Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Character Creation and Discussion

[arkhangelsk]

Too busy for a full reply, so I'll have to pick. I'll do the command stuff first, then the rest later.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Hayate wasn't exactly rushing off to combat either I'd say it's pretty fucking clear that the TSAB considers the job of a commander to be to command not to run out and bust heads. Which is how it SHOULD be, but it makes placing high level mages in thsoe billets stupid to say the least.

I'll disagree here. The record's almost even - Ep5, 17 (the last much criticized) vs Ep 11-12 and Ep21-26. Ep7 is a wierd case where she forward deployed but neither commanded or fought. One should not underestimate the importance of the commander leading from the front, even in a world of electronic gadgetry.

Only if we asume that the TSAB promotion system must work like a modern miltary one hardly a given. It could be as simple as creating a another pipeline for mages that gives them increasing pay and benifts without putting them in postions where there skills are utterly wasted.

The warrant officer shunt? In the long run, it will create a disenfranchised class. Venting the elite mages into this path means they'll never advance to command (because according to you that's a waste of talent), which in turn means they'll never make general / admiral. When they realize that they don't get any representation up top even while being the TSAB's most important personnel ... how many will still be staying, even if you bribe them with cash?

Diffrecnes in skills and talents are a fact of life and the fact that most orgnazation can even vaugely treat people "fairly" is divreived from the fact that most people are frankly pretty smlair in cacpablites to start with.

That said when diffrecnes due exist they must to be considered. You might be able to hire a mentally ill or retarded person to work the counter at a fast food place, but he couldn't be the manager for instacne. Maybe you could work as a assitent in a laboratoy, but you'll never run it if you don't have a degree. At the same time no on in there right mind would hire a guy with a BA in bussiness and 10 years experience and have him wait tables!

He will, however, be the restaurant manager. He doesn't go out for day to day work - it is not necessary and we have to let the young waiters learn from their goofs. But if a tough customer comes in, then the manager is the one who goes out and placates him. Now, imagine if he doesn't have what it takes to do that, perhaps because he has not waited tables a single day in his life.

Are they really? How many civilian jobs can you think of where someone that can shot fireballs would be advantgous? Seriously IMO in the case of allot of mages the TSAB is one of the few places there skills can really get them ahead about the only other area is maybe private secuitry, but I'm sure there are WAY more applicants then jobs in that area

I don't know why you assume that a mage is some kind magical equivalent to an all-brawn and no-brain musclehead. Proper control of magic requires the use of mathematical equations and knowledge of physical laws, all in mental real time, as described in the manga. Thus, he's likely to be of higher than average intelligence.

It really is since they'll [I]still do more good giving 50% on the field then 100% behind a desk. And if it's just about money or the like then pay them more is that so complex? Prestige they already have anyway everyone in the TSAB clearly gives high level mages respect beyond what there rank would dictate.

Then, according to what you advocate, they place them under couch potato staff commanders that had not used a single spell or fought a single mage in their lives.

None of that experience is really useful in running a ship a army General couldn't just transfer over and run a carrier battle group. Hell they wouldn't even have a clue about the culture since this varies greatly between services.

False analogy. An Army General will have had no experience with any facet of his new job (excepting personnel management). A better analogy will be a naval aviator commanding a carrier or CVBG - which is IIRC the law in the US Navy, with the onboard mage unit substituting for the airwing. The Royal Navy doesn't force carrier captains to be aviators, but aviators can command destroyers and frigates. Both seem to be pretty happy, despite the new captains being sorely limited when it comes to seafaring experience.

Since a mage has many similarities to an aviator (higher than average intelligence, character from being sole master of an expensive and powerful piece of machinery ... etc), it stands to reason that if carrier aviators can make at least adequate captains, so can shipborne mages.

Again a knowledge that's useless to running a ship.

But very useful to running the mage unit, which is the most often used combat force on the ship. Raw intelligence will also help him gain the most vital facets of captaincy faster.

About the only real upside that said you also run across plenty of guys that get power and then act like douches with it so this is hardly a given.

I don't think anyone advocated giving a ship (or any command position) to someone like this, regardless of his lofty mage rank.

Debatable even if they respect what they've done in other areas trusting someone with little practical experience to run a warship effectively and fairly is something else all together. It goes back the general example if he's a decorated war hero the crew might respect him as a person, but that won't automatically transfer to respecting his orders or authority if he has no experience in this area and it will result in much harsher and quicker backlash if he makes any mistakes.

Now, why do you only think about the ship, and not the mages that are its primary combat force? Would the mages listen to a couch potato Captain, even if he's the best shiphandler in the Fleet?

This horseshit a captains specialization is being a generalist with a huge body of knowledge about the working of a naval vessel gained over decades of experience aboard them. Something no ammount of flying around blasting bad guys will provide a mage. Again by this moronic logic we could pluck a decorated Infnatry Colonel out Iraq give him command of a Guided Missile Destoryer and it would work great.

See above. In addition, it does not take that long to produce a Captain - back in the day of the diesel subs, many Captains even in peacetime were b/w 25-30. The Americans feel that these "decades of experience" can be compromised so much they keep sending off their officers to shore tours, joint staff tours ... etc.

In the end, what's important is what the Commander is supposed to be. You think his main specialty should be shiphandling. But a TSAB Vessel Commander's primary force is his mages. His ship is a battle-taxi, and may even be unarmed. Even if it is armed, the usage of armament already signifies the failure of the mission, with the only decision left being how big a failure it is.

Given this, where a Captain's primary orientation should be, and what he should hand down to the technical crew, is clear. While we've only seen two TSAB ships, both ships seem to support my position that the Captains should be good mages. Of course, the TSAB is hardly a tactical authority, but this time, IMO they do have the blessing of the very well regarded USN and RN.

You can also flip all this nonsense on it's head with the simple question of what is this ludicrously preferential treatment of high level mages telling the NORMAL troops (that still make up the vast majority of the force)? Work hard, stay on the straight and narrow, and someday you can be passed over a position you richly deserve so we can place a powerful novice in your place?:rolleyes

For one thing, there's the prestige of the mages, which we agree on. Nobody seriously objects to the idea that combat leaders be promoted a little faster than say a supply officer.

For another thing, does the "normal troop" truly "deserve" the position more than the powerful novice (relatively speaking)?

Sure, the normal trooper has more time in service. But this pretty much ends his short list of advantages. The novice not only has more magic power than him, but is probably also more highly intelligent, so his base qualities are already better.

Even in experience and accomplishments, unless you push novice to extremes, the novice is unlikely to lose. Being sent all over the TSAB as a reinforcement, he cuts more Lost Logia and criminals in a week than Normal Trooper does a year. So who's really better qualified as a veteran and a leader?

[Kha]

Originally Posted by Kagerou

A preview of Scene 3. Posted because of implications...

Spoiler for Yuunoko in the making?:

"I'm from Earth, Yuuno-kun," Keroko said as she stared at the weapons. "I don't have any stigmas against guns." She reached for a Battle Rifle and lifted it up to her uninjured shoulder, peering through the ACOG scope and focusing on Yuuno's head. "But then, I don't know how to use one."

"First off, don't point it at your allies," Yuuno laughed, gently lifting the gun upward and away from his head. "Here, you need to be in the proper stance. Spread your feet apart a little and get a firm base." Yuuno put his hands on Keroko's waist and pushed her feet slightly with his, widening her stance and lowering her center of gravity.

Keroko began to blush. Wh-when did he get s-so forward?

Reaching behind him, Yuuno opened his palm and sent forth a chain bind that stretched out and wrapped around an ammo magazine, pulling it back toward him. Grabbing the magazine, Yuuno reached around and placed it in Keroko's hand. "When you load a gun, make sure you have it pointed away from you," He instructed. With his hand guiding Keroko's, they pushed the magazine into the empty slot for it. "As soon as you turn off the safety, the gun puts a cartridge into the barrel. Now, unlike Devices, guns don't have IFF, so you can easily shoot an ally as an enemy... or yourself."

Keroko nodded, unconsciously leaning back into Yuuno. His grip on my hands is so tight... she mused, trying to force down her blush. And look at those muscles! When did he get so strong? My god, is this what it takes to get to me?

"Put on hand here, and another one on the pistol grip," Yuuno said, still guiding Keroko's hands. He paused briefly to push up his glasses. Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the target dummy that dropped down. "Turn the safety off here. Now take aim, use the scope if you need to." Keroko nodded and peered through the scope at the target, her breathing somewhat heavier from earlier. "Now squeeze - don't pull! - the trigger." Together, the two mages fired the Battle Rifle, sending a three round burst square into the target's "chest". "Good! Again."

Together, the two fired 12 3-round bursts at target dummies. Occasionally, they would swivel a bit to focus on another target, but their stance didn't change. Oddly, Keroko's shoulder didn't bother her during this practice, and only an odd warm feeling seemed to touch her heart. As the magazine emptied and dropped to the floor, Yuuno reloaded the rifle and the two resumed firing. Slowly, Keroko got used to the repetition of firing the gun, feeling comfortable in Yuuno's imporomptu embrace as they expended several clips of ammo firing at targets.

This is... odd. Keroko decided. I mean, there are weirder things to do with a friend, but firing a gun? And why am I blushing so much?!

I wonder if it's because sometimes, you feel lonely. A voice seemed to tell her.
...maybe. Keroko thought to herself.

Keroko blocked out the thoughts, continuing to fire the Battle Rifle. The truth was, she didn't need Yuuno's help with aiming down the sights at the now-moving targets... but she wasn't about to tell him. He was...

...warm.

Now that is just made of WIN and AWESOME! Dere-Keroko FTW, but Yuuno's the key in this piece.

And I feel sorry for Jun for being missing in action till now...

Eto... I wanted to do that for UBW KhaxKeroko, since Keroko loves tech and all, Kha's mode of attack would be through there since he has access to an armory of Belka-pattern Bolter devices...

[Wild Goose]

Posting on the run, cannot respond in full, will respond fully tomorrow if possible, posting using unfamillair comp and keyboard, laptop gone and probably will never see it again.

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

False analogy. An Army General will have had no experience with any facet of his new job (excepting personnel management). A better analogy will be a naval aviator commanding a carrier or CVBG - which is IIRC the law in the US Navy, with the onboard mage unit substituting for the airwing. The Royal Navy doesn't force carrier captains to be aviators, but aviators can command destroyers and frigates. Both seem to be pretty happy, despite the new captains being sorely limited when it comes to seafaring experience.

The point, however, is that in both instances the aviators are already members of the Navy. They know the Navy's institutional culture. They understand its zeitgeist. They won't be banging their heads on the differing zeitgeists.

(Tangent: Funny, you seem to have stopped mentioning Hayate bringing Earth zietgeist to teh TSAB. Any raeson why?)

Since a mage has many similarities to an aviator (higher than average intelligence, character from being sole master of an expensive and powerful piece of machinery ... etc), it stands to reason that if carrier aviators can make at least adequate captains, so can shipborne mages.

To be fair, the requirement that carrier captains be aviators was really put into place due to politics. The US navy's aviation community was worried about being shafted.

But very useful to running the mage unit, which is the most often used combat force on the ship. Raw intelligence will also help him gain the most vital facets of captaincy faster.

Now, why do you only think about the ship, and not the mages that are its primary combat force? Would the mages listen to a couch potato Captain, even if he's the best shiphandler in the Fleet?

They wouldn't like it, but they'd listen to him. It's called Chain of Command. So long as that commander is in the chain of command of the mages, they HAVE to listen to hi, zeitgeist notwithstanding. It's the same with a sub delivering SEALs to an AO; the SEALs may want the sub skipper to deploy them at one point, but it's his sub and he has the authority and rank to say "No, I will not deploy here, find somewhere else."

Besides, you're assuming that your couch potato Captain isn't willing to listen and take into consideration the needs of the mages, which does not jive with an example of, oh, say, General Tommy Franks, CINC CENTCOM, an artilleryman, ordering infantry and armor into Iraq, or special forces into Afghanistan. Franz was an artilleryman by trade and yet he understood the differing approaches needed for both theaters. Likewise General Anthony Zinni, his predecessor, or Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki who was an infantryman by trade and training... and yet commanded the 1st Cavalry Division.

See above. In addition, it does not take that long to produce a Captain - back in the day of the diesel subs, many Captains even in peacetime were b/w 25-30. The Americans feel that these "decades of experience" can be compromised so much they keep sending off their officers to shore tours, joint staff tours ... etc.

Back in the day of diesel subs was in the 30s, not now. Most sub captains today will be late 30s-mid-40s. Most captains today are about that level as well. Also, remember, the typical diesel sub skipper of the 1930s was either a Lieutenant or a Lieutenant Commander, who would typically be around that age of 25-30.

On shore tours: To take my RN Captain friend as an example, he started out as a communications officer, and when he finally got command, it was in charge of an ASW frigate - after a period of 20-odd years. This was in between shore tours (in fact he retired from a shore tour at a NATO billet).

The shore tours that the US subjects its officers to are intended to make them well-rounded in various aspects of the military life, such as paperwork, social skills - joint service billets, in particular, are intended to function as places where officers from the different services meet and share ideas and get a feel for how the other side lives. These shore tours are typically up to a year, no more, and they return to sea.

In the end, what's important is what the Commander is supposed to be. You think his main specialty should be shiphandling. But a TSAB Vessel Commander's primary force is his mages. His ship is a battle-taxi, and may even be unarmed. Even if it is armed, the usage of armament already signifies the failure of the mission, with the only decision left being how big a failure it is.

Given this, where a Captain's primary orientation should be, and what he should hand down to the technical crew, is clear. While we've only seen two TSAB ships, both ships seem to support my position that the Captains should be good mages. Of course, the TSAB is hardly a tactical authority, but this time, IMO they do have the blessing of the very well regarded USN and RN.

Just something i want to point out regarding ark's analogy of naval aviators: a carrier captain, even if he keeps up his flight certification, WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO DEPLOY IN COMBAT.

Why?

Because he's no longer a naval aviator. He may wear a pilot's wings, but his job is to manage and fight his carrier - that means evasive action, battlefield management, optimum positioning of the ship for flight ops, making sure that everything's running smoothly. When the shit hits the fan, that carrier Captain is more needed to run his ship than as another pilot.

In fact, it's not his job to manage the air wing at all, just to run the ship. Running the air wing is the Commander Air Group. It is the CAG who does the management of the fighters, tankers, and such. Thus in this instance we can have a captain who only concerns himself with the ship, while the senior mage onboard, filling the CAG role, organises things. The captain may order the air wing into battle, but it is the CAG who commands the mages in combat.

[Liingo]

Going to get to the longer posts a bit later.. Busy busy busy

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

To be fair to Triad, without them we won't be discussing this. Without Triad, we probably won't even have watched MGLN. For general purposes they are fine, it is just that you don't want to use them if you start getting into anything involving semantics, where the meaning of each word makes a difference.

Yeah, that was a bit harsh... Comment edited.

Originally Posted by Erio

Well, that was a nice 2-week break.

Knowing myself, I usually get burned out after doing anything for too long. Be it playing a game, reading, or even watching anime. So I usually have to change hobbies every once in a while. Lately, I've been doing a lot of gaming - I dont think I've watched any anime after rewatching Gurren Lagann with a few friends a few weeks ago.

Maybe I was getting burned out of the OC too... losing interest in discussing stuff over the internet was perhaps the leading factor, since at the same time I lost interest in reading what was being said... but the fact that I have not stopped dreaming about new additions to this world, and more importantly, the fact that I'm here again proves that I am still not burned out. Perhaps I just needed a small break.

Anyway, that was just a bit about the reason why I've been very inactive lately, not to mention that I went to the beach again for easter weekend.

So, what's new people?

Nothing much from me.. Good to see you're still alive and kicking

Originally Posted by Keroko

....
*cough* Many things happened. Alpha continued trudging on, Ghaz started his own continuation of StrikerS, Kha actually dropped crack!

He dropped crack momentarily... it's still alive and well.

Originally Posted by humbug23

Regarding that Enforcer thing, I had always been inclined to believe that it's more of a 'solo officer in the field sent to take care of things within a defined region for a particular incident.' He would have powers that allow him to not be required to report up the chain of command, and execute acts by his own judgment, both, of course, up to a certain reasonable extent. In a way, I can call it a one-man Rapid Deployment Force, so that would minimise time wastage in handling issues. And as is the nature of such forces, there is the possibility that he might not be able to handle it alone, but at least he can stave off some of the urgency before all the red tape which binds proper mobilisation can be cut.

I could live with this description.. As long as they're allowed to have additional support staff of their own (much like TK said below). As this will explain the extra OC's in the pipeline.. (although some of them can be scrapped if need be since they haven't been introduced properly). A little of bit of tweaking and things can go ahead.

Originally Posted by Fuyu no Sora

Basically, Enforcers are officers that have high skill and abilities to operate solo as a one-man force which can be called from all three corps?

'Cause if that's the case you just handed me a big problem concerning my character

You and me both..

Originally Posted by ghazghkull

Thanks for the look over :3 I didn't proofread it, so I'm not surprised that there were glaring errors, although...I'll fix up on the comment about Tiana's CC-skills later :3 I haven't seen StrikerS for a while, so I might be utterly wrong with that comment :3

Well I haven't touched Strikers since it's finished but you have to remember that Teana took on 3 Numbers by herself and won.. with a injury I might add

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Anyway to avoid a bunch of quotes about the Enforcer issue my thoughts are as follows.

First off these guy aren’t really doing things you normally associate with just a 2IC or something Fate was running around chasing criminals and appeared mainly to be doing high profile investigative work; often alone. This makes little sense if an “enforcer” is just some kind of glorified second in command. Translation goof or not IMO the show itself still supports Fate belonging to some sort of group that’s at least somewhat outside the normal TSAB military Triad.

Further still if that’s the case, and it is IMO, then these guys are still going to have to be organized and controlled which implies a controlling agency and thus a culture of some sort. Besides as I recall some sort of “Intelligence Branch” is canon and they aren’t seen on the Triad at all. In any case too many people in WAY to many fics and characters have referenced “Enforcers” to retcon it IMO (never mind that the “real” translation sucks).

While I myself might incorporate some of this “new” information I’m not going to bust my ass to adhere to a tiny aspect of canon bureaucracy in a story that’s already non-canon and mildly AU. Like Humbug for me Enforcers are “solo” operators, but only in the same sense as there be only being one “Sheriff” in a county. An Enforcer is appointed and is the only one to hold that title in a group, but he can have a staff (possibly a rather large one) that aids him. (Fate only seemed to have one glorified secretary, but Fate was also freakishly strong most probably have at least a small team to aid them). As Humbug said they do allot of stuff, but since there ability to cut red tape and deploy quickly is most important in combat and law enforcement tasks most of them tend to be focused on that.

