Prologue Arc Stage 1.1P - Internia Dawn (Special Prototype version)
It's a new dawn for the Planeptune's capital.
The viewing platform of Neptower, overlooking into the lands of Planeptune.
Used for the banquet whenever a nationwide festival or event was held, right now it only serves as, well, observation deck.
A certain blonde-haired maiden was waiting at the deck, reminiscent to the figure of the late Vert, only younger and... well, as small as Uni in both senses of words.
She is overlooking into the skies of Planeptune, waiting for the descent of a certain person.
She is, of course, isn't in a very good mood to speak of, what with her simply can't stay in one piece.
It's as if she's got some real complaints to her boyfriend for being late.
Except of course, that she is an idol. And rather unfortunately, an idol of her calibre is not permitted to have any boyfriend under any circumstances.
If it weren't a boyfriend, then it would probably be the producer, or the chauffeur mistiming her schedules.
Except that what infuriated her is none of these... It's that her mother figure neglecting her promise to sleep with her last night, of all things.
"I figured that you would be here. Internia."
That is the trigger form the goddess herself. If only every goddess can be easily identified just by the "power symbol" in her eyes...
Indeed, the "mother figure" of the idol is none other than the Lilac Queen herself, what with the glass being pretty much recognizable anywhere.
Hearing these words, the young idol rushed to her side, and proceed to have a conversation befitting that of a mother and her spoiled daughter.
"Mom! Where in the world are you? I thought you have promised to sleep with us at the night before the performance day!"
"Sorry for being too busy to stay for the night. Still, I would appreciate it if you would stop acting like that over a single promise."
"I would if it was just another night. But this is the day when we the idols will be getting on the stage, you know. I would like to expect at least a word of encouragement the night before."
"I am well aware of that, but it's a really serious deals this time... In return, I'll stay with you for the rest of the day."
"Do you really mean that?"
"Of course. After all, you're my prec—"
And of course, this is the very moment when the flag for the moment killer, is triggered yet again.
"Ooh, to have such a girl only two years apart from your age to be your daughter. You have some... really amazing taste, my lord."
Said by the glass when the timer runs out at the worst possible moment, which leads to the counter-attack word.
"Please stop that kind of joke, G.C. You're very well aware that she's my adoptive daughter for centuries now."
"I'm sorry. I simply... well, can't help but to tease both of you, my lord and princess."
The princess in question is, of course, definitely not an ordinary idol to be able to call the queen as her mother.
It's not like the young queen ever had a children by birth. In fact, whether the queen can even bear the fruits called children is anyone's guess, given her immortality.
...even if she can, she would be simply be too busy to actually deal with romance of men. Plus, her late sister did ban the ideas of anyone marrying the queen forever.
it doesn't say that she can't adopt any daughter though...
Anyway, this young-looking sister here goes by the epithet of The First Idol, Internia.
CPUs acting as idols are probably nothing very new, but she's the very first kind amongst the Idol-type CPUs, to say at least.
Of course, her actual, chronological age, was nowhere as old as even the Lilac Queen herself... why else would she call the queen her mom?
But still, a 14-years old mother? Even if there might be even younger ones in existence, any girl with the physical age of 14 and gets away with being called a queen and a mommy certainly speaks volumes about how looks can be deceiving.
Anyway, there is no way the young queen can just pretend to not hearing that... that kind of teasing, so she gives a real good reply to the teasing.
As a side note, hello the young queen, for your young princess there have a giant slu-... er, sweat drop on her golden hair now.
"G.C.-kun... There's a limit to how much you can tease before being accused as an ero-megane."
"Really? Then doesn't that make my lord an ero-meganekko as well? I mean—"
"I have never installed such a stupid functionality in a ravening glass like you, and I never ever will, thank you very much."
"Oh, yeah, you never will, huh? I'm a sad little glass... huhuhu..."
Said the glass as the glass started to make silent yet audible crying sounds. Imagine "crocodile tears" with sound only, made by glasses of all things.
This time, with a circular chain thought bubble with a giant sweat drop on it, she finally mustered her courage to talk.
"That's... a rather impressive way to outsmart a smartglass..."
Of course, she knew all to well by now that the pair of glasses simply won't shut up if he can tease all he want.
With all that being said, the conversation continues as the glasses kept weeping (as in sweeping) in its crocodile tears.
"A-anyway... you're my precious daughter after all. It's my duty to look after you, so I-I won't be breaking every single promise with you like that!"
"That doesn't sound very sincere, what with your 'tsuntsun' overtones just now. Plus, you has a habit of being nowhere to be seen in your bedroom at night."
