Nanoha/HSotD xover

[Prince Charon]

Imagine, if you will, that High School of the Dead takes place in the same universe as the Takamachi Nanoha of MSLN came from. Imagine further that Nanoha left a communications device with her family, and when the zombie apocalypse starts, they very sensibly let her know.

While Earth is a Non-Administered World, magic on such a scale does imply the possible presence of a very dangerous Lost Logia, and thus, Nanoha and her friends are sent to stop it (after all, they'd have gone, anyway, and the first rule of command is 'Never give an order that you know won't be followed').

In HSotD, the zombies showed up simultaneously in a number of areas that they shouldn't have been able to get to, or at least not so fast, nor at the same time. That implies intelligent action.

Once the TSAB realizes that someone has to have set up this situation, they'll want to find out who the necromancer/mad scientist/alien/whatever is, and inform them of their displeasure. This is really not the sort of person who'd just get Befriended. This is evil on a scale that might even turn Jail's stomach.

So, thoughts?

 

[Dark Knight Gafgar]

This is evil on a scale that might even turn Jail's stomach.

What, the superior race inheriting the Earth is evil? Well screw you, breather!

 

[zeebee1]

Jail doesn't get queasy. But yes, zombies are inferior beings.

 

[Prince Charon]

How would the HSotD cast react to being rescued by Real Life Magical Girls?

 

[Watashiwa]

It would be incredibly boring. Considering how horribly overpowered any character from Nanoha actually is in comparison to HOtD. I mean ffs, I don't need to even say anything further...

 

[zeebee1]

If the situation got too bad the TSAB would glass the planets. They were willing to nuke part of Japan, if they saw the threat as space capable they'd intervene.

 

[Shaderic]

The problem here, is your pitting people who demonstrate extreme magical skill and power, against an enemy that has almost no coordination, and no ranged attacks.

Even if you were to ground all the mages, they have good armored units. Or, they could just repurpose a bunch of drones and clean areas out.

 

[darthdavid]

Hell, Nanoha could almost certainly kill off enough zombies reduce them to a from a serious threat to a nuisance on her own given canon power levels and enough time.

Between barriers and the whole 'walking(flying) wave motion gun' thing any halfway competent Nanoha-verse mage could clear out virtually any concentration of zombies one could assemble. The only limit would be finding sufficiently large groups of zoms to be worth breaking out the artillery magic on and the endurance of the mage in question.

Basically, the only way to make this fic even remotely interesting would be to nerf the shit out of Nanoha and crew or buff the shit of the zombies (or include stronger villains of some sort).

 

[Dark Knight Gafgar]

The zombies are now the Scourge.

Enjoy.

 

[Tom_Badgerlock]

Hell, Nanoha could almost certainly kill off enough zombies reduce them to a from a serious threat to a nuisance on her own given canon power levels and enough time.

Between barriers and the whole 'walking(flying) wave motion gun' thing any halfway competent Nanoha-verse mage could clear out virtually any concentration of zombies one could assemble. The only limit would be finding sufficiently large groups of zoms to be worth breaking out the artillery magic on and the endurance of the mage in question.

Basically, the only way to make this fic even remotely interesting would be to nerf the shit out of Nanoha and crew or buff the shit of the zombies (or include stronger villains of some sort).

The Zombies are now <a href='http://www.youtube.com/user/AtomicoX#p/u/42/gpEg85zPkz4' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Marriage</a>.

 

[GladiusLucix]

Alternatively, the zombies enjoy the same protection that living people do, in that blasts that pierce entire spaceships leave the people at the receiving end just battered and bruised. Thus, no head removal and no brain destruction.

This just means that they have to get up close and personal, or use something that does actual damage, like Stardust Fall or Gigant Form.

Additionally, the original idea seems to be more about figuring out who engineered the zombie plague, and dealing with him, than Riot 6 roflpwning hordes of undead.

 

[S J C]

Alternatively, the zombies enjoy the same protection that living people do, in that blasts that pierce entire spaceships leave the people at the receiving end just battered and bruised. Thus, no head removal and no brain destruction.

This just means that they have to get up close and personal, or use something that does actual damage, like Stardust Fall or Gigant Form.

Additionally, the original idea seems to be more about figuring out who engineered the zombie plague, and dealing with him, than Riot 6 roflpwning hordes of undead.

That's because Nanoha programs her spells to be non lethal. If she didn't add the Non lethal parameters to her spells they would kill and she would be able to fire them faster.

 

[zeebee1]

So, does that mean Fate has only fought her equals?

 

[daniel_gudman]

Magic is non-lethal

I tend to believe this has a lot more to do with the whole "TSAB doesn't use mass-based weapons" thing than anything particular to magic. The "knock out, don't kill" function is probably inherent to the devices, if not the mages. In that case, they might not be legally allowed to change their device settings.

After all, Yuuno cast a bind spell that <a href='http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RazorFloss' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>cut golems in half</a> way back in season one. Actually, between his ability to teleport others (save victims), decapitate/dismember zombies, his barriers, and his knowledge of Lost Logia, Yuuno could probably handle this all by himself. Come to think of it, since he's been chasing down Lost Logia since he was nine, it's possible he already has, on some world or another.

 

[Dark Knight Gafgar]

Did anyone else just get the mental image of Nanoha and crew freaking out over swarms of zombies/vampires/demons/sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads while Yuuno just sighs, dons a fedora, and goes "Don't worry, ladies - I've already done this bit before"?

 

[zeebee1]

You don't need a fedora to kill zombies. It'd just make him look like an idiot.

 

[Dark Knight Gafgar]

You don't need a fedora to kill zombies. It'd just make him look like an idiot.

*STAB*

 

[Prince Charon]

Did anyone else just get the mental image of Nanoha and crew freaking out over swarms of zombies/vampires/demons/sharks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads while Yuuno just sighs, dons a fedora, and goes "Don't worry, ladies - I've already done this bit before"?

Well, we don't know exactly what he was doing, before he found the Jewel Seeds.

 

[zeebee1]

He was playing in a sandbox. Granted, it was a very large one, but he was still playing in sand.