Chapter 10
I barely put the piece of bacon in my mouth when Scrappy runs in and goes straight under my hoodie. "What's so wonderful about my hoodie huh?"
"Its soft and warm. And it keeps me close to you mommy." Scrappy tells me as she snuggles into my chest.
"Yeah yeah yeah. Your eating your own food though." I then see two little heads looking around the corner of the door. I then grab the plate of bacon and hold it in their direction.
They slowly crawled forward before they both take half the bacon off the plate and devor it hungrily like haven't eaten in awhile I wonder where these two came from?
They must be the twins. "Noire! We need more bacon if we have any."
Noire comes back with two plates of bacon "I got two more plates of bacon. You'll have to wait for me to make more. I hope this is enough."
"Yeah I think this is fine. It's mainly for these two little ones." I say motioning to the two toddlers.
Noire looks at them in slight shock before she places the bacon near the two "I see they must have just shown up. They look so cute. Uni and Mary haven't woken up yet. We'll need to babysit for them."
"Yeah your right. What do you think Uni and Mary will name them?" I say putting them on my lap so they can reach the table easier.
"Hmm Uni had a few names she liked the most though she liked the name Scathach the most. So one of them is getting that name. They have rather big apities. Do they get that from Mary?" Noire asked me curiously as I'm guessing Uni doesn't eat this much.
"I guess so. I still don't know where that woman puts it. Then again I have no reason to talk." I say motioning to my plate of food that used to be a pile.
Noire sweat drops "Yeah remind me for dates to take you to buffets where you can get all you can eat. Oh look Kei and Sam have finally decided to join us. Judging by Kei's face Sam had more fun with her." I look and see Kei and Sam walking in with Kei having a heavy blush on her cheeks.
"Had to jump her twice huh Sam?" I ask looking at her. "By the way all the waffles are mine."
Sam shrugs "I'll just get coffee and oranges. And its not my fault she's so tasty I may just end up keeping. She's so fun to mess with." Sam then licks Kei's ear causing the poor oracle to shiver from the stimulation.
"Leave the poor woman alone. After I get done with this I'm going to go and take care of that rogue."
"Alright sounds good. Be careful Zoey she may get off to you killing her. Hey no trying to eat the plate." Sam told me before she had to stop one of the twins from trying to eat the plate.
I try not laugh my ass off when I notice Mary carrying a now awake Uni into the dining room in a princess carry. "Sorry we're late. Had to explain late nights wild events to this cutie. Hope you don't mind Zoey." Mary then looks at the twins "Hey look Uni it's our little cuties."
"That's fine. I have to leave soon though. So how are you doing Uni? And what do you think about being a mother now?"
"My legs hurt a bit. Other than that I feel mostly fine I guess. As for being a mom I'll have to get used to being a mom I guess. And Mary said she'll help out. I guess it's not that different from being an aunt just with them being my kids." Uni told me as she looked at the kids scratching her cheek.
"Yeah these two little ones are yours and Mary's. What do you remember of last night?"
"I remember Mary laying me down on my bed before she kissed down my body before ravaging me then I did the same to her. We both went at it till we passed out. Best night of my life so far." Uni told me with a small smile. I guess that's the best I can hope for and at least she enjoyed it. Now it's about time I deal with that rouge.
"You most likely don't remember much of last night due to that drink you bought. You accidently bought some alcohol last night and you are a very light drinker."
"I see I've never really drank alcohol before. And I'm guessing you had Mary take me home? And I took things from there?" Uni asked me as she put things together.
"That's how it went. Didn't think you had that side to you Uni." I tell her as one of the twins lean against me and fall asleep.
Scrappy comes out of my hoodie to lightly poke the twin's cheek "Cousin?" she asked me curiously.
"Hey leave the little one alone and yes they're your cousins. Just let her sleep for now."
Scrappy giggles "Cousins cute. We going to be best friends. Can I draw mommy?" Scrappy asks me innocently enough.
"On? And did aunt Uni give you some drawing supplies?"
Scrappy pulls out some colored ballpoint pens "Need paper."
I point to a drawer in the living room. "I think that has some in it." The other twin was now falling asleep on me.
Scrappy smiles and runs off to go draw on the paper in the drawer. Uni giggles "Seems your still popular with the kids Zoey."
"I never thought I would be anymore due to what I've been through. Ugg. 13 thousand years is a long time to live you know."
Sam decides to but in "Well I met a dragon woman once I think her name was Alex. Real grump piece of work and she's about 757 thousand years old. If I remember right she's Nyx's twin sister. She stops by every now and then to check on her and say hi."
"I don't want to hear it. Out of all the Elder CPUs by far. I am the oldest by at least five thousand years."
Mary then walk up to me after gently setting Uni in a chair "Yeah yeah but your still Zoey to us. No one will ever call you granny given what happened to the last one that one that did. Mind if I hold at least one of the twins?"
I let out a small smile when she said this. "Yeah I don't like being called granny unless I have grandchildren. Which I might have. But yeah I have to get going anyways because I want to wrap this up before that meeting with Noire."
Mary smiles and takes the twins off my hands letting Uni hold one of them when Sam spoke up "She was spotted going into an abandoned factory on the north side of town. Should save you some time."
I nod. "Good to know. I'll be back." I say hopping off the balcony and landing on the sidewalk a few stories down. Cracking it. "Alright. Let's get this over with then." I say before jogging to the location. Luckily there isn't any buildings within a couple blocks of here. I sprinted forward to a nearby tree and pretty easily scaled it. When I get to the top I jump up and twist in the air to hit the ground. Let's see if I have enough Negative energy in me for this. "Hell's Wraith." I chanted before punching the ground. The ground immediately forming a crater and everything within a few blocks gets hit with the force of a high grade explosive. The factory almost blown to pieces. "Now to find that rogue." I'm weak in Negative energy. That used to be able to destroy a whole town in even before the corruption sets in.
When I got further in I had to dodge a few shotguns blasts "What the fuck just happened! Wait those fuckers sent you! NO! NO!" The rouge seemed to be having a mental break down "No matter you'll never get our queen gold heart! You can never have her again! She's our's!"
