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— Nanoha Takamachi
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Originally a minor character in an esoteric Japanese dating sim, Triangle Heart, Nanoha Takamachi is the main character of the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series.
Nanoha was girl in the city of Uminari, Japan, until, at eight years of age, she finds a magical artifact, an "intelligent device" known as "Raising Heart" which takes the form of a red jewel in a necklace capable of transforming into a staff capable of firing devastating energy attacks along with a talking ferret named Yuuno. Yuuno reveals to her that "magic" is actually an alien technology, and that she is one of the few humans capable of using it. The ferret then tells her of his own mission, to recover dangerous magical artifacts known as Jewel Seeds. She later encounters another magic user, a humanoid alien named Fate Testarossa, who is also seeking the Jewel Seeds for her own purposes. Despite initial hostilities, Nanoha defeats, befriends, and frees Fate from her abusive mother, and the two quickly become close.
A few months later, Nanoha gets involved with the Wolkenritter, magical constructs created by the artifact known as the Book of Darkness. She reunites with Fate to fight the group, who are draining mages of their ability to use magic in order to power the artifact. While they are successful, outside forces intervene to power the Book of Darkness, which then goes berserk. After a battle, they manage to weaken it enough to free its host, Hayate Yagami, who goes on to join Fate and Nanoha as a trio of powerful mages.
Years later, Nanoha leaves Earth to work for the Time-Space Administration Bureau, an organization that polices the use of magic. As one of the organization's strongest mages, she quickly rises in the ranks, and fills the role of a combat instructor when she isn't on the front lines. She is then roped into Riot Force 6 by Yagami, where she and Fate form the core of the team. While foiling a coup, Nanoha rescues and adopts Vivio, the clone of an ancient ruler.
Battle vs. Chise (by SPARTAN 119)[]
In the skies above Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan, a human weapon flew through the air. Missiles flew through the air and laser beams lit up the sky as Chise swept through an enemy naval task force. Even with all her power, Chise could do nothing to stop the impeding apocalypse.
But there was one who could. After Terran TSAB officer Hayate Yagami managed to pull a few springs in the organization, the alien military force known as the Time Space Administration Bureau descended on earth, equipped with the technology to avert the ecological Armageddon that started this conflict in the first place. At the vanguard of this force was Major Nanoha Takamachi, the most elite agent of the TSAB, and incidentally a close friend of Yagami's since childhood. It was her mission to subdue the human weapon that had become the primary threat to TSAB's rescue operation.
As the last of the enemy fleet below was reduced to burning wreckage, Chise spotted a pink-colored light flash across the sky. The advanced censors implanted in her body immediately locked on the target, identifying it flying human emitting massive energy readings, in other words, something similar to herself. There were no other such entities in JSDF service, so it had to be... an enemy...
Immediately, Chise summoned a dozen missiles seemingly out of nowhere, sending them streaking towards her target. Several kilometers away, Nanoha's intelligent device called out, "Alert, incoming projectiles". Nanoha gave commanded her device to active the "Round Shield" spell, intercepting incoming missiles.
Magically amplifying her voice, Nanoha called out to Chise, "Stop this! I'm here to help. I can save your planet, no one else has to die!"
The weapon in Chise, however, had long since taken over, leaving nothing but the will to annihilate the enemy. Chise fired more missiles, dozens of them, at Nanoha. As the projectiles moved in from all directions, Nanoha moved to evade, causing several of the missiles to explode in a flash of fire as they collided with each other.
"Sacred Cluster", Raising Heart called out, as Nanoha summoned a blast of energy balls that intercepted several more of the missiles, before the last of them detonated harmlessly against against her barrier jacket.
Seeing no other option than to subdue the living weapon that stood before her, Nanoha unleashed her "Accel Shooter" attack, launching a barrage of energy balls at Chise. Detecting the incoming threat, Chise fired off her arm-mounted Gatling gun at the incoming projectiles, intercepting seven of them, but the rest struck her, covering her in several explosions.
As the smoke cleared, however, Chise still hovered defiantly in the air as her arm-mounted weapon reconfigured itself. A laser beam cut through the smoke and instantly impacted Nanoha, creating an explosion that sent her flying into a skyscraper. Chise then fired a second later beam the burned through the supports of the building, sending it collapsing down on her foe.
