Forewords

I had to literately pull myself away from VGPerson's translations/walkthrough of the fan-game "Touhou-A-Live" on Youtube to continue working on this story. It's just that addicting... Speaking of which, Koki, the developer of that fan-game, is one of the few people that considers Shanghai Doll as a character more than side objects, huh (Even getting her own scenario)?

Okay, guys, let's get back to the Versus Sterilisator Gunship fight.

Those Wacky Nazis...

...And Stupid Jetpack Hitler...

Chapter 37: Power Of The Hunter

Time: 0400 Hour; 12th of August, 2125 (22 hours 30 minutes until death).

Location: Somewhere between Central and East Necopolis.

"Here it comes!"

The girls took off into the air moments before The blaze of The Sterilisator's flamethrowers made contact.

When the blaze cleared up, the portion of the ground burned was left as a pile of hot amber.

Immediately afterwards, the Nazi squadron all fired at the Daughters Of Liberty with their weapons, while being careful not to hit one of their own.

The girls avoided the shots and returned fire at the Nazis, knocking out some Stormtroopers. They continued firing danmaku and took out some of the Jaeger Tanks.

As they flew higher to avoid the spray of burning fuel from the destroyed tanks, the girls finds themselves boxed in by the Viper Hover-copters and The Sterilisator Gunship.

"Damn..." Reimu cursed.

The hover-copters all fired their laser guns at the Daughters Of Liberty, who dodged at the last minute. The lasers harmlessly reflected off the energy shields and the hull of the Gunship.

The Sterilisator fired two green missiles from it's missile pods at the girls. They saw the projectiles homing on them and shot both of them out.

Both missiles exploded in a lingering green mist that the girls knew they should evade. And they were right, a Viper that accidentally flew into the green mist had it's shields shorted out almost instantly. The green mist sticks itself to the unshielded aircraft, and it's outer hull began melting, forcing the pilot to eject.

"What the heck is that?!" Sanae exclaimed when she saw the power of the green mist.

The Magic Codec rang, and answers itself. "That's not just any poison, that's super-acid! It's so corrosive, even it's vapors can melt metal on contact. Avoid it at all cost!"

The Gunship fired two green grenades from the mounted grenade launchers at the girls. Youmu picked up the Roukanken and batted both grenades at two Viper Hover-copters. The grenades exploded in another cloud of acid vapor, the same thing happens to these hover-copters and the pilots are forced to eject.

With no other oppositions remaining, the girls shifted their attention to the Gunship as they fire danmaku at it. However, the mass of metal doesn't seem to be taking any damage.

"This thing isn't taking any damage, ze!" Marisa complained. "Guess we'll have to use a Spell Card!"

Marisa dodged a grenade that was fired at her, and then throws an object at the Sterilisator. The object sticks itself onto the Gunship.

The pilots looked at the object, then at each other. "Dies muss die gleiche Waffe sein, der die Malkratischen Gunship mit erreicht haben." [This must be the same weapon that the Malkrantian Gunship was hit with.]

Marisa then fires a single danmaku at the object.

"Magic Waste: Deep Ecological Bomb"

Upon being hit, the object glowed for awhile before exploding in a brilliant flash and cloud of smoke. When the smoke clears up, all the damage on the Sterilisator Gunship are just scraped paint.

"Wha...?! No way!" The Daughters Of Liberty all exclaimed at once.

"Foolish mercenaries..." The Gunship pilot taunted. "You really think something armed with metal-melting acid can be easily damaged? Not with a Trinium hull, you don't!"

Finishing that, the pilots turned all the weapons of the Gunship on the girls, firing missiles of different colors at them.

"Crap!" Marisa cursed just moments before the missiles exploded before them, covering them in waves of burning napalm, high-pressure water, cryo sprays, electricity and acid vapor.

...

"Sieht so aus, als wir sie endlich haben..." [Looks like we've finally got them...] The copilot told the pilot.

"Halten Sie es. Die Registaner haben dieses Phänomen nennt man "Worf Barrage". Wir besser sein vorsichtig..." [Hold it. The Registanian have this thing they call "Worf Barrage". We better be careful...] The pilot responded.

"Recht. Nichts ist tot, bis Sie es in diesem Zustand sehen." [Right. Nothing is dead until you see it in that state.] The copilot acknowledges the response.

"Es scheint etwas anderes in diesem Chaos der Elemente..." [There seems to be something in that mess of elements...]

...

Reimu closed her eyes, awaiting inevitable death from the Sterilisator's elemental missile barrage.

One second... Ten seconds... Thirty seconds... Sixty seconds...

The death never came, so the red-white opened her eyes to see what's happening.

The other girls appears to be doing the same ting, except Sakuya, who's just floating in the middle of the void that suddenly formed inside the elemental death, silver knives on her hand.

"Sakuya...?" Reimu muttered silently, looking at the calm silver-haired maid.