Can't say I'll be too disapointed if this definition goes through.

[LoweGear]

Originally Posted by Kha

STARS-01
Genderbent of Nanoha


White Devil Never Looked This Cool.

Spoiler for Captain Nanoha Takamachi:

Nanoha Takamachi

Ever since he received Raising Heart from Yuuna, Nanoha has been in a dramatic ride of his life, far wilder than he has ever imagined. With the staff of destruction in one hand, and his unyielding courage in the other, he welcomed Keroro from the cold, woke Feito from his misguided quest, helped Hayate find his his way... Nothing touched by his pink beams of friendship ever came away the same.

When Kha-chan was first introduced to the group as Hayate's guard from the Church, she sparked Nanoha's interest as she was the first girl who wasn't lavishing him with gifts and love notes. However, the F4 soon discovered the reason behind Kha's permanent coldness, and in their own way, each Ace helped her find her heart once more.

An unfortunate accident that resulted in him being put out of action for almost a year mellowed his hot-blooded nature a little. After that, Nanoha took his lesson to his work and strives to spread the word of "doing your best while watching yourself" to all of his cadets. And his warmth and approachability won him many fans among cadets and colleagues alike.

In the year MC 0075, Nanoha is 19 years old and the primary Combat Instructor for the Lost Property Riot Force 6, a subsidarial experimental unit under Time-Space Administration Bureau's Special Management. The White Devil is also the commander of record for the "Stars" squad in the field. And Nanoha is a mild Psion, although a product of accident than evolution.

...

One can argue that Nanoha was originally a male in a female body... and in this case, it seems genderbending proved that right. No matter which gender, Nanoha manages to remain mostly the same!

Originally Posted by Kagerou

A preview of Scene 3. Posted because of implications...

Spoiler for Yuunoko in the making?:

"I'm from Earth, Yuuno-kun," Keroko said as she stared at the weapons. "I don't have any stigmas against guns." She reached for a Battle Rifle and lifted it up to her uninjured shoulder, peering through the ACOG scope and focusing on Yuuno's head. "But then, I don't know how to use one."

"First off, don't point it at your allies," Yuuno laughed, gently lifting the gun upward and away from his head. "Here, you need to be in the proper stance. Spread your feet apart a little and get a firm base." Yuuno put his hands on Keroko's waist and pushed her feet slightly with his, widening her stance and lowering her center of gravity.

Keroko began to blush. Wh-when did he get s-so forward?

Reaching behind him, Yuuno opened his palm and sent forth a chain bind that stretched out and wrapped around an ammo magazine, pulling it back toward him. Grabbing the magazine, Yuuno reached around and placed it in Keroko's hand. "When you load a gun, make sure you have it pointed away from you," He instructed. With his hand guiding Keroko's, they pushed the magazine into the empty slot for it. "As soon as you turn off the safety, the gun puts a cartridge into the barrel. Now, unlike Devices, guns don't have IFF, so you can easily shoot an ally as an enemy... or yourself."

Keroko nodded, unconsciously leaning back into Yuuno. His grip on my hands is so tight... she mused, trying to force down her blush. And look at those muscles! When did he get so strong? My god, is this what it takes to get to me?

"Put on hand here, and another one on the pistol grip," Yuuno said, still guiding Keroko's hands. He paused briefly to push up his glasses. Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the target dummy that dropped down. "Turn the safety off here. Now take aim, use the scope if you need to." Keroko nodded and peered through the scope at the target, her breathing somewhat heavier from earlier. "Now squeeze - don't pull! - the trigger." Together, the two mages fired the Battle Rifle, sending a three round burst square into the target's "chest". "Good! Again."

Together, the two fired 12 3-round bursts at target dummies. Occasionally, they would swivel a bit to focus on another target, but their stance didn't change. Oddly, Keroko's shoulder didn't bother her during this practice, and only an odd warm feeling seemed to touch her heart. As the magazine emptied and dropped to the floor, Yuuno reloaded the rifle and the two resumed firing. Slowly, Keroko got used to the repetition of firing the gun, feeling comfortable in Yuuno's imporomptu embrace as they expended several clips of ammo firing at targets.

This is... odd. Keroko decided. I mean, there are weirder things to do with a friend, but firing a gun? And why am I blushing so much?!

I wonder if it's because sometimes, you feel lonely. A voice seemed to tell her.
...maybe. Keroko thought to herself.

Keroko blocked out the thoughts, continuing to fire the Battle Rifle. The truth was, she didn't need Yuuno's help with aiming down the sights at the now-moving targets... but she wasn't about to tell him. He was...

...warm.

Yuuno pawns Keroko's heart for 500 gold
Yuuno is PIMPING

[USB500]

Originally Posted by Kha

STARS-01
Genderbent of Nanoha


White Devil Never Looked This Cool.

Spoiler for Captain Nanoha Takamachi:

Nanoha Takamachi

Ever since he received Raising Heart from Yuuna, Nanoha has been in a dramatic ride of his life, far wilder than he has ever imagined. With the staff of destruction in one hand, and his unyielding courage in the other, he welcomed Keroro from the cold, woke Feito from his misguided quest, helped Hayate find his his way... Nothing touched by his pink beams of friendship ever came away the same.

When Kha-chan was first introduced to the group as Hayate's guard from the Church, she sparked Nanoha's interest as she was the first girl who wasn't lavishing him with gifts and love notes. However, the F4 soon discovered the reason behind Kha's permanent coldness, and in their own way, each Ace helped her find her heart once more.

An unfortunate accident that resulted in him being put out of action for almost a year mellowed his hot-blooded nature a little. After that, Nanoha took his lesson to his work and strives to spread the word of "doing your best while watching yourself" to all of his cadets. And his warmth and approachability won him many fans among cadets and colleagues alike.

In the year MC 0075, Nanoha is 19 years old and the primary Combat Instructor for the Lost Property Riot Force 6, a subsidarial experimental unit under Time-Space Administration Bureau's Special Management. The White Devil is also the commander of record for the "Stars" squad in the field. And Nanoha is a mild Psion, although a product of accident than evolution.

...

Male or not, Nanoha is still and always is the White Demon. Also...

[vader]
The boyband is strong within this one.
[/vader]

*runs*

==============

Originally Posted by Kagerou

A preview of Scene 3. Posted because of implications...

Spoiler for Yuunoko in the making?:

"I'm from Earth, Yuuno-kun," Keroko said as she stared at the weapons. "I don't have any stigmas against guns." She reached for a Battle Rifle and lifted it up to her uninjured shoulder, peering through the ACOG scope and focusing on Yuuno's head. "But then, I don't know how to use one."

"First off, don't point it at your allies," Yuuno laughed, gently lifting the gun upward and away from his head. "Here, you need to be in the proper stance. Spread your feet apart a little and get a firm base." Yuuno put his hands on Keroko's waist and pushed her feet slightly with his, widening her stance and lowering her center of gravity.

Keroko began to blush. Wh-when did he get s-so forward?

Reaching behind him, Yuuno opened his palm and sent forth a chain bind that stretched out and wrapped around an ammo magazine, pulling it back toward him. Grabbing the magazine, Yuuno reached around and placed it in Keroko's hand. "When you load a gun, make sure you have it pointed away from you," He instructed. With his hand guiding Keroko's, they pushed the magazine into the empty slot for it. "As soon as you turn off the safety, the gun puts a cartridge into the barrel. Now, unlike Devices, guns don't have IFF, so you can easily shoot an ally as an enemy... or yourself."

Keroko nodded, unconsciously leaning back into Yuuno. His grip on my hands is so tight... she mused, trying to force down her blush. And look at those muscles! When did he get so strong? My god, is this what it takes to get to me?

"Put on hand here, and another one on the pistol grip," Yuuno said, still guiding Keroko's hands. He paused briefly to push up his glasses. Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the target dummy that dropped down. "Turn the safety off here. Now take aim, use the scope if you need to." Keroko nodded and peered through the scope at the target, her breathing somewhat heavier from earlier. "Now squeeze - don't pull! - the trigger." Together, the two mages fired the Battle Rifle, sending a three round burst square into the target's "chest". "Good! Again."

Together, the two fired 12 3-round bursts at target dummies. Occasionally, they would swivel a bit to focus on another target, but their stance didn't change. Oddly, Keroko's shoulder didn't bother her during this practice, and only an odd warm feeling seemed to touch her heart. As the magazine emptied and dropped to the floor, Yuuno reloaded the rifle and the two resumed firing. Slowly, Keroko got used to the repetition of firing the gun, feeling comfortable in Yuuno's imporomptu embrace as they expended several clips of ammo firing at targets.

This is... odd. Keroko decided. I mean, there are weirder things to do with a friend, but firing a gun? And why am I blushing so much?!

I wonder if it's because sometimes, you feel lonely. A voice seemed to tell her.
...maybe. Keroko thought to herself.

Keroko blocked out the thoughts, continuing to fire the Battle Rifle. The truth was, she didn't need Yuuno's help with aiming down the sights at the now-moving targets... but she wasn't about to tell him. He was...

...warm.

Yuuno finally shows the world he's still DA' MAN!!!!

[arkhangelsk]

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

Posting on the run, cannot respond in full, will respond fully tomorrow if possible, posting using unfamillair comp and keyboard, laptop gone and probably will never see it again.

My sympathies. Had that happen to me once (the laptop gone - in the confines of the university's computer room).

The point, however, is that in both instances the aviators are already members of the Navy. They know the Navy's institutional culture. They understand its zeitgeist. They won't be banging their heads on the differing zeitgeists.

Agreed. But why would the shipboard mages not share the "Sailing Force" zeitgeist?

(Tangent: Funny, you seem to have stopped mentioning Hayate bringing Earth zietgeist to teh TSAB. Any raeson why?)

Umm, that's relevant to our current discussion? Don't think I've given up that position, if that's what you are asking.

To be fair, the requirement that carrier captains be aviators was really put into place due to politics. The US navy's aviation community was worried about being shafted.

So it is. Without that, conservatism among the "brown shoes" (or is it "black" for surface?) may cause the idea to never see the light of day.

They wouldn't like it, but they'd listen to him. It's called Chain of Command. So long as that commander is in the chain of command of the mages, they HAVE to listen to hi, zeitgeist notwithstanding. It's the same with a sub delivering SEALs to an AO; the SEALs may want the sub skipper to deploy them at one point, but it's his sub and he has the authority and rank to say "No, I will not deploy here, find somewhere else."

Is this legalistic take on the problem a bit of an attempt to avoid the essence of the issue? Also, I'll suppose that the SEALs, having worked with the subs for so long, already have some kind of mutual respect to back up the legal stuff.

Besides, you're assuming that your couch potato Captain isn't willing to listen and take into consideration the needs of the mages, which does not jive with an example of, oh, say, General Tommy Franks, CINC CENTCOM, an artilleryman, ordering infantry and armor into Iraq, or special forces into Afghanistan.

Oh, wow. Franks manages to do what another Franks (Fred) did in 1991. For Afghanistan, after the Soviet 40th Army went into that h*llhole for ten years with both types, he makes a broad decision based on what they discovered the hard way.

Franz was an artilleryman by trade and yet he understood the differing approaches needed for both theaters. Likewise General Anthony Zinni, his predecessor, or Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki who was an infantryman by trade and training... and yet commanded the 1st Cavalry Division.

Umm, am I supposed to be impressed by an infantry commander commanding a division with 6 armored to 4 mech. inf battalions versus one with 5 of each?

In any case, artillery, infantry and cavalry are still part of the three "combat branches" of the US Army. Thanks to the combined arms dialectic, they should have very similar zeitgeists and worldview.

An example where it doesn't go so well is when Admiral Woodward, a submariner, took command of the Falklands liberation fleet. Because he doesn't know much about aviation, he basically gave it up to Hermes to control. While the overall results were satisfactory (they won, after all), it might have gone better.

At that time, the Invincible people were making their Harrier's avionics sing, while the Hermes people were not. But Hermes was flag, and Woodward had allowed Hermes ops staff to control the air battle, so the plans and instructions were written assuming the avionics on all the planes don't work reliably, and all of them were given the Authority Stamp of the admiral.

Had Woodward been an aviator, he would probably have handled the air battle more personally and might have had a more balanced assessment of the avionics than Hermes staff (which understandably favored their own aircrew's version), thus leading to different decisions. And he'll have retained control. Instead, he lost it. One of the more practical effects, was the loss of Sheffield. Apparently, Hermes called a CAP off, under the Authority of the Flag, to conduct a visual search for surface ships. The pilots obeyed (since they were Invincible's, they wondered why they didn't just turn on the radar and make a sweep) - some Argie planes slipped through the gap and that was that...

This is the danger when a commander isn't knowledgable. Lacking confidence in his own ability to lead due to his lack of knowledge, he delegates the parts where he's weak to others, and is unable to guide his less experienced staff with his own experience, or to make an intelligent decision between advisors that may be telling him different stories.

Of course, a commander cannot be really knowledgable in every field, and so he has to delegate something to his staff and hope they are proficient. However, one wonders about the wisdom of necessitating the delegation of the most important field.

Back in the day of diesel subs was in the 30s, not now. Most sub captains today will be late 30s-mid-40s. Most captains today are about that level as well. Also, remember, the typical diesel sub skipper of the 1930s was either a Lieutenant or a Lieutenant Commander, who would typically be around that age of 25-30.

American-centric thought. In the RN, the diesel era lasted up to the end of the Cold War. People went to command a diesel as a Lieutenant, then a nuke attack as a Commander (Lieutenant Commander "First Lieutenant" XO tour) and sometimes even a ballistic missile as a Captain.

On shore tours: To take my RN Captain friend as an example, he started out as a communications officer, and when he finally got command, it was in charge of an ASW frigate - after a period of 20-odd years. This was in between shore tours (in fact he retired from a shore tour at a NATO billet).

I'm sure the fact that the Royal Navy was shrinking had to do with it. At least he was on the "Post List", not the "General List"...

The shore tours that the US subjects its officers to are intended to make them well-rounded in various aspects of the military life, such as paperwork, social skills - joint service billets, in particular, are intended to function as places where officers from the different services meet and share ideas and get a feel for how the other side lives. These shore tours are typically up to a year, no more, and they return to sea.

I do understand the Americans have their theory about officers. And these shore tours aren't mega-long, but the periods do add up:
http://www.tpub.com/content/administ...s/12966_76.htm

Just something i want to point out regarding ark's analogy of naval aviators: a carrier captain, even if he keeps up his flight certification, WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO DEPLOY IN COMBAT.

Why?

Because he's no longer a naval aviator. He may wear a pilot's wings, but his job is to manage and fight his carrier - that means evasive action, battlefield management, optimum positioning of the ship for flight ops, making sure that everything's running smoothly. When the shit hits the fan, that carrier Captain is more needed to run his ship than as another pilot.

In fact, it's not his job to manage the air wing at all, just to run the ship. Running the air wing is the Commander Air Group. It is the CAG who does the management of the fighters, tankers, and such. Thus in this instance we can have a captain who only concerns himself with the ship, while the senior mage onboard, filling the CAG role, organises things. The captain may order the air wing into battle, but it is the CAG who commands the mages in combat.

The one difference is, a carrier captain, should he be allowed to fly, is just one more pilot. A mage captain, should he be allowed to fight, might range from being worth 1 mage to the whole unit put together. Obviously, under such changed circumstances, a modification of the rule is necessary.

And you'll notice that despite the fact that his job turned shipborne, they still insist on the Captain being a naval aviator, to ensure he is indeed knowledgable about the primary mission - which is of course, planes.

[Wild Goose]

Originally Posted by arkhangelsk

My sympathies. Had that happen to me once (the laptop gone - in the confines of the university's computer room).

Accepted. Somehow I don't think the sympathies will affect your usual debating vigour.

Agreed. But why would the shipboard mages not share the "Sailing Force" zeitgeist?

...Oh, I thought you meant army into navy.

Umm, that's relevant to our current discussion? Don't think I've given up that position, if that's what you are asking.

Not really, no, just that you hadn't been pimping it for a while. I was getting curious.

So it is. Without that, conservatism among the "brown shoes" (or is it "black" for surface?) may cause the idea to never see the light of day.

IIRC, all members of the navy wear black boots.

Is this legalistic take on the problem a bit of an attempt to avoid the essence of the issue? Also, I'll suppose that the SEALs, having worked with the subs for so long, already have some kind of mutual respect to back up the legal stuff.

I'm pointing out the legal issues.

Actually, a better analogy, now that I think of it, would be of a ship captain ordering the onboard Marine detachment to go and do stuff. The ship captain is not a Marine, would have at the most cursory understanding of VBSS and other elements of shipboard Marine det skillsets, and yet the Marine Lieutenant leading the det would follow orders.

Another example would be 24th MEU(SOC)'s rescue of USAF Captain Scott O'Grady in Bosnia. Had the Kearsarge's CO decided that it was too dangerous to risk a rescue attempt, 24th MEU(SOC) would have to stand down (ultimately the decision was made much, much higher up the chain than either 24th MEU(SOC)'s CO or Kearsarge's Captain).

Oh, wow. Franks manages to do what another Franks (Fred) did in 1991. For Afghanistan, after the Soviet 40th Army went into that h*llhole for ten years with both types, he makes a broad decision based on what they discovered the hard way.

*shrug* The branches can be stubborn in their mindsets.

Umm, am I supposed to be impressed by an infantry commander commanding a division with 6 armored to 4 mech. inf battalions versus one with 5 of each?

No, ark, I expect you to roll your eyes and be unimpressed. Also the point I was trying to make was that Shinseki started as an infantryman and managed to make the switch to the Cav mindset.

In any case, artillery, infantry and cavalry are still part of the three "combat branches" of the US Army. Thanks to the combined arms dialectic, they should have very similar zeitgeists and worldview.

Not really. Infantry, Cav and arty train for different missions; while they do have overlap at times, the mindsets, zeitgeists and worldviews are different when you get down to the operational level. Tankers, artillerymen and infantry see things a lot differently.

An example where it doesn't go so well is when Admiral Woodward, a submariner, took command of the Falklands liberation fleet. Because he doesn't know much about aviation, he basically gave it up to Hermes to control. While the overall results were satisfactory (they won, after all), it might have gone better.

At that time, the Invincible people were making their Harrier's avionics sing, while the Hermes people were not. But Hermes was flag, and Woodward had allowed Hermes ops staff to control the air battle, so the plans and instructions were written assuming the avionics on all the planes don't work reliably, and all of them were given the Authority Stamp of the admiral.

