AN: I do not own Touhou Porject, Madoka Magica, or Sword Art Online
So now onto the Gun Gale section, this part is going to be just one big battle, so it's be shorter then a normal chapter… except there s going to be a special segment at the end showcasing our new hero… who is she? Well read on to find out. Also Tommi, I read your Review and several others, Marisa didn't lose her leadership, Reimu just took over because negotiations is not Marisa's strongsuit, but the battles between now and the world tree are all Marisa's forte.
Omega E The Reader: Reimu is just as terrible at diplomacy as Marisa. She like Marisa also has a shoot first no talk mentality.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: She's not AS bad. But Wild and Horned Hermit showed how incompetent she is when she's not shooting stuff.
Omega E The Reader: Essentially Reimu is a terrible choice of being chosen for a team.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And Marisa is even worse.
Omega E The Reader: Other than that yeah Reimu and Marisa are just terrible picks for being sent on over to do diplomacy.
Sin Count: 2217
So without further ado!
Let The Gates Open!
Venatores vs Fortium
(Hunters vs Heroes)
(Link Start!)
Team Scarlet
BGM: SAO II OST Track 2 – This Psychedelic World
Shino stared through the scope of her sniper rifle as she scaned to horizon, Renko leaning on the wall next to her, the smartly dressed teen youkai being her link between her and those on the ground through Ran. Renko opened one of her purple eyes and looked at Shino as she scanned the horizon. "They want to know if you see anything yet." Renko said, relaying the question Ran had sent her. "Nothing, but stay alert." Shino replied, Renko relaying the response to Ran at the bottom of the town.
"Our sniper support does not have visual." Ran said to the group around her, Sumireko mimicking Renko by leaning up against a concreate pillar… despite not knowing that she was doing the same thing. "Are we sure this is a good idea?" Sumireko asked, to barely noticeable crack in her voice not going unnoticed by anyone. "Yes, but we need to get into positions, so get ready everyone." Meiling directed, everyone nodding as Meiling nodded at Kasen, the oni and youkai running towards a low laying wall about five hundred meters from the tower, Sumireko positioning herself about four hundred meters away from them, and about a hundred meters from the tower. Ran took Nitori and Sayaka with her as they stayed about a hundred and fifty meters from Meiling and Kasen's position.
Closing her eyes Ran relayed her message to Renko at the top of the tower, the shikigami opening her eyes as she spoke to Shino again. "Everyone's in position, and Ran wants to know if there is any visual?" Renko asked as Shino remained silent, light blue eyes looking through the scope of her rifle as she looked at the horizon, seeing small pillars of smoke rising on the horizon, and approaching fast. "We have motorbikes, count unknown, but moving fast towards our position. I'll keep everyone posted." Shino said, Renko's eyes going wide for a moment as she relayed the message.
"Motorcycles inbound, unknown number of targets, Sayaka, alert the front line." Ran said. "Alright, I'm on it." Sayaka said, nodding her head before running towards the front line before crouching next to Meiling and Kasen, who were looking at the horizon. "They're incoming, they got motorcycles if the smoke is anything to go by." Sayaka said. "Alright, stick with us, we'll ambush them if they try to get past us." Meiling said, directing Sayaka to crouch next to them as the smoke appeared over the horizon.
"Fifty guys, ten with miniguns, five with snipers, one shotgun, and the rest with rifles." Shino said, Renko shivering as she relayed the message, Ran's coming back extremely quickly. "Ran wants you to take out the miniguns, before they get in range, but they are nearly a thousand meters out!" Renko yelled, the last bit her astonishment in Ran's confidence in Shino. 'A thousand meters? That might as well be tossing a wet paper ball into a trash can, the motorcycles only make it slightly more challenging.' Shino thought confidently as she aimed in the path of one of the minigunners. 'They're counting on me to take out as many of them as I can… so now to make these shots count.' Shino thought as a loud bang resounded through the wastes.
The bullet left Shino's gun at a speed of which only the trail of the bullet could be seen, but it was little more then a smige of smoke as the bullet traveled towards the ground, the gunners passing under the bullet as it neared the rearmost mimigun used, piercing his head and causing him to shatter, his bike crashing and eliciting much swearing from the gunners as Shino started taking more shots at the exposed gunners.
Five went down before they were within range to stat firing their own guns, the snipers stopping their bikes and taking aim at the tower, Shino hiding herself as the bullets started flying towards her, Renko ducking as one nearly took off her hat. 'Ran we need support NOW!' Renko sent to Ran as she hit the deck with Shino.
