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 11: The Angel and the Demon!
At the K-1000 battleship, the Neuroi core-infused Magi Unit was being prepared to launch. Gustav, was going to pilot the Machine.
"I want… power, more power…" He went. Jugashvili, observing the Unit, he said "I am very amazed of what became of Gustav. This Unit, is what I call the Baal. The first Baal unit… yes, that's good… Ahahahahahah!"
The Baal, it was colored black and red with hexagonal patterns on it. Gustav's face was half Neuroi. His eyes were shining blue, his hair turned into hard Neuroi spikes. The Baal gave Gustav a crystal-like Neuroi arm. His left arm was a huge cannon, similar to Mikhail's. On his back, were Neuroi wings and the core inside a canister.
Jugashvili was impressed with his new weapon. He told the scientists working on the Baal.
"This is outstanding! I cannot believe this is thing is this powerful. The Baal Project, the ultimate Magi, soon after defeating those pestering children, I will become the new leader of Orussia!"
"Thank you sir. We also made sure that this unit would be unstoppable, and now, we are to test it against the Neuroi hive." The scientists told him. Jugashvili looked at the two other Magi on board, he said "Emil, Olaf, I'll leave you two to provide Gustav some cover, you'll be using two mass produced sky-type units."
"Understood!" Emil and Olaf saluted. Jugashvili sent them to the cargo hold to grab their Magi units, while Gustav was being prepared to sortie.
At the 'Soryu' Mikhail and the others were in the mess hall, with Alexander. The atmosphere was tense, as Mikhail and other Orussians were not to upset Alexander, him being the Tsar.
"Don't be too inflexible, Mikhail, Tania. You have nothing to fear about me, I guess all of you don't… I may be a leader of a nation, but I am still a person. I don't like being seen as a threat, I don't like being treated high and mighty either."
"Okay? Alexander? Why did you make the Magi Unit anyway?" Josephine asked.
"It was to help out Orussia against the Neuroi. I knew that Orussia wasn't as blessed with witches as other nations out there. So I decided to make these, I heard that we have a lot of aces in the Orussian Air Force, witch or otherwise. So I decided to make the Magi Unit. I graduated from a Technical institute, even if I am a Tsar just so you know." Alexander said.
The people around were speechless. Tania raised her hand and asked "And why did you ask me to test out the I-250?"
"You belonged to the test witches that would be able to pilot the prototypes. I'm sorry if it didn't work out."
Mikhail was drinking a glass of water, he placed it down and said "Well, why me? Why do I have to test out the Magi after my sister did?"
"First of all, you're Orussia's best fighter ace. You managed to kill a Neuroi with a conventional weapon. No one could ever do that." Alexander smiled at him, and said "That is why; I want to thank you, Mikhail. You have served Orussia, our comrades, our people, very well. And—this is something I wanted you to do, after the defeat of the Neuroi, and Jugashvili."
"What is that, Alexander?" Mikhail wondered. Alexander said "For you, to be my personal knight."
"A knight… to the Tsar!" Mikhail was surprised with Alexander's offer.
"Do you oppose?" Alexander asked.
"Well, it's not that, but… may a please think about it?" Mikhail said.
"Okay… I will let you think about it, maybe after we defeat the Neuroi, and Jugashvili, then you must give me your answer."
"Yes sir I-"
The alarms sounded off. Something wrong was about to happen, Mikhail and the others stood up from their tables and prepared themselves for the announcement.
"Attention, this is Timoshenko speaking. We have spotted Jugashvili's fleet engaging on the Neuroi. I repeat, Jugashvili's fleet was spotted engaging the Neuroi. Prepare for battle stations, all hands on deck, all ships are preparing to engage. I repeat…"
As the message was being repeated, the 510th, along with Alexander decided to run to the hangar.
Alexander's fears came true, he cursed "Damn, I knew Jugashvili was going to use that weapon."
"The Neuroi-infused Magi?"
"Yes, he's going to wipe out the Neuroi hive first before he starts his revolution." Alexander said. As they reached the hangar of the ship they all fitted in their units. Then they all walked to the deck lift. Mikhail was still preparing his Arkhangel, as he puts them on, and the familiar shows up, he quickly went to position and prepared for battle.
The deck lift was already rising up slowly, and as the 510th were able to the outside of the ships, they looked around the horizon, noticing the arrival of the 'Orossiya Imperia' and the 'Gangut', and from behind, a squadron of Mitsubishi A6M Zeros.
The roar of the engines on both the planes and Units were loud, and the gust of wind was strong.
Emily looked at Josephine, looking through a pair of binoculars and asked."Do you see any activity on the hive?"
"Yes, it seems that the Baltic fleet and Jugashvili's ship are confronting the Neu—what the!"
