Chapter 4: Onward to Lastation

-Planeptune Basilicom-

Everyone returned to the basilicom after they had secured the mascots power. Aiden walks towards the group (Including Historie) after cleaning up and fixing the tears in his clothes.

"It is good news to hear that you have obtained the power of our nation's Mascot. However…" Historie pauses and IF continues her sentence. "We now know that ASIC is aware of the mascots." Jason soon makes a comment.

"Then we shouldn't stall around for way to long. We have to get to the mascots before the ASIC do." Noah turns to face Historie. "So where are we heading to for the next Mascot." Historie answers his question.

"The next Mascot is located in Lastation." Historie says. "We have to get over then and quick, before anyone like underling gets there." Nepgear firmly said. "I see that Nepgear's passion has been relit." Historie smiles.

"Um, yes...I'm still fight off some of my fear, but I'm fine now." Nepgear said. Aiden cracks a little smile. "Excellent. I suggest you do as I said and hurry over to Lastation." Historie tells the group. "Way ahead of you Historie, let's get going guys." Rhyel said.

Historie then realises something and stops the group. "I nearly forgot to give you an important piece of advice." Austin looks at Histoire and says "oh...um, shoot." Historie answers with "CPU candidates like Nepgear reside in both Lastation and Lowee. I recommend that you seek their aid on your journey, as well."

"So that means they are Noire and Blanc's younger sisters." Compa commented. "Other CPU candidates…Other girls like me." Nepgear starts to wonder on how things will go with the other candidates. "Each nation has their own situation to deal with, so they may refuse at first...but it is vital that you make contact with them." Historie continues.

"After all, I am certain that they share the same desire for saving their sisters Nepgear." Historie tells Nepgear. "Seems like we have our plan. Let's head over to Lastation." IF said. The group starts to walk towards the exit of the basilicom.

Aiden then asks a question when they leave through the front door. "Why didn't Historie mention if there was a CPU candidate in Leanbox?" Jason looks at Aiden and says "It's probably nothing." Aiden shrugs and continues to walk with the group.

-Lastation-

The group had arrived to Lastation in search for the mascot. Until Nepgear decides to geek out over the technology in Lastation. "Wow, Lastation is chock full of nifty gadgets and machines…" Nepgear starts to look at the stores.

"Is this your time coming to Lastation Ge-Ge?" Compa asks. "Yes, but I have heard stories from Neptune. She'd bring me baggies of gears sometimes…" Nepgear answered. 'Baggies….of gears…..' Noah questions this.

"Oooh, Lastation looks like so much fun for tinkering! It'd be great if we can look around a bit!" Nepgear suddenly gets stars in her eyes.

"Come down Gear. We still have an important job to do." IF told her. "Y-yeah, your right. Must. Not. Window Shop." Aiden walks over to IF and asks "Does Nepgear always get this excited towards machines." IF looks at him and says "yep."

Compa then asks IF "Iffy, do you know any leads?" IF turns to Compa and says "Well, we should start with the guild first. We get intel and take on some quests to recover shares."

Aiden says "Alrighty, let's get to the guild."

-Lastation Guild-

"Man this place is bassical empty." Aiden says, seeing only about 10 to 19 people. "This place must be really under ASIC's control. I hope we can get legit intel here…" IF said.

"Oh, while you gather information, allow me to go and accept a few quests." Nepgear said. "Don't mind if I help you look." Aiden asks Nepgear with a grin. Nepgear looks at him and smiles and says "sure." They walk over to the desk to ask for what quest is available.

Austin goes and whispers into Rhyel's ear and says "Do you think they are getting along too much." Rhyel looks at Austin and shrugs his shoulders. Nepgear walks up to the desk with Aiden standing next to her with his hands in his vest pockets.

"Excuse me, I'd like to see what quests are available." Nepgear says politle at the same time with a girl wearing a black dress with a small skirt along with long black fingerless gloves that ends at her shoulders and is wearing black boots. Her reaches mid way of her back and has two pigtails tied with a black and white colored ribbons and has amber colored eyes.

"Huh?" Nepgear looks at the girl who was standing to her right "Hmmm?" The girl looks back at Nepgear. 'She looks to be about my age...Should such a human girl really take on such dangerous work?' Nepgear asks herself.

'She's really young. Is she even old enough to take on a quest. But her ki is as similar as Nepgears. Is she...' Aiden asks himself the same question as Nepgear and wonders why they both have similar ki. "You two are here to do quests too?" The girl asks both Aiden and Nepgear. "Huh? Us? Y-yes, that's right" Nepgear didn't expect a sudden question.

