Quest
A young girl, wearing a black dress with a milky blue lining, and an unconnected belt with a bow at the back of the belt while a button-like circle connected her dress with her collar, walked into Lastation's Guild. On her arms were long fingerless black gloves with milky blue coloring at the top with a similar scheme on her boots. Strapped to the left side of her belt piece is small electronic device that has a small Kupokitty icon surround by a white circle. Some of her hair was worn in pigtails tied down with light blue and black ribbons while the rest of it fell down to her chest.
The girl looked around the inside of the Guild, seeing holographic screens of Quest Logs or Completion forms zoom across the spacious room. A firm hand planted itself and the girl turned around to see an older girl similar to her, but her clothing carried more detail and she had twintails instead of pigtails.
"Are you excited, Uni?" The older girl smiled as she watched her younger sister nod enthusiastically.
"Of course I am, I'm gonna go on a Quest! All by myself!" The older girl, Noire scratched her cheek as Uni straightened herself. "I can't believe that Big Sis is so proud of my skills that she'd let handle a Quest on my own!" Uni turned away from her older sister and slightly skipped over to lady at the front desk.
"About that… Uni…" However, the smaller girl didn't seem to hear her. "H-Hey!?"
"Excuse me, I'd like to see what Quests are available." Looking up from her computer, the generic desk lady smiled at Uni.
"Ah, let me- Oh! Lady Uni and Lady Noire!" Flushing at being given the title of 'Lady', Uni lowered her head as Noire came up from behind. "I've already prepared the Quest for you as you've requested, Lady Noire." Blinking, Uni looked at the lady at the desk, then to her sister, then back again.
"Eh?" Huffing, Noire put her hands on her hips.
"If you just listened to me for just a second, I was going to tell that I already picked out your Quest for you." Uni's pigtails drooped for a second, a visible frown on her face.
"Oh…" Raising her eyebrow, Noire put on a knowing smile.
"I mean, I have to watch over my little sister somehow. I don't know what I'd do if I found out you took a Quest that was out of your league." Surprised, Uni moved closer to her sister, placing one of her palms on her chest.
"Out of my league!? Noire, I'm a CPU Candidate!" Noire shook her head.
"Just because you're a CPU Candidate, doesn't mean that you can handle anything by yourself." Uni shrunk as her sister reprimanded. The desk lady felt awkward at witnessing the argument in front of her and reached under her desk, pulling out a small disk and placing it on the desk.
"Um…" The Lastation sisters turned their attention to the attendant. "The Quest…"
"Oh, thank you." Noire took the disk and pressed the center of the disk. A light emitted from the place that Noire touched and the light produced a holographic screen. "Mhm… Alright, that's exactly what I expected." Turning to the attendant, Noire nodded and handed disk to Uni. "Hold on, I need to make a phone call."
Nodding as Noire stepped away, Uni stared at the screen.
Quest:
I wanna go to the beach, but there are too many monsters! Someone please get rid of them for me! - Beach Lover
Location:
Waverunner Coast
Clear Condition:
Defeat 500 enemies
Enemies:
Dogoo
Pixel Vader
M-3
King Pac
Epsilon
"Five hundred enemies!?" Uni's eyes widened at the amount of monsters she had to destroy. Did her sister really believe that she could do this? "But… Noire chose this mission for me." Clutching the disk tightly, Uni turned to see her sister on her cellphone.
"You got all that? Good, Uni will be at the dungeon entrance so don't make her wait. Alright, I'm hanging u- Wha- I heard that!? I'm not a loner. I DO have friends." Noire flinched. "Wh-Who…" Uni's sister began to curl her hair around her finger, her voice dropping in volume. "W-Well…" Uni sweatdropped at her sister's predicament . "A-Anyways, make sure your side makes it on time okay?" Hanging up the phone, Noire turned around to see Uni curiously staring at her.
"Noire, who was that?" Regaining her composure, Noire put her phone away and coughed into her fist.
"That was… Neptune." The CPU of Lastation returned to her sister.