Okay my daughter gold heart may have screwed up a lot when she went crazy but like hell I'd leave her with those psycos. And I have a the perfect way to get intel from her and kill this rouge. I dodge another two blasts from her shotgun SP-13 model if I'm right that doesn't matter as I advance before I shove my right hand forwards "SOUL REAP!" I chant as I shove my hand into her heart taking her soul, her life and her memories.
I see everything she knows my eldest gold heart chained up in some dungeon in Planeptune she wasn't moved at all and they have no plans to move her, they are waiting her out waiting for her stamina to give out. This rouge was part of a cult they have some of my best but she doesn't know everyone. I see when they took her by surprise and took her here. I'll just have to break her out once I'm done with all this. They even have Liz's sharicite fragments bastards. Then I see they've been looking at the other Candidates they were viewing the Loween twins viewing them as cute and having ripe innocence, sick bastards they won't get to far if I can help it. Now what else. I then see Ella she's having a good life in lowee they talk about her. I have enough of searching the memories for now I can find more if I need to. But I have to deal with corruption within the ranks.
I'll need to talk with Sam after this but those girls will need some added protection we can't let what happened to Uni happen to the rest. I'll need to make some calls. I quickly dial up command as the rogue collapse dead. I wait for them to pick up.
Soon I hear then pick up "Hello Zoey this is Nyx. Need me to handle anything for ya Zoey? Need me to call someone to pick up a body?"
"Yes the rogue. North Lastation. Only place with a crater. Also send in Katarina from the Alpha division. I want her on body guard duty I guess you can see for two people."
"Alright I'll get a retrieval team sent. Alright I'll get her. Can you give me more details to give her or you want to tell her yourself." Nyx asked I remembered the corruption within the ranks I can trust Nyx but I don't know if I can risk someone listening in.
"I'll ask her if she wants to do it when she gets here. Now how many have been terminated due to corruption within the ranks?"
I hear Nyx sigh "More than we thought. At least a sixth of our current troops currently."
"Fucking wonderful. We should've done this earlier. Isn't the nation in grade five lockdown due to this? If it isn't is need to be."
"Yeah me and some higher ups put the lockdown into effect. At least until we got the corruption weeded out. We have about a fourth scanned clean so far. Till we get this sorted out we'll be in grade five lockdown." I sigh in relief that Nyx was at least on top of this.
"Got it and make sure that everyone on the retrieval team has already been scanned."
"Right already have a team in mind that's been scanned. I'll be sending them over. I'll send Sam over a list of those already scanned. Anything else you need Zoey?" Nyx told me and I'm thankful that Nyx is usually on top of things.
"How about you take a day off once in awhile. Other than that I don't need anything right now. Maybe later today or tomorrow though. I got some info that needs solved."
"Alright I'll take a day off once sometime after those places are deemed safe to travel to. Been awhile since I've been on a good babe hunt. Heard Leanbox had some real hotties. Alright I'll be sure to keep an ear out around then. Well good luck on whatever your doing Zoey." Nyx tells me already dreaming about getting lucky in Leanbox at least her moral is higher because of that.
"Just don't be knocking them up got it. How long till that transport arrives?"
"Don't worry I won't unless I get into a committed relationship with one. And about 45-50 minutes now. " Nyx informs me.
"Good to know. Good bye for now."
Nyx gives me a goodbye and I'm back on my own now. I should wait for retrieval team though I really want to check up on my new info and I have that meeting to go to.
I sat down on top of the pile of rubble that used to be the factory. I'll check with the oracle of Planeptune or at least Neptune to see where this dungeon is. I comb out my hair until they get here. If I had longer hair it'll become a problem with the speed a have. It didn't take long for me to see the heli approaching my position. I cover my eyes as it landed closeby due to it was throwing dust everywhere. The retrieval team quickly puts the rogue's body in a body back and they jumped back onto the heli and take off. Leaving Katarina behind. I smile at her. "It's been awhile you little squirt."
Katarina rolls her eyes at that "At least I'm not being called a midget again. I wish I was taller. So what is it that you need me for? All I was told was bodyguarding a candy store." I struggle not to laugh at the last part.
"I can't help it when you look like a four year old kid. Remember when I convinced the whole office that you were a lost child we took in."
Katarina blushes "Hey it wasn't funny how much they cuddled and gave me candy. I woke up ten times sleeping with some random woman's bed. Not that I'm complaining I always had fun with them in the morning." I laugh at that several of them were so embarrassed by that.
"Now back to topic. You are right about the bodyguard part just not guarding a candy store. I'm asking you if you can watch two children for me. The two Loween Candidates to be precise."
Katarina looks at me curiously "You mean those two call Rom and Ram. Yeah kinda hard not to hear about them given what happened in the infamous battle of lowee. So why am I guarding them other than they are cute?" Oh so she finds them cute perfect teasing material!
"Now I'd be calling you a lollicon but you do look the same age. Just don't be screwing them because they are still mentally children. Now the reason I want you to guard them is because you look close to their age, you have enough power to do it, you have frost powers like they do, and the ones going after them is that cult that's been a pain in the ass." I say counting the reasons on my fingers.
Katarina blushes at the first reason but nods just the same "Makes sense I can get close to them and protect them. But what cult are we talking about. A local one?"
"The one that existed when we were in our former dimension. The goddesses one."
Katarina groans "Not those crazy's again. They were annoying enough to deal with as it was. Now they have more goddess to use as breeding material."
"Yeah but we can squash them here due to we don't have a war to deal with anymore. So will you do it?"
Katarina smiles "Sure I won't mind hanging out with kids that look around my age. Maybe I'll even get close to them. It'll be nice to have friends that don't call me out on my height so often."
"Even in a thousand years I'll still be calling you squirt or something along those lines. Now I believe you know where Lowee is from here if I'm right."
"Yeah I do. I can run there now if you don't mind. Well see you later Zoey!" Katarina takes off at the speed of sound towards Lowee before I can get another word in.
"That girl is one of the only ones that can keep up with me." I mutter jogging back to the basilicom. With the thoughts on my mind about what happened the 30 minute run took a 57 minute jog. The staff welcomed me when I walked past to the elevator. I get a few hellos in their directions. The door opened up and I see Uni standing there.
