[COMPLETE] Rumia Quest VI; Cont: Reaching for the Sky

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>"So magic on the sword, and nonmagic on the other one, huh? Maybe there's a way to trick the arms into attacking each other? Like the old saying about what happens when the strongest spear strikes the strongest shield."
>So let's buzz the Fire-shooting Arm, and get it to attack us while we're between it and the Sword Arm!

Rika
>Well, we may as well pull out the miniguns, and station them like Turrets! "Hey, Celestial, you can pull a trigger right? Give shooting one of these a try, but try not to hit Rumia would you?"

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>"So magic on the sword, and nonmagic on the other one, huh? Maybe there's a way to trick the arms into attacking each other? Like the old saying about what happens when the strongest spear strikes the strongest shield."
>So let's buzz the Fire-shooting Arm, and get it to attack us while we're between it and the Sword Arm!

Rika
>Well, we may as well pull out the miniguns, and station them like Turrets! "Hey, Celestial, you can pull a trigger right? Give shooting one of these a try, but try not to hit Rumia would you?"

> "I think that's the idea." Tenshi says. "I mean, the bulky one shrugged off your slash, and the glowing one shrugged off the magic." Rika says.

> You fire some blasts at the magic arm, and fly between it and the Sword-Arm. The magic arm points a finger up, and calls down a lighting bolt instead for shooting fire, while the Sword-Arm swings the blade on the side of it's arm.

---

> You form two more miniguns, and place them like turrets.

> "Uh... uh... I'm not used to this kinda thing." Tenshi says. "I'll try..."

> The celestial pulls the trigger of one of the guns, and hits the glowing arm. There are small splashes of green blood from it, so it's actually taking damage.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>Let's fly out of the way of the sword arm's swing, and try to absorb the Lightning with Unified Chaos!
>Then we'll send it at the Sword Arm!

Rika
>"Fun, isn't it? Better brace yourself, these things are about to get a lot stronger!"
>Let's upgrade the turrets to Quad-Barrel! More Dakka! All targeted on the Magic Arm!

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>Let's fly out of the way of the sword arm's swing, and try to absorb the Lightning with Unified Chaos!
>Then we'll send it at the Sword Arm!

Rika
>"Fun, isn't it? Better brace yourself, these things are about to get a lot stronger!"
>Let's upgrade the turrets to Quad-Barrel! More Dakka! All targeted on the Magic Arm!

> You dodge the swing, while you stick out the blade to catch the lighting.

> This proves stupid, as the lighting just arcs across the metal and shocks you, you fall to the ground, pained and somewhat stunned.

---

> You upgrade the turrets so that they have four more barrels, so quadruple the dakka.

> "Urhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhr" Tenshi goes as she shoots, jolting from the recoil. Stupid Celestial, can't even adapt to the recoil of four miniguns firing simultaneously...

> The magical arm forms a barrier around itself. This seems to be deflecting the bullets.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>Note to self: Figure out how to absorb magic-based attacks with Unified Chaos.
>Well, let's pull ourself together and get out of the Sword Arm's range!

Rika
>"Lightweight."
>Let's switch them to beam miniguns! That should cut through the shield!

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>Note to self: Figure out how to absorb magic-based attacks with Unified Chaos.
>Well, let's pull ourself together and get out of the Sword Arm's range!

Rika
>"Lightweight."
>Let's switch them to beam miniguns! That should cut through the shield!

> Honestly you're not sure if the sword can. No-one who made it absorbs magic attacks... well, you guess Shinki could, but that's just Shinki.

> You get yourself back up, just in time to roll away from being crushed into the ground.

---

> "You know what Celestials do all day? One of them's drinking. Call me a lightweight again and I'll drink you under the peach trees." Tenshi says, clearly not seriously, as the turrets reconfigre.

> The lasers indeed do cut through the shield, and still damage the arm. After all, these are science lasers, not magic!

[Darkoda]

>Meanwhile, Dark Spark the bulky arm when we get out of its reach.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>That just means we'll need to train with Shinki a bit more to be able to pull something like that off. She did infuse us with her own energy after all, and she was the one who put the finishing touches on the sword.
>Well, let's try and back off, and set up a bunch of Dark Energy Mines around the Sword Arm, then pop them all off at once with a Sword Wave!
>Since we trained on how to use our Qi, we can see how energy flows, right?

Rika
>"Explains why you let that Oni in, must've gotten boring with only other Celestials to compete against."
>Hell, we should have the energy to double the already present number, right? Eight times the laser dakka!

[Raikaria]

>Meanwhile, Dark Spark the bulky arm when we get out of its reach.

> You fire a Dark Spark at the bulky arm, and it actually damages it.

Rumia
>That just means we'll need to train with Shinki a bit more to be able to pull something like that off. She did infuse us with her own energy after all, and she was the one who put the finishing touches on the sword.
>Well, let's try and back off, and set up a bunch of Dark Energy Mines around the Sword Arm, then pop them all off at once with a Sword Wave!
>Since we trained on how to use our Qi, we can see how energy flows, right?

