Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Kha

At least with subs up to 23, and StrikerS over, I can safely go back to my FileS and NBC projects without fear, (do I hear cheers? ) and give Hayate and Fate, maybe Nanoha and later possibly Vivio (sorry Darth Chaos ) some better limelight. Also, with the canon revelations so far, I can start Strike Lightning with proper Forward background and foreshadowing.

I don't care anymore... Everything is wrong... It's just so wrong...


And if I'm not mistaken, Chrono didn't get screentime?

Originally Posted by Kha

Canon is over, but it lives on, IN MY HEART!

I HEARBY TAKE OUR FRUSTRATIONS AND TURN IT INTO STRENGTH!

FOR MY PEN IS THE PEN THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS! ...

...Wait. That sounded wrong.

No no, keep going... Your Pen Is what ?

[Nightengale]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

And if I'm not mistaken, Chrono didn't get screentime?

He does.

Drinking tea with Hayate, Carim and Acous.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

He does.

Drinking tea with Hayate, Carim and Acous.

Wait, so FlareKnight wasn't kidding ?

Ah well, at least Canon toss me a cookie crumb... I did mention some time ago about Chrono preferring to spend more time with Velkan users... Usually female.

And Yukari Tamura and Nana Mizuki did say before that Chrono moves to a new girl everytime... I suppose they mean every season...

[Nightengale]

So, let's get some facts confirmed first...

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Nanoha : Seems to be back in form as an Air Force Instructor, first and foremost.
Fate : Back to the Navy, with Teana and Shari as her assistants.
Hayate : Seems settled with her Ground position, though without a full platoon this time, except Wolkies.
Subaru : Disaster Management.
Teana : Navy, as Fate's assistant, training to be an Enforcer.
Erio/Caro : Working with the TSAB Nature Preservation, Erio's now a Dragon Knight.
Wolkies : Together with Hayate now?
Agito : Joins Wolkies/Signum. Has a playful rivalry with Rein now.
Lutecia : Countryside with mom.
Megane : In a wheelchair, but healthy and fine.
Garyuu : The Alphino Guardian Insect.
Ginga : Same ol', but seems to have extras of teaching the Numbers society-life.
Genya : Same, but seems to want to hit on Nove.
Vice/Alto : Back to piloting helicopters, it seems. Seems to have made up with Ragna.
Griffith/Lucino : In TSAB Central as...dunno. Probably similar post.
Vivio: Adopted by Nanoha, and studying in Saint Church...school?
Yuuno : Probably the same, but it looks like he's gotten to know Vivio now.
Chrono : ...Same as always?
Saint Churchers : ...Same as always?
Jail, Uno, Tre, Quattro, Sette : Assholes, and are in high-security off-world prison.
The rest except Due : Going...rehab in an isolation center.

...Right?

[Kha]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

So, let's get some facts confirmed first...

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Nanoha : Seems to be back in form as an Air Force Instructor, first and foremost.
Fate : Back to the Navy, with Teana and Shari as her assistants.
Hayate : Seems settled with her Ground position, though without a full platoon this time, except Wolkies.
Subaru : Disaster Management.
Teana : Navy, as Fate's assistant, training to be an Enforcer.
Erio/Caro : Working with the TSAB Nature Preservation, Erio's now a Dragon Knight.
Wolkies : Together with Hayate now?
Agito : Joins Wolkies/Signum. Has a playful rivalry with Rein now.
Lutecia : Countryside with mom.
Megane : In a wheelchair, but healthy and fine.
Garyuu : The Alphino Guardian Insect.
Ginga : Same ol', but seems to have extras of teaching the Numbers society-life.
Genya : Same, but seems to want to hit on Nove.
Vice/Alto : Back to piloting helicopters, it seems. Seems to have made up with Ragna.
Griffith/Lucino : In TSAB Central as...dunno. Probably similar post.
Vivio: Adopted by Nanoha, and studying in Saint Church...school?
Yuuno : Probably the same, but it looks like he's gotten to know Vivio now.
Chrono : ...Same as always?
Saint Churchers : ...Same as always?
Jail, Uno, Tre, Quattro, Sette : Assholes, and are in high-security off-world prison.
The rest except Due : Going...rehab in an isolation center.

...Right?

Come to think of it, almost all of this is expected to some extent. But is Due FUBAR? She's was turning to be one of the most frightful ones after all.

Any details on Jail's jail sentence? Life imprisonment? As well as the Numbers?

And most importantly, how long has it been since StrikerS?

[Saint X]

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I want to scream something here, only because I can't really do it in the 26th episode's thread I triple spoiler-barrier it so you can't say I tempted you into it or that it was an accident

Besides, aren't we all friends and partners in crime-for-off-topicness in the thread that breeds off-topicness ?

Spoiler for Off-topic:

Spoiler for episode 26's screenshots spoiler:

Spoiler for first impression rant:

Spoiler for for the sake of tagging:

Spoiler for lying that I'm only using 3:

Spoiler for here goes:

WHAT THE HELL IS WITH SIGNUM AND ERIO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

First of, I like Erio, he has great potential when I first saw him and he's quite a decent kid, but I seriously DIS-A-FREAKING-PPROVE him carrying Fate! It's just wrong! It's just bad! It's just straight fanservice gone south!

