Complete In Flight by gabriel blessing - M - Fate/Stay Night x Sekirei

Legacy · May 23, 2011

A diving Rho Aias, I'm impressed.

I foresee many shocked reactions next chapter.

Oh, and a rather surprised Miya at being beaten back like that.

Necrule Paen · May 23, 2011

Orm Embar said: ↑

Fragarch ping-pong. My mind has been freaking blown.
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Reminded me of an episode of Yui-gi-oh though.

"I attack with my Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"Ha! You have triggered my trap card."
"I counter your trap card."
"I counter your counter to my trap card and destroy your Blue Eyes White Dragon."
"I revive my Blue Eyes White Dragon and attack."
"Ha! You have triggered my trap card."
"...FALCOLN PUNCH!"

Oxy · May 23, 2011

Finally the aweome parts. Although, is anyone else having the feeling that GB could've inserted more action from Shirou's sekirei?

I mean, they used one ability and aside of that did nothing. What were they doing in the meantime? Watching from the sidelines?

Moloch · May 23, 2011

I would imagine that seeing Miya get snapped like that gave them pause. And then that pause led to Shirou starting up the Crane Wing Three Realm and at that point they sat there staring like idiots.

Cruentus · May 23, 2011

Give them some slack. The world, as they know it, has just turned purple.

Sin Saiori · May 23, 2011

Purple, upside-down, backwards, pear-shaped and flushed down the toilet. They're gonna need one hell of a reality check now.

On the plus side, they finally, finally, FINALLY, FINALLY get to know what they're truly up against. I'm predicting Homura sets something on fire out of sheer frustration and Kazehana has multiple orgasms on the spot.

And did Matsu really stay in her room for the whole thing? I know she's got cameras and all, but could she stand to not see that in person?

Cruentus · May 23, 2011

I doubt it. We'll probable find out next chapter.

tragicmat1 · May 23, 2011

Oh god. I was tempted at first to not write a good review with the wall of texts at the beginning, but the fight was so awesome and more than made up for it! Gabriel definitely writes the best fight scenes in fanfiction.

SmileOfTheKill · May 24, 2011

Thanks for reminding me. Here's the deleted scenes. Not really much. AS you can see, a lot of the exposition got worked into the posted chapter. I just didn't like the way keeping it all together transformed it into a giant info dump. It originally started just like the posted chapter, and I kept the Kuu scene in verbatim since I thought it turned out alright.

Still, it got my creative juices flowing and helped me get my ideas ironed out, so if you're interested, go ahead and read it. The way things got changed should be pretty obvious.

*Start*

"I think Matsu will like that," I told her, rubbing her wild blonde hair roughly. She beamed up at me from beneath my hand and her bangs, releasing a tiny giggle before she turned and scampered out of my room, already calling for Miya to prepare the crayons and paper as she began her artistic quest. The smile I had plastered on my face slowly disappeared when she had fully scampered out of my sight.

It had been two days since what was supposed to be Akitsu's crowning moment had turned into the tension filled scene it had ended with. Two days, and the best way I could think of describing the current atmosphere at Izumo House would be a cold war. The Inn now had two sides, and both sides were currently armed and ready to go off at a moment's notice. On side consisted of Akitsu, Musubi, and myself, whereas the other had everyone else in living at Izumo with a few exceptions.

Nobody had really been prepared for the fact that not only was I experienced with dealing with clandestine combat and dangerous, ruthless secret organizations, but that I was also someone not only preparing to kill the other members but that I had in the past as well. They might have had more hints than Yukari had, but in the end I guess I just never really appeared to be the type to them. I'm sure someone out there is shaking their heads and muttering something along the lines of 'it's always the quiet ones', and I suppose that this time they'd probably be right. Sure, there was always the knowledge that I was skilled, something proven by Miya back when we had our first spar, and that I was capable of taking care of myself, something even Homura, who at times seemed to rival Akitsu when it came to being protective of me, admitted. But now that knowledge was backed with the sheer depth of my experience, and the exact extent of the ruthlessness I would be willing to sink to. The fallout of the revelation had changed the dynamics of Izumo House, possibly permanently.

Tsukiumi might have been one of the ones to have taken the news rather well. She had always considered herself a warrior first, and prided herself on her claim of being the 'Strongest Sekirei'. Despite that though, she was also the one who was most scrupulous about following the rules of the Sekirei Plan, insisting on names and numbers being given before engaging in combat. The idea that I would be willing to circumvent the rules entirely seemed to be warring with a developing pride over just how strong her Ashikabi was. When she had a need to speak to me about something she'd frequently break off whatever it was she was about to say so she could give me contemplative looks, and would occasionally stutter and leave the room quickly afterwards.

