Me and Reimu looked onto the chared remains of her shrine. Picking through the debris to salvage what we could find. Her old AeroSoft Super Mega Drive 2 that Marisa gave her as a gift was battered but still intact. The donation box was the only thing untouched, other than the dust kicked up by the explosion.
"We must do something permanent about him." said Reimu.
"But how in the hell are we going to do that! Dr. Cohen just blew up your shrine." I replied.
"With danmaku." Reimu said, pulling out her gohei. She flew up.
"I'll go to Marisa's. You meet me there."
"Okay then." I said.
I went back to the AeroSoft branch and went into the artifical gap machine to call Trevor.
"Trevor! Get me a hoverboard and meet me in Gensokyo. Dr. Cohen is going to have his final victory!" I said, hanging up.
"Oh shit!" yelled Trevor upon hearing my message.
He went into his closet and packed whatever clothes made him look like a terrorist the most. He dashed off into his car, and drove for the AeroSoft HQ.
"This is the final push."
"Cohen-sama?" asked Rumia.
"What is it?" replied an anxious Dr. Cohen.
"Since you have spell cards. Do you know what the spell card rules are?" said Rumia meekly.
"Neverheard of them. Keep firing while I'm gone!" Dr. Cohen left.
Mima had a contact, who built him a jetpack. The jetpack had a bronze finish with seven rockets. Dr. Cohen was still a human, Incapable of flight unlike the numerous youkai.
"He doesn't know them, doesn't he?" Hina asked.
"Cohen-sama truely doesn't know what he's getting into." Rumia replied, unsure of Dr. Cohen's fate.
Trevor rushed into the teleporter with the contents with him. He arrived at the branch and left, running towards the Forest of Magic. An artillery shell missed the building and Trevor narrowly escaped the path of the explosion that followed. He continued to run. He changed into his makeshift terrorist outfit and came into Marisa's house.
"There you are!" I said, gratefully.
"So that's your brother, da ze?" Marisa questioned.
"Yes. Anyway, Marisa. You go destroy the artillery cannons while I and Reimu go after Cohen." I explained.
"What about me?" Trevor asked.
"Warn the rest of Gensokyo. Ask for help where you can!"
"Okay. Just where the hell I'm I going?"
"Just run around you'll find someone somewhere. Gensokyo isn't that big." I explained to Trevor.
Trevor walked out immediately after. I grabbed the hoverboard and left with Reimu. Going into the skies above.
"Reimu? What exactly are spell card rules?"
"The spell card rules just say that you can't kill anyone and everyone has the right to a fair fight with me or otherwise."
"I was thinking, Dr. Cohen might not know those rules exist."
Reimu went silent. Either out of the fact that we might get killed or she was concentrating on finding Dr. Cohen. Soon we where stopped by a certain gap hag.
"Hello there." greeted Yukari.
"Hi Yukari." said an impatient Reimu.
"Hello Yukari, just an on the fly question. But do you want to help us find Cohen?" I asked.
"Hmmm...sure." said Yukari, omniously.
The three of us flew into the early evening. Ready for a danmaku fight. But the uncertainty of death hung in the air, at least for me anyway.
Trevor bursted through the door of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
"Stop!" yelled Sakuya.
But Trevor continued to run towards where Remilia was, unbeknownst to him. He stopped to catch his breath, scrathed by stumbling through foliage.
"Yes?" said Remilia.
"Reimu...Frank...Dr. Cohen...Big fight, need help." Trevor pleaded, out of breath.
"A big fight against Dr. Cohen?"
"Yes..." said Trevor, before being cut off by a loud bang.
Trevor ducked to the floor as the distant sound of crumpling wood and tile that followed the explosion. Remillia stayed in her seat unflinching. Sakuya came into the room. But stayed quiet unsure to kick Trevor out or check on the damage.
"Sakuya. Go fix whichever part of the mansion just caved in." commaned Remillia.
Remillia flew off without a word. The sky was turning dark. Trevor had no choice but to stay. But staying mean't being a sitting duck for the shells that seem to rain down on Gensokyo.
It wasn't very hard for Marisa to find the artillery cannons. The large metal tube with a tire on each side, leaning up into the sky. She whipped out her mini-hakkero and shot a master spark right through the pieces of war equipment. Hina and Rumia scattered to the sky and tried to escape. Not from Marisa, but from Dr. Cohen's ruthlessness.
"Come back here!" Marisa called out. But Rumia and Hina had split into two different directions making it difficult to find them.
"I lost them. Stupid bakas." Marisa said, to no one in particular.
