Bamboo Forest, Gensokyo
A large detachment of the 75th Ranger Regiment hadn?t been expecting that much trouble when they were walking through the seemly deserted brush. But that changed when Reisen had spotted them.
Immediately taking down three officers with three shots from her service rifle, she had caused them to disperse. The moon rabbit recognized them as special forces and was eager to show them what the Lunarian Defense Corps had taught her. The fear and nervousness had disappeared when the first round had left the barrel.
With the equivalent of an entire company pouring down fire in her direction, Reisen was forced to fall back. Some of the lead elements decide to give chase while the others scan the surrounding areas. She began to weave between trees, dodging bursts of fire. At a downed bamboo trunk, she feigns a stumble, covering the fact that she had armed and dropped a live grenade.
The Rangers don?t notice until one of them almost trips on it. It explodes, sending a mass of red bullets that phase in and out randomly. All but one are taken down by her spell grenade. The noise had attracted the rest of the Rangers, keeping pressure on the moon rabbit. Bullets begin to increase in volume as she kept running. She?s so focused that she barely notices a low flying A-10 leaving a trail of fire and smoke.
A bullet zips by her left ear, telling her that they were getting closer. Turning around, she takes half a second to do some calculations. Then she brings her rifle up and pulls the trigger. The bullet hits a bamboo tree at an angle, sending it into two of her pursuers. Another small group of them appear from the left, sending Reisen running again.
She recognizes the clearings that she runs through. A few hundred meters, there was a bunker that she had set up earlier. If she can reach it, she can deal a lot of damage to the Rangers and keep them away from Eientei. Another NATO fighter, this time an F-22, was spinning out of control and crashed. From the direction and distance, she guesses that the fighter had probably crashed into some of the Rangers.
A little rectangular hole showed her that she had reached the bunker. The hail of bullets made going through the back door too risky, so she slides in through the front. Ignoring the branches and rocks scratching her legs, she lands and rolls. She spots a MG-42 that Nitori had modified and picks it up. Slamming it down on the ledge made by the hole, she leans forward and gets her lane of fire.
Movement attracted her eye and she squeezes the trigger. Bright red bullets tear through the first few groups that were caught in the clearing. The rest scattered, racing to find any cover from the waves of death that the moon rabbit was sending out. The kappa had guessed that the machine gun would have to hold off large numbers by itself and added another type of magic to each bullet.
It was great not having to worry about causing the barrel to overheat. The water magic that Nitori had infused in each bullet cooled down the barrel with every shot, making it safe to the touch, even after hundreds of rounds. Since the Rangers couldn?t had known this, they were waiting for a pause in the firing that would never come. Then Reisen heard something land next to her.
Looking down, she sees a grenade. Quickly reaching down, she grabs it and returns it to the thrower. The rest of the Rangers spot their window and begin to rush forward, throwing grenades as well. Scrambling, she manages to shoot most of them out of the air and ducks when the rest explode all around her. Knowing that she wouldn?t be able to hit all of them with the MG-42 before they overran her, she has no choice but to relay on her ability.
Her eyes begin to glow a deeper shade of red and the air all around begins to simmer. The Rangers see that and begin to falter. Reisen increases the power of her gaze and forces them to stop completely. Then the worst possible thing happens.
Reisen begins to feel something affect her. She begins to feel extremely agitated and depressed. Memories of her last time on the battlefield replay themselves in her mind. The logical part of her mind knows that somehow, she?s being affected by her own power. It triggers serious alarms, but she?s powerless to do anything about it. Almost as if by itself, her body begins to move forward. Grabbing her rifle, she charges forward with bayonet at the ready.
Reaching the nearest Ranger, she kicks him the stomach and slams her rifle into the side of his head. Hearing a loud crack, she steps back and stabs him in the chest. Spotting another, she raise her rifle high and brings it down hard on his helmet butt first. It leaves a deep dent and she finishes him off by punching him in his throat. The rest of the Rangers are stumbling around, badly affected due to her ability.
