Forewords

You might have noticed that each chapter starts with poop hitting the fan, and ends with more poop hitting the fan.

Yep, the whole thing started as an Incident in Gensokyo, and evolved into a Crisis in the Outside World.

All thanks to Yukarin and her evil amusement... Now she has to repay her debt by helping saving Gensokyo from an all-out war...

...Which has already begun in the form of a skirmish.


Chapter 6: The Kabutom Gunship

Time: 1215 Hour; 10th of August, 2125.

Location: Collector's Grand Library, Summers Estate/ STI HQ.

LT walked down the corridor of the Collector's Grand Library, the largest library in the world. "Bigger than the Voile Library." He would say to himself ever since last month.

LT kept walking until he came across a computer, which flared to life as he got close to it. He typed in "Youkai" in katakana in the search box, and about 12 results popped up. He scrolled through the results until he came across one titled "Ghostly Sealing Club Chronicles by Maribel Han".

He clicked on the title, and the computer immediately changed it's display to show information on the book.

Under the thumbnail of the book cover (which is just the title against a black background) is two options button labeled "Borrow" and "Search Translations". LT clicked on the former, and stood there for a few seconds before a robotic arm that is attached to railings on the ceiling brought the book before him.

"Which one's more efficient?" He asked the question to the robotic arm, not expecting any response, and grabbed the book. "Have the book come here on it's own with magic, or have a high-tech robotic arm bring it to you?"

Several more robotic arms moved in the background, evidence of other visitors in the library. The other visitors were all either STI personnel or Summers Estate workers. Guards and Turks patrolled the second floor, which seemed to have it's own set of robotic arms, off-duty maids and chefs picked books off the shelves to read them.

LT walked around the library while keeping his eyes trained on the content of the Ghostly Sealing Club Chronicles, all while being careful not to bump into anything or anyone. The other visitors all stood aside whenever their boss walked by them, with the maids bowing each time before getting back with their reading.

"Interesting..." LT said as he looked at the contents of the book. "'...Dreams of this eastern wonderland kept coming to me every night. I told my best friend Renko Usami about what I saw there. She said she believes me, but I think she's lying...'" LT read a paragraph of the content softly.

He then continued reading while crouching under an incoming robotic arm. "'...Somehow I felt like I was really there. Perhaps I can bring back some proof? That way I can convince Renko that it's all real. Maybe I can take her there too...'"

LT closed the book as he finishes it. "Interesting, so this Gensokyo has existed for longer than I thought..." As he looks at the back of the book cover, he sees a portrait of the book's author: Maribel Han, in monochrome. "Now why does Merry look so much like Youkai Dictator...?" He wondered before passing the book to an idling robot arm, which then took the book back to where it was catalogued in the library. "I guess I don't have an answer yet..."

As LT leaves, a maid who has been reading a book behind LT just now bowed to her boss, and then continued with her reading. The maid was holding onto the book with just her right hand, and flipping the pages with just the thumb of the same hand.

Her left arm suddenly jerked and grabbed something in the air near her, without even looking. When she releases her grip, bits of a crushed moth fell from her hand.

...

Location: Hikigawa, Asahi.

"You cannot outfly this thing, but you can outmaneuver it, so attack it that way." Yukari said via the ying-yang orb before cutting her signal off.

The girls were firing danmaku at the Kabutom Gunship, hitting it a lot but not doing any visible damage.

The pilots looked at each other. "Anata ga nani o kangaete iru kangaetedesu ka?" [You thinking what I'm thinking?] said one of them.

The other gave his copilot a nod, and they both released one of their hands from the control panels.

"Rokku, pepa, hasami!" [Rock, Paper, Scissor!] they both said as they did a notion with their hands. The main pilot made a scissor, and the copilot a paper.

"Moshibun naku, anata no sentaku..." [Alright, your choice then...] the copilot said as he looked at his "paper" with disappointment.

Both of them turned back to the matter at hand: Reimu and co firing at them. The main pilot pressed a button labeled "Jido tagetto" [Auto-targeting].

Outside the Kabutom, two of it's smaller guns of the top side took aim and fired plasma blasts at the girls.

Reimu and co evaded the shots whereas Youmu deflected them with her Roukanken.

The small turrets fired more plasma blasts at the girls, each shot hitting the skyscrapers whenever they missed.

The girls retaliated by firing even more danmaku at the Gunship while flying around it. The small guns on the Gunship each aimed independently from the other at one of the girls.

Youmu risked getting close to the Kabutom and sliced one of it's smaller guns. The pilot and copilot watched the gun roll off the hull of the Gunship.