"Neptune? As in the CPU of Planeptune?" Nodding, Noire reached for the disk and looked over the details of the Quest again.
"Yes. That Neptune." Uni raised an eyebrow. From what her sister had said about Neptune, she and the Planeptune goddess were rivals.
"Why did you talk to her… on your personal phone?" Flushing, Noire shook her head and let out a sigh.
"Nevermind that, the reason I called Neptune was to let her know where your Quest is taking place." Blinking, Uni stared at her sister quizzically.
"Why would you do that?"
"That's because I found you a partner for your Quest." Uni's eyes widened.
"A partner!? I thought you said you would let me handle this on my own!" Now it was Noire's turn to raise an eyebrow.
"I never said that. All I said was that I wouldn't let you do anything reckless." Turning off the disk, Noire walked towards the entrance of the Guild. "I'll take you there, okay."
Pouting, Uni let her head hang for a second before running after her sister. Clenching her fist, Uni looked up to the ceiling.
"I'm going to finish this quest so perfectly, Noire will have to trust me!"
"Late…" Noire had dropped off Uni in front of the entrance ot Waverunner Coast, but her partner has yet to appear. While waiting, the Lasration Candidate looked around.
The area Uni was standing in was a gray bridge with a yellow stripe going down the middle. Before the bridge connected with many of the wide circlish areas that dotted the coast, the stripe cut through two red circles and ended immediately when the bridge's rails connected with circles. Uni opened the Quest Log again and stared the enemy list again. "I've fought many of these enemies with Noire, they aren't that tough…." The CPU Candidate's eyes then landed on the two bolded enemy names. "King Pac… and Epsilon… I've never seen those before." Biting her lip, Uni glanced around. None of the monsters around the immediate area looked anything like a King Pac or an Epsilon.
Suddenly, the sound of a plane reached the girl's ears. Turning off the disk, Uni placed the item on her belt and looked around to the clear blue sky. The girl squinted her eyes as she saw a tiny glint in the sky. The constant whir of the plane's engine got louder and louder as the plane approached Uni. Once the plane was a considerable distance from the CPU Candidate, it began to smoothly dip towards the bridge. At the same time, the plane tilted to the right, moving moving it in the direction it had tilted. Slowing down once it was about to pass the bridge, the plane flipped over and the cockpit opened, revealing the pilot. Jumping out of the cockpit, the pilot landed and dropped to one knee, feet away from CPU Candidate. The plane flew into the distance, spinning around for a bit and slowly digitized away and vanished.
There was a silence as the girl gazed the person kneeling, facing the ocean. The person, as Uni walked closer, turned out to be a boy. The boy had short lavender hair except of his semi-long side locks and the back of his head was tied into a ponytail by a dark purple hair tie. A D-Pad shaped hairclip, kept a part of his hair still against the faint breeze. Upon standing up, Uni found out that the boy was just a little bit, just a forehead, taller than her. At the same time, she could see his outfit completely now. The boy wore a white unzipped flight jacket, with a N patch where his heart would be. Under the jacket, he wore a white shirt and a purple scarf. Uni squinted her eyes again upon noticing the pudding shaped pin on the edge of his collar. Glancing at the rest of his attire, the boy bright white pants, which the legs were tucked under his vanilla boots. The boots had purple soles and a purple throat. Uni then noticed he was also wearing a light purple belt with a rectangular device strapped onto it. Finally, the CPU Candidate's eyes landed on the two holsters on the boy's leg. Each of the holsters held a white pistol.
"...Owwie…" Blinking, Uni now noticed that the boy's dark purple eyes were filled with tears as he struggled to stand straight. "I knew I should have had Neptune take me here…" Rubbing his eyes with his sleeve, the boy turned around and made eye contact with Uni. "Goodness!" Surprising both the CPU Candidate and himself, the boy bowed deeply. "I'm sorry you had to watch that! I'm sooo embarassed!"
A drop of sweat rolled down Uni's cheek.
