In the previous chapter, the makers managed to find the Mascot of Lowee who is located deep in a virtual dungeon, after a small accident that happened concerning the Mascot, the group explained the situation to the entity and the reason why they were here but it refuse and proceeded to explain why but in halfway she got interrupted by a ASIC agent who showed up but not just any…
The gray skinned human stands in front of the group of makers, she have her pipe on her shoulder, she is confused and angry at the same time…
"What are you doing here?" Asks the Underling
"To prevent the ASIC form taking over Gamindustri, which include preventing them form destroying Mascots." Responds the Inventor
The underling have a sweat drop "Okay… there is 6 of them visibly, I'm not even sure that I can beat all of them." She clenches her fist while thinking "But there is seem to be nobody that can transform or some bull shit among them, they are probably just some randoms, outside that fucker… and those two people in armor remind me something… I should get rid of the mascot to get that machine."
Id get her shotgun "I'm not letting her escape. Not after what she did to you."
"Wait." Bethesda says "Something off with her."
"What do you mean?"
"The first time that I encountered her, she seemed just some fairly weak random underling but now… I feel something different about her."
"Then let me check it out!" Id says and dashes towards the underling
"FOR FUCK SAKE WAIT!" Bethesda yells as he runs after her, he stops and turns back "You 4 keep protecting the Mascot! Its a personal business."
"We got it." Retro sighs
Bethesda turns back and runs, he crosses the corridor…
At the same moment, Id is chasing the underling
A pixelvader appears to jumps on Id
Id turns on the direction of the monster and...
BANG
...she immediately blasts it away with her double barrel
"Holy shit, that muscle head is running a way faster than me! She gonna catch me up! But I think I isolated her…" the underling jumps and rolls on the right
BANG
Id shots again but misses the underling who rolled just in time
The underling then jumps up and strike her pipe on the slayer
Id blocks the pipe with her arm
CRACK
Not without damage… The underling smirks
POW
Id counter-attacks by punching The underling in the jaw, Id then hold her injured arm
the attack was so violent that she fell on the ground "Shit, now I remember that its the girl that genocide monsters, I gotta quickly finish with her." she quickly get back up. The underling dashes and swing the pipe towards the enemy head
Id quick steps aside and evade the attack and throw a kick in the waist of the underling
underling get hit and cause her to steps back…
VVRRRRMMMMT
… And ducks, closely dodging a chainsaw that nearly cut off her head, instead cutting a part of her hood and a bit of her hair, she then immediately jumps on the slayer
Id fall on the ground and drops her chainsaw
BONK BONK BONK
The underling hit in a quick succession the helmet of Id with the bottom part of the pipe until it pops out and reveal her face, she then raise it…
BANG BANG BANG BANG
But four bullets hits the underling arms, making her drops her pipe
"AAARRRGGH! FUCK THAT'S FUCKING HURTS!" Screams the gray skinned humanoid while holding her bleeding arm
She then looks everywhere and see on the south-west of the area stands Bethesda holding a smoking revolver "I just used the B.A.T.S, hope that was worth it." The inventor then aim for the underling torso
But suddenly a Phoenix brutally charges Bethesda and hit him with his head
Bethesda helmet get thrown an away and the Inventor himself get propelled and hits the ground, he slides on the blocks that make the floor and fall in a pit but manage to catches himself on an edge, the pit seem bottomless and only darkness can be seen, he can tell it by seeing his gun falling in and vanishing he then looks up and tries to get back up
The phoenix pops up and attempt to peck Bethesda hands
Bethesda slide his hand
The phoenix tries again
Bethesda slide his hand again
This continues for a dozen of seconds…
Id comes up and jumps on the phoenix, she grabs it with one hand and saw the head of the monster with her chainsaw on her on her injured hand, decapitating it
Bethesda sighs in relief "You killed her?"
Id grabs Bethesda hand and helps him to get back on the ground "No she managed to get away, I preferred to save you instead of just pursuing her, especially after what you did."
"Your arm..." Bethesda says
"It's fine."
"pretty sure its not. Just don't move." Bethesda says as he get a syringe and he use it on the Id arm
"What you did."
"It will heal you up in a few second. Anyway why the hell you didn't listened to me?"