"What's up?" I ask walking past and sitting in a chair.
Uni rubs one of the twins backs "Nothing much just got done naming these two and giving them their first bath. So how was your trip?"
"Went alright. Kinda destroyed that old factory though."
Uni sighs "Aww that was a fun hang out. We were planning on renovating that into a laser tag arena. Oh well. Oh that's right Scrappy has been drawing a lot of weird drawing they look like symbols if I had to guess." Oookay I'm going to need to see this hopefully she isn't doing anything crazy.
"Alright I'll check it out. Where is she right now?"
"She's in her room still drawing. She was storta zoned out when I tried to talk to her Noire is with her making sure she doesn't hurt herself." Uni told me and that makes me both feel better and worse.
I then get up. "I'll be back then." I walk down the hall and I then go into Scrappy's room. I see Noire sitting in a chair besides Scrappy drawing. "So whats up?"
Noire sighs "As soon she started drawing she started drawing these weird symbols. I've never seen them before and she is completely zoned out. I tried to get her to stop but she isn't listening to me."
I take a quick glance and recognize them. "These are old." I snap my fingers in front of Scrappy's face and say "Who is teaching you this young one?" I say in goddess tongue to see if someone is possessing her somewhat to teach her this. Very few people know it. Even Sam only knows a few sentences of it.
"Angra Mainyu, All the World's Evil and King of Daemons. Is something wrong mother?" Scrappy tells me also in goddess tongue. This isn't good something evil is influencing Scrappy. Only heard of Angra Mainyu why has it shown itself now?
"Don't continue speaking with her. She is something bad in the world." I say before muttering a quick spell against her forehead so the goddess will have a harder time contacting her.
Scrappy rubs her head "My head hurts mommy. Are you mad?" Scrappy gave me the puppy eyes thinking I was mad at her.
"No sweety. Just when someone tries to talk to you that way again just tell me asap. There are just some really bad people out there you shouldn't be talking to."
"Okay mommy. Oh I know somethings thing she didn't teach me!" Scrappy ran over to a stack of papers and showed them to me "Alchemy!"
I take a look at Noire and chuckle at her confused face. "Speak normally so mommy Noire can understand you. And your pronounciacion needs some work. And good job. What are these notes about?"
Scrappy nods and speaks normally "Alchemy. Various stuff but I need to create this first." She shows me a drawing of a diagram an some stone looking things at the bottom "Philosopher stone. It um needs a lot of monsters to be transmuted to make it. And this special diagram. It makes alchemy stronger. It allows me to reject some laws of alchemy."
"Why would you need to reject the laws?" I ask her putting her in my lap and hugging her so she couldn't get away to not answer the questions.
"Most get in the way. To delve deeper into alchemy I need to reject the laws. The laws limit and can be stupid. I can't make something from nothing for example. The law of equivalent exchange. To make more stuff and cooler things I'd need philosopher stone. The rest I don't know I feel compelled to make it." Scrappy begins fidgeting with her hands as bit nervous.
"Yeah don't. I know some of the things you can make. And one thing you can make are tough to kill. Then again the last one that tried opposing me got obliterated."
"Huh? A homunculus? Why would I want to oppose you mommy? Your the best!" Scrappy looks at me innocently as she snuggles into my chest.
"I know. I know. Just don't create one alright." I then look at Noire. "Got her out of her trance."
Scrappy gives me a curious look as to my before Noire speaks "That's good to hear. So what were you to talking about I couldn't understand a word you two were saying."
"Just about a goddess teaching her about the language. A bad one at that."
Noire sweats "I'm guessing a ten out of ten on the bad scale I'm guessing. So the meeting is going to be soon you want to come with us? Scrappy and the twins are coming with. And we are taking a jet over."
"I was asked to wasn't I. I'll be going with. Any CPU or person I should worry about? And can't we just fly over?"
"Hmm Not really though Vert is really lonely she doesn't even have a candidate actually she's the only one that doesn't. Blanc not so much since Sam gave her a call. Only one I can think of would be Nepgear she'd be angry with what you did to Neptune. Though Nepgear is usually very nice and forgiving so I wouldn't worry too much. Just wedge her face between your breasts and hold her their and you should be good. Always worked when Verty did it." Noire tells me and I sweat drop I'd have to give someone a boob hug!
"Uh. My breast aren't that big anymore. So I have to worry about Vert in case she tries to steal one of the children for awhile." I then smirk thinking of something. "There you go instant babysitter."
Noire smiles "Well I suppose that works. She'd love spending time with them. Though she may want a child of her own. We could fly their but we have to many to carry. Jet is the better option. Plus I already called one."
"Alright. I'll live with the jet for now. And how is she going to get a child of her own? As far as I know only my sharicite can create a child between two CPUs. Uni's was a special case."
Noire scratches her cheek "About that I was hoping you could help with that. I read up some magic techniques that could do the trick I heard those usually only work between two humans. So I was wondering if you could help her as a favor for me." Wait Noire is asking me to have sex with someone else as a favor..Okay this is weird.
At the end of her asking that I was in the middle of getting up and stretching but I fell back in the chair with Scrappy still in my arms. "And what is that?" I ask not moving. Even though I most likely know what it is.
Noire blushes "Well I was wondering if you could do the same thing you did with me to Vert. Sam said your sharicite reset when we 'married' so you could give her a child that way."
I raise my hand in the air and point into the air. "I don't want to cheat on you. Nope."
Noire looked at me "But I'm asking it as a favor for me. Okay if your worried about cheating on me how about we both take Vert to bed. It isn't cheating if we both have sex with the same person together. Please Zoey I don't want to see Vert so sad anymore." I have to give Noire some credit that is a decent loophole.
I plugged Scrappy's ears at the beginning at the third sentence. I then smile uneasily. "I don't know Noire. I know it's for someone's happiness. Maybe. Maybe if I hear it from her herself. And you know this will be giving Scrappy a half sister right?"
Noire nods "Well we'll be able to ask her ourselves after or before the meeting. And I know and I'm fine with that Scrappy would make a good big sister. Besides she's already technically a big sister due to her cousins in a way."
