That thought would blow time space to pieces!!! (Not to mention disturb Kha Alexei to pieces )
JUST AS PLANNED!
Quote:
But I'm not against RHxAO. Either that, or they might just discover that they are sisters, having been demonstrated to have "similar properties". If that's the case, Bardiche is one lucky Device, if both fall for him.
And so...
RHxAO - Sistership yuri.
BardichexAO - We might get to see Jealousy RH
ReinxAO - AO learns to MOE?!
ArtherionxAO - Very possible.
Somehow, I ended up with Ace DevicesXAO.
Tell me about it...
Quote:
EDIT: And the next step after ArtherionxAO...
Spoiler for You... sure?:
dere-dere KerokoxSerge FTMFW!!!
XD
*Chain ICB + Aether Ruler >>>> Creator-san*
*lends Keroko the Gradius* *Keroko boosts of in excitement*
Hmm, backlog. Probably due to the fact that I just spend a lot of time trying to rebuild my dark domain. <--- Has just bought Overlord and is loving it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by USB500
Actually it's ALL OF THEM!
Spoiler:
Spoiler for are you sure....?:
Spoiler for are you reaaaaaaaaaaaaally sure?:
Spoiler for here you go:
Nanoha: but Fuuko-chan already likes us! Can't we keep it, Hikki? Hikki: no. Fate: we promise we won't do anything bad to her. Pretty please? Hikki: no. Hayate: we will bathe her, feed her and even prepare bed for her! Hikki: NO. Keroko: you just want to keep Fuuko-chan for yourself... Hikki: NO! Aces: we promise to take a very great care of Fuuko-chan! Please, Hikki, pretty please? Hikki: when it's NO, it's NO. *crosses arms* negotiation closed. Aces: ....... *they immediately go to one corner, planning of something while occassionally peeking at him. Hikki, Armstrong & Elisa watch at them in intrigue. Fuuko calmly meows on Hikki's shoulder*
Aces: SET UP! *are glowing in light* Hikki: that spell..... MASAKA! Aces: ONIICHAN, ONEGAI!!!! Hikki: *twitches* it's the ONIICHAN BREAKER EX+!!!!! Must resist! My eyes! AH!!!!! Aces: *stare at Hikki. Then their eyes become droopy* Oniichan....... dame? Hikki's unconscious self: oniichan-oniichan-oniichan-oniichan-oniichan..... Hikki: ah, damn it! You girls always know how to take advantage over my weakness..... *hands over Fuuko* here. Aces: *returns to normal form* yatta! *high-fives each other* Hikki: *backs away from them and sobs* I have failed to overcome the desire..... Armstrong: now, Hikki, you still have a lot to learn... *pats back* Elisa: Fuuko: meow. ^__^
If the onegai volley fails, the dame volley will finish it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by LoweGear
So they can actually counter the Onii-chan Breaker with their own Onii-chan Breaker? I take back what I said, they CAN counter that most MOE of attacks
It's not really a counter when you will become the biggest victim of it, right? I mean, just imagine what Hayate will do when she finds out. I see new cosplay victims.
What do you have in mind? I couldn't help but think Female AceXSerge for some reason.
Keroko with Serge? XD Not likely, Serge is waaaaaay to serious for Keroko.
The image formed in my head does look wonderfull, though.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kha
But I'm not against RHxAO. Either that, or they might just discover that they are sisters, having been demonstrated to have "similar properties". If that's the case, Bardiche is one lucky Device, if both fall for him.
Reminds me of those humanoid RH comics, she was horribly moe in those.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kha
And so...
RHxAO - Sistership yuri.
BardichexAO - We might get to see Jealousy RH
ReinxAO - AO learns to MOE?!
ArtherionxAO - Very possible.
Somehow, I ended up with Ace DevicesXAO.
EDIT: And the next step after ArtherionxAO...
Spoiler for You... sure?:
dere-dere KerokoxSerge FTMFW!!!
XD
*Chain ICB + Aether Ruler >>>> Creator-san*
Artherion? As in, negotiating-goes-a-lot-faster-if-one-of-the-parties-is-a-pile-of-ash Artherion?
...
I see you never asked Artherion to define love for you...
Smart choice, though.
Hmm, I just realized. Nanoha and Keroko are sisters, and if we take the 4koma RH, then RH and Artherion have a lot in comon. I wonder if Yuuno made Raising Heart, since he made Artherion, that would make them brother and sister.
Keroko with Serge? XD Not likely, Serge is waaaaaay to serious for Keroko.
The image formed in my head does look wonderfull, though.
I'm sure the Lonely Island Syndrome might push things along.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Keroko
Artherion? As in, negotiating-goes-a-lot-faster-if-one-of-the-parties-is-a-pile-of-ash Artherion?
...
I see you never asked Artherion to define love for you...
Smart choice, though.
I noe how Artherion would define love, especially if it was said by a certain robot assassin. *ahem* That's why I said it was possible; AO seems similar in that aspect from their last exchange IMO. Both devices would do well together!
And because I know Keroko loves tech, with a skilful hand, a twist of fate, and Lonely Island Syndrome thrown in for a good measure, I hereby ship KerokoxSerge!!!
First part of my exercise with the blades and MD6 done.
No action in this part, just the reason behind why it's happening..
"~~~~~~"=speech
'~~~'=thoughts
[~~~]= Mental communication
Spoiler for Training:
Friday 1628
Enforcer Training Ground 4, Midchilda
-Myristic-
Watching them train below reminded me of the days when we were all aboard the Asura. There was never enough space to do what we wanted so we ended up improvising, just like what these kids are doing. Well… not really kids. I wonder how everyone is doing. It’s been awhile since Chrono or any of the other’s aboard the Asura have been back to HQ. Then again, Chrono’s an Admiral now and the others are probably stuck in staff jobs now.
“Sir, we’ve finished up our final training session for this week. Is there anything else to be done today?” Isamu’s voice shook me out of my memories.
“No, that’s all for today”. They saluted, snapping to attention, “Spellblades, you’ve earned yourselves 2 days of rest. Enjoy yourselves.” I returned their salute and they filed out of the complex, excited about their unexpected leave.
“Hey, wanna go see a movie later?”
“Hmm, what’s on?”
Their voices grew fainter as they moved further away. Nothing’s changed much in the last 10 years. ‘I would have trained in this very room at some point.’ Looking around the room, memories of those times came back to him. Although the walls betrayed no signs of any accidents, he knew that many had occurred. In fact he and the rest of the team had punched holes into the walls at various times throughout training. One incident had been so bad that they had been banned from training for a week and when they had been allowed back, only the very basics could be used within the compound for another 2 months. As I walked through the doors, triggering the locks I opened a communications channel back to base. “William, could you confirm that the 108th are still able to skirmish with us next week.”
“Yes, sir. Is there anything else needed for the exercise?”
“Just resubmit our forms to HQ regarding the training. I don’t want to arrive next week and get stopped during the exercise because they think it hasn’t been cleared.”
“Understood, have a good weekend sir.”
“Thanks, you too.”
****
Sunday 0300
Beep…. Beep….Beep….
‘Bloody hell.’ Glancing over at the wall, I could just make out the arms of the clock. 3 o’clock. ‘This better be good.’ Reaching out, I activated the communications array.
“Sorry for waking you captain, but we won’t be able to meet our commitment next week. A sudden fire has started on AW42, we’ve been asked to help evacuate the population in the fires path and to help fight the blaze.”
“Do you need any assistance?”
“Not at this moment. If we do another ground battalion will be sent to reinforce us. We can’t afford to have enforcer’s involved in disaster relief, not at this time.”
“All right, I’ll see you when you get back then.” The screen glowed blue, its harsh light casting shadows throughout the room. ‘Shit, what the hell am I going to do about Tuesday’s exercise?’ Bringing up the list of units stationed nearby, I began to search. This is not the start to the day that I was hoping for….
****
‘Gah. This is hopeless. Looks like I’ll have to re-schedule the exercise for another time.’ The sun’s rays shone through the window obscuring the display. I rose stiffly from my chair, stretching out. Moving towards the kitchen, I pulled the screens across letting the light of the sun warm the room. The toll of my abnormal awakening and the work I had done kicked in. ‘Maybe I’ll just take a short nap…’
****
The sun was setting in the distance. I wiped the sweat off my forehead, stopping to watch its descent, disappearing from us for another day. It had been a tough day but we were making progress. Meia, Juliet and I had been able to hold out against the rest of the squad attacking simultaneously for one barrage. Their second had punched through their shields though, leaving a 3 metre hole in the room’s wall.
“Oy Myr, you coming. We’re all heading down to KK’s to get a drink and some food.”
“Yeah, sounds good. One round of drinks on me. We did a good job today!”
Ding Dong.
“Woot!! Thanks Myr!”
Ding Dong.
‘Huh, where am I?’ Light flickered around me, the yellow of the sun combining with reflections from within my apartment. I slowly got up, legs weak. ‘Looks like I fell asleep.’
Ding Dong.
It finally registered in my mind that someone was at the door. “Coming, just a sec.”
Activating the controls I checked the door camera. Meia was waiting outside. As I opened the door remotely, the time in the bottom corner of the display caught my eye. 1522. ‘Holy crap I was out for that long.’
“Myr, you feeling okay? I tried calling before to see if you wanted to go somewhere for lunch but you didn’t answer.”
“Yeah, I’m fine now. Had a rough morning. Did you want anything to eat or drink? I’m just having lunch now.”
“Just some water thanks, had lunch on the way here. I’ll help you cook, you don’t look too good.”
“Thanks a lot, I owe you one.”
****
“So the 108th have been called away and you need to find another group for the skirmish?”
“Yep. Only problem is none of the units who would give the Blades a challenge have time next week.”
“Hmm, that is a problem….” Meia began scrolling through the unit list. “Hey I haven’t seen this one before. Myr have you heard of them? Riot Force 6.”
“They’re a new unit, recently got formed to go after Lost Logia. That’s all I know of them.”
“Lost Logia ka….” Data flew across the screen as she looked for the squad composition.
I sighed, “Looks like we’ll have to put the exercise off until the 108th get back.”
Pointing at the screen, “Maybe not, these guys look like they’ll prove a challenge” Meia said.
Rotating the screen around, I quickly skimmed over the info. “4 mages of B rank? How are they supposed to be a challenge?” I asked.
“Mou…” I knew that look… It always appeared when I had just done or was about to do something stupid. “Read it carefully and tell me who’s in charge.” She reached out and tapped the screen, changing what was displayed.
Looking back at the display it suddenly hit me. “Fate Tesstarossa Halaown.”
“Not only that, the commander of the unit is Yagami Hayate, while the commander of the other squad is the...”
“..Ace of Aces, Takamachi Nanoha,” I finished. “This is incredible; she even managed to get all of her knights into the unit as well.”
“It’ll be a good challenge for them. Their rankings might be lower than the Blades, but they’ve been training under some of the best in the bureau. Who knows what sort of tricks they have up their sleeves. If they’re worried, just let one of their vet’s join in. Come on Myr, this is the best bet on getting this exercise done this week.”
She stopped suddenly and looked at me. I suddenly became very afraid of what she was about to say next. Her expression was just that evil.
“Plus this is a perfect chance to see Fate again. Who know maybe she still remembers us. ”
‘Phew safe...’
“Just make sure you don’t tell her that you had a crush on her when we were working with her, you damm loli-con.” She grinned, laughing out loud.
‘Now that’s just going too far….’ I exploded, raising my voice, “I didn’t have a crush on her!!”
“Sure you didn’t…” She rolled her eyes and continued, “What was with the “I will protect you” speech on AW 22 then, huh?”
“Whatever, you’re just jealous that I get to see Fate again but you don’t get to see Chrono.” I retorted. ‘This will shut her up.’
Turning away from me, her cheeks turned red.
“Oho, what’s this? A blush…” I grinned at her, laughing in my mind at her discomfort. Holding out my hand I said, “Seriously though, truce?”
She turned back to face me, “Truce. Let’s call them now and make sure they’re free.”
“Yep. Thanks Meia.”
“No problem boss.”
Some feedback would be nice... I'm not used to writing how I wrote this chapter...
Last edited by Liingo; 2007-11-17 at 19:17.
Reason: Minor edits to the grammar/punctuation
She's both cute AND powerful. Though my only contact with Undine is through the Tales of... series, I'm betting this Norse water goddess has much ass to kick. Beware za loli? BEWARE ZA IMOUTO!!!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
An imouto 1M moegaton exprozion fueled with Star Child greatness? Wait till you see...
