Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth: Generation of True Gods
Chapter 3: HDD and New People! To Lastation!
AN: Finally! Chapter 3 is finished! I asked the Editor to be in this chapter but she didn't want to! I guess I'll ask her to be in the next few chapters (if she does). For the perhaps first time, I think in this chapter I had a Writer's Block as they call it but whatever. Read this chapter now, viewers! Oh yeah! Thanks Akio Blade, for your support, if you didn't post your review, I don't think I could've got of ridden of my Writer's Block so thanks!
"Achoo!" Tetsuya sneezed as he felt cold shivers go through his entire body.
"Is something wrong, Tet-Tet?" Compa asked while walking in front of him.
"No, I guess someone is talking about me or something." He sighed as he said that. The group had been going all around the place looking for the Mascot.
"Hey," IF went to Tetsuya's side, "You know, why did you save Nepgear?" IF looked at Tetsuya with a serious face.
"Huh?"
"I mean, you guys just met, it's weird and stupid to do something like that."
"Well…"
Tetsuya lightly scratched his cheek before saying "I guess it was my instinct…." His bangs slightly covered his right eye as he spoke, "Someone has to show her some confidence. Besides she said she wanted to do this so she has to do it or who knows, it's complicated, IF."
"I see…" IF put a hand on her chin before facing Tetsuya again. "You know, you're quite an understanding guy. You're still weird though." She smiled.
"Really? Most people say I'm cold. Although, you got the "weird" part right. But thanks anyway."
She chuckled, though she couldn't tell if he was joking or not. "No problem, by the way…" IF inched closer to Tetsuya.
"What?"
"Hmm… your appearance is quite... intriguing… for a guy" Yes, his spiky hair was pink with a combination of flame-like colored streaks on the right side of his bangs, while his eyes were bright, sky blue.
He sighed at IF's comment, "If you're gonna say I bleached it or something the answer is no." IF made a surprised face "I'm guessing a lot of people said stuff about your hair right?" He nodded.
"Is that all?"
"Well, Compa and Nepgear wanted me to ask about you, since they apparently don't have the guts to ask in person."
"…" Tetsuya became quiet as he lifted some of his hair from his face.
"But we should focus on looking for the Mascot." IF said with a smile with Tetsuya nodding again. They kept walking until IF finally spotted something.
"Oh, is that it over there? I think I see something!" IF pointed towards the object she spotted.
"Me too! Wait… Huh….? Someone's already there." Compa pointed towards a figure. But for some reason the person seems to be hitting something as the group heard a *Klang* *Cack*and more sounds.
"Seems as though that person is trying to break…something… What the goodness!? Please stop!" As they ran towards the figure, Nepgear was right; the person had something in their hand and was clearly breaking something. But… it couldn't be…
The person stopped to face the one who yelled at her. "Huh? Who the hell are you three? You'd better stay outta my way, kids." The person's looks were somewhat boyish, though they could tell that the person is a girl. She wore a big, unzipped gray jacket with a mouse-eared hood, with white and black lining, white whisker markings and a big black mouse nose displayed on the hood. The inside of the jacket is red-colored, while it has black, spiked lining and cuffs with thin spiked white-lined markings in the center. Around her neck is a black choker, and she had a very small black tube top on with X-shaped strings in the middle with an open heart on each side, one being red and the other yellow. Her gloves are black, with the underside being red to match her jacket. She wore plain baggy pants, which was black at the top with loose black strings flowing at the bottom. On her feet she wore black boots with strings going up the center.
The person has odd white-purple skin and ruby red eyes with noticeable pointed ears. She has a two-pieced belly button ring consisting of silver pieces. Her hair is a pastel green color with a few spiked bangs.
"Likewise, missy! What are you doing to the Mascot!?" Compa retorted.
"Uh, destroying it, duh. Orders from ASIC. They're a nuisance."
"You're a member of ASIC, then?" IF asked.
"Heh. Not like I got any reason to explain myself to you, but… All right, listen up!" She put on a smug expression. "I'm a proud and mighty member of ASIC's front-line infantry. Don't you forget it!"