It was better than the way Uzume was treating me at least. She would clam up the moment she realized I was around, giving me hard looks and excusing herself from whoever she was talking to as quickly as she could. That didn't surprise me in the least, come to think of it. She had been fairly nervous the first time she realized that with Matsu's help I would be able to find and track any of the Ashikabi's in the Plan, and had only calmed down when I had assured her that I would offer her a truce due to her living in Izumo House. Back then she had probably taken my normal good nature as an indicator that even if I did know where her Ashikabi was I wasn't likely to launch a preemptive attack upon her. Now that she was aware that I was planning to do exactly that if the need came up, I had no doubt that she was remembering that day I had returned with bloodstained jeans. She seemed at least willing to acknowledge the possibility that I was saving the slaughter of my opposing Ashikabi for a time when there was no other option, and also the probability that when we finally did have to fight each other I would be willing to do it honorably and let it be one of my Sekirei and her that settled the matter, but even if it came down to a one on one battle her chances of victory were diminished by the fact that I still had her outnumbered six to one. I didn't blame her for being uncomfortable in my presence.

Homura was definitely uncomfortable in my presence, but at least I had the comfort of knowing that had more to do with the situation with his body than with the revelation that I was a killer. If anything, the fire user might be a bit more comfortable with me that he was before. I wasn't sure if that was due to him being more reassured of my safety or the fact that one of my plans involved killing Hiroto Minaka. Homura had always been protective of me, even when the rest of my Sekirei seemed to have accepted my ability to take care of myself in a fight. Every fight we had been in together had involved Homura doing his absolute best to try and get me out of the line of fire, though his endeavors never had much success. I think knowing that I wasn't just a guy with a slightly higher ability to fight and was actually an experienced veteran of genuinely dangerous situations had assured him of my ability a bit. Beyond that, he didn't seem to have any problem whatsoever with killing as an option either. If anything, he seemed more intent on trying to get me to refine my 'Destroy MBI' option, mentioning frequently how much better it would be to simply kill the President instead.

I think there might be some kind of personal beef between the two.

Sadly, despite the fact that the fire using host seemed more comfortable with me over the last few days, his body didn't seem to agree. I wasn't certain what had spurned it on, but nowadays he couldn't be in my presence for more than a few minutes without his hand trailing up to scratch at his chest, or shifting his legs uncomfortably. It had gotten to the point where the rest of Izumo House was beginning to notice his actions. So far the flame user had been doing his best to try and keep his condition from everyone besides me, and I had done what I could to help him, but I had the sinking suspicion that it would probably end up being a useless endeavor soon.

Miya's reaction had also been a mixed one. On one hand, she was far more aware then the others had been just how different I really was from a normal person. She had noted herself my willingness to assassinate Minaka before, and had seen with her own eyes the way the wounds in my palms had closed and the blood stained swords had disappeared. She was probably already suspecting that there was more to Fuyuki City than I had said, even now after I had said so much. I had no idea what conclusion she had drawn with the evidence presented to her so far, but I was certain the landlady would keep whatever it was she figured out to herself.

On the other hand, I think she might have been the one most profoundly shocked last Friday's events. Not by what I was willing to do, but by what I would be trying to prevent by doing them. It seems my worries of their being some kind of deeper, more sinister, motive for the Sekirei Plan had struck a chord in her, and now the lavenderette spent a great deal of time silently looking at nothing, one hand stroking her the hilt of her sword with a frown on her face.

She had told me before that she had always considered the Sekirei Plan to be the game of a madman with no other purpose behind it. It seemed that whatever part of my random guesses about how the plan could be something more had struck home, and she was no longer considering the Plan to be just a game anymore.

And then there was Matsu.

I didn't know what to do about Matsu. I honestly had no idea how things would go now.

Just like Kuu had said, the hacker had fled to her room shortly after I had left the dining room to go to sleep, and since then she hadn't came down once, nor let anyone in as well. I wasn't certain how she was surviving up there, but somehow she was. She had experience in keeping to herself at least, that much I knew. She had managed to hide her presence in Izumo House when my girls and I had first shown up for weeks until she had finally been overcome with her reaction. She must have some kind of system for going to the rest room or getting food away from the eyes of others, and I sincerely hoped that she was making use of that system and not punishing herself in some way by trying to deny her body what it needed to take care of itself in some kind of foolish and masochistic attempt at atonement.

I was angry at her, there was no doubt about that, but in some ways I understood just why she had done what she had. She was right. Her and the rest of my flock did have a right to know just what it was that that my presence meant. I kept things from them, so many things. Matsu had called me on it in the past, questioning first my relationship with Rin and Saber when she had tried to convince me to start taking a position of leadership in my flock. Then she had done it again, when she had pressed me into revealing the truth behind our unusual relationship to her and the rest of my flock back when I had brought out the whiteboard.

