Stage 4 – Goldie, the Muscle of Team Grimm
A very large rift dumped the girls off on the ground right in front of the Boundary separating the Netherworld and Hakugyokurou from the rest of Gensokyo. They all slowly got up, groaning in pain from the rough landing. Looking up, they saw a beautiful woman with long blonde hair styled into nine thick ringlets on each side of her head and baby blue eyes wearing a frilly, fancy gauzy golden sundress over yellow form-fitting armor. She slowly walked towards them with a sassy, hip-swaying gait. Her body was absolutely packed with muscle and her breasts were easily as big as her head. She stopped in front of them, grinned in an audacious way and put her hands on her hips.
This was Goldie Lockez, the last and strongest member of Team Grimm. Floating above next to her was Eburinferuton who looked at them all apprehensively.
Eburinferuton looked at Goldie and muttered, "Okay. Goldie, are you sure you can take them on? I mean, the rest of Team Grimm tried and failed so-"
Goldie cut her off, "Aw, relax, Eburin! Truth is I'm glad my lil' sis and her friends failed!" She boasted while pumping her fists, "I've been waiting for a chance to fight these ladies! And now that I have my chance, I'm gonna enjoy every second of this! OH YEAH!" she grinned even wider while cracking her knuckles. Then she glanced at the girls and continued.
"I can't believe you managed to beat my teammates! Well I'm much better at fighting then they are, so don't you dare hold back on me, ladies!"
Reimu raised a brow, "You're awfully cocky. Do you really think you can beat us after we trashed your teammates?"
Marisa joined in with a confident smile, "Yeah! We beat 'em all, and they didn't hold anything back! You sound like yer gonna pull yer punches or somethin' like that!"
Goldie punched her fists together and beckoned them over, "Huh? Pull my punches? Why would I do that? If I did that, this beating wouldn't be any fun! Now get ready, 'cause here I come!"
Eburinferuton created a pair of pom-poms out of sparkling blue light and started cheering for Goldie as Reimu and Marisa fought her.
Goldie charged in at Reimu with intent to punch her, and punched at the air, releasing a fanning arc of fiery bullets that flew out in their direction. Reimu performed a quick roll to float out of the way, the bullets grazed her dress; Goldie's accuracy was nothing short of impressive. Goldie charged in at Reimu with intent to punch her, and punched at the air, releasing a fanning arc of fiery bullets that flew out in their direction. Reimu performed a quick roll to float out of the way but the bullets grazed her dress; Goldie's accuracy was nothing short of impressive.
Marisa counterattacked by firing off shots from her broom that crashed and exploded with Goldie's shots in midair. As the blonde witch was focused on that, Goldie had run around her, and slid underneath her shots, and gave an uppercut that hit Marisa with an explosion that was hard enough to send her into the air followed by firing off shots from her gauntlets from below.
"RGH!" While in the air, Marisa shot back to counter Goldie's attacks.
Reimu would take advantage of this and activate her spell cards to fire off bullets that would travel along the ground and explode near Goldie, causing her to tumble into the nearest tree.
"Oof!" Goldie huffed as she hit the tree back-first and fell to the ground. "Not bad!" she shouted as she picked herself up off the ground and flicked her nose with her thumb. "BUT YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET!"
With that, she started tossing huge stacks of golden bricks to crush the two girls, and after she had done this sixteen times activated her first Spell Card, Burning Yellow "Grizzly Bear".
Goldie generated a miniature sun in front of her and began to use it as a punching bag. Each time she punched it, waves of fire were released in Reimu's direction that rushed through the air. Reimu countered this with shots to dispel most of the fire, but was unable to react when Goldie snap kicked the energy ball in her direction.
"WAAGH!" Reimu yelped as she was flung back from the explosion. Goldie then ran up to her and fired off more waves of fire with powerful uppercuts, but Marisa interrupted her.
"HA!" Marisa yelped as she fired off shots from above that Goldie was forced to roll out of the way and evade so she didn't get hit.
"Grrgh! Not bad!" Goldie huffed as she aimed one arm upwards to fire back at Marisa while running.
"Guess you aren't total babies after all!"
