Day 13
It's been thirteen days, and in those thirteen days, I have done many boring things that shall not be mentioned. Some things I will bring up are more important and still… are not as exciting as they sound.
The first of these things being that I got an apartment in Planeptune. Did I pay for it by myself? Pff! No! I'm rooming with Linda, since she was sick of the barracks they had at home base and I agreed with that sentiment. Although, I'm not sure if it was totally worth it currently. Linda's alright… but she can be a giant bitch when she wants to be.
The other thing is that the Causality Gauntlet, the device I… 'Appropriated' from Leanbox's R&D division was now a lot more sleeker, all thanks to Anonydeath. I didn't really explain what I needed, just that I needed an arm gauntlet of sorts. Now, it looks like the left hand of Samus Aran's power suit, except in a black colour. Well the top of my hand is like that anyways, the palm is exposed, for some reason. I'm not really complaining.
I also started working out! I have now gotten to a point where what looks like the starting point of really tiny abs would form, but nothing to major.
And that leads to today, long story short, things happened. And now I was bored out of my mind as I flicked through the channels, my finger stopping as I got to a live broadcast of sorts.
"Here ye, all gamindustri residents far and wide!"
I rested my hand against my face, watching the tv with mild interest.
"We take one giant leap toward a new era today." Said a female voice from the tv as Linda plopped down on the other side of the couch I was sitting on. "It brings me great pleasure to be together with you all as we welcome this joyous day."
It was at this moment that the cameras on site focused in on a woman in a dark purple dress. The goddess of Planeptune, Purple Heart.
I felt a slight smile form on my face at this, before realizing what side I was currently on and regaining a neutral face.
"As you all know, this world has been torn by strife over the past few years." Said Purple Heart, as Linda took a sip of her drink in boredom, and most likely, annoyance.
The camera's shifted to another woman who was wearing a black robe… thing, over her body proceeded to take it off, revealing a black dress. I swear I hear Anonydeath fanboying a ways away from where I currently am.
"Lastation, governed by the goddess Black Heart." Said Purple Heart, before the camera's shifted to another woman who looks like she stole Queen Elizabeth's dress and look. "Lowee, governed by the goddess White Heart." The Camera's yet again shifted to another woman who looked like she was dressed to go to a wedding. I felt myself get a bit… angry with this one, though it was only minor, and for a reason I wasn't sure of yet. "Leanbox, governed by the goddess Green Heart."
The Camera's changed back to the woman talking. As she took a step forward, a hexagon of sorts lit up underneath her. "And Planeptune, governed by myself, the goddess Purple Heart."
Purple Heart began to rise into the air, the glowing hexagon seemingly the cause of it. "Share Energy forms the basis of national power in this world." As Purple Heart said this, the other Goddesses started to rise into the air as well. "The four nations competed over it, and sometimes we goddesses ourselves came to blows. But now that curtain will fall on that chapter of history." All four goddesses stopped moving up, staying on the same level of height as Purple Heart continued. "The Treaty of friendship that shall be signed today will prohibit taking Share Energy by force. From this moment onward, the only way to acquire it will be by making one's country a better place, which will lead to worldwide development and progress." The Four goddesses started walking towards each other, more hexagons appearing below them as platforms.
All four goddesses joined hands, as they started speaking in unison. "We hereby swear to overcome the past and create a world filled with hope." As this line of dialogue was spoken, fire works began exploding around them, as applause came all around. It was at this point that I picked up the remote and turned off the TV.
"...I have a bad feeling about this…" I said, sighing.
"Great, now they got this whole treaty going on. This'll make things harder for us." Said Linda.
"Let me guess…" I began.
"-And as such, ASIC may end up liquidating." Said Anonydeath, as I sat lazily in a nearby office chair.
"So basically, since the Friendship Treaty was signed, ASIC has begun losing followers and the Goddesses are after us as if we were a WMD. Due to such, we have been losing funds, and will have to disband soon?" I summarized, leaning back in the chair. "Did I get that right?"
"Essentially." Said Anonydeath.
"Called it~!" I said in a sing song voice, facing Linda. The person in question just groaned out in annoyance.
"With any case." Said Anonydeath, catching back our attention. "We won't be able to last long as it is."
"...So why not go out with a bang?" I asked, drawing Anonydeath's attention. "I know for a fact, YOU'LL still thrive off… Hacking or something, so… why not infiltrate one more place and set up another back door?"
"...This sounds less ASIC and more of our own choice…" Said Anonydeath.
"Your point?" I asked. "I know for a fact you'll do your… stalky thing with Black Heart, so why not have me install a backdoor to make it easier for you to get in? I'm sure you could get in anyways, but this way I'm not just sitting around and waiting to find out I'm out a job. This way, I at least got the chance of getting something before I head off. Like a souvenir of sorts."
"Hmm… I don't see why not… Though we'll need to get a general layout of the place…" Anonydeath said, before we both turned to Linda.
"...The hell you looking at me for!?" She asked.
