Forewords

Right, the poop seems to have stopped appearing for the moment...

Anyways, this will be the last chapter of the Asahi Scenario. After this one, we'll move on with the Chugoku Scenario, and there will be a new foreign language used.

Have you guessed what nation Chugoku represents in this story? God forgives if you don't...

Chapter 9: Katana Of Asahi

Time: 1320 Hour; 10th of August, 2125.

Location: The Docks; Hikigawa, Asahi.

The docks of Hikigawa was not as busy as before, but it is still busy right now.

Forklifts and cranes moved cargo containers on and off cargo tankers that are docked at the docks and held in place by high-tech docking clamps. The forklifts and cranes appears to be working on their own, as shown with nobody manning them. The cargo containers not loaded onto tankers were placed in such a gridded manner that one doesn't have to memorize the place to navigate through it.

Reimu and co all looked at the scene in awe, except Sanae, who wasn't surprised a bit.

"Well, Gensokyo has nothing like a port or ocean, so it's no big surprise to me that you guys will be surprised." Sanae told the others.

"It's not the ports and ocean we're surprised of, it's the techs here..." Reimu responded.

The forklifts and cranes really are working on their own, with no one driving them.

"I see..." Sanae said. "Technology has advanced, now industrial works are done solely by machines..."

A helicopter flew overhead the girls and went past them. It appears to be a weaponless Yuki-Onna Helicopter. Only Sanae has noticed it.

"Probably a transport helicopter. But who or what is it transporting?"

Sanae then follows the others, who have already flew into the vicinity of the docks.

...

Time: 1330 Hour; 10th of August, 2125.

10 minutes has passed since they came to the docks, and they still haven't found a way out of Asahi yet.

"Perhaps we should hack open a container and hide inside it, and... you know the rest, ze..." Marisa suggested.

And she got a response, from someone completely different.

"Is that how you intend to escape from Asahi to Chugoku?" said a man's voice.

The girls immediately drew their weapons and looked around.

"My nation's military, defeated by five magical girls in frilly dresses..." The voice said. "You are powerful, like Jack Summers said..."

The voice echoed around the docks, as forklifts and cranes in the background continued their programmed works. The girls turned toward where the voice came from.

Soft footsteps followed and got closer with each passing second. A humanoid shadow was cast out from behind a cargo container.

Youmu could make out that the person casting the shadow is carrying a katana, so she drew out both of hers and prepared for a sudden attack.

"You said your nation..." Sanae noted. "That means... you're the Prime Minister?"

The person appeared from behind the same cargo container, walking calmly and closer to the girls until he stopped. Youmu swung the Roukanken at the man, but the tip of the blade didn't reach far enough to even graze him.

"I'll have to congratulate you, for being able to get this far with your wits..." The Prime Minister said as he pushes the blade away with his left hand.

"I though nation leaders stays in their office?" Marisa hung a lamp.

The Prime Minister drew out his katana, which is revealed to be able to split open down the middle of the blade, and reveals something futuristic that seems to be electrifying the metallic blade. "That was the past. Today, every soul on Earth, even civilians, are to be prepared for anything fate throws at humanity.

Youmu made a vertical slash at the Prime Minister, who simply jumped away from where the Roukanken will hit the ground and creates a small crater. "What?!" The silver-haired swordswoman exclaimed.

The girls began firing danmaku at the man, and are unable to hit him as he runs around the vicinity. Some of the shots knocked the padlocks off some cargo containers, causing the doors to fling open outwards.

The Prime Minister jumped behind the door of a cargo container, and the girls shot at it until it got dislodged from it's hinges. The man wasn't seen behind it.

"Gods, he was fast!" Reimu complained, as she fires danmaku from her gohei at another spot, causing a passing-by forklift to get hit and short circuit on the spot.

"But not as fast as Aya!" Sanae said as she fires danmaku at the man, with no avail.

The Prime Minister charged toward them in a blur. Youmu held her swords in a blocking stance as he slashed at her.

The slash resulted in Youmu getting electrocuted. Strands of hair stood up on her head as she fell on her knees. "Myon!" She exclaimed in shock before falling face-down onto the ground. Her ghost-half was seen acting as though trying to wake her up.

