WolfGear Presents: Negima? The mage and the Gunslinger
Pairings: Negi X ku-Fei Kaede X OC
Chapter 37: Festival arc-Present vs. future round 5-High noon showdown
I don't own Negima!
Negi opened his eyes, after their little trip to Blackwater his strength left him again. He knew he shouldn't push himself, but he wanted to be involved with the operation, plus he thought that with his magic reserves at a higher level than last time he could handle a short teleportation trip, but even that proved to be too much for his exhausted body, as he collapsed as soon as they returned to Mahora.
He didn't know how, but he knew that the battle was already in full swing, and that means it was now his turn to take to the stage, and this time he knew he was refreshed and ready to take on his Martian descendent, and this time he felt none of the hesitation, or doubt of his actions. It was just as Chao said herself, there is no evil just millions of different justices, and his justice would be the one to win!
In his preverbal vision he could see Ku-Fei and Kaede sitting comfortably on the other coach. It looked like they were chatting about where the others were. Taking a closer look around the room, but making sure not to draw the attention of the two girls, he took note that Setsuna, Konoka, Jack and the twins were all missing. From the factions of information he was able to hear from his position, it seemed that Konoka was at the frontlines with the players to take care of injuries. Switch he wasn't surprised to hear, the heiress had come far in her healing studies, so it was only natural that she would want to do her part. Now Setsuna and twins it seems that they had gone to support the Mage Teachers, noble of them, but in Negi's honesty opinion not worth the effort. Last time proved that the teachers, minus a select few, were completely useless! Might as well write them down as MIA, he sighed, he was positive that Chao had already got them with a displacement bullet by now. Finally the conversation turned to Jack, who was observing the battle from a far, something that Negi knew would ilk the cowboy to no end, but Negi knew the phones would be taken out, so it would be good to have someone to come and get them. It would be a total waste if Negi had just slept through the whole battle!
Feeling that they were being watched Kaede, and Ku-Fei turned to the only other pair of eyes in the room, and saw Negi with his eyes open.
"Negi, you're awake! I'm so glad!" Ku-Fei crossed the room in a nanosecond, and gave her boyfriend a loving, yet nearly fatal bear hug. Kaede watched the two with amusement as the color of Negi's face turned from red to blue to purple in just a few short seconds.
"Ku...I…need…air!"
"Oh sorry," Ku apologized, dropping him on the floor, "Ayah, sorry Negi-kun!"
"It's ok Ku (Cough) I know you were just a little… excited." He reassured his girlfriend. In the background he could see Kaede badly try to contain herself from laughing out loud, but he ignored it, after being at the butt of jokes and harassment for nearly five years at the hands of his own students, Negi learned to just lets things go.
"Alright, ladies I believe we have an appointment with our dear friend Chao, let's not keep her waiting shall we?" He said grabbing his staff, and ring as he head for the door.
Outside Negi knew from his insight of events to come, that there would be a robot tank outside the library entrance. Needless to say it was nice to know things stayed the same. He easy dispatched the troublesome tin can with a flick of his wrist, sending a number of wind daggers to slash the robot apart. He had almost let his guard down when he remembered, what, or should he say who was lurking around, and in feet of great skill and precision that can only be obtained through years of training. Negi managed to pull both Ku-Fei and Kaede out of the way of the incoming displacement bullet.
Up in a nearby tower, Mana Tatsumiya peered through the scope of her gun in wonderment, she knew that Negi-sensei was skilled, but he dodged her attack as if he already knew it was coming! Truly he was an intriguing opponent, but she didn't have time to ponder as six daggers of wind cut through the brick walls of the tower where she taken cover.
"I know where you are Mana-san. You can't hide from me." Negi declared launching another set of wind daggers at the mercenary, only this time they were intercepted with more B.C.t.L bullets. But that was okay, because it was Negi's intention to waste as many bullets as he could before Kaede offered to hold of Mana for him.
And she did right on cue. "Negi-Bozou leave this to me. You and Ku go on without me." Pulling a set of Kunai from her hidden poach, Kaede prepared to head of the mercenary in any way she could. Coarse deep down Kaede has always wanted to go toe to toe with Mana, and what a surprise that opportunity would come so soon!
"Thank you Kaede-Chan, I know you can beat her!" Negi said firmly. He knew that Kaede could handle the mercenary; history already proved she could, and he had faith in her ability. "Come on Ku." Grabbing the martial artist by the hand leading her away from the soon to be battle ground. Ku looked back at her ninja friend, and gave a salute.