"Huh? Are you really sure about this? I mean, you two are still just kids." The girls says to Nepgear. "Huh? B-But, your a kid, too…" Nepgear said back. "Let's just agree that you two are both kids. Says the guy who looks physically 17 years old." Aiden tells the both of them and whispers the last part to himself.

Nepgear looks at Aiden and gives him a puffed up looking face. Aiden laughs in an awkward tune. "I'm an exceptional exception. You have no idea how tough I am. But I need to get stronger, so I can…" The girls tone slowly turns to one of sadnesses and gets quieter, Aiden notices this.

"So you can…" Nepgear asks. "Uh, nothing. Why are you looking for quests here, anyway?" The girls avoids the question and making Aiden lift up his right brow up in curiosity. "I want to help the people of this nation, and try to regain shares for the CPUs." Nepgear firmly says.

"Wow, aren't we serious? That speech makes you sound like a goody two-shoes honors student." The girl frowns. Aidens right eye twitches with anger at her comment. "Wh-What the goodness is wrong with being serious about a serious problem?" Nepgear says with her eyes turning into white saucers and looking like it was outline with a marker.

"Hahaha! Sorry, sorry. I haven't talked to a girl my age for awhile." The girl says. Aiden's right eye then stops twitching. "Come to think of it, it's been awhile for...No, I've never met a girl my age before. Everyone is older than me." Nepgear replied.

"Uh huh...Well, my name is Uni. What's yours?" Uni asked. "I'm Nepgear and this is Aiden. I hope we can become friends, Uni." Nepgear answers and Aiden waves hello with his right hand and grins. "Nepgear and Aiden, huh? All right then, Nepgear and Aiden, since we are acquainted now, you wanna team up and complete a quest with me?" Uni asked.

"Really?" Nepgear questioned. "Yeah. I always do this stuff alone, so it might be a good change of pace to try working with other people." Uni said. "Okay, yeah! That sounds like fun. Let's go! Are you also okay with this Aiden." Nepgear asks Aiden.

"I don't see anything wrong teaming up with Uni." Aiden grins at Nepgear. The three of them walk back to where the group was to only see Jason and Austin waiting for them. "Jason, Austin...Where did everyone else go?" Aiden asked.

"They found this quest that takes place in this dungeon like resort. The name was really weird, I forgot what it's called." Jason replied "It's called Rebeat Resort." Uni said. "That's it, also...who's she." Jason asked curiously. "Her name is Uni. We just met her over at the desk." Nepgear told Jason.

"Well, it's nice to meet you Uni. The name is Jason and this right here is Austin." Austin soon says hello. "Anyways. We should catch up with the others." Jason said. "Okay! Let's get moving then." Aiden said in his carefree tone. The four of them soon went through the exit of the guild to catch up with the rest of the group.

"Oh I almost forgot…" Uni remembered something. "What is it Uni?" Nepgear asked. "Are you and Aiden dating?" Uni asked. Nepgear blushes hard. "WHAT!"

-Rebeat Resort-

The four had caught up with the rest of the group. The group notices and walks over to them. Compa was the first one to talk to the group. "Wow, so you four made a cute little friend while we were at the guild?" Compa said nicely.

"Oh, you guys weren't kidding around about doing quests with a group." Uni said. "I guess that should be expected. I mean, those arm's of yours are like, paper thin." She said towards Nepgear.

"N-Nuh-uh! I'm not that weak...Well...okay, maybe a little, but…" IF cuts off Nepgear and says "Yeah, yeah. That's enough. Don't go starting up that self-deprecating nonsense again."

'That's harsh…' Aiden tells himself. "In any case, if there is a group of us, this quest is gonna be a joke. Let's get it over with quickly, all right." Uni said. "Well isn't she determined." Rhyel whispers to Noah and Aiden.

-Meanwhile at the entrance of Rebeat Resort-

Linda is seen running through the entrance to see the group going deeper into the dungeon. "Tch! They already got here...At this rate, they'll totally be getting in my way..." Linda points out the obvious.

"Fine then. I'll finish them off before they even know what hit'em, and pay back that one guy who knocked me out." Linda said with a sinister grin.

"Make sure you keep your guard up. The other four right there with the girls are as strong as him." A mysterious figure told her. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say." Linda said to the figure. The figure gives Linda a tsk of disgust.

