Slash!
Slash!
"Damn, there's no end to these things!" I yelled as I slashed through a Dogoo. Which was a blue slime with dog ears and a tail, and yea, a face too, cause that's a thing. Anyways I stabbed through a Dogoo and it seemed like two marched forward to take its place. I swore and slashed through those, then four more marched in its place.
"Digit! You need to retreat now!" I heard a woman's voice. I looked up and saw a girl on a book. She had blonde hair and blue eyes, along with a purple robe and headress.
"but Histoi-" I began.
"No buts, besides -that- is waiting for you back at the basilicom"
" Fine," I turned my back to the Dogoos and walked back to the Basilicom with Histoire.
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I sighed as I sat down in a chair in the Basilicom, it was initially a majestic tower that stood in the center of Planeptune, well not it was ruins of what it used to be. Since this is our first time meeting, I guess I should tell you about me, and where I am...
My name is Digit, and I'm 18 years old.
My home is Gamindustri, more specifically, Planeptune.
You may be wondering why the Basilicom is in ruins, to be honest the whole city is in ruins.
It happened 5 years ago...
It was a peaceful day, I was only 13 at the time, and I was walking to the Basilicom, because I had won a day with the CPU, Neptune. I had decided to walk on the sidewalks to the Basilicom, because even though Planeptune is-was a futuristic city, I wanted to take the more down to earth path. I did see several street vendors and adults getting into their cars as I walked, and I even bought some stuff from several street vendors. After hours of walking and shopping, I found myself at the foot of the Basilicom, a giant majestic tower that housed the nations CPU, Neptune. I walked in and was greeted by several staff.
" Hi there! What's your name?"
" A kid huh? Where's his parent?"
"He doesn't have an appointment does he?"
I kept quiet as several of them talked about me. I held out my ticket that win me the prize and one person, a woman with caramel brown hair and grey eyes, escorted me to the elevator. When they opened the elevator door, they motioned for me to go in, which I did, and simply said.
"Take him to Neptune."
I turned around and the door closed. The elevator then began to go up, and I looked out the window and gasped in amazement at the view below. It was night time in Planeptune and I was able to see the lights of the city. I held my ticket tightly and gulped as the elevator slowed to a stop. I turned around and the door opened. I cautiously stepped out and saw two girls with light purple hair playing video games. One of them was shorter than the other, and had two D-clips in her hair. She had a short white hoodie and wore a purple dress underneath. She had matching shoes and white and purple stockings. The taller girl had only one D-clip in her hair and wore a white and purple sailor outfit. They were sitting on the couch and e shorter girl seemed to be focused on her game.
" Come on ! Is that all you got?" she yelled.
" I-I'll show you my true power Neptune!" I slowly walked over to the two and Neptune heard me and paused the game. She looked over her shoulder with a look that...I couldn't really describe, but I'm just gonna say that it scared the shit out of me. I cowered back and The taller girl walked over to me and gently took my hand. " Hey no need to be scared, Neptune is just messing with you."
"..." I said nothing as the girl pulled me towards Neptune, who kept making the face and I began to whimper.
"Uhm sis, can you cut that out? I think this is the boy who won the contest."
"Oh! Whoops! Hiya there, my name's Neptune, what's yours?" she held out her hand.
"Uhm, I'm Digit." I cautiously shook her hand.
" So Digit, you. Have a whole day with us tomorrow, what do you want to do?"
"I'm not sure..."
"Well ya got some time to think about it, how bout you stay here and we play games all night?"
" Uhm alright."
...
I was woken up by a loud explosion. I fell off the couch and ran to the windows, where I saw a woman with deep purple hair and wearing a black suit get smashed into the windows. She flew towards me and crashed into me. I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them to see some sort of...black substance flood into the Basilicom. I saw the woman struggle to her feet and I then saw a girl with hot pink hair fly the hole in the window. She had what looked to be a blaster that could also be used as a blade. Her eyes were a bright blue and a frown was on her face. She wore a black bodysuit with purple trim and her hairstyle seemed to be similar to-
"Nepgear!" the woman yelled as she sat up. She jumped and two mechanical wings appeared behind her, allowing her to hover.
"..." the girl aimed her blaster and the black substance flew towards the woman, she summoned a black katana with a purple blade and blocked the substance, it sprayed past her and some of it hit me. My eyes widened and I screamed in pain, it felt like something was burning my skin. I felt the substance invade my body, feeling like acid was running through my veins. I saw the woman's block begin to fail and the substance enveloped her and I blacked out.
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The next time I awoke, the Basilicom, and the entire city, was in ruins. I looked at a nearby fallen clock, from the time it read it means it may have been only a few hours, but by the looks of it the clock had been ripped from several wires when whatever leveled the city. Neptune and Nepgear were nowhere in sight, I struggled to my feet and yelped in pain, my right leg and left arm felt like they were broken. Even still, I limped from the remains of the Basilicom. I had apparently passed out from the pain while I limped, and next time I woke up, I was in a clinic.
... My time at the clinic though...is...fuzzy...I remember being there, waking up there, living there for 2 years? I think, but I can't really remember anything from there, not even birthdays...
I had joined the Resistance, which was run by former Oracle Histoire, after I left the clinic and well, the last 3 years I've been here, fighting on the front lines to push monsters back and keep Planeptune safe.
"Digit," I looked at Histoire and she beckoned for me to follow her. I did as she instructed and she took me to a corner of the ruins that served as a lab for the scientists, various equipment worked on assemlbling and disassembling various items and Histoire seemed to ignore it as she flew to the back of the room, where a man in a white lab coat was waiting.
" Ah, so you're Digit?" the man asked. He seemed to be in his 40s, like 42, 43 maybe, and he had slick back brown hair. He held out his hand and I shook it. "I'm Dr. Wayne," I looked at the table that was beside him, which had a black case with various lines, suggesting that it was a collection of pieces put together.
" So what's this?"
" We've heard about sightings of Purple Heart, and we had prepared this for you Digit, we think that Purple Heart may be in danger, do we prepared this-" Dr. Wayne put his hand on the case." This will essentially work as your HDD. This will give you a fraction of the power that a CPU has, however you can only handle so much, as you'll be channeling share energy, which humans are not meant to handle. I'd say you'd have 20 seconds in this form before you'd have to revert back to your human form to prevent injury."
" 20 seconds?" I whistled.
"You'll be stronger than any monster, and depending how you handle it, you could beat a CPU."
"Beat a CPU...?"
"I wanted you to come back because this was finished." Histoire explained.
" I see..." I grabbed the case and it disappeared, leaving greenish square particles behind.
" It's supposed to do that."
" Alright," I said. I then heard someone running in our direction. Hard. I recognized them as one of our scouts.
" *huff* *huff* Hi...Histoire..." the scout said, his hands on his knees as he gulped for air.
" What is it?"
"P-PurpleHeart has been sighted," my eyes widened.
"Where!?" I said,grabbing him by the collar.
" A-Area F-12" he stammered. I threw him to the side and ran off."Wait!" the scout yelled, but I already was out of the entrance.
With this...HDD...I could save Purple Heart. If saving her means I can fix things in Planeptune, then I will.