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Chapter 11: Phase Two

/SOMEWHERE DEEP UNDERGROUND: LASTATION/

"HAHAHA! Can you believe this?! A goddess and a reaper in a relationship, never thought I'd see the day." the mystery man, who was sitting on a throne, almost collapsed in laughter. After the laughing fit, the mystery man called over his henchman.

"You called sir?" the henchman was very confused, the mystery man never called him on the weekends.

"I did call you, Pupilli, come look at this." the henchman, now know as Pupilli, walked over to the mystery man. When Pupilli saw what was in the orb, he couldn't help but laugh along with his master.

"However this happened, I'm glad it did." after the laughing session the two had, Pupilli turned to his master. "Shall I begin phase two, master Malum?" Malum turned to his henchman, knowing that the question was going to be asked eventually.

"Yes, Pupilli, begin phase two." he turned to the orb, observing the happy look on the goddess' face. "Mark my words Black Heart…

...Lastation will be mine"

(Noire's pov)

"Wow. Noire has a friend and a boyfriend? Never thought she'd be first." After Nick and I confessed our love for each other, I proceeded to tell the girls all about it. What I didn't take into account was Vert's constant sex jokes, Neptune ranting on about how she'd thought I'd be the last person to get a boyfriend, and Blanc...Blanc simply said 'congratulations' and went back to her book so she's ok.

"Why is that so surprising?! Seriously girls, I HAVE FRIENDS!"

"Well from what you've told us, you have more than just a friend."

"Well, that is true." my face turned red.

"You are really lucky, Noire. You've got a boyfriend, you have the highest quality firewall, and your shares have skyrocketed." Vert's right, today has been nothing but positive.

"We should celebrate!" Neptune jumps up and gets close to me. I'd really like to know why she does this whenever she wants to ask a question. "Can we, Noire? Can we?"

"...You know what, yeah, let's do that." Neptune jumps up and dashes out of my room. I wonder where she's going.

/TWO HOURS LATER/

Neptune came back to the basilicom after about two hours with all of our friends. She brought Blake and Mercury into the mix, and a ton of balloons and streamers.

"Where did you get all this, Neptune?" I really hope Neptune didn't buy out my favorite party store, it has so many cute stuffed animals.

"I got it from a party store in the mall." whew, crisis averted.

"I know we just started a party, but we have a problem." I turn around to see Kei running up to me, with the share chart in her arms.

"What's wrong Kei?" I really didn't want to hear any bad news about shares, we just hit an all time high with them.

"I don't understand how, but a few minutes after the skyrocket, our shares crashed below twenty percent."

"WHAT?! but we just hit above eighty percent ten minutes ago!"

"Look for yourself." Kei held up the chart, there was no denying it. Lastation was at the lowest it's been since...ever.

"That's not even possible, shares never crash that quickly." I'm pissed, very pissed. The only way something like that could happen is if… "Someone is stealing Lastation's shares." everyone turned to me, confused by my statement. "It's something everyone should know. When one nation loses shares, another nation takes them. As you can clearly see, however, none of the other nations have gained shares." I pulled out a global chart of the nation's shares. "as you can clearly see, as our nation's shares are dropping, but none of the other nations have gained any shares." Vert raised her hand, she probably wanted to know how I got the share charts for each nation. I was going to let her ask her question, but then the sound of books hitting the ground came into my ear, then a scream.

"SOMEBODY HELP! UNI PASSED OUT!" I burst into a sprint towards the nearby hallway. When I arrive there, I see Nepgear shaking an unresponsive Uni. I turn to Kei, who followed me, and put my hands on her shoulders.

"Kei...how many shares do we have?" Kei flinched when I smiled, she knows that I've reached the point of snapping.

"When have ten percent."

"Someone get Uni to a bed. Nick, you-" I looked around and saw that Nick wasn't in the building. Where did he go?

(Nick's pov)

"Uni is in a coma, we need to find out who's responsible for this." half an hour after Uni passed out, Vinnie and I traveled to the largest forest in Lastation.

"I do agree with you, but maybe you should have told Noire where you were going."

"I do agree with you on that," I scratch the back of my head "but I left my phone at the basilicom." Vinnie facepalmed and sighed.

"Speaking of Noire, I heard that you two are a couple now."

"Yeah, we are." I started walking east. That's the direction where the anti-energy was coming from. "We can talk more about that when we're done." Vinnie nodded and followed me.

One hour later, Vinnie and I came into a clearing.

"This is where it's supposed to be." Looking around the clearing, there seemed to be nothing here. "We both know where this is going, right Vinnie?" He nodded and summoned his dual-edge spear.

"There has got to be a switch around here somewhere." I looked around the clearing one more time, and still found nothing.

"Is it possible that it's a magic lock? like the ones back home." I shook my head.

"That shouldn't be possible, this dimension doesn't have that kind of security." I sighed and walked to the center of the clearing. "I guess it's worth a try, though." I put my hand on the ground and pulsed my void energy. Nothing happened. "I told you it wouldn't-"

"NICK!" Vinnie shouted from the edge of the clearing, "the trees are glowing!" I looked ahead and saw that the trees were glowing purple.

"OBJECTIVE: RETRIEVE THE KEY TO UNLOCK THE DOOR." I don't know how, but this person has a tier five magic lock.

This is gonna be a long day.

.:PostStory:.

CC75: I AM SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG!

Nick: writers block again?

CC75: that, and school started back up

Noire: well at least it's done

CC75: also, I want to thank

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Nick: welp, that's all folks

Noire: goodbye

CC75: this is CookieCreeper, signing off