Nep - Hey you, you're finally awake.
Me - *yaaawn* How much have you been staring at me?
Nep - Five minutes... You're cute when you sleep~
Me - Thanks, i guess... However i think that's something pretty... strange to say to someone.
Nep - I know.
Me - I... Alright.
Nep - Come on! Show some embarassment!
Me - Nah!
Histy from another room - Would you two come down here?
Nep - Ah, right, Histy... Alright, let's go.
Me - Yeah.
Planeptune's basilicom: 9:00 am, war at 4:00 pm
Everyone is sitting around a table. Then Histy came
Histy - Hnngggg! *Drop*
She struggled, as she brought a metal bucket with some notes inside of it. She dropped it on the table.
Histy - *pant* This *pant* is a bucket.
Me - Dear Nep.
Histy - *pant* There's more.
Me - No.
Histy - *inspire and expire* Yes. It contains the winning plan of every single goddess here. Neptune, you did collect everyone's winning plan?
Nep - You bet!
Histy - Excellent! Leo? Inspiration please.
Me - We have 7 hours till war. For most humans, no time at all... We are not most humans. We are the gods of four nations! Well... actually goddesses... We have the resources, the skills! To make these hours count. The clock is ticking CPUs... Histy?
Histy - Yes. Our first winning plan is Neptune's! She's... drawn a picture of Arfoire getting hit by a truck. She has something radiating off of her...
Nep - Yeah, those are bad share lines!
And then she whispered to Vert but in a way so that everyone could hear her
Nep - That's why the truck isekai-ed her... 'Cuz she's evil!
Vert - Heh...
Histy - Yes, i see... Great. Some quite detailed... well drawn... BL manga panel... Thank you Vert for your... fine addition...
Vert - Hehe.
Histy - A picture of a very sensual Compa on the bed...
Internal Iffy - Shit. Why the hell is it always that pucture? I swear i did put a plan into the bucket!
Compa started confusingly mouthing "What the-" but then Iffy started whistling and she turned, looking confused at her
Histy - And there is a plan behind it. It just says... Stealth approach, following the info we gathered. Nice, but it needs more details.
Iffy - ...
Histy - Arfoire having a sexual congress with an Ugly bastard but it's badly drawn... Again Neptune i guess...
Neptune nodded while crying and nearly bursting into laughter
Histy - Both of them relaxing post-coitus, the ugly bastard has bad share lines coming off of it- Did anyone besides IF put a plan into the bucket?!
Nep - Hehehe, oh man. Classic Nepping.
Histy - *sigh* Fantastic. This was a huge waste of 3 hours.
Me - You did not read mine.
Histy - Does it says "Let's beat everyone until we win?"
Me - Yes. :)
Histy - (- _-)
Me - :(
Histy - Fine, as you wish. See you all for dinner! I am going to sleep...
As she said so everyone got up and went to make preparations.
Me - Heh, luckily enough we did yesterday... Right Nep?
Nep - Eh? Oh, yeah, sure, we did.
And with that we skip directly to the part where we already had lunch and went out. Everyone was about to transform but...
Me - Wait, who flies with who? I mean... IF's bike can't go there, it's on a mountain with no roads to it, and i obviously refuse to go hiking. Looks too dangerous...
Vert - Oh, i'll gladly bring Iffy with me.
Iffy blushed
Nep Jr - I'll take Compa then.
Nep - Why do i always have to carry you?
Me - Actually there are still-
Nep - Come here, let's go.
Me - Are you sure? Didn't you ju-
Nep - YES!
Me - Vell i'm convinced.
Uni started whispering to Noire
Uni - Hmm... Are we sure they don't like each other?
And she got a quite... loud answer
Noire - WHAAAT?!
Nep - Ohoho, what's up with Noire, Uni? Only two thing could give her that kind of reaction... You either have photos of her or you made her really, really jealous... Hehehe... :NepFace:
Noire - WHAAA? HAAAAAAAAA!?
Uni - Professional's secret, sorry Neptune!
Noire then fainted from the embarassment
Me - Oh, look! Noire down! Hey, who's gonna carry her?
Internal Nep - I must find a way to carry her.
Uni - How about Neptune?
Internal Nep - Huh?
Me - Wait, so is she gonna like carry 2 persons?
Uni - No, i'm gonna carry you and she's gonna carry Noire.
Me - Didn't we-
Nep - I agree, that's a wonderful idea!
Uni - See? She's alright with it!
Me - Oh, okay.
