Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Well, sorry if our collective schedules are rather messed up...

At least I have the advantage of having a crappy educational system, which means that failing is actually hard. Though unfortunately, the drawback is that learning something is even harder.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Maybe I should bring over Almaria more often.
If I can't use her in fanon other than flashbacks, perhaps as accompaniment in my replies would be nice.

Please do.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

It's more of you're not the type of person who'd do something to warrant that.

My conciense is even showing when playing Mass Effect. I want to play a Renegade, but I keep collecting Paragon points too.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

What does Tesla mean?

Tesla: Do you have any idea how hard it is to get Keroko-chan to stop working and start sleeping? Last night was the first time she actually slept before 3 AM in weeks. And it took blackmail, threats and medical orders to get her to do so.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

I see Tesla's your schedule-manager on some occasionis.

At times, yes. Though I'm usually too lazy to follow them.

Tesla: I heard that!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Her performance was pretty awesome. And she got the best development of anybody Belkan in the show...

Everyone can whine about everything, but few are the ones actually happy with what they get.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Keroko-kun? Abusing? Nah.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Yeah... But she's been recently usurped by Yue...

Just wait untill Chao apears.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Have to warn you though, don't expect greatness

I have a high tollerance limit.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

What the hell is that suppose to b-

...
...

Oh real cute Keroko...

*twiddles thumbs with a halo above his head*

[Kyral]

Yay! I'm alive!

Watching all weekend anime nonstop with a friend can be pretty tiring...

But its interesting how something can turn back into human after a shower and a shave

Hehe. Thats a lot of new posts I have t o read through... but that how I love it...
OC... we eat postings and chew victory! or something like that


BTW:
Ef is just great!

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Wha...WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!!!
And Keroko is in on it, too?!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

What... happened... Nanoha... dead?

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Err... what's going on here?

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Nice shot. Though you had me thinking it was Nanoha with RH there for awhile. Keroko's potential is nicely brought up here.

Originally Posted by LoweGear

What is the meaning of this? Keroko turned dark?

Hehe... Just some little "Dark Future" setting I thought about. xD

TSAB destroyed. Midchilda and it's people slaved by an ancient being from the beyond. Friends and heroes slain or fallen into darkness.
And only some small groups led by the Saint Church remain to fight the evil.

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

need another ally mage or perhaps a traitor? >_>

Well if you have some mage who is or was once corrupted by something, he may join the forces of evil.

Originally Posted by USB500

Spoiler for T3H 3VIL teaser:

"Mother, please, no! You'll only embarrass me in front of this people...!"

"Oh-ho? Frieda I know is usually defiant and proud of herself. I wonder if living as a Belkan Knight has changed her a lot."

"Mother, living as a knight doesn't even have anything to do with this!"

"Eh? Really? Then let me check you up just a little bit."

"Mother, stop it- ah! You're tickling me!"

"So my cute Frieda has grown up a lot. Now just let mother do this and that..."

Mmm.... hot mother/daughter action the best, purest of maternal love...

*plugs nostril*

By the love of... w00t!

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

Spoiler for Naomi Jaeger, OFM Air Force Mage:

*snip*

Okay, by god, it's done. Last are spells, and then I can get on with writing...

Finally I can see Naomis profile...
Very nice!

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Warning Poorly Translated Gratuitous German ahead!

And this is were I come into play...

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Spoiler for Spelllist:

Spell List:
Attack Spells:

Zündung: A simple spell that enshrouds his weapons cutting head in flames for added damage.

Zündung Plus: A cartridge boosted variant the flames are considerably more intense and can easily melt through armor plate with slashes or stabs.

Flamme-Schrägstrich: Another fairly simple maneuver a wide swing of the blade projects a large grout of flames along the path of said swing out of a maximum range of around 50 meters. The intensity is variable and it can be used as a fairly powerful attack on down to a mere distraction or visual cover. It can also be focused down into a thin edge with high power or a wide area with lower force, or powered up with cartridges. A very versatile spell and one of his staples.

Brennende Lanze: Somewhat similar to the above but instead of a wide slash it focuses the flames into a flamethrower like projection originating from the head of the weapon and projected out in a similar manner. Short ranged, but quite powerful similar in force to many buster spells, at very close range (>15 meters) it strikes almost like a cutting torch over a small area with intense force, but it dissipates quickly and by about 50 meters it’s defused into a large cone shaped projection. The duration of the blast is short so it’s difficult to take advantage of this diffusion effect for area damage in open terrain, though fired down some confined space like a hall it can be very effective in that role.

Feuerkugel: Simple shooting spell and his only decent ranged attack conjures between four to eight small homing fireballs and launches them at the target.

Flammendes Inferno: A very powerful spell centered on the user when activated an enormous ball of flame more resembling an explosion is unleashed from the caster quickly engulfing the entire area around him in a hellish… well inferno. The radius can be adjusted, as can the power, too a point, but this still very nearly an inherently lethal attack at maximum power from several cartridges it can cover an area nearly 100 meters in diameter. The spell dose NOT do knock back like a proper explosion it will merely expand outward and rapidly engulf anything nearby in the flames. As such it’s best combined with a bind that pins the target inside the effect for maximum damage, due to it’s nature any defense that leaves an opening to the user is nearly useless. It lasts for around 10 seconds once triggered, requires at least 3 cartridges to activate and 5 for maximum effect but this severely drains Alan and he’d barely be able to stand after the later expenditure, as such it’s a last resort trump card.

Defense Spells:
Brandmauer: Appears to encase the user in a burning aura, fiery special effects aside this a mostly standard defensive field spell providing limited but full body protection, has a bonus against other fire based attacks though.

Tri Shield: A standard shield spell provides heavy protection, but only across a very limited vector, can be maneuvered around though but still only covers one point ay any given time.

Flamme-Sperre: A mid way point between the above covering most of the frontal arc, but not the rear takes the form of a fiery half dome centered on the caster, is locked to the caster so to turn the shield he has to turn his body.

Movement:

Flügel des Feuers: Effectively Flier Fin with the “fins” taking the forms of small flames at the ankle, pretty much just a showy flight spell.

Blitz Rüber: A short range speed boost the user zips forward at high speed trailing flames behind them (strictly for show… well unless you do it over dry grass or something), if used in the flight the flame wings near the ankles flare to several times normal size when actived.

Misc:
Struggle Bind: Standard bind spell used for restraining or disrupting movement.

Bind Break: Another standard spell used to well… break binds duh.

Ok... let's see...

Spoiler for Me helps with translation ^-^:

Flamme-Schrägstrich:

Schrägstrich!? Oo --> /
The thing you have on your keyboard!?

You mean "Slash" right?
Can be translatet with "Hieb" like in "Schwerthieb" (sword slash)

Flamme-Sperre:
Hm... "Flammensperre" or "Flammende Sperre" would be a little better... ^^'

Blitz Rüber:

Errr.... Rüber!?

My first thought was "Rübe" that is a "turnip" but I'm pretty sure that was not what you had in mind.

Maybe "Räuber" that means Robber/Bandit...

Sorry... I have no idea...
It would be a great help to see the english version of that spell name.

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

Then, take this one!!!

Spoiler for MOE!!!:

Thats so very Mega-Hyper-Über-Moe!

Originally Posted by Satty

Interesting, but I'm sorta confused on what's going on...

That was one of my intentions

Originally Posted by Keroko

Yup, seku-hara Hayate was canon long before it became fanon. Fanon simply dragged it out of proportions.

Good to know... ôo

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Grandis: Looks like Mel did all the work for us...
Hayate: Yeah...
Grandis: Now where was I? <grabs Hayate and spins her around>
Hayate: K-kyaaa!!! W-what are you doing?!
Grandis: Just continuing my-<pins her down>
Hayate: G-grandis! N-no!
Grandis: <puases while hovering over her> ...
Hayate: Uun~ <helpless MOE overload>
Grandis: Pffttt... <falls back on his back while laughing> BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! XD XD XD
Hayate:
Grandis: I just love it when your face is like that!
Hayate: Mou~! <materializes her magical tome>
Grandis: Haha-OOOMPH!!!!
Hayate: Grandis no BAKA!!!


Insight # 2: Grandis likes playing with false advancements just to see Hayate's various expressions.

Thats WIN

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Nanoha: Ikuyo, Raising Heart!
RH: [Alright. Divine Buster: Extension]
Nanoha: Diviiinnneee- <gasp> Y-yuuno-kun! Why are you so big?! <hit by sneak attack> KYAAAA~!
Aurion: Naive.

~~~~~~~~

Fate: I won't lose!
(Illusion) Chrono: FATE!
Fate: Wha- Chrono?
(Illusion) Chrono: Fate! I love you!! Please be my girlfriend!!!
Fate: <overheats> O-onii-chan... <faints>
Aurion: It worked too well...
Chrono: What the- YOU BASTARD!!!

~~~~~~~

Bwahahahaha! XD

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Indeed with disastrous consequences for some...

Spoiler for Size:

Someone should tell them that the Moon isn't a planet either...

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

<A translucent figure of a young girl appears>

Spoiler for Almaria:

Almaria: Hello. My name is Almaria Corvette. I have been called back from my Creator's memory banks to help him with the backlog. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

Elric: *nods* Yoroshiku

Very nice pic!
And don't let the stress take hold of yourself!
*gives Aaron a cold drink*

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I'll make it up though





Hey FSZ, can YOUR foxgirl do that >_< ?

Ohooo~!


Uff... my finger hurts from mouse-scrolling xD
But im through now... *bows*

[Saint X]

*Hide the Compac and Amita Drives and shuts down the Paeksis Reactor*

oh...

Originally Posted by Kha

What I meant to say that all magicfolk left Earth because, given the rate they were using up its mana, it was supposed to die soon after. But a few folk stayed behind and managed to stem the bleed created by all the magitek inventions, and decided to keep magic hidden for the sake of the planet (and the people who couldn't teleport to save their lives).

So Earth was left with next to no magicusers, and even the rampant use of magic would strain the planet. However, since there aren't many mages on terra presently, it's not that big a problem.

A possible application:

Fast forward to present day. Somebody is practicing magitek again, and at a rate that hasn't been seen for millenia. Climate change, increasingly stronger quakes, X/1999 doomsday stuff was a forewarning that the planet's generator was damaged and running out of capacity.

But that's just crack, and a chance to create a Terran villian for the TSAB post-StrikerS. There's no basis of this explanation. It was a theme explored in my earlier CCS fic Sacred Destiny, but shelved, so feel free to use it to explain why there aren't many magus, or have some villian.





PURIFY THAT!

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Statistics:

Super Lyrical Wars Alpha (AU)

When Riot 6 and OCs failed to seal the Cradle in time, Jail activates it... but to their surprise, the Cradle just hypers into another dimension! Stranded on a planet called El Hazard, and with no clues to work on other than the words of Yuuko and a Mokona, the girls and handful of guys start on a crossover adventure that would take them to meet many other magical girls!

Witness the birth of the Alpha Numbers once more!

Tk is so not gonna like this one.

Completion: Chapter 1 - 1237 words ~1%

Seven Swords

A space epic about the 7 pre-TSAB races that controled Ordered Space.

Completion: 500 words. Still in planning.

Rebuilt of StrikerS: A Crack News Network production

Completion: ~20,000 words in 4 chapters. Still filling in the blanks, but up to the First Sortie.

AlterNADS

A prequel to Rebuilt of StrikerS, rewriting the past to add ocs into it.

Completion: 24 words.

I've never been this serious about a fic though. 20k words in 2 weeks is a record.

Well i have a theory that almost all the force users of Earth had been wiped out by some mysterious and brutal event, may it be the hand of god or man (man really, since i'm partially running on TRC crack when will it end?!!). Those who are left banded together and hid all of that knowledge from the neutrals- thus forming the magical society that Negima and to some extent the Potter series (crack!) had just started to show (they even have a Shadow mirror Earth / magical plane/places just for them to live freely). Those left behind were either scouts for new terran mages, established magan religions, or megalomaniacs that wanted to claim Earth back- and many others.

as for the 'weak(ening) magic of Earth' theory Earth is magically unstable due to that one event- but also powerful (may partly explain why almost all the hax mages and magefights are on Earth)- it only needs a 're-alignment' for the peoples of Earth to once again use magic- but that carries risks, such as the presumed killing off almost all the neutral population.

it's just some theory that i hatched back then- litte or no connection to canon- the only connection is what Lindy said in S1- the "dimensional disaster", she might have been referring to Atlantis- a good theory to test the limits of canon i suppose.

Might be a good basis for an enemy group- Like the Circles from "Academy Blues" by Daishi Prime from FF.net.

*takes out Soul-Ascending Gun- i mean Ballistic Rail Rifle*

*plants NO HAXXBUSTING sign*

"do not touch AU crack! keep off it! This means you!"

Sakura K. is HAX (she is already in CCS canon... esp. in my ficverse "V2.0"... )
*runs*

LotGH much?

*runs from fleet*

I need your audience... or rather what can my OCs do?

lol... I'm not going to snipe you for taking the 'Alter-' fic brand. just tell what to do...

Originally Posted by Keroko

Nuuuuu~! *runs around in a circle* Now I have to write the StrikerS summary of Kerokos bio pronto!!

*Sends out an order form for a summary*

PS: add a post StrikerS as well...

[Reiji Tabibito]

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Noticing Hayate's quiver, the winds of the night crawling up her spine, the shivers running through her, Grandis held her from behind, as he lightly bit her ears, replacing that cold with a warmth of a tickling hickey, he whispered softly into her ears, bristling her hair so passionately and gentle.

"Hayate, I will say only this. I am confident that there's no one else who can love you more than I do."

"Gran...dis..."

Their fac-

*runs from Aaron right before I get started on the fall on bed while ero-kissing scene*

...Okay, this is geting bad enough where even I have to say - CUT IT OUT! STOP TORTURING PEOPLE (namely Aaron & Arcas) LIKE THIS!!

Originally Posted by Nightengale

By far, the most badass version of the Count.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Ah yes, Negima crossovers. That reminds me of such a scenario floating around in my head whenever I read Negima. Completely non-NBC, of course (as there is no way I can reconcile Keroko being away for several years) but fun nonetheles. The excuse I used was Chao. Chao is a time-traveler, something that is impossible even by TSAB terms. Keroko was send to investigate the temporal distortion created by Chao with her arival.

The time I actually have posted for this right now is post-Chao, pre-Magical World...about the time Anya gets intro'd.

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

IMO, as long as they're not too big, it's OK with me

Ah yes, but HOW big is TOO big? HMMMMMMMMMM?

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Hayate? Needing 'The Talk'?!?!?!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! XD XD XD

You're kidding me!!! XD XD XD

Arcas: Well, it WAS worth a shot...

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Grandis: Less clingyness.

Arcas: I could say the same thing about YOU!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Grandis: Hey, you're the one who keeps calling me gaki. <Readies Tyrfing>

Arcas: <engages Devices> Then WHAT am I supposed to call you?

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Me: Still can't accept the loss?

Arcas: Loss? What loss? I haven't lost yet! I only lose when they get married! <freezes as image enters head> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My little Hayate's getting married!!

Everyone Else:

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Grandis: Looks like Mel did all the work for us...
Hayate: Yeah...
Grandis: Now where was I? <grabs Hayate and spins her around>
Hayate: K-kyaaa!!! W-what are you doing?!
Grandis: Just continuing my-<pins her down>
Hayate: G-grandis! N-no!
Grandis: <puases while hovering over her> ...
Hayate: Uun~ <helpless MOE overload>
Grandis: Pffttt... <falls back on his back while laughing> BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! XD XD XD
Hayate:
Grandis: I just love it when your face is like that!
Hayate: Mou~! <materializes her magical tome>
Grandis: Haha-OOOMPH!!!!
Hayate: Grandis no BAKA!!!


Insight # 2: Grandis likes playing with false advancements just to see Hayate's various expressions.

Mel: You show him, Hayate! GIRLFRIEND POWER!!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

JUGGLING TWO GINORMOUS ASSIGNMENTS, TWO TERM PAPERS, A MAJOR REPORT AND A TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM IN A SINGLE WEEKEND ON TOP OF BEING BULLIED IN THE FORUMS IS NOT GOOD FOR THE HEALTH!!!!! o_o 0_0 O_O @_@

Me:


*Aaron008R temporarily collapses due to stress*

Dear GOD, man! Go get some rest!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

<A translucent figure of a young girl appears>

Spoiler for Almaria:

Almaria: Hello. My name is Almaria Corvette. I have been called back from my Creator's memory banks to help him with the backlog. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

ALMARIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! <runs towards Prancing Pistol Princess, arms outstreched kinda like THIS>:

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Almaria: Creator-san has different ways of dealing with people. At the most, he won't strike Nightengale-san, Keroko-san nor Tk3997-san among others into orbit...

OH-HO~ Looks like it's up to me then to keep order!!

Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ

Then...don't you find odd that everyone in Mid-Childa speaks japanese?

My perception on it is that all Devices have universal translators...

Originally Posted by Keroko

Keroko-kun: Hoo-hah! Aaron orbital punch immunity, get!

Keep in mind, you're not immune to ME...

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Remember awhile back when I said I found a manga about a fox-girl who erm, likes to get it on? Well, I found the title and the image...

かのこん
Kanokon





P.S - It's getting an Anime

HOLY SWEETNESS!!!!

That just went to the top of my watch list!

@Chaos: I agree - she's quite the horny little vixen. I mean, come on, the first time she meets a guy, she's practically begging to ride the Pony Express, if you catch my meaning.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

You just have bad luck

My barrier jacket ideas come to me by themselves

<nods> So do mine - though coming up with Arcas' took a little bit of work - but I finally settled on Chiaki's outfit as Kaitou Sinbad (minus bandanna) for him, seeing as how he's based on a Tanemura char...

Originally Posted by Kha

Statistics:

Super Lyrical Wars Alpha (AU)

When Riot 6 and OCs failed to seal the Cradle in time, Jail activates it... but to their surprise, the Cradle just hypers into another dimension! Stranded on a planet called El Hazard, and with no clues to work on other than the words of Yuuko and a Mokona, the girls and handful of guys start on a crossover adventure that would take them to meet many other magical girls!

Witness the birth of the Alpha Numbers once more!

Tk is so not gonna like this one.

Completion: Chapter 1 - 1237 words ~1%

Seven Swords

A space epic about the 7 pre-TSAB races that controled Ordered Space.

Completion: 500 words. Still in planning.

Rebuilt of StrikerS: A Crack News Network production

Completion: ~20,000 words in 4 chapters. Still filling in the blanks, but up to the First Sortie.

AlterNADS

A prequel to Rebuilt of StrikerS, rewriting the past to add ocs into it.

Completion: 24 words.

I've never been this serious about a fic though. 20k words in 2 weeks is a record.

KHA? Writing?


SOUND THE ALARM!!! THE APOCALYPSE HAS COME!!!


Seriously, though. It's all good - BUT WHERE IS MY CROSYS DAMMIT!!!

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

<drools & saves>

Originally Posted by Keroko

Tesla: Do you have any idea how hard it is to get Keroko-chan to stop working and start sleeping? Last night was the first time she actually slept before 3 AM in weeks. And it took blackmail, threats and medical orders to get her to do so.

<sighs> Good God, is EVERYONE in this thread like this?! I though I was shorting myself with just 6 hours of sleep a day...

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Saint X

*Sends out an order form for a summary*

PS: add a post StrikerS as well...

Hehehehe.... I started at 3 PM... it's now almost 1 AM.... nearly 10 hours of watching StrikerS, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching.....



Anyway, here it is. Keroko's StrikerS summary. Now excuse me while I go to sleep.

Spoiler for Nanoha StrikerS:

6 years have passed since the Yami no Sho incident. Keroko has been a successful instructor and leader of Rogue Squadron for two years now. The years of front-line service have hardened her skills, although not without their fare share of problems. When the four end up in the middle of a disaster at the airport, Keroko aid in the rescue of the people trapped inside the building. After the disaster, Hayate proposes the forming of a special unit, Keroko all too readily agrees with Nanoha and Fate that they won’t be left out of such a unit.

Four years later, the forming of the unit is entering its final stages. Keroko resigns as Commanding Officer of Rogue Squadron, giving the position to her second in command, Wes Janson. During the discussion of Subaru and Tiana’s transfer into the unit, Fate notes that aside from her giving advice, Tiana might benefit from training under Keroko. This startles Tiana, as she hadn’t heard that Keroko, whom she idolizes, would be transferring to this unit. Afterwards, Tiana stumbles upon Keroko, who was heading to meet with Fate and Nanoha. Tiana goes into an embarrased muttering fit, while Keroko notes that she knew they would meet again. Tiana notices that the badge of Rogue Squadron’s Commanding Officer on Keroko’s right arm that was formerly blue is now red, signifying her as a former Rogue. She asks if its true that Keroko has transferred to unit six, Keroko confirms it, and when Tiana asks why Keroko answers that a friend called for her help. She then says that she is looking forward to see how much Tiana has grown.

Keroko then meets up with Nanoha and Fate as they head of home. Nanoha looks up the files of Erio and Caro, Fate is a bit worried, but Keroko assures her that it will be fine, and that they will train them to be able to handle anything the future will throw at them.

The next day, after changing uniforms, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko go to meet with Hayate, who although happy that they are all here, wonders if Keroko is alright with this. Keroko in return assures Hayate that Rogue Squadron is now a fully operational unit, and that she is not really needed anymore.

After a short conversation with Griffith, the group goes to meet their new unit. After the meeting Keroko and Tesla head back inside the base together to gather intel on their enemies. They discuss the enemies possible motives, methods and where and how they may move next. Tesla notes how Keroko seems to be thinking more in advance these days, as opposed to her purely impulsive younger self. Keroko, slightly embarrassed by the compliment, notes that it was needed as the leader of a unit, and that it was mostly thanks to Tesla that she grew.

The following days are spend with Nanoha and Keroko training the forwards. Sometimes together, one or the other. On the day the forwards received their devices, it was Keroko’s turn to observe, summarize and log the training. After the alarm went of, signaling the arrival of a group of gadgets, the group jumped aboard the heli and set course for the berserk train. With the combined power of Nanoha, Fate and Keroko, air superiority is quickly gained.

After the first successful mission, the group returns to training. With Vita joining the fray, training starts to become more specialized. Keroko switches between trainees often, teaching Subaru the finer points of hand-to-hand combat, training Tia in mass-control and targeting and learning Erio and Caro how to recognize incoming threats and avoid them. After training Keroko joins Fate and Shari in anlalysing the remains of the Gadgets. When Fate discovers that the drones were created by Scaglietti, Shari asks Keroko if she has ever encountered him during her time in Rogue Squadron. Keroko answers that she has only heard of him, as Rogue Squadron usually send on larger scale missions, not missions to capture a single person. As they drive back to the headquarters, Fate tells them what they know of Scaglietti. Keroko notes that it isn’t much, to which Fate replies that it’s all they have. Keroko then returns that those kinds of people are usually the most dangerous.

When RF6’s next mission is to secure the auction in Hotel Augusta, Keroko joins Hayate, Fate and Nanoha inside the hotel. After the gadget’s attack, Nanoha and Keroko have a short conversation about who of them should go talk to Tiana. In the end, they decide that after Vita’s scolding, being scolded by her idol may do more harm then good, and Nanoha sets of to have a talk with Tiana. Keroko meanwhile goes to meet with Yuuno before she gets called to work again.

Later on, Vita asks whether something happened in Tiana’s past. The history of Tiana’s brother, and how he was labeled a failure, is told. Vita wonders if this isn’t exactly up Keroko’s alley, considering her experience with Rogue Squadron. But Keroko says that its not that simple, while its true that Rogue Squadron existed of mages that were considered useless by most, it was always those mages that were the ones that were scorned. Tiana fights to prove that her brother wasn’t useless. Fighting to prove yourself and fighting to prove a legacy are two different things. She concludes it by saying that in the end, Tiana should learn what could happen if she screws up at the wrong time. One way or another.

The next day, training ends with a 2-on-1 mock battle. While Keroko, Vita, Erio and Caro observe, Fate comes running. While they discuss Nanoha’s training techniques, Keroko remains silent, instead observing the battle bellow. As Subaru and Tiana begin to use dangerous maneuvers, Keroko mumbles that it’s as she thought. When Fate presses for details, Keroko tells them to keep watching. She also says that she hopes that Nanoha has the heart to do what needs to be done next.

In the end, Tiana was shot down and ended up in the infirmary. When the alarm went of, Tiana was there with the others, and after getting hit by Signum, Keroko tells Nanoha to get on board and deal with the situation on her side, she would handle this side.

When Subaru asks whether it is wrong to strive to become stronger your way, Keroko responds that there are times when it is. When pressed, Shari arrives and takes the forwards on a steamcourse through Nanoha’s past. Among the details, she also mentions Keroko’s incident with Lotte. Keroko then explains the details behind her physical situation, and the fact that Nanoha risked her life in getting her back.