For a moment, it looked like Chise had won, but then, a flash of pink-colored light burst from the destroyed structure. Her barrier jacket had suffered from damage from the impact with the building, but Nanoha was otherwise unharmed. As she felt the tower collapse around her, she activated her "oval protection" spell, creating a shield of energy that allowed her to burst through the collapsing remnants of the tower.
Turning to face the threat, Chise fired off a barrage of energy attacks, however, Nanoha simply burst through the hail of fire, her shield holding up against countless explosions as Raising Heart loaded several cartridges, preparing for a powerful attack.
"Divine Buster!", Nanoha called out, unleashing a beam of energy the burst out the cloud of smoke and flames surrounding Chise in a great ball of flame that lit up the sky. As the smoke cleared, it revealed Chise, her wings slightly damaged and sporting several minor injuries, but otherwise unharmed.
At that moment, Chise pulled out all the stops, creating a nuclear-level explosion covered all of Nanoha's vision in a blinding flash of light. The blast leveled the city below her as it burst through Nanoha's shield and sent her fly several kilometers through the air. Nanoha's barrier jacket only barely held. As she finally regained control of her flight, about 5 kilometers from the epicenter of the blast, she was sporting a few burns, but was likewise not severely injured, her shield and barrier jacket having taken most of it.
Looking at the mushroom cloud that rose in the distance, Nanoha though for a moment it was over. She wasn't able to save that girl, or any of them the people in that city, but at least the TSAB could still save the planet.
A moment later, Nanoha realized how wrong she was, when she was struck by a massive force from above. Looking up as she struggled to regain control of her flight after the impact, she saw a gigantic mass of black metallic matter, easily dozens of kilometers wide floating in the air above.
Nanoha regained control of her flight just in time to evade a second spike, before blasting a third away with an energy attack. Soon after, Nanoha narrowly evaded a beam of energy that lanced out from the center of the ruined city.
Driven mad by the horrors she saw in her past, and having finally faced another who rivaled her power, Chise pulled out all of the stops. She would finally put an end to the endless wars of mankind the only way she knew how- by annihilating the human race, starting with girl.
As a more attacks streaked in, Nanoha loaded several cartridges at once, enough to power her final attack. Realizing that the city was already destroyed, she had no reason to hold back. Nanoha fired her post powerful attack, "Starlight Breaker". A beam of energy that dwarfed those fired by Chise streaked out towards her target, before exploding in an explosion that would have razed the entire city, had Chise not already seen to that earlier.
A matter of seconds later, it was all over, the mass of matter in the sky disintegrated and fell into the sea, signaling the defeat of her foe. Immediately, Nanoha used her Wide Area Search ability, detecting life signs in the city, there were still survivors alive in there.
Chise lay in a pile of rubble, sporting several grevious wounds, her left arm was crushed beneath a large piece of rubble, and her wings were torn to pieces. She knew she was going to die here. Then, she felt the debris pinning her to the ground seem to levitate. Then she herself rise above the ground, as though someone were cradling her in their arms. Looking up, she saw the face of... the person she had fought just moments ago.
"W..Why...?", Chise said weakly, "I'm your enemy... why are you saving me?"
Nanoha smiled at her and said, "The personal I love most in the world was once an enemy. I know people can change, they can be redeemed if you only give them a chance, and if you leave them to die, they can never have a chance. I am part of an organization that can save you, and your planet, no one else has to die".
"Sh...Shuuji...", Chise said, suddenly realizing what she had done when she destroyed the city... "Is he OK!? He was on the lookout on the mountain south of town."
Nanoha looked in the direction Chise indicated, as Raising Heart noted "Life signs detected in the designated area, dispatching rescue units".
"This Shuuji is someone you care about, isn't he?", Nanoha replied, "If he's still alive, we will be able to save him. You have my word."
"Thank you", Chise replied as Nanoha flew up into the air, towards a TSAB spacecraft hovering over over the ruins of the city. As Nanoha returned to the ship, aerial mages and dropships started taking off towards the city to rescue any surivors.