Kaede gave a nod in acknowledgement, and sent the Ku on her way. She appreciated the thought, but she now had to focus at the task at hand.
Then to some unheard signal Kaede launched her kunai into the air just as four shots rang out over the square. With the black spheres blocking her opponent's line of sight, and threw down smokes bombs to aid her. Now with complete cover Kaede could now get the jump on Mana. Jumping high into the air so she was level with the tower, Kaede unleashed one of her larger shiriken, destroying the tower, but no one was inside!
"You'll have to do better than that Kaede." Mana said appearing behind the ninja gun drawn. She had discarded her black robe, revealing her black leotard like outfit with white chaps, and Jacket. She felt a twist of excitement in her gut as she stared down the ninja with her demonic eyes, and saw that the other held no fear, which excited her even more! It had been long time since she a faced such an opponent, and she would enjoy it to the fullest; within a reasonable budget of course.
Negi and Ku were about a dozen blocks away when they heard the explosion, clearly the two girls where not holding anything back. Though he hoped they would at least remember where they were and not destroy the whole area, otherwise the Dean would have his hide! But that was neither here, nor there at the moment because any second…
"Stop right there Negi-san," A robotic voice commanded.
…the Chacha sisters would appear.
Yes the three robotic clones of Chachamaru or the Chacha sisters are what Negi called them. The long haired one was a mid-range to close range fighter, while the other two short haired ones were long range fighters equipped with guns. Overall they were nothing compared to the real Chachamaru, but still they were nothing to sneeze at either. Their primary programing was to collect battle data, so they would have more than enough battle experience to be intermediate fighters, thought nothing to Negi's level.
Well Negi had his insight from the future his partner was confused. Ku-Fei was puzzled by the robotic triples appearance, and was about to approach them when Negi pulled her back. She paid attention to the mage's body language, and held her place.
"Ku-Chan that isn't the real Chachamaru, it's just a copy made by Chao and Satome-san." He explained releasing this grip. "Though I would hate to ask this of you would mind holding them off, while I go after Chao."
"It would be my pleasure Negi-Kun," Ku said cracking her knuckles. "Just leave everything here to me and you go stop Chao from doing bad things, and I'll be sure to give you a reward when this is all finished Aru."
Without warning Ku slammed her fist into the long haired clone, and sent her flying into the other two temporary immobilizing the robots long enough for Negi to slip by safely. By the time they grained their balance, Negi was long gone, and Ku-Fei summoned her staff, and gave a practice twirl.
"Now then shall we get started?" Ku said challenging them. Staff in hand she charged forward and the robots response in kind. Grabbing the first attacker by her throat Ku flung her to the side, then side stepped an incoming punch from one of the short haired clones, and smashed in the side of its head with her staff, causing scraps of wiring and microchips to spill out from its head. Confidently Ku twirled her staff in her right hand and the bring on it gesture with her left hand.
"Come on," she said "Who's next?"
Meanwhile in Cyberspace the real Chachamaru was having a tough time defending herself against the computerized Wolfie. Though it went against her programing she did not have the heart to destroy the fuzz ball after the time they spend together so many months ago. It was strange. She had only experienced this feeling one before, when she was at the world tree, and she chose to go against her programing to allow Jack to return to his true form.
So she continued to let the Chibi smash against her shield, and with every hit a small scratch would start to form, and unbeknown to Chachamaru a little bit of her metallic skin would turn softer, and more sensitive with each hit.
I'm about to reach my limit, Wolfie, or no Wolfie if I don't do something soon I may be deleted from my hard drive. It was a desperate moment for the Cyborg, destroy virus Wolfie, or risk being infected with an unknown virus. Usually this would be a no brainer decision for Chachamaru, but with these new budding emotions it has become harder to make emotionless decisions.
Once again virus Wolfie smashed into the shield, the cracks now almost completely covered the sphere, one more hit, and it would all be over.
It's not the real Wolfie. It's not the real Wolfie! IT IS NOT THE REAL WOLFIE! Chachamaru told herself, self-preservation overrides her will to not harm the virus Wolfie, and launches a counter attack in the form of a green laser, which unfortunately for her misses by a single micrometer.
"I'm sorry mistress Chao. I have failed." Chachamaru apologized before virus Wolfie smashed through the shield, slamming directly into her chest infecting her. Chachamaru's world turns black.