Afterwards, Keroko joins Tiana at the shore, Tiana rhetorically asks whether all of this was true. Keroko confirms it, but also mentions that she herself is even worse then Nanoha. Tiana is surprised, and Keroko tells Tiana that she landed in the hospital for overdoing it at least 3 times. She also explains that the last time was the worst, and the worried faces of those she cared about made her realize that overdoing it for the good cause doesn’t always end well. Keroko asks Tiana what she is fighting for, and why she is so anxious to prove herself. Tiana answers truthfully that she wants to prove that her brother was not a failure. Keroko tells Tiana that she was fighting with a wrong goal. You can’t simply prove something like that while fighting for a legacy. Trying to become someone you’re not is impossible. She should stop trying to fight for her brother, and start fighting for herself. Tiana protests that she doesn’t want her brother to be seen as a failure by everyone, to which Keroko tells her he isn’t. Keroko explains the history behind Rogue Squadron, how those who were called failures became heroes. She tells Tiana that if her brother was alive, and people would still call him a failure, he would be flying in that Squadron right now. Keroko tells Tiana that she was never able to meet or train with her brother, and prove that he was a great mage, but now she has a chance to train with Tiana, and prove that she is a great mage. Tiana should become stronger as Tiana, not Lanster. Tiana apologizes for her behavior, to which Keroko says that she is not the one Tiana should be apologizing to. When Tiana questionly looks up, Keroko nudges her head to her side, where Nanoha is walking towards the two. Keroko leaves the two alone.

The next few days are spent training, though Tiana was still somewhat hesitant to fight for her own dreams. One evening while returning from training she asks Keroko whether she will be able to fly someday. Keroko promises her that she will on day learn to fly, and they will fly the sky together. Eventually it was decided that the test limiters of the forwards’ devices could be removed. The forwards were given the rest of the day off while the remaining members enjoyed a calm day standing by on HQ. As the subject shifted to Regius, Keroko comments that he was one of the greatest opposition to Rogue Squadron’s activities, stating that a unit of mages that have already showed to be unreliable should not be allowed such important tasks. Tesla then comments that keroko was lucky that Regius held no say over the Air Forces, to which Keroko agrees. Later on Nanoha, Keroko and Fate encounter Signum and Vita, who are about to head out to the TSAB. When Keroko asks about Tesla, Signum tells her that Tesla is already there, as they are discussing the logistics of the matter first.

When the forwards strike alarm and the group moves out, it doesn’t take long for the gadgets to arrive. While Nanoha and Fate have some difficulty against the drones mixed with illusions, Keroko fares slightly better. Her specialization in mass-targeting allows her to target every drone, which eliminates the need to differ between real unit and illusions. However, since she lacks range, she can’t cover the entire defensive line by herself. Fortunately, Hayate comes to the rescue and eliminates the gadgets with her long range artillery strikes.

Just when all seemed to be going well, an unknown enemy strikes at the heli. Nanoha manages to block, and Fate and Keroko pursue the new enemy. After a short but heavy chase, the two unknown enemies are pinned between Nanoha and Fate’s attacks. Unfortunately, they manage to escape.

The next day, after evading a certain amount of trouble with a certain young girl they picked up, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko head off to the Saint Church. Keroko, having met Carim before, was considerably more comfortable then Nanoha and Fate. Though that was easily settled, after which they continue to discuss Carim’s ability and the resulting prophesy. Later during the conversation, they come to discuss the situation of the TSAB defenses, and how Regius refuses to take the prophesy seriously and take measures. That was the true reason for forming RF6, as a last line of defense until help can arrive in case of trouble. Carim notes that while it is a dangerous and inglorious mission, she still asks for their help. Keroko states that she’s had worse then this, and Nanoha and Fate agree to help as well.

The next day, Keroko arrives home just in time to hear Subaru’s rather blunt suggestion to Vivio. After calming Vivio down and starting lunch, Vivio notes how much Keroko and Nanoha look alike. Nanoha says it’s natural, as they are sisters after all. Vivio asks if that makes Keroko her mama as well, to which Keroko jokingly says why not, never expecting to be taken seriously. Once the word was out, however, she was stuck with Vivio. Literally, as Vivio clung to her side.

Another day, another training. This time joined by Ginga. After a now ‘fair’ 5-vs-5 (depending on your point of view) forwards versus instructors match, Vivio arrived. After a bit of trouble with Vivio falling down, during which Keroko agreed with Nanoha rather then Fate, the group headed of for lunch. Later that night the four Aces were together discussing the latest part of the prophecy. They concluded that the chance that the headquarters would be attacked during the conference is great, unfortunately, only four people of RF6 could be allowed inside. Still, they would figure something out.

Seven days later, the conference is starting, and RF6 is departing. During patrol, the captains try to figure out why someone would try a terrorist attack on the TSAB. Nanoha theorizes that a weapons merchant may use it to show off; Vita says the risks are too great for such a thing, but Keroko states that she has seen madman try far more insane stunts then this.

As the attacks start, Nanoha thinks up a plan based on their old Ground Force Training Course. Keroko reacts in surprise when fate says that they haven’t used it since, and notes that Rogue Squadron uses these kind of tricks all the time on commando missions. When Nanoha explains that they have to meet up with the forwards as fast as possible, Keroko already has the fastest route.

After meeting up with the forwards, Keroko goes into the air in an effort to regain air superiority. She flies up high to get out of the AMF radius, and calls in Rogue Squadron. Though the AMF still messes with the transmission, Rogue Squadron’s home base, the dimensional ship Normandy, was close enough to receive the transmission, thanks to the actions of Wes, who stationed the ship close to Mid-Childa against orders.

With the Rogues quickly on the scene, and Keroko taking temporary command, they begin a desperate attempt to shoot the gadgets from the sky. But with the gadgets sheer numbers and Keroko still limited, the attempt becomes a slow one. In the end, they failed to clear the skies before Jail unfolded the next phase of his plan.

The day after the attack, Keroko feels an old anger resurfacing. Her anger at discovering what happened to Vivio spark the dormant powers inside of her, further increasing her rage. Knowing that she is about to seriously injure people if she doesn’t keep herself occupied, she throws herself into recovery work, pausing only to listen to Genya’s explanation of sentoukijin before throwing herself back into work again. Only when night falls does Keroko return, battered and dirty, only to find a distressed Nanoha crying on Fate’s shoulder. Keroko goes to support her sister, hugging her from behind and telling her that they will find Vivio at all costs. When Fate telepathically asks what happened to her, Keroko explains that she had to keep herself busy, otherwise she’d be blowing up whatever was close. Fate then thinks to herself that everyone must be feeling hurt after today.

The following day during the meeting, Hayate lays down the strategy. Keroko tells Hayate that Wes contacted her, and told her that Rogue Squadron is ready to move at even the slightest call. Hayate asks whether that won’t become a problem for the Rogues, to which Keroko answers that Rogue Squadron has always been a unit to give credit to their name.

The day progresses, the plans continue, but just as the key to everything begins to become clear, Jail initiates the next stage of his plan. Activating Ancient Belka’s most powerful weapon, the Cradle. As the scenes of Vivio linked to the throne of the ancient ship are transmitted, Keroko feels a resurge of hatred, and clenches her fist, digging her nails into her palms in a desperate attempt to retain some semblance of calm while glaring at the screen, hoping to kill Jail with just her eyes.

At the next meeting, a new plan is set in motion. Keroko joins Hayate, Vita and Nanoha in the attack on the Cradle. On route to the ship, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko have a small chat on Limit Breaks, and both sides emplore one another not to use them. Keroko, too, is asked not to use her Limit Break. After all, she had promised not to use Etherial Mode ever again.

As the first line comes into sight, Keroko loosens the reins she had placed to hold back her rage, and tears into the enemy drones. Now no longer limited and utilizing the fast Lancer Mode, the Ace of the Skies shows her title as wave after wave of gadgets are destroyed.

As soon as a group of mages puncture a hole in the Cradles outer hull, Vita, Nanoha and Keroko boarded the Cradle. With the entire area saturated with AMF, the battle to get further became a slow one. When the call came to split up, Vita told Keroko to stay with Nanoha. The two groups split up, and Keroko and Nanoha headed for the throne room. The two storm through the corridors, obliterating everything in their path. Even Dieci is defeated in a single shot.

As the two break into the throne room, they are greeted by Quattro, who proceeds to taunt them. As soon as her hand reaches for Vivio, however, neither Keroko nor Nanoha waste any time blasting her. Unfortunately, they hit an illusion, and the real Quattro simply proceeds with the taunting, throwing on another level as she tells them of Vivio’s true power, and transforms her into a more mature version to fight against.

This transformed Vivio proves to be a tough opponent. Though not impossible to take down, both Keroko and Nanoha are reluctant to go full out. Nanoha tells Keroko to seek out Quattro, and see if stopping her will return Vivio to normal. Keroko objects, not willing to let Nanoha fight alone, but Nanoha tells her that it’s the only way. Keroko’s instincts and experience with various ship layouts will help her find Quattro faster, and she can hold back Vivio longer then Keroko can. Keroko sighs in defeat, and the two sisters give eachother a last high five before Keroko heads off. Unknown to Quattro, Nanoha slipped a wide area search spell in Keroko’s hand during the high five.

Keroko heads off to find Quattro, but Quattro herself is not unprepared. Keroko’s instincts and experience quickly put her on the right track to Quattro, but as she starts to get close, Quattro activates one of the Cradle’s most powerful defensive platforms. A large magically powered defensive android. Keroko is quickly overpowered by this ancient defensive beast, whose armor seems almost impenetrable, and Quattro taunts her that she will never be able to save Vivio at this rate.

In retrospect, this was probably Quattro’s biggest mistake, as Keroko snaps. Filled with a rage she has not felt in a long time, Keroko activates Ethereal Mode. Suddenly, alarms go off all over Quattro’s dashboard, as the Cradle’s defensive systems warns that there is a powerful ‘Aspekt Magier’ detected. Quattro wonders what that means until she notices Keroko, whom now bears black wings, a device that now resembles a cross between a mace and an axe, and emits a lot of magic.

The defensive program tries to do its work, but the enraged Keroko disables its attacks one after the other, eventually disarming the thing, pinning it to the floor and firing an Ion Cannon Breaker at point-blank range. With the cameras disabled in the area, Quattro assumes that the idiot blew herself up. In reality, Keroko survived, though looking absolutely battered and beaten. She maintains her consciousness, however, saying that she’s not done yet, and continues towards Quattro.

Quattro meanwhile is enjoying the spectacle of Nanoha desperately trying to make a stand against Vivio until Keroko reaches Quattro. A twitch of panic shoots through her as Vita destroys the reactor, but she quickly reasserts herself and tries to get the repair systems to work. She is interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her, and turns around to see Keroko moving towards her. Keroko is badly battered, and certainly not in a condition to fight. Quattro realizes this, and asks Keroko how she plans to fight in that state. Keroko answers that fighting her was never part of the plan. When Quattro asks what she means, Keroko lifts one side of her coat, and a pink sphere of energy flies out. Realization shoots through Quattro as she figures out what happened. Carrying a Wide Area Search spellpart, Keroko effectively became a beacon for Nanoha to lock on to.

Quattro hopefully wonders how Nanoha is going to make it down here in time, before the scanners reveal Nanoha’s true intent. Her mind flashing back to the airport, Quattro realizes that Nanoha is going to blast through the walls. She desperately turns to Keroko, asking if she is crazy enough to fire when Keroko might get caught in the line of fire. Keroko simply smiles. Quattro tries to make one last desperate dash for the exit, but fails and the beam hits Quattro dead on. Keroko was smart enough to stay out of the blast radius, and as soon as Quattro falls unconscious, she leans back against the wall and slides down. As her eyes close, she finds herself wondering if she could get away with a little nap.

A loud thumping wakes her up quickly though, as she realizes people are still fighting. Climbing up through the hole created by Nanoha’s Divine Buster. Meanwhile above Nanoha and Vivio square off with tears in their eyes as Nanoha promises to save Vivio. As the two storm at eachother, Vivio throws a punch which Nanoha catches. However, unlike Nanoha, Vivio has another free hand. With her body acting on its own accord, Vivio can only watch in fright as her other fist charges with multi-color magical energy and launches for Nanoha’s face. A dull thump echoes, however, as the second fist is caught by a black gloved hand. Both Nanoha and Vivio stare in surprise as a battered Keroko catches the fist before it could reach its target. Black energy easily eats through the multi-colored energy. Keroko tells Vivio that she does not let family die, and Nanoha activates her bind. Keroko quickly makes her distance as Nanoha blasts the Relic out of Vivio’s body.

After a short reunion, alarms go off all over the ship. Hayate arrives just in time to become trapped in the high-density AMF. They quickly pick up Quattro –under some protest of Keroko- and prepare to leave, only for the automated repair system to cut of their escape. Keroko desperately tries to find a terminal of any kind, only to find out there are none. Fortunately, Tiana and Subaru come to their aid and they make it out all right.

After the incident, which is now called the Jail Scaglietti incident, the end of section 6 is in sight. With Hayate officially dispersing the unit, it comes down the one last mock battle, with no holds barred. After the mock battle, Vivio approaches Keroko. She tells them that she has learned that just because she is Nanoha’s sister, she’s not really Vivio’s mama. Keroko is pretty surprised and saddened that Vivio brought this up, but Vivio continues, saying that she still has some of the memories of her originals life. In that life someone who reminds her a lot of Keroko was like an older sister to her. So she asks Keroko

“You remind me of someone I used to call onee-chan… Is it allright if I call you onee-chan too?”

In the later months, Keroko found the freedom of movement that she gained when she gave up her command position to her liking, so one day she arrived not in her normal white uniform, but in the black Enforcers uniform. When asked by the others, Keroko simply replies that she still has a promise to keep to Tiana. Tiana realizes that she is talking about teaching her how to fly. Keroko now serves as an Enforcer, often traveling but also checking up on her family and friends more often. She has a habit of borrowing the Normandy when she needs a ride.

[LimitedEternal]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Hehehehe.... I started at 3 PM... it's now almost 1 AM.... nearly 10 hours of watching StrikerS, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching.....



Anyway, here it is. Keroko's StrikerS summary. Now excuse me while I go to sleep.

Spoiler for Nanoha StrikerS:

6 years have passed since the Yami no Sho incident. Keroko has been a successful instructor and leader of Rogue Squadron for six years now. The years of front-line service have hardened her skills, although not without their fare share of problems. When the four end up in the middle of a disaster at the airport, Keroko aid in the rescue of the people trapped inside the building. After the disaster, Hayate proposes the forming of a special unit, Keroko all too readily agrees with Nanoha and Fate that they won’t be left out of such a unit.

Four years later, the forming of the unit is entering its final stages. Keroko resigns as Commanding Officer of Rogue Squadron, giving the position to her second in command, Wes Janson. During the discussion of Subaru and Tiana’s transfer into the unit, Fate notes that aside from her giving advice, Tiana might benefit from training under Keroko. This startles Tiana, as she hadn’t heard that Keroko, whom she idolizes, would be transferring to this unit. Afterwards, Tiana stumbles upon Keroko, who was heading to meet with Fate and Nanoha. Tiana goes into an embarrased muttering fit, while Keroko notes that she knew they would meet again. Tiana notices that the badge of Rogue Squadron’s Commanding Officer on Keroko’s right arm that was formerly blue is now red, signifying her as a former Rogue. She asks if its true that Keroko has transferred to unit six, Keroko confirms it, and when Tiana asks why Keroko answers that a friend called for her help. She then says that she is looking forward to see how much Tiana has grown.

Keroko then meets up with Nanoha and Fate as they head of home. Nanoha looks up the files of Erio and Caro, Fate is a bit worried, but Keroko assures her that it will be fine, and that they will train them to be able to handle anything the future will throw at them.

The next day, after changing uniforms, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko go to meet with Hayate, who although happy that they are all here, wonders if Keroko is alright with this. Keroko in return assures Hayate that Rogue Squadron is now a fully operational unit, and that she is not really needed anymore.

After a short conversation with Griffith, the group goes to meet their new unit. After the meeting Keroko and Tesla head back inside the base together to gather intel on their enemies. They discuss the enemies possible motives, methods and where and how they may move next. Tesla notes how Keroko seems to be thinking more in advance these days, as opposed to her purely impulsive younger self. Keroko, slightly embarrassed by the compliment, notes that it was needed as the leader of a unit, and that it was mostly thanks to Tesla that she grew.

The following days are spend with Nanoha and Keroko training the forwards. Sometimes together, one or the other. On the day the forwards received their devices, it was Keroko’s turn to observe, summarize and log the training. After the alarm went of, signaling the arrival of a group of gadgets, the group jumped aboard the heli and set course for the berserk train. With the combined power of Nanoha, Fate and Keroko, air superiority is quickly gained.

After the first successful mission, the group returns to training. With Vita joining the fray, training starts to become more specialized. Keroko switches between trainees often, teaching Subaru the finer points of hand-to-hand combat, training Tia in mass-control and targeting and learning Erio and Caro how to recognize incoming threats and avoid them. After training Keroko joins Fate and Shari in anlalysing the remains of the Gadgets. When Fate discovers that the drones were created by Scaglietti, Shari asks Keroko if she has ever encountered him during her time in Rogue Squadron. Keroko answers that she has only heard of him, as Rogue Squadron usually send on larger scale missions, not missions to capture a single person. As they drive back to the headquarters, Fate tells them what they know of Scaglietti. Keroko notes that it isn’t much, to which Fate replies that it’s all they have. Keroko then returns that those kinds of people are usually the most dangerous.

When RF6’s next mission is to secure the auction in Hotel Augusta, Keroko joins Hayate, Fate and Nanoha inside the hotel. After the gadget’s attack, Nanoha and Keroko have a short conversation about who of them should go talk to Tiana. In the end, they decide that after Vita’s scolding, being scolded by her idol may do more harm then good, and Nanoha sets of to have a talk with Tiana. Keroko meanwhile goes to meet with Yuuno before she gets called to work again.

Later on, Vita asks whether something happened in Tiana’s past. The history of Tiana’s brother, and how he was labeled a failure, is told. Vita wonders if this isn’t exactly up Keroko’s alley, considering her experience with Rogue Squadron. But Keroko says that its not that simple, while its true that Rogue Squadron existed of mages that were considered useless by most, it was always those mages that were the ones that were scorned. Tiana fights to prove that her brother wasn’t useless. Fighting to prove yourself and fighting to prove a legacy are two different things. She concludes it by saying that in the end, Tiana should learn what could happen if she screws up at the wrong time. One way or another.

The next day, training ends with a 2-on-1 mock battle. While Keroko, Vita, Erio and Caro observe, Fate comes running. While they discuss Nanoha’s training techniques, Keroko remains silent, instead observing the battle bellow. As Subaru and Tiana begin to use dangerous maneuvers, Keroko mumbles that it’s as she thought. When Fate presses for details, Keroko tells them to keep watching. She also says that she hopes that Nanoha has the heart to do what needs to be done next.

In the end, Tiana was shot down and ended up in the infirmary. When the alarm went of, Tiana was there with the others, and after getting hit by Signum, Keroko tells Nanoha to get on board and deal with the situation on her side, she would handle this side.

When Subaru asks whether it is wrong to strive to become stronger your way, Keroko responds that there are times when it is. When pressed, Shari arrives and takes the forwards on a steamcourse through Nanoha’s past. Among the details, she also mentions Keroko’s incident with Lotte. Keroko then explains the details behind her physical situation, and the fact that Nanoha risked her life in getting her back.

Afterwards, Keroko joins Tiana at the shore, Tiana rhetorically asks whether all of this was true. Keroko confirms it, but also mentions that she herself is even worse then Nanoha. Tiana is surprised, and Keroko tells Tiana that she landed in the hospital for overdoing it at least 3 times. She also explains that the last time was the worst, and the worried faces of those she cared about made her realize that overdoing it for the good cause doesn’t always end well. Keroko asks Tiana what she is fighting for, and why she is so anxious to prove herself. Tiana answers truthfully that she wants to prove that her brother was not a failure. Keroko tells Tiana that she was fighting with a wrong goal. You can’t simply prove something like that while fighting for a legacy. Trying to become someone you’re not is impossible. She should stop trying to fight for her brother, and start fighting for herself. Tiana protests that she doesn’t want her brother to be seen as a failure by everyone, to which Keroko tells her he isn’t. Keroko explains the history behind Rogue Squadron, how those who were called failures became heroes. She tells Tiana that if her brother was alive, and people would still call him a failure, he would be flying in that Squadron right now. Keroko tells Tiana that she was never able to meet or train with her brother, and prove that he was a great mage, but now she has a chance to train with Tiana, and prove that she is a great mage. Tiana should become stronger as Tiana, not Lanster. Tiana apologizes for her behavior, to which Keroko says that she is not the one Tiana should be apologizing to. When Tiana questionly looks up, Keroko nudges her head to her side, where Nanoha is walking towards the two. Keroko leaves the two alone.

The next few days are spent training, though Tiana was still somewhat hesitant to fight for her own dreams. One evening while returning from training she asks Keroko whether she will be able to fly someday. Keroko promises her that she will on day learn to fly, and they will fly the sky together. Eventually it was decided that the test limiters of the forwards’ devices could be removed. The forwards were given the rest of the day off while the remaining members enjoyed a calm day standing by on HQ. As the subject shifted to Regius, Keroko comments that he was one of the greatest opposition to Rogue Squadron’s activities, stating that a unit of mages that have already showed to be unreliable should not be allowed such important tasks. Tesla then comments that keroko was lucky that Regius held no say over the Air Forces, to which Keroko agrees. Later on Nanoha, Keroko and Fate encounter Signum and Vita, who are about to head out to the TSAB. When Keroko asks about Tesla, Signum tells her that Tesla is already there, as they are discussing the logistics of the matter first.

When the forwards strike alarm and the group moves out, it doesn’t take long for the gadgets to arrive. While Nanoha and Fate have some difficulty against the drones mixed with illusions, Keroko fares slightly better. Her specialization in mass-targeting allows her to target every drone, which eliminates the need to differ between real unit and illusions. However, since she lacks range, she can’t cover the entire defensive line by herself. Fortunately, Hayate comes to the rescue and eliminates the gadgets with her long range artillery strikes.

Just when all seemed to be going well, an unknown enemy strikes at the heli. Nanoha manages to block, and Fate and Keroko pursue the new enemy. After a short but heavy chase, the two unknown enemies are pinned between Nanoha and Fate’s attacks. Unfortunately, they manage to escape.

The next day, after evading a certain amount of trouble with a certain young girl they picked up, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko head off to the Saint Church. Keroko, having met Carim before, was considerably more comfortable then Nanoha and Fate. Though that was easily settled, after which they continue to discuss Carim’s ability and the resulting prophesy. Later during the conversation, they come to discuss the situation of the TSAB defenses, and how Regius refuses to take the prophesy seriously and take measures. That was the true reason for forming RF6, as a last line of defense until help can arrive in case of trouble. Carim notes that while it is a dangerous and inglorious mission, she still asks for their help. Keroko states that she’s had worse then this, and Nanoha and Fate agree to help as well.

The next day, Keroko arrives home just in time to hear Subaru’s rather blunt suggestion to Vivio. After calming Vivio down and starting lunch, Vivio notes how much Keroko and Nanoha look alike. Nanoha says it’s natural, as they are sisters after all. Vivio asks if that makes Keroko her mama as well, to which Keroko jokingly says why not, never expecting to be taken seriously. Once the word was out, however, she was stuck with Vivio. Literally, as Vivio clung to her side.

Another day, another training. This time joined by Ginga. After a now ‘fair’ 5-vs-5 (depending on your point of view) forwards versus instructors match, Vivio arrived. After a bit of trouble with Vivio falling down, during which Keroko agreed with Nanoha rather then Fate, the group headed of for lunch. Later that night the four Aces were together discussing the latest part of the prophecy. They concluded that the chance that the headquarters would be attacked during the conference is great, unfortunately, only four people of RF6 could be allowed inside. Still, they would figure something out.

Seven days later, the conference is starting, and RF6 is departing. During patrol, the captains try to figure out why someone would try a terrorist attack on the TSAB. Nanoha theorizes that a weapons merchant may use it to show off; Vita says the risks are too great for such a thing, but Keroko states that she has seen madman try far more insane stunts then this.

As the attacks start, Nanoha thinks up a plan based on their old Ground Force Training Course. Keroko reacts in surprise when fate says that they haven’t used it since, and notes that Rogue Squadron uses these kind of tricks all the time on commando missions. When Nanoha explains that they have to meet up with the forwards as fast as possible, Keroko already has the fastest route.

After meeting up with the forwards, Keroko goes into the air in an effort to regain air superiority. She flies up high to get out of the AMF radius, and calls in Rogue Squadron. Though the AMF still messes with the transmission, Rogue Squadron’s home base, the dimensional ship Normandy, was close enough to receive the transmission, thanks to the actions of Wes, who stationed the ship close to Mid-Childa against orders.