-15 minutes later-

The group was slaining monsters left and right with the help of Uni. There quest was to slay off some monsters in the dungeon and did just that. "There, all done! What did I tell you, easy or what?" Uni said with pride.

"We finished so fast...Uni, you really are strong." Nepgear said in amazement. "I have to agree with Nepgear. You are pretty strong Uni." Aiden agreed. "Same goes for you two. Better than I thought, anyway. Nowhere near a match for me!" Uni said confidently.

"Aw, now you're flattering me." Nepgear said kindly. Aiden just crossed his arms and rolled his eyes with a little smile. The rest of the group looks at Nepgear, Aiden and Uni.

Compa makes a happy smile. "Heehee, those three are already such close friends." IF agrees and says "Looks that way. It's the first time I've seen a sincere smile from Nepgear sine we rescued her." Noah adds up on that with his own comment.

"You're right, that is an honest sincere smile Nepgear has given during this trip." Compa nods in agreement. "But I'm a bit jealous, too...I mean, I've known Nepgear for way longer than that girl…" Comla said.

"Oh, stop it. Don't get jealous over kids being kids." IF told Compa. "What do you brats think your doing? Having a picnic in the middle of a dungeon!? A voice said. "Huh?" IF turns around.

"What…" Aiden senses a presence near the group. "Huh? what's wrong Aiden?" Uni asked. Aiden looks at Nepgear and Uni with a serious look. "Compa and IF are in trouble!" The two were about to ask until they heard a scream. "Gaaaaaah!" It was IF's.

"IF!? Compa!?" Nepgear ran towards IF and Compa's location. "Wait up Nepgear!" Uni ran after her and Aiden follows as well. They see Linda standing right in front of the group. IF was being held up by Noah and Rhyel. Jason held Compa who was unconscious. Austin was looking at Linda with a furious expression.

"Heh. I got rid of the chaperones with barely any effort at all. Next up...Is the rest of you brats!" Linda dicleared. "How did you recovered from my punch. I made sure that amount of strength would keep you out cold for a day." Aiden said. "Like I would tell you!" Linda said.

Uni looks at Nepgear and asks "Who's this?" Nepgear looks back at her and says "I think her name is Underling. She's one of the ASIC's low-ranking peons." Aiden adds on. "And the one who I gave a pounding."

"Argh! I told you to stop calling me that!" Linda yelled. Uni steps up. "ASIC, huh? Stay back, Nepgear. Let me handle this one." Nepgear stands next to Uni. "No way, I'm fighting too. I can't let her get away with hurting my childhood friends!"

"Count me in as well you two. Linda! I'll make you pay for what you did to IF and Compa just like you did to Nepgear!" Aiden said with fury. "Quit with the yappin', wouldja? You caught me off guard last time, but now I'll beat you to...a...huh?" Linda sees two blinding lights engulfing both Nepgear and Uni.

Nepgear had entered into her HDD state. Uni had also changed. She had two small black wings with black long gloves and black long boots. She wears a black swimsuit and her hair turned white and her pigtails turned in a drill like fashion. Her eyes turned from their amber like color to an emerald green. Within Uni's right hand was a railgun that was almost the size of a door.

"Y-You're kidding me! There's seriously two of you now?!" Linda said in bewilderment. Nepgear and Uni notice each other change. But decided to ask questions after they take care of Linda

"Tsk, hehe. Good thing I came prepared just in case." Suddenly holes in the ground start to form. "Wait what...no...it can't be…" Aiden looked at the holes with caution. "Huh?" Nepgear was questioning what was happening along with Uni.

Six Lime-greenish colored creatures pop out of the ground. Their heads were pulsating and had a really sinister smile. The notable part was their red eyes. "How…" Aiden was shocked. Uni turns to Aiden and says "Aiden? What's wrong?" Aiden grinds his teeth and says "How did you get your hands on Saibamen?!"

"She never got them from mere chance. They are my Saibamen." A mysterious voice said. Aiden looks to see a figure floating above Linda and is shocked beyond belief. The figure had long black hair that was almost relatable to ssj3. He wore saiyan arm and fingerless saiyan gauntlets. He wore a green scouter on his left ear and had a brown tail.

"Who's he?" Uni said seriously. Aiden frowns and says "Raditz." Raditz cracks a cocky smile. "It seems that I'm known to this traitor of his own kind." Aiden becomes furious. "Even if I dislike the ideals of the saiyan race! It doesn't mean I would go off and betray them." Aiden yelled.

