Chapter 9: The Great Unmoving Library's Assistant

Time: 1414 Hour; 23rd of July, 2125

Location: SDM main court.

"Keep your eyes on them. Don't move, don't look away. Don't even blink. Blink, and you're dead." LT whispered to everyone.

There was silence...

The Fairy Soldiers slowly marched closer, still pointing their guns at the group, still have their katana raised.

Harrison, at a snail's pace, reached for his earpiece, and pressed a tiny button on it. It was the same design as LT's earpiece.

"Do you read me, sir?" Harrison's thoughts transmitted to LT's earpiece.

"Crystal clear." LT replied with his thoughts, which is also transmitted to Harrison's earpiece.

"Remember, the enemies doesn't know we are communicating this way, unless they have a mind reader." Harrison messaged.

"I know your plan. We'll stay very still and let them come closer for now." LT messaged back. By this time, the Fairy Soldiers are already close enough to poke either one of the group with their bayonets.

"Uh, guys, about the standoff we're in right now..." David silently reminded LT and Harrison of the situation.

LT made no reply, but the looks on his face suggest he has a plan. Only well trained military personnel could decipher his looks.

David took a glance at LT. He could see that LT raised his hands in a way so that his right hand is touching the grip of the Doomstick he strapped to his back.

The Fairy Soldiers are now so close that their bayonets are touching the group member's necks. The Soldiers are clearly preparing to fire a shot at their throat, point-blank.

As LT grabbed the grip of the Doomstick, he pulled it's trigger to arm the weapon - which activates it's laser sight - and then pull it out and point it forward just as it's about to fire.

The Fairy Soldiers directly in front of LT were caught by the resulting laser beam, and were disintegrated on the spot. "NOW!" LT yelled at the group as the enemies are distracted.

The Guards unloaded their guns on the Fairy Soldiers closest to them. The Turks, with a quick unsheathing of their Zantetsu-Maru, slashed at the Fairy Soldiers, cutting their rifles in half, and beheading some. The RAIDERS used their own weapons to smack the rifles off their adversaries' hands.

...

Location: Voile Library; Scarlet Devil Mansion.

"Gap Hag wants the Outsiders dead, so make sure they do." Remilla spoke to Patchouli via the computers.

Patchouli replied, "Yes, Remi."

"One more thing, Patchy..." Remilla added. "That guy in the cap is very smart and tough. He's skilled enough to deal with Magic - especially Reimu's Fantasy Heaven spellcard, much expect our science-based weapons to be less effective. So be careful." Remilla reminded before shutting off her side of the communication. Patchouli's screen now displays "Transmission Terminated" in red letters.

Patchouli proceeds to shut off her side of the communication. The screen now displays the situation at the main court. The SDA troops are being decimated, most of them beheaded or spliced open, some looked like they exploded after being shot by the "guy in the cap" with his handgun.

The "guy in the cap" grabbed a rifle from the floor, detached the bayonet from it, and threw the blade at the camera. The screen immediately blacked out and displayed "Error" in flashing red text.

"Koakuma..." Patchouli told her red-haired assistant. "... Go help the Soldiers and Maids, make sure the Outsiders are at least weakened before they arrive at my library.

"Yes..." Koakuma replied before heading toward the main court.

Omega E The Reader: The SDM only has fairy maids at the time. So why would they need soldiers anyways?

Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Why can't the maids fill the role of soldiers, anyway?

Lt Colonel Summers: I can't believe I sacrificed this logical point for the sake of Rule of Cool...

WildMath55: I don't think hobgoblins will be eligible for that position, either... And I agree with OverLord. Historia SDM does have Fairy Maid Divisions (8 in total) for both housekeeping (you know why) and home defense. Plus one.

Sin Count: 113

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"SLICE!"

A Fairy Maid gets cut in half diagonally, and as her corpse fall onto the ground, blood began flowing out.

"Carnage, carnage, carnage..." LT muttered. "Why can't I ever have a day of peace..."

"Well that seems to be all of them." Harrison spoke.

