"BLANC GET OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!"
"NO, I DON'T WANNA!"
"Come on Blanny, I promise I won't stare!"
After C-Sha walked in on their argument, Blanc had shoved Neptune off and ran back towards the vents. She was rational enough to understand running wouldn't work and would just cause problems, but she still couldn't bring herself to head back into the room. Neptune and C-Sha had tried to convince her to come back… with little success.
"Blanny, I'll look away and give Neptune your tissue, is that ok?" C-Sha had realized Blanc would never come out as long as she was there and offered a compromise with a sympathetic expression.
"Yeah you can't keep putting this off!" Neptune chimed in with a less sympathetic expression, annoyed with Blanc's refusal to confront C-Sha. She was currently sitting on C-Sha's shoulder, wearing a tissue like a towel.
"Uuuuuh… fine." Blanc replied with a whimper. "But you better not make fine of me Neptune!"
"I promise." Neptune agreed to Blanc's demand. "Put me down C-Sha!"
"Ok!" C-Sha brought her hand up to Neptune, allowing her to jump on it. "Try not to make fun of her too much" She whispered into Neptune's ear before putting her down with Blanc's tissue.
"Rodger!" Neptune cheerfully replied. "Ok Blanc, come out!"
"Not until C-Sha is gone!"
"Sigh, try and calm her down Neptune." C-Sha left the room, leaving Neptune and Blanc alone.
X
"So Blanc, are you going to run this time?"
"No."
"And are you going to cry about how C-Sha hates you or whatever?"
"No."
"And are you going to going to complain that C-Sha seeing you nearly naked is embarrassing?"
"But it is."
"Wrong answer."
Neptune had given Blanc her tissue after coming out of the vent, which she quickly put on, and began to lecture her about running away again. Blanc knew that she had to confront C-Sha, but doing so was something she wasn't prepared for.
"But I'm so flat and small, and she's so big and busty." Blanc said with tears in her eyes. "I can't do this."
Blanc's inferiority complex about her breasts, combined with her crush on C-Sha, caused Blanc to fall into a pit of despair that felt infinite. It would take the calming words of a true friend to soothe her mind and give her the courage to face her fears.
"HEY C-SHA WE'RE READY!"
Or shock therapy.
"WAIT I'M NOT REA-MMMPH!" Blanc attempted to stop C-Sha, but Neptune covered her mouth silencing her.
"Oh no, we aren't doing this again!" Neptune moved behind Blanc to restrain her. "I don't wanna drag your insecurities out another chapter."
As the two girls were fighting, the door opened. "Are you two ready?" C-Sha timidly asked as she walked in, her face tinted pink.
"LET ME GO!" Blanc pushed off Neptune, falling forward and losing her tissue in the process. This left her naked once more, flat on her stomach, right in front of C-Sha.
"…"
"…"
"…"
After a few seconds with none of them moving, Blanc stared to quietly sob.
X
"So… could you two explain this to me?"
"After Blanc tried to run again before being tackled by Neptune (I'll save the details) C-Sha picked us up and placed us on the desk so we could explain why we were small and naked."
"Neptune, you know that wasn't what C-Sha meant."
"Aw fine. Anyway, I snuck inside to play with Blanc and then Rom and Ram shrunk us and then-"
"Neptune, just let me explain."
The situation was more or less as Neptune described, with the two of them on the desk with C-Sha in front of them, listening to their explanation. Blanc explained what happened, leaving out a few of her more embarrassing reactions.
"I think I understand Blanny, but why did you hide when I came into the room? You know I would have helped." C-Sha was somewhat hurt by Blanc's reluctance to ask for help.
"W-well you see, I-I was just" Blanc stammered out an excuse, or tried to at least.
"She's mad cause you haver bigger breasts can we get on with this!" Neptune shouted the answer, causing both C-Sha and Blanc's faces to burn red.
"That's not true!" Blanc attempted to deny the obvious.
"Then why were you crying about how C-Sha will mock you for it!"
"I NEVER SAID THAT!" Blanc started to cry.
"Yes you did! You wouldn't shut up about your stupid flat chest and how C-Sha is so much better!"
"I didn't say that C-Sha!" Blanc turned to C-Sha with tears flowing down her face.
"Could I say something Blanny?"
"Y-yes?" Blanc's voice started to crack.
"I always found you to be adorable, ever since we partnered up as the golden pair. I cherish every part of you, from your adorable chest, your soothing voice, your calming face, and your ability to tear an army to shreds." C-Sha, who had been thinking during the CPU's argument, calmly explained her feeling about the Lowee CPU. "I could never live without you, I truly do love you Blanny."
C-Sha's speech left the two CPUs speechless, taking around 30 seconds for any words to be spoken.
"L-love?" Blanc managed to choke out one word, the most important one.
"I mean as a friend of course, that's all!" C-Sha's face flared up as she tried to backtrack with a panicked voice.
"Y-yeah, that's what I thought." Blanc muttered with a disappointed tone.
"Looks like she's an idiot too." Neptune muttered to herself. "Can we move on now? Rom and Ram might know what to do." Neptune usually doesn't break character, but at this point she was the only one who could get the others on track.
"R-right."
"We probably should."
Blanc and C-Sha sheepishly remembered the situation and tried to push the previous conversation out of their mind.