The Aftermath...
Kha: Let me sit dow--Kha: Whoo. What a fan-blast. Erio: (sits up) Itai... Arc: Oops sorry about that. Man I loved Yuuno's performance too much.
With the madness somewhat abated, we now notice that both parties are in their Knight Armors, which have been scaled to fit their size. Kha has not bothered to shift back to normal gear, and Erio understands too. Caro runs up and holds Erio's sleeve.
Caro: Erio-kun, daijoubu ka? Erio:
He turns to look at Caro, accidentally turns on the Killer Gaze + Smile set he inherited from Kha
Erio: Yeah I'm fine... Caro: ... (faints again) Erio: Oi! Caro!!! Kha: I took a while to control that when I was your age. Now where's that spanzer...?Sakura: Wii~~! Father sounds just like me!!! Kha: Gaf! (smothered in embrace) Arefu-sam! Leb mi gof!!! Ale: Eh? (lets go blushing) Very sorry... Kha: (tries to shake the memory of being wedged in the Valley of Paradise from his head) Wii~~ AHEM!!! What in the blazes...
Kha: ... Um... Fate? What's with the black... face...? Fate: (jealousy) Kha: ... Wait I can expla--Kha: Not again!!! Sydney: Sorry that was instinctive. Fate: .... .... Kha: Fate... Gimme a couple of minutes, once I fix this up I'll explain alright...? Fate: ... ... Kha: (turns to the crowd) Please people, show's over! Let me fix this up, please!
Everyone's jumbled murmur: "Aw... you're no fun... Ah well... Too bad..."
Kha: (huffs) Moving on! (skitters past Fate to the workbench)
Erio remained seated on the floor in a daze, Caro zoned out on his lap. Lutecia and Anna hover nearby, staring daggers at the conked out pink loli. Fate hurries to the bench plops onto a stool and pours herself a drink from a jug of iced fluid. Kha finds that he's too short, skitters away and drags another stool for him to stand on, muttering to himself all the way. Fate can't help but giggle at the sight.
Kha: At least you're not mad at me anymore... Fate: I'll make sure you pay later. Hmph! Kha: Anyway, how's the jug? I haven't tried it yet. Fate: Tastes like lemonade with jasmine tea, though this is rather dilute. What is it? Kha: Liana's health concentrates. She gave me some. Fate: I see... She gave me a set too. Oh yes! I just made another jug, it's sitting in the lounge. I forgot to bring it in. Kha: Never mind, there's one here.
He places down screwdriver and pries open TK's circuit panel. Reaches for the soldering iron when he glances at Fate.
Kha: Fate! You're glowing!
Fate: Huh? (looks at hands covered in yellow magic) What's this? I feel... weird...
Kha's jaw fell open as he saw Fate's arm shrinking into her brown Ground Unit sleeves. So did her legs; her shoes fell off;
Fate: Wha--? What's happening?! Kha: The Drink!! (knocks it away)
But it's too late. By the time the effects stopped, Fate was about the size of Kha, and everything was on the verge of falling off. Fate was beet-red and about to fall apart.
Kha: Fate... Listen to me... (approaches slowly, most soothing tone, trying not to scare the hyperventilating mage) Don't panic okay? Just breathe slowly... nice and easy... I'll fix this up in a flash okay...
She dropped her hand in shock as she focused to calm herself, but she then felt her bra and top slip off to her waist.
Erio's nose exploded as he fell unconscious.
Kha passed out from loli-sense overload.
Fate: I- I---
IIIIYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
~~~~~~
Kha's a shouta, Fate's a Loli!
WAIT! THERE'S ANOTHER JUG OF LIANA'S NOGGENFOGGER ELIXIR IN LOUNGE?!
*hear's several more screams echo throughout Riot 6*
Quote:
Originally Posted by USB500
poor Hikki, having to stay loyal to his wife, yet at the same time........
you know that Widuri (in her former Queen of Dark Gale form) was very, fiercely, and possessively loyal towards her master.... wasn't she?
====================
The *cows moo* festival was not originally intended to be put in the chapter, but somehow..... I got this sinister idea regarding the Mid-Childan Royal Festival......
RAWR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :3 :3
one more thing: what do all of you think Vivio's role in StrikerS gonna be?
============
As I had mentioned earlier, there's going to be another free-to-use antagonist. This time, he's a ninja and he's also a wizard. Hence...
*drumroll*
NINJA WIZARD!
*insert ninja smilie*
Gandalf: I'm a wizard. Me: yeah, but you are not a ninja. Gandalf:
His report-styled profile will be posted sometimes in the future, but for now, here are some of the abilities TSAB intelligence agents have managed to reveal:
Spoiler for can I say... haxxed?:
Ability #1
Name: Exploding Finger of Destruction
Type: bombardment/particle beam
Description: Ninja Wizard concentrates all magic power into his finger and points it at target. Very destructive and also very fast to perform (Ninja Wizard simply has to point at target of choice and shout out its chant).
Chant: "NO YOU!"
Ability #2
Name: Vengeance Fist of Angry God
Type: "Breaker"-type ability
Description: Ninja Wizard opens a portal and summons a gigantic fist made of stone. In rare occassions, two fists are summoned. It is very powerful, but requires the longest casting time as well as the most magical energy.
Chant: "I'd hit it (twice)... WITH THE FIST OF AN ANGRY GOD!"
Ability #3
Name: Unlimited Gauntlet Works
Type: Noble Illusion
Description: Ninja Wizard summons a surreal world and traps opponent(s) inside it. Then Ninja Wizard proceeds to beat the hell of the opponent(s) with varieties of fists and hand gestures.
Chant: "I am the bone of my fist. Gesture is my body, and signal is my blood. I have created a thousand knuckles. Unknown to anger. Nor known to blasphemy. I have withstood people's wrath only to create more taunts. I have no respect, this is the only path. As I create this path, my whole life is "Unlimited Gauntlet Works"."
Quote:
Originally Posted by USB500
well, at least it's not Sham**** V2.0
==========
I thought Chrono isn't immune against their Oniichan Breaker EX+
===============
*takes note*
================
@ LoweGear: I hope you're not referring to Sham****
@ Aaron008R: the other way around? I think I just got an idea
In their mind. Everything is in slow motion. Ginga: *smiling. There are bubbles and sparkles surrounding her face* come and get me, Fuuko-chan! *giggles* Fuuko: meow...! *bubbles and sparkles*
Male staffs: WE SO APPROVE!!! *knocked out due to nose hemorrhages*
Quote:
Originally Posted by USB500
Actually it's ALL OF THEM!
Spoiler:
Spoiler for are you sure....?:
Spoiler for are you reaaaaaaaaaaaaally sure?:
Spoiler for here you go:
Nanoha: but Fuuko-chan already likes us! Can't we keep it, Hikki? Hikki: no. Fate: we promise we won't do anything bad to her. Pretty please? Hikki: no. Hayate: we will bathe her, feed her and even prepare bed for her! Hikki: NO. Keroko: you just want to keep Fuuko-chan for yourself... Hikki: NO! Aces: we promise to take a very great care of Fuuko-chan! Please, Hikki, pretty please? Hikki: when it's NO, it's NO. *crosses arms* negotiation closed. Aces: ....... *they immediately go to one corner, planning of something while occassionally peeking at him. Hikki, Armstrong & Elisa watch at them in intrigue. Fuuko calmly meows on Hikki's shoulder*
Aces: SET UP! *are glowing in light* Hikki: that spell..... MASAKA! Aces: ONIICHAN, ONEGAI!!!! Hikki: *twitches* it's the ONIICHAN BREAKER EX+!!!!! Must resist! My eyes! AH!!!!! Aces: *stare at Hikki. Then their eyes become droopy* Oniichan....... dame? Hikki's unconscious self: oniichan-oniichan-oniichan-oniichan-oniichan..... Hikki: ah, damn it! You girls always know how to take advantage over my weakness..... *hands over Fuuko* here. Aces: *returns to normal form* yatta! *high-fives each other* Hikki: *backs away from them and sobs* I have failed to overcome the desire..... Armstrong: now, Hikki, you still have a lot to learn... *pats back* Elisa: Fuuko: meow. ^__^
Don't expect most of the contents to eventually show up in the chapter
================
^___________^ I am honoured.
=====================
Wow... 8 pages backlog. Anyway, onto stuff
@Kha: Great way to summarize the whole Erio/Kha thing. It's golden. And LOLI FEITO-CHAN! I'd give my right arm to see that again... oh wait, I CAN!
Re: CrosyS - It's been a while since the last update - do you need any help at all? I have plenty of time on my hands.
@USB500:
The Ninja Wizard thing is awesome, bordering on HAXX. It's like the ultra-cheap, super-powerful class upgrade you get near the end of an RPG.
@Everyone:
Re: Cats - why is it that people's fantasies about Shamal and now GINGA involve cats... perhaps it's because of their other name....
Re: Onii-chan Breaker EX+ - RUN!! THE END IS @ HAND!!!
Re: Phantasms - the next short will be up soon.
@FlameSparkZ:
Meido Maren <passes out from nosebleed>
@Dance of Demons Act VI pt. 2: Very, very nice explanation of what could have happened before and when magic was created. Now that the heavy part is done, I wonder where you guys are going to get with the story.
@The talk about Saga, Serge and Kha changing genders... that's just so, so wrong. At least I can understand Saga because he is a program... he's totally able to do that. But Serge and Kha?!
@Nighty Part 14.5 : During the End: Nanoha-style final battle indeed, but much, much better!
Shamal FTW!
Waiting for more.
Quote:
Originally Posted by FlameSparkZ
Hehe~
In this one, Koji goes a bit overboard
But I guess when you're worried about someone, your imagination WILL run wild...
Spoiler for She put it on...:
Koji walked along the halls of the HQ's several floors, looking for Maren and Yui...
He saw Yui dragging Maren along earlier, but lost them when a group of clerks passed between them.
Approaching anyone he saw, he asked if he/she saw them pass by, but with little progress.
"Hmm...Where could they be?" He said with his arms folded.
"Oh, Koji, what are you doing in this floor?" Keshi asked as they crossed paths.
"I'm looking for Yui and Maren-san...have you seen them?"
"Your sister...and Enforcer Maren...together?" He adjusted his glasses.
Koji simply nodded.
"Well...now that you meantion it, I think I saw them in the some minutes ago."
"And where was that?"
"The floor below us, but I overheard your sister say something about going to somewhere private..."
"I see...that helps, thanks!" He waved his hand as he ran.
"Hey! No running in the- wait...'somewhere private'?" Keshi started thinking.
"D-d-don't tell me that..." He leaned against a nearby all to recover from sudden dizziness. "Who would have guessed..."
----------------------------
Koji headed to the dormitory section, where TSAB employees who don't have family in Mid-Childa sleep, or simply prefer to live there for efficiency.
"Let's see...it's likely that they're in Yui's room but..." He looked at the sign.
"Female section...No men allowed without permission!" He gulped.
He stealthfully passed by the lobby and searched for Yui's room.
"*sigh* ...This would be so much easier if I knew Illusion magic..."
Opening a holo-window, he searched for Yui's room.
"Let's see...M...M...ah, Minawa, Yui, room 043."
Closing it, he looked at both sides to make sure the way is clear, and resumed his stealthy search.
"Ahh~" He suddenly heard someone sigh with relief, and quickly hid under a nearby sofa.
"That shower felt really good~" The voice was closer.
"Yep, nothing like one after a mission." Said another girl.
"But...a hot spring would feel much better, my shoulders have been so stiff lately."
"Oh, it could be because of 'that'" The other girl said with a impish voice.
They stopped right next to the sofa, where Koji was hiding...he could see their bare feet.
"Mou~ It's not my fault they got this big..."
(Don't girls usually talk about this when they're bathing?) he said restraining himself.
"But they're so soft...*poke*"
"Kya! Don't touch them!" The other complained.
"We're both girls, what's the problem?"
(The problem is I'm listening to this...)
"Well, that's true, but I get the feeling someone's watching us..." She said with an insecure voice.
"Now you're just being paranoid."
"Hmmm~"
"Let's get going before we catch a cold." She began walking as she finished.
"Ah, wait!" She went after her, "...You know, about the hot spring, maybe we should go to one on our next vacation."
"Now, you're talking!"
----------------------------
Waiting a minute or so, Koji peeked out of his hiding place and checked the hallway.
