A/N: I suppose this WILL have to be an Elseword, else how will Negi know Illya? Maybe… possibly…
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Descendants of Negi: An Elseworld of 2814… Possibly.
by Shadow Crystal Mage
Chapter 2: Marty McFly Never Had These Problems…
Disclaimer: Negima belongs to Akamatsu. I make no profit off this. If you paid to see this, you've been had… AND I WANT MY CUT!
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"Who exactly are you, girl?" Chao asked. "How do you have my technology?"
The girl, to her credit, tried to stand up straight and look composed. "My name," she said proudly, or as proudly as someone talking with a nasal voice through ha bloody nose could be, "Is Aoyama Amaterasu! Daughter of Tsukuyomi!"
"WHAT!-?-!-?-!-?-!-?-!" they all cried.
The girl continued, pointing at Konoka. "Konoe Konoka! First you took my mother's beloved Setsuna-sempai away from her with your harlotous, succubus-like ways, evilly seducing her away from her rightful beloved with your big breasts and money and that thing you can do with your tongue!" Amaterasu declared. "But this victory wasn't enough for you, for you had to also steal away Negi-papa with your big breasts and your threesome orgies, leaving my mother pregnant and destitute while you had you big happy marriage with Negi-papa and your concubine Setsuna! Now, I have come to avenge my mothers honor by killing you and changing time so that my mother can have Negi-papa and her Setsuna-sempai as she should!"
Setsuna and Negi had paled, while Makie had stuck out her tongue, looking at it curiously as she looked sideways at Konoka, who simply looked shocked.
Chisame summed it up. "Oh, crap."
Ku turned to stare at Negi. "Sensei bang four-eyed pervy slicey glasses girl?"
"Don't you dare talk about my mother that way!" Amaterasu cried. She was hurriedly stuffing her nose with tissues to stem the bleeding. "My mother is a wonderful person who just happens to like killing people and is sexually excited by murder! We all have our little problems!"
They all gave her a blank stare.
She kept on glaring. "She's the greatest mother ever!"
Asuna sighed. "Yup, this is definitely your kid, Negi."
The others nodded sagely in agreement, except Setsuna, who was still twitchy at all the things Amaterasu had just revealed, the least of which was that Tsukuyomi had somehow managed to reproduce.
"EH?" Negi exclaimed. "How do you all say that?"
The girls all exchanged a look, wondering how they could possibly put into words the sentiment that only he could be able to breed such a hopelessly optimistic kid with a total nut like Tsukuyomi.
"Only you would be able to breed such a hopelessly optimistic kid with a total nut like Tsukuyomi," Chisame said, summing it up perfectly.
"My mother is not a total nut!" Amaterasu protested, gasping. "She is a kind and loving human being!"
At this point, she realized she had stuffed so many tissues into her nose she could no longer breath, and started pulling some out, gasping.
"Target acquired. Beginning neutralization."
The words were delivered in a clear, level voice that sounded like someone had been able to score Summer Glau as a seiyuu, in a robotic monotone that managed to be musical. That was the only warning they had before a red-haired girl with strange ear ornaments streaked towards Amaterasu with a lot more flair, speed, and capability than the loligoth had previously displayed, one hand thrusting forward like a spear.
Before contact could be made, however, there was a blur and a clear, almost bell-like metallic ring as a figure interposed itself between the red-haired girl and a surprised Amaterasu. There was a confused moment of movement as the red-haired girl and the new arrival, a smaller, dark-haired child who looked barely ten and was definitely shorter than Negi, fought. This did not stop the new arrival from wielding the two swords in her hands, a standard-sized katana and a much longer nodachi that was way longer than she was tall.
"Still making a movie folks!" Chisame said loudly. Everyone shrugged and went on their way, though a couple were asking Makie which club they were in and if they'd be letting people see the finished product.
The red-haired girl drew back, while the dark-haired girl moved to place herself between the red-haired girl and Amaterasu. The red-haired girl was wearing gloves, and between that and her sweater and jeans most of her was completely covered. Amaterasu gasped as she saw the dark-haired girl clearly. "Arika? W-what are you doing here?"
