Chapter 8: Scarlet March
Time: 1352 Hour; 23rd of July, 2125 (Outside World time)
Location: Scarlet Devil Mansion, Scarlet Devil's Office.
"Milady, the Outsiders are Outside the main gate right now..." said the SDM's Perfect and Elegant Maid: Sakuya Izayoi.
"China will probably get her ass handed to them, so I say we call back all soldiers who are on duty..." Replied the Scarlet Devil.
"But those Outsiders have managed to defeat Magic with Science..." Sakuya was worried
"All of them, back here. Besides, didn't the tanks operate on science?"
Hearing that, the white-haired maid feels relived. "I see. So what should I do right now?"
"Old gap-hag wants us to kill them, that's what we're doing if they get past the soldiers. Ufufu..." The Scarlet Devil smirked. "Ourselves: Patchy, you, me, and of course, my sister Flandre..."
"Yes, Lady Remila. Permission to be dismissed?" Sakuya asked.
"Go ahead. Bring along some snacks if you can." Remilla Scarlet replied. Sakuya left the room, and came back with a plate of cakes and cup of tea, all in one second. "Thank you, my Perfect Maid. Your time-stopping will be useful against them..."
Omega E The Reader: At least ALL of the SDM will be used because in some fanfics only just Sakuya & Remi are used. Minus one sin.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I can name a few, but we're not here for that.
WildMath55: Agreed. Sengoku Gensokyo also runs on same principle.
Sin Count: 100
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Location: Scarlet Devil Mansion, Outside the Front Gate.
"Takagi Kobayashi, do your job." LT commanded.
Takagi took aim with his huge sniper rifle. "To shoot the gatekeeper in green, I presume?"
"That is correct." LT replied.
From one corner of the mansion walls, the group stood their ground as Takagi took aim and prepared to fire. With the scope on his rifle zoomed in so much that the gatekeeper's cheek appeared to be right before his eyes. He then fired a shot...
...Which the gatekeeper in question dodged by bending downward. The shot went past her and drove right through the wall on the side, creating a bullet-sized hole.
Said gatekeeper turned and looked at Takagi and the others.
Everybody except LT was shocked at the reaction. Even though everyone was silent, LT could tell that they are all thinking of the sentence: "Did she just dodge a supersonic bullet?!"
The gatekeeper spoke, "Get out if you want to live." Arms raised in front, she prepares to fight.
Omega E The Reader: Minus one sin because Meiling at least did something useful in this fic.
Lt Colonel Summers: Glad I avoided the "Useless Meiling because she is Chinese" meme. It was an overdone cliche, on top of having become a politically incorrect stereotype nowadays...
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: It'll be added back with interest in the next scene, though…
WildMath55: And that's one thing that I will gladly roast.
Sin Count: 99
David slowly walked toward the gatekeeper, putting his weapon away. "Fistfights, eh? I wanted to punch someone for a month. Jack, let me handle this."
"Your choice." LT replied to David as he backed off, he ordered the Guards and Turks to back off as well.
The gatekeeper made a taunting hand gesture. "Just you and me, pretty boy."
David also raised his fists. But he did not release a single punch, even though he is in range. Neither did the gatekeeper. "First I would like to know your name."
The gatekeeper sighed. "Fine. Name's Hong Meiling."
David had put down his fist. "Nice beret and red hair, Meiling." He commented, and proceeds to put his hand on Meiling's side.
"Haven't you been taught in training to be careful. The looks on Meiling's face is still puzzled.
"I don't think so..." David commented again. "Super... Registanian..." Then...
"BACKBREAKER!" With a massive swing of his arms, he tossed the red-haired gatekeeper into the skies with all his strength. A scream from Meiling could be heard before she went out of range. As she disappeared into the skies, a twinkle appeared at her last position for a second.
Everyone watched in awe, even LT and his men. "Where did you do learn to do that, man?" LT exclaimed. "Never saw that move before!"
"Best move I have in my arsenal." David replied. "Been dying to cast it off on someone. Learned it since the first week with the army."
Omega E The Reader: Now that was dumb. Meiling can dodge a super Sonic bullet BUT CAN'T SEE WHAT DAVID IS GOING TO DO?! What the f***! Seriously, Meiling SHOULD be stronger than Rumia & Cirno but gets instantly curb stomped! Plus she should be able to make LT and his friends struggle more but loses here!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: That's worth at least two sins, if not more.
Omega E The Reader: I would say 3.
Lt Colonel Summers: 3 more from me for being a half-assed writing, at that.
WildMath55: Well, I'll add my own count because both Meilings in my head canon (Hong and Lie) will be very pissed off with how this ends. And as promised, another sin from me. Make that 3 more.
