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Still Better than Black Keys.


Chapter Ninety Nine.


Rider.

Real Name: Chao Lingshen.

Also Known As: Chao-chan, The Time Traveling Bitch, Deus Ex Machina, Hips Don't Lie, That Crazy Chinese Chick, "YOU TIME TRAVELING BITCH!", The Other Greatest Hero You've Never Heard Of, The Temporal Renegade.

Gender: Female.

Alignment: Chaotic Good.

Attribute: Sky.

Natural Enemy: Sailor Pluto.

Likes: "World dominat- I mean, meat buns are the best, yo! Buy them cheap at the Chao Bao Zi!"

Dislikes: "Wars just suck, don't they? And I don't hate most teachers, but other than Nego-bozou, they rarely understand, do you know what am I saying?"

Parameters:

Strength: B

Endurance: C++

Agility: A

Mana: A+

Luck: A

Noble Phantasm: A

Biography:

Little is definitely known about Chao Lingshen.

If she is to be believed, Lingshen was raised in the middle of a world ravaged by the Martian Independence War, which forced her to become a survivor and fighter at a very early age. Gifted with the high intelligence and magical power of the Springfield clan, Chao eventually developed a working series of time travel machines she dubbed Cassiopeias, most of them taking the shape of a watch. The Cassiopeia model became the eventual inspiration for most future time travel methods across the multiverse, from the Legion of Superheroes' time bubbles to Asahina Mikuru's trans-temporal displacement device, replacing the much more unstable time travel prototypes created by Bulma Briefs and Skynet.

She was definitely a member of Mahora Academy's middle school class 1-A all the way to the middle of 3-A. During this time, she enacted steps of a plan to reveal magic to the world at large, in an attempt to avert the refugee crisis that would result in the collapse of Mundus Magicus. She was famously foiled, and ostensibly returned to her own time.

Class Skills:

Magic Resistance: A

A Skill that grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether.

Rider fought all of Mahora Academy's magically endowed teachers, who were deadset on preventing her plans to demolish the Magical Masquerade, and prevailed over them all. She almost beat Negi Springfield up afterwards, and she might have carried out her plan to reveal magic to the world regardless if she hadn't given up, moved by his spirit. She is still alive and fighting even better in the UQ Holder future, so there is no certain way to tell how much she has developed by then.

Chanted spells of less than two verses aren't efficient against Rider. She can even absorb them to power herself up.

Riding: B

Rider can pilot flying machines, all known four wheeled vehicles built by man, and boats. She had a Chinese restaurant, the Chao Bao Zi, which could turn into a flying mini-fortress, her creation and one of her prides. This earned her the spot in the ranks of Riders.

She is less skilled at riding animals, since that wasn't a part of her legend, but she can do it nonetheless after being summoned as Rider.

Personal Skills:

Pioneer of the Stars: B

An unique Skill given to heroes that became turning points in human history. All difficult voyages and challenges which are considered "impossible" turn into "events that can be realized"

While Rider didn't openly share her discoveries with many, through classmate, colleague and accomplice Hakase Satomi (also summonable as a Caster) her breakthroughs opened doors for many revolutionary developments influencing humanity as a whole, including the superior artificial intelligence mechanisms derived from Karakuri Chachamaru.

Time Anomaly: EX

It has been theorized that Chao Lingshen in fact did not return to her own time after leaving 3-A, as a matter of fact, as it had been erased as a result of her actions. Neither, however, did she cease to exist.

Her self-proclaimed title of Temporal Renegade might be an allusion to her flouting of time-travel. However, Chao Lingshen might in fact be a more unusual existence: though no version of her or her timeline exists in potentia as of the end of the Mahorafest incident, Chao Lingshen herself still does, an entity with no timeline of origin. It is likely she is aware of this fact, hence her designation. This might her impossible to delete from existence through the Incineration of Proper Human History. Further research is necessary.

Regardless, Chao Lingshen's involvement in many relatively recent events has shown that she is still an active participant. Several ludicrously precisely time emails and other correspondence, including deliveries of packages that apparently she herself delivered, have show extensive set-up, and from at least one Servant suspected of hailing from the future confirms direct involvement in the immediate to far future.

Item Creation: A

Rider could also qualify as a Caster class Heroic Spirit. She can create several kinds of weaponry and high-tech equipment, including artificial robotic life, with very little time of preparation. She is a crafty strategist and mistress of sabotage and misdirection, and has eluded capture in several opportunities, from even the best field agents from several parallel futures. Never engage her directly in combat unless it's strictly necessary.

Expert on Many Specialities: A

In addition to being a superior business manager who amassed a fortune for herself from scratch before being sixteen years old, Rider is a superb cook and cleaner. She is good at engineering, Chinese medicine, singing and musical composition, skating, calligraphy and drawing as well.

During her studies, she belonged to the Mahora Cookery Research Club, the Martial Arts Research Club, the Robot Engineering Research Club, the Eastern Medical Science Research Club, the Biological Engineering Club, and the Quantum Mechanics Research Club, all at the same time.

