12Author's Note: Hi ya' slagger'! I brought references! And SCIENCE! Super Robot's pseudo-science, but still SCIENCE!
Today, we'll see two melee Supers slug it out at high speed, Elemental Lords ripping through a shitload of Lions and Nanoha attempting to preform Akashic Breaker using a barrier. Also, a little bit of insight into Arisa's little interest with Tacit Ronin (aka BADASS ROLLED INTO A HUNK OF METAL!)
*BOOOM!*
Dang it Levi, why did I picked the you that has the Material Days personality?
Levi: First, you like Pool. Second, you like pool. Third, that was the best fanfic version of me.
Should've picked the one who got slammed into a building at high speed because she was thinking about why she was herself.
Levi: I DID get Stern to kiss me in that fic, though.
Point taken...
CHAPTER 04: Soul-Sword One Strike
At the BD floor...
Alicia was standing above a small platform, slightly above the crowds of people that usually gather up in places where children games are played. Alicia takes a deep breath, struck a JoJo-esque pose, then announced loudly
"Ladies and gentlemen! Hello everyone! I'm your host here at Hobby shop T&H, Alicia Testarossa!" Her words was met with thundering loud cheers.
"Yesterday was our first day of offering Brave Duel. Are you all enjoying it~?"
"YEAHHHH!"
"I'm here today to show you a new reason to love BD!" Alicia was a natural with theatrics and crowds. "We'll be housing an radxciting dueling event to show it off!
Since yesterday and up until this point, you've all been playing what is called the "Free Duel" battle simulator. However!" She then held up one of her index finger "That's not all that BD offers! Today, I'm proud to show you..." She then does the classic "magician unveiling some really big shit" motion...
...followed by magnificent Engrish. LOUD magnificent Engrish.
"SSTORRMMM AND STREEESSS!
SPEEEED IS CULTUREEEEE!
DIS IZ ZA FASS STAGEEE!
SPEEEEDDDOO RACINGGGGUUU! "
She then lets out a light "ahem", then started explaining
"The rules are simple! All you have to do is head for the finishing line while navigating the obstacle curse and passing through the checkpoints! And you also get points for breaking these targets!" The stage screen then showed a bunch of red Lions (the recolored Mass Production version of the airplane robot that Fate pwned)
"The duel is decided by the points each team receives from both completion time and breaking targets!"
The stage screen then showed Amy "I'm Amy, chief of staff! I'm the color commentator. It seems that speed is not the only thing needed to win this duel! Flying skill and attack accuracy are also important."
"That's correct." Alicia said, then shortly continue.
"Alrighty... Let me introduce to you our duelists!
First up, we have Team T&H! They're lead by our store's ace, my little sister, Fate Testarossa!"
Fate facepalmed in her Direct Motion Link cockpit, which cause the Black Shin Getter to facepalm. "Alicia..."
"She's sure enjoying this." Arisa said, while idly checking her Conn Pod's instrument. She picked this type of cockpit against everyone's recommendation, since the system was built to reduce neural stress upon pilots by spreading it evenly in both hemisphere so they can slowly move a 70 meter-ish robot into punching range of a monster and punch it with the condensed power of a tactical nuke, not flying, jumping and doing anything that the Rekka was supposed to do.
'This is the same cockpit that grandpa Duc Jessop once used...' Arisa thinks as she institutionally readjust the system while humming a short theme.
"...one, two, one, two, rear thrusters online. We'll be all fine if we stabilize the core. Uranium ore's going to kill us dead, but not until we cut a Kaiju's head..."
"Arisa-chan? Uhm... Why are you overloading the Fulcanelli Furnace?" Suzuka asked through a secret connection line. Arisa realized her mistake and dropped the output back to reasonable level.
"Sorry, Suzuka. I was just trying to...Agh, forget it." memories of old, "family member-only" videos come flooding back. Her mom's family was once tied to the PPDC and the Kaiju Wars 25 years ago. After the war ended, they gave family members access to the pilot's belongings and video of their deployments, of which Arisa slowly become obsessed with, thanks to the fact that her grandfather, Duc "Duke" Jessop, was the first "official" (aka: NOT scientist) Jeager pilot. It was the reason she was even interested in this game to begin with.
"Oh boy, padding materials. It doesn't get worse than this..." Shut it, Lev'. Alicia then started introducing Levi.
