There's always something strange with having a floating island flying over the North Atlantic Ocean, considering how can something with so large a mass actually fly in the sky. That's what normal people would've said if not for the existence of magic and superscience that defied the laws of logic, physics and reason that made such weird and eerie things quite commonplace.
On that floating island of wonders in a lush forest crowned by ancient trees that seemed to have existed since the dawn of time the strange sense of tranquil bliss from this place was disrupted by thunderous detonations and the sounds of automatic gunfire.
Keitaro Urashima of SCARF was really starting to hate this mission. Ever since he and a group of black ops operatives had arrived by helicopter the mission went to hell. The UH-60 Black Hawk had been shot down by an energy ray minutes after leaving the drop off site, killing the crew inside. And then packs of magical girls pounced on them.
I guess this is what you could compare with one of your dates gone bad with Naru, and when I say bad I mean really, really bad. Eh, Solid Ronin? A voice quipped through the codec transmission.
"Shut up, Midas! Can't you see that I'm in a bit of a jam here!" Keitaro growled as he knocked out an underage magical girl out cold by slamming her against the ground and then dove behind a tree that became seconds later bombarded with magical blasts of energy clothes in psychedelic colours that would give an average person headaches. He twisted his arm out from behind the tree and emptied the magazine of his Uzi, blindfiring in the direction he guessed those brats were hiding. Several wails coming from young female voices confirmed a few hits as he ejected the empty magazine and hastily inserted a fresh one and pulled the bolt back.
The squad beside him opened up with suppressing fire to pin down their young adversaries while one soldier extracted his wounded comrade out of harm's way.
"Fire in the hole!" A spherical green object was lobbed down where the hiding magical girls were pinned down. Seconds later it detonated throwing up showers of dirt, wood and meat, followed by the wails of the dying and wounded.
Satellite images and recon drones confirm that the experimental Mahou Gear on this godforsaken floating piece of dirt is operational, Solid Ronin. Shotakon's voice buzzed through the codec.
"Not now!" Keitaro snarled. "I'm busy here trying not to get blasted into atoms!"
It is imperative that the Gear is neutralized to complete Operation Island Thunder before they launch their payload into the US. Lennon interjected.
"I can't destroy that walking piece of trash if I'm dead û can I!?!" Keitaro roared into the codec and switched off the transmission while pistol whipping the magical girl who snuck up on him into dreamland.
But you have to admit that this villain has a sense of irony by corrupting magical girls from the shadows to believe that America is the source of all evil and having them launch the payload of neutron bombs into the East Coast in order "humble the Great Satan", as the Kodomo no Taiyo call it, with the Mahou Gear Rex model that was stolen. Midas remarked in sardonic amusement.
Just be glad that the railgun of this Rex was replaced with an intermediate range missile pod containing six missiles, each containing a neutron warhead or they'd launched their missiles hours ago. Athena's voice crackled slightly through the magical statical interference caused by all the magic unleashed on him and the other soldiers.
"Brace yourselves!" A soldier beside him barked to the others. "They've got reinforcements coming!"
More magical girls came, some of them by ground and some of them by air, streaking through the sky while trails of magical energies were left in their. Following them closely came a mass of animal companions that seemed to them as a thick swarm of hungry locusts.
"This just sucks!" Keitaro whined to himself in apparent self-pity. He was stirred from this sense of self-melancholy by the beeping of the codec which seconds later switched itself automatically on.
Solid Ronin, this the captain of the Xerxes speaking. We've been assigned to this mission as aerial fire support by Midas and the higher-ups.
"I love you, Kentaro, you know that." Keitaro uttered in gratification.
Yeech! Don't go sentimental on me here, Solid Ronin! And besides: I don't really think that cheating on Naru with me would be good idea since you're not my type and I'm into girls. Midas replied in a snide manner.
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The gunship arrived a few minutes later with fighter escort. Some of the magical girls saw it and had four flight capable of their numbers swoop up into the air to intercept and destroy the newly arrived intruders. But unfortunately for them the flying war machines were prepared for scenarios like these.
The F-22 Raptors began firing missiles at the flying maidens blowing them easily out of the sky, due to the air-to-air missiles being magic-seeking models that could easily track them despite their many evasions and dodges. At the same time the gunship came closer and closer to its destination.
Before the rest of the magical army got to react, Keitaro heard a crackling voice through the codec.
Free help from above coming right up! Over and out...
The crew of the enhanced AC-130 U Spooky opened fire with it's deadly payload, unleashing death from above in the form of a twenty-five millimetre gatling gun, a forty millimetre autocannon and finally the one hundred five millimetre howitzer.
The metal bird spewed death. It was like the flock of magical girls and their beasts where caught in a meatgrinder of explosions that tore them apart like they were nothing.
It didn't seem to faze the gunners and the rest of the crew of the Xerxes who seemed all to be listening to Drowning Pool's cover version Billy Idol's song Rebel Yell.
And if it expires pray help from above"
In the midnight hour she cried- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell she cried- "more, more, more"
In the midniight hour babe- "more, more, more"
With a rebel yell- "more, more, more"
More, more, more.
Some of them managed to set up magical force fields which seconds later were swiftly overcome by the merciless circling barrage descending down on them like fire from the sky hurled from a wrathful god. Which not even they with their immense skills and power could stand against as death came to them as well as it had the others.
This is Xerxes: guns are dry... I think we went a little overboard.
"You think?" Keitaro stared in disbelief at the carnage before him. Even though they were hostiles he still felt the urge to throw up. Trees, dirt, animals and human remains all blasted apart and lying spread everywhere while the gunship that had circled around like a hungry vulture discontinued its flight pattern and returned to base.
Another codec transmission disrupted his utter revulsion.
Solid Ronin, this is Renegade Squad leader. The beacon has been planted and the Mahou Gear pilot has been neutralized. We're extracting the missile pod module by chopper and are heading for the extraction point...We're pulling out now.
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The UH-60 Black Hawks rose carrying the survivors swiftly away from the former floating paradise that had been turn into a slaughtering ground.
My, my. You do make a good decoy after all, Solid Ronin. When they heard that the Solid Ronin was there they came like flies into the spider's web. Kentaro Sakata under his alias Midas commented dryly.
Keitaro just chose to ignore the transmission and turned to one of the members of Renegade Squad sitting beside him. "How did you manage to stop them from using the Mahou Gear Rex to kill you?" he simply asked.
"What do you think we did? We welded the cockpit shut so that no one could get into that thing." was the gruff reply he got.
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Several minutes later from the reaches of space, the satellite-based ion cannon opened fire on the moving target, blasting the inert Mahou Gear into nothingness and cracking the floating island into several pices that came crashing down into the ocean..
