Chapter 11: Perfect And Elegant Maid
Time: 1505 Hour; 23rd of July, 2125.
Location: Base of Youkai Mountain; GPF HQ.
"As you can see, ladies: The Outsiders have technologies that are capable of stopping magic, and I saw them in action with my own eyes." Yukari briefed every Police Officer that are at the GPF HQ. "You ask where I saw these technologies? Well, I'll tell you that the Outsiders I saw using them are at the Scarlet Devil Mansion right now, and they are currently halfway through it."
Everyone that heard the speech gasped, including Chief Officer Kotohime.
"I also remember cases where the Gensokyo Police Force is better at handling things than the Scarlet Devil Army. Now, that's just a handful of past cases, but this one may become one of those handfuls." Yukari reminded the entire GPF squadron.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And care to give solid examples as to why a bunch of humans with guns and no great magic would EVER handle a case that involves FIGHTING better than a MAGICIAN, a TIME STOPPER and TWO VAMPIRES? No? Well too bad, one sin for that mishap.
WildMath55: I second that. Unless they have superpowers of their own, I don't think this will happen, either.
Sin Count: 131
L-O Sin count: 1 (unchanged)
Yukari glanced at Kotohime, expecting her to say something.
Kotohime understood Yukari's glare. "You heard Lady Yakumo. All forces, mobilize! We'll rendezvous at the SDA HQ!"
"Yes, ma'am!" The entire squadron responded. They then moved out in Police Cars and Helicopters, and all of them headed toward the SDM.
Yukari, who is still standing at the same spot, asked herself. "We're still using pulley-engines for our helicopters when the Outsiders have developed electronic ones with 6 propeller blades. Not to mention theirs have more than machine guns..." Yukari then leaves the scene in a gap.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Oh come on! Nitori's BACKPACK has a more advanced propeller than what this Gensokyo has!
Omega E The Reader: I am still wondering why Gensokyo needs a police force when the incident resolvers are enough? Though the Human Village can still have guards to protect it I guess from youkais.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: But cops and guards are two different things.
Lt Colonel Summers: Mundane cops for dealing with mundane humans committing mundane crimes? Just because muggles are one of the weakest in Gensokyo doesn't mean they are incapable of becoming dangerous by chance.
WildMath55: Actually, I think Omega E and OverLord have the right idea. The guards can double as police force because Gensokyo has no known type of government, so I have to veto you this time, Summers. This is the same principle I use when creating GUF. Oh, and I'll add another sin because Kotohime is a very eccentric person in PC-98 canon, and I don't know how in the world she even answers to Yukari, who is from Windows canon...
Sin Count: 133 (vetoed the sin shot-down and added another one)
L-O Sin Count: 1 (unchanged)
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Location: 3rd Floor Hallway, SDM
"Something's wrong..." LT noticed the complete silence in the hallway. "Nobody's attempting to ambush us..."
He was right, for now. There were nobody else in the room, just him and his group.
"Watch your back."
Everyone tried to keep an eye at all directions. There seems to be nothing different for now...
Except the Library Door they came through not too long ago is open.
"That door wasn't suppose to be open!" LT exclaimed. "I locked the door shut from our side!"
David held his weapon on his right hand. "Which means someone else has been hanging out in the Library and managed to elude our sense."
"And there's a good chance whoever unlocked that door is near us right now." LT added. "Harrison, have you detected any..."
LT stopped mid sentence. He, along with Harrison are looking at the dead body of a Guard who has just been stabbed on the back of his head. The silver knife glimmers from the lighting in the hallway, with no trace of blood on it.
Harrison scanned the knife that killed the poor man. "There's a small residue of Magika on it. Looks like we're not alone here..."
LT was clueless as to what could've done it. "Did you detect any spike in Radiation in this room."
Harrison remembered something. "There was a massive spike in Magika Radiation from behind us, but it lasted for just a split second."
Silence...
"Be careful, everyone." LT told everyone while pulling the Doomstick from his backpack. "The killing happened at the exact same moment of the spike, and the spike happened for a split second."
He checked the Doomstick to see if the current power core is holding. But what he found on it surprised him.
Stuck on the side of the Doomstick is a playing card with nothing written on it. It went through the gun for a few millimeters.
LT furiously plucked the card off the gun. "That confirms it. Massive spike in Magika Radiation for a split second can only mean one thing."