Uni was confused about what was happening. First, she sees some guy with weird looking armor and long hair, floating in mid-air. She

thought only Goddesses were the only ones who were capable of flight. Next, She here's something about Aiden being a traitor of his own kind. And to top it all off, the guy who was floating has a tail!

"Traitor or not, you are still a disgrace to the saiyan race. And even if Freiza's rule is gone. I will not change my ways, unlike my idiot brother!" Raditz said with utter discuss. Aiden slowly begins to emanate the same green aura from the last fight with Linda.

But Aiden decides to calm down and lets go of the aggression. Raditz continues with his speech. "Now I have been resurrected by the ASIC for a better cause than Freiza could ever have. A plan that would help bring back some of that saiyan pride." Raditz smiles. "But in order to do that...I HAVE TO GET RID OF YOU!" Raditz looks at Aiden with anger in his eyes.

"BRING IT ON THEN, RADITZ!" Aiden charged up and lets out his aura. Raditz does the same thing by letting out a purple aura and his eyes glowing red. The two saiyans rush at each other and start to clash.

Austin teleports right in front of both Nepgear and Uni who were paying attention to the fight between Aiden and Raditz. "Oi! What are you two doing! We still have Underling to take care of you know!" Austin told Nepgear and Uni. The two of them snap out of it and stare down Linda.

"Once I finish the rest of you all! I'll go beat down that brat with the blue robe." Linda rushes at Austin, Nepgear, and Uni. Nepgear flies right at Linda and starts to clash weapons with her. Nepgear keeps parrying Linda's attacks one by one. Uni soon takes flight and points her railgun at Linda.

"Take this!" Uni fires several blue laser shots from her railgun and they approached Linda at a fast pace. Linda fell to the floor due to the impact of the shots. Linda gets right back up, only to get drop kicked by Austin.

"Gah!" Linda hits the floor hard and was kicked again. Nepgear rushes in to attack Linda but was stopped by a saibaman. "Ke Kya!" The saibamen sends flurries of punches at Nepgear. Nepgear was able to block these attacks and sliced the saibaman in two. In response, the saibaman explodes into smoke.

Linda gets back and looks at the saibamen. "What are you green pulsating head idiots doing! Get them!" The saibamen rushes right at Uni, Austin, and Nepgear. Suddenly a strange female figure with cat ears intercepts three of the saibamen.

Two of the saibamens rushed towards both Uni and Nepgear. Nepgear goes and intercepts the one rushing at her and easily defeats it. Uni easily takes down her saibaman by shooting it with her paralyze skill. She shoots the saibaman with one last shot, finishing the saibaman off.

-Back to Aiden-

Aiden was parrying and dodging all of Raditz's attacks with Raditz doing the same thing. They kept doing these barrages of punches and kicks until they decided to stop. "Seems that your not have bad." Raditz smiles. "Same with you too." Aiden smiles too.

Raditz rushes at Aiden and hits him straight to his right cheek. Aiden is sent flying, but uses instant transmission to teleport right in front of Raditz and kicks him in the chin. Aiden flies up to send more punches right to his abdomen.

Aiden punches Raditz further into the air to repeat the process. Raditz looks down and smirks. "DOUBLE SUNDAY!" Raditz fires two pink beams from his hands. Aiden was hit by the attack and was being sent straight to the ground. Aiden winced in pain, but soon cancels the attack.

Aiden was still a couple of feet in the air and was taking deep breaths. Raditz floats down and was breathing heavily as well due to the exhaustion. "I don't remember you being this strong Raditz." Aiden slowly looks up at Raditz. "Heh. I started to train for pass time since I was dead. I trained so much until I would find a way to the living world and repay my brother and that namekian for what they did to me." Radutz looked back.

"And along with this given power from the ASIC and along with my zenkai boost that I gained after getting resurrected. I have become much stronger than before!" Raditz starts to laugh. "But, there is something you should know traitor." Raditz gets serious.

"What should I know Raditz?" Aiden keeping eye contact with Raditz. "This isn't even close to my true power." Raditz smiled sinisterly. "I knew you were holding back." Aiden said in his serious tone while smiling.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Raditz lets his purple aura flare out of control. His aura starts to turn white and his body and armor start to turn silver. His eyes start to glow pink and an infinite symbol appeared on his forehead and an upside down power symbol on the chest of his armor.

"Ah...This is my true power traitor." Raditz smiled sinisterly once more. "I guess I should go all out as well." Aiden said. Both of them start to float down to the ground for a stare off."

