WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 36: Festival arc-Present vs. future round 4-Cowboys vs. Aliens!
I don't own Negima!
"Everyone can I please have you attention! We have announcement for the school festival's final day event!" Makie dressed as a cowgirl announced throwing flyers into the air, letting them float down the earth to be picked up by passers. A random male student pick up the flyer, the top read in bold "Mystic Gunslingers vs. Alien invaders" with a picture of legendary gun fighters and a column showing the equipment the participants would be using. All over people were voicing their excitement about the new event and hurried to join.
At the weapons stand Yuna (After recovering from Kaede's assault earlier) enthusiastically explained the every last gun to anybody in sight. The gun fanatic had never in her life seen such a collection! She had truly died and gone to heaven. "Step right up, and get your gun! Here sir try this .44 colt navy, or perhaps the 12 gauge pump is more your style? You over there you look like you would be best friends with this 30-30 Winchester!"
Sitting high on a ledge above the crowds, Jack watched with amusement as Yuna force another gun on to a random participant. Luckily none of the guns where loaded yet, and if they were special bullets that didn't harm the human body were in use. Coarse there was always the chance of real bullets being mixed in with the special ones, he mused. He briefly wondered what Chao would do, from what Negi told him the spell she was using had very precise timing, so she couldn't delay it. So that meant she would attack earlier. And of course that would happen as soon as he thought about it as victors of the strip beam, desperately try to cover their most private areas.
Lighting up a smoke, Jack projected his voice over the crowd. "Ambush! Fire, fire, fire!" he ordered to the mob below, and filled with adrenaline they did. A series of loud bangs erupted as the battle for the future officially started.
"Come on, push em back!" Yuna spurred, firing her twin revolvers into the robot horde, twelve when down, but a dozen more took their place. After reloading Yuna did a fantastic summersault over the other players, putting her right in the frontlines! "You can just call me Yuna the kid!" She yelled emptying her guns again. As she reloaded, she was completely unaware of her surrounding, and didn't see one of the robots fire its stripper beam till it was almost too late!
Bang! Bang! Two precise shots found their mark in the attacking robot's mechanical head. Yuna looked back in awe as the teachers arrived on the scene with the marshals, but her attention was focused on the smoking barrel of one Henry "The kid" McCarty.
"Hey there missy, let me show you how the real kid of the west does It!" in an instant six more robots were destroyed, and before anyone had time to comprehend what was happening, henry reloaded his 41 thunder and destroyed six more. "Ah how do you like that?" He boasted.
The other marshals just rolled their eyes to the sky unimpressed. "That's just plain sloppy kid. Here's how you do it!" Hickok proclaimed, float above his gun handles, and if you calmed to have saw what happened next, you would be lying, because as far as anybody could tell the guns never moved from the holster, but twelve robots fell to the ground none the less.
"And here they are ladies and gentleman the legendary gunslingers are here to give a helping hand!" Kasumi announced over the microphone, after some persuasion from Jack, she whole hearty agreed to be their official ally, or have all her memories burned away. You could tell which one she picked. "But don't worry players the legend characters are only here to help not take away your chances for the grand prize, so fight on!"
This was a huge relief to the crowd as they resumed the battle with new vigor, explosions where everywhere as more and more robots feel to the sting of the gunslinger's bullets.
"Oh man this is the best!" Akira exclaimed as she bashed in the head of a robot with the butt of her pump shotgun. She had run out of ammo a while ago and has been unable to the ammo station to get more, but that didn't stop her from continuing the fight. Sidestepping another beam she rammed another robot in the stomach and smashed in its head.
While she was enjoying her victory a blast of a double barrel echoed behind her, turning around she found Wyatt Holliday standing over the ruined metal, calmly loading another round shells. "Madame," He said tipping his hat. Behind him another robot charged at him, Akira was about to warn him when it blew into pieces, and Wyatt reveal the smoking barrel of his sawed-off to her.
"Never leave home without. Here." He said tossing her some ammo. "See if those don't get you out of fix." And then he walks calmly through the carnage, causally shooting down random robots as if he were merry strolling through the park.
"Wow," was all she said, thinking how dashing the man looked, and then shook herself, "Oh no I'm turning into Asuna!"
Ako was busy administering field aid, so far there were no serious injuries, and with the magical tools given to her small scrapes and bruises disappeared in seconds! Just as she finished healing a kid's leg a robot snuck up behind her with its beam fully charged! She braced herself for what was to come, and was petrified, because her scar would be exposed to the world to see!
