Foreword

Nothing to say for this chapter's foreword, just 2 words:

CHARISMA BREAK!

Chapter 12: The Scarlet Devil

Time: 1522 Hour; 23rd of July, 2125.

Location: Outside the Scarlet Devil's Lair, SDM.

"Move!"

LT, still holding Sakuya at gunpoint, demanded the latter to continue moving.

It wasn't too long before they came across a locked door. There was a padlock on it.

"Open it..." LT demanded the maid to comply, and so she did. As he pushed the door open, he could only see darkness beyond it.

Sakuya had took this chance to counter-attack. But when she acted like she was reaching for something in her pockets, her hand came up empty.

"Looking for this?" LT asked with an evil tone as he lifted up his sword. Hung on it's tip was a golden fob-watch. "I believe you call it the Lunar Dial..."

"How in Gensokyo did..." Sakuya was puzzled as to how LT snatched it.

"It was simple: Your body isn't emitting Magika, but your fob-watch is emitting more than Miss Knowledge back there. So I suspected it is the source of your time stopping..." LT explained. "Also, thanks for the guide." LT ended his sentence after firing a bullet into her right knee.

The maid slumped onto the floor, blood flowing out of her wound.

"And don't even think of Stopping Time..." LT finished his sentence as he tossed the Lunar Dial into the air, and then slashing at it as it is coming down.

The Lunar Dial, now cut in half horizontally, crashed onto the floor, scattering glass shards and gears all over. "I won't blow you up, but just this time." LT then proceeds to pull a small notch placed on the back of the pistol. The bullet on Sakuya's knees stopped emitting a red glow and went dead.

"Now if you excuse me, I have an appointment with your mistress, right now." LT said as he closed the door behind him and his men. "Gensokyo, huh? Lame name for a society..."

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Location: 3rd floor Corridor, SDM.

"Now all you need to do is to lie still while Mr Wise Guy go beat up whoever owned this mansion and steals the ZPM back."

"Yeah, Edge, you made it sound easy for my bo- ...colleague." Alice Lou sulked.

Everyone noticed the word that was cut off in her last sentence.

"Are you finally going to admit that he's your..." Edge joked.

"Knock it off!" David told everyone to stop.

Takagi stood up to look outside the windows. His face seems to went pale for seeing something.

"I believe we were not expecting company prior to this operation..." Takagi still spoke calmly despite the looks on his face. "You should take a look.

Edge and Alice Lou also took a look outside. Back down at the mansion's Front Yard, there were multiple Police Cars and vintage Helicopters gathering outside the gate. Each of those vehicles have "GPF" written on them.

"Looks like the local police were informed of our presence." Alice Lou handwaved.

"I guess we should stay down for now. Jack knows how to deal with this kind of situation." Edge told everyone to stand down and take cover. "Although I'm guessing that guy might go guns-blazing on these fellows."

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Location: Scarlet Devil's Lair, SDM.

As soon as LT closed the door (and jammed it with an empty bullet cartridge), multiple lights in the huge room lit up. They were glowing dimly, but still bright enough to let LT see the whole room.

On the far side of the room is what appears to be a throne, with a large, tinted window just behind it.

"Looks like we have a royal brat, eh?" LT asked himself. He then noticed the oddness that is the complete lack of echoes in the room. "You are still here in this room, Lady Scarlet..."

Harrison came up to LT. "Sir, I'm detecting faint energy signatures somewhere in this room." He told his superior as he scanned the room with his Goggles. "Seems like the ZPM is indeed here."

"Alright, people. Fronts and center." LT ordered the Guards and Turks to get into position. With some of them killed earlier, it seemed impossible to cover all directions and look at LT at the same time. LT and Harrison together took a step forward...

...Just a step before they stopped, LT giving the gesture to do so. Everyone but LT himself sidestepped away from the center of the room.

Everyone remained silent...

Then there was the faint sound of something being thrown.

LT simply bent his body rightward just as a huge red trail of light accelerated over his bent body. The red light continued it's trajectory until it hit the wall (inches from hitting the door), where it's revealed to be a huge, glowing spear. The object disappears into thin air seconds after hitting.

Looking forward, everyone including LT saw the used-to-be-empty throne, now occupied by a blue-haired girl of around 10-years of age, wearing a pink mob-cap and dress.

Said girl also has glowing crimson eyes and vampire wings. On her right hand was the very same spear threw at LT seconds ago.

"Good job in evading that, Mr Summers." The vampire girl congratulated with an evil tone. "I never missed anything before with the Gungnir."

"Good job for staying off my scanners the whole time, Lady... Remilla Scarlet." LT congratulated as well with a similar tone.

...

"By the way..." LT added. "Your disgraceful maid might need some medical attention right now. Took a bullet to the knee."

Remilla got up from her throne and took a step forward. "Her medical bills will come from your pocket." She told him as she threw the Gungnir once again, this time aimed at LT's torso.

LT strafed off the spear's trajectory and returned fire with his pistol. His men did the same with their submachine guns.

Remilla evaded the bullets while charging toward a Guard with her talons extended. She simply shrugs off bullets that do hit her. "I can outsmart bullet!"

Said Guard got lucky and narrowly dodged her talons and emptied an entire magazine of bullets into her face. "Outsmart that!" He taunted.

But to his horror (and everyone else's), the vampire girl shrugs it off as bullets got pushed out of her wounds and her face completely healing. "Outsmarted!" She taunted back.