"Up against them is the Industry assassin! She ranked #4 in the country during the beta test!"
Levi was hovering in mid-air, until what seems to be flying particles surrounded her, first forming the cockpit, and then the legs, the arms, the torso and then finally the head.
"I'm super strong! Super awesome! And super cool! Not to mention super lesbian!
I'm the Dark Materials' (usual) comic relief and glass cannon!
The name's LEVI THE SLASHER! Available for god-smiting, training partner and birthday parties." Levi introduced herself.
|Assailant of the Thunderblade, Ymir, has opened the Gate Of Magus and enter the battlefield!|
"Aw man, that was such an awesome introduction! I wish I can show it to King and Stern next time!" A bunch of (mecha-sized) chibi mecha that looks like weird, stylized and mutated versions of a Huckebein applauded.
"It's now Team T&H's chance to talk about how much they want to win." Alicia said, which prompted a "We can't compare to that" from her younger sister.
Only now when looking at both mechs did Suzuka realize something: two mechs, even with the same component source, can still looks downright opposite. While the Black Shin used a DGG-01 head with [Sengoku Astray]'s V-fin, the Ymir used a Shin Getter face with the Thrudgelmir's head. The Ymir have the Shin Getter's shoulder with the Thrud's sword in standby form installed into the shoulder, making the black-blue-white color separation more pronounced when it goes along with the Thrudgelmir arm, while the Black Shin have DGG-01's shoulders and upsized Astray arms. The Ymir uses the Thrud's body, with the Shin's thighs and Thrud's leg, while the Black Shin use a Shin Getter's body and legs. And that's not talking about the coloring yet. Fundamentally, these two mechs are aesthetically different, but functionally are the same: high-speed attacker with next to no armor.
Strangely enough, the Black Shin doesn't look too much like a Getter, yet the Ymir looks like something Ken Ishikawa would've thought up if he was still alive. They both have kickass capes, though.
"This girl is a Super Robot pilot as well..." Suzuka said.
"She has a pretty crazy name, too." Arisa commented.
"Her real name is Levi Russell. Her teammates all refer to themselves by their duel name when they're in a match." Alicia explained, getting an "Oh~" from the girls.
"Hey, Fate-chan. What are those cute little things that are around her...?" Nanoha asked.
"Ahh. They're called "Ally NPCs". When you don't have enough members on you team, you can summon whatever mechs with whatever pilot you like from the cards you have to serve as NPCs. It looks like Levi summoned all of hers using her own pilot card." Fate explained, as the Bergelmir was playing around, with one somehow munching on a lollipop, one is playing with it's rifle and the last one is apparently, in a twist of basic mechanics and physics, HUNGRY.
"Okay! Today's duel stage is 'Abandoned City on the Ocean' stage!" Alicia announced.
"The obstacles on this course are the towering skyscrapers. The checkpoints are in between them. It's a simple stage. They will do two laps of the course with a short break in between! Any mech that are defeated will be immobilized and will have reduced weapon range for the round, but it is still able to provide artillery support!" Amy explained.
"Since we have to fly through all of this twice, I think we should have the non-regenerative mechs take it slow and steady on the first lap. We need to conserve our energy for the next round, too." Arisa said.
"Alright, with the explanations out of the way, let's get his race started!" Alicia said as the girls get into position.
"On your marks...
Get set...
GO!" The mechs burst out of the starting position at full speed, with Levi charging ahead.
"Levi is the first one out of the gate! She charges forward, leaving the rest of the racers far behind~"
"She has a Lightning-type avatar. Lightning types are the best for any kind of high-speed maneuver" Amy explained as the Ymir started flying in the wild, sharp turn-filled patterns that is indigenous to the Getter series. Levi's Ymir held out a gigantic sword, cutting down any targets that was close enough for the blade to cut on it's flight path, fully utilizing the blade's-
"CRUSHER! IT'S A CRUSHER!"
-the CRUSHER sword form's length, while smashing through any targets that blocked her path... the very, very, VERY few targets , since the course was designed so that a person without remote weapons can only focus on either winning the race or destroy all of the target
"However, she isn't actively seeking targets! Could this be her strategy to win?" Alicia rightfully questions Levi's strategy.