"He's polite." Thought the Lastation Candidate. "And way too formal."
Rubbing her shoulder, Uni glanced to the side, seeing some monsters wandering around.
"No…It's okay. Are you my partner for this Quest?" The boy straightened himself.
"Yes, if you're Lastation's CPU Candidate Uni." Upon hearing her title, Uni smirked a little bit.
"In fact, I am. But just call me Uni." Uni walked closer to the boy, studying him from head to toe and making him uncomfortable. "And you are?" The boy smiled and held out a hand.
"I'm Nepgear, I hope we get along." Now smiling as well, Uni reached out and grabbed Nepgear's hand.
"Likewise." Uni now held out her hands, a rifle digitizing into reality and comfortably landing in them. "Now, let's take care of these things." Nepgear nodded.
"Roger!" Nepgear reached for the pistol on his right and held it up. Both of them ran towards the monsters, some noticed them while other didn't.
Uni gunned down any monsters that were coming close while Nepgear fire upon any that were able to get through Uni's fire. The duo would keep this cycle until all the monsters in their immediate area were obliterated.
"Dogoogogo…" Once the last Dogoo was dissipated, Uni and Nepgear lowered their weapons.
"Wow, Uni. You're strong." Caught off guard, Uni swallowed back a stammer and composed herself.
"Yeah, well, you're not a bad shot either, Nepgear." The CPU Candidate narrowed her eyes at Nepgear's pistol. "But… you aren't able to kill a lot of monsters with just a pistol, given it's limited rate of fire and range." Nepgear rubbed the back of his head.
"Well, I have something to deal with that."
"Really, show me next time okay?" Nepgear smiled widely.
"Sure!" Nepgear looked at the disk on Uni's side. "Oh right, how far away are we from completing the Quest's Clear Condition?" The girl reached for said disk and turned it on, looking at the clear condition.
"We've killed one hundred and twenty five out of five hundred enemies." Nepgear's eyes widened.
"Goodness!? Five hundred enemies!" Uni nodded.
"Yeah, I was surprised too." The girl glanced around. "Nepgear uses the word 'Goodness' a lot when he's surprised." The entire area was devoid of enemies. "I guess we better start looking for the rest." Nepgear looked around as well.
"Let's try going that way." Nepgear pointed to another bridge nearby and Uni nodded.
The duo walked through the bridge, Uni keeping her gun out while Nepgear replaced his pistol back into the holster. "Say Uni… Why are you doing this mission without your CPU?" Uni stared at the floor as they walked.
"Noire said that she was going to let me handle a Quest without her." The girl stopped walking and stared at the ocean. The sparkling blue waters reflecting her reflection. "...But then she gave me a partner." Uni suddenly realized the implications of her words. "N-Not that I'm saying you're a bad partner or anything!"
Nepgear's reflection appeared next to Uni's.
"My sister set me up with this quest because she wanted me to get stronger." Uni looked at the boy next to her, a smile on his face. "She even wanted to go with me, but her work forced her to stay home…" A envious smile appeared on Uni's face.
"You're lucky to have such a nice older sister as yours…" Nepgear now turned to make eye contact with Uni.
"But I think your sister is nice too!" The girl narrowed her eyes.
"How?"
"Well, she probably let you take this Quest without her because she trusts your ability," Nepgear turned back to the ocean, scratching his cheek. "But at the same time, she was worried that you would get hurt, so she made me your partner." In an instant, Uni's anxieties disappeared. "...I think." ...Well, they were gone for now.
"Thanks, Nepgear." Suddenly, Uni realized something. "Wait, I just realized. When we were fighting, you were the one covering me." The Candidate of Lastation raised an eyebrow. "Isn't it kind of strange that a guy is letting a girl take the lead? I thought guys naturally took the lead to look good." Nepgear's eyes widened.