"I guess so. And you can ask when she tries to drill it from us. I don't feel comfortable with this at all." I say unplugging Scrappy's ears and resting my chin on top of her head.
Noire nods in agreement "Well I'll do whatever you want afterwards. Anyways Scrappy how do you feel about visiting someplace new with your cousins?"
Scrappy smiles "Yay road trip!"
I then get up from the floor. "So when we going. Might as well get the meeting the other CPUs over with. Not to be rude or anything."
"The jet is ready now. We can go now if you'd want Zoey just need to get the rest." Noire tells me as she takes Scrappy out of my arms. And holds her close.
"Sure we can go now if that's fine. What time is that meeting suppose to be?"
"12:35 in about 2 hours from now." Noire tells me and I can only think about how early we're going to get there. Well I can get some of my personal stuff out of the way given I suspect an hour travel time atleast.
"Alright. I need to ask either Neptune or her oracle something when we get there."
"Oh I can bring Histy her oracal up during the flight if its nothing too sensitive she's always on call." Noire tells me and I have to think about this for a second sure it be faster but someone could always be listening in.
"I'd rather bring it up to her in person. Do we need to grab anything before we leave?" I ask following her into the hallway.
"Hmm swimwear and a few changes of clothes. Was planning on hitting some of Planeptunes beaches as a mini vacation. You wouldn't mind that right?" Noire looks at me and Scrappy gives me the puppy dog eyes. I try to resist but I cave visiting a beach just sounds really good and its been soo long.
"FIne, fine, fine. We can go. I haven't went swimming in years. Now the thing is. I don't have a swimsuit though."
Noire giggles evilly "Neither does Scrappy and the twins and Mary now that I think about it guess we'll have to go clothes shopping before hitting the beach. Oh I can't wait to dress you all up this is going to be so much fun."
"I'm not wearing those ones that only consist of strings. I tried that about a few thousand years ago and never liked it."
"Oh I'd never make you were that stuff. Though a bikini or a one piece oh maybe even a wetsuit would be good too. Depends what looks best on you girls. Um not that I'm actually fantasizing about playing dress up with all you girls or anything." Noire sweats as she realizes she was getting starting to go overboard on the whole swimwear thing.
"Yeah. I'm your senior so your not dressing me up. Now for everyone else go ahead." I walk into the living room where Uni was and when of the toddlers raised their hands up at me I picked her up.
Uni smiles "Seems Astolfo likes you careful she doesn't try biting you." I look down at the one I'm holding so that's what they named this one.
"What a weird name but you're still adorable." I say holding the toddler to my face for a second before having it that she was laying in my arms.
Astolfo giggles and reaches for my cheeks almost grabbing my breasts in the process.
I wonder when I'll start producing that breastmilk. Ugg my breast are going to become bigger once again. "So what's her sister's name Uni?"
"Oh I named her Scathach after a character in one of my favorite stories. She even has red eyes like me." Uni tells me and I sweat drop at how unique she is with naming.
"Your naming is….. Unique. Let me tell you." I say tickling Astolfo's stomach. I need to come up with names for them.
Astolfo giggles in response grabbing at my hand. Uni pouts at how I phrased that sentence "Well Mary agreed with me on those names. She and Kei should be back now with clothes for both of them. I wonder why Kei is so shy around Sam."
"A horny reason." I say being blunt.
Uni blushes bright red in response "I um see. Guess that makes sense with how Sam was whispering things in her ear that made her blush."
"Yep. Ready to go to Planeptune?"
Uni nods "For the most part. Just waiting on those two to come back so we can get them both dressed properly first."
"Got it." I say sitting down on the ground and the other one crawls over to join it's twin.
"Hey everyone we're back! Missed us? Don't worry we got them some clothes to wear." Called out Mary who just arrived holding up a few bags clothes with Kei carrying what looked to be carrying a few blankets and plushies. "We also got other necessities for them which the staff will be handling during our trip." Kei spoke being one of the more mature ones around here.
"Good to hear. So what is this meeting we going to about?"
Uni hums "It'll mostly be about international agreements and relations. It's mostly a get together but we'll be bringing up the battle of Lowee. And this is going to be a bit of a PR move since a good number of people are worried you'll attack. So this should help at least ease tensions. We don't want fear of your nation to spiral out of control. Right now we don't need anymore violence."
"My nation only attacked because Blanc overreacted without listening to reason and injured one of my soldiers. They were just following protocol."
"I get it. But not everyone will see it as that. This meeting will be to put some fears at ease. Its a preemptive measure before someone does something stupid. Just so you no know this will be a streamed meeting. So yeah everyone in are current four nations will see it or be able to tune in. So if you want to clear the air that would be a good time to do it." Uni tells me and I have to admit it does sound reasonable and I do have squads in all nations so some good PR will be good for us.
"You're right. That would be a good time to clear some stuff up. Just let me know when we are ready to go."
Uni takes some clothes from the bags and begins dressing the twins "Just let me dress the twins and we'll be good to go. I already have my bags packed."
When she was done we grabbed everything we were taking with us and headed to the roof where the jet was waiting. "Do you guys normally fly or take this thing around?"
"We normally never take this only on special occasions. But we keep updating it with the latest in interior comfort and defensive countermeasures." Kei informs me and Mary who are at least put at ease that this jet was routinely updated.
"Let's get going then eh." I say following Noire and Uni onto the aircraft.
The rest follow in as Mary sticking close holding the twins and Kei taking in some luggage. I look down to once again find Scrappy in my hoodie again. I swear I may go on a mission and find her inside my hoodie during the mission going to need to start checking my hoodie now.
I just lean back and enjoy the ride. After a little while I see a big purple tower in the distance. I look at Noire. "Let me guess that big ass building is their basilicom?"
"The biggest building in the nation is usually the basilicom. But yes that is the Basilicom. Biggest around actually. Leanbox is the second." Noire informs me and I look in surprise this is the biggest Basilicom?
"I think I had a building or two that big but they've collapsed. I am impressed though with the design of it." I say looking at the building.
"Really? Must have been quite the sight at one time. Just so you know Planeptune is very different from Lastation. Its going to be a lot more colorful." Uni told me as one of the rested on her lap.
