Reimu Hakurei was just dropped off to her shrine. It had been several days since she had been hospitalized to Eientei after Christopher Awdry had successfully shot Reimu in the leg with a Sten submachine gun. She wore a thick bandage over the wound. Eirin gave her a cane in case walking became hard for her. But she ultimately chose not to use it. She made it up the shrine steps without great difficulty. It was relatively quiet, no one was really at the shrine. Gordon had left to pick up his new sports car, Percy left to take up trucking duties, and James had to be kept out of Reimu's closet. She walked into the shrine building and saw Marisa Kirisame standing and looking at a wall, with Ringo, George, and Alec discussing something. Reimu walked to Marisa and asked what she was looking at.
"This is a map we all made while you were gone." said Marisa.
"This is Gensokyo in its entirety." explained Ringo.
"Those pins stuck on the map are where that fuckhead Awdry is." said George.
"Then those pinpoint the central location of where Christopher may be." finished Alec.
The map was indeed of Gensokyo, red pins dot places where Christopher had been spotted. One pin at the Hakurei Shrine, another at Misty Lake.
"Doesn't do much." said Reimu plainly.
"Well, we haven't seen Awdry all that much." replied Alec.
"How should we find him?" asked Reimu.
"We've had Marisa here and one of us go to search him." said Ringo, "But so far, we've only done it to draw the map."
"Then why not have Marisa and one of you look for him?" suggested Reimu.
"Alright then." said Ringo.
The three conductors played rock, paper, scissors until they finally figured out who was going.
"Okay, fine. But Alec goes again next time." said George.
George blew his whistle and reappeared on Marisa's shoulder.
"Come on, let's go!"
"Your a pushy Mr. Conductor, da ze." said Marisa.
"I just don't want to die. I haven't had my joint today."
"What's a joint?" asked Marisa.
"I'll explain it to you while we're out looking for Awdry."
Marisa and George left, leaving Reimu alone with Ringo and Alec.
"Have you played Touhou before?" asked Reimu.
"Can't say I have." replied Ringo.
"Its the games ZUN makes of us. We tell him about our youkai incidents and he makes them into games." explained Reimu.
"Just like what Wilbert and Christopher do for the Railway Series?"
"I have never thought about it that way." Reimu tried to push the idea out of her head that she may not be real and that she's just a creation of ZUN's.
She walked over to a table with a chair and a battered, well loved PC-98 sat upon the table.
"I say we play until Marisa and George come back."
"Alright, but you'll have to explain how the game works to me." said Ringo.
"See anything, George?" asked Marisa.
"All I can see is jack shit! Nothing but plains, valleys, forests and bodies of water!" said George.
Marisa wasn't far from the Nameless Hill, she could feel the wind coming from there, it felt cold. George lit up a joint and puffed on it.
Then they heard a faint buzzing sound.
"What's that?" asked George, now slightly high.
"Must be a fairy or something." replied Marisa.
The buzzing became louder and louder. Soon, something zoomed by Marisa and George. Whatever it was, it roared past.
"Holy shit!" exclaimed George, "What the fuck was that?!"
"I don't know, but I want to find out." and thus Marisa gave chase to whatever flew past them.
It didn't take long to find what had pasted them. It was an old fighter plane, it had a propeller and machine guns on the wings.
"I don't like what's going to happen." worried George.
"I'll be fine. Just hold on!" said Marisa.
Marisa went faster and gave chase to the airplane. She passed the plane at a higher altitude. She saw someone in the cockpit.
"I think that's-"
Marisa was cut off by a burst of machine gun fire. The plane flew up higher and was now behind Marisa. Marisa flew to the side and lowered her altitude. The plane gave chase and was firing directly at Marisa. Marisa dodged the gunfire with ease. She told George to hold on as tight as he possibly can. She dove down sharply then went back up and twrilled upside down.
"Jesus Christ, Marisa! Can't you not do that?" shouted George, he was trying to talk over the sound of the plane behind them.
"We'll have to tell Reimu and the others." said Marisa.
Marisa flew away from the plane, but the plane was still chasing her. Marisa increased her speed drastically, the wind pierced her face, what she was hoping was for a tailwind. She was quickly nearing the Hakurei Shrine.
"I have an idea, da ze!" said Marisa.