"You said it was just an underling."
"You should be more cautious, that the same reason in nearly died I have to remind you."
"Heh. They say that revenge is a dish served cold but I'm not into that mindset."
"Its a true sentence and you didn't wanted to get it served cold but burning hot. At least think a little more before rushing."
"Sure thing."
"Where she went?"
"Over there." Id says while pointing at the direction of the first floor there is also a blood trail that lead to it
[Meanwhile, on an other area of the Virtual dungeon.]
Linda is sitting behind a giant block, putting bandages over her crippled arm
"What happened? You were fighting?"
"Yeah no joke, argh fuck, you didn't hear gunshots?"
"Who that was?"
"Some makers I think, there is 6 and among them there is the Inventor and the Slayer and they are guarding the Mascot. You told me that there is going to be nobody!"
"That's wasn't planed at all! Looks like that its gonna be more dificult than we expected then. Look like you would have no choice but to use the machine I told you about."
"I wouldn't have other choice anyway. There is the Inventor and the Slayer who are after me, can you take control of a bit and help me to avoid them? I sure can't survive for long if I have to fight the two of them a the time. But its also a good thing by the way since I can get extra minions in the dungeon while a get away form them and attack the mascot."
"Sure thing darling."
A ASIC bit flies over the plains and finds the portal, its enter it
"Okay it entered the maze. I will try to locate you."
The bit flies and observe the ground it see one immobile silhouette hiding and two other one getting close and following some blood drops
"They are really close to you. Get outta here, quick!"
Linda don't wait and moves away form the location
At the same moment Bethesda and Id are moving trough, they stay near a block pillar, Bethesda make a hand sign to tell Id to stop moving, which she does, Bethesda looks at the corner and see some pieces of bandages, he then looks a the other side of the area and see the underling running back towards the 2nd floor
B.A.T.S
Times freezes as Bethesda activate his ability…
Underling: right leg (ERROR: out of range)
He remembered that he lost his gun, but something else on the corner of his eye pick his attention… and see a monster jumping on him with his claw! but well its currently frozen
Icy Hedgehog: Head (95%)
BONK
Times resumes and Bethesda instantly hit the small rodent monster in the head, it fall on the ground, he finish it by stomping its head, Bethesda hold his head for a second
"Are you okay?"
"Just a small headache, it happens when I use the B.A.T.S multiple time in a short succession." Bethesda responds "Can you give me your shotgun? My revolver fallen in the pit." and then asks
Id silently pass over her double barreled shotgun to Bethesda
"Thanks." says Bethesda as he check the gun if its loaded and it is "Let's get going!"
Bethesda and Id restarts to run after the underling, a pixelvader attempts to stop them…
VVVRRRRRMMMM
...in vain since Id just cut it in half on their way, several monsters ambushes them but the only thing they do is slowing them down
[Meanwhile, in the Mascot room…]
The makers are guarding the Mascot but to this point they are more like waiting…
"There is something that freaking hilarious that the CPU told me about."
"You personally know the CPU?"
"Yes I'm one of her favorites makers. But anyway want to hear it?"
"Sure, we got nothing to do for the moment."
"So there is that time quite long ago not really sure when exactly but a Leanboxian diplomat went to the Basilicom, she wanted to have an audience with the goddess and the oracle."
"And?"
"And the reason of the audience was..." Alphadream starts giggle "She said: "Leanbox have a big interest in your beautiful nation and would like to integrate them to our nation, in exchange you will receive a big amount of credits!" Aplhadream start to lose his shit and guffaw
Everyone laughs expect Retro who we can't tell if she is laughing or not
"Fumiest shit I ever heard!" Retro says
But she apparently liked it
"Seriously did they really expected to buy a literal nation just like that?" NLG says
"Probably." Responds Alphadream
"But while we are talking about Leanboxian, that was a moment that the two didn't came back. Should we look for them?"
"Yeah but who's gonna guard the Mascot?."
"Well..."