Had Woodward been an aviator, he would probably have handled the air battle more personally and might have had a more balanced assessment of the avionics than Hermes staff (which understandably favored their own aircrew's version), thus leading to different decisions. And he'll have retained control. Instead, he lost it. One of the more practical effects, was the loss of Sheffield. Apparently, Hermes called a CAP off, under the Authority of the Flag, to conduct a visual search for surface ships. The pilots obeyed (since they were Invincible's, they wondered why they didn't just turn on the radar and make a sweep) - some Argie planes slipped through the gap and that was that...

This is the danger when a commander isn't knowledgable. Lacking confidence in his own ability to lead due to his lack of knowledge, he delegates the parts where he's weak to others, and is unable to guide his less experienced staff with his own experience, or to make an intelligent decision between advisors that may be telling him different stories.

Of course, a commander cannot be really knowledgable in every field, and so he has to delegate something to his staff and hope they are proficient. However, one wonders about the wisdom of necessitating the delegation of the most important field.

Point on delegation. However, again, consider the fact that Woodward was a submariner, and that in this situation the more appropriate choice should have been either a surface warfare officer or an aviator. Totally different branches. And mind you, a fair number of American CVBG Flag officers are from the surface fleet, and yet nobody seems to think the US Navy's CVBGs are less capable simply because they're commanded by surface warfare admirals...

American-centric thought. In the RN, the diesel era lasted up to the end of the Cold War. People went to command a diesel as a Lieutenant, then a nuke attack as a Commander (Lieutenant Commander "First Lieutenant" XO tour) and sometimes even a ballistic missile as a Captain.

No, they went to Perisher as Lieutenants. Diesel as LCDR, Commander for a SSN, and then perhaps Captain for a Boomer or remaning with the SSN.

I'm sure the fact that the Royal Navy was shrinking had to do with it. At least he was on the "Post List", not the "General List"...

*shrug* He got his frigate a few years before the Falklands, when the RN was at its Cold War height.

I do understand the Americans have their theory about officers. And these shore tours aren't mega-long, but the periods do add up:
http://www.tpub.com/content/administ...s/12966_76.htm

On the other hand it seems to be working so maybe we shouldn't be so quick to knock it? Who knows - perhaps joint tours between AF, Navy, Enforcer and GF personnel could have eased the bad blood between the TSAB's branches...

...right, that's not gonna happen ever.

The one difference is, a carrier captain, should he be allowed to fly, is just one more pilot. A mage captain, should he be allowed to fight, might range from being worth 1 mage to the whole unit put together. Obviously, under such changed circumstances, a modification of the rule is necessary.

And you'll notice that despite the fact that his job turned shipborne, they still insist on the Captain being a naval aviator, to ensure he is indeed knowledgable about the primary mission - which is of course, planes.

And while this is all good and well, it does not detract from the main point: a Captain's job is to run his ship, not slug it out at the grunt level. He/She doesn't have his high rank or get his princely salary just to be another mage on the battlefield. This is why despite being an S-rank, Lindy remained onboard the Athra and did not enter the fray, even in A's. If the Captain deploys, and there's something that they need the Captain for on the ship, then what?

Again, on further thought, I think an analogy that would work better would be as the mages being Marines and the ship being whatever patrol ship is hauling Marines around, putting out fires. They then have a delineation of responsiblity/authority: off the ship, on-mission, the Marines listen to their CO; back from the mission, and on the ship, awaiting go orders, the Marine CO listens to the ship Captain. We even see this in fiction: in the Halo novel, ODST Marine Major DaSilva has no choice but to obey orders from Captain Keyes despite the fact that Keyes is a naval officer and DaSilva has more experience in this matter - Keyes overrules him and he has to obey.

Also, something that occured to me: Ark, regarding your complaints of the WO shunt being a way to push mages aside and make them unhappy with no career prospects & suchs... I point you at the SEAL community. Enlisted SEALs can, if they're good enough, stay SEALs for life. But SEAL officers? Their prospects are fairly limited. They can't transfer to the surface fleet, and field-grade SEAL officer billets are limited (SEAL Teams are commanded by Lieutenant Commanders, SEAL Team Six is the only SEAL team that allows a Captain to lead it - then again it IS the Navy's answer to Delta Force, and in the 60-year history of the UDTs and SEALs there has been only ONE SEAL 4-star. The head honcho SEAL is, IIRC, only a 2-star). Options outside active duty are essentially staff jobs.

That said the reason the SEALs aren't hemmoraghing officers is because it takes so long to train new SEAL officers so they slow down the droppings of officers and retirements - plus many in the SEAL community are all motivated with the GWOT.

*rolls eyes* We sidestep this all in the OFM fics by making it very clear that the Aus'ruf's skipper takes his marching orders from Erick, and in how the OFM are rather Marine-like at times. (Along with a healthy mix of SEAL and Delta and ONI.) Then again, Erick is an infantryman, and infantry officers are expected to lead from the front...

[Kha]

Originally Posted by LoweGear

One can argue that Nanoha was originally a male in a female body... and in this case, it seems genderbending proved that right. No matter which gender, Nanoha manages to remain mostly the same!

Indeed, I found that I needed to change NOTHING other than gender!

Okay, maybe I made Nanoha more GAR than before, but it's just because of the higher testosterone level.

Originally Posted by USB500

Male or not, Nanoha is still and always is the White Demon. Also...

[vader]
The boyband is strong within this one.
[/vader]

*runs*

Kha-chan: Tousen desu.

And I believe you guys are catching the Tsukasa Domyouji vibes that I've implanted a little in Nanoha?



Once the images appear, I'll bend the rest of the female Aces over! ...

...wait that didn't sound right.

[arkhangelsk]

Originally Posted by Wild Goose

No, ark, I expect you to roll your eyes and be unimpressed. Also the point I was trying to make was that Shinseki started as an infantryman and managed to make the switch to the Cav mindset.

One must question the degree of mindset change just because of a single battalion worth of TOE difference.

Point on delegation. However, again, consider the fact that Woodward was a submariner, and that in this situation the more appropriate choice should have been either a surface warfare officer or an aviator.

And arguably, for a ship that basically serves as a mobile base (or even battle-taxi) for mages that deals with magical problems, an elite mage will at least be as appropriate as a Master for Senior Officer.

Totally different branches. And mind you, a fair number of American CVBG Flag officers are from the surface fleet, and yet nobody seems to think the US Navy's CVBGs are less capable simply because they're commanded by surface warfare admirals...

While he will lack detailed knowledge of the air, the surface warfare admiral will be proficient with the other part of his duties - his escort screen, shiphandling, ASW work, basic mine countermeasures ... etc, so he'll be bringing some of his specialist knowledge to the scene.

On the other hand it seems to be working so maybe we shouldn't be so quick to knock it? Who knows - perhaps joint tours between AF, Navy, Enforcer and GF personnel could have eased the bad blood between the TSAB's branches...

Rather than knocking it here, I'm responding here to Tk3997's insistence that a Captain can only be made by "decades" of dedicating on ships.

Again, on further thought, I think an analogy that would work better would be as the mages being Marines and the ship being whatever patrol ship is hauling Marines around, putting out fires. They then have a delineation of responsiblity/authority: off the ship, on-mission, the Marines listen to their CO; back from the mission, and on the ship, awaiting go orders, the Marine CO listens to the ship Captain. We even see this in fiction: in the Halo novel, ODST Marine Major DaSilva has no choice but to obey orders from Captain Keyes despite the fact that Keyes is a naval officer and DaSilva has more experience in this matter - Keyes overrules him and he has to obey.

1) How well did that scene work out?
2) How pleased was DaSilva?

Also, I'll presume that unlike a TSAB ship, a Halo patrol vessel has armament that is regularly employed, and thus the marine unit is but one of the several means at Captain Keyes' disposal. In that case, subordinating the Marine detachment under the ship Captain is appropriate, similar to how it would be done on a real destroyer with such a detachment.

Also, something that occured to me: Ark, regarding your complaints of the WO shunt being a way to push mages aside and make them unhappy with no career prospects & suchs... I point you at the SEAL community. Enlisted SEALs can, if they're good enough, stay SEALs for life. But SEAL officers? Their prospects are fairly limited. They can't transfer to the surface fleet, and field-grade SEAL officer billets are limited (SEAL Teams are commanded by Lieutenant Commanders, SEAL Team Six is the only SEAL team that allows a Captain to lead it - then again it IS the Navy's answer to Delta Force, and in the 60-year history of the UDTs and SEALs there has been only ONE SEAL 4-star. The head honcho SEAL is, IIRC, only a 2-star). Options outside active duty are essentially staff jobs.

Note, however, that being a SEAL is a choice. If a person who otherwise is of SEAL qualities decides that he wants to do something else in the US Navy, no one is going to stop him, and the same qualities that might have made him a good SEAL would have carried him far in any branch.

Another will be the US warrant officer branch in general. Some people actually don't have ambitions in command and such a path is perfect for them to begin with.

However, what Tk3997 is suggesting is that in the name of the TSAB, all elite mages are to be forced (or at least pressured) down the shunt and barred from other roads. They won't be allowed to be commanders or planners because having elite mages in such roles is a waste - they all have to be in the field. So, imagine the SEAL community, only that there are no officers. Everyone higher up is drawn from elsewhere. Still fun?

*rolls eyes* We sidestep this all in the OFM fics by making it very clear that the Aus'ruf's skipper takes his marching orders from Erick, and in how the OFM are rather Marine-like at times. (Along with a healthy mix of SEAL and Delta and ONI.) Then again, Erick is an infantryman, and infantry officers are expected to lead from the front...

There we go. You are effectively having the older Captain-Master relationship, with Aus'ruf's "skipper" being the Master, and Erick's the Captain, which is probably the ideal relationship for a TSAB vessel in general considering the mix of means it has at its disposal.

[tshouryuu]

OI!!!! Wrong thread you guys. Move the Military discussion to the Military, Authority & Decisions In MSLN series Thread. All this talk doesn't belong here.

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by ghazghkull

Indeed...Indeed :3 Well so far, so good, wouldn't you agree? :3

I'm most definetely not complaining.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Well those Data beings don't self replicate and become impossible to remove without bruning a planet down to the bed rock for one...

Psaw, we can work around that.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

yeah we have late night IRC chat to thank for that once it came up everyone started talking about how to gender bend the rest of the cast...

Sometimes the result of a small post can be so... satisfying.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

The problem with this is that Hayate ought to be fighting at very long range so "getting the jump on her" is going to be tricky at best. Beyond that her skill set isn't suited to close fighting period so she has no sane reason to enter a confined area were ambush is possible without massive support anyway. (Just like you don't drive a tank into a city without infantry all around it).

80% of combat in Nanoha is mid- to close-range, combine that with teleportation abillities (Lieze Aria could move extremely long ranges in a flash, for example) and the idea of closing up on her becomes far more likely.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

The issue is that you seem to think that just a pittance of training is going to really help. I doubt it will myself if anything it could engender dangerous overconfidence. The skills needed for effective close range fighting and for long range boom and zoom nuking are entirely diffrent from those needed for close range fighting. Plus having almost no base to draw on for them it would be like trying to train a total noob it could take months years for her to grasp even enough to spar at a vuagely decent level and she'd still be pretty much helpless against a trained sowrdsmen.
(Put a guy that's been doing Jujitsu for 6 months into the ring with Royce Gracie and see how that goes maybe he last 30 seconds instead of 10...)

[COLOR=black]Learning a martial art is hard it takes allot of time and effort and having huge magic potential is only minimally helpful in this as weapons fighting is about skill, experience, and finesse more then brute power. Her huge magical potential could easily be plowed into learning new defensive powers like movement aids, trips, etc but that same huge magic potential is of little use in learning to fight at close range with a weapon. This is a important factor to consider Hayate has other things to be doing and could be forced to enter battle at any time so even if learning melee was “best” (debatable IMO) in theory in practice it might not be.

Again you seem to be asuming I expect her to defeat them. I don't, I expect her not to get pounded into oblivion as soon as someone gets close to her. I don't expect her to pull a Dante, I don't expect her to master a martial art, expect her to know basic self defense in melee. That does not take years to learn.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

I'd point out that defensive fighting with weapons is acutally often harder then offense. First off it requires a healthy knowledge of what the enemy is likely to do in any given situation (which varies massively depending on weapon, his style, and other factors), intense drilling (this stuff happens so fast you can't really think about it you need muscle memory), and even still it's often hit or miss. (Nearly all styles emphasis aggression to keep the enemy off balance over defensive fighting which is often seen as a MISTAKE and a good way to lose). That said there is one thing that all such fighters agree can be used to counter superior skill in your opponent and is a highly effective defense: run away. Just giving ground and fleeing is a very common tactics in any serious fighting art.

Wait, defensive fighting is harder? If you hold your ground while fighting, yes. But defensive fighting with the goal of clearing the close combat range is actually easier then fighting offensively. The basic who's and what's of various close combat weapons doesn't exactly take years to learn (note: The basics, actual experience is a different matter) and Hayate will need it. Imagine if Hayate is caught in melee and she knows nothing about them. She'll get killed no matter the skills of the enemy. Give her some basic knowledge and self-defence, and she at least stand a chance of surviving against basic grunt 132.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Jokes aside basiclly melee fighting with weapons isn’t something you can half ass if you’re not fighting to attack and kill the enemy you really shouldn’t be doing it. It’s also often a game of mutual suicide as the fact is that two skill fighters can often kill each other despite said skill due to the close range, the lethality of the weapons, and the difficulty in blocking and parrying inherent in real world situations. The saying and its variations are so old it’s almost cliché, but it’s still true.

True, but basic training in weapons is a lot different then doing things 'half assedly' any bit of experience counts when you are fighting someone with a weapon.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

The only way Nanoha or Yunno ever "handled" melee was rasing big ass force fields there enmies couldn't break easily. Nanoha didn't encouter Vita and turn RH into a spear and start trying to stab her or something. She used shields to tank hits and then blast her.

That I could see Hayate doing, but that's not "melee" IMO that's defensive magic and given you're take about "blocks" and "openings" and using her staff as a weapon that dosen't seem to be what you where thinking of either.

The manga notes Nanoha and Signum fighting in blatant melee, also note that the fight did not have a winner, which shows Nanoha can defend herself in melee. That is what I expect Hayate to be capable of: Survive.

Originally Posted by Tk3997

She has flaws you could exploit she seems to have at least a bit of insecurity for example and I've always contended the mother to Vivio angle could be exploited for DRAMA(!) (though I'm not much of a fan of Kags take on it). That said yeah she's not a walking illustration of half the pathos in the DSM unlike some protagonists but as I've said that's one of the things I like about her.

Yes, I still find it a shame that 7arcs completely dropped all that potentional in favour of NanoFate fanservice.

Originally Posted by Kha

...er... No Sousuke/Chidori mechanic?

And that timeline is where the Tentacle joke supposed to reside!!! Uuuh... How now...

Sousuke/Chidori? No, not possible. Keroko is a lot calmer by then.

Originally Posted by Kha

I'm not quite sure why either, but it stems from me not understanding a bit of the WAAAAAGH to even bring them logically into the Nanohaverse.

Pweh, if we can introduce Tyranids, Orks shouldn't be a problem.

Originally Posted by Kha

...Keroko.

*runs*

Still waiting. :3

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Okay this is like Xbox HUGE (Ended up at 15,800 words) and though I've read it over a few times, I still might be missing stuff so feel free to point out anything that seems weird. I'm pretty happy with it overall though I think the fight scene might be a tad dry, but I wasn't getting much mojo going for it and basiclly just had to force it out to finish the piece so yeah I won't take any offense if you find it lacking.

I haven't used this in a while but I think it's called for...

Anyway without Further adieu my latest fic! Which still has no name... We've been over this I suck at names lets move on...

Spoiler for SIZE:

-snip-

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Part 2:

Spoiler for EVEN MORE SIZE:

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Originally Posted by Tk3997

Spoiler for Part 3 YES THREE:

-snip-

That was big, that was intriguing, and to top it off with a nice cherry: It was filled with Vita!

MOAR!

Originally Posted by Kha

STARS-01
Genderbent of Nanoha


White Devil Never Looked This Cool.

Spoiler for Captain Nanoha Takamachi:

Nanoha Takamachi

Ever since he received Raising Heart from Yuuna, Nanoha has been in a dramatic ride of his life, far wilder than he has ever imagined. With the staff of destruction in one hand, and his unyielding courage in the other, he welcomed Keroro from the cold, woke Feito from his misguided quest, helped Hayate find his his way... Nothing touched by his pink beams of friendship ever came away the same.

When Kha-chan was first introduced to the group as Hayate's guard from the Church, she sparked Nanoha's interest as she was the first girl who wasn't lavishing him with gifts and love notes. However, the F4 soon discovered the reason behind Kha's permanent coldness, and in their own way, each Ace helped her find her heart once more.

An unfortunate accident that resulted in him being put out of action for almost a year mellowed his hot-blooded nature a little. After that, Nanoha took his lesson to his work and strives to spread the word of "doing your best while watching yourself" to all of his cadets. And his warmth and approachability won him many fans among cadets and colleagues alike.

In the year MC 0075, Nanoha is 19 years old and the primary Combat Instructor for the Lost Property Riot Force 6, a subsidarial experimental unit under Time-Space Administration Bureau's Special Management. The White Devil is also the commander of record for the "Stars" squad in the field. And Nanoha is a mild Psion, although a product of accident than evolution.

...

"It has arived" :3

Originally Posted by Kagerou

A preview of Scene 3. Posted because of implications...

Spoiler for Yuunoko in the making?:

"I'm from Earth, Yuuno-kun," Keroko said as she stared at the weapons. "I don't have any stigmas against guns." She reached for a Battle Rifle and lifted it up to her uninjured shoulder, peering through the ACOG scope and focusing on Yuuno's head. "But then, I don't know how to use one."

"First off, don't point it at your allies," Yuuno laughed, gently lifting the gun upward and away from his head. "Here, you need to be in the proper stance. Spread your feet apart a little and get a firm base." Yuuno put his hands on Keroko's waist and pushed her feet slightly with his, widening her stance and lowering her center of gravity.

Keroko began to blush. Wh-when did he get s-so forward?

Reaching behind him, Yuuno opened his palm and sent forth a chain bind that stretched out and wrapped around an ammo magazine, pulling it back toward him. Grabbing the magazine, Yuuno reached around and placed it in Keroko's hand. "When you load a gun, make sure you have it pointed away from you," He instructed. With his hand guiding Keroko's, they pushed the magazine into the empty slot for it. "As soon as you turn off the safety, the gun puts a cartridge into the barrel. Now, unlike Devices, guns don't have IFF, so you can easily shoot an ally as an enemy... or yourself."

Keroko nodded, unconsciously leaning back into Yuuno. His grip on my hands is so tight... she mused, trying to force down her blush. And look at those muscles! When did he get so strong? My god, is this what it takes to get to me?