The Guard's face went pale moments before Remilla tore his throat off with her talons. Blood starts to spill on the floor as the poor man's lifeless body fell with a thud.

"Shit!" LT cursed with all his might. Everyone else are unloading more bullets on Remilla.

None of the Boomer bullets hit her. She simply shrugs off bullets from the WL-2 and the wounds healed in a flash.

"Use your swords!" LT ordered everyone. Every Turks drew their deal Zantetsu-Maru and stuck both blades together, then throwing them like a boomerang at Remilla.

Remilla, using her immense speed and powerful talons, evaded some blades while slicing more on the handles, breaking them in half. Remilla got hold of the Gungnir again, and starts to charge toward Harrison.

Harrison quickly ejected the current clip from his Boomer pistol and slid it on the ground toward Remilla. Just as the clip is directly underneath her, he pressed the detonate button, and the whole clip went up in a large explosion with enough shockwave to shatter the tinted window. Sunlight poured down from the opening and lit up part of the room.

But the vampire was nowhere to be seen. It was as though she has disappeared into thin air.

"Careful, Harrison." LT reminded.

"I know, sir. That brat is definitely somewhere in the floor. Nowhere else for her to hide." Harrison replied.

Harrison felt something tugging on his feet. He looked down to find a pair of blood stained hands with extended talons holding on him, and then the vampire's head emerged from the floor as well, with a smirk.

"Great, phasing through..." Harrison spoke before being pulled and tripped on the floor. "...Solid matter."

LT and the Guards fired on where Remilla was. She simply submerged herself back into the floor.

"That's it!" LT got furious, put away his guns, and withdrew the Zantankuto. "Come on!"

Remilla emerged from the far side of the room and threw the Gungnir straight at LT. LT held his sword in a defensive stance.

As the Gungnir meets the edge of his blade, LT gets pushed backwards by the former's massive velocity while still blocking it. He looked back and saw that he is getting closer to the wall. He rolled underneath the powerful spear as it hits the wall, throwing debris and dust all over.

LT's equipment got scattered over the floor during the aftermath as he lies down on the floor. Only the Doomstick was within reaching distance, the Tau Cannon, Zantankuto and Multi-purpose Watch lies too far away.

Remilla jumped out from a nearby floor tile into the air, preparing to impale LT with the Gungnir.

"You know you can't outsmart this move!" Remilla taunted.

"True." LT replied while reaching for the Doomstick. "But can you outsmart this person?"

LT grabbed the grip of the Doomstick and then aimed the gun at the vampire. With a pull of the trigger, a harmless beam of light emerged from the barrel, pointing at her.

"I... Don't... Think... SO!" LT emphasized as the gun fired a powerful beam at Remilla, which while not seriously injuring her, was able to launch her away from him just as the Gungnir is inches away from his nose.

Remilla landed just outside the zone lit by the sunlight. The Gungnir landed in another dark corner.

"This isn't over yet!" Remilla furiously reminded as she attempts to get to her weapon.

Harrison appeared out of nowhere and kicked the vampire in the already-bruised face, knocking her into the sunlight-lit zone. "How about that? Like the taste of sunlight?"

Remilla grunted as she is weakened by the sunlight.

"Didn't think so..." Harrison walked up to the vampire and stabbed one of her wings with one of Sakuya's Knives. He stabbed so hard that the tip of the Knife is driven into the ground, acting like a nail on Remilla's wing.

"That's it, people. Show's over." LT announced humorously while collecting his equipment from the floor. "Let's get the..."

"Found it!" Announced one of the Guards. He was standing next to a smashed safe, held on his arms one of the stolen ZPMs.

"Good, now let's high-tail outta here!" Harrison ordered the surviving Guards and Turks. LT, despite being his superior, obeyed as well. "I was gonna say that..." He reminded.

Then as if there are no locks on the door, someone pushed it open and the empty magazine snapped in half. It was David.

"Jack! We better get out now!" David spoke quickly. "The local police are rushing into the Mansion. Main Corridor's been sealed off!"

"Dammit!" LT and Harrison cursed together...

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Location: Main Corridor; SDM.

"Dead or alive, the Outsiders must be stopped!"

A swarm of GPF Police Officers rushed through the blood-stained main corridor and are headed for the mansion's top floor.

As the swarm went past the password-protected bulkhead, a small number of policemen and women stopped right in front of it. The rest continued ahead.

"Something's not right." One of them said. "This keypad was supposed to be active 24/7."

Then as if it occurred on a time delay, the panel sparked and smokes came out from it.

The officers reacted to it and pointed their revolvers at the bulkhead.

And once again without warning, the bulkhead simply exploded into many shrapnel. One officer has her head torn off by a shrapnel.

The other officers opened fire on the destroyed doorway. But each of them fired only one shot before their heads mysteriously exploded, spilling blood everywhere. All but one are now headless and dead.

"Kyuu~" a soft sound came from behind the destroyed doorway, and then the last officer's entire body exploded in a flare, but not before he could yell into his radio "Flandre has..."

Afterwords

Sorry for the lateness of this chapter, the Wi-Fi at my neighborhood went out for 2 days and I was unable to come here to finish the work.

And as you probably noticed, I described the Gungnir as an actual weapon when it was canonically just energy. This is a badass upgrade for Remi along with her ability to phase through walls and floors.

Remi is defeated (but still alive), so our intrepid Outsiders now faces the Ex-boss of EOSD: the Devil's Sister.

That is all. "Until then..."