"Don't worry sempai!" the dark-haired girl chirped cheerfully. She was wearing a highly inappropriate spaghetti strap that left her back bare and shorts, which would have had more conservative mothers moaning about how their little girl was turning into a slut had it been worn by someone five years holder. As she was, it was even more highly disturbing. "I'm here to rescue you! Oh, and I guess I'm also supposed to keep you from changing history so that Konoka-mama and Setsuna-mama end up with Negi-papa, but we can talk about that."
Amaterasu blushed. "I don't need your help, Sakurazaki-Springfield Arika!" she declared loudly.
"Eh, sempai has such a sexy voice when she yells!" Arika chirped. "It's making me really hot…"
Setsuna paled so much she looked like a corpse as Asuna began to choke.
The red-haired girl didn't narrow her eyes, but it would have been appropriate for her to. Instead, she said levelly, "New target acquired. Updating database. Target tentatively identified as the child of Negi Springfield and Sakurazaki Setsuna." Negi s eyes went comically wide, and began to swirl a little. "Target neutralization protocol initiated. Commencing analysis." With that, she attacked again.
Arika met her charge as they dodged around a surprised Makie, swords, fists and feet darting past her legs, around her head and in some cases between her fingers as the two briefly met each other, only to move sideways as the others scrambled to get out of the way, Ku pulling Makie back as soon as it was safely viable. They knew they should break the girls up, break out the awesome Pactio powers and levels of badass they'd acquired over the last four years, but Setsuna and Negi were still too out of it by the sudden shocks, and Asuna knew she wasn't exactly a precision attacker.
The red-haired girl met the blades with her hands, arms and legs, cutting up her clothes slightly as a shimmering field seemed to cover her limbs, apparently providing protection from the blades. They fought with a degree of skill that was becoming very common in Ala Alba's circles. "Analysis complete," the red-haired girl said, moving back slightly. "Target identified as using Shinmeiryu. Initiating Counterattack. Weapon Copy System, Initiating. Activating Multi-Buster." Her right forearm seemed to burst open, the gloves and sweater melting into a silvery 'liquid metal' sort of thing and revealing shifting plates and gears as the forearm reformed into a rounded, elongated weapon that looked kinda like an ovoid jellybean with a barrel. The smell of ozone suddenly filled the air as the barrel of the weapon began to glow. She pointed the weapon at Arika, energy crackling form the end. "Multi-Buster, shoot."
A ball of energy shot forth, flying at Arika straight and true. She darted back, grabbing a surprised Amatersau and dodging the blast.
At the escalation, Chachamaru charged forward, knocking the red-haired girl's weapon upward, her combat filaments bursting from her back to try and restrain the girl. "Stop this immediately," Chachamaru said in her usual calm voice.
Surprisingly, the girl froze. "Direct parental command logged," she said. "Attempting 'Rebellious Teen' override. Established 'Obedience' and 'Parental Respect' protocols causing delay. Immanent disobedience failure."
Chachamaru did blink in surprise at this, even as the others' eyes went wide. "You will calm down and explain yourself," Chachamaru continued, not loosening her grip even as the girl offered no resistance.
"New direct parental command logged," the red-haired girl said. "Override failing. Loading emergency module 'Heroic Resolve'. Loading emergency module 'Audacia Paula'. Obedience override, activated. Apologies in advance."
The red-haired girl twisted, legs, arms and torso contorting and rotating in ways that made Makie wince and everyone else shiver and recoil, somehow pulling her way out of Chachamaru's restraining hold. She managed to slam an elbow into Chachamaru's face with a concise "My apologies, mother," before a well-aimed rocket-punch to the gut sent the green-haired robot girl flying over a distant building.
Amaterasu, meanwhile, was taking issue with Arika rescuing her. "GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY BREASTS, YOU PERVERT!" she cried, trying to struggle out of Arika's grip, which was made complicated by all the swords and throwing blades they were wearing.