"*sigh* ...Why me?" He got out with small pieces of paper in his nose and resumed the search.
"What could those two be doing together?" As he asked himself, he let his imagination run free...
[imagination]
"Maren-chan~"
"W-what are you doing, touchin- ah!!"
"Teehee~ Maren-san, your moans are so cute~"
[/imagination]
*shakes off*
"N-no! Think straight, think straight!!" He shaked his head furiously.
[imagination]
"Call me your Mistress!!"
*whiplash*
[/imagination]
"NO! THAT?S NOT IT EITHER!!!" He knocked himself on the head several times.
"Why did I let dad talk about those things!"
"Oh! Room 043!"
He walked to it and put his ear next to the door, and listened.
"It fits you perfectly, Maren-chan~"
"I don't know...it feels a bit awkward..."
"That's because it's your first time. You'll get used to it after a few more times." Yui said with a cheeful voice.
(W-w-w-w-w-w-WHAT??? NO WAY!!!)
Koji sudeenly opens the door and...
"Maren-san, are you- GAH!"
Koji suddenly loses the ability to speak.
"Ah! Onii-chan, right on time! What do you think of Maren-chan?"
----------------------------
Spoiler for M-m-m...:
"M-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-MAID?????!!!" *nosebleed explozion!!!!*
"Minawa-kun!" Maren said after seeing him collapse unconscious.
"OH~ that powerful, huh? Or maybe it was because of us combined?" She sticked her tongue out and bonked herself on the head.
----------------------------
Moe~ Very Moe indeed
Koji took quite a killing blow there "Hisatsu! MOE MEIDO MAREN!!!"
The maid outfit design mas mostly inspired in other maid outfits I've seen, with some added things from my part.
Since Yui-chan loves ribbons, it was obvious that the maid outfit would have them too
Hahaha. I like Koji's imagination. And the pic = WIN!
@Aaron *raises hand* I know why Signum wants to kill Aurion. He's getting (or is already) way too close to Hayate.
Tesla: *nods*
Quote:
Originally Posted by Keroko
Hmm, I just realized. Nanoha and Keroko are sisters, and if we take the 4koma RH, then RH and Artherion have a lot in comon. I wonder if Yuuno made Raising Heart, since he made Artherion, that would make them brother and sister.
If I'm not mistaken, Yuuno, or his clan, found RH in some ruins.
Location: Aboard the RAF Patrol Ship Delphinus
Time: 0600 MST
Mel padded along the deck of the Delphinus as she left her cabin to head down to the showers to clean up and prepare for the day ahead – the Phantasms was set to spend most of the next three days training with the forwards of MD6. As she moved through the kitchen, she passed Boomer, who was in the middle of making breakfast for the foursome.
“Morning!”
“And a good morning to you too, missy. Ready for an Earth-style breakfast?”
“You bet! I can’t wait to see what passes for food on Earth.”
“Well, you’ll know soon enough.”
Mel glanced around. “Where’s Shosa?”
“The major got called down to HQ again – looks like he’ll be there for the next few days, while we train MD6’s people.”
“So, if Shosa’s gone, then that means-”
“Yep, Arcas’ll be in charge of the training.”
“Is that such a wise thing? I’ve seen him train personally, and he can be fairly hard on himself.”
“Don’t worry, missy.” Boomer reassured the concerned knight. “Arcas was an Instructor for a few months at the beginning of his career. I’m sure he’ll be cautious enough. Speaking of Arcas, where is our fearless leader?”
“Still in bed,” Mel stated. “I’ve decided to give him until I’m ready for breakfast for him to drag his lazy self out of bed.”
“Generous of you,” Boomer stated with unmasked sarcasm.
Mel glared at Boomer and promptly headed off for the shower. She came back a few minutes later, cleaned up and wearing her usual attire: a one-piece azure dress that came down to her ankles. Boomer looked at the girl and shook his head.
“What?” Mel huffed.
“Nothing – it’s just that you’ve got a closet crammed with clothes, and yet you still choose to wear that almost every other day.”
“It’s comfortable, and has good mobility,” she replied, twirling around slowly. “It feels right.”
“Whatever. Off to wake Arcas?”
“Uh-huh.” And with that, she left the kitchen.
Down in Arcas’ cabin, the Phantasm XO was currently buried under a pile of pillows and blankets, sleeping. But that all changed when Mel came in and yanked the blankets off the bed, exposing a half-naked Arcas.
“Come on, Arcas,” she spoke sweetly, tugging on the shirt he was wearing, “time to get up.”
Arcas batted her hand away and mumbled something into the pillow he was currently holding.
“What was that?”
“I said, just five more minutes.”
Mel sighed, placing her hands on her hips.
“None of that now, Arcas. We’ve got a big day ahead of us, and we’re supposed to be leaving for MD6’s training field in-” she glanced at the clock “-half an hour.”
“So I’ve still got time.” He countered.
“You know, if you didn’t stay up until one or two in the morning every night, you wouldn’t be having these problems.”
“The Aces can do it.”
“No one’s asking you to be like the Aces!”
“No one except me.”
Mel groaned. “Fine. But don’t expect me to feel sorry for you when you’ve gotta do your usual Morning Rush.” With that, she turned to leave the cabin, and returned to the kitchen, where food was waiting for her on the table.
“Serve yourself.”
“Thanks, Boomer.”
She took some food from the plates, and sat down at the table. The sniper and swordswoman sat like that for a few minutes, eating in silence.
“So, it didn’t work, huh?”
“Of course not,” Mel frowned, eating a forkful of scrambled eggs. “I swear, he’s so stubborn about his sleep; yet, this whole problem of his would just go away if he decided to get a proper amount of rest.”
Boomer shrugged. “People are people – and it takes something huge to change a person’s habits.”
“Stop defending him! You wouldn’t say that if YOU were the one who had to deal with him every morning!”
“Whatever.”
In his cabin, Arcas turned over in his bed, trying to go back to sleep.
Why does Mel have to do this to me EVERY SINGLE DAY?! I’m perfectly happy asleep, and then she comes in and wakes me up, and now I can’t get back to sleep. And the worst part is that it does nothing for me; I can’t get back to sleep, but it doesn’t inspire me to get out of bed either! The Phantasm XO groaned and rolled over, his eye opening just a hair to look at the clock.
“How soon is it?”
“Just another minute or so.”
Arcas’ mind registered the time on the clock: 0623 MST. Mel came in at about 0610, and said that we had to leave for the training field in about half an hour.
“Three…”
That means I have… about 17 minutes to get ready! Crap, not again!
“Two…”
WHY does this happen EVERY MORNING?!
“One.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I’M LATE!”
With that, Arcas came through the doorway of the kitchen as blazing speed, towel flapping in the air behind him.
“AAAND HE’S OFF!” Boomer dramatically announced. Mel rolled her eyes and got up from the table.
“I’ll get his clothes…”
“…and I’ll fix him a plate. Heaven knows he’ll need it.”
While Boomer got Arcas’ food ready, Mel returned to his cabin and pulled out a fresh set of clothes for him. She then proceeded down to the lower deck, where the infirmary and showers were located.
Doing this every morning, waking him up, bringing him his clothes… it almost feels like I’m Arcas’… wife… Mel blushed a deep red as the thought passed through her head, along with the familiar warm fuzzies that she got WHENEVER she thought about herself and Arcas. She shook the thought from her head, and returned to the kitchen.
A few minutes later, Arcas emerged from the shower, and saw the clothes lying out from him. Mel again, he thought as he toweled dry, why’s she keep doing this for me? Most of the other girls I knew did this for a week and when they realized that I wasn’t going to be changing anytime soon, dropped it like a hot potato. But she’s been doing it EVERY DAY for almost two years. Arcas sighed. I shouldn’t be complaining, though…
With that, he proceeded to the kitchen, where breakfast was waiting. Arcas cocked his head at seeing the plate of food sitting out for him.
“What’s with this? Usually you guys make me fix my own food.”
Boomer answered. “We’re going to be training for most of the day – so you’ll need a proper breakfast if you’re to keep going – but don’t expect it to happen TOO often.”
“Right.”
Arcas cleaned the food off his plate, and then the three Phantasms left for training.
Location: Mobile Division 6 Virtual Training Field
Time: 0655 MST
The Stars and Lightning forwards were all lined up, ready for morning training with the RAF. Subaru was especially pumped – she would finally get to see Esperacchius, the legendary Device, in action.
“This is going to be SO COOL!”
“Geez, Subaru, don’t get so hyper,” Teana growled. “It’s not like they’re Gods or anything.”
“But we get to train with an ACTUAL UNIT! One with plenty of experience!”
As the pair spoke back and forth, Nanoha, Vita, and Fate came up to the forwards. The trio looked around, and not seeing the 82nd, asked Caro and Erio if either of them had seen the RAF mages.
“No, we’ve not…” Erio began.
“And we’ve been here for almost half and hour,” Caro continued. “Are they really coming?”
“If they know what’s good for them…” Vita growled.
Not long after, the Phantasms came running out to the field.
“Sorry we’re late…” Mel began.
“We were unavoidably delayed,” Arcas explained.
That earned the XO nasty looks from both Boomer and Mel.
“Anyway, let’s get started!”
The Phantasms took the field, speaking to Nanoha over the comm line.
“Nanoha, can you put us in an urban setting? And generate twenty AA ranked mages for us.”
Nanoha’s hand swept over the controls, making the adjustments. “Any particular way you want them set up?”
Boomer spoke. “Just spread them out over the area – don’t bunch them up.”
Nanoha made the changes, and paused. “All ready – just say the word.”
Arcas looked at his comrades. “All right – let’s go.”
Boomer was the first to speak. “Elsior, set up!” The bullet on the end of the chain glowed, and began to move down the chain to Boomer’s body, which was engulfed by the bright light. When it faded, Boomer stood there in urban camouflage fatigues, the staff in his right hand.
Next came Mel. “Give hope to the people! Esperacchius, set up!” The Velkan rune for “Hope” gave off a chime, and Mel was surrounded a multitude of swirling “Hope” runes. When it stopped, Mel was clad in her green armor, with Esperacchius held in her right hand.
Finally, Arcas. “For Honor and Courage! Ascalon, set up!” Arcas disappeared in a column of fire – when is disappeared, Arcas was wearing his Knight Armor, a black turtleneck and pants, along with a long red coat. Ascalon was in his left hand.
Now prepared, Arcas spoke the word. “GO!”
With that, combat began.
Five mages opened fire from the rooftops, attacking the Phantasms. The three took off into the air immediately, evading the blasts.
Mel shouted to Arcas. “We need to find some cover so we can get set!”
“Agreed! Boomer! See any cover?”
“Just a moment! Elsior!”
[Eagle Eye.], the device spoke.
“Arcas, there’s available cover at your two o’clock – a skyscraper.”
“Copy that, Boomer. Mel! You get that?”
“Loud and clear.”
The three streaked towards the building, and rocketed to the top, still evading fire from the mages. Once at the roof, the three touched down, using the building’s height for cover.
“Okay, everyone here?” Arcas counted heads. “Three. We’re all here. Okay, people, time for a plan. Any ideas?”
“Way I see it, we’ve got two options.” Boomer began, “One: I stay here and snipe as many as I can, move when they get here, and the two of you clean up the rest. Two: One of you stays here to beat off any would-be interruptors, and the other goes out for clean-up.”
“Sound solid. Mel, what do you think?”
“I think… we should go with plan #1.”
“That’s what your gut is telling you?”
“Yes.”
“Alright then, that’s what we’ll do. Boomer, once you’re off the building, I want you to keep firing. Understood?”
“Yeah.”
“Mel?”
“Ready when you are.”
“Boomer, if you’d do us the honors of taking the first shot,” Arcas stated.
Boomer moved to the edge of the building, and hefted Elsior. The elliptical head opened, ready to fire.
“All right, pal. Let’s give ‘em something to be scared of, yes?”
[Yes, Boss.]
“Elsior! Shooting Star!”
Elsior ejected the cartridge from its ten-round magazine and fired the cobalt blue beam of energy. It screamed out of the device and struck a mage about halfway across the city, derezzing the virtual target.
“Go!”
With that, Mel and Arcas took off, flying west across the city. Four mages spotted the pair of knights and took to the air, trailing them. As they closed in, they began hurl spells at the pair.
“Mel, keep going! I’ve got these ones!”
“Understood.”
With that, Arcas whipped around, facing his pursuers. Seeing a target present itself, the quartet focused their attacks on Arcas, unleashing three beams of light. “Ascalon!”
