Strike Witches Project: Magi
Disclaimer: I don't own Strike Witches, but I wish Humikane Shimada and AIC would look at this, since GONZO's out of the picture now *sigh*… Humikane Shimada owns Strike Witches by the way
Sorry: Hey guys, I'm really, really sorry if this isn't fan service, okay? I know Strike Witches is supposedly only Girls, again, really sorry. But don't worry it's only one guy. And heck, girls might get attracted to this also. Let's not just keep the Strike Witches fan service to ourselves dudes, besides, who wouldn't like a good harem – The Author
Chapter 1: Testing Phase: I-250
After the destruction of the Neuroi Hive in both Gallia and Romanga, it seems peace has yet gone from most parts of Europe, but three months later…
Baltland, 1945
A Baltland reconnaissance squadron was patrolling by the Baltland Sea. Then all of the sudden…
"Hey guys, do you see that."
"Hmm… Let me check on it. Huh—what the!"
"What is it?"
"It's, it's-"
"What is it?"
"A Neuroi hive!"
It was a giant Neuroi hive, twice bigger than that of the one in Romagna. A Giant Neuroi ship, the same size of a battleship came down the Hive.
"Unbelievable."
"Crap… The fighting just can't end, can they?"
The Giant Neuroi slowly moved to the land, the Baltland Air Force tried to intercept the Neuroi, but fails to do so. A lot of towns were set ablaze and, the northern part of Baltland had fallen in minutes…
At Moscow, the capital of the Orussia Empire, the Department of defense was ordered by the Emperor to make a weapon powerful enough to be used against the Giant Neuroi, the Project was called, Magi.
One of the researchers was called to give a report to Orussia's Marshal and Minister, Minister Timoshenko.
"Minister Timoshenko. We have, well… some unbelievable news about the new experiment."
"Is it a failure?"
"Well, not really. It has succeeded many test, in the matter of fact sir, it was beyond expectations, yet-"
"Yet, what?"
"Uh well, you see sir, the experiment also turned into a disaster during the final testing and we almost lost the witch too…"
Minister Timoshenko was disappointed and asked "is the witch alright?"
"Yes sir. She is in the intensive care unit at the hospital, she is really injured. It also seems that the failure was due to an anomaly we found during the testing phase. It seems that the witch is in her stable level of magic, but we have seen in the records that the magic engine in the Project is making its own magical energy that it combines with the Magic power of the Witch that caused the magical engine to overload."
"I see. So have you found a solution?"
"Well, indeed sir, we sent someone here for the project."
The researcher gave the Minister the person's documents
"Hmm? Why did you pick this one?"
"Isn't it allowed?"
"No, it's not that, this is an ordinary person, especially he can't even use magic because he can't be a witch."
"Exactly sir, we also noticed that this engine makes its own magical energy, so if we put an ordinary person here, it could stabilize the magical engine and the Project would be a success. Also, unlike the Warlock and the Yamato Neurofication, we won't need a Neuroi core fragment, making a Zero percent chance for this to go berserk."
"Yet, one thing why we use witches is their shields, right?"
"That is one problem sir, we still don't know much about that."
"Hmm… could you at least try making a shield, it would be really risky not to give the pilot a shield. We cannot lose this man. He is too valuable in our air force. We can't send a defenseless man against the Giant Neurois at the Baltland Sea."
"Yes sir, we will do what we can about this project."
"Okay… I have high expectations from this Project, and more importantly from the man you called, he is our top ace in the country, we can't risk losing him in the testing phase."
"Yes, sir."
"Oh, and make sure that witch who got hurt in the testing is okay, I want her side of the failure report."
"Of course sir." The researcher left the office.
The Minister turns around facing the window looking at the rain, he mumbles
"So, he will be doing the testing. I hope the Project works on him."
The Documents show both the Project, the Person sent to Moscow and the Squadron he will be positioned after the final testing phase.
Project Magi-
Magi Unit: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG I-250
Magi name: Mikhail Kozhedub
Rank: Junior Lieutenant
Age: 17
Birthday: June, 8, 1928
Former Station: Baltic Sea
Former Branch: Orussia Youth Voluntary Air Squadron
Next Station: Narvik, Baltland
Next Branch: 510th Joint Fighter Wing, "Blaze Witches"
"He is our last hope. May God have mercy his soul…"
At the Orussia Youth Voluntary Air Squadron, a briefing was held about the Giant Neuroi ships that appeared on the Baltland Sea.
