It lives!
The following day at Lastation's Basilicom was pretty usual, well as usual as suddenly having a daughter and new CPU Candidate can get, that meant Noire was at her desk catching up on the amount of work that had piled up over the last few days. She sighed rubbing her eyes, needless to say being a CPU and a parent was definitely taking its toll on her since she had to find ways to keep Vita occupied that didn't involve Uni. Now that wasn't to say Uni despised spending time with her or anything like that not at all it was more Noire not wanting to use her as a free babysitter and the last thing she wanted was for resentment to start growing. Adding to all that Uni had already left to do some quests at the guild so even she wanted to she couldn't.
Noire let out a long breath as she closed her eyes and leaned her head back considering her options of what she could do. Given all the recent events the CPU of Lastation definitely needed some time to decompress from all the wackiness going on.
This lead to her pulling out her phone and scrolling through the contacts until she stopped upon on specific name that caused her to stare at her phone screen for some time in deep thought "I really shouldn't" she said that to no one in particular and skipped to the next name in her contacts "I'll save… her… as an absolute last resort"
Noire pressed on the name and put the phone up to her ear as it began ringing "Hey… I'm doing alright. You?… that's great to hear. I have somethings to ask of you… It's hard to explain" Noire pinched the bridge of her nose and took a deep breath "Can you just come to the Basilicom I'll give you more details then… okay thanks" the CPU ended the call and put her phone away.
"I might as well see what Vita's up to"
Elsewhere in the Basilicom Vita was busy playing in her room. Yep since yesterday the new candidate now had her own personal room that was fairly close to Noire's and for that she was grateful. Her room was fairly standard so far but it did have a game console and TV in it which was of course thanks to Neptune. It also came packed with a few games, one about a purple dragon setting out to defeat an intergalactic warlord, another one was puzzle game about matching together different coloured Dogoos, and finally one about time traveling physic dolphins.
Vita enjoyed what she got but of course wished her room had more personality to it "Hmm… I wonder if Mommy can get some more stuff for my room"
The candidate wondered on what she would get when a knock snapped her out of her thought process "Vita? Are you in there?"
She perked up instantly recognized the voice through the door "Yeah Mommy"
Noire opened the door and was immediately greeted with a hug from her daughter who pulled away shortly after "Is all your work done?"
The CPU heard her hopeful tone which made somewhat tempted to tell a little white lie but that would mostly not work out well "No not yet Vita".
"Aww…" Vita pouted looking at the ground.
"Hey now don't that" Noire told in a soft tone to which Vita looked up at her "I… have some work I need to do somewhere else so I friend of my is coming to watch you for a bit"
Vita was saddened upon hearing that "You're… leaving?"
"No no no no, it's not forever Vita I'll be back as fast as I can" Noire assured but continued to pout and she looked down at her feet and lightly kicked the ground "Hey do you wanna pout all day or do you wanna play a game together?"
The young candidate cheered up upon hearing that enthusiastically nodded "Okay!" she ran to the console and booted it up putting in the puzzle game Vita then grabbed one controller and eagerly handed the other one to Noire who took it and sat down with her.
When the CPU of Lastation sat down to play video games with her daughter she expect various outcomes. She expected maybe having to possibly lose on purpose or even them being on equal level.
What she didn't expect was for her daughter to be winning by an absolute landslide. Noire was definitely dumbfounded by how good she already was at this game the way she so quickly placed the pieces and set off chain reactions as if she had done this plenty of times before. Yeah safe to say Vita most definitely inherited Neptune's gamer skills.
The one thing Noire hoped was that Vita would inherit her work ethic.
"Ha ha! Victory!" Vita cheered raising her arms.
"I… think we've played enough of this lets try something else" Noire was about to chose another game when her phone rang, picking it up not bothering to look at the name "Yes hello… you're here, alright I'll be right there. Vita I need to do something real quick stay here, okay"
"Okay" Vita responded as she went to her console while Noire out of the room.
Meanwhile at the entrance of the Basilicom a girl walked in who had storm blue eyes, with very pale brown-grey hair in short pigtails. Her attire consisted of a dark grey top that was short and also was opened showed off the middle section of her chest the top was held together with red ribbon, the rest of her attire was dark grey short shorts along with red boots that were held up with straps and black socks. On her arms were long fingerless gloves the went past her elbows with a big red and black bracelet let on her wrist and on her back was a large red and black sword.
"Hmm… wonder where she is?" the girl wondered then pulled out some bread from seemingly nowhere "Might as well get a quick snack in while I wait" she then proceeded to take a large bite.