"That's our cue." Ran said to Nitori as she formed a ball of Danmaku in her hands, throwing it towards the enemy gunners. They had used their bikes to set up a defensive line, more then likely in an effort to minimize casualties from the enemy sniper as the ball of Danmaku spilt into five separate ones and past through the bikes, slamming into the sniper wielding gunners and causing them to explode into pixels.
"And that would be our cue, Let's move!" Meiling yelled as she jumped out from behind cover and started running at the gunners who were and hundred meters away, Kasen and Sayaka behind her. Bullets started flying towards them as Shino restarted her sniping with the loss of the enemy snipers, already having taken out the enemy minigunners, leaving the shotgun wielder and the riflemen.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Still calling it Team Scarlet Even though neither of the Scarlet Sisters are here?
Sin Count: 2218
Meiling ran around the bullets as unknown to her eyes the riflemen lined up their bullet lines on her, but Meiling just kept running at them, dodging bullets faster then they came as the Shotgun wielder looked up as Meiling jumped, the martial artist jumping over the defensive line and crashing down with a crater causing smack on the gunners, the shotgun wielder back flipping out of the way as Meiling kicked a poor gunner into oblivion as Kasen smashed her way through the defensive line, Sayaka skating on ice she created as she slashed through a row of gunners with her ice sword, her cape made of ice trailing behind her as the gunners all exploded into pixels.
With half the rifle gunners eliminated Meiling grabbed a gunner by the throat and threw him at the shotgun wielder, the man's white and black mask obscuring his face as he pointed his shotgun at Meiling and fired, the Martial artist, barely dodging the shot as the man shifted his head away from a bullet fired by Shino before casually reloading his shotgun. Around him Kasen and Sayaka cleaned up the rest of the gunners as they surrounded the man, who turned his head as he sheathed his shotgun onto his back.
BGM: SAO II OST Track 12 – Shooting it Out
"If I'm going down, fight me with honor." A hoarse voice said from behind the mask as he held up his fists, Meiling motioning Sayaka and Kasen to step away as she stood a few feet away from the man. "Then I shall do just that… your name?" Meiling asked. "Pale Rider." The hoarse voice said before launching himself at Meiling, the martial artist grabbing Rider's leg as he tried to kick her and spinning him, Pale rolling with the spin and landing feet first on the ground as Meiling jumped at him, Rider back flipping out of the way as Meiling planted her fist into the ground before pulling it up with practiced ease, running at Rider as he tried to kick Meiling.
The acrobatic gunner ended up kicking Meiling's palm as she put it up to block, kicking off of it as Meiling jumped after him, the martial artist slamming her hand into Rider's side sending him flying towards the wastes as a red mark leaking pixels was left on his jumpsuit covered side. Meiling landing a few feet away from him as he pulled his shotgun off his back and fired, Meiling ducking before actually grabbing one of the pellets from the shot out of midair and throwing it back at Rider, nailing him in the shoulder and forcing him to drop his shotgun.
Meiling capitalized on this as the other girls watched the acrobatic display made by the gunner and Meiling, Rider pulling a grenade out and cooking it in his hand before throwing it at Meiling, the grenade flying towards Meiling as she backhanded the grenade, flinging it into a pile of rubble before it exploded. A sudden kick from Pale Rider forced Meiling to raise her arms to block the kick as Pale let go of the second grenade he was holding before jumping off of Meiling's arm, the grenade exploding in Meiling's face and pushing her back slightly with a few burns marring her skin.
Pale threw another grenade at Meiling, forcing the Martial artist to dodge and roll out of the way until coming face to face with a grenade Rider threw in front of her. Grabbing it she threw it at Rider, who jumped out of the way allowing Meiling the time she needed to get up and start chasing after Rider.
Rider ran near the guns dropped by his now dead allies, picking one up and firing as Meiling jumped high and over his bullets, Rider raising his aim to try and hit Meiling as a few bullets grazed her sides, Meiling twisting out of the way as her fist glowed a rainbow gleam, Rider jumping out of the way, expecting another dive attack. He couldn't have been more wrong as Meiling bounced off the ground and grabbed him out of the air, slamming him to the dirt and bouncing him up from the force as she landed, spinning around and slamming her fist into his back, a shockwave of red energy emitting from the impact of her fist and sending Rider flying.
Meiling waited a few moments as Rider fell back towards her, back handing a grenade he had dropped to try and harm her as she spun around and shunted herself backwards the same time Rider was about to hit the ground. Her back impacted Rider, sending him flying into a wall and bouncing off of it, several red marks bleeding pixels on his jumpsuit as he silently stood up and pulled out a combat knife. Meiling holding her fists out in an standard martial pose as the rest of the girls watched on in awe. There was a dam good reason Meiling was the gate guard of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: This is the big battle of GGO, and hardly any of the protagonists have guns. Tommiboy chose poorly.