The moment when she finished, everybody had gone silent, while still looking at her. "Front-line infantry? Wouldn't that make you just one of their expendable underlings?" IF said finally breaking the silence. The 'underling' put on a shocked face at what she said. "Definitely an underling."
"Miss Underling is definitely an underling." Compa said.
"Hm-Hm" Tetsuya nodded after putting on perhaps his blankest stare.
"What!? Where the hell do you get off calling me an underling, huh!?"
"Underling's the only name you need, Underling. Now beat it."
"Could you please move out of our way, Miss Underling?"
"If she's just an underling, maybe I could fight her…"
"Ugh! Underling this, underling that! Enough already, you brats!"
"Now you've really pissed me off! You'll regret calling me that!"
"Kyaaaah!"
"Jeez, how is she this powerful!?"
"Do you think it's because ASIC has so many of this area's Shares?"
"Hah… For so much bark, you idiots had no bite at all. Now to kill you one by one, starting with…hmm…"
"Eep."
"Let's start with you, brat!"
"Um, well, but… I didn't really do anything, so…"
"Watch out!" Tetsuya cried out loudly as he jumped towards Nepgear when the Underling lifted her weapon.
"Woohoo!" A young female voice exclaimed from out of nowhere.
"Huh?" You can just see the question marks appearing above their heads.
*Bam!*
A pair of legs suddenly hit Tetsuya's back with sheer force. As if time had slowed down, the kick sent Tetsuya flying in another direction, or more specifically, head-butting a certain Underling in the stomach.
"Ouch!" Both Tetsuya and the Underling yelped in pain with the Underling holding her stomach and Tetsuya rubbing his back and forehead.
"Gack! My back!" He screamed after a bone had suddenly snapped (in a comical fashion).
"Yes! We saved Tetsuya and the others just in time!" The same voice said cheerfully. The voice belonged to a woman who was currently standing atop Tetsuya's back.
The woman looked to be in her early 20's and she was quite a beauty, with smooth, silky skin. She had long, flowing pink hair tied into a ponytail and light green-blue eyes that seem to reflect the ocean's surface. She also wore a red, unbuttoned collared-shirt with short sleeves over a navy blue shirt. She also wore black sweatpants along with strap-on sport sandals.
"Jeez, Arisa, you're going to hurt Nii-san's back again!" Two girls appeared behind the woman.
The one who had said "Nii-san" was a girl who looked around 14-15 years old with a single, waist-length blue pigtail tied on the left side of her head along with bright amethyst eyes. She was wearing a black sailor fuku with gold-yellow lining, a black skirt with gold-yellow trimming, and a gold-yellow ascot.
"You know Nii-chan has a serious back problem!"
The other girl looked identical to the blue-haired girl and was wearing the same outfit as well, except her hair was red and the pigtail was on the right side of her head.
"Oh come on! Tetsuya's fine, right?" The woman said as she looked down on Tetsuya. She didn't know that she was putting pressure on his "broken" back.
"A-Arisa…" He grumbled as he tried to get her off of him.
"Oh, Tetsuya! Are you alright!? Did that Underling hurt you?" Now sitting on top of him, she rolled his body for him to face her as she inspected his face. She didn't seem to notice the big tic mark appearing on Tetsuya's head and-
"…I would be if you hadn't kicked me, you dumb moron!"
IF, Compa, and Nepgear looked surprised at Tetsuya's new manner of speaking towards the woman named "Arisa".
"Wait! Aren't you Hoshikawa Arisa!" IF said as she walked towards her.
"Oh! IF-chan, Compa-chan, it's been a while." Arisa waved towards the girls till she saw Nepgear.
"You must be Nepgear, the CPU Candidate of Planeptune, right? You're the one Histoire and Neptune talked about all the time!"
"Wait a minute, Arisa!" Tetsuya raised a shaking hand while still lying on the ground.
"How do you know them? Actually, where in the world did you, Akako, and Aoko come from!?"