Then suddenly a series of bang, bang, bang, echoed above her, up on a nearby ledge Stapp, and Walter Earp, sniped robots with their Winchesters with deadly accuracy. She gave the two gunslingers a thumb up, and continued with her work. They in return tipped their hats.
"Sweet lookin' girl don't cha think bro?" Walter teased. He always thought his older brother was too high strung; maybe having a girl would loosen him up a little.
Stapp grunted disinterested. "She's a kid. Now get your head out of your ass, and shoot some of these motherfuckers!" and in rapid succession he gunned down another twelve robots.
"Whatever you say, but I think I would have a shot. Don't you think so?" Walter asked, but the deadly look in his brother's eyes told him to shut up, and not wanting to be punished by his brother's swift hand, he quickly compiled. "Ok, I'll stop just stop giving me that look it creeps me out."
"Good," Stapp smirked cocking his gun.
From the home base of the gunslingers Marshal Wesley Harden directed the players, trying to form some kind of organization of command. Things could turn south very quickly, if the players were left to fight individually, even with the help of the teachers and Gunslingers. Coarse that was why they had the real Gunslinger mages on standby back in Blackwater. With just a little chant they could have 300 fresh troop on hand in just a mere seconds, but he hoped it wouldn't have to come to that if this was the only resistance they were going to meet. And of course, as soon as he said that, gaint robots emerged from the lake with super thick strip beams, nearly wiping out most of the players in seconds.
"Dammit, should have seen that coming!" The marshal complained, 25 years of doing this kind of shit, and still he makes that one off handed comment that sends everything down the crapper. All over the battlefield his fellow marshals politely express their thoughts.
"Way to go Jackass!" (Hickok)
"I don't know I kind of like it this girl just lost her cloths in front of me and I'm really enjoying the view!" (Henry)
"I must say old friend you have quite the bad luck, but I'm afraid I don't have a cure from that." (Wyatt)
"Never knew you were such a pervert man… can you make more of them appear? I think Stapp getting… (Smack!)…never mind!" (Walter)
"Will you all shut up?" Wesley yelled back, and then pressed the button on his com-link. "Teacher units how are things on you end?"
"Not good the school barrier been dropped, and a number of Mech demons have appeared on campus!" Misora hollered over the radio. They were in a bad fix, and then a number of mages disappeared in a sphere of black. The nun felt someone kick her sending her flying, turning around she saw Cocone disappear!
"No Cocone!" She yelled thinking her friend was dead.
"There displacements bullets, everybody that was hit should be fine," A voice said. Misora looked up, relieved to see Takahata, Setsuna and the twins landed beside her.
"Thank god! You guys are here! Everyone was just disappearing in to thin air and…"
Takahata held up his hand for silence. "It's alright. Like I said their displacement bullets they can't be more than 3 km away, but what was the point?"
"Your right Takahata-sensei, what is the point." A voice answered. The group turned in shock to see the enemy leader herself Chao Lingshin dressed in her red coat outfit with four strange machines floating around her. "The point is my dear Professor is their not 3 km away, but 3 hours in the future. Say hello to my time displacement bullet. And I must applaud you for making it back here. Did you enjoy my new world? I'm sure it was a much better place thanks to my intervention."
"CHAO," Setsuna growled, gripping the hilt of her sword. "You are scum!" She screamed swinging at the Martian.
"Really, you think you have a chance after what happened last night?" Chao taunted darkly avoiding the attack. "How laughable," She said disappearing and reappearing behind the swordswoman, and then delivered a savage blow with her cyber enhanced fist, Knocking Setsuna to the ground unconscious.
"Setsuna," the twins cried, drawing their own weapons, and charged towards the Martian.
Chao smirked at the two and snapped her fingers, "Mana if you would please, take care of these two."
"Roger." The mercenary replied firing two ricochet shots at the pinkettes. Really she just wanted to keep them safe, and what could be safer than at the end of the battle.
"Now that just leaves you Takahata-sensei, but really you don't stand a chance. The only ones who do are probably Jack or Negi." Chao said amused. She would like to see them try; it would be interesting to go head to head with her family's greatest ancestors. Wait…ancestors? Why did she include Jack, he wasn't her ancestor, so why did she think he was for a second.
All sudden her vision started to warp, memories of two shadowed figures, played over and over in her head. She could make the figures out to be a man and a woman, but she could never see their faces. And now her head started to hurt, she held the sides with her hands, trying to block out the pain, but it just got worse!
"Chao?" Takahata approached the time traveler carefully. It was obvious she was in pain, but his battled harden senses still told him to be wary, even if she was once his student.
"MANA," Chao yelled through gritted teeth, and with professional aim the mercenary took aim, and gunned down Takahata three hours into the future, before rushing down to downed Martian's side.