Omega E The Reader: I can agree. No Moonrabbits are to be seen here.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: More sins for this.
Sin Count: 2253
Shino looked through the scope of her rifle at the two combatants. "I can't believe it… they sent Rider and he's struggling this bad against a martial artist." Shino said in disbelief. In this world of guns going in for close range combat was usually suicide unless you were really good like Rider, but here he was getting his ass handed to him and on his last legs by a martial artist. "She said we were here to help, well I guess this counts as a demonstration of someone's abilities." Renko said, smiling as her eyes were blank, as she was currently observing the battle through Ran's eyes with Ran herself.
Down by the battle everyone else was staring in disbelief as Meiling handed this guy's ass to him on a silver platter, the man, Pale Rider, on his last legs with only a knife and a sliver of a health bar between life and death. 'Lady Yukari, are you getting all this?' Ran relayed to Yukari as the woman herself watched through a gap at the battle. 'Quite Ran, and I must say, Meiling has been improving.' Yukari answered before cutting off from Ran to continue watching the battle.
Rider ran at Meiling, and Meiling ran at Rider as Meiling's hand glowed and Rider readied his knife, the two fighters passing each other as twin beams of light streaked past them, Meiling and Rider screeching to a halt as a small cut appeared on Meiling's side, bleeding a little bit as Rider fell onto his knees before bursting into pixels, Meiling turning around and bowing in respect for her fallen opponent.
"What happened! I missed it!" Nitori yelled as she landed next to the other girls with Sumireko, the two of them having stayed back to far away to have seen the battle in full swing. "Meiling won, that is all that matters." Ran said as Meiling walked up to the group, not even caring as her left side bled slightly from the knife wound… not like she hadn't had those before from Sakuya.
BGM: SAO II OST Track 09 – Inside Information
Renko and Shino ran down from the building, Shino having scaled down the side expertly as Renko flew down, the two girls running up to the group as Meiling turned to Shino. "So Shino… are you still willing to fight with us, or would you rather leave?" Meiling asked, wanting to know how Shino felt as Sayaka and Kasen watched on, Ran and Renko standing together and waiting as Sumireko picked up one of the many rifles laying on the ground and handed it to Nitori.
Looking around at the assembled group Shino felt comfort… it felt nice knowing that someone had her back, while she had theirs. Gun Gale had been her home for two years now, and it had been plagued by Raiders, Gunners and other merc group all gunning each other down for sport and for various reasons. "I'm not leaving; how can I be expected to keep up with any of you if I can't hold my own against this world. And you all need a guide, and a spotter." Shino said, stating that she was staying whether they wanted her to or not. "She has a valid and logical point." Ran said. Meiling closing her eyes and sighing before shaking her head. "Alright, you can stay, I just wanted to make sure that you got out safely Shino." Meiling said.
"Then let me ask you… Why me. Why are you so concerned about me?" Shino asked, the other girls turning to Meiling as she closed her eyes. Sighing she spoke up about her reason. "Remember the Battle of Misty lake… it's my fault Vaati got targeted, if she hadn't help me beat back Yuugi the first time she wouldn't have been a target during the battle. I failed my duty as a guardian, and my own carelessness nearly got her killed… I'm not going to let that happen again. Not now, and not ever." Meiling said, having believed for years that it was her fault Vaati had nearly died to Yuugi that night. She knew about her… formerly his hypothermia, but she had unwittingly put Vaati in danger when she had to be recused by her years ago.
"So your own carelessness nearly got someone close to you killed…" Kasen said, having not heard about Vaati's history before now, and even then this was just a tiny fraction of it. That Meiling was a part of that floating frail girl's past was interesting, even more so that she apparently had a direct role in it.
"Enough about that, we need to get ready. Ran how many players are left in this death world, besides Shino." Meiling said, changing the subject as Ran's eyes went blank. "Current player count at a thousand four hundred and fifty-seven and dropping." Ran said before the light returned to her yellow eyes. "That's a large number." Sayaka muttered. "I honestly thought there was only a few hundred left… tops." Shino muttered, she hadn't seen any major battles in a while after all.
"Wait dropping?" Sumireko asked, wondering why the number was dropping before the gun in her hands suddenly fired off into the air, causing the psychic to yelp and drop the gun. "There is a major battle going on off on the other side of the world, the player count has currently dropped to one thousand three hundred and forty two." Ran said. "It dropped that fast!" Nitori yelped, her voice distorted by the mask she had n her armor still. "The number has stopped dropping, the battle has ended." Ran said.
