[chapter 3 the CPU candidate and the pop star.]

"Are you sure about this is the place, sir?" asked a blue haired girl with purple eyes.

"According to Chika this is where they were headed. Why so tense all of a sudden? Are you, the great, beautiful and talented 5pb scared fo a regular old monster infested cave?" teased the green clad CPU candidate with a Chester cat grin.

"W-Well when you put it like that then yes, I'm petrified" gulped the idol at said CPU candidate's words.

"We really need to work on your courage now don't we?" he said with a mixture of sarcasm and seriousness to his tone.

"Well your not helping! but seriously it's good to have you back again Lou-Lou." honestly said 5pb. wth a genuine smile.

"Please don't call me that in public, you know I'm not particularly fond of that name." sweat dropped Lelouch at the nickname his sister gave him.

"M-My bad, sorry about that Lelouch." she apologised.

"It fine, lets get a move on befor they have all the fun shall we?" asked the male CPU.

"Let's go!" cheered 5pb. excitedly.

"Lady's first." offered Lelouch.

"Um… C-Could you first please, sir? he he he." Nevesly asked 5pb

"Very well then. I'm guessing you also want me to hold your hand as well, no?" he said deciding to tease her further.

"Shut up. I'm not that scared okay." said 5pb definitely as she then followed after Lelouch into the dark cave.

[Flash back, earlier at the bacilacom]

"uh... h-hello Miss Chika you um... c-called for me on the phone?" asked a nerves pop idol as she entered the main hall.

"Ah 5pb. there you are I or more accurately we have been waiting for you. Please follow me." Asked the oricale after greeting the blue haired girl as she lead her to the main hall. "She's here~!" sang Chika happily only for a familiar voice to catch the idol off gaurd.

"Good. I was wondering when she'd get here." said young blond man than she instantly recognised. "It's been a while hasn't it Miss 5pb." he said after taking a sip of tea and set the cup down on its saucer on the table in front of him.

"Lou-Lou! Your awake. I missed you so much." shouted the pop star as she instantly ran over to him and coiled her arms around his neck in a long drawn out hug.

"I'm afraid you'll have to get in line behind Miss Hakozki here on that one my oldest friend." the CPU informed his oldest friend hugging her back.

"When did you wake up?" she asked

"Earlier to day actually, isn't it great?" interupted Chika with a big smile.

"Any way enough about me. The reason we called you here is because we need your help with a certain problem..." started the young man as he changed the subject and his tone to a more business appropriate one.

"Oh of course! What do you need?" asked 5pb extremely familiar with this side of him as she took a seat next to him.

"It's like this. Some time be I woke up another CPU and her friends had just rescued Miss Hakozki here from the clutches of ASIC and have now set off to reterive our nations mascot disc." he began as he took another sip of his tea. "So Miss Chika here thought it would be a good idea to ask you to go and back them up." explained Leouch as best he could.

"Wait, me? on my own? I couldn't. I'd be no help what so ever." down played the blue haired singer.

"Not on your own silly. Leouch here will be with you every step of the way, won't you Lelouch." assured Chika.

"But of course, I'm not going to send our nations most valued idol to jump head first into danger alone, that would be reckless of me." answord the blond CPU.

"Huh! But didn't you just wake up, you need your rest." The idol agreed voiceing her concerns.

"I'll be fine, beside if I let anything bad happen to you your fans will chew me alive over it. That and I owe ASIC three months worth of hell for not only what they did to me but to our nation as a whole." retorted Lelouch with a dangerous glint in his eyes towards the end of his statement. "How dare they drug me and turn my glorious nation in to they're playground. There shall be no forgiveness for there actions." he said vowing vengeance apron said criminal group.

"Um… yes well. swearing vengeance aside, what do you say 5pb darling. Are you in?" asked Chika.

"Of course! You can count me in." Enthuseasticly replied the idol jumping up from her seat. "Great! Now then as for where they've gone..."