"G-Goodness, no!" Nepgear fiddled with his fingers, trying to find something else to look at. "I'm not really confident at my leadership skills, so I naturally stand behind…" A giggle slowly rose out of Uni's mouth, which quickly turned to laughter. Nepgear's cheeks flushed as Uni held her stomach as she tried to hold back her laughter.
"Okay, okay. Calm down. I didn't expect you to get so defensive about it." Uni wiped away a couple of tears. "It's okay, Nepgear. I was just kidding." Looking past Nepgear, Uni noticed an M-3 move into an adjacent circle. "Anyways, I think we've rested long enough." Raising her rifle, Uni pointed past Nepgear and towards the enemy. "I see a monster up ahead!"
Nepgear turned around, pulling out the pistol from his right leg.
"I see the target! Let's go!" Uni reached for Nepgear as he dashed away.
"H-Hey, wait!" Uni shook her head, readying her rifle. "He's getting ahead of himself!"
Nepgear ran towards the M-3, aiming at it as slowly turned around. The boy jumped over the machine's spiky electrocharged attachments and fired a bullet into the back of the monster's main body, causing it to flinch. Reaching for his other pistol, Nepgear repeatedly fired bullets into the M-3's body. The monster shook and shuddered under the stream of bullets until it collapsed onto the ground. The M-3 beeped out one last sound before it disintegrated into light.
"Phew! That takes care of that!" Uni screeched to a halt, dropping to one knee and peering through her rifle's scope.
"Nepgear, move!" The boy looked turned around to see three Pixel Vaders flying towards him.
"Ah!" Nepgear rolled aside as Uni sniped the three monsters out of the sky. "Wow, that was close!" The boy turned around to thank his partner as he noticed a Dogoo slowly scoot itself towards Uni. "Uni, watch out!" Nepgear saw the girl turn around and aim at the Dogoo, only for no bullets to come out of the nozzle.
"No ammo!?" Uni reached behind her for a magazine but the Dogoo was too close.
"Uni!" Nepgear replaced his left pistol back to its holster and hopped forward. Two purple crystals on the soles of Nepgear's boots began to shine. Levitating in the air for a second, Nepgear crouched as he grabbed his other pistol with both hands. The boy zipped forwards, leaving behind a purple trial. Nepgear pulled on the pistol's frame and it began to turn into a tiny rod as he raised it over his head. A purple energy beam erupted from the top of the rod, forming into a blade. "Teyaaaah!" Swinging downwards, Nepgear's energy sword slashed through the Dogoo, causing it to split in half and disintegrate. Nepgear landed on the floor, while Uni blinked her eyes then rubbed them.
"Wha-?" Uni stared at the energy sword as its purple light hummed silently. "How did you..." Letting out a sigh of relief, Nepgear raised the sword into the air, swinging it a little bit.
"Hehe, I modified my gun to turn into a sword." The boy then rubbed the back of his head. "...But it's sort of busted." Uni raised an eyebrow.
"Busted?"
"Yeah, I wasn't able to repair it in time before the Quest, so I'm positive that my weapon won't be able to change back into its gun form anytime soon."
"Heeh, that's not good." Uni looked to the side, her eyes widening. "And that's just worse." Nepgear traced Uni's head movements and quickly copied her.
"What. The. Goodness!?" A horde of monsters were swarming over to the two, among them was an armored figure that resembled a CPU, although bulkier and mechanical. "That's a lot of monsters!" Uni nodded.
"But…" Uni grabbed one of her extra magazines and quickly reloaded her rifle . "With so many monsters, we're bound to finish the Quest in no time!" Nepgear narrowed his eyes, staring at the robotic figure in the middle of the horde.
"Uni… what is that?" The girl in question shook her head.
"No idea, but I have a feeling that it's one of the monsters the Quest Log warned us about."
"Like a boss monster?"
"Probably." Nepgear gripped his energy blade tightly.
"Well, I don't want to give that thing to get closer than it already has. So I'm going to keep it at bay. Uni," Nepgear gave the girl a sincere smile. "Can I trust you to keep the rest off me? I don't think I'll be able to use a gun with my left hand as accurately as my right." Uni lifted her rifle.
