Chapter 4: See No Science, Hear No Magic
Time: 1014 Hour; 23rd of July, 2125 (Outside World Time)
Location: Landing Site.
It's been a while since Yukari started rummaging through the Outsider's unloaded cargo, and still did not find what she was looking for.
"Why is it that you won't find what you're looking for when the people guarding it is away?" Yukari lampshaded. She then proceeds with the rummaging.
Omega E the Reader: It's better for a lampshade to be noticeable but not blatant in a fanfic.
Sin Count: 40
Then there was a loud sound of something cutting through flesh from a distance. Yukari looked at the source of the sound, and even from that distance, saw something she would've never expected from Outsiders.
...
Everybody was silent...
LT, using his Zantankuto Sword, stabbed the sphere of darkness right through it's core (if it even has one), and as he prepares to withdraw the blade, he saw blood flowing down toward the grip. "This is a creature..." He analyzed.
He proceeds to stab the sword on the ground so as to prevent the sphere from escaping without amputation. As the sphere of darkness fades, a small humanoid figure could be seen inside it.
"So this is the killer. Looked so young..." David commented.
"You sure she's..." Alice Lou seems puzzled.
The Guards and Turks are all silent...
Then LT spoke in a strict tone. "Looks can be deceiving..."
Right hand man, who simply sat out of the action under a tree, suddenly barged in. "Whoever she is, she doesn't look human in anyway. And beside that, I'm picking up some Magika Radiation from her. The kind of radiation only made by Magic." He continued with the analysis, using a pair of Scouter's Goggles.
"So what is this cad going to do? Suddenly comes back to life and continue with the attack?" Edge spoke in a humorous tone, but he had rather not said it when it became true, right at the end of the sentence.
The black-dressed blond little girl, still have LT's Zantankuto stabbed through her chest, suddenly responded. "That is so~" she replied with a cheerful tone.
"WHOA!" All the Guards and Turks aimed their guns at her. The RAIDERS raised their weapons as well.
LT is the only ne not surprised. But he did comment about this strange occurrence. "Even the Ancients and their Summons didn't have such extreme healing factor." He then turned toward a Turk. "Give me a Boomer." Said Turk passed his handgun to LT.
Without glancing back, LT started shooting around the girl's stab wound. After the handgun seemingly runs out of bullets, he stopped pulling the trigger, and pulled out the sword. Leaving the girl free to go.
"If the sword doesn't kill you, then this one will." LT taunted.
The little girl, although bleeding, appears to be not annoyed by the gunshots this time. "Is that so~?" She replied with the same words. Not noticing that LT and the Turk has taken steps back.
"It is so..." LT replied back, while pointing the gun upwards. From the little girl's point of view, a small button is visible on the side of the handgun. As LT presses the button...
The bullets from that handgun, still stuck inside her, detonates and blows up. As the fireball clears up, specks of glowing wisp-like objects flies out and off toward the sky, with no sign of the girl.
"Whoa. Boomers may not be armor piercing, but they sure pack a lot of explosives for each bullet. And where have we seen those wisp-like things before?" Takagi added.
Omega E the Reader: Well they managed to defeat Rumia. With whatever the heck that gun does I think a boomer? Well at least it's not a stupid ass pull like what will happen next time. Minus one sin.
Sin Count: 39
Right hand man suddenly spoke in a tone of warning. "Sir, while we are fighting that little girl, something else emitting lots of Magika Radiation popped up at the GA-Raider. The Radiation Scanners in the Scouter's Goggles are going berserk."
LT was suddenly horrified. "For the first time someone actually managed to fool me! Get back to the VTOL, NOW!" He barked at the group, and they all ran off toward the GA-Raider with him in lead.
Omega E the Reader: This is the one of the few times Yukari actually outsmarted LT. Minus one sin.
LT Colonel Summers: Wow. Never would the real CinemaSins remove so many sins in a row. Must be the accidentally good writing...
Sin Count: 38
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800 feet above the battle site...
"He killed Rumia?! I can't believe he killed that daughter of a bastard in so few moves!" Reimu raged upon seeing the result of the battle.
"And to boot it off, Rumia didn't even fire off a single shot, ze!" Marisa also raged.
Omega E the Reader: They are right and that is kinda BS as Rumia should have fired danmaku and bullets during the fight, which would have made her a lot more difficult to deal with.
Lt Colonel Summers: Not sure why I made Rumia not use danmaku, though. So I can't even imagine this could be defended or handwaved.
Sin Count: 39
As they berserk, Rumia's wisp floated past them and higher toward the sky.
"Say, what should we do about Rumia's... You know, ze." Marisa spoke, pointing at the wisp.
"She'll resurrect after awhile, so leave that aside." Reimu replied. Then looking at the group of Outsiders running toward the dormant aircraft... "Uh oh..."
Omega E the Reader; Now then what are my thoughts on Youkais being able to come back to life like Fairies? Well it kinda robs the unique factor of Fairies though in canon this is squashed as youkais do indeed die as Reimu kills the Fortune Teller and he dies without coming back brand new. So the youkais coming back shtick is dispelled by this though Imperfect Metamorphosis does indeed use the youkais being able to resurrect as a thing too.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: If you ask me, that's just an excuse to have LT and his gang curbstomp as many youkais to death as possible without having to keep a large list of permanently dead youkais.
Lt Colonel Summers: TBH, I didn't know Youkai couldn't resurrect like that back when I wrote this.
Sin Count: 40
"What's wrong, ze?" Marisa asked.
"The Outsiders are running back to their campsite, and Yukari is still there! If they catch her snooping around..."
"Yikes..."
...