'My plan is to fly straight to the finish line while spamming Accel and let my Ally NPCs get the points... I'm a genius~'
"Oh, what's this? There's a figure coming from behind Levi..." Amy commentated. "It's T&H's Fate~!"
The Black Shin catches up, it's artificial mouth smirking, mimicking it's pilot. The black and yellow mech draws out the Bardiche, the gigantic manifestation of Fate's Intelligent Device, and quickly blocked one of the Ymir's sword strike.
"Don't think just because there aren't gigantic fire-spitting drills behind my back doesn't mean I don't have them! Observe!" Levi said as Machine Cells gather around the Ymir's arm and formed a drill.
"Oh, yes. Magneto wished he could be as awesome as I am. He have his "Auschwitz go away" thing and I have my Machine Cells!" Levi bragged as the drill starts spinning and lightning sparks started appearing around it. The fist also started shaking violently.
"TSURANUKE! CHOU GOURAI HAKAI KEN! (Breakthrough! Super Lightning Destruction Fist!)"
Levi boisterously declared as she shoot her drill arm at Fate, and launch it did. Shaking, roaring, tearing through the air like an anti-kaiju battleship, it headed for Fate at mind boggling speed... only for Fate to dodge it easily.
"My awesome sis has a Lightning type avatar as well! She won't be beaten in terms of speed!" Alicia commentated, which embarrassed Fate quite a bit. "Alicia..."
Levi zooms ahead in straight lines at an ludicrous speed, while Fate does smooth aerial drift as she tries to overtake her.
"Though they're both high mobility Super types, their playstyles are exact opposites! It's great to watch~" Amy commentated. She then noticed a disturbance in the stage. "Oh, there's a duelist coming up from behind those two...Wait, WHAT?! WHAT THE HECK KIND OF COURSE IS SHE TAKING?!"
The one who take the weird course is none other thaOHMYGODIT'SCOMINGTHISWA-
*CRASH*
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SON OF A BITCH! NANOHA, STOP TRYING TO RAM YOUR WAY THROUGH BUILDINGS!
[Nice shortcut, Nanoha!] Don't encourage her, you boomstick!
"I tried using the skill card I got today..." =Maneuver Card – Terrain Break – =
Anyways, the card allows her to break through usual terrain movement penalties or blocking terrains (ex: Walls, Pillars, Barellions...) but at a cost of the mech's HP. But since the Nanorymer has a barrier and HP Regen, well...
"What an unconventional idea! I-I'm honestly shocked!" Alicia said
"Nanoha-chan, you're quite the powerful one, aren't you?" Amy stating the obvious
"After her is Arisa and Suzuka. Meanwhile, the Friend NPCs seems to be fighting with one another!" Amy commentated.
"Huh? Arisa's movement ratio... She seem to be having problem with the terrain."
Arisa was jumping from roof to roof, her Fang Blades deploy and ripping into the Lions with ease, occasionally sidestepping to dodge a railgun shot or kicking to push back ones that got too close for comfort. But, this significantly slow her down compare to if she was to take the road.
"Whoever placed these units here...must've hated...ground units!" Arisa said as she slugs through the Conn Pod's analog cockpit control platform.
"You're so stubborn, Arisa~. Why don't you use the High Familiars then?" Alicia said.
"Shaddap!" Arisa replied in embarrassment of her favorite weapon's lackluster range.
"Arisa is progressing through the course by jumping! She's certainly utilizing the terrain bonus while making the best of her weapon's abilities and are breaking the targets, too~" Amy commentated as the Rekka Granveil cut through two units using her Flame Whip attack. Suddenly, something was dropped in front of her.
"Oooh! Bonus Boss!" Alicia announced, getting a round of cheers from the audience.
"What's a bonus bo-" Arisa frozed in her tracks as she realized what that Bonus Boss was...
It was a downsized version of a Kaiju, standing around 32 meters tall. Ironically, the third one that the Tacit Ronin killed, too: the Yaibara. The thing was covered in sharp edges everywhere, and beside from it's two elongated arms, it has multiple mantis-like "claws".
"This Bonus Boss is completely not mandatory, but if you kill it, it will net your team a big score! Big enough that it should guaranteed you an 80% of certain win, in fact!" Alicia explained, as the monster roared at the Rekka Granveil.
