Edit 1: Sorry for a very long lack of updates, I've had stuff going on in real life and didn't find the time to add fanfiction writing to my schedule, but here it is, the full chapter 11!
It is I! This story is not dead!. I'm sorry for not posting actual chapters, I've found it difficult coming up with new material for this fanfiction. But here it is, a new, actual chapter.
Do you ever check in on a favorite fanfiction only for the latest chapter describing how the story is going on a hiatus? *Looks at youtoberz Re:Forgotten story*
Cuz man, that shit frickin' hurts.
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2 days after the waterpark date chapter, Evan's house, 10:23PM
Soldering iron, a 3S 11.1v LiPo battery, cables, a 1500 Rival round hopper, and a Nerf Rival Prometheus. What could Evan be doing with these materials? The answer is simple: Modding the blaster so that it shoots harder, faster, and has more ammo capacity than its standard 200.
Sad that he'll probably never get to use it outside the house, because it'll be a pain in the ass trying to pick up all 1500 rounds. So, it shall be only fired in the house, where the balls will be there even if you don't find them on the first try, because sooner or later, they'll pop up.
Anyways, Evan is done modding the Prometheus, and tests it out by firing it at the bed.
Meanwhile, Suna is making herself a peanut butter and strawberry jelly sandwich, and her ears picked up what sounded like a really loud car engine upstairs. She remembered the Prometheus box she saw Evan holding a few days ago, but damn, is it really that loud? It can't be that loud out of the box.
Curious about how it performs, however, Suna decides to give Evan a visit. She walks toward the source of the loud sound, and finds Evan firing a definitely-not-dangerous-at-all Prometheus at the bed, giving it 5 second breaks every 10 seconds of firing so that the motors don't overheat, because he's got plenty of ammunition left.
"Evan, is that really a children's toy?" Suna asks.
"Well, not really, it's meant for teens older than 14." Evan says.
"Ah, I see. Anyway, can I try shooting it?" Suna asks.
"Sure, it's a bit heavy, though. Be careful." Evan says.
Suna nods and Evan hands her the Prometheus. She aims it at the bed and fires it, then is astounded at just how much ammo it spewed out in 2 seconds.
"whoa..." is all Suna could say at how this toy blaster performed.
ViVi is curious about what those two could be doing, so she goes to check out what's going on. When she gets there, she sees Suna holding a heavy-looking thing and there were small, round, yellow foam balls all over the bed.
"Oh? What are you guys doing?" ViVi asks.
"Evan has this fun new toy, you should try it out." Suna suggests.
"Sure, is it that thing?" ViVi points at the Prometheus.
"Yea, I think there's still some ammo left in there. Have fun shooting it." Evan says.
Suna hands the Prometheus to ViVi, and Evan shows her how to rev up the motors and fire the blaster. ViVi aims the blaster at the bed and revs the motors, which took less than a second to fully power up. She pulls the trigger for 9 seconds, and she was impressed by how fun firing such a toy is.
Evan has a fun idea on how they could spend this day together.
"You guys wanna go get more toy blasters like this one at the store? I think there is a park nearby where people with their own toy blasters hang out and have fun forming teams, or just do a free for all. We'll see what we wanna do if we choose to go there." Evan says.
The girls take a moment to think about what Evan said.
"You mean there are others like this?" Suna asks.
"Yes, they come in many shapes and sizes, from small pistols blasters to semi-auto assault blasters, there's many choices to choose from." Evan says.
"Interesting, I'd love to go with you, master." ViVi says. Of course she'd go anywhere with her beloved.
"Yes, this sounds like a fun plan." Suna says.
"All right, it's settled, let's do it."
Timeskip brought to you by a chibi ViVi pointing a Nerf Jolt at you.
Pulling up to the mall's parking lot, Evan explains what they're gonna do.