Bravery: A

The ability to negate mental interference such as pressure, confusion and fascination. It also has the bonus effect of increasing melee damage. Not usable under the effects of Mad Enhancement.

No matter how much the odds seemed to stand against her, no matter how many opposed her, no matter how many friends she had to leave behind, no matter how much she was chased, Rider wouldn't stop fighting unless her plans were thwarted beyond recognition. But she also knew when an attack was suicidal and when she would better withdraw and fight another day, hence why not Battle Continuation. On the other hand she was not THAT willing to escape a fight when she still had a chance, so no Disengage either.

Chinese Martial Arts: A

Rider is an expert hand to hand fighter with several decades' worth of experience in all known disciplines of Chinese martial arts, plus a few Japanese, American and Brazilian variations. In addition, she is skilled at using weapons both improvised and official, ranging from swords to folding fans and even cooking implements. Once she claimed Ku Fei (also summonable as a Lancer) was her superior in combat, but her stopping of using that statement after leaving Class 3-A, along her self-professed obsession with never saying an outright lie, would move one to believe her added experience has pushed her above Fei's level and capacities.

Unknown elements of her magical heritage from Negi, possibly born from Negi's tainted nature, force her to keep most if not all of her huge magical potential sealed. Those seals reveal themselves as tattoos over her body when she's under extreme physical or magical pressure. By briefly breaking those seals, Chao becomes a fearsome user of devastating magic, most of it channeled through the element of fire. However, accessing her magic causes her anguishing amounts of physical pain.

Noble Phantasm:

Cassiopeia Martial Arts: A

Rider's labors crystalized as a battlesuit originally created by her, but later, after a Pactio with Negi, was enhanced into her default Provisional Alliance Artifact.

The skintight black and white suit has a Cassiopeia unit built into the back, and it is controlled by an AI computer with limited capacity for decisions in battle. The Cassiopeia unit allows Rider to circumvent attacks through moving to a different but close time period, or simulate freezing time by continuously jumping to the same time period from a different dimension, thereby giving her the illusion of teleportation. She uses these techniques to demolish Negi in the Mahora Summer Festival and escape from holds by Sakurazaki Setsuna (also summonable as a Saber) and Nagase Kaede (also summonable as an Assassin) on the second day of the festivities. On the third day, she defeated Setsuna and Kagurazaka Asuna at once, using the suit.

Summon: "How should I say this? What's the best way to announce myself? Style and first impressions are important after all! Oh! It's already on...? Heh heh! Servant Rider, yo! Also known as Martian super-genius, Chao Lingshen! I know I can trust you with my identity!"

Start of Battle:

"Give peace a chance!"

"Let's see what you are made of!"

"Showtime!"

"Everyone, look!"

"Rast Teil My Magic Scir Magister!"

Attack:

"Yo!"

"Fun times!"

"Keep up! Move faster!"

"This is fun!"

"Heads up!"

Damage:

"Not bad!"

"Oh my!"

"Congrats!"

"Good hit!"

Victory:

"I didn't hit you too hard, neh?"

"Sorry! That was necessary for the sake of the project!"

"The show goes on!"

"No time to waste!"

"I don't like to boast, but if I did, I'd be doing it now! Because that was easy! Sorry, no offense intended!"

Defeat:

"This was all within my plan!"

"Back to the future!"

"Looks like I'm history, ne?"

"I'm a good sport about this! For real!"

"Only a minor setback, like the duck would say."

Defeat by Noble Phantasm: "Looks like we need to head back to the drawing board!"

Noble Phantasm Activation:

"Adeat!"

Extra Dialogue:

"Oh, Negi-bouzou... We're together again, it must be Fate pulling us back... No, not Fate-san... I believe I can accept your proposal now! Hee hee, your face is soooo red!" (When you have Caster or Berserker Negi Springfield).

"Hiya there, Chisame-chan! Why that sour face? We're friends, aren't we? You're taking good care of Chachamaru's Artifact, right?"(When you have Alter Ego Hasegawa Chisame).

"I don't like this person at all... He's the incarnation of everything I have fought for so long..." (When you have Ruler Qin Shi Huang).

"Ha, ha, ha, Asuna! Great to see you again! How old are you by now? You never change! Ohhhh, that angry face! Why do you always get furious at me?" (When you have Saber Kagurazaka Asuna).

"The... The great developer! Uhhh... What are you doing here? Is the situation THAT dire? Yipe!" (When you have Caster Hakubi Washu).

Birthday: "Happy Birthday! The Chao Bao Zi cooked the best birthday feat for you! Eat it while it's hot, okay?!"

Event: "Festivals! A lot of chattering people gathered carelessly! This brings back memories! What a chance to take over!"

Holy Grail: "I'll use it for another stage of my project, naturally! Why would I waste such valuable resources? But sorry, I can't tell you about that yet!"


To be Continued.