With the Rogues quickly on the scene, and Keroko taking temporary command, they begin a desperate attempt to shoot the gadgets from the sky. But with the gadgets sheer numbers and Keroko still limited, the attempt becomes a slow one. In the end, they failed to clear the skies before Jail unfolded the next phase of his plan.

The day after the attack, Keroko feels an old anger resurfacing. Her anger at discovering what happened to Vivio spark the dormant powers inside of her, further increasing her rage. Knowing that she is about to seriously injure people if she doesn’t keep herself occupied, she throws herself into recovery work, pausing only to listen to Genya’s explanation of sentoukijin before throwing herself back into work again. Only when night falls does Keroko return, battered and dirty, only to find a distressed Nanoha crying on Fate’s shoulder. Keroko goes to support her sister, hugging her from behind and telling her that they will find Vivio at all costs. When Fate telepathically asks what happened to her, Keroko explains that she had to keep herself busy, otherwise she’d be blowing up whatever was close. Fate then thinks to herself that everyone must be feeling hurt after today.

The following day during the meeting, Hayate lays down the strategy. Keroko tells Hayate that Wes contacted her, and told her that Rogue Squadron is ready to move at even the slightest call. Hayate asks whether that won’t become a problem for the Rogues, to which Keroko answers that Rogue Squadron has always been a unit to give credit to their name.

The day progresses, the plans continue, but just as the key to everything begins to become clear, Jail initiates the next stage of his plan. Activating Ancient Belka’s most powerful weapon, the Cradle. As the scenes of Vivio linked to the throne of the ancient ship are transmitted, Keroko feels a resurge of hatred, and clenches her fist, digging her nails into her palms in a desperate attempt to retain some semblance of calm while glaring at the screen, hoping to kill Jail with just her eyes.

At the next meeting, a new plan is set in motion. Keroko joins Hayate, Vita and Nanoha in the attack on the Cradle. On route to the ship, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko have a small chat on Limit Breaks, and both sides emplore one another not to use them. Keroko, too, is asked not to use her Limit Break. After all, she had promised not to use Etherial Mode ever again.

As the first line comes into sight, Keroko loosens the reins she had placed to hold back her rage, and tears into the enemy drones. Now no longer limited and utilizing the fast Lancer Mode, the Ace of the Skies shows her title as wave after wave of gadgets are destroyed.

As soon as a group of mages puncture a hole in the Cradles outer hull, Vita, Nanoha and Keroko boarded the Cradle. With the entire area saturated with AMF, the battle to get further became a slow one. When the call came to split up, Vita told Keroko to stay with Nanoha. The two groups split up, and Keroko and Nanoha headed for the throne room. The two storm through the corridors, obliterating everything in their path. Even Dieci is defeated in a single shot.

As the two break into the throne room, they are greeted by Quattro, who proceeds to taunt them. As soon as her hand reaches for Vivio, however, neither Keroko nor Nanoha waste any time blasting her. Unfortunately, they hit an illusion, and the real Quattro simply proceeds with the taunting, throwing on another level as she tells them of Vivio’s true power, and transforms her into a more mature version to fight against.

This transformed Vivio proves to be a tough opponent. Though not impossible to take down, both Keroko and Nanoha are reluctant to go full out. Nanoha tells Keroko to seek out Quattro, and see if stopping her will return Vivio to normal. Keroko objects, not willing to let Nanoha fight alone, but Nanoha tells her that it’s the only way. Keroko’s instincts and experience with various ship layouts will help her find Quattro faster, and she can hold back Vivio longer then Keroko can. Keroko sighs in defeat, and the two sisters give eachother a last high five before Keroko heads off. Unknown to Quattro, Nanoha slipped a wide area search spell in Keroko’s hand during the high five.

Keroko heads off to find Quattro, but Quattro herself is not unprepared. Keroko’s instincts and experience quickly put her on the right track to Quattro, but as she starts to get close, Quattro activates one of the Cradle’s most powerful defensive platforms. A large magically powered defensive android. Keroko is quickly overpowered by this ancient defensive beast, whose armor seems almost impenetrable, and Quattro taunts her that she will never be able to save Vivio at this rate.

In retrospect, this was probably Quattro’s biggest mistake, as Keroko snaps. Filled with a rage she has not felt in a long time, Keroko activates Ethereal Mode. Suddenly, alarms go off all over Quattro’s dashboard, as the Cradle’s defensive systems warns that there is a powerful ‘Aspekt Magier’ detected. Quattro wonders what that means until she notices Keroko, whom now bears black wings, a device that now resembles a cross between a mace and an axe, and emits a lot of magic.

The defensive program tries to do its work, but the enraged Keroko disables its attacks one after the other, eventually disarming the thing, pinning it to the floor and firing an Ion Cannon Breaker at point-blank range. With the cameras disabled in the area, Quattro assumes that the idiot blew herself up. In reality, Keroko survived, though looking absolutely battered and beaten. She maintains her consciousness, however, saying that she’s not done yet, and continues towards Quattro.

Quattro meanwhile is enjoying the spectacle of Nanoha desperately trying to make a stand against Vivio until Keroko reaches Quattro. A twitch of panic shoots through her as Vita destroys the reactor, but she quickly reasserts herself and tries to get the repair systems to work. She is interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her, and turns around to see Keroko moving towards her. Keroko is badly battered, and certainly not in a condition to fight. Quattro realizes this, and asks Keroko how she plans to fight in that state. Keroko answers that fighting her was never part of the plan. When Quattro asks what she means, Keroko lifts one side of her coat, and a pink sphere of energy flies out. Realization shoots through Quattro as she figures out what happened. Carrying a Wide Area Search spellpart, Keroko effectively became a beacon for Nanoha to lock on to.

Quattro hopefully wonders how Nanoha is going to make it down here in time, before the scanners reveal Nanoha’s true intent. Her mind flashing back to the airport, Quattro realizes that Nanoha is going to blast through the walls. She desperately turns to Keroko, asking if she is crazy enough to fire when Keroko might get caught in the line of fire. Keroko simply smiles. Quattro tries to make one last desperate dash for the exit, but fails and the beam hits Quattro dead on. Keroko was smart enough to stay out of the blast radius, and as soon as Quattro falls unconscious, she leans back against the wall and slides down. As her eyes close, she finds herself wondering if she could get away with a little nap.

A loud thumping wakes her up quickly though, as she realizes people are still fighting. Climbing up through the hole created by Nanoha’s Divine Buster. Meanwhile above Nanoha and Vivio square off with tears in their eyes as Nanoha promises to save Vivio. As the two storm at eachother, Vivio throws a punch which Nanoha catches. However, unlike Nanoha, Vivio has another free hand. With her body acting on its own accord, Vivio can only watch in fright as her other fist charges with multi-color magical energy and launches for Nanoha’s face. A dull thump echoes, however, as the second fist is caught by a black gloved hand. Both Nanoha and Vivio stare in surprise as a battered Keroko catches the fist before it could reach its target. Black energy easily eats through the multi-colored energy. Keroko tells Vivio that she does not let family die, and Nanoha activates her bind. Keroko quickly makes her distance as Nanoha blasts the Relic out of Vivio’s body.

After a short reunion, alarms go off all over the ship. Hayate arrives just in time to become trapped in the high-density AMF. They quickly pick up Quattro –under some protest of Keroko- and prepare to leave, only for the automated repair system to cut of their escape. Keroko desperately tries to find a terminal of any kind, only to find out there are none. Fortunately, Tiana and Subaru come to their aid and they make it out all right.

After the incident, which is now called the Jail Scaglietti incident, the end of section 6 is in sight. With Hayate officially dispersing the unit, it comes down the one last mock battle, with no holds barred. After the mock battle, Vivio approaches Keroko. She tells them that she has learned that just because she is Nanoha’s sister, she’s not really Vivio’s mama. Keroko is pretty surprised and saddened that Vivio brought this up, but Vivio continues, saying that she still has some of the memories of her originals life. In that life someone who reminds her a lot of Keroko was like an older sister to her. So she asks Keroko

“You remind me of someone I used to call onee-chan… Is it allright if I call you onee-chan too?”

In the later months, Keroko found the freedom of movement that she gained when she gave up her command position to her liking, so one day she arrived not in her normal white uniform, but in the black Enforcers uniform. When asked by the others, Keroko simply replies that she still has a promise to keep to Tiana. Tiana realizes that she is talking about teaching her how to fly. Keroko now serves as an Enforcer, often traveling but also checking up on her family and friends more often. She has a habit of borrowing the Normandy when she needs a ride.

*whistles*

So, Seven Arcs hasn't hired you as writer because?...Seriously, this is a real piece of work, even if watching StrikerS 10 hours straight while composing it...I would not have the patience. (Guess that's why you did the writing.)

Very nice, though. This could easily be the "new" canon...reminds me how much I need to play catch-up. I never DID finish StrikerS, actually...

Will do a proper Breaker tomorrow, but I thought this deserved props.

[Tk3997]

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

True.

Course I don't HAVE any dead loved ones so I'd probably be screwed...

So sue me! @_@

I would but you're probably broke.

I see...

The laws of Physics are a harsh uncaring mistress.

Not to worry. I've long gotten over it.

Well that's good then, but why are you moping?

She'd take absolutely no offense for that. She'd just giggle good-naturedly.

Good, good since you need to beware the cute ones they tend to be the most dangerous if you anger them.

Probably...

Nodoka ain't so bad at all. Kaede just got replaced by Yue. And Setsuna now hold number 1 spot! Her dere-dere-hair-down mode is the most endearing one there.

Setsuna pwns, literally and figuratively.

That was the point...

I was mrely enforcing that point with personal experience.

Dman straight!

Probably not much stronger though sicne he was so damn weak to begin with.

Maybe the extreme-sugar and calorie boost contributes to your short sleep time...

I've actually been binging recently to stay awake longer due to all this work, not healthy indeed, but the semester is almost over then I'll get like a two week break.

Well, sorry if our collective schedules are rather messed up...

Maybe I should bring over Almaria more often.
If I can't use her in fanon other than flashbacks, perhaps as accompaniment in my replies would be nice.

May as well since everyone loves her for some reason.

It's more of you're not the type of person who'd do something to warrant that.

Probably because he's so busy warding the Pervs off his creations he doesn't have time to do it to anyone else.

I se Tesla's your schedule-manager on some occasionis.

As mentioned pretty much all my OCs are all sadly like me in putting things off to the last minute then scrambling to finish them...

Her performance was pretty awesome. And she got the best development of anybody Belkan in the show...

Though given the development for most of those amounted to "pretty much none" to start with... Hey loliness is probably about the only thing that got her as much screen time as she did.

It's complicated...

and I don't really car so don't bother explaining it.

Keroko-kun? Abusing? Nah.

Probably not, as mentioned he's too busy fending off the people being perverts and people wiring chars OOC to do it himself.

We were. But the problem is coordination... again...

You should try whippings for failure that it'll get it them motived and coordinated, or at least relieve some of the stress...

But you were being evil and exploiting my crack-induced frantic state! @_@

Blaming the victim, that's weak man, real weak...

Yeah you keep thinking that, I'm telling you inside that pretty little head lurks the mind of a dirty old man...

Nor me...

Great looks like I'm flying solo then...

Crack incoming in GuardianS or ResolutionS if I get a chance.
And no, I'm not resurrecting her.

*Fanboys everyone cry*

Think of it as special treatment for you space-goers.

Indeed going into space is an honor held by few!

Originally Posted by Kyral

And this is were I come into play...



Ok... let's see...

Spoiler for Me helps with translation ^-^:

Flamme-Schrägstrich:

Schrägstrich!? Oo --> /
The thing you have on your keyboard!?

You mean "Slash" right?
Can be translatet with "Hieb" like in "Schwerthieb" (sword slash)

Flamme-Sperre:
Hm... "Flammensperre" or "Flammende Sperre" would be a little better... ^^'

Blitz Rüber:

Errr.... Rüber!?

My first thought was "Rübe" that is a "turnip" but I'm pretty sure that was not what you had in mind.

Maybe "Räuber" that means Robber/Bandit...

Sorry... I have no idea...
It would be a great help to see the english version of that spell name.

Duly noted.

As for the original list I don’t even think I kept it. Like I said I banged it out in like 10 minutes when I was rather tired. I’d written out the effects of all the spells first then I just went and got some random names at the end. I’m racking my brain for what that last one is supposed to mean and… I can’t remember, at all. I think the moral here might be not to write spell lists after being awake for around 18 to 20 hours...

Someone should tell them that the Moon isn't a planet either...

She has the excuse that she also represents earth… (why not call her Sailor Earth then? Well Moon sounded cooler, duh.) Plus the moon is also acutally bigger then Pluto, by nearly five times in mass and three in volume, which ought to tell you something about why it’s no longer called a planet.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

I read the link... I guess there are different kinds of people...

Ahhh, the traumatizing hidden dangers of yuri digging...

More like pron in general... *shurdders as he recall some horrors he's stumbled upon*

Lol... Hehehehe... Getting in trouble for off-topicness? IN here??

Seriosuly The lurching off-topic ramblings/arguments are what make this place fun!

"I didn't do it!"

"That's not my weed!"

"Somebody set me up!"

"I've never seen that gun before!"

"I'm INNOCENT!!!!!"

"Na man haven't been smoking no weed or anything!"

Something that died out

More like was brutally murdered.

I agree, nobody should have survived what he had gone through .

The Hulk went from interesting in his early days to just ever increasing absurdity and stupidity did you know it's canon that he has NO LIMIT to his strength if he keeps getting madder he'll keep getting stronger, period. The latest comic have him as like a villain that threatening the entire earth, nearly by himself it's gotten totally out of control.

Blame yourself for not being scary enough

Or smart enough.

Sigh, what's the point? There's nothing she could be used for...

Least not the kind of things YOU'D want to use her for. -_-

I'M NOT RANDOM DAMNIT!!!!!!!!

Yeah sure it's not.

Hey! That's not fair! You can't compare the two of them!

Sure we can one is interesting and fun and the other is just eye roll inducing I mean who goes: “Right I’m gonna flesh out a tragic love story! I need a Harem…”

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

*nodnod* Mind you, she was a nine-year-old...

Which is why I don't complain much plus at least it's pretty bulky and covering so it's not total fan service nonsense. Fate's early jackets just made my roll my eyes I never minded Nanoha's much. Hayate's is in the middle, better then Fate early ones, but worse then her latest.

*chuckling* Sounds like we have a winner... it'd one helluva crack ride, that's for sure. I think we should wait till I've written more stuff for Naomi to flesh her out more, though...

was just a random idea for some future date, lord knows I've got plenty enough to do already.

It's actually recycled from an idea I had that never got off the ground; a GRAW2 crackfic.

Ahh.

I take it that Alan will be facing a long uphill battle for those Well Done Kid lines, unless he joins SOPCC and saves the world, at which point he might get a "Job well done"?

Na he's gotten them before, but they don't get tossed out like candy.

I see... looks for people with similar mindsets, eh? Sorta how each 5-man team in the OFM takes on aspects of their leader... Alpha Squad are believers in the True Spirit of Men (which is to say, Duty Honor Country. Marine Creed, and "Explosives solve everything"), Bravo are Sniper/sharpshooters, Lance FLight are where free-spirits and tsunderes gather, while Sword Flight are for the serious business people...

Just one of the perks of being a General you've got enough to pull to surround yourself with people you like... Can be a good or a bad thing depending on why they do it.

The Ranger unit is kinda segregated too, but more by skill and job then personality or leanings.

*chuckles* That'd be one helluva Meet Cute, alright. Though Naomi won't be yelling about hot blood or true spirit of men...

Well combat normally involves yelling of some sort even if it's just cursing.
Note: Again, this does not follow StrikerS or even OFM canon. It's just a what-if.

Spoiler for Hail to the Chief:

Impossible.

She was a Combat Cyborg, born and bred for warfare, capable of surpassing an S-ranked mage. Without using her full abilities, she and her sister had maintained the advantage in their short duel against Fate Testarossa Harlaown. And when Fate's young apprentice had tried to counterattack, she had been the one to strike him down, taking him out with no problems: one blow that had sent Erio Mondial crashing into the water.

Then he appeared.

His visage was a terrifying sight. A giant clad in bulky green armor, his face hidden by a reflective gold-tinted visor, he fell from the sky, slamming into her and falling down to the ground, knocking her weapons from her hands and grasping on to her. She gaspes as her breath was forced out of her lungs, too shocked to take a single gulp of air, her ribs hurting and bruised, as the green-clad man fell with her, before letting go and kicking her into the ground, landing on top of her, using her body to break his fall, leaping off her and pulling out a rifle device, attempting to fire... only for his Device to refuse to function, the AMF density too strong for him to use magic.

He must be weak, she thought. I still have a-

That was when he appeared before her again, kicking her up into the air, snatching her and slamming her to the ground, somehow dislocating her joints by the time her face hit the ground. She screamed involuntarily in pain, as he produced a set of physical restraints and tied her legs and hands together, before, and drawing a strange weapon and firing it into her legs; large spikes nailing her to the concrete. For the coup de grace he drew a pistol and fired it behind her knees, the explosive rounds shatterring her kneecaps, crippling her, and she screamed and wept in pain and fear and loss: Oh my legs i don't want to be crippled help me help me please stop someone help me-

Then a voice, cold and dangerous, spoke, chilling her to the core.

"Leave my sister alone."

"I can't do that," spoke the green-clad man. "Releasing a captured prisoner is against my duty."

"Then I'll just take her by force. Tell me who you are."

"I am Master Chief Sierra-117. You are ordered to drop your weapons and surrender, or I will kill you."

"So this is what the high and mighty TSAB has come to?" snarled Tre, and Sette felt fear in her heart as she heard the Master Chief...the Demon... speak.

"I'm not TSAB."

And with that, he lunged forward, faster than both Sette and Tre expected, of a man wearing such heavy armor, his elbow thrus driving the wind from Tre's lungs in an explosive "Ooof!", him throwing her over his shoulder to the ground, hard enough to actually form an impact crater.

"I am a SPARTAN."

"This is no man. It's a demon," whispered Sette, eyes wide and awake despite the pain.

Nope, no drugs, just an internal crack generator. Naomi pretty much took a life of her own, and everything sorta fell into place bit by bit. Sorry I cant help you with that.

In that case... *Breaks out blood bank equipment* We'll need to isolate the active compounds for synthesization.

And the Patlabor mecha would rock if powered by magitech engines and with appropriate weaponry; the Helldivers were kinda nerfed in that they only had 30-round mags and no reloads...

Eh I don't know it dosen't look like it would be that hard to change out the hopper and frankly a mag that size should hold WAY more then 30 cannon shells, in fact I'm certain we see them fire more then that in one burst during the series.

Though no magi-tech is going to be involved in buffing the hell out of them. Naquadah generators, Trinium armor plating, artificial muscle, railguns and energy weapons on the other hand...

Whoa.... Ace Combat/Simoun crossover? I was going to try that once...one scene involved the prototype Franz in a highly tuned Su-33 (tuned almost to Su-37 standard) up against Aeru and Neveril in their Simoun and basically outrunning them, though they could fly some pretty darn tight manuvers (the Simoun look to be subsonic aircraft with high manuverability, so modern fighters can surely outrun them, as they don't appear any faster than WW1/WW2 fighters).

Spoiler for Rambling Rant that became entirely bigger then i expected...:

I personally doubt they’ve got much on something like an F-22… Plus energy is all that really matters in a dogfight

Maneuverability isn’t necessarily what matters; in fact maneuverability is acutally unimportant in most modern air combat doctrines. Thrust, climb rate, and energy management matter FAR more. After all an aerobatic stunt plane could outturn and outmaneuver an F-15 (at very low speed), but even if both only had a gun the F-15 would win almost every time for one simple reason.

Energy.

Energy is what matters in a dogfight, if you have more energy you have an advantage, energy let’s you do all sorts of things to counter superior enemy maneuverability rolls, loops, or simply pulling away, if you have a higher rate of roll then you’ve got him totally trounced. Hell more thrust even let’s you turn better, turns bleed speed and once engaged in a turn the guy that can hold it longer without losing speed has the advantage so even in a turning fight having more thrust is to your advantage as you can hold the turn longer and at maximum bank.

The other factor is roll rate in fact ever aerobatic maneuver besides a loop begins with a roll. If you can roll faster then your enemy you can react faster since you can get to maximum bank and start pulling sooner and change your direction faster as well. Modern fighters can spin like tops on their long axis…

With a pair of thrust vectoring engines one would expect something like an F-22 to do this even better. This vid also shows a rather staggering rate of climb for the F-16, again the Raptor is said to be something like a “Rocket Ship” compared to these forth generation fighters.

Basiclly Boom and Zoom trounces Turn and Burn just look at some of the top dog fighters of the last 100 years:
The F6F Hellcat
The F-4 Phantom
The Mirage Series
The F-15
And most recently the F-22

One thing they all had in common was that during their heyday they had more POWER then their opponents, and just as often their opponents were technically more maneuverable

Hellcat vs. Zero
F4s vs Mig 17, 19s, and 21s
Mirages verses the same
F-15 vs. many of the same, although by this time Russia and wised up and was fielding its own twin engine heavies with allot of thrust.
The F-22 vs. most modern “super maneuverable aircraft” (which still can’t break mach 1 with a useful combat payload)

The F-22 in particular is enlightening, most of what you hear in the news is about how stealthy it is, but allot of what you read about in exercises is how damn powerful it is. It’s not often mentioned but the F-22 flies tens of thousands of feet higher and hundreds of miles and hour faster then most fighters, this is a HUGE advantage. Even if we ignored stealth it allows them to dictate when a battle happens, increases their weapons range, lower fuel consumption, and gives them more options in a dogfight. That height in this case acutally probably renders them pretty much invulnerable we never see a Simoun climb to anywhere NEAR 60,000+ thousand feet from what I recall. In any case how are you supposed to fight something that can just level its nose throttle up and outpace you on dry thrust while you have you’re throttle is at the firewall? It also accelerates at a frightening pace as well as having a high top end speed. In fact the F-22 moves so fast that when engaging in mock dogfights they’ve declared that the “no entry” bubble around it is to be 1,000 meters instead of the normal 500 since it can change direction and close with you so quickly.

Of coruse if it somehow DID get into a close fight it would hardly he helpless…

The back flip in particular is pretty fucking impressive…

Another thing that matters far more then maneuverability is sensors, modern aircraft live and die by their avionics. You’re average Pilot in Simoun has to rely on his eyes for targeting, okay inside the visual arena, but what if the enemy is launching missiles from 50+ Kilometers? (fuck what if they WILL be). They didn’t even have radios at first! Meanwhile the F-22 has something bordering on weak AI managing it's sensor systems to produce a composite image that's easy to read and provides a wealth of tactical data. For instance a F-22 pilot can put a cursor on the icon for a friendly (or quite possibly enemy) aircraft and tell what they’re shooting at just by looking at what their radars are doing! Raptor pilots also talk to each other very little during combat one Air Force General going as far as too call it “spooky” in fact. The reason is that the data-linking between them is so tight that they simply don’t need to communicate verbally much anymore as “Hal” is updating and displaying all the relevant combat data they could want friendly and enemy positions (and type), altitude, air speed, current targets for all craft, etc.

And it can do this at ranges over 100 miles with planned upgrades pushing this to potentially over 200. F-22 Radar is so good that even when weapons are gone they normally hang around to continue feeding targeting information to other units in the flight as a mini AWACS. It’s also planned to electronic attack capabilities to the system both in the form of jamming and as a kind of “microwave electronic death ray” that could overload enemy sensors frying them permanently.

Modern Radars have look down shot down capabilities against cruise missiles and Raptor also tracked helicopters, in Alaska, while at altitude so going low is no defense either. Detecting a Simon, no matter what it’s doing is childs play, hell with upgrades it could quite possible use SAR to map the ground so even LANDING wouldn’t protect it. Modern Infrared Search and Track systems (a possible upgrade) can also spot heat signatures from many kilometers away through clouds and smoke, including people on the ground.

Once the enemy is found killing them won’t be an issue. Modern AAMs are expected to be able to reliably intercept OTHER (admittedly somewhat larger) missiles moving at speeds possibly in excessive of mach one, at low altitude, in clutter, and possibly performing defensive maneuvers. Hitting a Simon would be like plinking target drones… acutally not quite the drones probably put up more of a fight…

An AMRAAM is closing at Mach 4 at that speed its covering almost a mile a second. By the time you could even see it clearly (modern missiles all have low to no smoke engines and are painted in fairly low visibility color schemes) it would be probably less then 2 or 3 seconds from impact, you wouldn’t even have time to mutter “oh shit” before it ruined your shit. The first indication they’d probably have they’re being attacked is when the entire flight suddenly starts exploding.