"Put on hand here, and another one on the pistol grip," Yuuno said, still guiding Keroko's hands. He paused briefly to push up his glasses. Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the target dummy that dropped down. "Turn the safety off here. Now take aim, use the scope if you need to." Keroko nodded and peered through the scope at the target, her breathing somewhat heavier from earlier. "Now squeeze - don't pull! - the trigger." Together, the two mages fired the Battle Rifle, sending a three round burst square into the target's "chest". "Good! Again."

Together, the two fired 12 3-round bursts at target dummies. Occasionally, they would swivel a bit to focus on another target, but their stance didn't change. Oddly, Keroko's shoulder didn't bother her during this practice, and only an odd warm feeling seemed to touch her heart. As the magazine emptied and dropped to the floor, Yuuno reloaded the rifle and the two resumed firing. Slowly, Keroko got used to the repetition of firing the gun, feeling comfortable in Yuuno's imporomptu embrace as they expended several clips of ammo firing at targets.

This is... odd. Keroko decided. I mean, there are weirder things to do with a friend, but firing a gun? And why am I blushing so much?!

I wonder if it's because sometimes, you feel lonely. A voice seemed to tell her.
...maybe. Keroko thought to herself.

Keroko blocked out the thoughts, continuing to fire the Battle Rifle. The truth was, she didn't need Yuuno's help with aiming down the sights at the now-moving targets... but she wasn't about to tell him. He was...

...warm.

That.... that.... that.... THAT WAS AWESOME!

If I recall... this is the first Yuunoko piece up untill now.

Gotta get off my lazy butt and write....

Anxiously awaiting the chapter. :3:3:3

Originally Posted by Kha

Eto... I wanted to do that for UBW KhaxKeroko, since Keroko loves tech and all, Kha's mode of attack would be through there since he has access to an armory of Belka-pattern Bolter devices...

No problems here.

[Tormenk]

It's been awhile. Almost feels strange to be posting profiles here again.

Starting off with the expanded Jack profiles is Jac.

Spoiler for Jack of Spades:

Name: Jac Kell
Nickname: Jack of Spades/ Smiling Jackal
Gender: Male
Home World: unknown
Birth date: unknown
Age: 28 as of MC 075
Relatives: unknown
Eye color: Green
Hair color: Black
Height: 185cm
Build: Tall and thin

Mage Information
Affiliation: The Prize
Magic Type: Mid-Childian
Magic Color: Dark Purple
Mage Rank: AAA+
Element Affiliation: None

Appearance
Couldn’t find any suitable images but imagine Akabane Kurodo from GetBackers with glasses and a ponytail and you’ll do fine. In part Jac’s starting inspiration as well.

Background/History
Enigmatic leader of the Jacks, team of general purpose mages within the Prize. Not much is known about his personal history except that Jac has been part of the Prize since young and is familiar with its operations and procedures. Having been part of the Prize for quite some time, Jac possesses some degree of power and influence in the organization.

Personality/Behavior
Well-mannered and polite at all times, Jac exudes the presence of a gentleman with his bespectacled appearance. His analytic personality is reflected through his careful conduct. A small smile is ever present no matter the situation and he has never been seen losing his temper even when dealing with the more hard to handle members of his team and other more unpleasant people in the Prize. Jac’s knack for quickly resolving urgent situations shows from handling the affairs of his team and the Prize.

Being the only person who can cook among them, Jac’s the source of any decent nourishment when the team is out on extended missions. His cooking is eagerly savored by the rest, though how he managed to acquire his culinary skills is a mystery. Jac personally takes care and sees to the needs of his team though he remains detached from all of them. Most strangely when he is Jec’s pseudo guardian, having watched over her ever since her induction into the Prize as a young child into the maturing woman she is now.

In combat he retains his usual demeanor: Calm, cool and smiling. An unnerving trait among those of his profession that some have taken to calling him the Smiling Jackal, named for the brutal but relaxed manner he cuts down any opposition before him and the close pun to his name.

Jac’s main interest, strangely, lies in literature. He acquires them however he can, and can usually be found reading or re-reading a book or novel every other day.

Barrier Jacket
Form fitting top and pants. A long-sleeved jacket similar to Erio’s. Add in combat boots to round up the set. All in black of course.

Fighting Style
Having trained extensively to improve his speed from young, Jac employs it as both offense and defense, preferring to evade and strike without rest than fire off spells. However, he does have his own set of spells to suit his needs. Fast and powerful but unguided spells are common whereas he only has the bare basics in supporting spells.

Currently, Jac is looking into incorporating Neo-Belkan elements into his style, preferring it more aptly-suited for his high-speed style of engagement over the limitations of standing off at range commonly displayed by Mid users.

Jac is recognized as the fastest in the team and even some beyond the Prize. Comparison has been made by those in the Prize over who is faster, TSAB Enforcer Fate Harlaown or Jac. The question looks to remain unanswered for a long time though.

Armed Device: Specineff
A generic Armed Device, the internal chambers of Specineff are able to store energy longer for discharge to complement Jac’s style of powerful sudden strikes at a moment’s notice. A necessary feature, as Jac may chamber cartridges way before the need even arises. Specineff was designed in mind to handle the strain of such a demand and maintain a balance between all modes of combat.

Storage Mode
The device appears as a hooked earring with a chain.

Scythe Mode
Specineff’s set-up mode. A side barrel of the head end swings out sideways to form the scythe’s blade. A wide swinging angle allows for switching from a war scythe to a normal scythe. Blade length is variable on command.

Hybrid Mode
Designed for optimum firing of one-handed shots, the sideways firing handle and the option of employing the scythe blade at the same time gives the name of this mode. The blade is sorter in this mode but it is still rather unwieldy for a one-handed weapon.

Launcher Mode
Two-handed firing configuration for handling powerful spells. The ends of the device extends, followed by the expansion of the barrels. Cartridges can be manually loaded on the underside but jamming is a risk.

Spoiler for Spells:

Offensive Spells:

Spectral Orb
A small purple ball of energy with limited homing abilities. Jac is able to create a multitude of them to swarm the opposition, and trigger them to explode on command. Picks up tracking speed gradually but expires within 20 seconds. Up to two cartridges can be expended to create multiples faster.

Power: B
Speed: B~A+
Range: A
Accuracy: C~B

Lancer Bolt
A short burst of energy that can be fired off rapidly.

Power: B+
Speed: A
Range: A
Accuracy: B

Lancer Bolt Plus
Improved version of the standard Lancer Bolt, added with explosive properties now. Expenditure of one cartridge required.

Power: AA
Speed: AA
Range: AA
Accuracy: AA

Sonic Wave
Fast and wide horizontal wave of energy executed with the scythe.

Power: A
Speed: A+
Range: A
Accuracy: B

Scythe Strike
Enhances the power of each strike from Specineff. Alternatively creates an energy blade that can be thrown much like Fate’s Scythe Slash. Expenditure of one cartridge required.

Power: A
Speed: A+
Range B
Accuracy: B

Impayr
Temporarily disable devices or prevent them from functioning properly, the spell can be initiated on contact or fired off as a bolt of energy.

Power: B-
Speed: A
Range: Melee~B
Accuracy: A

Diamond Dart
Extremely fast single direction energy bolt in the shape of a dart. Excellent for nailing targets at closer range but high recoil and slow charge time limits its usage. Up to two cartridges can be expended to increase its power.

Power: AA~AAA
Speed: SS
Range: AA
Accuracy: A+

Sparkling Darkness
A unique spell in that the energy discharge takes the form of a narrow column. When viewed from the side, it looks as if a traveling vertical wave of purplish-black. However, fast traveling speed, long range and the narrow delivery of the energy makes it a powerful barrier breaker. Up to three cartridges can be expended to increase the power.

Power: AAA~AAA+
Speed: AAA+
Range: AAA
Accuracy: AA

Defensive Spells:

Triangle Shield
Basic Belkan shield-type defense spell. Single direction only.

Defense: A
Area: two meters

Protector
Belkan barrier spell that defends over an area. Also Specineff’s auto guard spell.

Defense: B
Area: two and a half meters

Aphermad Field
Field spell that manifests as an defensive aura around the caster.

Defense: AA-

Support Spells:

Chain Bind
A simple bind made up of magical chains.

Binding power: B
Binding speed: AA
Range: A+

Bind Break
Attempts to deactivate a binding or imprisoning spell. The amount of time required to deactivate depends on the complexity of the target magic. Jac has trained considerably in this area, granting him high proficiency.

Skill: AAA

Death Flash
Jac’s variant of the popular movement spell. He can last up to three seconds comfortably employing this spell and up to seven seconds if need be. Maximum duration is ten seconds with the expenditure of one cartridge.

Skill: S+

Warding Swarm
Useful for breaking engagements, the spell conjures up a ring of energy spheres around Jac. The spheres will then close in on the nearest target and begin to rapidly corrode any magical construct upon contact.

Power: C
Range: B

Next up, Jag.

Spoiler for Jack of Hearts:

Name: G.J. Jag
Nickname: Jack of Hearts/ Azure Storm
Gender: Male
Home World: unknown
Birth date: unknown
Age: 25 as of MC 075
Relatives: dead
Eye color: yellow
Hair color: blue
Height: 180cm
Build: Buff and well-built

Mage Information
Affiliation: The Prize
Magic Type: Neo-Belkan
Magic Color: Light Blue
Mage Rank: AAA
Element Affiliation: Wind

Appearance
Image basis is Grimmjow minus the mask and hollow hole in his abdomen, with long and unruly hair.

Background/History
Growing up on a war-torn planet, Jag was orphaned at age seven after the death of his mother at the hands of enemy soldiers. Forced to fight or die, he was inevitably infused with a violent streak to protect himself, which he carries to this day. Discovery of his innate ability with magic, as well as his rough skills in combat, saw him through many situations which he otherwise would not have come out of alive.

Jag was recruited into the Prize at age fourteen for reasons unknown. There he was instilled with some degree of control and discipline but the stubborn young man remained largely the same throughout. Records have disobedience in duties showing up as frequently as the number of kills he has gathered through out the many missions he has carried out. Collateral notably accounts for a high number of them, both to property and civilian, hence the reason why Jag was later assigned missions to larger scale engagements.

Personality/Behavior
One to handle matters based on instincts, Jag is easily bored and always looking for entertainment, though his lazy bone is a mile longer than his oversized sword. Since he often ends up in trouble, Jag relies on Jac to constantly rein him in when he goes out of line or pushes his limits too far, partially having to do with Jac being the only person Jag will obey and follow on a regular basis.

Jag possesses a rough and roguish charm that either draws people in or repulses them on first impression. Jat is an exception, frequently seen around him despite her prominent displays of vehemence at his actions every so often. He has shown interest in Jas though rarely reciprocated by the other party, at least not in public. He treats Jec, the youngest among the Jacks, like a little girl sometimes but otherwise sees her as harmless and leaves her be.

First to dive into, and leave combat, Jag has been observed to displaying a great degree of eagerness in every combat situation he is placed in, though by no means is he a battle-obsessed individual. His usage of performance drugs do put that into question, as does whether his dependence on them exists. The drug enhances his combat capabilities substantially, as well as fueling his violent tendencies. The after effects are slow to register, with the inclusion of extended mood swings and other physical conditions. Jag himself views it as ‘necessary’, stemming from a strong desire to eliminate whatever that will or would threaten him, an instinct that he developed since the start of his brutal childhood. Unfortunately, it is often perceived as pure bloodlust, which is true to some extent. Jag’s self preservation instinct is a lot stronger than the average human being, hence when he finds himself in rapidly deteriorating situations, it will kick in quickly and his first response will be to take out whatever might be the cause of it.


Barrier Jacket

Survive Form
A tight and sleeveless top with a open short-sleeved jacket. Loose combat pants covering all the way to the boots. A bunch of cartridge pouches hanging on the waist acts as a belt while metallic greaves and forearm protectors round out the outer layer. Mostly white with blue trimmings for the entire jacket set.

Rampage Form
The jacket switches to blood-red with black trimmings while the metallic parts lengthen considerably. In addition, a protective shield resembling a grinning set of jaws appears over the lower half of Jag’s face.


Fighting Style
Jag is most comfortable fighting in the front of opposition, having been involved in one too many nasty fights. He enjoys the feeling of breaking and destroying stuff in front using maximum force, and is relentless in pursuit until the adversary is beat and broken. As such, his preference lies in using high-powered and wide area spells with close range techniques to quickly finish the game, often sacrificing tactical elements such as speed and accuracy for strong-arm maneuvers. Without doubt, Jag is the one capable of the most destruction in a short manner of time among the Jacks.


Device Name: Ravage
Device Type: Armed Device
Device appearance: Buster sword (Something like Throne Zwei’s buster sword.)

The cartridge system of the device is fitted to load cartridges of larger calibers than other armed devices, said cartridge size employed are exactly the same as those used by Nanoha or Fate. This does give Jag an edge in matching blows owing to higher discharge of each cartridge he uses.

Storage Form
A miniature version of the device’s primary form hangs from a metallic chain that can be worn as a necklace.

Sword Form
A large ice-blue blade is set against a relatively small black handle that still can accommodate the usage of both hands.

Hellion Form
The blade shrinks in size while the length of the handle increases to spear/pole-arm lengths. Ravage bears a resemblance to a Kwan Dao in this form.

Spoiler for Spells:

Defensive:

Tank Spirit
Defensive field spell that forms around the caster.

Defense: AA-

Tank Shield
Shield type spell that manifests as a Belkan sigil. Single direction only.

Defense: AAA
Area: two meters

Hurricane Wall
Barrier type spell that covers a wider area in exchange for lower defensive power. Has the added effect of slowing down opponents in contact with the spell.

Defense: AA+
Area: three meters

Support Spells:

Strider
Movement magic that enhances the moving speed of the caster. The speed increase is lesser than the popular Sonic Move but in turn is less taxing and lasts up to five seconds per cast.

Skill: AA+

Binding Ring
Restriction rings that surrounds every major joint of the body such as the wrists and ankles together.

Binding power: A+
Binding speed: A+
Range: A+

Howling Wind
Similar in effect to Vita’s Iron Howl, it is used as a distraction and to catch the opponent off guard.

Skill: A+

Booster
Boosts the reflexes of the caster, slightly increasing reaction time and movement speed. Not a spell rather a physical enhancement.

Skill: AA
Duration: 60~120s

Rampage
Activated at the same time Jag’s barrier jacket switches to the form of the same name, it is an active enhancement rather than a one time spell. Ravage will beginning draining Jag’s linker core at an increased rate to maintain the enhancement while greatly increasing the level of physical strikes and magical attributes. Offensive and defensive abilities take a step up, enabling Jag to plow through lesser opponents swiftly. Depending on the level of enhancement Jag chooses, the effect lasts inversely proportionate but the danger of over-exertion also increases accordingly. The required expenditure of three cartridges also guarantees the possibility that Jag will feel the burn afterwards.

Skill: AAA
Duration: sixty to one hundred eighty seconds.


Offensive Spells:

Extension Blade
As the name implies, the back portion of the blade detaches and extends, slightly increasing the length of the blade. The real trick is the extra energy blade that extends along the lines of the physical blade. This more often than not results in a nasty surprise for opponents too close to the blade itself.

Power: B

Storm Blade
Wind magic that surrounds the blade part of Ravage. This creates a better cutting edge around it and enlarges its impact area than it actually appears to be. Expenditure of one cartridge required.

Power: AA
Casting speed: three seconds
Duration: sixty seconds

Hurricane Six
Improved version of Storm Blade with increased effects of said spell. Expenditure of two cartridges required.

Power: AA+
Casting speed: six seconds
Duration: thirty seconds

Gale Cutter
Usable when either of the wind-enhancement of Ravage is active. Throws out a blast of high pressured wind towards the target. Also serves to disorient opponents due to the large AoE.

Power: A+
Speed: AA
Range: A
Accuracy: B-

Storm Breaker
Thrusting attack that concentrates all the wind magic into the tip of the blade, with a unusually large AoE for its effect. Expenditure of two cartridges required.

Power: AAA
Range: Melee

Shockwave
Jag thrusts Ravage into any solid surface such as walls or floors to start the spell. Energy is discharged from the broken area to rapidly spread out and envelope the surrounding environment. Good speed and AoE, any active enhancements of Ravage will also result in a more powerful effect.

Power: B~AA
Speed: A~AA+
Range: B+~AAA
Area: B+~AAA
Accuracy: A+

Storm Bolt
A fist-sized ball of energy, this is Jag’s countermeasure against targets he needs to hit at range.

Power: AA
Speed: B
Range: A
Accuracy: AA

Storm Shooter
Contrary to what the name implies, the spell is focused on covering an area in projectiles in short order rather than any attempt at an accurate shooting spell.

Power: B+
Speed: B
Range: AA
Area: AA+
Accuracy: B

Last profile. Revised and toned down to better fit what I think is a more accurate profile.

P.S:
I'm using the image as a visual reference only. It is in no way a port of the person howsoever.

Spoiler for The Black Fist:

Basic Information
Name: Gen Ealin
Nickname: The Black Fist
Gender: Male
Home World: Mid Childa
Birth date: August 1st
Age: 45 as of MC 075
Relatives: Deceased
Eye color: brown
Hair color: black
Height: 182cm

Mage Information
Magic Type: Neo-Belkan, with strong Mid-type influence
Magic Color: blueish-black
Mage Rank: S
Combat style: close range
Element Affiliation: None
Device Name: Eve and Avatar
Device Type: Armed Device (Eve), Intelligent Device (Avatar)


Background/History:

Gen Ealin was orphaned at the age of 12 following the disastrous aftermath of a meteor striking Mid Childa’s southern continent, taking an entire island along with it and leaving a crater on Mid Childa visible from space. A school trip to the capital had spared him the same fate as his parents, while his parents and his island home were vaporized. With his parents’ death, he had no means of support and joined the Mid Childa Ground Forces.

As a recruit, Gen was a loner who did not get along with others, his parents death leaving a permanent mark on him. Nevertheless, he was a driven cadet who produced excellent results, as noted by many of his instructors. Attaining the ground mage rank of A at age 14, Gen was not happy with his current status as merely part of the ground forces, one which he found to be lacking. Training and practicing in between missions for the mage tests, he manage to attain AAA status in 3 years by the time he left the ground forces, opting to join the Navy as a Enforcer.

A full fledged Enforcer with 6 years of field missions under his belt, Gen was still the loner he was but by now he had a high handed approach to whatever he did, namely during his missions dealing with the common weapons smuggler or space pirate. His actions were questioned several times by his officers but as he likes to say, “The ends justify the means”. The higher ups overlooked his actions after reviewing his excellent track record in the field and the many successful missions he undertook.


Coincidentally, a year later, Gen was one of the many Enforcers onboard the TSAB ship Hestia, guarding the sealed Book of Darkness and its captured master. Gen was guarding the captured mage when he detected a device the prisoner had managed to somehow retain despite his arrest and under heavy restrain.

