The Ah! My BAMF Double Feature: Ah! The Archangel: Ah! The Challenge

[We open on the riffers right outside the theaters, looking expectantly at Keiichi, looking him up and down. Gio and Sherry are watching him closely, Belldandy and Peorth are off to the side, confused as Bell leans forward for a better look while Peorth stands up straight with her hands behind her back, and Delia has joined the others, studying Keiichi especially intently]

Keiichi: Are you guys done?

Delia: You can’t just call time on an important development like this!

Keiichi: *rolling his eyes* Come on, you know that’s not how it works! What happens in one of these fanfics does not suddenly happen out here!

( John Freeman then looked on the ground and found wepon )

Gio: Anyway…let’s polish off another chapter. Last time on Ah! The Archangel…

Belldandy: After establishing that Keiichi can be tracked by heat-seeking missiles, Kyyteo arrived as the fic changed his name to Kevin. …that’s it, actually. Well, that’s not everything: Keiichi used whatever Archenergy happens to be in order to protect himself from these missiles, and I think that’s what we should be leaving off on from here! I wonder where this fic is meant to go with that information?

Sherry: No time to find out like the present!
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( zombie goasts leave this place )

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Gio: That tears it, yo! Kei, Imma give ya the training in the magic arts this fic dangled in front of your face! C’mon, man, let’s hit the archives!

[Gio takes Keiichi by the hand and leads him off.]

Keiichi: Whoa, whoa! Are you sure you can cram this in between chapters?!

Gio: Watch me!

The Ah! My BAMF Double Feature: Ah! The Archangel: Ah! The Battle

[We open on the riffers sitting around a table at the coffee shop of the campus center, looking at a Reel which Gio has issued Keiichi. It’s just what it sounds like, a tiny film reel about the size of a coin.]

Keiichi: So…what am I supposed to do?

Gio: Yanno those smartphone-lookin’ things we fold up and sling ‘round? Projectors? Whatcha do with one of those is install it. It’s a spellbook and a reader that lets ya prepare and cast spells, even learn ‘em with enough repetition, once y’know the basics, ‘course.

Delia: Response to that much magic concentrated in a dinky trinket is a quick litmus test for how magic potential in a person. If you’re an Inspired – somebody with super-elevated magic potential like us – then it’ll just kind of respond to your thoughts. In simple ways, mind you, otherwise it’d be super-inconvenient to be one of us, but…

[Keiichi looks around and sees that Gio, Delia and Sherry wear their Reels as something – watches, chokers, all sorts of inobtrusive jewelry. He carefully picks up the little coin and places it on his wrist. Involuntarily, ribbons of light issue from the Reel, become patterned like film strips and snap around his wrist as the band of a watch.

Everyone is immediately, genuinely impressed by this.]

All: *stunned* Whoa.

Delia: I think we found the truth buried under all the embellishment.

Gio: So, ya been charged with potential from who you hang out with.

Keiichi: …what do we do now?

Belldandy: Maybe we should save that for when we’ve got enough time to go into detail.

Sherry: Yeah, that’s probably a good call. We’d better move things along.

Peorth: In Ah! The Archangel, we discover many things about Heaven: the Almighty needs to have a talk with his lighting department, Angels are gods that live in a giant hula hoop, Lind is a door guard, and a guy named Kevin, not “Ah” as the title would suggest, is the adoptive brother of the Norns, who came down to Earth for a reunion consisting of the most random, unnecessary fight since the invention of XARM. It was slipped in that perhaps Keiichi had whatever power Kevin does, which makes me believe there must be some magic quality behind the letter “K.”

Delia: Always a good sign for your worldbuilding.

Peorth: Or at least, that was what we all thought, before the story promptly dropped the idea by just refusing to give it any further examination. We now pick up with that fight, already in progress.
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( its time to end this ones and for all! )

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( Final Thoughts )

Belldandy: I suppose that’s it, then?

Peorth: Hmm…seems like it. Well, until next time. I’ll be expecting some progress on that film when we meet again!