Forewords

We're in Tassoburg, Malkrantia (representing St Petersburg, Russia) and watching the fight between Reimu and co and the Artillery Twins.

The fight Versus Artillery Twins may result in massive destruction.

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Yeah, I suck at this Foreword...


Chapter 27: The Artillery Twins

Time: 1030 Hour; 11th of August, 2125.

Location: CEO's Office, STI HQ/ Summers Estate.

LT was observing the progress of Reimu and co through a Surveillance Camera near their location. The screen displayed the scene from the POV of that camera.

Harrison was once again absent. Not surprising for anyone in the Estate anymore, as his boss has been sending him on errands lately.

"So now it's the Artillery Twins' turn to fight those girls..." LT commented. "There's no such thing as overkill, anyway. Even if the enemy is just a kid..."

LT inputted a line of code on the computer, and recorded sounds of the scene at Malkrantia is played through the speakers clearly.

"You're talking to the Daughters Of Liberty!"

So said the black-white witch, Marisa Kirisame, to the Artillery Twins, Cloud and Flash.

"Daughters Of Liberty. Pretty good group name." LT commented again. "You're still waiting, Youkai Dictator..."

LT shut off the holograph computer and pushed a button on his earpiece.

"This is Lt Colonel Jack Summers speaking to the Tech Department via Codec. Notify the leaders of the following nations and tell them that I will be holding a meeting with them. The nations to be called are: Asahi, Chugoku, Malkrantia, Necopolis, Bevelle and Registan."

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Location: Tassoburg, Malkrantia.

BOOM!

The sound of one of Flash's Shape-seeking Missiles exploding an abandoned car echoed around the evacuated street.

"Take this!" Cloud aimed his launcher-shaped Minigun at the girls, and fired a volley of gas-propelled armor-piercing bullets. None of the bullets had hit the girls.

"Missed!" Sakuya shouted at Cloud.

"I missed on purpose. That's just a taste of my weapon." The orange-haired Raider responded with a slasher-smile.

"You've just got lucky that he decided to demonstrate his weapon first." Yukari told the girls via Magic Codec. "The Twins' special ability lets them predict the trajectory of each and every shot fired from their weapons. This means that Cloud can aim his Minigun accordingly to make sure each and every bullet hits his target, leaving not a single round whizzing past them."

Flash joined his brother and stood next to him, also aiming his missile launcher at Reimu and co.

"Time to die, bitch!" The Twins shouted and fired their weapons.

Sakuya and Youmu stood up front to deflect Cloud's bullets with their weapons (Sakuya may be stopping time and swatting away the shots), while the rest of the Daughters Of Liberty fired danmaku at Flash's Shape-seeking Missiles and exploded them.

The explosion tossed out dust all over the street, and the girls finds themselves looking into it for their assailant. "Damn..." Reimu cursed when she noticed that she can't see the others in the dust cloud.

The red-white Shrine Maiden is all alone...

Reimu carefully observed her surroundings for an ambush and any signs of the other members of the Daughters Of Liberty. "Marisa? Sanae? Anyone?"

She became alerted suddenly, and sidestepped away just as Cloud slammed the business end of his launcher-shaped Minigun down hard enough to pierce a reinforced manhole.

The orange-haired Raider stood up and aimed his weapon at the red-white, "Take this. BULLET WIND!" and fires.

Reimu quickly deployed a bomb, which is a red ball of light gathering over her raised left hand that then burst into a sphere of shockwaves, to wipe thehigh-speed armor-piercing bullets out of the air. The shockwave from the bomb also knocked Cloud over his feet.

Cloud simply picked himself up, wiping dust off his face with his free hand. "That was a nice trick..."

He was then joined by Flash as the dust cloud begins to dissipate. So did Reimu with the rest of the Daughters Of Liberty, who appears to be chasing after the blond-haired Raider.

"Sorry, Reimu. We were separated from you in the dust cloud, ze." Marisa apologized.

"Never mind that. Let's get back to kicking their butt!" Reimu responded.

Turning toward the Artillery Twins, the Daughters Of Liberty drew out their weapons and aimed.

"Get a load of this!" Flash shouted as he fires a missile with a transparent warhead.

The missile released a blinding light and screeching noise as it detonates.

"What?! No fair, ze!" Marisa yelled while closing her eyes and covering her ears.

So did Sakuya. "Large-scale stun missiles! I remember the Nazis researching these before I've met Milady!"

As did Youmu. "Myon!"

One could still hear the sound of Cloud's Minigun revving up.

"Damn!" Sanae cursed.

Still blanketed by blinding light and screeching noise, the girls could still hear the Raiders firing their weapons at them...

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The shots did not hit anyone...

By the time the Twins realized something's wrong, the blinding light and screeching noise (which weren't affecting them at all) has worn off, giving them a glimpse of the Daughters Of Liberty.

Right in front of Reimu is a wall of magic barrier that spans the width of the entire street. The red-white appears to be breathing heavily.

"Now's the chance!" Reimu shouted at the other girls, and they all started firing danmaku at the Artillery Twins.

The Twins immediately raised their force fields to protect themselves from the shots, but enough shots impacted the force fields to eventually break them. The volley of danmaku continuously hitting the brothers with each shot causing them to flinch, and eventually tumble backwards.

"Did we get them, ze?" Marisa asked.

The Twins remained stationary on the ground.

"I think so..." it was Sakuya who responded.

The blond-haired brother suddenly stood up, with anger written on his face, "That's it! MISSILE MASSACRE!"...

...And fired a volley of missiles at the girls.