So clearly they ain’t gonna fight them conventionally, but even their magic isn’t going to save them, first off it’s short range that’s shown all the time as they always approach to visual range before attempting it. Plus you can disrupt it by just flying through the trails frankly the shock front coming off a Raptor blasting past at Mach 1.5+ would probably disperse entire patterns instantly of coruse even attempting to write the pattern to start with would likely be suicide as the Jet pilot could simply glance at the bizarrely but slowly maneuver craft and blow them out of the sky…

Compared to even a fighter from say the 70s a 5th Generation Machine is a monster compared to people operating at around 1930s tech level it’s a screaming flame spewing demon from the darkest pits of hell. F-22 get Kill ratios of hundreds to ones… against modern F-15 and 16s. Frankly say two squadrons of F-22s, an AWCAS and a few tankers with a good base and a supply of missiles and SDBs could probably easily win the Battle of Britain and indeed the air war in general in a matter of months. Yes 20ish fighters and a few support craft could win the air war in Europe IMO. That should tell you something about the level of technological lopsidedness working here one which is easily the most drastic of any area compared to the past. Compounding all this is the fact that, at least in my universe, the constant air warfare means that most aircraft in Ace Combat have been upgraded out the ass and pretty much anything that was purposed for a fighter at one time has probably been done there (see the presence of the FB-22 in AC5). So these Raptors are acutally more like "Super Raptors with all the purposed upgrades (IRST, side scanning radars, upgraded main radars, helmet sights, etc) installed in them. Then we get into the fact both sides have a limited, but growing number of sixth generation fighter aircraft...

Anyway it really wasn’t going to be so much Simoun vs. Ace Combat as that would just be a slaughter it was more like Ace Combat Factions start fighting each other on Simoun's planet and the CC Simon characters get caught in the middle again. Though the Ace Combat side is acutally members of a coalition, they just provide most of the air power and so take center stage. We also have BF2142 EU providing support in the form of Titan aircraft carriers, Mithril with Mecha, and Act of War Direct actions providing more conventional (and not) troops, and then part way through both sides began to field macross variable fighters... and then things got really messy.

I totally think about this shit entirely too much.

Spartan IIIs and Gunslinger Girl? O_O

Teenage Super Solider thing...

And yes, the cartoon Starship Troopers are closer to Heinlein's vision than the movie. *nodding*

Though still rather far off... kind of cool in their own way though.

...maybe you'd better focus on the 75th Rangers and the Nanoha OC-verse stuff. Rangers lead the way, and BOHICA!

I can have trobule focusing at times and the urge to write interesting crack is hard to resist. I wrote up like a 5,000 word space battle against the wraith not long ago for instance.

Originally Posted by FieryAeon

Single bird is good, especially when you don't know what to do with yourself like me. I just can't find myself working yet, so I'm bumming everyday.

I tend to do that in cycles I work a bit in the summer and around the holidays. (some random wage slave position, super markets are always hiring.) and then I just cruise most of the semester on savings doing little besides going to classes.

After all, once you start working you're more or less shackled for life, and you have less time for everything else.

Sadly until we invent zero point energy and replicators it's going to be something you kind of have to too.

I'd like to, but 1) its Hayate, 2) I don't really wanna get orbital punched, the hazards might be too much to risk it, 3) I'm no good at writing those.

Those would seem to be problem's.

Life tends to be really bad for some people after all, which kinda makes you feel hard done by when you see other people better off and without any care for what happens around them.

Like I've said modern society is becoming to much about "Me" at the expense of "everyone else".

We'll never really know. Unless its properly explained that is.

Like that'll happen.

*Brings out the popcorn*

*fighting ceases and the pair glare at the spectators*
Felix: So you think we're just clowns?
Vita: Here to amuse you?
Felix: Is that you think?
Vita: Well let's see how funny you find this!
*both of them charge the authors with murderous intent.*

Never did play Metal Gear, though everyone says good things about it.

Same here so I tried MGS:3, but it was a distinctly "meh" experience for me I didn't even finish it. *shrugs*

The sad thing is when you make something up that sounds good, and then the next StrikerS DVD releases some of those information cards and blows your theory away.

Hmm I don't think anything those have said has really blasted apart any of our theories yet. I could be forgetting something though.

Hulk is ridiculously haxxed, end of story.

As I said above he started out somewhat reasonable, but just mutated into a ridiculous joke over time.

*shrug*Its just like programming AI, the only difference is that its a highly advance one.

I'd think it's rather more complicated then that myself this also assumes the AI personality is somehow "programed" in fact something that has human level intelligence is rather like to decide for itself how to act based on experience IMO.

Paw each other? Don't you mean bash each other in?

They have a strict "no devices in the house" policy.

You know what I think? Linker Cores are the problem. You might be able to program an AI as advance as the Wolkenritter or Rein, but without a Linker Core that's all they'll ever be. Merely artificial intelligence. However if they do somehow learn how to preserve linker cores...who knows?

I personally don't consider the linker core to be anything more then an (admittedly complex) organ I don't think it's like a soul or anything so at best "transplanting" one would just give the recipients the magical potential of it's former owner not somehow make them that person or something. That's my view at least.

Chisame eh? Quite surprising really. But I'd rank her in my top 10, though no where near my top 5.

How so? She's a glasses wearing snarkey computer nerd with an obsession for some rather nerdy things she tends to keep secret... (I don't like to advertise my interest in things like Sci-fi and anime in public)

Well then again half-perverts are careful enough not to get blown into orbit.

Depends accidental perverts still often end up their despite a lack of Mens rea.

I think its more like she's naughty because she's playful rather than dirty minded. After all she only fondled females and in the baths, thats pretty normal in Japan IIRC.

I’m sorry but you can’t make an argument against someones mild perversion using a sentence that contains the phrase “only fondles…”

Hey Vita deserves some romance too! Though I'm not going to be the one who would write that.

Sorry she's just not the romantic type IMO she just wouldn't do mushy, mushy:
"Ahh I love you so much!"
"No I love you more!"
"Nu-uh I love you the most!"
Kind of stuff. To me any romance with her would need to be lower key and more like mutual respect then passionate romance.

After so long you wonder why Negi doesn't just go ahead and make himself a legal harem. I'm sure there are countries where polygamy is allowed.

He IS ten... even the most liberal of nations is going to have some issues with a ten year old marrying five women.

Huh? Immunity? Unfair!

Not our fault we're all respectable like.



Kaede? Surprising. *blinks*

Well both are composed of paper so...

Cept one has a hardcover and probably weighs twice as much.

Originally Posted by Liingo

Isamu: I'm not sure how, but it seems that creator-san has managed to find a way to communicate with me...

*pats* Although haven't you heard of working before the due date? Granted it normally doesn't turn out well for me, but didn't you know about some of these assignements before hand?

And you're not getting bullied at all. All we're doing is writing perfectly normal scenarios for people in love. If anything, I'm the one who got bullied............. I got punched into orbit....

Too lazy... but I don't have others to rely on so I tend up doing it all myself at the last second.

Che..... I didn't even do anything wrong!!

Sure you didn't.

Considering he's a business student, I highyl doubt that

Could be even worse, or at least more boring then.

Easiest way is to find a reference picture like someone else in here said.

Acutally I normally have a fairly good idea what it looks like in my head before hand so I don't normally use such pics expect for mass production types.

On-topic? What's that

Very boring and gross.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Just wait untill Chao apears.

...
...

I don't get it

Originally Posted by Keroko

I have a high tollerance limit.

If you say so...

Originally Posted by Kyral

BTW:
Ef is just great!

I agree Though I skipped episode 7+8 because of the OVERWHELMING emo-ness...

But hey, episode 9 has the ero-scene so I'm back in the game !

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

...Okay, this is geting bad enough where even I have to say - CUT IT OUT! STOP TORTURING PEOPLE (namely Aaron & Arcas) LIKE THIS!!

Just let them have their fun... There's nothing to do these days anyway...

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

Dear GOD, man! Go get some rest!

NO! Push yourself harder!

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

ALMARIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! <runs towards Prancing Pistol Princess, arms outstreched kinda like THIS>:

This doesn't look good for you...

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

HOLY SWEETNESS!!!!

That just went to the top of my watch list!

Ah well, as long as you're happy...

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

@Chaos: I agree - she's quite the horny little vixen.

It's not her that bothers me though, it's her taste in partners >.>

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

<sighs> Good God, is EVERYONE in this thread like this?! I though I was shorting myself with just 6 hours of sleep a day...

*Raise hand*

I'm lazy.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

More like pron in general... *shurdders as he recall some horrors he's stumbled upon*

"Ha! Jeremy's porn stash!"

""

"Hey what's this? Scat?"

*Mouse over to the folder*

"Wait a minute, 'Scat'... OH SHI-! DON'T!"

*Click*

*I Quickly look away*

*1 second later*

"ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



I swear to you, true story...

[Evangelion Xgouki]

Too lazy to do all these replies .

@Keroko: Hang in there!! You can do it!!

Oh, and
[Trade] LF someone to edit a pic for my OC.

[USB500]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Hehehehe.... I started at 3 PM... it's now almost 1 AM.... nearly 10 hours of watching StrikerS, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching.....



Anyway, here it is. Keroko's StrikerS summary. Now excuse me while I go to sleep.

Spoiler for Nanoha StrikerS:

6 years have passed since the Yami no Sho incident. Keroko has been a successful instructor and leader of Rogue Squadron for six years now. The years of front-line service have hardened her skills, although not without their fare share of problems. When the four end up in the middle of a disaster at the airport, Keroko aid in the rescue of the people trapped inside the building. After the disaster, Hayate proposes the forming of a special unit, Keroko all too readily agrees with Nanoha and Fate that they won’t be left out of such a unit.

Four years later, the forming of the unit is entering its final stages. Keroko resigns as Commanding Officer of Rogue Squadron, giving the position to her second in command, Wes Janson. During the discussion of Subaru and Tiana’s transfer into the unit, Fate notes that aside from her giving advice, Tiana might benefit from training under Keroko. This startles Tiana, as she hadn’t heard that Keroko, whom she idolizes, would be transferring to this unit. Afterwards, Tiana stumbles upon Keroko, who was heading to meet with Fate and Nanoha. Tiana goes into an embarrased muttering fit, while Keroko notes that she knew they would meet again. Tiana notices that the badge of Rogue Squadron’s Commanding Officer on Keroko’s right arm that was formerly blue is now red, signifying her as a former Rogue. She asks if its true that Keroko has transferred to unit six, Keroko confirms it, and when Tiana asks why Keroko answers that a friend called for her help. She then says that she is looking forward to see how much Tiana has grown.

Keroko then meets up with Nanoha and Fate as they head of home. Nanoha looks up the files of Erio and Caro, Fate is a bit worried, but Keroko assures her that it will be fine, and that they will train them to be able to handle anything the future will throw at them.

The next day, after changing uniforms, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko go to meet with Hayate, who although happy that they are all here, wonders if Keroko is alright with this. Keroko in return assures Hayate that Rogue Squadron is now a fully operational unit, and that she is not really needed anymore.

After a short conversation with Griffith, the group goes to meet their new unit. After the meeting Keroko and Tesla head back inside the base together to gather intel on their enemies. They discuss the enemies possible motives, methods and where and how they may move next. Tesla notes how Keroko seems to be thinking more in advance these days, as opposed to her purely impulsive younger self. Keroko, slightly embarrassed by the compliment, notes that it was needed as the leader of a unit, and that it was mostly thanks to Tesla that she grew.

The following days are spend with Nanoha and Keroko training the forwards. Sometimes together, one or the other. On the day the forwards received their devices, it was Keroko’s turn to observe, summarize and log the training. After the alarm went of, signaling the arrival of a group of gadgets, the group jumped aboard the heli and set course for the berserk train. With the combined power of Nanoha, Fate and Keroko, air superiority is quickly gained.

After the first successful mission, the group returns to training. With Vita joining the fray, training starts to become more specialized. Keroko switches between trainees often, teaching Subaru the finer points of hand-to-hand combat, training Tia in mass-control and targeting and learning Erio and Caro how to recognize incoming threats and avoid them. After training Keroko joins Fate and Shari in anlalysing the remains of the Gadgets. When Fate discovers that the drones were created by Scaglietti, Shari asks Keroko if she has ever encountered him during her time in Rogue Squadron. Keroko answers that she has only heard of him, as Rogue Squadron usually send on larger scale missions, not missions to capture a single person. As they drive back to the headquarters, Fate tells them what they know of Scaglietti. Keroko notes that it isn’t much, to which Fate replies that it’s all they have. Keroko then returns that those kinds of people are usually the most dangerous.

When RF6’s next mission is to secure the auction in Hotel Augusta, Keroko joins Hayate, Fate and Nanoha inside the hotel. After the gadget’s attack, Nanoha and Keroko have a short conversation about who of them should go talk to Tiana. In the end, they decide that after Vita’s scolding, being scolded by her idol may do more harm then good, and Nanoha sets of to have a talk with Tiana. Keroko meanwhile goes to meet with Yuuno before she gets called to work again.

Later on, Vita asks whether something happened in Tiana’s past. The history of Tiana’s brother, and how he was labeled a failure, is told. Vita wonders if this isn’t exactly up Keroko’s alley, considering her experience with Rogue Squadron. But Keroko says that its not that simple, while its true that Rogue Squadron existed of mages that were considered useless by most, it was always those mages that were the ones that were scorned. Tiana fights to prove that her brother wasn’t useless. Fighting to prove yourself and fighting to prove a legacy are two different things. She concludes it by saying that in the end, Tiana should learn what could happen if she screws up at the wrong time. One way or another.

The next day, training ends with a 2-on-1 mock battle. While Keroko, Vita, Erio and Caro observe, Fate comes running. While they discuss Nanoha’s training techniques, Keroko remains silent, instead observing the battle bellow. As Subaru and Tiana begin to use dangerous maneuvers, Keroko mumbles that it’s as she thought. When Fate presses for details, Keroko tells them to keep watching. She also says that she hopes that Nanoha has the heart to do what needs to be done next.

In the end, Tiana was shot down and ended up in the infirmary. When the alarm went of, Tiana was there with the others, and after getting hit by Signum, Keroko tells Nanoha to get on board and deal with the situation on her side, she would handle this side.

When Subaru asks whether it is wrong to strive to become stronger your way, Keroko responds that there are times when it is. When pressed, Shari arrives and takes the forwards on a steamcourse through Nanoha’s past. Among the details, she also mentions Keroko’s incident with Lotte. Keroko then explains the details behind her physical situation, and the fact that Nanoha risked her life in getting her back.

Afterwards, Keroko joins Tiana at the shore, Tiana rhetorically asks whether all of this was true. Keroko confirms it, but also mentions that she herself is even worse then Nanoha. Tiana is surprised, and Keroko tells Tiana that she landed in the hospital for overdoing it at least 3 times. She also explains that the last time was the worst, and the worried faces of those she cared about made her realize that overdoing it for the good cause doesn’t always end well. Keroko asks Tiana what she is fighting for, and why she is so anxious to prove herself. Tiana answers truthfully that she wants to prove that her brother was not a failure. Keroko tells Tiana that she was fighting with a wrong goal. You can’t simply prove something like that while fighting for a legacy. Trying to become someone you’re not is impossible. She should stop trying to fight for her brother, and start fighting for herself. Tiana protests that she doesn’t want her brother to be seen as a failure by everyone, to which Keroko tells her he isn’t. Keroko explains the history behind Rogue Squadron, how those who were called failures became heroes. She tells Tiana that if her brother was alive, and people would still call him a failure, he would be flying in that Squadron right now. Keroko tells Tiana that she was never able to meet or train with her brother, and prove that he was a great mage, but now she has a chance to train with Tiana, and prove that she is a great mage. Tiana should become stronger as Tiana, not Lanster. Tiana apologizes for her behavior, to which Keroko says that she is not the one Tiana should be apologizing to. When Tiana questionly looks up, Keroko nudges her head to her side, where Nanoha is walking towards the two. Keroko leaves the two alone.

The next few days are spent training, though Tiana was still somewhat hesitant to fight for her own dreams. One evening while returning from training she asks Keroko whether she will be able to fly someday. Keroko promises her that she will on day learn to fly, and they will fly the sky together. Eventually it was decided that the test limiters of the forwards’ devices could be removed. The forwards were given the rest of the day off while the remaining members enjoyed a calm day standing by on HQ. As the subject shifted to Regius, Keroko comments that he was one of the greatest opposition to Rogue Squadron’s activities, stating that a unit of mages that have already showed to be unreliable should not be allowed such important tasks. Tesla then comments that keroko was lucky that Regius held no say over the Air Forces, to which Keroko agrees. Later on Nanoha, Keroko and Fate encounter Signum and Vita, who are about to head out to the TSAB. When Keroko asks about Tesla, Signum tells her that Tesla is already there, as they are discussing the logistics of the matter first.

When the forwards strike alarm and the group moves out, it doesn’t take long for the gadgets to arrive. While Nanoha and Fate have some difficulty against the drones mixed with illusions, Keroko fares slightly better. Her specialization in mass-targeting allows her to target every drone, which eliminates the need to differ between real unit and illusions. However, since she lacks range, she can’t cover the entire defensive line by herself. Fortunately, Hayate comes to the rescue and eliminates the gadgets with her long range artillery strikes.

Just when all seemed to be going well, an unknown enemy strikes at the heli. Nanoha manages to block, and Fate and Keroko pursue the new enemy. After a short but heavy chase, the two unknown enemies are pinned between Nanoha and Fate’s attacks. Unfortunately, they manage to escape.

The next day, after evading a certain amount of trouble with a certain young girl they picked up, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko head off to the Saint Church. Keroko, having met Carim before, was considerably more comfortable then Nanoha and Fate. Though that was easily settled, after which they continue to discuss Carim’s ability and the resulting prophesy. Later during the conversation, they come to discuss the situation of the TSAB defenses, and how Regius refuses to take the prophesy seriously and take measures. That was the true reason for forming RF6, as a last line of defense until help can arrive in case of trouble. Carim notes that while it is a dangerous and inglorious mission, she still asks for their help. Keroko states that she’s had worse then this, and Nanoha and Fate agree to help as well.

The next day, Keroko arrives home just in time to hear Subaru’s rather blunt suggestion to Vivio. After calming Vivio down and starting lunch, Vivio notes how much Keroko and Nanoha look alike. Nanoha says it’s natural, as they are sisters after all. Vivio asks if that makes Keroko her mama as well, to which Keroko jokingly says why not, never expecting to be taken seriously. Once the word was out, however, she was stuck with Vivio. Literally, as Vivio clung to her side.

Another day, another training. This time joined by Ginga. After a now ‘fair’ 5-vs-5 (depending on your point of view) forwards versus instructors match, Vivio arrived. After a bit of trouble with Vivio falling down, during which Keroko agreed with Nanoha rather then Fate, the group headed of for lunch. Later that night the four Aces were together discussing the latest part of the prophecy. They concluded that the chance that the headquarters would be attacked during the conference is great, unfortunately, only four people of RF6 could be allowed inside. Still, they would figure something out.

Seven days later, the conference is starting, and RF6 is departing. During patrol, the captains try to figure out why someone would try a terrorist attack on the TSAB. Nanoha theorizes that a weapons merchant may use it to show off; Vita says the risks are too great for such a thing, but Keroko states that she has seen madman try far more insane stunts then this.

As the attacks start, Nanoha thinks up a plan based on their old Ground Force Training Course. Keroko reacts in surprise when fate says that they haven’t used it since, and notes that Rogue Squadron uses these kind of tricks all the time on commando missions. When Nanoha explains that they have to meet up with the forwards as fast as possible, Keroko already has the fastest route.

After meeting up with the forwards, Keroko goes into the air in an effort to regain air superiority. She flies up high to get out of the AMF radius, and calls in Rogue Squadron. Though the AMF still messes with the transmission, Rogue Squadron’s home base, the dimensional ship Normandy, was close enough to receive the transmission, thanks to the actions of Wes, who stationed the ship close to Mid-Childa against orders.

With the Rogues quickly on the scene, and Keroko taking temporary command, they begin a desperate attempt to shoot the gadgets from the sky. But with the gadgets sheer numbers and Keroko still limited, the attempt becomes a slow one. In the end, they failed to clear the skies before Jail unfolded the next phase of his plan.

The day after the attack, Keroko feels an old anger resurfacing. Her anger at discovering what happened to Vivio spark the dormant powers inside of her, further increasing her rage. Knowing that she is about to seriously injure people if she doesn’t keep herself occupied, she throws herself into recovery work, pausing only to listen to Genya’s explanation of sentoukijin before throwing herself back into work again. Only when night falls does Keroko return, battered and dirty, only to find a distressed Nanoha crying on Fate’s shoulder. Keroko goes to support her sister, hugging her from behind and telling her that they will find Vivio at all costs. When Fate telepathically asks what happened to her, Keroko explains that she had to keep herself busy, otherwise she’d be blowing up whatever was close. Fate then thinks to herself that everyone must be feeling hurt after today.

The following day during the meeting, Hayate lays down the strategy. Keroko tells Hayate that Wes contacted her, and told her that Rogue Squadron is ready to move at even the slightest call. Hayate asks whether that won’t become a problem for the Rogues, to which Keroko answers that Rogue Squadron has always been a unit to give credit to their name.

The day progresses, the plans continue, but just as the key to everything begins to become clear, Jail initiates the next stage of his plan. Activating Ancient Belka’s most powerful weapon, the Cradle. As the scenes of Vivio linked to the throne of the ancient ship are transmitted, Keroko feels a resurge of hatred, and clenches her fist, digging her nails into her palms in a desperate attempt to retain some semblance of calm while glaring at the screen, hoping to kill Jail with just her eyes.

At the next meeting, a new plan is set in motion. Keroko joins Hayate, Vita and Nanoha in the attack on the Cradle. On route to the ship, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko have a small chat on Limit Breaks, and both sides emplore one another not to use them. Keroko, too, is asked not to use her Limit Break. After all, she had promised not to use Etherial Mode ever again.

As the first line comes into sight, Keroko loosens the reins she had placed to hold back her rage, and tears into the enemy drones. Now no longer limited and utilizing the fast Lancer Mode, the Ace of the Skies shows her title as wave after wave of gadgets are destroyed.

As soon as a group of mages puncture a hole in the Cradles outer hull, Vita, Nanoha and Keroko boarded the Cradle. With the entire area saturated with AMF, the battle to get further became a slow one. When the call came to split up, Vita told Keroko to stay with Nanoha. The two groups split up, and Keroko and Nanoha headed for the throne room. The two storm through the corridors, obliterating everything in their path. Even Dieci is defeated in a single shot.

As the two break into the throne room, they are greeted by Quattro, who proceeds to taunt them. As soon as her hand reaches for Vivio, however, neither Keroko nor Nanoha waste any time blasting her. Unfortunately, they hit an illusion, and the real Quattro simply proceeds with the taunting, throwing on another level as she tells them of Vivio’s true power, and transforms her into a more mature version to fight against.

This transformed Vivio proves to be a tough opponent. Though not impossible to take down, both Keroko and Nanoha are reluctant to go full out. Nanoha tells Keroko to seek out Quattro, and see if stopping her will return Vivio to normal. Keroko objects, not willing to let Nanoha fight alone, but Nanoha tells her that it’s the only way. Keroko’s instincts and experience with various ship layouts will help her find Quattro faster, and she can hold back Vivio longer then Keroko can. Keroko sighs in defeat, and the two sisters give eachother a last high five before Keroko heads off. Unknown to Quattro, Nanoha slipped a wide area search spell in Keroko’s hand during the high five.

Keroko heads off to find Quattro, but Quattro herself is not unprepared. Keroko’s instincts and experience quickly put her on the right track to Quattro, but as she starts to get close, Quattro activates one of the Cradle’s most powerful defensive platforms. A large magically powered defensive android. Keroko is quickly overpowered by this ancient defensive beast, whose armor seems almost impenetrable, and Quattro taunts her that she will never be able to save Vivio at this rate.

In retrospect, this was probably Quattro’s biggest mistake, as Keroko snaps. Filled with a rage she has not felt in a long time, Keroko activates Ethereal Mode. Suddenly, alarms go off all over Quattro’s dashboard, as the Cradle’s defensive systems warns that there is a powerful ‘Aspekt Magier’ detected. Quattro wonders what that means until she notices Keroko, whom now bears black wings, a device that now resembles a cross between a mace and an axe, and emits a lot of magic.

The defensive program tries to do its work, but the enraged Keroko disables its attacks one after the other, eventually disarming the thing, pinning it to the floor and firing an Ion Cannon Breaker at point-blank range. With the cameras disabled in the area, Quattro assumes that the idiot blew herself up. In reality, Keroko survived, though looking absolutely battered and beaten. She maintains her consciousness, however, saying that she’s not done yet, and continues towards Quattro.