-Yaibara-
Type: GroundWater
HP: 8600
EN: 100
Mobility: 75
Armor: 1600
Movement: 6
Size: L
A-A/G-A/W-S/S-A
Ability:
+Kaiju Blue – Deals 400 damage per minute to all enemy surrounding this unit
Roar/(p)/(Sp)/R/1000/2~5/-/+20hit/+20%crt/W:000/(A-A/G-A/W-A/S-A)
(- Mobility Lv3)
Tackle/(p)/M/3000/1/-/+40hit/+10%crt/W:000/(A-A/G-A/W-A/S-A)
Slash/(p)/M/3400/1/-/+30hit/+40%crt/W:000/(A-A/G-A/W-B/S-A)
Bite/(p)/M/3800/ 1 /-/+10hit/+35%crt/W:105/(A-A/G-A/W-B/S-A)
"I'm going for the kill, guys!" Arisa said, her mech charging at the Kaiju.
"Arisa-chan, wait for me! It's a boss, don't take it lightly!" Suzuka said, but Arisa has already begun the fight. She furiously slashed into it's thick hide, causing the beast to roar in pain. As Arisa raised Flame Eyes up for a fiery blade strike, the Kaiju tackled the mech and causing it to fall flat on it's backside.
"ARISA-CHAN!" Suzuka shouted. She was about to come in and help, but a bunch of Lion twin units surrounded her. With the Rekka on the ground, Yaibara started smashing into the mech's neck section, causing Arisa to scream in pain as she was shook around in the cockpit, as the harness for her Conn Pod was nowhere near as stiff and secure as the one of the Jeager units'. As she was toss around, the Kaiju manage to rip it's claw into the Conn Pod inside the neck, ripping into part of her pilot avatar as well.
"Arisa, look out!" Alicia tried to warn her, but it was too late.
"Oh no, competitor Arisa's cockpit is being directly attacked! If her pilot avatar is killed, she'll be forcibly logged out of the game and will be disqualified!" Amy said
Fortunately, the specially designed pilot suits - called "Barrier Jacket" - can provide a high level of protection using in-game "magic", so Arisa only loss was her skirt, half of her jacket and a little part of her shorts. Unfortunately, physical, non-energy beam induced pain is still kept, following Prof. Gendo Ikari's statement of "Pain is an essential part of human senses".
"KYAAAAAAGGHHH!" Arisa's scream of pain resounded through the half-broken cockpit. She did it again.
She tried to copy her beloved grandfather, who was a hero in her eyes, and failed again. She was told so much about him, and yet she can't be like him.
"Assertive". She bullied people instead.
"Tenacious". She's brass, hotheaded and short tempered, but definitely not tenacious. That would require actual victory.
"Being everyone's blade". She become a burden instead. Always the first one to fall.
She then thought to herself, while spotting a bitter smile.
'Nanoha and Fate is too far away.
Suzuka is surrounded.
Well, I hope that they can move on without me.
Maybe I'm not cut out to be a mech pilot like grandpa Duc was.'
The monster prepared to bite down into the cockpit and killing Arisa's pilot avatar, but...
...Suzuka charges in, Snow White – her glove Device with two claw fingers – covered in ice that formed a giant claw, slicing into the monster repeatedly.
"GET AWAY FROM MY FRIEND, YOU MONGREL!" Suzuka screamed as she ripped into the beast, then trapped it in ice. She then turns around to start fixing the Rekka immediately. Arisa don't understand. Suzuka was surrounded by a bunch of Lions in Twin Unit Formation. How could she escape this easily.
"H-How did you-"
"MAPW. Twice" Suzuka replied, trying to concentrate on repairing the Rekka.
"You wasted all of that EN just to get to me?! You could've save it for a big crowd and-"
"SHUT UP!" Suzuka shouted. Tears was streaming down her eyes. Suzuka immediately leap out of her cockpit after having the Overfreeze on auto-repair mode and jumped over to Arisa's side and gave her a hug.
Last night, a few hours after the battle with Vita...
"Hey Suzuka, I've been thinking..."
"Yes, Arisa-chan?"
"Maybe...I shouldn't play this game. You guys can go on ahead and play it, but I'm out."
"What?! Why?!"
"I was the first one to be defeated, and I didn't even scratch that mech's paintjob!"