The woman sighed, "Jeez, we'll tell you soon. It's not like I'll be doing anything random while I'm at it."
"…Yeah like kicking me from the sky or something…" He muttered looking away from her.
"Did you say something?"
"Oh nothing," He unpleasantly said with an angry face.
"Well, looking at the situation right now…" Arisa turned looking at the Underling who was trying to get up.
"It looks they did send an underling to do their dirty work as usual."
"Yep this kinda feels like the usual for some reason."
"As usual…"
The twins said before one another. The Underling grew angrier with each word they said.
"Seriously! All of you are dead now!" The Underling exclaimed as she picked up her baton. She glared at Arisa while preparing her attack.
"Oh my, the Underling is angry but I just got the right tool for this moment! Tetsuya!" Arisa grabbed something from her pocket and quickly threw it to Tetsuya who caught it.
"T-This is….?" Tetsuya recognized the mysterious item that she had thrown to him. A simple pocket knife with a strange design. The hilt was the color of stainless black steel and it had a design of a dragon that was wreathed in blue flames.
"It should activate now!"
Suddenly, after Arisa said that, the pocket knife began to glow brightly.
"Huh?" Tetsuya could still feel the cool handle of the knife but the light emanating from it grew so bright to the point that he had cover his eyes.
"Waaaaah!"
The light finally enveloped everybody as they covered their eyes with their arms.
…
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-?-
"Mmmmhhmmm…" Tetsuya slowly opened his eyes, his hands on the… ground? Yeah he was lying prone. But it wasn't the silver ground of Virtua Forest, it felt rougher and he could feel tiny pebbles that crunched underneath his hands. His eyes, now opened wide, looked around, even though he instinctively knew that he was somewhere else and definitely not in the Virtua Forest. Now on his feet, he looked around to see where he was.
The mysterious place looked to be a craggy land with a few features reminiscent of a rocky landscape. There were only tall and small rocks and nothing else. When Tetsuya looked up, all he saw was a clear blue sky. The sky didn't seem real to him, though he didn't know how he came to that conclusion. After a few moments of deliberation, he decided to explore his surroundings.
"Jeez, where did Arisa send me to?" Making an annoyed face, he rubbed his head but then came to a realization.
"…Wait," He looked at the hand that he scratched his head with. The pocket knife was gone.
"Oh crap! Did I drop it?" He ran back and looked around again and again, but to no avail.
"Noooooo!" Tetsuya dropped onto his knees, with his hands on the firm, hard ground. Tetsuya rarely did this, and with good reason. That pocket knife… was also something special to him other than his headphones.
"I've gotta find it!" The boy yelled out loud. He began circling around the place only to find more rocks. He climbed onto a rock wall that had ledges.
"Guhhhh…. I really do need to work on my climbing..." Without hesitation, he continued climbing each ledge or jumping on them (with difficulties, he almost fell off the ledges several times).
"Wah! Now I'm feeling another chill again!"
Continuing to move up, he spots something shining above him. When he finally managed to reach the top, he realized what it was. The shine was emanating from the pocket knife. Tetsuya began to run towards it till he got a better look.
"It's floating?" Currently, it was inside a clear, floating sphere that was giving off its own light. Tetsuya resumed till he was inches away from the sphere. For some reason, he had the feeling that if he grabbed the knife now, something would shoot a laser ray at him, which would vaporize him on the spot. But he wanted the pocket knife; plus no one was here (probably). He lightly grabbed the floating pocket knife.
Well, well, what do we have here?
A voice called out as Tetsuya saw a shadow appearing behind the sphere the pocket knife was floating in. Tetsuya could only discern a few distinguishable features, since the shadow was covering most of the figure's appearance. From what he could tell, the figure was as tall he was and was wearing a jacket and long pants. The figure also seemed to have unkempt hair.
So she finally made him get the "power", huh?
Heh, no big deal, this guy is a moron after all, trying to save a girl despite meeting her for the first time.
"Huh?"
Don't worry about me, you'll learn soon.