[End of flash back]

[Later inside the cave.]

"How dare you abuse the power of us mascots...!" growled a sentient green disc.

"Ha ha ha ...! I can finally win! It's pay back time bitches!" yelled a light grey skinned teenaged girl around 18 or so with green hair and red eyes wearing an open hoody that looked like the over sized rat standing next to her Which then said some things that were really disturbing that were grounds for a restating order.

"E-ew, please stay at least three steps away from me mister mouse!" Asked a pink haired girl with an over sized syringe. a girl with yellow cat ears on her head said some thing about the two activating there limit brack.

"I wish we cloud run, but I doubt she'd let this opportunity slip by her." rashinalized a brunette wearing heavy blue trench coat.

"And after we were finally able to save the mascot, too..." Sighed purple haired girl in defeat.

"Never give up! Never surrender!" yelled the voice of 5pb. as she stood there bravely with a certain blond teen standing behind her to her right.

"5pb.? What are you... Is that... S-Sir! You're awake? But how?" gasped a tall twin tailed red head.

"Well it's nice to see you again too cave..." said the blond teen fondly.

"Um... Well Miss Chika asked us to come and help, so..." shyly answord the shy idol.

"As for me, I owe ASIC one hell of a deat for what the did to not only me, but my home for the last three months and after they kidnapped Miss Hakozki." stated the blond boy.

"I see. One could not ask for more better reinforcements. said cave with a smile.

"Um... you mind filling us in on who the guy with the glasses is?" asked the brunette.

"There will be time for a more formal introduction later, for now we have a fight to win." said blond said with in question.

"Huh? Your that dumb idol broad from the concert but who's the pretty boy?" ask the power hyped girl.

"Like I said before. Now is not the time, but for you I shall make an exception. Please feel free to call me Lelouch me lady." winked the blond pretty boy.

"O-okay y-you got it buddy he he he..." blushed the green haired teenager.

"Is he flirting with her?" confusedly asked the purple haired one.

"Hay Romeo! A fights no place to pick up wifies, especially some ASIC underling." critised a small red haired girl.

"Well at least he's doing better then the rat, nyu..." stated the cat eared girl. (Some taunting and one explanation about the effects of the idols songs later.)

"Time to the show is it not?" asked Lelouch as he drew the european long sword from the sheath on his back with his right hand and 10mm pistol form it's holster with his left hand.

"I couldn't agree more." agreed cave drawing her weapon as well as the others doing the same.

"If only I didn't hav to raise my had against such a fine young woman... *sigh*"

"W-well who says you have t-to big guy. So if you could just not do that that would be great." pleaded Underling hopefully.

"But unfortunately for you me, my lady I am an equal opertunity fighter." finished Lelouch as he pointed his blade at the ASIC minion girl.

"Ah shoot!" she said dejectedly.

"Let's get them, nyu." said the small cat eared girl.

"Alright here I go..." said the purple haired girl as she was then consumed by a pilar of light. "Prosseser unit set. CPU candidate Nepgear has arived!"

'So... this is the Planetune CPU candidate that Chika mentioned befor... how interesting. She doesn't appear to be anything like her sister, Neptune... let's hope she's not as annoying as her older sister is, one is bad enough.' thought Lelouch as he stepped forward.

"Well when in Rome..." was the only thing he said befor he too was concealed by a pilar of light. "It is most wise to go with the flow of things as they say." said a ninja with short mint green spiky hair (minus the pony tail) with a pair of deep blood red eyes with white power buttons in the place of his pupils who appeared in Leoluchs place spinning his katana thats blade was easily half the length of his arm with a wide gaurd on it like a baton in his right hand and a high power large calaber pistol that looked like it could stop a car in one shoot in his left, tied around his neck was a white scarf with the longest end freely flowing behind his back with a colth face mask extended from the neck of his body tight ninja outfit covering his mouth ending just below the bridge of his nose and the only armour he wore was a pair of dark metallic green vambraces and metallic green shin guards with two pairs of giant translucent magenta kuni on his back in an "X" formation on his back acting like wings that a CPU would have as he then took a fighting stance.

