Forewords
Ok, so I realized that I killed off Mima way too quickly, so I've decided to delay the Prismriver Sisters to the next chapter, and give Mima a chance to rematch against LT and co.
Chapter 19: The 4 Elements of Death
Time: 1902 Hour; 23rd of July, 2125.
Location: Somewhere near Hakugyokurou.
"Like Yukari said, that outsider, I mean that guy with the cap is one heck of a soldier. He managed to defeat me!"
"Hardly surprising, as he owns an international corporation that does anything and everything."
"Yukari said that?"
"She also said that Outsiders technology is 200 years more advance than they are supposed to be, thanks to him."
"I see..."
"So, what happened to your pupil Marisa?"
"She rage quitted right after paying for my medical fees. That good-for-nothing..."
"I see. So how about you and me wait for him right here and we fight him together?"
"I usually fight my enemies alone, but in this case, I desperately need a sidekick."
"So we have a deal?"
"Deal. Now if you excuse me, I'll have to tell him that I'm not done yet."
...
"Goddammit! Will you just get out of here?!"
"It's spring!"
"That's it! THIS IS MY DOOMSTICK!"
Boom
"If I see one more fairy..."
LT muttered, after killing the same spring-announcing fairy multiple times.
"That's one heck of a crazy girl..." Harrison added.
"What's so honorable about spring?!" LT yelled at the sky, possibly to the fairy he just blasted. "Spring happens every year, and besides, the next one is still months awa... Fuck, not again!" LT cursed as he notice the same fairy approaching.
"This one idiot doesn't even know how to live a life..." Shanghai L commented.
LT pulled out the Doomstick and the Tau Cannon at the same time, and slammed both guns heavily on the fairy's head, knocking her unconscious.
"Spring THIS!" LT slammed the back of the fairy's neck so hard, a bone-crunching sound can be heard. "Also, ANNOUNCE THAT!"
"Words cannot describe what she is feeling right now." remarked Takagi.
"Looks like she isn't walking, or flying anywhere, literately, for the rest of her life." Edge also remarked.
LT landed another attack on the poor fairy: cutting her wings off. Everybody was horrified by this.
"Is that even necessary?" David lampshaded.
...
"Well, well, well. Lily White should've known not to harass someone that killed her multiple times in a row."
"Mess with him multiple times, he'll personally hunt you down; mess with him in multiple lives, he'll make sure you suffer a terrifying pain for the rest of your life."
"He really is that cruel?"
"I did my research on the Outside world just now, while masquerading as an Outsider. Apparently even playing a prank on him can cost your life. And this seems to run in his family as well, heard that his father once dropped a prankster onto an island together with enough bombs to destroy Eientei multiple times."
"Very, very, very ill tempered."
"And yet his family's still an international celebrity. That's one thing I don't understand..."
"If you really did your research like you said, then you know better than to seal him off in Gensokyo. He might just drop double, or triple, or quadruple that amount to destroy us all, even if you succeed in trapping him here."
"I don't care. Hm hm hm..."
"You're crazy, even for a psychopath's standard!"
"I'll just leave you here, then..."
"Come back here, you Gap Hag! *sigh*"
...
"That spring-announcing fairy ain't announcing anymore springs, that's for sure." LT boasted.
"Remind me again not to piss you off." David remarked.
Nobody said another word for a few minutes. Everything seems peaceful for the moment, snow falling (well, magically made snow), plants being as silent as they should, nobody to pop out and challenge the group...
...Until a blue pentagram appeared just a few meters ahead of the group's current position. Everyone readied their weapons and took several steps back.
"Now who else?" said LT.
Within seconds, several objects (a fireball, ice shard, water ball, tiny pillar of electricity and a mini-tornado respectively) emerged from the pentagram. Each of the elements then turns into floating rune-like objects with several tiny orbs and poles orbiting the larger orb. They still bear the colors of their respective elements.