The Prime Minister then stopped atop a cargo container, with his electrified katana partially driven into the container (which appears to be not metal?).

"Resistance is futile. I suggest you surrender yourselves now." said the Prime Minister.

"I respond to that..." Marisa responded when she suddenly pulls out the mini-hakkero and fires it at him.

The man blocked all the shots with his katana, leaving the girls surprised. He then raised his sword and charged once more, this time at Sakuya.

The Perfect and Elegant Maid quickly pulled out two knives from hammerspace and used them to block the electrified blade.

Reimu and Marisa aimed their weapons at the Prime Minister, but held back any attempts to shoot in fear of hitting Sakuya.

"Take my advice, and give up." The Prime Minister suggested.

Then with a heavy swing, he knocks the knives out of Sakuya's hands, and prepared to land a fatal strike...

...When Sanae suddenly appeared hovering several feet above the ground, holding a water hose, which she used to spray the Prime Minister with.

The water conducted the electricity from his blade and thus getting himself electrocuted. After the electrocution, he was seen falling to his knees, looking at the girls with his irises slightly glowing red, and then falling face first on the ground. The electrified katana un-electrifies itself and seals up the middle section after that.

The girls stood back, looked at the soaked body of the Prime Minister, then to Sanae.

"What did you do, ze?" Marisa asked.

"I've just thought of it..." Sanae said as she drops the water hose and scratches her head. "Water conducts electricity, and he wasn't wearing any rubber gloves, so I've thought of getting him wet and electrocuting himself..."

"That was a good one..." Sakuya commented.

The Prime Minister suddenly crawled up, his knees still on the ground. "You may have defeated the Land of the Rising Sun, but you will not defeat our allies the Central Kingdom!" He delivered a speech before getting shot in the face by Reimu's danmaku, and falling face first again on the ground.

The ying-yang orb rang as soon as the man finishes his sentence. "Get to the nearest ship you can find, I'm detecting a huge legion coming your way!"

"They're coming with everything they've got!" Sanae shouted while looking eastwards.

Two Ion Beams were fired from a distant Yuki-Onna Helicopter at Sanae, the shots barely missed the green-haired shrine maiden, as she gets closer to the ground.

"Let's go! We can't win this one!" Reimu told everyone. "Marisa, we'll need one of your smoke bombs! Sakuya, go help Youmu!"

Sakuya grabbed Youmu and helped her to her feet; while Marisa pulled out a bomb from under her hat and threw it on the ground, the bomb released a thick cloud of smoke on impact.

...

When the smokes cleared, there were no signs of Reimu and co anywhere in the docks, only Prime Minister Takatsu Suzuki laid where he was defeated.

"Sori daijin o tasuketekudasai!" [Go help the prime minister!] one f the soldiers ordered.

The same soldier then moves his hands to an earpiece he's wearing, an STI earpiece, to be exact, and presses a button on it. There was a soft sound of an outgoing call being made.

"Kore wa, STI ni Hikigawa kara hokoku suru Teikoku Asahi no Gunji-ryokudesu..." [This is the Imperial Asahian Military Forces reporting to the STI...] The soldier sent a transmission via thought.

"Misshon ga shippaishita watashi o sanso shite kudasai..." [The mission has failed, I see...] replied what sounded like LT's voice from the other side of the transmission.

"Sorera o suisoku suru tame no pointo ni I~su tenai..." [No points for guessing where they've went to...] The soldier transmitted another thought as a message to LT. He then transmit the next thought message in English, "Has Chugoku been informed of the situation? Contacting the Ambassador via this Codec shouldn't be too difficult..."

"Already done, and Codec transmissions can't be intercepted by anything but another Codec Comms Unit." LT replied with a transmitted thought.

"Right, where Imperial Asahi has failed, the People's Republic of Chugoku will take over and make it succeed..."

Afterwords

Yup, the Asahi Scenario has just ended. Now let's move on to the Central Kingdom: Chugoku.

It shouldn't take too long for you to guess what Chugoku represents in this story, if you still don't know yet...

People's Republic of Chugoku... Think carefully...

Shout-out index:

"...Codec transmissions..." - So the STI has a form of communication where they communicate using their thoughts transmitted through this Codec from Metal Gear?

That is all. "Sayonara no Asahi..."