"You know if we wait long enough we might not have to do anything, they would just wipe each other out." Kasen suggested, not wanting to be to much in the lime light for this mess. "It is a logical conclusion to do so." Ran suggested as Meiling sighed. "I'll think about it… I'd rather make sure we don't end up with any casualties ourselves." Meiling muttered, the idea of waiting for the number to drop lower enough to prevent any causalities among their party highly tempting. "No pressure right?" Sayaka joked as Meiling sighing again.
"Like I said I'll think about it, now let's get inside for now." Meiling said as she started walking towards Shino's tower, the others following her as Meiling found herself faced with a tough decision. Intervene early to try and finish the job with a high risk? Or wait cruelly while the number dropped until they could just clean up the remnants of both sides. 'So this is what I means to be a leader… get I'll have to choose soon.' Meiling thought a she entered the tower with the others close behind her.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So Pale Rider turned evil?
Omega E The Reader: Well why so? Is Pale Rider evil himself?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: No. In canon, he was simply a competitor in the BoB tournament who died moments after his introduction.
Omega E The Reader: Well okay then. Though I still do not like that it was MEILING who fought him. It could have been better if it was either: Reisen because she uses guns or Remilia because she's the leader of the SDM crew.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Hell, even Alice, and her muskets would be a better fit.
Omega E The Reader: Yeah those characters would have fit well in this scenario.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Far more than Meiling.
Omega E The Reader: But instead we got something bad.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: How many sins for this?
Omega E The Reader: Let me think about it
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: For both the poorly picked team (Meiling especially) and the Pale Rider being turned into a one-off villain to dispose of.
Omega E The Reader: I would say 10 sins.
Sin Count: 2263
Wasted Potential Count: 1
BGM: Infinite Loops – Sword Art Online Hollow Fragment
A young yellow hair girl sighed as she bit into her bread, watching as it ended up dissipating into sparks from it's durability running out. Her dagger in it's sheath she stood up and jumped out of the tree of the area she had been resting in. 'How long has it been… I've been in here for so long it's like the real world is but a distant memory.' The girl thought as she started walking.
She had been trapped in Aincrad for a long time, playing as a solo player in it for her own benefit. Now she was alone in Aincrad… she assumed she was the last of the players around because no one showed up when she brought up the player list she had, nothing but the greyed out names of players she had met.
She had never participated in any of the floor boss fights, she thought they had been to dangerous, and she wasn't wrong as the deaths piled up. Fear over took bravery and she kept to the back woods, grinding away for her own benefit as slowly the players of Aincrad died out, leaving her alone… Alone…
'Sometimes I wonder if I should just end it all…' The girl thought as she looked at the false sun in the sky above her. She had been hiding out on the third floor for nearly a month now, so it was about time to change her pattern. 'But I'm not just going to throw any my life, I still have it, and I'm going to keep it!' The girl thought defiantly as she started walking towards the third floor town.
As she was walking the sounds of large explosions reached her ears, the girl stopping in her tracks as she turned around, blinking. "It can't be… players?" The girl mumbled mindlessly in shock as she changed course, running towards the source of the noise. Jumping into the trees she jumped from tree to tree to travel faster, eventually coming across a huge field in the middle of the third floor, near the stairs from the second as the girl looked on in awe at what was happening.
A girl in a pink shirt and sweat pants was blasting away at anything that came near her, the explosions coming from around her as a field boss type enemy charged at the girl, only to be obliterated by one of the many lasers she was firing casually. Three small girls were working together to beat on a group of enemies in childish glee, knives and a mace being used to bash and slash at the monsters, causing them to explode as they died. The other girl was the most surprising. Even from her distance she could see the large rabbit ears poking out of the girl's head as she constantly spun around, wielding a gun of all things to kill the many monsters that dared to come near her, or any of the other girls.
"Holy hell…" The blonde girl muttered as teas welled up in her eyes. She wasn't alone! At this point she could care less who she found, she would take a bunny girl, a crazy laser throwing girl and a bunch of kids for company any day. Jumping out of the tree she started running into the field. "HEY! OVER HERE!" The girl shouted, the girls all turning towards her as they finished off the last of the monsters. "Is that one of the survivors…" Reisen muttered, looking on as the girl ran at them, waving her hand as Rumia returned the gesture, raising her own hand and waving happily as Kaguya floated over to them, the girl running up to the group panting.