Confiscating the device, Gen was on the way to the bridge to report the device he found when the Book went berserk. Chaos ensued as the rampaging Book of Darkness went on to rapidly consume and take over the control of the Hestia. Admiral Clyde Harlaown orders the evacuation of the Hestia. Gen escapes the Hestia before Admiral Gil Graham, commander of the convoy guarding the Book, gives the order to fire the Arc En Ciel and destroys the infested Hestia with Admiral Harlaown and the Book’s master onboard.

Gen returns to TSAB HQ shortly after the incident to find out more about the Book of Darkness, which has plagued the TSAB for decades. Searching through the databanks of the HQ regarding information on the Book, Gen had uncovered a file hidden deep within hidden archives, dated MC 042.

The Book of Darkness’ last known incarnation had materialized on Mid Childa itself. The Book was running amok on an island near the southern continent and it was decided the risk of the Book of Darkness running loose on and consuming Mid Childa was too great and the sole measure of containment was to destroy it with one of the Arc En Ciel fitted warships currently near the TSAB’s home planet.

The orders were given and the shot fired. Hundreds of kilometers of the planet surface were eradicated in an instant, killing thousands of people along with it. The repercussions of a failed containment of the Book and the firing of such a weapon that wiped out so many lives were unthinkable, hence the people involved decided on a massive cover-up, citing a small meteor had struck the island. The local media was used to great effect to enforce that the local populace held the general impression. Citizens of Mid Childa mourned the passing of so many and happening of a great tragedy; unaware of the lies they were fed.

Gen held the same expression throughout his perusal of the file but he was burning with cold fury inside. The monstrosity of such a fabrication and the utter ineffectiveness of the TSAB at handling the Book combined was a unforgivable mistake, his parents among those who paid the ultimate price of such a mistake, when it was no fault of theirs. Gen decided to track and strike down the people who had been involved in the incident 12 years ago. He would make those responsible pay for their crimes and their lies. He no longer had spare time, devoting all his efforts and resources available to finding out who was responsible, finding out their names and tracking their current whereabouts, in the days to come that he might have his complete revenge fulfilled.

Ironically, 4 years after the last Book of Darkness incident, Gen was given the distinction of being a “Striker”, by the very same TSAB he had promised to wreak vengeance upon. Names still eluded him at this point as to who were the real culprits. There was no complete record of the incident so many years ago and he had to resort to hacking and digging through the many databanks scattered through out the administered worlds to gather the necessary information. Progress was slow but Gen was patient. Meanwhile he continued his role as a TSAB lackey to great lengths, even getting promoted to Captain during this period of time.

7 years later, news of the permanent sealing of the Book of Darkness spread throughout the TSAB. Gen’s interest was caught by the fact that the fearsome Book had been sealed away by three mages from the 97th non-administered world known as “Earth”. Gen had applauded the 3 young mages for their incredible feat but at the same time, was deeply disgusted by the TSAB’s total incompetence, letting the Book run amok again and relying on outsiders to finish their work.

A year later, Gen began to take an active interest to the “Neo-Belkan” magic system , attracted by the ideal conditions with close range combat in mind and the focus on anti-personnel attacks and spells that were tuned towards boosting and augmenting both mages and devices in melee combat. Most promising of all was the cartridge system installed on the newly developed Armed Devices, which allowed for instantaneous increase in magic power.

Gen began training in the Neo-Belkan system, at the same time developing his device assembly and modification skills, developing an Armed Device fitted to his personal needs. By the end of twelve months, Gen’s device reached completion, a pair of gauntlets he named “Eve”. Shortly after Eve’s completion, Gen successfully completed his next mage test, using Eve and the Neo-Belkan magic system to great proficiency.

MC 067 June 12th was recorded as the disappearance of Gen on his home world. Search efforts were futile and he was marked as AWOL. Unknown to others, Gen was preparing to strike down the culprits at the annual conference taking place at Ground Forces Central, all of them who were to be conveniently gathered like lamp to the slaughter for him.

MC 067 September 12th marked a terrible day in the history of Mid Childa. Gen Ealin had slipped past security personnel to arrive at the conference nearly unopposed, save for the few measly ground force grunts, as he literally crushed them like insects. Gen stormed into the conference room, going straight for the culprits, gutting them with Eve at full power. Those inside could only bear witness as Gen slaughtered 6 high-ranking officials, helpless as devices were forbidden within GFC. His revenge wrought, Gen sought his escape, leaving a trail of bloody bodies in his wake. Gen then escaped off world quickly with a preset dimensional teleport spell.

Navy Enforcers sent out to track and apprehend Gen were either killed or heavily injured in their attempts to pursue and capture him. By the 3rd month of his escape, the pursuers had completely lost trace of the Black Fist, as they took to calling him because of the pure black color of his device Eva, which he uses to take out many of his pursuers.

Over the years, Gen has been spotted on many planets. Their target proved to be adept at evading them or quickly escaped even when he was cornered. As of the current date, his whereabouts and motives remain unknown.


Personality/Behavior
Brusque to the point of being rude, Gen was a person who others kept at arm’s length. He spoke little and when he did, it was either to respond to orders or to insult the random person who drew his ire. His cold and unchanging demeanor unnerved many of his peers who resorted to outcast him from any events. This was fine by him, as Gen viewed many of them to be naïve and believed human relationships to be fragile matters, preferring to hone his skills instead of wasting time in the company of others. When not in missions or training, Gen was often by his lonesome reading a book or off to the vast mountain regions of Mid Childa to take in the natural scenery. Other than that, his only other notable interests are in philosophy and music.

Gen maintained his uncaring attitude throughout his adult life and into his work life as an
Enforcer. After returning from the Book of Darkness incident of MC 054, he became visibly more irritable and displayed a growing aggressive streak both in and out of combat.

Likes: Silence, rain, nature, to be alone, crossing his hands in front of him to cover his mouth when sitting down
Dislikes: Noise, crowds, for someone to call his name, idealistic people

Fighting Style
Suffering in range and reach when engaging in close combat compared to other combatants favoring weapons such as swords and spears, Gen’s prefers fast and hard-hitting single strikes rather than agile blows. Being a experienced user of the Mid system before he switched over to Neo-Belka, he is able to fight on par with mages in aerial combat or range engagements. He is still much suited for fighting in enclosed spaces and urban environments though.

Barrier Jacket
Orange-tinted glasses. A black round-collared long sleeved jacket with gold highlights on the sleeves, shoulders and linings reaching all the way to the back of is knees. A black sleeveless vest covers his body. A belt containing 24 cartridges. Loose black pants that go all the way into his combat boots complete the set.

Intelligent Device: Avatar
The device was fashioned after the golden cross on the infamous Book of Darkness. Interrogating the mage under torture and death threats, he managed to get the vital information he wanted. The device was created to replicate the Book of Darkness impressive abilities, which encompassed the ability to capture Linker Cores to fill its pages, the Guardian Knight System, the Defense Program and of course its ability to reincarnate for all eternity.

The current master was skilled in device creations besides being a powerful mage; he had tried to replicate the Book but failed due to the standards of current technology and the immense complexity of the Ancient Belkan magic and technology which was applied to the creation of the Book. Still, the mage was able to recreate two aspects of the Book using Mid Childian technology and magic. First was the enormous storage capability of spells and programs and second was the function to channel and store large amounts of mana into the device.

Shortly after going back to active service, Gen had discovered the proper usage of the device he had in possession. The “Avatar”, as he had named it, serves to augment a mage’s prowess through more efficient handling and processing of spells, ensuring a more refined output. Adding to that was the ability to store more spells than any other storage or intelligent device known. Avatar also serves to regulate and control the flow of mana into Eva when Gen is using more demanding spells such as Bloody Blades, Alkeid Buster.

The unique aspect of Avatar would be the method it acquires and process mana. Normal devices would channel mana from the mage and supply it to form the spell desired. Avatar could absorb and store residual mana from its surroundings into its chambers, albeit at a rate slow enough to discount this property in combat. Gen instead channels his own mana into Avatar for storage, providing a larger reserve possible. This lengthens the magical stamina of Gen in combat quite a fair bit, since he mostly sticks to melee spells, which are less demanding compared to the battery and buster spells common among Mid-mages and also acts as an external storage device of mana, similar to the Card system, which the user inputs mana into a card-shaped device with a pre-programmed spell but available only as one time usage.

Avatar's mana chambers has a finite capacity but Gen has to be careful to abstain from combat on days when he is using Avatar to store mana since the process of channeling mana from the Linker Core into a device drains him substantially, ranging from mild side effects of headaches to more serious signs of fatigue. Also possible is the dangerous effect of "burn out", the permanent condition where the Linker Core is damaged by drawing out mana more than it is safe to do so, so much so the Linker Core is rendered unable to produce mana for usage anymore.

Gen had the misfortune to have a taste of it, after being confronted by 6 Enforcers, shortly after storing mana into Avatar. The ensuing fight had taken all he had to finish them off and escape. He spent the next few days in tremendous pain, unable to draw on any more mana from his Linker Core, for fear of the massive feedback into his system.

Gen now is careful to secure a location where he can hide when he wants to store mana into Avatar, often resting for a full day when he does so.

Storage form
Avatar takes the form of a card with the exact golden cross of the Book of Darkness on its front. The rest of the card is a pitch black.

Device form
Takes the form of a black visor with golden framings


Armed Device: Eve
Eve was created while Gen was still within the TSAB as a Striker. Gen created Eve to take the form of gauntlets, with sharp claw-like edges on the end of each finger and a sharp length of metal reaching all the way to the elbow. Fitted with cartridge slots on each gauntlet, Gen uses Eve to great effect when in melee combat, crushing opponents’ defenses to quickly beat them into submission. Eve is also able to extend its reach on command. A nasty surprise that has caught many unprepared before.

Eve, being an Armed Device, is unable to channel the energy needed to form massive bombardment or buster spells as compared to her Storage or Intelligent devices counterparts. Gen’s options at mid to long range are severely limited by this but he makes up by programming new spells that enable him to shorten the distance quickly and punish with a enhanced Eve or at least to bring his short range spells available to him. Each gauntlet can store up to 4 cartridges at once.

Storage Form
Black gloves with a single diamond on the back of the glove

Device Form
Eve sets up as a pair of clawed armor gauntlets, covering from fingers all the way to the elbow, also known as Gauntlet Form. Eva's core takes the form of a red diamond inset to the back of each hand

Blade Form
Eva now sports triple retractable blades from the wrist, each blade nearly half a meter in length. Requires one cartridge to change to this form.

Claw Form
Eve's Full Drive. Requires two cartridges to change into this form. Eve is significantly bulked up here and has heavy armoring all the way to the shoulders, ending in a fin-like exhaust point on each side. The finger parts are now longer and end in sharp blade-like claws with a charging element in the center of each palm.

Ability: Blocker
Blocker is activated when Eve is successful in using a barrier or shield spell to block an attack, be it a melee attack or range spell. The energy that is used to form the protection spell is instantly absorbed back into Eva and is used to boost Eva’s power for the next attack or spell and to a very slight extent, Gen’s movement speed for the next 5 seconds.

Spoiler for Spells:

Movement

Sonic Move
Increases the user’s speed dramatically (but only temporarily) to the point where it cannot be followed by the human eye.

Sonic Step
Increases the user’s speed as much as Sonic Move does. Has a shorter travel distance but allows for consecutive Sonic Steps with a delay of 2 seconds in between each Step.

Rusher
Boosts the user’s movement speed by a quarter up to a minute. Using Sonic Move or Sonic Step however dispels Rusher’s effects on the caster.

Defensive

Defender
An auto-guard field spell that wraps around the mage.
Defense: AA

Defender Plus
Simple but sturdy barrier with slightly higher defensive strength and larger area than the average barrier spell.
Defense: AA+
Area: four meters

Triangle Shield
A rotating shield with the Belkan spell sigils is materialized. Singular direction only but has a longer reach.
Defense: AA
Area: two meter area in front of caster

Iron Wall
Powerful barrier spell that materializes as a dome while on ground or a sphere in air. Useful against long lasting bombardment or buster spells.
Defense: AAA
Area: radius of three meters from the caster as the center

Offensive spells

Defense Shatter
A specialized spell for breaking down the defensive spells. Energy is concentrated onto the point of impact to break down the defensive spell quickly. Effective on barrier, shield and field defensive spells.
Power: AA
Range: Melee

Bloody Blade
A battery attack spell, similar to spells like Stinger Blade and Plasma Lancer. Energy blades of pure black are form and directed towards a single target. The blades are either used as piercing weapons or detonated upon impact. Gen has no control after its release so it can only travel in a single direction. Maximum of eight blades per cast
Power: B
Speed: A
Control: AA+
Range: B+

Bloody Blade: Termination Shift
Up to 48 Bloody Blades are conjured and directed towards an area.
Power: A+
Speed: A
Control: AAA
Range: B+

Tracker
A fast bolt of energy that Gen controls to ambush opponents once he has them tied up. Up to three can be formed with the assistance of both devices.

Power: A
Speed: AA
Control: AA~S
Range: A+

Imbue
Charges Eva with magical energy, improving the power of each strike. One cartridge is used up maintaining 30seconds of the spell.
Power: A
Speed: A
Range: Melee

Crushing Grip
Gen uses Eva to execute a tight hold on whatever he is holding and discharges large amount of magical energy into the object. The discharge can disrupt devices and render them less effective over a period of time and usually has the side effect of crushing whichever part of the device it is. When used on a mage, it can disorientate or even knockout the mage, depending on the amount of energy discharged.
Power: B~AA-
Speed: AA
Range: Melee
Control: AAA

Black Fist
Eva is charged with a large amount of energy for a single strike. Consecutive strikes are possible with the expenditure of one cartridge per strike.
Power: AA
Speed: A
Range: Melee
Control: AA+

Progressive Edge
Not usable in Gauntlet Form. The blades or claws start to vibrate at very high frequency, enabling the blades to cut through solid objects easily and break down magical defenses more easily. One cartridge maintains the effect for 60 seconds.
Power: A+
Speed: AA
Range: Melee
Control: A+

Alkeid Buster
Gen’s buster spell. Channeled by Eva alone, the spell is produced as a wave of energy much like Subaru’s Divine Buster. Regulated and assisted by Avatar, the buster spell improves in power and becomes a coherent beam of energy, similar to Nanoha’s DB when using Raging Heart.
Power: B~AA
Speed: B
Range: A
Control: AA

Dire's Strike
A powerful anti-personnel spell. A six second charge is required for this to work, four if both devices are working in tandem for the charge.

Power: S
Speed: C
Range: melee
Control: S


Tactical/Support spells

Black Fort
A capture type barrier used to keep mages in or keep intruders out.

Power: AAA
Speed: AA+
Range: A radius of 4 kilometers with initial casting point as the center.
Control: AAA
Duration: Lasts until the barrier is broken or the caster dispels the spell.

Capture Bind
Binds the target mage, restricting movements when complete.
Binding power: A
Binding speed: A
Range: AA
Control: AA

Struggle Bind
A powerful bind that serves as a magical ‘ground‘. It can restrict a target from using their magical capabilities. It can also dispel magical effects like transformation magic or any buffs the mage may have on them.
Binding power: AA~S depending on number of cartridges used
Binding speed: B
Range: B-
Control: AAA

Torment Bind
Gen’s variation of Struggle Bind. Not only does it have the effects of said bind, the more the mage struggles, the tighter the bind goes, causing great magical feedback to the mage and often suffocating the bound mage.
Binding power: AA~AAA
Binding speed: B+
Range: B
Control: AAA+

Sonic Scream
A powerful disruption spell. Serves to disorientate and confuse others in the vicinity by exposing them to overwhelming amounts of auditory feed.
Power: AA+
Speed: A
Range: AA+
Control: AAA

Well that took quite long.

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Next batch of profiles will be the next two Jacks, Jec and Jat. And the reworked profile of Katrina.

Also, rewriting the Signum/Lutecia piece sometime for a different approach..perhaps.

Looks like tough work ahead, seeing as I'm doing so many of the girls at one go..

...

[ghazghkull]

Well here's chapter VI. Enjoy

Spoiler for MGLN Riot Force 6:

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Riot Force 6
Chapter VI Belkarangers

“What. The. Hell?!” was the immediate response from Syn. Of all the things she had expected, she had most definitely not expected that form of an entrance.

“Wow…” was all Vivio and Hayato could say. Whatever they had been expecting, they couldn’t remember anymore, especially with the way they had just presented themselves. By far that had been the most bizarre entrance they’ve seen in their lives.

“Okay…” was Rue’s comment. While she could commend them on the well placed theatrics and the presentation, she wondered if they were seriously the team that they were going to work with. If that was the case, she could probably understand the mixture of horror, annoyance, and just downright shame etched on the captain’s face, as he tried to his face hidden as much as he could in his palms.

This was a nightmare. This was an absolute nightmare, and he was willing to bet Hayate was probably watching them at this very moment through the security systems. She was probably going to record this. He knew he was not going to live this down; not by a long shot. Of all the teams she had to pick to help, she just had to pick the Belkarangers. They, by far and by any standards, were the quirkiest independent unit out there. Despite all the various missions they had accomplished during their time with the TSAB, it did not override the fact that everything they did was centered on the idea of what they call, “Super Sentai”.

“What was the point of all that?!” Syn yelled out, clearly unimpressed by the group’s entrance.

“That was our team roll call of course,” the one called BelkaRed replied, as the three of them walked up to them. Now clear of the glare of the sun, they now had a good view of what their Barrier Jackets looked like.

“Are those-” Hayato began.

“Sailor uniforms?” Vivio finished.

Before them, the Belkarangers were dressed in identical sailor uniforms, which included a standard blouse, with a white strip that ran down the middle, along with the insides of the pants they wore, forearm length gloves, and boots that ran reached almost to their knees. Save for the white collar in which the ends hung over their backs, their suits were the same colour as their respective names: Red for BelkaRed, yellow for BelkaYellow, and blue for BelkaBlue. And to complete the set, all three were wearing black visors over their eyes, and forehead mounted lights. However, from Hammer’s squad’s point of view, they looked rather ridiculous.

“Do you have names?” Syn added, her eyebrows twitching every so often at the sight of them.

“Ladies…there’s no need for your barrier jackets,” Farukon groaned in exasperation. “Could you…PLEASE just go back to your civilian clothing?”

The three of them looked at one another for a moment before nodding and saying in unison, “POWER DOWN!” Immediately, their barrier jackets dissolved and reverted back to their storage modes. In their place, stood some of the cutest girls Hayato had ever seen, all dressed in the same kind of training fatigues as they were, except they wore black shirts instead of the white shirts they wore .

