Sorry this took so long, but here's chapter 3 of Origin Dimension. Chapter 4 should come out a lot sooner than this one, as I have better planned out the story. This is my current baby, so I'm trying my best to make it the best it possibly can, so if you really like my writing leave a review letting me know what you think. Also i still suck at spellchecking and grammar so let me know if you spot any mistakes. Peace.
"Will this really work, Chu?" A little gray mouse asked the hooded figure who offered him a small black box.
"Yes. This is one of my favorites. Just push the big red button on top right there, and it should keep any pesky CPUs off of you." The hooded woman said.
Warechu was irritated, and bored. He had not seen Compa in months, his new job was continually ingrating, and his sense of purpose all but lost. Lost, until one day, he was approached by two individuals. A man dressed in a black overcoat, and hooded woman who wore a mask over her face. They knew of his connections to ASIC, praised him for it, acknowledged him. And they knew about Compa.
"Do this for us, and you will have enough money to run away with Compa and start a new life."
"Why should I, chu? Compa would hate me if she knew I had gotten back in the business, chu."
"Gamindustri is going to collapse. The goddesses will die. And so will many people, your Compa too." The man reasoned, flipping a coin up in the air. "Let's have a heart to heart man. I know what it's like to be in love. And I know what it's like to lose someone. There ain't no pain like it. Trust me."
"How much we talking, Chu?"
"5 million credits." The man replied.
"And I just need to steal this crystal thing they have at the Summit right?"
The man and woman nodded.
"What a tough day." Nepgear sighed, slamming her head down on the table. "I bet if it was Neptune instead of me, people would of been flocking to the booth."
"Nepgear, you're making a weird face again. If you're not careful you might get another weird affinity." Uni sighed.
Uni and Nepgear were seated together at a coffee shop located within the Summit Building, across from a small shop selling gems and jewelry. The sun was already setting at the end of the first day, its pale orange lights shimmering through the skyline above. They both were drinking hot chocolate, with whipped cream stacked high into the shape of a dog for Nepgear, and a cat for Uni.
"Noire wasn't too happy with how I did either." Now Uni sighed, taking a deep sip of her hot chocolate.
"Huh? No way but you're leading in shares right now."
"Doesn't matter. Noire still scolded me for not doing better." Uni's face sank. She would of looked like the world had ended if it were not for the fresh little cream mustache that had formed on her mouth.
"Ah, Uni. Hold still." Nepgear said, pulling out a handkerchief, swiftly wiping the cream off of Uni's face.
"Yo...You… could...I could have gotten it myself!" Uni sputtered, her face flustered red.
Nepgear giggled at her friend's reaction, trying to slip her handkerchief back into her pocket, only for a small silver coin to fall out, hitting the ground with a noticeable ting.
"Huh?" Nepgear picked it up, rolling it over her hands, trying to remember where she had gotten it from.
"What's that?" Uni asked. "A coin? Weird, it has Planeptune's logo on one side, and Lastation's on the other."
"I got it from a strange man today." Nepgear scratched her cheek upon remembering where it was from.
"A...strange….man?" Uni's face seem to boil upon uttering the last two words. "Nepgear!"
"Yes!?"
"Was this man trying to seduce you? Is this coin a promise of marriage? Are you…"
"Calm down Uni. It was just some weirdo. Jeez, you're acting really weird."
"Am not! You should be more careful accepting gifts from strangers!"
"Uni you're screaming, people are starting to stare…."
"Ah…" Uni looked around at the gossiping faces. She sank back into chair more flustered than before, muttering and cursing a little under her breath.
"Uni, are you angry?"
"Hmph." Uni pouted.
"Ah, Uni don't ignore me. It'll make me sad…" Nepgear's eyes began to water.
"Wha.. Don't cry…. Jeez." Uni sighed.
"Just kidding." Nepgear stuck her tongue out, grabbing her friend's hands. "But I don't like it when you're mad at me regardless." She winked.
Uni sighed.
"It is an interesting coin though. It looks pretty old, like something before we started using digital credits." Nepgear flipped it around, staring intently at the Planeptune symbol. "Something is...off about this. The symbol, it's different somehow…"
"Someone help! Monsters!" A cry erupted from across the street, the sound of an explosion following afterwards.