Josephine spotted an anomaly. She saw Gustav with his Baal unit cutting through the Neuroi like paper. Gustav avoided every Neuroi beam with excellent dodging maneuvers and shot the Neuroi with rapid firing beams. His shield was a red circle with runes written in Orussian, every move he makes leaves vanishing traces of light from his glowing blue eyes.
"Impossible… that unit…" Alexander gasped.
Then, Jesse noticed two figures coming their way. She pointed and warned quickly "There are more coming our way!"
Then the two figures flew past them at a sound breaking speed. The wind they left was enough to topple down much of the crew members, and some witches lost their balance.
"What were those!" Peggy went. The two figures flew down and looked at the deck, it was Olaf and Emil, with their new mass-produced MiG I-250s.
"Thos are my unit!" cursed Mikhail.
"You have no concern with Gustav, if you want to fight him, you'll have to fight us!" Emil pointed his DShK and shot the deck. The witches used their shields to block it, and took off while their shields are deployed.
"Move!" Emily ordered a sortie. They all lifted off with the Zeros.
Meanwhile in Jugashvili's K-1000, he was looking at both Gustav and the fight with the others. As he observed the fight, he noticed that Gustav had already eliminated the Neuroi.
"Good, good, good! Gustav, go for the core and destroy the Neuroi hive!"
"Yes sir."
Gustav with his rage-filled eyes stared at the Neuroi core. The core was defenseless, without a single escort or a drone to guard it. Gustav pointed at his beam cannon on the core, but before he could even fire his weapon, something went wrong.
"Argh gah!" Gustav shouted in pain, he heard screaming and noises in his head. He covered his aching head with his hand, and Jugashvili shouted.
"What's wrong! Gustav, shoot it!"
"I SHOULDN'T TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU!" he pointed his cannon at the K-1000 and shot the deck. The K-1000 had a direct hit, and the suffered collateral damage.
"GUSTAV!" Jugashvili yeld.
"YOU… YOU ARE WORTHLESS! I WANT MORE POWER!"
"Sir, I believe the Neuroi core is marfunctioning!" the scientist struggled to keep his balance.
"What!" Jugashvili went.
"Sir, the Neuroi hive must be communicating with him! Giving him more power than ever before! Gustav has gone mad!" the scientist shouted.
Gustav started to laugh at the smoking K-1000, he decided to aim at the other ships of the Baltic fleet, and shot beams at them. First, was a destroyer, he sliced it in half and significantly damaged it, next was a coastal defense ship, which was sliced in half and sunk.
He laughed more as he mercilessly decimated the ships "Yes… Yes-YES! FOOLS! Taste the power of RAGE—huh!"
There were two figures flying towards him at a fast pace, it was Mikhail and Alexander.
"So, this was Jugashvili's project? What a fool to use a Neuroi core on a manned weapon." Alexander said.
Back on the icy seas, the 'Orossiya Imperia' and the 'Gangut' with the rest of the 7th guard fleet were facing off against Baltic fleet.
"Prepare to fire the gun!" Captain Dimitri went. Admiral Vladimir commanded his ship to sail to the right and let the 7th guard to shoot first.
"Do an evasive maneuver moving port side."
The helmsman turns the steering wheel and moves the ship portside. The battleship 'Gangut' follows, Vladimir ordered all the ships to prepare their guns.
"Kirov, Marat, and the Orossiya Imperia will prepare their guns; the Tesarevich and the Potemkin will follow on the battleship line and prepare the shells against Jugashvili." Ordered Vladimir, the Baltic Fleet, with the 'Imperatritsa Mariya' the 'Oryol' and the 'Gangut' escorted the damaged K-1000, the 'Borodino' and the 'Izmail' of the 7th Guard were going starboard side.
"Prepare the guns and attack the Orossiya Imperia…" said the wounded Jugashvili. The K-1000 prepared its main batteries on the 'Orossiya Imperia', Vladimir did the same with his fleet.
"Fire!" they both said.
Then a large roar of exploding shells and misses were heard. Shell after shell from battleships were shot, and missed into the lakes. The 'Gangut' and the 'Marat' were then hit by the Imperatritsa Mariya's shell.
"We're hit in the starboard side! The Marat is slowing down." Said one of the 'Gangut' sailors, Dimitri looked at the battlefield with his binoculars. He said to the radio operator.
"Damn… tell the rear admiral in the Tsesarevich and the Potemkin to return fire at the K-1000. And tell Admiral Kuznetsov to escort the Marat as it excapes the battlefield."
"Yes sir." The radio operator said.
In the battle between the Magi and the Witches, no one was at an advantage.
"They're strong!" Josephine said as her shield is deployed to block the heavy caliber DShK rounds. Emily was tailing on Emil and said. "We just need to buy some time for Alexander and Mikhail." Emil made a quick turn and aimed for Sakura.