“Asagi Colwell, at your service,” one called BelkaRed said, introducing herself. The girl radiated with exuberant energy, even thought she was standing. With red hair cascading down to her mid back, black eyes that radiated with confidence, and the fairest skin of the three, her overall appearance seemed to say she was not one to stand still for long.

“I am Mayura Lee Labatt Nogami,” said BelkaYellow, who spoke with a level of grace and dignity Asagi didn’t seem to have, “pleased to meet you.” Mayura had yellow hair that was braided and tied up into a neat little bun, piercing hazel eyes that radiated with discipline.

“I’m Julie Liu Ming,” BelkaBlue simply stated. She was stoic. Her present mannerisms seemed to indicate she wasn’t much of a person who enjoyed socialising. With thick blue hair that reached down just to the base of her neck, and her cold emerald eyes, and rather reserved choice of clothing, she seemed to be the type who just wanted to sit in a corner and be by their lonesome, or simply just didn’t care too much for others, outside her circle of friends.

Syn immediately directed her attention towards Farukon and threw an accusing finger towards the Belkarangers. “You expect us to work with THEM?!”

“Believe me, it wasn’t my choice,” Farukon muttered sadly, his face still hidden within his palms. “If I had a choice, I’d probably have us do this solo…”

“Then who’s choice was this?!” Syn asked, really peeved off at the utter cheesy entrance they just made.

Farukon sighed and answered. “Who else, but Colonel Yagami?”

Syn immediately closed her mouth as her eyes widened in shock. She had learned a while back that Hayate was one to anger. And as the top dog of the unit, she had made the choice; therefore Syn knew she didn’t have much of a choice. As such, she chose to resign to her fate, and stalked off towards some tree and grumbled to herself, wondering how unlucky she was working with a bunch of ‘yahoos’ and such.

“So, who’s in charge of this group?” Asagi asked. “We were just told that Hammer Squad was training at this hour, so I’m assuming you guys are it?”

“Yeah we are,” Farukon sighed. “I’m the commander of this squad, Captain Reddo Farukon.” What happened next would leave him in a daze for the hours to come.

“WHAT?!”

“ARE YOU SERIOUS?!”

“Impossible!”

“YOU’RE RED FALCON?!” the three of them shouted towards him, shocking the captain.

“Wha-what?” he asked them, completely taken aback by their outburst. The next thing he knew, Asagi was in front of him, stars practically radiating from her eyes.

“Ne, ne, tell me, where’s your Falcon Sword! What about your twin brace! Oh you have to show me your Falcon Break move!”

“Wait, wait, wait!” Farukon cried out, confused about what was happening. “What are you talking about?! I don’t use anything like those, and what’s this about this Falcon Break?! I’m just a normal mage. Not one of those guys from your Super Sentai!”

“But aren’t you Red Falcon, from Choujuu Sentai Liveman?” Asagi asked, now also somewhat confused.

“WHAT?!!”

“Well the leader of that squad was called Red Falcon and all, and since you said you’re Red Falcon! So you must be him!”

“What…my name is Reddo Farukon…not Red Falcon!” he replied, not realizing that the language Japanese was very similar to the Mid-Childan language he was speaking.

“How can you be Red Falcon and not Red Falcon?!” she asked back. “It just doesn’t make any sense to me!”

“Well…I…that is…uh…” by now, he was just utterly confused. With the sudden barrage of questions, he was left in a state of disarray, as he tried to sort his thoughts out, as his mind tried to get around the statement of how could he be Reddo Farukon, and yet not be Reddo Farukon.

“Umm…” Rue began, hoping to somehow clear the situation. “I think there’s a bit of a confusion.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Asagi demanded.

Rue glanced over at the other Belkarangers, but unfortunately, all of them were star struck, and probably weren’t going to help. Luckily, she knew a bit of the language the Takamachi were known to use. Using that info, she quickly understood the confusion, and prayed that she translated it correctly.

“Here’s the thing,” call up a screen she typed in the captain’s name. “This is our Captain’s name.” Displayed on the screen, it read Reddo Farukon. “The one you’re thinking off is probably this.” Displayed underneath his name was ‘red falcon’ written in completely different characters.

“His family name is Reddo, and his given name is Farukon. It just happened to be a coincidence, that the pronunciation of the Japanese term, and his name are the same. So you see…he’s not the person you think he is.”

“Oh. I see.” Immediately turning back towards Farukon, she lightly patted him on the shoulder.

“Sorry for the mix-up captain; didn’t think that the Mid-Childan language was quite similar to the Japanese language for a while there.”

Snapping to attention, she and the other two saluted Farukon and reported in. “Belkarangers reporting as ordered. For the duration of this mission, we will be working with your and your team.”

“Yeah…sure…” Farukon replied back, his mind still in a daze. “Umm…Rue, just…work on everyone’s personal combat styles or something…I’m going to sit down for a while…”

“Yes sir…” Rue replied back uneasily as she watched her Captain walk away from the group, seemingly disoriented about the whole situation.

“What’s up with him?” Asagi asked, raising an eyebrow in curiosity.

“You probably broke him is what,” Syn pointed out. “Seriously, what’s with you people with all the flashes, bangs, and longwinded transformation and the like?! Are you trying to make yourself known and killed in battle?!”

“It’s worked for us before,” Asagi stated casually. “Besides, we have our ways.”

“I swear, you’re going to regret that someday,” Syn muttered.

“Hey, hey, calm down people, Rue interjected, getting in between Syn and Asagi. “We’re allies, so no need to belittle each other, okay?”

“Fine,” Syn huffed, as she activated her device. “Can we just get started?”

“Sure,” Rue agreed. “Everyone grab activate or grab your devices, and let’s just practice a bit in one-on-one combat, before moving on to squad tactics.” Activating 7 drones, Hammer squad took four of them aside, and immediately began practicing on with them, while the Belkarangers were left somewhat confused, or rather their leader.

“So…what exactly do we do with these things?” Asagi asked, poking one of the drones.

“They’re simply training units, meant to spar against,” Julie quietly replied, taking one of the drones aside, and immediately began to train on them.

“Interesting,” Mayura commented, taking one of the two remaining drones aside, and began her own little training routine on it.

“Hmm,” Asagi pondered a moment as she stared at the drone for a moment. “Nah, I think I’ll just watch everyone.” Doing so, Asagi watched Hammer Squad go about their training. Watching them fight, she immediately noticed that all four of them were quite sloppy in what they did, at least by her standards. Their form was off, and their movements lacked a lot of the finesse required.

“Hey, Mayura, Julie, maybe we should help them instead,” Asagi pointed out.

“What’s that?” Mayura asked, looking over at Hammer and immediately catching on. “Oh…maybe we should.”

“Well then, let’s help him out,” Asagi stated, as she made her way towards them. “I’ll take care of the Ban-wannabe. Mayura, you take care of the supposed twins over there, and Julie, find a persona that’ll suit the situation, and take care of the one who seems to be the second in command.”

“Sure,” Mayura replied.

“You got it,” Julie replied, cracking her knuckles as she did.

Taking what he had learned from yesterday, he had immediately started to put it into practice. One of his major problems when using his gun-kata style of fighting was that his movements revolved more around parrying, and deflecting, where he should more focus on disabling, blocking, dodging, and if possible, grappling so that he could give himself the room he needed in order to fight someone in one-on-one combat. Putting the lesson to use, he did just that.

As the drone threw a kick to his head, he immediately ducked underneath the blow following up with a sweep to the back of the drone’s leg, throwing it off balance as it fell. Hayato immediately lined up his weapon, and blew off the drone’s head.

Calling up the next drone, he engaged it immediately, this time going on the offensive, and fired straight for it, only for the attack to streak past its head, as he was running when he fired, and the drone tilted its head to the side. Engaging in close-combat melee, Hayato redirected a punch to the head, as he grabbed the offending appendage with his free hand, and used it as leverage as he threw it over himself. Immediately recovering as the drone landed on its back, Hayato fired straight at the head, successfully destroying it. Letting out a sigh, he sat down to catch his breath. That drone was anything but light.

“Not bad kid, but your shooting sucks,” Asagi commented.

“What?!” Hayato replied back, caught by surprise by the sudden comment.

“What kind of a gunslinger are you?” Asagi elaborated, as she shifted her weight onto one leg and crossed her arms together. “Even with your style, why are you even worried about close combat? You should be working your ability to aim on the fly.”

“Well…I was told-”

“Doesn’t matter what you were told,” Asagi snapped. “Even Ban was better than you were at his gun slinging!”

“Ban?” he asked, clearly not getting who or what Asagi was talking about.

“Akaza Ban, DekaRed of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger!” she pretty much screamed. “Leader of the Dekaranger, he had some mean gun slinging skills, right off the bat! He could take out targets without looking at them-Oh better yet, give me them and I’ll show you what I mean!”

“Huh?”

Groaning at his lack of response and also unaware she had pretty much blindsided him, she grabbed both guns, and turned to the drone. “Now how to work this thing…”

“Umm…they operate on voice commands,” Hayato explained.

“Can you create 10 drones?” she requested from the drone. Immediately, the drone glowed as 9 more appeared around it.

“That’ll do perfectly,” Asagi happily commented. “Set drones to form a circle around me, each about 10 meters away from me, and on my command, have all 10 engage.” Reacting to her commands, the 10 drones formed a circle around her, and stood ready to attack.

“Step back kid, this might get a little messy.”

“Oh…sure,” he replied, and moved away from the group, and watched.

“Attack!” Reacting, all 10 drones immediately charged forwards towards her.

Smirking, Asagi threw her arms out horizontally and fired, shooting right through their heads. Immediately her arms snapped to a new position as she took out two more, before turning her body and realigning her arms, as she fired another two shots. Before the drones even got close enough to attack, she had downed 6, as she used one of the drones as leverage and leapt over it, landing outside the circle of drones.

“Got you!” Firing four more shots, she finished the scenario.

“And that, is how it’s done,” Asagi proudly stated, as she passed the guns back to Hayato. Hayato for his part couldn’t help but stare in amazement. In probably less than a minute, Asagi had taken on 10 drones at once, without a scratch, and without breaking a sweat. She wasn’t even trying to catch her breath, which only showed how much practice and experience she had with using fighting in such a manner. Gripping his guns tight in his hands, he knew what he had to do, if was going to perfect his style.

“Asagi, could you please teach me?” he requested, failing to keep the excitement out of his voice.

Asagi regarded him for some time. She could recognise the fire of wanting to learn, but she contemplated whether or not she should let him learn from her. However, she couldn’t bring herself to answer. There was just something about him that gnawed at her, but she wasn’t sure. For now, she decided to work with a compromise.

“Show me what you’ve got, and I’ll consider,” she offered. Hayato smiled in response.

“Reset scenario,” he ordered. “Exact same configuration, but designate target as myself.” Immediately, the drones appeared around Hayato in the same configuration as Asagi had set it up.

“Now modify the drones to be mages, using standard devices. Set combat level to 3.” Immediately all 10 drones were rearmed with standard TSAB devices, and stood ready to cast their spells. Asagi simply quirked an eyebrow, wondering what he was doing. If anything, he was going to get shot down immediately.

Hayato for his part cast two white spheres that began to circle around him. “Begin!” In that instant, the drones open fired. As they did, Hayato immediately dived forward, and ducked between two drones and ran straight for the trees. As he ran, the spheres immediately started to move and bounce off the drones, rapidly striking them once before moving on to the next one. Soon enough, all 10 drones had been hit and the spheres were going after Hayato as well. The drones immediately open fired on Hayato.

Looking back, Hayato watched as enemy fire streaked at him. Diving straight into the forest, he hid behind trees as the shots impacted the foliage around him. Quickly checking his device, he realized that they were empty, and quickly reloaded them. No sooner did he finish that he heard that familiar crunch of weight stepping into foliage.

Considering that as his signal, he dived out and fired two shots before diving behind another set of trees. Doing again, he leaped out and fired two shots before ducking behind a bush, as enemy fire impacted the air he was just occupying just moments prior. Leaning over, he fired again, before ducking, and crawling to a new position.

Just outside, Asagi watched as Hayato quickly downed four drones. She was surprised, but not because of his skills, which were still sloppy at best, but the fact that his aiming was horribly off, but his shots still found their mark. As he downed another two, she noticed that he was just aiming at the squad in general. But that had yet to explain how he was able to direct the attacks towards them, considering that he was hiding, and nowhere within direct line of sight to actually control them towards their targets. There was something that was guiding the shots, and it definitely wasn’t him.

Then an idea dawned on her. She wondered if the spheres he had used on the drones had something to do with the accuracy of his shooting. If that was the case, that may explain how and why his shots were always on target. There wasn’t much else she could guess at the moment, with the limited amount of info on hand.

Ducking underneath the drone’s continuous fire, Hayato immediately popped arm around the tree he was hiding, and fired another shot before hiding again. Doing it again with his other arm, he heard two explosions momentarily following the two shots, knowing he had downed an additional two. Hearing that the rate of fire was dropping, he peeked out from his hiding space and fired four more shots and ducked underneath bushes.

Looking up, he breathed a sigh of relief, as all that remained of the drones were their remains. Getting up, he dusted himself off, and walked back towards the edge of the forest where Asagi waited for him.

“Nice little show there,” she remarked. “How you do it? Mark’em and shoot’em?”

“Pretty much,” Hayato replied, wiping the sweat off his forehead. “My tracers will mark any signature I don’t recognise as a friendly, in which then I attune my shots so that they’ll fly to the nearest marked target.”

“I see,” Asagi commented, before flicking him hard in the head.

“Hey, what was that for?” Hayato asked, rubbing his forehead.

“That’s for coming up with such a STUPID idea!” Asagi pointed out.

“How’s it stupid?!”

“How the hell are you going to keep track when there’s more than maybe your team?” Asagi pointed out. “It’s one thing when it’s signatures you’ve memorized like your team, but how the hell are you going to filter out the rest of RF6 members, or outside help like us, or another unit?”

“But we-”

“But nothing,” she interjected, cutting him off. “What you’re trying to do is what a device would do, which is keeping track of all familiar targets, since they only need to detect familiar energy signatures once. And on top of that, everyone will be carrying some sort of device that has a particular signature that devices can ID, and know not to mark them.”

“I see…” Hayato said. And yet another person who had just taken his style, and ripped down even further.

“With that said,” Asagi sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose, “I’m definitely going to help you.” Smirking she watched as the surprised expression on Hayato’s face quickly turned into one of anticipation and excitement. “You’d better be ready for it, because I’m going to ensure you have the proper basics!”

“Alright, let’s do it!” Hayato exclaimed.

“First of all, since I’m not your commander and just a team mate, so you’ll respond to me by saying ‘roger’, and doing this:” coming to attention, she brought her right arm across her chest, with her hand held in a fist, held over her heart. Hayato simply looked at her sceptically.

“You want me to do that?!”

“First thing with working with me, Aka Red, is that you listen to my orders, UNDERSTOOD?!” Hayato couldn’t help but look at her sceptically. “IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!!”

“YES! UNDERSTOOD!” Asagi simply looked at him funny. A pregnant silence followed, as the two simply stood there, doing nothing for some time.

Quickly catching onto what she meant, Hayato resigned himself to his fate and immediately came to attention as his right arm came across his chest, with his right hand over his heart. “ROGER!”

“Good!” she happily exclaimed, her demeanour immediately switching to that of an excited, giddy girl. “LET’S GET STARTED!!!”

The two days spent training had been just as brutal. On the first day, after Farukon had recovered his wits, and discovered how much work that the Belkarangers were putting his team through, he had allowed them to train his group. Despite the sheer absurdity of the team’s penchant of theatrics, ands heroic poses, among other things, they had an impressive repertoire of skills, tactics, and knowledge than he did that were appropriate for his team, so he had allowed them to run the morning and midmorning training sessions.

During the afternoon sessions, he took over, as he had laid out the exact method of their infiltration. The mission itself was simple: they were outright break-in-and-enter the enemy base, make their way through the building, extract the Lost Logia, or Precious as Asagi seemed to enjoy calling, and get out. They were to avoid killing and only disable any and all opposition in their way. The expected highest rank of mage was A, and with the presence of the Belkarangers, that lowered the danger level. Not liking to admit it, bringing in the Belkarangers was the best thing. They were all close-combat fighters, which they needed for this mission. Speed was of the essence.

During the afternoon sessions, they practiced on a simulation of the actual location, based on the Intel they could obtain. The layout had been quite thorough, but even then Farukon knew there were going to be a few inconsistencies of the arrangement of the rooms and halls, and the guard patterns. With such thoughts in mind, he ensured that with each repeat of the mission, the system would alter various aspects of the simulation, as to keep everyone on their toes, and ready for anything. The last thing he wanted for his team was to be unprepared for the unexpected. If there was one thing that held true for any plan, it was that nothing ever went according to plan.

Having been finally let off for the night to do last minute preparations, and to get a good night’s sleep, the entire team had split off to do their own things. Vivio and Syn had simply gone straight to bed. Farukon had gone off to do something on his own in town. Rue had gone to find a work station and go about any work she had left undone. What sort of work she had, no one knew.

Hayato on the other hand, spent his time outside enjoying the evening sunlight on one of the few grass patches on base. In front of him was a small cloth he had laid down in front of him, which had both his devices dismantled into its individual parts. Next to him, a small cleaning kit was opened up, as he went about cleaning his device. Tomorrow would be his first mission with RF6. His heart pounded within at the thought of going through the mission. They had practiced and practiced, almost non-stop preparing themselves for any eventualities that could possibly happen.

Farukon on his part, despite his rather disarming manner, was a dedicated leader. Although he had yet to reveal his real device, having chosen to go through the scenario with a Belkan training device, Hayato could see that he was a strong, and experienced warrior. Even the Belkarangers were impressive warriors. Three of them were using a device that they called Survibusters that could also double as swords. The fact they weren’t using their true devices yet, spoke volumes of their skill. All four had displayed a level of combat maturity that he couldn’t even begin to comprehend. Even with all the flair, and theatrics they had put into their fight, much to Farukon’s chagrin, they were all capable warriors. He hoped that one day he could also reach that level of skill and maturity.

“You look like you’re having fun,” a voice suddenly called out. Looking behind, Hayato watched as Asagi approached him from the distance.

“Nothing really,” Hayato replied back, before turning back to his devices. “Just cleaning these things for tomorrow.”

“Oh,” she stated sitting down next to him. “What’s the need?”

“Just wanted to makes sure that this thing doesn’t have operational issues,” he answered, setting down the last piece, and began reassembling his two devices. Asagi simply watched him put together each unit, handling the two units with great care, making sure that everything came into place appropriately before moving on to the next step. If there was something she could understand, it was the passion for what one loved.

“You have a thing for guns don’t you?” Asagi idly asked.