"Let's go Uni!" Nepgear cried, summoning her sword.
"Right behind you!" She replied, rifle in hand.
They were robots in the shape of balls, six in all. They spun around as if atop an axis, firing destructive beams in every direction at random. One the the robots spun toward a small boy cowering on the ground, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Mommy!" he cried, as the machine whirled, its eye shimmering.
"Oh no you don't! Mirage Dance!" Nepgear shouted.
She danced with the grace of a ballerina, her blade a whirlwind of death, making sharp contact with the machine's body, ripping to scrap further and further with each twirl, before finally she finished it off with a mighty slash.
"Run away! I promise i'll stop them here!" She affirmed the boy.
"Mhm." he nodded, standing to his feet, before scampering away.
"Look out!" Uni warned, taking a shot at one the balls which had taken Nepgear into its sights. It sputtered a bit, before blowing up in a shower of shrapnel.
"You let your guard down too easily." Uni scolded, taking a firing stance.
"Sorry." Nepgear apologized, before taking a combat stance of her own.
The four remaining machines began to circle the two Candidates in unison, revolving on their axis as they circled, each eye seeming to size each up, tracking the Candidates' every move.
Suddenly a beam erupted from each, firing toward the center where Nepgear and Uni stood, but they dodged, ducking underneath the beams quickly. Uni then took a shot at one of the balls, destroying the one to the far left. Nepgear too destroyed another, slicing it in half.
"Bet I can take these two out with one shot." Uni winked.
"Well, we'll see." Nepgear smiled, gripping her sword tightly.
The two robots began to rotate faster and faster, till they were a spinning blur revolving around them. They then began to fire energy beams in rapid succession like a machine gun, turning the interior of the circle into a no man's land of bolts flying overhead.
"Nepgear!"
"Mhm!"
The girls moved in unison, Uni sliding underneath as Nepgear bounded into the air, swinging her blade downwards in a slash, knocking one aside. This seem to destroy the equilibrium of the two, as the other one then crashed into the first with a hard thud, leaving them open to Uni's rifle, which destroyed both with one shot.
"Got ya." She cried with glee.
"We did it!" Nepgear celebrated, high fiving Uni.
Their smiles quickly turned into confusion upon hearing the sound of shattering glass and the patter of little feet from inside the jewelry store.
"Chu." Warechu uttered as he scuttled out of the jewelry store with a sack over his back.
"Hey! Aren't you that rat that's into Compa?" Uni erupted, pointing her weapon at him.
"Chu!"
"I thought you were a reformed mouse…" Nepgear sighed, looking disappointed in the animal's choices.
"You got it all wrong! Chu. I'm just...I bought these legally you see… Chu."
The Candidates scowls were their only response.
"Ah forget it." He drew the black box forth, pressing hard on the red button.
The box floated up into the air, erupting into a black hole that absorbed even the light around it, plunging the orange sunset lit surroundings into the darkness of night. First, came an arm, a massive metallic thing that writhed as it emerged from the portal, metals pangs emitting from its joints as it moved. Then, came its head. It was a helmet that paid homage to knights of old, ordained in silver, the rows of a visor visible across its surface. Then came its armored torso, its other arms, and its long, spidery legs that groaned and grinded under its own weight.
It raised its two might arms into the sky, summoning forth an incredible sword at least nine meters across, its sheer weight pressing against the great knight, its feet sinking into the titled ground.
"What is that?" Uni trembled at the sight of its majesty.
"I… I don't know….but this feeling…. What is this!"
Truly, the thing emitted an aura, a sinister aura that pierced the very veil, the core of the two. Their bodies quivered, their fingers trembled, and their legs lost the will to fight. It was because of the very nature of the thing that stood before them. A relict, no, a beast, a machine of war. It was the antithesis of a CPU, for its very purpose was to deny them.
"I didn't sign up for this. I got the thing, so i'm out, Chu!" Warechu scrambled away with a pack full of loot, leaving them there, still shocked in fear.