"I have you!" he fired. Sakura did not notice that large bullets were coming her way, and luckily Tania was there to block the rounds for her. Tania looked at Sakura and said.
"Sakura, please use that detonator on them when I give you a go!"
"Yeah!" Sakura replied.
Meanwhile Jesse and Peggy were doing a back to back tandem barrel roll to confuse Olaf.
"These guys are good!" Jesse shouted as the sound of the roll was loud. Peggy could not hear her correctly and said. "Of course I'm good!"
The Baltic fleet battleship 'Imperator Nikolai' shot a shell towards the escaping 'Marat' but was immediately guarded by Maxine, Adriana, and Yui. The shell was so powerful that it knocked then back.
"Ouch! That hurt!" Adriana went. Maxine used her panzerschreck on the battery. The battery blew up after impact and Maxine was afraid people might have gotten injured.
"I'm so sorry!" she said. Yui flew to towards Olaf and distracted him.
"This isn't very comfortable fighting our own kind!" she said. Olaf pointed his DShK at Yui and shot a full burst of bullets. "I know He will forgive me for this." But Yui managed to avoid all the bullets. Just behind Olaf, was Tania and Sakura charging at him with Tania taking the lead. She had her piercing maneuver set to collide with Olaf but Olaf saw her immediately.
"Take this!" Tania flew away, with Sakura behind her and using her Ohka's rocket engines and used her gauntlet to collide with Olaf.
"What the-" he used his shield, but Sakura still collided with him, and her gauntlet gave a huge burst of magic that destroyed Olaf's shield and unit.
Emil saw Olaf going down and unconscious, Emil flew towards him and grabbed him, then flew towards the K-1000.
"Mammoth is down, I repeat Mammoth is down!"
He gave Olaf to the medics who ran on deck. Emil flew back and to fighting the witches, at the same time, Jugashvili saw the mayhem and the failure of his plans.
"WHAT'S GOING ON!" he slammed the walls of the bridge with rage. There were only a few people left inside the bridge, other being knocked unconscious, wounded and dragged to the infirmary.
Back in the skies, Emily saw Mikhail, Alexander, and Gustav fighting with no one getting the upper hand.
"Mikhail!" Emily flew hastily to his battlegrounds but Emil managed to notice her fleeing the battlefield. He used his DShK and shot Emily's striker.
"You won't go anywhere!" Emil said. Emily's striker started to smoke and she decelerated, Josephine tried to catch Emily along with the other witches.
"Emily! You can't go to Mikhail right now, you're hit!" Josephine yelled.
"I have to save Mikhail! I can't let him out there too long! I got to save him-!"
"Who said you're the only one who will!" shouted the 510th.
Emily, who started to tear turned back and saw the others, prepared to fight alongside Mikhail.
"Commander, you're not the only one." Adriana said.
"We all have to save him." Peggy said.
"We're not letting him die!" Maxine said.
"He needs our help, we are the 510th Joint Fighter Wing." Jesse said.
"I may not have known him much, but we sure owe him a lot." Sakura said.
"I still have to pay him back for what he did." Uhrii said.
"I have to save him, he's my brother after all." Tania said.
"Well, what are we waiting for!" Yui cheered.
"See, we all have to get him back alive. Now, we have to get you on another unit." Josephine said. Emily wondered what it was, and they started to head back to the 'Soryu'.
In Mikhail's side, Mikhail, Alexander, and Gustav were fighting viciously without anyone winning. Gustav used his Neuroi cannon as a sword and struck Mikhail, Mikhail teleported away and did the same thing with his magical sword. Gustav used his shield and Alexander tried striking him on his flank. Gustav used his cannon and shot Mikhail with a large Neuroi beam, Mikhail used his shield and deflected it.
"Hang in there Mikhail! I'll get him." Alexander said as he struck again on the flank, but Emil managed to arrive on time and shielded Alexander's blow.
"I believe you have a fight with me, sire." Emil said.
Mikhail and Gustav had been fighting for more than twenty minutes, with no one still having an advantage. Mikhail was about to exceed his thirty minute limit, and decided to use his cannon again, Gustav decided the same, with both beams of light colliding with each other.
"Why can't I beat this guy!" Mikhail went.
Back in the 'Soryu' Emily was looking at the battlefield, with her new unit attached.
"Do you think this will work like Mikhail's, or fail like Tania's." she doubted.
"It will work, if it's for Mikhail, I know it will work. Both of you have something to say afterwards anyway." Josephine prepared her sortie.
"I hope you're right Josephine… Oh Mikhail… I'm going to save you, I know I will."
-End-
Mikhail: This is getting out of hand!
Gustav: Feel my power!
Alexander: We have to stop this!
Emily: I'm coming to save you Mikhail!
Emily: Next, on Strike Witches: Project Magi! Final Chapter: The Skies We Love…