I suppose that might have been the problem: she already knew that if she pushed me hard enough, she would be able to get the answers she wanted. It's just a matter this time that when she pushed she had gotten more than she had thought she would. If she had asked me in private, if she had just confronted me alone…

Well, I would have stone walled her so fast she would have gotten whiplash, but at least then she would have known that I really didn't want to talk about it, and might have been a bit more freaking discrete. That was why I was angry, in the end. Part of it was that she had forced me to reveal even a part of the truth of what had happened in the Grail War. Moreover, she had done it in a way that had put my family and the rest of Izumo House in danger.

And another part of it, a part that made me a little bit nervous in addition to my anger, was that she had known how to force me in the first place. The idea that despite all my efforts to keep the truth at arm's length away from everyone else, that despite how much improvement I had made at moving away from the naïve child I had once been that could be twisted around the finger of every little manipulator out there, a person whose actions could be predicted by people who had only met me in passing one or two times before, my progress hadn't been enough. Matsu, who had only known me for a few weeks, who I talked to maybe twice a day, who I generally kept so busy on so many tasks, despite all that she had known just what it would take to back me into a corner that I couldn't find my way out of without sacrificing a bit of my mysteries.

If I really was that bad at concealing things, then it was no wonder I had been chased out of the Clock Tower. It meant that I still wasn't ready for the big leagues yet.

Either that or the other option that unnerved me just as bit: Matsu was just that good at reading me. Not because she was a natural manipulator, but because she was my Sekirei. I knew the species was psychic. The little pixie I had just finished consoling was even strong enough to deliberately hunt down my mind and give me visions pleading for help. But if the connection between Matsu and I was strong enough that it meant the red headed hacker would be able to maneuver me that well, well, that put a chill down my spine. Because as I glanced to my side, where the discarded doohickey rested after I had put it down to hug Kuu, I knew that I still needed Matsu.

The hacker had somehow become the central force of all my plans. She was the one I had relied on to gather every bit of information I had acquired on the Sekirei Plan. She knew everything that I knew when it came to Sekirei, to Ashikabi, to Shin Tokyo, hell, to everything. I might have all the information I needed to manage any of my plans now, but information faded and got old. If it wasn't constantly updated, it would eventually be useless as the profiles and habits of my potential targets changed. Without Matsu, I was as blind as any other Ashikabi out there.

The morning after the fight, I had woken up with Akitsu snuggling against me, the first time I had slept alone with her since before Musubi had joined my flock. When I had left to begin my daily exercise, I had discovered the doohickey carefully placed outside the door of my room, its charger wrapped around it hastily. When I had started it up I discovered that it still had the connection to Matsu's databases, stores of information made so much easier to navigate when I realized that all potential pornographic traps had been removed. The information was still update, changing even more regularly than it had before, indicating that the hacker was continuing with the jobs I had assigned her before. If anything, over the last few days the profiles and other information I had tasked Matsu to find was updated even more frequently than it had before the incident.

I wasn't certain what this new trend meant. Was it Matsu, acknowledging my experience and doing everything she could to make sure I had the information I needed so that she could support me fully as a leader now that she knew my qualifications? Or was it meant to be some kind of apology, a way to make it up to me for her earlier scheme? Matsu had admitted to knowing the potential fallout of her maneuvering, and claimed she had been ready for her punishment. Was this her way of trying to prove that readiness to me?

If Matsu was human, just another magus from the Clock Tower, or perhaps a normal girl that I was dating, it would be far easier to deal with her. I would still needed her for her abilities information, and she still needed me to be her partner in crime during the Sekirei Plan, and I would probably be able to forge a strictly business relationship with her despite her manipulation. The problem was, like always, that the hacker was Not Human. How did an Ashikabi deal with a Sekirei that had done something like this? Cut her off from their presence? Punish her somehow? Just order her not to do it again?

"Did I do the right thing, Akitsu?" I muttered, the snow woman in her usual place nearby.

"You did what you thought was right, Ashikabi-sama," came the soft reply.

"Please," I murmured back, a small smile managing to make it to my face. "You can start calling me Shirou again."

"Ah," she began. "I prefer Ashikabi-sama."

Akitsu at least had shown very little reaction to my revelations. Then again, they really hadn't been much of a revelation to her. The specifics of just what I had been involved with had never came up, but Akitsu had made it clear to me back when she had killed Archibald that the snow woman just didn't care about my past. The only thing she cared about was the fact that she was with me. That had been back when she had been a Scrapped Number. Nowadays, I think she cared even less.