So Marisa pointed down at an angle. The Hakurei Shrine was in sight. Marisa screamed like a dive bomber, as now the Hakurei Shrine was within reach. What she was planning to do was to fake out the plane by making it look like she was crashing. Perhaps Marisa's plan was too perfect, she was going much too fast and zoomed through the tori gate.
"You're really good!" said Reimu.
"We'll, I learned from the best." said Ringo, humbly.
"Do you guys hear that?" said Alec, "It sounds like someone screaming and a old airplane."
Before anyone could move or do anything, Marisa crashed through the closed doors of the shrine and smashed headfirst into the building's wall. Shelves fell, things broke, the rest spilled over onto the floor. Marisa's body was right in between two rooms.
"Reimu!" she called, "Get me out before a dirty doujin artist can make a story off of me being in this wall!"
It was hard work getting Marisa out of the wall, but they soon got her out.
"Marisa!" exclaimed Reimu.
"You put a hole in my wall! You destroyed my front door!"
"Reimu! If I wasn't being chased by a damn plane, I wouldn't have had to crash into your shrine."
"Plane? What Plane?" said Reimu.
Then all of a sudden, the roaring of an airplane engine was heard, followed by a long burst of machine gun fire. Everybody dove for the floor.
"That, plane." said Marisa pointedly.
"Right." replied Reimu, "Guess we'll have to shoot the plane down."
So with that, Reimu and Marisa set forth to shoot down the plane. The two flew around looking for the plane, then they saw it. It was strafing some youkai with machine gun fire.
"That's him alright." said Marisa, and she went after the plane.
"Marisa!" cried Reimu, "Guess I'll have to chase her down."
Reimu and Marisa were in hot pursuit, the plane was within sight and Reimu launched an ofuda attack. The ofuda was a direct hit, but all it did was stick to the plane.
"Damn!"
"Let me try!" said Marisa, and she fired a master spark...it missed.
The rolled over to the side and turned towards the two, Marisa and Reimu both flew in opposite directions. The plane chased Reimu. The plane fired at Reimu whilst swaying side to side. But Reimu dodged every bullet, she wasn't going to get shot this time. She turned back and dropped altitude, the plane flew right over her. Reimu went after and was shooting ofuda, she then managed to get a direct hit on the cockpit windows. The ofuda covered the entirety of it, whoever was inside couldn't see out.
"Damn!" said Christopher sharply.
The ofuda had blocked his vision and he couldn't see. So he turned to his notebook and wrote down that his Spitfire had window wipers.
"Crappy writing to make something be very convenient all of a sudden." critiqued Christopher.
With the window wipers active, he could finally see again. He turned his plane to the side and began shooting again.
"Marisa!" called out Reimu, "He can see again!"
The plane rushed towards Reimu, too fast for her to get away. Marisa flew right by Reimu and plucked her out of the plane's way.
"Thanks, Marisa." said Reimu.
"No Problem, da ze."
Marisa pulled out a spell card: Comet "Blazing Star"
Danmaku filled the air, Christopher was having a hard time trying to manipulate the Spitfire to dodge the spell card attack. The plane rocked violently as it ran straight through the danmaku. The plane escaped the cloud of danmaku, but it was damaged.
"Watch out, Marisa!" yelled Reimu.
Marisa turned back and saw that the plane was about to shoot at her. So Marisa went straight up into the air, she tried to get as much altitude as possible, the plane followed suit.
But the plane was having trouble moving up at a 90-degree angle. Before Christopher could catch up or shoot up Marisa, the engine stalled and the plane made a nose dive for the ground. Reimu watched as the plane failed to start again and it exploded upon impact on the ground. Marisa came down to where Reimu was. She was gasping for air, she was about to faint from the lack of oxygen in the thin atmosphere. She had went up much too high.
Reimu and Marisa and the three conductors set forth to repairing the shrine. The hole was filled and the roof's holes were plugged.
"Sucks that your shrine now looks like patchwork again." said Marisa.
"I know, but its better to have a holy shrine as opposed to a holey shrine."
Marisa laughed at Reimu's pun, so did Ringo and Alec, but George was writing something down that was ten times more vulgar than what Reimu had said, but ten times more funnier.
Once they had finished, they placed a red pin on the area they were fighting, someplace northeast of the Nameless Hill. They weren't sure when Christopher might strike again. So Reimu and Marisa agreed to search Gensokyo in their free time. The Hakurei Shrine was to be their headquarters for finding Awdry, wherever he might be and wherever he might strike.