Reimu kept the barrier raised, but the amount of missiles impacting it was enough to cause it to shatter, which knocked her off her feet and out cold.

More missiles approaches as Flash kept firing more and more of them. The girls all fired their weapons at the incoming projectiles, but more kept coming faster than they can shoot out.

"That's it!" Marisa went frustrated and aimed her mini-hakkero straight at Flash. "Master Spark!"

A stray debris impaled itself into the core of the hakkero, causing it to short out. "Crap!"

Youmu quickly picked out one of her own Spell Cards and unleashed it. "Hell Realm Sword: 200 Yojana In A Flash!"

With a single bound, the half-ghost travelled from one end of the street to the other, which caused the missiles to explode midair, and Flash's launcher to spark and short out. Youmu came back with the same speed, waltzing past Flash, before stopping at where she first started, and sheathed the Roukanken.

"I don't need to say this..." Youmu said, just before the blond-haired Raider collapsed on his knees.

"Just go down already!" Sanae said while having her gohei aimed at Flash. A single concentrated blast of danmaku was fired, and hit him in the head, knocking him back. "Expeliarmus!

Flash can be heard muttering "That's a bland Harry Potter reference..." before he completely falls on his back against the concrete ground highway.

"Good old J.K." Sanae said, blowing the business end of her gohei. She noticed the others looking at her. "What? It's from a western novel I've read before I moved to Gensokyo."

"Never mind that..." Sakuya responded. "Let's go help Reimu..."

That being said, Cloud suddenly appeared, putting himself between the girls and Reimu. "Go ahead and shoot or slice me!" He taunted before revving up the launcher-shaped Minigun.

Youmu rushed up and stabbed the stub of the Hakurouken into the Minigun. Small amounts of electricity sparked from the entry point, as Cloud pulled the trigger several times and getting no response from the weapon. Then the half-ghost kicked the orange-haired Raider, hard, in his crotch.

This unexpected attack has caused him to fall down with a pained grunt, and lies on the highway on his sides. "Fuck you...!" before falling unconscious.

The others watched with their jaws dropped.

"Ouch..." Marisa expressed. "Wonder if this is what Kourin feels at that time, ze..."

"Let's get Reimu and find a place to hide before the Soviet Red Army catches up..." Sakuya suggested. She and Youmu both helped the unconscious red-white Shrine Maiden up, and flew toward a small alley.

Marisa and Sanae followed them into the same alley, just as several Tengukiu Tanks and Voshtov Helicopters appeared from a junction back the direction they came from.

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Soviet Conscripts checked each and every alley for signs of their target. Their search turned up nothing.

Tengukiu Tanks stayed on the street for a lookout, while the Voshtov Helicopters patrolled the skylines.

"Yasno!" [Clear!] A Conscript announced after checking one of the alleys. The same word came from the other Conscripts who were checking different alleys.

The Conscripts eventually gathered up after their fruitless search. "Nikakikh priznakov predmetov. Predpolozhitel'no soshlo..." [No signs of the subjects. Presumed to have gotten away...]

A single voice spoke through the radio. "Bud'te bditel'ny. Oni ne poluchili slishkom daleko!" [Stay alert. They cannot have got too far away!]

With the transmission terminated, the squadron went westwards in pursuit of their targets which they think has escaped towards.

As soon as the squadron left the scene, a single large box in one of the darker alleys, labeled "MGS2 Orange" is flipped over, revealing Reimu and co underneath. Reimu was just waking up.

"What happened?" She asked.

"We have just managed to defeat those Twins while you were knocked out cold by one of their attacks." Youmu explained.

"And to make sure they can't come after us and are not found, we tied them up with lots of ropes, gagged them and locked them in a dumpster." Sakuya continued.

Reimu looked around the alley and toward the direction of the street. "What time is it now?"

"About..." Sakuya looked at the Lunar Dial. "...An hour since you got knocked out. It's now 11:30 AM"

"Where's Marisa, anyway?" Reimu noticed the absence of the black-white.

Marisa suddenly appeared at entrance of the alley, mechanical flying broom strapped to her back, and carrying two mid-sized loaves of bread on her hands. "Sorry, ze." The witch apologized. "Had to go find something to eat. You guys must be hungry, right?"

Everyone noticed that the loaves of bread appears to be fresh. "You snuck into a bakery through an adjacent alley, right?"

"You got me there, ze." Marisa responds, embarrassed. "Let's take some rest here. Eat something to keep the energy. We still have a long way to go..."

Sanae grabbed a small loaf, thought of something for awhile - "I sure hope Gensokyo doesn't end up like District 12 of that book..." - before taking a bite of the bread.


Afterwords

There, I made the Versus Artillery Twins fight as awesome as I possibly can. Satisfied now?

I noticed that in most Anime, villainous siblings are very often shown as being sadistic, so that where I got the idea of making the Twins a bit of a sadist, albeit a non-evil one since they're not actually villains. Reimu and co are the villains from the Outsiders' perspectives.

Shout-out index:

"Expeliarmus!" - Sanae said this, and Flash lampshaded this. You can see where this one came from.

*Youmu kicking Cloud in the crotch* - This is reminiscent of Youmu kicking Quartz Von Beezelbub's crotch in the Danbooru web-comic "Gensokyo Great Sports Day".

"MGS2 Orange" - Everyone knows that there's not a disguise more effective than a cardboard box, especially in Metal Gear. This is at the same time referring to the very first type of box used in the series (The Orange).

"...District 12 of that book..." - So aside from the Harry Potter series, Sanae has also read the Hunger Games trilogy?

That is all. "Do tekh por..."