"We all know too well what these are..." LT remarked. "Except you, Harrison, who probably did not participate in that mission 5 years ago."
"That one where the STICK Army unleashed the Ancients by accident?" Harrison asked his superior, as he jumps up in time to dodge an incoming fireball aimed at his feet.
"Yes, that." Replied LT as he slashes at the core of an approaching electrified rune, destroying it and causing it to shatter into hundreds of glowing fragments. "These are the purely magical Element genus..." He added as he deflects a fireball that is launched by a Red Element onto the ground.
"Battlestations!"
...
More and more Elements materialized as LT, Harrison and the Raiders (excluding Shanghai L, who seems to have taken refugee on a nearby tree) destroyed some of them. The rush seems to be endless.
"Why does the enemies always attack in large numbers?" Edge hung a lamp as he casts a bolt of electricity from his huge sword. The bolt of electricity travels from one Elemental to another, and repeats the process until it ran into a Yellow Element, which absorbs it.
The same Yellow Element was then impaled in the core by one of Alice Lou's arrows. It shatters into glowing fragments, just like the others.
David produced a glaive from his huge sword and threw them at the attacking Elements. The glaive kept on flying around and slicing up Elements until it hits a mini-tornado launched by a Green Element, which David destroys by crushing it's core with his bare hands.
"I think I need to get a new gun." Harrison told himself, as he picks up a pebble from the ground and threw it at a White Elemental, which just freezes and shatters it. He took a look at the pentagram, and saw that the new Elements being spawned are black. "Sir! Incoming Blacks!"
The Black Elements each launched 5 projectiles at LT and co. Each projectile being separate elements.
LT activates the shield function on his Multi-purpose Watch, and the Black's projectiles impacted harmlessly against the energy shield. "Black Elements have spawned. They can use all five elements at the same time, but does not absorb any." He told the others, and slices a Blue Element that is launching a water ball.
The Blacks launched more projectiles at the group, whom jumped out of the way to let the projectiles hit the regular Elements. Any Elements that are not hit by their own element are destroyed. Takagi finishes off the rest with his rifle. "Now to destroy the Black Elements..."
"Let me handle this." David stood up front, as he slashes at a fireball to deflect it. "I've been waiting to use my Fury."
Hearing that, everyone, including LT and Harrison, took several steps back.
"You want a piece of me?" David taunted. "Well then..."
As he positions his sword for what looks like a large swing, his irises began to glow a dim red.
"Dimensional Slash!"
With one huge swing, a beam emerged from where he swung his weapon, obliterating the group of Black Elements as well as their projectile. The sword beam proceeded for another mile or so, obliterating trees as well until it finally disappears.
"Good one with the Raider's signature Fury attack, but that's still nothing compared to an Atomic Bomb." Edge remarked.
"Which is still nothing compared to the Hydrogen Bomb." David added.
LT finally decides to barge into a conversation. "Which is absolutely nothing compared with the super destructive Biome Buster: Five cubic meter of Uranium and Plutonium smashed together at molecular level, enough to destroy one fifth of the moon, and knock an Earth-sized planet... ahem, Mars, a couple of meters away from it's orbit. Invented by my father."
"That one?" Alice Lou remarked. "Read about it in the history lessons. In 2058..."
"Spare the history lessons." reminded Shanghai L, who has just came out of hiding.
"Spare the conversation too, the pentagram is still there, and it's spawning some Greater Elements." LT reminded.
He was right. The pentagram is spawning some Elements with the same color scheme as their corresponding Elements, but are larger.
"Crimson, Jade, Azure, Pure, Gold and Dark Elements." LT counted the new enemies. "Time to rumble." He spoke out as he drew out the Zantankuto.
...
"Just as Gap Hag said, they are not a force to be reckoned with...
And it seems that they have once encountered the Living Emblems in the Outside World.
Calling them 'Elements', how science minded this guy is...
If they do win this fight, I guess I'll have to handle them myself...
?!
...Once again..."