Takagi was puzzled, so are the other RAIDERS. "What will that be?"
Harrison made the answering. "Time Stopper. What my boss meant to say is that we are currently facing a Time Stopper... Oh, there goes another spike."
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: That Magika Radiation thing is starting to sound like a convenient BS magnet to prevent anything from surprising them. And how can they tell they're facing a magical Time Stoppers? Did the STICK Army have any magic? Or was it the Ancients? The way they're speaking right now makes it sound like magic users with such abilities are either dime a dozen in the Outside World or a common enemy they fight a lot even though the Sanctuaries are ridiculously secretive.
Omega E The Reader: Why couldn't Yukari throw a person who won't radiate this Magika radiation thing
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: If you ask me, everyone in Gensokyo radiates Magika Radiation in this. This story is rigged against Touhou so that the only way they can score a win is through some BS Ass-Pulls. And even then, they're only short-term victories at best.
Lt Colonel Summers: It was only the Ancients who had magic in the Outside World when LT and Co fought them in one instalment of the aforementioned unmade story... That's getting into exposition territory, so let's just sin this and call it a day.
WildMath55: Heck, the only HMF and STI incarnation that can be excused for this is probably the one I created... And that's because GUF is the one who helped them...
Sin Count: 134
L-O Sin Count: 1 (unchanged)
LT checked everyone for anything that weren't there before the spike. He found it in the form of his utility belt, which was cut off and have several Cards stuck on it.
"Come out! You Time-Stopping maniac!" David yelled furiously at whoever might be attacking. Then for a split second, multiple Knifes materialized just under him. One was them was stuck on his left foot. "GOD!" David collapsed in pain.
"David!" Alice Lou rushed to help the fallen Raider.
LT ordered Edge to help David. "Get him up against the walls. Let me and my men handle this Time Stopper."
Without any warning in advance, LT withdrew his Zantankuto and slashed in front of him, just in time to deflect an incoming Knife and several Cards.
"Let's see. Time Stopper in the data?" LT, still holding a defensive stance, brought up his watch once again, to check the information he hacked from the computer in the Library. "The Perfect and Elegant Maid... With a little secret..." He slashed at the air once again to deflect multiple Knifes that appeared out of nowhere.
"Yeargh!" LT slashed rapidly around him, hoping to get the attacker. With one final slash forward, he had finally hit what appears to be a huge ribbon, which promptly landed on the ground softly. "Got part of your Maid Uniform,..." LT looked up to find himself face to face with a Maid-in-blue with white hair, whose waist ribbon seems to be missing.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: How? Time was STOPPED! You can't hit someone while time is stopped. That's PHYSICALLY impossible.
Omega E The Reader: Unless you are another time stopper or time manipulator in which you can actually hurt the time stopper due to being able to move in stopped time.
Lt Colonel Summers: Yep, this one really is BS. Plus one more sin from me.
WildMath55: I second the fact that anyone that can move in temporal stasis is capable of temporal manipulation.
Sin Count: 135
L-O Sin Count: 1 (unchanged)
LT continued his taunting. "...Sakuya-San..."
The Maid conjured several Knifes and Cards from thin air and threw them all at LT.
...
"How did you know my name?!" Sakuya questioned furiously while throwing more Cards at the Outsider, who simply deflected all of them with his sword.
The Outsider righted his shades. "Here's how: a little something we call 'Hacking', packed with my Multi-Purpose Watch..." He replied while performing a taunting gesture.
"You science-minded..." Sakuya talked back with a puzzled tone as she threw 2 Cards at once, the cards travelling toward him in a similar fashion as boomerangs.
The Outsider rolled out of the way as the Cards hit each other, putting an end to their trajectory.
He directed his sword in front, putting his left hand on the blunt edge of the blade.
"Shall I reveal your dirty little..." The Outsider taunted further.
"NO!" Sakuya cut him off angrily as she throws a dozen Knives at him. The Outsider dodged and deflected a majority of them, and caught one knife with his left hand.
He lowered both his sword and the Knife. "While fighting you just now, I've been able to observe how you throw the Knives without letting them spin, and to tell you now..." He lifted the Knife up and threw it at Sakuya's headdress, cutting it in half. "...Watching and learning is small fry for me." He proceeds to pick up some Knives from the floor.