Sounds of approaching footsteps stop their thoughts, A group of monsters composed of are passing the corridor trough a smokescreen! The makers immediately get their weapons
"We got company!" HAL says
"Remember to keep an eye on the Mascot!" Alphadream says
Four icy hedgehogs charges ahead
Aplhadream stands in front and swing with his mallet
They all dodged the attack by jumping in the air
WWOOOSSHHHH
NLG use her vacuum cleaner and sucks in the direction of the monsters
They get dragged in until one reach it and get stuck on it
NLG proceed by shaking the vacuum hose and slamming it on the ground, she does it multiples times,
She doesn't pay attention that one of the Icy hedgehog who dashes in her direction…
PEEEEEWWWWWWW
…but get disintegrated by a beam fired form Retro
Also unlike Alphadream said, everyone is focusing on fighting theses rodent monsters and no one is protecting the Mascot…
"He he he..." The underling laughs as she gets up, she managed to easily sneak in...
[Meanwhile...]
Bethesda and Id are running trough the maze and finally see the corridor form afar, the sound of fighting can be heard for there, they are a pit apart form the corridor
"Oh fuck! She must have sent extra monster to attack them!"
"Come on!"
"We won't be quick enough but I have another idea."
"What is it?"
Bethesda summon a jammer "get in front of me."
Id steps forward and get in front of Bethesda
Bethesda then activate the jammer "Hope my theory works..."
UNRELENTING FORCE
"FUS RO DAH!" Yells Bethesda
Immediately after, Id took off by the powerful wave of force provoked by Bethesda
At the same moment the underling managed to get to the Mascot without getting spotted, she grab her iron pipe and raise it and strike it down
CRRRICCCK
The disc start to cracks
GLORY STRIKE
BOOM
The underling get suddenly punched fucking hard in the jaw by Id who got propelled trough the pit and the hallways by Bethesda spell, it was so strong that it provoked a light shock wave, the underling got sent flying on the other side of the room and hit hard a block, she then collapse on the ground
Id got actually a finish move called GLORY STRIKE, she with her bare hands deal a brutal attack to enemy which can kill it easily but since she got boosted by Bethesda UNRELENTING FORCE that increased her speed and so her physical strength, the attack was even more devastating
"Wow, she managed to sneak past us?" HAL says
Id nods
"Grrr! Dammit! I told you guys to keep watching for the Mascot!" Says Alphadream
"Yet you didn't do it yourself little man." Id responds
"There was monsters attacking! I couldn't just stay here doing nothing!"
"U-uh no need to start scream at each other for that!" NLG pleads
"She is right. At least we got rid of the syndicalist trooper." HAL adds
They shortly get joined by Bethesda who ran down the hallway
"The mascot is fine?" He says
Alphadream take a look at it, Its a bit damaged
"Good. Well I think we should call the Basilicom to report them what happened."
"Uh. Sir. What do we do of her?" NLG says while looking at the partially mangled body of the underling
"Oh…"
"She was about to smash the Mascot but with your trick I managed to prevent her to just in time."
"That sound a bit like a random thing you pulled out of nowhere to save the situation." HAL comments
"Also called a Deus ex machina." Adds Alphadream
"No its justified. Bethesda told me about his spell of… How you call it?"
"UNRELENTING FORCE. But I can only use if I enable a jammer because apparently the microchip I have in the brain prevents me form using this kind of magic. And anyway its not the first time there is Deus ex machina in that fanfic."
"Maybe you should train to use weaker spells without the jammer?" Alphadream says
"I could do that but I don't really have time to do so. Well now allow me to examine the corpse of the other whore..." Bethesda says while walking towards the Underling
He reaches her body and look closely at her jaw
"Holy shit Id! You destroyed her fucking jaw!" says Bethesda look behind him
"K-Killa-chine… kill- them..." Underling hardly says before fainting out
"Uh… Someone know what is a Killa-chine?"
"You mean a Killachine?" Alphadreams corrects
"Yeah whatever."
"I think it's some very old machines that was known to be a weapon of mass destruction made by Arfoire but I'm they disappeared a long time ago..."
BBBRRRRR
A sound of starting similar of an old truck engine resonate inside of the room
"Uh? Is that your armor that do that sound?" NLG asks looking at Retro
"What? No!"