A Fairy Soldier that somehow survived the carnage slowly and silently climbed up, pulls out a bundle of Dynamite, or rather, TNT, as said explosive has a digital timer attached, and to it wires in the placed of burnable fuse. She was preparing to throw it when...

Harrison grabbed a Fairy Maid's katana off the floor and stab it through the TNT, and the wielder's head. The Fairy Soldier fell dead on the ground The bomb still skewered with a katana, starts counting down for a single second before deactivating by itself.

Harrison stepped back to make sure the TNT doesn't blow him up. It didn't do anything, other than translucent liquid dripping out of the skewered sections.

"Nice move." LT commented. "Though that Trinitrotoluene is still usable as you only skewered 2 tubes." He was right: only two tubes were skewered, one was untouched by the blade.

Then as if out of nowhere, David barged in. "Isn't Trinitrotoluene safer than Di-Lithium Phosphorous-A?"

LT and Harrison both replied with the same words. "The latter is the safe one, although it's B variant is more dangerous than the former. Which is why Boomer bullets used the latter." LT then turns toward the others, "Alright, people. Let's proceed down this bloodied corridor and see if we can find the Z..."

Before LT could finish his sentence, one of his Turks suddenly collapsed. There was a bullet through his left eye.

Followed by the clicking of a gun.

Everybody turned toward the clicking. "How come we didn't even know it?!" Alice Lou lampshaded.

"Well, looks like we have ourselves a - in Asahian term - Youkai?" LT asked.

"Indeed..." Takagi replied…

Omega E The Reader: Why the hell would fairies want to use TNT anyways?

Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: That sounds stupid.

Lt Colonel Summers: No comment...

WildMath55: This reminds me of Alice Margatroid's Kamikaze Dolls...

Sin Count: 114

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Location: Voile Library; SDM.

"Got one!" Koakuma told Patchouli via her headset.

"Don't be so confident." Patchouli reminded. "That guy slashes his sword real fast. So don't even let him get close to you."

Displayed on the screen of Patchouli's computer is the same room from a different angle. It was quite far from Koakuma's position, so any moves made by her or the Outsiders will be difficult to see.

"You are also outnumbered. Don't try and be a hero." Patchouli reminded again.

Koakuma had turned around - gun still aimed at the Outsiders - and spoke to Patchouli silently. "What do you expect me to do, mistress? Use a spellcard?"

By the time Koakuma turned back to face the Outsiders, one of them went missing from sight. Specifically, the "guy with the cap".

"Uh-oh." Koakuma's face went pale, or at least it sounded like hat. "That guy's gone."

"You should've kept your eye on them!" Patchouli messaged furiously. "Now look for him before..."

Before Patchouli could finish that sentence, the missing guy suddenly appeared from behind Koakuma...

...And skewered her with a very long katana.

Before everything went silent, the guy in the cap promptly yanked Koakuma's headset off and taunted through the microphone, both at the same time.

"Nice try, bitch. Both of you." The guy taunted before throwing the headset on the ground and stepping on it. He removes his sword and sheathed it. Koakuma's lifeless body fell on the ground with a thud.

"Looks like I'll have to..." Patchouli told herself while blinking.

But that moment of unobservant was enough for the guy to approach the camera, while not face-to-face with it, close enough for a speech to be heard. The guy flipped a middle finger - "Fuck you!" - before he pulls out Koakuma's revolver pistol and shoots the camera.

"...Do it myself." Patchouli continued. "It'll be one heck of a fight, I suppose..."

Omega E The Reader: So what are your thoughts on this scene Lunatic?

Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: This story should've been rated M with all the F words LT has been using up until now. Also, he's a Jackass Gary Stu.

Omega E The Reader: I also think it should be mature due to all the violence that keeps happening.

Lt Colonel Summers: I guess I overestimated the scope of the T rating. Plus one sin for that.

WildMath55: Jackass Gary Stu... One sin from you, OverLord, and I agree wholeheartedly. One sin from me for Koakuma's stupidity, and two more from me because of previous scenes that is clearly written for STI to show-off. I won't mind if both STI and SDA actually have same amount of show-offs to balance the story. Oh, and one sin from Omega E for bringing this up. There's a reason why most of my recent stories are rated M.

Sin Count: 120