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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Imaginary World no. 856
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Real life and school work have been eating off my free time. ><
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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
Hi! As some of you know, I've recently been posting MGLN fics over at ff.net, and more than one person (markesellus and RadiantBeam among them) mentioned that I should take a look over here. So I did. And after I picked my jaw up off the floor at the sheer amount of Nanoha fiction here (and all the familiar names...), I decided to sign up. So here I am!
*ducks*
Um, and since it's customary to bring gifts or something...at least in some cultures...some of which I may have heard of...here's a little something. It started out being one of the "Vivio's Magical Omake Theater!" bits that I clip onto the end of my Nanoha fics, but it got kind of out of hand until it was a story of its own. So...um, it's a good way to see if I've managed to figure out how to make these spoiler tags work?
Anyway, it takes place in, sort of, my own future-Vivio continuity, now on its second story.
Spoiler for How Reputations Are Made:
The giant hammer, its head ten feet long and four across, its tip a spinning drill, reared up in the sky.
"Limit Break!" shouted the petite redhead holding the handle. The hammer head rose and fell three times, popping out spent cartridges. "Destruction Hammer!"
The blonde teenager facing her grinned, her heterochromatic red and green eyes alight with the joy of battle. "Parisfal! Now!"
The vambrace on her upper right arm ratcheted up and down three times of its own, spitting out brass. The jeweled setting flickered royal blue.
"Stahl-Festung!"
Irresistible force met immovable object. The ultimate magical attack of the Iron Hammer Knight, Vita, collided with the ultimate magical defense of her student, Takamachi Vivio. The resulting explosion was deafening, a blaze of white light blotting out everything.
When the dust cleared, they lay at opposite ends of a thirty-foot crater blown in the training ground surface. Shaking her head to clear the cobwebs, Vivio tried to stand but a searing pain in her lower right leg made her sit back down.
"Oh, man," she groaned, then raised her voice. "Hey, Vita-sensei, can you give me a hand? I think I broke my tibia again."
"You're getting slack, kid. I keep telling you not to brace off your back foot like that when you're taking a hit that might get through."
"Sorry." It was a bad habit and she knew it.
"I'll be there in a sec."
Vita wobbled her way over.
"Can you pop my shoulders back in?"
"Both?"
"Hey, that shield of yours gives as good as it gets."
Vivio smiled at the compliment.
"Okay." Vita extended her arms; Vivio took them, braced her good foot in Vita's belly to hold her body in place, and yanked. There was an audible pop and both shoulder joints slipped back into place. That done, Vita helped Vivio stand up and let the taller girl put an arm around her for support.
"We," Vita summed it up, "are a mess." She smiled and added, "Nice fight, kid."
"Thanks, sensei." Vivio smiled back. They really were two of a kind, she thought, Belkan mage-knights and close-combat specialists, though their particular approaches to battle were almost mirror images. Vita came on like a relentless machine, crushing anything stupid enough to get in her way, while Vivio put herself in her enemy's path and let them shatter themselves on her shield walls. They'd been mentor and pupil for five years. Better than that, they were friends.
At the entrance to the training ground, they passed five white-shirted privates, there for their own morning training session, who watched them with stunned faces. Clearly they'd seen most of the mock battle on the monitor screens.
"Go get the car, willya?" Vita asked. "And call up Shamal and tell her she'll need to patch us up again?"
"Why me?"
"She'll give you less grief over it."
"All right."
Vita handed her Graf Eisen and Vivio hobbled off, using the warhammer as a makeshift cane.
"I...is that the kind of thing we'll be learning, ma'am?" one of the braver recruits dared to ask.
Vita shook her head.
"Nah, I'm strictly the second string as a teacher. You'll be studying under Nanoha. She's way harder than I am, but she's the kid's mom, so she was afraid she'd pull her punches. Hey, Vivio, you building that car from scratch?"
"In a minute! You want to try driving a stick shift with a broken leg?"
"Sure, if they'd put the pedals where someone my size can reach."
A quarter of an hour later, a thirty-year-old brunette walked up to the training grounds, her white uniform shirt and blue skirt crisp and neatly pressed, a sunny smile on her face.
"Good morning!" she greeted her fresh class of recruits. "My name is Takamachi Nanoha, and I'm going to be the combat instructor for--" She broke off her speech, not wanting to talk over the screams the sound of her name had triggered, and surveyed the damage. Three students had fainted outright while the other two cringed in horror against the far wall. A rising acrid stench told Nanoha that a loss of bladder control had hit at least one, probably more. She hung her head and sighed.
"Mou, Vivio, do you have to do this to every new class?"
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A/N: Just wait until she finds out what they did to the training ground! German translations again courtesy of my own brutal ignorance and Google.
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Welcome and have fun. 
The short was really funny. Vivio and Vita's interactions were nice. Poor Nanoha at the end. 
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Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki
DIVIDED DESTINY
Two People, Two Paths
Spoiler for Divided Destiny, pt. 15:
As Nanoha made the trek to the small room she shared at one of the Residencies in the evening, she began to contemplate why she signed up for the mission. It was risky given not even her supervisor knew much about what they were to be doing or what they were to be driving. Granted it was to be via remote control they still had to be within transmission range. And it was to be at Eden of all places. Her birth place filled with memories of family and friends. She paused her steps for a moment. Friends...Fate. Had she gotten out of Eden when they evacuated? With the communication satellite down she had no means to contact her. Even more so she had no idea where she was on the planet, let alone if she was alive at all. But she had Hayate and her relatives there with her. They would look after each other, especially with Hayate's uncle Gil on the Eden Council. He definitely would make sure that they would have gotten out.