They then exchanged a look between each other thinking something like
Internal Nep - I owe you one.
Internal Uni - You can thank me later.
At that point everyone transformed
Vert - Shall we proceed?
Nep - Of course!
Blanc - Finally!
Me - Let's go save the world!
Everyone grabbed their prey(why is there no strikethrough option here?) passenger
Me - Oh my, Uni, such a lewd girl... Groping my chest suddenly like thaaaaAAAAAAAAAIAIAIAIIA! ITSAJOKEITSAJOKEITSAJOKEITSAJOKE! OW! Don't squeeze my nipples like that!
Uni - Ooops, sorry... My bad... He he...
Me - *that hurt expression with a tear* THAT'S NOT FUNNY!
Vert - Oh my, they're already best friends.
Both - SHUDDUP!
And so we flew away, directed to the castle.
Me - Ah yes, before i forget, does anyone have an actual map of the place? It would really be a shame to get lost...
Iffy - I actually DO have a map on... Uhm... Oh, yes, this phone. I'll... take it out later ok?
Me - Yeah, sure, i just wanted to make sure.
Aaand we reached the castle. Holy fast travel!
Iffy - This is the place, let's stop there.
We went down and landed. The CPUs started transforming back against their will
Me - So it was true... No magic, nor shares allowed...
Meanwhile Noire, who came back to her senses moments before, heard me
Noire - *yawn* We can't stop now, we didn't even start.
Me - Ah, Noire is back. Welcome! Alright then, let's get ready to fight... The door's opening itself!
Arfoire then started speaking through an interphone
Arfoire - HAHAHA! Welcome! To what is now my dungeon, my lair! I dare you all to complete my challenge! I setted up a bomb, and it's gonna blow up the walls of the cas-
Nep - Yeah, yeah, we already heard all that from Histy, get to the point.
Arfoire - Shut up, Neptune. Anyway, you all have two hours until every wall blows up and the dungeon contaminates the world. You'll have to get through some rooms in which i... carefully placed some enemies and traps... Hehe... Then you will have to fight me! And that's where i'll destroy you all, so don't you dare lose before you reach me! *Timer start sounds*
Me - Alright, i don't think it'll be a problem...
Arfoire - Then good luck! You'll need it... No, wait, actually bad luck... Anyway, you get the point, get in and lose.
We got into the castle.
Room 1
As simple as it is, just a square room with enemies in it and a door on the other side. Is this a tutorial?
Me - Hey! Damn you Narrator... I wanted to ask that question!
Arfoire - Ah, one more thing. The enemies you don't beat here will follow you in the next room!
Corrupted soldier - Hey, i wasn't payed for that!
Arfoire - Do not pay attention to what they say, trust me! I'm your archnemesis, i could never lie to you! Right?
Me - Hmm... She does have a point. However minions can be usually trusted more than their chief... Welp! Time to battle some random spawns!
Nep - Aw, nep! I hate random spawns...
Me - Me too Nep, me too.
We easily passed the room
Arfoire - Survived without a scratch, huh? Don't worry folks, the next room will be a challenge.
Me - Yeah...
Room 2
A puzzle room...
Me - Fantastic...
Nep - Huh? A cube?
Me - A cube?
Nep - Yes, look here.
Me - I bet there is a button we must put this on...
Arfoire - Stop... Solving problems so easily!
Iffy - Hmm... She's not being really bright today, isn't she?
Arfoire - Hey rat! Come watch the entrace for when they come here... I'll go get some rest...
Warechu - Yeah, you were up all night placing traps and enemies chu...
Arfoire - You-The interphone is still on!
Warechu - Ooops... My bad, chu.
Compa - Hey, it's Mister Mouse's voice!
Warechu - COMPAMYANGEL! CHU! I have no cameras, but i can tell it's your voice! *Interference* -so hap- *more interferences* -see y- *ethernal interference*
Noire - Wireless interphones, a quite bad choice for a dungeon...
Iffy - Well if my phone wasn't receiveing well in the first room, imagine how good is the insulation of these walls... Yes, it's not the brightest idea to turn this place in something other than a fortress for the old times, that's why they abandoned this nice castle in the first place. It's signalproof, which is bad for the people that worked in it, since they couldn't communicate with the outside world... They didn't got that much attention here and they came back from the continent they were from... I think they're basically gods there now...
Me - I see...
Room more that 2, less than 4
Nep - You know? With this much talk we came to the next room here without noticing. How do we pass it? It's just... a road...
Me - Accellerated backhopping, it makes the dungeon a lot easier...