I hadn't known precisely what would happen next when I had managed to wing her. So much of Akitsu's normal behavior was patterned around the belief that she had to make herself as absolutely loyal to me as she could in order to reassure herself that even if she couldn't be my Sekirei she could still be able to call me her Master at least. It had only been three days so far, and despite a few missteps the day after we had sex, it seemed the only change in routine that Akitsu displayed was the small smile which had planted itself on her lips and didn't look like it was planning on leaving anytime soon. Even now, in the corner of the room she had chosen to place herself, the quiet snow woman somehow managed to radiate satisfaction and contentment despite the fact that she once more resembled nothing but an alabaster statue placed innocuously in the corner. The weight of her gaze on me was so normal by this point that I didn't even notice it, and the occasional sound of the chain around her neck clinking was something I dismissed as a background noise these days.

The only other Sekirei who had shown the same level of unconcern over the episode a few days ago had been Musubi. The irrepressible shrine girl seemed at least aware of the changes in dynamic between myself and the rest of Izumo House. It just seemed that she didn't really care. I wasn't certain if it was because just like Akitsu she didn't care, or if it might be that she was just firmly convinced that in the end, love would set things right.

Knowing Musubi, I had my money on the second option. The shrine girl was no doubt absolutely convinced that the bonds of love between Ashikabi and Sekirei would eventually set things right. In the mean time, it was business as usual for the fist fighter. Even as I sat at the room's desk, reviewing the new information the exiled hacker had acquired, the grunts and shouts of Musubi's and Miya's usual sparring echoed up from the courtyard below, punctuated only by the 'thwack' of the landlady's sheathed blade finding Musubi's skull, and the cheerful cries of, 'One more time!' with which Musubi greeted the blows.
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I think everyone can figure out who I quoted.

tragicmat1 · May 24, 2011

I'm glad the scene was deleted. That's all I can say about that probably. It does provide some more insight on Shirou's character, but it's so long for such a simple message.

hchan1 · May 24, 2011

If anything, that deleted scene reminded me of a lot of his earlier chapters: massive tl;dr infodump walls that had my eyes crossing halfway through. It's nice to see that he acknowledges his shortcomings and is actively working to fix them. The reworked chapter is a lot easier on the eyes and retains all the relevant info.

Sin Saiori · May 25, 2011

And it had action.

Action, people.

Mors · May 26, 2011

And the action was awesome.

Awesome, people.

In Flight is shaping up to be a better fic than HoS ever was, even though HoS is better than 99.5% of the F/SN crossovers littered around the net.

SmileOfTheKill · Jun 5, 2011

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6957555/1/OMAKES_for_In_Flight

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7052468/1/In_Flight_Omake

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7050557/1/Emiya_Clans_Reference_Data_Sheet

It is funny how his fanbase is trolling gabriel by writing such trash in mass quantities. It has gotten to the point that I would say it is shameful to be a fan of this story.

The point of my post should be this, what other fanfiction authors are plagued by such a bad fanbase? I don't mean just bad fanfiction getting idiot fans, I mean decent writers getting horrible fans. The only thing I can think of getting close is Innorals time loops but then again that was written original by the authors themselves.

Moloch · Jun 5, 2011

Fuck. Saw a new post in this thread and instantly went to check my FFnet profile. I am disappoint.

Anyway, its arguably flattering imo. Arguably. I mean how often do fanfics get made of other fanfics? Not very often.

Quesiton though; a few pages ago I saw people making posts by Gabriel that aren't in the author notes. Where to get this?

Sin Saiori · Jun 5, 2011

I tried reading one of the snippets posted on Gabe's forum by one of these horrible fans.

I'm just going to stick to Gabe's canon-fanon, thank you very much.

Oh yeah, the story should update sometime in the next 3 days. He had to pack up and move so the new chapter got mega-delayed.

@Moloch: Mechanics of In Flight Forum

funkytoad · Jun 6, 2011

26 is out.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6556187/26/

SmileOfTheKill · Jun 6, 2011

Bit of a shame. This chapter really shows his weakness as a writer, as his emotional scenes are not very good.

Sin Saiori · Jun 6, 2011

I think it was good, but once again it was one of those "we know it's coming, we've been waiting for it" reveals. This chapter really was the long expected wake-up for all parties.

Legacy · Jun 6, 2011

Honestly, I think he waited too long for the reveal. As Sin said, we knew it was coming and we have been waiting for it, because of that it just felt tedious. The opening scenes dealing with the body and helping Miya were fine, it just started seeming rather slow and unnecessary through the middle. Even with Matsu I couldn't really work up any reason to care about what was going on, it was the wake-up, one that came too late.

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