"You couldn't possibly be cheating on me with some kind of loser of a man?"
Th-there's no way I could cheat on you, of course. You of all people should know that I can't possibly ever associate with a guy, after all.
But then again, the Nep's room where she works her paperwork last night is inaccessible to the Silver Sisters so...
"I know, I know. I was just teasing you."
But in the next three seconds, she gave up her spoiled personality, and reassured the young queen with the words just now.
Yep, she really was just teasing.
Men can have many flavors, as far as her idol career would tell, but as far as she can tell, she doesn't know of any that could ever reach out to the everdistant queen.
And the final nail to the deal is a real good teasing from G.C. glasses itself.
"Ooh, a heartwarming tease from Internia-chan herself. This goes to say how much your little princess loves you, huh, my lord?"
"This is still too much to be a teasing..."
This time, it is the young queen herself crying in her (superficial) tears.
After all, not only her own glasses teases her outright, but her adoptive daughter teases her subtly.
"Please do not make our Highness cry like that, Onee-sama. You know very well that our Queen is a very busy girl."
Well, as if a 12-years-old-girl isn't enough...
The second of the Silver Sisters, looks like a girl in her sixteen's has arrived at the scene, holding a tome and with a sword-crossing wand on her back.
Yes, you read that right. A daughter who looks older than even her own mom.
Granted, she is adopted, but again, it certainly speaks volumes for a teenager girl to have an even younger girl as her mother. Even if said mother is really over a millennium years old. At least a young queen sounds a lot more plausible than a younger-than-daughter mom.
"As usual, your cool-big-sis persona is as insufferable as always. I bet that book of yours is just as insufferable as you."
"You're the one to talk, considering how insufferable you are just now."
...and yes, the book itself talks... as a side note, the tome itself is has a deep-brown-coloured skin cover not unlike that of a coffee.
Looks like that the G.C. glasses isn't the only object in Planeptune that can talk.
But it seems that's the only word the tome can utter for now, as Eclair takes over the conversation.
"I'll take that as a compliment. It won't do to have Onee-sama to take all the spotlight in the Queen's eye like you did just now, after all."
"What did you s—"
The question was cut short in the middle of sentence to announce something plot-advancing.
"More importantly, I have just drive-through the MacDonald's food store for the breakfast. Shall we have our breakfast at the main dining room? Or at the performance stage? Or at our private garden?"
The word just now came from none other than Eclair herself. For someone who is very quiet off-stage, her word and smile certainly carries weight.
"It came! The Light-chan's famed three choices!" — it came from G.C.-kun
"As usual, there's no topping your three choices..." — came from Internia herself, complete with a normal sweat drop.
As for the choices itself, well, the main dining room simply sounds way too regal, considering it is huge enough to hold well above 20 people at once.
The performance stage sounds much better... well, either we can eat the meal upon arrival, and the Big Breakfasts would've gone cold by then.
Plus, think you can eat "big breakfasts" in a car? You can, but only if you're not driving. Also, you might spill your drinks, which is bad news if it's coffee you have ordered.
Needless to say, Eclair might've been booking these kind of breakfasts knowing we'll eat it here, so the 2nd choice isn't even an option.
Then that leaves only their private garden within the Neptower.
Looks like the young queen has gotten over the teasing, it seems.
"And here I thought we should go with my homemade meal..."
Said the young-looking queen in disappointment, which of course gets this counter from Eclair
"That wouldn't be necessary, your Highness. It would be too kind for you to do that after my birthday party."
"Not to mention that the two younger sisters are about to complain their hunger right about now."
It seems that the word hunger is a magic word to trigger a stomach growl, because Internia's was right now.
"...now that you mentioned it, it's already high time for a good breakfast."
Said the first idol as she started to make her run to the main corridor.
"What're you waiting for? Come on. If you don't come now, then I'll leave both of you."
Said Internia as she waves her hand to both the young queen and her younger sister.
Looks like she has made herself completely at home in Neptower.
The young queen tries to tell the lightning princess to go first, but looks like it was unnecessary.
Because she seems to be able to read the Queen's words with facial expressions alone.
But before the young queen can take another step...
"Great for you, isn't it? You have, like, not one, not two, not three but four maiden right out of Vocaloid as your daughter. Ah... I feel like singing your praises now."
...the glass started some serious non-shutting-up-moment again.
"If you like to sing my praises so much, you should have call me the 'Sennen Seijin', or the Wise Thousand-Year Reigner, you know."
