Chapter 2

Hours Later…

Nepgear had just gotten to the Basilicom entrance after being out all day with Uni, Rom, and Ram at that amusement park in Lowee which had gotten a new attraction. She made her way up the elevator and into the living room where she was greeted with Histy peeking through the office door.

"What are you doing Histy?" Histy immediately turned around and made a "Sh" face with her index finger to her mouth.

Nepgear's curiosity peeked, so she made her way over to the door and looked through the small opening which Histy definitely hadn't been looking through for hours on end, where she was surprised to find Neptune filling out business applications and political documents which had been neglected for who knows how long.

"She had been working for 5 Hours! I'm so happy of her that she finally got herself together". Histy said with her hand against her cheek and a blissful expression on her face which in turn wielded out Nepgear.

"What on Gamindustry has gotten into Neptune?"

"I don't know, she just picked up the part I needed for some work which was urgent and she just started to work, I hadn't even lectured her at all other than this morning".

"Well.. What could have caused it?"

"I don't know.. But frankly who cares. Now I don't have to do all this myself!"

"..." Nepgear made a 'Really?' face to Histy.

"Well, I guess this is OK.. Let's just leave it for a bit and see what happens?"

"Ok".

5 Days later…

Neptune, being non-neppy like, was still working. The papers which had piled up over the years had been filled out and either accepted or weren't, allowing a spike in growth and shares to shoot through the roof. Things were going extremely well for Planeptune ever since Neptune somehow started to do work out of nowhere. She had worked about 18 hours a day, non stop unless to eat, and slept the rest of the time. Histy, now having no workload on her little shoulders, had taken the liberty to give herself a Vacation which in her opinion was way overdue, and Nepgear had begun to find things increasingly confusing.

Neptune has been working non stop! I'm glad our shares have gone up so much but something isn't right.. I need to ask.

"Neptune". Nepgear walked into the room, carrying a bunch of papers with her since Neptune would respond otherwise.

"Oh, Nepgear, thanks for getting those for me". Neptune got up from her chair and walked over to Nepgear.

Neptune made her way over to Nepgear, but then halted about half way, her head lowered a bit.

"Neptune?"

"Nepgear.. My head hurts~.." Neptune said before collapsing onto the floor.

"NEPTUNE!"

Nepgear rushed over, dropping all the documents onto the floor, and turned her older sister over so her face was facing her. Nepgear put her hand to Neptune's head to feel her temperature what had skyrocketed.

"Histy! Come quick!"

2 Hours Later..

Neptune lay on a hospital bed, her breath heavy and face red from a high fever. Nepgear sat next to her bed, her anxiety through the roof as she stared at her sickened sister, hoping for her to recover soon. The doctors were trying to figure out what was going on, which to Nepgear's relief, the doctor had come back into the room with good news and bad news.

"Lady Nepgear, I have some results and conclusions from our tests. I have good news and some bad".

"Yes? The good news?"

"We identified what's going on, she has just passed out from lack of energy and the combination of her high metabolism, she hasn't been eating much for some time has she?"

"No, she always goes back to work right away".

"I see, well as far as we're concerned she has a bit of Crohn's Disease. Don't worry though, it isn't bad. We can administer an anti-biotic to get rid of the virus which should take around a few hours or so".

"Oh thank goodness, and the bad news?"

"Her high fever is too high for her to leave the hospital, and for some reason our medicine for the fever aren't working. We will have to keep her in until we figure out what is going on".

"Oh, well that isn't too bad right?"

"At most she might have a strain of influenza, but it wouldn't be a bad one since her fever isn't alarming enough. We will monitor her until we figure everything out and will probably have to take some blood tests. You can rest assured we are doing the best we can".

"Thank you, I think some of our friends are coming to visit soon so I will be leaving".

"Alright".

Nepgear got up from her chair in the hospital room and out into the hallway, her mind pondering what could have gone wrong.

If it was Crohn's Disease, that means it would have been orally ingested right? What had she eaten before she got sick?.. THAT PUDDING! She said it was opened beforehand right? That could b-

"Hey Nepgear!" Uni greeted whom had gotten ahead of Noire and the rest of the CPUs and Candidates.

"Hey Uni, how's it going?"

"Just come to see how your sister is doing, everything ok?"

"Yeah, she said that-" Nepgear explained the situation in a time saving narrative skip to save time and make the chapter a little easier to make instead of having to write everything again.

"Wow, sounds troubling, well good thing everyone heard that so you wouldn't have to repeat yourself right?" Uni said which Nepgear had just realized everyone else behind her who had been intently listening to Neptune's condition.

"Heh.. Yeah.. I just hope Neptune's alright.."

Chapter 2 Epilogue

A man stood in his new office, the new building been renovated and restructured to his liking in record time. He twiddled his fingers mischievously with a grin on his face.

"Sir we have a problem!" Another younger man rushed into the room.

"Huh? What is it?"

"The ***** has started to ****** and isn't dying!"

"What! Why didn't you test long term exposure!"

"We did but we made multiples with each having minor changes to its other. Testing long term varies from each one and this one didn't show results until now!"

"You FOOL! Quickly administer our ********!"

"We did! It isn't working!"

"MAKE A NEW ONE!"

"R-right away sir!" The man sprinted down the hall to the testing rooms.

The older man slumped back into his chair, his hand over his face in utter turmoil and nervousness.

"If it's as bad as it is.. We will have to expose ourselves.. Crap.. I can't believe that this little project might kill the CPU of Planeptune.."

Chapter 2 End