A huge robot reveal itself it crosses the blocks that encircle the Mascot room by hovering them it arrives on the side. About the appearance it have the shape of a snake, it seem to have a blade at the end of the tail and have a triangular head in shape of a V but with also have mechanical arms who are not connected to the main body, the two of them are carrying a weapon: a spiked mace for the right one and a one head axe on the other both weapon have some kind of red colored metal on the spikes/blade
KILLACHINE💀
(Mick Gordon – Rip & Tear starts playing)
"T-that's a Killachine!" Alphadream says
"Uh! Of course otherwise I suppose that chapter would have quickly ended!" Bethesda comments
The Killachine quickly advances towards Bethesda while raising its mace
BONK
Bethesda quickly blocks it with his round shield, Bethesda quickly prepares for a counter-attack
DRAGON BUSTE-
but the attack still knocks him down, it interrupts his skill, he breathes heavily
"Are you okay?" NLG asks
"Ugh just a bit tired. Not sure why." Bethesda responds while getting back on his feet he then check his shield "Oh shit."
He drop his destroyed shield and changes to Id's double barreled shotgun
"That ain't a cheap R4 for sure." Bethesda continues
"We are six against one. It should be not that hard." Alphadream comments
"I doubt it." adds NLG
The Killachine continues to advance towards Bethesda while raising its axe this time
PEW PEW PEW
Three energy balls hit the machine
The Killachine turns back to see an armored woman armed with an arm cannon, it quickly moves towards her
"Good, I can't miss it now." Thinks Retro as the Killachine get closer and closer a purple sparks exit form the arm cannon
ZERO BEAM
PEEEWWWWWW
A blue and large laser bream comes out of Retro arm cannon, the size is around twice her size
It successfully hit the Killachine head, the laser phases trough and can be seen form afar, some bystanders inside of the Virtual maze see it
"Wow! Look!" RED says while pointing at the lightwho disappear shortly after
"That's pretty, but what is it?"
"I think that's was laser."
"I think so, I wonder what could have been firing it!" Nepgear says, in her usual enthusiasm when she see something that have to do with technology
"We are not here for tourism Gear… But maybe its possibly some fighting… Transform and go find the source of the laser!"
"Okay!" Nepgear transforms and takes altitude and flies in the direction of the source of the beam
[Back at the makers.]
The Killachine head is partially destroyed, the circuits and cables are exposed, but the war machine is now attacking HAL...
HAL manage to block his assault with his frying pan
The Killachine remove his axe and then attack with his mace
"How that's possible?" Retro says, her armor got some scratch "Nothing survived to my Zero Laser!"
"At least it did something." NLG says "I doubt that my vacuum will do anything. I have also a flash light to blind ghosts but on a machine… And it also got a long recharge time."
"Uhm…" Bethesda starts to think of something "Are you able to use your laser again?" Bethesda asks to Retro
"No… It slowly charges up and uses 95% of the energy of my armor." Retro explains
"How your armor work by the way?"
"By magic, and I nearly empty right now."
"We should try attacking the damaged part." Alphadream comments "NLG could try to blind it."
"Nice idea! But this would work only one time and we need an attack that could kill it instantly." Bethesda says
"AAAHHHH! OUCH!" HAL just hit the ground next to the other guys, he got sent flying by the Killachine
The Killachine directly looks at them and start to advance but Id jumps on it, distracting it
BERSERKER SPIRIT
A redish aura encircle Id, she grasp the neck of the machine with one hand and start cutting trough it with a chainsaw
The Machine attempt to get her off, it run and hit hard a block on the side of the room, it does it multiples times, it spins in all directions but nothing seem to stop the monster slayer!
"Wow, your adoptive sister is freaking beast!" NLG comments
"Her muscles are not here just to decorate and say that she is a tomboy!" Says the Inventor
Something in the sky takes HAL attention "Urgh… Is that an angel?"
"What are you talking about?" Bethesda says and looks up, he gasps "YES!" He yells, he shakes his hand to pick the attention of the flying humanoid "NEPGEEAAAAAARRRRR!" He yells at full lungs
Up here, Purple Sister is observing the Battle between the man vs machine "They told us about Bethesda and other makers sent to guard the Mascot, the Mascot is here on its sanctuary, seemingly undisturbed by the fighting."