WINNER: Nanoha Takamachi
Expert's Opinion[]
While Chise had some extremely powerful offensive abilities, and could deliver them at an impressive rate, she lacked any defenses apart from her base-level durability which, while impressive, was outclassed by Nanoha's barrier jacket and magic shields. These would allow Nanoha to deploy her most powerful attacks, powered by the cartridge system, and ultimated "befriend" Chise.
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Battle vs. Homura Akemi (by SPARTAN 119)[]
Nanoha Takamachi flew over a devastated city, piled with debris. Suddenly, an AT4 rocket flew at her. Nanoha swerved out of the way just in time to avoid the projectile.
Homura saw that her first rocket missed the "witch" that flew above her and fired a second rocket and then a third.
"Oval Protection", Nanoha's intelligent magical device, "Raising Heart", said, as a sphere of light appeared around Nanoha. Several rockets impacted on the shield, The mass-based weapons depleting the shield quickly, knocking Nanoha away in the blast.
Nanoha managed get back into flight just before she crashed into a skyscraper. Nanoha flew up into the air as Raising Heart said "Axel Shooter", and fired off twelve balls of energy, flying towards Homura.
Homura ran along an elevated highway at superhuman speeds, dodging six of the projectiles, blowing up cars and chunks of freeway. But the others kept following her. Homura jumped on top of the metal support beams of a bridge and got out her Desert Eagle. Homura shot down the other six energy balls with well-aimed shots.
Homura turned to Nanoha to see that she was charging for another attack. Raising Heart spoke again: "Divine Buster".
Homura ran across the bridge, making to the other side as the beam hit the central span, sending it falling into the sea.
Nanoha flew into position near a stadium in the city. Homura smiled darkly as she got out a C4 detonator and pressed the button. The stadium, loaded with C4, exploded with the force of a large fuel-air bomb, taking out several city blocks.
Fortunately for Nanoha, she was not directly in the blast radius, and was only thrown around a bit by the blast. Nanoha charged up for her Starlight Breaker attack, a ball of energy appeared around Raising Heart, surrounded by a glowing ring. The ball of energy sent out numerous "laser beams", blasting away whole skyscrapers, before the main beam fired, flying literally meters over Homura's head, hitting what had been the central business district of the abandoned city. The beam exploded with the force of a small nuclear warhead, wiping out the downtown area.
Homura summoned two Type-88 anti-ship missile batteries and ordered them to fire without touching the controls. A swarm of missiles flew at Nanoha. He shield strained under the impact. If she was any less powerful a mage, this would have killed her.
Nanoha made one final attack on Homura, getting in close and using Raising Heart as a melee weapon. Homura drew her katana. The two melee weapons met, each one knocking the other out of the user's hand. Homura ran at Nanoha, who fired a weak beam from her finger, but missed, and was forced to the ground by Homura, who pointed her Desert Eagle in her face.
"Why?", Nanoha asked, "Why are you doing this?"
"What?", Homura asked, "You can talk, you're not a witch, are you?"
"What are you talking about?", Nanoha asked.
Homura explained that she was a magical girl, a girl who was given magical powers and one wish by a being known as Kyuubee, in exchanged for being forced to fight monsters known as "witches"... and for allowing Kyuubee to harvest the energy from their inevitable demise. She stated that she tried to kill Kyuubee twice, but each time another Kyuubee with the same memories and personality of the original came, and told her "he has many bodies".
"I am Nanoha Takamachi, Time Space Administration Bureau", Nanoha said, "I think know what this Kyuubee is doing to create his extra bodies."
Two weeks later, a cloning facility on an alien planet.
Nanoha fired off countless blasts of energy at hundreds of "Kyuubees" that came at them. The creatures were only about the size of a house cat, but, as it turned out, they could fire powerful beam attacks. Homura helped Nanoha cut them down with an M249 SAW she had taken out of her "hammerspace".
Finally, they made it to the center of the cloning facility. Homura got out an AT4 and fired off a rocket at the device making all the clones, blowing them apart, and took out the teleporter they used to get to Earth, for good measure.
Nanoha then grabbed Homura and blew a hole through the roof and flew upward as the factory exploded below them. Nanoha then took Homura to a TSAB spacecraft hovering in atmosphere.
Expert's Opinion[]
As there was a tie on the on-site votes, but a second Homura vote on another site I advertised this battle on, I created this ending where both survive, but Homura manages to overpower and "befriend" Nanoha.
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