Signum... Just doesn't suit those colors...

And PLEASE tell me Nanoha didn't really end up adopting you-know-who... Not after all the screentime wasted on "I can't give her a happy/good/peaceful life"

And most importantly, THAT IS TSAB's PRISION?!?!?!?! Oh get the fuck out of here!!

.... *cough*

That will be all... For now...

And what persona is this? who is talking? But

I SHARE YOUR SENTIMENTS DARK LORD...

??????: Hey Jeno, do you mind us tagging along for the hunt with your Cataphract corps? First one who bags 'em wins~ though we just need kill documentation- you can bag 'em all you want.

*Readies Magento-Impulse Kinetic Railgun.*

- Vision Eye only? or that comes with the Grasper upgrade?

- does that mean that Amy's... demn manga releases... let's find her remains!!!

*remembers a question: does polygamy/polygyny exist in Midchildan Society?*

Originally Posted by Nightengale

So, let's get some facts confirmed first...

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Nanoha : Seems to be back in form as an Air Force Instructor, first and foremost.
Fate : Back to the Navy, with Teana and Shari as her assistants.
Hayate : Seems settled with her Ground position, though without a full platoon this time, except Wolkies.
Subaru : Disaster Management.
Teana : Navy, as Fate's assistant, training to be an Enforcer.
Erio/Caro : Working with the TSAB Nature Preservation, Erio's now a Dragon Knight.
Wolkies : Together with Hayate now?
Agito : Joins Wolkies/Signum. Has a playful rivalry with Rein now.
Lutecia : Countryside with mom.
Megane : In a wheelchair, but healthy and fine.
Garyuu : The Alphino Guardian Insect.
Ginga : Same ol', but seems to have extras of teaching the Numbers society-life.
Genya : Same, but seems to want to hit on Nove.
Vice/Alto : Back to piloting helicopters, it seems. Seems to have made up with Ragna.
Griffith/Lucino : In TSAB Central as...dunno. Probably similar post.
Vivio: Adopted by Nanoha, and studying in Saint Church...school?
Yuuno : Probably the same, but it looks like he's gotten to know Vivio now.
Chrono : ...Same as always?
Saint Churchers : ...Same as always?
Jail, Uno, Tre, Quattro, Sette : Assholes, and are in high-security off-world prison.
The rest except Due : Going...rehab in an isolation center.

Perfect situation as always...

*goes back to plotting board*

===

@ Kha: Yes! more madness in the 10-year space!

@ Thread: I was expecting for Lulu to be at least alive... but now even her mother? must reformulate!

Praesulus, Ashton and the Reactive fusion armors must be rebuilt- well Level 1 and two to be exact.

Kyla: Creator-Kun will have such a hard time bringing the lot back for AlternateS II... i wonder how will he sequence it now? does it involve me?

Me: Yes... and don't spoil!

Kyla: :P

@ Erio: so, is prisonbreak a go?

Spoiler for Intel from the Red Zone:

*Hears BPHaru Scream BLOODY FRACKING MURDER in Ep26 thread*

CC: Got him... and he's trying to get out of the black hole

*Gets Liquid CO2 extinguisher ready*

Okay guys... Ready the OC thread Defenses... The Great Battle may have just begun.

And we... bring the REAL StrikerS into light...

[asaqe]

Now for a little fast foward post on the ongoing story of Fafnir vs Sigurd. Also I plan making it so instead of just being imprisoned, Due was kept in Suspended animation in the event she attempts to escape...although fate has other plans...

Spoiler for Ep 26 Spoilers...:

As Adam and Albert exchanged fire, Adam fired a rapid flurry of energy caliber rounds at Albert which he evaded with a quick boost jump. Albert took this oppurtunity to fire another salvo of bullets at Adam, the burst was a lucky one and hits a critical part of Adam's armor, leaving a bloody wound on his neck, still aliver however, Adam provokes Albert: "You are lucky enough to get out of this one, but I will be back..." With that, he activated Quattro's IS and fled the scene with Albert confused at what happened...Albert Turned to check the safes...the credits were gone...

Back in the lab, Adam made an landing, there he entered the lab of Jail. "I have returned Father, so whats going on?" Jail told him: "Adam, I feel as if after these events, my ambitions may come to an end, I want you to go off into hiding for a while, dont attract any attention..." Adam nods and packs his bags..."Master Adam, where are you going?" Due stood by a pillar: "I am just going to look for something important in life...something I missed out on since I came here...dont worry, I will come back for you..." Due nods: "Well I better begin my infiltration on Jail's "parents", come back safely, Adam" Adam nods and with one last roar of the Afterburners on his Power armor, he disappeared...

As for Albert, the service he has done to prevent the Bank Robbery from an immense body count has earned the respects of TSAB Superiors, but on the other hand, it was seen by the commission as an failure as the money gotten away with it, Albert after the incident left off with a huge stash of weapons and retreated to parts unknown in the world...

After the Events of Cradle Incident...