"Okay, we all here have heard about the Giant Neuroi ships, right?"
"Yes sir."
"Well, technically, even the Witches are having a really hard time defeating these."
"I already know that sir." Mikhail mumbles as he was slacking on the chair.
"Well, it seems that Orussia is already making a weapon against this Neuroi. And we all think that this weapon might be only available for the witches, right?"
"Yep." They replied.
"Well, that is incorrect."
"What!"
It somewhat caught Mikhail's attention, the Commander continued on. He showed the schematics of the Magi Project on the chalkboard, he discussed.
"Okay, this thing isn't allowed to be used by the witches. But yes, they were intended to be used by them but the engine used here is so powerful, that it could make its own magical energy, with that it could overload since the witch herself has magical energy."
"So what, like we could use those kinds of things, if the witches can't control that, then what can we do?" Mikhail went.
"Don't interfere with the surprise Mladshii Leitenant Kozhedub"
"Sorry sir."
"And here, my friends, is where one of us gets involved." The commander smacks his hands against the board "Since we don't use magic, we will be able to use these. It might be hard to use at first, but you'll learn to get used to it, oh and another thing, boys."
"Huh?"
"The lucky guy who will try that unit, will be transferred to the 510th Joint Fighter Wing, the Blaze Witches."
"Man, what is this, an assignment or a promo?"
"And, that lucky person is…"
"God, I hope it's not me." Mikhail went.
"Mladshii Leitenant Mikhail Kozhedub."
"And, I lost…"
Jealous teammates were surprised and went "Whoa, man, you got picked! You are going to heaven my bro. I'm jealous man. You get to see the ladies."
After the briefing, he and his close friend Dimitri Popkov walked to their rooms.
"Man Mikhail, you're a really lucky dude, you get to fight the Neuroi and you also get to be in a squadron full of cute young girls."
"*Sigh* Like I really care man, I don't feel like being a pilot to that Magi or whatchamacallit, I don't really care now."
"Why? Is it about your sister? I know she was a test witch who used that experiment."
"Yeah, just looking at that thing might really displace my right track of thought."
"Don't worry, I bet Tania's okay. She may be in the ICU for a while, but she'll do fine."
"Yeah I hope so."
The Commander ran towards Mikhail and said.
"Mikhail, wait!"
"Huh? Komandir Klimov, what is it?"
"I forgot to tell you, you are leaving tomorrow night"
"Already!"
At Mikhail's room
He was already packing his things, he secures a pistol inside his suitcase, and he also got his picture with his little sister, Tania. He looks at it for a while, and thought.
"My sister was the one who got injured during that Magi's testing phase, and now they're making me use this?"
He puts his suitcase on the floor and goes to bed.
The next day, he was walking towards the flight control tower, there, he saw the Commander.
"Is this your favourite spot, Komandir?"
"No, but it is quite relaxing here, it's very breezy."
"So, why was I picked to pilot that Magi thing?"
"One thing is certain, it's because you're Orussia's top fighter ace without being a witch, heck you were able to defeat a Neuroi with that fighter plane of yours, well that thanks to your sister's help too."
"Yeah. Oh, how is she?"
"Tania's okay, she regained consciousness already."
"Really, thank God."
"She is already being healed by some of our healing witches. We also manage to talk to her about the project."
"What did she say?"
"She said she felt a different, and yet a very powerful energy coming from the I-250."
"The I-250? What's that?"
"That's the Project's name, the MiG I-250."
This got Mikhail really thinking if he could pilot the I-250. Commander Klimov then smiled and gave a little pat on the shoulder, he said.
"Mikhail, you have to do this, for the sake of Tania, Orussia, Batland, and the Entire world."
"Fine, I'll pilot the Magi."
"The MiG I-250 is the Magi unit, but YOU are the Magi itself, the first one to be exact."
"Really…?"
"Yes."
Back at the ICU at the Moscow Hospital
"Mghh… Brother…"
"Poor girl, she's been through a lot, but it was a miracle she survived. Being the younger sister of Orussia's top ace, it must be hard for the big brother now, since he'll be piloting that beast."
"Hmm… Doctor, we have her results."