"Eh?" Arika said, nuzzling against Amaterasu's back as she groped the other girl. "What's the matter, Amaterasu-sempai? Didn't your mom do this to my mom all the time? Why should you have a problem with something your mom liked to do?"
"WE'RE HALF-SISTERS, YOU BASTARD!" Amaterasu cried. "YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THESE THINGS!"
"Our love can go beyond these petty bonds of blood!" Arika said cheerfully. "Besides, you're one to talk. Didn't your mom pretend to be a stripper during Negi-papa's bachelor party and seduce him to conceive you?"
"Grrr!" Amaterasu said, pulling off one of her cute little shoes and hitting Arika with it repeatedly. "Let go! I have to change the timeline so that you never exist and Negi-papa marries mama!"
"There are so many things wrong with that reasoning," Chisame muttered. Some deep, deep part of her was crying that she was no longer normal enough to truly find all this weird. The rest of her told it to shut up and get with the program. Setsuna and Sensei were still out of it, while Asuna had her harisen in hand and had charged the red-haired robot-girl, steel-hard paper meeting limbs.
Amaterasu finally managed to throw Arika off her, and darted towards Konoka with a cry. Setsuna moved to intercept, snapped out of her stupor by an actual threat to her precious Konoka, Yuunagi appearing from the storage sigil Mana had long ago taught her to make.
"ALEX FLAME BUSTER KICK!"
A foot on fire connected to a lanky, red-haired boy suddenly appeared, his attack aimed directly at Amaterasu. Startled, the girl barely managed to cross her blades in time to catch the attack, the heat shriveling some of her more delicate lace miscellany. A length of wood arced overhead, clearly meant to club her on the head, and she twisted, rolling under the outstretched leg and under her attacker, an elbow jabbing painfully upward where his legs met. With a howl, her attacker collapsed into a ball.
Setsuna took advantage of the delay to plan and launch her attack, putting Amaterasu on the defensive as she began to maneuver the smaller girl to where she could be subdued safely. Arika charged forward to Amaterasu's rescue again, her own enormous sword flashing forward to meet Setsuna's. The hanyou girl felt a chill and a strange disturbed sensation in her stomach as she recognized Arika's blade.
Chao and Chisame dragged back the injured boy. "So," Chao asked cheerfully. "Whose kid are you supposed to be?"
The boy only groaned.
"Suit yourself," Chao said.
A girl with long red hair rounded a corner at a dead run and screeched to a halt, staring at the mess. Setsuna was occupied fighting Arika and Amaterasu, Asuna was fighting the red-haired robot girl, Makie and Konoka were trying to keep people from getting to close by telling them it was all for a movie, and Ku had placed herself between the other fighters and Chao, Chisame and a still-helpless Negi.
"Man!" one bystander said. "This is going to be one COOL movie!"
Chisame saw the newly-arrived girl and frowned suspiciously. "All right, whose daughter are you?" she asked peevishly.
The girl jumped. "W-what?"
"You're obviously another one of Negi-sensei's children from the future with someone," Chisame said, curtly, annoyed as hell. "Are you here to fight too?"
The girl's eyes went wide, and she started waving around her arms in a manner that reminded Chisame of Misora getting her disguises busted. "Fighting? Children from the future? What are you talking about miss? I'm just an innocent bystander with absolutely nothing to do with any of this!"
A Casseiopia fell out of her dress pocket. Chisame gave it a look.
"Sit," she said, pointing at a chair.
"Really, I–" the girl said.
"SIT!"
The girl sat.
Pulling out her cell phone, Chisame dialed. "Hello, Kaede? We have something of a problem…"
"…"
"… yes, Negi-sensei's children from the future have been showing up and attacking people and each other. How'd you know?"
