Infinite Stratos - Volume 11 - Chapter Pr

Prologue: The Girl’s Awakening, The Holy Sword’s Gleam 
Hollow, nameless emptiness. A barren nothingness. A sea of silence underneath an anti-glowing sky. 
“System boot...” 
Beep. Beep. Whirrrr... 
“Coordinate correction minus zero-point-four. Duplex signal established. Moving to zero point.” 
Command after command flowed through her databanks. Her eyes opened, looking out over the endless void. 
“Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer, do.” Only her own ears heard her song as the blackness of the sky filled her vision. “Command protocol, priority mode. Activate Mode Excalibur.” 
A countdown flashed before her eyes. 
Nine. 
Eight. 
Seven. 
Six. 
Five. 

Four. 
Three. 
Two. 
One. 
...Zero. 
The blade was unsheathed. 
 
“This is Rain. Objective located. Moving to contact.” 
“Sapphire. Moving in.” 
Two girls in geosynchronous orbit had found their target: the hypercondensing plasma cannon, Excalibur. After falling under Phantom Task’s sway, it had suddenly lost control and begun to shift from its orbit. In order to find the cause, they had been equipped with EVA packages and sent to infiltrate. 
“This is...” 
“What’s going on? I’ve got a bad feeling about—” 
With that, their signals were lost, and the gears of fates false and true began to turn...