"Nepgear!" A voice form afar says
She looks on the side and see a familiar silhouette waving at her, she quickly recognize who this is and dives down
"Bethesda!" she says
"Effectively that's me! That's would be a bit long to explain but can you help us to get rid of that killer robot?"
"Uh, okay!"
"So we were making a plan to destroy it, NLG the girl with the football armor with a vacuum cleaner will blind it and at this moment you will use your most powerful attack to destroy the exposed part of this head! See the part with the exposed components?"
"Yes."
"You two, do it now! I'm sure that Id strong as she is won't hold any longer!"
About Id, she is still sawing the neck of the Killachine, until…
CLONK
The chainsaw stops cutting, she lift it up to see the problem, the Chainsaw blades broke, Id red aura disappears
The Killachine takes advantage and throw off Id on the ground, it lift its axe to kill Id…
NLG slides in, pointing the vacuum cleaner directly at the head of the killer robot, there is a flash light right next to the hose
FLASHER
A blinding light is emitted by the flashlight, the machine seem to immobilize for a second
This small opening allows Nepgear to engage the exposed part of the Killachine
MIRAGE DANCE
Purple Sister spins on herself and slash with her gunblade two times the weakened spot of the machine, she comes back and slash again and again in a back-and-forth movement and then deliver a final hit by charging the machine annihilating the remaining components, she then lands behind it
The surviving exposed parts of the Killachine takes fire, the robot then finally falls on the ground
(Music stops)
The survivors cheers upon triumphing on the nearly invincible robot: man won against the machine, well the goddess dealt the final hit but it doesn't really count
"Yeah! Nice job everyone!"
"I have to tell the others, I will be back soon." Nepgear says as she starts taking off
"Okay and thank you we probably wouldn't managed to beat that thing if you didn't came." Bethesda says, smiling
Nepgear stops elevating herself and hovers, she looks at Bethesda "Oh! Uh… you're welcome!" She says and then flies away
Shortly after, Id comes to Bethesda "So mission complete?"
"Mission complete!" Bethesda says while raising his hand to Id
Id hesitate for a bit and then high five Bethesda
"Ouch. Shit you got some power in your hand, or that I'm pretty tired."
"Uh… How many times you used a skill in total?" Alphadream says
"2 or 4 times I think, I might have used it more."
"That's not good, you overused skills, that's why you are tired as hell." Alphadream says "But I have something that can fix that." Alphadream hand over a green and white mushroom to Bethesda
"And what I'm supposed to do with it?"
"Eat."
Bethesda looks at it and takes a bite in it. Fully eat it after a few bites
Super Mario bros 1-up sound effect plays
"I feel a better now. Thanks."
[Later.]
Nepgear comes back with IF and Compa, there is also the red haired girl among them, IF looks at the room of the mascot, she notice the destroyed robot and the tied underling far back in the area
"Hello again Candidate." Bethesda says
"So I had to go because originally I was flying over the zone to check about that laser."
"Well, great that it attracted your attention, the one who did it is that armored woman over there." Bethesda says while pointing at Retro who is currently fixing her arm cannon with a screw diver
"Woman?!" The red haired girl says
"...But we will re-talk about it later okay? You got something to do."
"Yes." Nepgear says and advances to the Mascot
IF approaches the body of the underling, she checks if she still breathing and she does, she looks at her jaw by the way, she whistle seeing the damage
"Something wrong?" Id asks to the Guild agent
"Not much. I was just wondering how she managed to get her jaw broke like that."
"That's simple, Bethedsa propelled me by using a weird shouting spell and I used on of my finisher on her."
"Wow… A shouting spell you said?"
Id nods "he yelled something like Fus ro dah or something like that."
"Really?"
Id nods
"So it wasn't a lie?" IF thinks she then looks back at the underling
A sound of moaning distract the two makers, they look at the underling, she starts to slowly move, Alphadream join them
"She is becoming conscious again." Alphadream says
At the same time the Mascot is currently talking to Nepgear
"…That said, I cannot help you. It would go against the order that your own sister gave me. Or would you wish to ignore your sister's commands and force me to come along with you?"
"Th-That's… But Neptune's being captive, so… Um, well, I mean, we could..."