[Fortress,] the Armed Device intoned, setting up a shield in front of him, which intercepted one beam while the other two blew by him, missing completely. As the mages positioned themselves for another round of fire, Arcas decided to surprise them.
“Burn with the fire of a thousand hells!” [Dragon’s Fire!] The Velkan triangle appeared before him, and out of it came a stream of fire which incinerated one target, and grazed another, wounding it. The mages pulled back, realizing their opponent could attack at mid-range. Arcas chased after them. He closed with the two untouched mages, hoping to take them out before their injured comrade could rejoin the fight. He swung Ascalon in both hands, from right to left; one mage, however, had the presence of mind to put up a shield. Arcas gritted his teeth.
“Pierce through, Ascalon! Dual Load!”
[Dragon’s Fang.] Ascalon ejected one cartridge, then another, and the attack sliced through the shield and the target behind it, derezzing them both. As Arcas turned to deal with the two remaining targets, he saw that another mage had joined the fight. Arcas mentally groaned. Three to one. I hope Mel’s doing better than I am…
Across the field, Mel had problems of her own. She had run into an ambush of seven mages, and though she’d managed to take out four of them, the remaining three were putting up a hell of a fight, and reinforcements weren’t but a minute away. Come on, Mel, THINK! Come up with a plan so you can beat these guys before they trap you between them and the guys on their way. Wait a minute… TRAP! PINCER! THAT’S IT! Mel moved quickly from her cover to a fairly large room in the building that she was in. Then, she simply waited until the attackers came. The three surviving ambushers attacked from one direction, while four mages came from the opposite. Mel immediately set her plan into action. “Esperacchius!”
[Ace Guard.] The Armed Device ejected two cartridges and an omnidirectional shield surrounded Mel. The seven mages rained attacks upon it, but it refused to go down. Deciding it was safe to get closer, the mages came within staff’s reach of the shield, and prepared to attack as one. But Mel acted first. “Cross of the God-Empress! Be my sword, and strike now!” [Grand Cross.] Esperacchius ejected two MORE cartridges, and Ace Guard disappeared, only for an enormous glowing cross to appear under the feet of all in the room. The cross shone with a brilliant light, derezzing three of the seven mages, and providing Mel with enough time to use Saint Saber to dispatch the other four.
All in a day’s work, she giggled. Now to go see who needs help…
On top of the skyscraper, Boomer had seen the three mages headed towards Arcas, and decided to give the young knight some help, and had taken out two of the three with Arc Sniper. Just as he was about to snipe number three however, Elsior spoke.
[Force Shield.] Elsior’s auto-guard magic deployed as three rapid attack shots slammed against the barrier generated by the Intelligent Device. Boomer whipped his head around to see the attack had come from his seven o’clock. “Elsior! Give me some cover!” [Sniper Cover,] the Device intoned, and both Boomer and Elsior disappeared from the mage’s sight.
Puzzled, the mage flew to the skyscraper and looked around for the missing Boomer, only to find that he had fallen into a trap. Boomer and several Arc Shooter projectiles materialized out of thin air, surrounding the hapless mage. As the mage drew in a breath to speak, Boomer directed the five shots through the mages’ torso, derezzing him.
Boomer grinned. Nothing to it… now to get back to helping Arcas.
Arcas was having significant trouble dealing with the last three targets. They had set up in a triangle formation around him, and were raining constant attacks on his own Ace Guard, which was holding comfortably, but it meant Arcas’ wouldn’t be attacking anytime soon. Gotta find an opening… I can’t rely on Mel or Boomer to solve my problems for me. Watching the pattern of attacks, Arcas spotted a break. He waited until the pattern cycled back around, and when the break came, he dropped Ace Guard and unleashed his spell. “Back off!” [Riot Edge.] Ejecting a cartridge, Ascalon’s blade shone with a silvery light, and Arcas made a full circle, sending a wave of energy against the attackers. The spell derezzed the injured mage, as well as one who’d strayed too close to Arcas. The one left however, was stunned only for a moment. But in that moment, Arcas acted.
“I am the enemy of the dragon!” [Dragon’s Bane.] Ascalon ejected two cartridges, and Arcas shouted a war cry, slashing the last target twice, right to left, and then left to right. The attack derezzed the mage, and ended the scenario.
The trio flew back to where Nanoha and the others were waiting. As they landed, the assembled Division 6 mages could hear the banter being exchanged between the three.
“…were in real trouble there, Arcas-kun…”
“Yeah, I thought that I might have to use Hyper Cannon to save you!”
“You wish, Boomer! I didn’t get to be S ranked for nothing, you know!”
The trio then faced Nanoha. “So,” Boomer asked, “how’d we do?”
“See for yourself,” Nanoha replied, and brought up the post-scenario statistics.
“00:18:47 to take out twenty AA rank mages – about one a minute – that’s pretty good, even for us.”
“Yeah, but you took out over half the targets, Mel.” Arcas sighed. “Just HOW do you do that?”
“Luck and skill, Arcas, luck and skill.”
“Oi, Arcas, you used up almost an entire cartridge load – need to watch how you use those – they don’t grow on trees, you know.”
“I only used as many cartridges as I needed to – no more, no less.”
“Oh, is that like your ‘never late, never early, exactly when needed’ statement you made?” Boomer replied sarcastically.
“Shut up, Boomer,” Arcas retorted.
“Anything else before you start training with the forwards?” Fate asked.
“Just one. Nanoha, could you set up the Force Test?” Arcas asked, swapping his almost-empty cartridge tube for a new one. [Reload.]
“Sure, just give me a moment.”
With that, Arcas headed out to the field alone. Fate looked at the other Phantasms. “Do either of you wish to join him?”
“Nah,” Boomer replied, “I’m not worried about my Hyper Cannon. How about you, Mel?”
Mel shook her head. “My spell has sufficient strength for now.”
Subaru was confused. “What’s going on?”
“You’re about to see the true strength of Ascalon,” Vita said. “Watch carefully.”
Arcas stood alone on the field, when before him appeared a sea of Round Shields.
“Whenever you’re ready, Arcas.”
He nodded, and then raised his Device. “Ascalon, slay the dragon.”[Dragon Slayer Mode.] With that, Ascalon ejected two cartridges and assumed its Full Drive Form. The obsidian blade glowed and stretched out two feet; a hand guard extended out at the base of the blade, where two small parts of the main blade attached themselves, and slid back, forming an acute angle with Ascalon’s hilt.
“Ascalon, give me the power of that which I hunt.” [Dragon’s Fury.] A red aura surrounded Arcas as Ascalon ejected two more cartridges. Arcas swapped his current cartridge tube for a full one, and wasted no time in giving the incantation for Ascalon’s most feared spell.
“Across the worlds, across the galaxy, I hunt and kill the dragons of Injustice and Tyranny. It is a war I fight, an endless war. But, it is my mission, my CRUSADE!”
[CRUSADE.] Ascalon ejected its entire cartridge load, it's blade blazing with brilliant light, and Arcas repeated the moves he had made with Dragon’s Bane, only this time, waves of energy came off Ascalon’s horizontal slashes. And finally, Arcas swung his Device in an overhead slash, and brought it slamming down onto the ground, where a cone of energy expanded upon impact, decimating all the shields in its path.
Vents opened in Ascalon, expelling enormous amounts of steam as it transformed back into it Standard Mode. The forwards stood awestruck as the destructive power they had witnessed. Arcas came back to them and stood next to Nanoha, and asked her if he could see the statistics. The White Devil promptly brought them up on a screen, and the MD6 personnel crowded around to look.
“Good job, Arcas! You managed to knock down seven more AA rank shields than last time!”
“Thanks, Fate. But I honestly thought it’d be more than that – I’ve spent a lot of time focusing and learning how to control my attacks rather than just blast the enemy with raw firepower.”
“Don’t worry, Arcas. It took me awhile learn how to properly control Starlight Breaker, but I got the hang of it.”
The four forwards, however, had their eyes practically riveted to the part of the screen which was labeled ATTACK STRENGTH. It said:
@Aaron&Kha: [Joseph Joestar Mode ON]OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!![Joseph Joestar Mode OFF] I go away for two hours and when I return I see your crazy ideas I'm sorry, I have a terrible headache now so I'll only read PMs fast and go to sleep - will comment further tomorrow.
Next "My name is Tais" will be out soon. Just need to get approval from some people about usage of their OCs. Be back in a few hours. Some people might kill me for this one.
PS: Don't worry, there is nothing as nasty as The Festival in this log. I don't think there's anything worse than that anyway.
First part of my exercise with the blades and MD6 done.
No action in this part, just the reason behind why it's happening..
"~~~~~~"=speech
'~~~'=thoughts
Spoiler for Training:
Friday
‘Watching them train below reminded me of the days when we were all aboard the Asura. There was never enough space to do what we wanted so we ended up improvising, just like what these kids are doing. Well, not really kids. I wonder how everyone is doing. It’s been awhile since Chrono or any of the other enforcers aboard the Asura have been back to HQ. Then again, Chrono’s an Admiral now and the others are probably stuck in staff jobs now.’
“Sir, we’ve finished up our final training session for this week. Is there anything else to be done today?” Isamu’s voice shook me out of my memories.
“No, that’s all for today”. They saluted, snapping to attention, “Spellblades, you’ve earned yourselves 2 days of rest. Enjoy yourselves.” I returned their salute and they filed out of the complex, excited about their unexpected leave.
“Hey, wanna go see a movie later?”
“Hmm, what’s on?”
Their voices grew fainter as they moved further away. Nothing’s changed much in the last 10 years. ‘I would have trained in this very room at some point.’ Looking around the room, memories of those times came back to him. Although the walls betrayed no signs of any accidents, he knew that many had occurred. In fact he and the rest of the team had punched holes into the walls at various times throughout training. One incident had been so bad that they had been banned from training for a week and when they had been allowed back, only the very basics could be used within the compound for another 2 months. As I walked through the doors, triggering the locks I opened a communications channel back to base. “William, could you confirm that the 108th are still able to skirmish with us next week.”
“Yes, sir. Is there anything else needed for the exercise?”
“Just resubmit our forms to HQ regarding the training. I don’t want to arrive next week and get stopped during the exercise because they think it hasn’t been cleared.”
“Understood, have a good weekend sir.”
“Thanks, you too.”
**** Sunday
Beep…. Beep….Beep….
‘Bloody hell.’ Glancing over at the wall, I could just make out the arms of the clock. 3 o’clock. ‘This better be good.’ Reaching out, I activated the communications array.
“Sorry for waking you captain, but we won’t be able to meet our commitment next week. A sudden fire has started on AW42, we’ve been asked to help evacuate the population in the fires path and to help fight the blaze.”
“Do you need any assistance?”
“Not at this moment. Regardless, if we do another ground battalion will be sent to reinforce us. We can’t afford to have enforcer’s involved in disaster relief, not at this time.”
“All right, I’ll see you when you get back then.” The screen glowed blue, its harsh light casting shadows throughout the room. Shit, what the hell am I going to do about Tuesday’s exercise? Bringing up the list of units stationed nearby, I began to search. This is not the start to the day that I was hoping for….
****
‘Gah. This is hopeless. Looks like I’ll have to re-schedule the exercise for another time.’
The sun’s rays shone through the window piercing the display. I rose stiffly from my chair, stretching out. Moving towards the kitchen, I pulled the screens across letting the light of the sun warm the room. The toll of my abnormal awakening and the work I’ve done since then was starting to kick in. ‘Maybe I’ll just take a short nap…’
****
The sun was setting in the distance. I wiped the sweat off my forehead, stopping to watch it’s descent, disappearing from us for another day. It had been a tough day but they were making progress. Meia, Juliet and I had been able to hold out against the rest of the squad attacking simultaneously for one barrage. Their second had punched through their shields though, leaving a 3 metre hole in the room’s wall.
“Oy Myr, you coming. We’re all heading down to KK’s to get a drink and some food.”
“Yeah, sounds good. One round of drinks on me. We did a good job today!”
Ding Dong.
“Woot!! Thanks Myr!”
Ding Dong.
‘Huh, where am I?’ Light flickered around me, the yellow of the sun combining with reflections from within my apartment. I slowly got up, legs weak. ‘Looks like I fell asleep.’
Ding Dong.
It finally registered in my mind that someone was at the door. “Coming, just a sec.”
Activating the controls I checked the door camera. Meia was waiting outside. As I opened the door remotely, time in the bottom corner of the display caught my eye. 1522. ‘Holy crap I was out for that long.’