“It’s always been my thing,” Hayato replied. “I know that there are other ways to cast a energy spell like that, but…there’s just something about guns that make it that much more appealing. I know that it’s a dangerous weapon not to be abused, but there’s just something about it that makes them stand out to me. I’m not exactly sure really.”

“What go you into it?” she asked, looking off towards the setting sun.

“Well…there’s this display back home,” he began, as he locked in the final parts of his second device. “Inside, it carries a gun. It was an actual projectile weapon, but everything that made it work is no longer in there. It’s just a shell of what it was, but it stands as a representation of what my grandfather used to do. He was a Law Enforcement officer before he joined the TSAB. My grandfather used to tell me tales about his times with that pistol back in his days; how he shot down suspects, how he used it as a means of creating an escape, and other such stories.

“I suppose what stood out, was that it was his partner. The one thing he could trust.”

“Sounds like he loved his weapon.”

“More than that,” he replied, emphasizing it. “He treated as if it was a part of him. He cleaned it, maintained it, everything. So when he joined the TSAB, he didn’t want to leave the gun behind, so he brought with him. Of course with the laws, he had to remove everything inside so that it was just a shell. It sort of broke his heart that he could no longer use it. But in the end, he put it up on a display.

“To him, Hikaru took a spot in his heart.”

“Hikaru?” she asked.

“He had named his gun, Hikaru,” he answered. “Of course, I guess hearing all the stories of what he had accomplished with Hikaru, it grew on me. When he finally moved back to earth, he entrusted me with Hikaru. To this day, I continue to maintain it, and honour its value. It represents one of the highlights of his moments. Eventually, my siblings and I managed to get our hands on the design of a ‘Jericho 941 F Double Action 9mm’ pistol, and based off of that, we built our devices, like these,” indicating towards the devices that were on the cloth.

“Since then, I’ve always been into pistols and such, but I don’t know if I’ll have a passion for guns for that long.”

For a while, the two simply sat in silence, as the sun cast the last of its radiant glow, bathing the whole base in its orange and yellow lights, bringing out a beauty not seen at any other part of the day.

“How old are you?” she eventually asked, breaking the silence.

“16, going on 17 in two weeks,” he replied.

“Two weeks…two weeks…” she muttered to herself before snapping her finger. “You’re born on the same day as me!”

“Really?!” he asked, surprised that he had the same birthday as her.

“Yup,” she replied back. “July 6, right?”

“Yeah, it is actually…” he answered. “But…what does my age have to do with anything?”

“You’re only 16, and you still have your whole life ahead of you. I’m 26, and I’ve still got a long way to go, and even I have my passions, which I’ve had since I was 10 I might add,” she explained. “So don’t go dismissing your dreams and your passions so soon. Look at your grandfather for example, he’s cherished Hikaru for how many years? Although he couldn’t use him for the latter part of his life, look where he and Hikaru stand. So before you go writing off a passion, ride it out. If it you find you’re losing that passion fine, it can’t be helped.”

“I guess you have a point there,” Hayato conceded. Asagi simply giggled and patted him on the head.

“Anyways, we need to get to bed,” Asagi stated as she got up. Waiting on Hayato, she watched as he cleaned up his gear and put everything way. Somehow, she felt she was going to have a lot of fun with the boy.

“You know,” she began, as they walked back towards the barracks, “I have the feeling we’re going to have fun times ahead kid. A lot of fun times.”

[Evangelion Xgouki]

Originally Posted by Kha

Hooray for Mayura. :3

Ryotaro: Yup. She's got a kind heart

Originally Posted by Kha

It's like in the GB Haruhi thread; bend one, bend all. =3

Oh boy...

Originally Posted by Kha

We've got Nanoha-kun and Kha-chan up and running (), all we need are the others...

...Subaru genderbent wouldn't be an original chara anymore...

...And now remember that scene of Nanoha on the bed and Fate undressing...?

...now imagine Nanoha-kun and Feito-kun...

*RUNS FROM EXPLODING BRAINS*

Ya know...that only reminds me of the room (and by room I mean at least 1000) of screaming yaoi-fangirls at the Bishounen Auction at Yaoi Con...

Originally Posted by Tk3997

Okay this is like Xbox HUGE (Ended up at 15,800 words) and though I've read it over a few times, I still might be missing stuff so feel free to point out anything that seems weird. I'm pretty happy with it overall though I think the fight scene might be a tad dry, but I wasn't getting much mojo going for it and basiclly just had to force it out to finish the piece so yeah I won't take any offense if you find it lacking.

Epic BLUECHESSIUM is EPIC!!

Great story there, TK! It was definitely worth all the wait.

Originally Posted by Kagerou

A preview of Scene 3. Posted because of implications...

Spoiler for Yuunoko in the making?:

"I'm from Earth, Yuuno-kun," Keroko said as she stared at the weapons. "I don't have any stigmas against guns." She reached for a Battle Rifle and lifted it up to her uninjured shoulder, peering through the ACOG scope and focusing on Yuuno's head. "But then, I don't know how to use one."

"First off, don't point it at your allies," Yuuno laughed, gently lifting the gun upward and away from his head. "Here, you need to be in the proper stance. Spread your feet apart a little and get a firm base." Yuuno put his hands on Keroko's waist and pushed her feet slightly with his, widening her stance and lowering her center of gravity.

Keroko began to blush. Wh-when did he get s-so forward?

Reaching behind him, Yuuno opened his palm and sent forth a chain bind that stretched out and wrapped around an ammo magazine, pulling it back toward him. Grabbing the magazine, Yuuno reached around and placed it in Keroko's hand. "When you load a gun, make sure you have it pointed away from you," He instructed. With his hand guiding Keroko's, they pushed the magazine into the empty slot for it. "As soon as you turn off the safety, the gun puts a cartridge into the barrel. Now, unlike Devices, guns don't have IFF, so you can easily shoot an ally as an enemy... or yourself."

Keroko nodded, unconsciously leaning back into Yuuno. His grip on my hands is so tight... she mused, trying to force down her blush. And look at those muscles! When did he get so strong? My god, is this what it takes to get to me?

"Put on hand here, and another one on the pistol grip," Yuuno said, still guiding Keroko's hands. He paused briefly to push up his glasses. Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the target dummy that dropped down. "Turn the safety off here. Now take aim, use the scope if you need to." Keroko nodded and peered through the scope at the target, her breathing somewhat heavier from earlier. "Now squeeze - don't pull! - the trigger." Together, the two mages fired the Battle Rifle, sending a three round burst square into the target's "chest". "Good! Again."

Together, the two fired 12 3-round bursts at target dummies. Occasionally, they would swivel a bit to focus on another target, but their stance didn't change. Oddly, Keroko's shoulder didn't bother her during this practice, and only an odd warm feeling seemed to touch her heart. As the magazine emptied and dropped to the floor, Yuuno reloaded the rifle and the two resumed firing. Slowly, Keroko got used to the repetition of firing the gun, feeling comfortable in Yuuno's imporomptu embrace as they expended several clips of ammo firing at targets.

This is... odd. Keroko decided. I mean, there are weirder things to do with a friend, but firing a gun? And why am I blushing so much?!

I wonder if it's because sometimes, you feel lonely. A voice seemed to tell her.
...maybe. Keroko thought to herself.

Keroko blocked out the thoughts, continuing to fire the Battle Rifle. The truth was, she didn't need Yuuno's help with aiming down the sights at the now-moving targets... but she wasn't about to tell him. He was...

...warm.

Wh-what is this?! Yuunoko? HERE? DO WANT

Originally Posted by Kha

Indeed, I found that I needed to change NOTHING other than gender!

Okay, maybe I made Nanoha more GAR than before, but it's just because of the higher testosterone level.

I suddenly have an image of Nanoha being like Guy Shishiro....

Originally Posted by Kha

Once the images appear, I'll bend the rest of the female Aces over! ...

...wait that didn't sound right.

KKKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! !!

Originally Posted by Keroko

Sometimes the result of a small post can be so... satisfying.

Yes...never underestimate the power of the internet. And I wonder who ever could have been the one to make such a little post?

Originally Posted by ghazghkull

Well here's chapter VI. Enjoy

Spoiler for MGLN Riot Force 6:

*snip*

KITAAAA!!!!

Oh man...poor, poor Farukon . I wonder if he did something to piss Hayate off to deserve all of this . Glad to finally see the Belkarangers in action, though. Gonna be interesting to see Hammer and the Rangers on the upcoming mission. And poor Vivio...she probably has to put up with Syn's ranting about how stupid the rangers are at night

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by ghazghkull

Well here's chapter VI. Enjoy

Spoiler for MGLN Riot Force 6:

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Riot Force 6
Chapter VI Belkarangers

“What. The. Hell?!” was the immediate response from Syn. Of all the things she had expected, she had most definitely not expected that form of an entrance.

“Wow…” was all Vivio and Hayato could say. Whatever they had been expecting, they couldn’t remember anymore, especially with the way they had just presented themselves. By far that had been the most bizarre entrance they’ve seen in their lives.

“Okay…” was Rue’s comment. While she could commend them on the well placed theatrics and the presentation, she wondered if they were seriously the team that they were going to work with. If that was the case, she could probably understand the mixture of horror, annoyance, and just downright shame etched on the captain’s face, as he tried to his face hidden as much as he could in his palms.

This was a nightmare. This was an absolute nightmare, and he was willing to bet Hayate was probably watching them at this very moment through the security systems. She was probably going to record this. He knew he was not going to live this down; not by a long shot. Of all the teams she had to pick to help, she just had to pick the Belkarangers. They, by far and by any standards, were the quirkiest independent unit out there. Despite all the various missions they had accomplished during their time with the TSAB, it did not override the fact that everything they did was centered on the idea of what they call, “Super Sentai”.

“What was the point of all that?!” Syn yelled out, clearly unimpressed by the group’s entrance.

“That was our team roll call of course,” the one called BelkaRed replied, as the three of them walked up to them. Now clear of the glare of the sun, they now had a good view of what their Barrier Jackets looked like.

“Are those-” Hayato began.

“Sailor uniforms?” Vivio finished.

Before them, the Belkarangers were dressed in identical sailor uniforms, which included a standard blouse, with a white strip that ran down the middle, along with the insides of the pants they wore, forearm length gloves, and boots that ran reached almost to their knees. Save for the white collar in which the ends hung over their backs, their suits were the same colour as their respective names: Red for BelkaRed, yellow for BelkaYellow, and blue for BelkaBlue. And to complete the set, all three were wearing black visors over their eyes, and forehead mounted lights. However, from Hammer’s squad’s point of view, they looked rather ridiculous.

“Do you have names?” Syn added, her eyebrows twitching every so often at the sight of them.

“Ladies…there’s no need for your barrier jackets,” Farukon groaned in exasperation. “Could you…PLEASE just go back to your civilian clothing?”

The three of them looked at one another for a moment before nodding and saying in unison, “POWER DOWN!” Immediately, their barrier jackets dissolved and reverted back to their storage modes. In their place, stood some of the cutest girls Hayato had ever seen, all dressed in the same kind of training fatigues as they were, except they wore black shirts instead of the white shirts they wore .

“Asagi Colwell, at your service,” one called BelkaRed said, introducing herself. The girl radiated with exuberant energy, even thought she was standing. With red hair cascading down to her mid back, black eyes that radiated with confidence, and the fairest skin of the three, her overall appearance seemed to say she was not one to stand still for long.

“I am Mayura Lee Labatt Nogami,” said BelkaYellow, who spoke with a level of grace and dignity Asagi didn’t seem to have, “pleased to meet you.” Mayura had yellow hair that was braided and tied up into a neat little bun, piercing hazel eyes that radiated with discipline.

“I’m Julie Liu Ming,” BelkaBlue simply stated. She was stoic. Her present mannerisms seemed to indicate she wasn’t much of a person who enjoyed socialising. With thick blue hair that reached down just to the base of her neck, and her cold emerald eyes, and rather reserved choice of clothing, she seemed to be the type who just wanted to sit in a corner and be by their lonesome, or simply just didn’t care too much for others, outside her circle of friends.

Syn immediately directed her attention towards Farukon and threw an accusing finger towards the Belkarangers. “You expect us to work with THEM?!”

“Believe me, it wasn’t my choice,” Farukon muttered sadly, his face still hidden within his palms. “If I had a choice, I’d probably have us do this solo…”

“Then who’s choice was this?!” Syn asked, really peeved off at the utter cheesy entrance they just made.

Farukon sighed and answered. “Who else, but Colonel Yagami?”

Syn immediately closed her mouth as her eyes widened in shock. She had learned a while back that Hayate was one to anger. And as the top dog of the unit, she had made the choice; therefore Syn knew she didn’t have much of a choice. As such, she chose to resign to her fate, and stalked off towards some tree and grumbled to herself, wondering how unlucky she was working with a bunch of ‘yahoos’ and such.

“So, who’s in charge of this group?” Asagi asked. “We were just told that Hammer Squad was training at this hour, so I’m assuming you guys are it?”

“Yeah we are,” Farukon sighed. “I’m the commander of this squad, Captain Reddo Farukon.” What happened next would leave him in a daze for the hours to come.

“WHAT?!”

“ARE YOU SERIOUS?!”

“Impossible!”

“YOU’RE RED FALCON?!” the three of them shouted towards him, shocking the captain.

“Wha-what?” he asked them, completely taken aback by their outburst. The next thing he knew, Asagi was in front of him, stars practically radiating from her eyes.

“Ne, ne, tell me, where’s your Falcon Sword! What about your twin brace! Oh you have to show me your Falcon Break move!”

“Wait, wait, wait!” Farukon cried out, confused about what was happening. “What are you talking about?! I don’t use anything like those, and what’s this about this Falcon Break?! I’m just a normal mage. Not one of those guys from your Super Sentai!”

“But aren’t you Red Falcon, from Choujuu Sentai Liveman?” Asagi asked, now also somewhat confused.

“WHAT?!!”

“Well the leader of that squad was called Red Falcon and all, and since you said you’re Red Falcon! So you must be him!”

“What…my name is Reddo Farukon…not Red Falcon!” he replied, not realizing that the language Japanese was very similar to the Mid-Childan language he was speaking.

“How can you be Red Falcon and not Red Falcon?!” she asked back. “It just doesn’t make any sense to me!”

“Well…I…that is…uh…” by now, he was just utterly confused. With the sudden barrage of questions, he was left in a state of disarray, as he tried to sort his thoughts out, as his mind tried to get around the statement of how could he be Reddo Farukon, and yet not be Reddo Farukon.

“Umm…” Rue began, hoping to somehow clear the situation. “I think there’s a bit of a confusion.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Asagi demanded.

Rue glanced over at the other Belkarangers, but unfortunately, all of them were star struck, and probably weren’t going to help. Luckily, she knew a bit of the language the Takamachi were known to use. Using that info, she quickly understood the confusion, and prayed that she translated it correctly.

“Here’s the thing,” call up a screen she typed in the captain’s name. “This is our Captain’s name.” Displayed on the screen, it read Reddo Farukon. “The one you’re thinking off is probably this.” Displayed underneath his name was ‘red falcon’ written in completely different characters.

“His family name is Reddo, and his given name is Farukon. It just happened to be a coincidence, that the pronunciation of the Japanese term, and his name are the same. So you see…he’s not the person you think he is.”

“Oh. I see.” Immediately turning back towards Farukon, she lightly patted him on the shoulder.

“Sorry for the mix-up captain; didn’t think that the Mid-Childan language was quite similar to the Japanese language for a while there.”

Snapping to attention, she and the other two saluted Farukon and reported in. “Belkarangers reporting as ordered. For the duration of this mission, we will be working with your and your team.”

“Yeah…sure…” Farukon replied back, his mind still in a daze. “Umm…Rue, just…work on everyone’s personal combat styles or something…I’m going to sit down for a while…”

“Yes sir…” Rue replied back uneasily as she watched her Captain walk away from the group, seemingly disoriented about the whole situation.

“What’s up with him?” Asagi asked, raising an eyebrow in curiosity.

“You probably broke him is what,” Syn pointed out. “Seriously, what’s with you people with all the flashes, bangs, and longwinded transformation and the like?! Are you trying to make yourself known and killed in battle?!”

“It’s worked for us before,” Asagi stated casually. “Besides, we have our ways.”

“I swear, you’re going to regret that someday,” Syn muttered.

“Hey, hey, calm down people, Rue interjected, getting in between Syn and Asagi. “We’re allies, so no need to belittle each other, okay?”

“Fine,” Syn huffed, as she activated her device. “Can we just get started?”

“Sure,” Rue agreed. “Everyone grab activate or grab your devices, and let’s just practice a bit in one-on-one combat, before moving on to squad tactics.” Activating 7 drones, Hammer squad took four of them aside, and immediately began practicing on with them, while the Belkarangers were left somewhat confused, or rather their leader.

“So…what exactly do we do with these things?” Asagi asked, poking one of the drones.

“They’re simply training units, meant to spar against,” Julie quietly replied, taking one of the drones aside, and immediately began to train on them.

“Interesting,” Mayura commented, taking one of the two remaining drones aside, and began her own little training routine on it.

“Hmm,” Asagi pondered a moment as she stared at the drone for a moment. “Nah, I think I’ll just watch everyone.” Doing so, Asagi watched Hammer Squad go about their training. Watching them fight, she immediately noticed that all four of them were quite sloppy in what they did, at least by her standards. Their form was off, and their movements lacked a lot of the finesse required.

“Hey, Mayura, Julie, maybe we should help them instead,” Asagi pointed out.

“What’s that?” Mayura asked, looking over at Hammer and immediately catching on. “Oh…maybe we should.”

“Well then, let’s help him out,” Asagi stated, as she made her way towards them. “I’ll take care of the Ban-wannabe. Mayura, you take care of the supposed twins over there, and Julie, find a persona that’ll suit the situation, and take care of the one who seems to be the second in command.”

“Sure,” Mayura replied.

“You got it,” Julie replied, cracking her knuckles as she did.

Taking what he had learned from yesterday, he had immediately started to put it into practice. One of his major problems when using his gun-kata style of fighting was that his movements revolved more around parrying, and deflecting, where he should more focus on disabling, blocking, dodging, and if possible, grappling so that he could give himself the room he needed in order to fight someone in one-on-one combat. Putting the lesson to use, he did just that.

As the drone threw a kick to his head, he immediately ducked underneath the blow following up with a sweep to the back of the drone’s leg, throwing it off balance as it fell. Hayato immediately lined up his weapon, and blew off the drone’s head.

Calling up the next drone, he engaged it immediately, this time going on the offensive, and fired straight for it, only for the attack to streak past its head, as he was running when he fired, and the drone tilted its head to the side. Engaging in close-combat melee, Hayato redirected a punch to the head, as he grabbed the offending appendage with his free hand, and used it as leverage as he threw it over himself. Immediately recovering as the drone landed on its back, Hayato fired straight at the head, successfully destroying it. Letting out a sigh, he sat down to catch his breath. That drone was anything but light.