"More like the Lolicon Sage in my opinion. I mean, what with four of your silver sisters at the age qualifying to be loli."
Uh, the 16-years old look Eclair don't qualify as a loli, G.C.-kun.
"You're the one to talk, you-never-shutting-up-loli-megane. Plus, that black-tightsuit Vert is even more fitting to be the ero-lolicon sage, aren't she?"
"Oh, yeah? But I'm neither a young fashion glass or a see-through glass, so you and Vert are practically sis—"
"Ten minutes!"
She snaps her fingers near her glasses again, to stop his teases in its tracks.
And she probably made the right choice, because G.C.-kun probably intended to say was something like "sisters in loli-con-dom."
Needless to say, such an sexual harassment is quite overboard for a glass.
Well, now with the teasing finally stopped, she followed her adoptive daughters to the main elevator.
But by the time the Lilac Queen reached the elevator, there's a doll figure projection lying on the opposite side of the elevator.
Needless to say, the elevator had already ferried the first two maidens to the garden, leaving her behind to wait here in front of the elevator.
Reference
- The viewing platform mentioned here is also featured early in Episode 1. well, early as in before the opening itself.
- Why, yes, Nep-uh, the Lilac Queen has her HDD activated at the time, or rather, all the time, referencing to how Uchiha Itachi can kept his Sharingan active all the time. Seems like having all the world's shares equate being able to kept her HDD active all the time.
- Internia is based from Apple iPhone series. The "i-" prefix stands for Internet, so a moe personification of such a brand would appropriately be called Internia. The iPhone also redefined the very definition of the mobile phone itself from a mere communication tool to the way to a mobile lifestyle we all know today, and as such is honored as The First Idol, or the first idol-type CPU, to say at least. As for her spoiled personality, there nothing I can say that can appease iPhone brand fans right now.
- A sword-crossing wand and a tome? Well, that one's based from Yagami Hayate from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series.
- Think Nanoha adopting Vivio with 13-years age gap is squicky? Well, how about three girls at the age of a teenager, with the oldest-looking one is actually the youngest, and the in-between their age is actually the oldest, and the mother figure for the other two to boot?
- Eclair's nickname, Light-chan, come from Lightning's nickname from Final Fantasy XIII, shortened to Light. As if that wasn't enough, her real name is Eclair (lightning) Farron (thunder), Eclair is also a kind of pastry.
- Vocaloid, the word came from "vocal androids". Considering that the Silver Sisters are idol-type CPUs, it's not too surprising really. Except that they're not androids, well, not the literal kind, at least.
- Sennen Seijin 『千年聖神』, means thousand-year saint, and why, yes, the last latter can mean either "spirit" or "god". Considering how CPUs are treated as goddesses, and she have reigned for a thousand years, well... she have to pose as one these days, whether she like it or not.
- Lolicon Sage... well, uh, come from Naruto's nickname for Jiraiya; "ero-sennin", which means pervy sage basically.
- Lolicon-dom, coined by me for the meaning of "Lolicon Kingdom"... does loli-condom ring any bells? No. Definitely, absolutely none I have ever heard about, right...?
Author's Notes
This is the second chapter of the story, I think I did well for this chapter, if I do say so myself, though I'm not certain if I can keep the good job, cause the next one's going to be a serious wall of texts.
Now why did Nepgear ...uh-Lilac Queen adopt Inter-chan in the first place? Well, there's an insane troll logic like "Neptune is Purple Heart, and iPhone is the product of Project Purple, so the new Purple (Lilac) Heart's daughter is iPhone-chan = Internia-chan"... something like that. The real reason as to why Internia calls her adoptive mother figure as "mommy" instead of "Queen" like Eclair and everyone else goes way deeper than that, but that's the story for another time. As for "small" in both sense of words, it's exactly what it means. I would like to spell it out, but this isn't the best place to do so.
I am fairly well aware of that Internia has a fairly good chance to get a scrappy heap, being personification of Apple iPhone and all. To be fair though, pretty much any CPU idols with a big fame (there are two such idols right now, you do the market research) have their shares of hype backlash. And before you ask, yes, the other one is a bit nicer ...only to the audience at least, so she's not exactly a saint either.
As for Eclair, well, why yes, she's an android, As in robotic girl kind of android, that is. As for why she calls Nepgear as her queen, well, the circumstances that leads to Eclair's adoption isn't of the affectionate kind, at least compared to Internia's.
Still in development hell (it's no secret considering the scale of the story I'm undertaking). And even if I am not, I spent most of the time thinking the liners instead of typing, so rapid update is pretty much impossible.