“Myr, you feeling okay? I tried calling before to see if you wanted to go somewhere for lunch but you didn’t answer any of my calls.”
“Yeah, I’m fine now. Had a rough morning. Did you want anything to eat or drink. I’m just having lunch now.”
“Just some water thanks, had lunch on the way here. I’ll help you cook, you don’t look too good.”
“Thanks a lot, I owe you one.”
****
“So the 108th have been called away and you need to find another group for the skirmish?”
“Yep. Only problem is none of the units who would give the Blades a challenge have time next week.”
“Hmm, that is a problem….” Meia began scrolling through the unit list. “Hey I haven’t seen this one before. Myr have you heard of them? Mobile Division 6.”
“They’re a new unit, recently got formed to go after Lost Logia. That’s all I know of them.”
“Lost Logia ka….” Data flew across the screen as she looked for the squad composition.
I sighed, “Looks like we’ll have to put the exercise off until the 108th get back.”
Pointing at the screen, “Maybe not, these guys look like they’ll prove a challenge” Meia said.
Rotating the screen around, I quickly skimmed over the info. “4 mages of B rank? How are they supposed to be a challenge?” I asked.
“Mou…” I knew that look… It always appeared when I had just done or was about to do something stupid. “Read the data carefully and tell me who’s in charge.” She reached out and tapped the screen, changing what was displayed.
Looking back at the display it suddenly hit me. “Lightning One, Fate Tesstarossa Halaown.”
“Not only that, the commander of the unit is Yagami Hayate, while the commander of the other squad is the..”
“..Ace of Aces, Takamachi Nanoha,” I finished. “This is incredible, she even managed to get all of her knights into the unit as well.”
“It’ll be a good challenge for them. Their ranking might be lower than the Blades, but they’ve been training under the best that we have. Who knows what sort of tricks they have up their sleeves. If they’re worried, just let one of the aces join in. Come on Myr, this is the best bet on getting this exercise done this week.”
She stopped suddenly and looked at me. I suddenly became very afraid of what she was about to say next. Her expression was just that evil.
“Plus this is a perfect chance to see Fate again. Who know maybe she still remembers us. ”
‘Phew safe..’
“Just make sure you don’t tell her that you had a crush on her when we were working with her, damm loli-con.” She grinned, laughing out loud.
Now that’s just going too far…. I exploded, raising my voice, “I didn’t have a crush on her!!”
“Sure you didn’t…” She rolled her eyes and continued, “What was with the ‘I will protect you speech on AW 22 then, huh?”
“Whatever, you’re just jealous that I get to see Fate again but you don’t get to see Chrono.” I retorted. ‘This will shut her up.’
Turning away from me, her cheeks turned red.
“Oho, what’s this? A blush…” I grinned at her, laughing in my mind at her discomfort. Holding out my hand I said, “Seriously though, truce?”
She turned back to face me, “Truce. Let’s call them now and make sure they’re free.”
“Yep. Thanks Meia.”
“No problem boss.”
Some feedback would be nice... I'm not used to writing how I wrote this chapter...
Not bad. Not bad at all! It's Great!
The writing style was very well-detailed without becoming repetitive.
Good work!
By the way. The crush parts were GOLDEN!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Erio
@Aaron *raises hand* I know why Signum wants to kill Aurion. He's getting (or is already) way too close to Hayate.
Tesla: *nods*
Partly. But there's a lot more to that. Hmm. Should I add some more flirting in the real scenario?
But I need a proper chance to do that. Maybe I should...
GAH! NO! People like Smith and Wesson would like that! And then they'll be killed by Mai! Get out of my head!
(I blame the AnimeSuki Forums for corrupting my mind)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Reiji Tabibito
Here's the next short.
Spoiler for At Dawn We Trained:
Location: Aboard the RAF Patrol Ship Delphinus
Time: 0600 MST
Mel padded along the deck of the Delphinus as she left her cabin to head down to the showers to clean up and prepare for the day ahead – the Phantasms was set to spend most of the next three days training with the forwards of MD6. As she moved through the kitchen, she passed Boomer, who was in the middle of making breakfast for the foursome.
“Morning!”
“And a good morning to you too, missy. Ready for an Earth-style breakfast?”
“You bet! I can’t wait to see what passes for food on Earth.”
“Well, you’ll know soon enough.”
Mel glanced around. “Where’s Shosa?”
“The major got called down to HQ again – looks like he’ll be there for the next few days, while we train MD6’s people.”
“So, if Shosa’s gone, then that means-”
“Yep, Arcas’ll be in charge of the training.”
“Is that such a wise thing? I’ve seen him train personally, and he can be fairly hard on himself.”
“Don’t worry, missy.” Boomer reassured the concerned knight. “Arcas was an Instructor for a few months at the beginning of his career. I’m sure he’ll be cautious enough. Speaking of Arcas, where is our fearless leader?”
“Still in bed,” Mel stated. “I’ve decided to give him until I’m ready for breakfast for him to drag his lazy self out of bed.”
“Generous of you,” Boomer stated with unmasked sarcasm.
Mel glared at Boomer and promptly headed off for the shower. She came back a few minutes later, cleaned up and wearing her usual attire: a one-piece azure dress that came down to her ankles. Boomer looked at the girl and shook his head.
“What?” Mel huffed.
“Nothing – it’s just that you’ve got a closet crammed with clothes, and yet you still choose to wear that almost every other day.”
“It’s comfortable, and has good mobility,” she replied, twirling around slowly. “It feels right.”
“Whatever. Off to wake Arcas?”
“Uh-huh.” And with that, she left the kitchen.
Down in Arcas’ cabin, the Phantasm XO was currently buried under a pile of pillows and blankets, sleeping. But that all changed when Mel came in and yanked the blankets off the bed, exposing a half-naked Arcas.
“Come on, Arcas,” she spoke sweetly, tugging on the shirt he was wearing, “time to get up.”
Arcas batted her hand away and mumbled something into the pillow he was currently holding.
“What was that?”
“I said, just five more minutes.”
Mel sighed, placing her hands on her hips.
“None of that now, Arcas. We’ve got a big day ahead of us, and we’re supposed to be leaving for MD6’s training field in-” she glanced at the clock “-half an hour.”
“So I’ve still got time.” He countered.
“You know, if you didn’t stay up until one or two in the morning every night, you wouldn’t be having these problems.”
“The Aces can do it.”
“No one’s asking you to be like the Aces!”
“No one except me.”
Mel groaned. “Fine. But don’t expect me to feel sorry for you when you’ve gotta do your usual Morning Rush.” With that, she turned to leave the cabin, and returned to the kitchen, where food was waiting for her on the table.
“Serve yourself.”
“Thanks, Boomer.”
She took some food from the plates, and sat down at the table. The sniper and swordswoman sat like that for a few minutes, eating in silence.
“So, it didn’t work, huh?”
“Of course not,” Mel frowned, eating a forkful of scrambled eggs. “I swear, he’s so stubborn about his sleep; yet, this whole problem of his would just go away if he decided to get a proper amount of rest.”
Boomer shrugged. “People are people – and it takes something huge to change a person’s habits.”
“Stop defending him! You wouldn’t say that if YOU were the one who had to deal with him every morning!”
“Whatever.”
In his cabin, Arcas turned over in his bed, trying to go back to sleep.
Why does Mel have to do this to me EVERY SINGLE DAY?! I’m perfectly happy asleep, and then she comes in and wakes me up, and now I can’t get back to sleep. And the worst part is that it does nothing for me; I can’t get back to sleep, but it doesn’t inspire me to get out of bed either! The Phantasm XO groaned and rolled over, his eye opening just a hair to look at the clock.
“How soon is it?”
“Just another minute or so.”
Arcas’ mind registered the time on the clock: 0623 MST. Mel came in at about 0610, and said that we had to leave for the training field in about half an hour.
“Three…”
That means I have… about 17 minutes to get ready! Crap, not again!
“Two…”
WHY does this happen EVERY MORNING?!
“One.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I’M LATE!”
With that, Arcas came through the doorway of the kitchen as blazing speed, towel flapping in the air behind him.
“AAAND HE’S OFF!” Boomer dramatically announced. Mel rolled her eyes and got up from the table.
“I’ll get his clothes…”
“…and I’ll fix him a plate. Heaven knows he’ll need it.”
While Boomer got Arcas’ food ready, Mel returned to his cabin and pulled out a fresh set of clothes for him. She then proceeded down to the lower deck, where the infirmary and showers were located.
Doing this every morning, waking him up, bringing him his clothes… it almost feels like I’m Arcas’… wife… Mel blushed a deep red as the thought passed through her head, along with the familiar warm fuzzies that she got WHENEVER she thought about herself and Arcas. She shook the thought from her head, and returned to the kitchen.
A few minutes later, Arcas emerged from the shower, and saw the clothes lying out from him. Mel again, he thought as he toweled dry, why’s she keep doing this for me? Most of the other girls I knew did this for a week and when they realized that I wasn’t going to be changing anytime soon, dropped it like a hot potato. But she’s been doing it EVERY DAY for almost two years. Arcas sighed. I shouldn’t be complaining, though…
With that, he proceeded to the kitchen, where breakfast was waiting. Arcas cocked his head at seeing the plate of food sitting out for him.
“What’s with this? Usually you guys make me fix my own food.”
Boomer answered. “We’re going to be training for most of the day – so you’ll need a proper breakfast if you’re to keep going – but don’t expect it to happen TOO often.”
“Right.”
Arcas cleaned the food off his plate, and then the three Phantasms left for training.
Location: Mobile Division 6 Virtual Training Field
Time: 0655 MST
The Stars and Lightning forwards were all lined up, ready for morning training with the RAF. Subaru was especially pumped – she would finally get to see Esperacchius, the legendary Device, in action.
“This is going to be SO COOL!”
“Geez, Subaru, don’t get so hyper,” Teana growled. “It’s not like they’re Gods or anything.”
“But we get to train with an ACTUAL UNIT! One with plenty of experience!”
As the pair spoke back and forth, Nanoha, Vita, and Fate came up to the forwards. The trio looked around, and not seeing the 82nd, asked Caro and Erio if either of them had seen the RAF mages.
“No, we’ve not…” Erio began.
“And we’ve been here for almost half and hour,” Caro continued. “Are they really coming?”
“If they know what’s good for them…” Vita growled.
Not long after, the Phantasms came running out to the field.
“Sorry we’re late…” Mel began.
“We were unavoidably delayed,” Arcas explained.
That earned the XO nasty looks from both Boomer and Mel.
“Anyway, let’s get started!”
The Phantasms took the field, speaking to Nanoha over the comm line.
“Nanoha, can you put us in an urban setting? And generate twenty AA ranked mages for us.”
Nanoha’s hand swept over the controls, making the adjustments. “Any particular way you want them set up?”
Boomer spoke. “Just spread them out over the area – don’t bunch them up.”
Nanoha made the changes, and paused. “All ready – just say the word.”
Arcas looked at his comrades. “All right – let’s go.”
Boomer was the first to speak. “Elsior, set up!” The bullet on the end of the chain glowed, and began to move down the chain to Boomer’s body, which was engulfed by the bright light. When it faded, Boomer stood there in urban camouflage fatigues, the staff in his right hand.
Next came Mel. “Give hope to the people! Esperacchius, set up!” The Velkan rune for “Hope” gave off a chime, and Mel was surrounded a multitude of swirling “Hope” runes. When it stopped, Mel was clad in her green armor, with Esperacchius held in her right hand.
Finally, Arcas. “For Honor and Courage! Ascalon, set up!” Arcas disappeared in a column of fire – when is disappeared, Arcas was wearing his Knight Armor, a black turtleneck and pants, along with a long red coat. Ascalon was in his left hand.
Now prepared, Arcas spoke the word. “GO!”
With that, combat began.
Five mages opened fire from the rooftops, attacking the Phantasms. The three took off into the air immediately, evading the blasts.
Mel shouted to Arcas. “We need to find some cover so we can get set!”
“Agreed! Boomer! See any cover?”
“Just a moment! Elsior!”
[Eagle Eye.], the device spoke.
“Arcas, there’s available cover at your two o’clock – a skyscraper.”
“Copy that, Boomer. Mel! You get that?”
“Loud and clear.”
The three streaked towards the building, and rocketed to the top, still evading fire from the mages. Once at the roof, the three touched down, using the building’s height for cover.