A part of her mind recognized that she was suffering from an attack of shell shock. She couldn?t stop herself, no matter how hard she tried. Out of the corner of her eye, she sees a Ranger bring his rifle up. Reacting instantly, she pulls back and throws her rifle. It flies true and impales her target through the heart. Pulling out her knife, she grabs her next target.
Locking his arm into a bar, she brings her elbow down on it. It cracks loudly and bends at a sickening angle. Then she swiftly cuts him in the throat. Throwing the body to the side, she doesn?t slow down to clean the blade. She jumps forward, slamming her shoulder into another of her enemies. A quick cut to the throat and the stomach sends him to the ground. Remembering the MG-42, she retrieves it and holds the trigger down.
The machine gun keeps firing and firing as Reisen walks slowly forward. She doesn?t even bother to keep count of how many Rangers she?s taken down but she notices all of the bodies that are everywhere. A loud click is heard from the machine gun, signaling that she?s out of ammo. That breaks the frenzy that she had given up on.
Dropping to her knees, she slowly looks around her. Not one Ranger was left alive in the clearing. An entire company of the some of the best soldiers that NATO could send had been wiped out by one former member of the Lunarian Defense Corps. But it wouldn?t be fair to forget that she had gone into a frenzy during the battle. She knew that she had to kill to protect her home and loved ones, but she never wanted to do it like this. Picking herself and the MG-42 up, her legs are shaking too much for her to stand steady.
She has to take a few seconds to get herself together and gets her rifle back. Opening the bolt, she notices that she?s empty. Her hand shakes as she reloads and she makes her way back to the bunker. Climbing in, she silently reloads the machine gun. The whole time, she had not noticed that the radio was still on.
?-incoming, I say again, American Green Berets have been spotted near the Bamboo Forest! They?re believed to be after our leaders, mainly Yukari, Eirin, and Eiki. Do not engage them alone!?
Reisen tensed up, she was in for another hard fight. Her biggest fear wasn?t dying anymore, it was going into that frenzy and never coming out. Her knuckles turn white when she grips the machine gun and sights downrange. For the next few minutes, she?s staying deathly still.
At the far end of the clearing, bushes begin to shake. Then a figure slowly moves out in front of the bush. A few seconds later, more figures move out, their weapons at the high ready. One near the front has a tube slung from his shoulder.
Switching to her rifle, she aims for him. She squeezes the trigger and watches the red blur go straight through the man. He?s flung a few feet as his comrades scatter to find cover and return fire. Taking up the machine gun, she puts suppressive fire downrange. Flinching as bullets hit all around her, she tries to hold them off but can?t keep the side elements.
She can feel the agitation and depression start to build up again. She clamps down on it, this time trying to distance herself from the fight. Keeping count of how many rounds she had fired, she knows that she?s about to need to reload. Quickly grabbing for another drum, she takes pulls out a Mauser C96 and shoots at the nearest Green Berets. She grabs the ammunition but has to slam it down on the head of a Green Beret that had jumped into the bunker.
Dropping the drum, she spins the man around and uses him as a shield as she fires even more rounds. Now with all of them out of cover, she can count ten of them. Her pistol only has seven rounds left, so she decides to hit their weapons instead. With her sidearm out of ammo, she takes her shield?s sidearm and shoots the rest of the weapons, but it jams before she can take any of the operators down.
Dispatching her shield with a quick neck snap she throws him into one of the other operatives. The others rush forward and try to overwhelm her. Reisen crouches a little, adopting a boxing stance. The first one to reach her tries to tackle her but she holds him back easily. Leaning to the left, she makes him stumble and elbows him in the back of the head. He instantly goes limp, leaving the moon rabbit to dodge the fury of punches from the next one.
She dodges the punches and then throws a few of her own. Each of them connect, and they all make cracking noises. Her target gets disorientated, making the final punch to the temple easy to land. Hearing steps from her left side, she throws out a kick that catches her attacker in the throat. He falls, and begins to make gurgling noises. Reisen puts him out of his misery with a hard kick to the side of the head.