Adam was enjoying a glass of wine from his dining room as a young woman poured him another glass, another woman handed him the financial reports of his company, Enzo Drilling company. Apparently, after the Cradle Incident, Adam formed his own company to follow his father's instructions, Adam fabricated his background using the help of the various Sentou Kijin Jail has produced over the years, they became his maids and Secretaries around Midchilda and his multi-billion dollar empire. Adam looked over wine reflection at his face, his neck has an scar that he wondered, who was the mysterious armor? And wonders one day if he would have his revenge...

Basically what will happen soon is Due is going to be retrieved from her glass jar and Albert will get the support of most of the Numbers...

[Erio]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

So, let's get some facts confirmed first...

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Nanoha : Seems to be back in form as an Air Force Instructor, first and foremost.
Fate : Back to the Navy, with Teana and Shari as her assistants.
Hayate : Seems settled with her Ground position, though without a full platoon this time, except Wolkies.
Subaru : Disaster Management.
Teana : Navy, as Fate's assistant, training to be an Enforcer.
Erio/Caro : Working with the TSAB Nature Preservation, Erio's now a Dragon Knight.
Wolkies : Together with Hayate now?
Agito : Joins Wolkies/Signum. Has a playful rivalry with Rein now.
Lutecia : Countryside with mom.
Megane : In a wheelchair, but healthy and fine.
Garyuu : The Alphino Guardian Insect.
Ginga : Same ol', but seems to have extras of teaching the Numbers society-life.
Genya : Same, but seems to want to hit on Nove.
Vice/Alto : Back to piloting helicopters, it seems. Seems to have made up with Ragna.
Griffith/Lucino : In TSAB Central as...dunno. Probably similar post.
Vivio: Adopted by Nanoha, and studying in Saint Church...school?
Yuuno : Probably the same, but it looks like he's gotten to know Vivio now.
Chrono : ...Same as always?
Saint Churchers : ...Same as always?
Jail, Uno, Tre, Quattro, Sette : Assholes, and are in high-security off-world prison.
The rest except Due : Going...rehab in an isolation center.

...Right?

There goes my Prison Break plan. Not that I was counting on it anyway, so my plans are still the same.

However, I can still use them and say that after my fic they join rehab... The only thing I need for this is to know how much time has passed between the final battle until the epilogue... do you know?

[Nightengale]

Originally Posted by Erio

There goes my Prison Break plan. Not that I was counting on it anyway, so my plans are still the same.

However, I can still use them and say that after my fic they join rehab... The only thing I need for this is to know how much time has passed between the final battle until the epilogue... do you know?

Minimum 7~8 months. This is the gap between the final battle and RF6's disbanding. It's not even the epilogue then. Maximum around 2 years, since Vivio is supposingly 5 years old in StrikerS, but is already attending elementary in the epilogue.

However, since 10 year old mages can work, we have no gauge what is the Mid-childan age requirement and all that.

[Dream_Traveller]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Well, looks like you're safe.

Spoiler:

The Numbers/Lutecia/Agito are in rehab-prison (( or something like that )) and Cinque was shown reading a storybook to Nove while sitting on her lap.

Wendi, Deed, Sein, Deici, etc are fine too, and Jail looks like he got a decently comfy single cell. I'm surprised he didn't get a straightjacket.

Well, I expected this would happen...tell me, though, is there any more of Cinque in the episode other than the rehab scene? I did expect her to fight Subaru again, in the least...(One heck of a flimsy prison the more dangerous Numbers were put in, by the by...)

A somewhat interesting situation that some of the cast members eventually found themselves in, too...some were expected, though.

On a side note, this has made me consider the fate of some of the Letters, too...scenarios, scenarios...

On that note, expect a songfic- another barbershop quartet, tune, most likely, and it's one that suits the outcome of StrikerS somewhat...

*Flees.*

[Erio]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Minimum 7~8 months. Maximum 1 and a half years.

Wow, awesome... that's a whole lot more than I expected! Kha, we have almost triple the amount of time now!

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Minimum 7~8 months. This is the gap between the final battle and RF6's disbanding. It's not even the epilogue then. Maximum around 2 years, since Vivio is supposingly 5 years old in StrikerS, but is already attending elementary in the epilogue.

However, since 10 year old mages can work, we have no gauge what is the Mid-childan age requirement and all that.

JUST AS PLANNED!!!

7~8 months huh? That's plenty time for what I have planned

And it seems Lutecia and her mother tagged along with Erio and Caro

[Keroko]

Well, final episode of StrikerS is over, now to see what they will do next. To make an S4, or not to make an S4....

Episode was farely disapointing, though. Filled to the brink with fanservice that was thrown in there at the last minute. Subaru wielding double knuckles, Teana riding her bike, fleet showing up to blast the Cradle, at least the Signum/Agito unision had some meaning.

Oh well, guess I'll spend tommorow's ride to class bubbling over what to do with Keroko, seeing as how everyone is back at what they used to do I could let her go back to the Rogues, or I could explore different paths.

Decicions decicions.

Before that though, I finished the Tesla piece. *grin*

Spoiler for Holding the line:

In stories, it is always the greatest of battles that are being described. The fight of the hero against the dark lord, the battle to save one being loved, the race I stop a deathtrap that will doom a world. All the while other, from outward appearance slightly minor battles rage in the background alone.