"Kinda thought so. Due to Lastation looking like a steampunk city." I say a little jokingly.
"Hey I hope you know we take a lot of pride in that aspect!" Noire shouted as I struck a nerve of her pride and Astolfo if I'm right began crying in Mary's arms.
"Hey. I'm not saying your city is bad or anything. Here just look at what mine used to be." I say pulling my phone out of my inventory and pulling up a picture.
Everyone gathered around to see it. "Wow it looks like it had some elements from all four nations." Uni told me and Mary had to take a moment to think we haven't seen the other nations yet.
"I've only seen two of the nations so far." I then bring up the next picture. "And this is what it looked like before I came to Lastation." Most of the taller buildings have collapsed and abit of the buildings were in ruins. It showed many people helping clear the debris. I took that before I left so I remember the state it is in. Gladly they are slowly rebuilding what they can with the supplies they have.
Uni, Kei and Noire looked sad as they saw it "We really never had this level destruction. At least not on this scale before." Kei informed me.
"I'm surprised most of it even stood up for as long as it has due to the war. From the reports I get most of the debris is cleared up and we are building with the supplies we have at hand."
"I see your people are really hardy. Its good to hear your rebuilding though." Noire tells me as she gives me a hug from behind.
"It is but we need the supplies to go back to what we were. Most of the things we rebuilt so far is the facilities we need so far."
"Well I'm sure we can work out some deals for the supplies you need. This meeting will also be good to establish diplomatic ties." Kei informs me and its sounding more and more like this will be a vital meeting for my nation's future.
"That's good. Heck we can share some of the technology we've made over the years in return." I then notice we were landing.
Noire gets up and dusts off her skirt "Well we're here and that does sound like a good deal. One that benefits both sides. Well are you ready to go? Scrappy snuck into your hoodie again." Scrappy hides inside my hoodie once she's been noticed.
"Didn't I tell you she'd like it if she stayed there long enough. Alright let's see how this turns out eh."
"I know. Well we shouldn't be too far from the Basilicom so we can walk there. Hey is the Sam heading into the Basilicom with a box?" Noire points in front of us and sure enough that's Sam walking into the Basilicom along with the three soldiers. One of them was the seven foot soldier that was at the festival sporting her usual armour. So was also carrying a wooden crate...What are they doing here?
"Yeah. Along with some of my guys. I guess they are bringing something for them due to the box and crate. How'd you think everyone will act with my seven plus foot soldier being in the room?"
"We've seen stranger so it shouldn't take them long to adjust as long as they aren't hostile." Uni tells me as she rubs Scathach's back who is sleeping again.
"They mainly only act in self defense and even if you want to take on that soldier. It'll be very hard to win against her. I even have some trouble doing permanent damage against her."
"She's basically a tough as hell tank. Just don't piss her off and she's great company actually. Reminds me of that one party we invited her to. She had a blast that night. She must be having a bit of fun seeing the sights. I'll introduce you to her if I have the chance Uni." Mary spoke to Uni calmly like this was normal. I have to give Mary credit she saw what's in those suits and didn't freak out.
Then again I tore into one of them as to test their armour regenerative. I found out it was quite overpowered. "How about one of you guys do a duel against her before the meeting starts?"
"Sure a friendly duel never hurt anyone. You sure she'd be willing to duel. I mean it does look like she's on the job currently?" Noire asked curious if this was a good idea if I'm right. Sure I'll just tell her its alright to wave her off.
"It's fine it just looks like she's doing a little errand with Sam." I then notice the aircraft has landed and the door opened. "Alright who is leading the way for me due to I have no clue where anything is?"
Noire hooks her arm around my arm making it clear to anyone that looks where are standing together is "I will I am your wife after all."
"I am in your care then. So where to first?" I ask while she drags me off.
"Clothing store there's a strip mall that we can go to that has all types of swimwear and diving gear. Then we can hit an electronic store maybe for something to keep Scrappy and the twins entertained. Then a nearby restaurant for some lunch before going to the basilicom for the meet. We should have plenty of time for all of it." Noire tells me as she drags me and Scrappy to a nearby strip mall to carry out her master plan.
"I'm not participating in your dressup. I'll be picking my own stuff." I say as she drags me into the first store.
"That's fine I still have Scrappy to do dress up with. Want to help pick something out for her. I think Uni and Mary can manage getting their own swimsuits." Noire tells me as she begins looking at children sized swimsuits as Uni and Mary follow us in with the twins looking confused at Noire's antics but looks through the swimsuits as well.
"Alright. I can do that." As we walk to the children section I grab me a simple black and cyan two piece.
Noire grabs three different swimsuits. A light grey two piece, a grey red spotted one piece and a dark grey child sized wetsuit. "So which one do you think would be best for Scrappy? They all look good. Of course we are going to get her floaties or a life jacket to help her learn to swim."
"The one piece. How about we get one of them water walking ball deals. Just to mess around in one."
"Sounds good we can get more than one so more than one of us can have fun in it." Noire told me as she puts the other two swimsuits while getting some floaties for Scrappy.
"Well you guys can do anything you want. Imma just rest there and try to work on a tan." I say with a smile on my face.
Scrappy poked her head out "Tan? Can you even get a tan mommy. Your so pale?" I get a tick mark on my forehead can't get made for being called paler than a ghost.
"I can tan a little bit but gladly I can't over do it and get burnt also. The CPU in me refuses to let that happen."
"It happened to Neptune once though she fell asleep for hours and got a sunburn after that." Uni tells me as she and Mary get swimsuits for her and the twins. They got a black one piece for Scathach? And a light red one for Astolfo? Still have trouble telling them apart. Mary however went with a teal bikini. While Uni got a two piece with a white and black top. But crap I can possibly get a sunburn here!?
"Wonderful. I at least know I can't over tan myself but never got a sunburn before. So when are we going to this beach since we are getting this stuff now?"
"Right after the meeting with everyone else from the meeting. We usually always do something together after meetings like this to unwind and have some fun." Noire tells me as she walks to the register and pays for everything.
"That reminds me. We need to set up a currency thing with my nation so my citizens and soldiers can use their earnings they made there. Heck I'm broke here because of it."