"Of course! …Hey, that sounded pretty leader-esque!"
"Really!?" Uni nodded and gave him a big smile.
"Contact!" A mechanical voice emitted from the robot, its arms reaching for the floating wings on its back. The two partners looked at each other, gave a quick nod, and Nepgear ran towards the enemies while Uni began sniping at enemies left and right.
"Hiyaaaa!" Nepgear jumped towards the robotic monster, swinging his sword in a wide arc, knocking away any monsters that happened to be in the blade's path. However, the actual threat was unfazed by the attack and retaliated with a body tackle. The robot's leg bashed into Nepgear's body, sending him into the air and down helplessly into the hordes of monsters.
"Oh no you don't!" Uni raised her rifle into the air. "EX Multi Blaster!" The CPU Candidate of Lastation pointed her gun at the horde of monster below Nepgear. Pulling and holding down the trigger, Uni let energy build up within her weapon and after a second, let it go. A stream of energy erupted from Uni's gun, blasting away all the monsters that stood in its path. Nepgear plopped onto ground and immediately flipped himself and rolled to his feet. Turning to Uni, the boy gave a thumbs up and steadied his sword.
"Slash Wave!" Nepgear swung his sword forward, twisting his body at the same time. The swing was powerful enough to create a shockwave that kicked up plenty of monsters and the robotic monster as well.
"Con-!" Nepgear turned around and began to hack and slash at the enemies piling up behind him. Jumping off of an M-3 before it vanished, Nepgear continued his assault on the giant mech as Uni picked off stragglers. "Contact!" The robot reached behind for it's wings behind it, the two separate pieces of metal connecting together. Thrusting its arms forward, the wings spun around, knocking Nepgear out of the way. With nothing it the way, the robot threw its wings, the speed and velocity of the the throw making the wings move like a blade. The spinning blade sped towards Nepgear, who used his boots to dash out of the way. As the boy flew to safety, he noticed that the robot's body was not trained on him, but on Uni.
"Uni! Watch out!" Nepgear dropped into a pile of monsters as the Lastation Candidate looked up from her scope in confusion.
"Huh?" In her field of view, the blade flew towards Uni at a fast pace. "Eeek!" Uni backflipped into the air, at a higher altitude level than the blade, and pointed at the oncoming weapon. "Brave Cannon!" Another stream of energy erupted from the gun, this time blasting the threat into the ground and, at the same time, pushing away the remaining monsters that happened to be nearby. The weapon bounced around, eventually one of the wings sinking into the floor. Gritting her teeth, Uni turned towards the robotic monster. "You jerk! EX Multi Blaster!" Another energy blast was fired at the robot's face, but the monster immediately tried to move out of the way.
"Easy!" Dashing out of the pile of monsters, Nepgear jumped to the robot's face, his legs together. "Take this!" The boy dropkicked the robot back into the energy beam, the metallic opponent taking the full impact of the attack.
"Con…" The monster dropped to one knee, appearing to breathe heavily before vanishing. Nepgear frowned upon the monster's disappearing.
"Aw…" Uni ran over to Nepgear, panting a little bit.
"What's… wrong?" The girl was in a state of shock after seeing the robot's weapon heading towards her. When she was with Noire, she rarely saw danger since Noire able to cut down enemies fast enough or prevent the danger before it even happened.
"I hoped that the robot would leave something behind to tinker with?" Uni couldn't tell what made a roll of sweat roll down her face, Nepgear's reason to be upset, or her semi-exhaustion from the battle.
"Why would you want that?" Nepgear turned towards Uni, stars in his eyes.
"But that was a robot, Uni! A Robot!" Nepgear turned back to where the robot once was. "If I could have taken even a leg, think of all the mechanics that I could learn from such a magnificent specimen." And now, Uni can guess for which reason the sweatdrop appeared.
"In any case, you did a good job, Nepgear." The boy rubbed the back of his head and turned off his sword.