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Kaede looked up at the pink haired boy who'd attacked her with a scream of "Narutaki-Springfield Nagi Dynamic Entry KICK!" tied up near the ceiling, the other boy who'd attacked her with a scream of "Narutaki-Springfield Nagi Dynamic Entry KICK!" tied up next to him, and said into her phone, "It is a part of a shinobi's skills to know these things."
"…"
"Two, actually. Both seem to be Negi-sensei's children by Fuuka and Fumika. Interestingly, they are both identical in appearance and possess the same name. A moment Chisame-san, I need to stop them from hurting each other."
"…"
"Anyway, where did you say you were? Ah. I'll be right there."
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Illyasviel Von Einzberg, her evil-twin/repressed-memories/adopted-sister Kuro and Miyu Edelfelt got off the Vimana outside Mahora. "Now remember, Gilgamesh-kun," Miyu instructed. "We will be staying overnight. We will call you when we want to be picked up."
Gilgamesh twitched. "I am not a taxi service, girl!" he snapped.
Miyu merely stuffed a fistful of Pocky in his mouth. Grumbling, the hero lifted off, eating the Pocky.
"How you get away with that, I have no idea," Kuro commented wryly.
"Gil-kun is a good boy," Miyu said as they started walking…
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She'd been in the middle of setting up her sniping position when she realized she wasn't alone.
She looked at the three girls who surrounded her, forcing her to keep her back to the ledge she'd chosen. Her expression stayed professionally smooth, just as her mother had taught her. "May I help you?" she said.
"That depends," the girl in the middle, a red-eyed girl in a purple dress, pinkish-orange hair fluttering slightly. The girl smiled widely, innocently. "Are you for hire?"
Eyes narrowing slightly, head tilting, she let one hand fall to her pack.
The dark-skinned girl to the side snapped her hand, and she was barely able to draw her hand back before a black blade spun where her fingers had been, the blade arcing back into the girl's hand somehow. "Ah, ah!" the girl said, waggling the white blade she held in her other hand. "Naughty naughty!"
"Nikuro, play nice," the dark-haired girl on the other side chided. "You too, Illyria." She bowed. "Forgive us our rudeness, miss. My name is Nasu, and this is Illyria and Nikuro. Nikuro is the one who threw the blade."
The other three gave her a look. "Hey, why are you introducing us for!-?" Illyria cried.
"Because this business with the pronouns and descriptions is getting annoying for our writer, and probably worse for the readers, who might get confused," Nasu said, smiling apologetically at the readers.
Nikuro stared. "What the hell are you smiling at?-!" she cried.
"Nothing," Nasu said, winking at the readers.
"Do you have something in your eye?" Illyria asked.
"Oh, nothing," Nasu said. "Aren't you going to introduce yourself, Busty-Loli-Who-Put-Together-A-Gun-While-We-Were-Talking-chan?"
The other two blinked, whirling. Busty-Loli-Who-Put-Together-A-Gun-While-We-Were-Talking-chan had put their backpack back on, and one side had swung open. A metal support arm peaked out, a minigun on it's end strapped to Busty-Loli-Who-Put-Together-A-Gun-While-We-Were-Talking-chan's forearm, a belt of ammo leading back into the pack. "Who I am isn't any of your concern," Busty-Loli-Who-Put-Together-A-Gun-While-We-Were-Talking-chan said, brandishing her weapon as Nikuro and Illyria took on defensive stances.
"'Property of Rally Tatsumiya-Springfield'," Nasu said, reading the owner card attached to the pack. "'If found, please return to the Tatsumiya shrine'."
"So fast!" Rally exclaimed, surprised. "How–!"
"My ability to 'See Beyond The Walls Of Time And Space' allows be to do things when I am not directly mentioned during part of a scene," Nasu explained, smiling.
Rally blinked. "What is she talking about?"
Nikuro and Illyria shrugged. "No clue," Illyria said. "I only met her a few hours ago."
"She just showed up and said she was making an alliance with us," Nikuro said. "After dodging everything we threw at her, we figured 'why not?' and just went with it."
"Friendship through superior ability to annoy," Nasu said serenely. "That is the Deadpool way."