Quattro meanwhile is enjoying the spectacle of Nanoha desperately trying to make a stand against Vivio until Keroko reaches Quattro. A twitch of panic shoots through her as Vita destroys the reactor, but she quickly reasserts herself and tries to get the repair systems to work. She is interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her, and turns around to see Keroko moving towards her. Keroko is badly battered, and certainly not in a condition to fight. Quattro realizes this, and asks Keroko how she plans to fight in that state. Keroko answers that fighting her was never part of the plan. When Quattro asks what she means, Keroko lifts one side of her coat, and a pink sphere of energy flies out. Realization shoots through Quattro as she figures out what happened. Carrying a Wide Area Search spellpart, Keroko effectively became a beacon for Nanoha to lock on to.

Quattro hopefully wonders how Nanoha is going to make it down here in time, before the scanners reveal Nanoha’s true intent. Her mind flashing back to the airport, Quattro realizes that Nanoha is going to blast through the walls. She desperately turns to Keroko, asking if she is crazy enough to fire when Keroko might get caught in the line of fire. Keroko simply smiles. Quattro tries to make one last desperate dash for the exit, but fails and the beam hits Quattro dead on. Keroko was smart enough to stay out of the blast radius, and as soon as Quattro falls unconscious, she leans back against the wall and slides down. As her eyes close, she finds herself wondering if she could get away with a little nap.

A loud thumping wakes her up quickly though, as she realizes people are still fighting. Climbing up through the hole created by Nanoha’s Divine Buster. Meanwhile above Nanoha and Vivio square off with tears in their eyes as Nanoha promises to save Vivio. As the two storm at eachother, Vivio throws a punch which Nanoha catches. However, unlike Nanoha, Vivio has another free hand. With her body acting on its own accord, Vivio can only watch in fright as her other fist charges with multi-color magical energy and launches for Nanoha’s face. A dull thump echoes, however, as the second fist is caught by a black gloved hand. Both Nanoha and Vivio stare in surprise as a battered Keroko catches the fist before it could reach its target. Black energy easily eats through the multi-colored energy. Keroko tells Vivio that she does not let family die, and Nanoha activates her bind. Keroko quickly makes her distance as Nanoha blasts the Relic out of Vivio’s body.

After a short reunion, alarms go off all over the ship. Hayate arrives just in time to become trapped in the high-density AMF. They quickly pick up Quattro –under some protest of Keroko- and prepare to leave, only for the automated repair system to cut of their escape. Keroko desperately tries to find a terminal of any kind, only to find out there are none. Fortunately, Tiana and Subaru come to their aid and they make it out all right.

After the incident, which is now called the Jail Scaglietti incident, the end of section 6 is in sight. With Hayate officially dispersing the unit, it comes down the one last mock battle, with no holds barred. After the mock battle, Vivio approaches Keroko. She tells them that she has learned that just because she is Nanoha’s sister, she’s not really Vivio’s mama. Keroko is pretty surprised and saddened that Vivio brought this up, but Vivio continues, saying that she still has some of the memories of her originals life. In that life someone who reminds her a lot of Keroko was like an older sister to her. So she asks Keroko

“You remind me of someone I used to call onee-chan… Is it allright if I call you onee-chan too?”

In the later months, Keroko found the freedom of movement that she gained when she gave up her command position to her liking, so one day she arrived not in her normal white uniform, but in the black Enforcers uniform. When asked by the others, Keroko simply replies that she still has a promise to keep to Tiana. Tiana realizes that she is talking about teaching her how to fly. Keroko now serves as an Enforcer, often traveling but also checking up on her family and friends more often. She has a habit of borrowing the Normandy when she needs a ride.

Need more of Vivio/Keroko moments >_____<

[Tk3997]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

Man, lazy for backlog breaking today... must be the Pre-Christmas season blues

For me it's more like end of semester blues, but acutally that's encouraging me to break backlog... so I can avoid doing work.

XD

As long as it came from Lindy's hands, it'll be delicious!!!

*runs*

Acutally I'm pretty sure we've seen her cook before and no one seemed to be horrified by the results so this wouldn't really make sense.

Wawa' ka naman pre... inom ka muna

Seriously, methinks you need to take a much deserved break.

He should only have a few weeks left before he gets a bit of one.

Ain't that a bit unfair?

*dissapears into horizon*

Life isn't far man.

Ooooh boy This is gonna get complicated...

And funny as all hell hopefully.

WHOA

That's a crazy universe there...

I like stuff set in the modern world with sci-fi/fantasy elements... you might notice a theme of that there. I think I've got a little Haruhi in me (as many do)I kinda wish the world was a little more fantastic, but lacking god powers I'll just have to settle for fucking with fictional worlds instead of the real one.

and GHOST RECON?!?!?!

Aaah freaking nostalgia setting in...

"No Fear"

Hmm the original was quite good one of the first tactical shooters I played really got me into the genre.

EPIC BLUECHEESIUM BOMB INCOMING!!!!!!

*ducks for cover*

Indeed he acutally seems to be making progress this could be interesting.

[Wild Goose]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Which is why I don't complain much plus at least it's pretty bulky and covering so it's not total fan service nonsense. Fate's early jackets just made my roll my eyes I never minded Nanoha's much. Hayate's is in the middle, better then Fate early ones, but worse then her latest.

I went *headdesk* at Fate's new Sonic Form. *headdesk* Seriously, she was more impressive in her badass longcoat and modified Class As. Hayate's is alright, mostly... Subaru has to be the worse though. *shakes head*

was just a random idea for some future date, lord knows I've got plenty enough to do already.

*nodnod* I see....

Na he's gotten them before, but they don't get tossed out like candy.

Well, it'll be interesting to see more of Alan and Felix and their relationship...

Just one of the perks of being a General you've got enough to pull to surround yourself with people you like... Can be a good or a bad thing depending on why they do it.

Oh, yeah. *nodding* the StrikerS Nanos imply that Hayate's main consideration was cosplayer potential ^__^ And until the OFM expand in the future, they're being rather...discriminatory in their recruitment, in that only Erusians get recruited and only guys go to groundpounders and girls are air support, though that'll inevitably change as they slowly expand and grow over the years...

The Ranger unit is kinda segregated too, but more by skill and job then personality or leanings.

*thinks* You mean, like some companies are anti-armor specialists, some are pathfinders, that sorta thing?

Well combat normally involves yelling of some sort even if it's just cursing.

True. *grins*
Naomi: OMG did you just look up my skirt? DIE PERVERT!
Alan: Wait-
*BOOM*

In that case... *Breaks out blood bank equipment* We'll need to isolate the active compounds for synthesization.

You can try...

Eh I don't know it dosen't look like it would be that hard to change out the hopper and frankly a mag that size should hold WAY more then 30 cannon shells, in fact I'm certain we see them fire more then that in one burst during the series.

Official documentation on model kits state that the Helldiver's arm gun is a 30mm single-barrel cannon with a 30-round mag, and cannot be changed by the Helldiver itself. Presumably (as with the Ingram), to reload in the field, the pilot must kneel the Helldiver, dismount, and change the mag manually.

Though no magi-tech is going to be involved in buffing the hell out of them. Naquadah generators, Trinium armor plating, artificial muscle, railguns and energy weapons on the other hand...

*Grins* Oh, hell YES. ^__^ It kinda seems like you're turning the Helldivers into mini M9E Gernsbacks though, the way the upgrades are going... anime aside, the M9s are 8 meters tall, same as the Helldivers... I assume the Helldivers will also have combat blades? (For some reason, I've always liked the chainsaw monomolecular cutters used by FMP Arm Slaves...)

Spoiler for Rambling Rant that became entirely bigger then i expected...:

I personally doubt they’ve got much on something like an F-22… Plus energy is all that really matters in a dogfight

Maneuverability isn’t necessarily what matters; in fact maneuverability is acutally unimportant in most modern air combat doctrines. Thrust, climb rate, and energy management matter FAR more. After all an aerobatic stunt plane could outturn and outmaneuver an F-15 (at very low speed), but even if both only had a gun the F-15 would win almost every time for one simple reason.

Energy.

Energy is what matters in a dogfight, if you have more energy you have an advantage, energy let’s you do all sorts of things to counter superior enemy maneuverability rolls, loops, or simply pulling away, if you have a higher rate of roll then you’ve got him totally trounced. Hell more thrust even let’s you turn better, turns bleed speed and once engaged in a turn the guy that can hold it longer without losing speed has the advantage so even in a turning fight having more thrust is to your advantage as you can hold the turn longer and at maximum bank.

The other factor is roll rate in fact ever aerobatic maneuver besides a loop begins with a roll. If you can roll faster then your enemy you can react faster since you can get to maximum bank and start pulling sooner and change your direction faster as well. Modern fighters can spin like tops on their long axis…

With a pair of thrust vectoring engines one would expect something like an F-22 to do this even better. This vid also shows a rather staggering rate of climb for the F-16, again the Raptor is said to be something like a “Rocket Ship” compared to these forth generation fighters.

Basiclly Boom and Zoom trounces Turn and Burn just look at some of the top dog fighters of the last 100 years:
The F6F Hellcat
The F-4 Phantom
The Mirage Series
The F-15
And most recently the F-22

One thing they all had in common was that during their heyday they had more POWER then their opponents, and just as often their opponents were technically more maneuverable

Hellcat vs. Zero
F4s vs Mig 17, 19s, and 21s
Mirages verses the same
F-15 vs. many of the same, although by this time Russia and wised up and was fielding its own twin engine heavies with allot of thrust.
The F-22 vs. most modern “super maneuverable aircraft” (which still can’t break mach 1 with a useful combat payload)

The F-22 in particular is enlightening, most of what you hear in the news is about how stealthy it is, but allot of what you read about in exercises is how damn powerful it is. It’s not often mentioned but the F-22 flies tens of thousands of feet higher and hundreds of miles and hour faster then most fighters, this is a HUGE advantage. Even if we ignored stealth it allows them to dictate when a battle happens, increases their weapons range, lower fuel consumption, and gives them more options in a dogfight. How are you supposed to fight something that can just level its nose throttle up and outpace you on dry thrust while you have you’re throttle is at the red line on full burner? In fact the F-22 moves so fast that when engaging in mock dogfights they’ve declared that the “no entry” bubble around it is to be 1,000 meters instead of the normal 500 since it can change direction and close with you so quickly.

Of coruse if it somehow DID get into a close fight it would hardly he helpless…

The back flip in particular is pretty fucking impressive…

Another thing that matters far more then maneuverability is sensors, modern aircraft live and die by their avionics. You’re average Pilot in Simoun has to rely on his eyes for targeting, okay inside the visual arena, but what if the enemy is launching missiles from 50+ Kilometers? (fuck what if they WILL be). They didn’t even have radios at first! Meanwhile the F-22 have something bordering on weak AI managing their sensor systems to produce a composite image that easy to read and provides a wealth of tactical data. For instance a F-22 pilot can put a cursor on the icon for a friendly (or quite possible enemy) aircraft and tell what they’re shooting at just by looking at what their radars are doing! Raptor pilots also talk to each other very little during combat one Air Force General called it “spooky” in fact. The reason is that the data-linking between them is so tight that they simply don’t need to communicate verbally much anymore as “Hal” is updating and displaying all the relevant combat data they could want friendly and enemy positions (and type), altitude, air speed, current targets for all craft, etc.

And it can do this at ranges over 100 miles with planned upgrades pushing this to potentially over 200. F-22 Radar is so good that even when weapons are gone they normally hang around to continue feeding targeting information to other units in the flight as a mini AWACS. It’s also planned to electronic attack capabilities to the system both in the form of jamming and as a kind of “microwave electronic death ray” that could overload enemy sensors frying them permanently.

Modern Radars have look down shot down capabilities against cruise missiles and Raptor also tracked helicopters, in Alaska, while at altitude so going low is no defense either.
around 4 meters long, at least. Detecting a Simon, no matter what it’s doing is Childs play, hell with upgrades it could quite possible use SAR to map the ground so even LANDING wouldn’t protect it. Modern Infrared Search and Track systems (a possible upgrade) can also spot heat signatures from many kilometers away through clouds and smoke, including people on the ground.

Once the enemy is found killing them won’t be an issue. Modern AAMs are expected to be able to reliably intercept OTHER (admittedly somewhat larger) missiles moving at speeds possibly in excessive of mach one, at low altitude, in clutter, and possibly performing defensive maneuvers. Hitting a Simon would be like plinking target drones… acutally not quite the drones probably put up more of a fight…

An AMRAAM is closing at Mach 4 at that speed its covering almost a mile a second. By the time you could even see it clearly (modern missiles all have low to no smoke engines and are painted in fairly low visibility color schemes) it would be probably less then 2 or 3 seconds from impact, you wouldn’t even have time to mutter “oh shit” before it ruined your shit. The first indication they’d have they’re being attacked is when the entire flight suddenly start exploding.

So clearly they ain’t gonna fight them conventionally, but even their magic isn’t going to save them, first off it’s short range that’s shown all the time as they always approach to visual range before attempting it. Plus you can disrupt it by just flying through the trails frankly the shock front coming off a Raptor blasting past at Mach 1.5+ would probably disperse entire patterns instantly of coruse even attempting to write the pattern to start with would likely be suicide as the Jet pilot could simply glance at the bizarrely but slowly maneuver craft and blow them out of the sky…

Compared to even a fighter from say the 70s a 5th Generation Machine is a monster compared to people operating at around 1930s tech level it’s a screaming flame spewing demon from the darkest pits of hell. F-22 get Kill ratios of hundreds to ones… against modern F-15 and 16s. Frankly say two squadrons of F-22s, an AWCAS and a few tankers with a good base and a supply of missiles and SDBs could probably easily win the Battle of Britain and indeed the air war in general in a matter of months. Yes 20ish fighters and a few support craft could win the air war in Europe IMO. That should tell you something about the level of technological lopsidedness which is easily the most drastic of any area compared to the past. Compounding all this is the fact that, at least in my universe, the constant air warfare means that most aircraft in Ace Combat have been upgraded out the ass and pretty much anything that was purposed for a fighter at one time has probably been done there (see the presence of the FB-22 in AC5). So these Raptors are acutally more like "Super Raptors with all the purposed upgrades (IRST, side scanning radars, upgraded main radars, helmet sights, etc) installed in them. Then we get into the fact both sides have a limited, but growing number of sixth generation fighter aircraft...

Anyway it really wasn’t going to be so much Simoun vs. Ace Combat as that would just be a slaughter it was more like Ace Combat Factions start fighting each other on Simoun's planet and the CC Simon characters get caught in the middle again. Though the Ace Combat side is acutally members of a coalition, they just provide most of the air power and so take center stage. We also have BF2142 EU providing support in the form of Titan aircraft carriers, Mithril with Mecha, and Act of War Direct actions providing more conventional (and not) troops, and then part way through both sides began to field macross variable fighters... and then things got really messy.

I totally think about this shit entirely too much.

That...is TOTALLY an understatement.

The really weird thing is that I was planning on something similar, with air carriers, some mecha, black ops... and variable fighters AS WELL. Though nothing like AOWA, I can say that much.

Teenage Super Solider thing...

Though the girls are more like assassins, while the SPARTAN-IIIs are like Navy SEALs. Still, you're right, Super SOldier thing... there's some debate as to whether the girls can actually grow, or if they're locked into their current ages. Triela does have cramps and stuff.

Though still rather far off... kind of cool in their own way though.

In all fairness, deploy a platoon of Heinlein's MI, and man...*shakes head* ODSTs with SPARTAN-II-ish armor, a veritable FPS arsenal...

I can have trobule focusing at times and the urge to write interesting crack is hard to resist. I wrote up like a 5,000 word space battle against the wraith not long ago for instance.

I know what you mean... there's a Gundam SEED fanfic I'm supposed to be working on, but I've been spending more time with the OFM and the OC thread than my SEED fic...

They have a strict "no devices in the house" policy.

*chuckles* So what do they do? Lock the devices in outdoor lockers? Getting ready for an emergency deployment might be a bit tough if you have to go and unlock a highly secure locker for your Device, unless it's like some places where cops keep their carry pistol in their locker, and so have a backup gun for when they're off-duty... how does weapons issue in the military work out? Rifle issued from the armory, use, then return it to the armory?

How so? She's a glasses wearing snarkey computer nerd with an obsession for some rather nerdy things she tends to keep secret... (I don't like to advertise my interest in things like Sci-fi and anime in public)

Isn't Chisame also a net idol? She IS quite pretty with the glasses off...

[Chaos2Frozen]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Acutally I'm pretty sure we've seen her cook before and no one seemed to be horrified by the results so this wouldn't really make sense.

Put it this way, Tk.

She's got to start somewhere.

[Kagerou]

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

I went *headdesk* at Fate's new Sonic Form. *headdesk* Seriously, she was more impressive in her badass longcoat and modified Class As. Hayate's is alright, mostly... Subaru has to be the worse though. *shakes head*

I liked Tia's, peraonally... >.>

Oh, yeah. *nodding* the StrikerS Nanos imply that Hayate's main consideration was cosplayer potential ^__^ And until the OFM expand in the future, they're being rather...discriminatory in their recruitment, in that only Erusians get recruited and only guys go to groundpounders and girls are air support, though that'll inevitably change as they slowly expand and grow over the years...

Well we all know of Hayate's... fetish...

True. *grins*
Naomi: OMG did you just look up my skirt? DIE PERVERT!
Alan: Wait-
*BOOM*

Emili: That's how you do it, Naomi! *thumbs up*

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Anyway some stupid trailer-thing I came up with for a fic that will see the light of day a long way from now, but thought I'd tease you guys with it.

Spoiler for Maho Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Alpha:

(Two men stared out into space, their faces covered by shadows and strange masks. Their hunched-over forms watched the spiraling pearl of light known as Midchilda as it rested in its own little bubble of space.)

??? (Presumably the man on the left): We have endured much, you and I...

(A gloved hand rests on the other one's shoulder.)

???: But soon, a new order will begin! A new age! The Belkan Prophecies spoke of the city on the hill, and soon, that city will be a reality, and we shall be crowned its kings!

(Fade to black.)

??? (through radio static): Or better than kings... gods.

-

(Fate and Nanoha, 29 years old, walking together down a busy corridor.)

Nanoha: I'm tired of fighting.
Fate: But you can't run away from it.
Nanoha: I want to, though... I've had enough.

-

(Vivio Takamachi, 16 years old, smiles at her tutor.)

Vivio: You're really good at this, teacher!
Teana: Of course I am! Your mother taught me how to fight!

-

(Raining. A crying figure in the dark, on their knees.)

-

(Sunshine. Hayate and Signum are sitting at a cafe when a call interrupts them.)

Hayate: Who is it?
Chrono: I have some bad news...

-

(A laboratory. Erick and Aurion are sitting on a pair of seats. An open bottle of whiskey is between them.)

Erick: We're just old men now, Aurion. It's time to pass on the legacy.
Aurion: No... I still got some fight left in me.
Erick: Well there ain't no way I'm surrendering before you do!

-

(Rain. The kneeling figure winces at the flash of lightning. Her yellowed eyes narrow in pain.)

-

(A space ship. Glen and Emili are watching as members perform their drills.)

Glen: It begins...
Emili: What?
Glen: The true nature of Project ATX.

-

(Clouds. A familiar dragon swoops through the sky with a man riding atop. As it bursts through the cloudline, its revealed that the planet below is aflame.)

Erio: Oh no...

-

(The Saint Church. Kha and Carim are discussing some important details when they get a call.)

Carim: Hayate? What's wrong? Why are you crying?
Kha: ...No...

-

(Lightning flashes again. The figure, Subaru, looks down and pulls herself closer.)

Subaru: Help... me...

-

(Rain. The same place, but it's impossible to tell how much later. Only Subaru's quivering shoulders reveal that she's still alive.)

(Surrounding her, the worried and concerned faces of Hayate, Nanoha, and Fate.)

Subaru: Gomen ne... I tried... I tried to protect... and I couldn't! And now... and now...

(Collective tears fall to the ground.)

(The camera follows one as it hits the ground. When it goes, the camera pans up to reveal a broken warhammer sticking out of the ground.)

Subaru: And now... Vita-chan is...

-

(Deep in space, on some planet somewhere, red eyes open.)

???: I am the Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End. The First and the Last! It is time I take my place on the Throne of Heaven!

(Explosions.)

-

(Blackness.)

Voiceover: And ye, shall be as gods.

Witness the final war of the one they call the White Devil.

Maho Shoujo, Lyrical Nanoha... Alpha.
Break, shoot.

[Tk3997]

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

I went *headdesk* at Fate's new Sonic Form. *headdesk* Seriously, she was more impressive in her badass longcoat and modified Class As. Hayate's is alright, mostly... Subaru has to be the worse though. *shakes head*

Pretty much I was sorta like "How dose getting into a bathing suit suddenly make you more powerful?" When that happened.

Well, it'll be interesting to see more of Alan and Felix and their relationship...

If I get around to writing it this year...

Oh, yeah. *nodding* the StrikerS Nanos imply that Hayate's main consideration was cosplayer potential ^__^ And until the OFM expand in the future, they're being rather...discriminatory in their recruitment, in that only Erusians get recruited and only guys go to groundpounders and girls are air support, though that'll inevitably change as they slowly expand and grow over the years...

Yep just drawing form one planet is bound to use up the supply of viable candidates after awhile particularity one without a ton of magical history. Should be interesting to see how it evolves over time.

*thinks* You mean, like some companies are anti-armor specialists, some are pathfinders, that sorta thing?

Not quite that specialized more like they where grouped by their doctrine and operational objectives/skills, since it came up this is a rough outline of what I was thinking.

Spoiler for Ranger Company OOB:

1st Platoon
The Companies “Flying Section” 1st Platoon fulfils an Air Calvary is role and as such is assigned the best aerial mages. Its primary tasks are rapid assault, flanking, interdiction, and breakthrough operations. Though it can bring high firepower to a position quickly the platoon lacks in defensive or staying power and if unable to overpower a position quickly will find itself in trouble, it’s also a poor choice for defensive operations, though it can work well in disrupting enemy attacks on a unit better suited to that task. It’s often the first force into an area when a operation requires clearing an LZ to bring in additional troops and can be found at the fore front of most attacks.

2nd Platoon:
2nd Platoon is a balanced all around not as fast or firepower heavy as 1st Platoon, but not as slow and defensive oriented as 3rd. The 2nd Platoon fulfils a variety of roles depending on the mission but is most used as the main assault unit with the 1st Platoon is support, or to support the 3rd platoons lead in a defense. Aside from the Support platoon the 2nd platoon is the largest unit in the force boosting nearly 60 troopers.

3rd Platoon:
Charlie is the Companies Heavy Platoon it serves a base of fire and defensive unit and it tends to be stacked with mages specialized in high defense and firepower, but a tad on the slow side. Though all Ranger can flies the members of Charlie platoon do so rather poorly and can really only use these abilities to allow for slightly faster repositioning they’re rarely used in actual combat. Instead the members focus heavily on defense and direct firepower and are the go to force when you need someone to dig deep and hold a location, just don’t expect them to get out of that position and counter attack anytime this week after the enemy batters themselves bloody against them.

4th Platoon:
The Forth Platoon is the Companies support section something of a hodgepodge the 4th platoon is assigned most of the myriad specialist that might be needed but aren’t warranted as being organic to the other platoons in large numbers; it also handles heavy fire support. 4th platoon is oversized compared to the others numbering nearly 70 troopers to the other platoons 40 to 50 since it fulfils a large number of tasks this is warranted.

Forth platoon is normally subdivided into additional sections:
Fire Support Section:
This is a section made up completely of the fire support class troopers normally numbers about 24 men and is a large part of the platoon’s man power and the support they provide is one of the platoons most important functions.
Assault Section: Two full squads of heavy weapons troopstrained and equipped in all classes of weapons,often seconded in fireteams to the line platoons where their firepower is needed; although 1st platoon uses them somewhat sparingly since they aren’t the most agile of troops and tend to slow down the advance when teamed with that platoon, 3rd Platoon is the most common recipient with 2nd platoon sometimes using them heavily and other times rather lightly.
Medical Section:
This is a small squad of combat medics and a doctor the exact number varies with available personnel but normally it’s around 6 to 8 combat medics lead by a doctor, each of the other platoons also has a trained medic and an assistant, but this section contains the company’s best medical personnel. All this gives the company an unusually high ratio of fighting to medical personnel, but given it’s rather dangerous operations this has been showed to be warranted repeatedly.
Technical Section:
Rounding out the hodgepodge platoon is a pair of hodgepodge squads this section contains specialist in various non-combat specialties electronics, communications, scanning, barriers, etc

5th Platoon:
Also often called the Recon section and the like this “Platoon” numbers only two teams of 6 men though they’re some of the most versatile and powerful men in the company charged with in infiltration, recon, and deep strikes/sabotage this platoon is an elite within an elite none one lower then AA rank is a member and it boosts several S rank troopers.