...
"Huff, huff, huff..."
LT was breathing heavily after suffering moderate injuries from the fights. The Raiders suffered minor injuries, and Shanghai L is mostly unhurt, while sitting on the snowy ground with her lance next to her.
"This is the first time I saw Mr Summers injured." remarked the doll.
"Not the first time in his life, though. He took a bullet to the knee during World War Three, 12 years ago." David added.
The blue pentagram on the ground begins to shrink until it disappears completely. There seems to be no more new Elements appearing.
"Peace and quiet at last." Shanghai L commented.
LT lied down on the ground in relief, dropping his weapons aside. "Oh, how I wish there was ever a period where we don't have to use weapons at all."
That being said, Harrison was scanning around the location with his Scouter's Goggles.
"I thought my boss told you to keep away, you daughter of a bastard..."
That being said, a familiar ghost materialized next to the group.
"You again, Mima..." LT immediately stood up and aimed the Tau Cannon at her. However unlike the previous battle, his hand was shaking and couldn't aim properly.
Mima calmly stood there without showing any attempt to do anything. "Go ahead, why don't you?"
LT kept his aim for awhile before putting down the super-gun.
"You're right. I can't shoot accurately right now." LT said. He then throws the super-gun at Harrison, who fetched it and aimed it at Mima.
"But I can." Harrison taunted.
Mima chuckled for a bit. "I think that from your world, 'every force has an equal opposition', correct?" She said as she fires a tiny ball of energy from her staff...
...At Alice Lou, who failed to dodge it and got hit on the shoulder.
Everyone was shocked at Mima's reaction to gunpoint. "Miss Alice!" Shanghai L screamed in terror.
The little doll turned toward the ghost. "Why you...!" She exclaimed as she fired a tiny beam of laser from her lance at Mima's chest. The ghost appears to be hurt by the attack.
Harrison took this chance to aim the Tau Cannon at Mima. "This is my boss's BOOMSTICK!" He fired a shot from the super-gun. The projectile is the usual mid-sized green ball of energy.
The shot hit home on it's target, and seemingly vaporized the ghost in a big explosion.
"Nobody messes with humanity, bitch!" Harrison boasted.
Back at the spot, David was squatting down next to Alice Lou. "You alright?" He asked worriedly.
Alice Lou replied with a soft voice. "It's not a fatal shot. I'm alright."
"It will heal..." LT reminded. "Raiders heal their wounds a tiny bit faster than normal humans." He the looks at the doll everyone is familiar with. "She on the other hand..."
Shanghai L was lying down on the ground, seemingly unconscious.
"Using most of her magical life force to fire off an attack of that magnitude. It's already powerful for an Artificial Intelligence like her." LT commented, while carefully picking up the doll.
"So, let's take a couple of minutes off before we move on, how 'bout it?" asked LT. "Oh, here comes the air supply."
The GA-Raider approaches from the direction of the landing site, and drops a box over where LT and co was.
"I thought I told you to stay put." Reminded LT.
"I know, but sometimes, it's necessary to disobey your boss's orders to help him." assured the pilot, who is a Turk.
"Yeah thanks, anyway. Now go back to the Landing Site and await further orders."
"Yes, sir." The pilot acknowledged, as he flew the VTOL back to where it came from.
"One ZPM ain't gonna let us leave this hellhole, so let's patch ourselves up and keep on..."
Afterwords
Whew, what a wall of text.
Yeah, here's your legitimately lengthened LT vs Mima fight, LT wins again (well, Harrison dealt the killing blow), but Mima did escape that, just not without a scratch.
And here's the chapter's Shout Out Index:
"Dimensional Slash" - the ultimate sword attack from Disgaea 1: Hour Of Darkness.
"Bullet to the Knee" - a hundred years into the future and soldiers still don't wear knee guards, at least LT didn't retire, unlike that guard at Skyrim, who took an arrow at the same spot.
That is all. "Until then..."