A glint of light was the only warning that she had of the knife that she barely had time to dodge. It misses her eye by less than an inch causing her to jump back. The Green Beret presses the attack, giving the rest of them a chance to surround her. Now, she was being flanked by five of the operatives while dodging knife slashes from a sixth.
Three of them rush in at the first time, leaving her with no chance to escape. So instead, she drops to a knee and sweeps her leg all around her. The quick move knocks all of them down, leaving the last three to charge in. She lunges at the one directly in front of her. He tries to bring his knife up but she knocks it out of his hand.
Before he lands on his back, Reisen has her knee on his stomach and her elbow on his throat. When they hit the ground, the force of the impact and the knee on his stomach causes his body armor to shatter. Then she pulls her knife and stabs him in the stomach. Rolling off she dodges the kick that was aimed at her head.
One of them stabs forward, causing the moon rabbit to dodge again. But she stumbles on the third step. She can?t jump back enough to avoid the knife and gets cut on her cheek. She immediately grabs the knife and turns it back on its wielder. Then she twists it and throws his body to the side.
Everyone in the area is thrown on the ground when another low flying A-10 goes right over their location. Then another SU-47 flies after it, pouring machine gun fire downrange. Reisen?s hearing rings as she gets back on her feet while the operatives had trouble doing the same thing. She takes the opportunity to take down two more by stabbing them in the throat.
Now with only two left, she?s going on the offensive. Getting in close to one of the operatives, she unleashes a punishing barrage of punches that leaves no room for defense. She hits with enough force to break his body armor and his helmet. Then she connects with a devastating uppercut that shatters bone.
A shot rings out and Reisen feels something hot burn into her arm. She instantly feels light headed due to her sudden decrease in blood pressure. But she still has enough determination to spin around and make her hand into a gun shape. Then a bullet flies from it and hits the last operative in the face.
With the last operative down, she inspects her wound. It seems to be light but it will affect her ability to fight. Making her way back to the bunker, she begins to search for the first aid kit. But before she can get far, a rain of bullets hits all around her.
Looking at the clearing again, she sees more Green Berets and now they brought along Spetsnaz troops. The amount of bullets that they put down around her block her vision. Reisen reloads the machine gun and gets into position to fire.
She feels another bullet hit her shoulder and spins her around. Pulling out her pistol, she sits against the wall. Trying to slow down her breathing, she knows that she has only a last stand to look forward to. She can hear the soldiers getting closer and closer. Bring her Mauser up, she waits for one to get into her line of sight.
Her hand starts to shake and her vision starts to blacken. She tries to steady her breath, but it gets short and shallow. Feeling the sweat on her forehead, she knows that she doesn?t have that much time left. The top part of a helmet begins to come into view. But she doesn?t have the strength to pull the trigger.
The Spetsnaz operative trains his weapon on her, waiting for her to make a move. He keeps on getting closer and closer. With a sneer on his face, he begins to pull the trigger. But then he gets a shocked look on his face and falls forward.
The last things that Reisen sees before she blacks out is an arrow sticking out of the dead Russian and a blur of red and blue next to her.
Near the Hakueri Shrine, Gensokyo
Ever since the first element had stepped into the general vicinity of the Hakueri Shrine, they had to deal with the devastating attacks launched by Reimu. Instead of fighting in a conventional style, she had adopted hit and run tactics. The blunt of the damage had been received by the American 4th Infantry Division and the British 3rd Mechanised Division.
The fittest solider of either division couldn?t keep up with the miko when she used her power of flight to get away from each ambush. And their morale was dropping with each attack as well.
Remiu was putting more effort into this than anything else in her life. She wasn?t anywhere near the point of having to slow down. Her ammo was more than three quarters full and she still had plenty of grenades. As long as she kept them away from the stairs in front of the shrine, they wouldn?t be able to fire on the shrine.