Sin Count: 110
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I did say it would be added back with interest, didn't I?
WildMath55: And I did say that I'll gladly roast this as well.
"Hate to break this off, but about the ZPM..." LT's right hand man cut off both of them.
David and LT both tried to push the gate open together, but it won't budge.
"Time to bring out the big guns, I guess." LT spoke. He then gestured for the others to stand back. "Miss Shanghai, may I recommend you to hide inside on top of that tree until we came out?"
The blue-dressed blond doll flew toward the nearest tree she could find. "I guess I should..." And hid herself among the canopy.
"Fire in the hole." LT gestured the others to move back as he deployed the Tau Cannon and aimed at the gate. Even beyond the intertwining meshes on that gate, he could still see the soldiers of the SDA moving into position behind the gate, along with their tanks. He can't make out the enemy population, though.
As he pulled the trigger, a mid-sized green orb began to materialize in front of the Cannon's business end. As the trigger is released, the orb went toward the gate at top speed, and created a big explosion and lots of dust when it hits the gate.
"Now, everyone! BATTLESTATIONS!" He yelled at his men and the RAIDERS as enemy Fairy Soldiers bean firing their bayonet rifles at him. The tanks are taking aim and firing as well...
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Location: 500 feet above the SDM Front Gate.
"Okay, this is as close to the Mansion as I can get to without being fired upon on sight, ze." Marisa told Alice Margatroid as they both hovered above the now guns-blazing front yard. "Although Remy's fem-goons seems to be preoccupied with the Outsiders right now."
"You said Reimu was knocked out nearby. Where is she?" Alice Margatroid pondered of the red-white Miko's disappearance.
"Probably carried off by Old Gap Hag to Moon Princess's mansion, ze." Marisa replied as she narrowly dodged a stray cannon shot from a SDA tank.
"Also, you spoke of this Shanghai lookalike carried by one of the Outsiders. Where's..." Alice Margatroid was about to ask when she saw the doll in question hiding within the canopy of a tall tree.
"Sure looked a lot like her, ze?" Marisa commented.
"I can't believe this. All these time I've been looking forward to making an autonomous doll, and there she is right there..." Alice Margatroid attempted to close in, but another stray cannon shot went past her and Marisa, and struck the trees that are deeper into the forest, inflaming some of them.
"That's it, ze. Not risking my life for a doll." Marisa attempted to scam. "We can come back later when it's safe."
Omega E The Reader: Marisa and Alice would have just joined the battle immediately.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: They're not cowards, after all.
Lt Colonel Summers: Alice isn't a coward, but she isn't bloodthirsty either. While you are entirely correct about Marisa, I'm still going to shoot this sin down because of your insistence that everyone in Gensokyo are bloodthirsty, when some characters canonically aren't.
WildMath55: Furthermore, it's also canon that Alice hold back in nearly every single duels even if it means losing. She's the strategist archetype, after all. I'm with Summers here.
Sin Count: 110 (sin shot down)
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Location: SDM Front yard
"HIYA!"
A Fairy Soldier gets cut in half horizontally, her severed corpse falls to the sides.
"I knew the samurai skills I picked up at Asahi will be useful someday..." LT told himself as he resets his shades.
More Fairy Soldiers appeared and fired their rifles at LT. LT dodged some and blocked others. "If more of them comes, samurai skills won't help me win. I better use the Multi-Purpose Watch."
A tank fires it's cannon at LT. He had managed to roll out of the impact zone in the last minute, coughing as he rights himself.
"David, you and your colleagues should do something about those tanks!" LT ordered.
"Roger!" David replied as he beheads one Fairy Soldier and throws the bladed end of the rifle toward another's head. It went halfway through, and the unlucky Fairy fell dead. David then gestures the other RAIDERS to attack the tanks.
David grabs the gun barrel of one tank, then with his super strength, uses it as a hammer to smash another. The two tanks exploded on impact.
Edge narrowly dodges a shot from a tank, and then approaches it while running. When the tank fired once again, he jumped at the last minute, and stayed in the air by using the projectile as a stepping platform. With another leap, he brings down his oversized sword on the tank, cutting only it's turret in half.
Alice Lou had fired several arrows, explosive arrows, into the gun barrel of multiple tank. With the flick of a hand, the shot tanks blew up. some catching fire from the resulting explosions.
Takagi had simply fired a few shots at each tank and each of the shot tanks went completely still. The drivers inside died from headshots.
From not too far away, Right hand man could see several transport trucks approaching their location. Each of those trucks have two visible drivers.
"Incoming reinforcements! Shoot the drivers!" Right hand man yelled at the Guards and Turks to fire on the trucks.