Day 44
So after about a month of waiting, Linda finally got back to us about the layout, the guard rotations, all that fun stuff for Lastation's R&D division.
However, during said month, ASIC ended up finally disbanding. I never really knew the higher ups personally, but hey, Linda said that we'd know if they needed help with things, I:E, Menial and troublesome things they can't be bothered to worry about. Yay…!
However, at this moment, I was with Anonydeath looking over map plans, as Linda had scouted out the R&D division during the past month, and was probably lazing back at the apartment.
"Alright, now we should be good to go." I said, a hand on my chin.
"I have a remote controlled chopper ready, I'll be able to drop you off at the infiltration point here." Said Anonydeath. "And then, you should be able to do what you do best."
"Yeah, I've been meaning to ask about that. What IS the thing I do best?"
"Hiding inside a box." Anonydeath said, causing me to deadpan. "And explosive exits, but try not to do as such."
"I make no promises, but I'll try." I said, walking over to the chopper, a box that looked similar to the one I used at Leanbox's R&D division sitting in the chopper. A big red exclamation point on the side.
"Good luck, oh and make sure you don't get caught. That isn't really a good idea." Said Anonydeath. "My Darling Noire isn't going to do what Vert would probably do to you."
"...What WAS Vert probably going to do to me?" I asked.
"Most likely force you to play BL games." Said Anonydeath.
"...Nope nope nope nope nope!" I quickly muttered, walking into the chopper, sitting down.
"That's an interesting development." Said Anonydeath, as I looked out the window of the Chopper.
"...Is that Purple Heart…?" I asked, looking as the CPU and CPU Candidate of Planeptune flew over to the Lastation Basilicom. "...The hell is going on here?"
"I'll let you know once I got a good sound check of it." Said Anonydeath, as the Chopper dropped me close enough to the Lastation R&D Division that I would be able to infiltrate it on my own.
"Sounds good." I said entering the building, before dropping my box disguise onto me. "...Let's do this…"
As I worked my way through the facility, expertly dodging guards (Pure luck, I swear) I slipped into a side section of the area.
"So I found out the reason for the CPU's visit." Said Anonydeath.
"Oh? Do tell?" I whispered.
"Turns out she went to Noire to escape doing her duties." Said Anonydeath.
"Figures…" I said, before taking a step. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have taken said step.
Bright lights began to wheeze in and out, an alarm went off as the route to the main complex closed off. I was stuck, and they were looking for an intruder now… F*CK.
"...What was that?" Asked Anonydeath.
"Uh… Gotta go!" I quickly said, shutting off the communication. "...Great… now where am I supposed to go, and what section of this place even is this dedicated to?" As I asked myself this, I didn't notice the sign near me, clearly stating where I was.
Hypersomniac Games: Development.
"Okay… Take two… action!" Shouted someone as I watched, from my box, a relatively fit woman (If she was built for gymnastics) and another woman, who looked more goon like, go through the process of creating animation from mocap.
However… Gamindustri is… different from my world. I:E, they make things that doesn't need to be made IRL for a game… so they can make animations of the character using it.
And would you look at what they were testing.
The fit woman in the mocap suit fired out two strands of what on closer inspection seemed to be webbing, as she performed what seemed to be an ingame takedown of sorts.
"...Did I just stumble across a team making a spiderman… Or girl upon closer inspection, game?" I asked myself, eyeing what I assumed were web shooters as the actor took them off and put them on a table.
"Okay, that's a wrap for now. The breach of security alarm went off a few minutes ago, so let's let security get a good search around." Said one of whom I could only assume was the animation director.
I sneakily moved inside the box over to the table with the web shooters… and silently grabbed them, moving back up against the wall.
"I am SO having a spectacular spiderman moment once I'm out of here…" I said to myself, before the sound of heavy footsteps broke my attention.
"L-lady Black heart!?" Asked the voice of the Animation Director, as I looked out to indeed see Noire there… with Neptune and a few security guards.
"...Crap…" I muttered.
"We're just here to look around, we'll be quick." Said Noire, as Neptune looked around the room before seemingly making eye contact with the box I was hiding in- did she just wink at me!?
"Abort abort abort…!" I muttered to myself, fumbling as I put the right web shooter onto my right arm, before starting to do the same with my left hand, but with some trouble since the Causality Gauntlet was on my hand already.
"...Come on…" I said to myself, finally getting both on my left hand. "...I'll need to work on this later. This is uncomfortable." I muttered.
"...Lady Black Heart." Said the Actor from before. "...I think the breach is in this room…"
"...F*ck…" I whispered to myself.
"The webshooters!" Said the director, looking at the now empty table.
Noire turned to the guards. "Search the place. Neptune… just, don't disturb them."
Neptune gave a salute, sticking her tongue out playfully, before leaning against a wall opposite of me.
One of the security guards walked over to my box, before slowly starting to lift it up.
"...Welp, screw stealth then." I muttered, my mind quickly flashing to how I remembered the web shooters in the comics worked before. "...Okay, so it's… two presses of the button quickly?"