"Chao are you ok?" Mana asked concerned for the Martian's wellbeing, but she was helpless to do anything to help her. Eventually though Chao let go of her head, and with Mana's help stood on her feet.
"I'm ok Mana just a little light headed." She told the mercenary as her strength returned. "It's nothing really."
"Really, why don't I believe you?" Mana said quirking an eyebrow. She may not be a genus like Chao, but she wasn't a Baka Ranger for Pete's sake! "Whatever we need to get you somewhere safe, so you can rest, otherwise you'll never be able to take on Negi or Jack in the state you in now."
"Wise words as always Mana, but first I need to address our other party guests."
Back on the battle front things have been leaning in the gunslingers favor with over a thousand enemy units destroyed, the mage teacher and student keeping watch from the central computers where very impressed with the results. For a second they played with the thought that things were going to be all right, when the alarms went off!
"What's happening?" The Teacher demanded.
"It's Chao. She's infiltrated almost all of our systems, we're being locked out!" The student answered. Her eyes widened when she took a closer look. "She is trying to disable the barrier around the school!"
"No, if we lose that we'll be completely venerable! Who has this kind of hacking skill?" Asked the teacher in fear and awe, they have never faced such highly skilled hacker before.
"I don't know professor, but we have another problem. A virus has been imputed directly into the system, but something is strange about it. " Said the student.
"What's strange about it?" The Teacher asked.
"It's infecting both our systems and the hackers. It's like nothing I've ever seen before." The student said right before all of the system was taken over, leaving them completely powerless on the cyber battle front.
In cyber space the robotic mistress Chachamaru herself effectively disabled all of Mahora's cybernetic defenses. Allowing her full access to the web, now it would be simple matter of spreading the existence of magic to the world! Nothing could stop her now! Suddenly a small ball of fuzz flies across her vision.
"What on earth was that? Scans indicate a virus, and a very advance one, starting counterattack." She said as various green spheres of energy surround her, firing lasers at the elusive fuzz ball, but it just laughed manically as it bounced of the walls of cyberspace.
"YEEHEHEHAA," It yelled as it crashed into Chachamaru's force field, nearly jolting the cyborg out of her chair. As Chachamaru regained her seat, she finally got a closer look at the monstrosity, and it was very familiar, in fact she had seen it before!
"Wolfie?"
Back with the gunslingers, the battle has been going well, that was until robots armed with time displacement bullets advanced on to the scene. In just a few short seconds dozens of players were removed from the battle, before they had time to blink! The remaining players wondered what became of they're missing comrades as a gaint holographic display of Chao appeared over the lake.
"Hello Ladies and gentleman, I Chao Lingshin, leader of the Martian army. Commend you on your efforts in the first round, but now I think it's time we up the ante. I think being able to rejoin the battle even after you've been it is too boring, so with the latest technology from the research division things will be much more thrilling! This special bullet here will instantly disqualify any player hit by it, but that's not all it does, no, the ones hit will be forced to spend the rest of the festival asleep; truly something to get the blood pumping no? Also I have already dispatched most of your hero units who were you last ray of hope. Do you still have the will to face my robot army? I wish you all a good fight. Also please remember that the Martian army is funded by the research division and Chao Bao Zi, please remember to stop by." Chao finished then disappeared with arrogant smirk.
Everyone mumbled in low tones, most were considering of dropping out of the battle, when a strong voice echoed over the crowd. "You just gonna give up, because of a little thing like this?" Marshal Harding asked the crowd. He waited for a response and he got one.
"No!" Yuna yelled from the crowd. "Come on everybody! The tougher things are the more thrilling things get! And what could be more thrill then one shot disqualification? If it wasn't tough then there would have been no point in doing it in the first place, so buck up and take out them robots!"
"The girl right, and if that don't get cha movin' then how about double points for every kill and a bonus for anyone who finds Chao!" Harding proposed. The result was overwhelming as the players leap back into the fray with renewed vigor, and with moral on the rise he decided to remind everyone that you don't get rid of the marshal that easy. "And remember you still have us legendary units on your side, and more are on the way! You just have to hold out a little longer!" Then Harding pressed the button his com-link. "Jack get your ass into gear! I don't know how much longer we're going to last."
"Roger that marshal, Jack out." Jack replied from his perch above the battle field. He knew the marshal was right, and started jumping from rooftop to rooftop back to the library to where Negi was resting with the Kaede and Ku-Fei keeping watch over him, and as much as Jack wanted to fight Chao by himself. He knew well enough from the last time that things would go down to shit if he did, and with the time watch destroyed there would be no second chance.