Running back after she had emptied another magazine and threw a few grenades, she notices a weird feeling in her stomach. Looking up, she can tell that somehow, the sky was different. But she couldn?t figure out why. It was starting to worry her a lot. Deep down, she knew it had something to do with the barrier.
The sound of something large and metal began to get louder and louder. Quickly dropping to the prone behind a bush, Remiu sees what looks like a tank make its way through the forest. Trees are knocked down as it slowly moves forward.
Grabbing her radio, she tries to spot a weakness.
?Nitori, there?s this thing rolling up here.?
?What?s it look like, Remiu??
?It?s got wheels, and a big gun turning around. The front looks like an arrow.?
?Give me a minute?wheels and an arrow front?that?s probably it. Looks like we got Strykers. They?re personnel carriers. They can take a good amount of damage before they stop. Do not let them get up the hill!?
The armor looks strong, so Remiu takes out one of her grenades. This one is not one of her special spell card grenades, but just a regular magically enhanced one. She throws it and it lands on top of the vehicle with a loud clunk. The machine gun mounted on the top turns to face her and begins to fire a storm of bullets at her. Narrowly dodging a bullet, the miko turns and breaks contact.
The grenade goes off in bright red explosion. Since it was magically enhanced, what happened next was a total surprise to the crew. The force of the blast destroyed the suspension and slammed the vehicle into the ground so hard, it was buried half a foot. Looking back, Remiu sees that the machine gun was obliterated by the blast. Turning around, she charges forward and lands on top of it.
Being careful to avoid the sharp shards of metal created by the explosion, she takes a knee and wait for the door to open. After a few seconds, it drops down with a loud clang. 9 soldiers stumble out, moving to set up security. Reimu opens fire on them from above, taking them all down before they can react. Jumping down, she enters the vehicle and takes down the two crew members.
Dashing out of the wreckage, she can see explosions nearby. Flying into the tree line, she can barely make out a mortar team moving towards the shrine. Bullets suddenly start to come close to her, a hint that she should probably get closer to the ground.
Dropping behind a tree, she looks for the source of the bullets. Seeing a squad taking defensive positions a few hundred meters away, the miko runs to the side. Catching sight of her flanking maneuver, they begin to fall back while covering each other. One of them is hit by a red bullet and flails back. He?s grabbed by one of his comrades and is dragged back.
Encouraged by her lucky shot, she continues to fire at the retreating men. She hits another and slows down the entire group. Moving forward, Remiu keeps dashing to avoid the return fire. But then the hair on the back of her neck start to stand on end, causing her to run back. She barely has the time to throw herself into the prone before an entire company opens fire on her. Immediately grateful for the small hill that she was hiding behind, she was angry for almost walking into that trap.
Rolling to her side, she opens fire with her M4. She keeps firing until she hears a click then rolls back and reloads. But she forgets how many magazines she has already gone through and almost burns herself when she puts her hand on the handle guard. Pulling out her sidearm, she fires until she get a jam about 4 rounds in. It?s a tight jam, not something that she?ll be able to clear before she gets overrun.
She?s low on grenades but has two aces still up her sleeve. Hesitant about the prospect of using one of them, she?s forced to play her hand when the entire company charges. Pulling out her most valuable spell card, she activates it.
Remiu begins to float, even as bullets hit where she?s at. But the bullets go straight through. Seeing this, the soldiers stop and begin to concentrate fire on her. Even with so many rounds aimed at her, none of them hit. Some of the troops begin to step black slowly, fear evident on their faces. A captain steps forward and begins to fire at her, but it still has no effect.
Orbs begin to orbit around her, filling up with every bullet that passes through her. They glow bright, causing the entire company of soldiers to turn and flee. But it was too late.
The miko raises her left hand and crosses her right one over her chest. Then she spins and spreads her arms out. The orbs explode, sending spell cards everywhere. They hit every soldier in the area, instantly sending them to the ground. A Stryker was moving forward to support the infantry when a hail of spell cards cut straight through its armor and causes a massive fire.