"Okay, what is it?"
"Well, sir it appeared that the I-250's magic output didn't just combine and gave an outburst with Tania's magic, but it also absorb a lot of energy, this is the reason why the engine overloaded. It seems that Tania's magical abilities, familiar, were somewhat absorbed by the I-250."
"So that means that the magic abilities of Tania could now be done by the I-250"
"Correct, meaning that whoever uses this striker—erm—I mean Magi unit, would have the same abilities as what Tania has, or even surpass Tania's abilities, though we aren't certain sir."
"I see, so if Mikhail uses that unit, he will have the same abilities that Tania has."
"Exactly, well, that would be a hypothesis, sir…"
During that night, as Commander Klimov and Mikhail walked outside the base, they spot a Ju 52 waiting on the runway. They also spot the commander of the 510th joint fighter wing.
"Ah, you must be the Commander?"
"Yes, I am Oberstleutnant Emily Bär."
"I wasn't expecting a Karlslandian to be the Leader of the 510th." Mikhail said.
"Well, I was expecting an Orussia boy, since this IS an all Orussian group. Okay, so you are Junior Lieutenant Mikhail Klimov?"
The Entire Air Squadron looked outside, and they were astonished on Oberstleutnant Emily's looks. She had Red Eyes and Snow White hair an angelic appearance, she was tall for her age, and had a really decent body.
"Man, woohoo, that girl's hot! Damn boy, if that's how good looking the Commander is, how about her entire group! Mikhail, you lucky bastard!"
"Well, shall we get going, it seems that our witches want to see the world's first Magi." Oberstleutnant Bär said.
"Sure?"
As the transport was leaving, they were being escorted by five La-5s. The La-5s shot flares and said on the radio "Do svidanniya, Mikhail! Hey, give me some pictures from those lovely ladies you'll meet at the base."
"What the hell?"
"Fu fu fu… Well now, it seems like your comrades are very well attached to you."
"That's how it is in our motherland, Orussia."
"Well, you better get some sleep. We will be arriving at Narvik soon."
"Yes ma'am."
"Oh and by the way, The I-250 is already delivered to our Headquarters, so best you get a lot of sleep, we will test the I-250 on you after getting to Narvik, understood?"
"Yes ma'am."
After some time, the transport had reached Narvik at dawn.
Mikhail woke up and looked at the window, there, he saw the ruins of Baltland, and then he saw the island Headquarters of the 510th Joint Fighter Wing. A Giant port, with a huge flight control tower, a fleet of ships headed by the Battleship Gangut were docked and being armed, an airstrip for both the fighter planes and the Witches, he was amazed on how many soldiers here are present. He then hears someone on the radio. It was an escorting witch.
"Commander Emily? Commander Emily? Please respond."
"Ah Maxine, thank you for escorting us."
"Us? So, does that mean, he's on board?"
"That's correct."
"Wow!"
"Uh, Oberstleutnant Bär, who was that?"
"That was our new recruit, Maxine Ostermann, like me, she's from Karlsland."
"Ah, will I meet more?"
"Huh? Commander!"
"What is it Maxine."
Maxine has spotted a Giant Neuroi flying south, towards the Base.
"Ma'am, what should we do!" Mikhail was shocked with what he heard.
"Calm down. Me, and the Witches will handle the situation."
The Fort's alarms sound up, the Fleet docked at the Base is also preparing for the battle.
"Maxine, I want you to tell the Captain of the Gangut to stand down, the fleet won't be able to stop a Neuroi this big! They won't be able to fight something this Huge!"
"I'll do my best."
"Pilot, open the door, I'm jumping out."
"Are you insane?-" Mikhail was shut silent when Emily turns into a witch. She had the familiar of a Cougar.
She jumps out of the plane, the witches prepare to sortie. The mechanics hurry her striker unit and placed it accurately on where she is going to land.
"Whoa."
She was successful on equipping her striker from a very high position, then sorties out with the 510th.
"Emily Bär, Taking off!"
She grabs her Panzerbuchse 39 and lifts off. Her striker unit was a standard Bf109 striker unit.
She and the rest of the 510th were to intercept the Neuroi before it eradicates the base. The fleet was already preparing for attack, but Maxine tells them not to do so, yet the captain still attempts an attack on the Neuroi.
"Captain, the Anti-Neuroi shells have now been loaded."