"I can not believe it… I'm not the last one alive!" The girl said in pure joy, straight up hugging Rumia in joy from having been isolated from any human contact for so long, Rumia giggling and snuggling up to the girl as she enjoyed the sudden hug, Daiyousei hiding behind Reisen in fear as she whimpered. "They are going to be so jealous we beat them to their own mission." Kaguya blurted out as Reisen slapped her face. "Does everything have to be a game to you?" Reisen asked. "I've been in Eientei to long, I needed a workout." Kaguya replied before turning towards the girl. "What's your name?" Kaguya asked with a smile on her face as the blonde stopped squeezing Rumia, but still held her in her arms as she looked at Kaguya. 'Dear Yukari she looks like an older Rumia.' Reisen thought in terror, the little youkai of darkness haven been the bane of her during the battle at Eientei.
"My name…" The girl muttered, she hadn't said her own name in so long, let alone looked at it. Looking up at her health bar in the top left corner of her screen she replied then and there. "My name… is Philia." The girl said, smiling as Kaguya smiled back. 'At least we managed to not be completely useless during this whole mess.' Reisen thought with a sigh, at least they had found a survivor.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Right. Her. She's from a spinoff..
Omega E The Reader: What spinoff anyways?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Hollow Fragment. The author talks about it bellow.
Omega E The Reader: Oh! But what do you think of adding a spin-off character from SAO?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Considering how many characters got the lethal shaft...
Omega E The Reader: This doesn't feel right. Besides if we are really using spin-off characters. Why not use the Puella Magi Madoka Magica characters?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Yeah, they all got fridged and forgotten about.
Omega E The Reader: In fact. Why hasn't he decided to use spin-off characters? If he can use SAO spin-off characters. What's stopping him from using the spin-off characters of Puella Magi Madoka Magica?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Magia Record wasn't out at the time. But I do believe that Oriko was out at the time.
Omega E The Reader: But there are no excuses.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So how many sins for this?
Omega E The Reader: 15 Sins.
Sin Count: 2278
(Stage Clear!)
AN: YEAH! I know it's short but come on, Pale Rider, a rather badass looking character from GGO in the anime, who died to Death Gun, was here with MULTIPLE levels in badass, and Meiling kicked, his, ass. Those of you who wished the badass had a bigger role then, knock dyne out of BoB and die to death gun? You get the guy fighting Meiling in rather even combat, doing stuff that would make an acrobat cringe in horror. The short fight that eliminated the Gunners also showcased how efficient the 'Black Ops' group is… which is VERY!
Also anyone ever played Hollow Fragment? If you did you know about Philia! A solo player that gives Kirito a run for his money is being isolated. Scratch that more like she RUNS OFF with that money. But after two years of isolation and not even having contact with another player, she runs into Kaguya's group, thank Yukari. But yes Philia is alive, and she will be joining Kaguya's band of badasses during their hunting on the lower floors as up stairs the search continues.
Next up is part 2 of Team Hourai in Aincrad.
Omega E The Reader: Well here's the reason I guess…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Say, since the author states that Pale Rider is supposed to be much more badass than in the anime, yet still lost to Meiling. Would that count in the Meiling Sue Count?
Omega E The reader: Oh yes it does.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And throw in one for the Wasted Potential Count because Pale Rider had the potential for more roles in the story.
Omega E The Reader: So what potential do you think he could have had?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd say enough to warrant two to the count. Plus 5 more for past instances of wasted potential. And count in w retroactive additions to the Meiling Sue Count for being picked as leader of the Scarlet Team and her fight scene with Pale Rider up above.
Omega E The Reader: Well okay then.
Sin Count: 2293
Meiling Sue Count: 3
Wasted Potential Count: 8
Omega E The Reader: Besides that, I REALLY dislike the Scarlet Team not being lead by any of the two Scarlets.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So do I.
Omega E The Reader: This is a major problem that I must bring up once again. Favoritism.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And it's not the last time it'll have an effect.
Omega E the Reader: Oh don't worry...it will suck more soon...
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Just you wait...
Omega E The Reader: So any more sins before we move on to the next chapter?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Well, we already put some sins for the sisters' absence from the team, so...
Omega E The Reader: Moving on?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Moving on.
Current Counts:
Sin Count: 2293
Sue Cirno Count: 15
Marisue Count: 1
Meiling Sue Count: 3
Momiji Sue Count: 50
Wasted Potential Count: 8
Wrong Theme Song Count: 50
Stupid Power Level Count: 1
Big Massive Plot Hole Count: 2
Unforgivable Sin Count: 2