"Who are you?"
I told ya, you'll know soon moron, when you finally meet 'them' again after all these years.
"Who's 'them'! Dammit, just who are you!"
Man, you haven't changed at all. Always so short-tempered, always demanding answers. Calm down for a bit.
Tetsuya glared at the figure, though its effect was quite lessened since he couldn't even see the figure's face to gauge his (or her?) reaction. This person seems to know a lot about him.
Ah it's coming. I guess I gotta go now.
"W-Wait!" Tetsuya tried to approach the figure, only to discover that his body wouldn't move. In fact, he was stuck in place as the land began to dissolve into darkness.
May we meet again, arrivederci…
Before Tetsuya could respond, he felt himself falling into unconsciousness.
…..Tet…..su…ya…Really…
…
-Virtua Forest (Depths)-
Tetsuya immediately opened his eyes. He found himself standing where he was once before, with the pocket knife in his hand.
'Who was that guy?'
Tetsuya gripped the pocket knife more firmly.
"Woah! That was really bright, I wonder what happened?"
Strangely, there wasn't even a hint of surprise in Arisa's voice when she said that.
"Arisa! What's with the pocket knife?"
Tetsuya didn't feel anything different. To him, nothing really happened.
"Hah… Gotta explain huh? But we don't have time so…. Wait actually I think I should just show you." Arisa pulled Tetsuya and Nepgear towards her to the point that the distance between them was probably about 5 centimeters.
"Hey, twins! Did ya tie the Underling?" Arisa looked over and saw Akako and Aoko tying up the Underling. They also placed duct tape on her mouth for good measure.
"Mmgggghhgggmmhhmm!"
"Underling-san, this is a really important scene right now so we can't let you bother it!" Akako exclaimed happily as she tightened the ropes.
"MMMgghHHHHHH!"
"Uh, I think you're suffocating her Akako," Tetsuya said with a dismayed face.
"Alright, with that done, Nepgear!"
"W-what!" Nepgear, with a blushing face, yelled out loud.
"Nepgear, did you notice that Tetsuya was about to take the hit for you?"
"Huh? S-so you mean what I saw was…" Nepgear said slowly as she looked at Tetsuya.
"…" He was quiet.
"Well, IF-chan was also about to, but Tetsuya reacted faster."
"You too IF-san!?"
"Wah! Umm, ahh…" IF looked shocked at what Arisa said.
"Look I know." Arisa said, putting a serious face. "Nepgear, I know you can't transform now because you're still traumatized over what happened at the Gamindustri Graveyard."
"That's why… you need to transform, not only to help your sister, Neptune, but to also overcome that trauma!"
"Yeah, like Arisa says" Akako and Aoko appeared behind Nepgear, causing her to jump.
"We'll help you too." Aoko put her hand on one of Nepgear's shoulders.
"Aoko-chan… Akako-chan… Arisa…-san."
"Oi! Come on Tetsuya." The twins tugged their older brother closer to Nepgear.
"Ow! Can't you guys be more gentle?" Tetsuya moaned as he looked at the twins, who smiled at him.
"Nii-chan can help you know!"
"Yeah… Nii-san always helps people!"
"Not really…"
"Go ask him." Arisa spoke towards Nepgear with a smile.
"Huh?"
"Go ask why he would save a cute girl like you."
Nepgear slightly blushed at the comment before shaking it off and looking at Tetsuya.
"Tetsuya-san."
"…" He was quiet again when she faced him.
"W-why…" Nepgear stuttered a bit until continuing.
"Why did you rescue me?" Tetsuya sighed and rubbed his head.
"Well…" He continued scratching his head until he… smiled?
"It's because I want to help you transform to save your sister obviously."
"Huh?" Nepgear said again.
"I mean we aren't going to be able to save your sister in one day. I just want you to regain your confidence, to be able to reunite with your sister, to help people, and other stuff."
"Tetsuya-san…" He began to walk up to her, showing that he was of course tall and brought out his hand and placed it on her… head.