“Okay, everyone here?” Arcas counted heads. “Three. We’re all here. Okay, people, time for a plan. Any ideas?”
“Way I see it, we’ve got two options.” Boomer began, “One: I stay here and snipe as many as I can, move when they get here, and the two of you clean up the rest. Two: One of you stays here to beat off any would-be interruptors, and the other goes out for clean-up.”
“Sound solid. Mel, what do you think?”
“I think… we should go with plan #1.”
“That’s what your gut is telling you?”
“Yes.”
“Alright then, that’s what we’ll do. Boomer, once you’re off the building, I want you to keep firing. Understood?”
“Yeah.”
“Mel?”
“Ready when you are.”
“Boomer, if you’d do us the honors of taking the first shot,” Arcas stated.
Boomer moved to the edge of the building, and hefted Elsior. The elliptical head opened, ready to fire.
“All right, pal. Let’s give ‘em something to be scared of, yes?”
[Yes, Boss.]
“Elsior! Shooting Star!”
Elsior ejected the cartridge from its ten-round magazine and fired the cobalt blue beam of energy. It screamed out of the device and struck a mage about halfway across the city, derezzing the virtual target.
“Go!”
With that, Mel and Arcas took off, flying west across the city. Four mages spotted the pair of knights and took to the air, trailing them. As they closed in, they began hurl spells at the pair.
“Mel, keep going! I’ve got these ones!”
“Understood.”
With that, Arcas whipped around, facing his pursuers. Seeing a target present itself, the quartet focused their attacks on Arcas, unleashing three beams of light. “Ascalon!”
[Fortress,] the Armed Device intoned, setting up a shield in front of him, which intercepted one beam while the other two blew by him, missing completely. As the mages positioned themselves for another round of fire, Arcas decided to surprise them.
“Burn with the fire of a thousand hells!” [Dragon’s Fire!] The Velkan triangle appeared before him, and out of it came a stream of fire which incinerated one target, and grazed another, wounding it. The mages pulled back, realizing their opponent could attack at mid-range. Arcas chased after them. He closed with the two untouched mages, hoping to take them out before their injured comrade could rejoin the fight. He swung Ascalon in both hands, from right to left; one mage, however, had the presence of mind to put up a shield. Arcas gritted his teeth.
“Pierce through, Ascalon! Dual Load!”
[Dragon’s Fang.] Ascalon ejected one cartridge, then another, and the attack sliced through the shield and the target behind it, derezzing them both. As Arcas turned to deal with the two remaining targets, he saw that another mage had joined the fight. Arcas mentally groaned. Three to one. I hope Mel’s doing better than I am…
Across the field, Mel had problems of her own. She had run into an ambush of seven mages, and though she’d managed to take out four of them, the remaining three were putting up a hell of a fight, and reinforcements weren’t but a minute away. Come on, Mel, THINK! Come up with a plan so you can beat these guys before they trap you between them and the guys on their way. Wait a minute… TRAP! PINCER! THAT’S IT! Mel moved quickly from her cover to a fairly large room in the building that she was in. Then, she simply waited until the attackers came. The three surviving ambushers attacked from one direction, while four mages came from the opposite. Mel immediately set her plan into action. “Esperacchius!”
[Ace Guard.] The Armed Device ejected two cartridges and an omnidirectional shield surrounded Mel. The seven mages rained attacks upon it, but it refused to go down. Deciding it was safe to get closer, the mages came within staff’s reach of the shield, and prepared to attack as one. But Mel acted first. “Cross of the God-Empress! Be my sword, and strike now!” [Grand Cross.] Esperacchius ejected two MORE cartridges, and Ace Guard disappeared, only for an enormous glowing cross to appear under the feet of all in the room. The cross shone with a brilliant light, derezzing three of the seven mages, and providing Mel with enough time to use Saint Saber to dispatch the other four.
All in a day’s work, she giggled. Now to go see who needs help…
On top of the skyscraper, Boomer had seen the three mages headed towards Arcas, and decided to give the young knight some help, and had taken out two of the three with Arc Sniper. Just as he was about to snipe number three however, Elsior spoke.
[Force Shield.] Elsior’s auto-guard magic deployed as three rapid attack shots slammed against the barrier generated by the Intelligent Device. Boomer whipped his head around to see the attack had come from his seven o’clock. “Elsior! Give me some cover!” [Sniper Cover,] the Device intoned, and both Boomer and Elsior disappeared from the mage’s sight.
Puzzled, the mage flew to the skyscraper and looked around for the missing Boomer, only to find that he had fallen into a trap. Boomer and several Arc Shooter projectiles materialized out of thin air, surrounding the hapless mage. As the mage drew in a breath to speak, Boomer directed the five shots through the mages’ torso, derezzing him.
Boomer grinned. Nothing to it… now to get back to helping Arcas.
Arcas was having significant trouble dealing with the last three targets. They had set up in a triangle formation around him, and were raining constant attacks on his own Ace Guard, which was holding comfortably, but it meant Arcas’ wouldn’t be attacking anytime soon. Gotta find an opening… I can’t rely on Mel or Boomer to solve my problems for me. Watching the pattern of attacks, Arcas spotted a break. He waited until the pattern cycled back around, and when the break came, he dropped Ace Guard and unleashed his spell. “Back off!” [Riot Edge.] Ejecting a cartridge, Ascalon’s blade shone with a silvery light, and Arcas made a full circle, sending a wave of energy against the attackers. The spell derezzed the injured mage, as well as one who’d strayed too close to Arcas. The one left however, was stunned only for a moment. But in that moment, Arcas acted.
“I am the enemy of the dragon!” [Dragon’s Bane.] Ascalon ejected two cartridges, and Arcas shouted a war cry, slashing the last target twice, right to left, and then left to right. The attack derezzed the mage, and ended the scenario.
The trio flew back to where Nanoha and the others were waiting. As they landed, the assembled Division 6 mages could hear the banter being exchanged between the three.
“…were in real trouble there, Arcas-kun…”
“Yeah, I thought that I might have to use Hyper Cannon to save you!”
“You wish, Boomer! I didn’t get to be S ranked for nothing, you know!”
The trio then faced Nanoha. “So,” Boomer asked, “how’d we do?”
“See for yourself,” Nanoha replied, and brought up the post-scenario statistics.
“00:18:47 to take out twenty AA rank mages – about one a minute – that’s pretty good, even for us.”
“Yeah, but you took out over half the targets, Mel.” Arcas sighed. “Just HOW do you do that?”
“Luck and skill, Arcas, luck and skill.”
“Oi, Arcas, you used up almost an entire cartridge load – need to watch how you use those – they don’t grow on trees, you know.”
“I only used as many cartridges as I needed to – no more, no less.”
“Oh, is that like your ‘never late, never early, exactly when needed’ statement you made?” Boomer replied sarcastically.
“Shut up, Boomer,” Arcas retorted.
“Anything else before you start training with the forwards?” Fate asked.
“Just one. Nanoha, could you set up the Force Test?” Arcas asked, swapping his almost-empty cartridge tube for a new one. [Reload.]
“Sure, just give me a moment.”
With that, Arcas headed out to the field alone. Fate looked at the other Phantasms. “Do either of you wish to join him?”
“Nah,” Boomer replied, “I’m not worried about my Hyper Cannon. How about you, Mel?”
Mel shook her head. “My spell has sufficient strength for now.”
Subaru was confused. “What’s going on?”
“You’re about to see the true strength of Ascalon,” Vita said. “Watch carefully.”
Arcas stood alone on the field, when before him appeared a sea of Round Shields.
“Whenever you’re ready, Arcas.”
He nodded, and then raised his Device. “Ascalon, slay the dragon.”[Dragon Slayer Mode.] With that, Ascalon ejected two cartridges and assumed its Full Drive Form. The obsidian blade glowed and stretched out two feet; a hand guard extended out at the base of the blade, where two small parts of the main blade attached themselves, and slid back, forming an acute angle with Ascalon’s hilt.
“Ascalon, give me the power of that which I hunt.” [Dragon’s Fury.] A red aura surrounded Arcas as Ascalon ejected two more cartridges. Arcas wasted no time in giving the incantation for Ascalon’s most feared spell.
“Across the worlds, across the galaxy, I hunt and kill the dragons of Injustice and Tyranny. It is a war I fight, an endless war. But, it is my mission, my CRUSADE!”
[CRUSADE.] Ascalon ejected the rest of its cartridge load, its blade blazed with brilliant light, and Arcas repeated the moves he had made with Dragon’s Bane, only this time, waves of energy came off Ascalon’s horizontal slashes. And finally, Arcas swung his Device in an overhead slash, and brought it slamming down onto the ground, where a cone of energy expanded upon impact, decimating all the shields in its path.
Vents opened in Ascalon, expelling enormous amounts of steam as it transformed back into it Standard Mode. The forwards stood awestruck as the destructive power they had witnessed. Arcas came back to them and stood next to Nanoha, and asked her if he could see the statistics. The White Devil promptly brought them up on a screen, and the MD6 personnel crowded around to look.
“Good job, Arcas! You managed to knock down seven more AA rank shields than last time!”
“Thanks, Fate. But I honestly thought it’d be more than that – I’ve spent a lot of time focusing and learning how to control my attacks rather than just blast the enemy with raw firepower.”
“Don’t worry, Arcas. It took me awhile learn how to properly control Starlight Breaker, but I got the hang of it.”
The four forwards, however, had their eyes practically riveted to the part of the screen which was labeled ATTACK STRENGTH. It said:
Of course, each forward had their own thoughts about it.
An attack stronger than SSS+?! Is that even possible?! (Tea)
Arcas-san is REALLY strong! He might even be stronger than Nanoha-san! (Subaru)
Wow… I knew Arcas was strong, but I had no idea… (Erio)
Arcas-nii-san is as strong as I remember him! (Caro)
“Well, that’s all for me. How about we get to training, eh?” Arcas asked. With that, the assembled mages headed off to train for the day.
SSS+ right from the get-go?
Do you even have any idea how strong that is???
Not even the Aces' Breaker moves would qualify for SSS!
Anyway, nice scenario!
Why was there no uguu~?
Quote:
Originally Posted by An Hero in Disguise
@Aaron&Kha: [Joseph Joestar Mode ON]OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!![Joseph Joestar Mode OFF] I go away for two hours and when I return I see your crazy ideas I'm sorry, I have a terrible headache now so I'll only read PMs fast and go to sleep - will comment further tomorrow.
JUST AS PLANNED!
Well, you see, since your so insistent on having Serge dominate the Aces, why not pair them up to make things more interesting?
Spoiler for So much for peace and quiet... Part B:
As Mikoto finally settled, Mabiko began to wash her down.
Mabiko: So...what did you do today?
Mikoto: I found my favorite dessert in the mess hall, Annin Tofu!
Mabiko: Komatta kodomo dane... You really should stop eating sweets, Mikoto, lest you drive your sisters up the walls.
Mikoto: auuu...haiii, kaa-chan~
Mikoto splashed off to relieve the next sister, Feena, who quietly walked over and sat down next to Mabiko.
Mabiko: So how did you pass time today?
Feena: I simply conversed with Barabus...although it was hard not to hug him. He talked about how he served Liana's family and how some of her ancestors were very much alike her. But...he seemed to be hiding something...
Mabiko: Look into it and see if you can earn his friendship, ne? I'm sure he'll like someone that doesn't always use him as merely a cuddle buddy that he can talk with.
Feena: Hai, okaa-sama...
As Feena was exchanging position with Erika, Cressida saw a chance as she made another attempt. However, Feena stopped it instead, casting a bind spell on Cressida and positioning her in front of the rest of the kitsune familiars.
Cressida: Hey! Lemme go!
Yuuki: Well, sisters? How about we give Cressida a taste of her own medicine, eh?
Cressida: You wouldn't dare...
Leticia: Not that we like throwing military rank around, but you're the one not respecting rank, no?
In the male baths, Vinson suffered another backlash as he heard screams and moans echoing from the female baths, causing his imagination to kick into overdrive and his nose to suffer another dam breaker. Barabus grabbed Vinson by some of his hair and dragged him out before his blood completely filled the bath.
Barabus: Yareyare...mijukumono(untrained one)...
I just had to leave out the torture scene. I think it'd be too graphic.
Spoiler for So much for peace and quiet... Part B:
As Mikoto finally settled, Mabiko began to wash her down.
Mabiko: So...what did you do today?
Mikoto: I found my favorite dessert in the mess hall, Annin Tofu!