"God Eater there you are!" Noire shouted.
God Eater turned to her her cheeks puffed out due to being filled with food "Mowire!"
"God Eater please chew your food first" Norie lightly chastised her.
"Thowwy" she held up her finger before finally swallowing "Ahh… Sorry about that"
"It's fine I hope I didn't pull you away from anything important" Noire apologized.
God Eater shook her head "No need to worry about it when they found out I got a call from the CPU herself they told me go take her request so here I am".
Noire smiled softly at her "Well that's great to hear".
"Since we're on this subject why exactly did you call me here?" God Eater asked taking another bite of her bread.
"It's… uhh… well kinda hard to explain actually" Noire told her then turned away to begin walking "It might be easier to show you".
"Noire what exactly is going on?" God Eater asked following her.
"…You're about to find out"
God Eater had expected many different things when Noire lead her to a certain room. However what wasn't on that list was being greeted by a girl who had just called Noire 'Mommy'.
"This… would be my daughter" Noire introduced.
Vita smiled at the girl "Hi!"
"Wow… I didn't know you settled down" God Eater said looking down at the girl.
Noire on the other hand blushed heavily upon hearing that "N-No! I-It's not like that at all!"
Both God Eater and Vita stared at Noire after her small outburst. Upon seeing their looks Noire cleared her throat and composed herself "I-It's not like that" she then turned to look at her daughter "Vita, I would like to introduce you to one of my friends this is God Eater".
Vita eyes widened upon hearing her name "Wait, she eats gods!"
"Don't worry you got nothing to worry about kiddo it's just a name" God Eater smiled reassuringly at the young candidate.
"Anyway Vita, I need to talk with her privately about something so just stay in here, okay?"
"Okay!" Vita responded going back to her game console.
Noire slowly closed the door to Vita's room the meet God Eaters gaze "That's what the situation is God Eater"
"Yeah… I didn't expect anything like that. Noire come to think of it how exactly did you have kid anyway?"
Noire closed her eyes and sighed "I don't even know that myself. Listen I know it's a lot to ask but could you watch her for a bit".
God Eater looked a bit unsure "I don't know Noire I never watch a kid before-"
"P-Please… I-I just. I just really need to clear my head"
God Eater was still unsure but upon seeing the desperate look on Noire's face it helped make her decision. There was no doubt about it the Lastation CPU was definitely having a lot going on in her head "Alright then Noire leave it to me".
"Really" Noire had a hopeful expression upon hearing her friend's response.
"Yeah I never watched a kid before but I'm sure I can figure something out and-"
She was cut off by Noire giving her a hug "Thank you, God Eater".
Before she could return the gesture Noire pulled away with a slight blush on her face "Sorry about that, Listen this is very important to keep in mind" God Eater shook her head in conformation "Don't leave the Basilicom at all. I don't know how the people would react to this if they found out we had a child".
'I wonder who she means by 'We'?' God Eater considered asking Noire that but decided against considering that she probably had more things going on in her head at the moment "Noted, you can leave everything to me Noire".
"Again thank you so much for this God Eater just tell Vita something very urgent came up that needed my attention".
"Gotcha" God Eater winked at her and gave a thumbs up.
Noire smiled and nodded the walked away leaving God Eater on her own staring at the door to Vita's room "Alright, here goes nothing" she opened the door and saw Vita playing on her game system.
The young candidate heard the door open and immediately paused to turn around and was disappointed to be greeted by only God Eater "Where's Mommy?"
"She… had something that really needed her attention but said she'd be back quickly"
Vita looked down at the ground sulking "Oh…"
"Hey, come on now don't be like that" Vita looked up at God Eater "Look your mom's a CPU so she has stuff that's gonna need her attention, I get it's unfortunate but sometimes these things happen"
The young candidate didn't look all that impressed "Can't she send someone else to do it?"
"I don't think so there's some things that only she can do. But hey, don't worry I bet right now she's thinking about some things for you two to do together" God Eater said in an attempt to brighten her mood.
"You really think so?" Vita's mood already seemed to improve.
"Positive, she may not be the best at showing it but Noire cares a lot for those close to her and that includes you. So come on and smile"
Vita did just that and said "Okay. Wanna play a game with me until Mommy gets back"
God Eater nodded "Sure thing!"
When she picked up the controller she couldn't help but think 'Noire I hope with whatever is going with you, you can figure it out'
Okay short version as to why this took so long it was basically irl stuff that took away any drive I had to write but now my drive is back so cross your fingers the next chapter doesn't take too long.