“Not bad kid, but your shooting sucks,” Asagi commented.

“What?!” Hayato replied back, caught by surprise by the sudden comment.

“What kind of a gunslinger are you?” Asagi elaborated, as she shifted her weight onto one leg and crossed her arms together. “Even with your style, why are you even worried about close combat? You should be working your ability to aim on the fly.”

“Well…I was told-”

“Doesn’t matter what you were told,” Asagi snapped. “Even Ban was better than you were at his gun slinging!”

“Ban?” he asked, clearly not getting who or what Asagi was talking about.

“Akaza Ban, DekaRed of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger!” she pretty much screamed. “Leader of the Dekaranger, he had some mean gun slinging skills, right off the bat! He could take out targets without looking at them-Oh better yet, give me them and I’ll show you what I mean!”

“Huh?”

Groaning at his lack of response and also unaware she had pretty much blindsided him, she grabbed both guns, and turned to the drone. “Now how to work this thing…”

“Umm…they operate on voice commands,” Hayato explained.

“Can you create 10 drones?” she requested from the drone. Immediately, the drone glowed as 9 more appeared around it.

“That’ll do perfectly,” Asagi happily commented. “Set drones to form a circle around me, each about 10 meters away from me, and on my command, have all 10 engage.” Reacting to her commands, the 10 drones formed a circle around her, and stood ready to attack.

“Step back kid, this might get a little messy.”

“Oh…sure,” he replied, and moved away from the group, and watched.

“Attack!” Reacting, all 10 drones immediately charged forwards towards her.

Smirking, Asagi threw her arms out horizontally and fired, shooting right through their heads. Immediately her arms snapped to a new position as she took out two more, before turning her body and realigning her arms, as she fired another two shots. Before the drones even got close enough to attack, she had downed 6, as she used one of the drones as leverage and leapt over it, landing outside the circle of drones.

“Got you!” Firing four more shots, she finished the scenario.

“And that, is how it’s done,” Asagi proudly stated, as she passed the guns back to Hayato. Hayato for his part couldn’t help but stare in amazement. In probably less than a minute, Asagi had taken on 10 drones at once, without a scratch, and without breaking a sweat. She wasn’t even trying to catch her breath, which only showed how much practice and experience she had with using fighting in such a manner. Gripping his guns tight in his hands, he knew what he had to do, if was going to perfect his style.

“Asagi, could you please teach me?” he requested, failing to keep the excitement out of his voice.

Asagi regarded him for some time. She could recognise the fire of wanting to learn, but she contemplated whether or not she should let him learn from her. However, she couldn’t bring herself to answer. There was just something about him that gnawed at her, but she wasn’t sure. For now, she decided to work with a compromise.

“Show me what you’ve got, and I’ll consider,” she offered. Hayato smiled in response.

“Reset scenario,” he ordered. “Exact same configuration, but designate target as myself.” Immediately, the drones appeared around Hayato in the same configuration as Asagi had set it up.

“Now modify the drones to be mages, using standard devices. Set combat level to 3.” Immediately all 10 drones were rearmed with standard TSAB devices, and stood ready to cast their spells. Asagi simply quirked an eyebrow, wondering what he was doing. If anything, he was going to get shot down immediately.

Hayato for his part cast two white spheres that began to circle around him. “Begin!” In that instant, the drones open fired. As they did, Hayato immediately dived forward, and ducked between two drones and ran straight for the trees. As he ran, the spheres immediately started to move and bounce off the drones, rapidly striking them once before moving on to the next one. Soon enough, all 10 drones had been hit and the spheres were going after Hayato as well. The drones immediately open fired on Hayato.

Looking back, Hayato watched as enemy fire streaked at him. Diving straight into the forest, he hid behind trees as the shots impacted the foliage around him. Quickly checking his device, he realized that they were empty, and quickly reloaded them. No sooner did he finish that he heard that familiar crunch of weight stepping into foliage.

Considering that as his signal, he dived out and fired two shots before diving behind another set of trees. Doing again, he leaped out and fired two shots before ducking behind a bush, as enemy fire impacted the air he was just occupying just moments prior. Leaning over, he fired again, before ducking, and crawling to a new position.

Just outside, Asagi watched as Hayato quickly downed four drones. She was surprised, but not because of his skills, which were still sloppy at best, but the fact that his aiming was horribly off, but his shots still found their mark. As he downed another two, she noticed that he was just aiming at the squad in general. But that had yet to explain how he was able to direct the attacks towards them, considering that he was hiding, and nowhere within direct line of sight to actually control them towards their targets. There was something that was guiding the shots, and it definitely wasn’t him.

Then an idea dawned on her. She wondered if the spheres he had used on the drones had something to do with the accuracy of his shooting. If that was the case, that may explain how and why his shots were always on target. There wasn’t much else she could guess at the moment, with the limited amount of info on hand.

Ducking underneath the drone’s continuous fire, Hayato immediately popped arm around the tree he was hiding, and fired another shot before hiding again. Doing it again with his other arm, he heard two explosions momentarily following the two shots, knowing he had downed an additional two. Hearing that the rate of fire was dropping, he peeked out from his hiding space and fired four more shots and ducked underneath bushes.

Looking up, he breathed a sigh of relief, as all that remained of the drones were their remains. Getting up, he dusted himself off, and walked back towards the edge of the forest where Asagi waited for him.

“Nice little show there,” she remarked. “How you do it? Mark’em and shoot’em?”

“Pretty much,” Hayato replied, wiping the sweat off his forehead. “My tracers will mark any signature I don’t recognise as a friendly, in which then I attune my shots so that they’ll fly to the nearest marked target.”

“I see,” Asagi commented, before flicking him hard in the head.

“Hey, what was that for?” Hayato asked, rubbing his forehead.

“That’s for coming up with such a STUPID idea!” Asagi pointed out.

“How’s it stupid?!”

“How the hell are you going to keep track when there’s more than maybe your team?” Asagi pointed out. “It’s one thing when it’s signatures you’ve memorized like your team, but how the hell are you going to filter out the rest of RF6 members, or outside help like us, or another unit?”

“But we-”

“But nothing,” she interjected, cutting him off. “What you’re trying to do is what a device would do, which is keeping track of all familiar targets, since they only need to detect familiar energy signatures once. And on top of that, everyone will be carrying some sort of device that has a particular signature that devices can ID, and know not to mark them.”

“I see…” Hayato said. And yet another person who had just taken his style, and ripped down even further.

“With that said,” Asagi sighed, rubbing the bridge of her nose, “I’m definitely going to help you.” Smirking she watched as the surprised expression on Hayato’s face quickly turned into one of anticipation and excitement. “You’d better be ready for it, because I’m going to ensure you have the proper basics!”

“Alright, let’s do it!” Hayato exclaimed.

“First of all, since I’m not your commander and just a team mate, so you’ll respond to me by saying ‘roger’, and doing this:” coming to attention, she brought her right arm across her chest, with her hand held in a fist, held over her heart. Hayato simply looked at her sceptically.

“You want me to do that?!”

“First thing with working with me, Aka Red, is that you listen to my orders, UNDERSTOOD?!” Hayato couldn’t help but look at her sceptically. “IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!!”

“YES! UNDERSTOOD!” Asagi simply looked at him funny. A pregnant silence followed, as the two simply stood there, doing nothing for some time.

Quickly catching onto what she meant, Hayato resigned himself to his fate and immediately came to attention as his right arm came across his chest, with his right hand over his heart. “ROGER!”

“Good!” she happily exclaimed, her demeanour immediately switching to that of an excited, giddy girl. “LET’S GET STARTED!!!”

The two days spent training had been just as brutal. On the first day, after Farukon had recovered his wits, and discovered how much work that the Belkarangers were putting his team through, he had allowed them to train his group. Despite the sheer absurdity of the team’s penchant of theatrics, ands heroic poses, among other things, they had an impressive repertoire of skills, tactics, and knowledge than he did that were appropriate for his team, so he had allowed them to run the morning and midmorning training sessions.

During the afternoon sessions, he took over, as he had laid out the exact method of their infiltration. The mission itself was simple: they were outright break-in-and-enter the enemy base, make their way through the building, extract the Lost Logia, or Precious as Asagi seemed to enjoy calling, and get out. They were to avoid killing and only disable any and all opposition in their way. The expected highest rank of mage was A, and with the presence of the Belkarangers, that lowered the danger level. Not liking to admit it, bringing in the Belkarangers was the best thing. They were all close-combat fighters, which they needed for this mission. Speed was of the essence.

During the afternoon sessions, they practiced on a simulation of the actual location, based on the Intel they could obtain. The layout had been quite thorough, but even then Farukon knew there were going to be a few inconsistencies of the arrangement of the rooms and halls, and the guard patterns. With such thoughts in mind, he ensured that with each repeat of the mission, the system would alter various aspects of the simulation, as to keep everyone on their toes, and ready for anything. The last thing he wanted for his team was to be unprepared for the unexpected. If there was one thing that held true for any plan, it was that nothing ever went according to plan.

Having been finally let off for the night to do last minute preparations, and to get a good night’s sleep, the entire team had split off to do their own things. Vivio and Syn had simply gone straight to bed. Farukon had gone off to do something on his own in town. Rue had gone to find a work station and go about any work she had left undone. What sort of work she had, no one knew.

Hayato on the other hand, spent his time outside enjoying the evening sunlight on one of the few grass patches on base. In front of him was a small cloth he had laid down in front of him, which had both his devices dismantled into its individual parts. Next to him, a small cleaning kit was opened up, as he went about cleaning his device. Tomorrow would be his first mission with RF6. His heart pounded within at the thought of going through the mission. They had practiced and practiced, almost non-stop preparing themselves for any eventualities that could possibly happen.

Farukon on his part, despite his rather disarming manner, was a dedicated leader. Although he had yet to reveal his real device, having chosen to go through the scenario with a Belkan training device, Hayato could see that he was a strong, and experienced warrior. Even the Belkarangers were impressive warriors. Three of them were using a device that they called Survibusters that could also double as swords. The fact they weren’t using their true devices yet, spoke volumes of their skill. All four had displayed a level of combat maturity that he couldn’t even begin to comprehend. Even with all the flair, and theatrics they had put into their fight, much to Farukon’s chagrin, they were all capable warriors. He hoped that one day he could also reach that level of skill and maturity.

“You look like you’re having fun,” a voice suddenly called out. Looking behind, Hayato watched as Asagi approached him from the distance.

“Nothing really,” Hayato replied back, before turning back to his devices. “Just cleaning these things for tomorrow.”

“Oh,” she stated sitting down next to him. “What’s the need?”

“Just wanted to makes sure that this thing doesn’t have operational issues,” he answered, setting down the last piece, and began reassembling his two devices. Asagi simply watched him put together each unit, handling the two units with great care, making sure that everything came into place appropriately before moving on to the next step. If there was something she could understand, it was the passion for what one loved.

“You have a thing for guns don’t you?” Asagi idly asked.

“It’s always been my thing,” Hayato replied. “I know that there are other ways to cast a energy spell like that, but…there’s just something about guns that make it that much more appealing. I know that it’s a dangerous weapon not to be abused, but there’s just something about it that makes them stand out to me. I’m not exactly sure really.”

“What go you into it?” she asked, looking off towards the setting sun.

“Well…there’s this display back home,” he began, as he locked in the final parts of his second device. “Inside, it carries a gun. It was an actual projectile weapon, but everything that made it work is no longer in there. It’s just a shell of what it was, but it stands as a representation of what my grandfather used to do. He was a Law Enforcement officer before he joined the TSAB. My grandfather used to tell me tales about his times with that pistol back in his days; how he shot down suspects, how he used it as a means of creating an escape, and other such stories.

“I suppose what stood out, was that it was his partner. The one thing he could trust.”

“Sounds like he loved his weapon.”

“More than that,” he replied, emphasizing it. “He treated as if it was a part of him. He cleaned it, maintained it, everything. So when he joined the TSAB, he didn’t want to leave the gun behind, so he brought with him. Of course with the laws, he had to remove everything inside so that it was just a shell. It sort of broke his heart that he could no longer use it. But in the end, he put it up on a display.

“To him, Hikaru took a spot in his heart.”

“Hikaru?” she asked.

“He had named his gun, Hikaru,” he answered. “Of course, I guess hearing all the stories of what he had accomplished with Hikaru, it grew on me. When he finally moved back to earth, he entrusted me with Hikaru. To this day, I continue to maintain it, and honour its value. It represents one of the highlights of his moments. Eventually, my siblings and I managed to get our hands on the design of a ‘Jericho 941 F Double Action 9mm’ pistol, and based off of that, we built our devices, like these,” indicating towards the devices that were on the cloth.

“Since then, I’ve always been into pistols and such, but I don’t know if I’ll have a passion for guns for that long.”

For a while, the two simply sat in silence, as the sun cast the last of its radiant glow, bathing the whole base in its orange and yellow lights, bringing out a beauty not seen at any other part of the day.

“How old are you?” she eventually asked, breaking the silence.

“16, going on 17 in two weeks,” he replied.

“Two weeks…two weeks…” she muttered to herself before snapping her finger. “You’re born on the same day as me!”

“Really?!” he asked, surprised that he had the same birthday as her.

“Yup,” she replied back. “July 6, right?”

“Yeah, it is actually…” he answered. “But…what does my age have to do with anything?”

“You’re only 16, and you still have your whole life ahead of you. I’m 26, and I’ve still got a long way to go, and even I have my passions, which I’ve had since I was 10 I might add,” she explained. “So don’t go dismissing your dreams and your passions so soon. Look at your grandfather for example, he’s cherished Hikaru for how many years? Although he couldn’t use him for the latter part of his life, look where he and Hikaru stand. So before you go writing off a passion, ride it out. If it you find you’re losing that passion fine, it can’t be helped.”

“I guess you have a point there,” Hayato conceded. Asagi simply giggled and patted him on the head.

“Anyways, we need to get to bed,” Asagi stated as she got up. Waiting on Hayato, she watched as he cleaned up his gear and put everything way. Somehow, she felt she was going to have a lot of fun with the boy.

“You know,” she began, as they walked back towards the barracks, “I have the feeling we’re going to have fun times ahead kid. A lot of fun times.”

"Less Syn hairpulling then I expected, but we got lots of laughs in return, so it's cool. Red Falcon, hehehe.

By the way, I did-"

"Keroko-kun! Keroko-kun!"

"Wha? Keroko-tan?"

What looked like a tiny Rein sized version of Keroko-chan flew into the room at great speed. As soon as her eyes found Keroko-kun she started pulling on his shirt.

"Come on! Come on! Kane-san called for us! We need to go!"

"Wait, Keroko-tan calm down, can't you just go by yourself as usual?"

"No way! Kane-san send me to get you personally, it's really really big! Come on, come on!"

Pulling Keroko-kun from his seat, the tiny girl proceeded to push him towards the door.

"Wai- Keroko-tan, stop pushing!"

"Hayaku! Hayaku!"

As Keroko-kun was forcibly retrieved to fullfill his duties as a member of Kane's inner circle, a short silence fell over the room, before being broken by the sound of roaring engines and the cries of many. Keroko-kun stood on the high spot of a Raider Buggy, Keroko-tan on his shoulder. He stared at his subordinates, seated on Attack Bikes or in tanks or Reckoners, who had come to pick up their commander. He raised his fist in the air, and with a deafening roar the vehicles surged forward, and a massive cry roared througout the street.

KANE LIVES!

Yes I picked up Kane's Wrath today, yes it is awesome, yes Keroko-tan is enjoying it immensely as well.

[Evangelion Xgouki]

Originally Posted by Keroko

By the way, I did-"

"Keroko-kun! Keroko-kun!"

"Wha? Keroko-tan?"

What looked like a tiny Rein sized version of Keroko-chan flew into the room at great speed. As soon as her eyes found Keroko-kun she started pulling on his shirt.

"Come on! Come on! Kane-san called for us! We need to go!"

"Wait, Keroko-tan calm down, can't you just go by yourself as usual?"

"No way! Kane-san send me to get you personally, it's really really big! Come on, come on!"

Pulling Keroko-kun from his seat, the tiny girl proceeded to push him towards the door.

"Wai- Keroko-tan, stop pushing!"

"Hayaku! Hayaku!"

As Keroko-kun was forcibly retrieved to fullfill his duties as a member of Kane's inner circle, a short silence fell over the room, before being broken by the sound of roaring engines and the cries of many. Keroko-kun stood on the high spot of a Raider Buggy, Keroko-tan on his shoulder. He stared at his subordinates, seated on Attack Bikes or in tanks or Reckoners, who had come to pick up their commander. He raised his fist in the air, and with a deafening roar the vehicles surged forward, and a massive cry roared througout the street.

KANE LIVES!

Yes I picked up Kane's Wrath today, yes it is awesome, yes Keroko-tan is enjoying it immensely as well.

"What's with all the noise?"

*checks his new message*

"I-it's time!"

He runs to his basement and pulls his body armor, helmet, and rifle from the hidden wall compartment. A push of a concealed button reveals a Recon Bike cleaned and fueled. A short ride later, the roar of the bike's engine is drowned out by the sound of the other bikes, buggies, and tanks. The procession of vehicles slowed to a stop to allow the newcomer, his commander ranks glistening in the sun, transfer to his position on the Scorpion tank. With the loud roar of dozens of engines, the procession...the army drove on to meet their brothers in arms.

"Sir!" called out the driver below, "ETA to rendezvous with Deathwing... 20 minutes."

He raised a fist to the sky to proclaim the glorious news:

PEACE THROUGH POWER!!!

THE MESSIAH LIVES!!!!

Awaits for his pre-order to be delivered to day upon returning home from work...mwahahaha....

[PhoenixG]

*blinks blinks*

Eurmmm..... did I miss something here? O.o;

[Tk3997]

Kane's Wrath the C&C Ex-Pack is dropping this week.

Of course I fight for the side of justice!

TK grabs a long trench coat, a pair of heavy boots, and a beret from his closet and heads outside to where the Steel Talon's Battalion is already forming up. ascending a later he takes his position in the open Copula of of a MARV adjusting his cap slightly before waving his armored battalion froward. "Alright Boys we've got some Religious Fanatics to smack some sense into one hyper velocity rail gun slug at a time so let's get rolling!"A sound like rolling thunder echoes across the land as dozens of 60 ton walkers fall into formation behind the mammoth armored vehicle at the head of the formation.

[Keroko]

*stealths behind Tk and places a note on his back*

This week? I'm playing it as we speak. :3

See you on the battlefield.

~ Commander Keroko.