"W-wha…"
*Rub* *Rub* *Rub*
"It feels nice doesn't it?" Once again, Tetsuya went back to his blankexpression and continued patting her head.
Feel good? To Nepgear, it felt surprisingly warm. Her face began to heat up again.
'What's with this warmth? It feels like kindness is radiating off from it. It feels like… Neptune. No…'
'A sibling's warmth…'
"Yuck. Enough of the soap opera crap." A voice had broken the nice mood.
"Wha! The Underling managed to untie herself?!"
"We even made it tight too!"
"Dang! It must be the Shares ASIC have right now. If they didn't have any right now, this would be easy."
Nepgear, now focused on the situation, began to think.
'I'm so scared, but I need to fight… I have to become stronger, otherwise all my friends will suffer…'
"I won't let that happen!"
All of a sudden, a bright, purplish light suddenly started emanating from Nepgear.
"Hey, Arisa! Look!" Akako pointed to Nepgear.
"She got her confidence back!"
The light got bigger till it suddenly exploded outwards.
Tetsuya was the first to see the transformation because he was the closet to Nepgear. Nepgear's hair not only started changing to a brighter shade, but it also grew all the way to her knees while her bangs grew as well. The clothes she wore were now gone, replaced with a white bathing suit with a revealing chest piece colored a bright lilac shade. It connected around the neck with similarly colored gloves and boots. Nepgear started slowly floating. Floating non-attached shoulder pads appeared, then around her waist 3 floating diamonds appeared, and finally, her hairclip changed to a round white piece with a blue center. 1s and 0s floated around her till they faded from view once the transformation finished.
Once again, another light exploded brightly.
"What!? Oh crap, you're a CPU!" The Underling exclaimed in shock after seeing Nepgear's transformation.
Nepgear finally opened her eyes, showing bright blue eyes. Attached to her right arm was a big gun blade that had the same features as her white and purple outfit.
"Prepare yourself! I'm not going to ever lose again!"
Nepgear dashed to Underling and whacked her like how she does with her beam saber. The Underling retaliated with her baton. Nepgear shrieked from the pain. Both of them had taken huge damage from each other, but Nepgear now had the upper hand with her transformation.
"Damn, she got stronger!" The Underling wasn't able to move much due to Nepgear's attacks.
Taking a few more hits, the Candidate decided to use her only SP skill: Mirage Dance.
"This is my sword dance! Mirage Dance!" Nepgear dashed with a swing to the hit the Underling, then she hit her again with another swing. Next, she did an upward swing, then a downward swing. On the last part of the dance, she let loose another swing so fast that the viewers could barely see it. The victor was already decided by that Skill alone.
"Gaaaah! Dammit, that's not fair! I mean, transforming and stuff? C'mon!" The Underling rudely exclaims out loud.
"I'll spare your life if you leave now in peace."
"'Oh yes ma'am, thank you so much… If you think I'd say that, pull your head outta your ass! I got a job to do!" The Underling ran towards the Mascot.
"No, wait!" Nepgear yelled.
"Why would I listen to you!? Urrryah!" The Underling used her baton and with a hard swing, smashed the Mascot into pieces.
"The Mascot…!"
"Hehehe. Serves it right."
"I'm all done here. Next up, Lastation's Mascot!"
"Don't you run away! Ugh, jeez. She's too fast for her own good." IF tried to get up but to no avail.
"Oh, no… The Mascot…"
"Worry not, CPU Candidate."
"Huh? A voice…? But, who…?"
"I am this nation's Mascot. How unexpected to have my body destroyed while I was sleeping…" A slight white glow appeared on a sphere like shape.
"U-um, so…you're okay? I mean, you're talking even after you got smashed to pieces…"
"'Okay' is not quite accurate, but fortunately, I was able to separate parts of my power from my body."
"Here. I will grant what power I have left to you."
"Goodness… This is the power of a nation's Mascot, then?"
"CPU Candidate, I have no way of knowing what has transpired since I began my long slumber… But I have faith that you will use my power for a just cause." Immediately, it had already vanished when giving its power to Nepgear.