Blanc - There is a couple of cars there you know?
Iffy - Yeah, we don't really need the car here, just start an ABH everyone, it's faster...
Noire - But how are we supposed to be faster than a car on foot?
Nep - You got to let it all go Neoire. Fear doubt and disbelief. Free. Your. Mind. And initiate an accellerated backhop!
Noire - Uhm... No, look i'll just take the car. It's more... normal...
Compa - I will take the car, backhopping sounds tiring...
Blanc - Yeah, i'll get in the car too...
Vert - I feel like bhopping, faster is better...
Me - You know, depending on the context of that last sentence, it can be taken like a bad thing to say...
Vert - Oh my... Quite the pervert, aren't we?
Me - Ow, ow, ow! I need that cheek, stop pinching it!
Vert - Alright. *release*
Me - Ow, no seriously! Stop pinching my body parts!
Nep Jr - I'll take the car, what about you Uni?
Uni - I'll follow you.
Ram - We'll backhop with you, it sounds cool!
Rom - Cool, cool, yeah.
Me - Wow, exactly 5 people, the number of seats of this car!
Nep - Cool!
Me - 303mph.
Nep - Huh?
Me - Sorry, that was definitively a strange thing to say...
We initiated an Accellerated BackHop and went directly ahead of them. And so we passed another room...
Room 4
Me - Oh, i know how to pass this one!
Nep - Really? How are we gonna go through it?
Me - Uhm... We're not gonna go through it the conventional way...
Nep - What do you mean? You have a plan? Like... A shortcut?
Me - Kind of... Alright, i'm gonna show you the trick, just pay attention and do what i do.
Nep - Alright then... Show me.
Me - Okay, so, there like a turret over there... There's like some guys here... One over there, one is there... Look, he's not even hiding! Anyway...
Nep - Eh, wait, where are you going? We gotta go in the opposite direction!
Me - Okay, so what you wanna do is just initiate an accellerated backhop in this direction to gain speed then rotate and bunnyhop normally, get a ramp off that surface, get past this fence here, make sure you don't hit that wall thing, go into the other room, there's a tripmine hidden there *boom, get an explosion boost from that tripmine, grab the attention of this guy here, make sure he throws a grenade at you so you get a *boom* grenade jump through the window here and... *Minor fracture detected* land on this rock here... Alright, the trick is pretty much over.
Nep - How the... What the... Eeeh?
Me - Hey IF? How did i do?
Iffy - Eh, you were good enough... You could have gotten more speed from that mine jump by getting the timing of the crouch better... You wouldn't have needed the grenade jump if you did... Also you wouldn't have landed on that rock, but instead on the table... *Does trick but better* (yes, the tripmine does respawn) Kinda like this.
Me - Yeah, that's fair enough... Hey Neptune, what's taking you so long? Jump!
Nep - Ah... Err... Okay... Here i go then... Great! Now the mine jump... Grenade... Rock... Yeah, i'm here. I DID IT! I mean... Of course i did it.
Me - Yeah, that was good enough.
Iffy - I agree.
Me - Alright, Vert's turn!
Vert - I'll bring Rom-chan and Ram-chan with me too.
Me - Wait, i wouldn't recommend you to...
She still managed to do the trick better than all three of us
Me - Eh, whatever... Next room!
Nep - Next room!
Vert - Not even a praise? Nothing? Aww...
Rom and Ram - Thank you Vert!
Vert - :happy:
Room 5
And so we got to the next room, where we found a cart with what looked like a bomb in it. And some rails. And a big door we couldn't open. Yeah...
Me - Hmm... Maybe we should push this cart...
Nep - What makes you think so?
Me - ...
Nep - This is the part where you start laughing.
Me - You know, that wasn't really that much-
Nep - LAUGH!
Me - Hahahahahaha. Ha-ha-happy now?
Nep - Yes.
Me - Great. Because there are robots armed to the theets approaching us.
A bunch of shots and metallic voices could be heard in the distance
Robots - SURRENDER NOW HUMANS AND YOU WILL NOT BE HARMED!
Me - Surrender this! *Pew*
A robot lost the head like that
Nep - Eh, could have been a better punchline...
Me - Sssssshhhhhut up.
Robots - UNIT 0069 DOWN! HOSTILE HUMAN DETECTED! WAR PROTOCOL: ENABLED! GET 'EM BOYOS! HE ALSO TRIED TO DO A PUN! AND IT WASN'T FUNNY!
Me - Hey! I have feelings, you know?