Rika
>"Explains why you let that Oni in, must've gotten boring with only other Celestials to compete against."
>Hell, we should have the energy to double the already present number, right? Eight times the laser dakka!

> Seems like it, that said, you're not sure if you can use the Shinki-energy, or it was just to attune you to the sword.

> You surround the arm with dark energy mines, before you launch a sword wave at one, causing a chain-reaction. The arm is missing significant chunks after that, but unleashes it's own sword-wave in reply.

> You trained to use your own energy, you've not learnt how to see other's.

---

> "Heh, no, all the others who came up when I opened the way demanded I fix the incident when they won. The Oni just asked for a place here." Tenshi says, as the turrets upgrade again.

> Your energy is now around 17%, lasers take more energy than bullets.

> The arm fires a stream of cold energy towards you and the turrets. Everything the cold wave touches starts to freeze.

[Hanzo K.]

Rika
>Cut the lasers, and switch to secondary fire, Flamethrowers! We'll stop that ice wave dead in it's tracks!

Rumia
>Let's dodge the Sword Wave, and retaliate with the Sword Wave equivalent of a Dark Spark!

[Raikaria]

Rika
>Cut the lasers, and switch to secondary fire, Flamethrowers! We'll stop that ice wave dead in it's tracks!

Rumia
>Let's dodge the Sword Wave, and retaliate with the Sword Wave equivalent of a Dark Spark!

> You switch to flamethrowers. This stops everything around you, including you, freezing.

---

> You barrel roll to dodge the sword wave, before you unleash the closest to a Dark Spark you can get with the sword, the Chi-infused thrust you used on Tenshi. Despite this being a physical attack, it still does an impressive level of damage to the arm, which crumples and falls on the ground.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>"Alright! That's one down! Now for the other one!"
>Let's charge right at the Magic Arm with no energy charged into Unified Chaos, and push our speed to the very limit we can handle, so we'll leave nine vicious gashes in it that seem to occur at the same time!

Rika
>How's our energy reserves holding up with the switch to flamethrowers?

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>"Alright! That's one down! Now for the other one!"
>Let's charge right at the Magic Arm with no energy charged into Unified Chaos, and push our speed to the very limit we can handle, so we'll leave nine vicious gashes in it that seem to occur at the same time!

Rika
>How's our energy reserves holding up with the switch to flamethrowers?

> You charge towards the magic arm, dodgeing various magical blasts thrown at you, before you perform a... I don't know what to call nine slashes, I'd say Octaslash for eight... Novaslash? That'll do.

> The arm falls apart, and vanishes.

> Enkura vanishes too.

---

> Fine, you just used the excess heat generated from the lasers.

[Hanzo K.]

I was going for the classic 'Nine Lives Bladeworks/Nine Bullet Revolver', from F/SN, but that works.

Rumia
>"Alright you guys, let's get outta here and finish the job!"
>Hopefully she's alright though, maybe someday her madness can get fixed like Flan's was.
>Let's get outta here with the others!

Rika
>"You don't have to tell me twice!"
>Let's break down the guns into a tech-cloak that splits into a bunch of drones, incorporating the preexisting 15 attack drones we made earlier, and get the hell outta there!

[Raikaria]

I was going for the classic 'Nine Lives Bladeworks/Nine Bullet Revolver', from F/SN, but that works.

Rumia
>"Alright you guys, let's get outta here and finish the job!"
>Hopefully she's alright though, maybe someday her madness can get fixed like Flan's was.
>Let's get outta here with the others!

Rika
>"You don't have to tell me twice!"
>Let's break down the guns into a tech-cloak that splits into a bunch of drones, incorporating the preexisting 15 attack drones we made earlier, and get the hell outta there!

> "Yeah!" Tenshi agrees. "We gotta stuff her back in here!"

> You hope she's alright, as you, Rika and Tenshi use the exit.

> You see Maribel, who is in a fetal position, Renko, who is over her, and Sukia, who is looking at some footprints.

> "She won't get far like that, if her power is unravelling enough for her footsteps to turn up. And by that, I mean..."

> There is a scream, from below.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>Let's send out a mass of stabilized Dark Energy Tendrils in all directions to catch her! "Oi, Suika, help me out here with this would you?"

Rika
>"I'll run a full-area scan to direct you guys!"
>Let's run a full scan to pick up on Enkura, and point her out when we find her!

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>Let's send out a mass of stabilized Dark Energy Tendrils in all directions to catch her! "Oi, Suika, help me out here with this would you?"

Rika
>"I'll run a full-area scan to direct you guys!"
>Let's run a full scan to pick up on Enkura, and point her out when we find her!

> You send out a mass of tendrils.

> "You could just follow the footsteps." Sukia says.

---
> You run an area scan, but detect nothing.

> You hear another scream. It's certainly from below.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>Let's chase after the footsteps then!

Rika
>Let's go figure out what that scream is then! "I'm picking up screams from below, I'll go investigate."

