This idea was proposed to me by AdmiralTigerClaw, an acquaintance of mine on AnimeSuki, who enlisted my assistance as a sounding board for a new fanfic idea of his.
The concept... well I'll give it to you the way he gave it to us before I try to explain things. When you read this, try to picture it as a movie trailer in your mind, it'll make more sense that way.
ATC wrote:“Mr. President?”
“I’ve got a busy schedule today.”
“You may have to put some meetings on hold then, this may take a while.”
“This better be good…”
“Sir, I’ll be frank… Do you believe in magical girls?”
“What?”
-My name is Alexander Remington. Most people just call me Alex. For years I worked for the CIA. I can’t tell you about the things I’ve done, but the basics are simple enough. My job was to take lives.-
“Take the shot…”
BANG!
“Target Neutralized.”
-Then, I stumbled onto something a little different.
“Wait, intruder spotted, how’d he get past the perimiter?
-Now my job is to save lives…
“Did you kill it?
“I think so…”
“What do you think these things want?”
“Us… Dead”
-All our lives.
“So what are we going to do about it man?”
“… Kill them first.”
+FLASH+
[AN URBAN LEGEND?]
=Eyewitnesses reported seeing a monster fighting a young …=
“Female, ages between twelve and sixteen, usually wearing extremely impractical clothing and manipulating supernatural abilities beyond scientific understanding….”
“Like those anime shows about love and justice?”
+FLASH+
[NOTHING BUT FANTASY?]
“This guy dropped twelve of our best agents and ate more gunfire than I’d like to imagine, and she dropped him in one shot.”
“We won’t be so lucky next time…”
+FLASH+
[WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT MAGICAL GIRLS…]
“I got her, she’s safe! But, Man you’re not going to believe this…”
“What?”
[WERE TRUE?]
“They really do wear miniskirts and high heals…”
[EXCEPT FOR ONE]
“She cries like a little girl…”
[SMALL]
“She IS a little girl…”
[THING]
“Fourteen deaths in the target demographic range in the last six months globally.”
“So? People are murdered all the time, we’re assholes that way. How are these related?”
“They were reportedly all killed by some kind monster man…”
[NOW]
- Whoever we’re up against isn’t as stupid as you’d wish they were.
“These girls are just kids, they couldn’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
- They plan like we do.
“ How are they supposed to handle a war?”
- They hide like we do
“With Love in their hearts?”
- They KILL, like we do.
“Only if Love and Justice are the names of a new brand of Rocket Launcher.”
[THE RACE IS ON]
“We’ve got more firepower.”
“We don’t know where to hit them.”
“We have global intelligence.”
“They’re not from Earth.”
“We have NUKES!”
“We kill ourselves to kill them.”
“You’re really not making this easy….”
[TO FIND THE ONES THAT ARE LEFT]
“It’s like chess, we make a move, they make a move, first one to corner the king wins.”
“Then we’ll just need to turn our pawns into queens.”
“How? They’re glass cannons, one sniper round and they’re just as dead as anyone else.”
“I lasted this long being just human, so it should be enough.”
“You’re crazy.”
[BEFORE TIME]
“Am I really?”
…
“She just pulled a three foot staff out of thin air dude…”
[RUNS OUT]
“Maybe not…”
“Alex?”
“Yes?”
“What is this thing supposed to do?”
“…Willia-“
“Do I look like a magical talking cat to you?”
BOOM
“You’ve got to distract him while I prepare a spell!”
“How the hell am I supposed to do that? Chastise his ass with a self righteous speech?!”
“I have a plan!”
“What?!”
“We’ll use cartillery!”
“We’ll WHAT?”
+FLASH+
[MONSTERS]
“We know they aren’t stupid, but all signs indicate they’d get their asses kicked in a straight fight, so why are they even bothering?”
“They probably have a doomsday plan…”
“A WHAT?”
“A doomsday plan. A final goal they’re moving towards that will allow them to crush us all in one fell swoop…”
“Man! When are you going to stop taking all your notes out of those stupid children’s cartoons.”