"What the goodness!" yelled the surprised Planetune CPU candidate.

"He's a CPU, nyu!" said the cat eared girl.

"Since when can a guy be a CPU?" ask a few different people.

"Like I said befor I'll explain later, for now let us focuse on the task at hand me lady's. Said green Brother [ps if your wondering what he sounds like he sounds like xin kai from code geass season 2]. "We're screwed, chu." wined the fat rodent.

[fight scene! go!]

"Shadows waltz" shouted green brother activating the attack skill of the same name as the shadows around his feet jumped up and clung onto his blade which he the then dashed past underling and the oversized rat several times faster than they could blink, all the while slashing them as he went. Then he upper cut them up into the air and shoot them with his gun a few dozen times sending them higher into the air and disappeared only to reappear above the to diliver a power full downwards two handed slash embedding them both into the ground below doing in total a massive 7777 hit points of damage.(before start compailning nepgear one of skills does 9999 damage in total, just saying).

"Whoa... such power..." Trailed off several people present.

"Miss Nepgear! I do bilive now is the time for you and your friends to attack is it not?" asked Cave.

"Hm…? Oh yeah! M.P.B.L activate!" shouted nepgear as she used her skill as well doing a massive amount of damage, soon followed up by a demon slash from from the brunette in the trench coat an a few jabs of an oversized syringe Curtisy of the pink haired girl and a barrage of otherattacks from the other girls.

[fight scene! End!]

"Not agaaaaain!" "Chuuuuuu!" cried the ASIC duo as the went out like a light.

"Well now it would seam my work here is done..." started green brother befor changing back into Lelouch. "I'll see you guys back at the bacilacom, don't keep me waiting now girls." he said as he waved back at them while heading to the excit of the dungeon.

"So how long do you think it will be befor they notice I'm not in there possession any more, hum?" asked the voice of a familiar green mascot disc after he had gotten far enough away from Nepgear and her friends.

"I susspect they already know and are either looking for me or headed to the bacilacom as we speak, oh beloved mascot of leanbox." answord the CPU candidate as he took the mascot disc out of one of his trench coats inner pockets.

"Who would have thought that you of all people would scoop me up when no one was watching? I must say I'm quit impressed young one." complimented the sentient disc.

"Well if I had let them return with you in there company then we'd owe them twice as much as we already do for saving our oricale now wouldn't we?"

"I suppose that is true, but still under handed." complained the mascot disc.

[Meanwhile in our universe... I mean with Nepgear and friends]

"Um, hey you guys. Has any one seen the mascot disc?" asked Nepgear.

"…"

[a few minutes befor Nepgear and friends return to the basilicom]

"Chika I'm back! And I got our mascot back!" called Lelouch as he walked through the main doors.

"Yay! Wait where's 5pb.?" Chika asked concerned with the pop idols safety.

"if you're talking about the blue haired girl the she is fine. Last I saw of her she was with Miss Nepgear and friends." recalled the sentient green disc.

"Oh thank goodness! For a moment there I have thought you'd left her all alone in the forest somewhere." said a relived Chika.

"And you'd think that because...?" asked the young CPU slightly afended by her answer.

"D-did I say that? Silly me what I ment was..." said Chika regretting her chose of words in her last statement.

"save me the BS Chika! Nepgear and her friends will be here any minute now I'll be in the conference room." said the teen as he made his way to the conference room."

"Of course, sir. I'll bring them there once they arive."Respectfuly bowed Chika Hakozki.

[a few minutes later]

"Right this way lady's." said Chika escorting Nepgear and friends to the conference room.

"Dose any one else find it fishy that Leanbox has a CPU candidate all of a sudden, nyu?" asked the cat eared girl.