"W-Well, I was defeated too!"
"It's because your mech was a support unit, and I drained your energy through my childish 'practice match'! Nanoha was capable of pushing the red mech back, but I can't, and I'm the attacker!"
"Look, Arisa-chan, we all fail sometime. But our friends are their to back us up. Nobody has to fight for everyone by themselves. Don't worry about it too much, maybe tomorrow we can ask how Nanoha transform like she did, and then maybe we can get stronger."
"...Fine. Good night, Suzuka."
"Good night, Arisa-chan."
*click*
Arisa hung up the cellphone, letting out a long sight in the process. She wasn't feeling too good, being the most passionate one at first, but end up dying just as fast. Her mother entered the room, which was Arisa's room. She was probably angry at her father for "being an idiot" again.
"What did he said, Mom?"
"Your father is SUCH a dense idiot! I don't even know how I got him to marry me back then!"
"Well, you're angry. That mean it's "manhood comparision" time again!"
"Shush, Arisa! Your grandpa Duc Jessop was a hero, you know!"
"He he. I know mom. That's why you keep comparing him to Dad, over and over again."
"True, it does seem a bit unfair...Nah, your dad's a moron. And I thought men in the Bannings family was suppose to be 'the pinnacle of gallantry, beauty and big bags of moolah'!"
"Then again, none of them were among one of the first Jaeger pilots."
"Maybe it's just the fact that in times of chaos, men and women become much stronger through their struggle. Like, you know, a person who exercise often is usually physically more fit than a person who just sit around and eat chips all day. This remind me of a story about your grandpa when he was still training that his surviving coworkers once told me."
"So, what's it's about, Mom?"
And that night, Arisa heard even more awesome thing about her grandfather, and thought that if she were to be like him, she needs to push herself even further...
"We talked about this last night. I KNEW that you would feel inadequate for being the first one to lose, in one shot, too. So I talked to you. I TALKED TO YOU! I thought that I have told you countless time. You. Are. My. Friend. It doesn't matter if you lag behind. We all do it at some point. That's why we have friends.
We back each other up when we fall behind. Everyone is equally important. You don't have to prove anything." Suzuka said with teary eyes.
"I-I know. B-But you guys can do so much..." Arisa said, her eyes also on the verge of tear as well. "And my grandfather, h-he was everyone's hope... "
"Arisa..." Suzuka said "...I don't care who your grandfather is. You are you.
You might be brass, straight-forward and impatient, but you're my friend. And you're just as important to me as everyone else. So, please, Arisa-chan...
...let me assist you."
"...Really?" Arisa asked
"Yes, really. We can do this together."
Arisa wiped her tears off, and smiled gently "Alright. I'm counting on you, Suzuka."
*GREEAAAAGHHHH!* Yaibara roared, finally breaking free of the ice lock. As the girls prepared to return to their cockpit, Suzuka pulled Arisa back a bit.
"Come on! He's not going to keep standing there!" Arisa said.
"I know, but your Barrier Jacket is damaged. Let me fix it up." Suzuka said, then moved her right hand down near Arisa's crotch and her left up to Arisa's chest, which caused the poor blond to turn bright red with embarrassment.
"E-EEEHH?! What the heck are you doing, Suzuka?!" Arisa protested, but before she could physically react, she was covered by light and in a split second, her Barrier Jacket was repaired. As Arisa was flabbergasted, Suzuka simply smiled and jumped back into her cockpit. Arisa only smirked.
"...In the end, I still need you to cool my head down, didn't I ?" She said , then jump back into her now fully repaired Rekka Granveil. They then spotted Levi's gaggle of Bergelmirs coming in, trying to claim the kill. Suzuka was preparing to launch her High Familiar- automatic attack plane that is similar to [Marvel]'s Falcon's little red drone thing- to intercept one of the Bergelmir's, but before she can-
"DIVINE...BUSTAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" One gigantic energy beam ripped through one of the chibi Bergelmirs, causing it to explode and a chibi version of Levi to shoot out of the cloud of smoke into the sky with a "Ding!" noise.
"NANOHA!" Arisa was surprised that Nanoha managed to came back to assist her. "But wait, what about that blue-haired girl?"
"Don't worry about her." Nanoha said reassuringly "Fate is...stalling her."