As the box was raised up, I quickly aimed at the Guard's feet, before double tapping the buttons on my palms, two strands of webbing catching onto the Guard's feet, causing him to look down, before I pulled, tripping him up and causing his body to slam onto the floor. I quickly threw the box off me before aiming at what seemed like an opening in the ceiling and web zipped up there.
"...Okay… this seems… interesting…" I muttered, looking down to see the other Guards and Noire run over to the guy who I tripped up. I looked over at Neptune, to see she was looking right at me.
I looked from side to side, before giving a quick wave and going back into the ceiling.
As I crawled, I realized that I was basically in an air vent, so yeah… fun.
Did I mention I didn't know where I was going?
Suddenly, the ground under me kinda fell apart, and I crashed down, with part of the air vent in the normal area.
"Oh come on…" I said, crawling out, finding that I was in front of a computer. "Well, ain't that convenient?"
I plugged a USB into the computer, and waited as the backdoor was hacked in. Once It was hacked in, I felt a sense of relief, only for it to disappear immediately, once I turned around to see Noire and Neptune running full force at me.
"OH COME ON!" I shouted, sprinting away from them.
I quickly vaulted and weaved my way through the area in front of me, before finding an elevator to my left.
With quick thinking, I fired a web line and quickly turned the corner and pressed the call button for the elevator. The door quickly opened and I ran inside slamming the top floor button and then repeatedly pressing the close door button in a frenzy.
I gave a quick sigh, as the Door started to close, before suddenly feeling very… not relaxed, as Noire and Neptune saw me in the elevator. No, that wasn't the reason why. The reason was because I got shot!
...Yep!
I suddenly felt a pain in my leg, as I looked down to see a bullet hole in my leg.
Thinking quickly, which was surprising to me, I took my hoodie off and took my undershirt off as well. I quickly ripped up the undershirt and tied it tightly around my injured leg.
"That should stop it until I can get out of here…" I muttered, before dropping the leftover scraps of shirt on the floor. I grabbed my discarded hoodie, before throwing it back on, using the hood to cover my face.
As I exited the elevator, I realized an issue I had done.
I was on the roof.
"...Well then." I said, looking over the edge. "...the f*ck do I do now?"
Suddenly, another door behind me opened up, and a bunch of Guards and Noire walked out. Neptune lagging behind a bit. That was probably a lot of stairs.
"We have you surrounded. Just give up now." Said Noire, as I turned around, my head facing the ground.
"...Tallyho…" I muttered to myself.
Noire motioned for two guards to go and arrest me, but I quickly turned around and jumped off the building.
"Aaaaaah!" You see that. That was me. Now I know what you're thinking, how did I get into this situation… well- oh wait, you already know… well then. Where was I…?
I quickly aimed my right arm at one of the nearby buildings as I fired off a line of webbing, said line quickly sticking to the side of the building as I felt my body start moving like a pendulum.
"WOAH!" I shouted aloud, swinging forward before letting go as I felt gravity lose hold of me for a second, before grasping around me once again.
I quickly fell into a free fall as I shot another line, continuing my pendulum swinging.
"WHOHO!" I shouted out, before looking behind me to see a quickly approaching Black Heart and Purple Heart. "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!"
I once again went into freefall, firing another line as I made a sharp right turn, trying to outswing the two goddesses who were right on my tail.
"...Oh crap…" I muttered, before realizing that Black Heart was about to grab me.
And then, in a semi-brilliant moment, of meaningful thinking, I quickly clenched my left hand, cause and effect splitting again as I quickly realized that I was falling.
"WHY WON'T YOU WORK!?" I shouted, trying to fire the web shooters on my person, before I quickly… stopped at the ground.
It was weird, I hit the ground, but I didn't feel the impact of it… Huh.
I stood up, looking up at the frozen goddesses before deciding it wasn't worth getting caught and quickly ran the hell out of dodge, running into a nearby alley as Effect finally snapped back to Cause.
"So, care to explain why a man swinging away from two goddesses was on the Lastation news a few minutes ago? And then why everything just stopped?" Asked Anonydeath.
"...I may have made another dramatic exit." I answered, leaning back. "So… yeah."
"Well it doesn't really matter. I have my back exit, and nothing else bad really happened." Said Anonydeath.
"Yeah, that seems about right." I said, standing up. "I'm going to head home now. If you need me, let underling know."
As I walked out of the hideout, I sighed.
"Welp, that was a thing." I said to myself, before chuckling at my in joke.
The laughter didn't really last long, as I quickly quieted down as I sighed in regret.
"...G1… Tehg… Aca… AIYF… ZX… Remited… Nick… I… What the hell am I doing?" I asked myself, my eyes starting to water. "...I'll find a way back… then… this'll make one hell of a fanfic, wouldn't it?" I laughed a sorrowful laugh, before wiping the tears away. "...But… at least I'm not being held hostage yet."
"This just in, apparently the security force at Lastation's R&D devision have found a clue as to who was behind the break in just today."
"...God… Damnit." I said, my hand connecting to my face with a hard slap.