Chapter 4: Deceivingly Dangerous Deeds

"That title up there probably means Mikey's probably going to be beat up by those dogoos again! And you even put up 'dangerous'' trying to tell me they actually hurt or something. Oh well...what are we going to do now?"

"Neptune are you supposed to be here?"

Those girls were serious, we were going to work. Barely anytime to clean up, dress up, eat up, and other important actions that have the word 'up'. They practically rushed us so much I had a waffle stuck in my mouth when we went outside to do our supposed work. What do you do in a futuristic world filled with girls? Kill water dogs? But I was not the one to overthink the logic in how things work, I'd rather just do it.

We were just walking down a street of the central city of Planeptune, I didn't know what we were doing.

"Oh geez, why did we go so fast?" complained Neptune as she lazily leaned on her sister.

"Because we need to get Mikey a weapon so he can quest," explained IF.

"A weapon? Is this is for work?" I asked as I started to sweat a little.

"Well, if you're going to be questing and killing monsters, it would make sense to get you a weapon. Hey, there's the weapon store." She pointed out a regular looking store. I managed to see some swords through the window. The gang soon entered the store.

"Welcome! What can we get you guys?" greeted the owner.

"Oh we're just looking around," said IF.

Oh MY. I never knew that video weapons can come to life. Swords of all the shapes, guns of all the death, and other lethal weapons designed to look badass. Well, I probably can't use half these weapons but there are still options. One thing that caught my eye was a pistol that had a combination of gold and black colors.

"Anything caught your eye?" asked IF.

"Yeah, this pistol here seemed cool I guess," I said as I held it in my hand.

"I guess we found your weapon. I thought this was going to take longer," she remarked.

And in just seconds, we paid for the weapon and all of us were out of the store. I didn't exactly have a holster so I resorted to putting the gun inside my pockets along with the ammo. At least it wasn't that heavy.

"So, Mikey, you're a person that likes range?" asked a curious Nepgear.

"Of course he likes range! I heard he got knocked out by a dogoo!" Neptune soon giggled after that.

"Hey catch up, we need to get to the guild area for a quest," spoke IF as she signalled us to catch up.

The Guild, hmmm...

Another building which happened to be full of people talking, trading, and getting rewards apparently. People seemed to be giving way to IF, maybe she has a reputation around here.

"Uhm, what quest are we going to do?" asked Compa.

"Let's do a quest here in Virtua Forest, it would be a good start for Mikey," suggested IF.

"What do you mean a good start?" I raised my eyebrow.

"This quest only says that they needed to get rid of the dogoos in the forest. We can easily manage that!" commented Neptune.

"Wait, those things that knocked me out?" I asked in a bit of anger.

"Yup! Pretty much! Don't even worry! We won't break a sweat, right Nep Jr?"

Nepgear nodded. "Yeah! Let's get going!"

Virtua Forest...

For such a weird-ish name it looked just like a forest. Them trees and plants I guess just being everywhere potentially hiding those accursed dogoos. Fortunately for me, the overall path of the forest was devoid of any dogoos, so that's good I guess.

"That's weird..." remarked IF as she looked around. "Where are they?" she asked.

"Maybe they're in that clearing up ahead," pointed out Compa as we walked into a big flat area swarming with dogoos. All those dogoos, pointlessly bouncy around with that smile on each of their faces.

"Finally! I was getting bored!" Neptune excitedly took out some katana out of thin air. Soon I realized everyone was taking out their deadly weapons. Might as well take mine out.

"HIYA!" I dramatically shouted as I took out my weapon. Wait what? Is this a stick or something? What about my other pocket?

"HIYA!" I shouted again while pulling out another stick.

"Uhh, Mikey, I think you should look behind you..." Compa awkwardly pointed out. When I turned my whole body around, I saw a dogoo spitting it's tongue at me. You know what it had inside it's body? My gun. At least I've had experience beating up one dogoo, so this one was easily defeated by the might of two sticks.

"Finally," I said as I cocked my slimy gun. I can't believe that a dogoo just did the switcheroo with me! When I turned to look at the rest of the dogoos, I realized that they weren't there anymore.

"Alright! That was quick!" said a grinning IF. "Good work guys!"

"Wait this fast?" I asked in disbelief.

"Yup, that's how it usually goes, these enemies are just free xp!"

"Oh I see..." I sighed in shame. I have a lot of work to do if I'm ever going to go questing. I'm just not the type to fight. Scratch that, I'm just not the type to work.

"Ok gang! Back at my crib for chills and thrills! Enough work for today!" declared Neptune as she ran ahead.

IF sighed."Well, you gotta start somewhere I guess."

"Oh finally! Back where I belong! Come on Mikey let's resume that game we were playing!" Neptune turned on the game console and handed me the controller in an instant. To be honest, I would much rather be doing this. After some waiting our game loaded just where we left off.

"Ahh yes the prison. I found the key that I could get us out of here!" I was navigating my character diligently through the haunted prison. I gotta say the controls are very very nice.

"OH GEEZ! AHH!" Neptune suddenly screamed.

"What is it?!" I asked in a panicked manner.

"There's a scary man chasing me!" In the darkness of the hallways I could make out Neptune's character heading towards me. Right behind her was a deranged maniac armed with two chainsaws with a bag over his head.

"Wait don't lead it towards me!" Suddenly the game paused, displaying a menu screen on the TV.

"Hold up Mikey I got a message." Neptune pulled out a phone from the couch. As expected from this world, it looks extremely similar to the phones back home.

"Hey Mikey smile!" I heard a snap like from a camera.

"Wait what?"

"Oh nothing! Just showing my friend Noire some proof of your existence!" She was happily texting away on her phone.

"See look!" She showed me the messages.

Noire: heard you were slacking off even more

Neptune: whered u hear that?

Noire: i just figured

Neptune: oh yeah!? i just got a new friend

Noire: what?

Neptune: 1 more friend for neptune 0 more friends for noire

Noire: where i dont see any evidence and besides i have friends!

Neptune: (image)

Neptune: score 1 for me!

Noire: ugh he seems annoying like u lol

Neptune: hey u havent even met him :(

Noire: fine i will so i can prove myself like i always do!

"Wow, she seems nice," I remarked sarcastically.