Reimu carefully evaded shots from the other and fired danmaku at it until it blew up.

Sakuya threw several knifes at the windshield of the Gunship, causing some cracks to appear on it.

Marisa aimed and fired the mini-hakkero at the Gunship and kept firing on the same spot until part of the hull began to dislodge.

"Feiza no akutibu ni shimasu..." [Activating Phasers...] The copilot said as he presses multiple switches in succession.

Multiple slightly larger guns came to life and each fired a focused beam at the girls.

"Whoa!" Sanae did a barrel-roll to evade two simultaneous shots, with a third grazing her right hand. "Those are Phasers! They hit instantly!"

"Take this!" Reimu shouted as she threw a paper charm at one of the Kabutom's engines, causing it to burst into flames and shaking the Gunship slightly.

The pilot and copilot looked at each other, then to the destroyed engine, then back at each other again.

"Osoraku wareware wa ima wa senryaku-teki taikyaku o jikko suru..." [Perhaps we should perform a strategic retreat for now...] The copilot said.

The Kabutom then turns around and leaves while Reimu and co continued to fire on it. Each of the shots doing nothing to the rear section of the Gunship's hull.

"Ha, take that, ze!" Marisa taunted, swinging the hakkero at the departing aircraft.

"They said something about strategic retreat..." Reimu said. "They will be back..."

"Such Myon firepower..." Youmu commented as she examines her shoulder wound once more.

Sakuya looked at the street roads behind and saw reinforcements arriving. "We should keep heading westwards."

"You have got to be kidding!" Sanae fired danmaku at the soldiers while flying backwards with the others towards the west.

Several Tsuchigumo Tanks rolled out from the other streets and opened fire on the girls, missing them completely. The girls returned fire and blew up some of the tanks with their danmaku.

"Come on!" Reimu waved at everyone to quickly follow as another squadron of Yuki-Onna Helicopters approached from eastwards. "We'll be safer if we flew higher!"

Marisa looked up at the skylines of Hikigawa. "Try the rooftops, ze!"

Reimu and co flew toward the rooftops of the skyscrapers, getting out of range for the soldiers and tanks to fire on them. The Helicopters were still able to follow them.

The skylines of Hikigawa is very tall indeed. One could observe the city from such a high position and the street directly below is the only one visible, every other things are the skyscraper rooftops. From this height, Reimu and co can see the Kabutom still in the middle of it's retreat off the distance. This extra space has allowed the girls to outmaneuver the Yuki-Onna Helicopters and shoot them down.

"Eat this!" Marisa said as she fired danmaku at a helicopter enough times to take out the center point of it's propellers, causing it to crash straight down into a skyscraper-bridging glass tube.

Youmu charged at two helicopters and sliced both their rear propellers off, causing them to auto-rotate and crash on top a nearby skyscraper.

Sakuya fired danmaku at another helicopter until it's windshield shatters and it's pilot knocked out by a single headshot. The helicopter then crashes into one of the railway tubes below the skylines.

After dealing with all the helicopters, the girls gathered at one spot in the air, with their weapons put away.

"That was exhausting..." Reimu said.

"No Incidents ever had anyone of us worry about our lives, ze." Marisa commented. "We're used to non-lethal danmaku and Spell Cards, after all..."

"Fighting weapons of death is probably the hardest job, harder than kicking the black-white out of the SDM." Sakuya commented too.

"So far, we have encountered 300 enemies, and only one of them is actually killed." Youmu said.

"Wonder how they are tracking us?" Sanae wondered.

An Asahian soldier made his way out of a crashed Yuki-Onna Helicopter and aimed his rifle at the girls, Sanae noticed him and fired a single danmaku at his head, knocking him out.

"What's next? A giant robot?" Sanae hung a lamp after her experience with the Asahian military.

Something had silently tore one of Sakuya's braids off, then another through Sanae's frog hairpiece. Everyone looked around to find what's causing it.

"That will be a sniper for you..." said a man's voice. "...Or more specifically, a member of RAIDERS..."


Afterwords

Should be pretty obvious to you what Maribel Han looked like. Though she and Renko won't be appearing in this series at all because it's been a hundred years since her last appearance in Gensokyo, from the Outside World's timeline, anyway. Remember the part from Mission 1 where Yukari said something about Gensokyo jumping 100 years into the future? Yeah, that's why the Ghostly Sealing Club won't be appearing.

Also, here's something to jog your memory: which 4 people are with LT in Mission 1?

No shout-outs in this chapter.

That is all. "Sayonara..."