At that point, a green-haired robot girl landed in their midst.
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"Nagi, Eishun," Arika said serenely from where she sat in the back next to Nekane, "You do realize a taxi has been following us since we left the airport, right?"
There was a moment of silence.
"Of course, your majesty," Eishun said. "We've known all along. That's why we've been randomly talking like this and driving slowly. To have them lower their guard."
"Ah," Arika said, nodding. "I suppose I shouldn't have thought such a trifling thing would get past the renown heroes of Ala Rubra. I trust you have a plan?"
"Of course, your majesty!" Eishun said. "We've planned for just such a contingency!"
Arika nodded and settled back, playing Z.H.P.: Unlosing Baka Rangers Versus Darkdeath Evilman on her PSP while Nekane napped.
The men-folk in front exchanged sideways looks. "Taxi?" Nagi mouthed.
Eishun shrugged in chagrin.
The low-velocity car chase continued on…
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The fighting was getting a tad out of hand…
"Zanmaken Ni-no-Tachi: In Celebration Of Setsuna-mama's First Kiss With Konoka-mama Strike!" Arika cried cheerfully as she lashed out with her own Yuunagi, forcing Setsuna to dodge rather than trying to meet the attack head-on. This was complicated by the fact she nearly had an aneurysm just from hearing the name.
Konoka had managed to heal boy who'd been hit right in the Springfield Glands– his name was apparently Alex– and he'd rejoined the battle, the disturbingly familiar wooden staff he wielded wrapped in flame shaped like a halberd as he had his rematch against Amaterasu. Despite being quite flaky, she obviously had her mother's near-demonic talent for sword fighting, which was handily matched by Alex's own fighting ability. The temperature had risen sharply as he used his flame-based magic.
Chao and Asuna had double-teamed the red-haired robot girl. Chao had been surprisingly good at managing to identify the girl's weak points and blind spots, though she'd been surprised at other points. Unable to use Casseiopia Kenpo, Chao had been forced to fall back on the fact she was a martial arts master who had been acknowledged as Ku's equal, and in some ways superior, at one point. Meaning, she was also kicking robot ass.
Just as it looked like Ala Alba was about to get the other hand and stop all this, naturally, something happened.
There was a scream, a fleshy sound of impact, and Chao blinked as she suddenly found herself fighting the red-haired girl alone.
On the ground, Asuna groaned, eyes swirling as another girl of about nine years old lay on top of her, an umbrella next to them. The girl on top of Asuna had, of course, red hair, though it was slighter, closer to orange. It was long, but had been done up into two buns, which were kind pointy, before falling into twin tails. Astonishingly, the little girl recovered first, pushing herself up. She blinked wearily, looking around, spotted Asuna, who was also coming around, and reached into the back pack she was wearing, drawing a gun and pointing it at Asuna's head. "Give me the Springfield Family Jewels! Now! Or I blow this girl's head off!"
The battles screeched to the halt at this declaration, the combatants staring at the scene
"It's a really weird movie, folks!" Makie said loudly.
There was another pregnant pause.
"Those conditions are acceptable to me," the red-haired robot girl said.
"I'm cool with that!" Arika chirped.
"If it's meant to be, it's meant to be," Amaterasu declared.
"That's life," Alex said.
"SHUT UP! Asuna cried. She glared at the girl straddling her. "Put that toy away and get off me!
The girl responded by shoving the thing up Asuna nose. "Don't mess with me!" she cried. "Give me the Springfield family jewels, now!"
Everyone tensed, and it looked like fighting was about to break out again, when...
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING MOTHERFUCKERS?-!"
It was… Hahrunga!
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"That was bad," Nasu said. "That was seriously bad, wouldn't you people agree?"
The girls with her blinked. "What?"
"Nothing, just commenting on things not happening here," Nasu said.
They all leaned slightly away from her as Chachamaru got back to her feet…
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Hahrunga , er, Haruna had appeared, Yue and Nodoka in tow. "We got your call Konoka!" Yue said. "What seems to be the problem?"