"Okay, you should get a blaster that you'll mostly use, a primary, a blaster that falls as a backup, a secondary, and a blaster that falls as a backup if the first backup blaster doesn't work, a tertiary. For example, a Rapidstrike is a good primary, a Disruptor is a good secondary, and a Jolt is a good tertiary. If they're all modified, their perfomance is better." Evan says.
"I understand, but I'll need some assistance choosing from all the choices of blasters at the store." Suna says.
"Oh don't worry, I'll help you choose." Evan says.
"Well, shall we go on in, master?" ViVi asks.
Evan nods and they get out of the car and walk to the mall. Evan looks for the Nerf store and finds it easily. The girls follow next to Evan and they walk into the Nerf store.
"Wow, so many blasters to choose from." Suna looks at all the blasters on the shelves.
"Agreed. It must be difficult choosing one or two." ViVi says.
"Don't worry, it's not that difficult. Let's go around and choose a primary, a secondary, and a tertiary blaster, and of course, plenty of ammunition for your specific blasters, but I'll show you what ammo your blasters need when you show me them." Evan says.
"Okay!" The girls reply.
Then, they part ways in the store, looking for blasters that suit their preferences.
Mini-timeskip brought to you by a chibi Suna thinking about what blasters to choose from the shelf.
"Okay, what do you have?" Evan asks.
Suna goes first and shows a Rival Artemis for a primary, a Rival Hera for a secondary, and a Rival Kronos for a tertiary.
ViVi goes next and shows an Elite Rapidstrike for a primary, an Elite Surgefire for a secondary, and a Rival Finisher for a tertiary.
Evan goes last and shows an Rival Nemesis for a primary, a Rival Roundhouse for a secondary, and an Elite Triad for a tertiary.
"Are you guys happy with your choices?" Evan asks.
"Yes, we are." Suna says.
"Ok, we should buy some ammo for our blasters, we got rival and elite blasters, so, let me go and buy a couple Rival 100 round refill packs, Elite magazines and darts for ViVi's blasters, and I think that should be enough." Evan says.
"Okay, we'll wait here." ViVi says.
Evan nods and leaves the guns near the girls and goes looking for enough ammunition and batteries to not worry about running out at a critical moment. He buys a Rival rechargeable battery for Suna's Hera, 8 100 round Rival refill packs for everyone to share, 9 12 round Rival magazines, a rechargeable battery for his Nemesis, and 16 18 dart clips for ViVi. Thinking that he's got everything they need, he goes back to the girls with the items.
"I'm back, I think we have everything now, ready for a fun day today?" Evan asks.
"Yeah!" Suna says, eager to use her Artemis for the first time.
"Yes, I am." ViVi says, grateful that Evan is willing to spend so much just so they can have a good time later.
Evan feels content to see such happy expressions on their faces, and pays for their items.
Timeskip brought to you by a chibi Evan loading the magazines and teaching the girls how to use their blasters.
Evan thought of modifying the blasters to make them perform better, but decided there wasn't enough time, and Nerf wars should be played for fun anyways. Everyone brings in blasters they're comfortable with, and have fun shooting foam at each other. Anyways, they're home now, and the girls are looking at the loot.
"Okay, all your blasters and whatever they need to work should be in there. Pick out the blasters that you picked out from here and I'll give you the honors to get them out of the box." Evan says.
"Yay!" Suna cheerfully says as she goes first and picks out her respective blasters.
"Sure thing." ViVi says as she goes and takes her blasters.
"Guess I know where mine are now." Evan says as he takes his blasters.
They simultaneously unboxed their blasters and set them down next to them. Evan already knew how his blasters worked, having seen review videos and the guy reviewing them told people how they work and all that, but he wondered if the girls knew how to use their blasters.
As he expected, he saw them reading the instructions for each blaster. This could probably take some time getting them set up for a Nerf war.