And yet those battles are no less difficult.

Tesla could attest to this.

“Hold the line! Ground squad 13, reinforce squad 4, they’re taking heavy pounding! Air squad 7, I want those type-3 drones taken down! They’re bombing us to pieces here!”

Whatever confirmations came from the squad leaders was drowned out by the whine of drone lasers charging.

[Panzer hindernis!] came the voice of Gungnir as Tesla thrust out her left hand to stop the incoming barrage of several type-2 and a swarm of type-1 drones. The blue barrier stopped all incoming attacks.

“Return fire!”

None of the troops needed to be told that twice. Immediately blasts began to launch in the opposite direction, downing drone after drone. Tesla allowed herself a smile. Vita had done an excellent job training these ground forces. They didn’t so much as flinch at the attacks being launched their way.

‘Of course, Vita must have given them hell ten times worse then this and called it training.’

She turned back to the battle at hand. Several of the drones, mostly type-1’s, were now heading towards a course to the left. Judging by their route it seemed as if they were trying to circumvent their defensive line, but… “Kuso.” Tesla cursed as she realized that the drones were never going around the entire block, but were going to use the trashed buildings to get behind their lines.

“Air squad 5, head to these coordinates and stop those drones at any cost.”

“Yes ma’m!”

Tesla sighed as she turned back to face the battle in front of her. She raised Gungnir and took aim for the more heavily armoured type-2 drones. [Blitzschlag!]

3 lightning charged shots launched from the glaive, the first puncturing one drone head on, causing it to explode. The second and third, though, punctured two drones hovering above two of their own. The shots went straight through them, but instead of exploding the two crashed downwards on top of the other two.

Yet another wave defeated, but the next one would not let them wait for long. Now if only-

“Lieutenant! Up there!”

Tesla heard the cry of the ground force mage and looked up. Her eyes widened as she saw the knight Signum had identified as Zest in the sky. This was not a good timing.

-=Signum, Zest has been spotted. He is heading for the HQ on high altitude.=-

-=Understood, Rein and I will intercept.=-

-=Please do.=-

Tesla gave a small sigh of relief. It was a good thing Zest had not targeted the defensive line. He would have wiped out half the line without even trying.

[Feindtätigkeit detektiert.]

Tesla refocused on the battle ahead. Her eyes narrowed as she noticed an increased amount of type-2 drones heading in their direction. More specifically her direction. This confirmed her suspicion that someone was leading these drones, rather then leave them on autopilot.

“Do not break the line!” She called to the troops as she raised herself and stepped over the barrier.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“I’m taking care of that clutter of type-2’s, Nakajima-san. If we let them approach they’ll overwhelm the troops here.”

“Oi, that is-” the man caught himself before he finished his sentence, but Tesla knew what he was going to say. This was reckless. For the average mage, it was suicidal.

But Tesla was no average mage. Tactician or not, she was Tesla, the Knight of the Sky, one of the five Wolkenritter.

And it was time to remind them of that fact.

She raised herself of the ground and shot towards the group of sphere like drones. “Gungnir!”

[Explosion!]

The blade of Gungnir raised, momentarily revealing a line of cartridges in the shaft before slamming back down with a cloud of steam.

[Gewitterwolke!] the device declared as the blade was charged with blue lightning. Tesla never slowed down as she reached the first drone and sliced clean through it, heading straight for the second which brought its metallic arms to block. Tesla pounded though the defense, landing on the ground and shifting her grip to stab through the drones center, the lightning fried the circuits of the machine, causing it to explode.

Before the smoke had even cleared, the other drones had surrounded her. Tesla glanced around and decided to put the remaining magic of the cartridge to good use. She leaped upwards with such speed that the drones lost her for a moment. By the time they had retargeted her, she had reached the peak of her jump.

“Shippuujinrai!” she called as she fell, no, launched downwards, Gungnir crackling with renewed energy as another cartridge was consumed. Just seconds before she hit the ground, she turned all the energy of the fall to the device, swinging it around in a wide arc. “SHUURAI!” the lightning was released with such an intensity and force, that it sliced clean through 3 drones closest to her, went through 2 behind those and obliterated a score of type-1’s in the rear.

And still the type-2’s kept coming. She had taken out seven with those two attacks, but there were still eight remaining, and she no longer had the element of surprise.

For a moment Tesla wished that Rein was here. An Inazuma Shourai would have been great for tackling these remaining drones.

She shook of the thought; Rein was supporting Signum on a far more important task. She could deal with this herself.

“Haaah!” she charged the nearest drone, slicing in apart horizontally before charging toward the next. Raising the tip of Gungnir above her head she shifted the weight of the device more to the center. As she got closer to the drone she drew back the blade, levelled it horizontally and lashed out with a stab. The drone had brought its metal arms to block a vertical strike and was totally unprepared for the stab which cut clean through its sensors. She turned towards the remaining ones, who raised barriers against the inevitable assault.

