Chapter 45:

*CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!*

9 blades shoot through from nowhere and fly towards me. I stop from running and defend myself against such attacks.

" 'Cover me, Nepgear!' "

" 'You got it, Sis!' "

*BANG!*

Neptune flies towards Anonydeath, as Nepgear takes aim with her gun-sword. The swords that were trying to pierce me had stopped attacking and is has reappeared around the robot. Neptune swings her sword…

*CLASH!*

"Hmhmm… A good attack..."

" 'Tch!' "

One of the 9 blades defends Anonydeath without any movement from the robot. It's as if it has a mind on its own.

" 'Yaaaaaaaah!' "

From above Noire flies down and swings her sword from above.

*CLASH!*

"Oh Noire, you have to do better than that to make me like you in that form…"

Another blade intercepts. Noire's attack been blocked. She pushes her sword down, but it wouldn't budge.

" 'You're wide open!' "

*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*

*BANG!*

Nepgear fires off 4 bullets straight towards the robot from 1 o'clock. After she fires the fourth bullet she immidiately swoops down and charges in, racing with the fourth bullet. A good tactic…

*CLASH!* *CLANG!*

" 'What?!' "

"Oh sweetie, that was pretty good…" Nepgear's attacks were blocked. That was defending against a bullet and fast moving sword.

" 'Then would this hurt you!' "

Madam goddess, appeared from behind and swings her whip sword.

*CLASH!*

A blade appeared blocking the attack. Because of physics, the whip-sword wraps itself around the blade.

" '…!' " she tries to pull the blade, but it seems that it won't budge in the slightest.

"Is this all you can do?"

"Nice set up…" I whisper as I move in from Anonydeath's 7 o'clock.

With the warehouse's limited sources of light, one can use the way too many shadow pockets all over the place. Without him (?) knowing, the formation the girls have now have created a blind spot. I move in from that and thrust my sword.

*CLASH!*

"Damn…" another blade just appeared. Where are these blades coming from anyway?

"You know, I've got to admit…" Anonydeath's hand is raised.

"…you look cute…" …all the blades instantly and simultaneously disappeared. Making us all stumble.

"…but you're not my type"

*CLASH!*

"Gh!" suddenly, like an explosion, all nine blades appeared around him and thrusts towards us as if he was a porcupine. We were all pushed back from the sudden ambush of blades. I give everyone quick looks and it seems there all fine.

"Crad, that didn't work…" and that was pretty good too.

"I told you I can dish it out…" Anonydeath teases us.

"Oh really? Can you dish out this?" feeling with my foot some metal box thing, probably a server of some kind, I kick it towards Anonydeath.

*CLASH!*

A blade appeared cutting the server in half.

"Were you testing something out?"

"I was just playing with you"

I lunge towards the robot to start the second wave of attacks. Anonydeath just waits for me. Three blades appear and thrust at three various vital points at my body, liver heart and head. I maneuver my way through those three and swung my sword.

*CLASH!*

As expected, another blade shoots out from nowhere and blocks the attack. I quickly lower my stance and swing my back leg for a back kick.

*CLANG!*

*BANG!*

Another blade appeared, blocking my attack. Using it as a platform, I kick myself away and let Noire attack him (?) from below.

*CLASH!*

" 'Tch…!' "

"Oh Noire! If you really want to come to me you have to go back to normal or else I won't accept you!"

" 'Shut up!' " and why are flustered?

Noire dodges to the side as Neptune came up to make her strike as well.

*CLASH!*

*SCHNNNNNNNNNNNNG!*

Of course that gets blocked as well. She grinds the sword to the blade, allowing her a slight retreat. With the tip of her sword to the ground, she swings for a powerful strike.

*CLASH!*

2 blades shoots out from out of nowhere, blocking that said attack. Noire and Neptune moves out of the way, when a whip-sword came, shooting from out of nowhere.

" 'C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! Get hit so I can hear you squeal!' " what a demand.

*CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!*

Madam goddess continues to whip Anonydeath. His(?) blades continue to magically protect him. He(?) just stands there, as if waiting for Noire to change back and try to court her to marriage.

*CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!*

She continues to whip her whip-sword. And each time a sadistic smile is slowly crawling from ear to ear.

*CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!* *CLASH!*

*BANG!*

In between the waves of whips, Nepgear moves in from behind and readies her sword.

*CLASH!*

" 'Even from this!?' " don't worry Nepgear, I'm surprised as well.

"Geez, being popular can be so endearing…" he calmly says as all the blades retracts and disappears simultaneously.

"But sadly, all I really want is to be with my Noirey!"

*SCHWING!*

Nepgear flies back as 3 blades shoots in front of Anonydeath towards her. I get out from my hiding spotand quickly throw the sword with something that's attached towards him.

*CLANG!*

"That was a good attempt…" Anonydeath is amused…

"I think it's time for me to…Guh!?" light shines suddenly from above, like the second coming.

If you haven't already imagined it, all those attacks were merely nothing more than just distractions. The girls, and I mean is Neptune and Nepgear, slowly chip away the roof while I make something from the heaps of junk that's in here. Hell, like for example…

"How about a can of soda…" the attached soda can on the sword cross the safe zone.