"Stop...DOING...THAT!" Levi protested in vain, as every time one of her mech's limb was starting to grow back, Fate just nonchalantly chop it off.
"I'm sorry, but...I can't let you move. Like, at all. Please don't hold a grudge..." Fate said, still hacking away at the Ymir's limbs.
"Y'know, I never knew why they never did this to Deadpool. It seems so effective." Levi contemplated, before a blade narrowly misses her cockpit "Christ on a moped, WATCH IT!"
"Sorry, I slipped!"
"It seems like my sister have channeled Jotaro's strategy of 'keep breaking the opponents limb every time it regenerates' to keep her enemy down! How uncharacteristic of her!' Alicia commentated.
"Really though, this is turning out to be quite the bizarre match..." Amy stating the obvious
Nanoha fired another energy beam at the Bergelmirs, but missed and received a couple of shot from the Bergelmirs'. Luckily, the barrier and thick armor of the Nanorymer means that the damage is nothing. Nanoha then commanded " You guys focus on taking down the Kaiju. I'll handle the Bergelmirs!" Nanoha then fly into the clouds above, getting the easily-distracted SRW J-based level of intelligence from the bunch of Chivi s- the name of the chibi Levi s – to follow her. Arisa and Suzuka then turned towards the roaring Kaiju, who was charging quickly at them.
"Suzuka, step back and ready the Familiars! I'll get him in your optimal range!" Arisa said. Suzuka nodded, her Gaddeth jump back to get out of the way. The Rekka Granveil readied itself, as seconds away from impact, it sidestepped to the right and grabbed the Kaiju. Utilizing the momentum of the charging beast, she spin it around and then threw it up into a building's top floors, causing the entire top construct to fall on to the Kaiju's head.
"Now THAT'S a giant bara deer in the headlights if I ever seen one!" Arisa said, then quickly blushed as she remembers what "bara" means.
And no, don't Google it.
"Wooo! It looks like competitor Arisa just threw the target up onto a high building. How would she continue her assult, now that her only option is ranged weapons?" Alicia commentated
She quickly snapped back to reality when Suzuka's Familiars bombarded the crash site with countless magic bolts. But, instead of what they were expecting, the half-sized Yaibara was still standing after the attack.
"Arisa, you should try to keep your distance and use the Familiar." Suzuka adviced. Arisa wasn't having any of those though.
"I have a better idea. Suzuka, give me some platforms."
Suzuka knows what Arisa was trying to do "You sure about this ?"
"It will work." Arisa replied, then commanded her mech to run as fast as it can, until it approaches the platforms.
"And...JUMP!"
The Rekka kept jumping from platform to platform, heading towards the Kaiju that's still trying to get itself out of the building's rubble. As she made one last jump, Arisa yelled into the Device that was inside her cockpit.
"Engage all of the afterburners!" The words caught the audience by surprise. It was the same line that the pilot of the Tacit Ronin uttered during June 21st, 2016 at Tokyo Bay. But instead of rising from the sea, the Kaiju was rising from the rubble. It didn't make the scene any less epic though.
"Ladies, gentlemen, people of various sexual preferences...
History is about to virtually repeat itself." Alicia said, almost dropping her mic.
At full thrust, the Rekka slammed it's blade into the Kaiju's face, sort of like a bladed punch. This threw the monster into another building, along with giving it a new stab wound in the head. The secondary brain must be holding up pretty well, as the monster kept roaring weakly.
"Eat fire, you faux-dinosaur piece of crap!" Arisa shouted, as Flame Eyes charged up for a finish move. At the same time, the beast leapt toward her from the other building. She knew that her grandparents have a hard time taking this sunovabitch down, but she have one thing that they didn't have.
A friggin flaming whip.
"FLAME WHIP! CUT THROUGH MY ENEMY!" Arisa shouted, in full English. The blade proceeded to lash out and cut the kaiju in half mid-air. As she was about to congratulate herself, she remembered something:
Her blade was a blade of fire. And fire doesn't cause large friction. And the lack of significant friction means the speed of the mass won't decrease.
"The burning corpse is coming right at me, isn't it?" But before the two piece of half-charred Kaiju meat could hit her dead on the face, the Overfreeze Gaddeth have flown up at high speed and ripped the two pieces of meat into small chunky salsa bits that rained everywhere. The down size is, now there's Kaiju Blue over both of them, since Arisa only cauterize the two half, not the millions and billion pieces of kaiju meat bleargh.