Side note on the Fire Support troops:
Fire Support: Men specially trained in a rather unique form of bombardment magic, indirect bombardment. These troops specialize in delivering heavy fires at a distance without acutally being able to see their targets. They instead rely on forward deployed spotters to call in their fires. They use highly specialized devices to achieve this which renders them effectively immobile while emplace and operating they also lack pretty much any defensive or close in offensive magic making them very vulnerable if the enemy can close with them, (think an entire squad of Hayate’s) they’re normally kept as mobile as possible between salvos and assigned screen units for this reason.

Think magic mortar teams, which is basiclly what they’re meant to replace.

True. *grins*
Naomi: OMG did you just look up my skirt? DIE PERVERT!
Alan: Wait-
*BOOM*

It's really her own damn fault for wearing it to begin with.

Official documentation on model kits state that the Helldiver's arm gun is a 30mm single-barrel cannon with a 30-round mag, and cannot be changed by the Helldiver itself. Presumably (as with the Ingram), to reload in the field, the pilot must kneel the Helldiver, dismount, and change the mag manually.

See to me that seems awfully suspect I tend to rate anything written in a model kit with a huge grain of salt. It’s also just illogical and I’m pretty sure the series dosen’t support it, at the start of the first movie for instance I’m pretty sure we see helldiver fighting the rouge labor and unloading allot more automatic fire then that into them they basiclly pump so much fire into it looks like swiss cheese when they’re done.

*Grins* Oh, hell YES. ^__^ It kinda seems like you're turning the Helldivers into mini M9E Gernsbacks though, the way the upgrades are going...

an M9 is probably more of less what a Helldiver wants to be when it's balls drop so to a certain extent yeah they're becoming more like that, although at least at first they still won't be as agile as M9s, but they'll be significantly tougher and more heavily armed and they'll also come in a number of versions for different missions obviously.

anime aside, the M9s are 8 meters tall, same as the Helldivers... I assume the Helldivers will also have combat blades? (For some reason, I've always liked the chainsaw monomolecular cutters used by FMP Arm Slaves...)

They already had them in the anime, though melee combat will be somewhat deemphasized as while undeniably cool giant robots fighting each other with giant knives is getting a little too absurd for the level of realism I’m trying to maintain, it happens (because it is cool), but you won’t find units say built purely around melee combat or guys throwing away guns to try and melee the enemy the minute a named enemy appears (as often seems to occur in say Gundam).

That...is TOTALLY an understatement.

The really weird thing is that I was planning on something similar, with air carriers, some mecha, black ops... and variable fighters AS WELL. Though nothing like AOWA, I can say that much.

Great crack fueled minds think alike apparently, but I can go one better still some of those variable fighters had lambda drivers…

Though the girls are more like assassins, while the SPARTAN-IIIs are like Navy SEALs. Still, you're right, Super SOldier thing...

There is a difference but Spartan IIIs where also used to put down human rebels which likely involved assassination and recall the original primary mission of the Spartan IIs. While it ended up with them fighting the covenant mostly they still trained and conducted “policing” operations as well. Admittedly still of a somewhat more militant nature then what’s shown in GSG. Spartan 1s though seem to have been nearly exclusively this sort of political assassin though as shown in the radio plays.

there's some debate as to whether the girls can actually grow, or if they're locked into their current ages. Triela does have cramps and stuff.

No they definitely won't grow IMO the Manag covers like a year or so of time so far and none of them has shown the slightest change in appearance, but the most damning evidence that they also all look exactly the same in all the flashbacks.

In all fairness, deploy a platoon of Heinlein's MI, and man...*shakes head* ODSTs with SPARTAN-II-ish armor, a veritable FPS arsenal...

You forgot to mention that jump around so much it borders on flight and that one of those FPS weapons is a miniature nuke launcher.

I know what you mean... there's a Gundam SEED fanfic I'm supposed to be working on, but I've been spending more time with the OFM and the OC thread than my SEED fic...

Staying on topic when writing is hard...

*chuckles* So what do they do? Lock the devices in outdoor lockers? Getting ready for an emergency deployment might be a bit tough if you have to go and unlock a highly secure locker for your Device,

Perhaps I should say no activated devices in the house, or more properly apartment, land lords tend to look down on tenants making impromptu building renovations when they get into a spat… They have them on their persons, but they would only use them for official business just like a cop isn't going to randomly whip out his service weapon at home and start shooting at stuff that annoys them.

unless it's like some places where cops keep their carry pistol in their locker, and so have a backup gun for when they're off-duty...
how does weapons issue in the military work out? Rifle issued from the armory, use, then return it to the armory?

Depends in combat zones you aren’t even supposed to go the shitter without your personal weapon and you normally have it near at hand at all times... this picture kinda says it all:


In Garrison though yeah weapons are stored in a armory and checked in an out as needed.

The police, here at least, from what I gather use a different system they have service weapons (normally a full size high capacity semi-automatic pistol nowadays) which they are always allowed to carry both on and off duty and which they just bring home at the end of a shift like their uniform and body armor. (I see guys at school coming out carrying duffel backs with bullet proof vest hung over them and getting into there cars all the time for instance. This is since the same building that handles CRJ college courses also dose the actual police training for most of the county so they change in and out of uniform in it.) Stuff like shotguns and rifles though are stored at the armory in the station and checked in and out at the start and conclusion of a shift.

Devices don't really have a parallel in the modern world, but based on canon I think they’re treated allot like police service weapons, you cant carry them off duty, but unauthorized or improper use would be subject to harsh penalties.

While on this topic don't think independents would be exempt from this acutally they probably have more restrictions. Just like whipping out guns or carrying them in public is regulated heavy private devices likely are as well, if not more so. Since a device is effectively a deadly weapon I imgine most of them would need to be registered with the government, require a license, and using them in public would be a big deal and subject to significant legal scrutiny. If they're even allowed to have certain kinds, just like certain highly dangerous firearms or weapons are banned in real life certain types of devices or spells could also be effectively banned for civilian use, just something to think about. Sort of like "weapons violations" for the magically inclined...

Isn't Chisame also a net idol? She IS quite pretty with the glasses off...

Yep, but she largely dose it for the ego boost of having a bunch of gullible stupid fanboys fawning over her which makes me like her even more as I love it when stupid people get taken advantage off. ThoughI acutally prefer her with the glasses on and her hair up.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Actually, that was his entire point. To quote Jail: "If just one of them survives, I'll be revived. And in just one month, they'll be revived with my memories." Then afterwards he goes on about how it was a standard technollogy in the old Al Hazardian age.

Whatever the entire thing is fucking stupid I just thank the lord it never acutally happened and I hope it never ever comes up again as it really is like something out of a truly terrible comic book plot. You can so easily see some dink in purple spandex and cape and a ridiculous looking mask bragging to the heroes about this.

So its going to be the 'smile and accept' route then?

I rather prefer to think of it as you know… a normal adult relationship between mature individuals who acknowledge their feelings, but don’t feel the need to wallow in them constantly. The beatings and screaming in these various posts are for laughs I don’t intend to portray it as nearly that violent in serious pieces as frankly Vita isn’t that violent in canon.

Orks are fungus.

Yeah no shit I was disputing that growing out of dirt had anything to do with the problem so much as them being made up of the shit that ends up growing month old fruit. The method of growth isn’t the problem as noted stuff that smells good grows in dirt too it’s the end result that’s the problem…


I also have two days shooting time and budget whatsoever. I have to fork over everything myself.

I'm sorry... me, abusing it?

Trained reaction to anyone seeming to joyfully realizing they have some potentiality exploitable advantage... Trust no one, not even yourself.

Nerdiness, workaholics, sportsmen, writers, partygoers, teenagers... take your pick, I've got more.

Hmm I don't know about sportsmen or wrtiers honestly, and many workaholics I know actually keep very tight sleeping schedule, so they can be around when most of the work is... Teenagers are too big a group of coruse some of them have odd hours, but many don't, hardcore partiers though yeah they tend to be like vampires.

I see. Another intinuitive fighter, then.

It's kind of the easy out to explain how someone a little desne can manage not to get his butt kicked in a fight...

That's just... geez, its not so much how much you're throwing in, its what you're throwing in.

I don't know if you really look at you can see some patterns it's all modern day stuff, none of it is really powerful, allot of it isn't entirely serious in nature and it's all either hidden or largely self contained so it could exist without effecting the other stuff...

And Erio has a lightning affinity.

Yeah... not sure how you could miss that little fact really.

Where does excess energy go? It disperses. I don't see why mana should be any difference.

It's entirely possible that the core has a set capacity indeed that seems likely as a mage can get "worn out" over time. In that case once it tops off then any excesses is likely simply pissed away... (a terrible pun I know) basiclly just like if you eat or drink to much you'll either vomit or urinate allot. That said it seems unlikely that a core could bleed off an unlimited amount of excess energy, but what effect and "overload" would have is really hard to say. Further causing such an overload would likely involve so much mana that mages of equal rank couldn't hope to do it, in fact attempt to cause this would likely make the enemy stronger by basiclly refueling him so it seems of little importance anyway.

Differnt words, same meaning. Mana is a mallable energy, when converted into elemental energies, they become fire, or lightning, or ice etc. which are physical energies.

Plus the definition of "elemental" is debatable and cultural and ultimately in science terms meaningless as all energy is ultimately comes from the same fundamental process underlying the universe.

Care to point me to those changes? Because I'm not seeing them.

Now, I'm not saying that all mana is exactly equal (the fact that mana can have different collors pretty much negates that possibillity) however, I do think that the differences between each persons mana is neglectable at best.

I'd tend to agree mana/magical energy is really only mentioned as having one form how you use that energy can take vastly different shapes, but it's still the same stuff powering it. Like electricity it can run a washing machine, a light bulb, a stove, and your TV but despite the vastly different effects all of them are ultimately powered by the exact same source and that source is interchangeable between them for the most part.

Which once again is simple biology, and has nothing to do with mana whatsoever.

That's clearly not entirely true, the fact that diet can effect performance to some degree is canon, but we can't be sure how much or exactly how this works. Do only calories matter? Are some nutrients more important then others in the mages diet? (body builders binge on protein for instance, could some other chemical perhaps be important to mages?) Are some even detrimental? Etc, the fact that diet can effect magic performance at all opens up a vast array of questions that can't be so easily dismissed IMO. Normal psychical health sure as hell isn't as simple as "eat X number of calories a day"

Originally Posted by Keroko

My conciense is even showing when playing Mass Effect. I want to play a Renegade, but I keep collecting Paragon points too.

I gave up on being able to play an evil character along time ago I just can’t do it… Even in FPS and RTS this happens I make unreasonable efforts to keep NPCs alive (I've been known to restart Halo levels if a bunch of marines die...) and I won't use suicide units and or play races without a way to heal rather then just replace troops and if I can't disband them I'll just keep using garbage units instead of killing and replacing them.

[Aaron008R]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

Note: Again, this does not follow StrikerS or even OFM canon. It's just a what-if.

Spoiler for Hail to the Chief:

Impossible.

She was a Combat Cyborg, born and bred for warfare, capable of surpassing an S-ranked mage. Without using her full abilities, she and her sister had maintained the advantage in their short duel against Fate Testarossa Harlaown. And when Fate's young apprentice had tried to counterattack, she had been the one to strike him down, taking him out with no problems: one blow that had sent Erio Mondial crashing into the water.

Then he appeared.

His visage was a terrifying sight. A giant clad in bulky green armor, his face hidden by a reflective gold-tinted visor, he fell from the sky, slamming into her and falling down to the ground, knocking her weapons from her hands and grasping on to her. She gaspes as her breath was forced out of her lungs, too shocked to take a single gulp of air, her ribs hurting and bruised, as the green-clad man fell with her, before letting go and kicking her into the ground, landing on top of her, using her body to break his fall, leaping off her and pulling out a rifle device, attempting to fire... only for his Device to refuse to function, the AMF density too strong for him to use magic.

He must be weak, she thought. I still have a-

That was when he appeared before her again, kicking her up into the air, snatching her and slamming her to the ground, somehow dislocating her joints by the time her face hit the ground. She screamed involuntarily in pain, as he produced a set of physical restraints and tied her legs and hands together, before, and drawing a strange weapon and firing it into her legs; large spikes nailing her to the concrete. For the coup de grace he drew a pistol and fired it behind her knees, the explosive rounds shatterring her kneecaps, crippling her, and she screamed and wept in pain and fear and loss: Oh my legs i don't want to be crippled help me help me please stop someone help me-

Then a voice, cold and dangerous, spoke, chilling her to the core.

"Leave my sister alone."

"I can't do that," spoke the green-clad man. "Releasing a captured prisoner is against my duty."

"Then I'll just take her by force. Tell me who you are."

"I am Master Chief Sierra-117. You are ordered to drop your weapons and surrender, or I will kill you."

"So this is what the high and mighty TSAB has come to?" snarled Tre, and Sette felt fear in her heart as she heard the Master Chief...the Demon... speak.

"I'm not TSAB."

And with that, he lunged forward, faster than both Sette and Tre expected, of a man wearing such heavy armor, his elbow thrus driving the wind from Tre's lungs in an explosive "Ooof!", him throwing her over his shoulder to the ground, hard enough to actually form an impact crater.

"I am a SPARTAN."

"This is no man. It's a demon," whispered Sette, eyes wide and awake despite the pain.

This reminds me of Dream_Traveller's what-if scenarios. Nice!

Originally Posted by Tormenk

Such is the power of Backlog-tan, which has collectively grown to be Saya-chan now.

Save for future usage.

Remember folks that

[Denial] Chaos is a river in Egypt [/Denial]

Originally Posted by Keroko

At least I have the advantage of having a crappy educational system, which means that failing is actually hard. Though unfortunately, the drawback is that learning something is even harder.

I guess you can't just have 'em all...

Please do.

Let me call her.

My conciense is even showing when playing Mass Effect. I want to play a Renegade, but I keep collecting Paragon points too.

<Almaria phases in>

Almaria: Hello again! I knew Keroko-kun was a kind person.

Tesla: Do you have any idea how hard it is to get Keroko-chan to stop working and start sleeping? Last night was the first time she actually slept before 3 AM in weeks. And it took blackmail, threats and medical orders to get her to do so.

Talk about overworking...

Almaria: That's not good for her health!

At times, yes. Though I'm usually too lazy to follow them.

Tesla: I heard that!

Almaria: M-maybe Keroko-san's just kidding, Tesla-san... (unsure)

Everyone can whine about everything, but few are the ones actually happy with what they get.

True.

Just wait untill Chao apears.

Not my type, though. I like Mana better.

*twiddles thumbs with a halo above his head*

Originally Posted by Kyral

Hehe... Just some little "Dark Future" setting I thought about. xD

TSAB destroyed. Midchilda and it's people slaved by an ancient being from the beyond. Friends and heroes slain or fallen into darkness.
And only some small groups led by the Saint Church remain to fight the evil.

Talk about gruesome... But still an awesome concept!

Thats WIN

Thanks.

Bwahahahaha! XD

Elric: *nods* Yoroshiku

Very nice pic!

Almaria:

And don't let the stress take hold of yourself!
*gives Aaron a cold drink*

Thanks...

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

...Okay, this is geting bad enough where even I have to say - CUT IT OUT! STOP TORTURING PEOPLE (namely Aaron & Arcas) LIKE THIS!!

Like that's gonna work...

Arcas: I could say the same thing about YOU!

Grandis: <the other hand snakes around Hayate's waist.> Our situations are different, buddy. I'm her boyfriend, you're just a self-proclaimed wannabe brother figure.
Hayate: <fidgets while blushing, but still smiling>

Arcas: <engages Devices> Then WHAT am I supposed to call you?

Grandis: Something that doesn't show disrespect, siscon.
Tyrfing: <Activates>

Arcas: Loss? What loss? I haven't lost yet! I only lose when they get married! <freezes as image enters head> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My little Hayate's getting married!!

Everyone Else:

When was she yours to begin with?

Mel: You show him, Hayate! GIRLFRIEND POWER!!

Almaria: I remember doing those as well... When I was still alive...

Dear GOD, man! Go get some rest!

Not.... yet...

ALMARIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! <runs towards Prancing Pistol Princess, arms outstreched kinda like THIS>:

Almaria: KYAAA~! <phases out>

*Reiji ends up face-first on the floor from the attempted glomp.*

Almaria: <phases back behind me> Whew...

Me: Oi, OI! Don't forget, Almaria is extremely uncomfortable with physical contact. And it's a lot worse when it's YOU trying to glomp her! Stay back, le scum!

OH-HO~ Looks like it's up to me then to keep order!!

You? Keeping order? Keroko? Not happening.

Keep in mind, you're not immune to ME...

[O'Neil] What's your point?[/O'Neil]

<sighs> Good God, is EVERYONE in this thread like this?! I though I was shorting myself with just 6 hours of sleep a day...

Busy, busy, BUSY!

Originally Posted by Keroko

Hehehehe.... I started at 3 PM... it's now almost 1 AM.... nearly 10 hours of watching StrikerS, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching.....

Almaria: Oh dear, please rest now, Keroko-san!

Anyway, here it is. Keroko's StrikerS summary. Now excuse me while I go to sleep.

Spoiler for Nanoha StrikerS:

6 years have passed since the Yami no Sho incident. Keroko has been a successful instructor and leader of Rogue Squadron for six years now. The years of front-line service have hardened her skills, although not without their fare share of problems. When the four end up in the middle of a disaster at the airport, Keroko aid in the rescue of the people trapped inside the building. After the disaster, Hayate proposes the forming of a special unit, Keroko all too readily agrees with Nanoha and Fate that they won’t be left out of such a unit.

Four years later, the forming of the unit is entering its final stages. Keroko resigns as Commanding Officer of Rogue Squadron, giving the position to her second in command, Wes Janson. During the discussion of Subaru and Tiana’s transfer into the unit, Fate notes that aside from her giving advice, Tiana might benefit from training under Keroko. This startles Tiana, as she hadn’t heard that Keroko, whom she idolizes, would be transferring to this unit. Afterwards, Tiana stumbles upon Keroko, who was heading to meet with Fate and Nanoha. Tiana goes into an embarrased muttering fit, while Keroko notes that she knew they would meet again. Tiana notices that the badge of Rogue Squadron’s Commanding Officer on Keroko’s right arm that was formerly blue is now red, signifying her as a former Rogue. She asks if its true that Keroko has transferred to unit six, Keroko confirms it, and when Tiana asks why Keroko answers that a friend called for her help. She then says that she is looking forward to see how much Tiana has grown.

Keroko then meets up with Nanoha and Fate as they head of home. Nanoha looks up the files of Erio and Caro, Fate is a bit worried, but Keroko assures her that it will be fine, and that they will train them to be able to handle anything the future will throw at them.

The next day, after changing uniforms, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko go to meet with Hayate, who although happy that they are all here, wonders if Keroko is alright with this. Keroko in return assures Hayate that Rogue Squadron is now a fully operational unit, and that she is not really needed anymore.

After a short conversation with Griffith, the group goes to meet their new unit. After the meeting Keroko and Tesla head back inside the base together to gather intel on their enemies. They discuss the enemies possible motives, methods and where and how they may move next. Tesla notes how Keroko seems to be thinking more in advance these days, as opposed to her purely impulsive younger self. Keroko, slightly embarrassed by the compliment, notes that it was needed as the leader of a unit, and that it was mostly thanks to Tesla that she grew.

The following days are spend with Nanoha and Keroko training the forwards. Sometimes together, one or the other. On the day the forwards received their devices, it was Keroko’s turn to observe, summarize and log the training. After the alarm went of, signaling the arrival of a group of gadgets, the group jumped aboard the heli and set course for the berserk train. With the combined power of Nanoha, Fate and Keroko, air superiority is quickly gained.

After the first successful mission, the group returns to training. With Vita joining the fray, training starts to become more specialized. Keroko switches between trainees often, teaching Subaru the finer points of hand-to-hand combat, training Tia in mass-control and targeting and learning Erio and Caro how to recognize incoming threats and avoid them. After training Keroko joins Fate and Shari in anlalysing the remains of the Gadgets. When Fate discovers that the drones were created by Scaglietti, Shari asks Keroko if she has ever encountered him during her time in Rogue Squadron. Keroko answers that she has only heard of him, as Rogue Squadron usually send on larger scale missions, not missions to capture a single person. As they drive back to the headquarters, Fate tells them what they know of Scaglietti. Keroko notes that it isn’t much, to which Fate replies that it’s all they have. Keroko then returns that those kinds of people are usually the most dangerous.

When RF6’s next mission is to secure the auction in Hotel Augusta, Keroko joins Hayate, Fate and Nanoha inside the hotel. After the gadget’s attack, Nanoha and Keroko have a short conversation about who of them should go talk to Tiana. In the end, they decide that after Vita’s scolding, being scolded by her idol may do more harm then good, and Nanoha sets of to have a talk with Tiana. Keroko meanwhile goes to meet with Yuuno before she gets called to work again.

Later on, Vita asks whether something happened in Tiana’s past. The history of Tiana’s brother, and how he was labeled a failure, is told. Vita wonders if this isn’t exactly up Keroko’s alley, considering her experience with Rogue Squadron. But Keroko says that its not that simple, while its true that Rogue Squadron existed of mages that were considered useless by most, it was always those mages that were the ones that were scorned. Tiana fights to prove that her brother wasn’t useless. Fighting to prove yourself and fighting to prove a legacy are two different things. She concludes it by saying that in the end, Tiana should learn what could happen if she screws up at the wrong time. One way or another.

The next day, training ends with a 2-on-1 mock battle. While Keroko, Vita, Erio and Caro observe, Fate comes running. While they discuss Nanoha’s training techniques, Keroko remains silent, instead observing the battle bellow. As Subaru and Tiana begin to use dangerous maneuvers, Keroko mumbles that it’s as she thought. When Fate presses for details, Keroko tells them to keep watching. She also says that she hopes that Nanoha has the heart to do what needs to be done next.

In the end, Tiana was shot down and ended up in the infirmary. When the alarm went of, Tiana was there with the others, and after getting hit by Signum, Keroko tells Nanoha to get on board and deal with the situation on her side, she would handle this side.

When Subaru asks whether it is wrong to strive to become stronger your way, Keroko responds that there are times when it is. When pressed, Shari arrives and takes the forwards on a steamcourse through Nanoha’s past. Among the details, she also mentions Keroko’s incident with Lotte. Keroko then explains the details behind her physical situation, and the fact that Nanoha risked her life in getting her back.

Afterwards, Keroko joins Tiana at the shore, Tiana rhetorically asks whether all of this was true. Keroko confirms it, but also mentions that she herself is even worse then Nanoha. Tiana is surprised, and Keroko tells Tiana that she landed in the hospital for overdoing it at least 3 times. She also explains that the last time was the worst, and the worried faces of those she cared about made her realize that overdoing it for the good cause doesn’t always end well. Keroko asks Tiana what she is fighting for, and why she is so anxious to prove herself. Tiana answers truthfully that she wants to prove that her brother was not a failure. Keroko tells Tiana that she was fighting with a wrong goal. You can’t simply prove something like that while fighting for a legacy. Trying to become someone you’re not is impossible. She should stop trying to fight for her brother, and start fighting for herself. Tiana protests that she doesn’t want her brother to be seen as a failure by everyone, to which Keroko tells her he isn’t. Keroko explains the history behind Rogue Squadron, how those who were called failures became heroes. She tells Tiana that if her brother was alive, and people would still call him a failure, he would be flying in that Squadron right now. Keroko tells Tiana that she was never able to meet or train with her brother, and prove that he was a great mage, but now she has a chance to train with Tiana, and prove that she is a great mage. Tiana should become stronger as Tiana, not Lanster. Tiana apologizes for her behavior, to which Keroko says that she is not the one Tiana should be apologizing to. When Tiana questionly looks up, Keroko nudges her head to her side, where Nanoha is walking towards the two. Keroko leaves the two alone.

The next few days are spent training, though Tiana was still somewhat hesitant to fight for her own dreams. One evening while returning from training she asks Keroko whether she will be able to fly someday. Keroko promises her that she will on day learn to fly, and they will fly the sky together. Eventually it was decided that the test limiters of the forwards’ devices could be removed. The forwards were given the rest of the day off while the remaining members enjoyed a calm day standing by on HQ. As the subject shifted to Regius, Keroko comments that he was one of the greatest opposition to Rogue Squadron’s activities, stating that a unit of mages that have already showed to be unreliable should not be allowed such important tasks. Tesla then comments that keroko was lucky that Regius held no say over the Air Forces, to which Keroko agrees. Later on Nanoha, Keroko and Fate encounter Signum and Vita, who are about to head out to the TSAB. When Keroko asks about Tesla, Signum tells her that Tesla is already there, as they are discussing the logistics of the matter first.