The brownish-red door in front of her broke her train of though. Apparently she had started walking again and ended up back at her place. The door parted and granted her access to the small space she shared.
"Ah, welcome back Nanoha!"
A smile came to the girl's face. It was a simple greeting, but to her it reaffirmed that she was home. Plymouth was her home. It was where her family and friends were. In the back of her mind she hoped that maybe, someday, the two colonies would reconcile and then they could all be together again. For now she had her mind on the upcoming mission. She didn't want to worry anyone so she decided to keep quiet about it.
"Thanks, Arisa-chan. It was Suzuka-chan's turn to cook tonight, right?"
A week passed by with no word about the mission. The day before those who volunteered got messages to meet at the Vehicle Factory at noon. Nanoha guessed that they would be starting the recon mission that day. As noon rolled around, she gave excuses to her friends that she was being sent off on a scouting mission for new mining locations to ward off any suspicions of her disappearance. It was easily accepted since she had gone on similar assignments before. For her it wasn't a complete lie. She was going out on a scouting mission; it just wasn't for mining locations.
Arriving at the Vehicle Factory, she was instructed to wait in one of the meeting rooms with the others. Inside she saw maybe about a dozen or so volunteers like herself. She only recognized one of them, Vice, from having worked with him before. It didn't surprise her that Vice would have volunteered for the mission. He had been assigned to assist with expansion of the colony's tubes the past few weeks and he had been quite...imaginative in profession his frustration over the boring assignment as of late. Small talk emerged between the room's occupants, mostly on their theories about what the new vehicle they would be operating would be. Some suggested it would be some kinda subterranean transport while others a giant mobile base they required all of them to operate it. Then there was Vice who was hoping for some kind of flying vehicle, like a helicopter he had seen in the archives. The conversations quickly died down as several security personnel entered the room. Seeing all eyes on them, the apparent leader spoke up.
"First, I would like to thank all of you for volunteering to participate in this mission. Now, I'm sure all of your know where we are heading. Why we are doing is for information. Several people on the council believe that the evacuation of Eden had something to do with their research in the Advance Labs. Our mission is to head in and use modified Scouts to scan and transmit whatever data we can find from their four labs."
The main screen in the room flared to life. One of the other security personnel brought up what appeared to be a satellite picture of the colony.
"We have the coordinates for their labs. However there appears to be some kind of damage to all the structures in the colony. Their power plants are still online which means the labs are still powered. While that makes our job easier of just having to scan the labs, it also limits out timetable. One of their Advance Labs shows to have extensive damage leading us to believe their might be volatile materials inside and could cause the labs to explode. If that is the case, we need to retrieve the data before that happens."
Two pictures came up above the fist, displaying some weird structure that looked like a radar dish and another of a vehicle with a dish mounted to it.
"What we also found were these. Based on what we were able to gather these things you see here...are weapons." A collective gasp came from the workers in the room. "From what we were able to gather these appear to be some kind of laser-based weapon system that Eden has deployed around the colony. They also seem to have adapted it to a mobile platform. A Scout we sent in earlier was attacked when it came within range of these weapons. Another Scout observed the lasers attacking a large piece of metal that fell from a structure, leading us to believe that they are aggressive to anything that moves. Why they are programmed to that we don't know. What it does is make this mission even more dangerous."
A hand came up from one of the workers. "But with these weapons around the labs, how will we be able to retrieve the data?"
"Ah, good question. That is where the new vehicle you will be operating comes in."
All the image son the screen were closed and replaced with a slow-spinning 3-D model. It was a 6-wheeled vehicle with a lean frame. A cab for one or two people could be seen integrated into the single body. It looked strikingly similar to the armed vehicles in the Eden picture except for the device mounted to it. Instead of the radar dish it had what could be described as a large cylinder mounted to it.
"This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Microwave Lynx. The concept from what images we could get of Eden's version were used to develop this. It is an agile chassis armed with a focused-microwave projection weapon. They can be driven manually inside or via remote control. These will be our escort into Eden and what you will be operating."
That revelation got the workers talking. The idea of Eden having weapons, let alone Plymouth developing their own was a shock. Why would they need such a thing? And now here they were asked to operate these things. Was Eden planning on starting a war? Just what were they researching in those labs to warrant such a development? Emotions were mixed on the situation.
"We will be heading out in a half hour. They operate no different then what you have driven before though we will be instructing you on weapon operation en route. I will leave it to you to discuss driving roles."
A) Choose to operate a Scout
B) Choose to operate a Microwave Lynx
C) Change to Fate's PoV
Please post your choices BOLD and in DarkOrange
Previous Installments
- Intro
- Chapter 01
- Chapter 02
- Chapter 03
- Chapter 04
- Chapter 05
- Chapter 06
- Chapter 07
- Chapter 08
- Chapter 09
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14 |
B sounds more interesting.
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So we find out more about Alicia and how she got to become the Pest. Some Precia and her relation to the Techno-Union too. I really thought Fate was going to die, but Zaeta pulls another surprise bottle from her sleeve. Hayate!!! Well, at least it seems the riders do have a weakness to things they hold dear. Hayate killing Vita would have been heartbreaking though... (for everybody). Nice Jail and Quattro scene. Alicia and Fate?  Uh oh, will Alicia be alright? So we now return to the Royal Palace? 
[Obligatory 'Can't wait for the next part' text]
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