“Amai!” Tesla shouted at them as another cartridge exploded from the device. Four large blue spinning balls of lightning appeared [Kugelblitz!] Gungnir intoned as the balls of lightning shot towards the drones. Each of them hit a target, clashing with the barriers for only a moment before breaking through. Not even waiting for the smoke of the explosions to clear, Tesla send the four spheres towards the remaining two. Unfortunately the attack had been drained of too much energy while penetrating the barriers, and the first round harmlessly bounced of the barrier. The second, however, broke through and the last two Type-2 drones joined the fate of their predecessors.

Landing back behind the line she was met with two faces she had not expected.

“Shamal! Zafira! What are you doing here?”

“We’re here to do what we can.” The blue wolf answered.

“I’ve been trying to trace the coordinator of these drones, but I’m having trouble locating her.” Shamal answered.

“Try scanning for a low-grade IS barrier line; she seems to favour those from the amount that have popped up in annoying places.”

Shamal nodded and went back to trying to track the one coordinating these drones.

“I found her!”

“Head out and capture her, we’ll hold the line here. And remember, shoot first, arrest speeches later.” Tesla said.

Shamal and Zafira nodded and jumped of. Genya approached Tesla.

“Will those two be allright?”

“Their opponent is only one sentoukijin. They shouldn’t have to much of a problem against her.”

“How do you know it’s only one?”

“The way the drones moved was matched easily enough, and there was a small lag whenever they changed strategy. Also taking into account the overindulgement at sending the type-2’s at me, it definitely is only one of them.”

“I see…” Genya said. Truth was, he didn’t. “And if you’re wrong?”

“I’m not.”

Before Genya could even begin to argue, Gungnir interrupted.

[Empfanging einen einberufung signal.]

“A summoning signal? Masaka… Yui?”

[positiv.]

Tesla hissed, and glared towards the Cradle. If Yui was trying to summon Gungnir, then that meant there was serious trouble going on.

[Sollte ich gehen?]

“Uhn.”

With a flash of light, the familiar sensation of Gungnir vanished out of Tesla’s reach.

“… protect her well, Gungnir.”

“Was that such a wise choice? We’re still in the middle of a battle ourselves here.”

“Daijoubu, Shamal and Zafira should have cornered the battle coordinator by now. Anytime we could… Ah, there you have it.”

Genya turned to see what Tesla was talking about, but all he saw was the next wave of drones.

“I still don’t see how this helps us.”

Tesla blinked. “What? You don't?” At Genya’s shake of denial she sighed. “Oh well, I’ll show you. Ground units 1 to 5! Surround the drones! Air units 1 to 3! Attack from above, crescent formation!” After giving the orders, she turned back to Genya. “See now?”

Genya shook his head. “I don’t really understand what you’re doing. I can understand surrounding the drones, but what you’re doing is really nothing different from a standard Arc Saber maneuver. They’re not going to fall for that.”

“No, they’re not just going to fall for it. It’ll destroy them completely.” Tesla said. “Watch.”

Genya watched, and as he watched his eyes widened. The drones were stopping their advance and created a circle, the type-2 were in the center, surrounded by type 1’s. “What in the blazes are they doing?”

“They’re doing they only thing they can do, or rather the only thing they’re programmed to do in case of an Arc Saber maneuver.” Tesla explained. “With their coördinator gone, those drones are being ‘led’ by the type-2. Now none of those drones is created for urban warfare, where fire can come from all sides. They’re supposed to advance, and hence they can only fire forward. If you surround them, they’ll go in a defensive formation with the type-1 in front, protecting the now leading type-2’s. This limits their firepower in almost any aspect.”

Genya’s eyes widened in realization. “Then that time-”

Tesla smiled, as if proud of a student that had solved a problem. “Exactly, at the time Gungnir went to Yui, Shamal and Zafira had captured the coordinator, which caused the drones to revert back to standard programming.”

Genya stared at the drones who had now completed their completely useless maneuver and were slowly being mowed down by the troops. He couldn’t help but be amazed at how quickly and sharply the girl had analyzed the situation and turned it into a sure victory.

“But how-”

“You really should get out of your office and play a computer game or two Major.” Tesla said calmly, almost dreamily.

The battle was over in minutes, and the mages prepared for the next wave. The drones A.I. would have manufactured a different strategy, but on their side, none of the mages longer doubted that in the end they would all make it out alive.

Since all the Tesla pieces up to this point were character development (for which I am eternally gratefull to Aaron), I decided to write a little combat piece. Combat suits me better then fluff anyway. Much easier to write.

Apolagies if some of the German seems scrambled. German grammar is a pain in the rear.

[Thisguy]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

So, let's get some facts confirmed first...

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Lutecia : Countryside with mom.
Megane : In a wheelchair, but healthy and fine.

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Actually, endroll said that Lutecia is sealed of most of her magic power, and sentenced under protective observation by isoleting in an uninhabited world.

I'm not sure if she can warp out of there at her will, but if she can't... isn't it harsh?
Moreover what Megane did to deserve such situation?

Well, there's one hope though...
Unless that one Insekt is capable of inter-dimentional travel through distance even Shamal can't perform, Lu is in same or very close world to Erio and Caro.
Maybe they can drop-by from time to time.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Thisguy

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Actually, endroll said that Lutecia is sealed of most of her magic power, and sentenced under protective observation by isoleting in an uninhabited world.