"Sorry! I was afraid that a big piece would get to you, so..." Suzuka apologized quickly, but Arisa just laughed.
"And you didn't get covered in it? Please, we're even. We're both covered in what is basically pee." Suzuka giggled at Arisa's comment, which would likely to cause a biologist and a chemist to throw a fit of ammonia-related rage. Arisa then spread out her hands, and said.
"Hug me."
"E-EH?!"
"C'mon, I can't fly, so I need to hitch a ride, okay?"
"...Okay!" And with that, the Overfreeze Gaddeth hugged the Rekka Granveil from behind and fly towards the finish line...which was still a long way ahead.
"Jeez, why can't you hug me properly~"
"Arisa-chan, the Granveil's chest is too pointy. I can't hug you with THAT in the way."
"Aww man..."
"Hey, Arisa-chan."
"Yeah?"
"Your grandpa is the pilot of the Tacit Ronin, correct? First Japanese Jeager, Mark 1. Duc "Duke" Jessop and Kaori Jessop, daughter named Shana Jessop, later married and change her name to Shana Bannings, yes?" Suzuka said, knowing about Arisa's mother being the daughter of the pilots. Quite interestingly, her grandma also once served as one of the support ops for the Tacit. That's also why she wanted to be an engineer: stories of how Duc and Kaori overworked the machine and constantly get scolded for it is fun, but the tales behind the construction and maintenance, not to mention retrofit, of Jeager that her grandma tell is downright inspiring.
"Yep, that's him alright. Did you know that my grandma's father used to be a puppeteer for low budget tokusatsu series?"
"Surprisingly, no, I didn't. But anyway, your grandfather. He didn't win the war alone. In fact, I remember him dying before it ended. I remember my history well. During his fourth battle." Suzuka stated. Arisa won't deny it, because it was the truth.
"But my grandma also served as the Tacit support ops, and let me tell you, for as good as history made him to be, he's still a human being. My grandma told him that he was really similar to you: hotheaded, a little jumpy on matters and usually don't like to sit back if he can prove himself. But he never went on alone or think that he was bellow others. He considered himself just as a person in a group, who was suppose to fight together. That's why, out of three kills-"
"-two of them was team kill. One was with some Jeager that I forgot the name, and the other was with Coyote Tango, the one who saved "The Daughter of Tokyo". Mom told me so. But only now did I realize that those two weren't cannon fodders to absorb some damage for grandpa's Jeager."
"SERIOUSLY?! The one who killed Onibaba. CANNON FODDER!?"
"Well, it DID have a pair of cannons..."
"MORTARS! AND REALLY NOW?!"
"Jeez, jeez, I'm sorry, 'kay?"
Meanwhile, over at Nanoha...
There's a bunch of dead Bergelmirs at the Nanorymer's feet. The Nanorymer then flown away at high speed towards the finish line. So anticlimactic.
Fate saw Nanoha was lagging behind a bit, and the fact that now they've secured a hefty score already, immediately flew back to form a Twin Unit with Nanoha so she can utilize her [Accel] Spirit Commands to speed things up. It would be her downfall, though, as that gave Levi's Ymir a chance to regenerate her top half and part of her propulsion system.
"Oooh, you think you're so smart, ruining my genius plan, eh? Well think again, cheeky lil' buns!" Levi boasted, as she quickly check the status of her mech. "Hmm...just enough EN to use "it"... The conversion should be rough, but it's better than nothing."
The decorative jewels on the Ymir's bulky shoulder pops out, then transformed into her trustworthy Vunificus Crusher. The weapon then shifted, transforming into a trident-like form. Then, from that "trident" sprouted a gigantic beam of lightning and thunder. Levi kept flying, flying, lengthening the light blade in the process.
"C-Competitor Levi is converting her finishing move into a MAPW- Massive Area Pre-emptive Weapon – on the spot! This should drain the EN quicker and decrease the accuracy and damage, but the range of assult would be huge!" Ami said, causing the crowd to gasp.
"OUGI! RAIJIN MESSATSU KYOKKOZAN!" (trans: Secret technique! Thunder Blade Annihilation Aurora Slash.!)
