Sumireko Quest

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> How much time do we think has passed since we came escaped?

>Between 25 to 45 minutes? You don't know the exact number.

[Tashi]

> Clear our throat.
> "More than half an hour ago I went to Kourindou with Marisa to visit Kourin. When we arrived, we noticed he had a discussion with some kind of general of the Foreign Military. After some confrontations, they let us talk in private. Kourin, revealing a secret passage, let me escape from there, since that military people want me to help them... and given how they are, I was surely going to have a 'warm' welcome from them."
> Sigh.
> "After I returned with Reimu... Kourindou was a complete mess of bullet holes. Apparently, Marisa didn't let get them so easily, so a hole of the proportions of a Master Spark are present there."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> Clear our throat.
> "More than half an hour ago I went to Kourindou with Marisa to visit Kourin. When we arrived, we noticed he had a discussion with some kind of general of the Foreign Military. After some confrontations, they let us talk in private. Kourin, revealing a secret passage, let me escape from there, since that military people want me to help them... and given how they are, I was surely going to have a 'warm' welcome from them."
> Sigh.
> "After I returned with Reimu... Kourindou was a complete mess of bullet holes. Apparently, Marisa didn't let get them so easily, so a hole of the proportions of a Master Spark are present there."

>"Take her word for it..." Reimu tells Alice after you're done explaining.
>Alice seemed to take a few seconds to process what you've just said.
>"Oh, how unfortunate..." Alice then spoke, in the same deadpan manner as before. "You were lucky to have escaped from their grasp unscathed..."

[Tashi]

> "... I'll take that as a way to say that you don't know where she is?"

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> "... I'll take that as a way to say that you don't know where she is?"

>"Not exactly..." Alice says. "But I do know where she might be..."
>As Alice finishes her sentence, you see one of Alice's dolls placing a teacup down on the tea table, and another doll pouring tea from a teapot into that teacup, which Alice then takes a sip from.

[Tashi]

> "D-Dolls...? Moving...?"
> Blink.
> "... Are you doing that?"

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> "D-Dolls...? Moving...?"
> Blink.
> "... Are you doing that?"

>Alice puts the teacup down on the tea table.
>"Yes..." She tells you on a deadpan tone.
>"She's a magician. She controls puppets." Reimu whispers to you.

[Tashi]

> "... Huh..."
> Have we ever heard of something like that?
> "So... Where do you think that magician 'might' be?"

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> "... Huh..."
> Have we ever heard of something like that?
> "So... Where do you think that magician 'might' be?"

//Is "magician" here referring to Marisa? I'll assume that for now.

>Alice dismisses the dolls, took another nonchalant sip of her tea before answering you.
>"It seems that the Foreign Military had an outpost the size of a city built on the far southwest corner of Gensokyo, directly overlooking Youkai Mountain. At least one of the buildings in there looked like a prison. The outpost, however, holds more soldiers than Gensokyo's entire human and Youkai population combined, so you might not want to just blast your way in..."

[Tashi]

//Yes.

> "That sounds... ... problematic~"
> Chuckle slightly.
> "Do you know if they tried to incarcerate someone non-Lunarian? Or if you saw them committing any kind of ilegal actions towards the residents of Gensokyo?"

[Lt Colonel Summers]

//Yes.

> "That sounds... ... problematic~"
> Chuckle slightly.
> "Do you know if they tried to incarcerate someone non-Lunarian? Or if you saw them committing any kind of ilegal actions towards the residents of Gensokyo?"

>"If they did any of those, I have neither witnessed nor heard of any such occurrences..." Alice answers your question.
>"If they did, I'm going to treat their presence in Gensokyo as an incident, and do what a Hakurei shrine maiden should be doing to incidents." Reimu cuts in suddenly.

[the old guy]

>Turn to Reimu.
>"Have you ever fought any of them?"

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>Turn to Reimu.
>"Have you ever fought any of them?"

>"No..." Reimu answers you. "For what are technically invaders, the Foreign Military have been behaving themselves so far. That is, until you told me that they apparently attacked Marisa and Rinnosuke..."

[the old guy]

>"That's what I was afraid of. I'm worried that they'll seriously hurt you, their weapons aren't non-lethal like danmaku."

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"That's what I was afraid of. I'm worried that they'll seriously hurt you, their weapons aren't non-lethal like danmaku."