I'm not sure if she can warp out of there at her will, but if she can't... isn't it harsh?
Moreover what Megane did to deserve such situation?

Well, there's one hope though...
Unless that one Insekt is capable of inter-dimentional travel through distance even Shamal can't perform, Lu is in same or very close world to Erio and Caro.
Maybe they can drop-by from time to time.

They are, actually. It's the world we saw in the manga, one where a group of zoologists keep track of the animals there. Caro worked with them before she went to Mid-Childa. It's only called 'uninhabited' because it lacks any form of city/government.

As for Megane, perhaps she chose to be with her new daughter? She needed rest to recover anyway.

[Thisguy]

Originally Posted by Keroko

They are, actually. It's the world we saw in the manga, one where a group of zoologists keep track of the animals there. Caro worked with them before she went to Mid-Childa. It's only called 'uninhabited' because it lacks any form of city/government.

I know about Caro's past-job, for I own manga myself.
The point is, it didn't say where Lu is; I'd be relieved if it actually said she's in No.61 Administrated World, which is where Erio and Caro are now, but it didn't say anything.
That means Lu could be in a separate world as much as she could be in Spools.
(Not to mention that we didn't see "floating islands" in Lu's world, which is typical in Spools)

Also we don't know how far an Insekt can travel, so we can't say for sure that Lu is in same world with them, although I do hope so.

edit: spelling ><

[Dream_Traveller]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Well, final episode of StrikerS is over, now to see what they will do next. To make an S4, or not to make an S4....

Episode was farely disapointing, though. Filled to the brink with fanservice that was thrown in there at the last minute. Subaru wielding double knuckles, Teana riding her bike, fleet showing up to blast the Cradle, at least the Signum/Agito unision had some meaning.

Oh well, guess I'll spend tommorow's ride to class bubbling over what to do with Keroko, seeing as how everyone is back at what they used to do I could let her go back to the Rogues, or I could explore different paths.

Decicions decicions.

Before that though, I finished the Tesla piece. *grin*

Spoiler for Holding the line:

In stories, it is always the greatest of battles that are being described. The fight of the hero against the dark lord, the battle to save one being loved, the race I stop a deathtrap that will doom a world. All the while other, from outward appearance slightly minor battles rage in the background alone.

And yet those battles are no less difficult.

Tesla could attest to this.

“Hold the line! Ground squad 13, reinforce squad 4, they’re taking heavy pounding! Air squad 7, I want those type-3 drones taken down! They’re bombing us to pieces here!”

Whatever confirmations came from the squad leaders was drowned out by the whine of drone lasers charging.

[Panzer hindernis!] came the voice of Gungnir as Tesla thrust out her left hand to stop the incoming barrage of several type-2 and a swarm of type-1 drones. The blue barrier stopped all incoming attacks.

“Return fire!”

None of the troops needed to be told that twice. Immediately blasts began to launch in the opposite direction, downing drone after drone. Tesla allowed herself a smile. Vita had done an excellent job training these ground forces. They didn’t so much as flinch at the attacks being launched their way.

‘Of course, Vita must have given them hell ten times worse then this and called it training.’

She turned back to the battle at hand. Several of the drones, mostly type-1’s, were now heading towards a course to the left. Judging by their route it seemed as if they were trying to circumvent their defensive line, but… “Kuso.” Tesla cursed as she realized that the drones were never going around the entire block, but were going to use the trashed buildings to get behind their lines.

“Air squad 5, head to these coordinates and stop those drones at any cost.”

“Yes ma’m!”

Tesla sighed as she turned back to face the battle in front of her. She raised Gungnir and took aim for the more heavily armoured type-2 drones. [Blitzschlag!]

3 lightning charged shots launched from the glaive, the first puncturing one drone head on, causing it to explode. The second and third, though, punctured two drones hovering above two of their own. The shots went straight through them, but instead of exploding the two crashed downwards on top of the other two.

Yet another wave defeated, but the next one would not let them wait for long. Now if only-

“Lieutenant! Up there!”

Tesla heard the cry of the ground force mage and looked up. Her eyes widened as she saw the knight Signum had identified as Zest in the sky. This was not a good timing.

-=Signum, Zest has been spotted. He is heading for the HQ on high altitude.=-

-=Understood, Rein and I will intercept.=-

-=Please do.=-

Tesla gave a small sigh of relief. It was a good thing Zest had not targeted the defensive line. He would have wiped out half the line without even trying.

[Feindtätigkeit detektiert.]

Tesla refocused on the battle ahead. Her eyes narrowed as she noticed an increased amount of type-2 drones heading in their direction. More specifically her direction. This confirmed her suspicion that someone was leading these drones, rather then leave them on autopilot.

“Do not break the line!” She called to the troops as she raised herself and stepped over the barrier.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“I’m taking care of that clutter of type-2’s, Nakajima-san. If we let them approach they’ll overwhelm the troops here.”

“Oi, that is-” the man caught himself before he finished his sentence, but Tesla knew what he was going to say. This was reckless. For the average mage, it was suicidal.

But Tesla was no average mage. Tactician or not, she was Tesla, the Knight of the Sky, one of the five Wolkenritter.