Robots - WELL, I- REFORMULATING ANSWER... WELL, WE DON'T! JOKE ABOUT SUBJECT COMMUNISM: ACCOMPLISHED!
Nep - Heh, it was better than yours...
Me - Alright, it's time to scrap some metal...
We fought a big wave of robots, but managed to destroy then all. All while pushing the highly explosive cart forward
Me - I don't think they'll be back anytime soo-Oh shit, they're back. *Pew pew*
Imaginary animation time (that means imagine this just as an effect for you, it's in real time in the story)! A slowdown of the fight in this precise moment, where bullets travel slower than a fly. Everyone is doing their best, on both teams. Then the enemies aimed some rocket launchers at us (4 rockets in a square 2x2, you know which one) and fired them. Rockets were flying in our direction, but they still were near the enemies, gaining speed. It was at this moment, that a single bullet hit the rockets instead of the enemies. (Okay, stop the slowdown). The rockets exploded in midair, hitting the now confused enemies. We easily disposed of the wave again.
Nep - Great shot! To... whoever it was...
Me - That was not me. I mean... It's not like i couldn't... But that wasn't me.
Uni - Did you missed me, you melee fighters?
Me - What's with that clown mask Uni? And how did you pass the room before so fast?
Uni - First: stats, i found it. Second: there was a maintenance door closed with a little padlock. Let's just say that it doesn't lock anymore.
Me - Eeeeyy!
Uni - Yyeeee!
Vert - Oh my, Uni came here to help us! That must mean...
Nep Jr - Heeey! Is it alright for us to come help too?
Vert - Of course! The more the merrier as they say!
Me - Alright ladies, push the cart!
Nep - Why don't you push?
Me - That's what i'm doing!
Eventually we reached the really big door with the cart while fighting robots and got our safe distance with the remote to explode it
Nep - Alright! Time to go boom! *Click*
An explosion that blew up the door occourred
Me - Man i love fireworks...
Ram - Look! The robots are turning off!
As those words were spoken, Nepgear's eyes started shining
Nep Jr - Oooh! I must bring some back home!
Nep - Experiments?
Nep Jr - Experiments.
We walked through the door expecting Arfoire on the other side. Instead there was another door! And an engine... And some gas cans around the room...
Me - Like that one.
Ram - Hey, there is a number on this thing.
Noire - Really? 0/9? 0/9 what exactly?
Blanc - Maybe zero out of nine?
Me - Hey, there is something written here! It says... Biogas... engine?
Blanc - Oh, could it be...?
Me - Gas cans? Maybe we need to pour the gas of these cans in that hole then. Let's try this o-
As soon as i touched it an inhuman scream could be heard across the room.
Me - -ne. Hmm... Hey, is that a monster over there?
Nep - Actually, no. That's not a monster. That's a horde of monsters.
Me - Oh, well, because it changes much eh?
Noire - You know what to do everyone!
We started fighting again. While collecting gas cans scattered across the room. But the horde didn't seem to get smaller. Instead it looked like it was growing the more gas we collected
Me - Hey, when is it that they're gonna be all dead?
Iffy - Catch!
Me - Op! Got it! Come on, get in!
Ding 6/9*
Nep - Nice! 3 more!
Me - Yeah, they just get more numerous the more gas we put in this thing.
Uni - Here's another one there!
Me - I'm going!
And we fought until there was just one left to find.
Ding 8/9*
And at that moment we heard a sound louder than the other sounds. Something like...
Nep - A bossfight!
Compa - It's a dragon!
Iffy - Yes, but this one looks stronger than a normal dragon.
Me - We're gonna win anyway! 11 vs 1!
Noire - Tecnically that's 11 vs 1 and a lot... But you're right on the fact that we're gonna win.
Me - Okay, let's split up gang! Nep, Compa and Iffy. Fight the boss with me!
Them - Yes!
Me - Uni, Nepgear, Rom, Ram, we need someone that takes care of the horde and protects us.
Them - Count on us!
Me - As for Vert and Blanc, go search the last can in there! That's the only place we didn't check!
Them - Sure!
Me - Let's go!
And the bossfight started...
Me - Exe spam time! Lead monsoon!
Nep - Neptune break!
Iffy - Apocalypse nova!
Compa - Bread crumbs!
We launched our attacks and dealt about an eighth of its max hp and consumed half its guard bar
Me - Great, he has a ton of hp too...
Dragon - ROOOAR!
Iffy - Watch out! He's about to attack!
The dragon breathed fire on us.