10 minutes later
It is show time. Batteries charged, magazines loaded, blasters ready to go. The girls looked excited to fight alongside their caretaker with such harmless weapons. Evan thought about bringing his 1500 round 11.1V lipo battery powered Prometheus as a surprise for the enemy team, but decided not to because he thought it would be really unfair mowing them down with 18 rounds per second traveling between 150-200fps, and because the Rival rounds are expensive.
"Evan, are we ready to go now?" Suna asked.
"Hm, yes, I think we are ready, Suna." Evan replied.
"Can't wait, master." ViVi smiled.
They got up and carried their blasters and accessories to Evan's trunk, then got in his car, and drove away to the park. (I mean, who would want to carry all that stuff on foot?).
After finding a good place to park, Evan and the girls got out of the car, geared up, and walked to the park. There seemed to be humans and demihumans there playing with their own blasters and generally just having a good time together.
Right now the game seemed to be humans vs demihumans team deathmatch, where teams try to wipe the enemy team, and if you get hit 5 times, you're out. The girls thought this looked like fun and were ready to join in, but Evan stopped them.
"Not yet, we gotta wait for this game to finish, then we can join in and be put in teams." Evan explained.
"Aw, okay.." Suna said.
They waited patiently, watching the battle unfold before their eyes. There were many varieties of blasters on the field, but generally, whatever blaster makes you comfortable, you can use it on the field. But a Deploy... no, that piece of garbage is only good for parts.
Eventually, the battle ended with the demihumans winning, and the humans took their loss like champs. Now Evan and the girls could join in.
"Ah, come on in, the more the merrier!" Dave said.
"Mhm, oh! it's you guys again!" Nunmau said.
"Hello again!" Petra said
Evan was surprised to see them again, but greeted them back nonetheless. Evan's girls and Dave's girls took a minute to catch up on whatever life events they got going on, and before long, a new game was starting.
"Ready for your first foam fight?" Numau asked.
"Yeah, I think I am!" Suna excitedly said while priming her Artemis.
"After this, I'm definitely gonna modify our blasters so that they perform better, because honestly, their default performance is mediocre." Evan said.
"Hm? You mean they can be even better?" ViVi asked.
"Yea, shoot farther, harder, etc." Evan said.
"I see." Suna said.
"Though getting the parts will be another thing, but we have all the time in the world, don't we?" Evan asked.
"Yea, you're right." ViVi smiled.
"But, how are we gonna pick up our ammo and how does everyone know which ammo is theirs?" Suna asked.
"Hm, I think everyone brings a small backpack to toss darts into, lucky for you, I remembered to bring one, now we can pick up our darts after we're done." Evan said.
The girls nodded and soon, the game begun.
The girls were surprised at how loud some of the motorized blasters were, almost as loud as Evan's modified Prometheus. That thing can make the entire enemy team surrender, and make a nerf fight end in 4 seconds. The spring-powered blasters were loud as well, due to the fact they have stronger internals and have their air restrictors removed.
Evan now knew he should modify his and the girls' blasters after this, but it didn't have to be today.
Suna felt a dart poke her in the back of her head and she turned around and fired back, the ball quickly reaching its target and hitting her opponent straight in the neck. ViVi meanwhile was having fun with her Rapidstrike, with full-auto capabilities, but she remembered to conserve ammo.
Evan was surprisingly agile with his Nemesis, mowing down opponents with it, but he stopped firing before he ran out of ammo, because a 100 round hopper can be empty in less than 20 seconds.
Generally, everyone is having a good time, the weather is nice and cool, plenty of space for everyone, humans and demihumans getting along, it's perfect. After the game ended, it was the humans who won. Cleaning up afterwards took some time, but eventually everyone got their ammo back, and the ones who were tired after the game went home.
Evan and the girls felt one game was enough for them, so they walked back to his car, put their gear in his trunk, then drove home. What, or rather who, was waiting at home for them, was a new girl that found her way into the home through the pipes.
Sorry for the super-long delay, 2020 hasn't been treating me (basically everyone) right, but I still haven't given up on this story. Stay safe out there!