When the forwards strike alarm and the group moves out, it doesn’t take long for the gadgets to arrive. While Nanoha and Fate have some difficulty against the drones mixed with illusions, Keroko fares slightly better. Her specialization in mass-targeting allows her to target every drone, which eliminates the need to differ between real unit and illusions. However, since she lacks range, she can’t cover the entire defensive line by herself. Fortunately, Hayate comes to the rescue and eliminates the gadgets with her long range artillery strikes.

Just when all seemed to be going well, an unknown enemy strikes at the heli. Nanoha manages to block, and Fate and Keroko pursue the new enemy. After a short but heavy chase, the two unknown enemies are pinned between Nanoha and Fate’s attacks. Unfortunately, they manage to escape.

The next day, after evading a certain amount of trouble with a certain young girl they picked up, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko head off to the Saint Church. Keroko, having met Carim before, was considerably more comfortable then Nanoha and Fate. Though that was easily settled, after which they continue to discuss Carim’s ability and the resulting prophesy. Later during the conversation, they come to discuss the situation of the TSAB defenses, and how Regius refuses to take the prophesy seriously and take measures. That was the true reason for forming RF6, as a last line of defense until help can arrive in case of trouble. Carim notes that while it is a dangerous and inglorious mission, she still asks for their help. Keroko states that she’s had worse then this, and Nanoha and Fate agree to help as well.

The next day, Keroko arrives home just in time to hear Subaru’s rather blunt suggestion to Vivio. After calming Vivio down and starting lunch, Vivio notes how much Keroko and Nanoha look alike. Nanoha says it’s natural, as they are sisters after all. Vivio asks if that makes Keroko her mama as well, to which Keroko jokingly says why not, never expecting to be taken seriously. Once the word was out, however, she was stuck with Vivio. Literally, as Vivio clung to her side.

Another day, another training. This time joined by Ginga. After a now ‘fair’ 5-vs-5 (depending on your point of view) forwards versus instructors match, Vivio arrived. After a bit of trouble with Vivio falling down, during which Keroko agreed with Nanoha rather then Fate, the group headed of for lunch. Later that night the four Aces were together discussing the latest part of the prophecy. They concluded that the chance that the headquarters would be attacked during the conference is great, unfortunately, only four people of RF6 could be allowed inside. Still, they would figure something out.

Seven days later, the conference is starting, and RF6 is departing. During patrol, the captains try to figure out why someone would try a terrorist attack on the TSAB. Nanoha theorizes that a weapons merchant may use it to show off; Vita says the risks are too great for such a thing, but Keroko states that she has seen madman try far more insane stunts then this.

As the attacks start, Nanoha thinks up a plan based on their old Ground Force Training Course. Keroko reacts in surprise when fate says that they haven’t used it since, and notes that Rogue Squadron uses these kind of tricks all the time on commando missions. When Nanoha explains that they have to meet up with the forwards as fast as possible, Keroko already has the fastest route.

After meeting up with the forwards, Keroko goes into the air in an effort to regain air superiority. She flies up high to get out of the AMF radius, and calls in Rogue Squadron. Though the AMF still messes with the transmission, Rogue Squadron’s home base, the dimensional ship Normandy, was close enough to receive the transmission, thanks to the actions of Wes, who stationed the ship close to Mid-Childa against orders.

With the Rogues quickly on the scene, and Keroko taking temporary command, they begin a desperate attempt to shoot the gadgets from the sky. But with the gadgets sheer numbers and Keroko still limited, the attempt becomes a slow one. In the end, they failed to clear the skies before Jail unfolded the next phase of his plan.

The day after the attack, Keroko feels an old anger resurfacing. Her anger at discovering what happened to Vivio spark the dormant powers inside of her, further increasing her rage. Knowing that she is about to seriously injure people if she doesn’t keep herself occupied, she throws herself into recovery work, pausing only to listen to Genya’s explanation of sentoukijin before throwing herself back into work again. Only when night falls does Keroko return, battered and dirty, only to find a distressed Nanoha crying on Fate’s shoulder. Keroko goes to support her sister, hugging her from behind and telling her that they will find Vivio at all costs. When Fate telepathically asks what happened to her, Keroko explains that she had to keep herself busy, otherwise she’d be blowing up whatever was close. Fate then thinks to herself that everyone must be feeling hurt after today.

The following day during the meeting, Hayate lays down the strategy. Keroko tells Hayate that Wes contacted her, and told her that Rogue Squadron is ready to move at even the slightest call. Hayate asks whether that won’t become a problem for the Rogues, to which Keroko answers that Rogue Squadron has always been a unit to give credit to their name.

The day progresses, the plans continue, but just as the key to everything begins to become clear, Jail initiates the next stage of his plan. Activating Ancient Belka’s most powerful weapon, the Cradle. As the scenes of Vivio linked to the throne of the ancient ship are transmitted, Keroko feels a resurge of hatred, and clenches her fist, digging her nails into her palms in a desperate attempt to retain some semblance of calm while glaring at the screen, hoping to kill Jail with just her eyes.

At the next meeting, a new plan is set in motion. Keroko joins Hayate, Vita and Nanoha in the attack on the Cradle. On route to the ship, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko have a small chat on Limit Breaks, and both sides emplore one another not to use them. Keroko, too, is asked not to use her Limit Break. After all, she had promised not to use Etherial Mode ever again.

As the first line comes into sight, Keroko loosens the reins she had placed to hold back her rage, and tears into the enemy drones. Now no longer limited and utilizing the fast Lancer Mode, the Ace of the Skies shows her title as wave after wave of gadgets are destroyed.

As soon as a group of mages puncture a hole in the Cradles outer hull, Vita, Nanoha and Keroko boarded the Cradle. With the entire area saturated with AMF, the battle to get further became a slow one. When the call came to split up, Vita told Keroko to stay with Nanoha. The two groups split up, and Keroko and Nanoha headed for the throne room. The two storm through the corridors, obliterating everything in their path. Even Dieci is defeated in a single shot.

As the two break into the throne room, they are greeted by Quattro, who proceeds to taunt them. As soon as her hand reaches for Vivio, however, neither Keroko nor Nanoha waste any time blasting her. Unfortunately, they hit an illusion, and the real Quattro simply proceeds with the taunting, throwing on another level as she tells them of Vivio’s true power, and transforms her into a more mature version to fight against.

This transformed Vivio proves to be a tough opponent. Though not impossible to take down, both Keroko and Nanoha are reluctant to go full out. Nanoha tells Keroko to seek out Quattro, and see if stopping her will return Vivio to normal. Keroko objects, not willing to let Nanoha fight alone, but Nanoha tells her that it’s the only way. Keroko’s instincts and experience with various ship layouts will help her find Quattro faster, and she can hold back Vivio longer then Keroko can. Keroko sighs in defeat, and the two sisters give eachother a last high five before Keroko heads off. Unknown to Quattro, Nanoha slipped a wide area search spell in Keroko’s hand during the high five.

Keroko heads off to find Quattro, but Quattro herself is not unprepared. Keroko’s instincts and experience quickly put her on the right track to Quattro, but as she starts to get close, Quattro activates one of the Cradle’s most powerful defensive platforms. A large magically powered defensive android. Keroko is quickly overpowered by this ancient defensive beast, whose armor seems almost impenetrable, and Quattro taunts her that she will never be able to save Vivio at this rate.

In retrospect, this was probably Quattro’s biggest mistake, as Keroko snaps. Filled with a rage she has not felt in a long time, Keroko activates Ethereal Mode. Suddenly, alarms go off all over Quattro’s dashboard, as the Cradle’s defensive systems warns that there is a powerful ‘Aspekt Magier’ detected. Quattro wonders what that means until she notices Keroko, whom now bears black wings, a device that now resembles a cross between a mace and an axe, and emits a lot of magic.

The defensive program tries to do its work, but the enraged Keroko disables its attacks one after the other, eventually disarming the thing, pinning it to the floor and firing an Ion Cannon Breaker at point-blank range. With the cameras disabled in the area, Quattro assumes that the idiot blew herself up. In reality, Keroko survived, though looking absolutely battered and beaten. She maintains her consciousness, however, saying that she’s not done yet, and continues towards Quattro.

Quattro meanwhile is enjoying the spectacle of Nanoha desperately trying to make a stand against Vivio until Keroko reaches Quattro. A twitch of panic shoots through her as Vita destroys the reactor, but she quickly reasserts herself and tries to get the repair systems to work. She is interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her, and turns around to see Keroko moving towards her. Keroko is badly battered, and certainly not in a condition to fight. Quattro realizes this, and asks Keroko how she plans to fight in that state. Keroko answers that fighting her was never part of the plan. When Quattro asks what she means, Keroko lifts one side of her coat, and a pink sphere of energy flies out. Realization shoots through Quattro as she figures out what happened. Carrying a Wide Area Search spellpart, Keroko effectively became a beacon for Nanoha to lock on to.

Quattro hopefully wonders how Nanoha is going to make it down here in time, before the scanners reveal Nanoha’s true intent. Her mind flashing back to the airport, Quattro realizes that Nanoha is going to blast through the walls. She desperately turns to Keroko, asking if she is crazy enough to fire when Keroko might get caught in the line of fire. Keroko simply smiles. Quattro tries to make one last desperate dash for the exit, but fails and the beam hits Quattro dead on. Keroko was smart enough to stay out of the blast radius, and as soon as Quattro falls unconscious, she leans back against the wall and slides down. As her eyes close, she finds herself wondering if she could get away with a little nap.

A loud thumping wakes her up quickly though, as she realizes people are still fighting. Climbing up through the hole created by Nanoha’s Divine Buster. Meanwhile above Nanoha and Vivio square off with tears in their eyes as Nanoha promises to save Vivio. As the two storm at eachother, Vivio throws a punch which Nanoha catches. However, unlike Nanoha, Vivio has another free hand. With her body acting on its own accord, Vivio can only watch in fright as her other fist charges with multi-color magical energy and launches for Nanoha’s face. A dull thump echoes, however, as the second fist is caught by a black gloved hand. Both Nanoha and Vivio stare in surprise as a battered Keroko catches the fist before it could reach its target. Black energy easily eats through the multi-colored energy. Keroko tells Vivio that she does not let family die, and Nanoha activates her bind. Keroko quickly makes her distance as Nanoha blasts the Relic out of Vivio’s body.

After a short reunion, alarms go off all over the ship. Hayate arrives just in time to become trapped in the high-density AMF. They quickly pick up Quattro –under some protest of Keroko- and prepare to leave, only for the automated repair system to cut of their escape. Keroko desperately tries to find a terminal of any kind, only to find out there are none. Fortunately, Tiana and Subaru come to their aid and they make it out all right.

After the incident, which is now called the Jail Scaglietti incident, the end of section 6 is in sight. With Hayate officially dispersing the unit, it comes down the one last mock battle, with no holds barred. After the mock battle, Vivio approaches Keroko. She tells them that she has learned that just because she is Nanoha’s sister, she’s not really Vivio’s mama. Keroko is pretty surprised and saddened that Vivio brought this up, but Vivio continues, saying that she still has some of the memories of her originals life. In that life someone who reminds her a lot of Keroko was like an older sister to her. So she asks Keroko

“You remind me of someone I used to call onee-chan… Is it allright if I call you onee-chan too?”

In the later months, Keroko found the freedom of movement that she gained when she gave up her command position to her liking, so one day she arrived not in her normal white uniform, but in the black Enforcers uniform. When asked by the others, Keroko simply replies that she still has a promise to keep to Tiana. Tiana realizes that she is talking about teaching her how to fly. Keroko now serves as an Enforcer, often traveling but also checking up on her family and friends more often. She has a habit of borrowing the Normandy when she needs a ride.

Nicely integrated! Sasuga Keroko-kun!

Finally complete, ne?

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Course I don't HAVE any dead loved ones so I'd probably be screwed...

Great grandparents?

I would but you're probably broke.

YOU KNEW?!?!?!?!?! @_@

Well that's good then, but why are you moping?

JUst remembering.

Good, good since you need to beware the cute ones they tend to be the most dangerous if you anger them.

Almaria:
Me: Don't mind us. -_-

Setsuna pwns, literally and figuratively.

Probably not much stronger though sicne he was so damn weak to begin with.

Gah!

@_@

I've actually been binging recently to stay awake longer due to all this work, not healthy indeed, but the semester is almost over then I'll get like a two week break.

Almaria: <worried look> You might get diabetes...

Me: Or just constantly high?

May as well since everyone loves her for some reason.

Yeah, she was an instant hit. And I'm not even sure of exactly why...

Blaming the victim, that's weak man, real weak...

I'm a victim too, y'know! @_@

*Fanboys everyone cry*

Almaria:

Originally Posted by Kagerou

Anyway some stupid trailer-thing I came up with for a fic that will see the light of day a long way from now, but thought I'd tease you guys with it.

Spoiler for Maho Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha Alpha:

(Two men stared out into space, their faces covered by shadows and strange masks. Their hunched-over forms watched the spiraling pearl of light known as Midchilda as it rested in its own little bubble of space.)

??? (Presumably the man on the left): We have endured much, you and I...

(A gloved hand rests on the other one's shoulder.)

???: But soon, a new order will begin! A new age! The Belkan Prophecies spoke of the city on the hill, and soon, that city will be a reality, and we shall be crowned its kings!

(Fade to black.)

??? (through radio static): Or better than kings... gods.

-

(Fate and Nanoha, 29 years old, walking together down a busy corridor.)

Nanoha: I'm tired of fighting.
Fate: But you can't run away from it.
Nanoha: I want to, though... I've had enough.

-

(Vivio Takamachi, 16 years old, smiles at her tutor.)

Vivio: You're really good at this, teacher!
Teana: Of course I am! Your mother taught me how to fight!

-

(Raining. A crying figure in the dark, on their knees.)

-

(Sunshine. Hayate and Signum are sitting at a cafe when a call interrupts them.)

Hayate: Who is it?
Chrono: I have some bad news...

-

(A laboratory. Erick and Aurion are sitting on a pair of seats. An open bottle of whiskey is between them.)

Erick: We're just old men now, Aurion. It's time to pass on the legacy.
Aurion: No... I still got some fight left in me.
Erick: Well there ain't no way I'm surrendering before you do!

-

(Rain. The kneeling figure winces at the flash of lightning. Her yellowed eyes narrow in pain.)

-

(A space ship. Glen and Emili are watching as members perform their drills.)

Glen: It begins...
Emili: What?
Glen: The true nature of Project ATX.

-

(Clouds. A familiar dragon swoops through the sky with a man riding atop. As it bursts through the cloudline, its revealed that the planet below is aflame.)

Erio: Oh no...

-

(The Saint Church. Kha and Carim are discussing some important details when they get a call.)

Carim: Hayate? What's wrong? Why are you crying?
Kha: ...No...

-

(Lightning flashes again. The figure, Subaru, looks down and pulls herself closer.)

Subaru: Help... me...

-

(Rain. The same place, but it's impossible to tell how much later. Only Subaru's quivering shoulders reveal that she's still alive.)

(Surrounding her, the worried and concerned faces of Hayate, Nanoha, and Fate.)

Subaru: Gomen ne... I tried... I tried to protect... and I couldn't! And now... and now...

(Collective tears fall to the ground.)

(The camera follows one as it hits the ground. When it goes, the camera pans up to reveal a broken warhammer sticking out of the ground.)

Subaru: And now... Vita-chan is...

-

(Deep in space, on some planet somewhere, red eyes open.)

???: I am the Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End. The First and the Last! It is time I take my place on the Throne of Heaven!

(Explosions.)

-

(Blackness.)

Voiceover: And ye, shall be as gods.

Witness the final war of the one they call the White Devil.

Maho Shoujo, Lyrical Nanoha... Alpha.
Break, shoot.

Cool! Except Aurion doesn't drink...
BUt still very cool. Poor Vita...



I'll be gone again.

Almaria: See you all later! <fades out>

[Kha]

Man, all that Almaria-ism gave me ideas for Linda to create a loli-clone using that hologram for herself.

Like Kia, the persocon seems to have it hots for Aurion.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Makes them look fat?

But add a cape... Hmm...

*saves*

Originally Posted by Keroko

Nuuuuu~! *runs around in a circle* Now I have to write the StrikerS summary of Kerokos bio pronto!!

Is this the reason to pull a Keroko-type overdrive?

Originally Posted by Nightengale

Where's Sette?

Sette: ~su.

*Tre wakes up from her dream*

Tre: What a nightmare. For a while there, I thought I heard Sette pulling a Wendi.

Sette: ~su.

USOOOOODAAAAAA!!!

Originally Posted by Nightengale

I mean, Subaru's ancestors from Genya's side must've been from the Sengoku/Meiji era or something.

Either that, or the REAL descendents of "Sun Goddess" Amaterasu. But if not I'll just keep that to the Eta's origins.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

*gulps down my pills*

Damnit, heal faster!

I'm in a deadlock at the moment...

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

Sticking to WoW isn't that bad of an idea.


Lightforge for the regulars/seasoned.

Soulforge for the Team-leaders/Veteran.

Righteous for the Shock-Troopers/Elite.

Judgement for the Captains.

Justicar for the Commanders.

Lightbringer for the Highlords.

*notes for looks and to fool around in the Dressing Room for ideas*

My guild's Pallies are gonna be so bothered.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Aurion: You just plainly called me one. <goes back to work>

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

With the CarymXKha ideas in the past...

Haha... It's still there, except its been reversed around. In AlterNADS, Carym wanted to help Hayate adjust to Church life, so sent Kha as her escort for a period. While it caused Hayate to come to admire Kha, Kha on the other hand...

...but he outgrew that stage 4 years later, to get shot down and be rescued by Fate.

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

ALMARIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!! <runs towards Prancing Pistol Princess, arms outstreched kinda like THIS>:

*Reiji runs smack into a red trunk-like column, which turns out to be a mech's leg*

Illya: What are you trying to do to my onee-chan? Basakaa?

Kamina picks Reiji up by the collar with Gurren's fingers.

Looks like someone's gonna find out what the "Manliest Servant In The Universe" is like.

Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito

KHA? Writing?


SOUND THE ALARM!!! THE APOCALYPSE HAS COME!!!


Seriously, though. It's all good - BUT WHERE IS MY CROSYS DAMMIT!!!

CrosyS got kicked into one of AlterNADS' short stories as in Rebuilt, Mai already has Arnie as a friend.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Hehehehe.... I started at 3 PM... it's now almost 1 AM.... nearly 10 hours of watching StrikerS, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching.....



Anyway, here it is. Keroko's StrikerS summary. Now excuse me while I go to sleep.

Spoiler for Nanoha StrikerS:

6 years have passed since the Yami no Sho incident. Keroko has been a successful instructor and leader of Rogue Squadron for six years now. The years of front-line service have hardened her skills, although not without their fare share of problems. When the four end up in the middle of a disaster at the airport, Keroko aid in the rescue of the people trapped inside the building. After the disaster, Hayate proposes the forming of a special unit, Keroko all too readily agrees with Nanoha and Fate that they won’t be left out of such a unit.

Four years later, the forming of the unit is entering its final stages. Keroko resigns as Commanding Officer of Rogue Squadron, giving the position to her second in command, Wes Janson. During the discussion of Subaru and Tiana’s transfer into the unit, Fate notes that aside from her giving advice, Tiana might benefit from training under Keroko. This startles Tiana, as she hadn’t heard that Keroko, whom she idolizes, would be transferring to this unit. Afterwards, Tiana stumbles upon Keroko, who was heading to meet with Fate and Nanoha. Tiana goes into an embarrased muttering fit, while Keroko notes that she knew they would meet again. Tiana notices that the badge of Rogue Squadron’s Commanding Officer on Keroko’s right arm that was formerly blue is now red, signifying her as a former Rogue. She asks if its true that Keroko has transferred to unit six, Keroko confirms it, and when Tiana asks why Keroko answers that a friend called for her help. She then says that she is looking forward to see how much Tiana has grown.

Keroko then meets up with Nanoha and Fate as they head of home. Nanoha looks up the files of Erio and Caro, Fate is a bit worried, but Keroko assures her that it will be fine, and that they will train them to be able to handle anything the future will throw at them.

The next day, after changing uniforms, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko go to meet with Hayate, who although happy that they are all here, wonders if Keroko is alright with this. Keroko in return assures Hayate that Rogue Squadron is now a fully operational unit, and that she is not really needed anymore.

After a short conversation with Griffith, the group goes to meet their new unit. After the meeting Keroko and Tesla head back inside the base together to gather intel on their enemies. They discuss the enemies possible motives, methods and where and how they may move next. Tesla notes how Keroko seems to be thinking more in advance these days, as opposed to her purely impulsive younger self. Keroko, slightly embarrassed by the compliment, notes that it was needed as the leader of a unit, and that it was mostly thanks to Tesla that she grew.

The following days are spend with Nanoha and Keroko training the forwards. Sometimes together, one or the other. On the day the forwards received their devices, it was Keroko’s turn to observe, summarize and log the training. After the alarm went of, signaling the arrival of a group of gadgets, the group jumped aboard the heli and set course for the berserk train. With the combined power of Nanoha, Fate and Keroko, air superiority is quickly gained.

After the first successful mission, the group returns to training. With Vita joining the fray, training starts to become more specialized. Keroko switches between trainees often, teaching Subaru the finer points of hand-to-hand combat, training Tia in mass-control and targeting and learning Erio and Caro how to recognize incoming threats and avoid them. After training Keroko joins Fate and Shari in anlalysing the remains of the Gadgets. When Fate discovers that the drones were created by Scaglietti, Shari asks Keroko if she has ever encountered him during her time in Rogue Squadron. Keroko answers that she has only heard of him, as Rogue Squadron usually send on larger scale missions, not missions to capture a single person. As they drive back to the headquarters, Fate tells them what they know of Scaglietti. Keroko notes that it isn’t much, to which Fate replies that it’s all they have. Keroko then returns that those kinds of people are usually the most dangerous.

When RF6’s next mission is to secure the auction in Hotel Augusta, Keroko joins Hayate, Fate and Nanoha inside the hotel. After the gadget’s attack, Nanoha and Keroko have a short conversation about who of them should go talk to Tiana. In the end, they decide that after Vita’s scolding, being scolded by her idol may do more harm then good, and Nanoha sets of to have a talk with Tiana. Keroko meanwhile goes to meet with Yuuno before she gets called to work again.

Later on, Vita asks whether something happened in Tiana’s past. The history of Tiana’s brother, and how he was labeled a failure, is told. Vita wonders if this isn’t exactly up Keroko’s alley, considering her experience with Rogue Squadron. But Keroko says that its not that simple, while its true that Rogue Squadron existed of mages that were considered useless by most, it was always those mages that were the ones that were scorned. Tiana fights to prove that her brother wasn’t useless. Fighting to prove yourself and fighting to prove a legacy are two different things. She concludes it by saying that in the end, Tiana should learn what could happen if she screws up at the wrong time. One way or another.

The next day, training ends with a 2-on-1 mock battle. While Keroko, Vita, Erio and Caro observe, Fate comes running. While they discuss Nanoha’s training techniques, Keroko remains silent, instead observing the battle bellow. As Subaru and Tiana begin to use dangerous maneuvers, Keroko mumbles that it’s as she thought. When Fate presses for details, Keroko tells them to keep watching. She also says that she hopes that Nanoha has the heart to do what needs to be done next.

In the end, Tiana was shot down and ended up in the infirmary. When the alarm went of, Tiana was there with the others, and after getting hit by Signum, Keroko tells Nanoha to get on board and deal with the situation on her side, she would handle this side.

When Subaru asks whether it is wrong to strive to become stronger your way, Keroko responds that there are times when it is. When pressed, Shari arrives and takes the forwards on a steamcourse through Nanoha’s past. Among the details, she also mentions Keroko’s incident with Lotte. Keroko then explains the details behind her physical situation, and the fact that Nanoha risked her life in getting her back.

Afterwards, Keroko joins Tiana at the shore, Tiana rhetorically asks whether all of this was true. Keroko confirms it, but also mentions that she herself is even worse then Nanoha. Tiana is surprised, and Keroko tells Tiana that she landed in the hospital for overdoing it at least 3 times. She also explains that the last time was the worst, and the worried faces of those she cared about made her realize that overdoing it for the good cause doesn’t always end well. Keroko asks Tiana what she is fighting for, and why she is so anxious to prove herself. Tiana answers truthfully that she wants to prove that her brother was not a failure. Keroko tells Tiana that she was fighting with a wrong goal. You can’t simply prove something like that while fighting for a legacy. Trying to become someone you’re not is impossible. She should stop trying to fight for her brother, and start fighting for herself. Tiana protests that she doesn’t want her brother to be seen as a failure by everyone, to which Keroko tells her he isn’t. Keroko explains the history behind Rogue Squadron, how those who were called failures became heroes. She tells Tiana that if her brother was alive, and people would still call him a failure, he would be flying in that Squadron right now. Keroko tells Tiana that she was never able to meet or train with her brother, and prove that he was a great mage, but now she has a chance to train with Tiana, and prove that she is a great mage. Tiana should become stronger as Tiana, not Lanster. Tiana apologizes for her behavior, to which Keroko says that she is not the one Tiana should be apologizing to. When Tiana questionly looks up, Keroko nudges her head to her side, where Nanoha is walking towards the two. Keroko leaves the two alone.

