Chapter. 7
The CPUs rode the lift back up to the top of the basilicom, the door slid open Quincy stepped out as he clapped his hands. "So, who's hungry?" Neptune's stomach let out a growl. "Okay then, follow me."
Quincy led them to the dining room where they found Histoire reading a book on the table. "Hello everyone. Did it go well?"
"It well super well! Check out this thing!" Neptune held out the crystal to show Histoire. "Isn't it so pretty?"
"It looks beautiful."
"I have one too." Nepgear showed her crystal to Histoire as well.
"Would you like one too?" Asked Quincy.
Histoire snapped back to Quincy and shook her head. "No, I couldn't ask for you to put yourself in danger for me."
"If it was trouble I wouldn't have offered Histoire. I'll get you one later." Quincy put on his gauntlets as went to the kitchen. "Everyone take a seat, I'll have something ready in a bit."
Neptune jumped into a chair as the other took their own seats. "So when can we go into that cave and find all the goodies down there?"
Tech-u shook his head watching the hyperactive CPU. "Quincy doesn't want to go down there until In-D in about to stand on its own. We're having trouble with the crystal beasts but only go after the ones trying to get to the surface."
"Isn't fighting monsters want you have guild for?" Asked Histoire.
"A guild?"
Neptune placed her hand on the table and leaned closer to Tech-u. "You don't have a guild here? So that's why you two do everything yourself!"
Histoire sighed. "Neptune sit down. A guild is where people can take quests and help keep up shares in you nation. Tech-u, if it would help I could speak to the guild in Planeptune about opening a branch here."
Tech-u leaned back in his chair. "That would help free up some time for us."
"Free up what time?" Quincy stepped out into the dining room with plates of baked apples hover around him. Quincy took a seat as the plate landed in front of everyone.
"Histoire wants to help us by getting us a guild to lighten our work."
"Woo! This looks great!" Neptune dug into food. Nepgear and Histoire looked embarrassed as Quincy and Tech-u were confused.
"Are you sure she's the older sister?" Asked Quincy. The others began to eat as they kept a light conversation going.
They talked about their nations and the conversation turned back to the crystal cave under In-D.
"So Quincy when are we going down below?" Asked Neptune.
"First I'll have to see how this 'guild' works out, if all goes well maybe we can all go looking down there."
"Promise?"
Quincy glanced to his brother to find his gaze on him. "I'll... I promise."
"Yeah!" Neptune was bouncing happily as Quincy's hands fidgeted under the table.
Histoire noticed then spoke up. "Thank you for your hospitality, I believe it's time for us to go."
"Really?"
"It takes two hours to fly back to Planeptune. We've been gone for too long, but if you want to let your work pile up-"
"No, no! We should go!" Neptune was in a panic.
"Thank you for today Tech-u." Nepgear stood up as her sister jumped up.
"No problem. It's been a pleasure."
"Hmmmm..." Neptune glared at the candidates
"What are you 'Hmming' about?" Asked Quincy.
"Noooothing!" Neptune picked up Histoire and went outside. Quincy looked to the younger CPUs as they followed her out.
Once there were outside and a short distance away from the buildings the Planeptune changed into their HDD forms.
Tech-u was in awe seeing the two in their goddess forms. "You like what you see?" Commented Neptune with a wink.
Tech-u looked to the ground as Neptune stared at him. "Sorry."
Quincy held out his hand to Neptune. "Till we meet again, Purple Heart."
Neptune took his hand and shook it. "Come by Planeptune sometime, I'd like to see your HDD form. Be good till then, Silver Heart."
"Fly safe Nepgear." Tech-u held out his hand out to Nepgear. Neptune smirked as she gave her sister a light shove. Nepgear crashed into Tech-u who took a couple steps back from the force. "I got you."
"I'm so sorry! I think I tripped."
"Your floating, how did you trip?"
Quincy raised an eyebrow to Neptune as she laughed with hand covering her mouth, Neptune took off into the sky. Nepgear let go of Tech-u and joined her sister.
The brothers waved to the sister as they flew away.
Once the CPUs were out of sight Quincy exhaled and placed his hands on his knees. "They're gone."
"You okay?"
"Yeah. You think that went well?"
Tech-u punched his brother in the arm. "Yes it did."
Quincy stood and looked to the sky. "I guess that's one on our side."