Yukari has finally found what caused the Outsider's arrival in Gensokyo. It was a heavily secure box, which she opened via her manipulation of boundary. Inside the box was some sort of machine, with 4 mid-sized cylinder tubes powering it.
"You might as well live in Gensokyo for the rest of your life, hehehe." Yukari grinned, as she proceeds to carefully pull out each of the tubes.
She stopped when she hears lots of footsteps outside.
"Damm, never knew they could kill Rumia so quickly. Not only that, they came back in a hurry as though they knew I was here..." Yukari panicked, then quickly hides in a gap and closes it. Leaving 3 of the tubes crudely placed on the floor.
Omega E the Reader: Well besides the outsmarting what Yukari did here is dumb as she should have just sent the outsiders back to the Outside World. Or feed them to the man eating youkais.
Lt Colonel Summers: Yukari was actually making a really elaborate plan involving tons of resources just to epic troll LT and co just because she can. It would be in-character for Yukari to do elaborate planning, even for problems that have really mundane solutions that ordinary people could come up with. So for this sin, I'd have to disagree.
Sin Count: 40 (none added for this scene)
Lt Colonel Summers: This may or may not be the only sin I'd shoot down. We'd cross that bridge when the time comes.
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"Someone was here, and I want to know who!" LT was furious, for it is the first time anyone in his family has been fooled.
"There's traces of Magika Radiation, all right." Right hand man analyzed the tampered tubes using his Scouter's Goggles. "Looks like we got a teleporter here. As there are no trails of Magika that leads toward or away from the box."
"Stand guard. Use your melee weapons. Keep an eye out for anything that wasn't here before." LT ordered the Turks. "And you guys keep an eye on the ZPMs, make sure nothing, and I mean nothing touches them." He then ordered the RAIDERS.
Everybody was silent. They are all preparing for another fight, following the one from earlier.
Right hand man analyzed the tampered box of tubes that was lying on the ground. "Magika Radiation sure is a weird thing, huh? Only emitted by Magic, which can't detect it." He talked to himself. Then he remembered something. "Detect..."
LT came up to Right hand man. "See if you can use your Scouter's Goggles to pick up any life signs that pops out of nowhere."
"Sir, there's something impor..." Right hand man spoke, but was cut off.
"Maybe some other time, can you?" LT told his right hand man.
"Sir, it is about the life signs you just mentioned." Right hand man replied. By then, the Radiation Scanner on his Goggles is going berserk again.
LT was puzzled, for it is rare occurrence that a subordinate would realize something before him. "What about it?" The Scanner on his Goggles is berserking too.
"I just thought of the fight back there. When I accidentally activated the Bio-Sign Scanner, that girl, despite being quite alive..."
"...has no Bio-Signs." Right hand man spoke. While at this time, both he and his superior is still unaware of a pair of hands that extended from thin air and is reaching for their legs.
LT looks horrified once again. "Use your e..." He yelled at everybody, but was cut off when something tugged his left leg and tripped him. The same thing seems to have happened to his right hand man. As a reflex, the Guards and Turks as well as the RAIDERS responded and headed for the rear compartment of the GA-Raider where the shout originated. They saw both of their superiors tripped on the ground, LT was pointing his Boomer at his feet. Then a bright flash erupted from just above the ZPMs, blinding everyone.
...
Yukari, having just used a bomb to blind the Outsiders, emerged from a gap and slowly walked toward what she was going to steal earlier. "I'll be talking this, thank you." Yukari smirked and taunted at the same time.
But instead of staying down and groaning, the "guy in the cap" promptly pulls out a handgun and starts shooting at where Yukari was. Most of them missed as Yukari quickly grabbed the box and gapped away, but one of the bullets hit her right ankle as she is closing the gap.
Omega E the Reader: At least LT and his friends are shown to be still weak and done in by something as simple as a flashbang. Minus one sin.
Sin Count: 39
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"Goddammit, goddammit, GODDAMMIT!" LT cursed with all his breath. "Getting ambushed by Magic-Users and they took the ZPMs without leaving a trace!"
Right hand man carefully spoke so as to not further anger his already angry superior, "There's this trace of blood I scraped off the floorings. After careful analysis, I find that it is not of anything we have ever encounter in our past missions. It's chock full of Magika, though."
"If I wasn't blinded, I would've nailed that daughter-of-a-bastard, whoever she is, with the Boomer. It's still not easy to pinpoint your enemy's position with their voice, especially when they decided to shut their mouth and scram." LT added furiously. "Start a search party, go as far as you can to look for the ZPMs and our petty little thief."
Right hand man responded. "Yes sir, I'll get it done ri... huh?" He stopped mid sentence, and tapped his Scouter's Goggles with his index finger. "Some words are appearing on the display."
"Words?" LT asked. As he checks his Goggles, there were indeed words being typed on the HUD.
I have taken your precious cargo and you won't be able to leave this realm without it. Don't expect me to return it to you, as I intend you to spend the rest of your lives here. Either you die of old age or gets eaten by Youkai. Take your pick 3... Y. Yakumo
LT pulled off his Scouter's Goggles and dropped it on the ground. His right hand man did the same. "Shit. This Y. Yakumo intend us to die out here. I'll tell her that I'll launch a Biome Buster at her just to take the ZPMs back!"
Omega E the Reader: Yukari seemed to do all this for the lulz. The actual Yukari would have sent them back to the Outside World or just kill then instead of sending them on a wild goose chase.
Lt Colonel Summers: Precisely, Yukari is doing all this for the lulz. But it is canon that she'd have done it. So once again, I'd have to disagree.
Sin Count: 39 (sin shot down)
Lt Colonel Summers: Heh, ended this chapter with the same amount of sins it started with...