"Oh we can get that settled out shortly. We all only use credits now so its only a matter of connecting you guys into the network from what I heard from a few travelers that most dimensions use credits as well." Noire tells me as she picks up the bags. So a simple fix that's good at least.
"That's good. Then I don't have to earn money anymore to spend it here. Heck with what I have I could most likely buy most of a nation if it was for sale or more."
Noire kisses my cheek "So your more or less set for the long term. You know you could probably by R-18 island if your wanted to. Would make a good honeymoon spot." Noire said as she and Uni walked out after paying for everything. "So we can grab a handled for Scrappy here I'm more than likely going to get a Lastation model for her. Maybe you and Mary will find something you like before we grab a quick lunch before the meeting." We soon near the electronics store full of consoles, electronics and other odds and ends.
"That sounds good. Now think how much money I have since I've been saving most of what I earned for over 12 thousand years."
Kei runs some numbers on a cell phone "Low balling it would be in the trillions likely. Um Zoey can I ask you a question?"
"Sure go ahead."
"How do you know if Sam is interested in someone?" Kei asked me with a faint blush on her cheeks seems Sam left her mark on this woman's heart.
"I can't really answer that due to she hasn't been interested in anyone for years but what I do remember is that she loves to tease the person alot more than others."
Kei seemed to get something "I see this information is helpful at least. Thank you for this."
"Glad to be of help somewhat. Just remember this. Don't bring up her age. She's about to hit 11,051 soon. I'm so slamming it in her face then."
"I see I will do my best to not bring that up in her presence. Lady Noire we should hurry up Not much time left till the meeting. We'll have to take the lunch to go." Kei told Uni and Noire as she looked at her watch. Guess we were losing track of time.
I throw the bags I was holding into my inventory. "Lets get going then. So which place we grabbing food from then high tailing it back to the basilicom?"
Noire points to a BBQ "We'll be grabbing some lunch from there they have a large quantity for a decent price. Got Scrappy a Lastation portable with a few games so we are good on that front. Lets go."
"You think they have enough to feed all of us. Especially me?"
Noire nods "I already placed an order before we got here. The specialize in cooking for large amounts of people I made sure to place a large order for you. 20 of everything on the menu work for you?"
I grin evilly. "That works. I'll have at least most of it eaten by the time we reach the basilicom."
"I ordered some of the rest of us as well don't worry. We just need to pick it up and go maybe catch a the skyway to the top to save some time." Noire says as she goes to pick up our order. At the mention of sky way I look up to some people walking through the air or just standing as the move from platform to platform. How the heck did they manage that?
"That is impressive. How'd you guys do it with your current technology?"
"Not sure on the specifics but I hear it involves some kind of hard light constructs. I wonder how Nepgear made it? Neptune is usually more focused on having fun or killing monsters for guild quests." Uni tells me as Noire picks up are orders. So Nepgear is one of the real brains around here then.
"I guess I can see that due to how Neptune acted last time I seen her. I still wonder how she forgave me after I messed up badly."
Noire soon came back with reasonably sized togo boxes for all of us "Neptune has always been a very kind and forgiving soul. It's a first for her to be that traumatized but she's almost incapable of holding a grudge for long. Heck we all beat the crap out of her till she got amnesia and she still forgave us after a few scraps and we all put the console wars behind us. Still I'm worried about how she's been holding up mentally."
"I'm still sorry for that. It must've traumatized her from what I've done. Heck dying would've done a lot to her."
"Yeah losing her would have done a lot to all of us. She just has a certain charisma that allows her to work her way into your life. Thank you for reviving her Zoey. Well here's your food. Just put it in your inventory and the full package should open up." Noire tells me as she hands me my order and I have to say getting food like this would save me a lot of hassle.
I throw it in my inventory and a bunch of food packages showed up. I instantly take one out and start tearing into it. "Not to sound rude about what I did but it basically says not to underestimate your opponents." I say between bites.
I can hear Noire sigh as she hands out the togo boxes before she speaks "Yeah it gave both of us a wakeup call to not get complacent. Reminds me of that on gothic dimension traveler that came here once in a warship. She messed with us for a bit practically toying with us, we even got into a showdown with her before she said she was just doing this on a dare and left back to her home dimension after giving us some blueprints." I wonder which dimension hopper was that? I've meet a few in my time.
"Yeah. Guess you get alot of dimension travelers then. Now. What was surprising was that I quickly handed both your asses to you both while I was in my human form while you guys where in your CPU forms."
"We do get a lot of dimension travelers each bordering on the weird side. And to answer that questions we've never really encountered someone of your caliber before or at least not often. We've been having a dry spell of strong opponents lately. Guess we need to up are training again. Least we want another dragon eating a tanker again." Noire says taking Scrappy out of my hoodie a as we begin walking to the basilicom.
"How was Arfoire here? I remember trying to rip out her spine in my dimension." I ask getting done with the first box and pulling out another.
"We dealt with her though I'm not sure she's gone for good yet. But there was no limit to what she would try and do to achieve more power. She even strangled infants in the womb if they were deemed too potentially powerful. She made sure she was the most powerful around no matter what. Though she covered her tracks well enough to not be noticed." Noire tells me and I fight the urge to growl that bitch is even worse than my Arfoire.
"I just had to use a skill to take care of mine. I can just do that to yours."
"Thanks I'd rather not deal with her a second time. Once was enough to make my skin crawl." Noire shivered after saying that apparently bringing up some unpleasant memories.
"I can do that. It's part of the reason I'm so powerful." I say getting yet another box from my inventory and beginning to eat it.
After a couple more minutes of walking we get to the front door of the basilicom and I want through ten more boxes. "Well were here now Zoey. You want to head in first and make an appearance?" Noire asks me with Scrappy resting her head in her breasts.
"I can. Want me to go in a form that none of you have. Or at least not yet anyways."
Noire sweat drops "Maybe not cause another big stir but if you want to do it go ahead."
I smile and transform into my next gen form. I do a little twirl and look at Noire. "How do I look?"
"Wow, Just wow. You look amazing." Noire says barely able to form words.
I take my greatsword off my back. "Anyone want to hold onto this for me? Now I won't stay in this form long but I'd like to show this form off a little bit."