"Your Knife-throwing technique will be a nice addition to my skills." He spoke as he threw a dozen Knives at her. Sakuya barely dodged the Knives without sustaining gashes. "Although I'm much more accurate..." Within the blink of an eye, the very same Cards she threw was picked from the floor and now resides in the Outsider's hands.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Are you FUCKING serious?! Not only he hit her in stopped time, he is ALSO better at her with knives!
Omega E The Reader: Yeah I agree on this front he seems to be able to predict EXACTLY where Sakuya is at.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Absolute Gary Stu bullshit!
Lt Colonel Summers: This shouldn't have been possible, so sin it is.
WildMath55: Yeah, and this is such a bull-crap.
Sin Count: 136
L-O Sin Count: 1 (unchanged)
"Here's your dirty little secret!" He taunted loudly as he threw the whole stash of Cards at her chest.
Sakuya narrowly dodges a few Cards, but one of them had buried itself halfway into her chest. She plucked it out, to find the word "Pad-Chou" scribbled on it.
"Such a disgrace to your occupation..." He commented with a bit of humor. The other Outsider who was stabbed in the feet followed with a loud "Yeah! Big disgrace." A female Outsider also followed with a loud "To Meido!"
Within a flash, the attacking Outsider appeared right before her eyes and slashed right across her chest...
...
"Got'cha!"
LT slowly unsheathed his sword after dealing the "finishing blow" to the Knife-throwing Maid.
The Maid is in fact still alive The slash had only cut open the chest portion of her Uniform, revealing [DATA EXPUNGED] underneath it.
Edge was disgusted. "You've got to be kiddin'!"
The Maid, in humiliation, tried to cover her chest with her hands.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Now that is just plain offensive. Everyone collectively calling Sakuya disgusting just because she's flat.
Omega E The Reader: Yeah why does LT have anything wrong with flat women anyways? He's being VERY offensive.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Talk about sexist.
Omega E The Reader: It makes LT look like a sexist asshole.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I say this deserves more than one sin.
Lt Colonel Summers: That wasn't even my intention. Unfortunate Implications abound here, so plus 10 extra sins for my not noticing the can of worms that got opened here. And minus one from the L-O Sin Counter because Lunatic and Omega pointed it out.
WildMath55: Make that 4 collective sin points from Omega E and OverLord, and I'll add another 10 sin points because this is just plain sexual harassment. And since we reached a total of 20+ sin points, you know what that means?
Yasei Sugaku: Sakuya, let's go.
H-Sakuya Izayoi: Got it.
Both: Illusion World "The World"!
WildMath55: The reason why Yasei-kun can use The World spell card is because he already have a type of temporal manipulation. Seriously, I might as well add Meta Break Count now.
Sin Count: 160
L-O Sin Count: 0
Meta Break Count: 2 (previous one is in Chapter 7)
LT suddenly appeared behind her and held her gunpoint. "Any more ideas?" He asked with a threatening tone.
The Maid shook her head.
"Good." LT confirms the Maid's reply. He then turns toward David and Co, "David, you and the RAIDERS stay here for now. Harrison, you and my men come with me." He turns back toward the Maid. "Now, take me to your leader..."
"...And don't even think of anything funny, Sakuya-San."
...
"May I ask where did you pick up 'Meido' from?" Takagi asked Alice Lou.
"I studied Law in Asahi long before the war with the STICK Army first started. Been to a couple of cosplay conventions." Alice Lou replied.
"Ah, the good ol' days of perfect peace. Had a good time before the world have to invest in Military Affairs for the war efforts. Still investing right now..." David commented on the past days.
"Right..." Edge added. "Those skinny big-heads are gone, so why is the HMF still investing in Military Affairs?"
"Because LT told the nation leaders to keep on gearing up in case they do come back. It's a wonder he's ranked the same as the Nation Leaders right now, by the way."
"Who knows when he ranks up once more and owns the whole world. That way, even the Nation Leaders will call him 'sir'"
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd give it a few years, give or take. I wouldn't put it past him.
Omega E The Reader: This is dumb. I don't like how LT is being shilled by other Gary Stus who are just as capable of pulling out an Ass Pull when the situations call for it.
WildMath55: Sadly, this is indeed possible.
Sin Count: 161
L-O Sin Count: 0 (unchanged)
Meta Break Count: 2 (unchanged)
Lt Colonel Summers: Funny enough, that joke about world leaders calling LT "sir" was originally going to get a payoff in Mission Five. But as Mission Five ended up not happening, it got left in Development Hell instead.
