04/28/2013, 06:37 PM #206 Melun Centre - France
A grimace slowly appeared on Remilia's face as she heard a loud, steady swooshing sound approach from behind her. quickly looking up, she noticed a hovering metal cage that was chasing after her. This thing had to be a helicopter. Though Remilia hadn't seen one up until now, she had gathered enough information in her journey north to learn of the major contraptions that the humans used. At least, she hoped it was a human using the flying cage. However, her hopes didn't last long as she saw danmaku of energy start coming out of the nose of the cage. The energy pellets were not unlike the large energy bomb she had taken earlier before falling into the Seine river. She knew that this helicopter had something to do with another Character.
As the hail of danmaku closed distance on her, Remilia kicked her feet down onto the ground, breaking the road but causing her to brake abruptly. The hail of bullets continued firing, but past her and she watched the helicopter fly past her as well. Remilia knew that she was much too weak at this point to face the threat with a head-on attack. She had to get creative.
Knowing her location and the amount of humans that were there, Remilia wondered if she could perhaps fuse some of her magic with one of the humans' danmaku shooters to her advantage. She didn't have much time, though. The helicopter had already turned around and was closing in fast for another strafing run. Throwing up a quick shield of red mist in front of her, Remilia kicked down on the ground to break a hole through the road. As soon as she kicked the floor, she looked up to see another hail of danmaku rain from the helicopter, but hit her shield instead. Knowing it wouldn't last much longer, Remilia hopped down into the hole she had created, back into the sewers.
Remilia knew that from being outside and using her hypersensitive ears, there was a lot of human activity somewhere northwest of her. She hoped that a command outpost or something similar was in the area. Quickly navigating the maze of sewerage systems, Remilia came across another set of iron ladders. She quickly climbed up them to find that the top was sealed off with some iron circle. Remilia punched it off, sending the circle hundreds of feet into the air.
*** "The hell are the humans thinking, putting that there..." Remilia grumbled.
Climbing out of the hole, she saw that she was now in a residential area of sorts. There were mutliple single-story houses to either side of her. They were mostly covered pastel creme or some other light color with red shingles for rooves. Ignoring the scenery, Remilia rushed towards the greatest sound activity of humans. Whatever had been chasing after her probably wasn't stupid and held some sort of magic or technology that would doubtlessly find her soon. Remilia had to act fast. As she closed in on a clearing with fields, some sort of park, Remilia saw a cluster of the humans in strange brown and dark green clothing. Pulling up a long horizontal line of small danmaku bullets, Remilia fired it off towards the unsuspecting humans as she ran into the park. What had essentially just been a barrage from a large firing squad instantly took down a majority of the humans. Those that had survived either turned and bolted or tried to resist her with what weapons were within reach. Not wanting to waste much time, she quickly finished off those who tried resisting and let those that fled off. Looking around at the area, there were multiple tents of dark green set up and crates were strewn around. There were tables that held several of those metallic danmaku shooters that the humans had. However, off to one of the corners of the park, Remilia noticed something peculiar. It resembled a danmaku shooter in that it had the signature long rod that the danmakus would fly out of, but it was much longer than the ones the humans carried. It was also large enough that Remilia couldn't imagine one of the humans carrying it. That's when she noticed a set of wheels on either side of the device. Though she had never tried it before, she had gotten the general gist of how these danmaku shooters had worked by watching the humans try time and time again while failing to try and shoot her down. This new contraption couldn't be much different, right?
Remilia knew that in order to fire these thigns, inefficient as it was, they had to be supplied with danmakus in physical form called bullets. noticing two boxes hang off the sides of the metal shooter, Remilia opened and checked them. Beautiful. It seemed that the thing was already supplied with the bullets.
Lost in thought, Remilia had not noticed something, however. The low, regular, droning swooshing sound that had been its identifying feature. The helicopter was back on Remilia's position.
*** "Fuck." Remilia muttered as she got to work quickly.
Though she had not much energy left to fire large amounts of danmaku herself, she figured that if she could combine the powers of the humans' weapon and her magic, she would stand a chance at dealing with the helicopter that was now close enough to see over the top of homes. Remilia touched the two cases that contained the ammunition and focused. She focused to instill her magic and energy into the bullets themselves. To behave like her danmaku. To fire like her danmaku. After instilling what energy they could contain before they would get overloaded, Remilia nodded to herself in satisfaction. These bullets ought to fire, explode, and pierce at much better energies than before. After all, what wouldn't improve after having Remilia's charisma instilled into them.
Looking over at the helcopter that was now close enough to start strafing, Remilia quickly brought up another shield as the helicopter strafed her position. The shield once again lasted, though it was getting dangerously weak now. Remilia quickly dispelled it and hopped into the seat that was behind the rod. Placing her foot down, she noticed that she could rotate the device by simplying pushing off. It seemed teh gun was mounted on a swivling device. Putting her hands down on the two handles that were in front of her, she noticed that there were buttons on them. Remilia grinned.
As the helicopter turned for another run, Remilia took quick action. Swivling the device so that the point of the weapon faced the helicopter, she gleefully pressed down on the buttons of the 20mm Tarasque AA gun, sending a hail of her own danmaku racing towards the helicopter.