The next few days are spent training, though Tiana was still somewhat hesitant to fight for her own dreams. One evening while returning from training she asks Keroko whether she will be able to fly someday. Keroko promises her that she will on day learn to fly, and they will fly the sky together. Eventually it was decided that the test limiters of the forwards’ devices could be removed. The forwards were given the rest of the day off while the remaining members enjoyed a calm day standing by on HQ. As the subject shifted to Regius, Keroko comments that he was one of the greatest opposition to Rogue Squadron’s activities, stating that a unit of mages that have already showed to be unreliable should not be allowed such important tasks. Tesla then comments that keroko was lucky that Regius held no say over the Air Forces, to which Keroko agrees. Later on Nanoha, Keroko and Fate encounter Signum and Vita, who are about to head out to the TSAB. When Keroko asks about Tesla, Signum tells her that Tesla is already there, as they are discussing the logistics of the matter first.

When the forwards strike alarm and the group moves out, it doesn’t take long for the gadgets to arrive. While Nanoha and Fate have some difficulty against the drones mixed with illusions, Keroko fares slightly better. Her specialization in mass-targeting allows her to target every drone, which eliminates the need to differ between real unit and illusions. However, since she lacks range, she can’t cover the entire defensive line by herself. Fortunately, Hayate comes to the rescue and eliminates the gadgets with her long range artillery strikes.

Just when all seemed to be going well, an unknown enemy strikes at the heli. Nanoha manages to block, and Fate and Keroko pursue the new enemy. After a short but heavy chase, the two unknown enemies are pinned between Nanoha and Fate’s attacks. Unfortunately, they manage to escape.

The next day, after evading a certain amount of trouble with a certain young girl they picked up, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko head off to the Saint Church. Keroko, having met Carim before, was considerably more comfortable then Nanoha and Fate. Though that was easily settled, after which they continue to discuss Carim’s ability and the resulting prophesy. Later during the conversation, they come to discuss the situation of the TSAB defenses, and how Regius refuses to take the prophesy seriously and take measures. That was the true reason for forming RF6, as a last line of defense until help can arrive in case of trouble. Carim notes that while it is a dangerous and inglorious mission, she still asks for their help. Keroko states that she’s had worse then this, and Nanoha and Fate agree to help as well.

The next day, Keroko arrives home just in time to hear Subaru’s rather blunt suggestion to Vivio. After calming Vivio down and starting lunch, Vivio notes how much Keroko and Nanoha look alike. Nanoha says it’s natural, as they are sisters after all. Vivio asks if that makes Keroko her mama as well, to which Keroko jokingly says why not, never expecting to be taken seriously. Once the word was out, however, she was stuck with Vivio. Literally, as Vivio clung to her side.

Another day, another training. This time joined by Ginga. After a now ‘fair’ 5-vs-5 (depending on your point of view) forwards versus instructors match, Vivio arrived. After a bit of trouble with Vivio falling down, during which Keroko agreed with Nanoha rather then Fate, the group headed of for lunch. Later that night the four Aces were together discussing the latest part of the prophecy. They concluded that the chance that the headquarters would be attacked during the conference is great, unfortunately, only four people of RF6 could be allowed inside. Still, they would figure something out.

Seven days later, the conference is starting, and RF6 is departing. During patrol, the captains try to figure out why someone would try a terrorist attack on the TSAB. Nanoha theorizes that a weapons merchant may use it to show off; Vita says the risks are too great for such a thing, but Keroko states that she has seen madman try far more insane stunts then this.

As the attacks start, Nanoha thinks up a plan based on their old Ground Force Training Course. Keroko reacts in surprise when fate says that they haven’t used it since, and notes that Rogue Squadron uses these kind of tricks all the time on commando missions. When Nanoha explains that they have to meet up with the forwards as fast as possible, Keroko already has the fastest route.

After meeting up with the forwards, Keroko goes into the air in an effort to regain air superiority. She flies up high to get out of the AMF radius, and calls in Rogue Squadron. Though the AMF still messes with the transmission, Rogue Squadron’s home base, the dimensional ship Normandy, was close enough to receive the transmission, thanks to the actions of Wes, who stationed the ship close to Mid-Childa against orders.

With the Rogues quickly on the scene, and Keroko taking temporary command, they begin a desperate attempt to shoot the gadgets from the sky. But with the gadgets sheer numbers and Keroko still limited, the attempt becomes a slow one. In the end, they failed to clear the skies before Jail unfolded the next phase of his plan.

The day after the attack, Keroko feels an old anger resurfacing. Her anger at discovering what happened to Vivio spark the dormant powers inside of her, further increasing her rage. Knowing that she is about to seriously injure people if she doesn’t keep herself occupied, she throws herself into recovery work, pausing only to listen to Genya’s explanation of sentoukijin before throwing herself back into work again. Only when night falls does Keroko return, battered and dirty, only to find a distressed Nanoha crying on Fate’s shoulder. Keroko goes to support her sister, hugging her from behind and telling her that they will find Vivio at all costs. When Fate telepathically asks what happened to her, Keroko explains that she had to keep herself busy, otherwise she’d be blowing up whatever was close. Fate then thinks to herself that everyone must be feeling hurt after today.

The following day during the meeting, Hayate lays down the strategy. Keroko tells Hayate that Wes contacted her, and told her that Rogue Squadron is ready to move at even the slightest call. Hayate asks whether that won’t become a problem for the Rogues, to which Keroko answers that Rogue Squadron has always been a unit to give credit to their name.

The day progresses, the plans continue, but just as the key to everything begins to become clear, Jail initiates the next stage of his plan. Activating Ancient Belka’s most powerful weapon, the Cradle. As the scenes of Vivio linked to the throne of the ancient ship are transmitted, Keroko feels a resurge of hatred, and clenches her fist, digging her nails into her palms in a desperate attempt to retain some semblance of calm while glaring at the screen, hoping to kill Jail with just her eyes.

At the next meeting, a new plan is set in motion. Keroko joins Hayate, Vita and Nanoha in the attack on the Cradle. On route to the ship, Nanoha, Fate and Keroko have a small chat on Limit Breaks, and both sides emplore one another not to use them. Keroko, too, is asked not to use her Limit Break. After all, she had promised not to use Etherial Mode ever again.

As the first line comes into sight, Keroko loosens the reins she had placed to hold back her rage, and tears into the enemy drones. Now no longer limited and utilizing the fast Lancer Mode, the Ace of the Skies shows her title as wave after wave of gadgets are destroyed.

As soon as a group of mages puncture a hole in the Cradles outer hull, Vita, Nanoha and Keroko boarded the Cradle. With the entire area saturated with AMF, the battle to get further became a slow one. When the call came to split up, Vita told Keroko to stay with Nanoha. The two groups split up, and Keroko and Nanoha headed for the throne room. The two storm through the corridors, obliterating everything in their path. Even Dieci is defeated in a single shot.

As the two break into the throne room, they are greeted by Quattro, who proceeds to taunt them. As soon as her hand reaches for Vivio, however, neither Keroko nor Nanoha waste any time blasting her. Unfortunately, they hit an illusion, and the real Quattro simply proceeds with the taunting, throwing on another level as she tells them of Vivio’s true power, and transforms her into a more mature version to fight against.

This transformed Vivio proves to be a tough opponent. Though not impossible to take down, both Keroko and Nanoha are reluctant to go full out. Nanoha tells Keroko to seek out Quattro, and see if stopping her will return Vivio to normal. Keroko objects, not willing to let Nanoha fight alone, but Nanoha tells her that it’s the only way. Keroko’s instincts and experience with various ship layouts will help her find Quattro faster, and she can hold back Vivio longer then Keroko can. Keroko sighs in defeat, and the two sisters give eachother a last high five before Keroko heads off. Unknown to Quattro, Nanoha slipped a wide area search spell in Keroko’s hand during the high five.

Keroko heads off to find Quattro, but Quattro herself is not unprepared. Keroko’s instincts and experience quickly put her on the right track to Quattro, but as she starts to get close, Quattro activates one of the Cradle’s most powerful defensive platforms. A large magically powered defensive android. Keroko is quickly overpowered by this ancient defensive beast, whose armor seems almost impenetrable, and Quattro taunts her that she will never be able to save Vivio at this rate.

In retrospect, this was probably Quattro’s biggest mistake, as Keroko snaps. Filled with a rage she has not felt in a long time, Keroko activates Ethereal Mode. Suddenly, alarms go off all over Quattro’s dashboard, as the Cradle’s defensive systems warns that there is a powerful ‘Aspekt Magier’ detected. Quattro wonders what that means until she notices Keroko, whom now bears black wings, a device that now resembles a cross between a mace and an axe, and emits a lot of magic.

The defensive program tries to do its work, but the enraged Keroko disables its attacks one after the other, eventually disarming the thing, pinning it to the floor and firing an Ion Cannon Breaker at point-blank range. With the cameras disabled in the area, Quattro assumes that the idiot blew herself up. In reality, Keroko survived, though looking absolutely battered and beaten. She maintains her consciousness, however, saying that she’s not done yet, and continues towards Quattro.

Quattro meanwhile is enjoying the spectacle of Nanoha desperately trying to make a stand against Vivio until Keroko reaches Quattro. A twitch of panic shoots through her as Vita destroys the reactor, but she quickly reasserts herself and tries to get the repair systems to work. She is interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her, and turns around to see Keroko moving towards her. Keroko is badly battered, and certainly not in a condition to fight. Quattro realizes this, and asks Keroko how she plans to fight in that state. Keroko answers that fighting her was never part of the plan. When Quattro asks what she means, Keroko lifts one side of her coat, and a pink sphere of energy flies out. Realization shoots through Quattro as she figures out what happened. Carrying a Wide Area Search spellpart, Keroko effectively became a beacon for Nanoha to lock on to.

Quattro hopefully wonders how Nanoha is going to make it down here in time, before the scanners reveal Nanoha’s true intent. Her mind flashing back to the airport, Quattro realizes that Nanoha is going to blast through the walls. She desperately turns to Keroko, asking if she is crazy enough to fire when Keroko might get caught in the line of fire. Keroko simply smiles. Quattro tries to make one last desperate dash for the exit, but fails and the beam hits Quattro dead on. Keroko was smart enough to stay out of the blast radius, and as soon as Quattro falls unconscious, she leans back against the wall and slides down. As her eyes close, she finds herself wondering if she could get away with a little nap.

A loud thumping wakes her up quickly though, as she realizes people are still fighting. Climbing up through the hole created by Nanoha’s Divine Buster. Meanwhile above Nanoha and Vivio square off with tears in their eyes as Nanoha promises to save Vivio. As the two storm at eachother, Vivio throws a punch which Nanoha catches. However, unlike Nanoha, Vivio has another free hand. With her body acting on its own accord, Vivio can only watch in fright as her other fist charges with multi-color magical energy and launches for Nanoha’s face. A dull thump echoes, however, as the second fist is caught by a black gloved hand. Both Nanoha and Vivio stare in surprise as a battered Keroko catches the fist before it could reach its target. Black energy easily eats through the multi-colored energy. Keroko tells Vivio that she does not let family die, and Nanoha activates her bind. Keroko quickly makes her distance as Nanoha blasts the Relic out of Vivio’s body.

After a short reunion, alarms go off all over the ship. Hayate arrives just in time to become trapped in the high-density AMF. They quickly pick up Quattro –under some protest of Keroko- and prepare to leave, only for the automated repair system to cut of their escape. Keroko desperately tries to find a terminal of any kind, only to find out there are none. Fortunately, Tiana and Subaru come to their aid and they make it out all right.

After the incident, which is now called the Jail Scaglietti incident, the end of section 6 is in sight. With Hayate officially dispersing the unit, it comes down the one last mock battle, with no holds barred. After the mock battle, Vivio approaches Keroko. She tells them that she has learned that just because she is Nanoha’s sister, she’s not really Vivio’s mama. Keroko is pretty surprised and saddened that Vivio brought this up, but Vivio continues, saying that she still has some of the memories of her originals life. In that life someone who reminds her a lot of Keroko was like an older sister to her. So she asks Keroko

“You remind me of someone I used to call onee-chan… Is it allright if I call you onee-chan too?”

In the later months, Keroko found the freedom of movement that she gained when she gave up her command position to her liking, so one day she arrived not in her normal white uniform, but in the black Enforcers uniform. When asked by the others, Keroko simply replies that she still has a promise to keep to Tiana. Tiana realizes that she is talking about teaching her how to fly. Keroko now serves as an Enforcer, often traveling but also checking up on her family and friends more often. She has a habit of borrowing the Normandy when she needs a ride.

Ooooh!

Looks like I'm a little off here about the Teana/Keroko. Will make the changes. And kudos for that piece on turning Teana around! I was working on some Artei-oni-chan powaa, but this is better!

*memorizes for the lack of data storage*

Oh and thanks to that photocrack you submitted, I've got enough crack ideas regarding how Sophia's tsun rubbed off of her, now with this, I can finally marry all of canon's facts with this! :3

So in a way, Kha's and Sophia's kid is Teana, even though they'd be like only 12 when Artei introduced Teana to them. Also explain's Kha's "experience" at handling kids.

~~~New intelligence flew discovered~~~

When was Riot 6's graduation? Was it in Spring 0076, which would be January? Or was it in July? This affects Teresa's DOB, as well as the circumstances of Kha's engagement.

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Statistics:

Super Lyrical Wars Alpha (AU)

When Riot 6 and OCs failed to seal the Cradle in time, Jail activates it... but to their surprise, the Cradle just hypers into another dimension! Stranded on a planet called El Hazard, and with no clues to work on other than the words of Dimensional Witch Yuuko and a Mokona, the girls and handful of guys start on a crossover adventure that would take them to meet many other magical girls!

Witness the birth of the Alpha Numbers once more!

Completion: Chapter 1 - 2000 words

Seven Swords

A space epic about the 7 pre-TSAB races that controled Ordered Space.

Completion: 500 words. Brain jammed.

Rebuilt of StrikerS: A Crack News Network production

Completion: ~23,000 words in 4 chapters + 1st Opening theme. Still filling in the blanks, but up to the First Sortie.

AlterNADS

A prequel to Rebuilt of StrikerS, rewriting the past to add ocs into it.

Completion: 0 words. Left just a title because the structure is being debated.

The League of Original Gentlemen: CrosyS
The League of Original Gentlemen: I-n'S
The League of Original Gentlemen: A-rin'S

Storyboarding completed.

Belka 00

Stalled.

New Belka Chronicles: Strike Lightning

Will be trimmed from RoS as the early pieces are rather similar.

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Ow my head.

[Nightengale]

Originally Posted by Kha

~~~New intelligence flew discovered~~~

When was Riot 6's graduation? Was it in Spring 0076, which would be January? Or was it in July? This affects Teresa's DOB, as well as the circumstances of Kha's engagement.

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For anyone who cares, I've FINALLY updated the official timeline. Nothing none of you don't really know, but there's some new stuff apparently, like Hayate's year of Career Course completion and stuff.

And RF6's graduation is on the 28th of April, MC076.

Originally Posted by Kha

AlterNADS

A prequel to Rebuilt of StrikerS, rewriting the past to add ocs into it.

Completion: 0 words. Left just a title because the structure is being debated.

So, it's kinda like A's to StrikerS, but slightly rebuilt and focusing in OCs and stuff?

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Good, good since you need to beware the cute ones they tend to be the most dangerous if you anger them.

Ph34r t3h cute ones.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Setsuna pwns, literally and figuratively.

And yet, for some reason Stusuna fails to score high on my character list.

I was mrely enforcing that point with personal experience.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

May as well since everyone loves her for some reason.

[jab]someone without a romantic bone wouldn't understand[/jab]

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Probably because he's so busy warding the Pervs off his creations he doesn't have time to do it to anyone else.

Among one of the reasons. Plus, the enemy of my enemy is my friend after all.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

As mentioned pretty much all my OCs are all sadly like me in putting things off to the last minute then scrambling to finish them...

Tesla: That sound like someone I know...

Keroko and Syn: -Giku-

Originally Posted by Tk3997

She has the excuse that she also represents earth… (why not call her Sailor Earth then? Well Moon sounded cooler, duh.) Plus the moon is also acutally bigger then Pluto, by nearly five times in mass and three in volume, which ought to tell you something about why it’s no longer called a planet.

Actually, Mamoru is the 'prince of the earth' (calling him Sailor Earth is just... wrong) so Sailor Moon has no such excuse.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

I personally don't consider the linker core to be anything more then an (admittedly complex) organ I don't think it's like a soul or anything so at best "transplanting" one would just give the recipients the magical potential of it's former owner not somehow make them that person or something. That's my view at least.

Concidering people can live fine without Linker Cores, its pretty much official that it doesn't have any critical systems, so I can't see why they would carry personallity.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

How so? She's a glasses wearing snarkey computer nerd with an obsession for some rather nerdy things she tends to keep secret... (I don't like to advertise my interest in things like Sci-fi and anime in public)

I do. Makes it easier to find good friends.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

...
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I don't get it

I'll simplify it:

Chao. Is. Awesome.

Better?

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

"Ha! Jeremy's porn stash!"

""

"Hey what's this? Scat?"

*Mouse over to the folder*

"Wait a minute, 'Scat'... OH SHI-! DON'T!"

*Click*

*I Quickly look away*

*1 second later*

"ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



I swear to you, true story...

Ouch. Poor guy.

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Too lazy to do all these replies .

@Keroko: Hang in there!! You can do it!!

Originally Posted by Evangelion Xgouki

Oh, and
[Trade] LF someone to edit a pic for my OC.

Present.

Originally Posted by USB500

Need more of Vivio/Keroko moments >_____<

Give me some time. Now that the rough storyline is there, working out the details should be relatively easy.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Which is why I don't complain much plus at least it's pretty bulky and covering so it's not total fan service nonsense. Fate's early jackets just made my roll my eyes I never minded Nanoha's much. Hayate's is in the middle, better then Fate early ones, but worse then her latest.

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

I went *headdesk* at Fate's new Sonic Form. *headdesk* Seriously, she was more impressive in her badass longcoat and modified Class As. Hayate's is alright, mostly... Subaru has to be the worse though. *shakes head*

reminds me of all the Legion members that cried when Fate's new jacket was revealed. I remember looking around and going 'whats wrong with it? it looks awesome!'

Hell, when Sonic Form was brought back I was the one of the very few going 'Wow, amazing, she's wielding sword chucks! Go go fighter!' instead of oggling the Barrier Jacket.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Pretty much I was sorta like "How dose getting into a bathing suit suddenly make you more powerful?" When that happened.

*cough*barriers*cough*

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Trained reaction to anyone seeming to joyfully realizing they have some potentiality exploitable advantage... Trust no one, not even yourself.

Or someone realizing that he has someone's trust. (yeah, I'm a half-full person )

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Hmm I don't know about sportsmen or wrtiers honestly, and many workaholics I know actually keep very tight sleeping schedule, so they can be around when most of the work is... Teenagers are too big a group of coruse some of them have odd hours, but many don't, hardcore partiers though yeah they tend to be like vampires.

Sportsmen can overdo it while training, and writers... well, I can actually say from experience that they make late hours. Not just me *point up to the StrikerS summary* but my father wrote a book, my sisters are writing fics, and I have a few other relatives and friends who write as well, and they all make late hours when writing.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

It's entirely possible that the core has a set capacity indeed that seems likely as a mage can get "worn out" over time. In that case once it tops off then any excesses is likely simply pissed away... (a terrible pun I know) basiclly just like if you eat or drink to much you'll either vomit or urinate allot. That said it seems unlikely that a core could bleed off an unlimited amount of excess energy, but what effect and "overload" would have is really hard to say. Further causing such an overload would likely involve so much mana that mages of equal rank couldn't hope to do it, in fact attempt to cause this would likely make the enemy stronger by basiclly refueling him so it seems of little importance anyway.

I don't really buy the overload, though. Not unless its forced anyway, I mean, its hard to overload yourself on normal energy, and concidering mana is often compared to it, mana overloads should be equally hard to get.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Plus the definition of "elemental" is debatable and cultural and ultimately in science terms meaningless as all energy is ultimately comes from the same fundamental process underlying the universe.

I find it the easiest term to describe fire, lightning, ice etc. attacks.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

That's clearly not entirely true, the fact that diet can effect performance to some degree is canon, but we can't be sure how much or exactly how this works. Do only calories matter? Are some nutrients more important then others in the mages diet? (body builders binge on protein for instance, could some other chemical perhaps be important to mages?) Are some even detrimental? Etc, the fact that diet can effect magic performance at all opens up a vast array of questions that can't be so easily dismissed IMO. Normal psychical health sure as hell isn't as simple as "eat X number of calories a day"

Hmm, that's true. However, I was refering to someone with alergies to calories. That has nothing to do with magic, thats pure biology.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

I gave up on being able to play an evil character along time ago I just can’t do it… Even in FPS and RTS this happens I make unreasonable efforts to keep NPCs alive (I've been known to restart Halo levels if a bunch of marines die...) and I won't use suicide units and or play races without a way to heal rather then just replace troops and if I can't disband them I'll just keep using garbage units instead of killing and replacing them.

Mass Effect is really good at screwing you over, even when you're a good guy. At one time they actually make you choose between two members of your squad. One lives, the other dies. There is no way to save both of them. Fortunately the choise was between one character I like, and one I didn't like, so the choise was somewhat easier for me...

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

<Almaria phases in>

Almaria: Hello again! I knew Keroko-kun was a kind person.

Heh. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Talk about overworking...

Almaria: That's not good for her health!

Tesla: I know! And whats worse, she know that too, but she still keeps working!

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Almaria: M-maybe Keroko-san's just kidding, Tesla-san... (unsure)

Tesla: Well, he did finish the StrikerS summary before schedule I guess...

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Not my type, though. I like Mana better.

Pitty. Chao needs more support.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

You? Keeping order? Keroko? Not happening.

[O'Neil] What's your point?[/O'Neil]

Don't worry, I can handle Reji.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Almaria: Oh dear, please rest now, Keroko-san!

Yeah, rest sounds good. Unfortunately the accursed alarm clock had to ruin it. Oh well, school is boring enough anyway, maybe I can get some eye-shutter there.

Originally Posted by Aaron008R

Nicely integrated! Sasuga Keroko-kun!

Finally complete, ne?

Yes, one less mark on the list. I may need to Codex Keroko's bio like Kha did soon.

Originally Posted by Kha

Is this the reason to pull a Keroko-type overdrive?

Yup, and it looks like it was succesfull too.

Originally Posted by Kha

Ooooh!

Looks like I'm a little off here about the Teana/Keroko. Will make the changes. And kudos for that piece on turning Teana around! I was working on some Artei-oni-chan powaa, but this is better!

*memorizes for the lack of data storage*

To be honest, the Teana/Keroko piece was one of the hardest to write. I had to make sure I made it clear Keroko was involved in the matter, but I couldn't alter the happenings and make her replace Nanoha.

Another troublesome scene was the Cradle. At the time of writing, I still hadn't finalizes Keroko's Limit Break. After long mindbreaking, I almost kicked myself when I realized that I already had a Limit Break. Ethereal Mode has the same effects, and its just as powerfull, so reclasifying from a 'Full drive' to a 'Limit Break' was rather easy. I also felt I had to do one more thing in regards to Vivio, but many ideas that played in my mind were just too much. When I watched the scene, I found myself wondering why Vivio didn't simply use her other fist, and thatw as the solution.

Originally Posted by Kha

Oh and thanks to that photocrack you submitted, I've got enough crack ideas regarding how Sophia's tsun rubbed off of her, now with this, I can finally marry all of canon's facts with this! :3

So in a way, Kha's and Sophia's kid is Teana, even though they'd be like only 12 when Artei introduced Teana to them. Also explain's Kha's "experience" at handling kids.

Oi oi, please tell me you didn't take that too seriously.

Originally Posted by Nightengale

So, it's kinda like A's to StrikerS, but slightly rebuilt and focusing in OCs and stuff?

Which reminds me, I have to look at the 10 year gap too...

[FlameSparkZ]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Hehehehe.... I started at 3 PM... it's now almost 1 AM.... nearly 10 hours of watching StrikerS, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching, writing, rewatching, writing, watching, correcting, writing, watching.....



Anyway, here it is. Keroko's StrikerS summary. Now excuse me while I go to sleep.

Spoiler for Nanoha StrikerS:

*snip*

NAISU!!!
Very well fitted into canon

Originally Posted by Keroko

Ph34r t3h cute ones.

Heh, Megatokyo....it's been a long time since I've been there

...

Currently working on the drawing for the scene in part 3
It'll take a little while, but I'll post it soon
*goes back to work*