"Just pick us up and bring us to the Twins' room… preferably without anybody seeing us." Neptune suggested.
"I'll try, but my outfit doesn't exactly give me a lot of options on how to carry you." C-Sha gestured to her cleavage exposing outfit, much to Blanc's embarrassment.
"Just put us in your hat then. Blanc and I can just sit in it, close together, rubbing our bodies against eachoth-"
BONK!
"Put us in your hat, you're pretty tall and nobody will be able to look in if you carry it around." Neptune gave a more logical reason, motivated by the large bump on her head.
"I guess that works" C-Sha agreed to Neptune's plan, still flustered at how it was described. The group left the security room and headed towards the Twins' room.
"Oh, by the way Blanny."
"Yes?"
"The girl in the book you wrote, was I used as a visual reference?"
"GAH!"
X
"After another wacky comedy scene of Blanc trying to deny her obvious crush, the group managed to finally meet Rom and Ram in their room, only to find they were less than happy with what they had discovered." Neptune narrated to herself as the Twins argued with Blanc.
"Why didn't you tell us!"
"We change clothes here! You can't watch us like that!"
"I didn't spy on you two, I was going to remove the cameras!"
"Blanc attempted to explain how she wasn't the one who added the camaras, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. While she was honest about not watching them and how she made the camaras only activate when authorized personnel are present, that was not enough to soothe their anger."
"But why didn't you just remove them in the first place?"
"That would have been easier than locking them off."
"Well… I was busy, and we might have been attacked while I was reorganizing the nation. I thought that I could keep you safe if I had a better view of the Basilicomm, so I put off removing them until things settled down." Blanc attempted to justify her delayed removal of the security system.
"Blanny, no excuses. You know that what you did was wrong, we didn't stop Azna=Leb as the Golden Pair just so you could keep his systems in place." C-Sha scolded her, reminding her of why they fought. "Lowee is a beautiful place, I don't want to worry about being watched at every moment."
C-Sha brought her face up to Blanc and whispered. "A friend of mine told me about a secret stash of photos Azna=Leb had of your sisters; I really don't want somebody else to use this and make more" Blanc's blood ran cold upon hearing this.
"Now, are you going to apologize and fix this?"
"… Yes." Being scolded by C-Sha backed Blanc into a corner and being reminded of what could happen to her sisters gave her no room to weasel her way out of fault. "I promise to remove the cameras and delete all footage recorded from them." Blanc said with a defeated look towards her sisters. "Can you forgive me?"
"NO!" Ram refused to accept her apology.
"Ram, she just wanted to protect us." Rom tried to soothe her sister.
"She needs to do more; I'm not convinced she's sorry!"
"I'll do anything!" Blanc tried to earn her sister's forgiveness.
"Ram, maybe she could model for us like in her book." Rom remembered what they were doing before C-Sha came in and told them not to read the book anymore.
"Well, I guess that would be ok."
"Wait hold on I'm naked!" Blanc, only wearing a now semitransparent tissue, objected.
"But wasn't the girl in your book naked as well?" Rom, confused as to why that was a problem, asked Blanc why the girl wasn't embarrassed, but Blanc was.
"T-that was for anatomy practice, it was artistic, nothing more." Blanc stuttered as she tried to come up with an answer.
"Well, we want to practice too." Ram justified Rom's request. "If it's just art it should be ok, unless you're lying."
"I'm not!" Blanc panicked "I'll do it right now to prove it!"
"Oh no you don't!" Neptune stepped in before things got too off track. "You two need to work on fixing this problem right now!" She reminded the twins that this situation was their fault.
"Ram, she's right, it's our fault their like this." Rom felt guilty after being reminded of what they did. "Let's try and fix this."
"…Yeah, we messed up." Ram looked down in guilt. "We'll go back to the room where we set up the spell and see what went wrong." Ram's anger subsided as Rom calmed her down. "I'm sorry for getting mad Blanc."
"It's fine. I'm sorry for spying on you." Blanc gestured for the twins to move closer. "Come here." The twins moved their faces closer, and Blanc gave them a quick kiss on their cheeks. "Now, please hurry, this is really embarrassing."
The twins agreed and ran off, leaving the group of three alone together.
"Now then Blanc, get ready to be a model!" Neptune said with a smile.
"What! Why?" Blanc's face turned red.
"Because you still need to prove there is nothing illicit about nude modeling, you wouldn't want your sisters to realize what they read was naughty right? You do remember what you said?"
"They'll just forget about it; we really don't need to do this." Blanc tried to get out of her promise to the twins.
"Let's ask C-Sha!" Neptune shouted. "Hey C-Sha, you wanna paint Blanc don't you!"
"Well, I have been wanting to take up something more relaxed, and it would be a shame to waste the material the twins set up, I guess we don't really have a choice." C-Sha agreed with Neptune, using shaky logic to hide her desire to paint Blanc.
"Two against one I win!" Neptune dragged Blanc in front of the easel and took off their tissues. "Make us look good!" She said as she hugged Blanc from behind, a pose designed to emphasize Blanc and prevent her from running.
"Don't worry Neptune, I got this!" C-Sha confidently picked up a brush, determined to make Blanc look as good as possible.
How did I get into this? Blanc thought as she accepted her fate.