Mabiko: Komatta kodomo dane... You really should stop eating sweets, Mikoto, lest you drive your sisters up the walls.
Mikoto: auuu...haiii, kaa-chan~
Mikoto splashed off to relieve the next sister, Feena, who quietly walked over and sat down next to Mabiko.
Mabiko: So how did you pass time today?
Feena: I simply conversed with Barabus...although it was hard not to hug him. He talked about how he served Liana's family and how some of her ancestors were very much alike her. But...he seemed to be hiding something...
Mabiko: Look into it and see if you can earn his friendship, ne? I'm sure he'll like someone that doesn't always use him as merely a cuddle buddy that he can talk with.
Feena: Hai, okaa-sama...
As Feena was exchanging position with Erika, Cressida saw a chance as she made another attempt. However, Feena stopped it instead, casting a bind spell on Cressida and positioning her in front of the rest of the kitsune familiars.
Cressida: Hey! Lemme go!
Yuuki: Well, sisters? How about we give Cressida a taste of her own medicine, eh?
Cressida: You wouldn't dare...
Leticia: Not that we like throwing military rank around, but you're the one not respecting rank, no?
In the male baths, Vinson suffered another backlash as he heard screams and moans echoing from the female baths, causing his imagination to kick into overdrive and his nose to suffer another dam breaker. Barabus grabbed Vinson by some of his hair and dragged him out before his blood completely filled the bath.
Barabus: Yareyare...mijukumono(untrained one)...
I just had to leave out the torture scene. I think it'd be too graphic.
It's a good thing you did.
Gotta start working on Barabus.
Location: Aboard the RAF Patrol Ship Delphinus
Time: 0600 MST
Mel padded along the deck of the Delphinus as she left her cabin to head down to the showers to clean up and prepare for the day ahead – the Phantasms was set to spend most of the next three days training with the forwards of MD6. As she moved through the kitchen, she passed Boomer, who was in the middle of making breakfast for the foursome.
“Morning!”
“And a good morning to you too, missy. Ready for an Earth-style breakfast?”
“You bet! I can’t wait to see what passes for food on Earth.”
“Well, you’ll know soon enough.”
Mel glanced around. “Where’s Shosa?”
“The major got called down to HQ again – looks like he’ll be there for the next few days, while we train MD6’s people.”
“So, if Shosa’s gone, then that means-”
“Yep, Arcas’ll be in charge of the training.”
“Is that such a wise thing? I’ve seen him train personally, and he can be fairly hard on himself.”
“Don’t worry, missy.” Boomer reassured the concerned knight. “Arcas was an Instructor for a few months at the beginning of his career. I’m sure he’ll be cautious enough. Speaking of Arcas, where is our fearless leader?”
“Still in bed,” Mel stated. “I’ve decided to give him until I’m ready for breakfast for him to drag his lazy self out of bed.”
“Generous of you,” Boomer stated with unmasked sarcasm.
Mel glared at Boomer and promptly headed off for the shower. She came back a few minutes later, cleaned up and wearing her usual attire: a one-piece azure dress that came down to her ankles. Boomer looked at the girl and shook his head.
“What?” Mel huffed.
“Nothing – it’s just that you’ve got a closet crammed with clothes, and yet you still choose to wear that almost every other day.”
“It’s comfortable, and has good mobility,” she replied, twirling around slowly. “It feels right.”
“Whatever. Off to wake Arcas?”
“Uh-huh.” And with that, she left the kitchen.
Down in Arcas’ cabin, the Phantasm XO was currently buried under a pile of pillows and blankets, sleeping. But that all changed when Mel came in and yanked the blankets off the bed, exposing a half-naked Arcas.
“Come on, Arcas,” she spoke sweetly, tugging on the shirt he was wearing, “time to get up.”
Arcas batted her hand away and mumbled something into the pillow he was currently holding.
“What was that?”
“I said, just five more minutes.”
Mel sighed, placing her hands on her hips.
“None of that now, Arcas. We’ve got a big day ahead of us, and we’re supposed to be leaving for MD6’s training field in-” she glanced at the clock “-half an hour.”
“So I’ve still got time.” He countered.
“You know, if you didn’t stay up until one or two in the morning every night, you wouldn’t be having these problems.”
“The Aces can do it.”
“No one’s asking you to be like the Aces!”
“No one except me.”
Mel groaned. “Fine. But don’t expect me to feel sorry for you when you’ve gotta do your usual Morning Rush.” With that, she turned to leave the cabin, and returned to the kitchen, where food was waiting for her on the table.
“Serve yourself.”
“Thanks, Boomer.”
She took some food from the plates, and sat down at the table. The sniper and swordswoman sat like that for a few minutes, eating in silence.
“So, it didn’t work, huh?”
“Of course not,” Mel frowned, eating a forkful of scrambled eggs. “I swear, he’s so stubborn about his sleep; yet, this whole problem of his would just go away if he decided to get a proper amount of rest.”
Boomer shrugged. “People are people – and it takes something huge to change a person’s habits.”
“Stop defending him! You wouldn’t say that if YOU were the one who had to deal with him every morning!”
“Whatever.”
In his cabin, Arcas turned over in his bed, trying to go back to sleep.
Why does Mel have to do this to me EVERY SINGLE DAY?! I’m perfectly happy asleep, and then she comes in and wakes me up, and now I can’t get back to sleep. And the worst part is that it does nothing for me; I can’t get back to sleep, but it doesn’t inspire me to get out of bed either! The Phantasm XO groaned and rolled over, his eye opening just a hair to look at the clock.
“How soon is it?”
“Just another minute or so.”
Arcas’ mind registered the time on the clock: 0623 MST. Mel came in at about 0610, and said that we had to leave for the training field in about half an hour.
“Three…”
That means I have… about 17 minutes to get ready! Crap, not again!
“Two…”
WHY does this happen EVERY MORNING?!
“One.”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I’M LATE!”
With that, Arcas came through the doorway of the kitchen as blazing speed, towel flapping in the air behind him.
“AAAND HE’S OFF!” Boomer dramatically announced. Mel rolled her eyes and got up from the table.
“I’ll get his clothes…”
“…and I’ll fix him a plate. Heaven knows he’ll need it.”
While Boomer got Arcas’ food ready, Mel returned to his cabin and pulled out a fresh set of clothes for him. She then proceeded down to the lower deck, where the infirmary and showers were located.
Doing this every morning, waking him up, bringing him his clothes… it almost feels like I’m Arcas’… wife… Mel blushed a deep red as the thought passed through her head, along with the familiar warm fuzzies that she got WHENEVER she thought about herself and Arcas. She shook the thought from her head, and returned to the kitchen.
A few minutes later, Arcas emerged from the shower, and saw the clothes lying out from him. Mel again, he thought as he toweled dry, why’s she keep doing this for me? Most of the other girls I knew did this for a week and when they realized that I wasn’t going to be changing anytime soon, dropped it like a hot potato. But she’s been doing it EVERY DAY for almost two years. Arcas sighed. I shouldn’t be complaining, though…
With that, he proceeded to the kitchen, where breakfast was waiting. Arcas cocked his head at seeing the plate of food sitting out for him.
“What’s with this? Usually you guys make me fix my own food.”
Boomer answered. “We’re going to be training for most of the day – so you’ll need a proper breakfast if you’re to keep going – but don’t expect it to happen TOO often.”
“Right.”
Arcas cleaned the food off his plate, and then the three Phantasms left for training.
Location: Mobile Division 6 Virtual Training Field
Time: 0655 MST
The Stars and Lightning forwards were all lined up, ready for morning training with the RAF. Subaru was especially pumped – she would finally get to see Esperacchius, the legendary Device, in action.
“This is going to be SO COOL!”
“Geez, Subaru, don’t get so hyper,” Teana growled. “It’s not like they’re Gods or anything.”
“But we get to train with an ACTUAL UNIT! One with plenty of experience!”
As the pair spoke back and forth, Nanoha, Vita, and Fate came up to the forwards. The trio looked around, and not seeing the 82nd, asked Caro and Erio if either of them had seen the RAF mages.
“No, we’ve not…” Erio began.
“And we’ve been here for almost half and hour,” Caro continued. “Are they really coming?”
“If they know what’s good for them…” Vita growled.
Not long after, the Phantasms came running out to the field.
“Sorry we’re late…” Mel began.
“We were unavoidably delayed,” Arcas explained.
That earned the XO nasty looks from both Boomer and Mel.
“Anyway, let’s get started!”
The Phantasms took the field, speaking to Nanoha over the comm line.
“Nanoha, can you put us in an urban setting? And generate twenty AA ranked mages for us.”
Nanoha’s hand swept over the controls, making the adjustments. “Any particular way you want them set up?”
Boomer spoke. “Just spread them out over the area – don’t bunch them up.”
Nanoha made the changes, and paused. “All ready – just say the word.”
Arcas looked at his comrades. “All right – let’s go.”
Boomer was the first to speak. “Elsior, set up!” The bullet on the end of the chain glowed, and began to move down the chain to Boomer’s body, which was engulfed by the bright light. When it faded, Boomer stood there in urban camouflage fatigues, the staff in his right hand.
Next came Mel. “Give hope to the people! Esperacchius, set up!” The Velkan rune for “Hope” gave off a chime, and Mel was surrounded a multitude of swirling “Hope” runes. When it stopped, Mel was clad in her green armor, with Esperacchius held in her right hand.
Finally, Arcas. “For Honor and Courage! Ascalon, set up!” Arcas disappeared in a column of fire – when is disappeared, Arcas was wearing his Knight Armor, a black turtleneck and pants, along with a long red coat. Ascalon was in his left hand.
Now prepared, Arcas spoke the word. “GO!”
With that, combat began.
Five mages opened fire from the rooftops, attacking the Phantasms. The three took off into the air immediately, evading the blasts.
Mel shouted to Arcas. “We need to find some cover so we can get set!”
“Agreed! Boomer! See any cover?”
“Just a moment! Elsior!”
[Eagle Eye.], the device spoke.
“Arcas, there’s available cover at your two o’clock – a skyscraper.”
“Copy that, Boomer. Mel! You get that?”
“Loud and clear.”
The three streaked towards the building, and rocketed to the top, still evading fire from the mages. Once at the roof, the three touched down, using the building’s height for cover.
“Okay, everyone here?” Arcas counted heads. “Three. We’re all here. Okay, people, time for a plan. Any ideas?”
“Way I see it, we’ve got two options.” Boomer began, “One: I stay here and snipe as many as I can, move when they get here, and the two of you clean up the rest. Two: One of you stays here to beat off any would-be interruptors, and the other goes out for clean-up.”
“Sound solid. Mel, what do you think?”
“I think… we should go with plan #1.”
“That’s what your gut is telling you?”
“Yes.”
“Alright then, that’s what we’ll do. Boomer, once you’re off the building, I want you to keep firing. Understood?”
“Yeah.”
“Mel?”
“Ready when you are.”
“Boomer, if you’d do us the honors of taking the first shot,” Arcas stated.
Boomer moved to the edge of the building, and hefted Elsior. The elliptical head opened, ready to fire.
“All right, pal. Let’s give ‘em something to be scared of, yes?”
[Yes, Boss.]
“Elsior! Shooting Star!”
Elsior ejected the cartridge from its ten-round magazine and fired the cobalt blue beam of energy. It screamed out of the device and struck a mage about halfway across the city, derezzing the virtual target.
“Go!”
With that, Mel and Arcas took off, flying west across the city. Four mages spotted the pair of knights and took to the air, trailing them. As they closed in, they began hurl spells at the pair.
“Mel, keep going! I’ve got these ones!”
“Understood.”
With that, Arcas whipped around, facing his pursuers. Seeing a target present itself, the quartet focused their attacks on Arcas, unleashing three beams of light. “Ascalon!”
[Fortress,] the Armed Device intoned, setting up a shield in front of him, which intercepted one beam while the other two blew by him, missing completely. As the mages positioned themselves for another round of fire, Arcas decided to surprise them.
“Burn with the fire of a thousand hells!” [Dragon’s Fire!] The Velkan triangle appeared before him, and out of it came a stream of fire which incinerated one target, and grazed another, wounding it. The mages pulled back, realizing their opponent could attack at mid-range. Arcas chased after them. He closed with the two untouched mages, hoping to take them out before their injured comrade could rejoin the fight. He swung Ascalon in both hands, from right to left; one mage, however, had the presence of mind to put up a shield. Arcas gritted his teeth.