Concentrating on extending the spell?s duration, Remiu started to pool all of her energy into it. Normally, she would had been able to attack indefinitely, but with the added power that she needed to make it lethal, it was draining her quickly. Over in another clearing, she can see a trio of Strykers fire at her. Gain altitude, she looks around for more targets. Before she forgets, she rains another barrage on the trio and moves on.
A loud crack sounds a few feet from her. On the ground an M1 Abrams tank had just entered a clearing a few hundred meters away and had its sights on her. In response, Remiu rains down spellcards on it, but is surprised when they barely make craters. She keeps on hitting it, but feels her energy being drained with each spell card. Lowering her altitude, she tries to figure something out.
She decides to cut the spell off before she gets exhausted and hurls the orbs at the tank. The orbs hit with a good amount of force and explode. Dust flies into the air, blocking her view of the tank. About a few feet off the ground, Remiu?s energy gives out and she falls. She lands on her feet but falls backwards. Breathing heavily, she can barely lift her own hand up after she sits up.
Her heart drops when she hears a rumbling from inside the cloud. Slowly, the tank moves forward, but its armor is heavy damaged. With that amount of damage, Remiu could had broken through if she had another grenade. But she had used the last one and dropped her rifle earlier. And now, she doesn?t have the energy to run away.
Even with the massive tank moving towards her, Remiu holds her ground. She still had her pistol and pulls it out. Looking down, she notices that the jam is clear. Pulling the slide back, she brings it up. The first round hits the tank head on but does no damage. She fires another but the same thing happens. At this point, she doesn?t care and just keeps pulling the trigger.
Just as the last round hits the tank, it explodes. Hearing a whirling noise in the air, Remiu looks up and sees an AH-64 helicopter flying above. In the cockpit, Marisa gives her a tip of the hat and flies towards the heavier parts of the fighting, raining down magical bullets and missiles. The sense of relief is cut short when a heavily camouflaged Bradley IFV rams into the clearing.
The rear door opens and a team of six soldiers dash out. They take up a firing line and begin to march forward, weapons held at the high ready. All of them could tell that Remiu was exhausted and her pistol was out of ammo. The miko?s arm had dropped the pistol next to her, causing them to be extra wary.
When they about 10 feet from her, they stopped. Before they could do anything else, a green blur came from the wood line. Everyone in the clearing turned but the blur was already in their midst. The highest ranking member of the team, a sergeant, lost his weapon when a slash cut it into two pieces. Now that the blur was moving fast, Remiu could recognized her rescuer.
Youmu Konpaku had used her ability of high speed to get in close enough to not worry about getting shot. She kept performing a graceful dance that ended with the entire team?s rifles being cut in half. With the soldiers now getting themselves together, they began to try to overwhelm her. Youmu?s ghost half rams into one of the soldiers with so much force, his neck is snapped.
The marshmallow keeps going and rams into the cannon on top of the Bradley, bending it at a 60 degree angle. With the ability to accurately aim, the risk of friendly fire was too great for the IFV to take. Youmu dashes behind the group in the blink of an eye and swings her sword. The bullets that are created from the slash hit the soldiers, breaking through their body armor and killing them.
Now with no more chance of friendly fire, the Bradley accelerates forward, aiming to run over Youmu. The half human jumps on top of the vehicle and stabs right through the armor. Running to the front of the vehicle, she stops then slashes the front part off. The remaining part slows down than stops.
A few seconds go by and then Youmu runs to Remiu?s side.
?Lady Yukari sent me to keep an eye on you. We need to get back to the Human Village.? Youmu helped Remiu get back on her feet. ?From what I heard on the radio, we?re getting overrun slowly.?
?I used up all of my grenades and spell cards,? Remiu was having trouble breathing. ?Fantasy Heaven took a lot out of me just now??
?I saw everything. Don?t worry, Lady Yukari said that she knows what to do.?