"Sorry. Perhaps my words were a bit harsh. But that's not the only reason why I must remain here. The oracle of Lowee gave me a very important mission. I cannot abandon this duty, no matter what. See that destroyed machine in front of you?"
Nepgear leans a bit and see what remains of the Killachine, there is the redhead and the armored girl and another girl with a vacuum cleaner talking near it
The Candidate then speaks "Yes. I contributed to defeat it… Sort of."
"My mission was to seal these machines that the ASIC are trying to take control of. If I leave or even just lend some power to you is a huge risk seal get disabled and theses machines could get used against us."
"Wait. There is more of them?"
"Yes, this place was used to contain them, and not only, these automation are scattered all around Lowee but disabled with my seal, but as you can see one managed to activate. That ASIC agent damaged me and it weakened it."
Nepgear looks on the Mascot and see's the crack
"That mean we must find a way to repair you."
"Its tough not a priority, the damage was just a minor one it will vanish over time."
"And you can just lend a part of your power?"
"I'm sorry to tell that I also don't know the technique to do such a thing, and it would also theoretically weaken the seal, coming back to the initial problem."
"Hang on I think I can do something at least for the scratch." Alphadream comes to the Mascot
He then summon another green and white mushroom
"Hope this will work on discs..."
He then drops the mushroom on Mascot and it absorbs it
Super Mario bros 1-up sound effect plays
The crack on the Mascot vanishes
"Looks like this worked."
"That sure fixes the problem of the seal but about the other o-"
A bright light shine trough the room coming form the Mascot, everyone turns back, there is now two Mascot?
"Uh..."
Everyone is visibly confused
"This is… Me? How did that happen?" The Mascot says
"I wish I could tell you, me. So you don't know either?" The other Mascot responds
"I'm soooo confused right now!" Compa says She then turns to Bethesda
Bethesda looks back at Compa "What? Don't expect me to bring an explanation, I also have no idea of what happened for that to happen!"
"It must have something to do with the Mushroom… It MUST have provoked that but I didn't knew it had that reaction on Mascots... Good new you can come with them now!" Alphadream says
"Convenient this is." Bethesda says
"Very!" "Yeah!"
"Anyway I will call the Basilicom about everything that happened the oracle will decide of what happen next since even with a clone we can't let more ASIC agents come here." Retro says and continues… "But one thing have to be answered… What do we do of her?" She says while looking at the Underling
Everyone think, Bethesda have a sadistic smile
"I think I know what to do with her..." Bethesda says while approaching the underling
The underling eyes widens as she see the inventor standing in front of her MENACINGLY
Bethesda slowly raise the double barreled shotgun that was lended by Id, the fact of seeing the eyes full of fear of the same underling that beaten the shit of him and shoot him in the head, Bethesda sure enjoys every moments of it, until...
"Hey! Hey! HEY!" IF yells will running to Bethesda, she then stands infront of him between the Inventor and the Underling "I don't allow you to kill her!"
"I'm not gonna kill her."
"Oh yeah? And what you are gonna do with that shotgun?"
"I'm gonna beat the shit out of her AND kill her!"
"That's a no. And look you already got your revenge on her, look at her jaw!"
"And? It's not me who made that so that doesn't count."
"Don't listen to her. She form the ASIC and a danger for Lowee, she wouldn't have hesitated to kill us." Retro says
"That's right!" Id says
"I want to interrogate her at Planeptune." IF says
"It's sure that she might know some valuable information." Alphadream comments
"uhm...Let's do a vote to decide what will happen to her." HAL says
"Fine." IF says
[Some hours later.]
The boat is sailing in the bay of Lowee Bethesda is staring angrily at the Underling, who of course is still tied
"You just extended your trial of existence for a few months." Bethesda says
[Later.]
The group is now back at Lowee, they enter the Basilicom where the Oracle awaits them
"I am eternally grateful. You have saved Lowee form an incredible disaster." Mina says
"All in the name of protecting the land that my wifeys live on. Don't mention it." RED says
"She's is right. Don't worry about it. We were able to get the Mascot's assistance by helping, after all." Nepgear says
"Then, I am glad that your hard work bore fruit. Are you all planning to leave right away?" Mina says
"Yeah. we are all done here." IF says
"Especially since there is another nation that you girls didn't go yet." Bethesda comments
"I'm a bit sad that we didn't met the Candidates of this nation." Compa says
"You will maybe get met them another day." Alphadream says "They can be sweet sometimes."