"And just like that, the Mascot is gone. Man, that was a close call."
"Yes. But we managed, thanks to you, Tetsuya-kun."
"Eh? Tetsuya-kun?"
"Ah! I-I'm so sorry!"
"No, no it's okay, I don't mind."
"O-okay… but Tetsuya-kun." Nepgear floated in front of the boy.
"Um, Nepgear…?"
"Don't do something like that again, you'll make us worry again!"
"Ahahaha…" He lightly laughed with an aloof face.
"Yeah, Tet-Tet, like Gear-chan says, don't do something dangerous like that!"
"Man, the prince tried to save his princess." IF said next after Compa.
"Oi, IF, don't make it sound like that, you were about to do the same thing I was about to do." Tetsuya voiced the last part with a bit of teasing (probably?).
"H-hey!" IF blushed at his comment.
"Tet-Tet, it's not fair you get to be lovey-dovey with Gear-chan and Ai-chan! Include me too!"
'Compa, do even know what you're even saying?' Tetsuya said in his thoughts.
"Hey, what about us? We helped too you know." Arisa said with an eye raised.
"Yeah!" The twins exclaimed in together.
"Hahahaha… Sorry Arisa-san, Akako-chan, Aoko-chan, thank you."
"You're welcome. Phew, we have the Mascot's power. We should report back to Histoire now." Everybody nodded, and started heading back to the entrance of the Virtua Forest.
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-Planeptune's Basilicom-
After retrieving the Mascot's power, everybody returned to the Basilicom with IF reporting to Histoire.
"It appears you have indeed secured the power of Planeptune's Mascot. However…"
"We now know that ASIC and its cronies are aware of the Mascots' existence, too." IF says in a serious manner.
"Underling-san said she was gonna take a trip to Lastation next." Compa was right, the Underling blabbered out loud that she was going for Lastation's Mascot.
"We should quickly chase her, or she'll get there ahead of us again."
"I see that Nepgear-san's passion has been relit."
"Um, yes… I'm still fighting off some of my fear, but I should be fine now."
"Excellent. I suggest you do as I say and hurry over to Lastation."
"Regain Shares and seek the Mascots… Oh, I nearly forgot to give you an important piece of advice."
"What is it?"
"CPU Candidates like Nepgear-san reside in both Lastation and Lowee."
"That would make them Noire-san's and Blanc-san's younger sisters then…"
"CPU Candidates… Other girls like me…"
"Each nation has their own situation to deal with, so they may refuse at first… but making contact is vital."
"After all, I am certain they share your desire to save their sisters."
"Sounds like we have our plan. Let's get to Lastation!"
"Right!"
Once again, they were off on their journey of going to each country and finding the CPU Candidates. With Nepgear able to transform to her HDD form again, they were ready. There was going to be no obstacles stopping them now. To save Gamindustri and their older sisters!
Arisa stretched out on the chair she was on. "Ahhhh, finally I can have my break. At least I stopped 'that' from happening."
"Huh?" The twins had question marks floating above their heads as they actually don't know what Arisa was talking about.
"Don't tell me you forgotten?!" Arisa stood up from her chair with a fist out in front of her.
"Nepgear! Don't let Tetsuya deceive you!"
"H-huh!? Wh-why…?" Nepgear said surprised at Arisa's statement.
"Don't let Tetsuya's handsome looks and charming words deceive you! He just wants you to be in his cute girls-only har-"
*Bam!*
Arisa now lied on the floor with a big bump on her head.
"Don't tell them stupid lies, moron."
"I am sorrrrryyyyy…~"
Once again, the girls were shocked by his change in personality but the one most shocked was Histoire.
"Oh, but there's one thing that I should mention, Tetsuya." Arisa had one hand out.
"What?"
"Do you have homework?"
"Huh?"
"I said do you have H-O-M-E-W-O-R-K."
"Uhhhhh….. Don't we have to go to Lastation first?"