Meanwhile Negi was busy making his way along the streets of Mahora. Sometimes he would come across one of Chao's robots soldiers, he dispatched them with ease, now that he was alone he felt no need to hide the power he had gained from training relentlessly in Eva's villa. Having regained much of the power loss because of the time trip that originally brought him and Jack here, Negi was confidante enough to believe he could even use the magia erebea, though only the first form, the other forms would have to be relearned unfortunately.
Negi landed on a rooftop that overlooked the battlefield, he could see the players struggling with a gaint sized Mech-Demon, even with the help of the marshals, it proved to be a troublesome opponent.
"I guess I should make my grant entrance," He said to himself. Taking on last look around from Jack, Negi prepared to dazzle the crowd with some real magic.
Below the players began to panic as the mechanical monstrosity continued unfazed by the players' attacks. Their bullets leaving only small dents in its massive form, even the marshals' who were enhancing their shots with magic were unable to slow it down. All hoped seemed lost when a voice shouted from overhead.
"Ventus vesica," a crescent shaped blade of wind cut through the Mech-demon like a hot knife through butter, severing its head from its body. Everyone looked to the sky in search of their savor, and saw Negi flying on his staff as if it were a surf board straight into the air toward the blimp in the sky, where Chao had set up the magic rune.
"Negi?" his students asked in wonderment. Their teacher was literally flying! How cool was that? "How are you doing that?"
With a smirk he answered, "CG," and flew even higher.
Knowing what was going to happen next, Negi veered to the side avoiding the flying Chachamaru's attack by a mile, and sent another Ventus vesica that cut the robot clear in half like the one below. But it wasn't over as more of Chao's aerial robots units threaten to close in on him.
Acting quickly Negi lashed out with low level wind spells, taking out dozens of the robots while conserving his energy for his fight with Chao, but there were too many of them, and basic spells no matter how little energy they consumed still consumed energy.
Damn I'm in a real bind here. Jack if you're out there get your ass in gear! Suddenly a column of flames erupted to Negi's right, and destroyed at least a quarter of the robots, while to his left a black blur destroyed bounced around shredding them into scrap metal.
"Look who I found on my way here!" Jack yelled appearing next to Negi with wheels of flames floating by his ankles.
Taking a closer look at the black blur Negi realized it was none other than Kataro! The dog boy was enthusiastically tearing the robots into scrap metal with his razor sharp claws. He gave Negi a toothy grin, and leaped over to the mage's side in a flash.
"Hey Negi don't tell me you were planning to hog all the fun yourself!" Kataro boasted smacking Negi hard on the back. "Whatever, I'll take care of these small fries you and Jack head up there and take care of Chao."
"Thanks Kataro. Jack you guys didn't destroy a lot of property on your way here did you?" Negi asked the cowboy. He spared a quick peek behind him, and saw a trail of flames that stretched for at least five miles. "Oh god," he sighed. He decided to just drop the subject, and fly towards the blimp right now anything was better than wondering what the dean was going to do to them when this was over.
Jack watched Negi fly off, and wondered what had the little wizard so down, but threw those thoughts away. It was probably something about property damage again.
"Kataro you take care of things here ok?"
"You got it!" Kataro replied as the he watched Jack fly up after Negi, and then turned his attention to the task at hand, "Alright who's next?
On the zeppelin Hakase Satome reciting the final chant for the forced recognition spell that would force the people of the world to except the existence of magic, and right now at this very moment she was having doubts about the justification of Chao's plan. If they succeed she was sure Negi wouldn't forgive Chao, and God knows what Jack would do. Wait what? Why was she including Jack, what did he have to do with this? The family history book that Chao had showed that Negi was her grandfather on Chao's father's side, but her mother's side was… hmm she couldn't remember, but she was sure their names started with a J and K. No that didn't sound right something was still missing, like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle that wouldn't fit.
"Chao are you sure you want to do this? Negi will probably hate you."
"It's fine. I will see this through to the end, but what that end will be is up to those two." Chao said just as Negi, and Jack landed on the deck of the zeppelin, ready for battle. "You two finally made it. So what are you going to do now?"
Negi didn't hesitate to answer, "This time Chao I'm going to stop you for good Chao!"
"That's right missy your so called better world is nothing but a sham. I'm gonna bury it right here, and now!" Jack added while drawing his pistols, and aiming them directly at the Martian.
Chao smirked, "Very well! I will prove that my justice is correct with everything I have!"
"Here I come!"