Bethesda and Id both looks at each others and looks back in front of them
"Yeah." They say simultaneously
"I'm sorry that we can be of no further assistance, but allow me to wish luck on your journey." Mina says
"Thanks!" Nepgear says
The Candidate and the Makers leave the Basilicom, outside there the Nep Force One waiting for them.
"Looks like our roads separate form there." HAL says
"It was nice to meet you all." NLG says
"Yep. You are still sure that you don't want to become my wif-"
IF hits RED in the back of the head
Bethesda sighs "I hope we will meet again. Well girls I might come with you at Leanbox. You might need guide."
"Oh! By the way Bethesda I have to talk to you about something..." Compa says
Then explains what happened with the Changers to Bethesda
"Oh… Well maybe not we will see that in the next volume." Bethesda says
"Uh… maybe it-t should be something we should talk about to the Oracle." NLG says
"She is already aware of that." IF says
"except about the part where he wanted to receive help form Planeptune." RED adds
"Anyway, its quite a complicated and controversial subject. Let's not talk about it for now."
"Sure thing. Until we meet again."
Nepgear, IF, Compa Bethesda, Id and RED, The underling get pushed in the vertidragon, its door closes, the engines start up and the machine takes off
Bethesda phone is ringing he picks it up "Yes, Lady Histoire?"
"Hello Bethesda. what's the progress on your mission?"
"Mission complete. Lowee is safe now, at least form the ASIC. Nepgear and her pals joined us."
"Good. Can you pass me Nepgear?"
"Sure thing." Bethesda pass the phone to Nepgear "Its Histoire."
"Yes, Hello?" Nepgear says
"Are you and your friends okay?"
"Yes, but the Changers took our equipment."
"I see, about that information, This morning I received a crate form a anon, we opened it and we found your equipment in it. We are gonna take you back to Planeptune to get it back and then you will immediately go at Leanbox. I just finished a call with the Oracle, Hakozaki Chika. It apears that she's anxious to meet you soon at possible."
Nepgear joy quickly vanishes "Me, Why?"
"I do not know, but she did sound to be in great need. I recommend that you make haste to Leanbox. By the way Bethesda is allowed to go with you, he is a Leanboxian so he must know the island."
"Okay." Nepgear says and hand back the phone to Bethesda "So everyone heard that?"
"Hmm… What would the oracle want? I guess we'll find out after we arrive."
"Uh… I hope its not about of her usual bullshit." Bethesda says "But anyway… Time to go back home."
An inventor tales Vol5: Preventive measures
THE END
Kept you waiting uh?
This chapter was hard to make for a lot of reasons but if have to mention them it will be a way to fucking long, now I realize that's its easier to make original arcs than making alternate ones but its just my opinion
About the joke made by Alphadream in that chapter, its a reference to something that really happened IRL, its quite a known story but it was Microsoft attempting to buy Nintendo in 1999, (just before the first Xbox was made) and Nintendo executive laughed about it
For the next volume I will make use of that the events will happen at Leanbox to develop some characters that got introduced and we never seen again since the volume 1 and 2, Bethesda past will also be more developed… And also things about the lab of his father
Stay tuned! Because I have no idea when I will start it!
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An armored suit enters a room, CFW magic is on the other side of it, she looks trough the window of her room, giving a view on the graveyard
"Why you want to see me Annonydeath?" Magic says without turning back
"I got good and bad news. First, the operation at Lowee failed and Linda… She got captured."
She turns her head toward the mecha suit "…Oh. that's my favorite underling, prepare a rescue operation." She then turn it back to the window
"But we I took control of a bit, I managed to follow the vehicle that they used, its currently landed at Planeptune but I think they will use it to go to Leanbox."
"Obviously. Well that mean that we must adapt. I will think about sending more experienced Corrupted and especially send them in more numbers to take cares of operations, for now. Keep spying on them, I will call someone that can stop them on their way to Leanbox."