Nep - HOTHOTHOTHOTHOT!
Me - FIYAAAAA!
Compa - Heeelp! I'm down!
Nep - Damn, we're all so low on hp... We need heals!
Me - Ah! I'm gonna need to use that revive skill on Compa!
Compa - Get near us all and get me up! I will heal everyone in one turn!
Good Mini Angel Me - You're doing a great job at fixing your Compa! By reviving her you make sure your whole team gets za heals! There is no cause more righteous than yours!
Me - Hey, thanks, you're right!
Bad Mini angel Me - If you oneshot that monster, it can't even think about hurting your entire team!
Me - Golly gee, i never thought of it that way! I'll-
Good Mini Angel Me - And if you don't oneshot it? Come on, it's not worth the risk!
Me - Hmm... Alright then...
Compa - Uhm... Leo? Could you-?
Me - Yes. Pain is an illusion, get up!
Compa - Thank you! Everyone be healty!
Nep - Back in the fight baby!
Iffy - Ah, pain sure is not fun...
Me - Definitively worth it. Now let's kill the thing!
Iffy - We must lower his guard fast! We also have to spread, so it can't beat all of us with one blow.
Me - Good plan, let's surround it and start regaining exe. Maybe we can oneshot it when his guard is down.
And so it was, while its area attack was really strong, its single target attacks were relatively weak. We managed to gain back all our exe bars, and at the same time (obviously with buffs) we also brought to almost nothing his guard bar
Me - Great, it's Compa's turn! Please heal us, so we can take another hit in case we can't kill it fast enough.
Compa - Okay.
Me - Neptune, you will have to use your second exe drive, the one that uses two bars.
Nep - Gotcha.
Me - IF, i don't need to tell you to use your exe again.
Iffy - Of course.
Me - Let's finish this fight then.
Iffy - With pleasure.
Compa - Heal time!
Iffy - Apocalypse nova!
Nep - HDD: Neptune!
Me - Hey, another bar charged? Great, i can use my exe drive with two bars! Four hundred thousands bullets!
Dragon - *dying roar*
Me - Know your hecking place, trash!
Nep - HEY! No swearing on my CPU-ist Hyperdimension server!
Me - I'm sorry...
Nep - I'll let you off with a warning this time, but you won't be so lucky twice.
Me - Thank you.
Blanc - The can! Here!
She threw the can at us, IF catched it and started feeding it to the generator
Iffy - C'mon, c'mon!
Suddenly a monster tried to attack her while she was distracted, but i kicked it away just in time
Me - Take this! *Kick* Die, malevolent thing! *pew*
Iffy - Thank you, the engine is now full and ready to work.
Me - Press the button!
Nep - Uuuh! Red button! *Click*
And with that, the door started opening itself. However it looked like that only made the enemies angrier. As the door was about to be totally opened though we heard another roar, similar to the one of the dragon before, and shortly after a dragon could be seen in the distance. By that point the door was already completely open
Me - I'm not fighting another one!
Nep - Me neither.
Iffy - Let's run away into the next room.
Nep - Yeah, let's do that.
And so we started crossing the door. We had to fight the enemies off the doorway, so that we could be able to close it, but the dragon approached fast
Blanc - Quickly! Help me close it!
Me - I'm on it!
We closed the door just in time. And right when it closed, something like a light shape of a dragon's face appeared on it, and behind there could be heard some sort of hurt dragon noises.
Me - Wow, this door is pretty thin... Or that dragon weights a lot...
Arfoire - So... You did it...
Everyone - ARFOIRE!
Arfoire - Yes! It is i, Arfoire! Great... Shall we see how much time do you have left to beat me?
Nep - Of course! Turn on the big timer!
Arfoire - The big... timer?
Nep - Yeah! Everytime there is a countdown during an important event on a game they always bring out a big screen and show the timer on it.
Arfoire - Ah, that timer... Thanks for spoiling the 400k credits surprise.
Nep - Oh.
Arfoire - Anyway, where was i? I would appreciate if you could not block me like that during the cutscene, thanks. Oh, right! Let's see how much time there is left!
She took out a remote (the big red button kind) and pressed one of the two buttons. A giant black screen made its glorious (and slow) entrance. When it stopped coming out of the roof it turned on, and it showed the timer
Me - 30... hours? Is it broken?
Arfoire - Why do you think so? It's clearly 30 minutes!
Me - Well, there are three pairs of numbers there...
Arfoire - The third pair shows centiseconds!
Me - One in a hundred?
Arfoire - Yes, that one.