-Back to Nepgear and the group-

Nepgear, Uni, Austin, and the unknown figure had just finished off all of the saibamen. Rhyel and Jason walked over to them with Compa and IF in hand. "What were those green things" IF asked.

Austin looks at IF. "saibamen are creatures that are engineered to be weapons and to be as strong as the person who gave a little bit of their D.N.A to create them." Nepgear looks at Austin. "You mean those are the creatures that help those two saiyans fight the original Z-Fighters."

"Didn't one of those guys get blown up." IF asked and Austin nods. "Yep, his name was Yamcha." Uni was about to say something until Rhyel looked up into the sky in shock. "Do you guys feel that." Rhyel asked. "Yeah I do…" Jason said. "What's wrong…" Nepgear asked.

"It's Raditz...his power increased fifteen times than it was earlier." Austin said, still looking up into the sky. "Wait...you mean...that's..." IF was cut off by the unknown figure. "He is the brother of the one known as Goku." The unknown figure said.

"Um...thank you for helping us out." Nepgear said. "No prob...anyways, the name is Isabelle." Isabelle smiled. "It's nice to get to know each other. But things are about to get real!" Noah said. Pointing at Aiden, who was descending with the now transformed Raditz.

Austin was gonna help him but Aiden put up his left arm and said "I can handle this Austin. Just take care of IF and Compa alright." Austin hesitates but nods. Aiden puts his arm down and gives Raditz a very serious look.

"You sure he's gonna be alright…" Nepgear said worryingly. "I think you should have a little more faith in Aiden. Trust me on that, Aiden can handle this." Noah said. "Alright Raditz! It's about time we settle this without holding back anymore!" Raditz grins. "Couldn't agree more." Aiden gets into his powering up position.

"Wha-What is he doing?" Uni asked in a confused manner. "Yeah…" Nepgear agreed. "We should back up." Austin walks a good distance away from Aiden along with the rest of the group. "LET'S DO THIS! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" Aiden charges up, letting his aura flare out. The entire dungeon starts to shake furiously.

"What the heck! What is happening!" Linda yelled from outside the entrance after she had ran because of the saibamen getting easily defeated. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Aiden's hair spikes up and his aura starts to change color. "What is this! This pressure is immense!" Uni yelled.

'This power...how much does Aiden have?' Nepgear watched in awe as Aidens hair starts to flash yellow. Aiden's power not only shakes the very dungeon, but all of Gamindustri.

-Planeptune Basilicom-

Historie was filing some paperwork until the whole basilicom starts to shake. "What is happening!" she asked herself. She soon realises the cause of the shaking. "Wait...is this…" Historie was beyond shock.

-Lastation Basilicom-

A girl with white hair was working at the front desk until the basilicom started shaking. "What is this!" she said, trying to stay up. Papers and tools start to fall from the desk and the glass windows soon shader. "What is causing this to happen?!"

-Lowee Basilicom-

"Rom, Ram! Please get over here quickly" A girl with light blue hair, glasses, and wearing a red dress that could be mistaken for a graduation gown called out. Two girls that look like twins were wearing the same clothes but the one with short hair was wearing blue while the one with long hair was wearing pink.

"Mina! What's happening!" The one wearing pink yelled out. "Mina, I'm scarred…" The one wearing blue shyly said. "I know you two are scared...but please stay close to me." The light blue haired girl said.

-Leanbox Basilicom-

A girl with lime green hair and wearing a black dress was cleaning up a luxurious room filled with piles of games, until the room started to shake. Making the piles of games fall over. "Wha-What is this!" she soon falls over, hitting the hard floor. "Oh! I wish my darling Vert was here!" She said in a sad tone.

-Back to Rebeat Resort-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Aiden's hair starts to flash yellow and his aura becomes completely yellow. His eyes turn into a teal green color. The group cover their faces do to wind blowing violently in response of Aiden's power.

Raditz looks at Aiden in awe. "This power is insane!" Isabelle said. "I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!" Uni asked loudly. Nepgear starts to shake a little due to how much power is being brought out."RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Aiden let's out one more scream and his hair turns completely yellow.

The wind slowly dies down and the shaking finally halts. The groups looks up to see what has happened to Aiden. Isabelle, Uni, IF, and Nepgear eyes become wide to what they are seeing. Aiden had changed. Aiden was in the stance Goku took when he first went Super Saiyan. Aiden looks right into Raditz's eyes with his teal green eye's.

"Let's see if you can handle the power...OF A SUPER SAIYAN!" Aiden cries out and rushes at Raditz with a burst of immense power.