And it was time to remind them of that fact.

She raised herself of the ground and shot towards the group of sphere like drones. “Gungnir!”

[Explosion!]

The blade of Gungnir raised, momentarily revealing a line of cartridges in the shaft before slamming back down with a cloud of steam.

[Gewitterwolke!] the device declared as the blade was charged with blue lightning. Tesla never slowed down as she reached the first drone and sliced clean through it, heading straight for the second which brought its metallic arms to block. Tesla pounded though the defense, landing on the ground and shifting her grip to stab through the drones center, the lightning fried the circuits of the machine, causing it to explode.

Before the smoke had even cleared, the other drones had surrounded her. Tesla glanced around and decided to put the remaining magic of the cartridge to good use. She leaped upwards with such speed that the drones lost her for a moment. By the time they had retargeted her, she had reached the peak of her jump.

“Shippuujinrai!” she called as she fell, no, launched downwards, Gungnir crackling with renewed energy as another cartridge was consumed. Just seconds before she hit the ground, she turned all the energy of the fall to the device, swinging it around in a wide arc. “SHUURAI!” the lightning was released with such an intensity and force, that it sliced clean through 3 drones closest to her, went through 2 behind those and obliterated a score of type-1’s in the rear.

And still the type-2’s kept coming. She had taken out seven with those two attacks, but there were still eight remaining, and she no longer had the element of surprise.

For a moment Tesla wished that Rein was here. An Inazuma Shourai would have been great for tackling these remaining drones.

She shook of the thought; Rein was supporting Signum on a far more important task. She could deal with this herself.

“Haaah!” she charged the nearest drone, slicing in apart horizontally before charging toward the next. Raising the tip of Gungnir above her head she shifted the weight of the device more to the center. As she got closer to the drone she drew back the blade, levelled it horizontally and lashed out with a stab. The drone had brought its metal arms to block a vertical strike and was totally unprepared for the stab which cut clean through its sensors. She turned towards the remaining ones, who raised barriers against the inevitable assault.

“Amai!” Tesla shouted at them as another cartridge exploded from the device. Four large blue spinning balls of lightning appeared [Kugelblitz!] Gungnir intoned as the balls of lightning shot towards the drones. Each of them hit a target, clashing with the barriers for only a moment before breaking through. Not even waiting for the smoke of the explosions to clear, Tesla send the four spheres towards the remaining two. Unfortunately the attack had been drained of too much energy while penetrating the barriers, and the first round harmlessly bounced of the barrier. The second, however, broke through and the last two Type-2 drones joined the fate of their predecessors.

Landing back behind the line she was met with two faces she had not expected.

“Shamal! Zafira! What are you doing here?”

“We’re here to do what we can.” The blue wolf answered.

“I’ve been trying to trace the coordinator of these drones, but I’m having trouble locating her.” Shamal answered.

“Try scanning for a low-grade IS barrier line; she seems to favour those from the amount that have popped up in annoying places.”

Shamal nodded and went back to trying to track the one coordinating these drones.

“I found her!”

“Head out and capture her, we’ll hold the line here. And remember, shoot first, arrest speeches later.” Tesla said.

Shamal and Zafira nodded and jumped of. Genya approached Tesla.

“Will those two be allright?”

“Their opponent is only one sentoukijin. They shouldn’t have to much of a problem against her.”

“How do you know it’s only one?”

“The way the drones moved was matched easily enough, and there was a small lag whenever they changed strategy. Also taking into account the overindulgement at sending the type-2’s at me, it definitely is only one of them.”

“I see…” Genya said. Truth was, he didn’t. “And if you’re wrong?”

“I’m not.”

Before Genya could even begin to argue, Gungnir interrupted.

[Empfanging einen einberufung signal.]

“A summoning signal? Masaka… Yui?”

[positiv.]

Tesla hissed, and glared towards the Cradle. If Yui was trying to summon Gungnir, then that meant there was serious trouble going on.

[Sollte ich gehen?]

“Uhn.”

With a flash of light, the familiar sensation of Gungnir vanished out of Tesla’s reach.

“… protect her well, Gungnir.”

“Was that such a wise choice? We’re still in the middle of a battle ourselves here.”

“Daijoubu, Shamal and Zafira should have cornered the battle coordinator by now. Anytime we could… Ah, there you have it.”

Genya turned to see what Tesla was talking about, but all he saw was the next wave of drones.

“I still don’t see how this helps us.”

Tesla blinked. “What? You don't?” At Genya’s shake of denial she sighed. “Oh well, I’ll show you. Ground units 1 to 5! Surround the drones! Air units 1 to 3! Attack from above, crescent formation!” After giving the orders, she turned back to Genya. “See now?”

Genya shook his head. “I don’t really understand what you’re doing. I can understand surrounding the drones, but what you’re doing is really nothing different from a standard Arc Saber maneuver. They’re not going to fall for that.”

“No, they’re not just going to fall for it. It’ll destroy them completely.” Tesla said. “Watch.”

Genya watched, and as he watched his eyes widened. The drones were stopping their advance and created a circle, the type-2 were in the center, surrounded by type 1’s. “What in the blazes are they doing?”