Me - Aren't there usually used more the milliseconds though?
Arfoire - Shut your trap.
Me - Sealed.
Arfoire - Anyway, again, i wanted to tell you all that...
She pressed the second button on the remote and the time on the screen went from about 29 minutes to exactly 6:00:00. And it wasn't going down.
Arfoire - It's all gonna be over in 6 minutes, the time it will take for the room to fill with paralyzing gas.
Me - Uhm...
Arfoire - Yes, i'm aware it's not going down, it's intentional, the gas vents didn't start yet.
Me - Alright.
She proceeded to wear a respirator before pressing the button again, and the fight started like that. A set of flying shields started surrounding her horizontally
Arfoire - Hahahahahaha! Try to hit me now!
Me - Okay *lots of pews*
Nep - *multiple slashes*
Blanc - *such bonk*
Noire - *many fence*
Vert - *thrust, thrust, thrust!*
Arfoire - Useless, useless! My shields are the ultimate protection!
All our attacks bounced on her various shields, making them effectively useless, and she was laughing in there... Menacingly
Me - Impossible!
Arfoire - HAHAHAHAHA! MY TURN! BOMBS EVERYONE!
Everyone - Aaah!
We all siderolled in various directions, dodging every bomb she threw at us
Me - Eh, that was a close one. How do we fight her?
Nep - We just gotta hit her enough times.
Me - How do we hit her?
Nep - I dunno, start thinking...
Me - Hmm...
She threw another set of bombs at us. But i noticed that some bounced around a bit before exploding
Me - Hey, maybe it's a stupid idea, but there could be a way to use some of the bombs against her...
Noire - What do you suggest?
Me - Again, this could be pretty stupid... So Compa, get ready to heal just in case...
Compa - Yes, i understand.
Me - But for now we wait for another set of bombs.
And she threw another set... I noticed a light difference on some bombs (btw those round, black, with an actual fuse, kind of bombs,the kind you would use on a cartoon)... A green mark on the top of the bouncy ones.
Me - Okay, i got it. At the next set of bombs... Blanc, you have to get closer and hammer one of the strange ones back to her. If they have a light green mark on the top, they're safe to hit.
Blanc - Are you sure it's a good way to deal with this?
Me - While i'm not 100% sure it's the best way to deal with this, the damage these bombs are doing to the floor tiles tells me it's a good start.
Blanc - Alright, i'm trusting you then. If you're wrong i'm gonna get my revenge though...
Me - Also... Rom, Ram, please try to use your ice magic to freeze as many bombs as you can. We would like to keep the floor with as few holes as possible.
Vert - Wasn't magic locked in this building?
Iffy - Look at how she's creating the bombs.
Me - And also, we were able to use the magic parts of our exe drives during the dragon battle near the door.
Ram - Count on us!
Rom - Yeah!
Me - Also, make sure to only freeze the bottom of the bombs, otherwise they'll just become dangerous for us. They'll become like ice frag grenades... AH! BOOOMBS!
And another set started to be thrown. But this time we knew what to do
Blanc - There's one! TAKE THIS! *hammer hit sound*
Arfoire - Aaaah! How did you know?
Me - Wait, she didn't hear us? The shields block sounds too for her?
Nep - Nah, i'm pretty sure they're just really noisy... I mean, just hear those klangy sounds!
Ram - We did it! We freezed all the bombs!
Arfoire - Alright! Next phase!
And so her shields changes slightly positions, now forming two horizontal lines. She started throwing blue bombs that first divided on impact into smaller bombs which then exploded on impact.
Me - Ha! Missed!
Internal me - Damn, my head is starting to spin after all this rolling... But wait, division on impact... Maybe...?
Me - Uni! I have another idea!
Uni - How stupid is it?
Me - Way less than before, but still a lot stupid. And safer, i think...
Uni - Talk, i'm listening.
Me - Look at how she's moving the shields away when she throws some bombs. I need a sniper shot on one of the bombs she launchs right when it's too late for the shields to parry the shot. And too soon to parry the little bombs. Can you do that?
Uni - You're kidding, right? That's my speciality! Look! *sniper POW*
The shields moved to stop the bullet regardless of the bomb being in their way. However the little bombs were pushed away by the shield that hit the big bomb, making the attack we did ineffective. But...
Me - Hey, is there anyone here good enough with wind magic?
Vert - That would be me, do you need to push the bomb back with wind? That would be impossible, these bombs are too heavy to be moved with my wind.
Me - How about the little ones?