"Okay, I'll tell you when to fire."
The Giant Neuroi unleashes a giant array of lasers. Some of the seven witches had to use big shields to protect themselves.
"Damn… they're too powerful!"
"Argh!" Emily shot three armor piercing rounds on the Neuroi. Unfortunately It wasn't working.
"That is one big piece of—argh!" One of them was shot in the legs.
"Oh damn, Josephine!" two tried to grab her before landing on the water.
As the transport got to the runway, Mikhail immediately ran to find a fighter plane, but to no avail.
"Damn, not a single fighter in this dump? Wait a minute—that's it!"
"Okay, fire!"
The Gangut fired all twelve of its cannons, but it barely damaged the Giant Neuroi, the Neuroi fires a barrage of lasers which hits the Marat, her sister ship, and the other ships.
"Sir, the Marat has been hit! The Kirov is decreasing speed. We need to fall back!"
"Damn, fire again!"
"But sir-"
"Just do it!"
"Y-yes sir."
The Witches then tried to block the Neuroi's beam barrages to protect the fleet, but the Neuroi was too powerful. Meanwhile, Mikhail was running looking for something.
"Where is that thing?"
He then turns around and saw another hangar, there he found what he was looking for.
"Is this the—yeah, I think it is."
"The I-250." He wondered how to use the Magi unit, he was at a complete loss on how to use the thing.
"Crap, how do you get these to move?" He wasn't able to even start the engines.
"Damn, work you stupid contraption, move! C'mon God dammit! I have to help the 510th or they'll get toast, move!"
The I-250 just won't budge.
"Why? Is this because I'm not a witch? Am I just too powerless, why won't you move? Please, I'm begging you… move… I want to save the 510th, the World, my sister… just please… move…" he started to cry a little
Then, he started to here a voice "Brother…"
"What the-"
Then all of the sudden the I-250 gave a yellow aura, Mikhail felt different.
"Huh?"
He looks at the Magical engine's gauge. It was going in the green marking, the engine started to work. The magical propellers also appeared but the unit gave a powerful burst of energy on the tail. He suddenly had a feature of a Fox.
"A familiar? Wait, this is Tania's familiar? How the hell did this happen? Wait a second—Tania was the test witch on this thing, so maybe when the engine overloaded, Tania's remaining magic is still present in the engine."
"Wow, so this is how it feels like." He saw a weapon beside his Unit, a DShK Heavy Machine gun.
He then opens the gates of the hangar and tries to fly with the I-250.
"Mikhail Kozehdub, preparing for launch sequence!" he fires up the engine and a giant octagonal red and completely different Rune came out of the striker. He launches so quickly in the skies, it only took him ten seconds to get a high altitude.
As the witches and the Fleet were still battling the undefeatable Neuroi, Mikhail jets in towards it.
"How dare you go back to our world, argh!"
He was too fast that he passed by Commander Emily, shocked by the speed she wondered "Was that Mikhail?"
Mikhail was fast and was able to avoid all the Neuroi's beams. He tried to find the core of the Giant Neuroi, and shot at will.
"Where's that damn core?"
"We'll help you find it!" The 510th joined in.
"Mikhail, could you use a shield."
"Uh, I think so…"
The Neuroi fired another barrage of beams. Mikhail then created a huge barrier that blocked every beam. He then used his magical ability, like his sister Tania, his magical ability is "Piercing"
"Hyah!"
"What the-"
He compresses his huge shield into a very sharp point, and goes though the Neuroi, piercing though its core.
"O my God…"
The Neuroi breaks into pieces, but getting Mikhail completely exhausted and faints. He fell from the skies like an angel losing his wings. The I-250 slipped from his legs.
"Oh crap!"
He was caught by Commander Emily just in time, and the I-250 was caught by the other witches, and they finally returned back to the base. The fleet and the captain of the Gangut were cheering that they were able to destroy a Giant Neuroi for the first time.
"Minister Timoshenko, you brought us a Hero no—a miracle maker, no—he's just the First Magi."
A day later…
Mikhail regains consciousness, he saw that he was lying in bed, next to his bed, were the 510th Joint Fighter Wing, the Blaze Witches.
"Whoa, what a surprise!" He went.
"So you're the Magi?"
"Apparently so." He replies.