Levi roared with all her might, then preformed a destructive horizontal slash. A FULL 360 HORIZONTAL SLASH. It caught all of the targets and the entirety of Team T&H. Everything was covered in explosion. Heck, the explosions blew up into more explosions for Christ sake!
"Well, let's see. Female King Gainer, check. Zeorymer on steroid, check. Daizengar that bears the Getter name, check. Mini Tacit Ronin with cool shades, check. Targets, check. Okay, no more surprises!" Levi then leisurely walks towards the finish line, as the last (hastily converted from a EN hogging move) MAPW literally drained all of her Ymir's energy.
And then Nanoha and Fate just jet through the finish line at high speed.
"Team T&H Nanoha and Fate won the race!" Alicia announced, causing the crowd to go wild.
This didn't sit well with Levi.
"WHAT?! HOW?! HOW DID ANY OF YOU-"
"Levi, a '-10 hit' rate and a...rather lacking accuracy stat kind of hampers your last attack..." Fate said. But now Levi is just down right depressed.
"Uguu..."
"Now that they've finished the 1st lap, let's look at the scores so far... Dark Materials is on 80 points, and T&H is on 85. T&H is in the lead!" Alicia declared.
"Levi got the most points for targets destroyed, but T&H earned a lot of points from killing the boss and finishing the race~" Amy explained.
"There will be a five minute intermission before we start the 2nd lap! So please, take care of your "business" so you don't have an "accident" when watching!"
Many of the folks utilized this chance to get some refreshment or to go to the loo. The commentators also take this chance to relax, with Alicia happily slurping on a smoothie.
"Good job on the play-by-play commentary, Alicia~" Amy praised.
"What a sur-friggin-prise. That fool Levi is losing." IF, is that you?!
"Ah! Hey there, Dearche~" Amy greeted the girl with white, black-tipped hair. Sadly, we can't have IF and her Grungust unit 3 yet...
YET...
"Mmm. It's been a while." Dearche replied.
"Ohhh? Were you worried about how Levi was doing?" Alicia teased.
"O-Of course not! If that bloody idiot loses, it's a loss for our entire team! I can't turn a blind eye to that! So I j-just dropped by to see what I could do about this Python-esque situation!" Dearche pulled a Rin Tohsaka, while at the same time being British.
"Yeah, yeah~ But if that's the story you want to stick to..." Alicia continued to tease, causing Dearche to grumble under her quickly regained her composure "Anyway, that's how it is. May I join the duel?"
"That's A-OK! Let me get things sorted." Alicia said, but a bright idea hit Amy
"Why don't you join in too, Alicia-chan? I can handle things here by myself."
"Hmmm. But I'm technically still on my shift..." Alicia hesitated, which gives Dearche a chance to utilize her opponent's ego
"I guess you're happy with you current number of losses to me, eh, LITTLE CHICKEN? What a shame. I thought we could have a rematch of our last battle from the beta...y'know, the one where my Valsiong 3 rode your horse around like a lil' pony? Or maybe it wasn't the "gallant steed" that you said it was.
It's just a lil' chicken. Cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheep cheeeeeeep" Dearche taunted, finishing off with a baaad impression of Tommy Wiseau. NOBODY pulls a Wiseau on Alicia's mech.
"Heh, heh... That's a very good point you make there, Dearche..." Alicia said, with Amy muttering "She's pissed off now..." behind her.
"I'll wipe that smirk off your face with a mech-sized horseshoe!"
"If you want to challenge the might of the King that the Valsiong 3 possess, bring it!" Dearche boasted.
A/N: Aaaaand that's it for the FOURTH chapter! Surely, you've witness my love for Pacific Rim and the one-scene-wonder that was Tacit Ronin. And the fact that I kinda like Arisa. One of the down right hotblooded characters from the Nanoha series, but underused? [Focus]!
Don't worry, I won't put Jeagers in. The whole PR thing is like a flimsy explanation of how fully-immersive VR tech comes from Drift technology, and people go nuts about a mecha game is because they were saved by mecha, and therefore the cultural impact still remains. It's like the thing with Betterman and GaoGaiGar, actually. Or to be more mainstream, it's kinda like Marvel's Cinematic Universe and the Fox-owned X-Men, but with one of them being events that happens in the past, instead of two things that happens around the same time yet never gets any mention.
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