As the waves of fire, water, ice, electricity and acid wears off, the girls can see the Sterilisator Gunship still has it's weapons trained on them. The pilots' face went pale when they saw the girls being unscathed.

"Feuer alles!" [Fire everything!] The main pilot told the copilot desperately, as he spam-presses the weapons-firing buttons.

Lots of elemental missiles, acid grenades and flamethrower blazes are fired at Sakuya...

...And they all froze in mid-air right before hitting their targets.

"Oh, Scheiße..." [Oh, shit...]

"Dumme Menschen. Zu denken, sie können sich stärker als der legendäre Vampirjäger machen..." [Foolish humans. To think they can make themselves more powerful than the legendary Vampire Hunter...] The silver-haired maid said calmly. She pulls out a Spell Card, and prepares to cast it.

"Meine Welt: Fluch des Bösen" [My World: Bane Of Evil]

All the fired ordnances suddenly reversed themselves back toward their source, the Sterilisator Gunship. The missiles exploded and sprayed their contents over the aircraft, as sparks begin popping out within the cockpit. The windshield begins to crack as it's being assaulted by the returning blaze of the flamethrowers.

"Wir verschwinden jetzt, und Reparaturen so schnell wie möglich zu erhalten." [Let's just get out of here for now, and get repairs done as soon as possible.] The copilot suggested, as acid beginsread over the topside of the Gunship. One of the turbines exploded as it gets frozen by cryo fluids and then corroded by the acid vapors.

Without further adieu, the Sterilisator Gunship turned around and retreated off the distance.

The void that surrounds the Daughters Of Liberty begins to collapse, as Sakuya puts her silver knives away.

"You all must've seen what I just did..." Sakuya told the other girls, with a low tone.

Reimu slowly flew closer to the silver-haired maid. "I've had a question to ask you just now..."

Youmu came up. "I agree with Reimu-san."

"Who... Are... You... Really?" Marisa and Sanae asked at the same time.

Sakuya did not look at the others, as she remained calm. "I believe Yukari has the answer for that question..."

Cue the Magic Codec ringing. It was Yukari.

"I've only learned of it just a while ago, but I guess it's the right time to tell you..." The Youkai of Boundaries said. She then tells the story she heard from Remilia to the Daughters Of Liberty...

...

Location: Break Room, STI HQ.

The Break Room of the Summers Technologies Industries Headquarters is lined with several civilian computers. Each of the computers are in use by off-duty employees to surf the internet.

Harrison was also there, but while he is playing a video game, there appears to be a stack of fresh printouts laid next to him.

"Playing Seihou Project again, did you. Harrison?" Asked a voice from behind. "Looks like Phantasmagoria of Scientific Theory to me..."

Harrison paused the game and slowly turned around to see his boss, who is smoking a Health Cigarette. "Smoking again, did you, boss?"

LT pulled the Health Cigarette from his mouth, and flicked some ash into a trash bin. As the trash bin was already full, the floor tile below that bin raised up, and emptied the contents into a trash chute that suddenly revealed itself. Everything goes back into position after it's done.

"At least a heck load better than what Solid Snake smoked..." LT contradicted, as he extinguish the Health Cigarette with his fingers, and drops it in the trash bin. "Even though he's just a fictional character."

"I got no comments on me playing mostly Seihou. Created by a guy called Zun 200 years ago. Heard from the net that his company, Team Shanghai Alice was going to make a reboot of the franchise..." Harrison then grabs the pile of printouts and hands them to his boss. "Anyways, here's the data you've requested."

LT grabbed the stack of printouts and looked at the one on the top of the stack. "All relevant to Gensokyo in human history, right?"

"Yes." Harrison replied. "Though I took the liberty of looking up things relevant to Hilda Von Schere as well."

"Which is right on the top of this stack..." LT continued the sentence. "Let's see... 'Hilda Von Schere was a legendary Vampire Hunter of Necopolitan folklore, but fans of her story often interpret her as being able to take down other species of supernatural creatures, like werewolves and dragons just as well'."

"Any comments?" Harrison asked his boss.

"Interesting." LT said. "Thanks for your hard work, Supreme Agent Harrison. You may now get back to your game..."

Afterwords

I guess I said too early. Even Doujins like "Hang In There, Kogasa-chan" is distracting me like heck. I need to get back the schedule writing I picked up from Kogasa-san...

Anyways, There's no questioning that the Daughters Of Liberty now knows about Hilda Von Schere. The mystery will be concluded at the end of the Necopolis Scenario, which is still a bit far away...

Yeah, Harrison really is playing Seihou Project there, and he did mention it being a franchise. So in this universe, Zun was known for Seihou Project since he never thought of Gensokyo, which is real in this world. Phantasmagoria of Scientific Theory is the Seihou equivalent of Phantasmagoria of Flower View.

Shout-out index:

"At least a heck load better than what Solid Snake smoked." - Yep, LT knew Snake was a chain smoker. No questioning that he also played Metal Gear Solid...

That is all. "Bis dahin..."