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>Let's chase after the footsteps then!

Rika
>Let's go figure out what that scream is then! "I'm picking up screams from below, I'll go investigate."

> The footsteps head to the way back down to Gensokyo.

--

> The screams tones match Enkura's.

[Hanzo K.]

Rika
>"Match found, the screams are Enkura's!"

Rumia
>"Alright then, let's go! Time to drag her back up here! Suika, Tenshi! Keep the door open for us okay?"

Both
>Let's chase after Enkura!

[Raikaria]

Rika
>"Match found, the screams are Enkura's!"

Rumia
>"Alright then, let's go! Time to drag her back up here! Suika, Tenshi! Keep the door open for us okay?"

Both
>Let's chase after Enkura!

> You and Rika dive down the way back to Gensokyo.

---

> When you land, you see Elly, having Enkura pinned to the mountainside, with multiple wounds. You can't tell if the latter is alive or not. Yuuka is also standing nearby, with a smirk on her face.

> "Thanks for chasing her down here and tiring her you two." Elly says.

> "We'll take this from here. She's the one who made the shades, she said so herself when I asked her. The penalty for disturbing my flowers is death, even if I am unable to deal it personally." Yuuka says.

[Hanzo K.]

Rumia
>Uh, do we think it's such a good idea to let them 'finish the job'?
>"Oh yeah, guess her shades messed some up, yeah? Thing is, those shades are just copies, the real ones are long gone."

Rika
>Let's try and materialize something to scan these guys to see precisely how strong they are. We've heard the rumors and such, but it makes sense to find their precise power so we can make a weapon later to do the job.

[Raikaria]

Rumia
>Uh, do we think it's such a good idea to let them 'finish the job'?
>"How'd she mess with your flowers?"

Rika
>Let's try and materialize something to scan these guys to see precisely how strong they are. We've heard the rumors and such, but it makes sense to find their precise power so we can make a weapon later to do the job.

> You're not sure.

> "The shades. They are intolerant of all life. That includes plants." Yuuka says.

---

> You scan Elly first, since she seems to be the underling. It seems her power is equal... no, greater, than Rumia's.

> You then scan Yuuka, and get numerous Error messages before the scanner crashes.

[Darkoda]

>"Okay she might have made quite a few screw-ups but isn't killing her overdoing it a bit?"

[Hanzo K.]

Rika
>"Uh, these guys just broke the scanner. I think it's safe to say they're off the charts."

Rumia
>"We were trying to re-seal her, but she managed to slip away while we were fighting this giant pair of arms she made. She even tried making a copy of Shinki too, but like that would work. Safe to say that a copy of you would similarly fail."

[Raikaria]

>"Okay she might have made quite a few screw-ups but isn't killing her overdoing it a bit?"

> Yuuka gives you a death glare. "You were not in Gensokyo the first time she acted up. She wrecked the place. How bad would you have to be for your own mother to seal you away?"

Rika
>"Uh, these guys just broke the scanner. I think it's safe to say they're off the charts."

Rumia
>"We were trying to re-seal her, but she managed to slip away while we were fighting this giant pair of arms she made. She even tried making a copy of Shinki too, but like that would work. Safe to say that a copy of you would similarly fail."

> "Of course. You can't comprehend Yuuka's power. This is.."

> "Quiet Elly." Yuuka says.

---

> "I don't care what your objective was. I already told you, the penalty for disturbing my flowers is death. Besides, Elly is a Shinigami, and it is her duty to kill a Celestial if she meets one. Even if I were not to order her, she would still act, on duty to the Yama. Besides, if she escaped once, with Yukari dead, she can escape again, I doubt that human wimp is strong enough to prevent her escape for long."Yuuka explains.

[GuyYouMetOnline]

>"She will be."
>"Besides, I'm hoping I can get through to Enkura. She's had a good beating now; that's worked for everyone else I've tried it on."
>"Oh, and her power would let her restore your flowers."

[Raikaria]

>"She will be."

> "In how many years?" Yuuka replies.

[Darkoda]

This is going to take some doing; Yuuka actually has a point both on her being a Celestial and the whole super psycho thing.

[Hanzo K.]

If Flan got fixed, Enkura can be too. Probably the same way, if we consider the Trauma that Flan had to have had the same effect as Enkura's Youkai-Remnants clashing with her Celestial-ness.
Also, it's kinda funny how, back a few quests ago, Original Rumia was the gold standard for power, yet this quest she was undone by as simple a force as gravity.
...Admittedly, it was a Highspeed Supergravity Bullet, so..

Rumia
>"Not particularly sure, but I plan to give her a real crash-course as soon as possible. Plus, I have a plan to even knock the crazy right out of Enkura. She can probably even make your garden and flowers better once that's done. Ever found yourself thinking of a flower that just doesn't exist, and you haven't managed to grow yourself? She can help with that. She managed to pull the old me right outta me thanks to that."

Rika
>"I pasted that faker after that though, Rumia took back what was hers once she was out of the picture."