The Girls greeted one by one
"I'm Josephine Steinhoff, a Staffelkapitan from the Karlsland Luftwaffe." She had short chestnut hair, brown eyes, and an impressive bosom.
"Nice to meet you. Wow, she's hot"
"Don't think I'm going easy on you, rookie."
"I stood corrected."
"My name is Maxine-Helma Ostermann, I'm also a Karlslandian, but I'm just an Ensign. It's really nice to meet you." She was quite young, she had long yellowish brown hair, and blue eyes.
"That girl on the radio." Mikhail thought
"My name is Uhrii Puhakka, I'm… from Suomus, my rank is a Flying Officer of the 32nd Squadron of the Suomus Air Force." She was a nervous light-blonde haired girl with violet eyes, like a stereotypical Suomish citizen.
"I'm Yui Shinohara, I'm a Warrant Officer in the Fuso Imperial Army Air Force hahaha." She was a lively girl with really long black hair, and had brown eyes, a common Fuso appearance.
"My name is Jaime Jill "Peggy" Sutherland from, the VF-5 Flight Lieutenant of the Liberion Navy." She was a tall buxom Liberion girl. She had long flowing blonde hair, and blue eyes.
"My name is Adriana Visconti, A captain from the Regia Aeronautica Romanga, nice to meet you." She was a charming girl with knee long green hair, like most other Romagnans, she had a light Mediterranean Tan.
"Finally, the eighth witch, she is currently absent today due to a certain incident."
"Oberstleutnant Bär, I know my own sister, okay?"
"Wait, so it wasn't a coincidence after all. I thought that the last name Kozhedub was common in Orussia, it seems that I stood corrected."
"So does that mean, he's little Tania's brother?"
"Exactly."
"Okay, we will go to the briefing room, to get you formally introduced."
As they got to the Briefing room, it was an old warehouse, it was just the edge of a cliff, the winter breeze made it really unbearable to most. Some wooden gaps on the old walls got the harsh wind to enter.
"Okay, let me formally introduce to you our new comrade, Junior Lieutenant Mikhail Kozhedub. He will be piloting the newly delivered I-250 for now."
Mikhail walks up front and smiles he said "Hello, I hope you take good care of me as time passes by."
"For now on, you will call me Commander Emily, no longer the Oberstleutnant."
"Yes ma'am."
"Oh, and good luck, okay girl, you could stop restraining yourselves."
The girls shouted in excitement, they surrounded Mikhail and they said.
"Wow, look at him, he's so cute! Yeah, and he looks like a nice guy! Hey, hey, Mikhail, why don't you and me go somewhere special!"
"Oh man, this won't be the best day of my life…"
-End-
Notes:
The battleship Gangut was the lead ship of the Gangut-class battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy built before World War I, although she was the last to be completed. The Ganguts were the first class of Russian dreadnoughts. She was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714. She was completed during the winter of 1914–15, but was not ready for combat until mid-1915. Her role was to defend the mouth of the Gulf of Finland against the Germans, who never tried to enter, so she spent her time training and providing cover for minelaying operations. Her crew joined the general mutiny of the Baltic Fleet after the February Revolution and joined the Bolsheviks in 1918. She was laid up in 1918 for lack of manpower and not recommissioned until 1925, by which time she had been renamed Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya (Russian: Октябрьская революция: October Revolution).
Mikoyan Gurevich MiG I-250, were prototype Motor Jet planes built to counteract the Me-262 of Nazi Germany.
"Do Svidanniya" It means Goodbye in Russian
La-5 or the Lavotchkin La-5, they were one of the most successful designs made by the Soviet Union during World War II against Nazi Germany's (Or in this case, Karlsland's) Messerschmitt Bf109
Defense Minister Timoshenko, He was the Marshal of the Soviet Army before being succeeded by Joseph Stalin.
Cruiser Kirov, (Russian: Киров) was a Project 26 Kirov-class cruiser of the Soviet Navy that served during the Winter War, World War II and into the Cold War. She attempted to bombard Finnish coast defence guns during action in the Winter War, but was driven off by a number of near misses that damaged her. She led the Evacuation of Tallinn at the end of August 1941, before being blockaded in Leningrad where she could only provide gunfire support during the Siege of Leningrad. She bombarded Finnish positions during the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive in mid-1944, but played no further part in the war