"Th-thanks, Uni." Moving his hand away from his head, Nepgear pointed to the disk on Uni's side. "By the way, how many more monsters do we have to defeat?" Shrugging, Uni reached for the disk and tapped the center.
"We took out a lot of them, so I'm pretty sure…" The hologram popped up and Uni's eyes narrowed. "Are you serious!?" Nepgear tilted his head.
"What's wrong?"
"We're one short of clearing the Quest!" Nepgear frowned.
"Geez… well I think there might be a straggler…." Nepgear looked around. "There isn't one…" Uni sighed.
"I guess better start looking for one." Nepgear nodded and the duo began crossing the platform when it began shake wildly. "What in the-!?" The two turned around to see the water bubbling, rising and falling in an erratic rate.
"PAC!" The water rose into a tall pillar and gigantic figure burst out of it. Uni and Nepgear backed away as the monster landed on the center of the platform, shaking it further. "Pac…"
The monster resembled a certain famous turtle with its shell worn the other way around. Intimidating eyes, spiky hair and a spikier shell; the monster loomed over the two partners.
"I think we found our monster…" Uni readied her rifle. Nepgear turned on his sword as well, the purple blade humming. "From what is said, I bet it's safe to say that this is King Pac, and the other monster was most likely Epsilon."
"That shell looks tough…" Nepgear held his weapon with hands, his feet planted on the ground. "I'll ke-"
"PAC!" The King Pac dropped onto its stomach and began spinning. Uni tried to aim for its head but the monster's spinning began to pick up, making it harder for her to shoot it.
Suddenly, the monster zoomed towards Uni.
"Wha-!? How can it even do that!?" Nepgear sidestepped into the way and used his sword to obstruct the monster's advance. However, the King Pac simply pushed Nepgear along with it, slightly slowed down.
"Argh! Uni move!" Uni ran out of the as Nepgear's legs gave out, the monster crashed into Nepgear and sent him flying into the platform's railing. "Gah!" Nepgear's sword flew out of his hand as he bounced against the railing. The boy slumped over as the sound of King Pac's shell griding against the floor got louder and louder. Glancing to the side, Nepgear saw his sword sliding further and further away from his location.
Uni stopped onto a knee as she saw Nepgear kick off the railing and crouch in the air, facing the dirction of sword. As he was about to zip away, the King Pac flipped forward, hurtling towards Nepgear.
"Nepgear!" Uni looked through the scope and began firing at the monster. The bullets merely ricocheted off its shell. The Lastation Candidate could only watch in horror as the King Pac crashed into Nepgear, sending him over the edge of the platform. Nepgear's cry of pain was silenced by a splash of water.
"PAC!" Uni's eyes immediately turned to the King Pac, staring her down. Uni stepped back, glancing at Nepgear's sword nearby the monster then at King Pac's shell.
"If the shell is that strong," Uni thought back to the moment that she tried to protect Nepgear from the monster's attack. "How am I supposed to beat it!?"
King Pac dropped onto its belly once more, slowly restarting its rotation. Uni braced herself for another attack when she hear another splash of water.
From the other side of King Pac, Nepgear emerged from the water, flipping as he rose into the air.
"Nepgear, you're okay!" Once he reached the highest he go, the boy spread his arms like an eagle and propelled himself forward with the help of his shoes. As he was over King Pac, Nepgear flipped over so that his legs were angled towards King Pac's head. Positioning one in front of him and one behind him, the boy curled his legs as he descended towards the monster.
"Take this!" Nepgear shot his legs out while using his arms to spin around. King Pac roared in pain as Nepgear's boots collided with its head, and from the momentum if Nepgear's descent and the force of his stomp, King Pac flipped into the air while its assailant landed safely on the ground. "Not done yet!" Nepgear hopped backwards, and as soon as his back close to King Pac, the boy thrust out his leg, sending the monster away from him. "Quick, Uni. The back!" Nodding, Uni looked through her scope.