Scrappy jumps and grabs it from my hands "SO COOL!" This is not what I expected.
"Now anyone want to try to go against me in this form. This isn't even my normal CPU form." I say jokingly. I then look at Scrappy. "How about you let mommy Noire carry that for you."
Scrappy gives me a pouty face "Aww but I want to hold it. Can I just hold it for a bit longer mommy?"
"Fine. Just until we get inside though. Heck that blade is thrice your side squirt." I say ruffling her hair. I then look up at everyone else. "Now about that dueling offer?"
Scrappy cheers and Uni steps forward "Guess I can do it if you don't mind holding Scathach Zoey."
"I don't mind. I might have to do it out of this form though due to the armour pieces." I say holding my arm up to specify how there was metal pieces decorating my skin.
"Yeah those might hurt her accidentally." Mary tells me as she eyes them like a worried parent.
"This armour is like 50/50 on the defense and decorative portion. Then again I can move fast enough in this form I don't need the defensive portion much." I then hold my arms out to let them see the whole armour.
"Wow your armor is so cool mommy!" Scrappy said as she stares at my armor and Noire nods in agreement "Is very cool and looks good gives me some Ideas for some outfits."
"That's good. Now shall we take this inside and say hi to everyone?"
Everyone nods and motion for me to go in first "After you boss." Mary says doing a mock bow and motioning to the door.
"Keep that mockery up and I might just lower your next paycheck." I say walking inside and holding the door for everyone else.
Every walks in and Mary gives me a sheepish look. And Noire walks up to the receptionist "Excuse me but me and my group are here for the 4 goddesses meeting. I am Black heart, Is White and Green heart here yet? I'm assuming Purple heart is already here."
"Yes ma'am. White heart has been here for a little while and Green heart just showed up. May I ask who you are bringing with you so I can ask the oracle for clearance?"
"This is Cyan Heart the CPU of the new nation we are bring her as a guest of Lastation and the teal haired one is Mary she is Black Sister's fiance. The silver haired one is Scrappy my kid and the twins are Uni and Mary's. Also we did you see a woman by the name of Sam come in here as well. I hope my guests will not be a problem with Histoire." Noire said as professionally as I've seen so far. She must be in complete business mode.
"I don't think I can share that information but let me check with the oracle." She said picking up the phone and briefly talking. "She said you all have permission to go up. Have a nice day."
"Good then we'll be heading up then have a nice day." Noire tells the receptionist as she begins heading towards the elevator holding Scrappy's hand along the way.
I follow them down the hall into the elevator. "How is the oracle here? I'm curious due to how Neptune is mainly lazy from what you told me."
"Histy? I could compare her a lot to Sam in a few ways hard working, intelligent, serious at times, Loyal. She almost Neptune's polar opposite and she's a fairy so expect her to be small." Noire tells me and I struggle not to laugh.
"Sam is going to love her then. As she'd think Histy is so adorable. How did she come into existence?" I ask trying to compare her and Sam in ways.
"She was created by the ancient goddess as well as another but we haven't found her yet." Noire tells me and I scratch my head an ancient made her?
I scratch my head. "She's a tome isn't she. Sam was also made by one of the old goddesses in my dimension. I was there when it happened. I was alive for two thousand years then I believe."
"So Sam was made the same way? Interesting so that tablet is basically her tome." Kei speaks up after a moment of thinking.
"Yes it is. I'm glad it has a thing in it that finds specific things instantly. It'll suck if she had to have a waiting time to do somethings."
"Yeah that would suck." Noire says after a moment of pause.
"Histoire has a small waiting time." Uni tells me bluntly and I fight the urge to laugh.
"What kind of waiting time does she have and who made it so she had that?"
"I think three minutes and I believe it was the goddess that made her. Its three something. No matter what it is. It's Always three." Noire tells and I fight the urge to hit my head against something.
I chuckle. "That must suck for her." I say as the elevator opens up again into a living room. I see Neptune trying to pry open the wooden crate while Sam and Histoire talked to each other. "Hey Sam. What's in the box and crate?"
"Oh just some pudding I believe it was once our nation's specialty." Sam told me and I fight the urge to drool.
"Better have some for me." I say licking my lips. I turn my head and see the three soldiers just standing against the wall.
"We do hence why there's over a thousand tubs of it. So what you doing here and what's with you coming in in that form?" Sam asked me and I remember I'm still in my next gen form.
"Wanted to show it off a little bit before the meeting." I say walking over and ripping the top off the crate to grab a tub.
Neptune smiles and grabs one as well "Thanks Z-zoey!?" Neptune looks like she was about to have a heart attack and she was now sporting an eye patched over her eye she had no vision in. I feel kinda bad she is still this traumatized.
I raised my hands up in a peaceful manor. I transform back into my human appearance. "I am not here to harm you. If you do not feel comfortable with me here I can leave."
"No! No your good it's my personal problem I've been working over night so I'm a bit sleep deprived is all. No worries. So who's little muchkins are those?" Neptune says pointing at the kids.
I mutter a phrase in goddess tongue and poke her forehead. She then visibly relaxes. What I did was to make the other person's nerves calm down and to restore some of their energy. "So your actually doing work now huh? Also." I point to one of the soldiers. "The middle one is a healer if I'm correct so talk to her after the meeting and she'll help your eyes somewhat. And the silver colored and rust spotted haired one is Noire's and mines while the other two's are Uni's and Mary's."
"I will thanks...Wait when did you four decide to have kids!? It usually takes a lot of work for that ritual. And it looks like you didn't carry them either!" Neptune told me in shock which reminds me I have something I need to ask her.
I open the tub of pudding I have and thrusted it into her face before I grabbed another. "That ritual doesn't work on CPUs and it's complicated. Also when you get done with that I need to ask you a question."
Neptune started eating her pudding a bit before responding "Well its back to looking at my other ideas for having children. You don't need to wait just ask me right now I can talk and eat responsibly."
"Yeah but there's pudding all over your face. But yeah. Do you know where this is?" I ask pulling out my phone and going to a specific app. I plant my thumb on the home button and think up an image of where Gold heart is. It materializes onto the screen.