The room suddenly felt chilly now, with Arisa giving off an intimidating aura and a smile that promised pain beyond comprehension.
"We should rest first after all the conflicts we went through, so homework comes first."
"Uhhhh….." Tetsuya became dismayed at the woman's words.
"Tetsuya, I was thinking you might've only agreed to help Histoire and the others so you could have the perfect excuse to skip homework. Do you?" Arisa's smile and face became overly smug.
"Gah!" Tetsuya felt like an invisible arrow pierced through him as she said that. It was as if Arisa read his mind, though she wasn't psychic. She was right though, Tetsuya never liked doing homework. Thus, Arisa had to force him to do it for a reward.
"All right, let's do homework~" With that, Arisa began dragging him away with the twins following as well.
"No! No! I don't want to! NOOOOOOOO!" Tetsuya screamed loudly as they moved on to the next room.
The three girls were in a state of shocked silence after seeing another new aspect of the bot that just left. Suddenly, they started laughing.
"Ahahahahahahah!" Even Histoire laughed with them.
Scratch that, it looks like obstacles will pop up during their journey, whether they expect them or not.
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-?-
In the hall of an office building, the Underling was walking till she reached a door that had a golden plate that said "HEAD OFFICE" in printed letters.
"Boss, I'm reporting in."
The Underling, who was now in an office room which had features of a CEO's office, was reporting to her "boss", who was sitting in a chair with its back facing her. "Um, boss, I destroyed Planeptune's Mascot!"
"I see. I have another task for you and Warechu as well. Come in." The brown door opened to show a small dark grey mouse. He has red eyes and two white whiskers on each cheek. He has small maroon wings on his back. On his chest was a red and yellow broken heart design. He has a thin, black tail that has something similar to a big, black, broken heart at the tip. He holds a disc in one of his hands.
"I'm here boss, chu!"
"Good. I want you two to look for Lastation's Mascot now. Separate and find information on the Mascot. Got it?"
"Roger!" They said in unison.
"By the way, Linda, were there people after Planeptune's Mascot as well?"
"Y-yes boss! They were five broads and one boy. One of the broods was a CPU Candidate too!"
"Hmmm… I'm pretty sure one of them was the CPU Candidate of Planeptune. Hmm… Linda?"
"Y-Yes!"
"Can you tell me about the boy? His appearance for starters?"
"Of course boss! The guy has weird pink spiky hair with bleached bangs! And he has blue eyes too."
"Bleached bangs? What color were they?"
"It was, well, I guess red, orange, and yellow combined together…?"
"What's his name?"
"Oh! It's uh, what was it again, guh, damn!" The Underling rubbed her head till the memory came back.
"Oh yeah, the guy's name was Tet-uh, Tetsuya!"
"!" The "boss" made a sudden movement in her chair, though her back was still facing the duo.
"Boss?"
"I see… You should rest before going to Lastation. Alright, you two?"
"Yes boss!" The two of them exit out of the room to leave the boss alone.
"…." The boss stood up from her chair to show that the boss is indeed female. She looked out the window. From her position, she could see the four nations from the floor she was on. Then, a sly smile appeared on her face.
"Really? I hope to see you soon, Tetsuya."
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-Finally at Lastation-
After Tetsuya finished a huge amount of homework at the Basilicom, the group finally made the trip to Lastation. Nepgear looked around the city, the tall buildings were black according to its other name "The Land of Black Regality" or "steam punk" and a huge satellite was among them as well. She looked around the city in amazement.
"Wow, Lastation is chock full of nifty gadgets and machines…!"
"Is this your first time coming here, Gear-chan?"
"Yes, but I've heard stories from Neptune about it. She'd bring me baggies of gears sometimes…"
"Oooh, this place looks like so much fun for tinkering…! It'd be great if we could look around a bit…" Tetsuya swore that he saw Nepgear's eyes shining or was it his imagination?
"Cool your jets. We have more important things to deal with right now."
"Y-yeah, you're right. We have to do our best, or Lastation will be in danger… Must. Not. Window shop."
