Kanade: by the way, where is ryouko?
Genjuurou: she is away on official business.
Y/n/ hibiki: official?
Genjuurou: she was called in by someone high up in the government, so she won't be back for a while.
Y/n/ hibiki: okay….?
Genjuurou then looked at his watch.
Genjuurou: she is late.
(Ryouko)
Ryouko was somewhere driving in her pink car.
Ryouko: achoo!.... someone's talking about me. It's nice weather outside today, I feel like luck will be on my side today.
(Time skip)
Three cars were driving on a street. In it was the minister of defense hiroki and some colleagues of him.
Hiroki: a single phone call from them can mess up my whole schedule. They ste hopelessly out of control.
Colleague: they might be a relic of a pre-war era, but hasn't this gone too far?
Hirooki: maybe so, but they are the only ones capable to fight against the noise threats. It's my duty to give them the freedom of action they need.
Colleague: a sore thumb indeed.
He said as he looked at the suitcase on his lap.
They then drove through a tunnel, but when they were about to leave the tunnel a truck blocked their way.
Out of the truck came armed men that started shooting at the bodyguards of hiroki.
After a short gunfight only hiroki was alive. He then atempted to take the suitcase, but was interrupted by kamen rider skull.
Skull: so you are the famous minister hiroki I heard so much about. How did you like my party I specially organized for you?
Hiroki: you Basterds who are you?
Skull: my name is skull and that suitcase there is my present.
Hiroki: neve…
《Bang!》
Skull: I always get what I want.
(Time skip - headquarters)
Ryouko walked in the command center with a suitcase.
Ryouko: sorry it took so long.
Genjuurou: ryouko…
Ryouko: what is it. Did you miss me that much?
Y/n: we missed you so much that the next time you leave, you get a GPS tracker implanted.
Kanade slaps Y/n with a green sandal.
Y/n: OUCH!!! how did you get that sandal?
Kanade: now's not the time to joke around.
Y/n: sorry….
Genjuurou: we just learned that minister hiroki has been assassinated.
Ryouko: what! Really?
Ryouko ran up to the rest.
Genjuurou: multiple "revolutionary" groups have claimed responsibility, but we don't know anything for certain yet. We've put every ma available on the investigation.
Hibiki: we were so worried, because we couldn't contact you either.
Ryouko then felt in her pocket and took out her communicator, followed by pushing some buttons. She then began to smile.
Ryouko: looks like it broke.
Hibiki: hehehe….
Y/n bumps his fist against his forehead.
Y/n: maitaku.. (oh my/dear)
Ryouko: I appreciate the concern.
Ryouko then put the suitcase down and opened it, taking out a flashcard.
Ryouko: with me I have classified orders from the government. Defense minister hiroki helped make this a successful delivery.
What no one saw was that on the suitcase was a little smudge of blood.