That soda can isn't an ordinary can either. All the contents inside, which are carbonated soda, became a squishy solid. I also found a bottle full of potassium nitrate. By thoroughly mixing them together one can make something like…

"Nepgear! Shoot!"

" 'Multiple beam launcher, firing!' "

*BANG!*

*SKZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!*

"*Cough!* *Cough!* Sm…oke! *Cough!*" yup, it's smoke. It can last for minutes on end with this DIY.

" 'Hahahaha! I got you now!' " Madam goddess, beaming with ecstasy whips her weapon at the person inside the sweet smelled smoke.

*CRACK!* *CRACK!* *CRACK!*

The whip whacks at the target, whacking at the robot (?) like some pig. Without much of fight, the smoke cleared revealing Anonydeath on all floors waving a small white flag, which I don't know where he pulled out.

"Ouch, okay, uncle! Uncle!"

" 'Oh, finished already? Pathetic' "

"I told you that I'm more of a behind-the-scenes type. I'm not made for all this sexy action" then what were you made for?

"But when I think about the future, maybe I'm overdue for a tune-up"

"But if I do that, this cute and girly figure will be lost! What a dilly of a pickle!" just pick one already.

" 'Your nonsensical rants aside, you should be more concerned about getting tossed in the trash!' " Noire's anger run deep.

"Really? I suppose the beautiful do die young, and dying by your hand wouldn't be so bad..." not really though.

" 'Oh, I won't do a thing. Plutia, he or she or whatever it is… is all yours' " Noire's anger runs deeper.

" 'Hmm. Torturing those who don't fight back isn't fun, but since my lovely Noire asked, I will obey' "

"Ahh, how horrible for me! My final request won't be granted!"

" 'No matter how I look at it, I feel like we're being the bullies here' " Nepgear said her concern.

"Touché"

" 'Stay quiet. At times like this, the best way to remain safe and sound is not to get involved' " Neptune said.

" 'Knowing all this, are you ready?' " Madam goddess readies her whip-sword.

"It won't matter how I answer" Anonydeath stands up and faces the sadist…

"If I die, Noire's secret videos will go viral automatically, but that's no big deal…"

" 'True. That's a very insignificant, yet wonderful, problem. All right, then…' " she raises her hand.

" 'W-Wait just a second!' " Noire stops the sadist.

" 'What's this? First you say 'do it,' then you say 'no'…"

" 'Hey idiot, you just said something really insane, didn't you? Didn't you!?' " it's kinda noticeable by now, but she really does have a secret that's hiding from us.

"It wasn't insane. See, I wrote this little program that executes under such a condition" he pulled out a briefcase laptop and showed us the screen. Two applications are running which shares the screen. One is running an ECG monitor, and the other are just lines and lines of code, more specifically it's written in Python.

" 'Why would you do that!?' "

"Because if I am to die, I would very much like to die staring at the girl I love so very, very much" an interesting scenario.

"When I reach Celestia, I thought that would be a lovely time to let everyone see what I saw in you" oh yeah, Celestia in this dimension means heaven; forgot about that.

" 'Wh… Wha… What…' "

"She seems to be in a pickle here…" I look at the code closely. It really does connect to Anonydeath's heartrate.

" 'Nepgear, Jared, can you do something about this program?' " Neptune asked.

" 'I'm not a big software girl. I'm all about hardware…' " Nepgear don't answer something suggestive like that!

" 'Hmm? Is someone tossing around 'soft' and 'hard' with a hint of sexual undertones!? Speak up! ' " see? You're attracting the Madam's attention.

" 'Noooo! P-Plutia, it really wasn't anything for you to get excited about, honest!' "

" 'Jared?' " Neptune turns to me.

"Sorry for disappointing though, but at the end of the code, he or she or something else wrote a piece of line that would make everything read-only. Nothing to go from there" there is a way though, but cracking it will take me an hour max. And Madam goddess' thirst would have overwhelmed us all, by then.

" 'Ugggghhhhh… Just go' " Noire speaks filled with regret.

"Hmm? What did you just say?" he's (?) not the only one that's surprised.

" 'I said you can go, so go!' "

"Is that so? You're such a kind and forgiving girl, Noire. I've fallen for you even harder"

" 'Aw, how boring, I thought that exposing Noire's secrets to the world would be so exhilarating…' " you really have some serious problems, madam.

" 'Even if you're joking, don't even say that kind of thing!' "

"I think I'll accept your offer" Anonydeath closes the laptop, and floats towards the hole we made on the ceiling.

"Oh yes, one last thing…" he turns to look at Noire one more time.

" 'What? There's more!?' "

"I was bluffing about the program thing. Don't worry"

" '…Huh?' "

"I already told you that those videos are for my eyes only! Okay, bye-bye ladies and gent!" and he flies of towards the blue sky.

" 'W-Wait, dammit! Ugh! You die the next time we meet!' " Noire curses as the curtains close on this fight.