Vert - We could try, yes.
Me - Then let's do it. Uni, please shoot another bomb!
Uni - On it!
Me - Vert, ready to send them back to Arfoire.
Another sniper POW could be heard. Then a strong wind across the room. Then multiple explosions. And then a shattering sound and a pretty worried Arfoire
Arfoire - NOOOO! NEXT PHAAASE!
Me - Another phase? Come on!
Blanc - That's bullshit!
Noire - Hey, i can feel something...
Nep - Uuuh, something is different!
Uni - Yeah, it feels almost like...
Nep Jr - Shares! We can transform now!
Her shields got closer to her, making what basically was an impenetrable horizontal barrier. She stopped throwing bombs by herself, but some turrets came out of the roof and started dropping bombs on us. Meanwhile everyone tranformed
Me - Apparently we can't hit her right now, let's destroy the turrets!
And so we started smashing some metal. Meanwhile Arfoire was walking slowly under the turrets, but not in a worrying way. After a bit of hitting the turret where we concentrated our attacks started smoking, and shortly after that it detatched and fell to the ground, near Arfoire. That was another idea for me, but i was anticipated
Nep Jr - I have an idea this time! Let's damage a turret and destroy it right when Arfoire is under it!
Me - That one on your right looks more damaged! Let's hit it!
We concentrated our fire (and whacks) on that turret until it started smoking, then we changed target until Arfoire was right under it
Noire - Uni now!
Uni - XMB Empress!
And the turret fell in the small gap left on the top of Arfoire's shields. That made the shields explode away, and now Arfoire was lying stunned on the ground. She had a key on her, but she got up fast and started fighting us properly
Arfoire - Hah! You'll never beat me in time! You still have 2 minutes!
Me - Oh, really?
I shot her mask and it broke
Arfoire - NO!
Me - Yes! And if you don't want to stay paralized too i suggest to stop the vents.
Arfoire - I hate you so much...
She thought about it a bit, then took out the remote and pressed a button. The vents stopped venting in gas and the timer was back to 21 minutes. She was furious
Arfoire - You'll pay.
Me - Well, let's see who wins then.
Arfoire - High X Gust! (Yes, Boogle is a powerful tool indeed)
Her attack hit me. And it was super effective. Ko! Homerun! My fainted self was flying like a ragdoll to the other side of the room
Arfoire - Fantastic. I'll send you all in hell with one single attack
But then her happy look transformed quickly in a worried one.
Arfoire - Huh, i smell Jo-!
The lights of the room flickered and then turned off. From the other side of the room a piano could be heard. Only the light above me was working now, and then i got up and started talking without me knowing.
Me - I, Leonardo * (hah, censoring even the lenght!), have a piano (fun fact: in italian "piano" is written like this and it also stands for plan). ... Hey, cool, it gives a second chance with full health, one turn invincibility and 4 exe bars! And it plays itself too! Hmm... Haven't i already heard this melody somewhere?
Nep - Okay, enough item praising, now help us!
Me - Oh, yeah, sure! We're gonna save za... the world!
Iffy - Good grief...
Arfoire - Wha-?
Me - She's weak now! Everyone, go!
One ultra mega spam of EXE drives and SP skills later... She couldn't withstand such power and fainted. We grabbed the key from her and went to open the door for the next room. The timer now showing 20 minutes for the detonation.
Me - How many more rooms before we reach the thing?
Nep - Well i don't know, let's see...
We opened the door and...
Nep - Oh.
Blanc - Apparently just one.
Me - Let's go, we got plenty of time!
We approached the rectangular thing with a timer, but i started walking faster. As i approached the thing, a metal cage fell on me, effectively closing me, and only me, with the timer.
Me - What? When? Why? Who?
Everyone was kinda surprised, me included. I was closed in the cage with the terminal. Me and only me. Yep
Me - Uuuhm... Does anyone know how to defuse a bomb?
Iffy - Oh my god...
Everyone had a big facepalm moment, some did it instead
Nep Jr - Me, i know a bit about bomb defusing...
Me - Sooo... Uhm... Can you help me?
Nep Jr - Sure, open it!
Me - Uhm... Uuuhhh... Here?
Nep Jr - No, it's on the side, there are two-
Me - Ah, here we go! Open! Now what?
Nep Jr - Ok, so you want to first invert the polarity of the battery, then detatch the resistance of the-
Me - Woah! Woahwoahwoah! With calm and easy words please!
Nep Jr - Alright, so there's a switch and a loose red cable with an end without rubber. Attach the cable on the red painted hole above it.