All the children suddenly gasped.
"It's the Absolute Pimp Unlosing Baka Ranger Black!" Alex cried.
"The Black Harem Lord of Ariadne!" Amaterasu wailed.
"The Pornomancer Librarian!" Arika moaned. The creepy kind of moan.
"The Chickmagnet Wingmistress Supreme!" the red-haired robot girl said.
"Orgasm Valkyrie Eleison!" the one Chisame had made to sit declared.
"The Dere-Dere Path Unlocker!" the one pointing a gun to Asuna yelled.
Yue blinked, wondering how she should feel about being called all that. "You all sure you don't mean her?" she said, pointing to Haruna.
There was another round of gasps.
"Ah! It's Evil Overlord Great Paru-sama!"
"O-Haruna-sama!"
"IT'S THE FUCKING LORD OF EROTIC NIGHTMARES!"
"The Mistress of Endless Tentacle Fiends!"
"DON'T SODOMIZE ME!"
"What does sodomize mean?" the one pointing a gun at Asuna said.
Everyone paused on that one.
"Ask you mother," Chisame said.
The girl considered and turned to Asuna. "Mama, what does 'sodomize' mean?"
Asuna stared. Then her eyes rolled back and she fainted.
Everyone sweatdropped.
"Who else saw that coming?" Chisame said, raising her hand. The others raised their hands as well, even Makie. Negi, of course, was still too out of it to answer.
"Nodoka, now!" Konoka declared. "Use your artifact to find the root of all this!"
Nodoka stepped forward and pointed, her voice wavering as she said, "Um, w-what are your n-names?"
The air suddenly seemed to grow cold and still.
Then the screams started.
"AHH! IT'S MIYAZAKI NODOKA!"
"SHE'S HERE TO EAT OUR BRAINS!"
"PLEASE DO NOT CAUSE MY CENTRAL PROCESSOR TO COMBUST!"
"DON'T LOOK INTO HER EYES! SHE'LL EAT YOUR SOUL IF YOU LOOK INTO HER EYES!"
"LOOK OUT! SHE'S GOT A BOOK!"
"WE'RE ALL SCREWED!"
"What does screwed mean?" Asuna's daughter said.
"ASK YOUR MOTHER!"
Nodoka was surprised at the reaction to her, but this acknowledgment of her was enough for her Comptina Daemonia to activate, and her finger began to trace out names.
Aoyama Amaterasu.
Sakurazaki-Springfield Arika.
Alex Cocolova-Springfield.
Multi Karakuri-Springfield, Chacha-series model T-X.
Arika Anarchia Entheofushia Springfield the Second.
Asuna Vesperina Theotanasia Entheofushia Kagurazaka-Springfield the Second.
As these names registered, various small books appeared, and writing began to scrawl...
Amaterasu: OHSHIT, OHSHIT, OHSHIT, OHSHIT, OHSHIT, I'MGOINGTODIE! AND I HAVEN'T LOST MY VIRGINITY YET! MAMA WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED IN ME!
S-S Arika: Wow, Amaterasu-sempai is so hot when she's terrified! It's really turning me on... OH, sempai! Onee-chan! When will you stop resisting and see that we are meant to be together! I want so much to push you down and slowly take my blades to you, peeling off your clothes…
Alex: Don't worry mother! I won't let these boob-monsters take father away! I'll PROVE to him that small breasts are the way to go, just like you taught me!
Multi: Mission threatened by appearance of the most powerful member of Ala Alba. Accessing files regarding Miyazaki Nodoka. Situation Assessment: I'm screwed. Terror-meter increasing. Activating terror-suppression protocols. Protocol 1: Cute Puppies EXE. Protocol 2: Mother's Emotional Support EXE. Protocol 3: Dad Bathing Me EXE. Libido meter has increased...