“Pierce through, Ascalon! Dual Load!”
[Dragon’s Fang.] Ascalon ejected one cartridge, then another, and the attack sliced through the shield and the target behind it, derezzing them both. As Arcas turned to deal with the two remaining targets, he saw that another mage had joined the fight. Arcas mentally groaned. Three to one. I hope Mel’s doing better than I am…
Across the field, Mel had problems of her own. She had run into an ambush of seven mages, and though she’d managed to take out four of them, the remaining three were putting up a hell of a fight, and reinforcements weren’t but a minute away. Come on, Mel, THINK! Come up with a plan so you can beat these guys before they trap you between them and the guys on their way. Wait a minute… TRAP! PINCER! THAT’S IT! Mel moved quickly from her cover to a fairly large room in the building that she was in. Then, she simply waited until the attackers came. The three surviving ambushers attacked from one direction, while four mages came from the opposite. Mel immediately set her plan into action. “Esperacchius!”
[Ace Guard.] The Armed Device ejected two cartridges and an omnidirectional shield surrounded Mel. The seven mages rained attacks upon it, but it refused to go down. Deciding it was safe to get closer, the mages came within staff’s reach of the shield, and prepared to attack as one. But Mel acted first. “Cross of the God-Empress! Be my sword, and strike now!” [Grand Cross.] Esperacchius ejected two MORE cartridges, and Ace Guard disappeared, only for an enormous glowing cross to appear under the feet of all in the room. The cross shone with a brilliant light, derezzing three of the seven mages, and providing Mel with enough time to use Saint Saber to dispatch the other four.
All in a day’s work, she giggled. Now to go see who needs help…
On top of the skyscraper, Boomer had seen the three mages headed towards Arcas, and decided to give the young knight some help, and had taken out two of the three with Arc Sniper. Just as he was about to snipe number three however, Elsior spoke.
[Force Shield.] Elsior’s auto-guard magic deployed as three rapid attack shots slammed against the barrier generated by the Intelligent Device. Boomer whipped his head around to see the attack had come from his seven o’clock. “Elsior! Give me some cover!” [Sniper Cover,] the Device intoned, and both Boomer and Elsior disappeared from the mage’s sight.
Puzzled, the mage flew to the skyscraper and looked around for the missing Boomer, only to find that he had fallen into a trap. Boomer and several Arc Shooter projectiles materialized out of thin air, surrounding the hapless mage. As the mage drew in a breath to speak, Boomer directed the five shots through the mages’ torso, derezzing him.
Boomer grinned. Nothing to it… now to get back to helping Arcas.
Arcas was having significant trouble dealing with the last three targets. They had set up in a triangle formation around him, and were raining constant attacks on his own Ace Guard, which was holding comfortably, but it meant Arcas’ wouldn’t be attacking anytime soon. Gotta find an opening… I can’t rely on Mel or Boomer to solve my problems for me. Watching the pattern of attacks, Arcas spotted a break. He waited until the pattern cycled back around, and when the break came, he dropped Ace Guard and unleashed his spell. “Back off!” [Riot Edge.] Ejecting a cartridge, Ascalon’s blade shone with a silvery light, and Arcas made a full circle, sending a wave of energy against the attackers. The spell derezzed the injured mage, as well as one who’d strayed too close to Arcas. The one left however, was stunned only for a moment. But in that moment, Arcas acted.
“I am the enemy of the dragon!” [Dragon’s Bane.] Ascalon ejected two cartridges, and Arcas shouted a war cry, slashing the last target twice, right to left, and then left to right. The attack derezzed the mage, and ended the scenario.
The trio flew back to where Nanoha and the others were waiting. As they landed, the assembled Division 6 mages could hear the banter being exchanged between the three.
“…were in real trouble there, Arcas-kun…”
“Yeah, I thought that I might have to use Hyper Cannon to save you!”
“You wish, Boomer! I didn’t get to be S ranked for nothing, you know!”
The trio then faced Nanoha. “So,” Boomer asked, “how’d we do?”
“See for yourself,” Nanoha replied, and brought up the post-scenario statistics.
“00:18:47 to take out twenty AA rank mages – about one a minute – that’s pretty good, even for us.”
“Yeah, but you took out over half the targets, Mel.” Arcas sighed. “Just HOW do you do that?”
“Luck and skill, Arcas, luck and skill.”
“Oi, Arcas, you used up almost an entire cartridge load – need to watch how you use those – they don’t grow on trees, you know.”
“I only used as many cartridges as I needed to – no more, no less.”
“Oh, is that like your ‘never late, never early, exactly when needed’ statement you made?” Boomer replied sarcastically.
“Shut up, Boomer,” Arcas retorted.
“Anything else before you start training with the forwards?” Fate asked.
“Just one. Nanoha, could you set up the Force Test?” Arcas asked, swapping his almost-empty cartridge tube for a new one. [Reload.]
“Sure, just give me a moment.”
With that, Arcas headed out to the field alone. Fate looked at the other Phantasms. “Do either of you wish to join him?”
“Nah,” Boomer replied, “I’m not worried about my Hyper Cannon. How about you, Mel?”
Mel shook her head. “My spell has sufficient strength for now.”
Subaru was confused. “What’s going on?”
“You’re about to see the true strength of Ascalon,” Vita said. “Watch carefully.”
Arcas stood alone on the field, when before him appeared a sea of Round Shields.
“Whenever you’re ready, Arcas.”
He nodded, and then raised his Device. “Ascalon, slay the dragon.”[Dragon Slayer Mode.] With that, Ascalon ejected two cartridges and assumed its Full Drive Form. The obsidian blade glowed and stretched out two feet; a hand guard extended out at the base of the blade, where two small parts of the main blade attached themselves, and slid back, forming an acute angle with Ascalon’s hilt.
“Ascalon, give me the power of that which I hunt.” [Dragon’s Fury.] A red aura surrounded Arcas as Ascalon ejected two more cartridges. Arcas wasted no time in giving the incantation for Ascalon’s most feared spell.
“Across the worlds, across the galaxy, I hunt and kill the dragons of Injustice and Tyranny. It is a war I fight, an endless war. But, it is my mission, my CRUSADE!”
[CRUSADE.] Ascalon ejected the rest of its cartridge load, its blade blazed with brilliant light, and Arcas repeated the moves he had made with Dragon’s Bane, only this time, waves of energy came off Ascalon’s horizontal slashes. And finally, Arcas swung his Device in an overhead slash, and brought it slamming down onto the ground, where a cone of energy expanded upon impact, decimating all the shields in its path.
Vents opened in Ascalon, expelling enormous amounts of steam as it transformed back into it Standard Mode. The forwards stood awestruck as the destructive power they had witnessed. Arcas came back to them and stood next to Nanoha, and asked her if he could see the statistics. The White Devil promptly brought them up on a screen, and the MD6 personnel crowded around to look.
“Good job, Arcas! You managed to knock down seven more AA rank shields than last time!”
“Thanks, Fate. But I honestly thought it’d be more than that – I’ve spent a lot of time focusing and learning how to control my attacks rather than just blast the enemy with raw firepower.”
“Don’t worry, Arcas. It took me awhile learn how to properly control Starlight Breaker, but I got the hang of it.”
The four forwards, however, had their eyes practically riveted to the part of the screen which was labeled ATTACK STRENGTH. It said:
Of course, each forward had their own thoughts about it.
An attack stronger than SSS+?! Is that even possible?! (Tea)
Arcas-san is REALLY strong! He might even be stronger than Nanoha-san! (Subaru)
Wow… I knew Arcas was strong, but I had no idea… (Erio)
Arcas-nii-san is as strong as I remember him! (Caro)
“Well, that’s all for me. How about we get to training, eh?” Arcas asked. With that, the assembled mages headed off to train for the day.
SSS+? And then an attack stronger than that?!
Did you know that AA-AAA is enough to erase a city? Imagine SSSS!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron008R
Partly. But there's a lot more to that. Hmm. Should I add some more flirting in the real scenario?
But I need a proper chance to do that. Maybe I should...
GAH! NO! People like Smith and Wesson would like that! And then they'll be killed by Mai! Get out of my head!
(I blame the AnimeSuki Forums for corrupting my mind)
I nailed it!
More flirting? If you want Signum to really kill Aurion, sure!
You mean get Smith and Wesson to go see the fight? Mai doesnt have to go see... though it would be better if she does, of course.
Quote:
Originally Posted by KBTKaiser
Resuming of cute chaos...
Spoiler for So much for peace and quiet... Part B:
As Mikoto finally settled, Mabiko began to wash her down.
Mabiko: So...what did you do today?
Mikoto: I found my favorite dessert in the mess hall, Annin Tofu!
Mabiko: Komatta kodomo dane... You really should stop eating sweets, Mikoto, lest you drive your sisters up the walls.
Mikoto: auuu...haiii, kaa-chan~
Mikoto splashed off to relieve the next sister, Feena, who quietly walked over and sat down next to Mabiko.
Mabiko: So how did you pass time today?
Feena: I simply conversed with Barabus...although it was hard not to hug him. He talked about how he served Liana's family and how some of her ancestors were very much alike her. But...he seemed to be hiding something...
Mabiko: Look into it and see if you can earn his friendship, ne? I'm sure he'll like someone that doesn't always use him as merely a cuddle buddy that he can talk with.
Feena: Hai, okaa-sama...
As Feena was exchanging position with Erika, Cressida saw a chance as she made another attempt. However, Feena stopped it instead, casting a bind spell on Cressida and positioning her in front of the rest of the kitsune familiars.
Cressida: Hey! Lemme go!
Yuuki: Well, sisters? How about we give Cressida a taste of her own medicine, eh?
Cressida: You wouldn't dare...
Leticia: Not that we like throwing military rank around, but you're the one not respecting rank, no?
In the male baths, Vinson suffered another backlash as he heard screams and moans echoing from the female baths, causing his imagination to kick into overdrive and his nose to suffer another dam breaker. Barabus grabbed Vinson by some of his hair and dragged him out before his blood completely filled the bath.
Barabus: Yareyare...mijukumono(untrained one)...
I just had to leave out the torture scene. I think it'd be too graphic.
Too graphic indeed... you already had the bondage going.
Only partially. That's only 23.47% reason why she wants to deliver a beating.
Quote:
More flirting? If you want Signum to really kill Aurion, sure!
He's gonna get skewered.
But I'm trying to make it as sadistic and non-innuendo-inducing as possible. He's a scientist, not a raging perv!
Nightengale's the expert when it comes to this!
Any suggestions, Erio?
Quote:
You mean get Smith and Wesson to go see the fight? Mai doesnt have to go see... though it would be better if she does, of course.
Yup. If Mai was left out, what will happen to the obligatory casualties?
Only partially. That's only 23.47% reason why she wants to deliver a beating.
23.47%, huh? Lets see if I can get that a bit higher... *thinks thinks thinks thinks thin-- oh!*
Something to do with Fate! Yes! Umm...
Fine, I have no idea!
Quote:
He's gonna get skewered.
But I'm trying to make it as sadistic and non-innuendo-inducing as possible. He's a scientist, not a raging perv!
Nightengale's the expert when it comes to this!
Any suggestions, Erio?
Suggestions... Letme ask you first, you actually want Signum to OWN Aurion? She seemed pretty serious already in that little piece you posted.
SSS+ right from the get-go?
Do you even have any idea how strong that is???
Not even the Aces' Breaker moves would qualify for SSS!
Anyway, nice scenario!
Why was there no uguu~?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Erio
SSS+? And then an attack stronger than that?!
Did you know that AA-AAA is enough to erase a city? Imagine SSSS!!
@Aaron008R: Glad you liked it - unfortunately, I didn't see any chance for uguu~ness in this short - but I'll make up for it - don't worry.
Re: SSS+: Arcas himself isn't SSS+, the move is.
Re: Crusade - Wait, so even the feared SLB isn't a SSS move?
@Erio: AA-AAA can erase a city?! Where'd you get this info? I need to take a look @ it so I can properly adjust the power levels of the 82nd's Ultimate Spells.
Re: Crusade - Wait, so even the feared SLB isn't a SSS move?
@Erio: AA-AAA can erase a city?! Where'd you get this info? I need to take a look @ it so I can properly adjust the power levels of the 82nd's Ultimate Spells.
Sorry I cant pinpoint you to the source of that information, but that's what I read a long time ago in the episode threads. Could probably be from the Sound Stages.
2007-06-30, 12:42
Author
I'm not used to writing how I wrote this chapter...