"Hmm…" As the monster flipped about, Uni took a closer look at its back. "Its back! It's exposed!" Grinning, Uni waited for King Pac's back to reveal itself. "Gotcha!" The Lastation Candidate released a burst of bullets into the monster's back, sinking into its back.
Another roar as King dropped onto the ground. Nepgear limped over to Uni, favoring his thigh.
"That was… a good shot, Uni." The boy dropped onto his knee, not the one he was looking over, and plopped himself onto his butt. "Ah… that monster did a number on me." Uni bit her lip, as she crouched over her partner.
"Should we run?" Nepgear shook his head.
"I don't we can against that type of opponent." Thinking back to how the King Pac caught up to him before he had the chance to escape, Nepgear rubbed his leg.
"At this rate, I doubt we can send into the air again the way we did." Uni glanced the monster; it was beginning to stand up again.
"We can." Nepgear reached for the remaining pistol in his possession. "With this." Uni narrowed her eyes.
"How is- Wait." Uni leaned closer to Nepgear's pistol and gasped. "That's an N-Buster MK I!" Uni dropped her rifle and pulled the pistol out of Nepgear's hand. "Why do you have this!? These are super rare!" Nepgear gave a bashful smile.
"My sister gave it to me, because she said, 'Toting a gun and sword wasn't Nep enough!'..." The boy then placed a finger on his cheek. "Or was it, 'You can have it because it's too hard to carry both around.'... Huh, Uni?" The girl in question was too enamored by the gun, holding it out and looking over its specifications.
"Oooh~ It's not even modded, so its the real deal! This is so awesome! I'd never thought I would get a hold of one, not even in a hundred years~!" Nepgear sweatdropped.
"Uh… U-Uni?" Luckily, Uni snapped out of trance.
"O-Oh, sorry." Uni picked her gun after handing back Nepgear's. The girl flinched as a revelation hit her. "The Buster class can charge bullets and turn them into high explosive energy shots!" Nepgear nodded.
"Something like that should be able to knock it into the air." Uni turned to see that King Pac was standing, shaking its head and body.
"But how are we gonna finish it off, your sword…" Nepgear was staring at her rifle then looked at her in the eyes. "Me?" The boy nodded.
"Even if I could stand, my sword is too far for me to get it." Nepgear grabbed Uni's dress and pulled himself into a kneeling position. "You want to prove to your sister that you can do this right?" The Lastation Candidate hesitated for a second before nodding her head.
Shaking her head, Uni's slapped herself in the face, making both her determined and Nepgear worried that she hurt herself. The girl got onto her knee next to Nepgear while the boy dropped to a comfortable sitting position.
Both guns pointed at King Pac as the monster roared in anger. Nepgear held down the trigger to the N-Buster MK I, energy beginning to build up inside it. Meanwhile, Uni kept her finger off her rifle's trigger, waiting. As soon as King Pac dropped onto its belly, Nepgear released the trigger and a large ball of energy blasted out of the pistol and barrelled towards the monster's shell. As the projectile collided with King Pac, an explosion sent the monster airborne once again.
Gripping her rifle tighter, Uni raised her weapon, tracing King Pac's flight path. Pulling down on the trigger, Uni braced herself.
"Take this! EX Multi Blaster!" The energy beam erupted from Uni's rifle, heading straight for King Pac's body. The laser shot through King Pac, giving only seconds to utter a small yelp as it dissipated.
Once King Pac vanished, the disk on Uni's side began to vibrate and make noise. Sighing in relief, Uni dropped down next to Nepgear and took out the Quest Log.
Two words were all that the duo saw.
And they were two words that happily accepted.
ALL CLEAR!
Since Nepgear was injured, Uni had to help him back to the entrance. All of their weapons had been replaced, except Nepgear's malfunctioning sword, since it couldn't fit into the holster anymore. Instead, Nepgear carried it in his hand. Turned off of couse.
"Sorry that you have to do this. I normally bring Nep Bull U's with me, but I was so exicted about this quest that I forgot."