As both sides exchange shots, several of the trucks flipped over due to their drivers shot dead. Some of those trucks blew up as they crashed into one another, others simply flipped and spilled some boxes, which also spilled their contents on flipping over.
LT and his right hand man approached the spilled cargo as they sliced and shot many enemies on their path. The spilled cargo appears to be red sticks with a string at one end.
Omega E The Reader: So Lunatic what do you think of this fight scene with the…uggghhh Scarlet Devil Army and LT & his band of friends?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Dumb.
Lt Colonel Summers: Yeah, dumb. What was I thinking...?
WildMath55: Dumb and honestly rigged. I already made GUF and UNM comparable with each other to ensure this wouldn't happen. GUF with Sengoku Gensokyo rules and UNM with Command and Conquer technologies sounds like a better scenario.
Sin Count: 111
"Dynamite?" LT wondered. "Thought we replaced those, and claymores with Electric Explosives..."
"Sir, they could be useful..." Right hand man suggested. "Enemies just keep on coming, we could use the Dynamites to get into the mansion."
LT and his right hand man looked at each other. "Of course we can't blow them all up, not enough boom. Blowing the door will just allow them to follow. So..."
...
"So, any words on the Outsiders?"
"Right outside my mansion."
"You looked like you are worried of losing the war. But they are outnumbered by thousands, so just relax."
"You tell me to relax, while the Outsiders are tearing through my army like flowing water?!"
"What?!"
"So far, all the Outsiders have yet to be wounded by my soldiers. In fact, I'm losing soldiers way faster than when I had to recruit them!"
"Ah well, the Fairy Soldiers are expendables. Let them into your mansion, but make it looked like they did it themselves."
"..."
"Your answer?"
"Okay. I'll see what I can do to stop losing soldiers."
"Good..."
"But tell me: why must you keep these tubes away from them? If you've just return it to them, this mess wouldn't have to start."
"That is none of your concern. Get back to stopping them."
...
"Your WL-2! Pass them to me!" LT gestured to his right hand man to pass his submachine gun over, as he splice open another Fairy Soldier with his sword.
With the Dynamites piled up together, LT aimed at the pile and gestured everyone - Guards, Turks and the RAIDERS - to follow him to the SDM main door.
The amount of enemy soldiers has been reduced drastically, and only a handful of tanks are left, but there's still a lot of enemies approaching from all sides.
All sides except the mansion door...
Everyone gathered in front of the main door. Fairy Soldiers and tanks are still rushing up on them.
"This better work..." LT told himself as he fired several bullets at the pile of Dynamite, as a tank is driving next to it toward them.
As the bullets hit home, the pile of Dynamite exploded in a huge fireball, with the nearby tanks catching fire from it and blowing up as well. A lot of smoke was thrown into the air, thick enough to obscure their view of the enemies, but the SDA soldiers can't see them either. "Now's the chance!" LT shouted at the group to push open the door and quickly get inside.
Before LT's right hand man could get inside, he saw another airborne fairy coming toward him. This one also wears an officer badge, and has green hair.
"You're not getting away!" the Fairy Officer shouted.
LT's right hand man quickly turned around and ran into the mansion. Before closing the doors, he threw something at the big Fairy.
"Here, catch!" Right hand man jokingly yelled as he threw the object and retreated into the mansion. The green-haired Fairy Officer caught it in her hands, to find that it is a bundle of lit Dynamite.
BOOM!
LT and his right hand man are holding back the door from the inside as the bundle of Dynamite exploded. The shockwave nudged the door slightly and let some dust in.
"Now that's thinking outside the box." LT commented. "You haven't told me your name yet. Can't always call you Right Hand Man."
Right Hand Man replied, "It's Harrison, actually."
WildMath55: I called it. This is to compensate the sudden sin count increase in Chapter 2 (27 to 38).
Sin Count: 111 (unchanged)
Alice Lou barged in, "One year and you don't know his name?" She spoke sarcastically.
David also barged in, with some worry on his face. "Hate to interrupt, but... You guys ever heard of a standoff?"
It doesn't take a smart person to know the meaning of "Standoff" here, in this case...
...Large groups of Fairy Soldiers cocked their rifles and aimed at the group. Along with them, several Fairies in black dresses and white aprons raised their katanas in front of them.
Omega E The Reader: Now Katanas? It's better fairies to just shoot their enemies from the distance.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And the SDM has a WESTERN motif! Why do they use katanas?!
Lt Colonel Summers: This one looks stupid too. Again, what was I thinking?
WildMath55: Sabers honestly will be better. And if you ask me, Touhouvania actually did a pretty good job with the medieval aesthetics. Plus one sin, then.
Sin Count: 112