"In that case, can you give me a hand with my airship."
"Sure." The brothers headed for the hanger, Tech-u opened the door and went over to his engine. "You finally get this thing ready?"
"Yeah I found the missing part when I found Nepgear."
Quincy used his gauntlets to lift up Tech-u and engine. "So, you and Nepgear. How close are you two?"
"What you getting at? I just met her today."
"I'm just asking."
"She likes to tinker with machines, even helped with a couple things here."
"That's good, with your friendship we can kept Planeptune on our side."
Tech-u took out his tool and attach the engine to the airship. "Besides isn't making ties to other nations your job?"
"Right, sorry..."
"I'm joking Quincy!" Tech-u glanced to see his brother looking down. "Would you stop being so down on yourself? It went fine today, proud of you for showing some bravery. Even promising to Neptune."
"Just hope I can keep it."
"Hey, hey, hey!"
Quincy looked up to see the engine and Tech-u falling. "Sorry!" Quincy stopped them and moved them back into place.
"Hold it still will you?"
"Sorry!"
"Anyway." Tech-u got back to work on attaching the engine. "How did you and Neptune do?"
"She's fun to be around, just have to get uses to her randomness."
"So are we going to Planeptune soon?"
"Actually I'm think we should go to Leanbox. Vert also wanted me to stop by."
"Really?" Tech-u spun back to Quincy. "But Nepgear said Planeptune is like a futuristic city."
"We need all the help we can get Tech-u. We have more shares than the other nations but we're still new." An idea came to Quincy, he lifted himself up to get a closer look at what Tech-u was doing. "How about this, you get this airship working and we'll go to Planeptune. No matter what else we have going on."
"Promise."
"Tech-u..." Quincy looked away from his brother and exhaled. "I promise."
"What was that?"
Quincy turned to Tech-u and look him in the eye. "I said I promise."
"Good." tech-u tapped his wrench on the engine. "Cause this will be done before too long."
"Yeah I heard that before." Quincy looked at all the half-finished machine that littered the hanger.
"This will be different, this time I have an actual reason to finish something."
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After a long flight over Gamindustri Neptune, Nepgear, and Histoire returned to Planeptune. The goddesses landed on their balcony and changed back to their human forms.
"Woo! Glad to be home!" As Neptune slid open the glass door a pair of arms wrapped around.
"Nep-nep!" Neptune pushed the person back to an arm's length to see it was Compa. "Where were you? We were supposed to play today!"
"Oh right! Sorry, I forgot!"
"What was so importent that you forgot your own friends?" On the other side of the room was IF watching everyone.
"Hey Iffy!" Neptune jumped around as she waved for IF to come closer.
"Hi Compa, hi Iffy."
"Hello everyone." Nepgear and Histoire greeted their old friends.
Neptune waved her hand to get the attetion back to her. "Get this, there's a whole new nation out there!"
"A new nation?" Compa was exited at the news.
IF on the other hand was shocked by this news. "Wait really? What's it called?"
"You don't about Iffy? I thought you knew everything." Said Nepgear.
"I know a lot but I can't know everything. But a whole nation, how did I miss that?"
"We've just come back from there." Histoire spoke up as she flew into the center of the group. "The nation is called In-D. Also, IF may I speak to you on a certain matter."
"Sure what do you need?" Histoire and IF began to talk business.
Compa turned bacik to the CPUs to speak to them. "So what's it's like?"
Nepgear wanted to answer but her sister beat her to it. "It's super cool, there's huge giant trees with metal and gears in them. Light showed taking poeple to get tree to tree!"
"It sounds so pretty."
"It is pretty." Nepgear took her chance. "And it's CPU is a guy."
"A guy?" question marks appear over Compa's head.
"His name is Quincy, and he has a brother named Tech-u."
Compa noticed a glow in Neptune and Nepgear's pockets. "Hey what's that?" Compa pointed to the glows.
The CPUs reached for the glows and took their crystals. "Pretty cool, right? We got this from Quincy!"
"It's so shiny. I want one too!"
"Sister, is just me or are these glowing brighter then when we got them?"
Neptune looked down at the crystal. "I don't know, maybe it's a piece of a key to a door hiding a super secret treasure!"
"Won't be the first time one of your wide ideas came true." Commented Compa.
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