"It's okay, we're done. That's all that matters." As they reached the entrance to Waverunner Coast, two divine figures landed in front of them.
"You did a good job, Uni." Uni's eyes filled with tears of happiness.
"Noire!" Black Heart grinned as she saw that Uni lacked any major injuries while her companion floated over to the duo.
"You're not hurt, are you Nepgear?" The boy perked up as he heard a familiar voice. Shaking his head, Nepgear gave Purple Heart a big smile.
"Not really, but I can live with it." Smiling, Purple Heart took Nepgear, carrying him bridal style.
"You worked hard; we'll have Compa fix you up later." Uni shuffled over to her sister, whispering.
"Hey Noire, why is the CPU of Planeptune acting all familiar with Nepgear?" Black Heart raised an eyebrow.
"You really didn't notice? Well, let me say it straight: Nepgear and Neptune, or Purple Heart, are siblings." Uni's eyes turned into round white circles.
"Hu-Huh!? Then that means Nepgear's a-"
"CPU Candidate." Nepgear smiled as he finished Uni's sentence. Shocked, Uni pointed at Nepgear.
"Y-You…" Purple Heart smiled at Uni's reaction.
"So, did you make a new friend?"
"Fr-Friend!?" Nepgear nodded.
"Yeah, Uni and I worked well together." Uni crossed her arms.
"We are not friends!" However, Uni's defiance faded upon seeing Nepgear's hurt puppy dog eyes. "I-I mean, rivals! That's it, rivals!" Uni pointed at Nepgear, determination in her eyes. "Before we're friends, we're rivals! Since we're both CPU Candidates, I'll show you that Lastation is better than Planeptune."
"So… we're friends then?" Uni sighed.
"Ugh… Yes! We're friends, but rivals first!" Purple Heart chuckled.
"Well now, we'd best get going before Histy gets Pissty." Winking at Noire, Purple Heart rose into the air with Nepgear. "It fun playing at your place, Noire." The woman gave a quick nod to Uni as her sister mumbled about something incoherrent. "Congrats at getting a friend faster than your sister."
"Th-Thanks, I guess.
"Hey, I have friends too!?" With that, Purple Heart left for Planeptune. Once she was done mumbling, Black Heart picked up Uni. "...So, did you enjoy your job today?" Uni made a bright smile as the sisters rose in the air.
"Yeah!" Black Heart smiled
"Glad to hear it." The Lastation sisters left for their Basilicomm, tired from today's events.
"Hey, Neptune?" Purple Heart looked down at her younger brother.
"What is it, Nepgear?"
"I'm happy that you picked me up, but you know that I could have called my Gear-Wing and gone home that way." Purple Heart broke eye contact and looked to the side.
"About that…"
"MY GEAR-WING!" The plane that Nepgear piloted was inside his garage/lab, but it was upside down. The cockpit was crushed underneath by the plane's weight. One of the wings broke off and its tip was holding itself up against the body of the plane. The other wing was split in half, the broken piece lying on the ground. The body wasn't spared, either. The stand that held up the plane had pierced the body, cutting through and sticking out on the other side. "Wh-Wh-Wha-What happened!?"
Neptune scratched her cheek.
"From what Histy told me, you didn't caliberried the teleporty thingy right and it came back upside down and it ended up like that." Nepgear dropped to his knees. "Or was it Cadburtted?"
"I didn't calibrate the transportation coordinates correctly!?" Nepgear fell onto his hands, picking the half of the wing that fell off.
"That's it!"
"NOOOOO!" Neptune patted his brother on the back.
"Chin up, Nep Jr.! At least it didn't blow up!" The body split in half. "Oh…"
"Ah…m-my masterpiece..." A thud.
"He-Hey, Nep Jr.!? You can't white out on me, all 6 of your Pocketed Monstrosities haven't fainted yet! Nepgear! Nepgear! NEPGEAAAAAAR!"
A sigh.
"Could you please drop the dramatics and take Nepgear inside? (￣□￣」)"