At least she destroyed the artillery. So no more shells will batter Gensokyo. But she had been unaware of the damage. Marisa saw the leftovers of the shrine. Whatever had been salvagable had been made into a pile parralel to the wood and burnt paper wreck.
She went back to her place but to find Alice Margatroid there.
Remilla had joined up with Reimu and the others. They flew until they came across a figure. With a bronze back and flames coming out of seven shutes.
"Ahhhhh..." said the figure turning around.
"Dr. Cohen." I said angrily.
"So you came here to be punished for your work."
"You destroyed my shrine and you've bombed out Gensokyo!" called out Reimu.
"You shouldn't oppress youkai like that." Dr. Cohen became condesending.
Reimu's yin-yang orbs appeared beside her. "Let's end it here." I said.
"Bring it on, Topham." Dr. Cohen said.
Reimu started her barrage of ofuda. While Remillia and Yukari began launching bits of danmaku. I was dodging whatever came at me. Dr. Cohen also did the same. But it didn't take too long for him to use his first spell card.
"Second Night "Jeruslem Barrier"" shouted Dr. Cohen as crude bullets of danmaku formed three spining circles, each moving in a different direction.
Reimu shot at the barrier, but her ofuda bounced off. Then the barrier exploded! Shooting bits of shattered danmaku across the sky. I nearly fell off my hoverboard. But the shrine maiden, vampire, and gap hag remained unscathed. The fight was begining to get serious. Dr. Cohen flew up and used another spelll card "First Night "Mose's Stance"" Spiritally charged projectiles came rushing out and narrowly Yukari's shoulder. Remiu kept shooting ofuda until it hit Dr. Cohen's jetpack. One of the booster rockets stopped working and he stumbled, upon regaining control. He went for yet another spell card.
"Third Night "Shinto Eraser"" Reimu was hit right in the chest. She was bruised but stood her ground. Remillia was hit as well, but was less damaged than Reimu.
"Death to Shinto and its idiosyncrasies!" yelled Dr. Cohen.
"You bastard!" replied Reimu, and she pulled out one of her spell cards.
"First Card "Fantasy Orb String"" and string of orbs appeared! Dr. Cohen was hit, his left shoulder was bruised. Yet his hatred of Gensokyo, Shinto, and ultimately AeroSoft kept him in a fighting spirit.
"Fourth Night "Scarlet Blight"" Remillia was badly hit and she fell to the ground. She landed back first onto the hard ground, creating a loud crunching noise. She tried to get up, but her broken back wouldn't allow it. Yukari hit Dr. Cohen in the back inside one of her gaps, disabling yet another booster.
"Stop it Edward!" I said.
"This is not how you should be!"
"Your biased court comeback! Your resilience to my revenge and my avengence of Reed Academy!" Dr. Cohen said, having none of it.
"You truely are an evil man. Using your religion to destroy Gensokyo."
"Reimu murders youkai with her Shinto powers! But Judaism is stronger, faster, better." Dr. Cohen poorly reasoned.
"Its not true!" I said
"Have it your way Topham! You retarded autisic punk! The same goes with your parents."
Dr. Cohen grabbed for another spell card. "Fiveth Night "Topham's Punishment"" The deadly danmaku passed by me. The hoverboard groaned from the sheer intensity of movement. Attempting to break free. The danmaku knocked me off my board. Yukari caught me and gapped me back onto the board. Danmaku bullets and missle were spraying everywhere at this point. (They weren't actual bullets and missiles that outside world millitaries used, it's just to describe their behavior).
"Sixth Night "Hakurei's End"" The spell card knocked out Reimu and she too fell to the ground but her fall was broken by a tree. But the branches proded and stabbed Reimu as she tumbled to ground on her stomach. Sustained several broken bones and major bruising, maybe some internal bleeding of some kind. She was unconscious
"Seventh Night "Yakumo's Death"" The danmaku aimed straight for Yukari and she too was knocked unconscious. She landed on the ground flat on her ass. Before faceplanting the ground hunched over.
"You friends are out!" said Dr. Cohen.
"After I'm done with you. I'll finish off your insurgencies and I'll takeover Gensokyo for the benefit of me and mankind!" He continued.
"You're dead to me, like you always have been to me." I said, pissed off at his aggresive manner.
Dr. Cohen reached for one of the his spell cards when Flandre Scarlet appeared! "Taboo "Cranberry Trap"" Almost undodgable danmaku came raining down. Knocking out one of Dr. Cohen's jetpack boosters.
"Taboo "Four of a Kind"" Flandre split into three other Flandre's. The four Flandres shot danmaku. I came up with a plan.
"Hey Flandre!" I screamed.
"Can I borrow the Lævateinn?"
"Why?" she replied.