"not really Leanbox has had a CPU candidate for years now they've just been inactive for a while. At least that's what my sources tell me." said the brunette wearing a heavy blue trench coat.

"Wait if they have a CPU candidate then why dose most of Leanbox look like um... Like a ghetto." whispered the pink haired one.

"Actualy our CPU candidate was in a coma until just recently. And I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't refer to Leanbox as a ghetto thank you very much." piped up Chika.

"Sorry Miss oricale." apologiesd the pinkette.

"Any way where here. Now please be on you're best behaviour and try not to do any thing that will excite him, he's still not at one hundered present yet." asked Chika as she opened the doors.

"wait... He!" yelled everyone present but Cave, 5pb. and Chika.

"what did I just say?" crossly said Chika as the doors swung fully open.

"Ah there you all are? I've been expecting you. Please come, have a seat." said Lelouch in a frienbdly tone of voice.

"There go my hard earned credentials… again!" whined the trench coat wearing drunete.

"He's the guy who stole the mascot disc off of us!" yelled a short red headed girl.

"my apologies for that lady's but I couldn't let our country be indetted to you twice in one day. So that action was the most time efferent way of doing so." explained the Leanbox CPU. "now if we could get down to business then we can perhaps sort something out. Agreed?" he added.

"All right... I guess we can hear you out." said the Bruntte wearing the trench coat.

"Splended! Let's get started shall we?" and with that everyone took a seat, introduced themselves and then the got down to business.

[one explanation from Nepgear later]

"So you want to borrow our nations mascot to free our sisters who are being held captive in the game industry grave yard by the ASIC, correct? asked Lelouch making sure he got what Nepgear said right.

"yes! That's right. So can we please borrow you nations mascot until that? asked the Planetune CPU Candidate to the Leanbox CPU candidate.

"Normaly there would be a lot and I mean a lot of red tape to go through to even see the mascot disc but to borrow it now that's a new one all together." he mused.

"So is that a yes, no, maybe?" asked IF.

"Well the thing is... No one has ever asked to borrow a mascot disc before so there's no official way to do so..." said Lelouch.

"What!" Interupted Nepgear.

"But we worked so hard, too..." Sighed Compa.

"Boooooooo! you big meanie!" Booed red.

"You did not let me finish, didn't anyone teach you not to interrupt someone while there talking?, seriously. *Ahem* back to what I was saying..." snapped Lelouch before clearing his throught. "There may not be an official way to do so... But there maybe another way. Let's say we make a deal, I loan you our mascot disc in exchange for the safe return of my older sister, but scence were talking about our last remaining mascot disc ideally I'd like to send some one I trust with you to make sure you don't damage it in any way, shape or form. Dose this sound okay to you?"

"Not a bad offer, but who are you sending with us exactly? asked IF.

"I hope it's someone nice." thought aloud Compa.

"Then how about miss 5pb. then? Is that all right with you Miss 5pb.?" suggested Lelouch before asking if the pop idol was okay with his decision.

"M-me? Are you sure sir I-I'm not all that good at fighting." asked the singer.

"You don't need to fight my dear 5pb. All you have to do is make sure the mascot is properly cared for and maybe lend a hand every now and then if you'd like." explained the male CPU.

"Oh! Okay then that's fine with me." agreed the singer.

"Then I guess we have a deal then. Yay!" was Nepgear's response.

"Plesure doing business with you Miss Nepgear." Said Lelouch as the two shook hands concluding the deal.

The rest off the night went just as Chika planed with the only exception being the special guests she had booked for the night. Fourtunetly the other CPUs took there place on the stage the special guests were booed off of and took back a large chunk of shears from ASIC for each of there nations in the prosses. Mean while Lelouch went to bed after the business with Neptune's sister was concluded.

"Here's hopeing you succeed Nepgear...*YAWN!*" he yawned befor drifting off to sleep.

[END!]