>Reimu crosses her arms. "Lethal or not, I still hate them for using such barbaric weapons, even if they haven't got any needs to actually use them so far."
>"'So far', you say..." Alice said nonchalantly.
>Reimu raised her eyebrows. "Alice...you don't seem very worried about Mari..."
>But before the shrine maiden could finish her sentence, you hear the sound of a glass panel shattering, followed by a soft "...Urk!"
>Reimu plucks something from her neck. It was a tranquilizer dart, the kind used by modern police forces and militaries.
>"Wh...what is th..." Reimu utters before she collapses mid-sentence.

[the old guy]

//Am I the only one here actually cares about this game?
>Do we have our 3d printed gun?
>Look at the window.

[Lt Colonel Summers]

//Am I the only one here actually cares about this game?
>Do we have our 3d printed gun?
>Look at the window.

//I guess Tashi is just too busy with Hikkikomori Quest and Epic Touhou Pok?mon Quest.  :V
//In addition, I can't believe I forgot the 3D Printer Gun at the "check inventory" command in the first page  :V

>You do.
>You look outside the window...
>...Which wasn't such a good idea as you received an identical tranquilizer dart to your left shoulder.
>You feel your body getting heavier as the tranquilizer begins to take effect.
>"Unfortunately, Sumireko, you were wrong about being able to run away from the Foreign Military..." You hear Alice...gloating (in a deadpan tone)?
>That's when the front door of Alice's house sounds like it was kicked down, which is then followed by the sound of marching boots.
>You then see soldiers of the Foreign Military marching in and taking positions around Alice's house. Each of them pointing their assault rifles at you.
>You also see one of the soldiers saluting Alice.
>"Or should I say, in this case...the Armed Forces of the Kingdom of Wonderland?" Alice resumes her deadpan gloating.

//What an unexpected plot twist, eh? Alice being in league with the Foreign Military...

[the old guy]

>"You fucking...."
>Pass Out.

[Lt Colonel Summers]

>"You fucking...."
>Pass Out.

>You collapse onto the floor next to Reimu.
>You remained conscious just long enough to hear Alice tell you, "Watch your language, little girl..."
>You then lose consciousness completely...

...

>You don't know how long you were out...
>When you wake up, you find yourself inside what you thought is a military APC. The shaking indicates that it is currently on the move.
>Your hands have been cuffed, and so are your legs. You also feel some kind of collar around your neck.
>You see about seven Foreign Military soldiers sitting inside the APC with you. All seven of them are armed, one of who is wielding a shotgun.

[Tashi]

//I didn't had inspiration for anything else, that's why.
Also, for what is worth.

>Unfortunately, no. Seems that the 3D Printer Gun did not come with you this time.

//So, uh... We magically had the gun now?

> Do we have our glasses on?
> Don't move. We don't want these idiots to do something to us.

[Lt Colonel Summers]

//I didn't had inspiration for anything else, that's why.
Also, for what is worth.

//So, uh... We magically had the gun now?

> Do we have our glasses on?
> Don't move. We don't want these idiots to do something to us.

//That was a mistake...  *Insert incoherent swearing here* Let's just assume we've always had the gun...

>You still have your glasses.
>You stay still.
>None of the soldiers seemed to have noticed you coming to...yet.

[Tashi]

> Is there any of them doing something of interest, from our current PoV?

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> Is there any of them doing something of interest, from our current PoV?

>All of the soldiers are just sitting there, with their weapons to bear. Though none of them are doing anything out of the ordinary (in comparison with the others, that is).

[Tashi]

> Ponder if we can do... uh, anything.

[AzyWng]

>Try to listen for... Well, anything.
>Also, review our abilities.

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> Ponder if we can do... uh, anything.

>With no room to maneuver, and being surrounded by several armed soldiers, there's nothing you can do right now except wait.

>Try to listen for... Well, anything.
>Also, review our abilities.

>You listen in for anything.
>You hear one of the soldiers muttering under his breath, "This wee little lass could have been given better treatment had she not refuse to cooperate with us."

>You are an ESP user. That means you can lift things up without physically touching it. Although there's a weight limit to what you can lift with ESP.

[Tashi]

> Maintain silence... and just wait...

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> Maintain silence... and just wait...

>You keep quiet and just wait.

>"We are now approaching Fort Pentecost." One of the soldiers, possibly the APC driver, announces.
>That's when the soldier sitting next to you decided to poke you with his finger. "Wake up, you wankstain. We're getting off in a few minutes."

[Tashi]

> "..."
> Keep silent.

[Lt Colonel Summers]

> "..."
> Keep silent.

>You stay silent.

>The APC seems to have stopped for a moment. Given that the driver said something about arriving at a "fort", you assumed it must be going through a checkpoint at the moment.
>The APC only stopped for a short while before moving again.
>You could hear what sounded like helicopter propellers coming from outside the APC. And that sounds like a lot of helicopters...