Neptune wipes her face clean and looks at it "I know where that place is its in the in the old retro city labrinth. You planning to go there? You'll need a guide from around here. If you don't want to get lost."
"I won't be visiting it personally. One of my guys was curious and wanted to go there. Can you point it out on a map for me?"
Neptune takes out her tablet I think though it says NGear on it and pulls up a map before pointing to a place near a mountain "The entrance should be right here though. Though I hope your familiar with cave exploring this place has a low amount of monsters but the labyrinth is a danger itself. Would be a perfect place for some crazy people to hide in." That makes sense why they chose that place to hide her.
I take a picture with my phone. "Thank you Neptune." I say before sending a cryptic text to Nyx asking her to go to the location along with a few squads that's been evaluated with equipment ment for exploring caves. And to take out as many cultist while securing Gold heart. I then tell her to keep this as classified as possible.
She sends me a text that she'll get it done with ;) at the end of the text. She sends me a list of everyone that's going to be on the mission. I look through the list and approve of it so far everything is going so good. "Zoey come one we are about to get started." Noire calls out to me snapping me out of my train of thought.
I quickly finish my tub of pudding and follow her into a room with a round table and most of the people were already in it. I take a seat in between Sam and Noire. Let's see how this turns out shall we. "How does these usually go?" I whisper to Noire.
"Histy or Vert normally start us off though we have to wait for the stream to start which it should already being in. Vert or Histy will usually decide the topic and will end parts of the discussion if it gets out of hand. Other than that use basic conversation etiquette during this meeting people are watching." Noire whispers to me and I just nod back.
I then get a good look on what Histy looks like and I somehow managed to keep a straight face. She then starts the meeting by saying. "Thank you all for coming. I have called you all here to talk about the new nation and the battle of Lowee. Blanc can you start us off please?"
Blanc nods and speaks very softly "Yes a few days earlier my nation got involved in a fight with a new nation which was later resolved as complete misundering afterwards. But within the first ten minutes they managed to overpower anything we threw at them. Even their goddess was extremely powerful. Speaking of her she has she decided to grace us with her presence Histoire." Blanc states shifting the focus to me.
I put my hands together and put them onto the table. "Yes. I have been asked to come here by Histoire. My name is Zoey Smith or better known as Cyan heart. The CPU of the new nation that has shown up recently. If any of you have any questions to ask me please do so."
Vert then speaks up "I believe we would all like to know more about your nation and intentions here. As the battle of Lowee has left many on edge."
"My nation. Is a nation that's been around for a little under 14 thousand years. We've been in and out of wars for the past 11 thousand years because of the other CPUs in my former dimension. A little while ago we were somehow transported here. Our current intentions right now is to rebuild our nation and live alongside you all. And the only reason we have attacked Lowee is because Blanc attacked and injured one of my soldiers over a misunderstanding."
Blanc blushed as Neptune spoke "Wow Blanc your temper strikes again."
Blanc then get mad and shouts "Shut it eye patch!" Neptune flinches and at that point the rest begin noticing Neptune's eyepatch.
"What happened to your eye Nep Nep?" Someone to my right asked. I turned and realized it was Iffy.
Neptune rubs the back of her neck "It just got injured in a spar with Zoey and Noire here. Both my eyes are actually messed but Zoey gave me a contact lens to improve the vision in my good eye. Can't see out of the covered one."
I then speak up. "I admit. It is my fault that she is in her current condition. My oracle Sam here as brought one of our healers so her eyes can be fixed up but for her eyes to be what they were it will take a month or so."
"I see so it'll be some time before she's one hundred percent. Well she knows she can lean on us if she needs help." Iffy says with her arms crossed honestly looking kinda cute in a tomboyish way.
"Now does anyone else have any questions for me?" I ask the group.
Blanc nods "How did those kids come to be? I can sense share energy in them did you and Black sisters make new CPU's or somethin? Most of us Goddesses have been trying to find a way to have kids for a while and so far Neptune has the most that have come close to working?"
"Noire's and mine's were created due to how my sharicite was made. In Uni's and Mary's case. They have a special circumstance because they used a piece of a sharicite that was made similar to mine."
"So that's one of the only ways to have children as a goddess?" Vert looked down sad as she heard this guess Noire was right about how lonely she is.
"As far as I know yes. Also after this meeting Noire here has a special offer she wants to bring up to you."
"Guess I will be seeing you after the meeting then." Vert said politely before Nepgear spoke up "I was wondering how advance your tech is. I spoke with one of your scientists at the text expo in Lastation she had an Android that looked almost identical to a human. I believe the scientist name as Julia."
"Yes the only one allowed to be out of the nation right now. And she's spent a few years on just that android."
"I see no wonder it was of such high quantity then. Reminds me of when I built Nepgeardam though those two projects are vastly different from eachother." Nepgear tells me with was that admiration?
"Yeah. The android looks and acts completely human. Has a complete AI and everything from what I've been told."
"I'll have to talk with Julia again some time seems. Me and her could bounce ideas off eachother." Nepgear says with a smile as if she doesn't get to do this often.
"We have another topic. We need to bring Zoey's nation into the credit network so they can trade with us more easily." Noire says breaking the current trail of questions getting to the heart of one of my nations issues.
"Yes due to that would be a problem when command gives the okay for the citizens to come here."
Histy then floated to me with what looked to me a small card reader "If you have a card from your nation please insert it to this machine. It will connect both networks together after a moment."
I grab mine out of my inventory and insert it into the device. I wonder how much I have in my account. Haven't really checked it in a few years.
The device hums then displays the balance of 14.6 Quadrillion credits as my account total. I cheer in my head at how much there is seems like I can do a good amount of shopping now.
I turn my head at Noire and smile. "I definitely have enough to last a while and I'm still earning money."
Noire gives me a kiss and I blush as I remember millions are watching "That's good Zoey. You'll need it with your appetite."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything else we need to go over while we are all here?"
Histy shakes her head "I believe that's everything unless you have something to say to the audience?"
"Yes one thing." I say before looking into the camera. "So far it has been a nice experience being here and I hope it continues to be so for myself and my citizens."
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Writer: Project Omega
Co-Writer: Alternet RedSkys
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