"Ai-chan, do you know of any leads."
"Well, we should head to the Guild first. We can get Intel and take on quests to recover Shares there, too." With that, everybody began the search for the Guild.
IF Event:
Nepgear: Histoire-san is the Guild's boss, right?
IF: Yeah, she's the Oracle and the Guild's manager. It's admirable that she can handle both roles.
Nepgear: How does Histoire-san act at the Guild? I only know her as an Oracle, so…
IF: Well… She seems to know everything, and can do just about anything… but…
-Planeptune's Basilicom-
Operative A: Histoire-sama! What are the estimated coordinates of ASIC's base of operations this time!?
Histoire: I am currently calculating. The result will be ready in about three days.
Operative A: That's way too slow!
Operative B: Histoire-sama, do you have any information on this suspect?
Histoire: That is a familiar face, but I will need about three hours to remember.
Operative B: Can't you do it in three minutes!?
Operative C: Pardon me, Histoire-sama. I require a map showing all know distribution points of Arfoire products.
Histoire: I can prepare that for you, however, compiling the data and mapping it out will take about three months.
Operative C: In three months, the entire map will be outdated!
-Back to IF, Nepgear, Tetsuya, and Arisa-
IF: She takes way too long to do anything.
Nepgear: Ahahaha… That's our Histoire-san.
Arisa: That's also the reason why it took three years to get Shares too.
Tetsuya: ….*Chew**Chew*(Currently just following along with two strawberry Pocky sticks in his mouth and playing his Rubix cube).
Compa Event:
Compa: Everybody, please listen up. I am now a fully licensed nurse practitioner!
Nepgear: Golly, congratulations! You were just an intern when we first met, right?
Compa: Tee-hee! While you were away, I was studying my bum off.
Nepgear: I see. Three years is a long time…
Nepgear: Oh, but if you've become a nurse, you have to work at a hospital, right?
Compa: Oh, don't sweat the small stuff. Let's just say they let me put in all my vacation hours, okay?
Nepgear: If you take too long of a vacation, won't they fire you…?
Compa: If they do, I'll work at a free clinic or something!
Compa: More importantly, if I'm gone, who'd take care of you and Ai-chan when you get covered in bruises?
Nepgear: Compa-san…you're so nice to us! Thank you for everything!
Compa: No problem! You can get slapped silly as often as you want, because I'm here to bandage you up!
Nepgear: Hahaha. Now it sounds like you enjoy it when we're injured…
Tetsuya: …Seems like it.
Arisa, Akako, Aoko, and IF: (Nods in unison).
Highschool Version: New People... Again!
(Currently walking back home with Tetsuya, Nepgear, IF, and Compa)
Underling: Hah! Give all your money!
(Dashes towards Nepgear)
Nepgear: Kyaahhh!
Tetsuya: Watch out!
(Takes the hit for Nepgear).
Nepgear: Yuugita-san!
(Holding his body)
?: Hiyaahhh!
(Kicks the Underling towards Tetsuya)
Underling: Ouch!
Tetsuya: Ow!
?: Yeah! We stopped the thief!
(A old lady shows up!)
Old Lady: Hey!
Tetsuya: Arisa...
Later on the next day after that crisis. She and new students joined at the school Tetsuya's at.
Tetsuya: WHY?!
AN: Phew, I hope this chapter was better than the others. Ugh, in some of the few chapters I had to edit some. Some of you guys might or might not like but that's what I think.
Tetsuya: How come it took about 2 or 1 month to finish this Author!
AN: Ummmm...
Arisa: Hope the Author wasn't lazy again.
Author: Hey!
Akako: But hey we finally made a real appearance!
Aoko: Yeah, we just appeared as silhouettes.
AN: Hey guys! Don't spout out things new viewers want to hear! *Sighs* Whatever its time to end this chapter now.
Everbody: Yeah!
Everybody leaves except for Author.
AN: As usual, I answer some questions and other stuff but yeah. Hope you guys will be seeing chapter 4! Bye bye!
Author finally leaves.