"I'm going to go in for the kill!"
I flew by her and grabbed the Lævateinn. It was a tad hard to handle but the situation was dire.
"Taboo "Kagome, Kagome"" Danmaku ensnarled Dr. Cohen and took out another booster. The jetpack was straining to hold the increasingly injured Dr. Cohen.
Dr. Cohen retailiated with "Fourth Night "Scarlet Blight"" but to no avail. Flandre was too strong and powerful for Edward to handle. But her three other selves dissapated. Dr. Cohen struggled to stay fighting. Knowing that Gensokyo's end will come. He thought to himself "Cohen wills it!".
Another jetpack booster stopped working and actually broke off, almost hitting Remillia's head. "Taboo "Maze of Love"" Dr. Cohen's last auxillary booster broke down. His legs bore smallish medium gashes. Scars and cuts dot his body. His clothes were ripping away.
Flandre launched more danmaku and I flew up high as high as the hoverboard allowed me. I held the Lævateinn and jumped off the hoverboard, directly above Dr. Cohen. I held it downward hoping to end Dr. Cohen, it didn't hae to end this way. But his own stubborness lead to his insanity of destroying Gensokyo and me. The court case, the bombings, the Hakurei Shrine's destruction. This was the only way to stop a potentialy deadly war with the man.
I said the most awesome, yet strangest thing. " Gensō gō no namae ni wa, shobatsu sa remasu yo! (In the name of Gensokyo, you'll be punished!)". The danmaku directly hit me and Dr. Cohen as the Lævateinn touched him. I blacked out.
I woke up. There was whiteness, I got up and wandered off until I came across two chairs one was occupied by an exact copy of me, except dressed in leather, lots of it.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm Neo. The embodiment of your own mind in a personable manner." The look a like responded.
"I'm dead?"
"You are neither dead or alive. You have knocked yourself out pretty hard. As such your life is hanging for dear life and I have some options for you." Neo replied.
"I have are two pills. The red pill ends your life and your sipirt shall travel across the Sanzu River to be judged. The blue pill returns you to reality." He explained.
I immediately took the blue pill. "Everyone awaits you in the real world." Neo said, before everything faded to white, then flashed to black.
I opened my eyes. I look around, I'm in Eientei. There was an IV in my right arm. My legs felt stiff to move. Reisen checked upon me.
"Eirin! Frank's awake!" Reisen called out.
Eirin rushed in and saw me my conscious body.
"Frank. You been here for about eighteen hours. You've survived quite the fall." Eirin said.
"Where's Reimu and the others?" I asked.
"They're in the other room." Eirin replied.
I got up and walked to the room next door. Reimu had a large cast around her waist. Remillia was somewhat woozy from the pain killers that Eirin gave her. Yukari was asleep, but an ice pack was bandaged across the side of her face.
"If we where all knocked out. Who brought us here?"
Eirin responded, "Flandre and your brother carried you four in. You were all severly injured. Quite unusual for a danmaku fight."
"Dr. Cohen was ruthless. It was his lack of understanding for the spell card rules that lead to us almost becoming dead." I explained.
I had clearly remembered the night's battle but the ending was fuzzy. I asked where Dr. Cohen's body was. Eirin said that it was just me, Yukari, Reimu, and Remillia. Dr. Cohen has to be dead. It was just impossible for him to just get up and move away.
"Is it finished?" Mima asked.
"Yes." said the figure.
"This time I'll get the Hakurei Shrine. Maybe untouched this time. Thanks Rika."
"Your welcome Mima." said Rika as she pulled down the lever causing volts of electricity to enter the human cyborg combination.
"That should do it." Rika finished.
The half human, half robot woke up.
"Where I'm I?" said the body with a metallic reverb.
"Cohen-sama. Your upgrade is complete, welcome back."
"Ahhhh..." Said Dr. Cohen as moved his new robotic arm.
"That asshole Topham will pay and his Shinto bitch too!" Dr. Cohen proclaimed.
Dr. Cohen was now Mecha Cohen. A being hellbent on destroying Gensokyo for his own gain. To avenge himself by destroy Frank Topham!
Things went back to normal at AeroSoft. The games were selling, the hardware was selling, and AeroSoft fronted the money needed to rebuild the damage. The shrine was rebuilt, the Human Village was repaired, and the Scarlet Devil Mansion's broken section of roof was well...reroofed.
This was the first human incident in Gensokyo's history. Dr. Cohen had proven that youkai aren't the only ones that can cause trouble. This ends Dr. Cohen's reign of terror upon Gensokyo. AeroSoft continued onward and forward. Bye for now.
-Anatasios Frank Topham Senior, CEO
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