Me - An end without... This. And attach... Okay. And a switch... Uhm, there are three switches.
Nep Jr - Yes, you must turn the one on the little box on the left.
Me - Okay. Now?
Nep Jr - There's a red button, don't touch it.
Me - Okay, i will not.
Nep Jr - Okay, then you take the grey cable and cut it.
Me - I... Well... How?
Nep Jr - By cutting it of course.
Me - Let me reformulate the question. With what?
Nep Jr - Oh. Uhm... Uuuh... Does anyone have a-
Iffy - Here, i have a swiss knife.
Me - Got it. Aaand cut. *Bzzz* Ow!
Iffy - That's because those scissors don't have a rubber cover on the handle. Electricity, you know...
Me - Yeah...
Nep Jr - I do have electric scissors, but they're too big for the holes of the cage...
Me - Yeah... Now?
A lot of really simplified explainations about which cables to cut later, when there was left only two cables to cut and three cables in total. And a pin to insert too.
Nep Jr - Done?
Me - Yeah... I can't almost feel my hand... I hate this feeling!
Nep - Use the other one again.
Me - Yeah... That one feels numb too...
Nep - You're too needy.
Me - I wanna see you cut about 50 wires without some electric scissors!
Noire - Concentrate! You have 60 seconds!
Nep Jr - Okay, next cable is the brown one.
Me - Alright. Cut. Hm. Hate this.
Nep Jr - Okay, the pin is 1337.
Me - Last one. Tell me.
Nep Jr - I don't know.
Me - You don't... Know?
Everyone - WHAT?
Noire - 40 seconds!
Me - Come on! A red and a blue wire! Think Nepgear! Think!
Nep Jr - I-I'm trying!
Noire - 30!
Nep - Oh no...
Uni - Everyone silence! She can't think with all this noise!
Nep - Red wire blue wire... Hmm...
Nep Jr - I didn't check this part on the plan, hold on!
Noire - 20!
Nepgear hastily got out the plan and started searching
Me - Are you always stocked on everything?
Nep Jr - Well, inventories work like that here...
Me - Ah, right, inventories...
Noire - 10 seconds!
Me - Oh no!
Nep Jr - I can't...
Me - Damn...
Noire - 5! 4! 3! 2!
Me - Blu is lucky!
Noire - 1!
Me - *cut*
Bomb - Bombs have been defused. Counter villains win.
Everyone - ...
Me - ... Huh?
No one had words, then... *hl enemy spawn sound* Someone teleported in the room. Everyone noticed (what a surprise...)
Nep - What is that light?
Me - Aurora borealis?
Nep - Aurora borealis? At this time of the year, at this time of the day, in this part of the nation, localized entirely within this room.
Me - Yes.
Nep - Oh, look, it's becoming person now.
Me - Uhm... Who...
Nep - Oh, hi MAGES!
MAGES. - That's MAGES., but greetings everyone. I seem to have traveled to this dimension again... But still no trace of Doc P. in the other one. Damn you Organization!
Me - Doc. P... Doctor Pe-!
MAGES. - Tear Popper. The drink of the chosen ones.
Me - Oh. Uhm... Alright, a different Doc P then...
MAGES. - Oh, dear Assistant, would you mind assisting me in my research of the drink for the intellectuals?
Noire - I'm not your assistant!
MAGES. - That's not how a good assistant acts.
Noire - *furious sounds*
Nep Jr - Hey, how about we go take a chili dog on the way home? I know a great chili dog stand, and it should be open today too...
Me - How about pizza? We can eat it at home, and take some for Histy too! Maybe we should call her to see which one she wants... And if we go to a pizzeria they usually have a fridge for drinks, we can see if they have the Doc P. MAGES. is searching for...
MAGES. - I see, then i opt for a pizza. My research is far more important than my preferences.
Nep Jr - Well, mine was just a suggestion, but i'm up for some pizza too!
Nep - I'm neutral, but i think everyone else too is neutral here... So pizza it is.
Everyone did the thumb up gesture and we went to eat a pizza back to the basilicom. That's it, see ya.
Okay, jokes aside now.
Thank you all for reading, this was my first story so i kind of didn't expect attention at all... (Expecially since it's a dumb and kind of common lore for fanfictions in general... Being isekaied and stuff...) That means for everyone that made it this far, thank you. It actually means something for me. At least i can only hope you all liked it now! Welp, now that's really it. See you all soon, if (more like when) i decide to do something with the parts i couldn't fit in here.