“It’s gotten us this far hasn’t it”
“This is stupid man…”
+FLASH+
[GIRLS]
“Tokyo Tower, the Space Needle, Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building… So far we’ve found them all, dead or alive, within fifty miles of these landmarks..”
“They’re looking for something…. Or someone.”
“Who? We’ve assembled the surviving magical girls and kicked their ass on every continent now.”
“The last girl man…”
“Say again?”
“In your stupid cartoons, the Bad Guys would probably be after the last girl, the supposed Team Leader. You know the one man. She’d be the one who can fuck up their plans all on her own if she knew she could.”
“Then find her-“
“Already have a lead…”
“Who?”
+FLASH+
[MAGIC]
“Excuse me, could you let me out of here now?”
“YOU SPOKE!”
“What? Never seen birds talk before?”
“Well, normally its parrots…”
“Whatever. Look, you’re in danger.”
+FLASH+
[MEN]
“The president’s daughter?”
“That’s convenient…”
“No, it’s bad… very bad.”
“Man… She’s got to be the single most protected girl on the planet.”
“They know that, and they’ll be ready.”
+FLASH+
[IN THIS WAR]
“Armor pierceing!”
+FLASH+
[CAN]
“Fifity Caliber!”
+FLASH+
[WE]
“Anything that explodes!”
+FLASH+
[SURVIVE?]
“If it violates the Geneva Conventions, pack it!”
“Alex!”
“What?”
“What do you want me to do?”
“You’re a magical girl… You have a job.”
O_o?
“You get to save the world.”
MAGICAL
GIRL
"All our lives depend on making sure SHE stays alive..."
"OW!!!! I stubbed my toe..."
"We're all going to die, aren't we?"
RATED PG-13
And on that note we really need to get the spoiler tags working.
So what is this exactly? It is, to paraphrase ATC, "a magical girl show left out in the sun to leech all the sweetness out of it, then fused with bits of Jason Bourne and The X-Files. Now add guns and explosions and you've got this summer's blockbuster action movie."
The story follows Alexander Remington, a field agent for the CIA who encounters a demon while making a hit overseas after said monster offs his target then tries to do the same to his daughter. Alex engages the beast and saves the girl after an intense running battle, then reports back to headquarters with his story. Thinking that these creatures might be a matter of national security if there turn out to be more of them, the CIA gives Alex a long-term assignment to find out more about these things.
Several years pass and all Alex gets his hands on is worthless tabloid stuff, until a lead takes him back out east to Japan and lands him right smack in the middle of a battle between another monster and a magical girl, who happens to be the girl he saved a few years back, whose name is Natsuki. Between the two of them, Alex and Natsuki dust the monster and report back to the CIA that more information has come to light on the situation; however there's a very very big problem.
The enemies Natsuki faces are fairly typical magical girl fare and bear a strong resemblance to the Dark Kingdom, with one major exception: they have resources and tactics similar to those of human terrorist organizations. These guys are organized, powerful, and competent to the extreme, willing to use bombs, traps, snipers, and squad-level tactics the like of which you'd normally see in the US Army. Worse still, they have the standard issue "immune to normal weapons" power which Alex has only barely managed to overcome because he's a Badass Normal even by the standards of the CIA. This means that Natsuki and any other magical girls they can find are pretty much the only hope for stopping these things. This is also a very big problem, because Natsuki fights about as well as Sailor Moon does. Without the CIA's assistance -- and maybe even with it -- she has absolutely no chance of stopping these monsters.
The plot, as near as we've determined so far, revolves around finding any potential magical girls who've survived the enemy's hunter-killer teams, and training both them and Natsuki from washed-up warriors of love and justice into badass-beyond-compare magical supersoldiers capable of fighting on level ground with their enemies. Once this is done, the focus shifts into locating the Team Leader, who happens to be the First Daughter and unknowingly possesses an artifact potentially capable of snuffing out their adversaries once and for all, followed by the grand finale when the girls, Alex, and Alex's partner (voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, naturally) take the fight to the enemy's turf.
Thoughts or suggestions?