"I'll show you babies!" Marisa yelled, and used a similar trick compared to before. She enchanted her bullets to bounce off surfaces so that even after Goldie dodged them, they'd still bounce back and hit her, exploding on contact!
Goldie tumbled across the forest floor until she slid into a rock. "Hmph! OK then!" She tilted her neck and popped her joints to loosen herself up. "You kids are really starting to make this fun. Time to say goodnight!"
Goldie activated her next Spell Card, "Burning Yellow "Panda Bear".
With a swift punch to the ground, a massive series of gold trees that spanned out into a forest would be erected from the ground. Reimu and Marisa gasped as they floated away from them while Goldie immediately gave chase. Hopping from tree to tree, she caused them to all fall in a domino effect after the girls as they flew out of the way!
"Agh!" Marisa yelped as a gold tree slammed behind her, "What should we do, ze?!"
"I dunno! She's pretty skilled, that's for sure!"
Reimu yelped back as she realized that this opponent was much stronger than their last three. The mages couldn't exactly think as massive oak, birch and even redwood trees made of solid gold slammed around them and caused earthquakes, followed by golden spikes that erupted from the ground as Goldie tried to smash them with a series of stomping kicks. They weren't really in a position to counterattack yet.
"HAH!"
And before they could blink, Goldie had activated her next Spell Card, Burning Yellow "Kodiak Bear".
With a swift jump and a punch to the earth, she caused the waves of gold to ripple out and towards them. They were barely able to avoid it, and with them came humongous stacks of gold bricks that she threw at them and sheets of gold in the air that she punched at them.
After which, she activated her final Spell Card, Burning Yellow "Shiretoko Brown Bear", she distracted them with a series of explosive punches and giant hooks that released waves of fire that they were barely able to avoid, then flew at them with a powerful punch. Reimu and Marisa knew this move well. If this punch hit, it would lead to a no-holds-barred beatdown that would damn well nearly incinerate them.
But the girls were too quick to react. As soon as Goldie threw her punch, both Marisa and Reimu leapt into the air and fired loads of bullets at Goldie from all sides, preventing her from attacking, then blasted her with their strongest Spell Cards. The end result was Goldie flying away and into a nearby tree so hard that it fell over behind her with a loud crash!
Even after that, she still attempted to stand up and speak.
"…That first blow was too slow! That second blow was too fast! That final blow… Was just right…"
With that, Goldie fell over backwards. Goldie is left slumped over on the broken tree stump, unconscious with her armor badly dented and dress ripped to shreds. Eburinferuton stopped cheering and made the pom-poms vanish. She looked at Goldie's unconscious body with horror and looked around desperately.
"It's over, Eburinferuton!" Youmu shouted at her, "There's nowhere left to run, no one left to hide behind! I know you don't like fighting, so just give us back Jin's lamp already!"
"Yeah!" Marisa added, flying up to the fairy, "Where were ya even gonna take that thing anyway?!"
Eburinferuton sighed, "…Oooh! Look, if you must know, I was going to take it to one of my godchildren. She lives all the way in the Netherworld, so I have to go all the way to-" She paused and facepalmed, "…That's right, the portal leading to the Netherworld is right there. Ugh, I can be so scatterbrained at times! Don't worry Synder, you're godmother's coming!"
With that, Eburinferuton flew up to the gateway to Hakugyokurou and shouted "Synder! Sweetie, I've got it!"
The gateway opened up, but all could be seen was a vague silhouette with glowing blue eyes. She flew inside it and the gateway closed behind her.. The three girls flew up to the gateway and frowned.
"Ugh… This is getting annoying." Reimu groaned, "Youmu! Can you open up the gate for us, please?"
"On it!" Youmu nodded, "I'm opening it up right now!"
Youmu placed her hands on the seal, concentrated and gave the seal a push. It opened up and the three girls flew in. They immediately noticed Eburinferuton flying away from Hakugyokurou and chased after her once more. A few minutes after they've all left, Goldie woke up.
Goldie rubbed her head as she recovered from the battle, "Argh, my head! I can't believe those two beat me! Oh well. I'll just have to get stronger and try harder next time."
"Oh crap!" Exclaimed Goldie in a sudden panic "My lil' sis and her friends fought them too! I'd better make sure they're all right!"
And with that, Goldie ran off to find her Redd and her friends.