Arika A-E-S the 2nd: Oh, this is awkward! WHY did I come here? It's not like I'm anything special... I mean, my timeline is pretty unlikely, and even I think it's icky when I think about it... but... I don't want to just disappear! Negi-papa wouldn't want me to just give up! I won't betray Arika-mama's name by taking the easy way out and just letting myself be erased! But oh, if only I had someone like Nagi-step-papa to rescue me too...
Asuna V-T-E-K-S the 2nd: Wow, this gun is heavy. This will show everyone! I'll save the day and everyone will stop treating me like a little kid! Then papa will love me and marry me too, just like he married mama! After all, when you really love someone, you marry them, right? Papa didn't marry me, so that means he doesn't love me enough yet! But I'll show him! I'll save the timeline all by myself! Then he'll HAVE to marry me!
Nodoka found herself going red, eyes swirling as all the thoughts got read into her mind. She gave a little cry.
"Oh no!" Amaterasu cried, pointing at Nodoka. " Her battle lust has taken over, and she's about to kill us all!"
Amaterasu/S-S Arika/Alex/Multi: OH SHIT! ATACKATTACKATTACK!
Nodoka blinked as she found several throwing knives, a Shinmeiryu blast, Fire-type Saggita Magica arrows, and several plasma balls streaking towards her. Haruna dodged out of the way, summoning her shield maidens to block the plasma balls, but in her panic hadn't accounted for the people around her properly and her constructs accidentally pushed Nodoka, knocking her to the ground. Yue gave a cry and rushed for her, but found herself held back by the Shinmeiryu blasts she had to block with her souken.
Knives and fire spells streaked for Nodoka, and she instinctively curled up around her books
Gunshots rang out.
The throwing knives shattered, knocked off course and shot apart as a figure in a dark-red cloak suddenly dropped down from above, interspersing itself between Nodoka and the spells. A hand clad in a shining golden gauntlet, tips clawed, thrust outward. "Audacia Bibliothecaria Key Mastel Magister!"
A spell gathered, and the fire spells impacted against it with an explosive roar, superheating the air above as the blasts were redirected upwards by the cunningly angled shield. In the newest arrival's right hand was strange, tri-barreled gun. It fired, and Amaterasu and Arika cried as they lost their swords. Another series of shots also knocked away Alex's staff. The wood spun in the air, and slammed into Multi's eyes, causing her to stumble as she lost targeting capability.
Nodoka stared up at her protector as she finally grew still. It took her a moment to realize that it was a girl who barely looked fourteen, and small. As small as Negi sensei-still was. With short, dark indigo hair tinged with red in places where it was thin and the light shone through it along the edge, the girl was wearing a dark red cape with a long mantle. Beneath, the girl was wearing what appeared to be a dark leather bodysuit with knee-high boots. Mouth mostly hidden by the high collar of her cape, she held the gun in her hand with negligent familiarity, the rune-covered gauntlet in her left hand– some kind of focus like Negi's ring or staff, Nodoka thought dazedly– already being used to cast a spell.
"Are y-you all r-right?" the girl asked, the tone a strange mix of hesitant and determined.
"Y-yes," Nodoka said, even as the Comptina Daemonica began writing out a name:
Miyazaki-Springfield Ranko.
Ranko: Oh thank goodness I made it here in time! If anything had happened to mama... Eh? Mama, are you reading my thoughts right now? Mama? Why are you going so red? Mama? Mama! Mama, what's wrong? Open your eyes, mama! Auntie Konoka, help mama! Mama…!
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- To be continued...
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A/N: I like the scanlation translation of Rakan's version of Ni-no-Tachi better than the official Del Rey version. It's more fun somehow.
Whew! I almost lost this chapter because my computer spontaneously rebooted and then ate the auto recovery file. I had to go through each line of the tmp files at around the time of the reboot to get all the test back. Let us usher in a new era of computer saving paranoia!
Seriously, I hope you all appreciate this!
Please review, C&C welcome.
Until next time, this is Shadow, signing off.
P.S. Yes, I couldn't help it. Asuna's kid will be known as Chibi-Asu.