“They’re doing they only thing they can do, or rather the only thing they’re programmed to do in case of an Arc Saber maneuver.” Tesla explained. “With their coördinator gone, those drones are being ‘led’ by the type-2. Now none of those drones is created for urban warfare, where fire can come from all sides. They’re supposed to advance, and hence they can only fire forward. If you surround them, they’ll go in a defensive formation with the type-1 in front, protecting the now leading type-2’s. This limits their firepower in almost any aspect.”

Genya’s eyes widened in realization. “Then that time-”

Tesla smiled, as if proud of a student that had solved a problem. “Exactly, at the time Gungnir went to Yui, Shamal and Zafira had captured the coordinator, which caused the drones to revert back to standard programming.”

Genya stared at the drones who had now completed their completely useless maneuver and were slowly being mowed down by the troops. He couldn’t help but be amazed at how quickly and sharply the girl had analyzed the situation and turned it into a sure victory.

“But how-”

“You really should get out of your office and play a computer game or two Major.” Tesla said calmly, almost dreamily.

The battle was over in minutes, and the mages prepared for the next wave. The drones A.I. would have manufactured a different strategy, but on their side, none of the mages longer doubted that in the end they would all make it out alive.

Since all the Tesla pieces up to this point were character development (for which I am eternally gratefull to Aaron), I decided to write a little combat piece. Combat suits me better then fluff anyway. Much easier to write.

Apolagies if some of the German seems scrambled. German grammar is a pain in the rear.

And so we see Tesla in a piece at last! Looks like she has a knack for battlefield analysis.

Will we be seeing more of her in the future, by any chance?


On my side, I'm short on time, but I've gotten back to working. Expect the aforementioned songfic by tomorrow- and the tune really does match with the end result of StrikerS in a way. Eh, enough rambling, since I bet you're all tired of it.

[CaroRuLushe]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

So, let's get some facts confirmed first...

Spoiler for Episode 26:

Nanoha : Seems to be back in form as an Air Force Instructor, first and foremost.
Fate : Back to the Navy, with Teana and Shari as her assistants.
Hayate : Seems settled with her Ground position, though without a full platoon this time, except Wolkies.
Subaru : Disaster Management.
Teana : Navy, as Fate's assistant, training to be an Enforcer.
Erio/Caro : Working with the TSAB Nature Preservation, Erio's now a Dragon Knight.
Wolkies : Together with Hayate now?
Agito : Joins Wolkies/Signum. Has a playful rivalry with Rein now.
Lutecia : Countryside with mom.
Megane : In a wheelchair, but healthy and fine.
Garyuu : The Alphino Guardian Insect.
Ginga : Same ol', but seems to have extras of teaching the Numbers society-life.
Genya : Same, but seems to want to hit on Nove.
Vice/Alto : Back to piloting helicopters, it seems. Seems to have made up with Ragna.
Griffith/Lucino : In TSAB Central as...dunno. Probably similar post.
Vivio: Adopted by Nanoha, and studying in Saint Church...school?
Yuuno : Probably the same, but it looks like he's gotten to know Vivio now.
Chrono : ...Same as always?
Saint Churchers : ...Same as always?
Jail, Uno, Tre, Quattro, Sette : Assholes, and are in high-security off-world prison.
The rest except Due : Going...rehab in an isolation center.

...Right?

*slams fist on table* :f rustrated: I AM VERY PISSED OFF AT THIS ENDING!! NOW THEY BETTER MAKE A 4TH SEASON!! I REALLY wanted a kiss from Erio and Caro or at least them confessing! Well at least they're still together.......but I'm still pissed off.

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by Thisguy

I know about Caro's past-job, for I own manga myself.
The point is, it didn't say where Lu is; I'd be relieved if it actually said she's in No.61 Administrated World, which is where Erio and Caro are now, but it didn't say anything.
That means Lu could be in a separate world as much as she could be in Spools.
(Not to mention that we didn't see "floating islands" in Lu's world, which is typical in Spools)

Also we don't know how far an Insekt can travel, so we can't say for sure that Lu is in same world with them, although I do hope so.

edit: spelling ><

That's true, we don't know if Lutecia and her mother really are in the same world as Erio and Caro.
And Caro did say that Summoners are experts in teleportation

Originally Posted by CaroRuLushe

*slams fist on table* :f rustrated: I AM VERY PISSED OFF AT THIS ENDING!! NOW THEY BETTER MAKE A 4TH SEASON!! I REALLY wanted a kiss from Erio and Caro or at least them confessing! Well at least they're still together.......but I'm still pissed off.

"O-oi..." *sweadrop*
They're still young, not to mention they'l be senping a lot of time together from now on

Hopefully there'll be a 4th season where we'll get to see their relationship grow...

[asaqe]

Originally Posted by Erio

There goes my Prison Break plan. Not that I was counting on it anyway, so my plans are still the same.

However, I can still use them and say that after my fic they join rehab... The only thing I need for this is to know how much time has passed between the final battle until the epilogue... do you know?

Well my idea is that my OC Antagonist Adam decided to use the money he got from plundering the bank to start a little company, it was also a front to dig up relics and not to mention act as the means to break Scag and the high ranking numbers out...